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V TODAY'S I 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 READERS) DAILY Only CirculaUoa la Salem Guar anteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAX Wf NEWSSERVICE . Oregon: .Tonight fair, warmer cast portion; Saturday . fair, cant, oeaa- , ional . rain west MT4 Portion5 - gentle - If , winds, mostly -southerly. . FORTIETH YEAR NO. 279 SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1917 pptpt1 twa rvwiKi N TRAINS and news ritiJti 1 WU HiJN 8tandsfive cents -v JouTTH'SPffKH 3 o JUl0MMi RUSSIA DISBANDS armed forces iWi MOVE FOR PEACE Demobolization of Army Has Been Started by Ruling Faction EXTREMISTS, HOWEVER, BECOMING UNPOPULAR United States Will Not Heed Request for Armistice From Petrograd London, Nov. 23. Apparently carry ing out its plan to cease all fighting un der an armistice with the central pow ers, the Bolshevik! government of Rus sia today announced the 18P9 class of the army would bo released from ser vioe immediately. Other classes will be similarly demobilized, a wireless mes sage received here asserted. The announcement, as it came by wireless, attributed Lenine and others of the workmen's and peasants' com mittee, as authors of the plan, which was announced in a proclamation. Extremists Losing Grip. Petrograd, Nov. 23. The Bolsheviki is crumbling away, while famine is stiilkiug nearer the capital. The daily ration was once again re duced today. The Kereuskv food minis try remains adamant in its refusal to recognize the Bolsheviki government and this, with paralysis of the railroads brought the city to the realization to day of the near approach of starvation. .Eleven Bolsheviki ministers have now resigned. The Intact was Admiral Ver-. derevskv as minister of marine. Captain Ivnnoff was named his successor. A general headquarters' conference today adopted resolutions favoring a new all-socialist government, to includo the Bolsheviki as well as the maxim alists and to be under Tscherneff as premier. Owing to a famine in heavy clothing in the army, the people's commissaries today decreed special requisition from all persons paying more than 150 roub les ($75) monthly. German Opinion. Amsterdam, Nov. 23. Russia's arm istice proposal cannot be rejected, but nevertheless ought to be carefully ex 'amined from the standpoint of the ctfc tire military situation, in the unanimous opinion of the Berlin press, reported in dispatches today. "Acceptance," Baid the Vossiche Zei tung, "depends entirely on the techni cal conditions of the proposal which certainly will be benevolently examin ed with due regard to the military po sition." - WILL CAUSE LITTLE CHANGE. By Webb Miller (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, Nov. 23. Russia's formal ar mistice with the Teutons will merely make formal a cessation of fighting ia ; ,,11 f.,- No doubt whatever was expressed to- day that the Bolsheviki would carry through their announced intention to es-! tablish a truce and that the Germans would accept. Such a move, however, was not regarded as likely to have any effect on the military situation. Ger- j their liries on the Kussian fronts to al- most nothing. Most of the troops used ! in tl.o Ttniion ArWo oa ti,.,ir aiorthern war zone. The armistice offer illustrates the 3 ABE MARTIN : jl C t All Why not conserve th home guard liy an occasional autoless Pnndavf Laf Bud's aunt made an assignment t'day, havin' spent all fer love. W ill Jf machinery WAR REACHED BY THE A TES T BIG S UCCESS Warn Philip Simms (Uii. as Staff Correspondent) With British Armies in the Field Nov. 2i. The British victory around Oambrai means the was has entered a new stage. , It is war by machinery. It was ma chinery which won the great stroke against the Uiudenburg line. It was ma chinery that made the British casualty list so small as to be almost incredible, in view of the gains achieved. It was machinery and strategy that permitted the cheapest victory in actual cost of ammunition expended, that a modorn army has ever won. Foremost in the array of mechanism with which Byng clinched his victory was the tank. America with the allies can turn out this sort of machinery as fast as Detroit produces Ford cars. Acting as mechanical cavalry and, unlike equine cavalry, almost imper- j ing forces with the government to speed vious to German fire, the British tanks up on machinery particularly ship ma saved thousands of lives. Substituted I chinery. , 1 . CAMPAIGN OF I.W.W. SABOTAGE Heads of Los Angeles Branch of Order Are Now Safe Behind Bars Los Angeles, Nov. 23. An amazing campaign of sabotage planned in south ern California by the I. W. W., was laid bare here today when department of justice