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n FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES s ft j CIRCULATION IS OVER 4300 DAILY It ft 4: M t 1 M I P' r if FORTIETH YEAR NO. 82 SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAIXS AND NEWS STANW-FIVK CFNTS w JMil i 0 $3,400,000,000 ASKED FiWMMTIOI This Sum To Be Used For Army and NavyDaniels Asks Navy Personnel Be Increased to 150,tf00 Apparent : Intention Is To Raise Army of 2,000,000 In 500,000 Units Universal Training Bill To Be Presented Military Committee of Each House Soon By Robert J. Bender, (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Washington, April 5. The government today took its first actiye steps in preparation for war. Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo asked congress. to appropriate about $3,400,000,000 for army and navy ex penses. Secretary of the Navy Daniels asked that the navy personnel be increased from 87,000 to 150,000 and the marine corps personnel from about 17,000 to 00,000. The army, McAdoo said, would require $2,9;12,5H7,9r!3 and the navy $292,538,790 in addition to regular expenses. The estimate in blanket form called for the money "for military expenditures under the war department necessity for the national defense for each and every purpose con nected therewith, to be expended ny the secretary of war under such regulations as the president may prescribe, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended.'' ' The department of justice coincidentally asked a de ficiency appropriation for the bureau of investigation work to be available during 1917-1918, of $300,000. The coast guard service sought $600,000 wherewith to extend its communication system for the national defense. Plan of Raising Army, Washington, April 0. Means of reg istering all slrglc men between the ages if 20 and 23 'fixed under the universal training bill and those to be exempted were discussed today by the executive council of the committee on labor of the National Defense council. Co operation with stato aud municipal governments toward accomplishing this work will be sought under general plans of state aid in placing the govern ment on a war footing. It apparently is the intention of the war department to aim for an army with two million men as its first ob ject, tho men to be raided in increments of 500,000 us rapidly as they can be officered aud trained. All single men in Hie early twenties will be subjected to the first draft under tho plan. Now that congress has nearly com pleted its action on the war resolution, there is beginning to be some uneasiness over the universal training idea. ' Think It Only Plan. It took tho president a long time to become reconciled to it and it was sev eral weeks before the council of Na tional Defense could secure a unanimous vote of its membership on universal training as the best way to raise an army. , tinder the" circumstances, democratic lenders in congress predict rather ex tended debntc on the question, but the feeling that under tho pressing circum stances it will go through more quickly than in normal times. Secretary of War Baker went to the eapitol today to explain to Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the senate committee on military affairs, tho war department'? bill to raise an army of about two 'million men in two years by compulsory service. The measure has been approved by the president. It will be formally pre sented to tho military committees of (Continued on riage six.) He ABE MARTIN Th' world may be gittin' better, but jest th' samo we've all quit payin' over a dollar fer an umbrella. So fer th' Kaiser hasn't promised t' give Madison, Iu'linnny, back t' th' Indiana. I DECLARATION OF WAR WILL BE COMPLETE BV TONIGHT Lower House Will Pass Reso lution Adopted Last Night - By Senate Washington, D. C, April 5 The house debate on the war resolution will drag well Into the night before a vote will be taken, it seems to be the dis position, as in the senate, to allow all members possible to be heard before the roll is called on final passage of the resolution. There is no doubt of the passage of the resolution by a large majority the minority concede it and their speeches are simply in tho nature of a protest against the action of the majority. Passage tonight by the bouse of the resolution will complete the entrance of the United States into the war. Tomorrow this country will be at war with Germany. Will Be Signed Tomorrow. Washington, April 5. The state of war resolution w 11 not be signed by the president tonight, After struggling over how soon It could be rushed to him, house aud sen ate parliamentarians realized that after it passes tho house it must be signed b,y the speaker then by the vice pres ident while the senate is in session. The senate adjourned last night until noon tomorrow- Pew Negative Votes. Washington, April 3. Representative Harrison said late this afternoon he ex pected between 25 and 40 house mem bers would vtote against the war reso lution many of them because they op