Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, November 17, 1917, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTODAY'S WEATHER 1 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS I tP,M STJ.L- (22,000 READERS) DAILY Only Circulation ia Salem Guar anteed by tie Audit Bureau of . Circulations. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS BEE VICE Oregon: Toni and Sunday except ram ex- , treme northwest portion; moderate south easterly TljJv a do no m 5 FOKTIETH YEAR NO. 274 SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS aSLcS V aj ffl Tim C ... . z . ; 1 r CONGRESSMEN III TRENCHES GIVE HELL SUP r4 O Get Separated From Party and. Were Only Thirty Yards From Enemy BUCKED FOR COVER AND GOT CLOTHES SPOILED All Agreed It Was Isteresiisg But Foolish to Visit the Tresichss By William Philip Simms (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the British Armies in Flanders, Nov. 17. Five members of the Ameri can Congressional delegation were un der firo on their recent visit to front line trenches in Belgium it developed to day. Gorman watchers, noting a stir in the allied lines, figured on something uu- ii.nml and sprayed an opening in the : into military service," say the regula breastworks with machine gnu fire, the j tions. bullets splashing about the heads of the I Utia of 8,10,1 labo1' 111 tlie lilltai'y .,.,;,,tt nt a,..' , i w ; service would take any iovm national quintet or American legislators it..... 1 , t s ' "' a' necessity requires but principally in The five congressmen who frankly j iminitiun factories, chemical laborator adinitted after they had emerged un- ies and in skilled work at the front or armed from the Boee fire that it was behjnd the lines. just plain luck that saved them, were ' The conscription of expert labor, how--Beprescntativcs Dill, Johnson, Miller ever, will not be resorted to it was in Timberlaiid and Hicks. dicated by the provost marshal gener- With Hepreseutatives Goodwin, Dale, ' al's office today, unless the required Taylor, Stephens and Carter, these five : men cannot be found among the reg were being shown trenches south of . ulurly drafted men. Dixmude. The five werr 'separated from Tlie method of conscripting skilled la the remainder of the party at one point lor and the,,pi'otection afforded even and slipped into lines a bare thirty! after such a call is decided upon, it yards from the Germans. Enemy watch- fully detailed in the following extract fulness centered on a gap iu the breast- from t!ao new regulations issued today: works of the lines here breastworks " When there is need for the servlees being made necessary at this point be- j of men expert or highly skilled in any cause of floods. When the Americans ' special class of work, the adjutant geii got to this point they were greeted withlcrnl of the army shRll make requisition perieci iury or machine gun fire. The bullets spat wickedly all about their heads. Tueu a Herman-- buttery ssme where to tlie rear flung a screaming shell close by. The visitors hurriedly ducked and es caped. When they got out again, all solemnly resolved that it "was very in teresting, but very foolish" to visit front line trenches unless one was ob liged to do so. Never Touched 'Em. By Lowell Mellett (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, Nov. 17. Five pretty good suits of clothes were badly mussed by mud but five perfectly good American congressmen who wore them got . back here today all safe and sound from a front line experience with Fritz' meth ods of starving. The five were Bepresentatives Dill. Johnson, Miller, TimbeVlnke, and Hicks Their little experience took nlace on . Friday miming on tho Belgian front. consent sail be selected iu the order de C'onducted by King Albert 's personal ' termined by their class and order num aidc, the congressmen visited a trench i ber." which Representative Johnson today I Men exempted on other grounds than described as about fifty yards from the , industry or agriculture, however for Germans. I example, dependency cannot be con- " We had just gotten into the trench " scripted in this manner except upon Johnson told the United Press, "when special