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

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Newspaper Page Text) 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS TODAY'S Oregon: Tonight Sunday fair, cold-, er except near the coast; killing frost in interior norning; moderate north westerly winds. (22,000 EEAJQEB3) DALLY Only Circulation la Balem Guar anteed by the- Audit Bureau of Circulations. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NXW3 8ESVICE W, Li? ."f FORTIETH YEAR NO. 256 SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1917 I'M AJQLLi ) r Jit 1 :'S if! 1! f i t I fi l II I 1 1 1 fVi i T ?fS T 1 1 n lur ij ! i m r i i a. sarlf-ji .ap a !! E H a a a a f a a a t a a a l 4 AffRICiT ROOPS MICHES Owl flRSTLIt ON WESTERN FR General Pershing Officially Reports His Infantry Forces Engaged In Action Backed by American Artillery-Only Newspaper Correspondents Witnessed Sammies March to Front For Their Position In Battle Line Case of first Shell Fired Into German Trenches by American Artillery, 1 Is tfemg bent to President Wdson by General Sibert By J. W. Pegler, (United Press Staff Correspondent) American Field Headquarters, France, Oct. 27.---Amer-ican troops are in the front line trenches and American artillery is behind them. Official announcement of this fact was made in the following statement from head quarters today: "In continuation of their graining as a nucleus for the instruction of later contingents, some battalions of our first contingent, in association with veteran French bat talions are in the first line trenches of a quiet sector of the French front. "They are supported by some batteries of our artillery, in association with veteran French batteries. "The sector remains normal. Our -men have adapted themselves to actual trench conditions in a most satis factory manner." With American Sammies fighting In the trenches side by side with French Poilus, a read-headed artillery captain and his husky gunners will share tbe fame of firing the first shell sent By M American battery in the fight foi democracy. The captain gave the gunner a com mand the gunner jerked the lanyard nnd America's first shot against Ger man autocracy screamed toward a Ger Jinn battery. It was precisely at six o'clock. The morning was a misty one. The Americans' infantry restlessly waited during a certain day while the American gunners were at their part of the work. Thev remained in thir liil. tingent" began its intensive training for the fighting line. Military rules forbid even specula tion as to the various onfts now abroad, or as to their officers below the rank of general. Military prudence also dic tates withholding the exact number of American soldiers who have been trans ported across the seas to wage Amer ica's fight "to make the world safe for democracy." American Sammies in France have had the benefit of training under both French and British veterans. The men now in the trenches va now serving guns side by side with General Pe tain's Poilus probably do not feel un- int i,.,i.:j ti V 1.. . i,vii.luiu u, cunmuons mere. jsvery lets behind the linen until avanim -jii! t i . - . . .. y thPtr ii,V i. TiT enun nas oeen.mnae to make their d If ZTAl J ,1 S th?1rains!rePt md- preparations' for the actual fighting line dy streets of a tiny village, their shad- as realistic as possible. Trenches have wT . 7. V s luu roau Decn m'S; batteries have been constant- Jm. . tre?ci,os; . ,Im ly practicing-and it was under the in Home attemiiterl tn aim 'fTi-Q. -. , . 'Proi.n nv. Ti. V. s' ni-rucnuii oi rrencn ana itntisn soldiers .T'T1 . y" a marc- who have been "through the mill." ing. It was just starting when others France and America alike will thrill StlOUtea: ,:tu tn. thmn-h th. A.-: u: Shut up! The Boches will hear . v.. w m-tuau y nucio HIO UU11CLH XIV 1 I 3 - T1 . . . J ui-Hiue T-renen lighting men. it is Am- WILL YOU STAND BEHIND HIM ? The banks will be open from 6 to 8 this evening so you can buy that bond. GO VERNMENT SEEKS TO RETAIN THE GQLD IN THE UNITED STAIES you!" The silence fell except for the rum bing of the rolling kitchen that kept pace with the soft shuffle of the i'eet of the marching detachment. The shell case of the first shot fired for America in the world's greatest war is en route to President Wilson today. Major General Sibert ordered that it be preserved for him. Just five civilians all newspaper correspondents