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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1918)
THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2, 1918. an THREE it j"""ZliCn7.,iW . AM Mil I'AF PA -Li AVIUUi li tt 8 ft CELEBRATING THE ROUNDING OF 38 YEARS' MERCHANDISING IN SALEM, 1917 WAS A BETTER YEAR FOR VOLUME OF BUSINESS SINCE 1913, AND WITH THE SAME SLOGAN "GOOD GOODS" AND STRONGER EFFORTS WE WANT TO MAKE 1918 THE BANNER YEAR, "NO TRANSACTION COMPLETE UNTIL THE CUSTOMER IS SATIS FIED," QUALITY FIRST ALWAYS. Savings that Will Make an Unforgetable Sale Auto Accessories ah Auto Accessories at' Reduced Prices Electric Horns Electric Horns $3.98 $2.98 Electric Side Lights Stewart Signals $3.98 Pair $3-19 tm m -i t u Large Electric Electric Tail Light Headlights 75c $7.50 Pair Tool Kits $1.39 Tool Kits $1.98 Tool Kits $3.98 Tool Kits $4.98 Ladies' and Children's Rady-to-Wear The Offerings from this section are most exceptional There are no old, "passe", styles or fabrics, every garment is new and from the best workshops of America. To $25.00 Suits $13.85 To $35.00 Suits $19.85 To $50.00 Suits $24.85 Women's Coats for street, utility and dress wear Velours, Kersey, Cheviot in dark colors, large $ 1 7.50 Ccats i?2.50 Coats for $30.00 Coats for $12.85 $16.35 $19.85 $5.00 Rack No. 1 $5.00 $10 Rack No. 2 $10 Silk Skirts and Wool Skirts, Challie Dresses and Crushed Plush Coats and Opera Coats, Silk Skirts . , , c,.,, T,. , and Wool Skirts, Silk Kimonas and Silk Dresses, Party Dresses; Ram Coats and Silk Kimonas. yelour Coats Crushed plush collar and trimming. Ladies' Neckwear Our stock of Ladies' Neckwear comprises all the new things. Here are two special numbers mentioned in this Annual Sale. Lace Stock Collar and Jabot, Annual Sale Special $1.39 White Satin Collar, roll shawl shape with filet lace insertion, Annual Sale Spl. $1.39 Dress Good Especially good for Children's wear, fancy plaids, checks and stripes, medium and dark shades, a seasonable offer, very special at 48c Yard Cretonne and Scrim Remnants lyC, Price f I Shoes Lot i Women's fancy colored Shoes, a limited rumber of pairs; a special bargain if your size is here; to close $4.98 Shoes x Lot 2 Our entire stock of Women's $5.00 black kid button and lace and patent leathers, worth the regular selling price, 12 months in the year; cele brating price ........ $3.98 Shoes Lot 3 For Boys Button and lace Shoes with stub proof toe cap, sizes 11 to 13i2, Special $2.15 Sizes 1 to 6, Special ......... $2.35 Sh Lot 4 Women's colored Kids, shades of Field Mouse, Tan and Brown, mili tary and Cuban heels, to close $6.85 Lot 5 1 Woman's Tan "Vici Kids, Ivory Kid Tops, lace, plain toe, Cuban heel, very refined, to close $7.93 MM ttl Evangelist Bruce Evais at First Baptist Church Attracting Large Crowds "Some men arc heads of the home sap heads-" "Some fellows pray on Sunday and then prey on their neighbors all next weeK. " "It is hard to say where hell is we only know it is at the end of a Christless life." With people streaming to the build ing long before timo to begin, a full louse, large choir, enthusiastic singing and a preacher who is certainly a live wire the revival meeting at the First Baptist church continues to grow in interest. The largest crowd that has yet heard Bruce Evans heard him last night when he spoke on the lost joy, and the lost bov. From the moment Evans takes the platform there is not a dull miomant. His words shoat from his mouth with the rapidity of a gatling gun. No one ever uouots wnat ne means. Ho calls a spade a spade not an agricultural -implement. iTherc is an informality about a Bruce Evans service that is striding- The moment you come in contact with the man you either like him or you dislike him. There is one thing certain you can t ignore him. Last evening Captain G. L. Hall of the Life Line missionary boat on Coos Bay was passing through the city and heard Bruce was here. He stopped off to see his old friend. Evans made the captain sing and also conduct the song service for him. Mr; Hall is the Bible man of the American Baptist Publi cation Society handling Bibles with out personal profit- He will be at the service' this evening and will again conduct the music. Minneapolis. "Briug me 1,000 ca lories," the average man who dines down town orders at any one of a chain cf restaurants. "Plain or assorted 1" returns the waiter. These restaurants are printing caloric values of food por tions or menus to aid food conservation. HAVE COLOR IN CHEEKS Be Better Looking Take Olive Tablets If your sS:in is yellow complexion pallid tongue coated appetite poor you have a bad taste in your mouth a lazy, no-good feehcg you should take Olive Tablets, Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets a substitute for calomel were prepared by Dr. Edwards after 17 years of study with his patients. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets are a purel y vegetable compound mixed with olive oil. You will know them by their olive color. To have a clear, pink 6kin, bright eyes, no pimples, a feeling of buoyancy like childhood days you must get at the cause. Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets act on the Ever awl bowels like calomel yet have no dangerous after effects. They start the bile and overcome consti pation. That" s why millions of boxes are old annually at 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. Take one or two nightly and note the pleasing results. LL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Druggists refund money if it fails. 25c TELEGRAPfflCTABLOOS New York. An automobile was driv en from Tarrytown to Nyack over the ice, which has completely closed the Hudson. The ice is 16 inches thick in the channel. New York. William Young, boast wain on a coastwise liner, was knock ed overboard in the harbor, fell on a cake of ice and was .frozen to it. Bes cuers had to chop him off the ice and ho was rushed to a hospital to be thaw ed out. London. At Guilford Market today Turkeys sold for $15 apiece and rab bits for $2.12. Borne. No more silver coins are bo ihg used in Italy. It was discovered lo cal and foreign speculators were melt ing them up and re-Belling the metal at a good profit. Wilkesbarre, Pa. Thomas Gubutles laughed over one of his jokes at the supper table last night and choked to death on a piece of meat. Los Angeles. One of the greatest 0n,.r;f nf thfi war was announced today when Edward Gregory, civil war veteran, agreed to cut off his whiskers and suggested other vets do like wise to raise money for the Bed Gross. Ban Francisco. Young Hing, prison er in San Quentin prison, will claim ex frnm thp armv draft on the ground that he will be executed for mur der before he can become a soldier. AMERICAN TROOPS (Continued from page one) San Francisco. While icy winds .t,;-tio in the past, ripe blackberries were picked in Alameda New Years Day, while boys in vvana waua, celebrated the" day by parading in their bare feet. Seattle. The Puget Sound Traction companv has formally asked permission to employ women to run its cars, say ing men are too scarce. North Bend. Ore. A chief of police it Am an It culled noon for ox a uii " ' . anvthine. but it's going a step too far when he is asked by the council to oe e'x-officio street cleaner. Therefore Peter Anderson chucked the job. Eugene, Ore. There were more ar rests here for letting poultry run at lame than for drunkenness last year. During 1917 tnere were om o on drunkenness charges. Oregon Citv, Or.-4"! live in a eoonty where" the bovs still charivari, so keep it out of the papers," said gay George H. Durham, 73 year old Grants Pass at torney as he sought a license to wed, and tried the usual press muzzling stunt. members of the general staffs and commanders in chief of the allied ar mies on the western front, as well as with the highest civil officials of the respective governments, the extent of the military effort to be aimed at by the United States was clearly dctermin ed- "(2) With this TttOTmination Sn mind negotiations were carried on looking to the pooling of resources for the mutual advantage of all, of the countries engaged in the war against Germany. The contribution of the United States to the pooling arrange ment was agreed upon. The contribu tions likewise of the countries associa ted with the United States were deter mined. This pooling arrangement guar anteed that full equipment or every kind would be availably to all Ameri can troops sent to Europe during the year 1918. Ko) Unqualified support to the resolution adopted by the inter-allied conferences looking to the creation of an allied advisory board charged with the duty of advising the shipping au thorities of each nation concerning the allocation of tonnage so as to permit the American military effort to be released. "(4) Full survey made of the prob lem of debarkation in Europeof Am erican military forces and transporta tion of such forces and supplies to the bases of military operation. "(o) Arrangements made for full est cooperation between the . United States, Great Britain and France in the production