officials began reading hundreds of letters and documents seized in raids on headquarters of the organization, fol lowing me arrest of 11. Btredwick, 1. W. W. leader, and Plil McLaughlin, said to be . one of the heads of the Los Angeles branch. Hundreds of letters" and Snuch litera ture were secured, urging members of the organization to carry on a campaign of sabotage. Literature advocating the destruction of machinery and fruit .frees was tound. In this connection the otri- cers found copper tacks that members have been driving into fruit trees to kill them. r Federal officers 'believe the Hauser Packing company fire Wednesday night was started by members of the I. W. W., they allege, recently have been, receiv ing German -money to carry on .their campaign. Frank W. Ball, formerly of Elgin, 111. T r .T i 1, y r Vf r1 is said to have told the police that he started the fire "by accident." Idlirthl the Russian pvtrpmiaf a nro Tirp- lengtns the Kussian extremists are pre PA.Al!V?tll?'f ?r?ra,n f iam internationalism. As observers saw it to day, the move was undoubtedly made with the sympathy of a great part of the war weary armies aud citizenry. The Bolsheviki are emphatically dis claiming any intention of a separate peace. The armistice offer itself is ad dressed to "all belligerents" and stress is laid in Petrograd dispatches on the fact that the offer is merely the first step in the ambitions if idyllic scheme of the Bolsheviki for world peace. In some circles the idea of an arm istiee between Kussian and the Teutons "6-uc" "'"V. " out hat 8Uch a f.",lal agreement might , i !, whichi "'T, 6 ., wouia sweep inousanus or square nines . 1 a, dri.ve timed by theenemy against i starved, totally unprepared and inade qate!y equipped, and which could be made with a minimum of German mili tary effort. The arnnstice mav enable a smoothing out of the Kussian military machine and that Kussia will "come back" the quicker, Will Be TJnneeded. Washington, Nov. 23. Bolsheviki overtures for an armistice will go un heeded by the United States, govern ment officials indicated today. While such overtures have not reach ed the United States yet, press reports indicates that they will be made. The government is likely to make a sharp retort iu an effort to inspire loy al Russians and to discredit the ultra radicals, it was intimated. Secret Diplomacy. Petrograd, Nov. 23. Foreign Minister Trotsky of the Bolsheviki cabinet, an nounced tqdav he possesses "secret dip lomatic correspondence" which he pro poses to publish at once. Naturalized German Arrested As Spy Denver, Colo., Nov. 23 Max Li n der i escaped sailor from an interned Ger-Imen man ship, who took out naturalization papers in Wichita, Kans.. and enlisted I CrosS. Please contradict any impres as a baker in the United States army, ' sion that , this organization is not be waa arrested at Fort Logan today asjing cared for in the way of clothing spy. 'and supplies. The knitting of sweaters j r'ederal officials refused to discuss woolen helmets and wristlets by aux thn case, but it is known that Linder iliurr- organizations htut been untruest- has been shadowed by secret service agents ior lour montns. rrominent lo- cal Germans are reported implicated in Linder ' espionage activities. stage of for the customary preparatory artillery fire, they saved more lives, always sac rificed when artillery preparation warn an enemy of an impending attack and brings an enemy barrage against the assaulting waves. British officers estimated today that of any drum fire preparatory shell had saved literally millions of rounds of ammunition and ammunition which costs on an average $30 per round. This was made possible by machinery. , Note: Of particularly timely interest in connection with Simms cable, was a statement given out Saturday by Henry Ford, declaring in part: "We must think more about machinery. If this war is to be won, it will be won by the nation that knows best how to use tools and machinery." Ford's statement was given out on the occasion of his join- RAILROAD E WILL STAY OH JOBS Railroads Will Be Allowed Higher Rates and Employes More Pay Washington, Nov. 23. There will be no national railroad strike during the war. This guarantee and a promise. to the employes that their wage demands, if not excessive, will be granted, is the result of President Wilson's conference with the heads of the brotherhoods, it was officially stated to the United Press today, - . . Unsettled problems of railroad fi n4nce, which must be adjusted to make higher wages possible wore responsible for the ratherj.vague statements by Woth sides,--, -hollowing yesteUay - . White Hofise Conference. -." The interstate commerce commission, with its expected