Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, January 12, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTODAY'S WEATHER 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS , (22,000 BEADEBS) DAILY Only Circulation, in Salem Guar anteed by tli Audit Bureau of Circulations. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL VILLAKETTE VAL LEY NEWS SEEVICE ON TRAINS AND NEW8 STANDS FIVE CENTS SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1918 PRICE TWO CENTS ffifx VfT fS oft ft lf? ' .::f):m - EASTERN STATES SWEPT FROMfeFTO CANADA BY WORST BLIZZARDS Many Deaths and Injuries Are Reported From Stricken Districts-South Has Suffered Severely-Storm of Cyclone Proportions Hits Washington Doing Much Damage-New York Reports Zero Weather with Fuel Shortage Most Acute - Worst blizzard in years swept raiddlo west- from Gulf of Mexico to Canada. Fuel, food and milk supply cut off in scores of cities. Railroads forced to abandon schedules, many towns isolated and trains stalled iu snow drifts. Snowfall from five to ton inches with, thirty mlies an hour gale. Thousands unable to reach offices and employment. Many war in dustries temporarily suspended. Deaths ami injuries resulting from storm reported throughout stricken district Below zero temperatures increased suffering and threatened to add to death list. Telegraph and telephone wires broken down by snow and wind. Thousands of cattle, and livstock believed frozen to death. Fire departments powerless to push through blockades. Chicago, Jan. 12. The center of the et.orm which has been sweeping across the country for three days expanded during the" night and today extended from the upper Lakes region to the St. Lawrence vnlley and southward to the Atlantic seaboard- The accompanying snow, wind and low temperatures had combined to paralyze transportation and cause in tense suffering. Cities were marooned end faced serious fuel 'and food short ages. Tieup of local traffic prevented delivery of coal and milk. Many deaths wore reported and scares of persons suffered from frostbite. Weather bureau offices declared the intense cold would continue thru out the country until Monday, when there would bo a slight moderation" in the Missouri valley and plains states. This they said, would gradual ly extend to other parts, but no actual return to normal temperatures is yet in sight. The weather bureau received reports from Atlanta that tornadoes had swept eastern Alabama and central Georgia, killing a dozen persons and injured a hundred. Communication with that section has since been cut o.i and confirmation is lacking. The zero area extends from the Ohio valley northward into Canada and from" Cleveland westward into the -plains stat s. The cities reporting the lowest temperatures in the country to- were iudiananolis and Fort Wayne, ludiana, with 20 degrees below zero. :i Chicago it was 14 below; in Nash ville, 10 below; in St. Faul, four be low; in Cleveland, four below; in AMERICAN BOYS DODGING BOCHE AIRPLANES LAUGH AT ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS Fy J. W. Peeler (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the American Army in France, Jin. 12. Those were American boys who dodged the Boche airplanes, laugh id at the German anti-aircraft guns and launched bombs over Rombnch and Lud wig.hafeu iu broad d.vlight a few days ago, as reported in the French com muinue. They were Joseph Wilson of Wheeling W. Va., formerly a Presbyterian minis ter; Bob Lehr, Albion, Neb., ex-member of a state championship basketball team: Charles Kinsolving and Charles Kcrgood of Philadelphia and George Kyle, of Portland, Oregon. All aie cor porals in the French army, awaiting transfer to the United States flying corps. Seated in a tiny mess roam of their little shack nestling on a ledge oi rock i i (Ut a cliff, these aviators told the United Press today how they had licen Mowing up munitions plants and im portant railway depots behind the Ger man lines. "The old boche almost got me," said Lehr, knocking wood as he said it. "In living formation, we crossed the lines mar Verdun at a height of about 3 "It was difficult to recognize land marks, owing to the snow but we had lieu over the same route so often that it was