Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, January 19, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texttodah. WEATHER 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 HEADERS) DAILY Only Circulation In Salem Guar anteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEW8 SEB7ICB oft Oregon: Tonight and Sunday fair, moderate norther ; ly winds. . FORTY-FIRST YEAR- SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1918 PRICE TWO CENTS OJf TRAIN8 AND TTEWJ 8TANDH FIVE CENTO WW 0i0 'TTiiE JftPAM 5o tONfi I rim il . a n. fvnzx M 1-1 IM ftk. y il MS. i kJti -r.V ' M f 1 I STREET FIGHTING IN PETROGRAD OVER ASSEMBLY Bolsheviki Faction Brings Large Number of Troops Into Capital City KERENSKY REPORTED HIDING IN PETROGRAD HESS WILL STktD. BEHIND CENTRALCONTROL Chamberlain Is Preparing to Press Two Measures In Senate. . No Vcrd Received As To Out come of Ultimata Served On Rumania By Joseph Shaplen (United Press Staff Correspondent) Petrograd, Jan. 18. (Delayed) via London, Jan. 19 Several persons were lulled and many wounded in street fight jug iuuuv couicuient wiin the opening intr constituent assemtuv DIRECTOR OF MUNITIONS AND WAR COUNCIL Senate Committee Then Plans to Boost Bill by Further Investigations By L. O. Martin (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Jan. 19. ''Central con trol to conquer the kaiser" is the slogan f j to be dinned into the ears of congress. senator Uiamberlain today completed ing AUSTRIAN FMERS CLOSED BECAUSE OF INTERNAL TROUBLES Italians Report Repulse of Strong Enemy On Caposile Bridgehead Geneva, Jan. 19. Austria today de creed closing of all her frontiers. Through the strict censorship there filtered reports of the government's desperate efforts to put down wide spread strikes, peace demonstrations and food riots in a score or more of cities. The public is apparently fear ful that the Brest-Litovsk peace nego tiations will fail through insistence of the German militarists on the full pan German program that Austria will be called upon for fresh sacrifices. Germans Repulsed. Rome, Jan. 19. Italian forces guard ing the Caposile bridgehead on Thurs day nipht repulsed a powerful attempt ed attack on wide front, today's of ficial statement asserted. Tho enemy's moves forward were ar rested by the Italian gunfire- A few hostile troops who succeeded in rcaeh- tko front entanglements were I lie city bristled with fighting forces IP1""8 to press next week for immediate : destroyed in machino gun fire. jiii-mujug a large numiier or troops i'""1 u" l"u ""S summing up tne re thought to the capital by the Bolsheviki 'Bll'ts to date of tho investigation of tho after formal announcement of the dis- j war department. covery of a counter revolutionary plot, Nothing to Report. London, Jan. 19. "Nothing special" The measures are (1) a bill creating 'was all Field Marshal Haig had to ro- which, it was believed, was headed 0 director of munitions to be given con-1 port today. by Former Premier Kerenskv Kerensky was himself reported to bo in hiding in Petrograd. The constituent assembly opened at four o'clock in tho afternoon. The fighting in the downtown streets occurred just prior to this. Among those killed in the rioting was M. Logvinoff, of the executive commit tee of the- peasants' congress. The wounded included many women. Versions of how the rioting started differ. The most coherent story was that a procession of the Society for De- vul i" cuiisuuieiir asemply was trol of purchases of everything needed ping1 Lard6 an! "and "YV biii i German Deserters creating a war council of from three to five members who, next to the pres ident, will have supreme control of tho war program. The director of munitions bill already t On Holland Bordzr Amsterdam, Jan. 19. ITow armed German deserters accompanving Bel- has been reported to the senate and tho , Rian workmen attempted to escape in- war council measure is expected to go to Holland was told in a vivid uarra in Monday. : tive reaching here today. Tho German Having launched these measures, tha- deserters were approached by the Ger committee clans to continue its invnaii. man border guard and a desperate gation, taking up cantonment, aviation ' fiBnt ensued in which tho mutineers attacked by the Bolsheviki ( maximal- and the medical cP- Tho purpose of , k'l'od one -and wounded several. They ists and their Um,r. t , the two bills is to eliminate competition tried to cut the electric wires guarding command to the troops to fir timir ,among various war making agencies, to the frontier but were finally driven off - . . Anta oil miwmA... .1 JInn. h . mi !1 1-rt a I Ilia K'lirSaii