Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, November 03, 1917, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTODAY'S 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS weit (22,000 KEAJXEBS) DALLY Only Circrjlatloj la Salem Guar anteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS SEfiVIOE kf-'f Oregon: Tonight and Sunday rain; strong " southerly winds. FORTIETH YEAR -NO. 262 SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1917 Xryrm mmr inmmw ow VBASNS AND NEW Flu CIS TM) CENTS btaiojb itvb cents ITALIAN BUTTLE FROI CMS ASH WEiiit Italians and Germans Are Massing Heavy Reserves of Guns and Men For Final Decisive Struggle to Decide Fate of Italy Allies Fear Most Flanking Move by Germans Through TrentinoRome Dispatches State That Italians Made Heroic Sacrifices During Retreat In Order to Save Main Army From Disaster London, Nov. 3. With forces on both tides arrayed and Italians and Germans both massing reserves, artil- fight, tho battlo of the Tagliamento liad apparently started today in local uttaojks,, (patlol skirmishes, .fiuVrmit tcnt shelling and jockeying for strate gic advantage. It may be days before .1 he full force is thrown into the strug gle by either side. In the meantime, word was received here today from Swiss sources indi cating that the Germans are transports-jug great numbers of men and gnus to the Trotino, apparently with the idei of striking on this front in an attempt to break through and outflank Gener al Cadorna's line on the Tagliamento. From the easternmost point of the Trentino battle lines today to behind ine Tagliamento is a scant seventy miles. A drive from this direction would 'b a logical development 'ot General von Mackensen's campaign of idvance by flanking operations- Home dispatches today emphasized the orderly arrangement of General Oadorna 's rescued army behind the ft'agliamento and 1e high moralo umoiig his forces. Complete confidence was expressed in the strength of this line to repol every assault of the in vaders. Experts here believe the German command will either try a quick pow erful blow at the Tagliamento line in an attempt to force a breach which would result immediately in a great battle or else they will delay while pericctir.g their communications. i.t the latter ulan is followed out, experts liere predicted the Italians would bef given time in which to reorganize com pletely and possibly to reform with nid from the allies now en route. It is recognized here that the Italian line, however, is always menaced by the northward flanking movement which SSwiss reports would seem to indicate is in preparation by the enemy. Rome dispatches today laid stress on the heroic, sacrifices which the over whelmed Italian troops made to aid in extricating large bodies of their com rades. General Gonza sustained eleven wounds. All of his stati was killed or wounded and only three of his person u l escort of fifty escaped. General Ka doglios and three of his regiments wcro utterly wiped out. Germans Press Flank Rome, Nov. 3. Increasing pressure on the Italian left wing yesterday, ap parently foreshadowing an enemy at tempt at envelopment of the Italian positions on the Tagliamento. was re ported in today's official statement- ui tempts of the enemy to reach ihe right bank were, however, repuls ed," the war offiee reported. GERMANS ATTEMPT TO OFFSET AIR PROGRAM OF THIS By Henry Wood. (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the French Armies in the Field, Nov. 3. Germany is making supreme efforts to meet America's aviation pro gram. Whatever the number of airplanes and pilots America may be able to con tribute by next spring, Germany will duplicate the performance, if it is at all possible. Documents taken from pris oners and assembled today showed some extraordinary efforts by Germany to increase the number of her planes and counter balance the aviation superiority which America's contribution otherwise would bring. Since last spring no less than 29 huge German factories formerly engaged in production of general war material have been converted into factories for air planes and hydroplanes. In addition, old established airplane factories at Ber lin, Cologne, Altanna, . Johannisthal, Potsdam, Charlottenburg, Dresden, Spandan and other industrial centers have been greatly increased in "size. The Fokker factory