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YHB DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 26, 1917. THREE TONIGHT TOMORROW BIG BILL HART AT HIS BEST IN THE SILENT MAN Playing to Capacity MATINEE 10c . riLLAMOOK COMPANY OEFERSJTS SPRUCE 130,000,000 Million Feet Of ; fered GoYeniment For Its Airplanes About 130,000,000 feet of standing spruce timber iu Tillamook county has been offered the government by the "Whitney Timber company for manufac Funny Girl Pals J- i-'luil 4 GvEdsi mJM Union Pacific 'fl&fP. System fC- 6t 4 3 Through Trains East N j ff J0 T Every Day - M MCw fa3Jrl-:j CHICAGO : KANSAS CITY : SALT LAKE QW$& fSMS: 10 a.m. 6:15 p.m. 11p.m. ?4S.JjBl &ft,vdl1' from Portland Union Station, through . Sj,bi:,;'7"-?&! 1$ f K the majestic ColumbiaRiverGorge S, -jtL' '-'''-"X'fi Wt " McMma' 8 ' 4ltl :v1 J SomUNios pacific isgjlg TWO STARS AXD PALS OF MACK SENXETT COMEDIES. Louize Fazenda and "Pep" are screen rivals, b ut good friends for all that. They share stellar boa rs la a forthcoming Mack Sennett Comedy. The jealousies of the theater world are proverbial, but there are two comedians who have an in separable and unalterable affection for each other they are Louise Fazenda and Pepper, the famous comedy cat. Both, strange to say, are under Other Attractions The OREGON ture into war airplanes. This information reached ' Colonel Brice P. Disque of the United States sig nal corps yesterday by telegram from Captain Russcl Hawkins, who attended a meeting of the, board of directors of the company Saturday. . Captain Hawkins wired: "Your bulletin concerning rived and split spruce was discussed and it was unanimously decided to offer the Bpruce production division of the signal corps the spruce that will produce aircraft lumber. The spruce offered by the com pany is situated upon 75,000 acres of land in the neighborhood of Fawcctt, Simons and Killiam creek in Tillnmook county. Wants Well Selected Trees. The company asks the privilege of and Clever Cat Close in, Mack Sennett Comedies Jf - - regular contracts with the Mack Sennett comedies. Miss Fazenda is one of the most famous comediennes in the mov ies and Pepper is without ques tion the most famous cat. Pep is more like a dog than a cat. He can be taught to do anything. The only trouble with Pep Is that when Sn"" -5 if 1! T 1 f 1 . "J . f EVENING 20c having the particular trees needed at this time by the government intelligent ly selected and marked by its represen tatives and that care be exercised in handling the tops and limbs and offal consequent to the operation of splitting, that tho other timber on the tract will not be in danger of fire." That other big timber concerns are responding to the rived spruce program of tne signal corps is shown by letters in which they pledge their support iu every possible way. Assurance of cooperation and suggest ions as to the most favorable methods for obtaining rived spruce were received from the Weycrhauser Timber company of Tacoma. Good Man Selected. Addressed to Colonel Disque the let ter said, in part: "We have selected a man to look after this work for us, who is quite fa miliar with forest work and fire pro tection. "The man selected to look after this work is well acquainted with all of tho spruce regions of Pacific and Grays Harbor counties, and I think we can be of a vast amount of assistance to your propaganda by picking out locali ties where men can work and get this class of material, and of course, aside from this means of 'getting stock, we are perfectly willing at the present time, to sell spruce stumpage to loggers and millmen wherever they can get hold of it, and at the prices that have been recommended by the government. Mystery Ship Is Being Unloaded A Pacific Port, Dec 25. Unload ing of the Bolsheviki ship Shilka was resumed this morning following a Christmas day rest, pending the arriv al of word from Washington, D. C, pertaining to disposition of the vessel. In tho meantime the vessel is being heavily guarded by police and customs officials at- her moorings. The Russian consul here will make no statement as to what action he will take in the mystery ship until he has heard front a telegram which he sent tho 'Russian ambassador t Washington. Officers of, the ship say they will make an effort to reach tho British consul today in an effort to have him intervene. Captain Boris Bedel and ' his offi cers took their Christmas dinner with the president of the American Siber ian Trading company, who was for merly an officer in the Russian navy. Do your eleventh hour shopping early this evening. I - J .xv. he gets tired of acting he departs from the scene with one tiger-like bound and la seen no more that day. He Is a "little peeved at Miss Fazenda just at present because she directed a scene the other day in which he had to come on with fly paper on his feet. LABOR EXPECTED DEilANDS; LEADING : SUBJECT IN LONDON Consent to Draft It Is ; Believed But Will Demand Concessions By Lowell Mellett (United Press Staff Correspondent) " London, Dec. 