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TODAY'S WEATHER 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 READERS) -DAILY Only Circulation in Salem Guar anteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. FULL LEASED TOE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS SERVICE Oregon: Tonight fair east, rain west portion; Thursday, -fair south, rain north portion; increas ing southerly winds. FORTIETH YEAR NO. 229 SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS tFcSZS? (OUU mm fRE HE BLAZED TRAIL ACROSS COUNTRY i 1 1; Trunk .Loads of Evidence Gathered As to Mean's Crooked Methods MURDERED WOMAN'S BIG FORTUNE SQUANDERED Believed Second Will Was Forged b Effort to Con ceal Milcations By Geora,, Martin (United Press staf. , orrespondent) Concord, N. C, Sci-t. 20. Loser in ;e first battle to keep himself from o road that might lead to the electric chair for the death of rich Maude A- King, Oaston B. Means today directed continuance of the fight from a prison cell hero in his homo town. lie chose his own battle ground. Here within four miles of the secluded spot where the state claims he decoyed and murdered the wealthy widow' of the late Chicago lumber king, after squan dering her fprtuno in New York and other large cities, Means has started Ins fight for liberty. Meantime, Chicago, New York and Washington department of justice rep resentatives, buttressed with trunk loads of evidence gathered iTom Means Mazed trail of "business management' for Mrs. King half way across the conn try, conferred with Solicitor Clement unci Attorney General Manning of Korth Carolina, of the "rosecution. Means and his family arc politically significant in this section. Brandon Means,- Gaston's brother, is a -county political leader. Confessedly the de fense thinks it will have a better chance to win Means.' freedom here than it would, if Gaston were taken to Now York and tried there on other charges. Think Will Forgery Means, by express agreement of his counsel, will have no chance to get out - jail on bail between now and Octo ber 8, when his case goes before the jjrand jury. It appeared probable today he would try to get the case before a" local jury mid that the prosecution would ask, in ease of an indictment by the grand jury fi change of venue to another county, Should Means bctried and acquitted on the murder charge here, he might still, under certain action by the New (Continued on page three) ' TOMORROW'S PROGRAM OREGON STATE FAIR PORTLAND, ELKS, AND TRANSPORTATION DAY. . ELK'S BAND OFFICIAL BAND. 9 a. m. Arrival of Elks accompan ied by Elks' bans of 50 pieces, Port land Ad club, Franklin high school filee club and manv other residents of Portland. Miss Ada Miller and other singers will present vocal numbers during the day. II a. ni. Lecture, "Vocational edu cation choosing a life work," by .lames M. Heady of Salem. Mr. Heady deliveied several lectures on this sub ject at the Panama Pacific Internation al exposition in 1915 and in various cities of California and'Oregon since. Lecture in auditorium of old pavilion. Admission free. 1 p. m. Big stock parade. All live stock granted awards will be on pa rade. Governor Withyeombe will de liver a short address at the grand .stand just before the parade starts. 7:30 p- in. Program at "new pavilion. Anna Price Moore of Baker City, Miss .Ada Miller and others will present mu sical numbers. 8 p. m. Banquet of Oregon purebred Breeders' association at Christian church restaurant. Band music all day and evening by Klks' band and others- Races, high dives, etc. Entries for Thursday's Races 2:20 trot Purse $2000. Donde Lopez, Baby Lally, Mark H., Flora Dora Z., Geo. X. Patterson and Guv Boy. 2:20 pace Purse $750. 'Helen Hal, Bubbles, Belle Bars, Miss Rico. a special Entries later. One mile run Purse $200. Annie Phaon, Prummer, Blackthorn, Solon, Bob Wade and Dandy Jim- For 2- year old foaled in Oregon Purse 4100, 4 furlongs. Little Nellie, Tell and ' Silveres. ' (Continued on page six.) ROUNDING DP SLACKERS Botte, Mont., Sent. 26. The ronndm. rf slackers continues todav. Ten al- ninnrn ni i no Wed slacker! were arretted within ith autos the way most girls hug op 'he last 24 hours. They will be taken tojt' th' driver. Miss Fawn Lippineut has Holers for arraignment before Jadije ' frr.ished her first pair o' army socks an' George M. Bourquin. they look almost alike. ss sc sjc sjc s(c ifc jfc s)c sfc sfc sjt sjc. sc PATBIOTIO WIDOW New York, Sept. 26. The patriotism of a Texas widow, whose nine children are help ing in some way to win the war was related yesterday to Pres ident Wilson through the Na tional Security league.' The widow is Mrs- Charles Montague of Bandera, Tex. Her sons, six of them, are in the army, with the exception of tho youngest, who will be call ed in the next draft. Her three .' daughters are members of 4he Red Cross. Her husband was a Civil war veteran. AMEBICA'S WAK BILL Washington, Sept. 26. Am erica 's war bill for the first ' year