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FORTIETH YEAR NO. 77
SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1917
PRICE TWO CENTS SyAmS
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ALL SALEM OUT 10
SOLDIER
0
Greatest Patriotic Parade
Ever Seen In City, in
Their Honor
CHILDREN WITH FLAGS
IS PROMINENT FEATURE
Scenes at Depot Where Smiles
Hid TearsShow Real
Patriotism
Kscortcd by one of the finest patriotic
parades ever seen in Salem, Company
M, of the Third Oregon Infantry, Cap
tain James Roy Neer commanding,
marched from the armory on Ferry and
Liberty streets shortly after H o'clock
this morning and about 10 o'clock en
trained for the mobilization camp at
Vancouver, Wash.
Fully 8,000 people thronged the sta
tion piatform to bid the boys farewell;
ana each one had a flag.
From the starting point of the parade
lit the corner of liberty . und State
streets, the line of march was crowded
with Salem citizens who cheered and
waved flags with enthusinsm.
The long line of marching men and
women fluttered with the liod, White
ami Blue, and three bands filled the air
with martini music. And the two drum
corps stirred the pulse with the roll and
lieat of snare and bass.
It was an evidence that the American
people will always rally to tho. national
colors in times of stress; it was an evi
dence that the people of Snleiu are be
hind the administration, and proud of
Company M as the finest body of men
in the Third Oregon Infantry.
March, to Station.
Promptly M 8:45 o'clock, the various
units of the parade began to form at
their designated places and shortly aft
er 1 o'clock began the march to the
tttation,
The escort was uuder the direction of
liev. James Klvin, who took charge for
the Patriotic Week committee. He was
assisted by the following commanders
of divisions:
Dwight Misner, of the Automobile di
vision. O. K. Albin, of th? Patriotic organiza
tion division.
George Watson, of the Company M
division.
Oscar B. Gingrich, of the High school
division.
W. I. Staley, of tho Willamette uni
versity division.
Music was furnished by the Chemnwa
Indian band, Hebel's Cherry Bud band
ud the Cherrian band. The Lincoln
(Continued on page six.)
Democrats Nominate
All the Old Officers
Washington, Mar. 30. Democrats of
tho house caucused today, with 33 mem
bers absent, and renominated by ac
clamation all of the old officers of the
bouse.
Representative Gallivan, of Massa
chusetts, lending democratic "hold
out" was one of the absentees. Rep
resentative Schnckleford, Mississippi,
nominated Champ Clark for speaker.
Th! whole caucus, according to the mem
bers, was a love feast with no signs of
dissension. Appointment of commit
teemen to fill vacancies was left to the
- ays and menus committee, deoc.ratic
members of which continued to act as a
fleering committee for their party.
ABE MARTIN I
; .
Some women think the'r entitled t'
anything they want jest 'cause ther
husbands smoke two or three nickel
cigars a day. Alius hide your watch
when you meet a feller that travels on
his honesty.
FAREWELL
350,000 Children to
Sing National Anthem
tf 'ago, Mar. 30. When congress
m ' 0 in extraordinary session next
Mo Q 350,000 children in Chicago's
publ. . vooU will rise, stand beside
their v 'o.nd sing patriotic songs.
Plan Ms demonstration were per
fected to i v John D. Shoop, superin
tendent ot Is.
At 11 a-'. " mday, an congress as
sembles all ; S school classes will
halt their reg "i 'msincss. Speakers
will enter the ri nd explain to the
children gust wha, is happening at the
capitol.
As the session, which niBy result in
war, is called to order all the kiddies
little aliens as well as little Americans
will join their 350,000 voices in sing
ing "My Country Tis of Thee."
DOUBT OF FUTURE IS
S
Socialist Declares "Prussian
System of Government
Must Be Abolished"
Amsterdam, Mar.. 30. For the first
time since the start of the war a note
of doubt as to Germany 's future has
crept into reichstag speeches, accord
ing to dispatches received today from
Berlin.