26. Labor 's expected demands from the government when leaders meet Premier Lloyd-George, Minister of National Service A. C. Ged des. and others on Friday, was the bitr- gest question before Britain today. xne government Jias intimated it will ask further concessions from British unionists, permitting heavy new drafts from its members to supply niau power to the army. The laborites have intimat ed they will accede to such a request, but it was not anticipated today they would abandon their safeguards against drafting without a counter-bargain. Strong sentiment was noted that the opportunity would be utilized to obtain the government 's adherence to the prin cipal points in labor's announced war aims including notjjnly the idea of a league of nations and no economic war-after-the-wark but frank and complete renunciation of any support by Great Britain of imperialistic aims. Labor sus pects certain of the allies entertain these imperialistic aims. There was growing belief today that labor might urge also H. G. Wells' sug gestion that unionism demand Sid Ed ward Carson s expulsion from tho min istry as ore who had gone over under the pressure of British toryism. Consid erable sentiment was developed against the member of the war cabinet. Home rule leaders, however, were disposed to insist only on domestic con cessions from the government partic ularly as to food supplying. Many union ists are urging that now is the time to extend the co-operative societies system over the whole country, equalizing dis tributions, ending profiteering and pre venting waste. The recent unprecedent ed growth of queues of people waiting in line for supplies was regarded as insuring Buccess of this demand. A Platinum Take" Exposed In Oregon The present shortage of platinum and the consequent greatly increased prices of the metal bid fair to result in a con siderable increase in the domestic pro duction of platinum during the coming year. At the same time, while legitimate miners are increasing their production and to some extent relieving the coun try's shortage, other persons are using the interest aroused by the present nation-wide search for the metal to make extravagant claims for utterly worthless deposits, and some honest prospectors are led by false assays, made by ineffi cient or venal assayers, to believe mis takenly that they have valuable plat inum deposits. Reports of platinum in some mythical combination "volatile platinum" or "colloidal platinum" should be regarded as sufficient evi dence of the incompetence or dishonesty of the assayer. During the season of 1917 the geolo gists of the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, spent must time in visiting platinum de posits tin. proved to be worthless. A notable example is seen in the supposed platiniferous sands of the DeBchutes river, near Terrebono, Oregon, which were examined by Mr. H. G. Ferguson in October, 1917. Claims have been stak ed for several miles along Deschutes and Crooked rivers, and as" certain volcanif sands along these rivers had been said to contain large percentages of gold and rare metals, particularly metals of the platinum group, Mr. Ferguson visited the localities at which the sands were obtained and took samples for test and analysis. ' The material collected, which id expos ed in the canyon of the Deschutes river north of Low Bridge in section 15, T. 14 S., R. 12 E., consists of loosely ce mented dark volcanic sand and conglom erate interbedded with basalt and vol canic tuff. The black basaltic sand is supposed to have the richest content of gold and platinum, but neither in pan ning the material in the field nor in the chemical tests made by the Geological Survey could any trace of platinum or other metals of the platinum group be found. Neither was any gold found in the concentrates, and it is concluded that material of this type is very un likely to contain workable amounts of gold. , In conclusion, the Geological Survey desires to warm prospects and investors against accepting at their face value any statements iu regard to platinum bearing ores and sands that do not show native platinum when panned. Such ma terial should always be sent to assay ers whose reputation is above reproach. Oregon's Total For Red Cross Is 171,758 (Capital Journal Special Service) Portland, Or., Dec. 26. Up to lmt night the Red Cross campaign show pA thesn results: Portland 60.073, out side lll,6C5,total 171.73S. With Uma tilla, Harney, Deschutes Douglas, Un ;(,n Mnrrnw and Sherman counties over the 100 per cent mark, Portland campaigners definitely necwiea not io be ashamed, and to continue the cam paign until Portland reaches her hun dred thousand quota. Even Multno mah county outside of Portland is now twenty five per cent over quota. Doug las county is first in western Oregon, all others in eastern and central have passed quotas. Baby Cohn, to arrive ra two weeks at the home of Nathan Cohn of Portland elaims the world's championship as the youngest Red Crossors. His membership is made out awaiting arrival oP'the stork. Vnn nn hiiv a wiff savinss thrift stamp as easily as you can buy a loaf of bread, and it doesn't cost much more- ELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Druggists refund money if it fails. 