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I x 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS TODAY'S - Oregon: Tonight and Friday fair, warmer; . killing frost in morning; moderate easterly winds. Only Ctrculatiam in Salem Guar anteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS SEEVICE FORTIETH YEAR NO. 248 SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEW BTAKPS FTVB CBNT8 OUTLOOK BRIGHTER FOR LIBERTY BOND ISSUE WORKERS SAY Three BihVi kSimum Nowr by ? SuhsLW)nsV Is WADyiMr III? ATC AL tA -ance. Second, there came trench fight VYUKMNU nUALrjUri "ft V, which slowly developed until the Oregon Almost Only Stale In Which Subscriptions Lag P Behind , i ': SLOGANS ROUSING NATION TO LIBERTY LOAN. "Liberty bonds or Gorman bondage?" 'Every miser helps the kai ser". "Don't let your dollars be slackers." "THEY are giving THEIR lives; YOU are asked to LEND YOUR MONEY." ' "The safest investment in the world a Liberty bond." " Lend to your country or give to the kaiser." "Empty your socks in Uncle Sam's mitt." ' ' If you cannot fight for Lib erty lend far it." ""He also fight who helps a fighter fight." Washington, Oct. 18. The second Liberty loan is at last hitting a stride that brings success in sight. About $3, 000,000,000 minimum quota is subscribed today. Though treasury department of ficials renewed hope of achieving the five billion dollar mark they again warned that the eight remaining work ing days must show an average sub scription of 1435,000,000 each. The rise in the dailv average from $91,000,000 to the $175,000,000 niaik in the last few days has been due to the great number of small subscriptions. The Liberty loan has struck home 'to the man of small means. Workingmcn, farmers, soldiers and small wage earners arc buying bonds. A mighty spurt was reported from New York auirict which expjets to soar nlove the half billion main :oJv. Willi the mi umum quota of the ;il li' a di Pars vitually assured, worXns oiloy shniiitd every energy to gc li.e minimum five billion in the remain ing seven actual working days of the campaign. New York, which yesterday reach ed the $460,000,000 mnrk, is today con fident of passing the half billion mark. "Daily subscriptions much larger than a week ago," Chil'ago reported today. "German-born in Chicago working their heads off to boost loan, as are other nationalities. Never before has there been such welding together of heterogeneous population into one great spirit." With school children arrayed in the telling army, the Minneapolis district, the last to get under way, reported that 'things are humming." In the Dallas district the outlook is "aimetrhat discouraging," the treas ury department announced today. By hard work the quota may still be at- continued on page eight.) ABE MARTIN I - Some fellers' idea o' winnin- th' war' is drinkin' three or four cocktails be- fore a meatless lunch. More dags than widows have died o' grief. WAR ON THE WEST FRONT ENTERING A NEW PHASE AND PROBABLY ITS LAST (By William Philip Simms) (United Press Staff Correspondent) - With the British Armies in Flanders Oct. 18. The war on the western front today has entered a new phase and probably its last. The fighting there is as different now from what it was in 1914 and 1915 as it could possibly be. First, there was open warfare when the Germans swept over Belgium and taking of a single trench was an oper ation as big as Waterloo. Now one sees practically open country bnttles, with the enemy engaging in a sort of rear guard action which, when fully expand ed will mean a Prussian rout. Only the sudden collapse of hostilities can prevent this curtain on the kaiser's throe act drama. Not since the crown prince broke hU eaglet feathers against Verdun more than a year ago have the German ar- mies dared a real offensive on the west- ' ern front. Since the Somme, Hinden- burg has been openly on the defensive and the present methods- of fighting are tne direct outcome of that gener- al's gropiugs to find a means to hold out. The Somme battles were a series of j storming operations the taking of trench systems that stretched for miles in veritable mazes of supporting cuts and channels. So long as Hiudenburg be lieved he might still break through the allies' lines he continued this trench warfare. He kept his front lines full of men. Tens of thousands of his troops were killed before he awoke to