Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1917)
t I M M I I I CIRCULATION IS OVER 4300 DAILY FULL LEASED ' WIRE DISPATCHES . . ft r rvvSt ,'..-:.:: 4 it t "FfrTTo! FORTIETH YEAR NO. 81 SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANfiS FIVK CKNTS P Df ml cncoK f 1 II 1 Ji 4 ifflltnM PRESIDENT WILL HAVEPLAHS READY lEHSEIIATEH VYiil Enlist and Tram Mei In - Increments of J 500,000 AGE LIMITS OF FIRST UNIT WILL BE 18 TO 23 No Men To Be Sent To Europe But instead Money and Supplies . Washington, April 4. By the time congress acts tm the "war resolution'' all plans for assembling all the nation's forces to strike at the imperial govern ment of Germany will be ready tor pre sentation by the president. Army legislation based on selective conscription of 'ni' country's young men as rapioly as they can be equipped, ol Jicered and trained, is considered prob ably the most important of the war plans. All men except those exempted such im tried men, lueclianicul experts, scient ists will bo expected to tonic under the colors. The government will nave some desig nation a button probably which will )p given to those exempted and other wise serving the country, but who are not under training. 1 in s is the same scheme followed by England to protect those not actually in the army from be ing dubbed "slackers." I niter tire three basis plan it is the intention of Jhe government to train men in increments of 500,000 until there are sufficient to beat Germany. No Troops lor Europe now. No men will be scut to Europe - im - - mediately; probably none will go for at least six moi.ths. The present regulars j believe thoy will be the first expedition ary force, leaving the newly trained men as a home guard until tho second increment of 500,000 is trained. The maximum and minimum age lim its of men for the first is expected to be 18 to 2:1. Feuding the raising of America's army, this government is making pre parations to ship unlimited .supplies to the allies including not only money but food and ammunition. The greatest problem is admittedly getting the supplies to the entente ports. Hence the big problem before the navy, according to navy officers, is creating effective means of combatting the U-boat. Naval co-operation between the Uni ted States and the entente allies has al ready been planned in detail which are naturally secret. The National Defense Council Presi dent Wilson's tdvispry war cabinet i in daily cession, methodically work ing out details of mobilizing resources, plaits of economizing in all these re sources and means of hastening supplies for the army and navy and the allies. FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT Kugene, Or., April 4. For the first time a woman is president of the stu dent body of the University of Ore gon, and all becnusc this country is face to face, with a war. I'resident .Teureguv and Vice President Watkins of the "student body have left the uni versity to join their companies, and Miss Jennie Muggins, secretary, be comes acting, president. Considering the prices the spud should be called at least potato, if not Solanum tuberosum. sfc 9c sjc sc ABE MARTIN 5f sfc sc sc ".Say what you please, sody fountain lerkg haint half as affable as bartend ers." said Tell Binkley t'day. Any married man knows that it's only a question 0' time till women git suffrage. LaFoIlette Hanged In Effigy by Students Huston, Mass., April 4. Senator Robert LaFoIlette, Wisconsin pacifist filibustered was hoisted by a crane and burned in effigy last night. Students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology made a dummy of La FoIlette, tagged it that all might know t wag LaFoIlette and then on the edge the Charles river basin, where it be seen for miles, set it on fire, nes of students executed an In dia. dance about the burning La Polle. 'eanwliile singing and jeer ing. 1 A lun i? pacifist, the only one in the dormitory, pleaded the burning man's cause. The students gathered about him and . endeavored to change his views by argument. The endeavor failed rind the pacifist was held under a cold shower bath until he became bellig erent , GIRL FOUND AT LAKE VIEW Chicago, April 4. After having been sought all over the United States, Helen Sims, age 15, Lakeview high school girl, is back in her home today. She disappeared November 24. Friends recognized her in the attire of a nurse girl, while she was playing with two children in Washington I'ark. She told them that she had been work ing as a servant for four months be cause she wanted independence. When Halted Opens Fire, Fuse and Electric Torch Found . On Him Taijomn, Wash., April 4. Held for in vestigation a man giving the name of Frank Webber, age 35, of German de scent, fs a prisoner in the city jail here itnd.iv-. fiillnwiniT n revolver lnel nn this oriental dock last night with Night Watchman fcrastus Fellows. When ar rested, Webber had in his possession a section of fuse, an electric torch and a revolver. On the way to the station, Webber threw away something which officers think may have been dynamite or nitroglycerine. When accosted by Fellows in the shadow of the freight warehouses last night, V ebber drew his gun and open ed lire without a word. The watchman returned the