25c TELEGRAPKICTABLOSDS Chicago. Tore Lindburg, selective, didn't know just who said, "Who is that big stiff in the uuiformt" so he cltaued out the whole bunch in Gus Bjork's saloon. Six of the 25 received first aid at a hospital. Gibson, Ind., A carload of turtles, en route east, refused meat and grain foods. Railroad employes turned 'em loose to forage for themselves. Bibsou residents are about fed up on turtle soup. Cleveland, Ohio. A thousand dollar pearl was F. Mulford's Christmas pre sent. He found it while eating oysters. New York. Employment conditions iu New York are so satisfactory that one of the city's most famous winter institution the Bowery bread line has been abolished. New York. Charles M. Schwab, heaq of the Bethlehem Steel company, an nounced he will ride iu day coaches or ordinary Pullmans hereafter for the duration of the war. His private car has been abandoned. Dallas, Texas. Ford Whiteside, archi tect, started a subscription today to buy Kaiser Bill crutches for next Christmas. "In a year he'll need 'em,". Whiteside prophesied. Dallas, Texas After turkeying and crauberrying more than two thousand soldiers yesterday. Dallas people today invited them back for turkey hash to morrow. San Francisco. When Milton Gale was threatened with arrest he imagined liimdjll n fountain npn and drank a bottle of ink in a suicide attempt. As in many fountain pens the ink didu't worK. President Working To Get Responsibility fixed On One Person Washington, Dec. 26. President Wil son is moving further to co-ordinate the war government. Steps already have been taken to eliminate government red tape. Secretary Baker's creation of a "war council" is expected to supplant much work now done by different divisions of the national defense council. Establishment of a munitions chief tp supervise, purchase and distribute guns, munitions, food and clothing for tho army will probably absorb the work now done by the munitions board, placing over it executive authority now lacking, officials say. Colonel House, chairman of the Amer ican commission to the recent allied conference in France is here conferring with tho president today. It is under stood his visit is connected with gov ernment plans to simplify its working organization further after patterns learned from experience by England and France. Congress will doubtlessly demand a readjustment in the war department, but Secretary Baker is expected to accom plish much of this even before the mil itary probe committee reports. I State House News i City' of Jefferson makes application for relief from Warning signs statute, on certain streets and highways. H. S. Volan, Lacouib, Oregon, presents claim against tho Southern Pacific com pany lor $Ll.0O. Mr. Volan alleges mill feed was shipped from West Scio and freight paid nom that point; that he hired a man and team to nutil feed from Brewster to his place; that mill feed was not there and he again was forced to biro a man at $2.00 lo go after mill feed; alleges neglect on part of railroad account of feed not being delivered wbeu it Biiouul nave been ami usKs lor payment oi cluiin of $-..j0 by railroad compuny. City of Salem liles complaint against Krmttwmi l-'jii-itic comtmiiv for ouuinny: of loin Street crossing acruss tne Ucei branch; City desires crossing to be ro tored for benefit of property uud indus trial enterprises located on south side of Geer branch, und a-sKa apportionment of cost of opening such crossing. Lloyd L. Crocker, Portland, Ore., makes informal complaint against Port land Central Heating company request ing discontinuance of heating service. Want Train to Stop. Residents of Wilbur and vicinity, and patrons of the Southern 1'atil'ic railway, cither as shippers or passengers, or both, ask your hunurablo body to require train No. 15, due at Wilbur at 4:48 p. m., to stop on a flag signal at Wilbur. At present it does not stop, and the re fusal of the company to so do is causing a great deal of inconvenience to us. Shipments which we desire to make by express are delayed, and wc are denied Him chance to iro into Roscburir to trans act any business in the evening, thus 'intuitu ut tti lttp ft lirtfiNt. ft wltiilt- (l.JV by having to wait for the morning train. The complaint is signed by btj petition ers. JUST A PAC KOF LIES. Sacramento, Cal., Dee. 26. "They're nothing but a pack of lies," was the denouncement of William Hood, I. W. W. leader and alleged dynamiter of the governor's mansion, to statements that he was the ringleader of an I. W. W. plot to destroy industries in Sacramen to. "I'll be able to prove my innocence when the time comes," he said. It is likelv that the fortv-two I. W. W.s ar rested in the raid of the I. W. W. hall will be released as they cannot be con nected with- the alleged dynamite plot. ROSTEIN & Real Bargains Men's , Men's Men's High Top Short Top Rubber Boots Rubber Boots Rubber Boots $3.00 : Woonsocket $5.75 ' Ball Band $4.50 $2.50 Slicker Oil Clothing, Coats, Leggings and Pants Ladies' Children's Colored Silk Umbrellas Umbrellas Umbrellas , S Handles Cute Handles Very Sraa11 ' $1.00 $1.50, $1, 75c $6.00 and $4.50 A Big Assortment of Umbrellas at $2.25 and $1.90 Men's Light . Girls' Slipon Men's Slipon Raincoats Raincoats Raincoats $2.00 $2.75 $4.50 See us for the Best Shoes in the city. Staple styles. Shoes that will wear and give satisfaction. 