Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, January 21, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTODAY'S WEATHER 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 EEADEES) DAILY Only Circulation in Salem Guar anteed by tba Audit Bureau of Circulations. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS SE2 VICE FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 18 SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1918 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND JTEW3 STANDS ITVB CENTS jf - ....... . x ... i yiyn I c-- $ Jf- O ? H J" - L I O If H re0,l: .A- Papal Nuncio at Vienna Tells Critical for the Teutonic Military combine Evidence of Bitter Opposition to Junker Plans Seeps Across Swiss Border Traffic at Budapest Stepped by Strikes 31 Strike Meetings Held There Austria Hates Von Bulow . By John H. Hearle?, (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Rome, Jan. 21. Greatly stirred by President Wilson's democratic outline of war aims, Austria-Hungary is smouldering with a blaze of opposition to militarist Ger many, according to reports to the Vatican, received from the papa nuncio at Vienna. It was understood he described the situation in the dual monarchy as "most critical for the Teutonic military combine." President Wilson's speech to congress, it was asserted, has given a remarkable impulse to democratic peace ideas in the whole nation. Industrial chaos of more than a mere local nature is reported. Grievous differences have developed between Emperor Karl and the Pan-German leaders. The kaiser, it was declared, is trying to smooth out these disagreements by supporting Foreign Minister Von Kuehlmann against Von Bulow, who is hated in Austria. The Corriere DTtalia, the Vatican organ, declared positively today: "We are facing a true Austrian pronouncement against Ludenorff, Hoffmann and German imperialism." Evidence of Austria-Hungary 's bit ter opposition to the junker annexa tionist plans is accumulating in scores of reports seeping across the Austrian Swiss border and being received here. The Austrian newspapers do not hesi tate violently to attack General Hoff mann or Prince Von Bulow himself for imperialistic jdans and for their acquiescence 5u the schemes of the i o,:i ...... i;.,,-. UUllimU UIC Bj'HTHUUli j throughout the dual monarchy ewe not only to demand for food, but to the people's opposition to continuance of the war purely to satisfy militarist and junker cliques. . Austrian Strikes Spread Zurich, Jan. 21. All Austria-Hungary is crying cut for peace. Reports today show general strikes, declared Fiiday, spreading throughout the nation. Leaders of the movement ue preventing violence everywhere They have issued a manifesto demand ing assurances that the peace negoti ations be'not frustrated through "ter ritorial demands of the pan-Germans.' Dispatches today indicated that at Budapest tho entire railway, trnmway )nnd lumleirgrolind services had stop ped. Thirty one separate strikers' meetings were held. At Cracow, great demonstrations were reported. The shops have been' ordered -closed and the public forbid den to congregate on the streets alter C o'clock at night. " At Vienna the strike movement was reported spreading throughout upper nnd lower Austria into Bohemia and Moldavia. Emperor Karl, according to one re port here, sumonod the mayor of Grntz to Vienna, but the mayor tele phoned to the palace that the situa ?jc Sjc j( fi 3(C fi JC Abe Martin mi Th' question at Washington ain't'with the coat of tar and feathers. He, shooting test failed to hit the target so much shall MeAdon run the rail-!r.E3 !:ft tied hand and foot- Deputy I once out of 10 shots fired. Which fact roads, as it is who will run McAdoo. sheriff found him later in the morn- entitles the innoeent bystanders to an-Scc-ins like the less eoal the more cold, ing and took him to a hospital- other shudder. , V" Vatican editions Are "Most tion in Gratz was "too seous for him to leave. " Germans Mass Troops Pari3, Jan. 21. Several hundred thousand German troops have been brought into Belgium during the past few weeks. The little kingdom has lit erally been crowded with men and mu nitions, according to word received here today. Dispatches from Amster dam report tho Limburg filling Belgian province of up with Austrian troops. All the concentration is apparently in preparation for the long advertised west front drive- To Hearten tier People London, Jan. 2t Turkey's situation in the war has become so serious that she took the desperate chance of send ing out the old Goebcn and the Bres lau to fight British patrol vessels on the faint hope of returning after sinking a couple of good sized ships and thus bucking up a de clining Turkish morale. This was tho interpretation placed today on the Dardanelles engagement. The Goebcn, re-named the Miduliu, was sunk by the alert British patrol beats anl the Breslau, renamed the Yawns. Sulim, was beached. Two small (monitors were all the losses incurred by the British. A Quiet Night Says Haig London, .Jan. 21. A quiet night, with only a few patrol encounters in which some prisoners were taken, was reported by Field Marshal Haig today. Negotiations not Ended Copenhagen, Jan. 21- Prior to leav ing Brest-Litovsk at last week's ter mination of the