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Newspaper Page Textft m 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 EEADEE8) DAILY. (I ? FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES Only ClrculatloB In Balem gnar an teed by -the Audit BirM or Circulation!. special wniAanam tal- LET 1TBWS S&TXCa mm FORTJETH YEAR NO. 208 SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY,-SEPTEMBER 1, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS 15) KKWa STANDS FIVB OFNTO. o (1 P.h f ntnr mi i EIGHTY PERCENT AMENDMENT LOST VOTE WAS 17 TO 62 This Indicates Finance Com mittee Has Support of Southern Members FIGHT HOWEVER IS ONLY IN ITS FIRST STAGES Amendments Will Be Offered in Turn Down to Minimum of50PerCert Washington, Sept. 1. Wealth con scription forces lost their first big bat tle in the senate today. An amendment by Senator Johnson, California, to the revenue bill, providing an eighty per cent tax ou war profits, was defeated 17 to 62, The fight, however, has only begun. The determined group is intent upon making the rich pay their fair dues in the war. There still remain amendments sealing down to fifty per cent of war profits to be fought for by Johnson. The small vote following Johnson in dicates the success of the finance com mittee in ranging behind it many of the southern senators who oppose the com mittee bill, but are afraid of the wealth Konscriptiouistsr Those voting for the big profits tax were: Ashurst, Borah, Brady, Gore, Oronna, Hollis, Hustiug, Johnson, California, Johnson, South Dakota; Jones, Wash ington; Kenyon, Kirby, LaFolletto, Mc Nary j orris, Thompson and Vardaman. After defeat - of Johnson's amend ment, Senator Kenvota of Iowa, said: Did Not Expect to Win. "We did as well as we expected on the eighty percent amendment. We will.go ahead plugging away with other amendments providing somewhat lower rates. No matter whether these arc ad opted or not, we have forced the finance committee to increase profits taxes half & billion dollars." Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, de fended the finance committee's amend ment. "It did not result from yielding to stump speakers, campaign orators orj radical enthusiasts," he said. "It was the result of calm and deliberate inves tigation and appreciation of the situa tion." Senator Lodge of Massachusetts said: "If we hit business any harder in this bill, we '11 find it necessary next year to raise a billion dollars in consumption taxes. My only nim is to keep business active and progressive, We must do that and at the same time get the largest possible amount of taxation and keep in getting it. ' ' We can 't do anything to impair the credit of tho United States which is the mightiest single weapon in the war." Johnson's Big Tight. Washington, Sept. 1. In a scathing ettaek on the senate finance committee Senator .Johnson, California, today de clared plans of computing war profits "will put a premium on the ability of great corporations to hoodwink and ex ploit the government." He spoke on his amendment taxing war profits 80 per cent. "The committee has said to us 'wait, pause, hesitate, before taking so much of the war profits of the country's (Continued on page six.) ABE MARTIN S TV sympathy o' th' entire commu nity gotfs out t' Stew Xugeut's mother, who suffered a nervous breakdown ; whtn h' failed to git drafted. Miss ; Ta?.Tif-y Apple ha a beautiful new fiber j f.r;atir in on o' th' pop'lar f liver bus tones. )C J$C j(c 9)C 9C c ifc )C S(C jfc sfc SC S6 MADE RED CROSS OFFICIAL . Washington, Sept. 1 The ap pointment of Edgar H. Wells, Cleveland, formerly dean of Harvard college, as deputy Red Cross commissioner for "Europe, was announced today by Hen ry Davison, chairman - of the Red Cross war council. Wells will be stationed in London for .the present. BILL IS PRESENTED Washii ity Lea So to the 1 538,94!5,4t P measure j . j-i Sept. 1. Major tehin presented today the $11, t bond revenue t in the worlds unanimous bi f or its immedi u ml 8 from the rd loans to the :ing this ba es in the war. r msiory i 4)5. partisan t S ate passa bill will A allies and) tion 's expi 4 ALLIED OFFENSIVE TMIOAY'S REST Italians Keep Busy, Fate of Austrian Fleet Trapped at Pola Is Unknown London, Sept. 1, Except for Gener al Cordona's drive across the Biansiz za plateau and toward Trieste, there was a letup today in the great allied offensive on all European fronts. Paris reports a local attack along the Chem in Des Dames, which gained a fifth of mile over a little less than a mile front. Field Marshal Haig had