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4,400 SUBSCRIBERS ' (22,000 EEADERS) DAILY. Only Circulation In Salem guar anteed by the Audit Bureau, of Circulation. FULL LEASED VIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE" VAI LEY NEWS BJiKViaa o nj n muni FORTIETH YEAE NO. 187 SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AK WW STANDS FTVB OK NTS oil -It I ! SI! .'fill ii ' in f t a Iv 1 J 1 Hi 1 lli I MI" Hi. I 11 if CROPS SAFE BUT LABOR TROUBLES IN Oais Record Yield. Wheat Above Last Year, All Crops Abo ve Normal BUT LABOR SITUATION : FAR FROM SATISFACTORY War Work Is Threatened High Cost of Living Main Cause of Unrest Chicago, Aug. 7. The crop of the country aro safe. Nothing now can interfere with one . of the largest grain yields in American - Jiistory, excepting possibly an early ' frost, which might damage corn slioht l.v. . These were the statements today of B. W. Snow, leading crop authority os eociated with Bartlett-Frazier company of Chicago. , Oats will lead with a yield of 1,500,- O00 bushels, a world' record. Snow Btated. Harvesting and threshing now in progress indicate also the crop is of ex ceptional quality. Corn has been sent past one danger . point by the rains of the last three days. The crop will be late, but It is making up for this in more than a fa vorable yield and in excellent quality. The winter wheat yield, Snow said, is better than expected, but short be cause of damage suffered during the winter. The grade Is much better than normal. "Spring wheat las been verv unsatis- factory," Snow said, "and the yield will be forty million bushels short. 'This will be offset, however, by the increas ed winter wheat yield. Tlie wheat crop will be from twenfy-fivo to fortv mil -i lion bushels larger than last year, which 1 was comparatively small. "Field crops hive been doing b tter in the last three weelts than at any other time this Reason. Conditions have been ideal and all crops will be above -normal." Labor Situation Alarming. Washington, Aug. 7. The labor, sit uation in the United States is causing the government alarm. War work is threatened to such a point that a con certed campaign started today to dis pel unrest among the workers. War, navy and labor departments have named a committee to study ad justment of wage schedules in navy yards, arsenals and other government works to bring about satisfactory sched ules. This committee, including Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt, Wal ter Lippmann and William Blackman, ere to report their findings to the gov ernment August 24, Employes will then ha-.-e an opportunity to submit appeals from the recommendation of the com mittee. By September 1 it is hoped all difficulty will have been settled. The high cost of living and a deter mination to share in war profits arc responsible for the labor unrest, offi cials state. Some of the principal labor difficul ties in the country today are: Twelve thousand metal trades union ists striking for higher wages in ehip yards around New York. Mine strikes or lockouts in Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. , . y. Troubles in lumber districts in Wash ington state. Telegraphers' demands on Hock Is land railroad: Kansas City, Mexico and Orient railroad; New Haven sys- l ABE MARTIN CAUSING WORRY iff T'ner 'r alius somebnddy at ever ' i function that kin say jeirt" what rhey pleas? ami git a.y with it, Mrs. Lafe Bid has chickens in- her garden big enn:ih t' eat. Marconi Says U-Boats Not Yet Controlled Paris, Aug. 7. "No decisive means has been, yet found to destroy sub marines" Senator Marconi declared here today upon his arrival from Amer ica en route to Borne. "The United States, with admirable inventive genius, will accomplish much to subdue the submarine," Marconi said. "While no decisive means of combatting the menace has been found, 1 have seen proved means of defense becoming i more efficacious. "1 hava-.. ' i many amazing -things in the AmS, n scientific domain of which I c q ' speak but which will help us pe.S tly toward the actual ending .of. f . -ar. The settings are now at thews' ' disposal.?' , HfORfsSoTHER KILLED iftAR FOSSIL IN AUTO ACCIDENT Machine Skidded On Bridge aad Turned Over Crushing Her to Death Mrs. Z. T. Keyes, mother of Mayor Walter K. Keyes, was killed last night near Fossil, Wheeler countv, . bv the overturning of an automobile, according 10 a long-tiistance telephone message iewiveu oy jjiayor i.eycs wnue attend ing the 'council meeting. The message cuuie uuoui nine O'CiOCK and was a shock to the mayor and the couucilmen present. J. he council adjourned imme diately, atthoiiek in the midst of dis cussion of bids on the cement mixer. Un account ot the shock to the mayor, announcement of the accident was made by Councilman Rigdon. The details of the accident sent over tha phone w ere scanty but Mayor Keyes was informed that his brother. Henrv Keyes, was