the realization that he was losing his punch, Hiudenburg dug the trenches and dug out deeper and deeper, often fifty feet below ground. But his men still died like rats in traps when British Tom mies threw bombs down the dugout openings or rolled charges of high ex plosives down the almost prependicular stairs. In the fire trenches, where Hinden burg kept troops standing shoulder to shoulder to repel attacks, allied shells tore whole companies to shreds. While -the- great German tactician blundered on) British and French guns thundered and the superb German labyrinth of trenches became an appalling shambles. At last Hindenburg bbw a light. The offensive was no longer his. He must fight henceforth a defensive war. The famous retreat on the Somme last win ter was step number one. He abandon- AMERICAN TROOPS SAVE RUSSIA FROM A STRONG By J. W. T. Mason i (Written for the United Press) I New York, Oct. 18. America 's cit izen soldiers in their home training camps have begun creating their first strategic division and are saving the Russian northern army from thinking operations about Riga bay. If it were not for fear of the new American troops, Marshal von Hinden burg unquestionably would now be landing troops on the mainland near the Riga bay islnnds in an attempt to catch the Russian army in a vise and win a new Sedan victory. A success ol this importance at the present moment would be of immense advantage to Germany. It could be made to furnish a military argument to the sorely be set kaiser, now touring the Balkans and Turkey, trying to keep his allies loyal to him. But von Hindenburg cannot afford to risk the heavy casualties and loss of reserves of ammunition that such Rights of Automobilists Under City Ordinances Feasibly the average storekeeper or housekeeper or those who haven t either may have wondered just what right has any one to drive an auto mobile in front of the premises and leave it there. ' Well, to be brief about it, the city ordinances say no one has any such right and if such happens to be tlie lease, the police may be called and the owner of the car ordered to remove to another location. If the owner of the car refue to move, the police may come along and a fine of fz may be assessed as a minimum, and if the own er of the ear is ugly about it, the ftne may be raised to fsa, or imprisonment iin jail at the rate of one day for ach $2 worth of fine. Ordinance No. 1439, section 2, reads las follows: "It shall be unlawful for the own er or driver of any vehicle described 1 in section i hereof, to use the street in front of any business . honse or dwelling as a stand or place of ren desvous or resort, without the written permission of the owner, agent or ten ant of such business house or dwell ing" 1 ftrt there von have it. On n kick on a ear backing np in front of a business house or dwelling just as a nice parking plaee and the law wUi back up the lick. "I ed his once precious trenches, now be come a hell hole littered with putrifying corpses of German youths. Hindenburg 's next step was observed during the battle of Arras in April. His trenches were still there, but now thin ly manned. The bulk of troops were kept in support trenches hundreds of yards behind. But his plan was still faulty and later, at Messines, in June, German troops wore more widely scattered. Ma chine guns were no longer fired from trenches, but from special, isolated posts. Also trench mortars. And special ly trained counter attacking troops were held in readiness to charge the tired British as soon as objectives had been won. But the British got on just the same and Hindenburg began to lose faith in trenches. July 31, beginning the bat tle of Flanders, found the Germans still differently disposed; They were occupying not trenches so much as concrete shell hoes, two or three linked together with short tun nels. "Pill boxes" steel and concrete turrets whose mud-covered togs wero just above the ground made their de but and from the narrow slits machine guns spat over the Flemish quagmires. These shell hole positions and pill boxes with scraps of trenches a few yards long, plus patches of barbed. wire en tanglements here and there, covered an area a mile or so in depth and such "a thing as a fire trench had ceased to exist. The idea, of course, as British offi cers explained it today, was to make it necessary for the British to fire a mil lion