Rnsso-Gernian peace negotiations, Russian Foreign Vis- ;ter Trctsky told German Foreign sec- jretnry Kushlmann that he must not lconider the negotiations discontinued. laefoiding to word received today-. The Kusuin leader declared the meetings would be resumed within a week. Russians Send Protest Petroprnd, .Ian- 21. Formal protest was sent to Tokio by the people's com missaries today against landing of any Japanese troops at Vladivostok. Dispatches liitini that from Tbkio, warships had while been ad-des- paiciea mere 10 .u , re per p.uieo- tion a me.il ('itLzenn and allied Droit-1 . erty, insisted lauded. that no troops had been TARRED AND FEATHERED Seattle, Wash., Jan. 21. Don Le- Iv, a German, 29 vears old. working j as 'a chauffeur for "a prominent Seat- tie physician, was tarred and feath- owl i:,n,t midnicht Vridav night hv a i.artv of five men. Th men drove np to the garage nere ler,oy was em ploye., seized tim, muffled his head blanket and dashed down ftie roaa iway- Several miles out of the city his ab- jduftors. choosiue a secluded spot, cut leff Lf-Pf's clothes and painte-l him WHOLESALE PLOI TO BURN SHIPS, DOCKS Heavy Guards Placed At AD Yards Schooner Burned Last Night San Francisco. Jan. 21. Additional precautions to guard the San Francisco and Oakland waterfronts were taken today following the breaking out of a sudden mysterious fire on the steam schooner Wahkeena, whose superstruo turo burned to the water's edge as she lay iu her slip this morning. The fire was regarded as significant, coming as it did immediately on tho heels of information received in federal circles of a widespread plot by eneniv agents to wage a campaign of terror on Pacific coast waterfronta. Nearly 200 blue jackets from the San Pedro naval training station arrived at Goat Island today ' to assist in the work of patrol ling the front. Six men and a petty of ficer were placed during the night on every large vessel in tho harbor. The strictest measures to keep plot ters off the vessels have been put into effect. Nobody will be permitted to board any ship unless he bears a pass or is able to establish his identity be yond question. Customs officers and na val men are co-operating in this work. All wharves are under close guard. According to reports which cannot be officially conf irmtd, federal offi cials have conclusive evidonco that I. W. W. agents are in a gigantic plot to burn ships and docks at many points on the Pacific coast. Tho exact time when the plot was to culminate has not been stated but it is supposed to have been the latter part of January. In addition to the activity of naval and customs men, the big shipbuilding companies on San Francisco bay havi also taken extraordinary precautions. Doublo guards have lieen placed at all ( ot tnese ana ponce ana lire reserves iu Oakland and San Francisco are in con stant readiness to meet any emergency that may arise. New York Takes Precautions New York, Jan. 21. New York's shore lines were under a reinforcing , guard today, following rumors tnat plans were being made by Germans and anti-British elements to begin .i reign of terror by fire tomorrow nighr. Ship plans, piers and warehouses were watched carefully. So many ships have been held through lack of fuel that an attack on them would cause enormoi'9 destruction. ERICAN SOLDIER urnrc roFMPU p or LUU 1 HLIlUil UlillJ Now He Is Studying and She is Trying to Master tne English Tongue By J. W. Pegler (United r'ress Staff Correspondent) Vith the American Army in France, Jan. 22. tihe is studying Kugliah; he is spending all his spare time learning to parle Francais especially iu the evenings in the barracks when tho others have crawled into their bunks and blown out their candles. Vou sec, he and she were. married a week ago in the ancient village church. It was a whirlwind courtship. He won her heart over a handsome young poilu, native of the same village. The groom he is a first class American righting man met her in a muddy village street one night and helped her. drive in a dozen fractious cows. The next nigJit he called at her home, donned au apron and helped wipe the supper (dishes. Just a week ago the Sammy skipped away from his regiment with a couple of friends and fonnd her waiting with her father at the village cliurcli. Tho village priest soon tied the international knot. Keturning dutifully to camp, the bridegroom was arrested for leaving then quaranteened for a" few cases of the mumps. The happy groom drew six ty days labor with a wood chopping company. It was a hard comedown from his soft berth with a headquarters com pany but the vision of his brunette bride, with her flashing black eyes wait ing in the little farm village relieves . Hammv. ,.. ,... of j.a(,k.break ing labor, . . ' - The United Press staff correspondent saw him tonight in barracks. I found I him lying on a bunk with a sputtering ! candle burning above his pillow labor- y parsing I rench verbs in the !'ering, dicing light, "A nde like her is worth sixty vears of woodchopping " sa.d he. " Her name n Louise, one n aim ine nauu ter of the village harness maker. I m ; twenty and I live at Cedar Grove, Iowa. I'm just a rearing to go to the trenches. After the war I'm going to take my jwife back to Cedar Grove, where dad owns a big farm." tignteen 1'ortiana