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Newspaper Page TextCIRCULATION IS OVER 4400 DAILY , . . m FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES 4 X fl ,. iff I FORTIETH YEAR NO. 94 SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS OM TRAIN 3 AND NEWS STANDS FIVB CENTS I t : . i ! r I II II Mr lit II If I HAM SOLD HK Pi; ltltS ARE 0 STAGE -2 Fury of Artillery Fire and Tremendous Ls Weaken Their Iron Nerve Officials Tell of Great Stv.es of Sup plies Abandoned In Hurried Retreat-380,000 Men Massed to Take Place of Fortifications Battered to Pieces by French Artillery j By W. S. Forrest, (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Paris, April 19. "Everywhere success," was the epitome of today's official statement, detailing the con tinued sweep forward of General Nivelle's armies. The great German defensive positions dominating Nauroy and Moronvilliers were captured in this sweep cast of Rheims. Smashing blows north of Vailly and Ostel gained more ground northeast of Soissons. Desper ate German attempts to create diversions elsewhere along the front failed. All German counter attacks on ground newly wrested from their hands in the St. Quentin to Rheims front signally failed. Today there is fighting along almost the entire French front. Around St. Quentin, General Nivelle reported great activity of artillery It may possibly be the pre cursor of another tremendous infantry assault there which will sweep the town long menaced into French In the Coucy forest, further south in the bend of the fighting front, the statement reported patrol fighting. Still farther along, to the north of the Aisne, the French commander-in-chief reported "further progress" north of Vailly and Ostel. In approximately the same sector in the region of Courtecon, due south of Laon, a German machine gijn attack was stopped. NINE PAUL REVERES CARRIED "WAKEUP iERIHH Girl Clad In Uniform Rides Through Streets at NEW YORK'S BIG PARADE HAS MANY FEATURES 3,000 Englishmen In Line 10,000 School Children, 5,000 Boy Scouts GERMANS ill BRAZIL 111 REBELLION 1 THREEPROVINCES The German Population, Male and Female in These, 509,000 THEY MAY UNDERTAKE CAPTURE OF URUGUAY Are Reported To Be Armed and To Have Some Artii!ery Supplies Abandoned Further southeast on the Vamlerc plateau, Nivelle described a German at task, of the most violent character, launched on Wednesday night at G o V.toel!. It was checked in bitter fight i,i;r. The assaulting waves wore 'forced to 'stop before they reached the French Hue.. tn the Champagne, Nivelle reported' liia troops as "pursuing their success in the Moronvilliers region." "Attacks everywhere- were success f',i!," he said, "our troops carrying Moat Haut swell and several heights to the east, including Hill 227. During tiie course of the night two German bat teries were captured. "Between fSoissons and Auborives 12 jie German divisions have been identi fied. "In the region of St. Mihiel a Ger man attack failed." Germany's soldiers are reaching the panic stage. A week ago first evidence f a break down in the morale of the ers forced on their own men by 'forlorn hope counter attacks. By night it is ex pected the total of German prisoners will reach 20,000. Nearly a hundred guns have already been taken. . Identification of 12 new German di visions in the one sector between Sois sons and Anbtrives means the Germans have been forced to mass 240,000 new forces there, not only to take the place of troops cut to pieces by the French ad vance, but in an effort to dam the flood tide of the French assaulting waves. Every battle front dispatch received here emphasizes the bloody execution of the French artillery. Against the fa vorite Gorman defense methods of mass ing men, the hail of the French projec ties has been appallingly bloody. Great gaps are torn in all the enemy lines. When the French dash forward in infan try attacks these decimated divisions fight desperately, but the tremendous ly .shaking bombardment which they have understood has its effect in shat tered nerves. Observers in the light- New York, April 19. War spirit ruled supreme in New York this after noon. Thousands of men, women and chil dren paraded through the downtown streets behind bands blaring patriotic airs. Flags waved everywhere. Aero planes showered appeals for recruits for the army and navy down from the sky. Hilly Sunday addressed a great mass meeting at Carnegie hall and threw his "pep" into urging universal military service. It was a dav dedicated to "waking up America." Great sections ot the parade winch moved down Fifth avenue were form ed entirely of women and children in which the yellow banners of suffragists mingled with tho national colors. Early; estimates were that 40,000 would take pint in tho parade, including various military organizations which s turned out. . In Harlem, the Bronx and every bor ough, special exercises of school chil dren were held. Thousands took part in the. celebra tion aside from those actually, particj, pating in the parade. The Carnegie hall program was for a continuous session of rallies over a stretch of 10 hours- ' ' Do not forget this is our scrap, " Billy .Sunday told tho crowd gathered there. "The German spy system knows more about us than we do ourselves. 