order of the secretary of war. there was a funny sound. I turned Enlistment in the army for men of around to ask the officer what it was, 'draft age stops December 15. But men while Tiniberlake was remarking just far down the list may enlist in the navy (Continued on page three) I ABE MARTIN t 1 I Mr.M o;wfi cKimeounay asicea leil Uinkley how many soldieis Xapoleon had at Auster-'ber iiiz an ae saio, "i. aon t know, 1 Hint seen a newspaper or a magazine fer week. ' It 's all richt t ' be forward look-1 in', but worryo' about who's goin' t' be president o' Germany is th' limit. CONSCRIPTION OF EXPERT LABOR IS HIGHLY PROBABLE SC-Not Be Resorted To Ua- . Al mm -i i '? Jien Unnot Be round "V'ong Drafted LAW PROVIDES CALL MAY BE MADE ON STATES Those Exempted On Account cf Dependency Cannot Be Taken Washington, Nov. 17. Conscription of skilled labor for war work may be come a fact under the new draft reg ulations issued today. ' ' When the national interest is bet ter served by inducing such" men into military service, than by leaving them engaged in industry or agriculture neither deferred classification nor the order numbers assigned by lot can be permitted to defer te calf of such men on the provost marshal general for the number and class of men needed. How It la Doha. - j "Thereupon, the provost marshal gen eral shall call upon the governor of one or more state for such number of total required that will distribute tho bur den equally among the states. "Thereupon tho adjutant general shall call upon one or more local boards to examine the questionaires of the registrants with the qualifications re quired, including only those placed in a deferred classification on the sole ground of engagement in industry or agriculture. ' ' The adjutant general shall examine tho lists and memoranda and sail or der the immediate physical examination and induction into military service of such men as will best meet the require ments specified. "Among registrants whose qualifica tions are equal, those who consent shall be selected first and those who do not and marine corps. BRITAIN'S BUSY WAR DAY. Ti Today's news showed practic ally every branch of British war activity on every front engag ed against Germany. Field Marshal Haig reported a new blow around Passchen daele, which gained ground; British monitors were in ac tion against Austrian troops in the marshes of Veicchia, Italy. British artillerymen were an nounced for the first time as being in action against German Austrian force.s on the Italian front. A British light naval force en countered a similar German force in Heligoland bight, en gaged it and forced the enemy to flee. British forces continued their steady circling of Jerusalem. MRS. OLEASON FREE. Oakland. Cal., Nov.. 17. Mrs. Helen Glea'on. convicted last week of man- , . ... , , ,, old daughter Siyriam that her mother smothered a 20-days old infant to had death two years ago, was freed today by Judge Ogden when she appeared for , sentence. JMyriam told the court that'frew Bre misging. Captain J. Kolseth testimony was false and had been i3 8m0ng the survivors. given to "get even" with her mother) tor an imaginary wrong, -- I In -New Orleans they are calling turn out to be jut a professional vo thera "jass sass" orchestras. laiisi. 'III' ill i ' i ' IISl 1 ht J 3 1 fJli l WWW I l " 11 f t J 3 ! i i iM lfl I 'i F 7'! Ill U Hilti i 1 if Art i! I 1 ' I J-rSS I ' " - i 4 V i JUL' . I WW "If lLLr PLi-1 Lli; JUL" UVVUv' FIFTEEN AMERICAN NAMES INSCRIBED ON ROLL OF HOKO France Pays Honor to Amer ican Heroes Who Repulsed Germans- By J. W. Pegler, (United Press Staff Correspondent) American Field Headquarters, France, Nov. 17. Fifteen American heroes were inscribed on the roll of fame by a French general today the first reg ular American army soldiers fighting on French soil, to achieve this honor. . Among the fifteen were tho three American soldiers who were the first! to give up their lives in action in France Privates Gresham, Hay and Euright. The other twelve were Amer ican soldiers who recently repulsed German raid. The citation read: "Despite a ra'in of eiebt to ten thousand enemy shells, the Americans resisted with grenades, rifles