fire. Neither was hit. The stranger then ran. A few minutes later he was discovered in the Northern Fa ltic tunnel bv Patrolman Hawley, who got th"e drop on him. hen taken to police headquarters Webber refused to explain his action in loitering about the docks, "Do vou think 1 was going to blow up, a government arsenal or some thing?" he asked the officers. I 10 SEVER RELATIONS The Hague, April 4. Austria has practically decided to break relations with America as soon as the United States declares war on her ally, Ger many. This decision, it was understood here this afternoon, had been reached at a conference at Homburg of Kaiser William, Kmperor Karl, Chancellor Von r'ethmann-Holhveg of Germany and Count Czernin, Austro-Hungarian for eign minister, and high Teutonic gen erals. Kmperor Karl, it was indicated in these advices, yielded to demands made by the kaiser for such a step. It was known that the conference of the high Teutonic chiefs related principal franchise in Prussia. Another report received here this af ternoon from Homburg declared that the Austrian emperor would shortlv make a definite peace offer to the world 111 the name of the central pow ers. WATCHAMA COLUMN By "GM" Balanced Radons Our wife has the balanced ration bug. You know what . that means. It means that you have to swallow as much of one thing as you do of another so your stomach won't get lop sided. Vou realize as well as we do that if you get a 'voting of spin ach on the left side of your Little Alary and only half a pound of mashed potato on the right side your portico's bound to sag on one corner. But there's nothing new about the balanced ration. It's old . stuff. W:e can remember, when we were a little boy, seeing our Uncle Will indulging in his balanced ration down on the farm. The only difference was that while our wife balances ours on a sliding scale of vita mines, calories and proteids, he balanced bis on his knife. SUSPECT ARRESTED KONTACOMA DOCKS AUSTRIA DEMANDS HEW PEACE OFFER BE M ADETO ALLIES Teuton Officials Realize They Must Do Better Than In . First Offer MAY CHANGE ELECTORAL FRANCHISE IN PRUSSIA German Officials Cannot See Any Reason for American Hostility By John Grandens. (United Press staff correspondent.) Berlin, April 4. Officials here today could not see any reason for America's adopting a hostile attitude toward Ger many. They protested that responsibility must, rest with the United States and Hint it does not lie with Germany. In meantime, it was asserted Germany will treat Americans still remaining iu Germany just the same as heretofore. Berlin newspapers and public discus sion ninotig Germans is divided between tho American situation and the fran chise reform movement iu Germany. Leader Bassermau of the National Liberty party today wrote to Deputy Streseniann, expressing agreement with the latter 's reichstag speech for elec toral reforms and especially favoring -an immediate change in the electoral franchisei n Prussia. New Offer of Peace. London, April 4. A new peace move by the Central Powers, forecast iu ex tracts from tho semi-official newspaper, Lokal Anzeiger, carried in United Preos dispatches yesterday has been forced by Austria 's demands, according to Ger man information received via Holland today. The declaration was made in these dispatches that in the forthcoming an nouncement Germany would make a "worth while offer." Presumably, in the belief of close observers of German and Austrian conditions, the Teutonic officials now realize they must make great concessions' from the attitude adopted in the previous peace feeler. According to the German belief, a peace offer at this time would appeal particularly to the new Russia, now re organizing, and now anxious to trans'fer it-a activities and energies from the work of war to the work of reconstruc tion. Says It Is Important. Amsterdam, April 4 "Germans must not underestimate the importance the United States entering the war; for America i.s the richest country in the world," declared the Berliner Tageblatt today, according to Berlin dispatches. 'President Wilson," the editorial as serted, "ought to know a war declara- 011 is a matter of greater moment to America .than to Germany. ' The German people, however, seem convinced participation of tho last great neutral power will not defeat Germany. "We regret America is thus causing a prolongation of the war. But the German people bravely face their enemy and their new taslc." Germany Chagrined. The Haguo, April 4. Germany re ceives the news or president Wilson's address '(with the deepest chagrin," foreign office officials formally stated to correspondents today, according to eriiii uispatcncs. German government leaders added, it was said, that Americans could remain unmolested in Germany as long as Ger mans were unmolested in America. Prohibition Captures Wisconsin , Capital Madison, Wis., April 4. Brys today claimed another victory for prohibition as a result of yesterday's elections. Madison, the state capital, was swung from the wet into the dry column. Lat est returns show that the drys have gaiued more than a dozen towns, while the wets show a gain of four. The four places captured by the wets are Su perior, Platteville, Menominee and Blanchardsville. Among