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TODAY'S II Mail, fctdubut i - 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 HEADERS) DAILY Only Circulation, la Salem Guar anteed by tho Audit Bureau of Circulations. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY KEWS BEE VICE Oregon: Toniglit and Thursday fair east, probab ly rain west por tion; colder cast portion tonight; south easterly winds. SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS ADC7 FORTIETH YEAR NO. 28 (vie CF)N still) Battle Field Todav Covered But No Advantage Gained : Thrown In Masses Aakst Firm Dominatinff Position General Byng's Tenacious By William Philip Simms - With the British Armies In The Field, Nov. 28. The German uncorked a conn try side full of gas in their attempts to shake the' British grip back ofthe Hindenburg line. (Shells containing the powerful as phyxatiiig 'vapor were distributed by Jrman .guns over a wide area immed iately back of tho British positions. No damage was done and the shells gave the enemy no advantage. As this dispatch is cabled, the British liiiefhas apparently shifted to west of " Vontainc .Notre Dame, but positions in Bourloii wood are standing secure des pite the ouemy's most desperate cf : i'orts. Fight With Desperation The Prussians seldom fought with such desperation as they battled last night uud early today vainly, bloodily, fran tically striving to wrest Bourlon wood from the British. Bourlon wood is merely a bundle of etieks now. Its great trees have literally been splintered by high explosives, smashed 'down by tanks, uprotted by Hhells. What used to be a pleasant grove of grateful .shade is now a bare, , scrawny hump, three thousand by twen ty five hundred yards, out of the sa lient, shoved forward into the very vitals of the German linp. Its very base !- iuust now be soaked with the blood of lighting that has raged over its top. Cabmrai In Plain Sight This dispatch is written just after my ' return irom a sight of t'ninbrai. tho iniildings of tho prize city are visible, even intoday's thick weather, from where the British lino sticks its steel linenavingly forward. On the other side tif the Bourlon ridge, toward Queant, the Hindenburg line that was, looked like a prison yard from the keepers' towar, so commanding is the ridge po sition. . It is small wonder Rupprecht is now desperate as he sees this vital dominat ing point in British hands. As I stood south of the wood tho rattle of rifles cane from the right. I Lave seldom heard such terrific bursts of noice from infantry fighting. Machine Guns Busy. Then the machine guns on b.oth sides .inined their staccato rattles in a fever ish crescendo. A sally had been tried. And over all came the crash of great explosives. The bodies are taking no chances of letting British reinforcements come up. Minute by minute, they arc busy crumpling every known road, or every known track bv which thev think tho British troops may enter the salient. High explosive shells are used, great monsters that dig deep craters. I The- British guns do not hesitate to reply. Back on the German roads, Wide Range in Prices of the Staple Articles of Food New York, Nov. 28. A wide range in price of staple articles of food is shown in comparative price lists gath ered today bv the United Press fromj Iciding cities in all sections of the country. in St. Louis' sugar is selling over the counter at the rate of 8 1-3 cents a pound, while in New York it refails at 10 cents and is so hard to get there is an actual famine. San Francisco has the same sugar rate, but makes up for it in oiher high prices. Boston prices 9 1-2 cents for sugir when there is any. Cleveland gets it at 10 cents and Chicago at 8 1-2 cents. The tame range may be found in the cost of sirloin and round steak. Forty cents a pound is the average rate in New York, while in St. Louis sirloin may be purchased for 25 cents. Round (teak costs cents in St. Louis. Han Francisco gets its sirloins at 27 cents, round at 2.') cents; Chicago sirloin 26 cents; round 30; Boston sirloin 43 cents round 20; Atlanta sirloin 35; round 30 cents; Cleveland, sirlrin 35 cent3, round 35 to 40 cents; Pittsburgh sirloin 35 cents; round 3flc. Pork (hops New York 36 cents pound; Pittsburgh 35 cents; Boston 45 "cents; Cleveland 34 cents; Atlanta 40 cents; Chicago C cents; fan Francisco "2 to 35 rents; St. Loufe 27 cents. Flour New York, seven pounds (the limit to one purchaser, in some stores) Tut cents; St. Louis 24 pound?; $1.48: Fan Francisco 50 pounds 52.95; Chica With Gas From German Shells, Best Troeos of German Army British Lines Which Hold In. Woods Seems Secure Li Grip Byng's shells must be making life mis erablo for the bodies. British Airplanes Help. As this great artillery duel roared, tnero .was a sudden cyclone blast ot rattling hail. Wo peered out over No an's Land to Bee six British planes swooping, swerving and careening it seemed almost touching the heads ot'the Germans just across. Their machine guns spat venomously as they raked the lines. They were tar too low for the German anti-aircraft guns to touch them and tliey moved too fast for the surprised Germans to twist their machine guns upward and fire a them. Down along tho line they zig zagged, like angry hor nets, men came more three together; a couple half a doi-.cn one lone one. Throughout the late afternoon thev kept it up until darkness erased the line of the enemy trenches. I did not see a single Prussian airman all dav. Tho sky was Tilled with British flyers. Bourlon Village Center. As this is written, Jjourlon villace is the center of the fighting for the moment. The main street is in ruins. It practically marks the division line be tweeu the two sides a division line that is constantly overrun by Prussians or aritisn, tnat is swept by a hail oi fire. ... " . Byng's- Tommies carried their wav into the village from the south, but were slowed up by desperate masses of tne enemy. . Machine gun nests in LnFolce wood for a time intcrferreiT with the British swing forward but British artillery got on the job to attend to this little "mat ter and the Tommies continued onward. Near midnight the Prussians flung themselves on the wood then firmly held by the British. At the precise mo ment of their attempt British flares il luminated every man in their massed ranks transfixed them momentarily by the brilliance of the light. Then came the roar of machine guns literally as one voice of death that sliced, the uiass- (Continued on page three) GET THIRTY-NINE DIVERS. New York, Nov. 28. Thirty nine submarine have been des troyed by allied forces in a fif teen day period, T. B. Holder, second counsellor of the British embassy, told a crod at a "hero land bazaar here." He said that number of U-boats were "sunk between November 1 and November 15. go 7 1-2 cents a pound; Atlanta barrel $15; Cleveland 24 pounds $1.50; Boston 24 1-2 pounds $1.75; Pittsburgh 49 pounds, $3.40. Milk New York 15 cents quart; Bos ton 14 cents; Cleveland 12; Atlanta 13! Chicago 12; San Francisco 12; St. Louis 13; Pittsburgh 14. Butter New York 52 cents; Boston 54 cents; Cleveland 55 cents; Atlanta 52; Chicago 53; San Francisco 55; St. Louis 49; Pittsburg 51. Kgs New York 62 cents; Bostbn 60 to 80 cents; Cleveland 54; Atlanta 47; Chicago 46; San Francisco C5; St. Louis 52; Pittsburgh 42. Potatoes New York, 10 pounds for 45 cents; Boston 50 to 60 cents a peck; Cleveland. 45 eents a peck; Atlanta 50 cents a peck; Chicago 40 cents a peck; San Francisco six pounds for 25 cents; St. Louis 37 1-2 cents a peck; Pitts burgh 45 cents a peck. Cornmeal New York 5 1-2 cents a pound; Boston 7 to 12 cents a pound; Cleveland 7 cents a pound; Chicago G 1-2 cents a pound; San Francisco 20 cents package; St. Louis six cents pound; Pittsburgh 8 cents. Bread New York 16 oune loaf 13 cents; Boston 16 ounce loaf 9 cents; Cleveland 16 onnce loaf 10 cents; Atlanta 16 ounce loaf 10 cents; Cbicgn 1 1-2 cents ounee; San Francis-o 24 pnv.ee loaf 15 cents: St. Louis 18 ounce loaf 13 cents; Pittsburgh half cent an , ounce. ITALIANS ASSUME OFFENSIVE TAKING FIRSTJTWO LINES British Military Director Says Crisis Is PastEnemy Loses Heavy Loudon, Nov. 28. "The Italian crisis is past," declared General F. B. Mau rice, director of operations, in his week ly interview today with the Union Press. , "The credit ia due to the Italians alone. " ' "The Cainbrai attack," the general continued, "resulted in our capture of just under 11,000 prisoners, inoro than a hundred guns and between sixty and seventy squuro miles of territory. The enemy was forced to uso many more of its divisions. Wo had no definite ob jectives and merely intended to go as far as possUile. ' ' We gained more than Haig had ex pected. ' ' So far there have" been no appreci able withdrawals from tho Russian front. "Jerusalem will not fall without an other battle," -tho general continued. ' ' We must bring up scattered forces, fresh guns and munitions. There are difficulties in the advince and the sur souuding territory Will delay the envel opment sufficiently to enable the enemy to bring up his rear guards aud make a stand." ITALIAN OFFENSIVE. By John H. Hearley - .! (United rl'ess Staff Correspondent) Romo, Nov. 28. Within the last 24 hours Italian troops, assuming the of fensive, have smashed the German first and second Hues, inflicting tremendous losses on the invader. The announce ment was made hero today. Details of the vicfory were withheld for the present. The news was cited as evidence of the growing strength of tho Italian