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FORTIETH YEAR NO. 94
SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1917
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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."
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Paul Revere's Ride
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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
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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.
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