has just taken over the largest piano factory la north ern Germany the Bersina, at Schweria. But not only is Germany increasing her own production, she is making pur .:;ses of fore.gn countries. A a order for 2-"0 Argst motors has been placed with the Baderneskseebae at Zurich. IT ORCES Will Hammer West Front Washington, Nov. 3. French and British ftvrees yill teaseleifely ham mer tho German lines on the west front to prevent further German aid to Aus tria in tho Italian campaign, it was officially announced today. It is 1he hope that the allied offens ive will engage all available German forces until such time as "the situa tion can be retrieved on the Italian front. " Prisoners Number 200,000 Berlin, via London, Nov. 3. Prison ers in the great pan-Austrian drive reached the total of more than 200,000 today an official statement declared. Eighteen hundred guns have been tak en. "No important fighting," was re ported in the statement today. Retail Food Prices Decrease 10 Per Cent Washington, Nov. 3. Retail food prices in tho United States have de creased an average of 10 per cent from tho high water mark reached in May and June, it is officially announced to day. Moat prices are dropping and official Kope of even lower living costs is held out to the public. Limitation on meat storage to thirty- days is. tending to in crease the visible supply. The food administration, by licensing packers, has forced farmers to mature their hogs by keeping down prices for light stock. While average American retail prices are still forty per cent higher than in June, 1914, official figures of increases in Canada, Great Britain and Germany in the same period are 60 per cent, 110 per cent and 130 per cent, respectively. BLACKMAILER, ARRESTED ! Detroit, Mich, iov. 3. Federal of licials thought Jacob Yellin, whom thoy arrested yesterday, was the auth or of a letter to Edsel Ford demanding $10,000 or tho life of his son, Henry Ford II. The secret service operatives drew the conclusion after three hours of cross examination and when Yellin refused to speal on any accomplices, that ho alone was responsible for the letter. Every possible clue, however, is be ing run to the ground for tho other nine men at first supposed to be in the plot. Yellin is held on $0000 bond. COUNT R Y Simultaneously with this speed up program in manufacture, Germany is experimenting to improve her output. Among the newer types bow being put out is a 200-horsepower fighting mono plane and a triplane Fokker. A new bombing plane has also been developed a two engine machine with a carry' ing capacity of 1,700 pounds of bombs. The motors are Mercedes types, 260 horsepower, and when fully loaded the planes are eapable of elinibinz 12.000 ifeet in 35 minutes. - Germany now figures an airplane is "worn out" after 150 hours of flight. At present her greatest weakness in manufacture is the propeller, as the Germans do not seem to have a suffi cient supply of proper wood. . To provide the necessary pilots for the new German aviation program, the military authorities are offering exeep- i tional facilities for iu rorasreera. j Some idea of the degree of perfection 1 which the Germans are endeavoring to ' put into their new program may be gathered from the fact that a sew Ger man plane recently foreed to land on French soil was equipped with an elec trical apparatus for drying the cloth ing and gloves of the aviator and at the same time furnishing current for wire less operation. . I REPLY IS RECEIVED TO PROPOSITION TO -TAKE OVER PHONES No Further Move On Part of Mediator Is Made Up To Present Time San Francisco, Nov. 3. Although United States Mediator Verner Z. Reed at noon today received a reply from Secretary of Labor Wilson to his sug gestion that the government com mandeer the plant and services of the employes of the Pacific Telephone &" Telegraph company, Reed had not made any further announcement of his posi tion at 1 p. m. Ho told the united Press that he was awaiting receipt of a further telegram from Secretary Wil son before issuing a statement. Meanwhile, complications in the tele phone strike have set in. The action of International President McNulty of the electrical workers union, instruct ing locals in the northwest to order their striking members back to work under penalty of loss of charter, did hot have any immediate