decision in favor of freight rate increases, the treasury de partment with possible government loans to certain war roads, and con gress with its potential action on rail road problems, were uncertain factors that made a more definite, formal an nouncement inadvisable. The brother hoods placed their case in President Wilson's hands. The railroads already having done so, a strike is out of the question. Arbitration, if that should be A .:,,,,,. Jtinn. ,,, h 'A , . t. em, ' Thia u tllfl "'"" n-oaui antic mv uiumor- hood fl situation should arise which' threatens the inter ruption of transportation, the ' men whom we represent would bo more than willing to discuss and consider any so lution of the difficulty-and would un doubtedly co-operate with the govern ment to the utmost extent." The president, in return gave the brotherhoods assurance that he would be responsible for obtaining for them peaceably any reasonable wage demand a strike could torce. More detailed adjustment was not at tempted because the brotherhood lead ers had no exact wage demands formu lated aud the method of relieving rail road finances for greater war efficiency had not beeu finally determined. The . , ... . . statement issued bv the later men. pre , . ., ., .... . lnnrffl wlnln rnpv worn sritl with thf still with the president, merely demanded a wage in I crease "that will meet half, at least" of the increased cost of living. The conference covered the general field of railroad problems. Some rail- Toads were judged able to grant higher wages at once and still pay dividends. Others would suspend dividends if for ced to give employes more pay without receiving more revenues from higher rates. A number, unable no wto pay dividends or higher wages, will receive relief. c Oregon Troops Are Well Clothed Says CoL May, Commanding Portland. Or., Nov. 23- Oregon troops already have been supplied with sweaters, helmets and wristlets, and there is no ground fer concern on this score, according to a telegram re ceived by Wiiliam M. Ladd, president of the Portland Y. M. C. A., from Col onel May, commander of the Oregon regiment now at Long Island, N. Y. "No man in the 102d infantry is suf fering for sweaters. ' ' reads the mes sage. "The Ked Cross is furnishing sweatera enough to eouip the entire rejrimcnt. Former members of the third Oreson were supplied with sweaters previous to leaving Oregon. Drafted arrivine from Camp Lewis are be- ng furnished sweators1 by the Ked ed. as they will at all times be accept- (able, but does not imply that there is anv suffering from lack of them binned) J. L. Mi MAT. 10,000 S U BST I TU TC5 H i ! h KStty WMh W GERMANY, 7. OOO ''fl jlfW of these blind substi- 1 1 WMMk TUTE5 FOR FOODo VJl J 1 Wbm 0 fit TW MrWyftia. f HOW FAIR CHILEAN KILLED HER HUSBAND T0LD10 JURYMEN Jack Ward, First Eye Wit ness of Tragedy, Witness In Murder Trial By Hugh BailHe (United Press Staff Correspondent) Mineola, L. I., Nov. 23. Mrs. Bianca do Saulles today faced with pale de fiance the father, sister and best friend of the man she killed aud heard them vividly describe iu court how she shot John L. de Saulles, her divorced hus band, when he refused to give up her child. Cnnfrontine these relatives of the dead man, sat Mrs. Lrrazunz, mother of Bianca. She viewed the proceedings with an expression of horror on her face. She was horrified as the details of the tragedy were bared. Major Arthur de Saulles ,the father, a tottering old Confederate veteran, told in a quavering voice how the Chil ean trirl "shot mv poor boy to death." Mrs. de Saulles avoided his gaze and as he proceeded he seemed to grow more resentful, raising his voice to denounce her. Mrs. de Saulles preserved her mask of deadly calm even when the little nickel plated revolver with which she killed de Saulles. was exhibited. After her arrest, Sheriff Seaman testified, she telephoned to Captain Philip Lydig, cousin of the dead man, saying to him: "T nm in the court house at Hamp- stead. I shot Jack because he wouldn't give me my baby. The defense laid the foundations to day for an insanity plea. Several state admitted that Bianca was very pale and acted ill, both before and after de Saulles was shot. Through Sher iff Seaman, Uterhart brought out that Mrs. de Saulles laughed insanely after her arrest, and that she said of the jail, "this looks like a zoo", as Seaman re moved a clothes rope from her part of the prison for fear she would eommit suicide. A certificate from Dr. Guy Cleehorne saying Mrs. de Saulles' men tal condition was such that she should not be confined in a cell was introduced by Uterhart. In opposition to this, the state emphasized that Mrs. de Saulles knew what she was doing when she telephoned Captain