and m- I tols, forcing a numerically superior en- I emv to ret ire ' ' The names in-scribed on the Toll of honor besides Gresham. Hav and Kn- right are: Second Lieutenant V. M. McLaugh Kn; Seeond Lieutenant R. O. Patterson; Second Lieutenant E. F. Erickson; Sergeant John Farrowood; Corporals Dave Knowles, Homer Givens, Privates Charles Massa. W. M. Thomas, George Hnrd, Boyd Wade, Robert W. Minken, John Jarvis. Citation in French official Teports customarily carries with it award of the Croix de Guerre. It was not made known today -whethe this same eousc will be adopted as to the American heroes. j Desultorv artillerying was continuing all along the American front today, but there were.no irfantrv actions. STJRVTV03S PICKED UP Jnnean, Alaska. Nov. 17 After nar rowly escaping death by fighting high seas in open boats, the 2S survivors of the wrecked fishing steamer Man- .!re". "r.OD&" nere eooara tne i stP Unpos and immediately :arrested on federal wairant vesterdav. d ,B th(, ,00ti of th we(.ked .i,j,; i ir: TV, .. t.,... .i :.;fi0j ,L:i Mi, on. uiii?uii iii c j. vu v u unit auu s; xri,tt. . The stiffly '.dressed, vaeunm-faced man we thought to be an undertaker. 4 , ft I- Mi w DEDICATED ! II Put the Same Push and Energy Behind Shipbuilding He Has Used In Building Up His Automobile business New York, Nov. 17.-"-IIenry Ford is to put .into American ship construction the same drive and steam that made his automobile industry a record breaker. This is whaf the government wants from Ford and this is what Ford will deliver, Chairman Hurley of tho ship ping board declared here today. Ford's job with the shipping board will put him in control of ship con struction, Hurley said. He will direct the manufacture of necessary parts in all sections of the country, supervise their assembly at shipyards and see that America's war-born merchant marine outstrips U-boat destruction. Ford will appoint his own "cabinet' of American industrial leaders to work with him. "Speed is the watchword in ship- buibiing," said Hurley. "It will not be Ford's plants that will be so valu able to the government; it will be his genius. "We aim to standardize shipbuilding. Of course we cannot build all the ships alike, but one of the first gteps will bo to reduce tho number of models. "Boilers and mechanical parts of ships must be built in all parts of the country and of a uniform type so they may be used in a ship at Portland, Maine, or sent to the Pacific coast. An3 they must be ready for installa tion when the hull is ready. "It is this management of materials and manufacture which will be bandied by Ford. "We now ha've all the marine en gineers, designers and technically trained men needed for the operation end of the work, but we have no train dispatcher or general superintendent of this nation-wide shipbuilding yard. We have been operating on the old side track style. "We are now going to lay a double track. If the parts are not ready when the construction has reached a point where they arc necessary, we are now compelled to wait for them. This j cine strife has already cost probably delay must disappear." gooo lives an,, thousands more in the When asked who Ford a?sitantsi , , . . . , , , , , . j. , - ; crowded enters of Pe.trograd and Mos- i the work would be Hurley said: pow f d h b 8tarvation . "That is up to him I have confidence , ,)lc (.f,aIition government, today that he will select the best production , rer,r,rte,j forining Vke. immediate and speed experts in the country." 'jteps ., I IfuKsia has no strong man now. Judg- VILLA SURROUNDS JUAREZ. inz ffom ,he fit Vlre,t news from - . , ;Petros;rad in several days, arriving to- El Paso, Texas. .ov. IT. An ad- daVi premier Kerensky has dropped out vance guard of Villa forces -today en- 0f sight. One report had him a refugee circled the city cf Juarez, across theijn (iggnispt fleein? from Bokheviki river from El Paso. The bandits so far wrath. General Kornilc-'f's where have made no effort to attack, appar- abouts were not stated, ently waiting for reinforcements to join j In Moscow latest news indicated a them from Ojinaga. Their outposts are great force cf BolsheviUi troops attack plainly