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FORTIETH YEAR NO. 258
SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1917
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OW TOAINS AND NEW
UTAKTtt FIVB CENTS
FOR IT I
ITALIANS FIGHT
INVADING HOSTS
Report That Enemy's k
Troops Are Being
i Paralyzed
N
UDINE IS CAPTURED
BERLIN OFFICIAL REPORT
Washington Military Officials
Believe Lnsis Near
at Hand
London, Oct. 30- Italy's soldiers
nre fighting horoieally in the valleys
ol their own land and this afternoon.
According to correspondents at th
front, aro "paralyzing the enemy's ad
vance groups."
At Arditi, fufiously repeated as
saults were reported, which wiped out
great bodies of the enemy.
Further to the north, in the moun
tains, the operations are masked in ter
rible weather. It has been raining and
Knowing in a continuous gale for sev
ral days. -
Julius Price, official correspondent
nor me British press, with the Italian
army, now in London, told the United
Press today that instant aid must be
rendered to Italy.
"Tho facts must be squarely faced,'
lie said. "At all hazards the invasion
tf Italy must be stopped.
Italy has never been sufficiently
strong to bear tne brunt of an attack
on such overwhelming odds.
' However, provided British roiit-
f orcementg arrive in time, the invasion
should have a poor chance of success.
4 ' There is not a moment to lose At
last we have the enemy in the open
iwitn no elaborate trench es-Hfar from
the protecting wall of the mountains.
Jf the situation is handled with Cador
ia ( strategic genius, it is ouite con
ceivable that the Austro-Gcrmans may
meet their Waterloo on the plain of
Jruili."
Berlin Official Eeport
Berlin, via London. Oct. 30 Capturo
of Udine, principal city of the northern
Italian plains, by the advancing Aus-tro-German
armies, was formally an
nounced in the official statement to
day. "Our whole front is pressing against
tne upper course- of tho Taghamento
declared today's official state-
ment.
"We advanced from the Carnic Alps
cmd reached Venetian soil."
On the French front tho statement
says: '
"On thi right bank of the Meuse
we forced the enemy's positions north
west of Bezcnvaux and captured
trenches ' on a front of 1200 meters
(nearly a mile ) We maintained these
".gainst four counter attacks."
The Tagliamcnto river, on its lower
course, is the defense line on which
General Cadorna is reported to have
elected to make his stand against the
German invasion.
Italians Still Retreat
"Rome, Oct. 30. "Yesterday our
withdrawal to new positions contin
ued," today's official statement re
ported. "The Isonzo bridges were de
stroyed, covering units detaining te
enemy. Our cavalry is in contact with
hostile vanguards."
Emperor at Gorizia
Amsterdam, Oct. 30. Emperor Karl
of .tiustria-Hungary is now at Gorizia,
(Continued on page) two.)' "
:((
ABE MARTIN :
YeorkJr Pash has opened a garage an'
has advertised fer a German t' blow up
.tires. What's become o' th' ole time
ynJe that sung ia the kitchen!
PALL HANGS OVER
SMART SOCIETY SET
President and Mrs. Wilson
Have Put On the Social Lid
in A Plomnful It Tirlil
4
ashington, Oct. 30 A pall hangs
v 4r Washington's social elite and gay
butterflies. President and Mrs. Wilson,
together with th cabinet wives, have
put the lid upon the usual winter so
cial season.
The White House will be closed ex
cept for strictly private functions, on
account of the war. The ladies of the
cabinet have decided to abandon their
customary Wednesday "at homes." For
the first time in history the national
capital's brilliant social calendar is vir
tually thrown into the discard.
Gorgeous receptions at the White
House and the famous presidential din
ners have all been eliminated under the
stress of war. The diplomatic dinners,
dinners to members of the supreme
court and the other dignitaries, the glit
tering army and navy reception, the
congressional reception, generally mark-
od by capacity throngs m the White
House all have been placed undor
the ban by executive decree,
Collapse of the social calendar comes
as a climax to the general decline
Washington festivities, which the war
has brought on during the last two
years.
When America was neutral, President
Wilson was first forced to eliminate the
brilliant diplomatic reception owing to
the presence here of diplomats repre
senting fighting powers. Then he wai
compelled to have two diplomatic din
ners instead of the customary one, giv
ing rise to further embarrassments in
selecting guests.
JSow Minister Panaretoff of Bulgaria
is the Band in the social bearings, Recog
nized by the United States, but not by
any of the other allied powers, any din
ner or reception of a diplomatic nature
is practically impossible because of Pan
aretoff 's peculiar position. In view of
these increasingly difficult situations,
the president anil cabinet members de
cided to "call off all social events giv
en on a large Scale.