'If it wasn't for the British navy New York would have been in ashes long ago. I am a hundred cents on the dollar, twelve inches to the foot, six teen ounces to the pound, 2,000 popnds to the ton booster tor universal serv ice." ft Paul Revere's Ride 4 4 4MM range of the French guns, or in reach of the now inspired French assailants. German defenders was observed and re-. mg east ot tfhcims declare tlte sinugn jiorted by British commanders in the ter has been as great as in any fighting itriva around Lens. I of the war. Tndnv. with General Nivelle's French ! But tho German losses do not deter forces in some places moro than five the Teutonic army chief from massing miles behind the German lines, oftical more men and throwing tnem into tue statements told of German retreat in great disorder, df a bombardment of id;;- quantities of supplies, of something akin to terror among the Germans here tofore held stolid by the iron discipline of the militarist system. 20,000 Prisoners. The tremendous number of prisoners captured by the French drive also at t'.Mts demoralization, of the enemy, due t; their fearful losses not alone in the fury of the French artillery fire and fhft dash of the troops themselves, but in the slaughter the German connnand- By Charles P. Stewart (United Press staff correspondent) Buenos Aires, April lit. Brazil's great German population in at least three states has revolted. Dispatches from Montevideo (I'ru guy) today .asserted tho Teutons were well armed even with some artillery and plentifully supplied. Brazil's censorship was down tight on any details. The rebellion apparently centered in the Brazilian states of Kio Grande, Pa rana and Santa Catharine. The German population male and femle in this section has been estimated at 500,000. Uruguayan dispatches today declar ed the Germans had already attempted to dynamite the railway bridge at San ta Maria. The government of Eio Grande prov ince was said to do concentrating us strongest and most loyal troops to op- nose the rebels at I'orto Aiegre. in me meantime, tne Uruguayan goei-murm is massing its troops on tne tronticr. fearing the Germans may invado Uru guay. Officials were quoted in the Monte video dispatches as asserting their be lief they would be able to withstand all raids. The Brazilian Germans were known to have been preparing to move against Uruguav. Their preference was for occupation of Chile which country is rich in nitrates and therefore desir ablo in war but Chile was too great a distance from their base. Brazil has a strict censorship in force now and it was impossible to obtain complete verification of the revolt or of what steps the Brazilian government had taken to quell it. From" the very start of Brazil's en is with Germany the greatest appre hension had been expressed as to the (Continued on page By Henry W. Longfellow. Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, iu seventy-fire; Hardly a man is now alive . Who remember that famous day and year. II : said to his friend, "If the British march By laud or sea from th town tonight, " Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Heady to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm." A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet; That was all! And yet, through the gloom and tho light, The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. It was two by tho village cluck, When he came to the bridge in Concord town. He heard the bleating of the flock, And the twitter of birds among the trees, And felt the breath of tho morning breeze Blowing over the meadows brown, And one was safe ami asleep in his bed Who that day would be lying dead, Pierced by a Brifish musket ball. You know the rest. In the books you have read, How tho British regulars fired and fled How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the redcoats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, Only pausing to fire and load. So through the night rode Paul Revere; And so through tho night went hiB cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in tho darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo f orcvermorel For, borno on the night-wind of the Past, Through all 6ur history, to the last, " In tho hour of darkness and peril and need, The people will waken and listen to hear The hurrying hoofbeats of that