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FORTIETH YEAR NO. 272
SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1917
llAWJ uO BTATVOH-fTVH (TENTS
PETRSRAD IS
INFLfeONE
tTflTS
Battles In Streets Continue
According Advices From
Danish Capital
LONDON OPTIMISTIC
OVER LATEST NEWS
Another Contradictory Report
Says Kerensky Is Being
Driven Out
Stockholm, Nov, 15. Petrograd was
reported to be in flames in a report
which reached here today.
No details of the fire were given. It
was assumed here, however, that with
forces of the Bolsheviki and provision
al govornmen still reported clashing
in tho Capital's streets, tthe flames
lmd been started by intent or by shel
At the last word from Petrograd, tho
provisional- government was reported
practically in control of. the city.
London View Optimistic
London, Nov. 15. The Bolsheviki
adventure in government is all- but
ended, as London read the meager Kus-
ian newg to"day. There was no dirtct
word from Petrograd, but cumulative
ovidence seemed to point to the provis
ional government's gradual return to
jnwer in the capital.
As Russian observers .here saw the
situation, the nation's salvation now
depends on the elomentg'composing the
Minimalist, radical, bourjjeoise, peas
ant. and Cossack parties and the co-operative
unions. The last named includo
a third of the total population of Rus
sia. -
It was .believed here that when the
provisional forces do regain complete
power the Minimalists and tne '-radical
Vailn parties would unite on a cabinet
which would adopt a vigorous military
and foreign policy.
Whatever government emerges, th
chief problem for immediate and press"
ing settlement would seem some solu
tion of the present economic crisis
Means must be adopted to increase the
production of food.
As Russians here saw it, tho provis
ional government must uproot . the
seeds of anarchy sown by German prop
.agandists and rajjical fanatics and then
follow up with a restatement of war
aims. 1
According to indirect word from Pe
trograd, arrangements have been made
to convene tho constitutional assembly
as soon as possible.
On all side here emphasis was laid
on the fact that Russia has -nothing to
fear from the prominent part tho Ccs
packs, are taking in putting down the
iiolsheviki revolt. The Cossacks from
their earliest history have been com
munistic in their ideas and intensely
democratic.
Say Kerensky Defeated
Copenhagen, Nov. 15. The Bolshe
viki revolutionists have Jreeonquered
Gatchina and the Kerensky troops are
retiring to the south, according to dis
patches received here today from ilel
eingfors. The Bolsheviki forces, it was de
clared, are attempting to cut off the
retreating govertment soldiers.
; Engineers to E-ussia
A Pacific Port, Nov. 15- Unitel
btstcs army engineers in command of
(Continued on Pace Two.)
ABE MARTIN
STUBBORN FIGHT
ALL ALONG FRONT
OF ITALIAN ARMY
- '
Austrians -Hewing Way by
Inches Inrough Mountains
of Trentino
ITALY'S OFFICIAL REPORT
SAYS LINE HELD FAST
Submarine Sinkings Lowest
Last Week of Any Since
War Begun
GERMANS AGAIN BEATEN
London, Nov. 15 The second
heavy German counter attack
in three days againstl newly
won British positions north of
Passchendaele was completely
repulsed yesterday ufternoon,
Field Marshal Haig reported
this afternoon-
Tho German attack came af:
ter greatly increased enemy ar
tillery fire. ".
By Webb Miller
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
London, Nov. 15. Over a total front
of fifty miles the great battlo which
may decide the fate of Northern Italy
was developing today.
German and Austrian troops are test
nig tno streugtli of the l-iavo river
line at six different points, according
to riome dispatches.
They are pouring a tremendous and
concentrated artillery fire again the
Italian defenders. At four places tho
enemy apparently had obtained a foot
hold, - ' - --
Austrians from the Trentino region
now at Asiago are literally slipping for
ward over the Alps by inches, suffering
terrible casualties from the stubborn
Italian defense.
It is this menace of a turning move
ment on the northern end of. the great
line that was regarded here' today as of
most gravity iu the Italian situation.
Every inch the Austrians drive forward
nere increases the danger to the rear of
the Piave river line. On the right wing
of the fifty mile line the Germans were
today within fifteen miles of Venice.
lighting was in progress in the Vac
cina marshes.
