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Newspaper Page TextTODAY'S 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 HEADERS) DAILY Only Circulation lu Salem Guar anteed ly the Audit Bureau of Circulations. HEflEt To fOUIZ 0OVS 1 FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS BEE VICE Oregon : Tonight and Saturday rain fresh easterly wind g increasing in force. FORTIETH YEAR NO. 303 SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1917 ... PKIC3 TWO CENTS UJTc . BRITISH WMM FRANKLY SlfeBYlFOR ARGENTINE IS WAR CHANCELBf England Asks Absolutely Nothing for Herself In Way of Territory UGES NOT WANT GERMAN COLONIES IN AFRICA Protectorate Over I!c!y Land by Christian Powers Approved Ey Lowell Mjllctt " (United Press Staff Correspondent) ' London, Dee. 21. Great Britain is in full accord with resident Wilson 's outline ol' war aims flint the fight of thi) world's democracies to victory is int. towjml realization of selfish de sires. Britain seeks no territorial extension except that which an international jieace conference agrees is necessary to future security. The United Tress is in a position to etate today that Lloyd-George's pledges tore those developed by practically un animous views of all government ' cir cles. Of all tho ringing utterances of the jiremier in his war aims speech of yes terday, including the demand of rcs'tor jition and compensating for invaded ter ritories those vhieh, in effect, pledged adherence to President Wilson's an nounced principle that nationalities should be permitted to work out their own destinies, were regareTcd today as juost striking. Details or Statement. rn tila .h;- i7 j j foi,i C r ( j B . T, " the table, the tinted Press is able to . ... !,!. . v i t !. . resent this outline of Great- Britain 's . ... , jiositiou from various high sources fol lowing tlie prime minister' s revolution aiy aunounceutont of England's colon ial policy. While the German colonies are regarded as non-returnable, because the peace conference must consider the future security of the British Union of bouth Africa, yet Britain actually is not desirous or further territory there. She demands only the elimination of tho pcnce feelers. Moreover, there is somo standing menace of German military prcspeet that Russia will awaken be outposts. forc ft is t00 late an(j quit her peace Britain is also not in sympathy witn negotiating with the Germans the imperialistic demands attributed to No official indication nor outline of minorities in other allied countries. She Germany's peace proposals has reached agrees that certain territorial readjust- this government. What has been ail ments are necessary but only for tho vertised as Germany's feeler was purpose of guaranteeing future security, branded in official and diplomatic quar Alsace and Lorraine tors as pro-Gierman propaganda, foster- Hegarding Alsace-Lorraine, England ed by a neutral legation and spread for (Continued on' page two) -I 98 QOESTIOHAPIS WHAT FEDERAL FA1 SENT BY MAIL TODAYILOAN BANKS ARE 0OIMG List Names Sent Out Today Tfaese Must Answer With- I in Seven Days To date 493 names have been sent out to registrants and the list below 1 contains the names of those sent out ! today. Registrants in this list have seven days to answer, or until Friday ; evening of next week. The office of the board cf legal advisers is now t crowded with work and to prevent con- jestion and consequent delav regis- i . . . . . ... trants should report as soon as poSsi-jThc lnterest rate remam9 at flve Per We after receiving their questionnaires. jct'uti but the nuw authorized rate of The list tomorrow will contain the or- ,5 1-2 per cent will apply on the remain der numbers of all between 592 auil der. 701, drawing numbers today are: 434 Percy MeArthur Yarney 43i5 Artie Brown 496 George Henry Marlatt 497 Walter Eugene Bushby . 