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Newspaper Page TextTODAY'S WEATHER 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 HEADERS) DAILY Only Circulation. In Salem Guar anteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulat'-ona. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES t BPBOIAL WIIiAMETTE VAIi LEY NEWS SSiVICE 'If Oregon; Tonight I I and Tuesday rain 111 strong southeast- v ppttitti wxsm n?XTTKS on trains and news FORTIETH YEAR NO. 311 SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1917 iVUIIWVLUVlU STANnAFTVW (TUTU PS(5H tCOUlft ii 1 1 f I n ii J n i u ii u r ii ii n i JUUL 1 0 JUL . . U rVJT4t JPLv. J V 71Lr TVfc FJ TIT" A, -aft. YJ 'W 7 " , rJr Brest Litovck ConfereCAdjcurns Temporarily with Agreement Reached Working Oat cf Minor Details-Each Nation Is Ttf iate Territory of Other Nation Now Occupied and ReT Business Conditions As Existing Before War Will IxJored As Far As Germany and Russia Are Concerned Amsterdam, Dec. 31 ovsk conference adjourned temporarily toiny Having reached u substantial agreement looking toward a separate jKiiee between Kussia and Germany ready to be submitted to tho govein iiicnts on both bides. The agreement, it was stated, was sub stantially that The Russians would with draw from occupied portions of Aus- 1 1 lil-JiillH'lUV. tlie Ciiti'.'il Po-.vcrs Tie Brest LIT- for a more detailed specification from Germany as to her attitude on such states. The main poii t of difference di ve'op cd between the two sides is regarding the exact time of German withdrawal from occipi'd ori.iots of Rii'sit. The Kusi-iaii Oelegates insist on immediate withdrawal. The Geriran counter preno sition is for withdrawal after the Rus sians have relinquished Then- oecupi : CERilll V COM PLETE D . J , 4. V ft 1 ' A . H ' - . ' M A ' 4 1 1 yi i- T and Persia, if lauds and after the. peoples in the Ger- likewise from man-occupied states amii '.uu-ed 'J'ohind, Lithuania, Courland and other! their choice of future government, ltef jarts of Kusia grnnrtiig tiio people of'creuc-e is made in the German nronosals those' occupied sections a "free oppor tunity u (ieeule then- own iutuie sta tus. During this period of decision the agreement tp-cified tiiat only national and loial militia was to remain in the teuitory. The deleyp.tes have also jointly stipu-. ):itcd terms for repumption of full and free commertial ii.l ercourse. the release of war prisoners and payment for dam age done by occupying troops. The agreement n-aetically provides for restoration of the states Wj aisf.?, with the revocation of niauy laws and national rcgulauons which have been adopted ly both sides during the strnij t'le. The R issian peace delegates ins'st on inore definite interpretation is that concession in tho German stipulations as to variolic peoples in occupied terri tories being permitted to ai.iiou.-.cc. thc-ir owr. choice of futero government. The rcrman jirovisions merely recrgr.ize the right of such jates Poland, Lii'iuan ja, Ksthoi ia, Courland and Livonia to independence and provide for a spec ial commission to arrange, other mat 1 ers. to the tact that several of the states partially occupied by Germany have an nounced independence of Russia. The Germans thus apparently decid ed, inview of the Bolsheviki lack of complete authority over Russia, to hold fm-t to occupied Russian lands until the people there acquiesce in the Bolsheviki plans. Poland, Lithuania, Courland, Ksthonia and Livonia are all thus af fected. FIGHTING AT IRKUTSK By Ralph H. Turner. (United Press Staff Correspondent) Tokio, Dec. 31. Fierce fighting is in progress at Irkutsk between Boisiiaviki red guards and cadet Cossack forces, ac cording to a dispatch received today by the Kokusai Agency from Harbin. The Bolsheviki w?re- reported to have murdered a IVnch consular agent and two other French citizens. ' The town is said to be in flames. Added to the terrors of the fijjiting is the almost total lack of food sup plies. The population is literally starving to death. Maximalist troops, it was stated, are receiving reinforcements The Russian counter proposals are from Krasnojursk. CROWN PRINCE MASSES GREA T GERMAN FORCES FOR BIG WINTER ATTACK At-fiO ALLIES WILL REPLY ROFFER POWER TO PEA! OF CENTR By William Philip Simms plants have been running as never be- (X nited