will be at least eighteen and a half billion dollars. Treasury experts today com puted that the United States government is now spending about $1,500,000,000 a month. $"0,000,000 a day, or more than. $2,000,000 an hour. America has loaned to the al lies to date $2.420,400,000 at the rate of about $13,480,000 a day. sfc sc sc 5c dc s)c 3fc 5c sjc 5c )c STRIKERS REFUSE ARBITRATION AND EVERYTHING ELSE Take the Position They Have the Top Hand and Employ ers Must Submit BAY CITY BOILER MAKERS MAY STOP SETTLEMENT Portland Yards Will Accept Any Adjustment Govern ment Makes Sedttle, Wash., Sept. "The on ly thing which can prevent the strike of 14,000 Seattle ship yard workers next Saturday morning is the granting of their wage demands." So declared Secretary A. E. Miller of the Metal Trades Council here this morning. Miller said that the men would not agree to an arbitration of the demands by the shipping board or its adjust ment committee, or by a committee se llected bv the men and yard owners. I "There was a time when we might have submitted to arbitration," said Miller, "but now with Skinner'' and bddy I orporation operating one of the largest and most successful plants on the water front and paying our wage scale cheerfully, we will hold out until the rest arc willing to do likewise." Miller's statement followed the press reports that Louis P. Wehle, counsel lor the shipping board s labor adjust ment board, had announced at Wash ington late yesterday that the board would immdeaitely take up the Seattle situation and at the direction of Presi dent Wilson consider the demands of the men on their merits. Wehle is declared to have said the strike called here for Salurdav to have been called under a misapprehension that the adjustment board would cou- ( Con tin ued on page three) ABE MARTIN It's a wonder th' ditches taint filled AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND S A IL ORS GET TASTE OF WAR WHEN GERMAN RAIDERS DROP BOMBS ON LONDON 35,000 PASSED If! TODAY TO BEST OF ALL STATE FAIRS City Like Deserted Village After NoonFor Salem Was At the Fair LIVESTOCK EXHIBIT WAS SPLENDID FEATURE Many'Awards Made by Noon -Pig Club One of Day's Attractions Of course, Salem day is the Banner Day at the fair. Secretary A. H. Lea who is modest in all things, estimates today's attendance at 35,000 people. Aside from the interest displayed by Salemites, today's feature is the Live Stock exhibits. By noon awards had been made in several classes. For jerseys, 4 years old and older, the awards were distributed as follows: First Fox Brothers of Silverton, on tinier engineer's Vioia. , " ., . . , i T. ? T, xr, ."f ,. orUpna' V a .,7 7lluoe 'u lllB Kalser- "Martlaird 's Noble Maid." A score of American women war Third-G .H.Dammer, of Greshain, on 'workers accompanied the sailors to the "Noble Countess of Oakland." cellars prepared for refuge during such Fourth O, P. Hembree, of Mon - mouth, on "Imported Brilliant Spray" Fiftli Ed Corey of Carletwin, ."Jsik. - i Mannes of w Poppy.,'! For cows of 3 years and under 4 class, awards were made to C. P.- Hembree, Ed Carey and C. F. Eeid. The awards for Holstein stocks were made chiefly on cattle owned br The Carnation Stock Farm of Monroe, Wash- ington. This well known corporation re- cciving twelve first and seven second, awards. ' C. S. McGee of McMinnville and J. H. Hulbert of Mt. Vernon Washington, each received a number of awards. D. H. Looney, of Jefferson, Oregon, and the Middledale Farm of Goshen re- ceived awards for Guernseys. Most of the awards for Shetland pon- ies were won by M. S. Levy of Union. $ A. C. Muby of Portland being the ' $ 'Continued on page ix.) I I 11 Tk BitarM4 Badktti (By Lowell Mellett) ' United Press Staff Corespondent) London, SepU 26. Upwards of 100 American soldiers and sailors got their first taste of war during the air raids of the past two nights on London. They liked it. The sound of the aircraft guns, bringing them to the first warning of the raid, was greeted with a cneer. They marched out i into the streets i from theY. M. C. A. hut, where they I- wer playing cards and pool, singing, "we're coming, Kaiser Bill." After the raid they joined the British in denunciation of the "baby killers." A preliminary report by Lord French indicated there were two separate raids during last night. The first group of drawn off by hot fire from anti-aircraft guns and aeroplanes. The second raid was of brief duration. With twenty casualties reported in lift f iraf ofanmanf fvnm T I1-... .1. the total killed and ; wounded in the raids of Monday and Tuesday night, amounted to 105. j "Not more than two machines pene trated our defenses," Lord French's, statement today declured. "Six were killed and 16 injured." mL. 0.rt,,j . , ,t, . The American soldiers and sailors brought under the fire of the raiders wanted to rush into the street to see the attack at the first sound of the guns. The sergeant in command order ed them first to remain at the pool and Z card tables at which they were playing8 fmT A- P 7 Ton Then he-commanded them to form i Dumba did ask his government for $20, line two abreast. One man stopped,!00.0. J fluanee his press campaign, of nrfn ,i,,i ,, i . i which some revelations have already ?he cards away Vl heon de. PP that he sought The sergeant sent his little detach- to.Su,a 8tfikeB ? .hf Bethlehem and ment forward and they marched out and 1 middle western steel factories, as well across the street to cellars. . ,as at Brurgeport.. While shells were bursting high over-J , S'at? ' ,dep??me;tI1 "3 ii j ,. , . . . S 6, ., from Ambassador von Bernstorff show .r: j; . ,, , . a raid. -They were gust as cool as the.