Tounds of. shells to kill a dozen men. The shell holes and pill boxe tops were well nigh invisible from the air and only a direct hit sufficed to put them out ol commission. Then when Tommies advanced they would come across an unsuspected bit or barbed wire enfiladed by machine gun fire. Fin ally, after crossing such a zone as this, they would meet fresh troops in a ter rific counter-attack. The plan worked only partially. Then came the battle of Menin road, when the, unheard-of creeping ,barrago . used by tho British took the fight out of even the pill boxes. The- rain of shells flattened everything. Likewise, the same terrible curtain of fire often wip ed out German counter attacking troops before they got started. Such is the fighting today. It is now Hindenburg 's move. INVASION BY LAND FORCE operations would cniiiL, while hun dreds of thousands of Americans are in training for next spring's offensive. If the German general staff were- com pelled to authorize such a disastrous adventure because of anti-German con ditions in Bulgaria and Turkey, the result would bo of direct advantage to the United States army. There would be less German troops and less Ger man ammunition to oppose next vear's hammer blows of General Pershing's forces. America, therefore, is now the dom inant factor in a condition of major strategy, five thousand miles laway. America is winning mihtarv vctores for the alios without firing a shot and solely because of tho . alacrity with which tho citizen army of the United States has gone into training. The German, censorship is concealine; from the uerman people the extent of America s war prciiarations, but the German general staff shows every ev idence of holding those preparations in profound respect. The jocular com ments of German writers on America's citizen soldiers find no echo at vou Hindenburg 's headquarters in Russia. The Russian revolutionary government owe ro von mnoonnurg s rear of Am erica's citizen armies the safely of its northern army from an overwhelming attack. Anti-Govermnent Leaders Found Guilty by Jury Abilene, Tex., Oct. 18. Three of the 40 men charged with conspiracy against the federal government, were found guilty today by the federal jury which had been out since Tuesday night. The three found guilty were all officers of the Farmers and Laborers Protective association and are: State Organizer G. T. Bryant, State President Z. L Risley and State Secre tary 8. 3. Powell. They were convicted of conspiring "to overthrow, put down and destroy by force the government of the United States and to levy war against them." Suspects Are Interned. New York, Oct. 18. Five more Ger mans landed in the internment camp on Ellis island today. They were arrested at the Charles ,L. Pea bury plant, where submarine and airplane parts are made for the government. mm ilmg ABOUT EXTENSION OF the Mm. m That Is England's View of Threat to Include American Waters la Operations By Ed ju. Keen (United Press staff correspondent) London. Oct. 18. Germany is bluff ing again, according to London's in terpretation today of American reports of German wireless messages hinting at inclusion of American waters in the submarine zone. The belief of anthoritative leaders expressed to the United Press was that if Gormany actually did proclaim Am erica within the tone of her ruthlcsa ness, she would be unable effectually to carry out any submarine war there. I was admitted she might send a few submarines to the American coast and at the most might plant a few mines. But Germany is already using her submarines to their fullest capacity trying to starve out. England. More over, long ago she started out to "ills regard her zone limitations. Even if Germany should include Am erica in her zone of U-boat operations leading authorities were a unit in de claring such a step could not in any way affect the naval transport situa tion. Satisfaction was expressed today ov er the continued doeiease in the Ger mans ' submarine effectiveness, as shown in th weekly statement of Brit ish shipping losses. Only twelve ships of more than 1600 tons were sunk,' ac-' cording to admiralty announcement. Efforts of the German submarine ad vocates to explain the steadily drop ping effectiveness of the submarines fumjWied ajmisomont here today. Count Zu Reventlow, foremost support er of ruthlcssness, in a recent article in the Deutsche Tages