Press Staff Corresspondent) ilore to supply aeroplanes and war ma- With the British Armies in the Field. ! chinery for what is conceded tn h (4,.r. That Germany at the 'many 's final, supreme effort of the Dec. l.Bv Mail- cud of a year of battering and steady bulldog advance by the British troops should be preparing her supreme offen feive and in the winter time is the outstanding feature of the past twelve months of fighting on the British front. Crown Prince Rupprecht is undoubt edly massing the greatest forces Ger many has fcver had concentrated on the western front for Germany's supreme effort at a military decision there. Vast numbers of soldiers have been releas ed by Russia's collapse. Vast numbers of guns, captured by the Teuton's suc cessful drive into Italy, have been trans ported to Rupprecht 's aid. German Abe Martin Mi General Byng, master of open fight ing, won the great smashing victory around Cambrai with his equine cavalry and his machine cavalry the tanks. In a year filled with solid stunning blows endlessly delivered at the German line, this victory around Cambrai stands out as sensationally changing the aspect of me iroui. mere were otiier operations Premier Lloyd-George Will Go To Paris to Confer LP Sahject of War Aims ' By Ed L. Keen (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, Dec. 31. The allies seriously to respond to the Teutonic. peace terms as announced from Brest L'tovsk, according to the best informa tion obtained today by the United Press The answer planned will not be made uutil the German terms are fully receiv ed. It is understood that Premier T.Wrl- A s"orty t" France to jor General William C. HEAVY ARTILLERY WILL BE SUPPLIED BY ALLIES ABROAD This Agreement Has Been Reached Because of Oar Own Inability to Supply It By Lawrence Martin, (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Washington, Dec. 31. Great Britain and France have agreed to supply artillery .for all tho American troops sent to France in 1918. They are pre pared to furnish it even longer if necessary.. They must, furnish it, be cause America has neither tho guns to send nor tho ships to transport them mencpnn. nn. nnw.tlt. 4-1.1- . . . ' r-.w.iV i una same matter. Premier Lloyd-George's latest word on the subject of war aims was in his letter of last week to the laborite con-feren.ee,- in which he laid emphasis en the fact that there would be no re-statement of Britain's terms except after full consultation with all the allies. It was pointed out today that this trip to Paris might well be for the specific purpose of an interchange of views and later issuance either of a joint repleading of allied aims or pos- which combined after days of fighting j ill.v a reply statement, issued directly I 1 1 iV W -i to round out a victory but Byng s was a single, violent, crowning stroke which in a few hours advanced the British miles upon miles. The British pierced the Hindenburg line.More than that they took the second and third line defenses of this '-im-pregnible" front. Open fighting was resumed for the first time since the days of the Marne. Cavalry was' in ac tien on both sides. Trenches were aban doned the British sweep was too sud den and paralyzing. It swept over reg ular lines. Byng added something entirely new to the war a general assault without ar tillery preparations. He used his tanks to smash down entanglements where tlie rules of modern war had heretofore prescribed artillery fire for this job. The Germans immediately profited by the lesson. Rupprecht massed tremeud- i ous force9 of men and before the Brit- inn into, iainv senieu in ineir new po sitions around Cambrai, they too, at tacked without artillery preparation. Their onslaught was with overwhelm ing weight of men the old style "mass ed attack" -of gTay-coated ranks. They forced a readjustment of the British line at several points. But the British held on to the Hindenburg line, despite Rupprecht 's hardest blows. They are holding there today under violent as-sanlt.