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Newspaper Page TextOVEE 4,4-30 SUB SCEIBEE3 (22,000 HEADERS) DAILY. FULL LEASED WHtB DISPATCHES Only CircoUtloa tn Salem guar-a-ntael by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS SEBVZCB " Mil- 41 n f I n vni n sv ir in- ? viuviv iivyiuuL iut FORTIETH YEAR NO. 172 PUiN Of HAT LOTTERY for mm an m Only One Thousand Numbers Will Be Drawn, and Ten Others to Fix the Numbers of the Thousands-Each Number Enclosed In Capsules Mixed In Glass Globe and Drawn by Blindfolded Men System fits Every District Regardless of Number Registered - - . Washington, July lD.Tie war" department today an nounced the. system of loV.'-y that will fix the order in which America's millions it step forward for service. The entire registration Va s of more than 9,650,000 men will be drafted and the ier for their examination determined at this drawing., he lottery will consume only about an hour. . At the enc ' the drawing every man on the rolls may know the order, his liability for service. Only one thousand numbers will be drawn and ten others to fix the order of the "thousands." The 1000 numbers are printed on small squares of paper, black on one side. These are rolled up and in serted in gelatine capsules with the black side out. To insure absolute, secrecy the capsules are reposing in ten glass globes one hundred in each sealed and locked in the war-department vaults. At the hour "of the lottery the one thousand capsules will be poured into a huge glass globe and stirred by a blindfolded man. Teh capsules numbered from nothing to nine will be placed in another globe. Another blind folded man will draw out the capsules one by one, break them and hand them to an announcer. He will call the numbers to the tally clerks. Three tally sheets are kept and and the numbers posted as pulled, upon a big blackboard. Tho Method In Detail, -.--' During the drawing the capsules will be stirred continuously. ' , Reduced to its simplest terms, this is the method of the lottery as explained in a pamphlet - issued at the provost auarshal general 's office. ' The drawing is merely to determine the order in which men must appear for examination in their district. Inasmuch as there are more than 10, 000 registrants in the largest district in the nation and only 120 in others, the national drawing must determine the f.rder in the smallest as well as the largest. First the numbers, from nothing to ,?0,000 inclusive, will be drawn to de termine the order of th thousand ' groups'.' on the "master lists." Next a drawing of numbers from one to 1,000 to determine the order inside the "thousand groups." For instance if the drawing of the "thousand groups" results thus: eight, five, nothing, two, four,, three, one, six, nine, seven, that determines the order of the groups of thousands. How Numbers Arranged. Then if the drawing from the one to' 3,000 globe starts this way: 876, 34, 500, 1, 43, etc., through the thousand num bers, the first number on the master list would be 8,000 plug 876, or 8.876, the second would- be 8,034, the third 8,500, the fourth 8,00- and so on. After the "eight thousands" have been added to the one to 1,000 list in or der, then the number five in the "thousands" group drawing is picked vn and applied in the same way. Then the numbers immediately following those 8,000 would be 5.000 plus 876 or 5 87fi followed by 5,034: 5.500. 5.001. etc throught the list again. Although only 1.010 numbers are drawn, it would make a list of 10,000 numbers when all the "thousand group" numbers are ap plied. ABE MARTIN Poverty an' gi-atitude don't seem i' Bitch. We. all like busy people, evenJ it tney haint very polite. : ' This is tha "master list.""" It can be used in, any district irrespective pf, the number of registration in thig' way : Starting at the top of the' list, the numbers do not apply in that "district r.re simply ignored and the boards pass down the list until any number on any registration card Vn that district is found. The man holding that number is tne rirst to report in tnat district. The second number following on the list denotes the second man and so on down. Will Send Out Lists. Officials of the war department ask registrants to try ta arrange the num bers in one long, single column- list of 10,000 numbers. Then look down the list, ignoring all numbers except those in their district. For a registered man to find his comparative position his district, it will be necessary to know the number of registrations in that district. After the lottery, Provost Marshal General Crowdor will send to each of showing the order of examinatioutainn tho country's 4,557 districts, sheets showing the order of examination. By that time the districts will have rotificatiejpf the number of men they must furnish to the army. They will call for examination of twice that num ber beginning at the top of their list nr;d continue examinations until the quota is made up. CROPS WILL BE LIGHT BUT BRING M6RE CASH Wheat Crop of Three States Placed at 54,335.000 Bush els, Price $108,000,000 Portland, Ore., July . 