At Gallio the Austrians with 6,000
troops, were trying to slip behind the
main body of defenders. - j
The strength of tne Italian resistance
n tins fateful cattle was evidenced
in scores of details reported today. Of
44 armored cars sent out to harrass
the enemy, only 28 returned.
"ONWARD WITH GOD"
REVISED LIST OF THE
AMERICAN LOSSES 1 H
GERMAN TRENCH
One More Wounded Than Was
First Reported According
to Latest Advices
ENGLISHMAN f BRHIGS
HESSAGETffWOIERS
INTHIS COONIfiY
Tells Federation Convention
How Labor Stood by Gov
ernment In War
I tia. SA II I
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Italians Hold Fast.
Home, Aov. lo. Italian troops are
holding fast on the Piave river line.
"fresh enemy attempts to cross the
river were frustrated," todav s war
office statement asserted. "Units which
have already crossed are closely shut iu
around the Zenson loop, which is under
our artillery fire.
"Around Mount Tomatico our ad-
anced posts withdrew, after resistance
to points already decided, tho war of
fice continued. x
Mount Tomatico is about three miles
nearlv duo soutn of ieltre.
"At Quero pass the enemy's attack
was paralyzed by our resistance. (Oue
ro pass is on the I'lave, seven miles
below ieltre.)
'The enemy was repulsed at Melett,
Davanti, Mount 1'iara, Mount Castelgo-
berna. also 1 rizoni and on tne conflu
ence of the Brenta-Cismon rivers. The
same was true between the C'ismon and
Piava."
(AH the points mentioned are on the
northern, or left wing of the Italian
lines."
Germans Report Advance.
Berlin, via London, Xov. 15. Around
Fonzano and Feltre we are advancing
south, fighting and in contact with the
enemy," declared today' official state
ment of the Italian war theatre.
"There is nothing new to report on
the lower Piave."
Divers Get Only One.
London, Nov. 15.- England ' satis
faction with the official report showing
the low mark reached in Germany's
submarine warfare was tempered today
by question of whether a contributing
cause might not be a plan is Berlin to
change the zone of U boat opefationa.
One suggestion was that not only
were the allies improving the work of
their anti-submarine campaign, but that
Germany bad recalled her U-boats pos
sibly to make a change in the submar
ine program.
The week a official sinkings showed
only one merchantman of more than
16(lO tons destroyed and onlv five be-
Ever notice "how some fellers disap-1 low that tonnage,
pear when th' time comes t ' quit ar-j
Washington, Nov. 15. Three Ameri
cans were killed, eleven wounded and
eleven missing in the first German raid
on an American trench salient Novem
ber 3, according to a revised official
II af m a it a viiKl i n nrlotr
"on umuu uultaj-u iuuni , - . .
1 nnn irAnrin -,A n it t T.l. tt:ii
In addition to those already report- sen7thY Bri i t
ed, the casualties included one lieuten- gross.
ant and five privates among the wound- The patriotic moves of the English
ed. The original announcement stated !wor.king'ncn ;0,uld n.ot b? too highly
(Buffalo, N. Yy. Nov. 15. How or
ganized labor throughout Great Bri
tain has battled in the cause of world
wido democracy, both in the trench
and in no less important industrial ser
vice at home, was told to the doleeates
of the " American Federation of Labor
FEMALE LW.W ARE
RELEASED FROM JAIL
AT WASHINGTON
Five Are Still In Jail and
Four of Them Are Hunger
Strikers
GEEAT DARK WAY.
. New York, Nov. 15. New
York's "great dark way" will
be shown at 11 o'clock tonight,
when all tho big electric adver
tising signs along Broadway are
extinguished. To save coal, the
lights will burn only between
7:45 and 11 p. m.
OHIO STILL WET
Oolumbus, O., Nor. 14. With
official returns from all 88
Ohio counties in the secretary
of state's office late yesterday,
. the wet majority in the prohibi
tion vote was 1,137. The total
vote was:
Wet 52,727; dry 522,590.
'
RAILVAYMOI HOT
TO STRIKE NOV
BECAUSTOF WAR
Head cf Brotherhood Ex
presses Complete Failh la
President Wilson
Former Secretary Foster
, Dies at Advanced Age
Washington, Nov. 15. Former Secre
tary of State John H. Foster, father-in-law
of Secretary of State Lansing,
died here today after a long illness.