WINTER WEATHER
OYER GREATER PART
OF UNITED STATES
From Missouri River to AL'e-
ghemes October Records
Are Broken
Chicago, Oct. 30. The entire country,
from the Missouri river to the Alleghe
ny's, was one big shiver today
The lowest October temperature rec
ords in the history of the weather bur
eau were broken throughout this sec
tion, while snow fell as far south as
Ashville, N. C.
The unprecedented snowfall, which
ranged from six inches in Wisconsin, to
a trace along the south Atlantic sea
board, prevented a loss of millions of
dollars in winter wheat through freez
ing. Late crops in the extreme south
west were reported to have been heavily
damaged.
Today's storm was the twelfth which
has swept the country this month and
there is another following on its heels.
This is three times the normal number.
Weather officials said today that this
is "the worst October in the history of
the bureau."
The snow area extended today from
far into Canada south to the Carolinas
and from Iowa east of Pittsburgh Freez
ing temperatures were reported as far
south as Vicksburgh, Miss.
The coldest cities in the country were
Devil's Lake, N. D., and Pueblo, Colo.,
which reported a temperature of 10 de
grees. Other lo wtemperatures were Hu
on, S. D., Binghampton, N. Y., Sioux
City, la., and Valentine, JNeb, with lz
and Moorhead, Minn., and Pierre, S. D.,
with 14. Wichita, Kas., with 14 legrees
Salina reported 15, while Oklahoma City
reported 16. Other low temperatures
were: Arkansas City, 17; Des Moines,
la., 19: Abilene, Tex., 22;Fort Smith,
Ark., 22; Chicago, 23; Terre Haute, Ind.,
26 and 8hrevcport, La., 30.
The storm is accompanied by severe
winds in several sections, Buffalo re
porting an 80-mile blow early today.
It wai raining in the east and this wal
expected to be followed by low tem
peratures and snow today and tonight.
The central west will get some relief
tonight, but it will be of short dur
ation, as another storm is brewing in
the Rockies and is expected to reach
here in time to maintain the record for
general eussedness" that October is
piling up. j
If we can reduce our consumption of,
wheat flour by 1 pound, our meat by
7 ounces, onr fat by 7 ounces, our sugar
by 7 ounces, per person per week, these
quantities multiplied by 100,000,000 will
immeasurably aid and encourage our al
lies, help our own growing armies, and
so effectively serve the great and noble
cause of humanity in whic our nation is
embarked.
SAMMIES FACING FOE
IN SLEET AND SNOW
OF FIRST LINE TRENCHES
AMERICAN WOUNDED.
- American Front, Somewhere
, in France, Oct. 30. An Ameri
can lieutenant of the signal
corps, who was working in a
communicating trench, was
slightly wounded today. He has
the honor of being the first
American soldier to be- hit in
action.
-
By J. W. Pegler
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
With the American Army, Somewhere
in France, Oct. 30. Under terrible
,.-v..v. ,.u..wo, .v
is exchanging blow for blow with tho
Boche, learning war by contact. I
France today is a vast stretch of .
icy rivulets and mud bogs.
and mud bogs. Bam and
snow are beating down day after'day.
Through it all, the Sammies are man
ning their guns, perfecting their marks
manship by shelling enemy emplace
ments, while the infantry in some placos
actually stands knee deep in almost
freezing water.
The American infantry stand thoir
watches on the front lines and take their
regular turns at patrols into the bleak,
deadly waste that is no man's land. It
is a desolate section where tho blizzard-
ly swirl - of . snow flakes or sheets of ,
rain make it often impossible to see ;
more than a few yards.
Nearby American engineers, constant-1
ly alert, clustered around a feeble fire j
on a half demolished farm house, await ,
hourly summons from across an almost
impassible terrain of repair trenches. I
Returning wet through and stupefied
with exhaustion, they throw themselves :
on the floor wrap up in blankets and
snatch a wink mostly . without an op
portunity to change their clothing
Accredited American correspondents
on Sunday had their first opportunity
to visit the Sammies at the front thoir
gun pits, dugouts and trenches. : ,.,''
i we staggered Bingie file across a val-
ley to see the gun that fired the first
shot of the war. A young lieutenant :
from Indiana told with boyish enthus-1
iasm how the first shot came to be
fired. He interspersed his running nar-
rative with cryptic commands to his
gunners, working underground.
"The French officer told us it was .
impossible to procure horses to haul that
particular gun here until daybreak,"
the lieutenant explained. ' ' He said if
we wanted to drag it upby manpower
we might beat the oters and thus have
the opportunity of firing the first shot.
