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4,40Q.SUB$CR v.000 READERS) DAILY. FOIL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES Only J71r eolation, in Salem gnir nteed by -ths Audit Bare ef Circulation!, SPECIAL WHJiAMETTi y AL LEY xbwb BEavica FORTJETH TEAR NO. 210 SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS on trains in irrwi STANDS ITVH fif-NT BERLIN IS PLEASED OVER RIGA'S FALL TAKES A HOLIDAY 0 Russians Blow Up Bridges and Destroy Everything Before Leaving KAISER'S CHOSEN GUARD MAULED BY CANADIANS Kaiser Wires Prince Leopold at Riga to Keep "Onward with God" (By William Phillip Slmms) (United Press Staff Correspondent) With The British Armies in The Field, Sept. 4. Canadian troops early today penetrated nioro than 200 yards over Germau positions on a front of six hundred yards north of Leus. The midden drive badly mauled the Prussian guard. The Prussian guards are one of tho picked German troop units, so that the victory gave the Canadians peculiar sat isfaction. The enemy suffered heavy casualties. BERLIN JUBILATES. (By John Grandens) (United Press Staff Correspondent) Berlin, Sept. 4. Berlin took a holi day today to celebrate the fall of Riga. The whole city was ablaze with flags mottos and pictures. All schools were closed and tho people on the street ju bilated in the victory. The scenes were reminiscent of earlier days of the war, when Berlin was celebrating Hiuden bcrg's victories against the Eussiaus. Merchants of Hamburg and Bremen took occasion to telegraph the kaiser sssuring him of their loyalty and their determination to hold out "repulsing all foreign interference in Germany's 'in ternal affairs." Blew Up Everything. Petrograd, Sept. 4. Bussian forces did not evneuate Riga without blowing up the fortifications at the mouth of the Dvina river end airbridges across the waterways today's official statement mend declared. The Russian retirement still contin ued today in a northeasterly direction. "Yesterday the Germans continued to develop successes north and north east," the official statement said, dis cussing the Riga sector. "They out flanked our Dvina position and pene trating beyond, occupying Valeudore, wo retiring northward." "Enemy ships rc shelling the Riga coast, including the villages of Kabli, Mainashtu, Koshonld and Pidde," the official statement asserted. Took Many Prisoners. Bfrlin, Via London. Sept. 4. "Thou sands" taken prisoner in the Riga sec tor attests to the German victory there, today's official" report declared. OiU hundred and fifty Bussian guns were seized and "countless war material" raptured, the war office announced. , "From Riga northeastward, dense masses of troops are crowding the roads day and night in marching toward Great Jaega," the war office declared. "The Russian resistance at Riga was broken down. The enemy's evacuation of the city was hurried." 13 Airships Brought Down. Paris, Sept. 4. Thirteen German (Continued on Tage Two.) J ABE MARTIN 1 S n V i rl i g M " isr i Ml ' ' 'to- 1 iounr 1 y f'A .V.'A One good thing about fellers that like t' fish they never cripple any iudua-jwhen tries when they lay off. How some "V . . .-... 1. : '.L . . I. 1 1 forenoon is th leadin' mv'sterv in.T. Nichols of Baker, Ore., will accom-J '-""bior'n one neighborhood. ' " PnT him and will asstst Shortridge in the defense. NEGRO RIOTEBS SENTENCED San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 4. Found guilty, with intent to murder, five members of the Twenty Fourth United States infantry- (negro), who rioted at Waco on the night of July 29, today faced five years nt hard labor in the federal peniten tiary at Leavenworth, Kan- A . sixth negro soldier will serve ten years at Leavenworth for the same offense. This was the finding of the general court martial made public today by . Major General John V. Ruck man, commander of the South ern department. SsS i SOYA BEAN IS o D Ot f-4 21? DELICIOUS RATION n Maxim Inventor of E Explosives Finds New Food Beans Lake Hopatcong, N. J. Sept. 4. Hud son Maxim, inventor of high explosives declared today he had made a food dis covery which he believes bids fair to revolutionize eating.. His discovery, he said, is the Chinese ooya Dean, prepared in the manner which ho had invented, this bean is tho most delicious and nourishing food on God's green earth." It is a tasty food by itself, and mixed with other edibles it will make any dish however unpalatable taste exquisite. 