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FORTY-FIRST V
NO. 62
SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1918
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COAST MILL i J" ' ECIKiC MOTHER
READY fO SUPPlYf M
GAU FOR TIHBER MJ
Intimated It TO Ask Holding
Timhermen .Say: "Tell Us of Gains In East and
What You Want and Yea Abandoning West
Get It At Once" Washington, Mar. 13. A new German
peace move, dangerous and, as hitherto,
on German military made Verms, is ap
parently about to be foisted upon the
world, diplomatic authorities believed
today,
Bumora of it indicate that Germany
will suggest retention of the plunder in
the Near East while she gives up her
ambitions in the west. It probably will
get a stonier hearing than any proposal
to date, though indications are that' it
will be so framed as to stir up the pa
cifists, relegated to the background by
the aroused allied fis-htinw
and abroad.
As usual, it will be timed to follow a
German victory" and it will put forth
victor's terms, according to indications.
If authorities here read tha
aright it will make an appeal to that
group which believes Bussia should be
ieri to Her own late, Lloyd-George prac
tically washed his hands of any resnon
CAN SWAM? RAILROADS
WITH COAST TIMBER
Congress to Learn Some
. thing Material, Labor
and Money Abundant
KIEL . -
By L. C. Martin
(United Press Staf Correspondent1)
Washington, Mar. 13. Tho latest war
power asked by President Wilson auth-
, ority to control lumber and logging busi
ness is being withheld today while con
gress investigates to learn its need,
ine president want's authority to
commandeer standing timber, to desig
nate what timber shall be cut and of
what lengths, and then to say how it
siiau De saweu.
Logs and lumber are among the most
badly needed product's for America's
war program. Both the shipping and the
aviation programs have suffered from
Jack ot the right kind of lumber at the
right time and in the neht ulaee.
But congress, convinced by lumbermen
that the pending bill giving the presi
dent what he asks may be unnecesasry,
will give the lumber and logging inter
ests a Hearing, lieginmng today before
the senate military affairs committee.
The timbermen will tell the committee
that it is not necessary for the govern
ment to commandeer any timber.
"Let us in on the government policy
tell us whether the shipping board has
a concrete plan for the building of
wooden ships and we '11 guarantee to
get out' the lumber,'' is to be the kvy
mice 01 tne timoermen's plea. They
made the same plea before tho senate
comuierco committee, investigating the
mupjuug suuuuon.
According to witnesses, before that
committee, there is no lack of tlmoer, no
iacK 01 laoor, no lack of money to de
velop new tracts, but there is no infor
mation available as to how far the ship
ping board is going with its wooden
flipping program. Hence ' timbermen
won't spend money to extend roads
and railroad spurs into new tracts.
The arguments of the tagging and
lumber men were presented to the mili
tary affairs committee by 'Representa
tive Fordney, Michigan, himself a tim
ber man.
' ' This bill is a menace to the lumber
and logging industries", declared Ford
ney. "It is an organized labor proposi
tion, pure and simple. President Wilson
lias been working on it with the secre
tary of war, the secretary of labor and
Samuel Gompers ever since the war
broke out. The plan is to force the
lumber camps and sawmills to an eight
hour day.
"If the president is given power as
provided in this bill, to prescribe the
rules for operation of lodging camps
and saw mills, a great mistake will be
made. Why put the country's 4H.000
sawmills under one man when there
lire 48,000 competent' foremen running
them?
"There is not a logging or lumber
man in the country who has refused to
give the government the timber asked
for. Let t he government sav what it
wants and we 11 give it t'o them."
Some definite action was expected to
PEOPLE OF RUSSIA
GET MESSAGE FROM
AMERICAN LABOR
Samuel Gompers for Amer
ican Workmen Asks Kow
They Can Help
i Washington, Mar. 13. r-t America
working men have sent a message to
tne people of Kuasia urging once more
a strong resistance against
domination.
President Samuel: Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor today
announced lie had spoken by cablo to
Bussia for labor. .
