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A ....... -TODATS . .. iff v?RV (! ''ffttm oft H W ll mTm' CD w i m to i ftimmiffll S; 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 READEES) DAILY Only CirculatlOB in Salem Guar anteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. FULL LEASifr WIRE TPTrtT rmnn -ttto on trains and news rRlCL TWO CENTS stands five cents FORTIETH YEAR NO. 237 SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1917 j LEY NEWS SERVICE . ' SMJp I " E.!MtET.' . I I I I I i 111 RVELOUS of fresh Over One Million Men Under ArmsNaval and Aircraft Camps Numerous and Busy Ocean and Railroad Ship ping Organized Vast Sums Voted and Expenditures Two Million An Hour Legislation for War Purposes (By Robert J. Bender) (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Oct. 5. America, round ing out its first, six months in the world v.ar today, has made marvelous records. From a nation of peace and unprepar eduess, the country in six months has d eveloped into a powerful fighting ma chiue the greatest factor in the war. Congress, on the eve of adjournment of its war session, has completed -a pro gram which for magnitude and money, has no equal in the history of the . world's parliaments. On April 6 the day President Wilson - signed the dec laration of war the Am erican army was small and misapplied. The navy was not fully manned. The railroads, under-equipped, were unable to move their vast freight shipments, much less to handle gigantic troop move ments. America's merchant marine was a joke among nations. The army had less than a dozen aeroplanes. No laws existed for the development of an army and navy such as the emergency re quired, no money was at hand for the unprecedented expenditures necessitat ed and no authority vested for carrying out the war talk. Million Men Under Arms. Today after six months, more than a million men are under arms. Millions more are registered for service subject' to call. Sixteen cantonment camps cities each capable of housing 40,000 men have been built at a cost -vi $lfiO, Q00,000. Billions have ben loaned the ul lies. Billions have been appropriated for equipping and supplying the soldiers and sailors. There are now three times as many vessels in the navy as nix mouths ago. The enlisted strength of the navy has increased from 64,680 to over 143,000 and other branches have in creased from 300 to 500 per cent in personnel. Naval And Aircraft Camps. Twenty naval training camps have been established and aircraft and pro jectile factories are being built. The air plane construction program assures the presence of thousands of American avia tors on European fronts soon. Shipping and Railroads. The shipping board has contracted for 433 ships already. Seized vessels are PREPARE ROADS FOR CARRYING VAST ARMY AND WAR By George Martin (United Press staff correspondent) Washington, Oct. 5. Foreseeing pos biiity of a desperate conflict before .e war is ended, the war department iiav is preparing the railroads for -msportntion of millions more men id' billions of dollars worth more of imitions and supplies. In a t.ir.r.ii ihn Tinrin.il freitrlif and V" ssenger traffic of the nntioj) would reduced to a minimum ami pracuis- He ABE MARTIN rs. Tilford Moots' nephew writes from th' army trainin' camp that th' beds are hard, but that til ' vaccinations are all that could be desired. Ever' girl you meet these days looks like she'd jeit stepped out o' a comic opera chorus. REG ORDS ONTHS rapidly being put into service. Plans have been completed for three steel fabricating plants, to cost $30,000,000. An operating department has been cre ated sufficient to run 1,200 to 1,500 ships. Responding to international ap peals for speedv ship construction on American ways it js planned to build approximately six million tons within the next eighteen months and thereafter j at least six million tons a year. The railroads are operating as one ' great system. I With ships and troops moving steadily from this side to France, the United States in the last "'x months also has saved the financia 1'fe of her allies in tremendous loans. Since April 6, she has advanced, $2,51 8,400,000. Great Britain : received, $1,240,000,000; France $l'90, j 000,000; Russia $275,000,000; Italy $255 1000,000; Belgium $55,400,000, and Ser j bia $3,000,000 a total which amounts to I lonnii nt the rate of nearly $14,000,000 j a day. I I Spending Vast Sums. I This country todav