- wea ' , - w lien tue "all clear'-', signal was been driven off, the Sammies and sail ors emerged from their cellars and re turned to their games in the Y. M. C. A. hut. CENSOR'S LITTLE JOKE London, Sept. 26. (By mail) In a letter home a Tommy gracefully mentioned that ho had "sent a dozen Germnns to hell." Tho censor scored out tho Satanic reference and wrote above it: "It is not permissible to refer to the Ger man headquarters." J vL Ja kj- xL xl ls J wL T J J T p p p WINGS OF FREEDOM FORMER AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR WAS ALSO DOING HIS BIT Dumba Tried to Get the United States to Embargo Muni tions of War Washington, Sept. 26. That the "for- mer Austrian ambassador, Dumba, was j taking an active hand in trying to get the United States to declare an embargo I on munitions in 1915, is proven by pa pers in government possession today. These documents show that he aban doned hope of getting this embargo af ter President Wilson had declared against it. Instead, he wrote his gov ernment that ho was in favor of trying nor an emuurgu on munitions wnen , shipped aboard passenger ships and ex- pressed the view that the then secre tary" of state, Bryan, "and his demo cratic followers' might be favorable to such a scheme. ' Whether Dumba or Von Bernstorff spent money to influence congress while i DiiV UP munmons tjihiith o iiiwun uio 'allies, though he defended his right to f ., t t t J?. L.J , J in J"1""6 01 y wrongdoing in J m , : . W , , uneilCaJll hYlalOT Killed in Late Battle San Francisco, Sept. 26. Confirmn tion of the death of Sergeant MacMon agle was received at noon today by the young aviator's aunt, Mrs. F. 8. Moody, in a cable from Mrs. Dongal MacMon- aele. mother of the dead boy. MacMonagle, who was 26 years old. went to France 18 months ago as an am bulanee driver. Later he became an aviation student and four months ago started flvinc with the Lafayette es- cadrille. At the time he went to France he was an emplovo of the Pacific Mail Steamship company and well known here socially. Ho was a son of the late Dr. Beverly MacMonagle. San Francisco, Sept. 26. .Daniel V. O'Connell and his five co-defendantB today faced sentence for obstructing the draft and violating the espion age act. After an hour's delib eration, a jury in Federal Judge Van Fleet's court re turned a verdict of guiity on two counts, carrying a total maximum penaltv of 62 years in jail and (30,000 fine for each convicted man. CONVICT CAPTURED Shedd, Ore., Sept. 26. After a running fight on the main street of Shedd yesterday, Jeff Baldwin, escaped convict, was captured and today' was return ed to the state penitentiary at Salem. Deputy Sheriff Joseph Frum and his prisoner wore on their way to Albany when Baldwin, although handcuffed, pulled a gun from the officer's pocket and snapped it at him. The gun was unloaded. DRIVE BY BRITISH IN NEW OFFENSIVE ADVANCES LINES Anzacs and British Charge German Trenches Follow ing Counter Attack FIGHTING MOST FIERCE OF ANY ON THIS FRONT French Airking Missing, Prob ably Dead Russia Scores German Reply (By William Fkllipp Sims) (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the British Armies iu France, bopt. ao. i mi success was attained by Anzac and Juiitiau troops in the Zonuo beke region today when ihe great Brit ish "push" was resumed. Close to unnubeke tho Anzacs swept iorwara, inKiug ine wnoie or tue nrst objectives. Heudqimrters reports receiv ed as this is dispatched say the Eng lish troops to the right ot the Antipo dean lighters have been equally success ful. That part of the new British offen sive which centered iu Polygon wood and astrido the Meuinroad toward Gho luvelt developed violent fighting. The Germans oppuaed the British troops. w the most stubborn reslstuuco. British Gained Mile. London, Sept. 26. Field Marshal Haig started another offensive today. . "East and north east of Ypres at 5:50 this morning we attacked on a wido front, making good progress," he reported. The British assault is the third great drive which has centered in tlie bloody "Ypres sector" in two mouths. It comes on the heels of bitter fighting which was the aftermath of a British success on both sides of the Ypres-Menin road last week. Haig's report did not definitely fix the "wide flout" over which the troops "went