1 intend to otter my food invention to the American army and navy," Max im told tho United Press today. "Con sidering its cheapness, it will give our fighting men the most inexpensive and the most delicious and the most nour ishing ration of any of the armies of the world," m Maxim said he had already mention ed the valuo to Herbert Hoover, food administrator. To demonstrate it, he invited George Reno, head of the Cuban agricultural department and other food experts to ma estate here yesterday and served them a full dinner, consisting' of soya beans and other dishes garnished and flavored with the beans. Maxim donned a white apron and did the 'cooking and serving himself. "This bean," asserted" Maxim, "is the most valuable vegetable , in the world and it has been entirely over looked. It is only used in this country now for feeding horses and making lin seed oil and other paint mixtures. If cooked like ordinary beans, it is not edible.- But cooked as I cook it, this bean is the tastiest food you ever saw. ' ' Maxim said he would continue con ducting laboratory experiments with the soya bean. Corn Up a Fraction - Oats Follows Corn Chicago, sfpt. 4. Heavy buying by big local commission houses, together with continued cool weather over most of the belt, sent corn up 5-8 to 3-4 over Saturday's closing prices today. December opened at $1.11 i-4, down 3-8, but later rallied to $1.12 1-4. May opened up 1-8 at $1.07 7-8, later gain ing 5-8. Oats was generally higher, in sympa thy with corm September opened 1-4 higer and subsequently gained 1-8 to oo 5-8. December opened 5-8 lower at 55 7-8, but later gained 1. May opened unchanged at 59, later losing I S. Provisions were a shade lower on a weak and lower hog market. George P. Downing Re enters Country's Service Geo. P. Downing, son of Mr- and Mrs. W. H . Downing, of the Waldo ' Hills, has enlisted in the United States army in California, and will be called to colors September 5. George Downing was a member of: Co. M of Salem, but was discharged j after their return from the Mexican border last year. Ho visited his par ents this week and was given a smok er at home at which a large number of friends and neighbors gathered to greet. the young soldier and wish him good luck in the serviee of his country- The Downing home was ' beautifully deco rated for the occasion and the entire afternoon and evening was devoted to pleasant social amusements. Mr. Downing left last night for the training camp to be mobilized in service once more. Trial of Frank Oxman Will Begin Tomorrow San Francisco, Sent. 4. The trial of Frank C. Oxman, Oregon cattle man charged with attempting to induce a witness to give perjured testimony, will not start tomorrow as scheduled. Attorney Samuel Shortridge for Ox- man announced todar that be will ask for a continuance until September 13, the case is called, ( Oxman, with his wife and child, will ' rnai-li Kan Frfltioiaon tnnitrtit &ttnrtiv COPPER MINES AT BUTTE MAY CLOSE FOR LONG PERIOD Miners Want $6 a Day, and With Copper Prices at 20 Cents Can't Get It PROPERTIES IN SHAPE FOR LONG IDLE SPELL Companies Will Make No Ef fort to Start Work Before spnng- -Oiher Strikes Butte, Mont., Sept. 4 A strike of 5000 members of tho Building Trades Unions, the shutdown of the few in dependent mines which so far have sur vived the general shutdown and new and serious complications in the labor, situation duo to the government's pro posed fixing of copper prices these possibilities featured Butto's labor troubles, which are more serious than ever. The threatened strike of tho building trades unions is due to a quarrel be tweon a contractor and the painters' union over one man. The master paint ers and tho unions are not only unable to agree on questions involved in the employment of this one man, but are also unable to agree on a plan of me diation. ; The painters are prepared to strike. and the entire building trades council stands ucnind the painters, ready to call a general strike. Five thousand men will be affected by a general strike order. The Metal Trades Council will vote Friday to decide whether tho general suutaown is a lockout or a walkout. If they decide the shutdown is a lockout and; it is likely they will they probab ly will strike, The independent mines will be fore ed to shut down in this event. will Depopulate Butte The fact that tho government plans to fix the price of copper at 20 to 22 cents a pound has complicated the sit uation. With copper at 20 cents, the