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n MIL, Sri il, (i figfif : fl 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 READERS) DAILY. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES Only Circulation In Salem guar anteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS BEiiViaa FORTIETn YEAR --NO. 181 SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TBAXN8 AND FEWS STANDS FIVE rvTS SWaTERING HEAT REPORTED TODAY IN ALL SECTIONS Three Deaths From It In Chicago 103 at Detroit Yesterday WEATHER BUREAJLSAYS NO HOPE OF RE&V SOON to van or wry jui rensik Fruits Possible V Now York, July 30. The first gen eral intense heat wave swept the coun try today. From Maine to Florida, on the' At lantic seaboard, and westward, far be yond the Mississippi, temperatures in the nineties prevailed. Several deaths and numerous, prostrations were report ed. The suffering in New York and oth er large cities was intense. In the west, earn craps were endangered. At 1:30 this afternoon the weather bureau reported tho orfieial tempera ture at 93 in New York. Street ther mometers showed 94 and 93. This is the hottest July 30 since 1913, when the mercury reached 95. Eight prostrations had been reported to the police up to ii o'clock, but hospitals made prepara tions to care lor many more. From Coast to Coast Washington, July 30. (Sweltering lient, reported today from . coast to coast, is endangering America's perish able foodstuffs. ' The department of agriculture issued a warning through the press that the housewife must buy and can quickly ot - vast quantities of edibles" will be be ; yond recall. "Buy up all surplus and -can it or dry it at once," the department urged the women folks. ' ' This hot weather makes immediate action absolutely nec essary." ,- Washington suffered from a tempera ture of 88 degrees nt 11 a.'m... ! The government weather bureau re ceived temperature reports from .. all larts of the country ranging from tW Xo. 100 degrees. . ' , - Three Dead at Chicago ' Chicago, July 30. Three deaths from heat were reported to the police today as Chicago entered its third straight day of sweltering weather. Two deaths were reported Sunday." " John Lokaszyk, ago 23, " died last night, two hours after he was married. Two old women, unidentified, were found dead in a rooming house. The temperature reached 90 shortly before 11 o'clock. Tho weather bureau expected the season 's rocord of SB- established 4 o clock yesterday after jioon to be surpassed. The threatened ice famine was avert ed by settlement of the switchmen's (strike- New York Scorching New York, July 30. New York fac ed another scorching hot day today. The weather bureau reported a temperature of bH at 10 o clock and still rising. The hottest day of the year to date was last Jrnday when the maximum tem perature was 90. , At noon the official temperatures here was 93 and still rising. Thermom eters on the street registered several degrees higher. 103 at Detroit Detroit, Mich., July 30. The gov- ( Continued on Page Two.) if ABE MARTIN I s0t sfc sjt Jc sjs 3c sfc sjt ifc sfc sjc (fc sc sfi )(! 1 ) A-, : HAno h ' aw M - "... I -,' . Grandmaw Pash is to-j well along in years t' be a' much help t' her country these days, but she's set aside t"o ..beetle days in ker home till after th var. Thar's no hustler like the feller ; that's trying, t' rawe.rh.'- priee of a Dallas Home Guard To Have Army Guns Dallas, Ore., July 30. Although he does not anticipate any trouble on ac count of I. V. W. agitation in this county, Sheriff John W. On has com plied with the request of . Governor VVithycombe that home guards be or ganized in each county, and has ap pointed the members of the Knights of Pythias marching club as special do puty sheriffs. These deputies will be armed with army rifles, loaned the Dal las rifle cluli by the war department nbout a year ago, should the occasion demand it. FOOD CONTROL BILL READYFOR ACTION One Man Will Have Control Prohibition Section Will Be Passed PROBABLY HOOVES, . - Washington, July 30. House and senate conferees late today agreed on a one-man food con- ' trol, instead of the food a- ministration board of three members proposed by the sen- ate. ( Washington, July 30. Sweeping food control legislation probably will bo ready for final action by congress within 24 hours. President Wilson today was asked by Chairman Dever.and Chamberlain of the- house and. senate conferees on tho bill, to agree to modification of the so-called congressional war committee the only big obstacle remaining In the way of final agreement on the ucas- ure. The Conferees' draft