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Newspaper Page TextTODAY'S WEATHER R ' 4,400 SUBSCRIBES (22,000 READERS) DAILY Only Circulation la Salem Guar anteed by the Andit Bureau of Circulations. RILL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS SERVICE Oregon: - Tonight and Tuesday rain moderate south westerly winds. ': 31 & i;' !ll NS FORTY-FIRST YEAR 12 SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1918 PRICE TWO CENTS. ON TRAINS AND NEWS CTAND.S FIVB CENTS fin (1 fu fl rM n ft ' f GAS HORROR FOR AMERICANS NEW GERMAN THREAT Released British Prisaners s Bring News of Latest War Invention CANADIANS RAID LINES AROUND Only Outpost Fighting Re ported From Principal War Fronts V- Rotterdam, Jan. 14 Germany has devised a new gas horror for use espec ially aganst Americans, according to released British prisoners hero today. The new device has been tested out. according to tho information. tcu rress dispatches Saturday Knight and Frank Wrightman. "mum -tump rarams, united L Througl tTnitcd from J ross statf correspondent at ' the iHritish front, quoted German prisoners as declaring that the Germans had de mised some new horror for use soon, tout did not state what it was. Prob ably it is the same report outlined above. Canadian Bald. London, Jan. 14. North of Lens Canadian troops successfully raided onemv lines, taking eight prisoners ami returning without a casualty, Field Marshal JIaig reported today. - East of Mcricourt he reported patrol encounters in which the fighting result ed in favor of the British. ThlElG AFTER GAME FIGHT FOR LIFE Head of Police Department Falls Victim to Attack of Pleuropneumonia After fighting valiantly for nine days for his life, Chief of Police E. E. Coop er succombed at 3:45 o'clock this morn ing at his residence, 280 Biehmond street. He was taken seriously ill on the night of January 4th with pleuro pneumonia. The illness came suddenly and for a week Mr. Cooper 's life was dispavred of. Last Friday n:ght, however, he passed the critical stago of the illness and Sat urday his condition was so much im proved that strong hopes were enter tained for his recovery. Later, a blood clot formed on the brain and he was forced to give up the fight. Chief Cooper had held the office of chief of police of the city of Salem for a little more than one year, having beon elected to the office in the fall of 1916, and assuming his new duties Jan uary 1, 1917. Previous to that time he served as constable in Justice Web ster's court for four years. He also serv ed eight years as deputy sheriff of of Poe IDENTIFIES CAPTAIN WHISTLER AS CAMP FUNSJON FIEKD Array Authorities Are Look . mg for Accomplice of Dead Murderer Camp Funston, Kansas, Jan. 14. Wornall, only surviving witness of the hatchet murders and robbery at the iarmory bank here Friday night, awoke from a troubled sleep in the Fort Ri ,lcy hospital and stared into the faeo of the man who had hacked four of Wornall 's companions to death and battered Wornalll Mnto unconscious ness. The murderer, dressed in his army captain's uniform, saf in a wheel chair ati Wortiall 's bedside, horribly rigid of attitude, and gazed at the wound ed man with sightless eyes. Wornajll, paralyzed momentarily with horror, finally found his voice. That's the man Captain Whis- lcr! ' ho cried and fainted. Military officials in their zeal to establish the identity of the murderer and robber, had staged a scene worthy STEAMER TEXAS, STRUCK AMIDSHIP, SENDS OUT A WIRELESS CALL FOR HELP Marion county, serving under John lout the years of his service as Aitor testing Wornall 's eves bv reading, they had permitted the bank cashier to sink into a sleep. Then they a public official , he served faithfully ;had dressed the body oi captain Lewis and fearlessly, and Marion county and hisler, who shot himself -mto Sat the city of Salem lose in his death onelurday .when confronted with expos of the most efficient and valuablo men !urei placed it in a wheel chair and that have ever devoted their lives to trundled it to Wornall's bedside Sun Patrols Are Busy. Rome, Jan. 14. Italan patrols oper ating east of Caposilo. and north of Cortcllazzo routed several enemy out posts, the war office annoftneed today. German Attack Breaks Paris, Jan. 14. French fire broke up a German attack around Goose Hill, on the left bank of the Meuse, today's statement declared. day. The