Our men knew it would be a tough
jol) but they were, anxious to shoot
that first shell. So they worked through
all that night in the rain and mud. And
they got the gun in position just be-,
fore davbreak " I
With hardly a perceptible pause, the '
THE
, lieutenant lifted his voles abruptly here
. to shout: ' ' Beady to first "
i It must bars been command to the
i
' gunners im tho subterranean ehambor,
for almost- instantly gun crashed, fol
lowed by a swishing sheii aiued at the
enemy's entanglements.
Th lieutenant didn't stop for the
noise. Ho resumed;
" daybreak and myself watched
from an observation posl ;.aa u. gun
was fired. I saw the sueii me fust fir
ed by an American cuu imri a
party of Germans. They fi-tj. 1 . n , istration. Food administrator Hoover cx
like prairie dogs into their Wc. By 1 peets to effect material reduction! in
Georgel It was great I" . v , the retail prices of the foods involved
Down below at this particular juno-; by'the first of the year. He hopes to do
ture there was another treaiuui.0 cartu
'roar and another American 'tinr., nrui
niahinv Inntf Th mmmrn A nm.J art a r
tillery sergeant who had pulled tho lan-
yard for the first American shell was
yanking away busy at his job today
an. fi!i"?. thBm gun- , .
frt v -r.fv,;
sergeant. I
' ' Are you Irish f V the lieutenant yell
ed down tho hole '
"No," came a voice from the depths.
"I como from South Bend, Ind."
I met a Keokuk,' la., boy peeling po
tatoes for supper at the entrance to a
dugout near the front line; a South Side
Chicagoan grinding hash nearby. Then
we went forward to a traverse. There
a silent, shivering broup of boys, their
rifles peeping . downward from below
their ponchos. They were stooped in the
trench, waiting their turn in No Man 'b
Land as their patrol shoes oozed water
and melting snow dripped from the
brims of their ' ' tin helmet ' ' as the
shrapnel helmets are known in trench
nomenclature.
The sergeant commanding the patrol
a native of St. Louis spoke:
" This war isn 't so damnd bad. Tie
weather is my chief complaint."
Some Boche shells were bursting on
a hill, half a mile away, Sammy's eyes
peered over the top of the parapet try-
A . H . t 41.. A
ing to see the effects but the snow
blocked their vision,
""Lguesa the enmy is shelling our
battery," said tne tit. Louisan
In his trenches- the Sammy acts as
though he had done nothing his whole
life long. The morale of the American
forces is excellent. Feeding is difficult
but the food is of the best Just like
the Canadians, the Sammies require re-
straint to prevent them from attacking
It looks so easy and the waiting is so
monotonous that
they want to be up
and at 'em.
FIRST PRI30NEB DIES.
By 3. W. Pegler
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
American Field Headquarters, France,
Oct. 30. The first verifiod death from
an American bullet fired by a Sammy in
trench warfare, was that of a IB-year-
.. ,
(Continued on Page 8.)
1
BEAST OF ALL THE AGES.
RETAIL FC3D PRICES
TO BE CONTRACTED
AFTIEKDtTTHlIRSDAY
Retailers Arc Not To Be Al
lowed To Klske Abnormal
Profits Dzrisg War
Washington, Oct. 80. The govern'
ment will take its first big (mash ate
tall food priees when It assumes abso-
-
lt nntrnl of twentr Win food nro-
ducts Thursday.
This control will take the form or a
licensing system under the food admin
this by eliminating waste and excess
profits in the import manufacture, stor-
a .-n -A Ai at Kn . inn r9 tia twantv nrn.
ducts
His plan is to see that these foods
reach the small retailer at reasonable
prices, tell the public what the, dealers
paid for the goods and depend on the
public to prevent retailers charging
more than a fair profit.
The retailer charging excessive profits
will find himself unable to buy from
the wholesalers.
In this way the problem of control
ling the smallest retailer has been solv
ed. The wholesaler and warehouse man
under license will be ordered to sell
nothing to any retailer found profit
eering. This, the food administration pointed
out today, is the only way the problem
can be met, as tho food control law does
not give tho government jurisdiction
over retailers doing less than (100,000
worth of business annually. Retailers
doing that much business will be licens
ed and controlled. All meat packers, cold
storage men, millers, canners, grain deal
ers, will have to get a government
license between now and November 1
or quit business.
