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I0DAH WEATHER 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 KEAJfcMlS) DAILY Only Circulation In fialem Guar anteed by the Aadlt Bureau of ClrcnladSjna. FUIL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL wnXAJStTTE VAL LEY NEWiJ tiVICfB W - V FORTIETH YEAH NO. 307 SALEM, OREGON, WEPNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1917 PRIGS TWO CENTS 5? trains and news '"AlVU VACiiN lO STANDS FIVE CENTH IwrWNk. ' f1fl . wiry irrTTT'n , w i r ji i j ii it ' if . ,.i i j:p:- i i i a cm ill ii it ii ii i i t i k i t 1 I 1 i . , - - t - . - jr y VJW VI Vill J:j rJ. - V - 1 "I l. VK, L. j-T Ii I II Ii I ! J! I I If f J f 1 51.1.', wutneaswrry . . - KL-VX. ffilMSi UN ' r Winter's Approach Forces Gernn Supreme Effort to Break ThroughThey Realize h Must Be Done Now or Be Delayed Until Spring Snow Begins to Hamper Getting Supplies to the Front fighting Is Desperate and Has Continued Since Saturday Battle Today Is Culminating By Henry Wood, (United Press Staff Correspondent.) With the French Armies in Italy, Dec. 26.--The Teu tons are making their last supreme effort to reach the Venetian plains today before winter irrevocably checks all operations. - Since Saturday General Conrad's Austrians have been nattering unceasingly against the Italian lines. It is con fidently expected his assault, west of the Brenta, will be followed quickly by new assaults by Generals Krauss and Buelow, east of the same river particularly around Monte Grappa, where the Austro-Germans are now fresh ly concentrating. The battle as thus developing will decide whether the Italians will be able to maintain their present positions until spring. Snow and ice are already checking offensive possibilities through all the mountain region. The win ter, nevertheless, -continues unseasonably open. As yet there is no sign of heavy snow having fallen m the mountains. Yet these passes are gradually being covered with a mantle sufficient within a week or ten days more to check the enemy's operations. ; Already snowfall has curtailed the bringing up of food to such an extent that the enemy has been forced to sub stitute for massed attacks the drive of special troops, carrying emergency rations. These forces fight until re lieved by others like themselves carrying equipment for four days' service. TO TAKE OVER TUWIS NEXT JANUARY The fighting today is the ' culminnt Sng, decisive stroke of the past two (months' operations. The credit to date is with the Italians in the strug gle. Enemy prisoners unanimously dec-lore the vigorous Italian resistance lias already forced the Teuton staffs to abandon their original plan to es tablish a military and political front from Trent to Venice. They are con .tenting themselves now with the mere h.pe of reaching the Venetian plains liefore a defeat and hy defeat they mean the necessity of a winter cam paign in the ice and snow covered summits of the Alps. .The allies are determined not to I'ermit the Austro-Germans even to reach the dominating Biimmi -ftsiago and Grappa. The Austro man decision to accept their present front for the who'e winter has been tiirther indicated by their feverish lortirieatioa of the Piave into a per manent trout while all offensive ef-: ffirta U rrt dr,)toantl.ot.il r,rn:....l. I ' to improve permanent positions there! I (J McAdoO T.toVf ffffarV flf The resistance of the Italian first' luwlu"u y" aCUCidiy eirmy at Asiago equals that exhibited ' iLA i. II L ! I hy the fourth army in its re capture 1118 treaSUiy, Will DCfM CanV "f Aslnni Inst icIi Tl,n i J . . , ac y tlA" niiiples of splendid courage and fight ling ability (ive! allied officers Ihe Jujliest hopes of the Italians' abiity A few legal and financial problems, rnsiUons.011 th" fnmy hi9 prcsentnot X Anally disposed of, are hold But even shot-Id the Austro-Ger- tag np President Wilson's announce nians succeed in descending to the,n'eiJt of iw war step the mont ju. . . ... . .. judina irum mo mountains, tney will i rti oiutionary yet taken by the lut'iiist-LVL's laeu dv aivisiona m&Mm vmMw mil COAL PRODUCTION BREAKS RECORDS UTSUPPLY SHORT Fifty Bon Tons More Bit uminous 16 Per Cent More Anthracite STILL THE SHORTAGE IS ABOVE 50,000,000 TONS Fuel Administrator Lays mme un Kailroads Says No More Suffering Will VM RF ARIF 1 1 ILL II VI gJ. HULL TO RETAIN POVER Bolsheviki Minister Vorovsky lieanzcs Oovernaent Must Fall WILL NEVER CONCLUDE UNDEMOCRATIC PEACE Claim Made Black Sea Fleet Is Supporting Trotsky Faction . PRUSIAN HOSPITALITY HIGHEST AGENT.0F GERMAN SECRET SERVICEISWOMN Arrest of Schuknberg and Mammatian of Papers Shows Identity AMAZING REVELATIONS MADE BY DOCUMENTS Washmgton, Dec. 26. tro-Ger- I Government operation of the country's railroads probably under the direction of William Woman Has Been at Head of Spy System Ever Since War Started