Member Spahn was quoted as declar
ing in debate today, following Imperial
Chancellor Von Bethmnnn-Hollwcg's
speech, that he "hoped Germany was
prepared to fight a new and powerful
foe." The socialist member Noslte bit
terly censured Foreign Secretary Zim
merman's Mexican-Japanese scheme
against America and declared the
"Prussian B.ystem of government must
be abolished. "
"Germany must not be considered a
reactionary country," Noske declared-
Spahn asserted that all entente rulers
wero now sitting on unsafe thrones.
"Even in Italy," ho said, "a revolu
tionary spirit is seething and the king
is tottering on his throne.
"Although dispatchos from Germany
indicated approbation over Hollweg's
"no compromise" attitude on the sub
marine warfare, expressed in his formal
speech of yesterday, there were va
rious reports here of widespread discon
tent over his failure to announce prom
ised electrola reforms. Hollweg was
quoted as declaring the time was not
yet ripe for such reforms, in view of
the fact that the greater part of Ger
many's voting population was now in
the trenches.
Socialistic plans are gaining new ad
herents in Germany, according to va
rious reports. The Russian revolution
(Continued on page two.)
"Hell's Own Acres'9 Name
of Ground Abandoned to
Keep Army
By William Philip Simms
(United Press staff correspondent)
With the British Afield, Mar. 9.
(By mail.) With Tomlinson of the
London News.aml Leader, Bean of the
combined Australian papers, and an
"Anzac" staff colonel, 1 have just
explored the new Sahara, that hideous
section of country abandoned, by the
Germans lest their troopers go mad.
Tho British gave it the name of Sa
hara. Crown Prince Ruphrecht's men
called it by another the graveyard.
ut l siioulil give it another still
the field of a thousand shudders; the
place where nightmares are made.
Take your map of France and find
Bapaume. To the west and south of
that place lies the new Sahara. If your
map is a large one you will find it
covered with the names of hamlets, vil
lages and towns but today all these
are gone. No trace of them is left and
ns one stands in the middle of this
blighted country no sprig of grass, no
sign of a tree, no weed, flower or
shrub greets the vision as far as eyes
can see. There is only a greenish, black
soil, freshly churned up and bo-crater-ed
by explosives ranging in depth from
five to sixty feet or more.
Lookout for Bayonets
Of course, one cannot rido through
this country. Nor, for that matter, can
one walk. One can only slip and slide
and stagger along, ever in danger of
falling into funnel shaped quagmires
from which escape is impossible with
out aid. 1 know of two corespondents
who came near losing their lives in
just such places, more perilous far than
the dread quicksands. Horses and mules
on account of their weight and the dif
ficulty of helping them, once in the
toils of the ooze, usually are drawn on
down to their death.
"Look out for the bayonet," is a
common cry of warning as you stumble
through the mud, for hundreds of thons
ands of rifles are buried in the ground
and frequently only the rusting blades
of their bayonets are sticking out. The
great waste of war is everywhere evi
dent. Wrought and twisted rifle bar
rels, splintered stocks, unexploded
pihells of all calibres, hand grenades,
I trench mortar bombs, aerial torpedoes,
brass shell cases, abandoned stores of
live shells, knapsacks, articles of
GERMANS REACH
LINE MADE READY
FOR HEW DEFENSE
Little Doing Today, Both Sides
Making Ready for Com
ing Battles
VIOLENT FIGHTING IS
REPORTED IN THE EAST
Germans Claim British At
tacks Repulsed With
Heavy Losses
By Perry Arnold.
(United Press foreign editor.)
New Yor!:, Mar. 30. Official state
ments today gave fresh proof that the
German retreat has now probably Hin
denburg's forces to their permanent de
fenso line.
Tho French report,-on the contrary to
those of previous days detailing scat
tered fighting over a considerable front,
merely said there was nothing particu
lar happening.
General Haig made no report from
the British front, but press dispatches
indicated decreasing usefulness of open
fighting forces.