Lydig for bail. The state closed its case shortly af ter 2 this afternoon. Renewed threats of violence against Justice Manning, if Mrs. do Saulles should be convicted, resulted in auui tional precaution being taken to protect the justice today. Two court officers met him at the railway station and es corted him to the court room. Attorney Uterhart for tne aeiense ex pects to be able to mane nis oprni..8 Whether Mrs. statement mis aiicrnouu de Saulles will be called to the stand to- j a gfc at sea in a life boat following day depends on the speed of tne state ; the wrecking of their steamer,N accord- in presenting its case, but it has beening to word received here. Another life-j previously announced that she will tes-jbt with other members of the crew, tify in her own defense. Describing the (booting in detail, (Continued on page eight) SUBSTITUTE NO. 10,001 AMERICANS SHELL A VILLAGE IN REAR OF THE GERMAN LINES Repay Five-Fold Bombarding of Their Regimental Headquarters By J. W. Pegler (United Press Staff Correspondent) American Field Headquarters, France, Nov. 23. American artillerymen paid in five-fold mce3ure the German shell which struck an American regimental headquarters station this week. As a reprual for this shelling of the village in which the American regiment al commander was located, the Amcri- cans on the day following aud at exact-! by President Samuel Gompers of the ly the same hour sent five shells hurt-! American Federation of Labor here to ling into a German village in the Gor-!day. man lines. " . We expressed the opinion that the Both the American commander's vil- rank and file of Germany's population lage and the town back of the German is even now at heart strongly opposed lines'have hitherto enjoyed immunity I to the Prussian yoke and hoping ardent from shelling, both sides apparently jty for democratic freedom, joining in an unwritten agreement to I Gompers declared that no one in the 'this end. The Germans broke this un- world would more quickly extend the derstanding when they dropped their baud of fraternity to the people of shell over tho American regimental Germany than Amerifa's workers headquarters. I" When the German people are in corn- Along the sector where American f, their own destinies, troops are in front line trenches the Ger-j Llko Henderson, ho believes there mans don't want to run any chances of aro P'erful influences at work carry patrol encounters. The American recon-;1"? on the task of democratizing kais naisance parties have complete control ,erisnl la Grm,anft Ho. "'Sed Amen: of No an's land at ight. Coimt.nt j0 uPPort "f 'ho8 . aui1 combining during the last few nights he8 them Godspeed m their under has failed to locate a single solitary j Q ex rM8ed tho belicf tImt Boelie. . ii4n.-- . n.. i (:,r.,o,, i, n. The mcht stalking game is in which', . ..... . it "." . ,. derstand this issue between tho princi- e American soldiers excel, according , , ,i . ,;tw.ii0 c to their French comrades. Sammy re- freC(jom 1 v gards it as a good game with plenty, cuin ' the wordg of 1)re!ii(lent Wilson of hunting zest. Besides it gives one alag Mg Juthorit( he declared that only chance to stretch legs more or less n th(J ollIation of a thoroughly cramped from trench duty. 'democratized and do-Prusianized Ger- Commanders ot the American oai - tallions who have already had front line trench experience conferred today andjoti ted i,otH.eeri the peoples of all agreeu mat mis iraiuiiig isi Uuin-;iKii- ed an indefinite period of imitation warfare back of the lines. BJEDUCE DIVES RISK Washington, Nov. "23. Re flecting the submarines' de creasing effect ivenera, the gov ernment war risk insurance bu reau today reduced its rates on American" steamers a"nd car goes traversing the war zone from five per cent to four per cent. CAPTAIN AND CREW SAFE. San Francisco, Nov. 23. Captain O. A. Hansen, master of the Norwegian the German government wonld be fun freicrhter Tbor and 15 members of the damentallv changed. rrc wpr safe in Honolulu today afterl has not oeen neara rrom. ine inor foundered in a gale UU miles norm or . . .. .. M Honolulu, while route from can Francisco to the Orient, PRESIDENT GOMPERS ENDORSES VIEWS OF BRITISH LABOR HEAD Thinks Rank and File of Ger man People Oppose Mili tary Amis of Leaders By George Martin (United Press staff correspondent) Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 23 Unqualified approval of , the ' ' strong political of fensive against Germany" advocated by the British labor leador, Arthur Henderson, in an interview with the United Press Wednesday, was voiced i 4 . !.:. nn. fn,lf.,l .,,, ,t0i nml inn';,. ho m. countries Gompers' statement to the United Press was made following