Tho massage urges the Russian so
viet to say how America, can help; that
the great laibor hosts of this country
are willing to extend an assisting hand.
uompors' came roaus:
"To the all-Kussian soviet, Moscow:
"We address you in the name of
AMERICANS WILL MAKE AN
AGGRESSIVE WAR AND PUT
GERMANS ON DEFENSIVE
Will Strike Soon and Before
Germany Can Derive Bene
fits Fran the East
By Carl D. Groat
Washington, Mar. 13. Strong, verile
Teuton a'lid-American notion on the battle
lines, was iorecasi today in tne war de
partment's present program of heeding
the .t rench request ;for taster troop ship
ment. - : ; -
The thought that the foundation for
victory can bo, laid in 1918 lay back of
tho plan of hastening national army men
over ahead of national guard units and
of calling out ' as rapidly as possible
units of the 800,000 second draft.
That' the allies are now planning ag
gressive action instoad of waiting on the
MONROE DCCTRiHE AS
WORLD PLATFORM
Of ALL AMERICANS
Chilean Statesman Says It
Needs Two More Cardinal
Statements
this spring. But before long they can
be fed into various sectors relieving the
seasoned forces now on guard.
This process would form a needed
man-power reserve.
Military authorities . say that tne ba-
?i" 01 t0 S , , A 8 yBa ' !' Angeles, Cel., Mar. 13.-A Monroe
if the allies do not delay until Germany doctrino a8 tne world platform of all
.. . U1 i " " ; twenty-one republics of the western
. uu um...u .aam.-B. "um.y hemisphere instead of the United States
within a year and a half apparently will aiono, Was given expression here today
be well provided for as respects food for th firs? tim0 b D, Ale1andro Af.
Dy every Wow at Kussian freedom, as
thoy would be by 'a blow at their own.
Tho American people desire to bo. of
service to the Russian people in their
struggle to safeguard freedom and real
izo its opportunities. We desire to be
siDiiity tor Bussia when she first be- peak for a groat organized movement
gan toying With a German MM' and !y nrni-lrln.n. ,Jr..,l. whn nna Jnunlrifl tn
tho Borne newspaper of Baron Sonnino, ithe cause of-freedom and the ideals of
Italian foreign minister, saw in Lloyd- "democracy. Wa assure you also that the
George s speech the thought that Ger- whole American nation ardently desir
maiiy should be given a free hand with 19 to be helpful to Bussia and awaits
w ki ix jultoiv. v e u.auio YUU lUtXh tilt" J a ' M l
T,Bnl nf h TTi.nrt stxti, r iH German, is the indication from present
maneuvers.
America will have a greater part in
this probable action than it was pos
sible a year ago. "
AH" the drafted men sent across can
not be so rapidly seasoned as t'o make
them ready for a groat military action
and badly needed supplies which she can
draw from the Near East. A blow now
would find her far more vulnerable than
one delayed a few months or a year.
Major General March, chief of staff,
said today all tho speed humanly possi
ble will be injected into the troop ship
ments. The first of tho national army divis
ions will be on its way to France soon.
Upon arrival it will be sent' to a train
ing center back of the front where it
will receive advance instruction in the
latest methods of warfare.
It will go through practically the
same course that' has been given the
regulars and national guards abroad, un
der the eyes of French and British instructors.
Bussia if only she would mak certnin
concessions in the west. -
with eagerness an indication from Bus-
aia as to how help may most oft'octive-
We
stand united against autocracy!
awaiit your suggestions.
"American alliance for labor
democracy.
"SAMUEL GOMPEES,
"President."
and
The idea, however, will have snnnt ly be extendod. To all those who strive
support especially in the liirht nf Pm- (for freedom we sav courage and ius-
ident Wilson's pledge of United States , e must triumph if all free people
aiu to neip tree Busisa nf the Tnnt
yoke.
The especially dangerous element' in
any peace drive at this time, however,
lies in the fact that the next two ii-
three months will find the allies in com
mon with the central powers on short
ened rations and because of this a pa
cifist appeal may have a greater r-
sponse than otherwise. However, entente
diplomats say allied determination in
stifter than ever before and that the
war spirit is growing fast unon ti;
country. The picture of rtlundereH "Rus
sia, of game but helpless Bumania, of
Armenia bloodsoaked and pledged by
Germany to the Turk, of devastated
giuin and France are now defeating
peace proposals.
