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A ml . m .if yfiS .(i 9 .. m FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES !.: m CIRCULATION IS OVER 4300 DAILY . 4 B FORTIETH YEAR NO. 57 SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TBAINS AND NTWB STANDS FIVE mm FIFTEEN AtnSMIPS ARE SHOT DOflN OHIESIRFRT Severe Engagements Report . ed On the Somme and at Verdun Eight Burn to Death la Early Morning Tire Vancouver. B. C, March 7. Light liven were lust yesterday when -the Coqunliallu hotel nt Hope, eight miles east of Vancouver, burned. The build ing wan nu old ramshackle frame struc ture. T,here were 80 people in the hotel and 22 escaped in their night clothes, some bciner forced to' leaD from upper lories. The known dead are: I'nin Wilunil frnir l ni.iw tnr tt Vmi. ver; Bert Ready, a miner: William 'eevor, a miner; Robert Campbell, a m Thomas lavlor, lumberman, of Va. ver; Tom Kehoe, lumberman, of VaK er. Ke,-iC and rainier were owners of the hotel which is a total loss and uninsured. Wheeling Does Not Want iCIIDTIf PniCllHQ to Hear Bob LaFolIette oUDlLL rUlulltlO RUSSIAN CRUISER HITS MINE, BUT IS NOT SUNK British Troops Almost Within Firing Distance at Bagdad Wheeling, W. Va., Mar. 7. Wheeling does not care to pay Sid to hear Sen ator LaFolIette give his loctuie tomor row on "Undermining Democracy. " Backers of the lecture course, who an nounced the receipt of a telegram from LaFolIette today, declared he will come unless his Icture is definitely cancelled and suggested that lie himself cancel the engagement. One hundred business men here re cently telegraphed LaFolIette condemn ing his part in the filibuster n;ains! the armed neutrality bill. Threats of violence ugainst tne '.Vis eonsin senator in case he conies, have been made by local people. TO CAUSE DEATH OF LLDYO GEORGE "Position More Hideous Than Scuppers of Hell" Was Reason for Retreat lexicologists Describe Pois ons Found On Those Arrested ALL ARE CLASSIFIED AS BEING MOST DEADLY Berlin, via Snyville wireless. Mar. 7. Fifteen hostile aeroplanes were shot down by German forces on the western front, today's official statement do-dared. "On the Senrpo, both sides of the Am if, on the Somine, on the east bank of the Mouse and in Champagne," the n'M.'ine'it said, "there was lively artil lery activity yesterday. There were re pealed engagements of recounoitering detachments with trench garrisons- "In the evening the French attack ed noi l heast of Verdun against our new positions in the Onurieres wood, but were repulsed with fire. Bright weath er favored the flyers and in numerous ir combats 15 hostile machines were yhnt down. We lost one aeroplane. " Kastem war theatre: Between the Baltic and the Black sea the cold weath er is lessening. In some sectors the fire wus livelier, but infantry activity remained small." French Raids Successful. Paris, Mar. 7. French raids and sap ping activities gained many German prisoners, today's official statement de clared, while German attempts to pene trate to French trenches were checked with heavy losses. "French forces raided German trenches and took prisoners between inc. Oise and Aisne, the statement said. British Near Bagdad. London, Mar. 7. British troops have approached almost within range of Bag dad Official announcement from the Mes opotamian expeditionary force today de clared that on Monday British cavalry engaged a Turkish rearguard at I.jj, intie. miles southeast ot Cesiphon. By William Philip Simms, (United l'ress fc-taff Correspondent.) With the British Armies in Fiance, March 7. One reason why the Ger mans retreated along the Ancre was because they were fast becoming a gar rison of gibbering lunatics. Their posi tion had become more hideous than the scuppers of hell. Mud bottomless in places and the ceaseless pounding of the British guns had turned their positions into stench pits too horrible for human nerves to stand. The United l'ress correspondent was the first American permitted to pene trate across the ground evacuated by the Germans as far as Thillov towards Bapaume. Madame Tussaud's wax works cham ber of horrors was as cheerful as a May day compared with this field of terrors, painfully pictured at each step. 1 zigzagged around stagnate cesspools and interlocking shell craters in which the water was the exact (dor of blood. This might have been due to