Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, September 27, 1917, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text'TODAY'S WEATHER 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 READERS) DAILY Only Circulation in Salem Guar anteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS SERVICE Beat this 3 1 j:.Mlft Oregon: Tonight aud Friday fair, except probably rain northwest portion; increas ng - southerly winds. FORTIETH YEAR NO. 2:0 SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS SHcSS? '' " r.mH . - . WAR APPROPRIATION IREATEST $20,000,000,000 Is Sura America Raises First Year In War to Make the Whole World FreeThis Means 35,000 Tons . of Gold Of This $7,000 000,000 Will Be Loaned Allies -This Great Sum Leav deficit About $3,000,000,000 SOME FIGURED S TO MONEY . . . How Money Is Rai for War Chest. Bond bill of April 24 . . . h $ 7,000,000,000 B ond bill of September 24 '-.T. 8,538,000,000 War revenue bill 2,500,000,000 Regular revenue 1,333,000,000 Total $19,371,000,000 How Money Is Spent for War. Loans to allies $ 7,000,000,000 Armv 6,890,019,661 Navy 1,605,098,458 Aviation and aircraft 694,000,000 Shipping 1,040,000,000 Selective draft 8,658,413 Food control and survey - 173,846,400 Soldiers and sailors insurance .... 176,250,000 Emergency fund to president 100,000,000 Total $17,687,872,932 ft C )jC 3j( jC 9C S(C SjC ijft sj Sfc Sjc 9) Sjt SC SjC jft Sj( 3C 5C ijt C Jjc 5C ' Washington, Sept. 27. Congress to day is Hearing the greatest money rais ing feat in the history of the world's parliaments N6harToii, with an equal time, ever appropriated sueh sums $20, 000,000,000 for any purpose. Means tor raising nineteen and a half bilious of dollars have been pro vided under revenue and bond bills. Onlv the conference report on the $2, fiOOjOOO.OOO revenue bill awaits fina disposition today. Out of the giant appropriations may be traced the new courses modern war fare has taken. Nearly $7,000,000,000 has been set aside for the army, of which about a third i3 devoted to artl lery and ammunton alone. Ship building lias demanded more than a billion. Air craft production is given a start with iB4,000,000 and more to come. An even S:7,000,000,000 is provided for a loan to the allies. The navy has needed to date Wly $1,606,000,000. There is pending a soldiers and sail ors insurance bill which appropriates $176,250,000 to take care of the wound ed and dependents. More than eight and a half millions have been set aside for the selective draft. Herbert Hoover is given $162, 500,000 to control the food situation, while Secretary of Agriculture Houston lias $11,346,400 to hold a nation wide survey and learn what the food supply really is. But even with the great sums raised, nil expenditures of the government up to June 30, 191 8, will leave more than a bllion dollar deficit if more funds are not raised. Senator lortge figures the deficit will reach $3,000,000,000. To meet this will be left to the December session. Revenues $3,833,000,000. The deficit is based on the fact that in addition to war expenditures of $17,687,872,932, there wll be other regu lar expenditures to bring the total to ABE MARTIN Th' trouble with a golden bantam roastin' ear is that you no sooner git a good start on one till you have t' ti:rn back. What's beoome o th' ole ..i raven musiaehe with th' curled ends! - 1 HISTORY $20,651,700,734. Only $19,371,000,000 is j netted from the two bond bills, war rev enue bill and the; regular revenues of the government. The first bond will be signed by the president April 24 provid ed for $.1,000,000,000 in bonds and $2,- i 000,000,000 in-certificates of indebted ness. The second bill provded $11,538, 000,000, but of ths $3,000,000,000 goes te convert bonds authorized but not issued under the first bill, leaving a total of "new funds" of $8,538,000,000. The war revenue bill will produce ap proximately $2,500,000,000, while regu lar revenues will add $1,333,000,000 more. SHOWS NO SIGNS OF III That at San Francisco Ends Switchmen's Strike Hits Steel Plants Portland, Or., Sept. 27. Today ; brought new complications in the ship j yard strike complications which threaten added difficulties in Bottling ' the labor disputes. ' The effort of some ship yards and I steel plants to resume work this morn 1 iug with non-union crews was a com : plete failure. However, the retaliatory step of the union the celling out of men in four plants supplying ship yards with ma terials was largely a success. Three iron and steel works were closed today and the big plant of the Willamette Iron and Steel company crippled. A mass