Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, January 23, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTODAY'S WEAHim 4,400 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 K.2ADEKS) DAILY Only Circulation in Balem Guar anteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WIIiLAJTOTTE VAL LEY NEWS SeFCE It Oregon: Tonight ana I n u r b u a y probably - rain , west, fair east - ly? Dortion: moderate south e a t e r- 5. PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NTTWW STANDS FIVE CENTS FORTY-FIRST Yly - NO. 20 SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1918 ' Wonder if of? rr- i WUW Ml 1, ft . AA. StK - - r 1 1 -aww L 'J Fuel, Food and War Supplies Alone May Be Transported Until Weather Moderates, Allowing Trains to Move More . FreeFvResult of Garfield Suspension Order Was Bene ficial But Situation Is Still SeriousWarmer Weather Throughout East Would Improve Situation Greatly Maintain Million Men AIom Italian Front Washington, Jan. 23. The central powers are maintaining 52 1-2 divisions, 1,050,000 troops along the Piave and Brenat lines on the Italian front, Rome cables today said. Of these eight divisions are German. The Italian drive started with 65 divisions of Teutonic troops, 238,000 of. which, the cables said, have been put of action. AUSTRIAN STRIKE WAS NOT STAGED FOR CAMOUFLAGE IS OPINION OF OFFICIALS . I i f t RESULTS OF THE GARFIELD ORDER. Number of ships waiting for coal reduced from 121 to 80, at north ern Atlantic ports. Dumped 34,000 tons of bunker coal yesterday for ships and 60,000 tons already on hand. Southern ports have 150,000 tens of bunker coal on hand with 100,000 tons moving toward ports. Empty coal cars being rushed tack to mines and full results not expected for several days. Coal going to domestic consumers in large quantities. Freight congestion practically as great as before. Ship plants in danger of closing unless rail congestion clears. General freight embargo urged by Garfield.' Curtailment of passenger traffic demanded in many quarters to re lieve congestion. Prospects of warmer weather expected to help situation. Further workless days in prospect unless railroads clear congestion quickly, By Robert J. Bender (United ress Staff Correspondent) Washington, Jan. 23. A temporary embargo on all freight except foou, fuel mul war supplies was ordered today by Director General McAdoo on the Penn sylvania lines east of Pittsburgh, the Baltimore and Ohio east of the Ohio liver and tlits Philadelphia and Reading railroad. McAdoo 's action followed insistent demands for it by the fuel administra tion. It wjis declared to. be vital if ma terial and lasting results in breaking ;tlie eastern freight jam were to be ac complished. McAdoo took the step be cause he agreed that it was "absolute ly necessary." Threatened tieup of the shipbuilding program and intense suffering in many points influenced his decision. The embargo, McAdoo declared, would last only until the weather moderated, 'flic war supplies which are exempted from the embargo will be only those specifically designatea by the war de partment. These lines will concentrate on movement of coal into New England, Wow York harbor and other points and SAN FRANCISCO WATER FRONT SEALED TIGHT AGAINST GERMAN SPIES By Ed L. Keen (United Press staff correspondent) London., Jan. i3. The Austrian striko troubles are genuine according to a conviction expressed in authori- 'tative circles today, First suspicion here that they were stage-managed by I the government itself was dissipating rapidly. I According to the- most authentic news reaching here, the general move ment in Lmporor .Karl s monarchy is duo to the public 's weariness with the war, to widespread dissatisfaction with Teutonic manipulations at Brcst Litovsk and to increasing scarcity of Armed Soldiers and Marine Patrol Every Foot of Ship ping District pend operation, thousands of employes will be idlo with tho government paying the bill, officials said. In these circumstances the fuel ad ministration has appealed to McAdoo to call for a general embargo on all freight shipment aside from that of vital war ; Francisco and Oakland sides of the bay San Francisco, Jan. 23. San Francis co's waterfront was sealed up tight as a drum today for the first time in its history, as a precaution against pro German plots. Armed soldiers, marines and mounted police patroled the Embaracadero from end to end. For the first time in months the sentries at the Yerba Bucna Island naval station walked their posts with loaded rifles. On the decks of over 00 vessels in port armed marines supple mented each deck watch. Sailors from merchantmen who were not aboard ship at six o'clufk last night had to 'stay ashore all night. vv hue every precaution was taken ashore, powerful searchlights during the night swept the bay from shore to snore, guarding against enemy piots. 