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FORTIETH YEAR NO. 249
SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER .19, 1917
PRICE TWO CENTS
COAL SHORTAGE
GROWS SEI1IUU8
REPORTS SHlK
Thousands of Homes Through
out East May Not Be
Warmed
MANY HOUSE OWNERS
ALREADY WITHOUT COAL
Supply Is Decreasing Every
where and Prices Are .
Steadily Rising
New York, Oft. 19. Unless gome
step is taken at once to relieve what
amounts to a nation wide shortage of
coal, thousands of homes will not havu
heat to ward off winter's chill and the
wheels of industry may be slowed.
A canvass of the situation conducted
today by the United Press revealed
this grave situation almost everywhere,
in the country. An acute shortage is
. expected within the next two weeks.
Detailed reports follow:
New York All dealers report short
age; prices increasing, fuel administra
tion named a special agent to devisa
means of ameliorating. Many apart
ment houso owners declare they are
completely without coal.
Cleveland Shortago expected to be
temporarily relieved as result of an or
der holding 20 per cent of all Ohio
mined coal on one day for use of Ohio
consumers. Many factories -working on
ft day to day fuel basis.
Boston Manufacturers aroused by
"increasing shortage and may cut fac
tory hours in an effort to conserve tho
supply.
New England's shortago by January
3, predicted to be 6,000,000, tons.
Detroit Factories hard'' hit by in
creasing inability to get even small
amounts of coal. Forty thousand homes
without coal. Mayor received petitions
from 20,000 citizens asking for aid.
3ome coal for heating distributed.
St. Louis Estimate present supply
of coal sufficient for only-three days.
If strike of southern Illinois miners
continues beyond that time much suf
fering is feared here. St. Louis sup
ply comes from the Illinois fields-
Chicago Sudden cold wave caused
intense suffering duo to gravely ser
ious shortage of fuel. Shortage already
estimated at 1,250,000 tons. Kvcn hos
pitals keeping warm only day by dayi
requisitions for coal.
Atlanta Fifty thousand tons need
ed at once to supply immediate de
mands. Only a few shipments received
since August, a mere drop in the buck
et. Acute shortage feared within a few
weeks.
Dallas, Tex. But little shortago
felt yet, but dealers predict scarcity.
"We aro just beting by," was one
dealer's comment.
Richmond, Va., and Philadelphia
were among the few cities of tho na
tion which report "no shortage."
Kansas City likewise reported "no
serious shortage," except in semi-anthracite,
which is practically uncsti
mable. .
There is one good story that has
never yet been written that of the
military despot, telling the story of his
life, and telling all the truth. Napoleon
was a great man, but not great enough
for that. What would the kaiser's auto
biographer, checked up by the record
ing angel, not bo worth to the worldl
: ABE MARTIN
.If you'H wait fer your soup t' cool
a bit it won't cause that yodellin' sound
It haia't goin' t' hep us win th' war if
you eat as mueh as a panther down .
town while yor wife skimps at home.
Mutiny In Austrian
Navy Is Latest Report
Washington, Oct. 19. News of a se
vere mutiny in the Austrian navy and
a clash between Austrian sailorg and
German submarine crews at the Aus
trian -naval base at Pola, received yes
terday at Kome from Berne, reached
ho Italian embassy.
The cables stated the German sub
.2 tine flotilla had been removed from
tt to Cattaro, down the Adriatic, as
iult of the clash in which there
v several casualties on both sides.
V Caproni airplnno was lost when
twi, 'ion Caproni squadrons bombed
I'ola "?rday. A. similar raid was con
duotb' - linst Cattaro.
The in aviators destroyed their
machini and succeeded in reaching
the Italian lines after working their
way through the Austrian encampment
about Trieste.
GERMANY SPENDING
MONEY FREELY TO
INFLUEM NEUMLS
Newspapers of Many Nations
Are Subsidized or Influ
enced with Money
(By Webb Miller)
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
London, Oct. 19. Germany today is
pouring vast amounts of money into
neutral countries for propaganda design
ed to sway public opinion. According to
authoritative information her expendi
tures for this work will total more than
$80,000,000 on the present scale of
lavishness.