19. Despite smaller grain crops this year than last, Pacific northwest farmers will make more money this year than ever before. Oregon, Wsshington and Idaho will produce 54,335,000 bushels of wheat this year compared with 61,000.000 in 1916. However, this season's crop when har vested, will sell for $108,000,000 while last year it brought only $75,000,000. Increased prices have more than made up for the. shrinkage in yield.. These are the estimates today of Hy aian H. Cohen, market and erop expert wko has refurned from a 1,600-iuile trip throng the grain growing districts of tha Inland Empire. The damage of hot winds and unusu ally dry weather has eost northwest farmers many millions, according to Cohen, And the danger of loss from un favorable weather is not yet passed. Tea days more of hot weather and dry- :ng winus win cut me yieiu uuuivus bushels. A heavy rain would increase it proportionately. According to Cohen's figures. Wash ington this Tear will produee 32,000.000 tusfaels or wheat; uregoa, hjw.wu, and Idaho, 7S5.000. . He estimates the northwest- barley vield at 11,150,000 bushels, and oats 5,000,000, eth onder the 1916 crops. The war correspondents are about to get the range of Przemysl again. PARDONS THE 16 Washington, July 19. Presi dent Wilson today issued a formal pardon for the 16 wom en 's party militants serving a CO day sentence at Ocaoquan work house for attempting to "picket" the White House. He made no statement in con nection with his action, merely filling out a single pardon pa per with the names of the 16 women. At headquarters of the wo man 's party it was stated by Miss I.ucy Burns, acting chair man, that the militants would be glad to get out "so they may continue their activities." MICHAEUS WILL B!D FOR "GERMAN PEACF' Would Base Terms On Ger many's Occupancy of Captured Territory London, July 19,.-tChancellor Mich-1 aelis will bid for a "German peace" in his reichstag speech this afternoon, ac cording to reports received from Swibs sources today. They declared- the chancellor's peace formula would conform strictly to the instructions of tho Gormna general staff and be based on the military situ ation now regarded as favorable to Ger many. There was the direct hint in some German dispatches that . if Or. Mich- celis' pronouncement was unaatisfac- factory or if he temporarized iu the view of the reichstag eoalition major ity, another crisis might be precipita tion. In. this situation the guesses as to what tha. new chancellor might have to say covered a wide range of specula tion. The reichstag majority holds a very effective weapon as yet; the power to witnuold. approval ot the credit bill. If it refuses this bill the government has only two courses open under the con stitutioq. One is to accede- to the ma jority ' demands and the other is to pro rogue the session. The reichstag eaa only bo prorogued for 30 days unless its consent is given. ' . If a longer period of dismissal is sought, the law requires disbanding of the parliament and new elections. Presumably, the junkeiites, who man aged to oust Hollweg and put in Mich aels, have figured out somo other way of avoiding the situation. . One guess as to Michaelis' announce ment today ' as received here from (Continued on nae x.) The Suburbs Make Appeal to Cut Down Use of Water for Irrigating The water situation is decidedly bad the worst in the history of Salem. There are two reasons for it and the remedy, and the only remedy is in the hands ot tne water users of iialem. There is no use kicking at the company for it is doing everything possible to relieve the situation and running the pumps to caacity during the irrigating hours. It is pumping more than six million gal lons through its pipes every 24 hours, or about 400 gallons, ten barrels, for every person in tho city. With proper conservation this can be made to sup ply all. One of the reasons for appar ent shortage, is that the planting of an unusual area to gardens and potatoes has created an unusual demand for irri gating water, and the other is needless use of water on lawns, much more be ing used than is necessary, inis is es pecially true of the down town dis tricts where through thoughtlessness, no doubt, water is not conserved, but is used to the full limit of the hose and for the entire time in which irrigating is permitted. In many blocks water runs over the sidewalks and down the gutters, from the ground being saturat ed and unable to absorb it. At the same time in the suburbs, both" at breakfast and supper times there is not a drop Of water to be obtained for household purposes. - If the people down town, will have a little- consideration for those further out, and will for a few days cnrtail the use of water oa tlieir lawns, toe latter will not be injureed and the annoying situation will be relieved. If they will put themselves ia tha other fellows ...... REFT7SS TO BE PARDONED " Washington, July 19. The 16 suffrage erusadera at Occoquan work house flatly refused this afternooj to accept President Wilson's pardon. - District Corporation Counsel Sj-me has under consideration a ruling on whether to