miners would get only $4-50 a day under tho wage schedule recently announced by tho Anaconda company. Even if the copper price is set at 22' cents, the men will get only $4.75. They want $6. long shutdown is generally pre- (Continued on Page Two.) Downward Market Trend to Discount PriceFixing New York, Sept. 1. Liquidation in the stock market has now continued with slight interruption for several weeks. This downward movement was based entirely upon disposition to dis count price fixing: upon the injurious effects of an excessive profits tax, and upon the growing prospects of peace. All three of these influences mean a reduction, though not necessarily an early end, of war profits which had been the principal uasis of abnormal advances in the war industrials. Some idea of the volume of these orders will be gained from the fact that during the fiscal year our exports of war ma terials amounted to $2,127,000,000, of which $800,000,000 was explosives, $187 000,000 chemicals, $120,000,000 copper and brass, $95,000,000 fire arms, $90, 000,000 automobiles, $87,000,000 horses and mules, $84,000,000 metal working machinery, and $27,000,000 wire. In the fiscal year 1915-J6, our total war ex ports were $1,329,000,000; the increase last year being chieflv in explosives, firearms, copper and brass. Since the war began in 1914, our total exports of munitions have amounted, to $3,892, 000,000, last year's shipments being about 60 per cent of that total. The pro fits in these, transactions, as is well known, have been very heavy, and it is easy to calculate in what direction their curtailment will be first applied. Whether the coming shrinkage of pro fits has been fully discounted or not, remains to be seen. For the time be ing the market has been much disturbed by these developments; and there is little doubt that the high water mark of war profits has been permanently pass ed, and that a great deal of liquidation has been resorted to by those who fore saw these conditions. It will be months, however, before any treaty of peace can be signed, and months more before disbandment is possible of the various armies,, which meantime must be fed, clothed and equipped. To the purchases of the allies must also be added our own heavy buying of munitions, which combined witu those of the allies will insure a high degree of activity in the war industries for some time to coino J Much uneasiness attaches to the gov ernment policy of price fixing; also to the extremly radical tendencies of the excess profits tax. It is but proper to; state that the government thus far hasj not taken extreme measures in .price, JOHNSON MAKES A FULL STATEMENT OFIIORITY'SAIM Would Take 80 Per Cent of Afl Profits Above Those Normally Made THOSE WHO GAIN BY WAR SHOULD PAY MAIN BILL If ,Not CdHected As Made These Profits Bear Only Taxes As Oiher Property 9C - V TROUNCED TWICE. " Washington, Sept. 4. Senat- ors battling to make riches pay the- war bills were trounced twice today. The Hollis amend- ment to the revenue bill, which would establish war profits as the differences between normal profits and the total 1917 in- come was beaten 57 ito 12 by those favoring the committee plan. Senator Laroifetteu amendment placing a sixty per cent tax on war profits was then beaten fifty to eighteen. ; Washington, Sept. 4. Swollen taxes will come to haunt the small merchant, tradesman, farmer and manufacturer, ii' the government does not -conscript wealth to pay war bills. This warning was sent out today by Senator Johnson, California, as ho re sumed his labors to levy more taxes on the war profits of great industries than are provided in -the finance committee bill. His coat an'-d collar off and sleeves rolled up, the big (Jalifornian was found at his office answering correspondence- From all parts of the coun try have come letters and telegrams, sympathizing with his fight" to have blood profits pay for the war. But many are anxious lest his plan result in business depression. So Johnson took time off today to explain just what his fight means to the average citizen and averaso business man of the country. "Two hostile and utterly irreconcil- (Coiitirued-on page three) fixing, and shows no such radicalism as is rampant iu the house in shaping the revenue bill. In tho matter of price fixing, the administration has chiefly sought to prevent undue advantage be ing taken of war conditions by unscru pulous speculators and profiteers. Liber al profits have