on. this am endment changes it so Us to reflect in no way on the president's management of the war. it would provide that the vice-presi-i dent and speaker Clark name a com mittee of fivt in each house to go ovr all -government way chntraets. " ' Virtual agreement on all other mat ters in dispute between the house and senate had been accomplished or was in sigh today. - The senate amendment for a board of three members instead of the house bill's one member, will be modified-, to provide a one man food control, the man to be nominated by the president and confirmed by the senate. .' Some Drastic Provisions. The prohibition section finally agreed! to forbids the use of spirits, forbids im-j portation of spirits and authorizes the president to seize all spirits bound in bond or stock, paying a fair price. , It further authorizes the president to stop or curtail the manufacture of j beers or wines and to prevent their'im- portation. in the agrement or a minimum pries for wheat the $2 minimum established by congress will be effective only on crops harvested between June 1, 191, and May 1919. Powers for handling the present crop probably will be placed with the food control department. Further drastic provision for preventing hoarding and speculation in-f oodstuns is emuouiea The Pomercno coal price-fixing amend ment has bee agreed upon. Under the definition of food control will be included food, feed, fuel and instruments and equipment' used in their actual production. SEAM STRIKE HAY BE SETTLED SOON Company Offers to Arbitrate 100 More strikebreakers Reach Tacoma Seattle, Wash., July 30. Peace in the Seattlc-Tacoma street car strike seemed nearer this morning than at any tiniesince it was called two weeks ago. The basis for the belief that a peace ful settlement of the differences be tween the traction company and about 1600 of its employes lies in the patri otic spirit in which negotiations are now being conducted. Following the action of ' Taeoms striker - Saturday morning a., mia meeting of 1200 carmen held in Seattle Saturday afternoon, unanimously voted down an offer off arbitration of all points at issue, but refusing the men the right to affiliate with any organ izations they saw fit ' Within a few hours. President A. A. Leonard, of the traction company pre sented the- strikers with another plan of settlement. . Declaring it to be the patriotic duty of the eompany to make ti offer and the like duty of the strikers to accept it, the traction company' communi cation outlined a plan of arbitration which, included the appointment of four (Continued on Page 3.) JUNKERS TRYING TO DELUDE PUBLIC AS TO ALLIES AIMS Justify Militarism by Assert ing Object Is To Dis member Germany CLERICAL LEADER WAS USED AS STOOL PIGEON Assertion of England's "Aim at Conquest Made to Scare Russians London, July 30. Germany 's junk ers are wormng card with the German people to justify militarism. An effort by the militarists to delude the people into belief that Germany is beset by rapacious foes who started the war to dismember Germany, is what Loudon saw today behind tho "peace inter view" granted by Chancellor Michaelis of Germany and Foreign Minister Czer nin of Austria. The reported presece in Switzerland of Matthias Erzbemer. the clerical leader, recently head of the reicnstag coalition, presumably as a peace negotiator, was regorder as proof that tho militarists deliberately staged the recent "crisis" In tho parliament and that Erzberger was merely a tool of those interests. Michaelis ' peace interview was rather as assault on England and France. He charged the allies with secret agree ments aiming an "enslavement of Ger many." He was particularly bitter in responding to Sir Edward Carson 1s sug gestion that the first step toward peace would be for Germany to announce her willingness to surrender occupied terri tory. Count Czeiuin's statement was al ong the usual Germanic lines, assottiag complete-argreement between Germany and Austro-Huneary and reite ratline tho old plea that Germany's enemies were responsible tor continuation of the war. . . Of durious collateral interest in the peace talk was nn interview attributed to Dr. Erzberger at Zurich, in which ha declared if he could talk with Pre mier Lloyd-George or Foreign Minister Balfour a few hours, an "understand ing" which would permit peace nego tiations would result. The Michaelis and Czerin statements came on the eve of the Moscow confer nece of Russian governmental leaders. This coincidence was too striking not to arouse comment here. Moreover, it. was pointed out that the German strictures of the