is spending ap proximately $2,000,000 an hour in all war expenditures. To meet these vast expenditures, con gress has authorized by tax and bond measures the raising of $20,000,000,000. The treasury department successfully floated a first liberty loan of $2,000, 000,000 and ha just launched the sec ond for $3,000,000,000 While theso great movements were going on, congress placed in the presi dent 's hands authority such as it not possessed by any king or potentate April 24, eighteen days after the war was declared, congress had passed and the president signed the $7,000,000,000 bond billl Simultaneously $100,000,000 was plaeed in the president 's power for emergency use. Early in ay congress passed a bill permitting the allies to recruit their citizens in this country. May 12, the president signed a bill authorizing seizure of Teuton ships. The first big appropriation for the army $273,046,322 was promptly passed by congress and signed by the president (Continued on pago three) MUNITIONS ally nothing would move but men and materials for war. Public travel would be vastly curtail ed and instead of making trips, busi ness men would manage their affairs by mail, telephone or wire It was learned today that complete plans are in the hands of the war de partment for the turning of nil freight, flat and cattle cars into troop trains and all day coaches and Pullmans into hospital trains. The plan even includes making hospital trains out of box cars in emergency. Another plan has been evolved whereby every, ton of railroad equip ment in the country would quickly be turned into' rolling stock to move un precedented tons of war supplies spa.-d-ilv to destinations anywhere in the land. Every emergency bus been pre pared for. The war department has kept constantly in mind the possibili ty that American really may have to make war to the last man and the last ton of material before the balance against kaiserism is swung. . If this final effort becomes ncecs sarv, the American people will be call ed nfon to make sacrifices of personal convenience they have not dreamed of- M'KINLEY MEMOEIAL Youngstown, O., Oct. 5. William Howard Taft arrived here this morning speak at the dedication of the half million dollar McKinley memorial at Niles, MeKinlev's birthplace. Miss Helen McKinley. a sister, will unveil the McKinley statue. George B. Cortelyou, memocr of Mc Kinley 's second cabinet ; former Am bassador Herrick, and Joseph Mitchell Chapclle, editor of the National Maga zine, will also speak. HE APOLOGIZED London, Sept. 7. (By mail) ' I apologize to the lady." was all William Mailer, 'charged with Attempting to murder a young stenographer, had to say when arraigned in court- Germans Stir Trouble - In Tampico Oil Fields Mexico City, Oct. 6. The hand of German agents was seen today in labor troubles in the Tampico oil fields, which furnish fuel for British war vessels. Six hundred employes of the Agnila Oil company are out demanding a 50 per cent wage increase. The government to day instructed Governor-General Bicaut to take precautions to avoid disorders, and will send a committee to adjust the strike. The I. W. W. is reported active here. What Gerard Thinks. Pan Francisco, Oct. 5. Germany's attempts to embroil Mexico and Japan r.gni.ist the United States is but one phase of Berlin's plans for waging com mercial war after the sword has been scathed, according to James Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, in San Francisco today. ... He declares German interests have ac quired vast properties in Mexico and now are building a fleet of merchant ships in preparation for commercial war SECRETARY OF WAR SAYS ilTED STATES IS MMRESS In Six Months More War Pre paredness Will Astonish World, He Says Washington, Oct. 5 "We are well on tho way to the batle front," Secre tary Baker declared -loday, in an au thorized summary for the United Press of the war department's accomplish ments in tho first six months of war. "At the end of another Bix months it is safe to predict that the United States will show a record of prepared ness and achievement that will chal lenge the world's admiration. "The. transformation from a nation of peace to one of war is gradually, but surely, and efficiently going on. Today a half million men of the nation al army are in training canips t r prac tically en route thereto. A great army is in the making. "The quartermaster's department is spending more than $3,000,000,000 in tho equipment and maintenance of our new army. Shortages at any camp are temporary and American industry is responding as rapidly as possible to tho demands incident to the clothing, feed ing and equipping of a big army. "The ordinance bureau, likewise, is expending more than $3,000,000,000 for arms and ammunition for the new army. It is promised there will be a rifle and ample ammunition for each soldier when readv for active service and the ordinance situation in its larg er aspects is well in hapd. "Development of the liberty motor has been one of the remarkable achieve- (Continued on page three) fo$t?