witnessed the first Am erican troops marching to the trenches. The first American troops arrived in France during the first week in July -approximately rour months erica's repayment for the Marouis He Lafayette and his brave Frenchmen who unselfishly and courageously fought shoulder to shoulder with Washington 's revolutionary warriors. The United Press dispatch as receiv ed does not specify the exact date when American soldiers actually went to the fighting line and took their places ready for fighting. It describes the usual method of sending troops to trenches under cover of night In order that their presence might not be made known to The stock of cold in the United States is greater than has ever been held by any nation at any time in th"o" past. To conserve this sold and keep it out of the coffers of our enemies, the government has forbidden its exporta-, tion. This has been effective, except on the Pacific coast, because the cir culation in the east is the paper cur rency secured by this stock of gold, but on the Pacific coast gold coin cir eulates freely, instead of the paper currency secured by it. Consequently large amounts are being filched from our circulation, and carried away ?n the pockets and suit case of depart in" foreigners, including millions ship peel through Mexico and Central Amer ica, nearly all at the instigation of tlx keiser's emissarios. To stop this drain which is giving substantial aid and comfort to the enemy, the treas ury department asks the banks of the Pacific coast to urge upon their cus tomers tho substitution, as far as pos sible, the paper money, which is se cured bv the gold in the vaults of the treasury and federal reserve banks, available, for the redemption of every dollar of paper money outstanding. CYCLONE FINISH OF LIBERTY LOAN ,1 HID CAMPAIGN Over Five Billion Now Con fidently Predicted by Treasury Officials GERMANTROOPS CROSSING BORDER NEAR MOUiiT CAI2Y Attempt Being Made to Carry VYar Into Plains of Italy, Koine Mates GERMANS TAKE SIXTY THOUSAND PRISONERS Haig Still Pnshing His Ad vance lhrough Flanders In Spite of Floods TELEPHONE COMPANY AND STRIKE CERTAIN Expected That Strike Order Will Call for General Walk Out at Midnight San Francisco, Oct. 27. A general striKe of electrical' workers employed the enemy. The 'rolling kitchen" men tioned bv CorresDondent Peeler mpn ; alter that the American battalions carried hot "8 Pacific Telephone and Tele- appeared inevitable at when D. P. Fullerton. een world war are dninir. erai manager of tnree Thn ,nnnnna i 1 ..announced tnat am comnanv -won rt re- months Bince the "first Ameran con- American headquarters indicates thatifu8e reco8mze or negotiate with tho tne battalions' 'and "batteries" are ,'B"""" rejwiKiri in the actual fiirhHnw .n. t i, Inasmuch as district officials of the tn tk rwrt in fi,.hn i . ! electrical workers' president Wilson's request for declara- food along with them direct to the rftPa company tion of a state of war against Germany fighting line as the other armies in the n00n toaV whcl Hart been approved bv cone-res. wo. a: eral manacer ni nition of this union or the closed shop. "If, as now seems probable, a strike is eallou, the company will make ev ory effort to restrict it and in the areas affected, to render sorvice as nearly normal as possible." Fullerton in his statement, sum marized the developments leading up to the present situation. Ho declared that when the proposed strike was postponed last week until midnight to night, tho company promised no con cessions of any kind and that, furth er, Mortimer i lcischacker, whose medi ation brought about tho postponement, had been told that tho company would not make an agreement with tho oper ators' union. v . "Some of tho operators in several of our exchanges, in the state of Wash ing. on," Jid the tatemenft, "who were recently organized by union men, made drastic demands as to employ-! MORE THAN TEN MILLION SUBSCRIBERS TO ISSUE iAIl Federal Reserve Districts Report Subscriptions Pour ing In at Close Borne, Oct. 27. German troops have crossed the Austro-Italian boundary line between Mount Cany and the head of the Judric valley, today's war of fice statement announced. The enemy forces are attempting to reach an open ing to the Italian plains beyond. un tne Uarso front the official state- nun t reported an increase In the en emy's offensive strength in the Ger man attempt to break through. One