allies' "aims of conquest" were probably carefully prepared with tae idea of creating distrust in Russia against England and France, in view of Russia's insistence on 'a war policy Njf "no annexations." . This aftornon'g newspapers virtually ignored the Michaelis and Czernin state ments in their editorials. The Westmin ister Gazette, however, recalled Pre mier Ribotfe promise a short time ago to publish in full the text of all ag reements between France and Russia and suggested this would give full proof of the falsity of the German arguments. German Socialist Prisoners - Predict Revolution When fflA War" I? Fnflpfl i womn regiments, now constantly in U1C II ttl 19 IjUUCU'crpa.,.;n agreed that death was to be By Henry Wood (United Press staff correspondent) With the French Armies, July 0 (By mail) uerman prisoners, belong ing to the socialist party, and who have been recently captured in the fighting on the French front, declare tho social ists of Germany are merely continuing the war tor the purpose ot making cer tain of a revolution in Germany after wards. One of these socialists who was tak en prisoner in the capture of the fam ous "Dragon's cave" underlying "Ladv's road" near Hurtebise on June 25, had just come to the front from tho teroplane tactortes at Berlin where he had been for some time previously em- plovcd. He stated he was a member ol the socialist democratic party. When asked to state his objects of the war, he gave the novel reply: "rJach belligerent snould pay its own involved by the war, Belgium in- luded. Alsace and Lorraine should tot returned to France. " 'But why - axe you then making war f " was the next surprised question, j 'Merely to make revolution certain af terwards, " was the prompt reply. The urisoner said he was a subscrib er to the Yorw arts," the German so cialists' newspaper, but that he had not received it for some time past, as the military authorities no longer al lowed it to be delivered to tha eoldiers, especially at the froat. TO APPREHUJO SLACKERS Washington, July 30. Prompt appre hensioa of "thousands of drafted men who have escaped detection and prose-1? cution for failure to register." wm or-l" ' ' wn . flr. j dered by the department of justice to- woman. day. Formal notices were sent to all; - Girl TeUa Experience. -United States attorney. " "I saw a German in front of me t May Bring h Belgians to Valley Belgian refugees to the number of about a. thousand may locate in the Willamette valley if the plana of Gov ernor .Withycouibe and James Slevin meet with success. The governor held a conference Saturday (with Mr. Blevin who has been arranging for the colon izing of Belgians at Dufur, Wasco county, where they nought largo orch ard tracts. It is planned ,to .bring about a thous and refugees to locatefin the vicinity of Turner or Stayton. j Yamhill county has also been suggested as an ideal lo cation for them. James Slevin and A. C. Churchill, of the Purur Orchard com pany, transferred fj62 acres of orchard land Saturdasv and it is expected that about 2S0 families will soon arrive to take up work. They are now exiles in Holland and ekeing out a mere exis tence. Other colonization projects are under way and announcement pf them may be made m tne near ruture. . -r-i . COALITION MET DEEMEp;CERTAINLY Russian Ministry ; and Dele gates from Two Congresses to Meet Petrograd, July 30. Russia 's gov ernment will take counsel tomorrow with the Russian peopl on the crisis at norne anu ax tne iron,t. uut or tnese aeiiDcraiions may be espected to come more unity in complete ' stamping out of traitors and in granting dictatorial powers to government heads. ' Tomorrow 's conference at Moscow is between the provisional ministry and representatives of two great assemblies who come nearest to representing the voice of the people in Russian affairs. They are the workman's and soldiers' and peasants' congresses. Doth are vol unteer elective bodies of men chosen by the plain, people. .. A coalition cabinet is regarded as cer tain to result from the meeting. Re entry of the cadet party has been fore cast and there was complete adjustment of tne ministerial powe Tremier Ke- renaky was today rept4 as ready to turn over the posts of- army chief and navy head to two army and navy of ficers. He was at the front today con ferring with various commanders and considering this- plan of putting Rus sia s military power in tne nancls or trained military officers. . -(Today's news from the front indicat ed considerable improvewent in the morale of the soldiers even of those most likely to be affected by the dis graceful retreat of the