shock to the wonnded man, on arousin?. was severe, but. physicians said it would not affect his recovery. Looking for Accomplice Military (authorities were (proceed ing today on the theory that the man who robbed the armw cantonment bank here Friday night, murdering four men with a hatchet and seriously wounding another, had an accomplice. A suitcase is missing from tho quar ters of Captain Lewis E. Whislor, sus the public service. Mr. Cooper was a prominent and es teemed lodge member, belonging to the Odd Fellows order, the Elks, and the Woodmen of the World and the Sous of Veterans. Emmet E. Cooper was born in Kan sas, March 25, 1867, making his age at the time of his death a few months less than 51 years. When four years of age he came across the plains with his parents, settling in Polk county just .. C.lnn, ' IT..-.. l. Sent ti. earHr years oF Ms ire, o feflf JTtw WT' , ... .. , . .. tt , who shot and killed himself late Sat- .Sore:"0Vai t0 thl8 "ty- He hs urday. Investigators believe the mon- w mlS to S'LiSy i- toowled ortheffai, Wished. a widow. Ho leaves no children. ' for nff;;Qi0 rafA ..t;.. 'j n ,i Besides the widow, two sisters and amount ,tojen unti, the phkin,, ot'A lif wmiI(1 nrif h j:viff,i h An Atlantic Port, Jan. 14. "Wej were struck amidships. We are sinking. Lowering lifeboats starboard side. Have lost aft boat. Spilling oil on water. We have forty -three men. Now lowering forward boats. Good bye. No more. Tex an." , This was the dramatic message flash ed broadcast over the sea in S. O. S. wireless calls early today by the American-Hawaiian tank steamship Texan. The mesage, which' was picked up iiere, did not give the location of the Texan, which is believed to have been a col lision. Efforts to answer the vessel after her wireless operator flashed "goodbye, no more," brought no reply&d it is not known whether the ship was about to take her final plunge when the calls ceased. FORHER PRFMIER IS IMPRISONED RESULT OF TREASON CHARGES It Is Alleged That Joseph Caiileaux Aided Bolo Pasha In His Conspiracy Paris, Jan. 14. Joseph Caiileaux, former premier and minister of jus tice for France, was formallv iinnris- repuna tuai, me -it-xuii was in uisiress onett today as the outgrowth of eharg and that the big tanker was believed to have been struck by another vessel. So tar as is known there wns no loss of lifo. Another message cither to or from the steamer Willamette was sent out immed iately after the 8. O. S, calls were heard. It ordered assistance rushed to the Tex an . , 1 The Texan is a large steel steamship, displacing 8,615 tons. She is 471 feet long and was build in 1902 bv the New York Shipbuilding company. She is reg istered at New York. The Texan, according to navy depart ment advices, was struck amidships by another vessel, but so far as is known, no lives were lost. From Pacific Waters. San Francisco, Jan. 14. The Btenm- lhip Texan was commandeered by the United States shipping board last Sep tember and went at once to tho Atlan tic coast. She was taken to Tew York by Cap tain Charles Knight, who for several years had been master of the vessel The crew now aboard the ship was picked up in Now York, it is understood. Trawler Strikes Bock. Washington, Jan. 14 An American trawler, operating in European waters, struck a rock ind was lost, but all aboard are safe, the navy department announced today. Mostly Artlllerying. J -Berlin, via London, ajn. 14. "Ar tillcryng and reconnoitering " on tho western front was all tho war office Teported today. TRIAL POSTPONED Snn Antonio, Texas, Jan. 14. The trial of Miss Emma Hudda Burgemeis tcr, German nurse, chnrered with the nfurder of Otto Koehler, multi-million- two brothers survive as follows George Kerns, of Grants Pass; Mrs- Miss accounts is completed some time late today. Reports wore current, however. that tho amount might reach $7.-1,000. Cora Cooper, of Stayton, Wm. Cooper of Stayton, and Oliver Cooper, of Hamilton Montana. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made, pending the arrival ot the .bills, found in tho snow a short uruiliers unu sisters. Little of Loot Recovered The only portion of the loot so far by army oriicers. it was learned that she attends school at Ottawa. Kansas. According to reports, she is but 17 years of age and an orphan. She be came aeouamted with Whisler when es of treason lodged against him in connection with t,he Bolo Pasha casa. Caiileaux is a member of tho cham ber of deputies and until that body recently voted formally to suspend the immunities froan prosecution grant ed all members, he could not bo for mally hailed before a tribunal on the charges. The chamber of deputios and a spe cial commission heard the charges against the former promier. It was alleged he aided Bdlo Pasha in the Levantine's efforts to doceive France into a German made peace; that he sought to create discord between France and Italy and that he was con stantly opposing the nation's war ei forts. Madame Caillaux, wife of the accus ed, was tho center of one of i-urope s most sensational murder trials a few years ago when she was acquitted of the murder or Uaston Galmette, edit or of the Figaro. BARRACKS BURN AT WASHINGTON WITH HEAVY LOSS Quartermaster's Supplies Ag gregating Value of $200,- Are Consumed FOURTH OF SERIES OF MYSTERIOUS FIRES Soldiers at Post Insist Fire Which Gutted Building Was Work of Incendiary Germany May Draw 1,600,000 From East General Geddes Reports to Commons, ".England Must Institute Compul sory Bervice In Ireland, on This -Account. recovered is a roll oftflT'one dollar: he was employed as a railway mai Friend of Murdered Man Is Accused Chehnlis. Wash., Jan. 14. Declaring that he knows absolutely nothing about the death of Frank Swayne, Oscar B. Main, close friend of the mur dercd man, and a pall bearer at his funeral is held for the crime, while the sheriff's office continues its in vestigations. Swayne was found mur dered in his store in Napavine a week ago. his head being beaten. Main is a leading realty dealer and dis taneo from the bank. The walls and floor of Whisler's quarters were being torn open today in search of a possi ble hiding place for the money. The woman to whom Whisler ad dressed a note telling of his contemplat clerk, Whislor and the girl boarding at tho same home in Ottawa. When told that Captain Whisler had ended his life, the girl swooned, but soon revived and exclaimed: "Oh, it cannot be. He was too nice and good a man. I knew him only as 1 knew tne London, Jan. 14. Tho Russian with drawal from the war leaves 1,000,000 Germans for use on the western front, according to Brigadier General Sir A. C. Geddes, minister of national service, in a "man power" statement to the house of commons this afternoon. " It is necesasry for Britain to recruit forthwith 430,000 men from civil life' ed suicide was to be traced and her other roomers at the house." the minister said. "It has been decided not to introduce compulsory servico in to Ireland." Save your fats, your "bit." A fat chance to do aire San Antonio brewer, scheduled to citizen of Napavine. He is a graduate T'cgin here today, was postponed until j0f tho University of Washington and Tomorrow on motion or tne state's at- a brother of John F. Main, a state su tcincj-s. 'preme court judge. BOLSHEVIK, IS MAKING AN EFFORT TO MAKE CLEANER CITY OF RUSSIAN CAPITAL Ey Joseph -Shaplen iczar for his many crimes, but to utilize (United Press Staff Correspondent) I the trial as the best means of a prop Pctrograd, Jan.-14.-The Bolsheviki , , , monarchy. " are working strenuously to make l'etro- s " - Kim! "a clean city." The cleanup was!. The Bolsheviki are exercising a niKg 011 in full vigor today. One result wasinetic influence over the proletariat at th,? arrest or three hundred gamblers j large under the slogans of " Class war" a;ul drunks in a huge raid 011 a notor-aud "an immediate social rev,,;,i.u ions dive lust night. Other raids netted ! accusing the social revolutionaries and more criminals and riffraff. Strenuous ; the menslieviks (the minamilistsl of ettorts are being made to clear up the I surrendering to the Burgoreoise and de problems of food administration and tolnyiug the contention of their opponents make the city orderly and neat. jthat all classes must cooperate to build The same sort of procedure of order, up. The Trotskv-Lenine diseiples insist of cleaning up, is being steadily work- that a complete' socialist regime is im ed by the Bolsheviki as applied to the j possible without anv capitalist interval whole .government situation. Despite j 0f control. This participation in the re feverish opposition by those politically j organization bv the capitalists is the opposed, the Trotsky-Leniue govern-' principal bone of contention