meeting of members of nil unions here nffiliated with the Ameri can Federation of Labor was called to day for tomorrow night at the municipal auditorium. It is generally understood they will discuss a general strike in other lines than shipouilding and iron working to make Portland a closed shop town. The strike is settling down largely to a fight between the unions, who demand closed shop polieies, and the employers, who declare they will not under any condition adopt the elosed shop prin ciple. All other issues are secondary. , This Strike Ended. San Francisco, Sept. 27. Paralysis of San Francisco bay "shipbuilding which l as tied up for ten days work on $120, 000,000 worth of government contracts, will end tomorrow morning, when 25, 000 members of the iron trades council will resume.work in all yards and shops. This will bring to an end the strike declared September 17, following a dis agreement over wages. Reports that many members of the boilermakers' union might refuse to re sume work could not be confirmed and 'were not generally credited today, i The decision to end the strike came I after a five hour session of the Iron ; Trades Council marked by spirited de- (Continued on page three) SECRET SERVICE ROUNDSUPBUNCH OF GERMAN SPIES Ninety-One Caught In Raid In New York Will Be Put Behind Bars INVALUABLE MATERIAL CAPTURED WITH THEM Vast Number Tabulated and Their Every Move Under Surveillance New York, Sept. 27. Ninety one Germans, caught in the government' drive against enemy aliens, plotting to hamper war work, were taken to Kllis island today and interned. Guarded by their victories today after a nght of n sixty federal officers, the Germans ccssant beatug back of German counter wore transported to the wharf in patrol attacks. wagons. Additional armed guards. were The whole of tho Ypres sector was on the pier. Later federal chrges may ablaze wth artillery, trench mortars and be filed against individuals suspected grenade explosions, of having made actual attempts to dam Prisoners pouring back of the lanes a;e machinery or otherwise interfere were glad to emerge from the fighting with government work. In the mean- alive. time, blue prints and maps'eonfiscated Bavarian and. Baden troops who op when the Germans were seized will be posed part of the British advance on the carefully examined. Other arrests may. sjx mile front declared they were sick be made tonight. , of war Tllpy complained that the losses aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Ukk cmfwypp of thcir troopa were Wgher than thoge "Invaluable material to the navy of the PrusHiaus who. battlel th(,y department was found in their pes- were forccd to f ht gtil, . h', k 881(1 Thomas Tuney, chief of crs declared unless peace conies soon he bomb squad of detectives. ."Blue tuJ Gemau hi h eommand wiu have prints, charts, maps and other docu- difficulty iu k a it t iu ments and a collection of revolvers ... , mi:' , .... 'r , were confiscated. i Large quantities of carborundum was found in the possession of one man em ployed in a plant where machinery for the navy is being manufactured. A small amount of this when put, in the finer parts of a machine will complete ly disable it. ."We believe,'; said Captaia Tunney "that he received his supply from: a German agent who was arrested in Ckristiania, Norway. " The men taken into custody have been shadowed by detectives for sev eral months at the request of the navy department. It was announced that many of those arrested were working together and had effected an organiza tion. Among those caught was Heinrich Wetterhahn, former wireless operator on the German steamor Freidrich der Grosse. . Have Tjein Located Washington, Sept. 27. Alien ene mies infesting war works of the govern ment are being swept out. The navy and justice departments, co-operating to promptly throttl e any effort to cripple this nation's war machinery (Continued on pace tlx.) THE tPTw ft iPfe II f I Y IttJVfe ,11! -''S--JiSySS. Jwlir III pSllif" BAVARIANS TIRED OF WAR SAY THEY DO i' Prisoners Say Unless Peace Comes Soon Officers Can not Control Men ALL NIGHT FIGHT LEAVES BRITISH HOLDING GAINS Germans Make Four Desper- ate Counter Attacks, All N of Which Fail (By William Phillip SImms) (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the British Armies in the Field. Sept. 27. British troops held fast to iue .iigiuifig. uia iuuur siuccnieui oi serious discontent in the German ranks is completely belied, however, by the stubborn German defense wheh the fighting has developed. Further counter-attacks late today won the German minor local