Berlin admitted a retirement of ;' pro
tecting troops" in the face of superior
British forces advancing northeast of
Peronne. It indicated preparations for
mass attacks on French troops in the
Champagne sector, but declared these
preparations were defeated by concen
trated German artillery fire- On the
Aisne and the Alarne canal the Berlin
report also told of preparations by the
allied troops for attacks and the re
pulse of strong British assaults north
of Arras at. a spot" far removed from
the center of the evacuated territory
was also recounted.
These - attacks and preparations for
attack at various points are presumab
ly designed by tho allies as feints to
keep German troops busy and to cloak
the real forward movements and at
tacks on the Germans on their line of
retreat from Arras 4o near Lano.
The Petrograd statement detailed con
tinued and violent fighting on the
northeastern front, leatured by gas
waves and heavy artillery firing.
(Continued on page three.)
From Madness
clothing and whatnot litter the sur
face of the now Sahara.
Call It the uraveyard
The Germans gave the country here
the name of "The graveyard."
But the field of a thousand shud
ders lies further on. Up toward the
bloody butte of Warlcneourt, Ligny
Thilley and thereabouts, one reaches
hell's own acres. The water covering
the slime in tho crater beds has be
come gruesomely red, exactly like
blood, for somo uncanny reason, and
to the noissome smell of miles of muck
is added an unmistakable stench. In
tuition would tell you the cause of it
even were not tho bodies lying about
plainly to be seen. They are on mound;
or at the bottom of shell holes, in
fragments or so entire as to resemble
merely a very tired and muddy soldier
gone to sleep regardless of time or
place.
Here ran tho German lines during
December and January following the
battlo of the Somme. There were no
communicating trenches leading back
the British smashed them as fast as
dug and to get into or out of the
foremost positions the soldiers had to
traverse the open ground at night.
Madness Lay There
When a German fell in the open he
lay where ho fell. When he fell in the
trenches he was buried in the side of
the trench providing the walls were
firm enough; if not his body was
thrown outside.
In the pitch black darkness many a
German soldier fell into the awful
funnel shaped death traps in the mud
to be left to suffocate in the terrible
mixture, probably already holding bod
ies of previous victims. By day dead
faces stared at' the kaiser's men from
every side and at night dead hands,
sticking out of tlie mud, tripped and
threw those who had to venture in the
open. Iron nerved troopers felt creepy.
Faces twitched, nerves failed and, pris
oners say, some soldiers went mad.
This new Sahara is the work of Brit
ish artillery.
People asked why the Germans retir
ed. Do you wonder why they leftf Here
you have an inkling but only an ink
line of what the British guns are do
ling making a new Sahara f.long the
new German front.
I didn't raise my boy to be a coward;
I want my boy to go if there is war,
I want to stand and watch him proud
ly marchingi
I want to gaze upon him from the
door.
I do not want' to'losc him or to keep
him,
I only long and long to have him be
A man whene'er his country comes to
sweep him
Into her surgiug-lcgions of the free.
I do not want my boy to be a craven;
I love him, and I'd hate to see him
go;
And yet I'd rathef lose him, sadly lose
him, .
Than have him hide in fear to face
the foe.
I've prayed with all the spirit of a
woman
For peace, and that our struggle
might not come;
But if it does I .want him brave and
human,
My boy must march, away with flag
and drum.
I'd give him, yes, a thousand times I'd
give him,
With all he means to me of love and
joy; I
Because I would not love him if he
wasn't
My ideal of a woman's kind of
boy.
I do not harbor hate or yearn for Ven
geance; I would not crush a violet with my
hand;
But if it conies to 'fighting, then I
want him ,
To be a man atid ".struggle for his
land-
I want my boy to go if we must enter
This mad world conflict raging in
its might;
With all it means to nie to have him
leave me,
I'd give him to his country, help
him fight;
For, bo I think a mother docs her
duty,
And keeps her faith with honor and
with God;
I didn't raise my boy to be a coward,
I d rather have him dead and turned
a clod.
Baltimore Sun.