over.' Last week's drive, which was also initially described as "east of Ypres," extended for a distance of about eight miles, four on each side of tho Ypres-Menin road. British forces gained nearly a mile advance iu this push. Then came a per iod of German counter-thrusts of ex traordinary violence. Last night's reports from Haig de tailed a day full of bloody encounters, mostly hand-to-hand, in which the Brit ish repulsed these assaults, in some places from their own trenches. The British offensive, coming after the German counter attacks had thus been broken up, was regarded as her alding fighting of a ferocity heretofore nnparalled on this front. Elsewhere on the British front, Mar shal Haig reported a successful raid last night at Gouzecutirr. "In the face of strong opposition," he said, "two occupied dugouts were captured and many Germans were kill ed by the bayonet. A few were taken prisoner and a machine gun was cap tured." Russians Bcorn It. Petrograd, Sept. 28. Germany's re ply to Pope Benedict is warmly repu diated by Russians of all classes, ac cording to a consensus of newspaper nnininn todnv. Even Maxim Gorkv'a j(t sc it s)c ))t ijt sjc )t s)c sc 3c )(c FACE LONO STNTENCES Bolsheviki organ joined in'attacking the 'force of steel will eventually comfwl German reply as offering nothing ac-'them to change their attitude, it is da eeptible to the allies. 'clared. The military section of the Soviet (Continued on page three) SENATE MUST SAV IF ARGENTINE IS TODITERTHEVAR Change In Situation Since Senate Voted Requires That It Again Act GERMAN CONSUL FOUND ENCOURAGING STRIKERS Entire Army Summoned Pre paratory to Taking Oyer All Railroads (By Charles P. Stewart) (United Press Staf Correspondent Buenos Aires, Sept. 26. Argentina still hesitated between war and neutral ity today, while proof piled up that the general strike throughout the nation was being' actively fostered and aidoj by German agonts. Best information available today wat that President Irigoyen would either maintain neutrality or declare war. that he would not take the middle of the road course of breaking relations. Hie necision rests with his interpretation of Argentine public sentiment. A compell ing proof of this public state of niiud may be furnished tonight at a grent war mass meeting scheduled here. Tho vote (j! the chamber of deputiea for a diplomatic rupture does not put the question of this stop directly ud to President Irigoyen. Changes in the situation since the senate vote of 23 to 1 in favor o; a diplomatic break, will require another vote in the upper house on the same question before any reso lution announcing the congressional sup port oi sucn a stop is formally put np to the president for approval or dis approval. A pi 'we r til impetus to the movement for a break has been given by reports received here from reliable sources that Paraguay and Uruguay are on the verge of such a step against Germany. Chile was reported determined to maintain her aeutrality. Meanwhile, tho government was offi cially notified today that the German (Continnod on Page Two.) VATICAN BELIEVES HIS PEACE PROPOSAL HAS AIDED TEUTONS Says Austria and Germany Accepting Terms Helps Strengthen Them By Carl D. Groat (United Press staff correspondent) Washington, Sept. 20 American of ficials believe there is no immediate chance of a revolution in Germany to overthrow the kaiser. While official advices indicate a growing discontent within the empire, parliclarly among women, authorities have concluded tunc the Germans, so used to kaiser domina tion, will causo no upheaval until furth er casualties open their eyes to the stu pidity of living under a murderous au tocracy. On this theory Secretary of War B:i ker, Secretary of the Navy Daniels and others engaged in shaping America for a war against this autocracy are laying their plans with two or more years of conflict in mind. Meantime, offi'iM advices here in dicate the Vatican is waiting for Amer ica "to see the liKht. " It is convinced that the kaiser cannot ue overthrown and believes the American people will not stand for such sacrifices as the al lies already have made. The Holy See believes there can be no "victor's peace" and predicts cither a stalemate or a world revolu tion before both sides exhaust them selves. Inasmuch as the allies, if they ans wer at all, will endorse President Wil son's peace program, the pope does not feel constrained to act further now, the advices say. His attitude is pictured as: "I have offered you a way out of war; you have spumed my solicitations What more can I dof Nothing." Moreover, the vitican thinks that Germany and Austria have strengthen ed themselves at home by appearing to accept peace. t Regardless of the Vatican view, Am erican authorities, in company with entente diplomats, see in America's growmc strength the turning of the scales. If the German peoplo continue dumb" as to kaisensm, the afteer The regular fish dealers, also, have visions of spurlos versenkt.