'p0T.(cd to the war department today, In the meantime federal, state, city i nii.n naB orn. and military investigators were running private Albert Cook. West Almond, of public feeling, in the opinion of well informed officials, is bound to make resumption of the Brcst-Litovsk negotiations a ticklish matter for tho central powers. Of actual news in connection with the strikes, the Austrian 'nscirship today permitted the most fragmentary reports. Enough leaked through how ever, to indicate spread of industrial tie-up to Prague, Brunn and other cities. Copies of the Vienna Arbeiter Zci tung, recoived in Switzerland, contain 'appeals to workers to allow resumption of railway traffic, but the editorial frankly exults in the success achieved food Tho public's longing for peace has.bv the strikers. been recently accentuated by the bold- "We hope the government under ly democratic war aims proclaimed by stands," tho editorial asserted, "that Premier Lloyd-Georgor and by Presi- j the will of the workers is a power they dent Wilson. The plain citizenry ofjrannot contest without endangering 11 1. 1 1 . J . - . L i.. .... me ouai monarcny, ' ruauiug mesu llsclr- terms, can find little in them to sup port the frantic plea of the German juukors and militarist that the allies seek to divide the central empires and that tho main aim of Germaany's eno- my is conquest. Tho widespread growth of this sort M. Litvinoff, Bolshevikl ambassador to Great Britain, in his speech before the labor conference at Nottingham, declared "wo can already hear the (Continued on pagt two) TIEEAIfPfflS KILLED III ACTION Clashes With Germans On HE KILLED WOiN AND CUT OWN THROAT Crime Was Deliberately American Front Becoming Staged In Most Spectacular frequent Washington, Jan. 23. Three Ameri cans were killed in action with the Ger mans yesterday, General Pershing re- down even the flimsiest rumors of plot-.ijj- y. ted violence. Admittance to tile water- Private Harrv V. Garman. Catawba. front was by pass and on both the San .Virginia .' supplies and fuel. Although the priorities- section of the Garfield order, covering preferential coal yard shipments is still effective and will remain so until otherwise or dered, no great headway can be made unless the rails are relieved of thous ands of cars of unessential freight. Ad ministrator Garfield believes. Continued cold weather today brought with it reports of critical suffering in many communities and a situation at some points worse than that which existed before the Garfield order went into ef fect five days ago. The only marked relief was that ac corded ships at a number of ports. Bunkering was materially increased during the industrial suspension. Further suspension orders are in pros pect. It is pointed out that Washing loafers found near shipping point? were Private Loo E. Radi,.jClovoland, Ohio. The Pershing report carried onlv forced to" explain their presence and the bare fact tilftt the mon wen killed were told to movo along. ijn action." The San' Francisco chamber of com-1 The-report indicates that clashes be merce took cognizance of the situation tween Americans and the Germans are by passing resolutions demanding the becoming more frequent, one having death penalty m cases of conviction for been reported killed in Sunday reports pro-uermau viuience. received here yesterday, Manner PEACE PROSPECTS GO GLIMMERIMG EAST FRONT Negotiations at Brest-Litoysk May Be Entirely Broken Off Soon TROTSKY SAYS GERMANS AIM ONLY AT CONQUEST Would Permanently Occupy All Territory Wrested From Russia By Joseph Shaplen (United Press Staff Correspondent) Petrograd, Jan. 23. Breaking off of all peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk was forecast in all the itolslieviki news paper organs today. Their unanimity would appear to indicato this prediction came from authoritative circles. . The Bolsheviki view is that