AEGENTINA NEXT.
Los Angeies, Cal., Mar. 13.
Argentina is on the brink of war
with Germany, in the opinion
of Julio H. Brandan, Chilean
consul at Buenos Aires, who is
here today.
"If Germany sinks another
Argentine ship thenc is no doubt
that the republic will declare
war against the central powers.
Ninety nine percent of the peo
plo are strongly pro-ally, Pres
ident Irigoyen is cordially hated
because of his vacillating and
seeming pro-German attitude."
Consul Brandan concluded
witli the statement that Amer
ican capital is desired in South
America and that German com
merce there is forever dead.
OREGON'S QUOTA
FOR MILITARY SERVICE
Marion County Is Called Upon
to Furnish Eighteen Men
at This Time
KILLED THE BEES
,Los Angeles, Cal., Mar. 13.
Caught without their gas masks
if the poor things have any
thousands of lioney bees on
tho Mercier apiary near here
were gassed and exterminated.
Carbon bisulphido was used,
presumably by some one bear
ing a personal grudge against
tho apiary owner. County offi
cers are investigating. Not a
beo lived out of 250 stands.
dc 5C s)c )c sjc 3jC fc 5$C 5C 5C
Portland, Or., Mar. 13. Oregon must
furnish 369 men for military service and
entrain for Camp Lewis, Wash., between
March 29 and April 2, as its share of
1 90,000 men to be called up throughout
the United States on those dates,
No county in the state is to be ex
cmpted from this draft call, according
to orders just received froh the War De
partment by the Adjutant General of
Oregon. The 3(59 men to be taken from
tho state on this call will be credited
later on the quota Oregon is called to
furnish in tho new draft, the date of
which is yet to be announced.
To fill tho present call, tho 369 n.cn
required will be inducted out of Claas
!l in the sequence of their order num
bers.. Here is the number of men each
'county will be required to furnish:
(Continued on page three)
USE OF ZEPPELINS BY
GERMANS INDICATES
(Continued on page six.)
Abe Martin
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FOOD CONSERVATION
MUST BE PRACTICED
OR WAR WILL BE LOST
Tha West Has Not Dane Its
Share, and Must Begin To
Do So at Once
A warning was sounded at the con
servation meeting at the commercial
tub this afternoon by Arthur M-
Churchill, chairman of the state con
servation committee. Mr. Churchill
earned the people of Salom and Ma
rion eountv that unless the food sun-
ply of tho nation ;s conserved, and
luxuries and extravagances given up,
calamity is apt to befall us, and mil
lions of people in the European coun
tries who are fighting, not only for
their own existence, but for cs, and
for the peace tind democracy of the
world, wili starve, or will have to bow
to the will of the Huu.
Mr- Churchill addressed a meeting
of the delegates selected by the county
conservation committee in the morn
ing, about a hundred being present at
this meeting. This afternoon at 1:30,
Miss Ava B. Milan, of the state agri
cultural college; addressed a meeting
of housewives, and another general
meeting of tho delegates was held at
- - Til f; Xfllm .r.,U tn tV, Mh
compelled, therefore, to go back to thc!flhool students this morning at 10
antiquated Zeppelins for the renewal of i nVlnck. nfl nnlr Mi
nis attacks upon non-comhatants in tho j Churchill's talk ai tha public meeting :
for efficiency in all mattors of slaught- Attend llUs evening
er wouM not permit him to use t!ie less Tno Tnw-tin? was called by &I
BPS ARE SCARE
!s Acknowledgment That Ilin
dsnkrg Is Hard Pressed
For Airplanes
By J. W. T. Mason
(Written for the United Press)
New York, Mar. 13. Germany's re
sumption of the use of Zeppelins for
raids on Great Britain is the first ac
knowledgement Von Hindenburg has
permitted of the constantly increasing
superiority of the allies in airplanes.
ine usefulness of Zeppelins as raid
ers has long been an exploded myth.