Eleventh army- A straightening out Of the Russian line to offset the wedge driven into the front around Tarnopol and relieve the dangerous situation there in under way- Russian Women Soldiers: Will Kill Rather Than Surrender Bjr William O. Shepherd. (L'nited Press Staff Correspondent.) Petrograd, 'July 39. Russia's women soldiers have pledged themselves to take their own lives rather than become German war prisoners. Eatk woninn soldier carried a ration of cyanide of potassium to be swallowed in event of capture, lhc members of the preferred to the fate they would pro bably meet at the hands of tho Ger mans. . The legion of death fighters are "good killers". I learned this today when I talked to five of them, now in ' ' . ... -- ........ Dl.fl. Va,m wnmm'i Una T liparH ' how she had run a German through with her bayonet, firing the. rifle at the same time. From others I heard how these women and girls, fresh from comfortable homes and universities, went leaping ov er mangled, bloody bodies in the charge with enemy shells bursting all about theiu. .Thousands of Girls Drilling. But these harrowing experiences of the women fighters have steeled them and hundreds of other girls, to a new determination to see it through. Girl soldiers drilling in the streets are now a common sight in Petrograd. Huge crowds gather daily about the engineers school where 1000 girls are drilling, preparing to go to the front. In Moscow one thousand more are training, while Kiev and Odenaa have smaller bands. Premier Kerensky hss also authorized the formation of women marine detach ments and has promised to assign them to ships. The new women commands attempt no sort of decoration. Their hpaHa ia fchnvaA and thev wear the regulation uniform, including the hea-j y, ugly army boots. The five women fighters I visited at the hospital were partially paralyzed by shell shock. One of them, a peasant ciri. smiled lovouslv as he pointed to rman He'met on tne mow. . fas tne nwt war pnaa 1 1 WBS IDC 1 If nil WMB VI UUBO.BU CHICAGO STRIKE HAS BEEN SETTLED MOIRESUMEVORH Belief Government Would In tervene Caused Brother hoods To Act LASTED ONLY 50 HOURS RIGHTS SAFE-GUARDED Board Named to Decide As To ents and Hir ing New Men Chicago, July 30 Railroad and un ion officials were rooiierating today in repairing the congestion of traffic re suiting from the two day striko of Chi cago switchmen, which was settled ear ly today. It was announced from both sources that freight and passenger ser vice on all of tho 19 railroads affected would bo normal within 24 hours. Many of tho railroads w?re operat ing more than tneir usual quota of switchmen in an effort to clear up the congestion, un some of tho railroads the majority of whoso switchmen had struck a 24 hour tieup had resulted and it would taKc tully that long to re store normal conditions. Passenger traf fic was littlo ntiectcd at any time. The strike called by switchmen members of tho Brotherhood of Rail way Trainmen early Saturday to en force a closed shop had a spectacular ending. The settlement was brought about almost solely through the efforts or representatives or the otner three big brotherhoods the urdor of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Loco motive Engineers and the Brotherhood of Lacmtivc Firemen and Knainemen. These mgfcjWliff m iiiu iVfrere yesterday atternoon, 'weut"-into conrerenco witn the general managers' committee last niaht. Early today they received G. W. W. Hanger, member of the fedoral board of mediation. Murdock Got a Boast . Later James- Murdock, vico president of tho trainmen s brotherhood and the man who called the strike, was called into a separate meeting of the other brotherhood representatives, wnat they said . to Murdock and what Murdoch said to them was withheld. Some of those present, however, said that Mur- (Continued on Page Two.) Themselves charge," she told me. "It was his life or mine, l raised my riflo. I plunged with all my strength. I stabbed him. The bayonet went deep into his belly. The same moment I pulled tho trigger. H dropped dead. Then I took his hat as a souvenir." The girl soldier smiled with delight. "What was the battle likct" I ask ed another of the legioners. "I was very nervous just before the charge," she replied. "We knew the order was coming and naturally we were just a little scared. But as soon as the orders to go forward came we forgot everything else in the advance. "I could hear our girls ycllinir and shouting throughout the march for war duty. .None of us were afraid once we got started. . We were in the midst of a great fusillade of shots. Then terrific