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Newspaper Page TextFULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES t Bail Ifanraal MfMlMMIMI CIRCULATION IS OVER 4000 DART FORTIETH YEAR NO. 5:: PRESIDEN I Will 8E GRANTED All POWER HE Mil SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1917 To Teach the Virtues TUfl llim IP A 110 by Series of Stories' I HU HIOIbHIld T T" T s T- mm mm. . - . t a nn . -. - , v STANDS lTVK OKHTB ZIMMERMAN SAYS Armed Neutrality Bill After Patriotic Speeches Passed by House GERMAN PLOTS BREAK DOWN ALL OPPOSITION Lansing's Statement Govern ment Had Convincing - Evidence Ends It ll.'i.'Mv. truthfulness, cleanliness. ! obedience, respect, courtesy, patriotism,! Kin cln ess. industry aud ouurtunlitv are he 10 cardinal virtues that 1.000 school j-hers in the state of Oregon feel arc j Q ist important, according to an oY ' f. " ..'nvass of the schools by (State: Sup o Jent of Instruction Churchill,! h" i 0 which hve just been com pleted. And an. 4fcV.sc virtues patience, long honored of the greatest, is not listed. In it , patience has ceased to be a virtue in these fast days The order of preference of the virtues are given according to the number of voles they received from the teaca ers. "In order that these virtues might be taught in a maimer that will appeal to the child an outline is being pre pared, classified so that it will give each grade in the public schools a list of stories which will illustrate the vnlue of each of these virtues," says a statement issued from the superintend ent 's office. "These stories will be used ns sup plementary rending lessons. They will be chosen from the best writers and with n course of reading arranged in this way there would be a direct pur pose in the year's work. LOSE THEIR LIVES III NIGHT ATTACK GERMANY CAN NO Chang e WARFAR Germans in America J 'Coin For Mexican Troubles E ?"pplied RECOGNIZING OF CARRANZA BROKE Washington, March B. The senate will vote late today on President Wil-i sun 'n request for pow er and approval I to use guns and gunners and " other instrumentalities" to protect American' inetc.haiit ships and American lives to handle the international situation. My h vole that presaged speedy pass age of the authority-granting resolution, thw senate today decided to begin con sideration oi it about 4 o'clock, as soon) as the halt billion dollar navy bill is1 Out of the way. There will be some debate anywhere j from I to li or H hours but the resolu tion, .which the president approves, is fully expected to be put through. The house resolution, passed lust night, but which eliminated the phrase ''other instrumentalities, " will, in all likelihood, be .shelved and the senate resolution seat back as a substitute. The house finally is expected to put it through, leaving it up to the presi dent to make it a law by signing it. To Arm Ships at Once. Immediately the president signs the he is expected to issue an executivi I British Barge Calgorn Castle Sincere Offer of Peace Was Sunk by Torpedo Without Warning By Robert J. Bender (United I'ress staff correspondent) Washington, Mar. -. Millions of ! dollars have been sent lo the Carran.s I government of Mexico recently by Ger mans in ine ( nitcd Sali's it Met Only With Jeers by Allies that he did not need or care tor the support of the United States. Officials here intimate stronulv the U .... A - . L - . . . . " " ... . ;i.-nu or mai i. aim American republic j is probably otherwise cared for. Kvidcnce of Teutonic nrorKtiranrla work in other I .11 t i n met ., ..un learned on high government authority 1 11.1, 8 ng ,ar,,futf investi- In this connection some concern is lelt here over restlessness that has TRITONIAN ALSO SENT ! GERMANY THUS FORCED DOWN, NO AID OFFERED TO USE HER BEST WEAPON The Only American On Latter Peace With America Desired Was Saved-One Boat But We Cannot Disarm Still Missing to Retain It Washington, March 2. An official : Berlin, via XavvilU- wireless March 2 dispatch tending to confirm that two j Of ficial text ' of Foreign Secretary Americans. were lost in the torpedoing J Zimmerman remarks before the releh of the British barge Calgorn Castle. 