army, its coniplet rehabili tation as au illustration that the enemy's most powerful efforts to break tho Piave mountain lino have -been ut terly- fruitless! , " ' ' With French and British" afiT now rap idly approaching the front, Romo looks for a decisive stragetic step oi vast importance. Mrs. William vanderbilt, Mrs. nave- meyer, Miss Ruth Morgan and num ber of other prominent American wom en reached Rome today from France to organize and aid in the work of relief among Italian refugees. Enemy Looses Great. With the Italian Armies, Nov. 28. So appalling have been the casualties suffered by the enemy in the fruitless attacks that it was reported today he had withdrawn seven crippled divisions (nearly 10o,000 men). Prisoners declare that some battalions of several hundred men have been re- ( Con tinned on pace qfx.) 1 1 II J 1. ll' 1 ) 1 fl !': i 'WE ARE FIGHTING FOR FAITH if W 1 1 "ll Will '' V ALNESS. JUSTICE AND TRUTH, j f !il I1 j 1 1 ' AND n 15 THESE THKT WILL WIN;" 'rlflTl ' I ' 111 I I xa (laiata. In (BOXH KtHD) if i A III YWlATEDTRtATItiTRW0H,0H0HA1!lir-' I I I - ii I "I 'l JUSTICE (Or THt AUTOCRAT) I " 4. , I . J: U-BOM HURKR OF HEU7RWS- POISON- ,1 I j- 1 4g.f ' UN5PUKABU ATROCITIES. ffh 'j 'I ' . 1 YiF$dl I Pin HOT WILL THIS WAR. ,'' J s M' W'ir 4l P W ml I ffW$ r - w Mm Faitlif ulness, Justice and Truth WILL Win, but Not as Interpreted by Arch-Prussian. LIKE A VOM AN WAK ASLEEP WAS CONDITION Dr. Testifies As To Mental Condition of Mrs. DcSaulIes After Tragedy : OTHER .WITNESSES TESTIFY FOR DEFENSE Sister Testifies the Accused Received Injury to Head In Childhood By Hugh Baillie (United Press staff correspondent) Mineola, L. I-, Nov. 28. Bianca De Saulles was like a woman walking in her sleep when examined by physicians just after killing her divorced husband, John L. De Saulles, Dr. J. Sherman Wright testified today. He declared the Chilean heiress un doubtedly had no knowledge of what she was doing when she fired four bul lets into De Saulles the night of Au gust 3 when he told her she could not have her child. " ' ' She took bo notice of her surround ings," declared Dr. Wright, telling of his visit to the jail. "She had a pe culiar wax-like pallor. The whites of her eves had a bluish tinge. When 1 siioko she did not hear me. Her talk was vague and confused. I was unable to find any pulse in her left wrist. Her heart was very feeble. There was a depressed area on her head. She shrank when I touched her. Her thryoid gland was withered her limbs swollen. The depression in her head was an inch aud a half in diameter, three eighths' of an inch deep. "August 9 she had hallucinations thought people were in tho room. When she asked me if her husband would take the baby, I tcJd her the man wa: doad, vut she was not moved. This description was in startling cou trat to the appearance of Mrs. De Saul la nn fhft witness stand, when she made brilliant sallies at the district j attorney. Dr. Wright cited a number of symp toms of hypothyreosis, from which, he said, Mrs. Do Saulles suffered, and ex hibited an X-rav view of her head showing the pressure on her brain. - j Testimony tending to prove that Mrs j Do Saulles did not go to The Box for the purpose of killing her divorced hus band was introduced today. Stewart Iglohart, close friend of the accused woman; declared she telephoned him the night of August 3 and asked him ' i I (Continued a page six.) "te '"" v. . L': - V . ' : -'" J ...r.?.c.... a. .... h...,, vynrffii1 Mtti rti 'i. GEN. SIR JULIAN BYNG Commander of the British the Hindenburg Line Hillis Says Kreisler Sends Money to Austria New York, Nov. 28. Rev. Dr. Dwight Hillis, pastor of Ply mouth church in Brooklyn, to- day refused te retract "a single syllable " of his chargo that se Fritz Kreisler has been send- ing money to Austria as com $ pensation for permission to tour America. Kreisler today de- manded that Dr. Hillis retract 4c his statement publicly. "Any Austrian officer who is sending aid and comfort to an enemy country can find me at any hour of the day, or night, of he prefers," Dr. Hillis do $ clared. r Vis Third Army That Smashed S1XIY-T1IREE SAILORS ARE STILL HISSING LOST VESSEL American Steamer Actaeon Was Torpedoed, It Is Of ficially Reported Washington, Nov. 28. Sixty-three men in three lifeboats are still missing from the torpedoed American steamer Actaeon, according to navy department messages today. One boatload of 20 wag landed at Cape Finisterre, Press dispatches previously reported 21 survivors landed in Spain, but did not state how many were in the three missing boats. Tho crew of the Actaeon, formerly tho German steamship Adam strum, seized at the opening of the war, was unofficially reported to consis of 58 men, including 31 Americans. There was a naval gun crew of 13 men aboard and possibly others. Secretary Daniels stated thut beyond the twenty landed yesterday and sixty three missing, his reports contained no further" details. Reports stated the steamer was tor pedoed Sunday. It flew the flag of the United States shipping board and was commanded by Captain W. J. Johnson. Indications arc that the Astacon was sunk on her return voyage after safely discharging a valuable cargo. She dis placed 0,001) tons gross. Grants Pass Sugar Factory Moving to North Yakima Alex Nibler, of the Grants Pass Su gar comany, has received word from tho Portland chamrbrtr rf '.