chemicnls in the high explosives which rent the holes, or the nature ot the ground itself. Eooies nverywnere. I found myself stepping on G-man- bodies which, littered the region. They were in all imaginable conditions and positions some times piled several deep. I saw arms sticking tun icngta out of the mud that concealed all else of the bodies to which they were at tached. There were legs, feet, half bodies or heads alone protruding. Borne lav face downward, some were prone on asleep, Warship Hit Mine. Berlin, via Tuckertown wireless. Mar. i. The Russian armored cruiser Rurik of 15,000 tons, struck a mine in Fin land bay and was greatly damaged, the official press bureau declared today, (looting Moukholin reports. "The Russian authorities tried to conceal the disaster," the press bureau asserted. "The Rurik was later docked a l Kronstadt." The Rurik is a 15,000 ton armored cruiser, completed in JOOlS, has a length or 529 feet and carrying a crew of 900 nii'ii. Sunk 204.000 Tons. Berlin, via Sayville wireless, Mar. 7 "From March 1 to 3 reports of sub marines have arrived indieatine that One of Plotters Boasted Any of Them Would Cause Death in 20 Minutes CITE E Bill IS AGREED Ei S TOUT It Provides For Limiting De bates To One Hour For Each Senator NO AMENDMENT MADE WHEN CLOTURE ORDERED miles. Imagine every trace of vegeta tion long since blasted away. Imagine the earth powder-stained and churned up from ten to sixty feet in depth. Imagine mud so bottomless that the; German prisoners claim their men frequently were swallowed up whole in attempting to cross after dark. Left Where They Fell. This is a territory the Germans left. The German prisoners told us that communication trenches had been wijied out by the incessant British fire and that mud, so that relief and re-victnnlling , was difficult, most dangerous. Men on such missions were caught by the British machine guns sweeping in the darkness and could not be saved. It was impossible to save those thus cut off by the destruction of the communication trenches. The dead were left where they fell. Two attacks in November left scores of dead Germans outside the. trenches. They have remained there until now, when the British are burying the re ma i ns. A Quagmire of Dead. Such was the sink hole occupied by the Germans. The scenes -were, too horrible for the human nerves to "'-withstand. They make quite believable the stories of soldiers who became raving maniacs. It is quite possible that in the with drawal Germany plans to use her troops elsewhere in a big offensive, but the British are undisturbed. One outstanding moral ot the Ger- Senator Walsh Points Out Serious Danger Under Present Rule PRAISED BY GERMANS Amsterdam, March 7 Sen ator Stone and lI'ollctte are lauded by the German pros comments as representative "of the best spirit in Amer ica V according to dispatches received here today summariz ing German editorial views of the senate filibuster. As a whole the German press regards the filibustering sena tors' stand as proper in stem ming "Wilson's unreasoning ambition" and in voicing tho sober sentiment of the Ameri can people who "do not pro pose to join the insanity of war." Bitter comment on President Wilson 's inaugural address was made by the Lokal Anzeiger, which dubbed the president as a "meaglonianiac " and de clared his speech "desecrated" the national capitol. By Lowell Mellett (United Press -staff correspondent.) Loudon, Mar. 7. Subtle poisons, .an infinitesimal drop of which would cause death if introduced in a wound, were revealed as the tools by which the four plotters against the life of Pre mier Lloyd-George and Minister Arthur Henderson sought to accomplish their end, in testimony offered at the Old Bailey trial of the four today. The crown called two expert toxicol ogists and pathologists. Both delivered a bewildering analysis of the effect of various poisons found by Inspector Her bert Booth, of (Scotland Yard, in the possession of Mrs. Alice Whceldon, Miss Hetty Whecldon and Mr. and Mrs. Ar thur Mason, the quartet on trial for the "poison plot." John Webster, assistant scientific, analysis to the home office, and pathol ogist chemist of repute, testified he received from Chief Inspector Parker, of Scotland Yard, a box containing four glass vials, two he found contained strychnine hydrochloratc and two a sub stance similar to curti-B, a poison form erly used by South Americans for tip ping their arrows. He gave technical evidence of the extremely poisonous na ture of these drugs. ' Poisoned Kail in Boot. Dr. Bernard Henry Spillsburv, path ologist for the home office, corrobornt aA n. U'.,l,ut., oi ;... nr.. ' ! 