in January. gov- jteuing for an opportunity to smash the enemy back to his mountain fast ness. The tenacity of the Teutonic assault Against Monte Grappa resembles strik iuglv the German assault on Verduu. Jerman prisoners declared this to be lesplained in the German staff's opin ion that Grappa constitutes the "Achilles heel',' of Italy, at which, next spring, the Austro-G'crmans hope o deliver a fatal drive. Austrians Hold GaG ns With the Italian Armies, Dee. 26. Fierce fighting between Buzo and Monte Vaibella was in progress today- eminent. The president is confident that his plan, including the compensation to be fixed for the railroads, will meet with the approval of the railroad heads. Wage questions pending with em ployesone of the biggest problems before the government in its giant sciieme wui be taken up at a confer ence with railroad chiefs and their legal advisers at the White House to morrow. The president is sufficiently em- powc?rea oy tne ect of congress of August 29, 1918, to assume control im mediately, although there Will be legig .f J . i -i.u.Vl- t!e ktive Omenta necessary later, if is Thfr i st,,l.held ? th? said. The act under which he will Monda galD mVe pr0vide9: The enemy's advance was made pes LIHh dentJ. i?,timC f,War' emr Bible by an immense concentration of ! Ft, ngh the f"61" of w" enemv artillery of a'l calibers, which 1 1 tel?e Possesion "nd assume control smashed the Italian front lines The I f "J system or systems of transpor Austrians managed to pinch off a tinv 'P"011 for the transporta- t-alient, the apex cf which was at't,on of trops, war materials and Monte Vaibella. On .the next attack j equipment or for other purposes." the enemy consolidated his pOfilion. Owing to the big financial consider Around Jforte Grappa the enemy tions involved, high officials declared tried an attack timed t- coincide with today Secretary IfcAdoo is regarded the Vaibella assault, but failed to'rertain to be the president's ehoiee R3in. - (because of his knowledge of the finan- On the Hwer Piave. the Austrians ' cial situation and possibilitv that he -ainly' endeavored to fra'erni e, (Coaticued on page three) but i miffht prevent any financial disturb- (Coatined on page two) San Francisco, Dec. 2G. A woman spy, cAedentialedl tjy 'AVilhe'i-istrassel as one of the highest agents in the uerman secret service, directed the movements of Franz Schulenbcrg, "master spy" who is held by the fed eral authorities here, according to an nouncement today. The announcement followed admission by the authori ties that Schulenberg had made a par tial statement. The woman, who signed her direc tions to Schulenberg with the single initial "H" is declared to have been in San Francisco December 8. When Schulenberg was arrested in Santa Cruz on that date, he was on hig way to this city to confer with her. Amazing revelations were made when federal agents began an exami nation of documents s.'ized on Schul enberg when he was arrested. These showed that the woman, whose iden tity is said to be known 'to the govern ment, directed 8chu9e.nber7'a move ments from the summer of 1914 until he was arrested. She lirs-t began her directions from Berlin, but later camo to this country and has been in San Francisco or other California points for a year. Secret service agents are seeking her in all parts cf the coun try. It is understood that the Schulen berg documents have dovetailed ex actly with other documents seized by federal agents when the New York of fices of Wolf Von Igel were raided. Now Directs Spies reuerai agents believe this same woman is now virtually the directing head, of all German spies now operat ing in this eountry. She is said to be pretty, about 35 years old, ' with "snaripine black eves" and trarbs herse'f fashionably. She is declared to have been assoeki-ed with Franz Von Papen, German naval attache before his deportation, and to have been seen, after ho was deposed, with a man believed to have guceeded Von Papen as German secret service chief THREATS OF GENERAL OPMG IN AMERICA HADE BY II W. GANG Anarchists Think They Can Overthrow Government Are Closely Watched Washington, Dec. 26 Threats of a general uprising of ultra-radicals in America are in tho hands of this gov ernment. That any Bolshevikism will bo stamped out if it attempts to thwart government war work was of ficially declared today. I- W. W. and other revolutionists in this country are under strictest sur veillance. Any move to carry out de signs on the solidarity of the Ameri can people at this time will be dealt with strenuously. Since tho advent of the Lenine Trotsky regime in Russia, frequent ut terances of these leaders has indicat ed their confidence in ability to stir np a world wide movement against ex isting government. Arrival of the Bolsheviki ship Shil ka at a Pacific port has accentuated government