'stag Wednesday concerning Germany's Buenos Aires for Ojueenstown, reached i negotiations with America and Den the state department today. mark wan issued kv tlio l . today. .Some of these millions were in the form of "personal gifts" to Mex- i,., I lii,. . .:n:. a . . v.-.m, iiiiiiiimik well III tile nil r- i .1-1- . - serves r sjar Vali ! KI? .... .... uum an Oe-, ,., ,c aldns eoiiiniitten till r.l, n.. ( 1 1 t h rm n ounuinfc lwi m...... i, .. . . . 1 " ..th, ,, I-. , r on ol, h inntv UP GERMAN PLOTS tails loaning parties and Carranza met with the approval of Washington. This was one of the countless devel opments which began coining to light today following discovery by President Wilson and Secretary Lansing of n carefully planned plot t0 unite Mexico unit Japan with the i nuieria 1 ( ici-mmi i ... government in a war on the United I X States. j una ticiiuiici eMUlillsiiCd lOltaV'j, iilio. .,11 ... i i -. " ii)mviiib ii.' 'leiiuait consuls lin the United States were sent to Von IVrnstorff at the same time as the I Zimmerman letter. session after during March 4. the extra day. The statement follows: Hand to Hand Fighting Feature of Contest On Western Front jing of business and desired further dis I Z j mantling of German ships in American ! T i harbors in event of a bread in relnl ions. ! T TheV covered also the limtler ,,1 ln.il1 WHAT THE DAY SHOWS Is by the consuls with consuls left bill, order which will place guns on merciiant ships Hying the American Hug. Ainied with guns of .'1 to C inch eali Inc. depending upon the size of the ships, furnished the government ami munition and manned by naval or ex naval gunners, these ships will be sent out under the American flag and n hos tile attack upon them will be consid ered by the United States government as an act of war and dealt with accord ingly. What furl In r steps will be taken have not been divulged by the administra tion. The most pressing need, it is felt, is to show Germany that she cannot drive American commerce from the seas by submarine blockade It was stated authoritatively today thai the navy department has guns st the Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston and Norfolk navy yards, with stores of am munition, ready to be utilized at once fur arming American ships. It is plan ned first o aim four ships of the Ant eriean line, since President Franklin Berlin, Sayville wireless, Mar. 8 Hand to hand fighting featured a Gorman repulse of British attacks on t rem hes east and southeast of Souchez today's official statement asserted. Between Ypres and Arras, the war office said several reconnoiii ring ad vances of the enemy were without re sult. In the hand to hand fighting around Souchez, twenty prisoners and one ma chine gun were taken. "In the sector," the statement con tinue. 1, 'there were repeated clashes in the forefield of onr positions. There and during the cleaning of Kuglisli positions near Sailly 30 prisoners and three machine guns were brought in" "On the western front, west aud south of Iligii and between Miadziol Another message told of the unwarn-! :eu torpedoing ot the Donaldson liner " Indeed there have been negotiations j Trationian, Halifax for Liverpool, in a between us and Denmark," he said j night attack but reported the one Amer- "They were known prematurely bv the j ican aboard was saved. leak in the Danish press. About the 1 he first message from Frost said: j exact contents, I cannot communnu.e "British bark Oulgoro Castle, Queens-j anything at all, but I can sav that the ! town from BuCROf Aires, with maize, at- agreement if it is carried out at all tacked by submarine 4:30 p. in., Feb-: according to the unanimous opinion of iiuaii si, i nines west soutnwes 01 a 1 denai tments cnnnoim.,1 mu.i,. . v Bull Rock. Finn- American T ,i... t.i-,.. .'0;.i :... ......' I ', I show i t, , i miii ! ...im-i ci uui economic ana mg believed lost, Willium Jackson, 10 ' military interests. There is no fear Beech street, New York, aged 19; David j therefore, necessarily, that these agree- naiKcr. negro, preen county, lrgima, j meats may make a hole aged about 30 years. Americans saved, I zone against Kngland. ricnrv Mflnrri hmvav icaiis i.. n. i r.. fi c..:- . ' ' i i 1 mil I ,m proper time. It is known, however, that evidence tlir ! . 