uninjured. - Alter leaving the council chamber, which he did at once, the mayor went to his office in the Bank of Commerce building and prepared to leave on the first train out of tho citv for eastern Oregon. ' - Mrs. Keyes formerly lived in this city at the corner of Cottage and State streots, and she is widely known in Marion county, sno was a daughter of Kev. Kobert .Booth, pioneer Methodist preacher," who died recently. Stato Sen ator R. A. Booth, is her brother. She had several other brothers and sisters, among them Henry Booth, of Rosebiirg, loriner president of the state fair board. Aldermen Eigdon, Ward, and McClel- (Continued on Page 8.) Great Air Fighter Further Outlines What (By W. S. Forrest) (Uuited Press Staff Correspondent.) escadriile, today, as he outlined to the Paris, Aug. 7. Work to be done by!Uuite1 1rpss further qualifications the American, aviators which means success I "cream of American youth" niust have or failure of artillery and infantry was0 CBrrv tho United States to success described by Lieutenant Raoul Luf-J ln the alr- ' "Men working in machines carrying tem, and telegraphers strike on the M. K. and T. Threatened strike of 8,500 men on the Southern Pacific! mediation to be tried. Number of strikes in textile mills in the south and east. .' Summer is usually a season of few labor difficulties. This year, despite .the war demands for utmost co-operation between labor and capital, strikes and threatened walkouts have been out of all proportion. Blames John D. Ryan. Washington, Aug. 7. A joint resolu tion authorizing the president to tako over and operate metalliferous mines was introduced in the house today by Mis Jeanette Rankin. The resolution applies particularly to copper mines in Arizona and- Montana. "These mines are not oDeratin? to capacity as demanded, by the dar de- partment," said Miss Rankin, "because the mine owners and their workers can-. not agree." . ..... Declaring that lawlessness reigns in that district, that there are wholesale deportations of workers" from parts of Arizona and lynching by masked men have cropped up, Miss Rankin reviewed the situation. She eaid that the department of labor and other government agents had failed to cop with the situation. Miss Rankin called attention to the seriousness of 1 labor troubles in the present, critical lime of war. She recommended the mat ter be plaeed in the hands of the presi dent. She said the "rustling card" system had encouraged organization of men and " wu responsible for much of the trouble. . She denounced John D. Ryan, of New York,- president of -the Amalgamated 1 Copper company, as the man .respon? sible for the "rustling card." "You anp probably all familiar with Ryan's name in connection with the ac tivities of the Red Cross in Washing ton," said Miss Rankin. ."A word from Ryan eould wine out this wstem. I ha.v tried to get him to say it but he willThe house had already approved the GERMAN ATTACK 111 ran BRINGS ONLY LOSS Crown Prince Launches Fierce Attack But Is Qiecked by French GERMANS HARVESTING RUSSIAN GROWN CROPS Russians Still Retreating, and Germans Claim Capture of 1,300 Prisoners Paris, Aug. 7. "Heavy fighting broke out today in the Verdun sector. Following a heavy bombardment, the forces of the, German crown prince launched a strong attack against the French lines on a front of approximate1 ly three miles on the left bank of tho MCuse river- - The war office this afternoon re ported heavy German losses in the at tack. The assault was launched early this morning between Avocourt wood and Hill 30. French guns poured a heavy lire upon the attacking forces and they were driven back to their troncbes. Renewed activity was also reported among the French forces in Belgium. Violent artillery engagements were in progress there, the war oftice stated, especially about Bixehoote and Hurto bise. In the region of Craonne there were 110 infantry actions. In the Champagne the French made successful raids, bring iug back many prisoners- The German Story . Berlin, via London, Aug. j Raiding operation were reported on the west ern frqnt jn today 's of licial statement. North o ,abri-8olssons road, near; Ber-ry-au-bttc, storming troops made tnrusfs which resulted in tne capture ox pris oners and booty, it was announced. In tho Soreth and Suczawa valleys the German forces gaiited ground .'do' spite stubborn resistance, tho statement said. - Busslaus Forced Back Putmorail. Aub. . Russian troops were driven back across the Tyrladebu? river in the region of Focsani, the war '.Continued on Page S.) Men Shoald Be I berry, premier fighter of the Lafayette !two or more passengers must have many oi the qualities of the chasers describ ed yesterday," said Lufberry. "They can weigh 200 pounds, but success de pends less on perfoct physicue for this type of airman than on perfect nerves. 