very heavy such attack was repulsed. Sixty Thousand Prisoners. Berlin, Via- London, Oct. 27. Sixty thousand Italian prisoners have been captured in the Gorman drive against General Cadorna ' army, the war office announced today, ' 'The btol mountain ridge and the summit of Mount Katajur were captured Thursday afternon," the statement said. "We are presins through the spurs of the Julian alps." in their sweep forward the Teutons have seized 450 guns, the. statement de clared. Twenty-six aeroplanes were driv en down or destroyed. The attack has shaken the Italian front as far as Wip- pae. - - MASS GREAT ARMT By Ed L. Keen, (United Press Htaff Correspondent.) - London, Oct. 27. General Mackensen has massed 300,000 of his German troops a bare two miles from the Italian border, holding them in the hope or striking a battering ram blow that will piereo tho Italian lines and force the fighting on the Itclian plains. According to this information, which reached here today, all these troops are from the Russian front. To gathor PETAIU'S BL017 ROCKED ENTIRE IIDEIIIRG LINE Over Twelve Thousand Pris oners Taken In This Week's Great Drive PERSONNEL OF CAPTURED SHOW STRAITS OF ENEMY Reserves Brought Up by Ger many Were composed of Scattered Units Continued on Page Seven.) By Henry Wood, (United Press Staff Correspondent.) With the French Armies in the Field, Oct. .27. When General Pofcain melted the German line with his UDDercut to the jaw on tho Chemin-des-Dames, tho German command had to rake the whole western front to assemble reinforce ments and bolster up the totter in e sector. , j , A census of prisoners todav revealed that the reinforcements were collected not in unitB of divisions, but in such. small military fragments as companies! and battalions. And those eompaniea and battalions were identified as of regiments widely scattered alonir the whole western line. Plainly the Gorman high command, with its reserve forces waning fast, was compelled hurriedly to grab occasional units from everywhere) to create a prop for Its Chemin-des-Dames line. There was yet more emphatic evi donco, as the United Press staff cor respondent was pormittod to view it personally today of Germany 's dwind ling manpower. A tour through tho prisoners' cages showed a majority of those captured by the Frenoh Won boys mere youths of the 1918 class. They were a gaunt, nnder-fed looking lot. But tho hungriest of all the prig oners were those who were still beinsr hustled back of the lines today from, nooks snd crannies of tho caves where they Mi been crouching since last Tuesday. Detailed explorations of the ground over which was fought the bat tle of tho caverns revealed quite a number of the enemy but none of them had much fight left. The total number eaptured reached the 12,000 mark today. (Continued on page three) Washington, Oct. 27. In a cyclone finish the liberty loan campaign is sur passing all provious records and prom ises oven to exceed expectations of a billion dollar final day. The latest official figures gave the total reported to the federal reserve banks as $2,750,105,000, with official estimates that at least one billion dol lars unreported has been subscribed. The most gratifying phase of the race down the home stretch today was the large number of individual subscribers It is now a little less than ment conditions and also demanded un ! reasonable increases in wages. During! of small means. the company an-'1 e Prcse"t year, tne wages oi an oper-i lnineen minion,- live nunarea inous comnanv -would ro-'atin8 employes have been increased and liberty bond buttons have already " . .... Iva.it anlv.fnntiullv infant ohonuns tnAM !.. J .1 V.l.. -n -l- - ARE MARTIN Kaln h? actual first "and union had declar- tn rako rwrt in f,..hn ; i . ! electrical workers' ur Min. h7 tn.l w ,el recognition of the girls would be between the company and union, the gain, Dy actual Iirst hand experience. " ,'Tu-Vi . some of the knocks of the fighting un-!u 8td6 ho I,tal ,8sue of the controversy j. . between the comnanv and nninn. the uer ure, so mat tnev. in turn, mav How 'd it do for our conservation of ficials t' ask th' dealers in necessities t ' make a few sacrifices durin ' th ' war instead o' devotin' all ther energy nr gir.' th' pofr, keg-backed consumer t' eat more cai rots! Carnegie builds th' libraries and' Rockefeller builds th' fill in' stations. so that they, in turn transmit tnese