policemen ai pisioi M'ADOO NOT IN PAVOR OF GOVERNMENT OWNERSHI P OF RAILROADS AFTER WAR Washiuffton, Jan. 21. Before thirty days application of the Garfield, Mon day holiday - order ' may be discontin ued, Director General McAdoo declar ed today before the interstate com merce committee. Summoned before the committee to explain further the proposed operation of the railroads under federal control, McAdoo declared the "holiday" prob ably will not be necessary beyond the middle of February. " At the Bame time, he startled mem bers of tho committee with the dec laration that between $1,000,000,000 and $1,500,000,000 must be put into the railroads by the federal treasury to make them effaetivo in the trans portation crisis. I McAdoo said hi survey of the rail situation has convinced him govern ment funds must go into the roads to help them expand. He rorocast tho continuation or gov ernment control for some time when ho said congress should net limit gov ernment control to any detinue period If government control is limited to the duration of tho war or for p fixed time afterwards, McAdoo warned the committee, financial ichiaoat is iiKeiy when the roods are turned back. Hasty and ill-considered legislation now. ho said, would be ruinous to holders of railroad securities when the government relinquishes control of tho lines. 'For this reason, McAdoo urged that His Head Blown Off by His Brother-in-Law Donvor, Colo., Jan. 21. As the cli max to a long standing quarrel with his wife, W. H. Miller, alias W. H. Harriman, thirty, formerly of Nampa, Idaho, and said by local authorities to have a criminal record thore, had the ton of his 'head literallv blown off by his brother-in-law, Ealph York, age 20, at Miller 's farm at Semper Station, near Denver, Sunday afternoon. Miller, according to the stories of Witnesses, came horn and began abus ing his wife. She' Socked herself in her room and her husband attempted to break, down the door. Tho woman's brother, who had barricaded himself with her, fired through the door with a shotgun, the full charge catching Mil ler in the head. Ho died at the county hospital in Denver without regaining consciousness. AMERICAN CASUALTIES. Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 21. The following Americans are mentioned in todaifJe Canadian casualty list, issued by the records office here: Killed in action: A. F. Palmer, Ba kersfield, Calif oinia. Wounded and missing: C. D. Fitz gerald, La Grande, Oregon. Wounded: P. Jefferson, Seattlo, Wash.- !"''" 1 I yOzvy J&TV'Xe, I i i RECEIVING THE TABLETS -The New Emancipation Proclamation the committee report the pending rail road bill as written, with the provis ion that goyernment control shall con tinue until congress shall otherwise or der. 1 The Government Ownership McAdoo 's statement that he does not believe in government ownership was in answer to- a question by Sena tor Watson, Indiana, an outspoken foe of government ownership. ' ' Mr. Secretary, do you believe in government ownership f" asked Wat son. "I do not," replied McAdoo. "But I believe it will" be impossible to re turn to competitive conditions as 'they were before tho government stepped in. There wil have to be a greater measure of government control and regulation henceforth than we have had in the past. "And if you now limit the period of government control, you may make impossible new legislation to meet sit uations that may arise. "Wo- must uso our best foresight. To throw tho roods back to private control with competition destroyed and with one line carrying business at the expense of another wrild Jo a grave mistake. ' "Do you think the power to fix rates should be taken from the inter- state commorce commission and he various state commissions f" asked Senator Kellogg! "When tho president ib operating the railroads, I think it extremely uu-j wise to namper mm in rave iiiing matters to meet any emergency," de clared McAdoo. Must Be a Head McAdoo cited his recent action in New York in ordering coal trains mov ed through the Pennsylvania tunnel as an iustanco where it wag necossary (Continued on page six.) Lkiicnant Bellinger Dies . at Fort Riley, Kansas A telegram was received by relatives in the city yesterday stating that the remains of Lioutenant Ivan E. Bollin ger would arrive in Balem today for burial. This was tho first news that any one in the city had heard of Lieu tenant Bellinger's death and it came as a great surprise, as the last word re ceived about a week ago was to the effect that his condition was greatly improved. His wife and small son and brother Allan Bellinger left for For Riloy two weeks ago. Pneumonia was the causo of Mr. Bellinger's doath. Paul and Lloyd Hauser left for Port land this morning to meet the train bearing the remains together with tho widow and son and brother. The body will be taken to Bigdon's parlors upon arrival. Funeral arrangements have not been made at this time and will be an nounced later. WAR. MAY--BE T OF CLASH ii Bloodshed Narrowly Averted In Closing Constitutional Assembly IT PROCLAIMED RUSSIA A DE1DCRATIC REPUBLIC National Convention To Be Formed by Forthcoming Social Congress By Joseph Shaplen (United Press Staff Correspondent) Petrograd, Jan. 21. Tlio crisis be tween the Bolshevik! and the conser vative liberals was at hand