almost possible to reach our ob jectives by sotting our machines by compass and lotting them ride for a certain number of minutes. "Jut this side of Rombaeh my en pine died. I pulled every lever within leach, trying to make it rick up. No remit. I began to volplane, i'v forma tion was uuablc to help me. They con - iVicksburg, four above; in New Or ! leans, 20 above and in Madison 14 above. The snow region covered practical ly the same area. About eight inches had fallen since the last thaw. The snowfall will continue throughout the storm center, well into the night, ac cording to the weather bureau. All railroads entering Chicago aban AnnnA pffr.rts tn move trains todav- iu.any crack passenger trains are ut terlv" lost "whilo others have been dis i covered marooned in small towns or the open country. Suburban traffic hnrn hns hppn discontinued, while sur face lines are practically out of busi ness. Only tne eievatea lines are matt ing any attempt to move trains. The fuel and food situation admit tedly is serious. Fuel Administrator Williams said today that while there was an adequate supply iu the city, deliver- is impossible, xie intimated that. it. miulit bo necessary to follow the New York plan cf neighbors pool- nig tueir supplies ana --aououng up Twelve Dead iu South Richmond, Va., Jan. 12 With at least. 12 rennrtftd dead and thousands of dollars damage, Dixie today is re covering from one of the fiercest gales aira torrential rainstorms in its his tory. Sweeping northward through Geor gia, Alabama and other southeastern states, the terrific wind, snow and min lpft iii it. wake wreckaee. dis abled telephone and telegraph wires (Continued on page six) tinued their flight. I turned and shout ed to the observer behind me: "It's all off, kid. It looks like we are through.' "I dropped about a mile, looking for a good landing place. Then the engine coughed, kicked and picked up. By then the other machines had already dropped j their bombs on Kombach and had pro ceeded to Ludwigshafen. I climbed back aliout three miles and circled Rombach. "I could see the railway station and munitions plant burning. Dense smoke was rising. But shrapnel cream puffs were bursting near me so I took aim and let fly with my bombs over the railway station. Then I flew back and recrossed the lines at Verdun and de scended a few niile3 from the rear lines when my engine again balked, owing to the cold. . Kvle dropped eight bombs over the Ludwigshafen munition plant, despite the fait that anti-aircraft guns were fillhiy the sky with feathery puffs. "T!;e Fritzies7 anti-aircraft gnus weren't bothersome," he said. "Most of the shrapnel burst comfortably be neath our machine. After circling Lud wigshafen we took careful observation aud dropped bombs squarely on our ob jective, then turned back, maintaining our formation. The German patrols did not approach us. "When I landed I found my observer unconscious. He had fainted from the cold, but he ought to have known bet ter than to have gone without his breakfast. I told him before starting that be ought to surround a bowl oi oatmtiaL" United Press records received from AMERICAN EUEERS HEADED BY STEVENS REMAIN IN RUSSIA Celebrated Railroad Builder Will Not Leave Field Clear f or German Agents By Ea!ph H. Turner (United Press staff correspondent) Tnkin TW 29 CRv main "One thing is certain. We arc- not going to nnit. Russia Not. if we can hp.ln it. We are going to hold on and try to help . - PA tTpi CPfTIRF both Russia and the allies. We are not IU r.it ULiVUli going to leave everything to the Ger mans. " John F. Stevens, head of the Ameri can Tailway mission to Russia thus expressed today the sentiments of him self and his colleagues who have been endeavoring for months to straighten out Russia's railway system for the good of that country. At present Stev ens and nearly 300 other American rail road men are refugees in Japan, hav ing been compelled to abandon their work in Russia because of the disor ders incidental to tho overturning of the Kerensky government. . ' ' I don 't know what will 'come next ' he said, "but we certainly arc not going back to the Unn-ed States while there is still a chance to help Russia. ' ' The Bolsheviki are in control of Vladivostock today but they offerod no hospitality to our efforts. The great trouble at present is the labor situation which lies at the bottom of Russia's railway paralysis. 