-' Before this November and December outbreak of fighting around Cambrai, the year had gone by without a single to Russia, pointing out the Wl3 KnPHaq iu the German "concessions." At the time of the inter-allied confer ence iu Paris it was then urged by M. Malakoff, the delegate representing the Kereusky government, that the allies could do nothing more likely to aid Kussia than to restate clearly and em phatically the exact aspirations and aims of the allies. Belief has been growing here that the unco i-uuiu give ior itussia s benefit a This was tho testimony today of Ma- Grozier, chief of ordinance, beforo the senate mili tary affairs committee. General Croz ier put responsibility for this condi tion upon the country as a whole for failure to prepare. "As long-ago as 1916, I and other officers persistently urged larger ap propriations for field artillery, medium, and heavy artillery," said Gen eral Crozier. "The responsibility for our failure to get it must rest uinm the people as a whole." General Crozier was recalled by the committee to answer charges of inef ficiency and lack of foresight, made by previous witnesses. He demanded that he be permitted to make bis ex planation under oath. No other wit ness before the committee has given sworn testimony but upon the. sug gestion of Senator Frelinghuyscn ' 'that the attorney general may later want to use some of, the evidence, here," General Crozier was sworn. Arranged With France General Cronier, reading from a fiiNE DEATHS RESULT M PAS n w n.L-ULli IN NEW YORK TODAY Situation Remains Serious In East Due to Unusual Short age of Fuel New .Vork, Dee. 31. With nine deaths directly attributable to tho cold during the last 21 hours, tho situation in New York continued serious today in the face of the coal shortage. Tho weather bureau reported the official temperature four below at ! a, m. to day with street thermometers showing several degrees lower. The lowest dur ing the last 24 hours was 13 below, the coldest in the history of tho local weather bureau. There was some discussion today of continuing the Christmas holiday of I tue senoois tnrougnout tins week, keep ing them closed until next Monday as a means or conserving coal. Scores have been treated at hospi tals for frost bite during the last 24 hours, in many cases amputation of fingers and toes will bo necessary, physicians reported. Fuel authorities were today consid ering the advisability of seizing coal when necessary to relieve acute suffer ing, i ne snipping situation was tlie worst in months. The Hudson was part ly frozen. Many tugs were frozen in, while others were endangered by big ice tioes. In ninny of the poorer sections per sons suffering from cold burned their furniture, the police were told. A record breaking number of fires occurred during the last 24 hour per iod. There were more than 300 alarms resulting from overheated furnaces or other causes arising from the intense cold. The Bronx subway was tied up for two hours in the midst of the morning ru.-h hour, due to a fuse blowing out. with (Thousands were confined in the tube FRENCH VICTORY IN ITALY GAINS A LINE OF TRENCHES Germans Lose Hundreds of Prisoners, Guns and War i ' . Materials BRITISH TRENCHES LOST ON WEST FRONT DRIVE Counter Attack, However, Succeeds la Regaining Much Lost Ground Rome, Dec. 31. French troops, as suming the offensive tor the first time in tho Italian theater of wnr, gained a notable victory between Os teria and Demonfendra and Maran- zone, the war ottice announced today. The French captured iMU prisoners. Besides the prisoners, tho poilus took sixty machine guns, seven cannon and much other material. British and Italian airmen cooper ated in the victory. Berlin Admits Loss Berlin, via London, Dec. 31. 'French infantry attacked find (succeeded in ponetratiug parts of German positions around Monte Tomba, today's official report stated. This is the first official news that French troops have actually been in action on the Italian front, although their presence in this theater of the war has boon known for weeks. Recent dispatches placed them on front line positions and it has been as sumed tho poilus took part in repelling recent Austro-Germnn atta J'is. This is tho first time, however, that they have assumed tho offensive. British lose Trenches London, Dec 31. Germnn troops still clung to a part of British front trenches in the neighborhood of lja vacquiere south of Marccing, which they gained in a powerful attack Sun day morning, Field Marshall Haig re ported today. As a result of successful counter attacks, however, tho British regained the more important part of this section known as