& life RITISH VICTORY H08TIIWM OF ENTIRE WAR AH Gains Held Fast and Ger man Attacks Repulsed With Heavy Loss ENEMY DEMORALIZED AND MANY, SURRENDER Unprecedented Curtain of Fire Made Early Progress Less Difficult . (By William Fhilipp Simms) (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the British Armies in the Field, Oct. 5. The most important British victory of the war was how Field ar shal Haig's great stroke of yesterday morning appeared today. Latest reports' at headquarters as this is filed give every indication point ing to complete disorganization of the enemy.' ' Special praise was givon all the units engaged. They were representatives of all sections of the British empire. The Aitzacs, English, Scottish, Irish and Newfoundlanders all participated. They can claim their share of achieving a victory which as its magnitude appear ed more clearly today, seem destined to be one of the greatest marks of the whole great war. The British bulldog held fast today to the great bite on which his vise-like jaws closed yesterday morning close to the vital center of Germany's posi tions in Belgium, borman counter-attacks failed. Hot fighting was still in progress today as the Tommies consoli dated their victories on the main Pass chendaele ridge. . : Every man in the" unending stream of Gorman prisoners which flowed back to cages today vouched for the tremen dous losses suffered by the enemy in Haig's latest and masterful stroke. No such barrage as that which British guns wove in front of the attacking Tom mies has ev?r been seen in the war. It was a veritable cloudburst of steel rain. It melted enemy trench lines away, it cleft whole lines of German troops. It was this unprecedented curtain of fire which made the work of the troops in reaching first objectives compara tively easy. One position thus carried contained a dismal remnant of a com pany which had lost practically it whole bayonet strength, All over the eight mile front of the attack commanders re ported today that groups of Germans and Bavarians came in, hands aloft and shouting "kamerad." the first minute (Contiaued on page three) TURN TO THE LIGHT Employment Agency for Women Farmers Chicago, Oct. 5. A free employment agency for women farmers is the latest war development. "Bureaus to educate women farmers, which will be a clearing house for un employed women interested in farm la bor, will be fostered by the Women's National Farm and Garden association Mrs. J. F. Munson, of Kankakee, 111. instructress of 1200 jn-omen farmers, made an address to the association con ference today on what the move can ac complish, following which tho associa tion advocated the plan. Mrs. M. L. Jennings, a member of the party which accompanied Ambassador Gerard from Germany, addressed tne women itmu.v nn tha nnA in Bcleium and Germany. Chicken canning was advocated by Mrs. Anthony Stoeker, who claimed "Chicken is one of the few things, along with pineapple, better canned than fresh." . ID GERMAN SHIPS 1DING IN THE SOUTH SEA WATERS Raiders Are Manned by Form er Crew of Seeadler, Noted Commerce Pirate Washington, Oct. 5. Watchful ships of the American and Japanese Pacific patrols are hunting today the two Ger man raider pirates Known ro ue cmmiug the south seas. The raiders are manned by ruthless Teutons, who piloted the raider Seeadler out of Germany under disguises as a Norwegian sailing ship, swept her over to the Atlantic and then around Cape Horn to Mopeha island, where she stranded and pottnded to pieces after she had rounded up twelve allied ships in her earlier cruising and three Amer ican schooners, Blade, Manila and A. B. Johnson, in he Pacific. Some of the stranded Germans after reaching Mopeha fitted out a motor sloop on August 21, others seized the French schooner Lutece when she put into Mopeha and using the Seeadler 's guns started