the towns gained by the drys are Berlin, Baraboo Waupun, Merrillan and Fort Atkinson. Tho wets held Beloit, Janesville, Mon roe, Portage, Kau Claire, Kenosha, Chippewa Falls, Hudson, Lake Geneva and Beaver Dam, but the drys cut down the wet lead of the last election in most every place. Latest returnB show that of 202 towns, villages and cities voting on the "no license" ques tion, thirty five have gone dry and thirty one wet. SHOOT UP KAISER'S PICTURE Port Angeles, Wash., April 4. A pie tVre of the kaiser occupying the place orionor in the Deutsche Vercin hall hereyis riddled with a hundred bullets today's. Verein officials and city offi cers hKyfi no 1 information indicating who did he shooting. Members of the Verein dest royed a number of German nags nangincr in the ball. GERMANS AGAINST WAR .- Monroe, Wis., April 4. Pac ifism scortd heavily in yester day's war referendum election here, when S54 votes were cast against a declaration of war by congress, with 95 voting in fav or of war. County Judge .1. M. Becker, fathered the war ref erendum, has wired the result of the vote on the war referen dum to United States Senator lFollette and Congressman Nelson who represent this dis trict. Voters here are mostly of German and Swiss nation alitv. SENT BY AIRSHIPS London, April 4. In view of the extreme improbability that the German press will be per mitted to publish the text of President Wilson's speech, it was stated today the allies are considering & plan .of distri buting it broadcast over Ger many by aeropioues. WILL FINANCE WAR Washington, April 4. That the United States. will be large ly, if not altogether, financed in war with Germany through the federal reserve banks, was indi cated today by the monthly statement which declared that in order to meet financial and and banking problems growing out of the present, crisis, con gress would be immediately asked to pass legislation grant ing the federal reserve board ad ditional rights. , TO BAR GERMAN PAPERS Washington, April 4. Dailies printed in German would be barred from the mails by a reso lution of Senator Poindexter proposed today. . .' While holding tuat most of these papers would be loyal, he contended that existence of even one spreading German propa ganda would be harmful, AUTO THIEF IN PEN Portland, Ore., Airil 4. Ray Gould, alleged thief of 40 auto mobiles, could not trick the court into believing he was tubercular and that a peniten tiary sentence would be a death sentence ty coating his face with talcum. Today lie was tak en to Salem to begin a sentence of from one to 10 years in the penitentiary, GOVERNOR WILL CALL SESSION IF HEEDED Tells Representative Kubli Conditions So Far Do Not Demand It. Within a month or two, itis possible that an extra session of the Oregon legislature may be called by Governor Withyeoinbe to meet needs of depend ents of soldiers who have enlisted to answer the call to the colors. This information was given Repre sentative Kubli. of Multnomah coun ty, when he asked Governor Withy combe yesterday what provisions were to be made for meeting the dependent family situation. The governor said that lie did not. consider the situation as yet so very grave but that it it should become so, he 'would .call the legislature to pro vide ways and-means to relieve it. If the session is called, it is prob able that a bond issue would be advo cated in order to raise money to meet the needs of the dependents. By float ing bonds for this purpose, the six-percent limitation could be side-stepped. Later appropriations could be made for retiring the bonds. Concerning the session, tho governor said: "I certainly believe that if there are dependent families, it is the duty of the state to take care of them, and their care should not be left to the voluntary subscriptions of individuals-" ! , EXAMINATIONS ARE PUBLIC ; Vancouver, Wash., April 4. Women passing the medical corps building here from the north today raise their um brellad and ga.o steadfastly at the sidewalk. Medical examinations are conducted on tho geeontl floor of the building and there are no curtains. "No appropriation for curtains" ex plained one now-commissioned officer to a dignified matron who cxjiostulat cd at "such sights." FRENCH E ERTEB'OUTSiTS ST. OUENTIN TOWN Ring of Steel Draws Tighter About Important Point In Line WILL MAKE BAD BREAK IN HINDENBURG LINE Advance of Allies Still Un checkedBulgaria May Ask Separate Peace BULGARIA WANTS PEACE Geneva, Switzerland, April 4. The Lausanne Gazette declar ed this afternoon that negotia tions by Bulgaria for a separate peace had been undertaken in Switzerland. London, Aj.rU 4. Perfect co-ordination between the French and British forces smashed tho allied ring of steel still closer to St. Quentin today. While the British feinted, as if in continuation of their assumption, of the initiative during the past few days, the French suddenly drove a great thrust forward on a front 01 eight miles south 01 ft. Quentin and captured three villages and a dominating series of heights two miles distant from tho town. Then the British resumed their steady pounding away at the German lines. It is a race between British and French forces now to sec which will take the city first. They arc almost