Welsh ridge. Many prisoners and machine gnus (Continued on pago two) 1-1100 DECIDES TO PAY HIGHER SALARIK TO f-IEII May Act On Demands cf Employes Without Await ing Mediation PASSENGER SERVICE . SECONDARY TO FREIGHT President Will Ask Congress to Legalize Steps Taken by Director General By Robort J. Bender ' (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Dec. 31. Director Gen eral McAdoo will pay his 1,500,000 rail road employes UMire money. This has been definitely agreed upon between President Wilson and leaders of the four great brotherhoods and will cover increases for all employes wheth er members of the brothorhoods or not. The government will not meet the full forty per cent increase demanded by the men, but an agreement is assured. At a conference today between Mc Adoo and the United States board med iation and conciliation, a basis of in creases was expected to be finally de termined. - ' To Believe Congestion. This question, together with action to relieve congestion at the ports of New - lork and Newport News, now bearing the brunt of the heavy export freight shipments, is occupying Mc Adoo 's attention, to the exclusion of other problems now. ' His plnn is to , divert immediately freight directed to those points and scud it to Boston and Philadelphia. The long haul of freight from tho central part of tho country, for which the eastern roads have been actively bidding, will be eliminated entirely and all sueti ship- ', moats will go to Now Orleans and other southern points which have been prac tically idle. The government will pay higher wages just as it did when the shipping board advanced the scale in shipyards. While the new rates will be paid through the present railroa.1 offices, tho government will supply the additional money because the, guaranteed ar ago net railroad income of tho past (Continued on pago six) Bnd grammar .only secrs t' boost me folks. Remember when we used t' ; ak o' some girl as fcavin' hair th' ior o' 7-cect sugar? clear interpretation nf fi,a i carefully prepared statement, told how Hons and no indemnities" nl.rn .h.h he had arranged last summer I.us.sia has made so much over and Andre Tardieu, head of the French in stalled trains while the damage wa3 which the Germans have been attemnt-! mission, for manufacture in French being repaired. One train was stalled ;og 10 convey tnev accepted. i"""1"" . ........... ... ........ 1 millimeter howitzers to supplv all I women tainted and were carried from TO ArvR-RT rw pot rev i American forces sent to France to the trains By Joseph Sbaplen 1 March 1, 1H. Emphatically denying (United Press Staff Correspondent) j the American forces were taking from Stockholm. Dec. 31. Several nlli-d I France and E.igland artillery w hich diplomats here today recommended toi1""06 anu England could not afford !'" their respective governments that therto Riv? General Crozier read from a; ol'' participate in a conference here which I cablegram sent the would proclaim a concrete general peace - from France to General Bliss, chief of jsiarr, on iiccemnpr o. Warmer in Washington Washington. Dec. 31. After rea'-h- thre below zero, Washington 'g est weaih- r in live years, the mcr- department rose lociay anci snow was iorc- l: . i ,i pou. y .ii me auies. '" "7""" ' . Scren Below In Eoston Tne l nited Press learned from auth-j Bbss cabled that the munitions min- j!o,ton ya j)c(. 3 with n oritative sources that this recommenda- j iers of France .and England had ! tpnnrflture of 'fieven ' below zero and tion was made in the belief that such J stated that the expansion of their ar-a j,ilinj, win(j Boston today was in the a move is the only thing that can stayjtillery production made it possible for ri f)f ,h1 ,M'of(t WV(.r. rj,, wav that the separate peace madness of the Bol-them to equip fall American forces sent . ev,.r WP,t Xcw England sheviki. j abroad in 1918 and longer, if neees-j Rai!way, d citv traific was de- Secretary Camille Huysmans of the;sary, with all sorts of artillery. i moralized. Throughout the city there International Socialist Bureau, today re-i To save tonnage needed for other! waf) mu,.0 suffering from lack of fuel ceived and forwarded to Foreign Min-1 things, the French and English agreed The hospitals treated numerous cases ister Trotsky at Petrograd the tele- to provide this artillery