only enemy artillery fire to report JNo additional news came regarding the Gorman preparations apparently centering on Higa. Petrograd reported repulse or attacks on the .Rumanian front- - Italians Advance London, Sept. 1. The Italian of fensive continues in full force along the seventy mile front, according to Rome cables received today. General Cordona reported: "The battle of the last eleven days is the greatest war action developed on any front in Europe " The Italians continue their attack on Hermada, while the fate of tho Aus trian fleet trapped at Pola is still un known here. French Make Gains Paris, Sept. 1. French attacks on the Aisne, along the Chemin Des Dames carried all objectives on a one mile front, today's official statement said. The attack was made after a heavy bombardment. Violent counter attacks were repulsed. French aviators cooper ated brilliantly, living low and rak insr the enemy trench batteries with machine gun fire Only artillery exchanges were re ported in Belgium. The German Version ncrlin, via London, Sept. 1. Strong French attacks near Hurtebise farm along- the Chemin Des Dames were re ported by the war office today. Tho French wore thrown back by counter attacks, the statement said. Desperate fighting continued throughout the' night. A number of prisoners were taken. Fighting South of Lens London, Sept. 1. South of Lens and in the neighborhood of the coast the enemy's e.rti'lery was active during he nigh ,' ' Field Marshal Haig report ed i.ku iiij xJriiish front today. T3S 27,000 Prisoners Tome, ti;p.. 1. The Italians have taken t!u c i.an 27,000 prisoners since She Lit,'1111'".? i-' their big offensive el. ng Uu Ai.trian front, the war titKu -ii..o i t. today. The prioners incr..dj i-o ciiieers and 26,581 men. Had W quarts of 4 0ki (j.a dad" Booze --has 60 Days in Jail Because he had 120 quarts of Old Grandad" wiiik"y ia his possession uS ins minim lii a t.j-juourn noiei yester day vii ii,l;ict Attorney GeUhar made a raid on the room, C. J. Thomas, of Woodburn, is in the countv jail doiuv a sixty day term. Besides this he was fined $300. He nlended i7iiiltv in thp'Qoo .0fa ni blazin? justice court at Woodburn, and was brought to this city and placed charge of Sheriff Needham. Thomas Kennedy, also of Woodburn, who is held as being implicated in the smuggling of the liquor into the state, was bound over yesterday to the grand jury in the sum of 1700, which he fur nished. He pleaded not guiltv to the charge of unlawfully transporting liquor when the room was raided ten cases with a dozen bottlc9 in each case was found. The liquor came from Sisson, Cal ifornia. According to the story told bv the officers, it . is believed that Thomas -arrived Thurs'av night from J California with the liquor and that Ken-1 nedy met him at Salem and went down i the line as far as Hubbard with him. There they eot off and were met bv in automobile and the goods taken to Voodburn. GIVEN I01G QWOJOLDIERS President Will March at Head of Ranks In Parade at Washington LIBERTY BELL WAS RUNG THIS TIME FOR WORLD Cities and Hamlets Alike Are Paying Homage While Saying Good Bye New York, Sept. 1. America today began . honoring her Bons drafted for the army of democracy. For the next four days the nation will pay homage to the flower of her youth called forth to battle under the select ive service law. Celebrations of all sorts, banquets, parades, patriotic meet iugs, will mark the "send off" day hundreds of cities, reports to the United Press show. Many occurred to- day. All will be concluded by Tuesday at the latest. , President Wilson is to take his place in. the ranks of the new national army men and march with them m .Washing ton, It was the president's own idea of the homage he should pay to the men who will back his wards with fighting. In Philadelphia the Liberty Bell will be taken briefly from it wrappings and its ancient, hallowed metal tapped, that an echo of tho clang which once her alded Ainesica democracy, might once again start a parade symbolical tnat America has not forgotten those ideals. It will give the signal for Philadelphia's marchers. The- City's Guests. In New York, the greatest city's 38, G21 men of the draft army will be the neonle's guests. There will be a par ade, speeches, drills, entertainments and every man or. tne uauuwu nimj will find his insiimia his admission to baseball parks and many theatres. This will be on 'lucsday. Throughout the nation, tomorrow will be commemoration day. No religious or ganizations suggested solemn consecra tion, but nevertheless churches