'Though constantly under fire, the airman must develop a painstaking eye for detail. Ho must have persistence and an enormous sense of self disci pline. "Observations made from his ma chine may mean success or failure in his artillery or infantry. "His nerves must hold him steadily to his task regardless of the guns that will be trying to bring him down. The observers earned in sucn machines are generally young artillery officers who have mastered the handling of machine guns, wireless telegraphy and even pho- toerraphy. . "The pilots of these slower, heavier machines can be men lacking in the qualities of eye and temperament neces sary to tne taster game. Ine thiri general type Of aviator is tha bombardier. He must be capable of rapid, accurate handling of machine guns and small cannon and be proficient in the extremely complicated art of aer ial warfare. , "la thia there are three principal factors. He must be able to guage his own ana nis enemy's speed and the velocity of the wind "It is frequently necessary to aim 100 feet in front of an enemy machine to make a hit. "All on board a battleplane depends upon the bombardier's eye, his coolness and his ability to shoot If he becomes rattled all is lost. For example, a Ger man gunner recently lost bis nerve and bid in the body of the machine,' The pilot became rattled, gave up and land- cd inside the French lines." - NINE COMMISSIONERS NOW. Washington, Aug. 7. Tho senate late yesterday adopted a conference report on the bil! increasing the interstate commerce commission to nine members. Oh VERDUN FRONT General Komiloff Military Dictator Washington, Aug. 7. General Komi loff, commander in chief of Russia's armies, shares with Kereusky unlimit ed powers to whip the struggling re public into shape, . cables to the Rus sian embassy eaid today. Agreement to give Korniloff "full power as dictator of military affairs, both in the front line trenches and en campments back of the line," wag made at the direct request of Kerensky, it was stated. That the cabinet crisis is now defin itely at an end was the belief voiced here. Kerensky 's re-draft into full power is regarded as evidencethat the conser vative taction of constitutional demo crats led by Miliukoff, as well as many of tho extreme radicals, realize the necessity of unity.. ,. AMERICANS SHELLED AMD THEN ARE GASSED Marines and Soldiers Bring Grbn Sample of Real Trench Work (By J. Yf, Pegler) , (Capital-Jounral Special Service.) ; American Field. Headquarters in France, Aug. 7. American marines are going to bo shelled.! French, and not German guns will hurl projectiles upon the soldiers of the sea. Dugouts are being constructed to day in which the marines will be en sconsed. Then French artillery on an adjacent ridge will open fire. It will bo merely a "practical bombardment" and part of the preliminary training. After the marines and Sammies have been shelled, they will be "gased." The American gas expert has arrived here to superintend the "gasing" of the Saimtnios. After donning gas masks, the Americans will enter chambers charged with gas and remain there for a con siderable time so as to become accus tomed to the gas that the Germans will let loose on them later. - Among bluu-helmetcd marines, stand ing shoulder-deep iifc -trench atop- a son-scorehedV hrll, an- American general personally teatod rifle grenades -today. lie fired twice, tne tirst grenade couio be seen to soar 150 feet in tho air. Everyone ducked below tha parapet and waited, but there was no explosion. Shy of Tobacco. - "A dud," said the general. A marine fired another. It could be traced by a trail of blue smoke. Then its terrific detonation crashed over the countryside. From a distance or 1UU yards i watcn- ed marines tossing grenades in their practice work. Beyond- a nearby nui came a constant, surten rumblo, like artillery fire. Another battalion was practicing grenade worn tnere, an 0111 cer said. On another section of the field, in fantrymen stripped to the waist in the blazing sun, were playing leap rrog, Suddenly all fell on their faces, mo tionless." A droning sound from tho air had warned them of the approach of aeroplanes. They proved to be a triena y sky patrol aud the play of the Sam mies was resumed. Lunching and talking-with the Sam mies, it wm quickly learned that they are still "starving" for tobacco. Some of the boys are frequently paying a dollar a bag for tobacco for the makin 'a. . 