10 IEIIIT BEGUII TO REIVE ST01IE FROM JC0MM1TTEE Cleveland Newspaper Insists (hi This As Matter of Preparedness REFERS TO HIM AS ONE OF "THE KAISERS DOZEN" His Remaining Chairman of Foreign Relations Com mittee, Dangerous )c sc SC ijt j ! NEW RULE FRAMED JOINT CONFERENCE man retreat is wnerever tne u-ennans their backs, exactly as if i stop their retirement their new posi tions can be reduced to the same At another place, on a pile several , hideous unendurable quagmire of cad- deep, lay a boyish of ricer, fair as a avjers and nuick, where crisped dead will, with his arms thrown back ana hands clutch tram tne muo i s blue eves stannc to tne suy. ins snndv hair had been brushed back niodishly by the rain. Imagine scenes like this covering at the kaiser's men and dead eyes stare at. them from the slime, defying even German discipline to hold live men in line. . .. view onci m An Ominous Quiet Prevails But Outbreak Due at Any Time San Francipco, Mar. 7. With eight the tong war which mm is luiuiiuig zu-t.uuu cross tons nnve ( i nesn (lend in the tnne-wn been sunk," the official press bureau broke out in a half dozen California announced today. No More Daily Statements. cities Monday, an ominous quiet brood ed over the various Chinatowns today. I For 80 hours no shooting has been re Home, Mar- 7. Hereafter Italy will purred in San Francisco, Oakland, San aim ii inu man or ner allies ana not .lose or Stock-ton. where Chinese tone. public daily statements of sink- men were shot down in the streets Mon- make Washington. Mar. 7 Tho sen ate joint, conference rules com mittee this afternoon ngrecd up on a two-thirds cloture rule. This rule will be reported at 3 o'clock to democratic and repub lican caucuses. The rule provides that by a two-thirds vote of the senate de bate on any bill can be limited to one hour by each senator. The proposed rule is one the president approves. It is said that it. will be accepted by the republican caucus. It will be presented to 1he senate tomorrow. ' (Continued on page six.) sfc ABE MARTIN lugs ot vessels. At tho end of each ,iay. But the police were not .deceived " " government win announce to- t,y this condit'on and expressed the be lief that it is merely the lull before a I new storm which they fear will burst at any time. The "allies" headed by the Bing Kong long, have won nil the victories so far iu the new war. The eight men who have been slain so far were all members of the Hop Sing or Suey Sing tongs, who are combined to fight the Bing Kong allies. That the Hop Sings and Suey Sings are not idle was the confident statement of the police. These tongs arc unquestionably instructing their gunmen through tho secret chan nels which only Chinese know. They are waiting to strike back and when they do, the blow will undoubtedly come as swiftly and will be as deadly as that which fell upon Monday. ' The list of dead was brought to eight today when dispatches announced the slaying of Gtiey, a member of the Suey Sings nt Gridley, Cal., last night. He was shot down by two Chiuesc who van ished as quietly as they nppeared. The streets and alleys of San Fran cisco's Chinatown were almost deserted today. The atmosphere of hostility and suspicion was there and veteran police men fear another outbreak of hostilities before night. MARTIN IS FLOOR LEADER. - If ther's anything mean in a feller olhiii' '11 brine it out like a little an- ed Dr. Webster's testimony. He esti mated that half a grain of the strych nine hydrochloratc would be fatal, but said there was no evidence of the exact amount of curare necessary to kill, as it was a rare poison, although known of extreme dcadliness. Through both doctors Webster and Spillsbury the prosecution identified the four glass vials. Later the crown will connect these deadly poison carriers with the defense through Inspector Booth, who posed as a friend of Mrs. Alice Whceldon and became her confi dant in the alleged plot, receiving the poison, it is claimed trom here. The crown is ready to prove by Booth that Mrs. Wheeldon's plan, approved In ner