He served in the Harrison administra
tion and was regarded as one of the
foremost international law authorities
of his time.
Foster was born In Pike county, In
diana, in 1836. After distinguished ser
vice in the Civil war he edited a paper
In Evansville, Ind., of which city he
was later posimasrer. lie served as am- whethor he thought the president's pot-
i.i ni-i. vi 111 I, I, liirn l (.111. 4VttS91 uiiu iaa
a factor in several treaties. The body
will be shipped to Evansville, Jnd., for
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS
WILL REMAIN LOYAL
General OpirJsn Prevalent
That Both Sides Will Ap
peal to Wilson
Cleveland, Or., Nov. 15.rr-" There is
not going to be a railroad strike
don't even imagine it for a minute."
With tBat statement, W. G. Lee,
president of the Brotherhood of Bail-r
way Trainmen, which is voting on a
demand for increased wages, register
ed toda-" his faith in President Wil
son 's policy.
Lee was asked by the United Press
burial.
five were wounded. The new names are:
First Lieutenant William H. Mc
Laughlin, Coltec, Ark.
Private William P. Grigsby, Mrs. Liz
zie Grigsby, 1278 Willow Avenue, Louis
ville, Ky., mother.
Grigsby was formerly reported miss
ing. Private Louis A. Defier, box 40G
route 6, Sullivan, Jnd.
Private Paul W. Fann, Sarona, Wis.
Private - George Wesley, emergency
address Miss Margaret Welch, Dayton,
Ky.
Private Lester C. Smith, Concord, N.
C.
praised, he said, stating that after the
declaration of war there were so many
of them trying to 'enlist the govern
ment requested unions to exert their
influence to keep the men in civilian
life at the shipyards, factories nnd mu
nition plants.
He told of tho feelina of unres.t nnd
(discontent that showed itself in the
English and Scotch shops during the
early months of the warj of the inves
tigations by commissions as to their
causes and the better understanding
that finally resulted in speeding up
production until the government has
felt the necessity of stepping in to
restrain the speeding up process per
Private Dewey D. Kern, previously Imitted by organized labor to win the
listed missine. has been accounted fori war.
and is not hurt. M
Additions to the list of missing are:
Private Clyde I. Grlmsley, Stockton,
ass.
Private Hoyt D. Decker, Vincennes,
ind.
The name given as Private Keck-
on, unidentified, previously on the miss
ing l.at, does not appear on the revised
list.
The war department's statement says
that all the wounded are doing well.
Admiral in Conference.
London, Nov. 15. Admiral Benson,
chief of the United States navy board
and a member of the American mission,
has been actively conferring with Brit
ish navy officials, according to an ad
miralty announcement today. Among
those with whom he has been in con
sultation are the first lord of the ad-
Speaking of. the United States en
trance into the war, Hill said: "You
are with us now and we shall win."
Will Demand Justice
Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 15. If employ
ers in munition plants and shipyards
make unjust demands on the workers,
nothing can be done by the American
Federation of Labor to settle strikes.
President Samuel Gompers said today.
'I cannot set an arbitrary rule of
settlement for such strikes," he said,
ana u i uid l eouia not enforce it
Washington, Nov. 15. After 57 hours
hunger-strike, two women's party pick
ets were released from the district jail
today. They reported Miss Boss Winslow
"clothes striking," refusing to wear
prison garb. She is wrapped in a prison
blanket and confined to her cot bj
weakness caused by forcible feeding, ac
cording to Miss Gertrude Crocker, Chi
cago, and Miss Gladys Greiner, Balti
more, the released picketers,
Of five suffragettes still in the jail,
four are hunger striking, including Miss
Alice Paul and Miss Winslow. Miss kato
Heffelfinger, Shamokin, Pa., has bee
on a hunger strike seventy hours, it was
stated. Miss Crocker charged the jail
officials with denying her a change of
underclothing during her iio days term,
Thirty suffragettes are in Occoquan
workhouso today. Most of these will ap
pear in police court tomorrow to re
ceive' additional sentence for a second
picketing offenso.
Two Escaped Convicts
Captured at Troutdale
Portland, Or., Nov. 15. John Majors
and Puul Hunt, of the party of six
convicts who escaped from a state
prison camp near Salem ten days ago,
were caught near Troutdale early to
day by Multnomah county deputy sher
iffs. They were placed in the county
jail here until guards from the peniten
tiary arrive to take them to Salem.