eject tho suffragette pickets, or, as War den Whittuker favors, keeping them imprisoned tor the balance of their CO day sentences. SALEM, OREGON", THURSDAY, JULY CMS MAKING VIOLOIT ATTACKS NEAR ST QUOiTUl Sweep Over French first Line Trenches But Are Forced - to Retire RUSSIANS ADMIT LOSS AT KOYICA IS HEAVY Captured the City But Are Forced to Evacuate It by Teuton Ajtacks - t New York, July 19. Germany was vigorously on the of'fcnsivo on two fronts today. Official battle news showed violent Teutonic attacks against the French south of St. Qnentin on a front of half a mile, which the French statement ad mitted had at its outset swept over first line trenches. Later, the Paris statement said, the ground was won back by counter attack. . ,- " Berlin's versin was that tho attack was over a front of two thirds of a mile and that all counter attacks broke down Eocapture of a trench in Avosourt wood was likewise reported. The French statement related other spirited fighting on tho western front. ' On the eastern battle line, the Rus sian official statement admitted great losses at JSovica and retirement from part of. that village. Berlin did not re late this incident, but told of Russian counter attacks being repulsed. On the British front Fiold Marshal Haig reported recapture of advanced posts from which the Germans had oust ed his men on Wednesday. . The German official statement de tailed repirfse of a :rafd;uth of Ypres, which tne .British war ; otnee describ ed as successful. Potroerad "dispatches indicated the provisional government is considering transfer of the capitol to Moscow and agitation" to put all power in the hands of tne worKmens and soldiers congress. Beta&e positions London. July 19. Recapture of Brit ish advanced posts east of Monchy De Preux which t leld Marshal iiaig s men were forced to leave under German at- (Continued from Page Eight.) for Few Days place they will realize that water for human consumption must take prece dence over that for irrigation. This will have to be done but a week or two for then gardens arc practically beyond need of irrigation and the "peak load" is taken otj: the water system. If this is not done water for irrigation will have to be cut so that it can be used only every other day. The Capital Journal appeals to the sense of fair play of all water users to cut down their use of water for a few days so there will be enough for all Right minded people will do this cheer fully, and a look at the hose on the lawn will tell the passerby who arc "right minded" and who are not. Mooney Case May Reach Jury Saturday San Francisco, July 19 Analyzing the evidence and making a final pica for a verdict of guilty, District Attor-ne- Charles H. Frickert concluded the state's first closing argument in the Rena Mooney bom in plot trial today. "Is she a woman t Or is She the torch of the furies?'..' Frickorfc arked in pie- j turing his conception of Mr. Mooney. Attorney Maxwell MeXutt will fol-j low Frickert, placing Mrs. Mooney 'aj aide of the ease before the jury. Dep nty District Attorney Ferrari will cle for the state and Attorney N. C. Cogh-j lan for the defense. ; - No time limit has been placed on the arguments and as both sides plan thor ough reviews and analyses of the evi dence the ease probably cannot reach the jury before late Saturday. EEANDIE3 HELP STHEM Wsshington, July 19. Justice Ban dies today granted Emma Goldman, Alexander Bcrkman, Morris Becker and Louis Kramer a writ of error that will bring their anti-draft conspiracy case before the United States supreme court They will be admitted to bail, pending a hearing of their rases at the fall term. Ood calls to the busy man. Satan calls to the idle. 19, 1917 HIRSEY mm Numbered Its Registrants by Election Districts Instead of by DistrictsThis Will Compel the Drawing of Ten Thousand Numbers Instead of One Thousand Washington, July 19. The whole scheme for the draft lottory tomorrow was thrown into chaos late today by discovery that New Jersy had not fol lowed instructions for reporting its reg istration numbers. New Jersy, it was stated by Secretary of War Baker, had numbered tho regis trants by election districts instead of draft districts. Tho lottory will be held as previous ly scheduled at 9:30 a. in. tomorrow in the Benatc office building, but will re quire ten hours to complete instead of one hour under" the former schedule. Provost Marshal Crowdcr announced that the whole lottery system as ar ranged bad been thrown up in tho air by failure of some exemption boards to comply -with regulations and as a re sult 10,500 numbers will have to be drawn instead of 1,011. , . . Under the new plan, each number of the 10,500 drawn will correspond to the same number in all registration dis tricts and the order iu which it is. drawn, will determine the order , in which those baying corresponding num bers throughout the nation are to ap pear for examination. - ' General Crowder made this state ment: - -. "Advices, received by long dstanee telephone this afternoon indicate that in certain areas the board in number ing regstratiou cards' have kept