fellow conspirators, was to use the curare on a dart-like rush mixed with a little of the strychnine powder an air gun to propel the dart would be suf ficient. The strychnine was described as best administered by the mouth, al- tiiougn its injection was also recom mended. Mrs. Whceldon, according to Booth, boasted that all would cause death in 20 minutes. Testimony adduced yesterday indicat ed that the conspirators anionc -whom Washington, March 7 First official i Alfred Mason is an expert chemist, rebuke by the senate to the "wilful j known as a toxicologist planned to twelve," senators who blocked 1n.si. I'ojson Lloyd-George by a poisoned nail dent Wilson's plan for placing the t'ni-1 ,1,'vu ln' b ho wh.1 ' l was h!n ted States under an 'armed neutrality' j .uUu,! ", '-l, ""I'"'- !r was seen today when the republicans K1".'""" ""' to llo.awa;V id mister in nrivnto caucus dronned from tlll,ir Arthur Henderson by "penetrating his steering committee s,. , tor. !,,)., J Mcu" WIlh 11 Vuv,l nail or dart." and Grouna two of the obstruction ists. The name of Senator Jones of Wash ington, member of the committee (lur ing the last congress, who "fullv dis- Washington, Mar. 7. The fight to end filibustering was opened in the senate this afternoon by Senator Walsh of Montana, who declared: "Traitors might find their way into the halls of congress and by filibuster ing, hold the senate at bay while a foreign foe thundered at our gates. . "It is not inconceivable that filibust ers might be actuated by traitorous sen timents. "The revolution had its Benedict Arnold. " ' "Ten members o'f tho senate were ex pelled for treason in 1861. "A vice-president has been indicted for treason at one time in our his tory. "A member of this senate was once This Addressed to Senator Lane Being Circulated in Portland Portland, Or., March 7. Declaring that "we, the undersigned voters of Oregon, view with shame and humilia tion your failure to uphold tho honor of the United States at this most crit ical hour," a petition to Senator Har ry Lane, demanding that ho Resign, is being circulated throughout Oregon to day. Tho petition said: "No words can describe our chagrin that tho state of Oregon should bo so misrepresented as disgraced as it has been by your action We indignantly protest against this action through the Jove we bear to our state and to our country, which you havo dishonored and belittled before the eves of the world." Through the agency of the Oregon Deutsche Zeitung a German-American daily, a petition is being circulated saying: "We acclaim the horoic de fense of the people against the war party of the United States, which you i Lane and tho eleven apostles of peace have made. Yon have rendered the country a service inn cuuuut estimated in terms of money." ONIONS TAKE DROP bo Cleveland, Ohio, March 7. Cleve land newspapers have begun a fight to oust Senator William J. Stone, as chairman of the foreign relations com mittee an a "preparedness measure." The Cleveland Plain Dealer today, referring to Stone as one of "tho kaiser's dozen," says: "As long as this senator from Mis souri retains tho committee chairman ship America's armor of defense a gainst the aggressions of Germany will he materially weakened. In times lika these it is highly important that the man at tho head of this committee should be a senator singlo in devoting to his own .country, of staunch loyalty and unquestioned integrity. "Stono has failed. He can no longer be trusted or respected- To leave him at the head of this committee would be liko leaving tho gate of our wall open to tho enemy." The Plain Dealer then urges that tho other ehjven senators "be not forgot ten." The Cleveland Press started the bombardment against Stone with a stinging editoriar yesterday, in which Stono was referred to as the "kaiser' friend." - "iu this national crisis," said the Press, "this chairmanship is second in importance to the presidency. H is a terrible thing, that it be occupied by a man of "the character of 'Gumshoe Bill' Stone the kaiser's friend." Pictures of the "twelve wilful men' were run alongside that of Benedict Arnold. . . " (Continued on nage lis.) Portland, Ore., Mar. 7. It is no long er a mark of wealth to eat onions. Big Australian importations sent the market down from $10 to $0 a hundred pounds today. Action to Show Party Does Not Indorse Late Filibuster Would Take Chairmanship of Committee on Foreign Relations From Stone Washington, Mar. 7. A bitter fight against re-election of William J. Stone to the chairmanship of the foreign rela tions committee will be made by nioni- Def enseals Teak. This defense Stone's opponents say, however, is "weak and illogical." They declare the unwritten rules of the sen ate sav the chairman of a committee By Lowell Mellett London, March. 