Four of the escaped convicts have
now been captured. The two caught to
day are negroes.
Jesse Taylor, another negro who es
caped was with the two arrested men,
but escaped. The men were graooea
Conditions C&nsinir thf trilr mi,at Ka
considered and their settlement must ! as .thcy wcre bout to climb aboard a
hinge on co-operation of all the parties j traln-
involved.
Wo will do all we can to co-ODerate
with the government. My sentiments in
mis matter are tlie same as those ex
pressed bv President Wilson when he
gumf The' attitude o th' tightwad
briefly stated is this, "Why. should I
Jielp win th' war when I didn't start
Calais Bombarded.
Paris, Nov. 15. Calais was violently
(Continued on Page Two.)
aiiou are m urn lora or rne ae.- .rwL- 'n,- -: .- .
miralty, Kir fcrie Tieddes, and Sir John ! f dera.ti on "
Jellicoe, first sea lord, the statement
said.
The admiralty declared that close eo-i
operation by tne two navies was im
proving the submarine situation.
federation
The Central Labor Union of Greater
New York today had pendinz before
the federation convention a resolution
Hunt and Majors said they had lived
on potatoes and corn stolen from fields.
erican Federation of Labor is prepar
ing to argc the government, as a war
measure, to take a positive stand
ajainst tho "open .shop" and to in
sist upon the employment of union men
wherever possible, on government
work, it was learned from committee
General And Three Bonn.
American Field Headquarters, France,
ov. ia. t or patriotic response to Am- least forty New York delegates wall
rnc wu wr uKnirrB, me iHuiuv oi , rignt any effort to break ud the He-
iA.ijvH uriiriai oiutrrt lieurjy nuiua a , Drew xrades.
to suspend unions which continue to "fairmen and federation leaders nere
send delegates to th United Hebrew!11"" afternoon.
Trades of New York. This body repre- Tne men believe such a concession is
senU 500,00 unionists, many of wbomiiue. organized labor in return for its
oaif.cd to a seceding organization. At i KU " tnwr
tug war wurp..
record.
First, there is the general himself.
Then two sons, botTi captains, one a
West Peinter and the other a former
militia lientenant. A third son has just
enlisted, according to word received by
(Continued on pae two.)
Delegates were pleased today at the
situation at Watertown and Squantum,
Mass-, whore union nnion heads or
dered strikers back to work and the
government stepped in.
Against Open Shop
Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 15 The Am-
BIG SHIPS FROM ORIENT.
San Francisco, Nov. 13. Nine Nip
pon Yusen Kaisha liners which have
been Tunning from the Orient to surope
have been replaced with smaller ves
sels and ordered into the Seattle-Orient
run, according to word received here
today from New York. It is a move
to increase trans-Pacific tonnage,
Rumored Mrs. Failings
Brother Is Alive
Portland, Or., Nov. 15. Will Arthur
Barrett, long thought dead, brother of
the late Mrs. Xarifa J. Failing, bobs
up to claim his sister's half million
dollar estate, now tho objpet of a. bit
ter fight in the courts.
Persistent rumor here today has it
that Arthur Barrett is now in San
Francisco and will soon appear in Port
land to take a hand in the contest.
Dr. W. Tyler Smith, claiming to be
a cousin, is attempting to break Mrs,
over the railroads.
' ' I wouldn 't want to gamble that
doesn't, " he replied.
Lee again asserted that the train
men are entitled to a "full stomach."
And yon know as well as I that
the railroads won 't grant them with
out increased revenues."
This led to the inforence that Lee
expects the deadlock which President
Wilson spoko of in his letter to tho
chairman of the United States board
of mediation and conciliation when ho
mentioned the "possibility of beinjf
obliged to take unusual measures to
cperate tho Tailroads.''
Lee nailed as a "pipe dream" tho
suggestion that tho president miRht
draft tho railway employes and force"
them to work at army wages.
"We have talked to the "president
her estate to Thomas N. Strong and &
L. Mead, life long friends and advisers.
ACQUITTED OF MURDER.