Much of the money is spent in subsi
dizing and influencing newspapers. In
a number of cases Germans bought
newspapers outright and managed them
from behind the Bcenes. Large amounts
aro also being paid agents to keep peace
agitation going. , j
It was learned today that on' one.
occasion the German minister to Mex
ico, von Eckhardt, subsidized a Mexi
can newspaper by furnishing it news
print paper and securing for it tolls
free the Genhan Communique and other
"German made news." 'i
In return, this newspaper was to fea
ture the German communique on the
first page and to bury the allied offi
cial reports inconspicuously on an in
side page. German made editorials were
also to be carried. -
In the year before China entered the
war, authoritative information is- that
Germany spent $2,000,000 in that coun
try through her agents, seeking to in
fluence the Chinese public, against Jap
an and the allies. One of the mistakes
made was the blundering translations
into Chinese of a pamphlet designed to
promote anti-ally feeling. The clumsy
wording of the pamphlet aroused in
dignation of the Chinese.
TfZSIMHONS FIGHTS
LAST GAME BATTLE
Refuses to Quit Until He's
Counted Out, and the Crowd
Is with Him .
Chicago, Oct. 19. A nation watched
today while the greatest of modern glad
iators fought a game battle with the
champion of all time death.
Weakened and suffering, with all
hope abandoned by friends and physi
cians, "Fighting Bob" Fitzsimmons
called into play the wonderful stamnia
and courage that carried him to the
pinnacle of pugilistic fame and refus
ed to quit.
"I'm not going to give up until
I'm counted out," lie panted. "I never
have quit and I never will."
About the white-sneeted "arena,"
in Michael Reese hospital, were gather
ed his advisers and "seconds," num
bering among them the greatest talent
in the country.
Fitz, his hitherto impregnable body
wracked by the suffocating pain of
pneumonia, wore a grim smile and tried
to instill into the hearts of his wife
and other watchers tae faith that he
felt.
Hundreds of telegrams of encourage
ment were received from all parts of
the country.
' ' We 're with yon, Bob, " was the bur
den of their text.
And the game old warrior, where phy
sical prowess made htm an internation
al figure, knofs that he "has the erowd
with him."
- They expect a game fight. He won't
disappoint them.
At 1 o'clock this afternoon Fitzsim
mons was still conscious but visibly
weaker and Mrs. Fitzsimmons stated he
was "not expeeted to live through the
day."
She had not left his side since he
was taken to the hospital and is on
the verge of a nervous collapse.
Physicians at the hospital declared
today that both of Fitz's lungs and his
heart are affected and that he has
but a few hours to live. His children,
Robert, Jr., Martin and Rosalie, have
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ROBBING FOOD SHIPS
German Divers of Larger
Type Operate Off Beaten
Track Now
Washington, Oct. 19. Germany's
giant pirato U-boats aro now robbing
food ships of their cargoes, stowing
these within the submarine hold and
then sinking tho unfortunate victims
spurlos versenkt.
That is tho newest development of
ruthless undersea: warfare, according
to confidential embassy reports today.
Using new 1500 ton vessels, in pair,
the Germans are operating off the beat
en track, apparently several hundred
miles outside the old danger zone
around Great Britain and France.
The newer submarine boats are suf
ficiently large to permit of a great
portion of a captured cargo being tak
en on board. Becauso of this greater
capacity the war board has been par
l.i.. i ,l -I.:- jt
Eurnnean r,ort,. This nls eynlain. whv
merchant ships now require heavy con-
voys for protection.
These convoys aro causing much of
the anparcnt difficulty Germany and
Austria aro having with their subma
rine fleets. The two' mutinies report
ed yesterday indicate Teuton seamen,
despite iron discipline, are unnerved by
the anti-submarine work of the allies
and America-
"Hooverizmg" Turkey Meat .
Is Latest Proposition
Dallas, Tex., Oct. 19. Turkey meat
is being " Hooverized. "
With the supply of turkeys loss than
a year ago, the 1917 Thanksgiving
price should; be actually a few cents
less per pound than in 1916, wholesale
dealers declared here today, explain
in" that the demand is not going to
bo so great.,
"The demand will be proportionate
ly less than the supply is smaller,"
dealers said, "and consequently the
price should be slightly lower than a
year ago."
And its all on account of the war
and Food Administrator Hoover's
pleas to "conserve and help over
throw the kaiser," it was said.
"It's like this," one dealer explain
ed, "the American housewife is being
ru. mo Auiencvo nuuBvwue in it. i ii '
tauebt to substitute cheauer food. f7 1
laugut to Buosuiuie cneaper iooqs ioru.
dearer foods. Thousands of families
who in 1916 had turkey for Thanks
giving dinner will this year eat some
less expensive meat. The American
housewife has learned to feed her fam
ily just as well on substitutes."