in every city will offer special prayers for the youth now called upon in the nation's cause. ( Continued on page nine.) FIRES AROUND HOOD SEND EMBODY OUT Ranchers and Campers Flee for Safety-Fire Is Near Government Camp Portland, Or. Sept. 1. Menacing fires on the western slopes of Mount irioou almost at the outskirts of Portland today threaten a number of the coast 's" best known mountain resorts. Vacationists, homesteaders and ranch ers are fleeing from the woods. Parties of rescuers aie hunting for a party of nine men believed to be surrounded by fire. Reports early today said that one fire had burned within 4U0 yards of Govern ment. Camp, 'high on the slopes of the mountain. Other resorts and hundreds of summer cottages are threatened. City and countv officials with a large number of fire fighters rushed to tiie'district this morning. One fire is headed toward the Bull Ran reserve from which Portland gets its water. Although the timber in the water shed is not yet in danger, every effort will be made to check this fire at once. . . The principal fire burning in tne Mount Hood district was discovered last LSaturdntf ov a guide on the top ot tne urouirtaT f it nan uumeu .. . T i . i ml.A f , an vmw. acres ot umocr men. iut ed from the mountain today is square miles of almost solid flame. Three men wno nau u the blaze and had cut their way mm forest, reached Portland today. They are uninjured. frt. firA nitnation elsewhere in the northwest today showed consider able improvement. Kastern Oregon fires are under control. Bad In Washington. Seattle, Wash., Sept. 1. Warmer weather and a brisk northeasterly wind in the eastern part of the state made fire fighters redouble their efforts last nizht to subdue numerous fires which ere burning in logged-off lands and in commercial timber. !! Vir Warden G. S. Joy, Of the state Forest Fire association said today that the situation was more serious now than it had been in several weeks and that he feared that before Sunday some nf th fires which were announced tra der control several days ago would j break out again. FOUR DAYS 0VERT0H0 PEACE COUNCIL IS TOLD "SCAT" AND SOlTSCATTED" Denied Meeting Place In Three States It Lighted Finally in Chicago POLICE TOOK CHARGE ON GOVERNOR'S ORDERS Sole Business Was Election of Committee to Elect Another One Chicago, Sopt. 1. The People 's Peace Council's conference was broken up by the police at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Deputy Superintendent of Police Westbrook, followed by two dozen pd licemen, marched down the aisle to the platform of the West Side auditorium and declared "that acting on orders of Governor Lowden, I am requested to tell you to disperse." They dispersed. " '-" Seymour Stedman, general counsl of the socialistic party, acting as tempor ary chairman, was in the chair when Westbrook entered. , As Westbrook was making his state ment, dispersing the meeting. Stedman interrupted with "just a minute, please, I'd like to make a motion to, adjourn." "You'll do nothing," shouted West- DrooK. I "But" ; "Another word out of you and you'll be under arrest." Stedman subsided and the delegates filed out of the hall. Before the meeting was stopped, Sted man was made permanent chairman and Louis P. Lochner, permanent sec retary. A committee of nine was ap pointed to nominate eleven members for a permanent executive committee. No Publicity. Several of the delegates insisted after the meeting dispersed, on being arrest- ted vto make a tost case", but West brook wouldn't permit it. "Leave 'em alone, don't give 'cm any publicity," he directed. "But I insist on being arrested," cried Miss Rebecca Shelley, of Chesan ing, Mich. "I'm sorry madame, but it can't be done," declared a huge sergeant. Stedman also tried to force himself into jail as did Miss Sarah Bard Field of San Francisco. Stedman was so insistent that a po liceman obligingly called a patrol wag on, but Westbrook arrived in time to prevent it. Tho nominating committee which will select a permanent executive committee, will meet with Stedman and Lochner at the Fort Dearborn hotel this after noon. It comprises: Clore Warne, St. Louis: Miss Field. Emily G. Baleh, Wel- lesley College; Florence Stevens, Ar- rten, Del.; Victor Bcrger, MinvauKee; ij. Mavbrick, San Antonio, Texas; J. A. Salutsky, New York; Mary Windsor, Philadelphia and Dean R. M. Lovett, University of Chicago. A resolution was hurriedly introduc ed, and as hurrietlly adopted, declaring that "should this meeting be dissolv ed, prohibited, interrupted or abandon ed as the