Their comparatively low speed and vul
nerability have made them more cost
ly to send on baby killing expeditions
than the value of the material damage
They have inflicted. Nevertheless, the
kaiser's maglamoniac belief that the
allies morale can be lowered bv air raids
has caused imperative orders that the
hombing of Great Britain continue
whatever the risk. Von Hindenbnrg has
not enough airpanes at his- disposal to
keep up the necessary aeronautical du
ties along the west r.ont and at the
same time, conduct air offensives
against Paris and London. He has been
Deeded His Property
to His Victim's Widow
' Kalama, Wash,, " Mar. . 13. William
Voight', junior, today awaits removal to
tho state penitentiary to begin a life
sentence following his plea of guilty to
the charge of murdering Earl Potruff
last November. Frankly stating that he
killed Potruff owing t'o infatuation for
his victim's wife, Voight recounted de
tails of tho killing as the.two men were
hunting, Voight using Potruff 's rifle to
make the death appear to bo accidental.
Somo time after the shooting and
before Voight 's arrest, he circulated a
petition collecting funds so Mrs. Potruff
could hold her homestead. Since he con
fessed to tho murder of her husband,
Voight has deeded all of his property
to Mrs. Potruff.
Billy Sunday Opens ,
His Sawdust Trail
vares, member of The Hague tribunal
and Chilean statesman and jurist.
As Secretary General of the American
Institute of International Law, Dr. AI
vares expects to enunciate the new Mon
roe doctrine at the termination of the
war.
"Tho old Monroe doctrine, which has
come to be known as a thing belonging
to the United States, embodies three
great principles," Dr. Alvares said.
' ' The first is ' acquire right of inde
pendence'. Tho second is 'non-occupation.'
The third is 'non-colonization, of
the western hemisphere' After the war
we shall need to hold a great world con
ference and add two more cardinal
points to the Monroe doctrine. They
will be 'American republics cannot give
any territorial rights to European pow
ers' and 'no European power can per
manently occupy any portion of tha
western hemisphere'."
THIS DISTRICT MUST
SEND TWELVE MEN
Chicago, Mar. 13. Billy Sunday's
sawdust trail is open today. The first
man to pass down the aisle and grasp ,
the evangelist 's hand was a gray-haired :
man in the uniform of a brigadier gon-!
eral; tne second one was a husky pri-
vate in the United States army. It was-
haUsnakin rlcju8t a taa This Must Be Done In the Fm
Billy had just finished another fiory
denunciation of the kaiserists, "born
of a cannon ball and nursed from a
brewery," when the uniformed meii
walked down to shake his hand.
' The devil is a has-been and a piker
compared with that gink," Billy ex
claimed, commenting on Emperor Wil
hulin. t -
fi THREE MMUTES
YANKEE GUiERS
HADE THEM QUIT
Three German Batteries Are
Silenced at Rate of One .
a Minute ;
AMERICAN ARTILLERY
IS DOING GREAT WORK
Four German Airships Are
Brought DownZeppelins
Used In Air Raid 1
i
WOEK OR GET OUT
Chicago, Mar. 13. Chicago may soon
have a "work or quit the city" ord
inance if a sub-committee's recommen
dation to be presented to the city coun
cil tonight is adopted
Days Beginning With
March 29
By Fred S. Ferguson
(United Press staff correspondent)
With the Amorienn Army in Frane
Mar. 13. The American artillery ia
making good in its daily ' exchanges
with the Gennans.
The Yankee gunners have been fast
picking up tho details of the present
war game and their work in connec
tion with recent raids proves they have
reacnea tna top notch emoiency.
Many thousand shells wore employ
ed in bonilbordment and barrage firea
on the Toul front this morning. It wa
twenty nunuitea before a single Germa
igun was able to get into action.
At 6:27 a. m., it was reported from
headquartors that throe enemy battor
iea had opened fire. Three minutes lat
er they had been silenced. The neutral
ization was so complete that the Am
eiiican infantry crossed No Man's.
Land without a casualty. They pene
trated 300 yards into the German line
iand returned to theiir own lines, all ia
13 minutes.