big shells began breaking all around us. "We were again frightened a little when we first saw dead men abont. But before long we were jumping over the bloody corpses and quickly forgot all about them." Another Girl 'a Experience. "We couldn't tell what was going on anywhere," said a third girl in des cribing the final stages of the battle. "Commander Bochkoreva was every where in our midst, urging ns to fight and die like real Russian soldiers." Then the girl told how the legion took its first prisoners. "A we ran forward we suddenly eame upon a bunch of Germans immed iately ahead of us. It was only a second until they were right in our midst or rather until we were all around them. They saw they were caught and threw down their rifles, throwing up their hands. They were terribly frightened. " 'Good God! Women! ' they ex claimed. Their Leader Killed. "We saw wounded German soldiers raising themselves on their elbow and shooting," interjected another wounded girl. "We just forgot ourselves entire ly. We were simply Russia fighting for her life. The loss of Lena, the most popular member of our company, was keenly felt by all of us," she added soberly. "During the battle Lena heax4 Seattle Man Found Dead at His Desk Seattle, Wash., July 30. -Otis' Spra gue, ago 64, agent for the Transconti nental Passenger association was found dead at his desk in his office at the King street station at 6:30 o'clock this morning. Death was due to heart fail ure from which he had been a sufferer for some time. Spraguo has been a resident of Seat tle four years. Previous to that time he had resided in Tacoma.. He is a son of General John W. Sprague of civil wax fame, and at one time general manager of the riorthern racitic railway. . Spraguo was living with his son, J. 8. Sprague in Seattle. NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR ALLSTATE FAIRS Food Presaredness Campaign To Be Made With Exhibits A. II. Lea, secretary of the stato fair board, today received a telegram from Ray ir. opeer, secretary of the Amen can Association of State Fairs, and Ex positions, statina that representatives of the Council of .National Icfense urges stato fairs to defer any definite action on their patriotic programs un til tho national authorities can evolve a plan that will make them of real ser vice. Mr. Hpeer said that he would have a meeting with the council Monday, and that outlines for a "program would then be decided upon which he believed would result in each of the fairs being able to put on a splendid food prepar eaness ana patriotic program. "I nave been asked to suggest that you defer any definite notion on anv patriotic program involving the uso or speakers or exhibits until some defi nite national plan can be devised by the authorities, who are working out plans for oil fairs that will make them of real service to the country," the telegram read in part. ' 1 Each state conn cil of defense was wired today by the national body to deter plans ror sucB programs with any exposition. Tne na tional body is tremendously impressed with the importance of reaching tho people tnrougn the fair, ana an linmedi ate conference with the representatives of the navy, treasury, interior, post of fice and agricultural department is to be called by council or national aetense with that end in view." Associated Press Anxious for a Scoop Violates Its Promise New York. July SO Simultaneous re quest was made 'to the United Press and the Associated Press by the Am erican embassy in London that an nouncement of the arrival of addition al troops in England not be cabled fo the United States. As the request was put upon patriotic grounds and was in accordance with the voluntary censor ship agreement at Washington, the United Press complied. In response to a message from the New York office informing him that the Associated Press had published the troop arrival Saturday, Ed L. Keen, general European .manager of the Unit ed Press, today cabling the following statement from Lowell Mellett, the United Press staff correspondent: "First Secretary Crosby, at the di rection of the military ; attache, re quested the United Press and the As sociated Press, in my presence, -not to use the troop arrival story. Secretary Crosby advises today tnat an investiga tion has revealed no embassy official romovod the restriction." Native of Salem Goes with Medical Corps North Bend. Or.. July 30. Dr. Phil J. Keiser, who went from, this city, to servo in the United States army medi cal corps, is the first doctor of Coos county to be called for actual service, although a number or others have en listed. Dr. Keizer