Senator Chamberlain
Sees President To
Urge Universal Service
By Robert J. Bender
(United Press staff correspondent)
Washington, Mar". 30. Land defense
problems and propositions held the
president 's chief attention yesterday,
in his consideration of prepnring the
nation for the existing state of war,
formal announcement of which is ex-'
pected Tuesday.
Senator Chamberlain, chairman of
the military committee of the upper
body, called at the white house this
al'cernoon to tell the president that he
should embody in his coming message
a flat recommendation for universal
military training.
Chamberlain left with the president
an estimate of what universal training
would cost about $150,000,000 a year
for five hundred thousand men.
Under this system, the senator said,
it would not be long before the regu
lar United States army could be prac
tically dispensed with and much of the
tremendous expense attendant upon a
military establishment eliminated.
Chamberlain said he, hoped the pres
ident would come out for universal
training but that he was unable to
voice the president's present views on
the question now.
That congress will pass an appropri
ation to provide supplies of all kinds
clothing, arms, munitions, etc. for
one million men was Chamberlain 's be
lief expressed.
Just before f;hambcrlain called, Sec
retary of War Baker went to the white
house to lay before the president the
details of all his department had done
in land defense work.
"We discussed the general military
situation," Chamberlain said.
"Of course, i urged" the president to
signify his approval of some form of
universal service. If the president
should get behind universal military
service, it could be passed, I believe.
However, he did not manifest any
change in his opinion.
"Until some other bills better than
my own are advanced 1 will continue
to push my bill forward."
A THREATENING LETTER '
Vni-h Vntriinn tV.ll.. tnr .tfl A lot.
tor from a German sympathizer thrcat
'ening to blow up fruit warehouses,
'churches, and bridges, if the "Yan
kees" do not cease their "pernicious
activity," is in the hands of Mayor
.T. F. Parton today.
I The Mother of a Boy
TELL OF
OF TERROR
SOUTHERN BO
Bandits Enter Camp In Oil
Fields Weekly and Take
Payroll
CARRANZA HAS TOWNS
ZAPATA THE COUNTRY
Two British Subjects Shot
Down by BanditsNatives
Mutilated
Galveston, Texas, Mar. 30. Passeng
ers on the tank steamer Topila, which
recently has arrived at an American
port, relate thrilling tales of a reign
of terror in Mexico nnd including the
slaying of two British subjects.
W. H- T. Buckingham, general man
ager for the Aguilla Oil Corporation on
the Isthmus of Tehuantepcc, and George
Gannernfan, cashier, both British sub
jeets, were killed by Mexican bandits
at Nanchital on March 9, Recording to
these passengers. Buckingham's body
was hacked to pieces with hatchets.
Other outrages in the oil fields above
Puerto Mexico also are related and it
is declared that in the vicinity of Min
atiltlan, disputed country lying between
tne camps ot Carranza and Zapata armies,-
bandits rove at will and keep the
country in a state of constant terror.
These passengers request that their
names be concealed for fear of reprisals
on themselves or friends. One of the
passengers told the following story:
"For the last seven months Mexican
bandits have entered the camps at Nan
chital and Yxhuatlan every week and
taken the payroll-of the Agiula corpora
tion, amounting to more, than $1,000.
"On March 1, 16 armed Mexicans
called upon Bnimerman and demanded
his payroll. They looted the building
and wero angered because they could
find but $1,300. They demanded $1,500.
Buckingham and two other friends were
in Bannerman's office. The bandits
drove tho whole bunch to the warehouse
and began taking groceries.
"Here they became insolent and one
of them -shot down Tierzo Cruz, of Ban
ncrman's party.
"Bannerman and his other guests
ducked under tho warehouse and headed
toward the river. The second shot fired
by the bandits struck Bannerman in
the groin, resulting in his death- Buck
ingham started to leave. When he turn
ed his back his body was riddled with
bullets. Then the bandits took mach
etes and hacked his body to pieces. Next
morning the bandits went up the river,
killed a Mexican farmer, his wife and
(Continued on page two.)
THE DAJNC'E TONIGHT
There is an impression about
that the dance scheduled for
this evening for the benefit of
Company M 's mess fund will
not bo held because the boys
have gone to Vancouver.