498 William Henry Propst 499 John Van Lvdegraf 500 William Franklin Mosher 501 Bob Mravicich 502 Chester Huffman 503 FiHiam Gustkieper 04 Jaul Julius Yedder 505 John J. Moe 506 Roy Wolf 507 James Lrrther Ppence 50S George Loui Pro 00x Merl Everett Jones 510 Frank Paul William ITaaek 511 Frederick William Schwab 513 Louis Dalrvmple Griffith 513 Rcy W. Porter 514 Joseph John Doerfler 51.5 Orvillo C. Stubbs 516 Joseph Harry Haines 517 John William Sutherland 518 .Tames John Blum 519 Harrv Calvin Witn-.an 520 William M. Murphy 521 Louis Fred Cornu 52 Earl Thomas Parkinsrn 523 John Robert Mills 52-i Elmer riaussen M?K:t'1ct 525 Ralph Rnsel jleAdam 52t" James William Thamas (Continued on page two) ONLY COURSE LEFT WAR BEClMATIOf German Ds?!ikxiy and Plotting Agansst Eer by Luxburg kexcssable HAS 700,000 TROOPS AVAILABLE FOR SERVICE Germany's Peace Moves, Be ing Seen Through, Are Failing Washington, Dec. 21. Argentine's only course, is war with Germany, the li.iht of German duplicity wftliin her borders, as emphasized-by the lat. est Luxburg documents, authorities here held today. They anticipated that tho "juvenile comniitteo" mainly students of mili tary age would lead new demonstra tions to force war and swerve theTia ticin from following its' pro-German president. Involved in tlie prospects of such a demonstration was a fear that railroad property would be wrecked . by the German agents and gTain destroyed to keep it from allied hands. Allied authorities ore anxious tint Argentine should ally herself with the cause of democracy. There is a con stantly growing tendency toward war among the Argentine populace. While lacking transports, Argentina has 700,000 men she could send to France quickly. She could raise many more, in addition to being an extens ive granary and supply department tor l,e ami's, jimuassuuor xsnun ucre u.uiv the surprising course of writing a let- i , a v.- u' i tcr to a local editor, objecting to the i u , ii.- f latter reference to. . the ,- elique governing Argentina, and attacking Argentina for shielding Luxburg, lfbw that his perfidy has been proved sev eral times. Peace Move Will Fall Germany's peace maneuvers at th timc will fail) was the firm an9wcr f government authorities today, in new of publication of reported Teuton (Continued on page two) Application Made For $219,- 760,740, Here Than 1800 Bureaus Formed Washington, Dec. 2?. The total loan application received by the twelve fed eral farm loan banks to December 1, according to a report issued today, is $19,760,740. Of this sun) 29,824,C55 actually has ilf. in-ined and SinmafiHPS nnr.rnv.d I More than 1,830 federal farm loan bureaus, through which all money is bor rowed from these banks, have been or Igauized . I The Wichita district, number nine, 'which includes Kansas, Oklahoma, Colo jrado and New Mexico, leads in the nuni I ber of farm loan associations formed to December 1, reporting 344 with appli cations for $24,891,849 of which $12,- fj Ql Una Loon Bnn.n.,.il n .. ,1 T?Ufl j t t j j j -j tiaa ' v "ll 'vl1 uuu i 900 actually has been loaned. The Spokane district is second in number of bureaus, with 259, but leads in total of applications. In that district $33,556,053 has been applied for, $15, 239,120 approved and $5,366,615 loaned. Springfield, Mass., district number 1 is low, with only 55 organizations, $6, 080,683 applied for, $3,012,880 approv ed and $708,455 loaned. The authorized capital stock of the twelve farm loan banks is $9,00,000; or $750,000 for each institution. During the first six months of operation $20,000, 000 more than the capital stock has ac tually been paid out by the banks with out one cent revenue being received. I r"ocanontas, lowa. len ousneis oi potatoes was the contribution of a far- ! mer, who drove in todav when asked i j for a Red Cross contribution. He said t ' he didn 't have his pocketbook, so he split his load of spuds. Killed Nlghtwatckian While Robbing Car Auburn, Wash., Dec. 21. Two men were attempting to break into a freight caT in tho railroad yards here early yesterday morning shot and Mll ed Night Watchman Applesteal. Tho men are said to have takeu a barrel of whiskey from the froighfr house after tho murder, and to have escaped with the liquor. John Porria nnd A. L. Fowler were arrested on suspicion of having commit ted the crime. Tlie murderers made their escape from the scene of the shorting in an automobile. Deputy sheriffs doclaro they traced Fowler and Porria to a lo cal garage, by tho peculiar marking of the tires on low lor s automobile. MAY OCCUPY SIBERIANS CHINA IE RUSSIA LETS GO Would Check Germany Should bhe Secure Donimaiion of Russia Washington, Doc. 21. Japan is anx lous to strike at Germany by ociupying Siberia, according to advices reaching Here today. This information, coupled with Russian publication of an allegod Russo-Japanese agreement to pounce on any nation attempting supremacy in China, created a profound impression in uiiiciai