visible from the tower of the j- . . - Cathedral of Our Lady. ' (Coatiined on fag six-) Iff ' . : mmm. j " w I r - - I H, tiRY FOO L . i. - f ESTIMATE THE STRIFE 11 PETROGRAD HAS COST 5000 LIVES Strike of Railroad Men Threatened Thai Would C?.tr3 Starvation London, Nov. 17. Russia's intcrnc- union LABORTO ENTER POLITICAL ARENA NEXT YEAR Fursureth of Seamen's Union Advises Against This Move 168 RESOLUTIONS ARE BEFORE CONVENTION Plot To Give Organized Labor War Program Genuine Pro-German Twist - LABOR TO ENTER POLITICS Buffalo, N. Y Nov. 17 By a vote of 15 to 21 the Am erican Federation of Labor to day determined to abandon its lifelong non-partisan attitudo and aictively enter American politics next year. This action took the form of a resolution to change the fed eration's constitution to pro vide for the annual convention" in June of each year, a .few months prior to the elections in stead of late in November af ter the elections. It is said by labor leaders to change the en tire cohplexion of the organ ized labor movement in thiS country, amounting virtually to tho organization of a third party, in opposition to both the old lino . republican and demo cratic organizations. This vote assures a strong labor tinge to the eonssrestdm al elections next fall. The- Am erican Federation cf Labor -1 . .(.convention hereatter, it, it ex- pected, will bo looked upon as ' almost as much of a political nomination convention as eith er the republican or democrat ic conventions. lg k tf 1 I lf 1 b ..1 Is "T 1 "P T 9C By Oeorge Martin (United Press staff correspondent) Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 17. Counsell ing the labor of the world to hoe its own row and not meddle in eithe? peace or war politics at this time, Pres ident Andrew J. Furuscth of the Sea men's International union, appeared at the American Federation of Labor con vention hero today to sponsor that pro gram. Above all, ho cautioned labor not to hate. Although taking no active part in the open convention as yet, Furuseth outlined his position to the United Press. Anent, certain resolutions and the report of allied conference Delegate John Golden advocating that American i-i w ..1 .,1 i j ii f a I"7re"leu "l au wo:.u ,u""rjliko precision, the British soldiers have said ' ' "The labor of no nation had a voice in starting this war. It cannot now af ford to concern itself in the polities of tho war and peaco situation with out taking upon its shoulders some of the responsibility for the war. "This applies to any taction in the ii,i,,T f!nT.,nir n.i nil tho labor of any nation or group of , '"u(1 aloU the front, coupled with lack nations not representing all the labor' i' adequate bridges across the Livenza of all the nations. j nul Tagliumento, has forced the enemy Labor's Time Later 'for the most part to rely on five inch . . . . . .u !.. .... ..a l . I...... lu.... "i can see no advantage to labor's 'participation in war and peaco politics ;at this time. There will come a time when the accredited representatives of all labor, including that of the central powers, can get together. lilooay figuring was succeeuea Dy negw "There is nothing for labor to do'tiatioiis for a compromise government now but concern itself with its duty today. Premier KerensKy' s whereabouts to its respective nations as nntionnlsJ arc uuknown. !Let it follow tho flags of its nation 1 Negotiations are in progress between while the war is fought out by those the Maximalists and the moderate so who started it. ' cialist leaders. Three auya ago the plan "Above all, let labor refuse to hate- j f0r a coalition was broached. The Bol- Ours is not the blood guilty for this j sheviki, or Maximalists, have so far war. Ours is not the animosity." produced a deadlock in tho situation Meantime, the convention itself got t Dy demanding tho most liberal rcpre down to action and adopted a number j gcntation of all political factious in the of the 168 resolutions. j ministry of the proposed government. President Gompers was authorized , petrograd and its environs were geu- port before adjournment on the alleued national labor shortage and conditions under which women are being assen bled if industry. A re.io'u'.ir n was adopted conaenin- ing Jr.dse Hayden of Boston as hav- j ing "a biused mind and a contracted, view - ior am aiirgcu V""" strike put np against the barbed wfte front line." Pro-Germans Busy Buffalo, N. Y.. Nov. 17. A plot to give organized labor's official war program a pro-German twist was un covered at the Ameriean Federation of Labor convention here today. I All that was available through President Gompers himself was pepe- (Continued on page three) t ttie T l.