today. Dissolution of the constituent essoin bly, effected by the Trotsky-Lenine government has brought to a climax the violent opposition ot the social revolu tionary party. The Bolsheviki leaders today freely predicted that their en emies are now preparing a campaign of terror. They named former Minister Sa vinkoff with 150 men as leading this counter-revolutionary movement. Bloodshed was narrowly averted in the closing of the constituent assembly. The last few minutes of the meeting wore dramatic in their intensity. Armod sailors poured into the hall and were arraved in groups in the aisles. Their commanded demanded that Chernoff, then presiding, quit the platform and that the members of the right parties leave the hall. Chernoff flatly refused and a heated argument ensued. Witnes ses today insisted it was only interven tion of tho Bolsheviki delegates them selves that saved their political oppon ents from violence at the hands of tho uolsueviKi troops. , Assembly's Last Act. The final act of the assembly was the formal proclamation of Russia as a dem ocratic, republic. The speech of Former Minister Tserotelli was dramatic. He was constantly interrupted and often with violent abuse. His concluding pr oration was a pathetic appeal to all that the revolution be pormitted to bear fruit in tho formation of a government which would show a solid front of all classes oLthe revolutionary democracy. Tho Bolsheviki and social revolution aries of the loft, together with others who favor a pan-Kussian workmen, sol diers and peasants' congress to take the plnco of the constituent assembly, were working hard today to achieve this sort of a law-giving body. The Soviets com- (Continued on page six) CiViL SOVIETS COWL SE1T0R STOIIE SAYS ROOSEVELT IS KAISER S AGHJT Asks Why He Is Permitted to Make Statements That Are Disloyal IS MOST RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HE DENOUNCES Speech Likely to Open Gates For Floods of Senatorial Oratory Washington, -Jan. 21. Sknator Stone, Misscluri, today denounced Theodore Roosevelt, on tho floor of the senate as "the most potent agent of the Kaiser and the most seditious man of consequence in America." In a speech bristling with scathing denunciation of those who are "mak ing politics out of the war," Stono demanded that the same rule be ap plied to Roosevelt's writings and ut terances as were applied in the easo of a private citizen Stone named, who, "repeated in a minor degree'' what Roosevelt had written. This man was arrested. Quoting liberally from Roosevelt's published criticisms of tho Wilson ad ministration's conduct of the war, Stone said: The heart of this man is , aflame with ambition and he runs amuck. On my responsibility as a senator, I churgo that since our entrance into tho war Roosevelt has been a menace ana an obstruction to tho sucessful prosecution of the. war. His chief thought has not been to help the gov ernment tsMvej the (mighty problems they have to solve, but always his chief thought has been of Roosevelt- "I inquire why Rocsovclt may-s7 things with Impunity which a citizen of less consequence dare not even ro peat without danger of indictment for dislovalty!" Repeated Roosevelt Statement Stone then told how a traveling salesman was taken from a train en tering St. Louis last December, and put in jail, because he said: 'Wilson kept us out of war Liko hell he did. It's a shame the way cur soldiers aro being treated in the con centration camps. They are not prop erly clothed, anil tho sanitary arrange ments are poor. Hoover's sugar plan is a big joke too." This, Stono said, was only repealing what Roosevelt had written editorial ly in the Kansas City Star. Stone quoted an editorial from the Toledo (Continued on page six.) WAR CABINET BILL TO WARM UP DISCUSSION ROOSEVELT IS THERE President Opposed To It- Fuel AdiTiimsiration lo Grilled 52 By I C. Martin HTnited Press stuff correspondent) nr. i in 91. Snirited fights on the proposed f,war cabinet iill and threatened discussion v itor Stono of "war anil politics" dis pelled any likelihood of heatlcss ses sions in congress this week. The battle destined to swiri m th war cabinet of three, was to open oday with introduction of t-cnaior h:uiiberlain' bill ftT creation of the bodv. Senator Stone's delayed speecn aim i - iii.lavinv nolitirs" and Ctloncl Roosevelt's 'pn'po'd visit here proniis- ,1 to add fuel to ine rauinn i.ii-, nnil.inir about a centralized war munitions purchase plan, there was oulit of congressiouui mmuj iu r he idea across. - Somn democrats are hopeful that 'resident Wilson mav be induced to linage his views and t agree to more f a non-partisan control of govern lent and more centralization on mn litions. The whole quest ion, however, .ruiears to turn upc u the wish of the nau in the white house. Will Attack Wilson Colonel Roosevelt's proposed rres ;,. fha .itr nt this time is regard ed as particularly si.niitieanfc His ope ttack against me uiiimnir" ticallv certain that he will exercise the infliuncr of his persoM- itv ln tne lormcoinmg mi. Senator Stone's speech will serve as .hnllHntre to the republicans who have waited their chance to air their feelings about the conduct of the war Thev plan to discuss Secretary of War linker, tuel Administrator u'"'"" (Continued oa j-aga three)