'No. one works unless he wishes to. Tho soviet dictate to tho bosses, foromen, super intendents, general managers of ths roads. Although supposed ""to work ek'ht hours, worknum arrive and be gin work when thoy pleaso and quit when they please." Stevens declared the chief difficulty in moving freight out of Vladivostok is the shortage of cars and locomotives In the Vladivostok shops, he declared, (Continued on page three) i AXJTO IS NECESSITY Bellinghain, Wash, Jan. 12. An automobile is a necessity: That was the ruling made by Superior Judge Hardin here yesterday when he ordered that an automobile seized to satisfy a judgment gainst Virgil B. Heimberger should be returned to him. -T" "l T- T n- 1- "1 -T v T- Paris show that a Charles Kerwood, resident of Bryn Mawr, Pa., and 24 years of age, trained for the French flying corps at Camp D'Avord, and was accepted for service, June, 1917, not being permanently assigned. Charles M. Kinsolving is given as residing at Philadelphia and New York He also trained at D'Avord. Lehr, Wilson" and Kylo are not re nrd,r1 nn thp TTnitpd Prpsi lists and they are probably later arrivals at French training camps than the United Press list bIiows. ft- w r" v i T t- j 1 ' rA t H'r r iJ jj- I '....'-'' -.- .1 .:.': ; -.'.-".i. - - f T - ; . ' .. : .-.. - !,.--".--: " , - i-.' -d -i-,.. ... t- , , - ' ... , . ..a r i. .-. i,.';--.- SOiATE PROBERS STILL llfflilG AWAY AT BAKER 1 Secretary of War Calmly In- sists That He Only States Plain Facts ( . - 1 f niTWTRV - FrJTi'l I VT vlU111II I11HL1 Senators Wast ;To Prove De fects h Order To Secure New Legislation By L. C. Martin, (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Washington, Jan. 12. Senate mili-jin tary probers today again raked Secre-j tary of War Baker '' claim of adequate supplies for America's soldiers. Instead of going . into cantonment construction with a, view of hastening an end of the hearings, the committee put Baker on the grill again today and doggedly hammered at his' calm in sistauce that initial needs of the army have been properly met- "I have no disposition to cavil," said Senator Chamberlain, "but your general statement is calculated to leave the impression that necessary equip ment is all in the hands of the troops. I saw the commanding officer of Camp Sherman, of Chillicothe, Ohio, this morning and asked him whether his men were fully clothed. He told me they were short several thousand blouses.' In the Jface of that your statement has the effect of lulling the country into a false sense of security. "The country is entitled to feel se cure," maintained Baker. "The country is entitled to know the facts," said Onmberlain. - Baker at once asked' Assistant Secre tary Crowell who was present to order General Goethals, quartermaster gen eral to wire the officer in command at Camp Sherman for an immediate re port on clothing conditions there. "To have the commanding officer of a camp tell senators or anyone else that men have no uniforms is a serious matter," said Buker. He asked Orowcll, who four weeks ago visited Camp Sherman, to tell what conditions were then. "Ninety-five percent of tho men ful ly uniformed," said Crowell- "Many new recruits were coming in and these were not fully provided for." Senator McKellar said .ninety-five per cent left a considerable number who need some pnrt of the uniform. Chamberlain said the fault he finds is that if the congress and tho people are to accept Baker's .statement that (Continued on page six.) ONLY TWO ROADS CAPTAIN WHISTLER ENDS LIFE AFTER MURDER OF IDS FOURCOMRABES Suicide Writes Last Chapter In One of Blocdest Crimes Ever Committed Camp Ainston, Kansas, Jan. 12. The last chapter of a bloody story of mitnloT TnhhprV ind UllifMlIn VBR Writ ten this afternoon when Captain Lew- is Whistler, company E, 354th infnn- try, eommittd suicide at 2 Oi 'clock by shootinir himself twice in the head lie used a regulation service rifle , The first bullet was fired into the I left cheek but alaneod frora the elbow. The second bullet entered below tho rieht eve and went through