aipiomutic quarters. Home allied diplomats were said to favor the Siberian move in view of -the possibility of Teuton domination of all the Russians,, even the cast. They pointed out that tho American consul at Vladivostok had said there is need "for troops at that port. Confirmation of tho Russo-Japanese pact was not immediately obtainable here. However, it was stated that inso far as China is now concerned, the Jap anese are discouraging large military preparations in that nation and that of ficial feelers have been nit forward with view to American-Japanese co operation in China 'a military, economic ana financial problems. Prosident Wilson, it was sutreested. will ,be the determining factor in the decision as to whether Japanese troops shall invest .Vladivostok, providing that it is tho actual wish of Japan as report ed. FLOOD DANGER OVER Portland, Or., Doc. 21. Lack of rain yesterday and freezing weather in the mountains for two nights has brought a de cided improvement in tho flood situation, northwestern dis tricts report today. The Co lumbia -and Willamette are both receding, the latter from 19.7 feet, although the weather bureau insists it will reach 21 tonight. Other rivers in Ore gon and Washington that have inundated property, damaged bridges cr caused apprehension arc also reported as dropping, and some interrupted railroad service has boen resumed. Russia and Japan Had Secret Treaty Concerning - China Petrograd, Dec. 21. Text of a secret Russo-Japanese treatv 'dated March a 1916, providing for an offensive alliance! of these two powers against any other power attempting political supremacy in China, was made public by the work mens' and soldiers' soviet today. The statement said it was believed this pact referred to the United States. The treaty was signed by Former For eign Minister Sazonoff and Maron Mo tono, Japanese minist. r to Russia, who later became foreign minister. It expires in July 1921. A high foreign office leader today declared that the peace literature circu lated by the soviet had "greatly in fluenced Germans on the Russian front. These Germans, it is declared, "no lon ger desire to fight on any front." The soviet has-been revealing all see ret treaties and agreements of former Russian regimes. GROUND GLASS IN FOOD Los Angeles, Cal., Dee. 21. Repeated reports of ground glass in food, chewing tobacco and candy have swept aside official skepticism that n enemy cam paign of terrorism is being at tempted in southern California. Glass in gTound beef was re ported from Long Beach by a number ef persons. Today Ar thur Curd reported ground glass in plug tobacco he had purchas ed, -and turned it over to the police. Breakfast food, candy and dried beef have likewise been "planted" with glass, ac cording to official reports. If; tWWF1! Ft III "YOU AGREED TO TAKE ME UP "AGREEMENTS ARE SCRAPS OF BOLSHI PRE PLACE OF ASSEMBLY Will Attempt to Control As- sssMj In Spite of Adverse Election Result By Joseph 9apln (United "Press staff correspondent) Stockholm, Doc. 21. The Bolsheviki aro preparing a rump" convention to replace the constituent assombly, where they are a minority, according to word from Petrograd today. The Swedish Maximalist leader, Dr. Hogiund, wired here today tho sub stanco of an interview which he had with M. Uritsky, a prominent Bolshe viki in Pctrograil. Uritsky; ho said, denied that the fin al result of tho Russian constituent as sembly elections had become known He' declared the assembly would be opened within five or six days and pre-J dictea the likolihood of the democratic parties there in splitting with the left or Bolsheviki wing. Are Clever Schemers The Bolshoviki, it was asserted, would then form an assombly of their own, in conjunction with tho Trotsky Lenine ring, Uritsky was quoted aa declaring the Bolsheviki might not oven appear in the assombly, on account of their mi nority. Tho government was understood to bo discussing anew the question of dis solving the whole assembly- "The situation is very complicated' Hoglund wired- "It is impossible to foretell the outcome. Much depends upon the attitude of the garrison and the proletariat of Ptrograd. They -can force an open conflict between the as sembly and the Bolsheviki. Only a few cadet deputies have been arrested, he added. The Bolsheviki gen eral peace endeavors, he held, depend ed on the attitude of the Central Pow ers. Opposition Growing The