result. Officers of the district council of the .electrical workers did not regard seri ously McNulty 's threat to revoke char ters. These officials say the striking members at Tacoma, Portland and other northwestern points do not wish to re sume work now, believing that such ac tion might result in advantage to the telephone company. Although officials of the telephone company were silent regarding the sit uation, it was reported that they do not believe the government will com mandeer their plant and employes. It was pointed out in some quarters that the federal mediation board has no authority to commandeer, its powers being confined merely t orecommond ing. Will Not Return to Work. Seattle, Wash., Not. 3. Striking telephone operators and eleetrical work ers here refused to return to work to day until either the federal government had commandeered the telephone sys tem or else the company reversed its decision relative to granting the work ers their demands. James Duncan, secretary of the labor council, said at noon that the workers would gladly return to work, providing either of these actions resulted. Ho said the operators would welcome the commandeering of the system. A vote to continue the strike was taken at a mass meeting of the strikers in tho labor temple this afternoon. Telephone" services in all outlying districts was practically dead. The po lice, hospitals, port commission, news papers and a few of the largest down town business houses were given out going service. There is absolutely so service fro many residences in the city. Miss Rhoda Kerr, president of trie operators anion, announced today the (wo tinned em page saraa THE TREADMILL BRITISH GET ELEVEN GERMAN WAR BOATS inrasER Admiralty Officially Gives Out Details of Decisive North Sea Victory London, Nov. 3. One German cruiser and ten armed patrol boats sunk, told the story of a British sea victory an nounced today by the admiralty from the North sea. According to Copenhagen dispatches, describing the action, the German aux iliary cruiser sunk was the Marie of Flensburg (or Flenborg). She was liter ally overwhelmed by the deadly accu racy and rapidity of the British fire and sank, aflame, ten minutes after starting the engagement. Her commander, Captain Lauterbach, was one of the seven German survivors brought into Copenhagen wounded. "My vessel's four guns were almost unworkable because of the hail of fire which the enemy destroyers centered on us," he declared. "We were soon a mess of flames." The admiralty statement located the battle as occuring in the Categatt an :arm of the North sea, Just adjacent to !the Skagerrack, where was fought the (famous battle of Jutland eariier in the I war. . Copenhagen placed it still more defm- ; . . 1 , 1,. milaa t. nr 1. nP IM uvuuillig m,v .... n ct uuavt v. X U1IOU, VI bU 1, 11 0 V 11 Ul vJvtuutsu.Q. The loss of life on the German ves sels must have been very great. Copen hagen reported the seven survivors land ed there had said thirty of their crew of 81 aboard the cruiser were killed out right. The British admiralty mentioned sixty-four prisoners having been taken. The British squadron suffered no los ses, it was officially stated. "The British fleet was referred to as "our naval forces operating in the Cftt tegatt." Another Copenhagen dispatch relay ed from Halmstad declared that the sea battle off the coast of Sweden con tinued for three hours, daring which there was violent cannonading. Lloyd's register of shipping lists a steamer Marie, home port Flensburg, which may be the auxiliary cruiser. Bhe is given as of 1,465 tons net, property of the German firm The Flensburger Shlmrinz company, and til fet in length by 86 feet beam. If "electrically controlled high speed boat" means a vessel whose course and operations are directed from the shore or from some other boat by means of electric impulse, the Ger mans have tried nt something entirely new. In America John Hays Hammond Jr. of Gloucester, Mass., sometime ago was reported to have achieved success in the direction of a torpedo by elec tric waves, but experiments in the di rection of boats heretoiore have not Continued on Page Bwsi.) "TREASON AND LIAR" FGPuLAR SLOGANS 1 ft 1 CAMPAIGN Big Meeting In Carnegie Hall Last Night Came Near Ending In Riot New York, Nov. 3. "Treason" and "liar" were the most popular words in New York's