There is just one "if" attached to
this, another dealer said.
Vlf the American turkey tradition
is too strong and the housewife for
gets to substitute turkeys will be
higher than a year ago," he prophe-
Turkeys are selling here today at 18
cents a pound, with likelihood of go
ing to 25 cents by Thanksgiving, some
what less than the 1916 price, dealers
said.
"HOCRDER KAISER"
LIBERTY
LOAN WILL BE A
GREATSUCCESS
Only Third Subscribed Rut
Momentum Is Gaining
Rapidly
SMALL INVESTORS ARE
NOW RESPONDING TO CALL
Detroit First Large City to
Near Its Allotted Goal and
Going Strong
Washington, Oct. 19.-The second lib
ert7 loaI1 developing the momentum
necessary for a smashing success.
Although only one-third of the $5,000
000,000 maximum has been subscribed,
the nation can reach this stupendous
goal if it keeps on accelerating its
pace as in the past few days.
Flying squadrons are preaching lib
erty loan purchases to the small inves
tor throughout the land. Officials be
lieve that numbers of subscribers will
be amazingly large and they are now
driving at swelling the bulk of the sub
scribers, as well as the subscriptions.
Detroit was up to 80 per cent of its
quota today and still plugging.
'ihe pro-Uerman effort to hamstring
the loan is dwindling under the gov
riwinri lintr iinfai (ha trnvj
ernment's threat of prosecution.
The middle west, where this plot cen
tered, is in fact turning to heavy pur
chases. From all centers come reports
reports
that citizens of Teuton origin are "do
inir their bit."
1. , i .. . . ,
Rational army and nation guard aol-
ECO
I .i "- Salem, Nov. 14 for the purpose of es-
000 and these men are boosting the tabliBhin(. a register of persons eligi
bonds wherever they g8. ble for appointment as postmaster at
The unofficial totals wired today Hubbard
from federal reserve district headquar-( To be eli?iblo appointment after
ters are: tlm -rntninntinn the annlicant must
New York, $550,000,000; Chicago,
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uu.uuu.uuw ! eveiano, iid,uiju,uuu;
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Boston $110,000,000; Ht. Louis, -80,000,-
000; Richmond, $75,000,000; Kansas the examiner a photograph taken with
City, $50,000,000; San Francisco, $50,- jn the past two years and the aee lim
000,000; Minneapolis, $45,000,000; At- it is between 21 and 65 years. The ex-
(Continued oa page three)
MAJOR KNAPP DIES.
Portland, Or., Oet. 19. Major
Lawrence II. Knapp, 48, ranking
officer of the Oregon national
guard, died here today following
en operation for appendicitis.
GERMANY'S POLITICAL
VROW NOMPITAIIT
London Opinion. Attaches Lit
tle Significance to Cur
rent Events
By Arthur E. Mann
(United Press staff correspondent)
London, Oct. 19. Germany's pros
ent political crisis is due to a purely
political squabble and has no signifi
cance from tho standpoint of peace,
according to belief expressed in best
informed quarters today.
Socialistic activity in Germany, it
was declared, is due principally to
the fact that the radicals have been
stung into energetic measures by at
tacks on them by the conservatives
and tho pan-Germans have been fight
ing hard for control after having tried
Michaclis as chancellor and found him
wanting.
British observers today pointed out
that repeated montion of Prince von
Buclow and Foreign Secretary von
Kuehlmann as successors to Michaolis
as chancellor might bo regarded as
convincing proof that tho kaiser docs
does not intend to form a "peace gov
ernment." The war lord knows that men of the
type of Butflow and Kuehlmann could
never conduct negotiations with Eng
land becauso England would be uwill
ing to deal with such men, whose rec
ords have been shown up and who
tnnd ns much discredited with Eng
land as von Bcrnstorff now stands'
with the Untcd States.
Tho feeling here today is that there
is not the slightest chance lor peace
before another spring and summer cam
paien with America's might added.
However, England expects Germany to
make her most desperate drive for a
German peace this winter.
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KKntmTer 81 il!lC!iara
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Under Civil Servic?
For those who would like the job of
.....".(,
""'nl," 8" ""," ,' Tjkn. The
l Hubbr,1 opportunity beckons. Ihe
United Btates civil service coinmmmwi
announce(1 exftmination to be held at
' u. ro.i.1,.,1 in th deliverr district
- - -
of Hubbard at the time the vacancy
j . ...i in
occurred. Antdicants must submit to
animation will be on the following anb
jecta: Arithmetic and accounts, 30 per
.cent; penmanship, 10; letter writing,
25; business training and experience,
35.