the brain Captain Whisflfcr left a notepad dressed to a woman whose namo is withheld by the authorities. It reads: "1 have" been thinking of commit tine suicide for a long time, but J have never had a good reason. YoBtor day I went out" and made uiysolf ; 8 roason Captain Whistler was in his office tho company barracks at the time " "f ut nfh t was uA fifooT A table in the room was smeared with blood and two totwels were blood soak ed whore he had wiped his clothing. WhiBtler borrowed two hatchets frora the supply compaiy yesterday af ternoon and this afternoon attempted to borrow two more. Whether ho. in tended to commit further murders, the authorities do not attempt to say. , Tho suicide came close after an or der from tho commanding general that all captains should" report at headquarters and have . prints taken of their fingers. Hacked to Pieces. Camn Funston. Kan., Jan. 12. Liter ally hacking four employes of tho army bank here to pieces with a small hand axj and wounding one other, four ban dits escaped with the funds of tho bank and had not been apprehended at an early hour today. The dead are: . C. Fuller Wintors, Kansas City. (Continued oh pge three) German Newspapers Denounce President Amsterdam, Jan. 11 German news papers are a unit in denounciation for President Wilson's outline of war aims but some oi the more liberal ad mit its frank democracy by stern warn in cs ... airainst "deceit" contained 'therein. The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger cdiotrial, as ' received here today, vigorously warns airainst the message, declaring in it the president has used "all his demacoeic artifices." The socialist organ, Vorwaerts, holds tho Germans will question Wilson's sin cerity as to Russia, in view of rocol lections of the president's last peace statement. The Cologne Gazette denounces the address as a "palpable trap." ft. I ... a . - FOUR-HOUR BATTLE WITH GERMAN SUBMARINE? ENDS STEAMER MAKING ESCAPE Washington, Jan. 12. A detailed account of a four hour battle in which a German submarine attacked the Am erican steamer J. L. Luckenbach on October 19, but failed to cripple her entirely, was related in a report is sued Uv the Creel bureau here today. The captain of the Luckenbach gamely wirelessed a destroyed two hours distant that he would never j surrender. As a result he brought Jus ship safely into port after the strug- gle, "At 7.20 a. m. the after lookout tin the Luckenbach reported a steamer abeam," said the account- "The com mander of tho armed guard lighted her himself about one point forward of the port beam. Upon looking at the steamer, which appeared very suspicion through the glasses, a sail appeared on her. Both guj were train ed on tho steamer. The armed guard then went aloft to obtain a better view. Whon he was half way up tho s u posed steamer turned out to be a submarino and opened fire. The time was then about 7:30. "The Luckenbach immediately op ened fire with both guns. The first two or three shots fired by the subma rine fell about two thousand yards short. She was firing at long range. The Luckenbach 's shots also fell short. As tho submarine appeared to be clos ing in, the captain was told to put AIRCRAFT DREAM IS DISSIPATED BY COFFIN Impossible ' to Build, Equip and Maintain Hundred Thousand Machines Washington, Jan. 12. The dream of 100,000 United States airplanes within a year is only a dream. Chairman Howard Coffin of the air craft production board, brenkiiig the silence about aircraft progress In this country, advised today that such a pro gram in so short a time is impossible, involving as it would the use of a per sonnel of 4,000,000 men, an unworkable transportation problem, and a housing question in Europe of tremendous pro portions. Personnel and shipping bar tho path to such a realization. Between 40 and 50 men in auxiliary services are noeded per plane, and with shipping in the shape it is, their transportation and maintenance would be impossible. However, tho aircratt program is well on the way toward realization. Coffin officially revealed that Am erica's 24 training stations are full, while American tlyers are getting ad vanced training abroad; thut materials have been internationally standardized; that thousands