Stockholm Social Demokraten today declared it was "definitely in formed" from Germany of tho strong j growth of an anti-separate peace move ment there. The Russian-German en ideavors to this end, the newspaper as serted, eannotaBuceeed without tho sup port of the entente socialists and the laboriteg and "it was absurd to think that the latter would support the Bol sheviki, when the real socialists of Ruswia accused them of being traito's and destroyers of the Russian revolu tion." The Social Demokraten joined with the Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung and Leip ziger Volkszeitnng in urging an im mediate Stockholm conference under the auspices of the international so cialist bureau. American Minister Morris was in formed todar that a Bolsheviki dcctfo prohibits tho carrying out of Russia of all anti-Bolsheviki newspaper!. PARES m m TO WORLD EMPIRE!" PAPER, HIGHEST. YOU'RE GOING FORTY-SIX ARE KILLED Ai SEVENTY INJURED IN A BIG TRAIN WRECK Through Train Crashes Into Local, and Plows Clear Through It Shepherdsvillo, Ky Dec. 21. Forty three persons are dead andabout sev eity injurod as the result of a Louis ville and Nashville passenger train crashing into a Bardstown, Louisville and Springfield accomodation train near hero last night. The injured have been taken to Louis ville on a relief train. Officials aro in vestigating the cause of the wreck. Nineteen women aro among those killed. The entire family of Marshal John Philip of Bardstown, Ky., his wife and child, were killed. Others killed were Rev. Father Eugeno Bertello, Cha pazo, Ky., and Nat Muir, president of tho Wilson Muir bank at Bardstown, Ky., his wife! and Mrs. Emily Sturgeon of Zancsvilel, Ohio. Several of those killed were so badly disfigured that it was impossible to identify them. Two children, thrown into a snowdrift when tho crash came, wero found alive and were cared for by peoplo here. Ono of them, an 11 year old girl, was so stunned by tho shock of the collision that she has lost her memory, The other, a four year old girl, was asleep in the snow when pick ed up. Louisville, Ky., Dec. 21. Thirty eight persons are reported killed and forty injured, several probably fatally, in a rear end collision between two passenger trains at Shepherdsvillo, Ky. 23 miles south of here, last night. Louisville and Nashville passenger train number , Cincinnati to New Or leans, crashed into the rear of the Bardstown, Louisville and Springfield accommodation train just south of the Shepherdsvillo station. All those aboard the accommodation train are reported either killed or injured. No one aboard the passenger train, made up of steel coaches, is believed to have been injured. The accommodation train consisted of two wooden passen ger coaches. Both were splintered. Tho locomotive of the passenger was de molished and the steel coaches thrown from the track. The wreck occurred shortly after the accommodation train left the depot at Bhephcrdsville. The passenger train, which makes no stop at Shepherdsville, hove in sight and tried to stop when it saw a train ahead, but its efforts were futile. It tore right through the accomo dation train. WHITE SLAVER FREE. San Francisco, Dec. 21. Maury I. Diggs, convicted several years ago with F. Drew Caminetti of violating the Mann law, has been released from Mc Neils Island prison,- according to ad vices received here today. He is report ed to have left Tacoma for California today. STRAIGHT TO HELL." BRITISH TOMES AHD AMERICAN SAMMIES TO HAVE A MIT HOLIDAY For First Time In History Two Amies Will Observe Christmas Together By William Philip Slmms (United Press Staff Correspondent) With tho British Armies in The Field, Doc. 21. For the first time in history .British Tommies and American Saui- nuos will celebrate Christmas together. Arrangements were being completed today for a whole series of mutual holi day "shindigs" and "blowouts" circumstances permitting. The Americans are widely scattered. making gatherings difficult and in some cases impossible but some sort of a celebration is to bo. bold wherever Tom mies and Sammies meet. Back behind the lines, in ruined vil lages and camps, concorts and special vaudeville performances have been ar ranged as part of the British armies' celebration. A canvass of the Tommies by their commanding officers to find out just what sort of "cats" they wanted for this Christmas spread, has developed