equally distant from the town. The British have 1 scant few hundred yards advantage and like General Niville's troops, also hold a dominating ridge. Both armies' were reported in battle front dispatches today to be pushing steadily ahead. Meanwhile the French are tightening their pressure against German lines south of Latere, driving forward anoth er wedge toward Aniz. In Edge of St. Quentin. Paris, April 4. French patrols to day penetrated into the southwestern outskirts of the town of St. Quentin, the official statement declared. Tho French troojis continued their ad vance over the entire front around St. Quentin during the night, the war of fice declared, "pushing our patrols in to the southwestern outskirts of the city. The statement- also reported progress made on both east and west banks of the Soninie mid south of the Ailette river. To Fly American Flags. Paris, April 4. The leading Anieri cans in the French flying corps united in an appeal to the 1' rench govern ment today for the releaso of the La- Fayette escadrille to America, or other wise for jiermission for this body of American aviators now fighting for France, to tly tue American flag. Speech Pleased Russians. l'etrograd, April 4. hntliusiastic re ception was granted President Wilson's speech here- Impromptu meetings were held around the Taurida jiulnce, speak era explaining tho significance 01 Am erica s action. ' ' " " Wireless Service Stops. The Hague, April 4. The German American wireless service has ceased. Berlin advices today indicated its abandonment, in view of present condi tions. The Sayvillo wireless station todH.y sent a number of official German wire less items. There was 110 wireless report received yesterday. Start Work On War Ships in San Francisco Yards San Francisco, April 4. Work will be started immediately at the Union Iron Works on sixteen destroyers, eight submarines and two scout cruisers for the United States navy, J. J. Tynan, general manager of the plant having arranged for the delivery of materials at an early date. The steel mills, Ty nan announced, promised him while in the east a short time ago, that imme diate deliveries of structural steel would be made to San Francisco, the railroads made concessions to speed up delivery and tho government has made it possible to work overtime on the contracts. The result will be that the. vessels will be finished within about half the usually allotted time. DISEASED POTATOES Portland, Or., April 4. A carload of potatoes infected with the dreaded tuber moth, were ordered out of Ore eon today by state officials and were started on a hurried return trip to Los, Angeles from whence they eame. ADVA C Three Cities Contend for Bank Location San Francisco, April 4. Further ar guments by representatives of Seattle, Portland and Spokane in support of claims by each of these cities for the proposed new branch of the federal re serve bank were heard here today by the directors of the twelfth district federal reserve bank. When the arguments are completed it is expected that the directors will re serve for a few days their decision as to the location of the bank, in order to give them time for deliberation and digest of tho arguments. Adolph C. Miller of Washington, 1). C, a member of the federal reserve board, is sitting with the twelfth district directors. John Perrin, chairman of the twelfth district, presided at today's session. Portland's geographical advantages, Seattle's size and financial importance and Spokane's location in tho center of a grain growing and shipping section were urged by speakers in favor of their respective cities. WOULD GIVE A BILLION Taeoma, Wash., April 4. A resolu tion asking that tho United States gov ernment "as an expression of our grat itude and appreciation," present to the French nation the sum of $1,000,000,- 000 as a gift from tho people of this country was forwarded to President Wilson today, having been adopted by the Taeoma commercial club. The resolution was submitted by the home guard" organization and re ceived the unanimous endorsement of tho club members. FOR 20.000 ARTISANS Wants Them At Once So Their Training Can Be Commenced Washington, April 4. The war de partment today issued an appeal for i!0.- 000 artisans to fill up the quartermas ter s enlisted reserve corps for war time service. The department wishes imme diately to begin training tho men. Tho men are to be given their rank now to be subject to active service at the president's call. Tho department appealed to the press to give maximum publicity to the call. The following trades arc callod upon: Bakers, blacksmiths, butchers, car penters, carpenter foremen, chauffeurs, ciiecuers, clerlis, cooks, electricians and helpers, steam engineers, farriers, for age masters, horseslioers, horse trainers. laborers, machinists and helpers;, brick and stone masons, mechanics and help ers, (automobile) motor car maotcrs and assistants, mctor truck masters and as sistants, motorcyclists, overseers of la bor, painters, jiainters foremen, packers (pacK trains), packmasters and fore men, plumbers foremen, saddlers fore men and saddlers, stenographers, store keepers, teamsters, tent makers, train masters, typewriters, wagon masters and assistants, watchmen and