been allowed to both producers and ' distributors. Of course concerns which had been making ab normal protits trom one source or an other were disturbed. This would have happened in any event when tho inevit able reaction arrived from natural caus es. Nevertheless, government price fix ing, however considerately enforced, can only be justified as a "strictly war measure, and should be used as little as possible, and abandoned as soon as possible. As an economic proposition, it is wholly unsound; because there can be no such tiling as a fixed price when the thousand and one elements which make the price are incessantly chang ing. Fixed price would tend to indus trial stagnation; and if rigidly enforc ed, would soon be evaded through ad jjustments at some, other part of tht transaction. No government can elimut jr.te the bargaining spirit in human na ture, which must always appear when ever two individuals meet who have commodities or services for sale. Be sides, if the government fixes priees for commodities, it will eventually and logically be compelled to fix the rate of wages for capital and labor as well. But here again is something the gov ernment could not possibly do without invoking failure and disaster. Fixing the rate for capital would inevitably lead to its confiscation and thus crush enterprise. Fixing the rate of wages is unthinkable; because the American workman would never surrender the lib erty to work for the best wages he can get and for whomever he pleases, as well as when he pleases. Unfortunately, the war has made it easy to launch a great many socialistic experiments, from which it may be more difficult to escape than expected. Great Britain has already plunged much deeper into this realm of uncertainty than oursel ves; and it would be the policy of wis dom on onr part to watch results there before following in her wake. The radical proposals for taxing ex cess profits as high as 70 to 80 per (Continued on page three) GERMANS ASKED FOR GOVERNMENT WE CAN DEAL WITH Must Be One That Will Insore Honesty In Dealing With Other Nations WILL NOT DEMAND THAT HOHENZOLLERNS QUIT Up to German People to Make (jermanys Word Pass at Par in World Dealings (By Oarl D. Groat) (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Sept. 4. Actual elimin ation of the Hohcnzollern dynasty haa not been prescribed by the American government as a peace basis, the state department said today. me indications are now that this government will be content with in ternal reformB in Germany which will insure honesty and safety in dealing with other nations. While officials believe elimination of the kaiser would be a short cut to this result, they said today' there is no at tempt to dictate the German form of government. The United States will be the judge of whether or not any at tempted reforms are bonafido or suf ficient and all must abolish those sin ister elements which have come to be known as Hohenzollernism. The state department's expression created wide comment. It was believed to be a further hint to the German peo ple that what the allies are after is elimination of the Hohenzollern influ ence from world politics not dictation of the form of governmejolthaJTiuitaii peoples shall "have. " It is the opinion of this government that once the German peoplo see their ruler as tho world sees him, the kaiser's throne will collapse of its own weight. There can be no peace until the people themselves can write the pledges Ger many makes with the other nations. There will be no relaxing of America's grip in the war until she is absolutely convinced- that tho influence of tho kaiser is gone, though he himself may remain as nominal head of the empire, even as George of England. Working To Make Peace. Washington, Sept. 4. While her peo plo at home are working to make peace possible, Germany by her capture of Riga is seeking to sway the wavering or unpatriotic among Russians to sep arate negotiations. - Only timo will tell whether Hindoo- burg will continue his smash to Petro grad. That he can take the capital is certain. Its ellect would be mainly psy chological, for it would add practically nothing to the military position of the Teutons while it would involve many men and much material. That it would have a tremendous ef fect on the Russians, however, ft ad mitted here by officials, who, while far from pessimistic, hope this added im petus to separate peace will not mater ialize. War plans are so framed that the