of military instruments and supplies of all kinds. "(61 Plans made for the proper or ganization under naval and military control of ports of debarkation of troops and discharge of cargoes iook ing to the most economical utilization c.f tonnage. "(7) Participation in military de liberations of supreme war council as a step toward efficient and centraliz ed unity of control of military opera tions. "Finance: "(1) Full detailed! conferences with the financial representatives of Great Britain. France. Italy, Japan, Greece, Rumania and Eussia for the purpose of ascertaining the extent oi the financial efiort necessary on the properlv to eooperate with these gov- part of the United States in order ernments in making financial i'rTange ments for the prosecution of the war against the Central Powers- "(2) Conferences with the repre sentatives of the above mentioned countries for the purpose of perfect ing the organization of an intfrllied council which is a priority board whose duty' it should be to consider the rela tive importance and urgency of the financial demands to be made by tbe concerted effort of the countries wag ing war against the Central Powers. "(Assistant Secretary of the Treas ury Crosby, the financial member ot . J - i -c - the mission, remainea in r-urupe v act as president of the inter-allied council.) ;(3) Arrangements begun for the proper financing of purchases bV tne countries at war with Germany of sup plies from neutral countries. " (i) Participation in the financial discussion of the inter-allied confer ence. "Shipping: the mutual cooperation necessary to "(1) lill and detailed' reports be effected for the proper supplying of were secured showing Jotal loss of ton- ne armed forces of the countries wag- nage duo to war risks and marine risks ing war on the Central Powers, from August 1st, '1914, to September (21 A survey was made of the 30th, 1917. K2) Tho estimated output of new tonnage by the allies during the year 1918 was ascertained. "(3) The proper employment of existing tonnage so that tho maximum utilization of such tonnage could be effected was provided for in. a resolu tion adopted by the interallied con ference: " 'The allies considering that the means of maritime transport at their disposal as -well as of the provisions which they dispose of, shoulci bo util ized in common for the pursuit of the war, have decided to create an inter allied organization lor tno purpose u co-ordinating their action to this ef fect and of obtaining a common pro gram constantly kept up fc date, en abling them by the maximum utiliza tion of their resources to restrict their importations with a view of liberating the greatest amount of tonnage possi ble for tho transportation of American troops. (4) The wnoie question or vim employment of neutral tonnage in line with the proposals maue oy uuuirai countries with- respect to this tonnage was exhaustively discussed and plans looking to the favorable result of ton nage negotiations witn neuirai coun tries were substantially agreed upon- "(5) A survey was completed of tho ports of debarkation of American troops and supplies and plans were made looking to the more expeditious discharge of troops and cargoes as to permit the return .of vessels to their home ports with the least possible do lay. "War trade. p.jii and detailed conferenc es were held with tho British, French and Italian representatives upon the blockade matters and a complete un derstanding was obtained ot the prin ciples under whieh these countries were (participating. "(2) A mass of information was obtained with reference to "rationing requirements of Switzerland, Norway. Sweden, Denmark and Holland. (3) An agreement between, the war trade board and the Swiss Soci ety Surveillance was agreed to and ex ecuted bv the Swiss delegates and Mr. McCormick, the chairman of the war trade board- "(4) Arrangements were made for the participation of the United States in the deliberations of the permanent commission on contingents sitting in Paris and on the iter-allied commis sion of Berne, Switzerland. "f51 Tentative plans . subject to the approval of the war trade board, were made for the appointment of rep resentatives amk staffs of the war trade board in London and Paris. "War industries: "(1) A d ailed study was madei of the organization of the British min-j istry of munitions ana tne supply de partments of the British admiralty and the British war office and a com plete analysis of the,- facts and fig ures in possession ,f these departments of the British government was