Failing's will, which left the bulk of . "i""? De BKlu-. "ut wou,u
n . afnfA mhaf .anronnAl 1 9 ..if 1 ha
president gave-
" There is no law for such action,"
said Lee. "The government's policy
points the other way. The whole trend
has been to raise existing wages of
necessary employes when the govern
ment sans' their 'unstinted co-operation
to win the war."
Lee again pointod tc England's rail
way dictatorship, sanctioned- by both
tho railroads and the employes, which.
meant bigger profits and higher wash
es. .
"And let no one question the patriot
ism or the railway trainmen," deelnr-
Coleville, Wash., Nov. 15. Mrs.
Margarot Hanshaw, -age 17, wife of
Albert Hanshaw, today stands acquit
ted of the charge of -killing Alex
Strickler and his son, Alex Strickler,
Jr. The jury was out 20 minutes.
"Shoot, kid, shoot," young Hanshaw
yelled at his child-wife as the Strick
lers, waving clubs and an axe, started
across the floor toward her. Mrs.
Han-shaw, expert with a gun, fired
twice. Both men died.
' (Continued on page three)
AMERICAN BOYS GET
GERMANS IN TRAP AND
PUT THEM TO FLIGHT
By J. W. Pegler striking him dead.
(United Press Staff Correspondent) j A mixed Franco-American patrol was
American Field Headquarters, France, slipping over no man 's land in the usual
Nov. 15. More Americans have been rcconnaisance undertaken each night,
killed and wounded in brisk fighting One alert member of the party caught
which has broken out along tho sector the sound of an approaching enemy de
they are holding against the Germans. tachmcnt. With a few whispered words,
A few more men, addition to those the Americans and French divided into
who fell in tho recent German raid, have two sections, flopping down voilently in.
been killed and wounded as a result of shell holes. There they waited until th
heavy shelling of their trenches by Germans were well into the ambuscade.
Boche artillery, it was learned today. ! The Sammies and Poilus let loose. Tho
Tho American artillery is responding Germans even though they outnumber
to the German fire, and the exchanges ed their assailants turned tail and ran.
of the guns arc increasing constantly. yelling furiously as they bobbed up and
Sniping is also increasing. One Amen- uown on me pornmarKea irregularities
can has fallen victim of a German snip- of no man's land. They only waited long
er. Sammies have been potting at the enough to pick up their dead comrades,
Germans, but the toll they have taken and drag along their wounded,
is not known. I Clearing weather during the last fewr
Tho exact extent of the latest Amcr- days has brought along an enlivening or
ican casualties has not yet been an- artillerying. On a recent evening the
nounced from headquarters. It is known, Germans suddenly began furious shell
however, that one German shell hitting ing of one small sector, concentrating
squarely in the American trench, wound- their fire and speeding it up until it
ed several. was a continuous roar.
The Germans are known to have lost 1 The American artillery has been do
one dead and two wounded during the ing considerable starring of its own,
recent activity. countering the German Bhell fire in such
Ambushed Patrol. , spienaia issnion as io eiicii iae praiso
A small number of French and Amer- of a certain French general.
ican soldiers patrolling no man's land
ambushed a German patrol of far super
ior strength and, shooting from shell
holes, pnt the Boches to rout.
Battle activity is increasing in all
branches oi trenches afong the sector
occupied by the Americans.
Oregon Troops Given
Future Dssipatisns
Washington, Kov. 15. TTnder a plan
With the cessation of heavy rains announced Tuesday by the war dep&rt-
the Germans began hurrying up their ment for designating Oregon troops in.
heretof ire desultory gun nre. ine amer-, mim service, the Third Orego
icans took up the challenge in kind. rr.;.j
The exchange waxed to a point of high j supplement. "L i""
intensity on several days. It was liter-. district or oiumoia lmaniry, is now
ally a baptism of fire for tne earn- the 152nd infantry in tne jL.ignty-rss
mies. infantrv briirade. The Orezoa field ar-
With the increase in artillerying came I batteries, A and B, are now par
fire from the front trenches and of of the 147th field artillery in the Bix
snipers on both sides. There is no way ty-sixth artillery brigade; and the thre
of telling the score achieved by the separate squadrons of Oregon cavalry
American marksmen. - The Germans are part of the HSth field artillery ia
caught one Sammy, a sniper 'i bullet 'tho bixty-Bixth artillery brigade,