struggle can go on whether or not Rus sia cracks beneath the moral and psy chological pressure, but should- the Ger mans once get separate peaco they would open up such a storehouse of food and supplies as to make their position again formidable. Press reports of a growing unrest among the reichstag members and a somewhat more favorable reception of President Wilson's peace reply in Ger many have created hero tho hope that internal reforms upon which peace can rest, can be accomplished before an other spring. However, if Petrograd is taken, then perhaps to militarists and pan-Ger- manists can halt temporarily the move ment toward democratization of the kaiser's realm. . The weakness of the Riga defenders caused. a gloomy spirit in some quarters today, though authorities who believe in the ultimate strength of Russia in sist that she will stay in the fight along her vast border with sufficient force to thwart German plans of conquest. It Is Pake Reform. London, Sept. 4. Germany is begin ning to talk democratization now, as the first Btep toward peace. Berlin news via Holland today an nounced that at the session of the reich stag convening September 26 tho same coalition of the centrists and social democrats which precipitated the Ger man cabinet in July would again seek surrender by the kaiser and his minis ters of certain of their prerogatives. Emphasis was laid on this "revolt" as part of a well defined plan yielding tt peace. London could see little in tne Keriin reports today provocative of hope of real German reform. It was the same sort of a "revolt" the left parties in tho reichstag last July which display ed Von Bethmann-Hollwcg for the pro fonndly junker Michaelis. The revolters (Continued on page three) HEAVY EARTHQUAKE Washington, Sept. 4 Three hundred houses were . reported - destroyed, with an unknown number of casualties, as the re sult of a severe earthquake at Bogota, Colombia, a state de partment message stated today. MINNESOTA HAS QUAKE St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 4. Citizens of northern Minnesota were speculating today on the origin of tho earthquake which was felt over 750 square miles late yesterday. Braincrd, Crow Wing, Littlo Falls and Long Prairie report ed distinct shocks lasting from eight to, 20 seconds. Houses were shaken and dishes broken. It was the first earthquake in this region since the advent of the white man, 1 lie LINN COUNTY EVENT THIS YEAR, ITS FAIR Wffl Be Held at Albany, Sept. 18, 19 and 20-and Will "Break the Record" Albany, Ore., Sept. 4. (Special) The big fall event in Linn County this year will be the annual LinnCounty Fair, which will be hold in Scio, Sept. 18, 19 and 20. The management an nounces that arrangements are about complete for the largest county fair ever held in this section. A large dis play of agricultural products, fine live stock, domestic science and home prod ucts, agricultural implements and other exhibits will be presouted to thh pub lic. The annual Linn County School Industrial Fair will be held at the same time, and CountT.. jklmnl mi.n eut xoa M.X'uuinuugs states that an exoeuent collection of school work, agricultural products, swine, chickens asd other live stock has been assembled by the children of the county. This year's show will be a typical, old-fashioned county- fair. The direc tors have paid particular attention to this feature, believing that the public still enjoys the kind of a fair that they did in earlier days. The racing program has been changed, the professional horse and driver being iliminated and the entire card turned over Jo local talent. More competition will bo furnished in this manner, and tho public will take a greater interest in the races. There are many fast horses in the Willamette Valley, all of whom are invited to participate in the events. Tho Scio fair is the official county fair, for which the county court makes n annual appropriation, asido ffrom tho money furnished by the state. The peoplo of Scio and vicinity have also gone down deep in their pockets this year to make this the biggest and best fair held in the valley in yenrs. OF HOAR EVENTS Our Soldier s Gather, Ger mans Celebrate Riga's Cap tureBig Air Raid Hohenzollern must go, but not neces sarily tho Hohenzolleins, the state de partment announced todav. With this statement, tiio United States met Ger man charges of endeavoring to dictate its form of government, but it was made clear that "internal refoims which