announce- and file of American organized labor in convention for the first time since jwar was declared. "In official statements dealing with the causes of war, President Wilson him niHiIn it plain that the war is not j against the German people," said jGoinpers, "but against tho imperial government dominated Dy Kaiserism. "The German people, 'and particu larly be German f work ens, are not adequate represented in that gov ernment, nor are they accorded oppor tunities or agencies ior the expression of their will. "We feel sure that if the German nnrmln were untrammeled and could ex- press their true nature, the policies of " Wo fanl that democracy is the on- y true basis for relations between men j Whether national or international, "There are in Germany those who understand the issues between the prin- cipiea oi power uu mo pruicijiu- oi m . . . , . i . i. rreeuom. ana u is our neariieii nope 1 (Continued on page three) BRITISH LOSSES WERE NOT HEAVY III GREAT DRIVE Prisoners Taken Exceed En tire Casualty list of Attackers EOT FIGHTING CONTINUES IN CAMBRAI VICINITY Haig Struck Again Last Night Ypres Sector, Mak ing Gains By William Phillip Slmma (United Press staff correspondent) With the British Armies in the Field jov. 23. England 's master stroke against Cambrai was carriod through to vutory with an almost incredibly small casualty list. lno total of German prisoners tak i today reached the point where it exceeded by . several - - thousand the whole of tho British losses in killed. wounded aud missing. nincninery saved the British thou sands of lives. Use of tanks to batter down entanglements instead of artil lery, and the surprise nature of the British blow meant practically no re taliatory barrage fire. When the Ger mans did get their shell screen work ing the misales did not mow down in fantrymon. They rattled, for the most part, harmlessly off the steel iackets of the tanks. There were also the life saving machinery of tho British sup-, ply system the war machine which kept constructing yard after yard of supply railways as yard after yard of grounu was taken by tho Bntisn. liack still farther behind the lines was the gigantic machinery whicU enabled Haig and Byng to mass enor mous forces of men and war paraphe nalia with the speed necessary to car ry through their plana for a surprise- attack.. ' The stream of German prisoners ti back lines was unabated today while) hot fighting went on up front. Tanks, cavalry and infantry were all in ac tion. The enemy has now collected great forces of reserves and these wer striving today to press back the pin cers which the Tommies are squeezing around Cambrai. Joyful French civilians from Ger man occupied towns now repatriated by the British blow wero being trans ported to rear lines by motor lorries teday. MoBt of .the refugees had been concentrated at Masnieres. All declared that practically all the food they huJt eaten in months had been that furn ished by the American relief commis sion, if this aid had not ocen rortr. eoining, they said they would hava starved. So ninny of these refugees wero freed by tho British stroke that spe cial arrangements had to be made at rear depots for their transfer. Load after load of them were brought to railway stations in motor lorries, under care of British Tommies, who were em barrassed by their affectionate and ex- (Continued on page eight) GERMAN-AMERICAN PLOTTED AGAINST BANK Tried To Blow Up Theatre la Order to Carry Through His Blackmailing Scheme Chicago, Nov. 23. Reinhold A. Faust, a German, placed two bombs in. the Auditorium theater last Friday night, endangering tho lives of 200( persons, just to "scare" two First ixational bank officials into paying him $100,000. That was the gist of a confession in the hands of tho police today. Faust, a naturalized American, ami former post office clerk, was arrested last night. The police found enough; explosives in his home to blow up sev eral buildings. The confession was obtained from Faust after ho had been arrested oa chargo of Bending four threatening let ters to Frank 6. Wetmore, president of tho First National bank, and James B. Forgan, chairman of the board of directors. Faust said he conceived a hatred against the "upper classes" when he was discharged from the post office; ten years ago. This was increased, h said, when he lost $4,000 he obtained through the sale of his home in trying to raise onions on a farm near Cyds tal Springs, Tex. Since then he has beon working for an express company. He is married and has two grown daughters. He is 56 years old. In his confession, Faust declared one of the bombs placed in the AudV ... : i nn rih,iiiiir.rB a jl lurium cuutmum vmj mat m oi vu.hV could not possibly explode.