out afresh. Captain Smith of the Blade reports that he and ether prisoners were dump ed on a desolate island. They mado their way to Tutuila, Samoa, Meanwhile, there is reasou to believe that tho two raiders have continued their operations. Some Possible Victims. San Francisco, Oct. 5. Nine vessels plying in the Pacific which have been long ovordue may have fallen victim to the Gorman raiders, reported to be operating in the south Pacific, shipping men here believe. In addition to the schooners Manila, A. B. Johnson and B C. Slade, officially reported in Washington to have been sunk by the raider, the following ves- (Cantinued on Paee Two. SALEM LEADING IN FRUIT EVAPORATING NIN Most Important Center for Fruit and Vegetables In , . , Northwest, . Salem is the biggest fruit and vege table products city in the northwest. witn tne number or packing and evap orating plants here, the farmer is as sured of a market for everything he can raise, whether it be a wagon load or a carload. The day of the teu and twenty acre tanner is coming back to stay. . This sizing up of the situation for tno small tanner is by Kobert 8. Pau lus, manager of the Salem Fruit Union, who is home trom a business trip to southern and central California, where he went to study the general vegeta Oie and fruit methods of the most ex pert fruit and vegetable associations in the country. In southtrn California, Mr, Paulus visited the famous bean country about 100 miles north of Los Angeles. The big bean growers do not pull beans by hand, but use a bean sled, which cuts two rows at the roots at the same time. stacking them in rows. This method of handling beans is much more eco nomical than hand pulling. The patent ed bean sled costs about $35. In the California bean section in Ventura county, growers do not fertil ize the land as they claim bean growing keeps the land in first class condition. Only lima beans are grown in that sec tioh of the state, Mr. Paulus says, and bean land is valued from $300 to $1, 000 an acre. The acreage production runs from 800 to 2500 pounds. Lima bean straw is baled and sold for $8 an acre. The straw of the white bean is sold in wagon load lots as fer tilizers. Near Oxnard, beans are thresh ed somewhat on the plan of wheat threshing and the charge is from 35 to 50 conts per 100 pounds. Mr. Paul- bus thinks in time bean threshers could be used to advantage in this valley. At Watsonville. Cal.. he visited the apple drying section and noted several improvements that can bo made at the Salem Fruit Union next year that will make a material saving in expense. 'Who prune business in California is well in the hands of the California association," said Mr. Paulus. "Not withstanding the fierce competition, the existence of this association has enabled the farmers "to secure fair prices, even with the crop of 200,000,' 000 pounds." In alitorma, prunes drv out one and three quarters to two and one quar ter pounds green to one pound of dry. They are dried in the sun on trays and the cost is $5 a ton green or about $10 a ton dry. Prune land he says is valued at $1000 an aero and apricot land $1,- 500. The average yield is two tons dried prunes to the acre and in some sections almost three times this amount In investigating many packing plants, Mr. Paulus ?ot several labor savhig plans by which he will be able to save money tho coming year in the operating of the Salem Fruit Union lant. During his travels he met the managers of the raisin associations, the prominent beo men and also managers of egg associations. It seems that in Cahiornia every industry is organized. "In fact," Mr. Paulus snul, "(alilor nia is the best organized state in the union from the stand point of the far mer and producer. ' IA IS ON VERGE OF A CIVIL WAR IS POSITIVE STATEMENT Chief lieutenant of Nicholas Lenine, Speaks Before Congress Petrograd, Oct. 5. Russia is defi nitely on the verge of civil war, Leo Trotsky, chief lieutenant of Nicholas Lenine, leader of the Ilolshevild, de clared in a speech toduv' beforo the democratic congress following its re jection of tho plan for a new coalition cabinet. Trotskv is a bitter onnonent of Ker- enskv and his flnncarance before the congress after the government threat ened to arrest I.enine if he should ap pear in Petrograd created a big sensa tion. "Civil war now atmears inevitable." Trotskv asserted. "The proletariat is definitely arrayed against the bourg- eoise. I doubt only whether the as