result of action by the au thorities, then the chairman, secretary and organizing committee shall consti tute an executive committee with full power to act." Stedman read to the meeting a Fnit-j ed Press dispatch from Springfield that -Governor Lowden had stated he would! stop the meeting and "would call outj troops to do it, if necessary." "This means we'll have to act fast," ho shouted. A. W. flicker, of New York, publish er of Pearson's -Magazine, immediate ly offered a resolution: "That the con ference remain in continuous session until we are put out or are ready to get out." It was adopted iinanirnojisly. Charged With Assault : With Deadly Weapon M 11IIUI1I iJlugw, Milti,u ...... with a danirerous weapon against the 1 person of Charles M. Conrad, was ar rested yesterday afternoon at Sydney bv Constable Varnev and is now in the county jail. His bail was set at $250 which he failed to furnish. The com plaint against Bingo was sworn out yes terday morning and yesterday after noon the constable went out to Sydney. Bingo pleaded not guilty to the charge. It is said the trouble began over the delivery of wood. Conrad stntes that when he attempted to prevent Bingo from assaulting another man that Bingo attacked him with a pocket knife, and that he slashed him so severely the ser vices of a physician were needed. His wounds were not serious, however. LINER SUNK IN COLLISION Marseilles. Sept. 1 The liner Natal, was sunk in a collision todny. Five, hundred and twenty persons from the vessel have been safely landed. There, was no panic when the vessel collided Wlin another snip ana weni aowii. PRICES OF BREAD WILL iT BE FIXED BY COMMiSSH People Must War On Bakers' Trust to Secure Fire Cent War Loaves SIXTEEN OUNCE LOAF AND PRICE-EIGHT CENTS Is the Most Consumers Can Hope for Says Master Baker Associationv Washington, Sept. 1. Tho five cent war loaf is up to tho people. They are forced to buck tremendous organizations organized by the master bakers. The people have experts on their side. The bakers appear to hove the food administration on theirs. But tho food administration will help to this extent" pitiless publicity" of actual costs of bread production. Bak ers' profits are not to be fixed by Hoo ver for the present, at least. The food administration's bakers committee has announced that the best the 'housewife can hope for is a Bixteen nunco loaf for eight cents. Master bakers here, con ducting the fight agaiust the cheaper loaf , 'declare "thre is absolutely no chance of a five cent loaf with wheat at $2.20." - Agricultural experts and consumers'1 representatives on the wheat price fix ing committee say that they agreed to the $2.20 price only upon assurance of farmers' representatives that a 14 ounce loaf is practicable with wheat at that figuro. They were joined by the two or ganized labor representatives, who bat tled against a $2.30 priee set by pro ducers. It Two Assured. . The case of the five cent 14 ounce loaf was fully discussed by the price committee whose story is here told for the first time. At the beginning of the discussions, it developed that the $2.50 members were Charles J. Barrett of the Farmers Union, . Georgia; Edward F. Ladd, president of the North Dakota Agricultural college; J. W. Short hill, secretary of the National Council of Farmers' Cooperative association, Ne braska and N. J. Waters, president Kan sas State Agricultural college. (Continued on page eight.) Predict the German Defeat Daring Coming Year of War There aro increasing evidences of a growing belief among close observers. In a published letter to Secretary of tho war situation that Germany can Baker ,tlie French ,Iigh Commissioner, be defeated before the ond of 1918, Andrio Hardieu, f yt that France has provided America puts tho full power 3,000,000 men Jw front, an increase ofits strength into tho conflict. A few'cf a million' '. the war began, that view the matter pessimistically and Btill reserve resources 'are sufficient to eu maintain. that Germany will prove in- i-.blo her "to maintain that number up vincible on their own soil. These evi- to its present -level for a long timo to dently overlook the steady advance of come," and that tho percentage of tho allies on the western front, having ' casualties is constantly decreasing, in a number of instances taken posi-' French troops, we learn, hold 383 miles tious that were deemed by the Ger- on tho western front to 92 held by the ma is tc be absolutely impregnable. It British and 27 by the L. iians. At the l as thus been demonstrated that Ger-j beginning of