pose sending troops to Europe, BAD OAS EXPLOSION Chicago, April 5. Two are dead and more than 40 known to be injured as a result of o gag explosion at the res taurant of Alexander Thedocka, Lake and Halstead streets, today. The force of the explosion cause J the roof to fall in upon the crowd that had gathered during the lunch hour. Firemen believe that more bodies may be recovered from the ruing. TIN SOLDIER HIT HIM Portland, Ore., April 5. Such a sturdy wallop did a sergeant in Company F, Third Oregon, admiuister to a man who called A him a "tiu soldier," the ser- geaut today is wearing his arm in a sling. "1 hit him in the place where his brains had petri- tied," said the sergeant- "Next time I'll hit him where the hit-- ting is softer." UNIVERSITY BOYS ENLIST Eugene, Ore., April 5. By the end of this wee!: half of the men students of the University . of Oregon will be under arms, according to conservative estim- ates today. Many of the classes are cut in half because of the number who hnve already ans- wered the call. ' OREGON BOYS MAY VOTE Portland, Ore-, April 5. Oro- ' gou soldiers and sailors in the service of the country outside of the state will be entitled to vote if a bill prepared by Bepresea- tntive Laurgaard is passed at tho coming session of the state legislature. TO STOP TONG WAR Seattle, Wash., April 5. Dras- tic steps will be taken to stop the Chinese tong war here. Mayor Gill has culled a confer- ence of tong leaders for 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon. All those who do not attend, and are found subject to deporta- tion, will bo arrested and sent out of the country. WATCH AMAf COLUMN -' - ' -r By "GM" TIPS Tipping is a habit, a neces- sity and a damnable outrage ' engendered by a germ. The germ is employed by hotels, mostly; and is known by vari- qua names such as bellboy, hat checker, waiter, etc. This germ is bred and rear- ed in uniform. It attacks all ages and conditions of men alike. It feeds on small change; and its appetite is constantly improving. Tipping is an example of something for nothing. You give the tip genu something. He gives you nothing. And if you don't give him something, next time you go there he gives you less than he gave you in - the first place. The tip germ is everywhere and in everything, particular- ly in a hotel. There is only one thing aroung a hotel you musn't tip. That's your soup plate. It isn't polite to do that. DEATHOF RUSSIAN Secret Commercial Agent's Death Claimed To Be Accidental Baltimore, Md., April 5. Michael Porzakovsky, secret commercial agent of the Russian government, will prob ably die from bullet wounds received at the exclusive Baltimore Country club. At the Church home and infirmary to day, it was said his condition was critical. While the mystery of the bullet wounds was increased by absolute si lence of the police today, friends of the Russian diplomat maintained the shoot ing was accidental; that he was shot while removing a service revolver from his pocket. Porzakovsky conferred in Washing ton yesterday with the Russian ambas sador, then came, to Baltimore, which is a munitions manufacturing center for the Russian government. The nature of his business has not been revealed, but a sum of money large enough to be unusual even for a foreign purchasing agent to be carrying was found in his clothing. Before he was found in bis room by club employes who had heard the shots, Porzakovsky is known to have spent several hours writing. AMERICAN SHIP TORPEDOED Washington, April 5 The American steamer Missourian, with 32 Americans aboard, has been torpedoed and sunk without warning in the Mediterranean, according to a dispatch received by tho state department today from the United States consul at Genoa. - BITTER CRITICISM OF WILSON'S ACTS III GERMAN PRESS Accuse Him of Bad Faith, Asser ting We Have No Cause for War SAY HE SURRENDERED AT ENGLAND'S COMMAND Especially Angry at Presi dent's Distinguishing Peo ple From Rulers By John Grandens. (United Press" staff correspondent.) Berlin, Apiil 5. Bitter criticism of what was termi-.l President Wilson's "bad faith" charges that Kngland "commanded" the indictment of the kaiser's dynasty and insistence that there is no cause tfor war between Ger many and America, feature Berlin news paper commeut today on the American executive's speech just received. Par ticularly violent antagonism was ex pressed against the president's separa tion of the German government from the German people. The semi-official Lokal Anzeiger as serted: "President Wilson has pre viously frequently asserted that it was his highest duty to refrain from par ticipation in the war unless under the utmost emergency. "Therefore, his speech contradicts his principles because America is not fighting for American lives and inter ests. '" "Can Wilson give a reasonable ans wer to the question of why he surrender ed to England's prohibition of Amer ican trade? He is unable to. Therefore, this war is without reasonable cause. "History will conaemn this deed of a stubborn fanatic in worse