Zoitung, seeks to explain away the matter by the excuse that ships are being held out of ocean service for special reasons and that changes are constantly being made in shipping routes. He quoted "an Amer ican source of authority" for the state ment that the trin between England 'and the United States now often takes three weeks or more. ; . m ' . ALL DRAFT MEN CALLED. ' Washington, Oct. 18. All re- staining certified white men in the draft from the states of Washington, Idaho, California, Nevada, Montana, Oregon, Wy oming and Utah wore ordered today to entrain for Camp Lewis American Lake, Wash., during the five day period beginning November 2. If Lansing has the collector's bee, it must make him sore when he thinks that such a very few more documents would make his underground Berlin diplomacy set complete. , 'VT . "I DIED FOR HUMANITY YOU - KILL FOR Downtrodden Metal Workers Get Only $7 a Day at Butte, Mont Butte. Mont., Oct. 18- The local Women s Protective Union, whose membership includes waitresses, dish washers and women cashiers in res taurants, today demanded an increase of $4 a week over the present acale of $12, threatening to strike if the raise is not granted by restaurant owners. Members of the Sheet Metal Work ers union, who went on strike two months ago, returned to work today. Their demand of $7.50 a day was com promised and they returned to work fot 7-f' 4 ' AMERICAN DESTROYER CRIPPLED BY BOMB Ai OH LOST first Casualty Reported In Navy Smce War with Ger many Declared Wo)hington, Oct, 18. Tho "first American destroyer victim of a Gor man U-boat lies crippled today in an European harbor, while lone '(of her crew is dead and five others are slight ly injured. The dead man, Osmond K. Ingram, gunner's mate of Pratt City, Ala., is the seventeenth navy man whose life haa been taken by the Huns since war started. Navy authorities here regarded to day as remarkable the fact that the vessel had merely been crippled when once it came within line of the torpo do fire. They explained the escape is probably due to tho fact that the sub marine aim was impaired by the speed and quick maneuvering of tho destroy er. American "luck" and gamencss wore commented upon. While the navy withholds other than the mere fact that the vessel was tor pedoed and made port, it is assumed that she can be repaired and that she will be back on duty within a short time. The wounded men are: . Herman H. Pankrata, St. Louie. William E. Merritt, New York. Frank W. Kruse, Toledo. Patrick Rutledge, New York. William Seimer, Dundas, Minn. SOCIALISTS FAVOR LOAN Amsterdam, Oct. 18. By a voto of 284 to 26, German ma jority -. socialists . meeting f at Warzburg voted down a motion to recommend that reichstag members of their party oppose war credits for the govern ment, according to word receiv. ed here today. Previous to this, one dispatch had asserted that the meeting approved a voto against the creditB. s(c sjc jc sft sc sjc sc s(c sc sfc jfc sjc sfi )c ECONOMY ASKED IN USE OF SUGAR BY HOOVER TODAY Supply Far Below Demand and No Relief In Im mediate Future FARMERS OF COLORADO ATTACK SUGAR TRUST Allege Low Prices Paid to Sugar Beet Growers Has Ruined Industry ' Now York, Oct. 18. From now until the middle of November, at least, Am erica will have to go exceedingly slow on sugar consumption. . Several of New York's great refin eries are shut down today or running only part time. Scores of citios over the country felt the pinch in soaring prices for the staple and for the first time in America's food history grosers and retailers began putting restrictions on its sale. A nation-wido survey of the sugar situation, conducted by the United Press today, revealed this situation: New York Sugar selling retail for 12 cents a pound and with dealers in many cases disposing of it Only to reg ular customers and then only a pound or so at a timo, and provided other purchases amounting to at least a dollar were made. Chicago Wholesalers limiting sup plies to retailers and prices going high er; confectioners forced to reduce out put of candy and the public's supply limited. . Atlanta, Gai. Sugar purchases limit ed to 25 pounds per household; prices high; dealers predicting acute shortage soon. '-'.-..'