7. All the elements of' a Sherlock Holmes detective story were presented today when the crown called to the bar the famous "noison cussed" the address, consuming several j plot " quartet to answer to the charge hours on the final day of the session j of conspiring to murder Premier Lloyd a4 who "signed the round robin tin-j George and Minister Arthur Henderson 2 The four were Mrs. Mary Whceldon, (Continued on page six.) Miss Harriet Whceldon and Mj and ; Mrs. Alfred Mason. They were arraign- Washington, March 6. Senator Thomas S. Martin, Virginia, succeeds Ex-Senator Kern, Indiana, as demo erati floor leader. Martin was chosen chairman of the ! democratic caucu that met today. thority. Th ' feller that 's short on cash The position carries the floor leader-j MAY SEIZE SHIP YARDS Washington, March 7. The government will seize private, ship yards if a survey of ship building facilities does not show that the building of war ships ca be speeded up under present conditions. Secretary Daniels announced today that he would use the jiowcrs granted under the new naval bill if it became neces sary. The secretary reached this decision after conferring with representatives of large ship building companies yesterday. The conference continued to day. Daniels also discussed the question of labor with Secre tary of Labor Wilson a.nd Sam uel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. The power to commandeer yards can be exercised by proc lamation of the president in time of war or national emergency. i. alius long on advice. ed before Justice Low in Old Bailey First of the surprises in the case came when a dark skinned Mohamme dan, 8. H. Kiza, arose in court and en tered his appearance as counsel for the defendants. For the crown, Attorney General Sir F K. Smith was in charge of an aray of counsel. Attorney General Smith, opening the crown's case, bitterly denounced the four defendants as "a desperate and dangerous group, bitterly hostile to the country and one which had done its best to injure the British in tho pres ent crisis." Inspector Herbert Booth of Scotland Yard, one of the secret agents who suc ceeded in establishing himself as a con fident of the Wheeldons, was the first witness on behalt of the crown.lle told the whole amazing story of the poison plot and the conspirators' bitterness against tho government officials they had marked out for slaughter. It was recital that might well have been hers of his own party, despite the here- j must do what the committee votes him tofore inviolable seniority rule that has i to do; that he violated the unwritten always prevailed in such matters. (rules when he threw up his hands and One of the most prominent democratic j the bill by asking Senator Hitchcock senators who was one of the leaders injto lead the battle for the armed neutrnl the fight to pass the armed neutrality i ity measure. They say that,xwhatever measure, is authority for this state-! his personal convictions, ho should have ment. However, he admits the fight had! gone through with the fight, ns yet taken no definite shape. Some Stone opponents today cxpress- Tho new senate cannot proceed toed the theory that perhaps the foreign business, it was pointed out, until com-. relations chairman may havo been in- mittees and chairmansiiips nave tieen : tiuenccd by tne tact tnat. tno president, selected. The democrats retain the ma- j had not told him about the Zimmerman jority sufficient to control the organ-j Mexico-Japanese plot letter, or taken ization. I him into the presidential-state dejiai't- A unique situation, however, exists in ! ment confidence where other secrets the new senate. Senator Kern last Fri-iwere concerned. day presented a resolution, which was Others, however, including some adopted, continuing the senate commit- cabinet members, said they "would tees of tho Sixty-fourth (or last) con-! hardly say that." They said they were gress