42 Bushels An Acre : One Farms Wheat Yield What's the matter with the Willam ette valley wheu 42 bushels of wheat can be raised to the acre, especially in a year when the wheat yield is cut al most everywhere out west about 50 per ccntt J. A. Pickens living near Brooks is the fortunate farmer. His wheat averaged 42 bushels to the acre and wan sold today to D. A. White ft on for $2 a bushel. It .was a good quality of winter wheat. And $84 an acre isn't such a bad record for a Willamette val ley farm taking into consideration the fact that the northwest is rather np against it on the wheat proposition. WOMEN WHO FADE EABX.T ' Wnur often we hear the expression. "How she has faded! " or "Hasn't she irmwn nM!" Her friends see it. Her husband sees it. She realizes it her lf with s. nine. Often she knows the reason, some female derangement has fastened itself upon ner ana manes almost impossible for her to drag around from day to day. Such women should Temember there is one triea ana true remedy for thei condition, ana that Lvdia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound for more than forty years has been restoring women . to health) and happiness. Try itl THREE DIVERS DESTROYED . Washington, Aug. . Three . Austrian submarines were des- troyed Sunday night when It- alian aviators bombed Pola, eab- les from Rome 'today stated. . The airmen flew- 125 miles over enemy territory-to reocn ; Pola, where they destroyed 'many docks and wharves. . am sin Si 1 ,!tmeimm!Sm"m inmmmmvmMmmmmmmmmKsmlftKmmi. 1 v 1 "mil mi, 1.1 nimji. 11. r ;. x v - v , i v J 1 - 3 1 . ' , i f ( ...'' fPr- ,' V v " It t ' ' " f ' f v v A A v i ? V x I -1 . -- , n - ! RUSSIA'S TWO STRONG MEN Gen. are restoring discipline to the armies on and be as formidable as she ever has London. STRIKE OF EVERY MINER IN STATEIS FACING MONTANA Butte Branch Montana Metal Trades Arranging To Call Them Out DEMAND $6.50 A DAY AND NO MORE SLIDING SCALE Haywood Boasts of Calling Men rrom Harvest Fields and Closing Mills Butte, Mont., Aug., A strike of practically every miner in ' Montana was threatened today. The local branch of the Montana Metal Trades Council will meet to morrow night to tako steps toward calling out all affiliated organizations in tho local mines. This includes en gineers, electricinns, boilermakers, pat tern maKers ana machinists. Other branches of the state council are located in .Great Falls and Aua conda. It will be necessary to reach an agreement with these unionists before the Butte locals can strike. The men plan to demand $6-50 a day and the abolishment of the present sliding scale which depends on the price of topper. Hucn a strike as planned might force a complete shutdown of all mines. Although first efforts to settle the street enr strike by mediation failed today, leaders of the carmen s union said at noon they expect to reach a set tlement at another meeting to be held this afternoon. The mediators said they were hope ful. Feat General Strike Chicszo. Ane., 7. Sentiment is grow ing for a general strike of I. W. W 's, according to William D. Haywood, gen eral treasurer and secretaryof the or ganization, who today declared that harvest hands in South Dakota have been called out and that 85 per cent of the lumber industry in the northwest is tied np as a result of walkouts. Hay wood refused to state how many would be affected in case of a general strike, but said that more than 75,000 are out now. "I have received telegrams from all parts of the country endorsing a gen eral strike in retaliation for the lynch ing of Frank Little," said Haywood. Havwood declared that a general strike could be accomplished only by the separate branches of the I. W. W. striking individually. 'There is no board or individual powerful enough to eall a general strike," he declared. Haywood laughed at suggestions of a "civil war." "There is no possibility of it," he said. "The situation today is only a transient phase- of the labor movement. Brusiloff and Premier Kerensky, who the east front "Russia will recover been," Lloyd-Ueorge said yesterday in Wearing Glasses Does Not Exempt -Some Things In Your Eye Do Washington, Aug 7. Wearing glasses doesn't exempt any man from the draft. Provost, Marshal General Crowdor's of fice thus answered hundreds of inquir ies today. As each man wearing glasses comes up for examination, each eye is ex amined separately. Thus, if ho passes the government test he is accepted, glasses or no glosses. If he has only one good eye and tljo other isn't too defective that one good eye will get him into the army. Following are the only diseases of the eye that will exempt a man: Conjunctival affections, including trachoma, and entropion; strabismus, diseases of the lachrymal apparatus, ex ophthalmos, ptosis, asthenopia, nystag mus. CEMENT HlXER AND Council Has Busy Session Adjourns On Hearing of Death of Mayor's Mother Two bids for the concrete mixer the city purposed buying had been read last night at the meeting of the coun cil, and the committee on public im provements had looked them over in committee of the whole and then re ported back to the council recommend ing the bid of the Koehring Machine company, which offered a No. 12 mixer for (1434.75 as against the mixer of the Hodson-Feenaughty No. 5 .for $1575, be accepted, when Councilman Ward arose and startled the council by stating that it looked rather shady to him to find that the mixer the council was accept ing had been delivered before the bids were