The examination will be held at the
civil service rooms of the Salem post
oi i ice.
: '
' England, the air-raided, is compelled
regretfully to state that if the kaiser
ean 't understand her language she mast
needs proceed to learn the (tarfa dia
lect.
Oregon Liberty Bond
Subscription Crows
Portland, Or., Oct. 19. Oregon's
subscription passed the $7,000,000
mark this afternoon with today's sub
scriptions, which totalled over a million
dollars.
Since noon Max Houscr, grain dealer,
announced he would buy $250,000 and
Peter Kerr $100,000) worth of bonds.
These big subscriptions gave new
life to the campaign and Oregon is ex
pected to pass the $8,250,000 mark
half of her quota within the next 24
hours. ' ... .-. i
N
SUNK -LOSS 70
Ward Liner Antilles Return
ing Home Was Struck
. by Torpedo
' Washington, Oct. 19. The Ward liner
Antilles, an army transport, was tor
pedoed, October 17, with about 70 men
missing and 167 saved.
This was officially announced tonight
by the committee on public information.
The statement follows: ,
"Secretary Daniels authorizes the
following: . .
"The navy department is in receipt
of a message from Vico Admiral Sims,
which states that the Antilles, an Am
erican transport, was torpedoed on Oc
tober 17, while returning to this coun
try from foreign service. The vessol
was under convoy of American patrol
vossels at the timo.
"The torpedo which struck the An
tilles was not seen nor was the sub
marine which fired it."
"The torpedo hit abreast of the
engine room bulkhead and the ship
sank within -five minutes.
"One hundred and sixty seven per
sons out of 237 aboard tho Anilles were
saved.
' "About seventy men are misBing.
All the naval officers who were on
board at t!jr time "Were saved, as were
the officers of the ship, with the ex
ception of tho following: - -
" Walker, tniro engineer oiiicur.
' Boylo, junior engineer officer.
" -O'Rouke, junior engineer offi
ir. '
' ' The If ollowinjg ..enlisted personnel
were Inst
"F, 1Y Kinsev. seaman, second class.
next of kin, Thomas M, Jiinsey, iam-
er, water vauey, iviisn.
" J. W. Hunt, seaman, second elan,
next of kin, Isaac Hunt, father, Moun
tain Grove, Mo., rural route jno.
box 44. . .
"C. L. Ausburn, radio electrician,
first class; next of kin, R. Ausburn, bro
ther, 2800 Louisiana avenue, New Or
leans, La. -
"H. F. Watson, radio electrician,
third class; next of kin, Mrs. W. L.
Segar, mother, Rutland, Mass.
There were about tnirty-tnrce oi mo
army enlisted personnel on board of
whom seventeen were saved. The names
of tho missing of tjie army enlisted per
sonnel and of the merchant crew of
the ship cannot be given until the mus
ter roll in France of those on board has
been consulted.
"As soon as the department is in
receipt of further details concerning
the casualties, they win ue umuu
lic immediately."
HIGH COST OF LIVING
NOT SO Bi AFTER ALL
Tf the hkrh school cafeteria and
those of the three junior high schools
can serve a luncheon to the pupils for
irom IS 10 -1" l'Ufc ' llu
housekeeper do as well or even beat
that figure I
A prominent grocery man who has
pt pretty close tab on hundreds of)
milies for the past fivd years in 8-1
A prominent gruiri-ij inn" "v -
kep
fam
Inm. U of the opinion that very few
families average even ine is tuu a
meal for each one in the family.
If the laborer with a wife and two
children happens to be earning on an
75 ft month, this grocer
rilm-es thai man 's monthly budget
about as follows: Bent, $15; clothes,
$15; grocery bill and meat martlet; wu . defenses ot the three great navai iori
$25; drugs, doctor and dentist, $10;resse8 at Beval, Viborg and Cronstadt
amusement and church, $5. According if tncT desired to chance Bussian mine
to these figures, that would leave him fiids and make a try for investment of
$5 of his monthly salary for geueraf
incidentals.
Tho proposition as to the expense ot
food for the family of four was figur
ed out by the groceryman as follows:
With 30 days in the montn, mat
would mean the serving of 90 family
meals. If there are four in the family,
this would figure out the serving of a
total of 12 meals each day, with a to
tal for the month of 360 meals. That
v-ou'.d figure out within a fraction 3t
soven cents a meal, if the budget calls
for $25 a month for table expenses.