will insure honesty and safety in dealing with other nations" are necessary before America can make peace. While this edict was being Issued, thousands of America's new national army men were marching in civilian 's clothes in send-off parades throughout the country, prior to tho departure of the first five per cent to cantonment camps. President Wilson led the parade in Washington and Mayor Mitchell marched at the head of tho New York cn. Germany celebrated the capture of Riga with flag bedecked cities and con gratulatory telegrams from the kaiser. The Russian official statement an nounced further retreat of the disorgan ized Slav forces. A German air raid on Chatham and Sheerneas, England, where naval and army bases, were located, resulted in 108 deaths. Ninety two were injured. The British advanced slightly north east of St. Julien and Canadians reg istered another gain north of Lens. The French official statement men tioned great aerial activity. Italian bat tle front reports declared General Ca dorna'a troops still advancing. Strange, bet the preparedcr we get the less and less we hear that once ubiquitous word "preparedness." WILSON MARCHES I LEAD OF THOSE AflSWERING CALL Thirty Thousand In Line h Washington Veterans Walk m Parade CITY GAY WITH BUNTING AIR FILLED WITH MUSIC Entire City Gathers Along Lias of March to Bid the Boys Good Bye c - PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO THE MEN IN BANKS - - Washington, Sept. 4. Ex- pressing the wish that he could, go with tho American army to the battle field, President Wil- - son today addressed the folliw- ing message to the citizens ae-: ceptcd for military service. It. was sent to Thomas Chad- bourne, Jr., of the New York' parado committee: . - , "Please say to the men on Sontember 4 how entirely my heart is with them and how my' thoughts will follow them across the sea with confidence and also genuine envy, for I should like to be with them on tho field and in the trenches whore the real and tinal battle jc for the independence - of the 4c United States is to be fought, - alongside tho other pcoplos of tho world struggling like our- selves to make an end of those I- .th intra whic.h have threatened the integrity of iheinemiory,r- tho lives of their riooule and the very character and inde pendence of their- government Bill them Godspeed r me from a very full heart. ' Washington, Sept; 4. Men ' of the new national army - whose feet have known only tho paths of peaoo, trod to day tho way to war. Led by their commander-in-cniei, President Wilson, the first drafted men of tho capital marched the length of Pennsylvania avenue the wav of the presidents and the troops of other days Tottering vcternnB or ootn Bides oi the civil war; cabinet members, solons of the senate and house; soldiers of the war with Spain; civilians from government departments; army anl navy officers; cavalrymen on rearing mounts; marincB lind other fighters joined in this solemn procession. in cities throughout tne country me samo spirit, with different aetors, wus shown in scnu oif ceieDrauons. To do honor to the men under his leadership who will help make the world safo for democracy, President Wilson was Glad to trudgo tho mite ana a half route beneath a warm September n. Mothers, fathers, sisters, sweethearts lined the streets tq pay homage, some tearfully, some with brave smues, an with a solemnity that marks farewell. Thirty thousand marchers participat ed in the demonstration hero on the day before the men depart for camps. Hundreds of thousands of others kept step with the capital host in other cit ies. Clean, Strong xoys The drafted men, clean, strong lads, formed a lino with heads erect, with a vioor that promises rapid shaping into hmIiI ier. Perhans their lines a bit rag ged, for most of them had never march ed before, but the snap and power and pride of virilo manhood was upon thorn. Well up to tho forefront came Sena tors Martin and Bankhead, confeder ate nd Senators Nelson and Warren, Union men while behind them were Spanish-American war senators Speaker. Champ Clark, who fought conscription; Undo Joo Cannon, erect and spry, despite his years headed the house delegation. Senator Sauls bury led the upper uranch men. Washington streets were crowded earlv. Great streamers of bunting, big and' little flags, fluttered in the breeze as symbols of a united nation sending (Continued wi Page Two.) THE WEATHER : Oregon:- Tonight and Wednesday, gentle wind