The food administration will see that
'all producers have a free outlet and
ready market for their products, thati
.11 ! , J
all manipulation and speculation in
these foods is stopped at once, that
there is no hoarding of supplies, that
there are no unfair or unreasonable pro
fits anywhere along the! line. Wholesale
grocers, in conference here last week,
agreed to aid Hoover. :,
Licensed men . or . firms caught eon
spiring, to prevent enforcement of the
food control law will be subject to $10,
000 fine or imprisonment for two years,
or both. 1 ,
Licensed men or firms caught manip
ulating the market, speculating, hoard
ing or profiteering, will be subject to
$5,000 fine or two years in prison, or
both.
A special legal department has been
organized by the food administration to
make these measures effective. Those
licensed must make reports to the gov
ernment on certain forms every so of
ten, telling just what thy have been
doing. If the facts do not tally with
(Continued on page five.1
Roosevelt Injects Gager
Into Uitchell's Campaign
New York, Oct. 80. With Colonel
Boosevelt on the stump for Mayor
Mitch, New York ' mayoralty campaign
waxed hotter today with election just
one week distant.
Boosevelt told a big erowd that every
vote against Mitehel would comfort the
kaiser. The colonel denounced Morris
Hillquist, socialist eandlate, as being
an aide to the Hohenzollerns.
Judge Hylan, democratic candidate,
in bis speeches challenged .Boosevelt to
question his patriotism and threatened
reprisals. Mayor Mitehel, speaking in
Harlem, was heckled by a crowd of
negroes He announced he would short
ly issue a statement, showing why W,
B- Hearst and the publishers of tho New
i-Vl. CT . . rv.!i s TT1 Hill
"""B Ayor njivu. aiau-
.qulst continued to address capacity
crowds.
PREPARE FOR DM
TO RAISE $100,000
FOR SALEM HOSPITAL
Executive Committee Met
Yesterday and Further Per
fected Campaign Plans
The executive eommittee for the
$100,000 General Hospital campaign met
yesterday at the Salem Commercial club
rooms and put the machinery in motion
for ono of the livest and largest civic
campaigns ever conducted in the Capital
City,
Plans wore made whereby important
committees were appointed to take care
of important details in the different
branches of the work.
Committee to get in touch with ex-
a'jj m Meveta. ' '
reaidents:
Ti T 1W Tkn. li Z .. nnA
f!mm;; j-t v,ii
v '"
houses: Wm McGilchrist, Jr.
Committee on federal matters: Sen.
C. L. McNary, Gov. Withycombe, Con
gressman Hawley, JP. M. Huckestein and
Mayor Keyes. .
Resolution committee: Park, Decke
bach and Witham. . .
Mr. Ralph 1), Mooros has been ' ap
pointed as manager of information bur
eau. He will also be secretary of the
headquarters which are being opened
at State and Commercial streets. Mr.
Moores, will be able to give general
public any information desired regard
ing the hospital of the campaign.
The purpose of the campaign ia to
raise money to provide the absolutely
necessary equipment for the kind of a
hospital that balem needs. The hospital
board of which Chas. A Park is chair
man, together with the executive eom
mittee of the campaign have gone over
the question very thoroughly and have
decided that at least $100,000 must be
(aiscd to cover this expense.
Since lsUS the Salem hospital has ad
ministered to the needs of the public
furnishing in the best manner possible
hospital service to the citizens of Sa
lem, and vicinity.
This hospital Is non-sectarian, is a
.: !.. t
Huu-uruiiL BiiywiiiK luniituiiuu. Air cairn , ui - - - ,
no money for any individual or organ-'denburg line with the 0n"oa
i7.atin other than itself. Everv dollar !rine bases of Ostcn and Zeebrugge on.
of net earnings goes into the plant. No
member of the board receives a dollar
for his services. Its aim and purpose
is to serve the people of Salem regard
less of creeds or associations.
The present equipment and facilities
aro too inadequate and small for Salem,
It is imperative that additional facil
ities be secured to take care of the
increased demand which the war will
soon bring to us in the shnpo of our
own arion county boys. The trustees
therefore have decided to start a cam
paign for $100,000 for the purpoBe of
building a new fire-proof hospital. They
are appealing to tho citizens of Salem,
for their hearty co-operation and assist
ance. Salem is the second largest city
in the state and has tho poorest hospital
facilities. Starting from the south at
Ashland and coming to Medfurd, Grants
Pass, Roscburg, Cottage Grove, Albany,
Eneene. Portland Vancouver, Astoria,
The Dalles, Pendleton, Walla Walla, Ba
ker City La Grande, all of which have
splendid fire proof hospitals from $50,-
000.00 to $250,000.00
Luxbnrg Will Soon
Get Out of Argentine
Buenos Aires, Oct. 30 Count Lux
bnrg, formclr German minisftr of
"spurlos verBenkt" notoriety, expects
to leave Argentina on the first Doai
which will take him to any neutral
country, it was stated today. The safe
conducts which dispatches have indi
cated have been granted by France and
England for the former envoy's pas
sago bsck home, have not yet been re
ceived here. Officials were not dear
on whether these would restrict ijirr-
bnrtr s destination.