positions in the regian of Winzig fa:;ju and vale house,, but British troopa, in desperate fighting, wrested baek some ' of these points. .'The same violent combat brought re lief today to a detachment of Argyll and Sutherland highlanders who had been cut off 4 hours from their lines and who, despite the fact that they only one division as reserve in their Italian campaign; while the British and French artillery, infantry and aircraft have done mest "spectacular work the past week. Such a situation means that Germany is on the downgrade. With the mili try situation thus shap ing much of Germany's disadvantage, experts here see clearly that her peace maneuvers are based on a real internal desire for peace above which rides tho spectre of a tcfrible beating if the struggle goes on. ' Nothing Doing ' ' Say Allies Germany 's latest peace move, a sug- (Continued on page five) BESX I HAVE. I GIVE.TQ lOSt FIGHTING Gil UN ALLY President of Big Bank Works for Uncle Sam for Munificent Salary Washington, Sept. 27. Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the National City bank, New York, the largest in stitution of its kind in the' United States, has severed all hif busiiess con nections to work for the United States government at $1 a year. Vanderlip, directing head of the American International Corporation and the International Mercantile Marine, many times a millionaire, is to be chairman of tho war savings certificates committee, organized by the treasury department to conduct campaign for extensive saving through out the war-. Vanderlip, who before he beeame leading figure 'in Wall Street, was an assistant secretary of the treasury, is working On a ten hour basis. The severance is only temporary and will bo in effect as long as Vanderlip is needed iu Washington. PORTLAND'S ELKS IN W 32,300 Passed Through Gates Yesterday They Swing Livlier Today IT'S A ROYAL CROWD AND SPORTS ROYAL PURPLE wusMoser Makes Stirring Address-A Perfect Day" Ends Tonight Of courso it was the weather accord ing to Saclmites at least, that is re sponsible for an increase of 3000 over yesterday s attendance at the fMr. Portland boosters and the Klks give themselves the credit, but whatever or whoever did it the actunl returns show that 32,300 people passed inside the gates yesterday, Saiem day, and every indication points to an attendance of 35,000 or more today. The Elks are out in firll force, the Salem lodge acting as host at the luncheon today at noon, The Salem (Continued on page throe) YOU" IAVE BANNER DAY AY Of CROWD READY TO DESERT HOI BULGARIA BRIBED TO AID KAISER BV PROMISES-READY FOR PEACE KAISER WILHELM BEGINS TO ADMIT HE HAS LOST WAR He Is Not Beaten But Realizes There Is No Possible . Chance to Win WANTS PEACE BEFORE AMERICA CAN STRIKE This Is Reason for Offer to Restore Belgium None of His Acts Are Open ' By J. W. T. Mason (Writton for the United Press) New York, Sept. 27. Realization of the inevitable overthrow of tho Hohon zollern autocracy if the war is prolong ed until America gets into the thick of the fighting, has caused the kaiser to make his offer for the apparent return of Be In inn independence. Step by step, the kaiser is beginning 10 aamit ne nas lost tno war; out each admission shows that the same old crafty diplomatic methods dominate the German government. Tho kaiser's Belgian offer, if accepted, would rep resent a far reaching victory for kaiser ism. The kaiser insists that there be administrative separation of the Flem ish and Walloon districts of Belgitim. This is where kaiserisni displays its sinister purpose. Wants German Language Tho kaiser might as well insist that those parts of America where the Ger man language is spoken be adminis tratively separated from tho districts whero .English ib spoken. Tho official Belgian language and the language of Belgian literature is French. Walloon is a French dialect. The Flemish lan guage, however, is a Dutch dialect, strongly allied to the German tongue. It is spoken most extensively by tho peasantry and has no literature of its own. 