Nothing could be farther
from the truth.
Committees are decorating the
armory, selling tickets, and pre
paring to make this military
ball the biggest, best -and most
profitable one in the social cal
endar of the year.
There is no idea of aband
oning the event or postponing
it.
Director Stoudenmcyer anil
Manager Graber of the Salem
Military band have promised
the best music procurable for
this dance; they even say the
music this time will be the best
ever given for a dance in Sa
lem. The committee hus been meet
ing with success in selling tick
ets and the prospect is that a
great crowd will dance tonight
to fill Company M's mess fund.
CHANCE IN THE NAVY
The navy is offering unusual induce
ments to young men, especially those
who enlist in the hospital or radio
corps. The young man who goes into
the hospital corps is given eight months
instructions at Mare Island, and dur
ing this study timo is paid $20.90 a
month and all found. Then he becomes
a hospital apprentice of the first class
at $20.40 a month and by the end of
the first year's enlistment, is paid $JJ
a month and all found. The radio serv
ice pays $17.00 a month during the six
or eight months instructions and then
the youth is put on a salary of $33 a
month with all found, and opportunities
for advancement. The following high
school boys have made application for
enlistment in one of these services:
Harold Cook, Howard Pearson, Ray
mond Labey, Clifford Smart, Willard
Simpson, Harvey Pierce, Roy Reming
ton and Harvey McElroy.
1
REI
WILL m
GERMANY
WITH WAR
BY ROBERT J. BENDER,
(United Press Staff Correspondent.) i
Washington, March 30.
President Wilson has definite
ly determined that a state of
war between the United
States and Germany must be
formally recognized by this
government, according to his
intimate advisers.
This developed this afternoon fol
lowing one of the briefest cabinet
meetings held since the break with
Germany.
There is every evidence that this
government is going forward with a
"strong and aggressive policy " ac
cording to one of the members who sat
at the cabinet meeting.
"lou need not worry about where
he is standing on this matter. This is
not time for pacifism and no one need
doubt the president's forceful nosi-
tion," said a cabinet member after the
session.
His opinion was supported bv others
of tho president's advisory council
when they left the meeting. On evi
dence supplied by these advisers the
white house continues silent tho gov
ernment is going to meet Germany's
war aggression with war next week.
The United Press correspondent told
his informant that there had been
some donbt in a number of minds for
several days that the president was to
act entirely forcibly.
ine meniDcr s reniv was: i win
tell you this: President Roosevelt gath
ered his facts quickly and acted quick
ly and that was the end of it. Presi
dent Wilson- has always gathered his
facts slowly and had been tho skepti
cal in the meantime, but you can al
ways rely on him. You can entirely
rely on him in the present situation."
Not only is a state of war generally
admitted, but there is a manifest de
termination by those in the councils of
the president to wage a strong de
termined campaign that will leave no
(Continued on page five.)
G0 GHETTO HAS
Women Raid Kosher Butcher
Shops and Pour Kerosene
On Meats
Chicago, Mar. 30. Crying "U'a star
vation" and "our children must eat,"
mobs of angry women today again at
tacked kosher meat shops in the Max
well street and Northwest Sido dis
tricts that had dared to reopon after
last night's riots.
One hundred policemen wore rushed
to the scene of the disturbance but bc
foro they arrived two markets had
been entered by tho mobs and meats
damaged by kerosene baths.
Men and children today augmented
tho women rioters. Last night's dem
onstration, during which 40 shops wore
invaded, was conducted mainly by wo
men, many carrying children.
A mass meeting attended by 800 wo
men and more than 200 men, at which
speakers goaded the men for not assist
ing the women in their protests, is be
lieved to have been instrumcnetal in
adding the unusual number of men to
today's mobs.
At the butcher shop of Solomon Wal
owitu, in which he had barricaded him
self today, the women padlocked the
door from the outside. It was two hours
before Walowitz was released by the po
lice. Reports of mobs congregating in
other sections of the city have reached
central headquarters and reinforcements
have been sent out.
Shops Are Avoided.