mayoralty campaign to day as tiie outer political light soar ed its climax. Henry Morgenthau, former American ambassador to Turkey, joined in the verbal bombardment of Morris Hillquit, socialist, whose backers claim he will be the winner in tho four-cornered race. Referring to Hillquit 's refusal to buy liberty bonds, Mergcnmau- charged that any candidate who took such an attitude was open to suspicion. Oscar S. Straus. also former Turkish ambassador, declar ed that Hillquit s refusal to buy bonds was treasonable. Judge John F. Hylan, democratic can didate, was out today with charges that Mayor Mitchel was trying to deceive the people with forgeo. letterheads and other documents bearing Hylan 's name as a member of various pro-German or ganizations. Mitchel replied that Hylan 's state mcnts were as false as his loyalty to the murdered Americans on the Lusitania,aa raise as his present assumed loyalty to the American soldiers in the trenches. There was a near-riot at Carnegie hall last night when a mass meeting cheered denunciation of William B. Hearst as "the fountain head of pro German propaganda in the United States senate." This charge against Hearst who is supporting Hylan for mayor was made by James M. Beck. This meeting also adopted a resolution demanding the ex pulsion from the senate of Senator La Follette. When this resolution was read a man in the crowd yelled "La Fol lette for president," until he was set npon by half a dozen men in evening dress and bustled out, while women leaned from their seats to slap him. Hillquit continued his fight with half a docsn speeches. William M. Bennett, republican aspirant, threw more ginger into the battle, by delivering funeral oration over the ' ' remains " of bis op ponents. It was pointed ont today that the sol dier rote may decide the winner. Thou sands of New Yorkers in France and J at training camps have a right to vote. All candidates are campaigning in tne artillery camps. SOLANS B. MOLYNETJX DIES. New York, Nov. 3. Boland B. Mo-ly-nenx, eentral figure in a famous mur der mystery, which was generally known as the Molyneux case, nearly V) years ago, died today in a Long Island nospital, DROWNED AT POBTLAND. 63, a guard on the steel bridge, was xaocxea rrom in oniige into mo niw and drowned her today. Six Army Officers Travel by Balloon Grinnell, Iowa, Nov. 3. Six army officers, travelling by balloon, arrived here at 6:55 this morning from Omaha, which they left last night at 11:30. They stopped to secure ballast and started on the return trip shortly be fore noon. Captain Frank W. Goodale of Omaha piloted the party. Sergeant H. E. Hill, Eoyal flying squadron, who has' seen servico on the French front, was also in the party. RAILROAD MEN ASK THIRTY-ONE PER CENT MORE OfJEKPLOYERS Want Largest Increase for Those Getting the Lowest Wages Chicago, Nov. 3. Wage increases! averaging thirty, per cent for all rail- road employes "back of the engine." will be asked by the Brotherhood of Bailway Trainmen and the Order of Bailway Conductors, it wus learned this afternoou. The railroads will be asked to make the largest Increases for em ployes receiving the lowest wages. The executive committees oi tne two organizations are still in session. This applies to all employes engagoa in the actual operation of trains, cept engineers ana iiremen, who won "taken care of" under the Adamson law. T.a Tlnn'f. Wuit Kt.rika. . . ir n -r i.i tt.. uiicago, inov. o. --x woum himi - -- x " talk a month than strike a minute." statement mentioned a French advance W. G. Lee, president of the Brother- over a front of twenty kilometls to hood of Bailway Trainmen, in an inter- . dPth of one kilometer and occ upa view with the United Press today, thus t;n of Courfecn, Cerny, Allies and denied reports that union officials in jUlv'e "x; ... . m. tha conferenci here would-force a strike of IJjJ w" J?" Tlita Amette 250,000 railroad P V furtheX IwT" every big railroad in the Lnited States , official Announcement -unless they were granted substantial) 0ccu tion of Courtecon, Cerny, Ail wage increases.. lci nJ chevreux in a French advnne Lee said the purpose of the pre"" over a frontage of thirteen miles on joint conference of the Brotherhood of the-Chemin-des-Dames Was announced Bailway Trainmen and Order of """'j by the war office today as the result way Conductors was