and ammuni- of frost bites. A temperature of fifty sram sent bv Arthur Henderson, lead- tion for it. Delivery of artillerv to below was rerxirted from northern thrust resoundingly sensational or vital-'er of the British laborite party, an-i General Pershing's forces, is now px- Maine, ly changing the geography of the west nouncing adoption- of liberal war aims ceeding the premises of manufacturers ! K ' " front. The British however, have during aud opposing a separate peace. jPershia? has been getting 75 and 155 ! "Born a French Xoble," says a this time dealt the Germans several! Huysmans also addressed a note to '., millimeter howitzers in considerable head line, "He IHDes a Laborer." iThen he died more noule than he was (Continued on page six.) born. WEA THER IN FRA NCE IS BITTER COLD ON EVE OF THE NEW YEAR'S BIRTH By J. W. Pegler . (United Press staff correspondent) With tho American Army in France i (Continued on page two) (Continued on page three) up the .stragglers nnd carried them to hospitals. Their influx forced tho plac ing of cots in tho corridors and even into tents. Fiftv extra nurses were Dec. 31. A certain picked, cracker- Bummoned from auother unit to c-t jack marching unit of American troops in handling the big number of patients broke a heartbreaking hike today with I A dozen wood chopping camps in the ft rent in a. certiiin unciunt huuilet in rtlliernnu r.unu aiu . France, with dozens of its men crowd- j ing hospitals with frozen feet, frost bitten faces and other ailments due to bitter cold. "Valley Forge had nothing on 'somewhere in France,' New i'ear's 1017J" Yaid a foiu'S Chicagoan, drawing up his coat collar closer around his head as a protection against the n-y. wind driven snow- "Jly leet are swollen so darn big with tho cold that I'm atrmd to taue olf my noes I cnudn 't get 'em on again.'' The bamniy limpinglv paced along a silent, shadowy line of motor trucks, drawn up under a roadside embank ment. He was doing sentry guard while his unit rested. Tho marchers arrived at a group of primitive villages down the valley last night after lighting the wind in their march for many weary miles. Af ter a supper of scorchiugly hot soup and stew, the Sammies crawled into barns and into the ancient hous-s ful ly clothed, their heads im ased iu kuit ted helmets. They wrapped up in their heavy blankets and huddled together in groups of three or four, sharing each others bodv warmth against a wind whlcj whistled through uuglazed win-lows and drove snow through chinks in the walls. Some burrowed into straw piles. Oth ers majle their beds under the flapping canvas covers of the motor trucks. The Sammies' New Years eve to night will be a mighty contrast to the parties, the dances, the bright lights and the fun of ono year ago. For VJlH the soldiers will awake to salute the Stars and Stripes. They will hike gingerly along the bank of a ca nal and wash their faces lliroujju a hole in the thick ice. Although the marchers of the cer tain unit here described as members f a picked division, dozens dropped from jhe ranks suffering with swol- n frostbitten feet of) their hike. A flotilla of flivver ambulances forged through the snow banked roads to pick RhifU siinnlvinff fuel to hundreds ot billets in which a chill hangs in the air despite red hot fires in the little drum liko stoves. - . LIST OF SLACKERS GIVEN OUT BY BOARD WAS ANJNJUST1CL Many of the Names Were Those of Boys Already Serving Their Country Saturday the Capital Journal pub lished a list of those who had not ap peared before the war registration board in answer to the questionnaires sent them. This list was handed it by the rcgistratiou board. It develops that several of those whese names appeav in the list were done an injustice, for they not only ar e not slackers, but have shown their patriotism by en listing in the service of their country. Among those nientionea Saturday as being in the slacker list were Roy liarth who is now a lieutenant; Hugh L. Jenkins, who enlisted soiuo time ago and is now in Washington; Lester Larsen, who was too patriotic to wait for a call through the draft end Jay S. .iKer; who although he has a wid owed mother, enlisted from Turner, more than a month ago. There may ba others, but these are all that have t.ppn reported to the Capital Journal (Continued on page three)