steed, And the midnight message of Paul Revere. WORLD SOCIALISTS DO HOT VAfIT PEACE Wlffl KAISER LEFT "War Cannot Be Ended Wk Engine of Destruction Remains" PLEDGES RUSSIA WILL SrAY BY ALLIES TO END Russian Press Regards Ger raanys Peace Feelers As "Treacherous" (Continued on page two.) Selective Conscription Bill Will Be Fought Hard, But President Is Determined fi jfc 5(c jC ABE MARTIN fees Defend at Any Cost. By Henry Wood. (United Press staff correspondent.) With the French Armies in the Field April 19. "Defend at any cost," is tho word which has gone along tne uerman front where the French are battering in their great offensive. What that "cost" has been without stopping the French drive or even slow ing up the forward movement of the offensive, was apparent today in the count of prisoners, in the heaps of Ger man dead and in the demoralization of the defenders apparent everywhere. I The German plan seems to be to gorge j the first line of their defenses with j troops. They literally glut the first line j trench. The German earthwork f orti I f ication-s, battered iio nothingness by j French guns, are apparently being re traced bv human bulwarks of massed I men. Into these masses of Germans the ! j French fire is playing death with fear ful certainty. . ' 380,000 Men Massed. It was learned today that when Mon day's onslaught began by the French, the Germans had massed thirteen full divisions (at least 200,000 men) along the line of the Soissons-Rhcims front in anticipation of the grent battle. It had ibeen forecast by terrific French artil I lery preparation. tfhe Germans expected the offensive. They prepared for it. But so furious was the force with which the French struck that during the day German com manders were compelled to bring up six new divisions iu an attempt to stem th By Robert J. Bender (United Press staff correspondent) Washington, April 19 The presi dent's plan to raise a great army by selective conscription will be fought on the house floor. Unswerving in their determination to force all responsibility for any draft system on the president, the house mil itary committee through t nan-man Dent today formally reported the great er army bill, putting it up to the presi dent to choose between conscription and volunteering. Men who are standing behind the president in his conscription plan said they will deliver a minority report "which will show tho country how pol itics and fear of defeat at the polls caused the committee majority to cast off responsibility." The bill, which will be taken up Mon day, provides, in the conscription fea ture, that all physically able males be tween 21 and 40 years are eligible. Under an agreement reached later this afternoon by Representatives kitchin, Mann, Dent and Kahn, there j will be eighteen tours ot general de bate with further debate under the five minute rule. Favors Volunteer System While this preliminary action occur- ing for volunteers proportionately from each voting district: a resort to draft is made possible only after the volun teer plan rails. Senator Swanson, acting naval com mittee chairman, reported formally his bill authorizing the requested increase in the marine corps of from 17,000 to 30,000 and increase in the navy per sonnel from 87,000 to l.""0,000. Both bills are expected to pass quick- lv after thev are taken up either lato this week or early next week. Other congressional war steps of today were introduced of a bill by Representative McKcnn, Oklahoma, which would pre vent sale of explosives throughout the war, excepting bv special license and introduction of a measure by Represent ative Ryre, Kansas, making artificial speculation in foodstuffs punishable by a fine of from $o00 to $5000 or sent ence of one to five years, or both. Want Merchant Ships Shortly after the McKcon resolution was introduced, Secretary of the In terior lane submitted to Representa tive Foster, chairman of the house mining committee, a bill providing for government supervision over trio man ufacture, sale and use of all explosives The executive end of the govern ment continued its war work. At the red in tho house, Senator McCumber ! navy department announcement was introduced in the senate an amendment to tho administration measure propo" ing to raise tho army needed by call Kissing Patriotic Duty Say the Eugene Girls Kugene, Or., April 19. Kissing is a j patriotic duty under certain eireum- 1 istniic.es. At least, Lufjeno Bins are (advance. Six divisions contain approx-; ,-; their lins in the most approved jimately 120,000 men. And still the Ger-1 osculatory war to help out their Uncle mans could not prevent the French jSamuel. (gains. When Guy Koepp, high school stu- Pnsoners told Ireely today that the, dent, started tor the train today to go j German orders were to resist at