sumption of full power by the council of workmen and soldiers will go be yond organized forms or take the form of sanguinary street fighting. I prom ise in the name of mv nartv that it will never attempt to seize the powers of government forcibly but I warn those who stand in the wav of the com plete triumph of the proletariat that the masses will brook no interference with their representatives, that thev will occupy the streets and arrest the government, if their demands are re jected." . . . : T ; LAFOLLETTE IS TO BE INVESTIGATED BY A COH M ITTEE Senator Pomerene of Ohb WiH Head Probe , . i , . Committee ' REPORT WILL BE READY : BY NEXT DECEMBER enator Stone, of Missouri Makes Emphatic Defense Against Charges Washington, Oct. 5. Charges of s ditious utterances lodged against Sen ator La Fojlette are to be investigated by the senate. A sub-committee of fire will be named by Senator Pomerene, Ohio, chairman of the election commit tee, to first investigate the correctness of reports of La Follette's speech on September -20 at St. Paul, Minn., -and second, to inquire into the correctness) of his statements. It will then report to full committee the first day of the December session. Senator Pomerene will head the sub-committee. La Follctte has said that his Bpeeen was "garbled" as it appeared in the newspapers. The committe will ask La Follette whetheT he stated in his speech that the sinking of the Lnsitania aad other acts committed hy Germany did not provide sufficient cause for the United States entering the war. It will inquire as to whether he said the Lnsi tania sailed in defiance of America laws by carrying ammunition and if he said it, where he got his Information. The truth or falsity of this statement, then will bo ascertained if possible. La Follette refused to comment o the action of the committee. Privately, however, he told friends he wants a full investigation. , .. ' ," - When Vice President Marshall learn ed that Stone had criticised him for laying before the senate, the accusing letter written by Stokes, he made a brief statement to the senate, urging a method be devised before the next ses sion for handling such communications. Despite a request of Senator Stone for an inquiry into his record, the com mittee will not comply, it was announc ed. The senate will be asked to pass a resolution conferring general authority on the sub-committee to investigate Lm Follette's utterances. The resolution is to bo presented today with a request for immediate action. Tho sub-committeo probably will hold hearings, either, calling witnesses to Washington, or going to St. Paul and other Minnesota cities, as well as to Wisconsin, to take testimony. Stone slakes Defense The committee roceived a letter from Senator Stone, who also was named in hundreds of the petitions presented to it. After considering this letter the com mittee issued the following statoment: "Action having been roquestcd by Senator Stone on certain communica tions in which he was assailod, it be ing charged therein that he had ob structed the enactment of measures for the prosecution of the war, the commit tee finds thnt the charges make men tion of no facts warranting action by (Continued on Paee Two.1 FIVE PER CENT HONEY FOR FARMERS PLENTY Government Has Enough For All Good Title the Main Pre-requisite Thr.rn i nlentv of Government five per cent money to be had, according to Hav L. Smith, secretary of the Marion . All that is necessary for the farmer in An whn thinks ha should have a fair allowance of this government money is to see Mr. Kmitli in tne oaiem xskiik of Commerce building and secure blanks fn. an muilicntinn for a loan. The local committee passes on the application and this with the abstract is seni io mo Federal board at Spokane. Tho government lnnd title examiner is rather technical in his examinations of titles and to secure his approval, it must be a full legal title. It often hap pens that where a quit claim deed is given, a warranty deed is required. t- fht "fnmiers who have ap plied for loans have held the amount asked for down to the 50 per cent of ap praised valuation. The greatest delays have been in secunug tine. ....However, the government is still loan ing and from what has been done the farmer who can show a legal title, and who holds his application down to 50 per cent of real value has a fair chance of getting the five per cent monev. And it only costs about $10 la the way of expenses, . -