Similar conditions obtain in other
parts of tha Lorraine sector, where
iAinerican troops are fighting. It ia
now permissible to say this sector ia
east of Luneville. Baids wore made in
the region of Badonviller after twenty
ininutes artillery preparation. The Am-.
Sheriff W. I. Needhanv has recoived
instructions from Acting Adjutant Gen
eral Williams to draft 12 men into the
National army from Marion county dur-
ing the five day period starting March ericuns there mai another sortie this
29th. The entire state is to furnish over
300 men.
Following is the telegram recoived by
the sheriff:
"During the five-day period begin
ning March 2th, local boards will corn-
morning to aee if the German trouclieB
were still evacuated. No Ucrmana
wero found and the Americans return
ed without casualties.
German prisoners taken Saturday
said they did not know the Americana
Tho ordinance uinta tho entrninment for Cnmn T.nwia were in the lines there until thly 'par-
would be patterned after a Cincinnati of a number of men eoual to 5 per cent ticipated in a raid against our troops
law recently held valid by the Ohio su- 0f the first gross quota. Do not' con- I 'March 1, in which they were repulsed.
preme court. found the term first gross quota with
first net quota. -
1 ho number to
be furnished by
Their casualties woro l'orty dead anol
wounded.
Tho weather is now bright, warm
Chicago, Mar. 13. Chicago today has'vour board is 12. The exact number of 'aa(1 8I'rin like- Tho. m.u,d V 'Lry"lg ?P
total registered voting population of men called for must be delivered, and If t.rool,s10 in tne "-'gnest spi
808,942, Interest in the wet and dry no credits aro to be deducted at' this
election scneuuieu tor next month time. Only white men, and men physical
brought' 126,628 new registered names;
on tho books yesterday. 1
(Continued on page three)
Money talks an' often, like lf.ts o
people, it talks to blamed much. No
natter bow fast a rnovm' picture ma- ,Wrnrtivi. tv-ne of air mai-hine nnlel"liiirv-h;il tn tr-r l. t
!:in? revolves it don't seen t' hurry th' ' -- i 1
by
e serious-
i Wm iteil
' Y
its, following their successful raids-
Found Trenches Empty
With tho American Army in Franca,
Mar. 13. American raiders in the sec
tor north of Toul again entered tha
German trenches last night, at a dif
ferent spot than they raided yesterday.
(Continued on page two)
DEE-LUTED" SMS
COLONEL ROOSEVELT
News of His Son Being Decor
ated for Gallantry Ex
dies Theodore
New York. Mar. l.'l. "By Goorgot
I am immensely excited and delight
ed," shouted Colonel Koos.velt over
the telephone teday when informed by
the United Press of th.j decoration of
his son, Captain Archie lioosevelt, for
gallantry in action in Fiance.
"This is the first news of any kind
I have heard of Archie for a lonj?
time. We cabled three weeks aa;o of
tho arrival of a baby s in, but we have
not heard from him. Wo don't know
that he received our cable."
The, cable received by the United
Press was read to ono of tho Rrosovclt
household. A few n'iui'.tcs later the cpl
H i ..n,..i u t'. l T 1
phone.
"What is this I hear about my son,
Archie, being decorated with the war
cross f" he asked excitedly.
When the cable was read to him ha
shoirtod: "By Gecrge! that's fine. I
am immensely excited and delighted.
This is our first news of Archie."
The colonel was like an excited boy
who his just been given a ticket W
tho Circus.
"This is absolutely tho first news
wo have nan ot Arciue ana i want i
thank you. It's great. I thank you,''
ho cried.
.Tho colonel declared Archie "went
out" as a second lieutenant and in
December was promoted to a captain
cy by General Pershing for "good con
duit in trenches."
EXPECT FItOST TONIC-HT
kissers.
AND REMEMBER BELGIUM
San Francisco, Mar. 13. Warning of
killing front in interior valleys and
southern California tonight was sent out
today by tho weather bureau. The rain
storm of the past few days is uumplets-
ii
(Continued on page three) (Cinoed on page two)
lv broken.