opened. Councilman Ward said he could not quite see through the proposition as the recorder had written to four com panies for bids on mixers. He said it was a shame to railroad things through in that manner as the bids had not been referred to an engineer for approval or to any one who knows anything about machinery. He moved to amend the mo tion to accept the lowest bid presented by making Hie subject a special order of business at the next, meeting. , In the opinion of Councilman Me- Clellad it was a matter of importance and could efford to wait until the next meeting. Besides there were six council men shy Inst night and he said those absent always hollered when things were purchased in their absence and he wanted a full council present. He said the matter waa sprung on some or tnem, unawares and they did not know what they were doing. .. - , At this point the announcemet of the death of Mayor Keyes mother was made and the council adjonrned nntil Wednes day evening. However, the mystery was tan en out of Councilman Ward's charges when it was stated, after the council meeting, that the cement mixer had been sent by the eompany to the city because the city's mixer had broken down and the WHATISDOMl POLITICAL SIDE OF f.n'!n!inT"fii'AR ' VVlllUVIIllU 11 fill German Liberal Press Ex presses DisssfefadkaiS With New Cabinet I RUSSIA GIVES LEADERS POWERS OF DICTATORS Allies Have Conference Ger many Expected to Make Another Peace BM 1 (By John Grandens) -(Capital Jounral Speoial Service.) Berlin, Aug. 7. Opon dissatisfaction with, tho new cabinet was expressed by the liberal press today. ine lageniuit was cuter in its state ments that the people had been given no cnoice in tha new crnvernment nrl declared that "real democratization or parliamentization resembling an exotio sea monster in the choiee confronting-Chancellor-Michaelis." "The representatives of tha pcoplo had no influence in the cabinet appoint ments," the Tageblatt declared. "Ger many received the new government as a gift from above. There is no possi bility of acknowledging or refusing it. Parliament has no more rights that other parliaments. The great German people have neither direct nor indirect influence in the selection of thir man agers. They have no power and no res nnnsihilit.v. Thev are exnosed to tho strokes oi fate.'' Despite the dissatisfaction with the, new cabinet and the more pronounced upheaval just past, it is apparent that moderation of Germany will oeeor through revolution, not by direct action. A visitor from abroad would at onco be ' struck. , lkjr tho nhaW H.,i, .,, ward manifestations that usually ac company the things that are now going on in Germany. Thcro has not been tha slightest sign of a revolutionary spirit during the period that had ita beginning in the movoment mai ovrriuriw uv-mnnn-Hollweg. Russia Backs Her ."Ka'V ' Wnshinirtnil. Au2. 7. Russia. HOW looks to her two big " Ks " Kcreasfty and Korniloff to lend her out of mii r onrl internal disoreanizotion to. supreme power in the ndnnmstrativa branch or the governmem, iinCf hii been vested with absolute .1 1 .. . L .An ailtW hnVft control or ine army, nom - the entire' support, ot all rnc nmwiuu political parties. This is tne situation in summed up by the Russian einnassy hero today. Th noiistruction of the Kerensky government, embassy officials soy, may be regarded as mo ';'-- from revolution to construction in tk litical' philosophy ot the united t- ...... i, -f,im nuiv be summed up as follows, according to embassy officials: "Tho political democracy vi i - t'on must be nrmiy CTuri any sweeping social reforms are pos sible. Russia cannot coneiuuo i with a reactionary Germany. St must stund fast until the Germnn people are ready to dcmoiMitrato tnnt moy are able of ridding the country of autoc racy Let us quit talking romantic pa- . . . , , . ;kl ttnint haft ciltsm. tfusBia s u!i i,mi,.v... cleared the atmosphere." i A " Made-In-Germany "' Peace- -AVashington, Ang. 7.-Oermany wi I make a big peace move taw , cials here believe. , , , . . But they caution it probably will &c as previously, a madc-in-Germany peace, which would place the sav n tha light of victory before hi. people. They admit m uonuu to a serious cona nu p--o v.v now or at any time, um - tion in government possession, Hermany has no intention of making any such proffer and any sho now makes will have a joker somewhere in i. President Wilson discourages- P"; talk at this time. He has let it bo known that America is in the war nrj Known inni - , to the hilt and that even ce-ngreeston-U reace debate now would only serve t hpclnnd the issue and hamper war prep arations. . ''-.',' Despite the apparent aim. -t- ( Continued on Pa Th.) I S Till? WF&T11TI? Oregon: Tonisit d Wednesday 'fair, warmer east portion tonight; 'modrrs-to - wester ny winir ;- ; I- (TjOT NOTrtlNV bill and it now goes to the president. Ceahud on Ptfe Two.) (Cantioisd B PI S.)