1. 1. i i , . The second himimMIIu in ,r.i , . I Y1 esia.uisneo uerman propaganda had . 0 ... H. ......... Hwv .i,,.-s ui uir en ms i eoerai eo i leen found 11 the MivnlnimnS lu.ii, ;,, inanner inn- he Tr r.o. inn ...... otto..k...i I .n....;i ...i t c, ..... . " '" ,np nioiutions 110II1 in strttctioni to be left special agents when this eountrv. The scope of the orders to the con suls is understood lo be broad and in many respects start i no. All an fn it is officially dfldnrnd ih.il while at pence with this government, Germany was constantly plottins hos- I f 11a ,.tu In n,l..lu c e ......7... . our barred 1 the i'i,,i uio..... '. . The United I'ress Is icnilv n maha Ull 1 Ill-O 1 1,11 1 OllS Government learns millions have been "loaned" to Carran za by German sources in this country. Government working on Cub an and Costa Jtican unglcs to German plot. Congress expected to act quickly on armed neutrality measures. Secretary Lansing in reply to senate request and on Wil Bon's orders sent senate state ment that Zimmerman's Mexican-Japanese plot letter was authentic. House passed armed neutral ity bill with only Kl oppos ing. Congress plans lo substitute stronger senate measures for it. I resident ready to sign it as Their Plan Was To Depose President and Put Pro German In His Place GERMAN ARMY OFFICERS SERVING WITH MURGUIA General Cabrera and Other Leaders Caused Attacks On Americans El Paso, Texas, March 2. United j Mates government agents are directing ; their attention toward German activ ity in the Tampico oil district in Mex ico where the oil supply for the Bri tish navy is obtained It is feared the Germans will attempt to influence the Mexicans to cut off this supply. The recent uprising of Felix Diaz' followers in the Tampico district and in the states of Nuevo Leon and Tamanlpias is at tributed to German influence. At least 10 German army officers are in the service of General Francisco ouiguia, arratizo conimauder of (he disclosures and the Nnreoz Lakes ami Shtshai a ; dense darkness. and the upper Sereth there was a teni porary increase in fighting activity Hniiv Ri,.l,o..lu AO ll :.. ... . Lai.L ... . T f. "r." OW j ...... .i, ... . nrci, j n mi n Here nun rne i niierj Mates tn Boston. Both white. All Americans underlying facts were these: nuie seamen." "On Fehrnarv s wo r.iiv.i i.. t I In ll... . ... 1...H. a teleuram from the Swinu min. 1 1 ..i... t... hv n .nlimnrin.. wnw.l. 1 ..I-..-ui" . . . , V UI..I null ..OSta UlCa w , .. ........ i ... , , . ,, . , mi mil 111, el I nl 1 I H U I II 111 Wnil 'itll.v lh. ....ml in relations represented our interests. The telegram was as follows: " 'In America a demrt exists to avoid war- If tile German D-fr.-ertimnnf n-mit milium naming p. in., oo miles now incline to negotiate with the 1'nit west of Dingle, February 26. ed States about the blockade, then the "Two men missing from crew of 1)0. 1 Swiss minister would be gladly willing Sole American, John Murphy, fourth , to take further care of this affair.' engineer, saved. Att speakers yesterday declared that "Weather heavy, westeiiv swell, the break i no off nt ralatinn. u;m, h... saw, said: "A Donaldson freight liner Tritoniou, 2,846 tons, Halifax to Liverpool, with general enrgo and horses, torpedoed act promptly in arming Ameri can vessels. Filibuster apparently vanish ed, senate proceeds with naval appropriation bill. Government learns Amhnssad or Bernstorff gave instructions to German consuls in United States at time of Zimmerman letter, covering dismantling of German Interned vessels and other business. ,1,, mm minion ouiomod hy United fwues i 80vrnmont agents here. One of ta ,1, officers is quartermaster general at the statement said. .1 State, was regrettable. No doubt i soon as it passes and then to j 'livi!,in!' of Iho north, according to in Within the last few weeks I'resident Gonzales of Costa Hica has conferred with Secretary Lansing and President Wilson regarding the situation in hisj country, now ruled by a de facto hand I -Jt itn uonzaies temporarily in exile. Shortly after Gonzales' meeting with officials here, it was pointed out die state department announced the defac- to government of Costa Rica would not ; son will sign (he