all sac-j to Vancouver barracks, Wash., to go Tirices oi men nnu on supplies, it was. into service of bis country, L'li pretty have t' laugh when we -think noted. that no counter offensive move-;high school girls stepped up to him li w some fellers are goin.' t' look in ments of a general nature are being at- and each gave him a kiss and a hug. crown. "F.yes have dropped consid- tempted by the enemy. The Teuton com- "If they keep that up," observed ei!ily since women's shoes went up," manders are exerting every ounce of, the local army recruiting sergeant, who a-'iki Prof. Tansey t 'day. Alex is purty I iwas standing near by, "We'll have cute fer g teacher. j (Continued on page two.) more recruits than we can handle." made that building of warships is not to impede commerce ship construction. Secretary Daniels issued orders that no "special" hurry need be attempted as to building of ships on the second year of the program. The department believes that right now merchant ships in great number are as essential, if not more so, than warships. Plans to meet threatened food short age concerned tho agricultural depart ment and Council of National Defense. Secretary Houston today sent out a call to he'ads of various .farmers or ganizations to meet here for a confer ence April 23 when the food products of the nation are to be organized into cooperative units to act with the dc oartment in determining amounts and kinds of planting every farmer in the country will be expected to carry out. Those called are: J. O. Mahoncy, American Society of Equity; II. E. (Continued tin page three.) FlEMDiSH 'ATTACK - ON SEATTLE WOMAN Thought To Be Some Jack the Ripper Who Murdered Mrs. Wehn Seattle Wash., April 19. Police de tectives today worked on the theory Seattle has a "Jack the Rippea," and that he murdered Mrs. Florence Wehn, wife of James A. Wehn, local sculptor, in a ravine two blocks from her home here after 11 o'clock Tuesday night- Captain of Detectives Tennant said today that a fiendish attack had been made on a woman in another section of the city 8unday night. Iu that in stance the man stepped from the brush, ran- up behind the woman and clamped a hand over her mouth. She was drag ged to a deserted house that had been nutted bv fire and there tied and L'aEized and her clothing torn to shreds. " lie told, me ho would just as soon kill a woman as not," the woman re ported to the police. The assailant ran when he heard the voices ot passing pedestrians. The bloody end of a milk bottle was found at the scene of the, Wehn mur der Tuesday night. Her diamond ring and one of her earrin-rs were discov ered inside her waist. Detectives have traced Mrs. Wchn's movements on the street car which car ried her toward her home. The con ductor ef the car says she got off the car at Kit h avV'tiue and West Wheeler street at 11:30 p. m. A man got off tho car at the same time. He went east, Mrs. Wehn went west. Shortly after midnight the same man boarded the car and returned down town. The police are endeavoring to identify him. i Wheat Up Seven Cents Selling at $2.40 Bushel Chicago," April 19. After a strong opening, May wheat soared to $2.40 on a bullish market. Htatements issued by the department of agriculture and light offerings offset the reports of heavy rains over the wheat belt, may win-ai opened up 2 1-2, later gaining 4 1-4 to $2.39 1-4. On scattered trades it reach ed $2.40. July opened 5-8, but in the rally advanced 5 3-4 to J -i- pep- tem'ber opened down 1, later advancing 7 3-4 tn 1.76 3-4. Corn opened with a strong undertone and advanced with the bullish wheat pit. May opened up 1-4 and gained 3 tn 1.45 on the advance. July opened up 3-8, advancing 2 7-8 to $1.40 3-8. September opened unchanged but gain ed 2 5-8, going to $1.32 5-8. Oats were but slightly affected May opened down 1-4, later gaining 5-8 to f 3-4. July opened down 1-8 and ad- vanced 3-4 to 64 3-4. September opened down 3-8, regained 1-2, going to 50 12. Prnvininm wern cenerallv higher with .'the exception of May pork, which show ed a few cents loss. "J11ED" DOOR OF l'ctrograd, April 19. Pledge that Russia stands unswerving against Germany w;as given today by Foreig Minister Milukuff in welcoming Brrtiafc and French labor delegates. , "The provisional government," ho solemnly asserted, "will continue its part in annihilating German militar ism, with the greatest intensity. Our ideal is to prevent the future possibil ity ef war. "I ben that you will announce to yonr countries Ihut free Russia is doubly strong." The Russian press regards Germany's pence "celers" as "hypocritical" and "treacherous." Those two words were most used iu editorials today comment ing on the activity of the German and Austrian socialists tor a separato peace with the provisional government. "Such overtures," the