Luxburg is supposed to be detained
under guard here.
'PRIVATE" JOHN ALLEN DEAD
Jackson. Miss., Oct. 30 News was
received here todav of the death of
"Private'' John Allen at his home in
Tupelo. Allen was for more than 20
years a member of congress from Mis
sissippi. Ho retired from public life
twelve yearn age.
BUSH FORCES
DIE FORWARD
Oil YPflES FRONT
Haig's Canadians Are Now
fighfeg In Outskirts of
Passchendaele
FRENCH DRIVE GERMANS
FROM CAURIERES WOOD
Teutons Turns On Russians
and Shoo Them Back Along
Eastern Front
By William Philip Slmms
(United Press staff correspondent)
With the British Armies in Flnnd
ors, Oct. 30. British forces today ara
on the outskirts of Passchende, A
new strike, started this morning by
Field Marshal Haig, brought . them
closer to the ridge city. ,
The Canadians again had the post of
honor, storming positions fifteen foet
higher in the village.
The Canadians swarmed up over Mee
cheelo spur and advanced to the crest
of Passchendaele ridge crowned by the
town of Westrooseebeke, as part of Gen
eral Haig's drive.
Holding fast to their new lines, the
Maple Leaf boys throw back a vigor
ous Bavarian counter-attack. The enemy
was vigorously enfiladed by machine
gunfire from captured Prussian machine
guns and what remnants reached tha
British lines were thrown back in dis
order. Westrooseebeke is the town at the
outermost point of the Pasachendaelo
ridge, approximately three miles mirth
east of Poelcapelle and about the same
distance due north of Passchendaele.
From Westrooseebeke the ridge drops)
off iuto.the level flats of Flanders.
v Haig's Official uport
London, Oct. 30 Field Marshal Haijf
struck another powerful ground gain
ing blow against the Gorman lino in
Flandors today.
"North of the
way we attacked
ing," he reported,
made."
Ypres-Roulers ratl
at 5:40 this mora
"Good progress was
The Ynres-Roulers railway crosses
the Passchendaele ridge just a little to
the south of Passchendaele. Haig
general direction of the drive today
would seem to indicate that the Brit
ish have struck forward out of Pass
chendaele, directly toward Roulors.
which is only six miles distant frore
whore tha British lines were advanced
on the most recent British drive last
week. ,
The immediate objective of all the
recent British smasnoB m i lanuBrs u
beon this city of Roulers. It is one of
lmnH centers on me umu
-m mmi,ni.!itin.n connecting tho Mm
the coast.
French Beat Germans Back
Taris Oct 30. French forces today
wrenched back from the enemy troncl.
elements around Caurieres wook which,
powerful German attacks, Iorte.l
yesterday, had gained ever a 500 ynrd
''The official report today said that
further German attacks on the samd
position had been thrown back.
On the LaChaume wood-Bezonvaux
Boctor the war onice np
i.-tiiWviTiDr. A German air ram
over
Nancy
iith slight damage
and one)
victim
was reported.
Germans Drive Russians
Petrograd, Oct. 30. Teutonic troop
in the jaunzorne "
front started a sudden uk
day afternoon and forced a retirement
of Russian forces, today's official
statement reported.
(ru. B..;nn offieinl statement indi
cates the presence of what must be a
strong force of Hermans or "--
still left on the northern
fire was sunicient to rorco a '
retreat, it had been thought that the
Kusian front was stripped of Austro
German troops for transfer of thosa
forces to the Italian war theater.
r&ENOd COOPERATION PE&FW.P
By Henry Wooo .
(United Press staff correspondent)
With the French Armies in Flandora
Oct. 30. The most perfectly co-orui-
nsted "team work" in the msiory ba
warfare brought France's, veterans
victory in their latest bite forward in
Flandors. .. .. w
So perfect was the co-ordination be
tween aviators and French guns that
throughout the day of this advance no
Gorman battery fired more than six
shots before it was located oy i
French eagues of the air, aceuraioijr
"ranced" the distance, wirelessed or
signalled back and French guns put
it out of commission.
This was on Sunday. The day dawn
A .,r). i.rn and clear) the air
more clear than at any time in
two
(Continued on page three)