240-246 Commercial Street DESPERATE EFFORT (Continued from page one) were answered by Italian machine gun fire. British Reprials Begin London, Dee. 26. Monday's British air raid on the German city of Mann heim was the first instance of an ex tra reprisal policy for Hun air mur ders over England, according to an nouncement today. It was the first air raid carried out by British flyers "which did not aim at purely military objectives. All Lou ilon newspapers expressed satisfaction nt the actual carrying out of the pol icy of ' eye lor eyo and tooth for tooth," reprisal announced by Pre mier Lloyd-George in October and De cember 14 and reiterated by Lord Ifotlierineyer, British air minister, at liis Gray's Inn speech. The German Version Berlin, via London, Dec. 26. Vio lent enemy counter attacks in the neighborhood of Coldolrozo and at neighboring1 heights broke down with heavy losses to the attacking forces, today's Gorman official statement said. Ask Recognition Petrogrnd, Dec. 20. Finland has asked Germany to recognize her in dependence, according to roports which reached here toilay from Biest Litovsk. Nothing Special London, Dec 26. "Nothing spe cial," was Field Marshal Huig's re port from tho British front today. Asks for Dlay ' Petrogrnd, Doc. (20. Germany has asked postponement of peaco negotia tions until January 24, according to semi-official announcement hero today Regained Ground Lost. Rome, Dec. 20. Recapture of ground from tho Teutons at Coldelrose and Monte Vnlbella, but failure to hold the gains in tho face of counter attacks, was reported in today's officii.1 state ment. .CS; SHRD FLTEI AON 1245031234 Tho war office reported violent fight ing along the whole of tho mountain front. "On the Asiago plateau," the state ment said, "the struggle commenced yesterday morning nt dawn, the enemy concentrating his efforts at tho ex treme right between f'ohlelioso mid Val f rcuzelnmnisp. Our front held and the f y , '.V if i f ' fV " . t ' Y 7 SCENE FROM "MAX OF THE HOUR" TUB OPENING PLAY OP TPS SNEDEKKB COM PAN Y ' Willi H OPENS A TWO DAY ENGAGE MENT AT THE BLlC.il TIIUK DAY. Mr. Uligh,' of the Pligh, announces tists, in addition to tho play vaude a special attraction for his theater, jvi Ho will be introduced between the . . . , ii . i acts, doing awav with the usual tire- beginning Thursday night. He has sc-jU ,90 b jcured the popular Snediker Company or seven to appear ncre iu nun sions of famous plays. The company is a good one, carrying all their own spe- cial scenery and seven recognized ar- GREENBAUH RHEUIAILC PAINS Quickly Eased By Penetrating Hamlin' Wizard Oil A safe and harmless preparation, to relieve the pains of Rheumatism Sciatica, Lame Back and Lumbago is Hamlin's Wizard Oil. It penetrates' quickly, drives out soreness, and limbers up stiff aching joints and muscles. You will find almost daily uses for it in cases of sudden mishaps or acy cidents such as sprains, bruises, cuts, burns, bites and stings. Just as re-, liable, too, for earache, toothache croup and colic. Get it from druggists for 30 centsJ If not satisfied return the bottle and! get your money back. Ever constipated or have sick? headache? Just try Wizard Liver Whips, pleasant little pink pills, 3Q tents. Guaranteed. Wortworih In Charge of Oregon Ship Buildmg Portland, Or., Dec. 20. Lloyd Went worth (was todnji' nj pointed district officer of the Oregon shipbuilding d'istrict, tlVl federal shipping 'hoard taking action soon after its seggre Stution of the Oregon section from the northwest district, which includes Washington. Weutworth has been a special representative of the shipping board here, and his appointment as district officer was sought by ship builders. SNOW FALLS AT BEDMOND ; . Redmond, Or., Dec. 20. Snow fell Monday night to a depth of one and a half inches following a day of show ers. Tho winter ho fur hns been the mild est iii years and stockmen are rejoic ing because of the paving in feed. The hny market is showing a down ward tendency as a result. ' On account of a shortage of labor to convoit timber from cleared trac's into fuel, I'rinevillc is laving to, pay 10 a cord for wood, while ranchers only a few mil s out aro pulling and hiirniii!! much juniper on land being cleared. enemy was nimble to advanco beyond the Sasso habitations." shown making a mig'ity bi:r program ai rcumr j-iivtr;.. iuc ..jri-mug will be Geo. Broadhnrsts "Man of the Hour, " playing timo will be one hour and thirty minutes.