is a native of Salem and his mother and father wero both born in Oregon. He was graduated at the University of Oregon and in the hos pitals at Portland, co as a physician and surgeon he is entirely an Oregon product. Dr. Keizer practiced in .ortn wena for the last four years and was enjoy ing a large business when he offered his services. . , .. Standard Oil Magnate ' Commits buicide Oakland. Cal.. July 30 D.. G. Sco field, president of tho Standard Oil company of California, committed sui cide today in Claremont. He was 74 years of age. Heorield s body was discovered oy his son-in-law, C. O. Flint, who heard the report of the revolver, ana nis nurse, Miss Brown. Flint and the nurse rushed to the- room of the aged finan cier and found him lying on the floor with a bullet hole frora-a 32 calibre re volver in his right temple. Death was almost instantaneous. '' ' Judging from latost dispatches con cerning the war there exist the best of reason for cheering op, namely, that the worst is yet to com. . MANY TRAPPED BY FOREST FIRES ARE BUiEDJO DEATH Eleven Bodies Found In Palli of Blaze Dead May Rsaa-fcerTMrty ONE BLINDED BY BURNS INSANE FROM TORTURE Another Taking Refuge la Creek Scalded to Death 33 Horses Burned Fernie. B. C. July 30. Eleven hndiea have been recovered b-rescuers trail ing the forest fircn which tmnned fiftr four employes of the Elk Lumber Com pany along the Spruce river aenr here. Thirty are known to have escaped. Th ueatn ton win mount as the search ing parties continue, it in bftlieved. The fire is under control. Besides eleven bodies picked up ia the trail of the Jire, a Russian, , fear fully burned and blinded from the flames, had gone insane with torture. Dfcory oi un im v,.,r,; vi c r,,i in Vart Sat urday afternoon the worst fire in the years occurred hi. the timber limits of the ilK l.umoer company, in npruca vnllno ..-1, Anlw D..l. I ir . resumed logging operation after a sus pension Ol inree years, ioiukoi. ihh scarred remains of seven men lie in the morgue here while others aro still reported missing, 'fhe lire Is-stm mim ing to the upper end ol tne vauey m the neavy timber, and whethes the mis sing ones have perished or are still trapped in this region wither they may shower last night only briefly checked h i. w a? thn 1A Imt o I iKftt tiniA so far as the safety of -the majority of VVirg JVU O.A.J ju.i.a - gaged at what is known as Camp Fourth, , : ...4 nfl.t. tho ..,... A K....f .,( vn.n VIB.U n. 111 lUgglllg UJIUIdHUUB UUU JUD, M. t- . - which had been smouldering for the past three days lower down the valley khH nhiCnnmpnnllv increased, and wa1 fast spreading up upon them.. , The fire mountea nigaer an niKnr and great clouds of smoke' and steam filled the valley, ' until the atmosphor was stifling for a wide radius surround ing that vicinity. The trapped mon im- , mediately- realized their precarcipus po sition and at first attempted to eheek the oncoming conflagration. This wa . "... A d 41. A found impossible on swoirai ui u: u.n.i -rnrfMnfr the hlaze onward end the extremely dry condition of th woods ennancea in rm, A Scene or Horror Ti .1 W lanna And bound. .jumping hundreds of yards a time. tr.n thou . hMtms indesori- lur i uu i ..... ... . .11 able, according to some refuges and all rctreatetl and seaiiereu m tj ttr:4l. tk. imrnar from the fire. falling trees and the dense smoke no sense ot location was pusiun.-, ""v .u. .n,;i tncether. Some of th more daring, with engineer Bronson, at tempted to run tne gaunu, i" - ,1,nU..l within 500 VQS. lOCOUlOlLvu nnq " - - of the fire barrier an although several of these men actually cacapeu djt ing through lu the face of the fire, two were burned tn a crisp and Bronson.tak ing refuge in the creek, was steamed or scalded to death. Another man got through but wa, so frightlly burned that he died here today. Of the twenty odd teams used less than twelve horsta came out alivo and many of these are so badly injured it is feared they may liave lu no - . " . Zr ging equipment is a twisted - wreckage as rar as euuiu - odav. The loss in logs and standing imb'cr cannot yet be estimated. . TRIED TO KIDNAP ATTOBNBT. .. . t..i in With Max P. I'ortianu, "". -; Kleinean, private in the Third Oregon, , 4 rnn KUunean. chauftcnr. under arrest, the police today axe in vestigation an alleged attempt to ki.i . . . . i . nmin npnt attorney nan A. r... ri - - and a'few years ago candid iw Clark's divorced who haye. engineered tne airempw . THE " . JlttTHER . Orcgen: Tonight, and Tuesday fair modVrate wind mosfty westerly Of L 1 ran zorwara wiia ins timers ia vac (Continued sn Fags Two.)