.,.. i , . ,,,., Cleveland Some dealers limiting pur chases to ten pounds, but although sup ply scarce it is predicted enough sugar is in the city to tide it over until the new supply is available. Kansas City, Mo. Grocers report they have been unable to buy sugar for five days, but are selling present stocks without restriction at 10 cents a pound. Car shortages is blamed by wholesalers. Dallas, Tex. Wholesaers have noti fied retailers of impending scarcity. Prices high, but no restrictions on sale as yet. St. Louis. Some grocors entirely out of sugar; others restricting purchases; jobbers report only small supplies. Am erican Sugar Refining company's branch hasn't had sugar iu two weeks and does not know when new supply (Continued oa Page Two.) THE KAISER" m WARSHIP IS SUI 01 EIGHT III GULF OF RIGA Slava. Was Struck Below Water Part of 'jfPii Saved GERMAN FLEET TOOK PART IN SHARP BATTLE Little fighting On Land Is Reported In Today's Dispatches Petrogra-d, Oct . 18. One Russia battleship, the Slava, has been sunk in a naval engagement in which for con siderable time Russian warships stood off Germany's strong fleet at the en trance to Riga gulf, an official state ment announced today. Complete occu pation by the enemy of the island of Oesel was reported, but the statement said everything of military value had been destroyed before the Russian were forced back. ."Our Bhips defended for a consider able time the entrance to Moon and the Riga gulf," the war office stated, "end only severe damage caused by dreadnaughts forced us to retire to Moon sound. ' 'The Slava was sunk by hit below the water line and nearly all of her crew was saved. ; "Oesel is completely occupied by the enemy, but before our retreat every thing of military utility was destroyed."- - " - The German fleet, which forced the Russian warships to withdraw, was a formidable ono, the official statement declared. Fifty-five ships wore seen at one tiniev''. ' ; - -' "The German, vessels were much superior to ours," it was stated. "Thojr included two dreadnoughts of the Gros ser Kurf urst class. At tho etrance to Moon sound our shore fire dispersed enemy torpedo boats trying to approach our ships. "The Gorman dreadnaughts.howevef soon afterwards put these batteries out of action. At' one time fifty-five en emy ships were seen." There are four ships in the German navy in the Grosser Kurfurst class the Kronprinz, the Grosser Kurfurst, the Mark Graf and tho Konig. All ara of 26,575 tons, capable of 2a knots an hour and of 580 feet length. They car ry heavy Krupp armor and are armed (or were Deiore ino war; wnu inch guns in super-imposed turrets, fourteen 5 W-tO men guns, iweivo o 10 inch guns and five submorged tor pedo tubes. Tho Rusaian battleship Slava was a cIubS C buttleship of 13,516 ions and a length over all of 370 feet. She had a speed of 18 knots and carried a heavy belt of Krupp armor, ller main arma ment before the war included four twelve-inch guns, twelve six-inch guns and four torpedo tubes. 7 ' German Artillery Active. T.n,..ir.n lut in. German artillery was exceedingly active in the Flanders i.i ,ini unnth nf the YDrea-Com- ilies canal und in the neighborhood of Zounebeke and the Broodscinde, Field Marshal liaig reported today. rJleiewnero lie reporieu a buccwwiu raid carried out by London regiments in the neighborhood of Gavrelle last night. Seveial of the enemy were killed and prisoncred and the British casualties wero light. ' : Airmen Bomb Nancy, "aria, . Oct. 18. Nancy was again th. i.irrmt nf German airmen's bombs last night, with a number of civilian casualties, today's official statement asserted. " , Prnnoh airmen the war office an nounced, dropped bombs oyer Courccl- les, Thionville, JUezieres, noaeant auu oLawhpTA in T.nrrAinR. Eleven German planes were brought down on Wednes day alone. ' Of the fighting on land tne siaie m An t rtatniW verv active artilleryina north of the Aisnc and at hill 344 and La fhaume on the right bank ol tno Mouse. . . Ten Thousand Prisoners. . t.i; innrlnn tir.t. 18. Ten thousand Russian, prisoners were taken in the successful German occupation of the island ot Oesel, today's official statement announced. Fiftv sruns were seized and mucn other material. Another German Mutiny. Amsterdam, Oct. 18. Another mut iny of German sailors, this time at Ostend, was reported by the Belgian newspaper Dagblad today. The newspaper asserted last week that a number of sailors refused t board a submarine and threw one of ficer into- the sea. Thirty of the mutineers were arrested and seat to Bruges. :