of American aero-mechanics are being put into actual service with tho allied forces; that production of standardized training machines will bo in excess of needs of the program by January 20 that thousands of aircraft have been ordered- abroad to supply American fivers up to June 1918, while advanced training planes will begin to be delivered within ninety days suffi- ioiiilv so that advanced training plans ftr this enintry can.be accomplished. Iu the business end, a syHtcinutizalion has been accomplished and plans for production are bused on most economical lir.es tlict is, quantity production by big planch. Woman Arrested For Pro-German Activities Hanford,, Cub, Jan.- 12. Suspected of beintr connected in some way with the activities of German agents on the Pacific const, a woman who gave the name "f Kli'.a Giitiftort' was taken into custody here early yesterday. he was lodued in iail p.-nding investiga tion of two letters found in her pos session. One, written in Germnn, contained a denunciation or rre&nieni mu and the people of this country. To the devil with-rresiueut vt ii- son amt tne American peoyip, - iv read. "I will help the kaiser all I can. I hope the C-ermins win tne wona war. Germany over all!" The other letter was found to have been torn to small pieces whi n the po lice discovered it. They put the piec3 together and found that the letter read as follows: Dear Pal: 1 have seen everything at Ft. Grant, Or. The Presidio is at Frisco, Cal., aud I am now heauing smth. Sent plans a few days ago. - (Sigm'd) "uermany. Tho woman was taken into custody by a night watchman who saw her roaming about the post office- He watched hcri tor a couple ot hours and then arrested her. Mie was well dressed and told, the watchman that she had walked to Hanford from SnntA Cruz. Sho expressed great indignation ov- er her arrest, but would tnrow no ngui on the identity of the person writing the two letters. A mnn with a small book of street car tickets in his pocket is going to feel like 30 cants. , the stern of the Luckenbach toward her, which he did. Distress , signals were sent out by-wireless. Shot Cripples Steamer "The submarine closed in at about 2000 yards. Early in the battle one shot from the submarine landed on the deck forward on the port side and exploded in the gun crew 's quarters, starting a fire which, partially de stroyed tho quarters and burned tho effects of the guncrew. The same shot l burst the fire main- Tho fire main was blocked off and the water finally got to the fire. Steam was also turned oa !the flames. I "Shortly after the first shot land 'cd, another shot struck the quarter master's room, without doing much damage. j "A shot landed near the stern and exploded, putting the after gn out of commission. "At least 225 rounds were fired by itho submarine of which there wero only nine clean hits," the- commander rcnorted. "Pieces of shell were falling all around the deck. Two" shells landed on the port side forward, striking the oil ers' room and putting a large hole in the side. One landed on the port sidff at tho water line, hitting the fresh water tank and destroying moet of (Continued on page six) ARMISTICE ON ALL FRONTS EXTENDED FOR THIRTY DAYS Bolsheviki Leaders Still Con ferring with Germans at Brest-Litovsk TROTSKY MAKES QUICK CHANGE OF FRONT Dominant Faction Is Prepar ing for Possibility of Kenewmg war jc 5 ss s(5 fi SjC jjc 3S 9f! 3jC 3jC ARMISTICE EXTENDED. Petc,ograd, Jan. 12. Accept ance by the Central Powers of Foreign Minister Trotsky's pro posal to continue tho Russo-Ger-man armistice on all fronts for an additional month was for mally announced today. Tho armistice lieretofore agreed upon expired today. Amsterdam, Jan. 12. Russian Foreign, Minister Trotsky is determined that the onus of breaking off all peace negotia tions shall rest with the Germans. Dispatches from Brest-Litovsk today reported that the Bolsheviki leader "in order to remove the Central Powers pretext that they would be forced to discontinue peace negotiations if the (Continued on page six.) ?!( Abe Martin t It haint a bad plan t' keep stil oe- Anu;...,nlltr Aven when VOll da knOW Whftt vou're talkin' about. Some folks would buy a trained seal if th' payments wns easy enough.