among the ment is preparing calmly to arrange the various political groups todav. Pan-Russian congress of workmen, sol-1 Smolny Institute, headquarters of the dievs and peasants the body with j Bolsheviki and just now headquarters of which it is hoped to replace the elected: the Russian government, offers an amaz- coustituent assembly. The Bolsheviki hope by this all-Bussian congress to create an assembly similar to that in- ing picture these davs. Back in days of Kerensky's regime the Bolsheviki were allotted tins builu stituted in France in 1792, which will;jg 8s their headquarters, principally it uecome tne supreme law-giving uoay ior Russia. The executive committee of the all Russian peasants' soviet today decided to urge the executive committee of the was far removed from the center of the city and in a neighborhood that fairly slumbered in quiet. " Today Smolny Institute and its neighborhood is the liveliest spot in proposed-all-Russian congress of work-; Knssia. The nation's rulers work, eat men and soldiers to bring the Homon-ian,i gieep there. Heavy guns guard the offs back to Pctrograd from Tobolsk, j entrances. The windows bristle with It was suggested the royal family be; machine guns. A stranger is unable to imprisoned at ronstadt. - ! take a step without running into guards. The committee urged the arrest of Armed and armored automobiles fill the all members of the ex-czar's family who i yard inside. The occupants of the build still are at large and the institution of irig work as though they were determin n cruumis-fior: to try the Romanoffs asjod either to triumph "or be destroyed Boon as possible "not only to punish thejwith the building itself. 1 1 8I . "IsL THE ALLIES. ACCIDENT ALLY STARTED Washington, Jan. 14 A new. ly enlisted private Vieoneeno FerrMi is hold by military au-. thorities here for accidentally starting the fire which gutted the quartermaster's storehouse and post commissary building at Washington barracks today Fferf-io is charged . with '"gross ,'earclessnesfe, " inquiry having developed that the con flagration was probably start ed by cigarette he dropped in the building. CONFERENCE TO ETRAIISFERED TO WARSAW SOOr Russian Peace Delegates Will Return From Brest-Liivosk Tomorrow-Is Report REFUSE TO FIGHT ON WEST FRONT Sixty-Two Naval Officers 'fe- cfcdmg Admiral Killed at Sebastopol Washington, Jan. 14. While firemen and soldiers battled in tho face of ex ploding munitions which at times shook the vicinity, flames gutted the giant quartermaster's corps building at the Washington barracks here today. It was the fourth of a series of mysterious fires to break out in tho building dur- me lasi ion aays ana tho loss may ...... l. AOnn rt,i. An immediate investigation wn nr. dored by Secretary of War Bakor. who jjuraouuuy went to me scene and re mained until the flames were cxtin guished about noon. Although Lioutenaut Colonel J. 11. Earle, in charge of tho post, stated no one is suspecteu 01 rmug tne structure a tnreo story brick building covering a solid block tho guard was doubled about the grounds as soon as tho flames were discovered and 110 one allowed to enter or leave. No arrests have beou made thus far. Soldiers from the post insisted the blaze must have been incendiury. Today tho first flames were noted at about U o'clock, on the second floor, where mattresses and wood shavings wore pilod. This had 110 sooner been ex tinguished than a second firo broke out in an adjoining section. Informed of the blazo Secretary of War Baker left for the scene shortly I after ten o'clock and found the flames still eating away at tho building. Short ly Derore orders were given tor the re moval of the much-threatened Biuall arms, munitions. Marinos quartered in tho barracks nearby carried out tho work. Thousands of dollars worth of rifle cartridges, belts, bayonets, ammunition shoes, hats, blankets and clothing and commissary supplies of all kindH were stored in the great building and much had been destroyed at 10:40, when tho fires were still raging. Some Btores were successfully remov ed from tho building. When tho blaze grew too hot for safety of the men engaged in this work they were ordered out, but a score or more rau back into the building twice. When the officers succeeded in getting the men out several were found to be slightly hurt. Soldiers who have been stationed ot the barracks