the wur j .u.iu had 300 many is no mi ni invincible in military heavy guns; it nmv uUo ujjii. Yhu mu matte's than it is iiidasliially or coni-1 nitions output in Au, st, 1!I4, was ar mcrcially. How the latter misconcep- ranged for 13,000 shots if " .is" per tions have ben wiped out was shown in day; "it is now n limited for 2,j0,000 an p rack- from tho Popular Mechanics shots of 75s and lou.uoi . Ii. nvy magazine quoted in these columns a few guns. " Besides thus providing f ir her days ago. own forces, France, ac,eort.iiig to Mr. Secretary or War linker asserts that officers rcnortini!' to him have not been most optimistic and believe that the German lines can be not only bent, but broken. The success of Field Marshal Huig's drives in Flanders convince ob- servers on both sides of the water that the British forces have a definite su- I pcriority over the enemy they face. Vic- will help to strike the lust m.,v at the status quo. tory, says the editor of the London odversnrv, they will find in x iuiuo "a! "On the contrary, he proposes rna iPost, is certain, because "scientific country which today, as w.dl as d" ii g teal changes, especially as to 1 omntf, urminration. wonderful staff work.' the last three vearB. bears tho principal Armenia, the Balkans, etc. great artillery predominance, and an in- maximum of her power, wimoui m-nuii- "Wo do not wish to comparable infantrv enable us to con- tion and without weakness, her strength substance of 1 r,,8l'''!; Jl' , " ,ot be template without fear the undertaking her means, and her will. ft . f i7?h of any enterprise." Sir William Bob-!vcro was the ordeal; stronger is tho na- obtained by viulen.e, but must beoa. crtson, Chut of tho British licnerai tionnl energy." Staff, reminded a New York Times in- This assures the New York Times' ex terviewer recently of the difference be-1 pert military writer that "France is not tween 191 and 1917. Instead of being yet exhausted, or anything like it." He en the defensive within a few miles of i observes that "the number of men hold- i'aris, the allies, now millions whero before they were thousands, have been driving the Germans before them. As he said: " W? have taken .positions that they regarded as matters of life and death, and our ' guns are hammering them now as they have never been ham mered before." As General Maurice, the spokesman for the British war office, lias put it: "Germany, whose whole military gos pel was to prosecute a vigorous offen sive, is reduced to a pitiful state of military helplessness in which sho is barely able to hang on, in the hope that her submarines will force the people of the entente powers to demand peace at a time when Germany has the 'big MAJOR ROBERTS SUICIDES Vancouver,. Wash-, Sept. 1. The body of Major Henry A. Roberts, age 35, stationed here with the Fourth regiment, Unit ed States engineers, was found in his room at the barracks here today. He had shot himself with his service revolver and evidently died instantly. Roberts came here a week ago from Fort Riley, Kansas, tiis suicide is attributed to ill health. Fellow officers said this afternoon that Roberts had been mentally despondent since his arrival. Mrs. Roberts accompanied her husband to the coast from Kan sas and is now visiting her par ents at The Dalles, Or. TWO BOYS CONFESS OF Choked Her to Death. Threw Body in Well and Then Cooked Their Breakfast Berkeley, Cal., Sept. 1. Jimmy Fee, ago 14, and Jeff Baker, age 17, were charged today with murdering the aged' Mrs. Emile Turner on her lonely ranch, six milos from here. The body of Mrs. Turner was romev- ed today from an old well, whero, police say the boys confessed they threw it after choking their victim early Tues day morning. Two dayB the youths spent trying to sell Mrs. Turner's eighteen head o; cattle, Theu, late yesterday, the police got on the trail when Baker and Fee tried to sell the cattle to H. J. Hauey, who happened to hold a mortgage on tne cows. Baker worked for Mrs. Turner. Wed nesday night, he told the police, he and Jimmy Fee planned to murder Mrs. Tur ner, take what money she had and sell the cattle. - - We got up at four o'clock," said Baker's statement to the police. "I cur ried a lamp and told Jimmy to throw a pillow over Mrs. Turner's fatfo while she was asleep. He did, but she woke up and I began choking her with my hands. She cried, but 1 soon made an ond of her. Then wo put the body in n bed quilt and took it to the well and threw it in." After that, said the youth, they got breakfast, milked the cows and went to town to,sell tho cattle. Deer appear to be numerous near the town of Gardner, and the Courier has heard of three -bucks being killed by lucky .hunters almost in sight of tho town. pawns' with which to make a bargain." Taruiuu, completely ru-uquij ped and re-nrmed tha Br'lir (i i - andioKlo thnt the holv see will answer the Greek armies," and gave more than . 