Several shops, closed yesterday after
their fixtures had been demolished and
stocks ruined with kerosene, attempt
ed to reopen under police protection,
but customers, fearing a repetition of
last night's scenes, did their purchasing
elsewhere or went meatless.
Police reinforcements, drafted from
various outlying stations, were held in
readiness today at the Maxwell street
station, which, is the storm center. Five
different riot squads were sent ont from
here last night to quell disturbances.
Twenty persons were injured in one
charge before the women coum De ais
persed. The women, some mobs numbering as
high as 200, stormed the shops and al t
er rouchlv handling custoimers and de
stroying their purchases, overturned
(Continued on page twe.)
HOLLWEG'S SPEECH
WEAK BUT DEFIAI1T
KILLS ALL DOUBT
Administration Shsnb Last
Details for Taking Part
in War
PACIFIC ELEMENT WILL
BE SWEPT OUT OF WAY
Strong Active Defense of
Americas Rights Key Note
of Message
By Robert J. Bender
(United Press staff correspondent)
Washington, Mar. 30. President
Wilson has completed the first tenta
tive draft of his "war message" to
congress.
Throughout the morning, exeusing
himself from all callers, tho president
worked on the message in order that
it might be in definite shape for dis
cussion by the cabinet this afternoon.
Must be Stopped From Biting
Following the custom he always pur
sued after completing work on some
important matter the president then
went for a long auto ride, before meet
ing with his advisers.
Guarded by two motorcycle police
men and the usual secret service en
tourage, tho president, with Mrs. Wil
son drove down the road which bord
ers the Potomac river. Now and then
they passed groups of soldiers guard
ing the different bridges. Salutes were
exchangod between the soldiers and
tho president.
The cabinet's view of the situation
this afternoon was outspoken and
fran Several members expressed their
I Vl- unqualifiedly that a state of war
Dctween tne united Mates anri ucr-
for some time.'
i v
Oiv! member described the situation
picturesquely when he said "it is a
state where a mad dog must be stop
ped from further biting."
Washington, in spots, assumed! an
atmosphere of a real state of war.
Tho consensus of opinion is that the
president will ask . congress to ack
nowledge that a state of war now ex
ists between the united States and
Germany.
At thh same tunc the belief is strong
that the president also may express a
profound hope that the nations of the
world, now involved n tho greatest
struggle of history, will soon be able
to bring about a lasting peace.
Only War Talked of
Washington, Mar. 30. Only actual
war was talked here generally today. ,
Chancellor Bcthmann-lfollwcg clinched
tho idea. President Wilson and his cab
inet, booked for a late afternoon ses
sion, wero expected to shape tho last
details of what will mean tho entry of?
the United States into the conflict in
some fashion to be decided by congress.
Hollweg, considered defiant, weak
and misleading in his arguments, swept
aside all doubts in the minds of inter
national experts that President Wilson
will make a forceful demand upon con
gress for America to play ..a full part
in the struggle. That Hollweg had
made a poor case for himself and his
nation was tho general view.
The cabinet and the president were
expected to shape tho last of the. de
tails of tho president's "war message'
today.
Tho main thought of it strong act
ive defense of America's rights ac
cording to authorities, has been crys
tallised long since.
Universal Training
That President Wilson is rapidly
turning more strongly in favor of Bomo
form of universal military training i.t
the view of officials who have follow
ed events closely. Tho president him
self has made no announcement.
Military men who know something
of the policy ahead declare that the.
war may be the bitterest tho United
States has over seen and henee they
argue that the universal law ought to
bo applied that the system ought not
to be volunteer, depending on enthus
iasm which may wane luter.
The pacifist element in congress will
bo stamped beneath a patriotic wave,
according to unofficial canvasses to
day. Congress will uphold President
Wilson to tno last uucu, n. u i-
pears.
(Continued ot page two.)
THE WEATR
ILIX
Oregon: Tonight
and Saturday
partly eloudy;
heavy frost west
portion tonight;
warmer east por
tion Sat n day;
winds mostly easterly,