District, of Columbia i Germans arc said to remain in CMhiin be recognized bv the United States. I nrohihitinn bill it u-nu Urni in,i.v i hun and the onlv mining m.1 o.,!:.. DISTRICT TO BE DRY Washington, Mur .. , . . r ....... .a uiuer i arrnnza divisions, jmnny Germans are in Mexican service, among them the chief of staff to Gov jjernor General Gavira of the state of j, Durnngo. Government advices are that, anti- American uprisings In Chihuahua, Tor euu uuu imrango 'during the period the American exuedition vabm in i were caused bv Gi'rnmn let in..,...,. i.. jTorreon a colony of 4(1 German, are j charged with responsibility for the riot. waicu resultert in destruction of Iho 2-rPresidcnt Wil-! Al ii n" consulate last summer. Nixty ' (Continued on page lix.) e FOUR ARE RELEASED New .if fou held on Hi Turks Are Routed London. Mar. 2. The Turkish re treat from Kut-El-Amnra has become a great rout, according to official dis patches from the Mesopotamia!! front today. rursuit is being continued by the victorious Biitii'h forces out of Kut. The statement said the Turks in great confusion, had passed through Azizi yah on Tuesday and that since Feb ruary -'-', 4,:i00' Turks has been taken prisoners by the British. "Since February 2'i we have captur ed 28 guns. 19 trench mortars, 11 ma chine guns, three Turkish ships, two I tugs, ten barges, thirty pontoons, in ad- dition to the recupture- of our gunboat ll iretly, the stntenient said. I .:: I, ....I:-, I.. I . II .1 11... I.. U ...111 1. . I ,. . . . . nl .! t " .. . " no light showinif. Master saw tornedo it would he still '-ShJ.TZ2L u ... ..TLn, 1,1 " ' KnwKt '"lu"r . ' " rB " " nor!.n" nnna1itnU ktr .fbl . .1 1 1 li i i T . "S',L"'y l vuoiu nua bhuvuhcvu noniM lomorrow or rjunaay. I ........... . ..,M, how . I I here would be war with the fnii,.,! f?ui p auanuoneil JU nninites. but States. Between both imiinMu tl,, 3d not sink. Boats srood by until ad- exists the old fi iendlv relnfinns Thnr, miridty patrol arrived 5 a. in., towed her jig no political antagonism between (Continued on page two.) (Continued on nage six.) QUESTION OF TRAINING RECRUITS ENGAGES ARMY MEN'S ATTENTION Newspaper Comment Upon Alleged German Plot Expose i'k, March 2. Release Americans heretofore e Varrewdale, was au- nouneed officially from Berlin in the following wireless dis- patch today: Berlin, via Sayville wireless, Fob. 28. Two American sur- veona, John Divis and Dr. Henry Snyder and two American veter- inarians, Evans Orville McKim and Zabriske from the Varroi.dale today passed throng ! Berlin en route for Den- mark. )c Sank a Submarine I New Orleans, La., Mar. 2. Officers j of the steamship Knight Companion, (Continued 0" page two.) ABE MARTIN Staats Zeituns Condemns Germany Chicago, March 2. The alleged Zini- j merman note, attempting to involve! Jnpnn ami Mexico in a plot against the I ; United Slates, is frowned upon by tr.e i Illinois Staatz Zeitung, in an editorial! printed today. Doubt, however, is ex-i j pressed as to the authenticity of thej i documents attributed to Foreign Min-1 inter Zimmerman. This newspaper un- equivocally condemns " entangling al-' lianees" between the United States and jany foreign nation and therefore con demns every proposal of an entangling, alliance between Mexico and any for eign nation, the editorial says: I "Germany is fighting for her na-1 tional existence but that I will not be sufficient to persuade Am-1 ;erieans that Germany is justified in! : proposing an alliance with Mexico to ; the injury of the United States. lit wohM be regrettable that Germany : should at any time propose an 'of fensive alliance' to Mexico and that the fact that the German people' are hun gry will not be considered a good enough excuse for overlooking the af front to the United Stjltea enntn in,.,l in I the alleged Zimmerman note to Mex ico." TV feller that used t' turn up his nose at boiled beet au ' cabbage 'cause he cuuld get it at home has entirely di vippeared. Th ' high price o' leather only seems t' stimulate th' dootleeeer. HAS A COLD , :.; Jt JHhH States Col. CABELL ( moan lcd.)3mf vjEn CnAMuLKLAtN - New York, March 2. New York ev ening newspapers commented as follows today on the revelation of German in- j