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SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1918
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 .. , .
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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
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! 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)
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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
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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-
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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.
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