somo freakish appetites. One captain asked his men whether they wanted turkey or pork and beans tho latter piping hot, with strips of bacon browned on the top. The pork and beans won hands down. There will be no fraternizing on the British front. That much is certain. ' Christmas Day in the trenches will be just like any other war day depend ent upon developments. Today all the front was decorated in a mantle of snow a foot deep. There has gol(iom been a more quict iamscap0 i tho war zone than the ono seen all along the line. ' CHRISTMAS DINNERS SAFE. By J. W. Pegler (United Press Staff Correspondent) American Field Headquarters, Dec. 21 An unsuccessful attempt by a Ger man submarine to attack a supply ship laden with Christmas food, was respon sible for the American forces finding themselves today on the verge of Christ mas without Christmas food cheer. Tho vessel, it was stated, had been turned back to America following the submarine's unsuccessful attack. Too Much Water But Not Enough Milk Portland, Or., Dec. 21. nigh water caused a milk shortage here today, floods preventing shipments from out side dairying points,many hotels and restaurants were given a small portion of their usual milk quota to insure a supply for home delivery for the pro tection of children. The condition may continue another dar. If you can't shop early shop as. early as you can. USER REFUSES TO ACCEPT TERMS CFPEICEOFFERED IBab He Has Russians So Weakened He Can Extort Concessions QUITS ?AG TAIL SHOWS TEETH INSTEAD Will Not Resume Hostilities for Oonih Under Agree ment In Force London, Dec. 21. An Exchange Tele graph dispatch from Petrograd assort ed it was unofficially reported thnt the GermuiiB had refused the Russian peace terms and that the Bolsheviki delegation has been recalled to Petro grad. Tho decision, if accurately reported, does not mean resumption of hostilities on tlie Russiun front at once, as com plete stoppago of all fighting for a month has already been agreed upon by terms of tho armistice. If the Germnns have refused to agree to thn Bolsheviki terms, it was believed hero they did so in full consciousness of thoir strength with which to extort en ormous concessions from the Russians. The original Bolshoviki requests wero for Germun withdrawal from occupied islands in Riga bay and relinquishment of other Russian territory hold by the Teutons. TTkraine Will Fight. Petrograd, Dee. 21. Tho province of Ukraine today fcrmally rejected tho Bolsheviki ultimatum and in return demanded recognition of Ukraine's in dependence. Bolsheviki representatives it was stated, declared an agreement was pos sible provided Ukrain .declurcd her in tention not to lend aid to General Kalo dinos and his Cossack revolt. Troops on both' sides are massing for ' an impending battle. Tho Ukrainian forces are composed of Cossacks under General Skorbatskeff. Bolsheviki troops aro being lined up three vests distant from the Cossack front. (Three vests is Blightly under two miles.) Ukrainian leaders, not only demanded full recognition of a republic of Uk rainian by the Bolsheviki, with full rights and non-interferonee from Petro grad, but also Ukrainians right to man agement of the Ukrainian, southwestern and Rumanian fronts, participation in all peace efforts and certain food regu lations. Among the last named measures tho Ukrainians insisted that the federal government not allow tho transport of food before payment of two thirds in paper money and a third in gold. Much casual fighting was reported from tho south between Bolsheviki anu Ukrainian irregular forces. Bolgrad (a town in Alessaratiia; was reported in flames. Would End Civil War. Petrocrad. Dec. 21. Proposals for a cessation of civil war, but with the em- nhatic, demand that the UolslieviKi no interfere with affairs in the Don region and that a now national government ba in. mediately formed, were made in a communication received today from General Kalediues, hetmun of the Don Cossacks. Kmolnv institute, headquarters or. mo Bolsheviki government, mado tho mes sage public without comment. (The Don region presumauiy m the province of the Don (jossaeas, m the southeast part of Russia.) The newspaper Isvicstia tonay pub lished letters from Kaiser wiineim m (Continued on pag two) T Abe Martin A Windsor tie '11 be found very ef fective in hidin' a fluctuatin' Adam' apple. "Whatless day's t'dayt" asked rinky Kerr, this mornin'.