made. The report embodying the results of Uthie investigations Tontaina a fuji statement of the mernoas ir. vogue England for supphnrj the army and navy with munitions and other ma terials and also, statistics relating to system in practice in Great Britain elating to the letting of government contracts and tho organization of in dustries throughout Great Britain. f (31 Attendance at umtcr-alhed conference in Paris and in particular at the meetings of tho representative of the several allied nations having to d with munitions questions. "(4) Full conferences with repre sentatives of the United States ord nance department in France and rep resentatives of British and French mil nitions departments, stationed there, resulting in the embodying of conclu sion in memoranda submitted to the war department of the food administration on the mis sion, represented the United States de partment of agriculture in a conference held in Paris to consider tho problems of food production in tho allied coun tries during the year 1918. At this conference an inter-allied agricultural committee was established to consist of one delegate each from the United States, Great Britain, France and Italy, to sit continuously in Europe and to act in an advisory capacity to the governments named. Recommendations: "(1) The United States exert all their influence to securo entire unity of effort, military, naval and economic between "themselves and the countries associated with them in the war. "(2) inasmuch as the successful termination of the war by the United '(5) Dr. Taylor, the representative 1 States and tho allies can be greatly Signs of a JVctv year APPLY TOR TTE MYSELF" OH" ) 0&s I THEIJRIVERS THE WA60TT CjPia 5Vj Iq) 60TANV (AFTER DECE7ABER. f NEW CAHMDARS) this coms iowk,toO "YET? I MUCH DUST AND ) 1 MiU op I & $T- (TViANKSSlVlNfir-) 1 hastened by the extension of the United States shipping program, that the government au'd people of tho United States bend ovcry effort to ward accomplishing this result by a systematic co-ordination of resources of men and materials. " (3) That the fighting forces of the United States be dispatched to Europe with the least possible delay incident to training and equipment " "Food." (1) A comprehensive and accurate estimate was obtained of tho food in the possession of tlie allied na tions and of the amounts that must be supplied by North America during tho year ending October 1, 1918. Cabled' in formation had not- been of a satisfact ory nature and pt-rsonnl contact with the statistical boards and food adminis trations of the countries concerned was necessary in order that the necessary data could bo more available. " (2) The curve of shipments of food stuffs required from North America for the United Kingdom, Franco and Italy was fixed for tho year ending 191s. It is believed that the program worked out in tho conference with the several inter-allied executives dealing with sup plies of foodstuffs at a lower cost on terms of tonnage and transportation. "(3 lu order to permit tho United States to visualize the problem of food control in North America, plans were worked out whereby tho governments f t Great Britain, France and Italy agrt-ej to put into effect a legalized and com pulsory control of foodstuffs in these countries. "(4) Tho creation by tho intor-al-lied conference in Paris of an inter national scientific committee on alimen tation to consist of two representatives each for the United States, Great Brit ain, France and Italy. This committee to be in continuous session in Europe for the purpose of studying the alimen tation of. tho allies. This committee to stand in an advisory capacity to tho food administration of tho aforenamed countries." I First and foremost among your New jYear resolutions lesolve to be thrift and help icicle Sam win the war. ! Uncle Ram's Thrift stamps are tha bully things to help you keep your res olution to spend less money foolishly. NEURALGIC PARIS Civ Way 19 Soothing Hamlin' Wizard Oil Hamlin's Wizard Oil is a safe and effective treatment for headache and neuralgia. Rubbed in where the pain is, it acts as' a tonic to the tortured nerves and almost invariably brings quick relief. Its healing, antiseptic qualities can always be relied upon to prevent in fection, or other serious results, from sprains, bruises, cuts, burns, bites and stings. Just as good, too, for sore feet, stiff neck, frost bites, cold sores and canker sores. Get il from druggists for 30 cents. 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, 30 cents. Guaranteed. v