trigues i n Mexico : Sun: "To a German anything that suits the German purposes is feasible lit' not easy, excusable if not virtuous. If the United States had to be 'strafed' as the slang of the war hnth it, why should not Mexico be the filing In- irigue. ive seriously noulit whether Alex ui.iiig i iioinii iea o.y a tierinan com pany at Mapimi, Durango. . i Two German doctors are said to be with Villa near Farral, attending his wounds and directing his nperntions. Mexican Officers In It. New York, Mareh 2. Luis Cabrera, minister of finance in General Carran za 's government: General (II,.,.,..,,, j Carrauza's Btiniater of war: the late jVietoriano Huerta, former dictator of events the congress hesitates about giv- j Mexico, and others were named today lng the president the authority he asks. I h.v various stories of German intrigue If there are too iniiiiv such delnvs the I ' eoiiuection with n nlot to foment re- resnlt will be disastrous." Indianapolis News: "We hope that the pacifists will now realize that the time has at lust come ior action and that they will abandon their foolish ef anti-American outbreaks volts and Mexico. The New York police anil agents of the United States department of jus tice are said to have word of German I torts, which, if they should succeed, j Operations as long ago as last. June, would make this nation a vassal of Gcr I wl" 11 investigations of wire tapping in , ninny and put the stamp of approval osiNew York by the police department the Berlin conspiracy." "''' said In hnve stopped efforts tn run Chicago Journal: "The kaiser's plot down the conspiracy. lo embroil the United States with Japan PfoMeA) officials are said to have ob and Mexico surprises no one who knows tained information through listening to i 1 bo history of the kaiser's fnmilv. tolophon conversations, of meatinvs bir By for mil fraud, bv arm 1 land intrigue, with treachery that a Mo I hawk would reprobate and courage thai la Sparten would admire, the Hohen- ico has become or ever could allow her self to become u catspaw of Germany to the extent indicated in Zimmerman's note to Von Bel iistnrf f. Even less proti able is the plan assigned lo Japan in I tne nuge dream World: "They (congress) are 'iroar ine un- hi iiiioti as in mill i ii'.'it a n l i . RTS, canal. To , ore an extra session I ,.,, k-, .J "r'n: ,l ' . r- : , -'" " v oi all mankind. T repubMcnn ntajority in the house, seems: linvvvh,(, n" th 0 certain republican congressmen much fnmilv uf ',,, ; more important than prompt defense of ! ciown' ' ' ubuuuu riguis. a lining up uitn tne ,. ., pneifists looks like good politics, whv l "i'Ugo Daily News: Herr Zimuier-1 nni? if HiJm ;u th.. i.,.. tt.i : I man is drummine no tinned enemies of. tative government in the greatest de ; "n,,1" w'"'rever he thinks they may Imocracy of the world can do when it I "'' ouml- The ipiestions which comes to meeting foreign insult and a(r. Americans must face is a question of grcssion, then reprosentntive c, govern-1 nat"Bl safety. The pacifist congress incut, as this country knows it. is a1 .... s trying to stop an avalanche I , which nns nlretnly fallen, it is fooling with a loaded .gun under the silly pre- tense that the gun is not loaded- The I American nation must meet the situa-j lion with a firm alliance with the na-1 tions which are resisting: in arms the' The territory of the to bo divided according to ! peril." I Kansas City Star: "At last the nn j tion has no excuse for failing to under stand the gravity of the International j crisis. This is no time to falter. It is no time for party differences. It is no j time for divided counsels of any sort, i The one thing to do is to put every " possible weapon in the president 's United ' hands. Ho carries the flog." m. i.ouis mar: "mere should he no surprise at tne revelation ot tierman ; same great mtjaaei The Minneapolis Journal: "The! i levelation will sweep away the last rem-!? 1 1 nant of reluctance in congress. It waslT necessary to shake the sincere pacifists'!' out Of their drv dream inln n rli . ' population into as mnnv districts " ' Jt-f i . - . l .