The grocer who knows pretty well
the average table expense of hundreds
of Salem families says this budgot is
not far from eorrect and that th sev
en cents a meal for each one iu the
family is a fair and conservative fig
ure as the actual cost of a meal -
The figures are submitted for consideration.
CAPITAL MAY BE
REMOVEDFROM
II
Menace of German Advance
From Riga - Is Given.
As Reason r.
POLITICAL CONSIDERATION
ENTERS INTO DECISION
Great Fleet of German War
. Ships with Long Range
Guns Appears
Petrograil, Oct. 1. Potrograd may
be abandoned as the capital of Bussia.
' ' On account of the strategical sit
uation," caused by the menace of a
German adyance from the Gulf of Biga,
it was formally stated today that early
transfer of the capital from Petrograd
iprobably to Moscow, was boing prepar
ed for by the government.
Evacuation of Beval, Russia's great
naval depot- just at the entrance of
the Gulf of Finland was announced to
day.
That the evacuation of Potrograd is
being formally prepared for waa indi
cated today in announcement that a spe
cial "evacuating committee' had been
named to make all plans. The person
nel of this committee included M. Tro
tyakoff, president of the Economis
council, and a member of tho eabinet,
M. i'alachinsky, president of tho com
mittee on national defense, and Minis
ter of Public Welfare Kiskin.
Emphasis was officially laid today on
the fact that the plans for evacuation
from Petrograd to Moscow do not eon
tomplote precipitate withdrawal." It waa
asserted, for instance, fhat - the pre
liminary, parliamentary meetings would
ia U probability be yld in Petrograd,
lator meeting in Moscow, when the gov
ernment has had an opportunity to ex
plain to tho delegates tho reason for
the transfer.
(Note: The first meeting of the con
stituent assembly has been set for De
cember 5 and if this is the "pnslimin
ary meeting" meant, it would appear
that the transfer is to be deferred for
some time).
Moscow, it was statod, would be the
seat of the constituent assembly,
Germany lias a vast naval force
around the Kiga gulf. Official roporta
today gave the total strength of the
enomy fighting craft there as ten dread
naughts, ten cruisers, fifty destroyera
and eight or ten submarines.
Two enemy trawlers, it was announc
ed today, had been sunk in Moon sound.
"On Wednesday noon the enomy
lauded on Dago island near Zorro vil
lage," tho statement concluded.
Transfer of the capital from Petro
grad to Moscow has frequently been
considered by the new democratic gov
ernment. At the time of the last Ger
man drive on land around Kiga it wa
formally stated such a step was plan
ned. A little more than a month ago
a formidable German fleet in the Bal
fic and reports of a naval offensive
against Petrograd caused a revival of
the report.
Democratic leaders have since the
very start of the new republio regard
ed Moscow as more suitable for the
capital than Petrograd.
A number of weeks ago, when tho
Bolsheviki opposition to Premier Ker
onsky came to a head, dispatches from
William G. Shepherd, United Press staft
correspondent, then in Potrograd, re
ported that Kerensky was seriously
considering the switching of all gov-,
crnmental activity to Moscow, the an
cient Kussian capital. Moscow nns i-
j ,i. l,nn,,,lU .wmnn.
. ways neeii -- J
other Busman city.
Just why there should
iato fear of danger to
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. U7 BUJ ...........
Petrourad from
the Germans is not clear on tho basia
of dispatches so far received and dotail
ing the German naval campaign around
the mouth of the gulf of Riga. It ia
nossible, however, that the Kussians
, foresee that the ereat German drcad-
nauirhts known to be included in that
fleet eould easily outrange any coast
Petrograd by Bea.
Bevel Is Evacuated.
Petrograd, Oct. 19. Evacuation by
the Bussians of the naval base of Bevel
was begun Tuesday, the Novoe Vremva
declared today.
The withdrawal o Kussian foreea
from the naval depot has been made
necessary by operations of Germany 'a
groat fleet now operating off the Gulf
of Kiga and threatening a further Saval
orogram against the Gulf of Finland.
Evacuation of Bevel, if confirmed,
would appear to ind.eate even greater
menace to Bussia by the Gorman Baltic,
fleet than its victories so far reported
have indicated. Bevel is the first of
tho naval bases which a hostile fleet,
(Continued on pace, tare.)
PETROGRAD SOO