-.l . I ni'..,ani Air. I " f .uu" 1 Vk tl n ' "ls tliree '-m3' Th0 Cossacks, bt cry labor law during the ai3oi,lixi,a and armed than the ;,,.y - .. . alicviki. managed at first to over Idisloya are tlie laborers and ,f I con 1 'adva,.tLe of smaller nun. l wcuia nave vxvtv man w nu imir .v ritish iions EAR GREAT GAPS lil TEUTON LINES Fisrce Artillery Duel Rages --British Guns Outrange These of Enemy ITALIANS PUTTING UP STUBBORN RESISTANCE Neolhtiflus for Compromis Follow Bloody Fighting In rograd By Ed L. Keen m (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, Nov. 17. British monitors are iu action against German-Austrian troops in the marshes of Veecia, striv ing to hold back the Teutonic invaders from Venice. This announcement of the first Brit ish co-operating forces to aid Italy camo from Koine toduy'witli the additional encouraging news that everywhere the Italian line wns holding strongly. A fierce artillery uuel is sweeping along tho whole fifty mile front of tho Have and tho northern fringe of tho Alps. in the mountainous laud the Italians are holding desperately to their posi tions. Rome dispatches today reported this army literally battling inch by inch with the Austrians, holding them sufficiently to givo evidonce of ulti mate defeat of tho enemy's attempt at turning tho Piave river line. Safe in Few Days. Hero in London it was declared if the present front could be maintained! (3 for a few more days the worst danger j, iu mo juue win nave passed. My lilac time, it was estimated hero, British and ,J,.r . 1 trooIls.a"a gus would bo at the front, making their strength felt. Overtopping the sentimental fear for $ .Venice were the cold military facts of sj, the situation at the other end of the $ Italian line, xne desperation of the It alian defense tlioro has niailo the bat tic a costly one for the Austrians. They have only succeeded in advancing four miles into Italian territory. The real trial of strength against the main part of the Piave line has not v, t i Duie. Tho artillery duel is approach ing its maximum of intensity, but. infan try actions so far have been in the na ture of sparring for positions. This main line fighting, it was evident, was awaiting the outcome of tho fighting to the north. The London press today was more op timistic over tho Italian situation al tuougu frunkly prepared for the worst. BritVh Guns in Action. Italian Army Headquarters, Nov. 17. British artillery is iu action against the Austro-Gerniaiis today. iuan Maiming their guns with machine- I caused havoc to the enemy's plans for an advance. Observers reported great gaps torn, in the Austro-German lines by the dead ly rain of shells. At many points the British fire has paralyzed tho enemy's offensive. Tho Teutonic artillery is outranged I V tneso uritisn guns. A wilderness 01 guus. jujr ui mcse u,. fcileuced by the British batteries. i j Are Talking Compromise. Petrograd, Nov. 16. (Delayed) erallv cniiet todav, after sanguinary fighting of recent days. The most des perate battles were fought around Gat china and Tsarkoe-8elo. There Keren sky massed three Cossack regiments and l.inra f ll-MA flf flnill1TIlt PliM. Fllf thred d&ys ,iU provlsiouai government troops f. ht witli varrying success against ' ti, li,.ll.viki. Tsaikoo-Se o chanued tter Bol- overcomo bers. Their recklessly brave charges repcat- edlv recovered positions. Cossacks Overwhelmed. Finally, however, the Trotsky-Lenine miuistry massed an overwhelmingly su perior number of soldiers and the Cos sacks were broken up. They had to sur render. The greatest menace to Petrograd 's future today was the. threatened strika of railway employes. Their truce ends (Continued on page three)