-. Iflin r,f .hoi I. ...ii.. t :! - - , ., , ...... i . lui.n, in, nil., j . ...... . . . . .. , tiler., lire reiri men f u nt nuii.lq I t'. . t , rf J... n.A t f...... , , 1... flfld t,, Cimfronl .. bubi i vm in ' tuiai luiuiu ui -' ... , v. o, . , . , , u , . j i , , , I lie - ..... . ,. . . . ... and field artillerv exdn-iv.. nf n,n, ! entente alliance. All that is in strict paciiists with indubitable evidence. The serving abroad. I "i;or? with Ku.roPn liplon.acy. Huch D . efforts are going on all the time on becond. hach regular leiriment of hoth sides. Ah tn .Tnr.nn yn,.i, nn net conspirators. The story of German intrigue ns told hero involved the deposition of :.r runza and the substitution of Goneral Obregon, Cabrera, or seme other Mexi can who had a following. The tecMr nition cf the Carranza government, it is sr.id by the United States, Bloppc4 the plans. Propagandists also arc said e can be no peace j to have been responsible lor stories that planet, until HJGeneral Carranza had forced American panthers is put troops tn evacuate Vera Cms, STOLE HER FINGER i 5 I.os Angeles, Cat-, March 2. The police are today making an unusually thorough senrch 'for a daring thief, who, after seeing Mrs. I'hilip Labor, wife of a Spok&ne capitalist, had her finger ground off in a collision between a street car nn automo bile last night, hurriedly pieked up the dismembered digit and left. The fiuger was found a block away, minus the $500 ring on it when it was severed. Mis. ! :ib.-r was in the nutomo bilo which crashed into the side of a street car. Amsterdam, March 2. Kaiser William is confined to his room with a severe chill, Berlin dis patches reported today. His physicians are not apprehensive over his condition but are insist ing on all precautions. The kaiser is receiving minis ters in his apartments and com municating dairy with headquar ters despite his illness. two army men who are concerned : ;f..... ....i. j ;.u . ,nmti t...h. ..jj , , i (,, .tint iit-iu ariinery 10 c ............. un suuurn and interested in the question of train- be transported to a selected training es in the very midst of the ,:nited HtaU' my center in a district and there, under need for war purposes are seen in the i A. t. ... , . ' pictures. They are Colonel De Koseyj tlon of lU c0,onel. tr'" fouf other C Cabell, commander of the Tenth ' rcKimentH nt 'tB arm. at the same time cavalry (shown mounted;, and John : being itself filled to war strength. ;L. Chamberlain, chosen ns inspector: Third. for this training the colonel general of the United States army in , would um- all of his trained officers, succession to Brigadier General E. A. I non-commissioned officers and other Garlington, retired a few days ago. In enlisted men to the best advantage, a letter to a New York paper Colonel' Fourth. At each training place Cabell suggested the following plan for j would be gathered the recruits from quickly tra ning a mobile army in an. the district, and wooden cantonments emergency: (would be erected for their shelter. wonder is that the president has been ablo to act with such deliberate pa tience. The country i in no mood to tolerate any more I.aFolletting. The president must be fully armed without further ado. " Minneapolis Daily News: " President Wilson could easily have used the German-Mexican note to inflame the people to war pitch. Instead, he has deprived Carranza of anv plausible pretext, for lays giving ine president full power to war. I he president has again demon enforce his pledge to the limit, even to'strated that if war comes it will be un the limit of a war with Germany, is anjder conditions to which the most pro evidence off national weakness." found pacifists could not object. The Cleveland Tress: "Four separate and J only way for congress to provo that it isi distinct times within a few weeks Oer-1 not composed of piffling, patriotism, many has declared war on the United j politician is to grant the president the States. Confronted with this series of power ho e::U: nd f'.en go tone." war would seem to be impossible." Cincinnati Tost: "The German-Mexican plot is another justification of prompt action against Germany. Con gress should expedite the president 's program, r.very nour that congress de J THE WEATHER Oregon: ir tonight, frost west portion; Saturday fair; easterly winds. ,1