ti- b n due to conflicting authority; to provide escaped 'across into Holland said the a supreme, central authority which can deserters were from the Russian front anticipate jieeds' and - plan ahead for - - " v 1 ; them; to organize and adapt the coun try's industrial resources to war needs, guns iuto the air resulted in a general hail of machine gun fire and rifles nut not ait ot tne bullets were shot harmless toward the skv. M. Tchornoff, a social revolutionary xuuiiur minister oi agriculture un der Kerensky, was elected president of wlthout unduly straining these resources tlie constituent assembly by a vote of! 1 1 e commiiiee-s piau is- aaoptea, : 6t agaiUSt 10) HO ll w Mniii.l.A...rn -J,J vigouiwiuuu wilt vvuia. wua Extra guards were scattered nrnnm! Smolny institute, headquarters of tho Bolsheviki. which bristled with machine gnus and armored cars. The central tele phone office was barricaded. The Pro letariat in several sections of the city way: The war cabinet will be composed of Secretary of War Baker, Secretary of the Navy Daniels and from one to three others, preferably civilians of the high est business training and expense. This council, responsible to no one was served with arms y o,,,m;ti,; !ut the president, will settle all qus- Four hundred sailors arrived from Kron'ttions o Priority between government stadt and HelsiiirrfnrL i departments needing the same supplies. The rumor spread throughout the (.itv 'It will survey the industrial field and General Frederick S. Foltz, commanding that ivereuskv w.i unmi.,..,. ;.. decide where expansion should be urg- the 91st division, in Petrograd with two of his former ed and wllere an industry making one snouia De convertea to mane anotner vital to the war. It will look ahead First Real Deserter Gets Stiff Sentence Camp Lewis, Tacoina, Wash., Jan. 19. The first clearcut case of desertion sinee the establishment of this camp was disposed of today by the military auth orities when Private Charles 8. McDon ald of the 15Cth depot brigade was sentenced to ton years at hard labor at tho United States military prison on Al catraz Island. The findings of the court martial were approved by Briga'Jier , ') zTP - . titit -ft M'ADOO BEFORE COMMITTEE TELLS OF ROADCONTROL Says Progress Has So Far Been Sfow Due Macily to Weather Conditions CONTROL BY NATION HELD NECESSARY Economy Will Be Practiced and High Salaries Cut As Much As Possible WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS OFFICIALS STILL THINKTHAT GREAT GERMAN OFFENSIVE ON WEST FRONT IS COMING lieutenants, M. Savinkoff, formerly mill ister of war, and Filoneuko, ouce a so cial democrat leader in th ll 111)1!) Xlie workmen s ana soldiers' central soviet isued formal orders to all work men that they remain ut their jtcupa wus on 1' iiuay and decreed mobiliza tion of all suiuu-ra m the various armor ieo. its proclamation declared "every tr.iort oi any person or organization to uuuic tne luiiciious Ut government v,nl be revalued as a counter revolu tionary move' (Continued on page three) McDonald left camp on November 10 last, going to San Francisco and thence to Alaska. He was arrested in Seattle on his return while preparing to sail for Japan. Washington, Jan. 19. American and cd from shifting men to the west from tho cast. And it is framed to offset any German thought that the allies might be weakening in their purpose of going on until their war aims aro possible of accomplishment. Tho political propaganda offensive will continue in an effort to sway Bus si a and Austria to tho allied ilea, but tho moro important thing men and supplies will be augmented to offset 1he leuton military party's plans. Addition fff new men is intended to thwart Germany 's dream of smashing tne west front. And lr she can be hurl allied officialdom, is now convinced the Goman military party, firmly en trenched, nrotioses to make a west front drive as its main answer to President Wilson and Lloyd-Gcorgo's war aims. This is the meanimy international ex ports interpreted today into Lovd- George's warning; and likewise many saw a very direct connection between the west front situation and the hur ried Garfield coal order o help clear xransports. While Chancellor Hertling will, prob-led back then, officials believe her No Word From Rumania. Petrogiau, jail, it). xna i'etrograd luntii a.m committee today sent a two hour ultiiimtuui to tne ituiuaiaaa overumcut, deiuunuing tree passage or Jtussiau troops tiirougu J assy. Ao word has yet come from Petrograd GREAT EFFORT TO SMASH FREIGHT CONGESTION ORDER TO MOVE SHIPS By Robert J. Bender (United Press staff correspondent) Washington, Jan. 19. The giant task of smashing freicht congestion a.i 10 nat occurred alter expiration or at ports and junctions to release sup tue ti hour ultimatum served on Ku- ;ply ships went on full blast today. The l.