800 heavy guns to her a;.i s. All this ro-; quired the making over vt o.u a..d the , creating of new iudu.,ui ex-; penditure of more than ,,.,oj,jjj,JoO. in three vears. While Ameiimu s idiois ing the French front in the west is al-."T ; most as great as is the entire German 'force on that front." The size of thej British force at the front has not been given out, but it is generally under stood tnat liruain nas uimer arms, m- eluding reserves, 5,000,000 men Recent figuies given out in Washing ton bIiow that our regular army has been recruited up to its full war strength of 300,000 men, and the 400,000 men of the rational guard regiments are being mo bilized. As the Brooklyn Citizen notes: "Hero we have 700,000 soldiers, ex clusive of the 087,000 called to tho e )1 ors by the first draft. Of these 1,400,000 (Continued on ppge three) POPE TO LAUNCH FORMAL FEELERS FOR PEACE BASIS Outline of the New Proposal Shows Plan Still Favorable to Germany FINDS ENCOURAGEIENT IN PRESIDENTS STAND Wilson's Distinction Befcweca German Government and People Angers By John H. Hearley (United Press staff correspondent) Rome, Sept. 1. Pope Benedict is still hopeful that peace may come, perhaps soon, on President Wilson's own terms democratization of Germany. An exclusive epitome, of the vati- can's view of the president's note, as given the United Press todnv. contain. ed this significant expression of optim- The initial disappointment of the Am erican reply has been dissipated in part me uniiea rresa . was inrormed, by careful weighing of the president's) words. .. . ' The pope now sees the note as hold ing promise and not as a cold, abso lute rejection, either diplomatically or psychologically. He is hopoful that President Wil son 's attitude ' ' eventually, perhaps soon, will cause the creation of a Ger man chancellory responsible to tha people," said one of the United Press informants. - Pope la Cheered itrTt -tm- sta'toij "on the highest au tbority that the pope has been cheered by some features of the president's note. The holy lather believes that the president's persistent and insistent dis . luictiou i drawn , between the Gorman people and the German government, and what certain Vatican officials call his "fixed genius of direction" ia changing tho whole philosophy of tha allied war. At the same time the pope regards the president as the most insistent of all the heads of belligerent nations on continuance of the war to a decision. A careful reading of bis note, coupled with such expressions of America's aims as the president made before con gress in December, however, convinces tho Vatican that there Is a common ground of opinion between the Vatican and Washington. The "just christian peace" which Pope - Benedict proposed in his appeal was regarded as entirely harmonious) with the American president's policies. Those policies, as the Vatican saw them todnv, were in the main: The Main Contentions No punitive damages. No dismemberment oi' empires. . No exclusive economic leagues. ino implied, direct or indirect restric- . tions as to the seas- As bearing with special significance on tho pope's reported view that de mocratization of Germany might yet come about, officials today recalled the l-nited Press' exclusive information of two days ago reporting that not only F.niperor Karl of Austria, but Kaiser Wilhclm himself had written tho pope indicating a pledge to the widest dem ocratization. in Home diplomatic circles today, the view was expressed that tho American note by its specific strictures against dismemberment of nations, had destroy ed the probability of a declaration of war against America by Austria- Hun gary or at least hud postponed such a s:ep for some time. May Meet Objections An evidently inspired editorial to dav in the Corriere D 'Italia declared: It is not impossible, but very proo- objections of President Wilson auU others after receiving all replies. Thus, fresh discussions, leadun? to further results, will be provoked. The prcsi- dent is mistuken in assorting thut the. pone advised reestablishment of tho (Continued on page eight.) ! THE WEATHER I TT5 AWFUL 'lo 1 t SOLDIER. J !!!:(f Oregon: Tonight and Sunday fuiqj warmer east por tion; light vari able winds.