during the present special session j inclined to believe "Stone's consti of the senate". tuency wanted him to do as he did." In the midst of the rules fiirht yester- Claim No 111 reelings. day Senntor Owen held that inasmuch I "They very frankly declared they do as the Sixty fourth congress died Hun-1 not believe there was any ill feeling on Stone Gets a Roast St. Louis, Mo., March, 7. Senator William J. Stone was haril hit today in resolutions passed by several democrat is ward organizations last night. He. was branded ft traitor and aslicd to give an account of his action in not supporting President Wilson's armed neutrality. Kach organization endors ed an editorial printed in the Post-Dispatch, which said in part: "The lack of a cloture rule is not the only flaw in the organization of the United States senate. There is an other there is 'Gumshoe Bill' Stone at the head of the foreign relations committee. "Resignation from the, chairmanship of the foreign relations committee and from the senate would be the most be coming act of Stone's career. If Stone is not man enough to resign the chair manship, ho should be kicked out by the patriotic majority." Kansas Roasts the Dozen Topeka, Kan., March 7. A concur rent resolution, declaring treasonable the filibuster in the Uni'ed States- sen ate led by Senntor Lafollette and par ticipated in by eleven "other wilful men" against the armed neutrality bill, will be acted upon by tho Kansas legislature today. There is no doubt of the resolution's passage, legislators said. The resolution declares the filibus ter has "placed the American people EDISON MAY RESIGN dv. they could not in any way govern or even suggest rules for the new sen ate. Hitchcock May Get Place. Owen pointed out that the Hi new members had every right to demand a caucus even during the special session, since they hid no voice iu the last ses sion. At a democratic caucus held today, a new steering committee will be named. either side between Stone and the presi dent in the matter, in view of the close personal and political relations that are known to have existed. These men said the president "even now,, has no ill feeling for Stone; merely regretting tho grave error he made," and that they did not look for the president to "take any part in the house cleaning tho sen ate may decide on." While the fight against re-eiection (Continued on page two.) Thig committee will reorganize the of Stone to the foreign relutions chair senate of the Sixty-fifth congress. Hen ator Hitchcock, who ranks next to Stone on the foreign relations commit tee in seniority, will, it is confidently believed, succeed Stone as chairman, should the fight on Stone develop the strength necessary to oust him. Luke warm supporters of Senator taken from the pages of a famous Stone defend him, saying tnat ne uia crime story except that the crime was his duty as chairman of the committee never committed, because of the vigil- in reporting the armed neutrality bill, nnce of the secret agents and Scotland in getting it out of the committee and Yard operatives. I before the senate. They say that not , until tne uiu wan ueiore uiw avwtim ship. When your ship comes in maybe It Stone express his personal opinion and will be a freight car, and that will bo leave the bill to the mercy of tho "fili- , better till, bustenng few." manship undoubtedly will be bitter and perhaps call forth condemnatory com ment on the floor of the senate, many senators admitted today it may be fu tile. One of these said: "You know this seniority rulo re garding chairmanships ib like death and taxes. Buch changes as would be neces sary to aupplant Stone would be revo lutionary in a body that is fundamental ly just the opposite." Stone himself denied himself to ev eryone today. Even notes sent in to I him, in the seclusion of his oftlne, pay ! Inir thn emintrv would lika to hear his oide of the case, failed to draw him out. He refused absolutely to see anyone. Annapolis, Md., Mar. 7. Thomas A. Edison, chairman of the naval advisory board, may resign if the naval experiment ing laboratory is not built at Sandy Hook, it was reported here today when the inventor filed a minority report with' Secretary of the Navy Daniels favoring the New York site. ' THE WEATHER T- Orcaon: night and Thurs day oceasieoal rain west, cloudy east port ton; southerly vfiada.