-'Uiua liy tne Kusjiau eo eminent ! work, made simnler bv the Garfield threatening, war unless immediate pun- fuel restriction order, was countered, l.siiment was meted out to Kumaiiiau however, by the enemy snow, ice and troops which arrested many Kussian of- j wind in the central and Atlantic liters and Austrian visitors to the bat- states- Ice floes in ports stopped trans tie lines. jfer of coal to ships. Winter storm waves attacked tho movement of German Request Refused. (thousands of coal cars trying to get Petrograd, Jau. IS). Ku.siau dele-:"over the top" in their drive for the gates at Brest-Litovsk refused a request seaboard. the Germans that the Bolsheviki gov-' Ti" nat'onal raib-oad struggled val emmeut not place any obstacles in"tho ' iantly on it. Officials were confident way of X journey to Germany by theitliat witn everybody in on the play it cx-emp'ress of Kussia and otner nieni- woul(1 succeed. President Wilson's ot hers oi the imperial family who are re- !ficial endorsement of the Garfield or- Jated to the kaiser, according to tlioider had ,wePt flside much of thfl bit' newsnaner w, vn t. ,.!.,- iter criticism which first marked the ably make some reply to the war aims statements, as officials see it, every thing received by this government in dicates that there will be no conces sions now. England's man power bill is intend tune will ehaiifie and her people will noi longer brook the military party control. Tho need for ney men is urgent, jnowever. Tnis is manifest rrom Woyd- iieorge s utterances ana trom urgent ed to givo sufficient men to offset ! appeals of Colonel House to America Germany s temporary advantage eain-lto speed her sending of soldie Indicted On Charge of Disloyalty to Nation fiv (lov inriiiarr) n 1 ahi)fn)wn dai-tii- ..... ... - I , , . J " mg wnicn tne list or preferred uses tors, are looking to the future for hope or venting tneir wratn cji measures i which may bo presented later. All laundries aro exempted from the operation of tTfc fuel order, it was of ricially stated today. rr.i a: i a : - 1 n f ti . . I xuiu Bciii in ion, wmtii unu iitl-viuiis- operation of the Garfield order in in- HBn ., . t' ,allnflriM ,,, rlnir dividual eases. ire day period, was extended to cov- btate fuel administrators, however, ter the ten Monday noiidays also by oceunv a crucial nnaitinn in ! cl)..m ittie fuel administration. of fuel contrrj and power is granted to all these to supply relief to any es tablishment when this is necessary to prevent injury to health or destruc tion to property by fire and .freezing. Thev are charged with tho moro im portant duty of enforcing the order in all its details. Rulings regarding the provisions of the order are made for the most part at the national head quarters, but the state fuel administra tors, working through county officials, have tho more important work of di verting all such fuel as arrives in their communities to essential needs in the order of preference, stated in the ot-der. Confusion regarding the period dur- emptions. I Hundreds of industries and thous ands of workmen still idle -by the sus pension regulations watched the gov- . Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 19.-Cl,arged nment ? ,6trugKles philosophically, with disloyalty, George Hellmuth, foV .Comparatively few reports were made mer superCisor 'of Siskivou countv, A -f b"","et fyi0 V"6 'r, chie Crawford, manager of Yreka ' b' Presi,1nt W 1 son mercantUe company, e Beice'tl10 .e as pessary and must be CrivrfnrJ ,,'"' j . " ' . ,ice .carried out, industry and labor accept ll lt 1 J t??tedJa8t, n by ed their duty heroically. i l-v " ' . i -nit's juarsnai xiartz is effective was reported in some quar ters today. It was stated at the fuel administration that section one of Dr. Gai field's Regulation established th order of preference in the distribution rrf coal. This order remains in effect until iF"is rescinded by Dr. Garfield. . By this order, even after the five day closing has been concluded, the system of priority now in effect may continue until the work of clearing it :c Abe Martin Fdiffls mm JAPAKKE CRUISERS Steps Are Taken to Protect Allied Interest at Port of Vladivostok awav ronppstion ia lnmnlit nil. Tnrlna- Huudreds of thousands of workmen, .tr:e8" which had been under suspension ever, and scores of industries, who fiur;n., ti, a,v t,-,; m rB. rst believed they were to remain isulne operation if they nave coal on lltllt.. TII.)UI1 I.nt.IIlHt.