-onimcrce that a delegation will be sent from there to attend tho inspection of the Grants Pass factory next Tuesday, the Medford Sun reports. The Medford del egation will consist of C. W. McDon ald, W. K. Gore, Relroy Getchell, Win. G. Tait, George Putnam and C. M. Thomas. Mr. Nibley, in speaking of the selling restrictions on supar, says that the Grants Pass factory will have enough sufar this fall to supply the dis trii-.t iVrm Euuene to Ashland for on lyear but that the government compels them to sell in roruano, wnicn win materially reduce the available supply. The dismantling of the Grants Pass sugar factory has bejun, preparatory to removing the same to North Yaki ma, Wash. Yesterday the workmen were engaged in tearing down the beet sheds. The factory will begin opera tions again Sunday and will continue for about a week to finish up the sea son. C. O. Hedstrom, inventor of the In dian motorcycle; W. S. Harley. presi dent of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle nmranv nd former Governor Foulke. of Missouri, became devotees of trop- shooting at tne Atianuc vny scnoui during the summer. ALLIES UNITE Hi STAND TO BRING RUSSIA TO SENSES Russian People Are Bein Im pressed With the Idea That Course Is Wrong FURTHER SHIPMENT OF SUPPLIES HELD U? Evidence Is Seen That New Coalition Government May Secure Control Soon By Carl D. Groat (United Press staff correspondent) Washington, Nov. 28. The United States and her allies are united in a stand against any separate peace now. And while no olncial statement on the gubiect has been made, it was be lieved here that the ollie have impress ed Kussia with this thought in the midst of her mad efforts for an armis tice. . There aro renewed indications that this government proposes not to ship any further supplies to Kussia untit there exista .something more lil; a national government than the I.cuiiie Trotsicv regime. . The United Staites is disposed to back. any stable rule within .Russia, but tho 'belief is growing-that the bolshe vik! group in Petrograd is definitely drifting toward a separate peace. Hence, thero is a disinclination here to further the Russian cause with sup plies before the separate peace mcnaca s removed. Indications point to the possibility of General Kaledines, Hctman of tha Don Cossacks, getting the upper hand. While any government he couia estaD lish. would probably tend toward con-" ervatism, be might stabilize affaira sufficiently to keep the Russian, army at its task In any event, American and allied plans are shaped now on the theory that' little or no help can be expected from Russia for months. The best that can bo anticipated is that there wilt bo no separate peace which would per mit Germany to open up Russia as a. storehouse and supply depot for the Teuton armies. To this end, it is believed that the Allies, perhaps from Paris, have sent word to General Dukhonin 'a armies ia the form of a warning against thelne nine-Trotsky-Teuton negotiations. People Beady to Eevolt London. Nov. 28. Tho Russia of the plain people seemed to be coming to its senses today, but very slowly. At tho moment when authoritative reports declared German staff officers i : ,.fraoa n Pntroirr&d with. the Lenine-Trotsky boh-heviki govern ment hair a dozen uispaicnen uui un. er sections of iiussia reponeu u.u growth of a formidable movement for overthrow or the jviaxiinansis uuu es tablishment of a real coalition govern ment, expressive of Russia's people as a whole- A Ilaparanda dispatch today report ed that the committee on public safe ty had issued a proclamation to tha nrmv declaring: "The bolsheviki peace proposal have destroyed Russia. Foreign Btates will consider such a step as making u.io trnHnr Thev will withdraw their support. At the very moment of Ttimmn. will be desert- jed by everybody and must beseech tho kaiser for peace paying w in land and money." A Petrograd dispatch said M. Tcher noff, formerly Kerensky agricultural minister; M. AVKseuneii, uu am. (Continued on page three) ART? MARTIN ix u u hi n u i i ii . . T Of all thf fiction th floral guides ATA th' worst. Love is not only blind. but frequently tasteless. -