watchfulness. Arms and ammunition found aboard the vessel are believed to have been for agita- (Continued on page two) ! Abe Martin HOOVER PUTS STOP TO SUGAR TRUST SCHEME TO CM WUHERS President Makes Public State- men! Hoover Tried to Make to Committee Washington, Dec. 26. Food Adminis trator Hoover's statement on the sugar situation, which he tried unsuccessfully to get before the senate coinmittco in vestigating the sugar shortage, was mado public last night by the White House. It attributes the shortage here to tho heavy movement of sugar from the western hemisphere to Europe, and assorts that without the fixing of prices by agreement sugar would have been selling for 25 or 30 cents a pound, and more than $200,000,000 would havo been profiteered from the American people by this time. The statement contains the food ad ministrator's reply to charges mado be fore the committee by Claus Spreckles, president of the Federal Refining com pany, that the sugar situation was mis managed, and sets forth in detail the ad ministration's efforts to keep sugar prices down while supplying large quan tities to the allies. The committee, of which Senator Reed is chairman, not only had refused to make the statement a part of tho con gressional record, but has declined thus far to peimit Hoover to take the stand to answer Bpreckleg' charges. When the Washington, Dec. 26. A coal short age of fifty million tons for 1917 in the face of the greatest production of any year in the country's history has! been caused by war demands, Fuei;aft(! Aaministrator 11. A. Garfield told the! with Germany, was expressed bv Bol sheviki Minister Vorovsky today. "Tho Bolsheviki will neveT con- By Joseph Soaplen (United Press staff correspondent) " Stockholm,- Dew,. 126. Frank belief that the Bolsheviki regime will not (be able to retain its grip on Russia er forcing through a separate peace senate investigating committee today. "Bituminous coal production shows an increase of ten per cent over 1916, elude an undemocratic peace," he while anthracite shows an increase of to1 tl10 Unito1 Press. "The war will. 16 per cent," said Garfield. )be 'ont'n"ed if Germany insists on a "The increased production of bit-' lmliB" of annexations. We stipp hope uminous coal is fifty million tons, but !.hat Kc.n?ralT'',w"'? f cotiations will this is only half enough. Munitions b( Posslble- We, w' tight defensively factories in southern New England are "n1 K"""' democratic peace 18 being greatly hampered by shortace of .'tV i , t . , ... bituminous coal." 7 Bartage of r admlt wo do not llltond and W1,, "The anthracite coal situation ".bi! ,? rem8in 1Q Power unt:1 fairlv vnnA nnvc " j il"lT pf B. "How have Vnmvuli v flntW lantn,1 vnnnFta flof you tried to increase n i ,i : productiont" asked Senator Kcnyon. ancing the Bolsheviki. By placing the emphasis on prod- "The Bolsheviki did not need Gcr uction,. not price," replied Garfield, 'man monev," he declared. "We are Doyou believe the operators have printing all that is necessary." mado trig profits by this campaign!". Arrivals from Petrograd today re asked , Kcnyon, who, in Chairman ' ported a strong monarchist movement Reed's, absence, questioned Garfield, .developing in the Russian capital, sup Must Allow Profits 'ported by some cadets and Gorman "I hardly see how to stimulate agents, production. withoHj, allowing these! - ' profits," tho fuel administration head' Negotiations Suspended replied- . ' London, Dec. 26. Russian-German Increases above the president's fixed Vct negotiations have been suspoud coal prices have been granted 41 oner- 0(1 pending consultation by German .A i . . i. . ... 1 ri,.iii nnfli. tlintw liTll.'iin.i.iiit r, r Russia's terms, according to Petro grad dispatches printed by the Times today. - The Russian delecates, it was stat- aiors by tne lucl administration to stimulate production, Garfield said. "These are mostly small mines which would not be allowed to oper- O 11 nUl.niii 1. I .. . . , . I 1 . explained ''BCU lJrlce n8.ed, are returning from Brest Litovsk. "I suppose you have placed the cov- crnment's. interests first," said Kcn yon. to Petrograd. Two commissions to negotiate peace will shortly be formed, the Times' cor rosnoudent asserted, one to meet at In this severe woather I have Tt..,..,i o,i ,., tv.ar . n,in, considered tho consumer first, for with Both will consider purely military as a dissatisfied people tho government pects of tho situation. A third will can accomplish nothing." was Gar- linrtlv he nnnnintcd to nrenara for a fi,.