tho only good accomplished by tho negotiations has been to unmask the real imperialis tice nature of the enemy demands. Ac cording to comment here, nothing more can possibly be expected from the dis cussions. Both tho Pravda and the Isvestie to day bitterly assailed German Foreign Minister Kuehlmann 's ' ' treacherous dual- policy." Official Bolshevikl reports today claimed victories over the Ukrainian Kaila troops at Poltava and the occupa tion of that city by the Koa Uuards. Un San Francisco, Jan. 23. Mrs. Laura Scoble, cashier in a theatre was uiur- tho south Ukrainian front further ad vances have been rigistered, Novogorod- dered early today in the hotel Alda, Eddy and Mason streets, by Theodore Johns, a waiter. Johns then slashed his own throat. He is dying at the central emergency hos pital. The crime waB committed in a most spectacular manner. That it had boon carefully planned for several days was shown by a death note Johns wroto last Saturday. In a "series of remarkable "death notes," John pictured the wom an as a vampire who for ten years had preyed upon him. Last night he took a room 'for the I night at the Alda. He brought with his The precautions of the authorities so j It ig assumed there wag minor patrol a razor and rovol'ver. far have been successful in preventing skirmishing developing along the sector any semmaujje ox uauoiugB. lin which the Americans are training. i Privfttft Ovid ITerrick. Franklin. N. Plot? Have Failed. ;v. who was announced as having died Mrs. Scoble, a divorcee with a child. met him in the room. She went to the bathroom to arrange her liair when Johns entered, a drawn It' 1. I IJ'J rnt, - . -. .. . . - 1 oi-ume, " "j or gunsriot wounds on tne zzna, is razor in ono han(1 a revoiver in the ters detailed to carry out a program of .thought, probably was wounded in the other. H8 slashed the woman's throat, destruction at this port, starting last action Sunda7. I As she rushed from the room scroam- Soveresk captured and progress made to ward Bachmach. The Ukrainians are re' treating. A decisive battle is expected shortly. The Bolsheviki have already ta ken Sarna, Achtirua and Troitsk. Out of reBpect to the memory of Fri day's victims of assassins whoie fun erals are today, the Bolsheviki govern ment postponed a scheduled demonstra tion at the Winter Palace and Smolny Institute. The Bolsheviki government has been informed that the genoral peace strike at Vienna ig due to the stand adopted (Continued on pnje three) German Leader Tired of U-Boat Warfare night, failed to start anything in faco of hundreds of soldiers and sailors who kept guard along miles of waterfront, carrying powerful search lights and manned by sharpshooters, nosed around on returning empty cars to mines. I ton s birthday falls on Friday, I obruary jtho cks piled high with oriental and Complete shutdown of steel slupbuiia-1 witn Saturday a nair nonaay ana jusgiall freight, and the numerous snip ing plants appears inevitable soon uu- Sunday and Monday workless days any- Larijai less the railroad relieves the shortaire in ! how. Urgent requests to industry and ' m chip plates, officials admit. business to close entirely on these four One thousand cars of plates, practic- !days would serve to give another breath frlly all of which have been in transit j ing spell at what is usually the bad since December 20 and before, are weather zenith in the east, stormbound. Trace of hundreds of tho Lincoln's birthday falls on Tuesday, cars has been lost by traffic men of February 12, and a four day suspension the , shipping board. Meanwhile, steel 'might be brought about then with less supplies iu the construction yards are 'annoyance than the recent one, it is diminishing rapidly. In nearly all or the 17 smpmuiding siiErsrested. Both of these dates are Doing consia- yards where steel ships are under con- ered as timely for launching another etruetion manv men are idle an a result 'general coal restriction order, of cold and lack of material. j The railroad administration is waiting The shipping program is far behind for an expression from the country. If ficlieauie and new ueiays in oiuainut , ine uemmm jb momicui, trtnujicrp mean ninre difficulties in keen ial McAdoo may take drastic steps lin ing up the stream of troops and supplies -mediately .to pull the railroad system to the war zone, it was explained. Should the plants