- fH MHIHV H II ITCU .1. n,l I. r. a lkl 1. a ... . 1 11 distant ' ,1111111. lU"Bt- l!l UH'CIl l, IMctU'l Slliail i-iedl n nntinnp In gJHirinn tn tho 9D. L.I. . e t i a l- vii(uto ui Kitt'xK .uti Bl mil tiiiitr. milrinir tn ai-,,1.. r;t.,.i a.... ; " i'i"'"" torgress passeu into its tnird any service and Mr, rwi ! i Vof tbe tarf,el(1 cr. tnere arc rean7 :as a depository for telegraphic and w"h Lr-vL in swrWl 1 m0Te T0Xed trom the regulations written complaints from --ba'k home' Lrsband a draft expnM.tf 5 y to her whose identity is kept secret. The pur- Tht corridors and cloak room, and i !S "i -MtHtip , n!i;t10" l'af."-Jhe p0S9 of concealing these industries is even the ehan.Wrs themselves still f.uernl authorities declare the trio have to prevent an influx of increasing : ring sharrlv with criticism of the Gar- on imlictmeut returned by the federal 'howe grand jury at its last lession here. !first Hellmuth, said to be of German des- i: n' -i , -ud luitriii in ueieat the selective lraft; Crawford with con-' I-ain in Siskiyou county. field crtler. Cut the situation has reach ae? " The' leadin' indoor sport these days is mnnin' a. home on th' average hus band's salary. When somebuddy told Lafe Bud about a feller that got har ried on Monday an' wuz accidentally shot while huntin' on Tuesday he said. "Yes, I know, but that wouldn 't happen There still is vast confusion as t ed the point now where the legisla- onee in a hundred years." By Ralph H. Turner (United Press Staff Correspondent) Tokio, an. 19. The arrival of Jap anese cruisers at Vladivostok to protect tne lives ana property or. rorcign resi dents and to guard the interests of tho entente allies, was enthusiastically re ceived by the foreigners and the "bet ter class Russians", according to an official report received by the navy to day from the Japanese vessels. They report the situation quiet in Vladivos tok and vicinity. There is a sufficient quantity of foodstuffs on hand for present needs and no immediate danger of a conflict between the Rnlsheviki and the factions opposing them, owing to a lack of co hesion in the separate elements. Com munication with Petrograd has been in terrupted. Commanders of the vessels declared there is no danger of an outbreak but that the unrest makes precautionary measures necessary to prevent an uprising. A British cruiser has also reached ; ladivostok. tWWORKERS IDLE INIWITIESOF BOTH EAST AND VEST Garfield, However, Continues to Add to List of Plants Exempted From Order Washington, Jan. 19. The fuel ad ministration today answored the cry of actors and issued a modification of its fuel restrictions order to permit thea tres to remain open Monday. The playhouses will close Tuesday in stead. This action was deemed advisable in tho faco of complaint from actors and managers that the Monday would ruin tho business. In making the decision, Garfield re versed a previous ruling of the fuel ad ministration that theatres would have to suspend coal-using on Monday. Situation In Chicago. Chicago, Jan. 19. Tho smokeless chimneys and hushed machinery of the hundreds of small factories closed here by the coal conservation order meant something moro immediate to Chica go's poor than winning tho war it meruit hunger, cold and sickness. Thousands of workmen who could not read, or whoso time for recreation is too limited to read, knew nothing of the fuel administration's order closing man date, it developed today. They presented themselves for work at tho usual hour yesterday, only to be told "there is no work." Dazed by the suddenness of the catas trophe they wandered about dully in search of some other employment. They only encountered thousands of their fel lows enacting the samo tragic roles. Today they turned to their resort, the horror of every workman 'e life the charities. ! The United Charities reported that "back of the yards" the cries for help increased seventy five percent over normal. This was expected to extend to other districts where men employed in day labor or picco work live. Ten thous and letters have been mailed to citizens by the United Charities, making person al requests for funds. The Salvation Army will hold a con ference today to plau relief work. Hull House foresaw "intense suffer ing" and a "marked increase in tho appeals, for fuel and warm clothing." Zero temperatures still prevailed and will continue for several days, the wea ther bureau said. The transportation and fuel situation in Chicago and the middle west improv ed slightly in the first 24 hours of I'liel Administrator Garfield's conservation ir1nl fqil.An1 n il j.il nnniitonl. nffi. j