the cards segregated by election districts and that serial numbers have been as signed to -the whole group for a board while the cards were thus segregated. "If the drawing is conducted as or iginally planned in groups of 1000, the result will be that considerable propor tions of certain election districts will be brought up for examination togeth er. This will result in drafting persons from one locality within the jurisdic tion of a board beiore any person is drawn from another locality within the same jurisdiction, . "For this reason," it has boon decid ed to abandon the drawing by thous ands and to draw 10,500 numbers, which is in excess of the highest num ber of cards under the jurisdiction of any one board. "The only change in the plan will be that there will be one drawing in stead of two and that the number drawn will establish the order of ev ery man in the United States whose registration card bears tnat nuiiiDer. "The advantage will be greater sim plicity. The disadvantage will be that the drawing will require ten hours to complete." - The first 1500 numbers drawn will give a good idea of those who will be called first. The only disadvantage of the new plan is that it will require ten or twelve hours instead of one hour to conduct, the lotterq. The "master" and "key" number scheme in abandoned. There will bo but one set of 10,500 numbers drawn nnd the order in which they are drawn win establish the order of every man whose registration card bears that number. RIVERSIDE DIP HAY BE OPffl SUNDAY Arrangements About Com plete for Opening Salem s Bathing Resort Riverside Dip. the popular municipal bathinz besu-h which is conducted each year by the Salem Commercial club for the benefit of the 'public, will probab ly be opened on Sunday, for the lovers of aquatic sports. Aitnongn not com pleted by this time, the demand for the opening of the bearh has been so urgent that the committee in charge, has made temporary arrangements. Pedestrians will enter the ferry from Chemeketa street rather than Court, as special steps have been provided which open down at the ferry landing, thus taking tae people away irora tne ausiy roads. To avoid accidents the pedes trians should take this stairway. A (Continued on page eighth- PRICE TWO DRAFT WILL BEGIN 9:30 TOMORROW 6:30 COAST TIME Need of Drawing All So That Each Will Know Place On List WHOLE TEN MILLION ARE TO BE GIVEN NUMBERS Employers Will Thus Know When, If At AH, Their V." Help Will Be Taken Washington, July 19 At 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning in room 226 of tho senate building, America's great, lot tery to determine the order iu which her men are to respond to tho call of democ racy will be held. This announcement was made at the capitol Bhortly after 1:30 this after noon, toilowing a visit. to the capitol by Provost Marshal General Crowder. Room 220, in which the fateful event is to take place, is a large committee room on the second floor of the senate of fice building. With the question of time and place disposed of, all details of the drawing are now complete, except announcement of who will draw the numbers, who will announce them and who will constitute the official tallymen. . Crowder and Secretary Baker held conferences both this morning and this aiternoon to determine tnese questions. Owing to the demand for ahsolnte quiet while the drawings are made, only a limited number of people will be al lowed within the room and presa asso ciation wires will be connected up out- J aide the chamber. With arrangements fast being whip ped ' into completed form. General Crowdcr 'today took time to explain ton the country tne absolute need of draw ing all numbers at this time, so that there may be no doubt in the raid's of any man as to how soon he may have' to respond to the colors. ' All Must Be Drawn. "A moment's reflection will -prove that the whole 10,000,000 men should be given their places on the list of 'order of examination'," Crowder said. "Ev-' ery registered man' is in a state of un certainty. He does not know. when he will be called. He hesitates to plant a crop for fear he will not reap it. Em ployers hesitate to engage his services, fearing they will' be but temporarily useful. "This condition ought to be cured for the repose of the public mind. It can be cured to some extent by putting every man on the list. "For this reason the whole 10,000,- 000 names are to be given places in the list of order of exemptions." Pennsylvania, New York and Mich igan had failed up to early today to re port their serial numbers, but had ad vised the provost office that they are practically Teady. In these circumstances, General Crowder felt free to arrange with Sec retary Baker as to who should cull the capsules and where they should be drawn. Press wires direct from the draft room will flash the numbers to the na tion. ' The paraphernalia for the drawing is ready and locked in a vault in the war department. As the little capsules are plucked from the glass howls by blind folded men, the numbers will be an nounced and recorded upon a huge blackboard. They will be checked sev eral times to avoid the slightest pos sibility of mi&toke. Tha force of oleiks and accountants had been drilled and rehearsed in the work.