be forced to stis- (Continued page two) TROD GOING OVER IflDF DABIMV L llnl liLI Seven deaths from natural causes iagi ghe brushed the telephone receiver also were reported by Fershing. from tJle book an(1 Bhoutd for help. They included: a second later the night clerk over Private Clarence M. Wilhelm, Grass tile telephone heard revolver reports; Valley, Cal. ! coming from tho room. He rushed to thai Private loms M. Weed, JNcopit, iWs.room and a8 ne rau alollg the hallway Private Thomas M. Coyne, Cleburne, Btumulcd over the body of Mrs. Scoble.! Three bullets had entered her back. In the room hotel employes found Johns kneeling beside the bed as if iu; prayer. Blood was streaming from a.i gash in his throat. Cue hand limply I clutched a razor while with the other i Texas. Private Berwood B. Dickenson, Good ing, Idaho. Private Edward Kazmirski, Beaver Dam, Wis. Another American soldier is a pri oner in Uernianv. Sergeant ram jfllweilion, engineers, -reported I" miss .,.!, o,.;,..,ii ....li;,,,. ii. o ,;.,ori I' THAN WAS EXPECTED ins" after aotirm of December 10, has . , , ,' been located by the Red Cross as a . , t,,,v,,' , i t i .i..i,, General Pershing cabled the ."" t"-""" Swcnson's .. , . uoBunuea on page iwoj 1. prisoner, I war department today. I home is in New York city, Amsterdam, Jan. 23. Count Von Revcntlow, tho ardent apostlo of frightfulness, recent ly stated at a lecture that a Gorman diplomatic repregenta- tivo to a neutral country had decilaredl that 'if negotiations could be begun with America tho German U-boat warfare might bo restricted or suspend- ed. Dispatches carrying this in- formation today contained com ment from the Nord Deutscho Allej?emeino Zeitung that "no facta to support this state- ment were known in official quarters.." ROOSEVELT HOW CEfiTRAL FIGURE AT VASJNGTOii Coming of the Man With the Big Stick Causes Demo crats to Rally ANYWAY TO WIN WAR IF ITS MY WAY TEDDY Gore, Hartwick, Reed and Other Anti-War Senators Backing Chamberlain By Ik C. Martin (United Press stafr correspondent) Washington, Jnn. 2TJ- Under th lash thut "without harmony tho war will be. lost, " democratic leaders aro whipping into- lino party legislators wavering on tho Chamberlain "war cabinet" bill. Today it appeared likely that th storm which h& broken between tho white house and congress on the meas ure may be tempered with compromise. The presence of Theodore Roosevelt on the battleground has done much to consolidate the democrats baek of President Wilson 's wishes on tho pend nig legislation. There was even talk of a get together meeting shortly be tween tho president and Chamberlain. Tho telling argument advanced by tho democrats is that a bill, as re pugnant as this one is to the adminis tration, would, if passed, hamper war efforts even though an efficient meus uro itself. Meantime, however, Chainboilain i prepared for a Teal fight. Backed by letters of soldiers' moth- erg and fathers aiicut camp conditions; armed with data on what was regard ed as misleading senate testimony of Secretary of War Baker, Chamberlain proposes to go aliead with his war rao inet bill and his compulsory training law. Popular support of these meas ures grew, despite the administration 's very strenuous eiforts to kill tticm. particularly the war cabinot bill. The fight will develop in earnest to morrow over reference of the war cabinet bill to committee. Senator (Continued on page, three) ! Fully Twice As Many Men will Be in France by Jane As First Planned GREAT BRITAIN SLOWER EQUIPPING OF HER ARMY THAN THE UNITED STATES By Carl D. Groat (United Press Staff Correspondent) Washington, Jan. 23. America is sending troops to Europe far more rapid ly than originally planned. It is now estimated, barring disaster, that fully twice as many soldiers will be training under Pershing by June than early estimates provided. This fact has been assured members of the senate by President Wilson as an example of the war department's tre- Asked how the difficulties had been iinendous work. Under the circumstances , ,. . jthe president holds, some mistakes were overcome, he replied: , inevitable, "but the same mistake has "By darned hard work." not h.en ma(je twice." Great Britain's trouble was like Am- j fair proportion of actual fighting erica 's. Her standing army, not much ! men is included in the contingents al ready gone, anu tnis govcnimcui nan