tricks of the trade to other American troops thus undergoing ineir --Dartie Daptism", are fully pre pared to fight, however, and judging irom uermau comment, they will exper ience -some nun starting" either by shell fire or infantry charges the mo ment the presence of Americans in the french trenches becomes known to tho ijorman general staff. Baker Does Not Comment. Washington, Oct. 27. Secretary of War Baker declined to add any further information to General Pershing's an nouncement of the presence of Amori can troops in the first line trenches in France. . Baker was manifestly a happy man, however, at the realization that the .Am erican army is'now physically in the fight. Baker's last weekly war summary, it will be recalled, intimated that the American forces were about ready for action. When other units of the Per shing expedition will be added is a mat ter of military secrecy. "Our burden," observes the Baker Herald, "seems heavy, but it is really light as compared to that of England, which plans to conscript 10 per cent of the nation's wealth. Food conservation and buying Liberty bonds seems a mere pastime compared to this drastic tion". stride order will go out forthwith Fullerton issued the following state ment: "In regard to the threatened strike by certain employes of the Pacific Telenhone and Telegraph company, i members of labor unions the'eompanys OUt. position is this: "We have already made or offered various substantial increases in the pay of the operators and men concern ed, amounting to over $2,500,000 and the company is willing to negotiate an agreement with the men providing for substantial increases in pay. isut it is not willing to concede the demands for a closed shop, and, on aecount of the ' bad effect upon the service and the unusual requirement of telephone operating, it is not willing to negoti ate an agreement with a union among the operators- The falling off m the quality of service to the public in cities where an attempt to organize has been made has been very marked. The majority of our operators do not want unions, as is evidenced by the fact that ever 65 per cent of the. operating foree has refused to join the union in spite of agitation. The company l'eels that the in crease in pay of $2,500,000 is all it can do. and in the interest of public service it must refuse to may any agree ment with an operators' union. "it reels that no amounting to from 25 to 30 per cent increase in the averago rate of wage. Just how telephone service in San Francisco will be affected by But-h a strike is. problematical. At the offices of th Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, it was said that tbe telephone girls of this city had practically organized union. While the union has not been as vot perfected, it was believed those girls Who have agreed to join will walk ing for more. Allowance for wastage, fhis would indicate that the ten million subscribers' goal, as well as the $5,000, O0t),000 subscription mark would be T . .. , I reached by midnight tonight. not be known with absolute accuracy until November 1, it was stated at the treasury. Banks have until that date to for ward their money to federal reserve dis trict headquarters. Official totals by districts, revised today, are: Boston $330,100,000. New York $1,175,000,000. Philadelphia, $102,026,000. Cleveland, $326,000,000. Bichmond $114,470,000. Atlanta $33,545,000. Chicago $271 ,250,000. St. Louis $93,644,000. Minncapelis $100,250,000. Kansas City $57,980,000. Dallas $37,105,000. San Francisco $108,535,000. Grand total $2,750,105,000. Smashing ahead with nnprecedented enthusiasm, the Cleveland district over night jumped from $234,000,000 to $326,000,000. Little doubt is felt that BILLY SUNDAY PRAYS THAT IRON CROSS MAY BE SUNK FATHOMS DEEP IN HELL A number of operators for the tele phone company declared this morning tbev believed the organization in this city has not progressed materially. But few of tho girls are interested, ley said. The chief operator expressed the opinion that there would be no strike of girls- Plot to Poison Boys of Oregon Regiment Frustrated by Arrest Portland, Or, Oct. 27 What may have been a plot to poison the com panies of the Third Oregon regiment now on their way to an unannounced Vw.i;A.. k.