degree than the Italian Tir the Rumanian breach. President Wilson's assertion that the war is not against the German people but the German government will not lessen German anger, because it is un true and dishonest and Wilson knows it. Whole World Wrong. "History records no war lilte this, o'f a whole people fighting for their existence in a war created by the hatred and grudge of the whole world." "Those who formerly doubted Presi dent Wilson's bad faith know better now," declared the Berlin Vossische Zeitung. "His efforts to disassociate the German government from the people are perfidious. "His statement that the kaiser start ed the war for dynastic reasons appar ently was made at England 's com mand." Answering President Wilson's re marks as to the "difference between the German government and the peo ple,",the Berliner Tageblatt comment ed: "We cite the fact that hundreds of thousands of critics of the German reg ime arc fighting in tho trenches doing their duty 'for the fatherland. "AVc trust the American people will discern Wilson's error and that this unjust quarrel between America and Germany will be settled before all oth ers." Market Confusing and Prices Are Lower New York, April 5. The New York Kvening Sun financial review toda said: Today's stock market was a confus ing affair with bear pressure the dom inating factor. There was a good deal of liquidation from various sources, particularly in the steel and equipment shares, with growing appreciation of tho problems inherent in the govern ment's war financing plans. The decisive vote of the United States senate carrying the war resolu tion was about what was expected. Pending vote in the houso, Wall Street was disposed to give serious consideration to the taxation project. In some banking quarters it is felt that there should be an issue of long term bonds in order that the burden of war should be equitably borne by both the present and future generations. There is little doubt that thre will be increased taxes as soon as congress can get down to that business. The possibility for further burdens caused widespread selling in the steel equipment and munitions groups, which in turn, served to depress the entire list in more or less- active trading. United States Steel sold as low as 113, two points down. The Bethlehem Steel shares lost four to five point and losses elsewhere in, the steel stocks were from two to four points and losses elsewhere in the steel stocks were from two to four points. This movement was somewhat accelerated by the plans for - mobilization of steel industries.. - The equipment and munitions stocks sold off 1 to 2 points or to, with some recovery here and there. . , President Wilson Kept in Good Health by Doctor Grayson By Robert J, Bender (United Press staff correspondent) Washington, April 5. On the verge of war, at sixty years of age, Presi dent Wilson is in perfect physical trim I To the rastial observer he looks I about 4.1 years old and he aits the part. Kxercise and relaxation in the open ir and sunshine, consistently employ led, particularly in times "of great stress, are largely responsible. I Dr. Cary T. Grayson, the president's 'friend and physician, has played a prominent part in keeping the presi dent strong and well. Whenever a dan ger signal is flashed along the presi dent's system, Grayson catches it. On those occasions the president-is sent to bed to rest and keep there un der orders. He and Grayson may always be seen together when some international dif ficulty has been encountered. They may cither play golf together or ride ;about the Washington drives, swapping I stories. In this the president revels as la relaxation and a favorite diversion jOn such drives is vicing in the gentle are or rnyine ami jingles. As for every day hntits, the presi dent's are extremely regular. He keeps appointments with himself with the same "strict accountability as he does jwith callers. He has breakfast in his room, lunch icon is always at 1 o'clock on the dot and seven o'clock dinner is the rule. I By holding to these few simple rules of living the president finds himself 'a war president physically and ment ally lit to copo with the big problems ahead. El 0PERA1MGFREE FERRY County Judge of Polk County Puts Marion's Free Ferry Out of Business A temporary injunction, prohibiting Marion county from running a free fer ry across tne river from Salem was ganted yesterday afternoon by Judge kirkpatrick, in the absence o'f Judge Belt. The injunction was granted with out a hearing from Marion county and was served on the court yesterday af ternoon at 4:50 o'clock. The effect of the injunction is to tie up Marion county's free ferry and until the mat ter is settled, Polk county citizens who wish to cross will have the pleasure of paying their faro to Skinner and Bush nell. That is, the injunction now on pre venting the frco ferry from running will hold unless Judge Belt thinks dif ferent from Judge Kirkpatrick and dissolves the injunction. To argue the case before him District Attorney Max Gehlhar