for months said the be lieved the fire was incendiary. They say several men were at work when tho blazo was first seen and that tho firo spread very rapidly. The first indica tion of the blaze was when smoke was seen rolling up from the roof of the building at 9 o'clock. The arsenal firo alarm was the first sounded and later three alarms were turned in for the city departments. Forty-five minutes later several minor explosions were heard, declared to be some small arms munitions which had been touched off by the lieut. At 10:50 o'clock a terrific explosion shook all the buildings in the vicinity. It was re ported to be a large quantity of ammuni tion, which had been stored in bulk. When the small arms ammunition be gan to explode, police reserves were called in to help drive the crowd back from the barracks entrance to prevent injuries from flying missiles. No one was allowed to enter or leave the grounds. Soldiers and police reported scattered incidents showing that many daring acts were performed by tho men in fighting tho flames. Sergeant White, company K, engineers corps, was trapped by fire after enter ing the building to find some important papers. He leaped from a second story window and was slightly hurt. Private J. Bellow dragged Sergeant White to safety from a precarious position under threatened walls where he had fallen and was lying temporarily stunned, MORE TERRIBLE AS FRIEND THAN FOE Petrograd, Jan. 14 Russia'. gates to the peace conference will re turn to Petrograd on Tuesday, accord ing to word received from Brest-Litovsk today. Future negotiations, it was un derstood, will be transferred to Warsaw. The first dotachment of Red GuardJ under the Bolsheviki army plan, left for the front today. A German officer who deserted and escaped to the Russian lines told the foreign office today that German sol fr'nft wtre.,reuainS go to the west front and that at one place on the north ern front whore this refusal developed mto a mutiny with opon fighting, the German commander had shot 250 rebels. Delayed advices as to the final ses sions of the rieace conform, . n . Litovsk, as received today, declared that i Russian delegates demanded return of war refugees from the Polish and Lithuanian districts before the self de termination plan was carried out. A further stipulation demanded by the Russians was that thorn ho i able mobilization of the Poles or Lith uanians and that those of this nation ality arreted for taking , up arm against the? Central Powbm or 1m-i.- ed for peace efforts, be released forthwith. To these demands the (i Armaria vnnlitil that they all "involved an internal pol icy and were therefore not mibinot direction. "The Russians announced this answer was unsatisfactory, and that they would continue pressing their demands. The Russian delegates todnv forward. ed their version of last Thursday's crit ical session of the neace conference. Af ter Delegate Golubovitch had announo od the representation of the Ukrainian republic, at the meeting, German For eign Secretary Kuehlmann inquired whether the Russians intended to con tinue as Msolo directors" of tho negotiations. Foreign Socrctary Trotsky ronlied that ho and other Russian deloiratea accepted the Ukrainian declaration of a separate independent' existence in view of the Russians' recognition of the. principle 01 geir-aetermination. Kuehlmann insisted that the Ukrain ians only bo permitted to participate in the conference independently, apparent ly seeking to establish the double char acter of the Russian representation and to divide the -strength of the delegations. irotsky then replied that tho Ukrain ians' republic was still in process of formation and Golubovitch, in support ing him, asserted that tho Ukrainians and Russians were proceeding as "rep resentatives of ono front." According to tho Russian version, Kuehlmann '8 efforts were thus frus trated. The conference then agreed to sub-divido and discuss the various ques tions bv committees. Kuehlmann, it was stated, had de clined to answer immediately the Rus sian declarations reiterating that their " democratic program offered the only (Continued on pago twe) e:(:9t:ie$:c Abe Martin (Continued on pago three) Ever' time I soe th' owner of 1,000 dog I wonder why he don't sell him an buy some shoes or a clean snin. 1 Mrs. Tipton Bud '11 entertain friends this cveuiu' No solicitations.