-A been frustrated today oy the arrest of;'08 maximum mark of $500,000,00 will William Dolfen, cnief cook, believed to be a German agent. Dolfen was taken, from the train early today as it stopped at Pendleton Or., on its way east. This afternoon he arrived at Portland in the eustody of a United States deputy marshal. Dolfen refused to make a statement advantage should of any kind. He did not even ask fed- lbe taken of the present adnormal con-1 eral authorities who examined him . ditiona, due to the war to force recog- what charge he was arrested. be reached before the campaign closes. The Kansas City district is approach ing its $120,000,000 minimum. By states, the district's figure are: Missouri $25,500,000. Nebraska $25,100,000. Kansas $22,500,000. Oklahoma $20,000,000. Colorado $17,500,000. (Continued on page three) Los Angeles, Cai., Oct. 27. That the flag may wave "without a stuin until the iron cross is sunk fathoms in hell and Prussian militarism is swept off the face of the earth and tho kaiser and his cohorts have unpacked their trunks on tit. Helena's barron rocks " is the prayer offered by Hev. "Billy" Sunday, dynamic evangelist, through tho United Press. The prayer was his observance of the president's proclama tion designating tomorrow as a nation al day of prayer for the triumph of American arms. The prayer follows: ' By Billy Sunday. Almighty God, our heavenly Father, we pray Thee that the war may con tinue until Prussian militarism is swept off the face of the earth, until the snake of autocracy is crushed forever, until democracy is unshackled, until justice has a fair show, until the virtue of women is sure of protection, until little children no longer go hungry, until the kaisor and his cohorts ave unpacked their trunks on St. Helena's barron rocks. And in the meantime, give each one of us tbe fighting spirit that led the crusaders to victory. If we do not fight with our hands in the trenches help us to fight with sacrificing hearts at home. Thau knowest, Lord, we have not en tered this bloody war because of avar ice or greed and we do not covet Ger many a gold or land. We have drawn the sword to defend our country against the most infamous, blood-thirsty hords of human harpies that ever disgraced the earth. They respect neither law nor religion, nothing is sacrSd if it stands in their path. Lord, bless the president, give him wisdom, bless all the councils of state and war. Keep us a united nation in fact and spirit. Bless the army and navy. Many of our brave boys already sleep somewhere in France or beneath the sea. ring vic tory to our cause because we know it is Your cause. We have joined our hands and hopes and hearts with our noble allies that this world may be a safe ilaea in which to live. Thou knowest, Lord, that the tidal wave of sneering unbelief that has blighted the faith of millions and de nied that Jesus is Thine only begotten son came from the beer mugs of that pretzel crowd across the sea. All this togother with the deluge of blood is enough to make hell laugh and heaven weep. Lord, Thou hast never forsaken our flag. It waves without a stain. May it lead every step of tho way until tha iron cross is sunk fathoms in hell and the world rests once more bathed in the radiance of the Cross of Christ. All this we ask in the name of Jesus Christ, Thy son, Our Savior, Amen. Hoover Pleads With America Housewives (Written for tho United Press) Washington, Oct. 27 We are ask ing that every home and every pnblio eating nlace pledge themselves to thai food administration to carry out direc tions as to economy and the elimina tion of waste in food so far as their' circumstances permit. This is not an enormous service to ask, yet it is just as vital a serviee to winning this war as the sending of soldiers to France, the subscription of liberty bond or the building of ships If tho millions of men, women and children among tho allies are not kept in health and strength, the soldiers cannot, be maintained in war. They are the first line of our defense against domination by Germany. Their flag is ours. They must be fed. The food administration is working night and day to secure the equitable; distribution' cf our supplies to protect both our producers and our consumers, and in no way can this great section of our labors be so effectually aided as by economy and saving of waste. We have abundant food for all the world fighting against Germany and reasonable prices if everyone of tha twenty million homes and 300,000 pub lie eating places co-operate with ns. , (Signed) HEBBEBT HOOYEB. ;