newspaper Retch declared, "will be no more sue cessful than tho proclamations which tho Germans threw into Russian trench es inviting our soldiers to return t their homes. No one in Russia desires to strengthen liberty with the aid of German bayonets. . . Evidently Done by Parties Thinking Naval Plans Could Be Secured Washington, April 19. The door of the senate naval affairs committee in the capitol building was "jimmied" during the night. Early today the door was found standing open. Police believe tho "job" was the work of spies seeking information of naval plans. An in vestigation is under way. The force of guards about the capitol was ques tioned. As far as could be ascertained nothing was missing from the room. The door had been Bplintered and pried open with an iron instrument. The marks of tho instrument were plain. Senator Bwanslon, acting chairman of the committee said as far as he could learn nothing had been taken, "Evidently some one thought there were valuable plans or information in the room," he said. "As a matter of fact, there is seldom anything of a confidential nature in the committee room." The capitol police were notified at once and began a search of the build ing to find the means of entrance. During the night the building is heav ily guarded and sentries are posted at different points on tho capitol grounds. Karly in the investigation the police announced that it was done by some one hidden in the building. For months no one has been permit ted to enter the building after night fall without a '"countersigned pass un less ono of the houses was sitting, when visitors were admitted to tho gal leries. Neither house was in session last night- A TRUE AMERICAN Chicago, April 19. Marshall Field, III., arrived today from New York to. enlist as a private in tie Third Illinois cavalry, national guard. Tonight he will be sworn in as Private Field, headquarters company, "I feel that I am only re paying my country for what she has done for me by enlisting," he said. "Everybody my age should do something either naval or military at this time." Field is 23 years old. With his wife, who will return from New York in a few days, ho will make his homo at tho Black stone hotel until called into ac tive service. Field is the ulti mate heir of tho $50,000,000 Field 'fortune. He Forty men have signed in Oregon City for a cavalry company proposed to be rnised there, A Socialist's View. Washington, April 3!l Representative Meyer London, New York, socialist, i a cablegram to a friend in the Rus sian diima today urged publication of an authoritative statement declaring Russian socialists do not favor a sep arato peace with Germany. The cablegram follows; "N. S. Tcheidse, member of diima, Petrograd, Russia. "As the only socialist me'niber of th American congress, hopeful that rejuv enated Russia will be a compelling fac tor for a universal and lasting peace, I respectfully urge anthoritativo state- 4 ment correcting disquieting rumor that Russian socialists favor separate peacu with Germany." London regards n separate pnaco be tween Russia and Germany us "incon ceivable," even if such a peaco could bo engineered by the socialists of th two nations. He branded the so-called socialist conference, now being agitat ed, as ting-id with autocrocy. Ho in deeply suspicious of the move. He given three reasons for this belief. The first, he says, is that a separata peace between Russia and Germany would retard the democratization of Europe; second, that tho war cannot b ended whilo a tremendous engineer of Instruction like Germany remains third, Russian socialists have been "fed on French revolutionary literature ami would not leave the French to struggle alone. Only betrayal by Russian generals o the eastern front could bring about a separate peace, London believes. , "I would be willing to give my lif for a conference of all socialists t bring about universal peace," ho said, "but I should vote against a separata peace." "Socialists and liberals arc interest ed in democratizing international rela tions so that the peoplo will determin war questions without secret diplomacy. Then, by establishing international and lasting peaco. "All the learned socialist democrat and socialist revolutionists I know, cer tainly will oppose to the last the idea of a separate peace. They represent both extremes of the revolution and th moderate element the laborers n well. With them humanity is higher thun nationalism." Silas Noah, aged 58, diod at Marsh field Monday night from injuries re ceived when a tree fell on him in a log ging camp near that city. He is th third of three brothers all killed withi two years in logging camps by falling trees. ' - 44 Tiir wrmirn jfC ! 56 5t )C )jf 3t )S )( jjc St ifl 4 Sports Oregon: Rni tonight and Fri day; southerly winds.