eials reported today. Railroad traffic, which has been pros trated by the excessive demands upon t during the last eight months, was able Cruisers Are Ready. Washington, Jan. 19. Two Japanese crnisers and one British are lying off jto throw off some of the old burdens, Vladivostok, state department advices under relief from new ones, officials said today. The Britipher has been there ! declared. Congested freight was being about a week and the Japanese slight- cleared as rapidly as possildo. The great ly longer, in view of the threatened j er part of the tremendous amount of disturbances and to guard valuable sup-j freight moved was coal. Several thous plies awaiting shipment to western Bub- I sia. ' (Continued on page three) Washington, Jan. 19 Director Gon- eral of Railroads McAdoo today admit ted before the senate interstate com merce committee that ho hag been un able thus far to do much towards straightening out the freight tangle on the country's rail lines. no blamed the slow nrocress on the unusual weather, which affected even southern railroads (not usually trou- bled by cold weather. Not only did sua cessive blizzards doc the rail lines but thoy froze harbors, making it im possible for ships to approach docks for blading and thus adding to con gestion in terminals, McAdoo said. He gavo the first authoritative announce ment concerning the government's pol icy with respect to the country's "baby roads" when he said they wiu not be taken over unloss it is neces sary. The losses they will suffer, he said, they must bear as part of the general sacrifico for tho, suko of Y.i tory. "Somebody has to mnke sacrifices besides the man who lays down- his life in battle," said McAdoo. "Wo want all the roads to have a sauara deal' and we'll help all wo can, but we are not going to ,add to the treasury a burdens merely to keep people from losing money." wny uontroi -Nocesary McAdoo also declared government control of railroads was uecessary to prevent a "financial disintegration" which threoteued the country because mf the shrinkage of railroad securi ties. This collapse, he Baid, would sorious ly have undermined the nation's "hapes of victory in the war." McAdoo said he did not know that priority orders wera rosponBible for the railroad congestion, but he abolish ed them all when he took over tho roads. "I wanted to start with a clean slate," he said. Cause of Trouble Ho declared that no one thing was responsible for tho railroad situation. Railroads spent less for betterments nnd imnrovements in the Dast three closing j years than they did in the previous three years, he said, ine tromcnuous increase of industrial and domestic demands in face of the condition was one af tho big factors in tho situation ho declared- McAdoo promised marked economies in tho operation of the railronds. He mado this statement in explaining tha purposo of the $500,000,000 revolving fund to be created by the railroad bill. This fund, he said, was to bo used in making up deficiencies in meeting guarantees to provido additional equip inent and improvements. Considering these improvements, ha said, the fund was small. McAdoo Baid that he did not con template using any of this fund to meet maturing railroad obligations dur ing government control. I hope that the roads under gov ernment direction, which will rehabil itate their credit, will be ablo to take up their own securities, no auueu. He said that he (lid not tinnit ine re volving fund could bo legally used for meeting maturing securities. iToposea uompensauou Maturins securities, he said, in 1918, would amount to $'222,000,000, 1919, $8,000,000, and in iuzu. to $213,000,000. McAdoo said ho considered the pro posed compensation basis a fair one, " What about high salaried railroad executives and other officials!" ask ed Senator Cummins- Will Practice Economy "Well, the roads have been charg ing these sums to operation cxpens- es, " said McAdoo. "i am not gomr to employ anyone, though, who is not absolutely esseutial to efficient oper ation of the roads." He asserted that the government should preserve the railroad organiza tion as completely as possible. Senator Cummins asked JMcAdoo lo furnish later a complete list of all ex ecutives and their high salaried officers. "Are railroad employes government employes or not!" asked Senator Gore "My view of it thus rar is mat mo men aro employes cr tne Toaas, wmca are under government direction, n -said. McAdoo, however, said that these involved a question he was not prepar ed now to decide. State Taxation The right of the various states to impose reasonauio taxes upon run.uj (Continued on page three) j