went to Dallas this morning and will take up tho matter with Judge Belt. Marion county is given until April 11 to answer tho mandamus clos ing the frco ferry and there can noth ing be done for those who prefer to ride free unless Judge Belt dissolves the injunction. There is no reas(W why tho ferrv should not operate if the injunction be sustained as Marion county is amp ly able to pay damages should there be any to Skinner & Bushnell. But if Judge Belt sustains tho injunction he would probably not accept a bond for the running of the free ferry. Did a Good -Business Marion county is doing all it can to give the people a free ferrv and efforts I will be made to secure immediate ac tion through the courts. Yesterday the jcity ferry was doing a big business, imaking the trip every ten minutes. Of jcourse until the Polk 'county court cats, the injunction holds good and the next ail' the injunction is sustained by e Belt is to carry the suit to the ! higher courts. This takes time. The suit to restrain the running of a ifice ferry by Marion county is brought by Skinner & Bushnell against Marion ; county, a public corporation, John I Nooning, Karl Jones and John Doe i Rowland. The complaint cites that jSkinner & Bushnell were given a li cense to equip, own and operate a fer ry rrom tne i'ollc county side of the river. That the city of Sulem issued tho plaintiffs Skinner & Bushnell a license to own and operate a ferry and pursuant to these licenses, they began to operate March 10. The plain tiffs claim they have complied with all requirements of the law and have been continuously operating. The complaint men cites tnat on April 6 Marion coun ty commenced the operation of a fer ry in competition; that Marion county has no license from Polk county and that it is operating -contrary to law. Tneeo want tne Money Skinner & Bushnell then assert thoy have mado an investment of approxi mately $4,000. The complaint concludes with the assertion, "and unless the op eration of said ferry by tho defendant (Marion county) is restrained and en joined and discontinued, the invest ment of plaintiffs will be impaired to the plaintiffs' irreparable damage." Walter Winslow drew the complaint. Jn other words, Skinner & Bushnell and the county court of Polk county feel that the city of Salem and Marion county should not furnish the citizens of Polk county with a free ferry. And while the free ferry is now tied up by the injunction granted by Judge Kirk patrick, the eitizens of Polk county are noijf beginning to realize there are (Continued on Pa;e Three ) ALLIES CERTAIN ST. QUEtli WILL BECAPU1 Massing German Reserves On Russian Front Indicate New Drive RUSSIANS AND BRITISH CLEAR PERSIA OF TURKS Two More Belgian Relief Ships Sunk 12 More From Aztec Landed London. April 5. With the capture of St. Quentin considered a foregone conclusion, interest here today turned momentarily to the eastern lino in the belief that the nreliininnrv mmnm the massing of German reserves on the l . "" iiuui, were now continued and that a German offensive may be start ing there. The first impact of a massed attack has forced the Russians to give way along the Stochod in tin. Petiograd dispatches today mentioned .. D 1 . . uru ui aspnyxinnng gases, Heavy artil lery and big forces of men all indi cating and carefully prepared assaults rather than mere resumption of general fighting with the coming of spring. Immediately after tho Russian nm- visional government assumed control,' ino menace or a Uerman push toward Pctrograd was foreseen in hurried pre parations which the enemy was adopt ing on the front nearest the Russian capital. Germany evidently hoped to take advantage of the lack of organiza tion of the new democracy. It was the duma government's first care to strengthen this army with supplies. Allies Capture Village. , London, April .5'. Capture' of the vil lage of Ronsoy and Basseboulogne with 22 German prisoners, was reported as today's progress of the British forward movement on the western front by Field Marshal Haig. ; ' To the east and northeast of Motz-En-Coutre. the British commander In chief reported continued progress acspite considerable resistance" Ms troops having reached the western and southwestern edges of the woods of Gonzeaucourt and Havrincourt. Sixtv prisoners were taken. "The enemy was caught on his own wire entanglements at Ronssoy and ( Continued on page tw.t FRANCE REJOICES AT AIWS ACTION Paris Newspapers Blossom In Headlines and People Show Gladness By W. S. Porest (United Press staff correspondent.) PaVis, April 5. Paris newspapers dug up their biggest type, their most jubilant "make up" to express general rejoicing throughout the republic over America's entrance into the war. All France is tremendously interested, joyful and appreciative. Americans are hailed with a new fel lowship. The greatest interest is ex pressed in the possibility of an Ameri-j can expeditionary force soon to be seen' i on the western front and particularly as to Koosevelt s division. Genevieve' Vix, a popular Paris