'Iho kaiser s purpose is to cause Teutonic language to supercede the French language in Bilgium, from which it is but a step to the introduc tion of German "kultur" among the Belgians. Cannot be Honest Cardinal Gasparri 's recent declara tion to the United Press that the popes peace plea should tie interpreted re quiring special consideration tor Bel gium, is sufficient indication that the Vatican has secured from Oermany the present offer of partial restoration of Belgium. But, the Flemish-Walloon tricu in the kaiser's offer shows how necessary it is to scrutinize every word of tho kaiser's diplomacy for secret, underhand meanings. Nothing can be accepted as open nnd above board. The Belgium proposal will not bo ac cepted by the allies. Oihcr offers, re luctantly won from the mediaeval ab solutists in Berlin, can safely be pre dicted. These will show a gradual in crease of the price the kaiser is willing to pay for peace. If they are all re jected, there will then come the imai step of German democratization as the result of American's preponderant strength in the conflict. GERMANY AWAKENING By Carl D. Groat (United Press staff correspondent) Washington, Sept. 27. Germany, weakening, though not beaten, is mak ing a desperate effort for peace, in the fear of America's might next year. International experts today repeated this declaration even more emphatical ly than they have voiced it for weeks past on tbe strength of Secretary .if War Baker's official war review show ing that Germany's punch is waning. The government was informed long ago thut Germany would start a new propaganda for peace to avoid a win ter campaign and the effects of An erica's participation in the war. Ger man replies to the Vatican proved the intention was entirely correct. Ger many's moves now are looked upon here as an appeal to pacifists. Urinal an Rtranper ltaiar'a Tovinw the! first of a weekly series show that the enemy docs not reel nimseir ame w undertake the much advertised offens ive action, so often boasted of at home during the past summer in order to end the war victoriously by Christmas. The report shows Russian resistance stiffening; the Austrians using only (Continued on page five.). WANTS TO RETAIN OLD TERRITORIES SHE HAS TAKEN Entered the War Solely to Re gain Sections Lost In Balkan War ; HER SYMPATHIES WERE ALWAYS WITH ALLIES Would Have Fought 0a Their Side On Promise of Ter ritory Being Restored By A. S. Johnson (United Press staff correspondent) Washington, Sept. 27. Bulgaria is not interested in Kaiser Wilhelm'a dream of a Mittel Europa empire. In an interview with the United Press today, Stephen l'hanaretof f, Bulgarian minister to the United States, said his country had attained tbe sole ends for which it entered the war and is ready to quit, providing sho can keep the ter-ritor- ''which by language, national ity and historic right belongs to her." Bulgaria, he said, would have prefer red to have fught on the side of the ailing, but Germany made a more ac ceptable business proposition. "Bulgaria entered the world war with one object in view regaining Dobrudja, Macedonia and parts of Ser bia which were unjustly taken from her during the Balkan war and in the treaty of 1878," said PhasaretoK frankly. "She had no particular love, for the central powers in fact only a fow years ago had been at war witk urKey. As the price of entering tho war she asked . restoration of former tcrritorv which, by President Wilson 'a own statement of 'national boundar ies rightfully belpngs to her. Prefers the Allies "Bulgaria would have preferred to join the allies, uut tney onerea resuj ration of her territory providing Ser bia would consent to take in exchange other territory presumably wrested from Austria-Hungary or Turkey. Our prime minister even stated xo the al lies that within 21 hours of the ao- (Continued on page five) TOMORROW'S PROGRAM OREGON STATE FAIR GOOD ROADS, PRESS AND WILLAMETTE DAY. Special Features. Addresses, by Justice Walter McCam- nnt, lion. Stephen A. Lowell, address by Governor James Withycombo at 1:00 at grand stand. Stock parade postponed until 1:15 p. m. At this time the t!o0 prize winning cattle and horses will pass tho grand stand iu grand review. Final award of all school exhibits will be made. Entries for Friday's Races. 2:13 pace Purse $1000 Lena Pateh, Lolo, McAliiiu, King Zoloch, Captain Mack, Bertha Seattle, Bonnie Antrim, T. R. McGregor. 2:20 Trot Purse $600 Oregona, Jet Lock, Cavalier Gale, Guy Light, Flori mel, Romplete, Byron and Guy Boy. Special Pace Purse $400 For Nam ed Pacers. Bubbles, Tillamook Maid, Hal Norte, Indian Hal, Hnltamont. Four Furlongs Purse 100. Letitisv R., Fernridge, Bob Wade, Little Nell, Rosa Phaon. Six Furlongs Purse 150 Drummer, Blackthorn, Solon, Dandy Jim and Han nah Phaon. SCHOOL BOOK PRAISES KAISEB ..irtlond. Or.. Rent. 27. The text- book, VaterlRnd, used in Gorman class- es in Portland schools, will be closely examined bv school authorities and per haps be dropped as a school book, de spite contracts with its publishers, it became known today. The book praises the kaiser and Germany. Kerensky and Korniloff sre 'caning it offiky. .;...