- During the night Provost Marshal General Crowder called capitals of lag gard states by telephone. He was told only seven district were out in Penn sylvania; that New York and Michigan expected to be ready today. Plans Outlined. General Crowder has outlined the sys tem of the lottery to newspaper men here. Lest effort be made to switch rumbers at the last moment, the scheme will be kept secret until lagigng dis tricts report to their state capital. The lottery will draft every ono of the 9,050,000 men oa the registration rolls and determine the order each must report to bis local exemption board for physical examination. In case a registrant finds his num ber in the center or near the bottom of the list in his district, it means he prob ably will not have to report for a month or until the second or third levy ol drafted men. - After the drawing fixes the order of examination, the local boards- will start at the top of their list and summon the first, second, third and so on down the list exempting those disqualified un til enongh men are secured to fill each miota. Within a few days each board will be notified by the atate governor of the exact number of men each district must give to the army. The quota is based upon the recent population estimates. By drawing the entire registration liat at one ti the war department eipecU CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTS. SilllESARE SBHitLIOIl IIS EAClltlOIITll Allies and America Hast Make Great Sea Offensive to Check It LATEST FIGURES SHOW i INCREASE OF SINKINGS In Meanwhile Goethals and Demnan Quarrel Over - Building Plans By Cart D. Groat (United Press staff correspondent) . Washington, July 19. America anil her allies must make a tremendous sea and air of tensive against Germany it they would check tho U-boat nenaee naval authorities here warned today. President , Wilson hai been urged t consider the plan, -.. In the same breath, thoy -predicted Germany, will come out victorious if only the present defensive anti-submarine work is continued. ' One million tons of shipping, it was officially estimated is lost monthly from submarine, mine and wreck ant other causes, while perhaps one third that amount is tne total ouut to re place it. One official declared frankly' that the American people ought to 'fljve. ii a fool's paradise," lulled into aecurt- ty by the idea tnat; tae suomanne sit uation is other than very serious. Decreased totals of ships, sunlf do not meant improvement necessarily. A re cent tow total of the number of ship I sunk were an actual increase in ton inagc destroyed above that of previou tweeks. ; The thing that blocks such a move chiefly is that tne tnsiiea states neces- nuriijr mum iuuuw uiigwim ." tet..of naval policy, inasmuch as an of fensive would have to be cooperative. The American navy is too smH to do the work alone. Must Take Offensive Practically all the younger navy of ficers here and many -oi the older one are opposed to merely defensive work. They say an offensive is a gamble; with good chances for allied success; that defensive warfare is only putting orf temporarily German eontiol of th seas. There ought to be a naval policy r... -to,! tnwniM an offensive plan. said one authority today. "The prescn . plan of tho allies concerning subrua-i-inp i tn protect Bhirs against ther after they arc out in the Atlantic by covering as large area as pommm patrols. Tnese areas are oniy Bmu percentage of the Atlantic and will ontinue so. An offensive would be any definiU attempt to keep the submarine front getting out into the ocean. ," "This would take any one of a dot on different forms form a direct d at Germany's naval bases and navy manufacturing plants by combined nav al and aerfal attack down to and in cluding keeping the submarine in a definite sea area by mens of mines, de stroyers, nets and blimps, or small dir igibles. ' ' ' ' "Germany will win if she keeps om at her present rate. If we gamble o an offensive we may lose ships but the) ChatiCes would be in our favor." And Fools Quarrel Washington, July 19, While Amer- .t.rnl.itiltinij rirntrrnm was beinif icii o an iijum .... -"b I'-"pi - - i . v. .. . f-koifmnn Dfnmll K1CKCU out utinvcn and Manager Goethals of the shipping board today, ameu ueiuuuua grew more insistent. Records of sunmarine Burnings im i b)iaw a arout inerABse itt rrt-nifc -iiiwiii n ............ ,iriwl tv German Ij-boats e great that official reports indicate a million tons a momn are umniK neath the waves. - 'j a. - .u,,it chairman Dcnman Call' a meeting of the shipping boar General Goethals for u o'ciock today W (Continued oa "age six.) e ot rat the unccrainty of the mil lions not drawn in the first levy. The American people will be repre sented at the drawing by ihe members of tne house ana " 7 , fairs committee, designated as official witnesses. - . ; THE WEATHER I Orcgea: Te nijrht end Friday faij, seeler to night in north east portion; mo-rate north westeiry wind.