singer, today ca bled the colonel at Oyster Bay, plead ing that he accept an American flag stitched by the women of France and to be carried as the standard of the first battalion raised under his com-, mand. Paris newspapers heralded the presi dent's speech sml American develop ments in full page headlines on the first pages. Le Journal displayed in addi tion a big cartoon depicting a wound ed German tiger struggling with an Am erican gladiator. The Petit Parisien displayed an Am erican flag with the streaming head "United States at War With Ger many." Every editorial acclaimed the presi dent's speech as a maoterly exposition and lauded the Knifed State for its de termination 'finally to enter the war. "President Wilson's message ,has changed the face of the war," declared Le Matin. "He has extended it to the new world." ' "America enters the struggle to de fend the 'rights of humanity,"-asserted the Petit Tarisien. "Her disinterest edness accentuates and clarifies the c.hftrflctr nf the war. Alt rirmnjra.ien ' of the world hereafter are to be as sociated in making war upon imperial , ism and despotism." t "America' entry cornea at the best j moment, with the greatest urn of ad vantage to all," declared Le Figaro. . ' FIERI SPEECHES FEATURE SESSIOII OF LOWER HOUSE War Resolution Called Up at 10:15 Starts Flood of Patriotic Talk FLOOD STIRRED ALL BY . BITTER ARRAIGNMENT Cooper and Stafford of Wis consin and Britten, IPJscis, Oppose Measure By Carl D. Groat. (United Press staff correspondent.) Washington, April 5. The house to day sounded the battlo cry and prepar ed to muke war against Germany a real ity within 24 hours or lnsa The house went into "committee of tho whole on the state of the' union" soon after convening, bringing up tho state of war resolution for debate. Chairman Flood o the foreign commit tee opened the discussion. ' House speeches, fiery with riatriot ism. called upon members to hasten passage oi i no state oi war resolution. JSoinc pneifiei-sm developed, but there was no question as to the ultimate out comea hearty support of President Wilson and passairc of the resolution. Chairman Flood o'f the house foreign tumiimiiHj caned up tne war resolution at 10:15 and the membership proceeded to consider it. "We are a great nation," said Repre sentative Harrison, a democratic leader on the committee. "We glory in its history and priceless heritage. I refuse to believe that we have degenerated in our national ideas, that we havo forgot ten the teachings of our father, and ore not now willing tho fight for thos principles they so couraacously defend ed and upheld in the early history of the country. . . - To Tight for Humanity. "We are going to war in defense of our fundamental rights and for preser vation of the lights of humanity. "The charge that we are going to wage war 'for profit in the interest of munition makers is as despicable 3 it is un-American and it is unworthy of any American who loves his country better than he does tho land of an insidious foe. "If there bo in this body or else where citizens who object to the course, we are embarking upon, I suggtwt they address themselves to Kaiser Wilhelrn, Bethmann-Holilweg, the reichstag and the author of that remarkable sample of diplomatic kultur, the Zimmerman note. "Let those citizens tell them how we love the history and principles of. our government; how we have protested, pleaded and supplicated to a degree al most humiliating; how they have, mado nmmiBitU nnlu 4a li.,nt, ...11 . t. v.i.j ui,Tan tiiviii, trn (item that if their professions aro to be con- , sidered anything more than scraps of paper they must atone for past acts and pledges." Militarism Must End. "If they do this, we shall call off the dogs of var. If they do not, wo will, wage war to the limit of onr resources and the end will not come until Ger man militarism, the greatest nieuaeo t the peace and happiness of mankind, is. no longer a blot on civilization." Flood stirred tho house when he saidi "War is being made upon our country and its people. Our ships ac being slink. Our non-combatant citizens, in cluding men, women and children, being foully murdered; our merchantmen aro denied freedom of tho seas. "Under su-.'h circumstances, there is but one course for the government t pursue and that is to go to defense of its people and honor the nation. There is no choice as to our course. We ara compelled by the acts of the ttermaa imperial government to enter into thiu most colossal war. "That imperial government ha thrust waT upon us. Time for argument tins passed. Time for heroic action ii here; our people will rally to the sup port of their government in this high and patriotic hour and meet war's sac rifices and war's perils as a brave ami patriotic people should," A Patriotic uerman. Representative fciiegel said: . (Continued on page six.) t THE WEATHER I ' (OHlFoftSfW) ' Orcgoa: TaaigU ' ' and Friday iairr except yhopera to night or FVitray northwest poilion; cooler tonight south and west portion with light irost; southwest erly winds.