m addition a goodly numoer The United Press recently asked its London office to findout exactly what had been Great Britain's -experience In the matter of supplying her troops im mediatelv aftsr the outbreak of the war. The idea was to find out for the ! lger than America 's, she was called on . B information of the American public! suddenly in 1S14 to equip an army Oiuf jjiy needed stevedors, engineers, whether that nation had encountered 'niillio-is. The army clothing department, if or(.sters, flyers and other non-fighting the same difficulties as America as to charge of four officers, employing j forces. uniforms, equipment and supplies which 1,500 men, had to grow. It is now in j At first war department officers felt have been aired at recent congressional charge of fiftv one officers, and em-1 that the United States ought not to send Investigations. The following is tne iirss ployg six thousand. ot two stones in repiy to inis query, Drilled Without Uniforms. j any troops abroad short of a year. Then the allien began pressure lor some ior There was no difficulty in providing 'rjsvcholoirical effect. This resulted in By Lowell Mellett !f0r the IsO.nuO regulars first to go and ; despatch of the Pershing expedition and (United Press Staff Correspondent) ! the famous first hundred thousand were ; the Rainbow division. London, Jan. 23. America can take 1 likewise well fixed. But of something! Conflicting requests as to men and consolation and incidentally lcrvrn many i like a million men in training camps ! supplies came from time to time but lessons in outfitting troops, in Great many had to drill for months in their j with the culmination of the inter-allipd Britain's experience. -ownciothes. conference, Colonel House recommended Asked by the United Piet-s today how j Uv December, 1914, the first uniforms that transport of men was perhaps the most ervins need Lack of bunker coal has been a deter rent factor, but this is now being over long it had taken the government to manufactured for the new army were catch up with the armyrs demand for delivered. They were of blue eloth. uniforms, the British general ia charge: Khaki had not been obtained. None of of that department answered: the men went to France in the bine; by COme and the transport service is ex- 'V.'e were on top of t'10 demand by 'the tim training was completed there rjected to improve considerably. Ji'ly, 19!'." Then ho added with a'were sufficient of the brown uniforms. The war department is congi jriifc:! ren.i-iis vnt smile: It was oa tp cf -us till then." j (ojij aSsd no panntjnoj; 'Continued on page three) r -'.:;w.rmc7:7TTsrw-7 " ' - i i - , 'tit'-., . - i ? f gi.'f"1rt(HlyirB'-itt,iimiiiiif r-- mnniMiriM - .w . e- . j. SUBMARINES RECALLED TO GERMAN BASES Ai LARGER DIVERS COMING New Type Will Be Heavily Armed U-Boat Cruisers Is Report " Paris, Jan. 23. Germany ig recall ing her submaineg to their bases pre paratory to adopting a new plan or campaign, according to reports reach ing hero today. One suggestion wa that the older submarines were to b replaced by new armored U-boat cruis ers, armed with largo guns. Two Steamers Sunk London, J(a,n. 23. Two steamera sunk in the Mediterranean about Do comber 31 caused a loss of 708 lives, Parliamentary Under Secretary Me Kamara announced today. The secretary to tho admiralty also (Continued on page three) Abe Martin , k0, ( r tiDiiZ COXGESTro FKK1GUT CARS AND THE MEM WHO WILL MOVE THfcM Scene of congestion in freight yards about Xew Vork city. Thousands if cars aro stalled, sidetracked and many of them have perishables stored rsrohRAILWAY HEADS WITH DIRECTOR GENERAL McADOO Left to right: Julius Krutts.hnitt, president s. ;irn9H- Hnwnrd r.llintt. nredidpnt of the New Vork. New Haven and Hartford considering 'road; William general counsel lialo holdea- I, tit. JL im&m ml Th' feller that's holding Ms own these davs is either a tightwad or pro- rn PaHfic railrord; Howird Elliott, president of the New Jfork. New Haven and Hartford rail- these days is either ' '' m O. McAdoo, secretary of the treasury and director general of tho railMds; John Barton Paf.ne ?, Tnt" fh market 1 Hi "ft' th' sel of the Emergency Fleet Corporation; Samuel Rea, president of the Pennsylnavia railroaad, and t' beat th market qnot.tions t ta president of the Chicago, Burlington and C;uincy railroad. Copyright Underwood Underwood farmer. 4