(l'0 ran v ... o --1'V (Continued on page two) to prepare for prospective European p'ace eonfer (Continued on page two) War Correspondent T$ lis of Peace and How "Old" Santa Claus" Wore Khaki Americans Were Real Santas to Thousands of French Children By J. W. Pegler. t, United Press Staff Correspondent) With the American Armv in France. hearing is resumed iriclay, nowever, u Dec, 26. Christmas Day, 1917 an Am is understood Mr. Hoover will be per- crieaa chriatmag ia F a mittei to tell hig story. . . . .' At the outset the statement presents -natnias, a Christmas full of such cre the world sugar situation as it existed .aturo comforts as food, tobacco, candy (Continued on page six) Lafe Bud wus askin' this morain': "Did yn' Hooverise yisterd'yj" Tilly Mook says a fish diet may do for bunch- gTasserg, but fer her clams "is it!" Charlee Berber Bed just as he "went over th' top", "does anvbuddy want t fight f"" Ah Wright." prior to the European war. The allies then produced much of their own sup plies aid purchased the remainder from Germany. Before the war they took only 300,0;)'J tons annually from the western hemisphere This year they have taken 1,400,000 iong. "That,"' sayg the food administrator, "is the cause of the sugar shortage; and nothing else." The statement says the food adminis tration has handled the situation with a view to sustaining the morale of France and Eiiglmd, where the sugar ration has been ix'.rcmely low for months, and at the same tim preventing a jump in price to 20 or 25 cents here. j feince the food administration wag created, in August the United States has exported to the allies 110,356 tons of re fined sugar and in the same period Cuba has shipped to Europe 246,133 tons of raw product. This it is declared, is just the amount of the shortage in the Unit ed States. Even with these shipments, it is point ed out, the supply in England and France has been inadequate. Consump tion in England has been reduced to 24 pounds a year for each person, and in France to 14 pounds, against a eon sumption in America of 55 pounds. The shortage, the food administrator declares, will continue during the next year, as it is the duty of the United (Continued oa pagt two) Him presents, out just the same a Christmas every man in America's army was glad to put behind him today. Thero 'was yiany a firm-jawed American fight ing man over there in Franco whose thoughts went roaming back over the submarine infeated seas to "home folks" and a home Christmus and who took a new resolve to do this job of democratizing tho world in the most businesslike fashion It would require a modern day Santa Onus with an exceedingly busy'gpan of reindeer ana highly trained rebortonal instincts to tell of the Christmas Dav spent by every American unit now in France. The best the United Press cor respondent can do is to give those back home-this series of pictures of Christ mag Day in France: A giant Sammy sentry sending in the snow outside a quaint village hotel, giv ing pennies to three little French refu gee children, who had just finished sing ing a real homey, Christmasy carol. An expert on languages might just might translate his remarks to the young sters to the effect that they'd better run along home and see what the Amer ican Santa Claug had put in their stock ings that morning. Thoughts Far Away. Downstairs in a roughly finished hotel dining room, a dozen Sammies have dragged an ancient tinpan piano. They were clustered around singing "Holy Night". An ex-member of the Minneap-, olis Symphony Orchestra was the pian ist. - One hundred and fifty officera ban queting in a barrack like structure down oho villugo street singing the immor tal "F-o-o-r-r it's Al always fair Weather." Tho singing to a critical ear sounded just a bit flat and unenthusiaa tic. Tho 150 were plainly thinking of wives, children and sweethearts back Lome and trying to cnmouflago. V. M. C. A. barracks anyone of a dozen, rather serious faced men tearing seals on Christmas packages, reading over and over letters from mother "!i;d bless you and bring you back to us." Dozens of snow blanketed villages, like the little town of Bethlehem, nest ling in the valleys and many Amer icans, billeted in stab'es, sleeping them selves in the mangera. Tobacco ana Candy. ' An American hospital sick and wounded receiving bounteously from the Red Cross tobacco, candy sometime the recipient waa sternly forbidden to eat and plenty of presents from homo folks. Thousands of little French refugee children, who learned of Santa Claus for the first time and got thaf immeasurable thrill that comes with the opening of queerly bulging stockings. Thousand! more who learned all about Christmaa trees and who treasured all through tho day the wonderoug toys and candy which mmst-cyed Sammies getting ready to fight the boche had bought for them. Plenty of turkey . and trimmings c-very where even to thousands of Am erican railway engineers, strung front close to the front to the seaport. The United Press correspondent i writing thig close to the point whera the Minneapolis symphony man' is teas ing melody out of the jangling wire of that resurrected piano. The "bunch" (Continued on page two)