wheel wrights. The pay in the quartermaster's en listed forces ranges from $75 to $!)0 a monlh. y Election One of Most Turbu lent In Years Thompson Badly Beaten Chicago, April 4. In one of the most turbulent elections in recent years, nonpartisans turned the political ma chines topBy turvy hore yesterday and administered a resounding rebuke to; Mayor Thompson and tho republican! city hall forces. - j Besides electing the city clerk and city treasurer, the democrats won ii seats in the city council. The socialists elected two, the republicans the remain ing 12. In the refractory river wards, where fights culminated in tho mur der of a Grogran worker, independent democrats elected their candidate. Bloodshed and arrests were common occurrences along the levee through out the duy. Today is a gala day for the demo crats. Two years ago Thompson was elected as mayor by 147,000 plurality and the republicans carried into office 23 aldermen. Yesterday's results indi cate a complete reversal. - j To a socialist goes the honor of idl ing up the highest plurality of- any aldermanic candidate. John C Kenne dy, running for re-election, rolled up more votes than his three opponents combined. His majority was 6,1"7. WILLAMETTE FURNISHES 37 The latest recruits to Company M from Williamette is Edward Kauch, a freshman, whose home is in Salem and William Kclty, a sophomore of Clat skannie. I These 'men were enlisted by Ser geant Arnold Gralnpp who was on the campus for that purpose yesterday This takes a total of 07 men from the ' student body. SHE SAYS VAB Wi BE BUIRDEB BUTWILL BACK IT If War Comes Will Go the Limitand Do IBs Part to Walt EYES OF AN AMERICAN CAN HOLD BUT ONE FLAG "If Your Decision Is For War There Is But One Duty To Fight By Carl D. Groat. (United Press staff correspondent.) Washington, April 4. Though pacif ism ran in a discordant undertone in congress today, sujijiort of a war to the finish was assured by both the upper and the lower house. Tho house foreign committee voted- - favorably upon tho senate amended res olution and leaders served notice that , tho measure would come up tomorrow fnf nnnGoiin Tl nlt-innt-iftti aviestu if -mill r,.o,. fi. . vujv,i.i. ........... ... ..... be forced through under a rule checking debate. Two pacifists, peace at any price to the Inst, Cooper and Shackle- ford, voted against the resolution. On the senate side, this afternoon Stone and Vnrdaman, decried the war move, but stirred staid members to tho depths by declaring themselves ready personally to go to the utmost limit in making war against Germany a sue-1 cess, Stone, however, will voto against the resolution. Senator Hitchcock opened the senate debate. His upeech and Senator Lodge 'a aroused an otherwise dignified body to the highest .pitches of patriotism. Th senate will act and act officially. Pa cifist spoecnes may delay - proeeedinga -for a' time, but the congress sentiment ' as a whole is for war and war it will be ty tomorrow night unless plans g askovv. House to Take it Up. The house will take up the Martin war resolution at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. A resolution designed to postpone war with Germany and give her a chance to change her present methods was intro duced in. the senate by Scnator Me Cumbcr, North Dakota, as a subsfitnte. McCumber proposed that the United States recognize the right of any bel ligerent to establish and maintain a. blockade by any means, but that nay-further-sinking of American ships with out notice or loss of American lives bo regarded as an act of war. "I am pausing long enough on the brink of war to allow Germany to withdraw her illegal submarine- war fare," he said- "There can be no great war without violating the lights of neu trals. We ought to exercise a great dear of charitableness to the warring na tions in this respect." McOnmber is Weak. . McCumber proposed that Americana be warned off ships while negotiations proceed toward a settlement with Ger many. Ho announced specifically that he did not condone Germany's subma rino acts but held that the Uaited States ought to remain neutral in or der that it might better serve human ity later. Senator Vardaman jdedged his own cervices in whatever way they might bo needed, " "I dedicate my life and services to my country," he declared at the close of a speech steeped in pacifism, but surcharged with tho idea of patriotism. Stone's Speech Dramatic. Senator Stone said: "I fear congres will involve the United States in war; when you do, you will commit the greatest national blunder of history. I shall vote against committing this mis take, to prevent which I would gladly lav down my life. "But if the constituted powers of my government rhall decide we must go in to the war, then I shall cast all doubts and forebodings to the wind, and my eyes will be blind to everything but the flag of my country, borne by Amer ican boys through tho storm of war, anil my cars will be deaf to every call ex cept, of my country in this hour of peril." "If congress unfurls the battleflag, however profound my horror, I will at. (Oontiuued on page six.) TUE WEATHER !: - HIS IS THE' Oregon: To night anl Thurs day showers north, piotiably . fair south Dor tion; sou.tS.erly winds. ft ?V4 FIRST