to "take care of 0j the jerman retreat from the Aisno employes who were not includod in pro- Bcetor- visions of the Adamson law, passed by Owing to pressure by the French in congress to avert a general railroad fantry and the crushing effect of tha strike. He advocated a rate increase for stench artillery, "Mie Germans Save all railroads to enable them to meet the cvacuatcd the Chemln-dcs-Dames, this wage advance that will be asked. statement said. "I believe the railroads are entitled Ti,e French have advanced over a to a rate increase," Lee told the Unit- fr0nt of 20 kilometers and to a depth ed Press. "It is not fair that they should be fnrpd tn nsk the ffovernmont for rate t..A.nnana an ttimi pmiitnvfltt mav have more money. "The United States Steel Corpora- tion and other big concerns have given (Continued on page seven.) SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN WILL SPEAK MONDA Y AT HOSPITAL MEETING The Salem Commercial club promises the people of Balem a rare treat Mon day night. Mr. George Chamberlain, chairman of tho military affairs com mittee of the United States senate has agreed to speak to Balemites aud give them first hand information on War matterB. The meeting will be held in the armory at 8 o'clock and will be free to everyone. ... Mr. Chamberlain is in great demand as a speaker and it is a real treat that the Commercial club has in store for Salem. Senator Chas. McNary will act as chairman of the meeting and will also make a short talk on some pertinent subject. Appropriate music vm " vided. . , , Mr. Chamberlain had made several other important engagements for Mon day night and it was only after F. W. Steusloff, president of the Salem Com mercial club bad wired him several times that he could be induced to come to Salem. Mr. Steusloff promised Mr. Chamber lain that the citizens of Salem would turn ont in a big mass meeting for him and Mr. Chamberlain expects to deliver a message to them that could not be secured from any other source. Ho will give them an idea of what the war has meant to the United States, and what has yet to be done. As chairman of German Messenger Captured On Border El Taso, Texas, Nov. 3. Ernest Losendorff, a German subject, was ar rested here today by agents of the de partment of justice, while attempting to cross the border from Juarez ifito FJ Paso. He is alleged to have car ried message from the United States to German diplomatic officials in Mexico. Losendorff is said to have ad " AMwvCntv Mitrri from German t Minister von Eckhardt at Mexico City to G. Goeldner, the Uerman consul ai Chihuahua City. FRHICH ADVANCE OVERGROUND LEFT BY GERMAN FLIGHT Front of Thirteen Eliles Is , Abandoned Under Severe Pressure PROGRESS TOWARD LAON IS MADE MUCH EASIER Berlin Reports "North Amer- ican n n ' II.. rnsuueis iiavc Been Captured raris, Nov. 3. France won a great bloodless victory today in a sweeping advance following a German retire ment from all of the Chemin-des-Damea line between Oise and Aisne canal on the west and Corbeny on the cast. Ov er this section today's official report recorded a French advance to the Ail lette river. The advancing French found ' ths Germans in their "strategic retreat" cx-jhad blown up all bridges across MuS n,rnaj, First announcement of the German withdrawal in the Aisne sector wan made in last nightl's official state ment, which was delayed far beyond .. , , . : ITL!. .!.U 'tha nanfll hnnr nf ittRiiance. This night of one kilometer (two thirds of a mile) Courtecon, Cerny, Chevreux and Ail i. now occupied by the French am leu. now occupied bv all beyond the Chcmin-des-Damcs Toad and the ridge on the way to Laon. Tha cities form a chain all approximately Continued on Pago Seven.) the Military Affairs Committee, Mr. Chamberlain has been in constant touch with the military affairs of the nation and knows probably as well as any other man in the country the real issues of the present struggle. A small portion of the lower floor will be reserved for the hospital work ers. Outside of this the seats will all be free to the public. ( ABE MARTIN Maybe It jest happens, but among all U k ,J ; n tMntfra for 1U U1BU 111 J 1 .J uv.u " 'ft -"""-ft" " " - ther country these days not one wear long nalr. Mrs. x.are nua s momer ar rived t'dsy an' '11 watch th baby fer a month or two while her daughter git a drees altered ;