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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1918)
V Six THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM. ORE. THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1918. COLONEL KILLER IS ARRANGING DETAILS FORWpBMAICH Fight Is Limited to 10 Rounds Shortest Championship Fight Ofl Record 7 IY W WANTS.YOU. R PRODUCE YOUR EGGS AT 30 CENTS PER DOZEN. YOUR BUTTER AT 35c PER POUND. YOUR CHICKENS AT FROM 20 TO 22 CENTS PER POUND. WE PAY CASH FOR YOUR PRODUCE We wish to handle all the produce that is brought us. Our motto is to buy all produce at the highest cash prices. MAKE THIS STORE HEADQUARTERS WHEN IN SALEM NOTICE We allow you 5 cents on the dollar when you take the goods with you, with the exception of sugar, flour, butter and eggs. MFA Rffl'SST oi of mm 270 N. Commercial A. W. SCHRUNK PHONE 721 Chit-ago, April 18. Colouel J. C. Mil lor, promoter of the Willard-Fulton match July 4, loft Chicago-early today to complete preliminary arrangement for the tend-round championship bat tie at St. Paul. Miller will set up head quarters at the Twin Cities tins week bt. raul sportsmen completed a fund lor erecting and stocking a 'circus arena yesterday. The fight, limited to ten rounns, will be one ,o'f the shortest championship atiairs on record. However, state nil will be waived to permit a referee de cision if there is no knockout. Smith To Be Beferee. Des Moines, Iowa, April 18. Ed Smith, Chicago sports writer and ref eree, was agreed on today to referee the .unite uiuuous-i-Hcuey mcruriuuu uoui here a week from tomorrow. 1 Gibbons and McFarland have not met in the ring since their bout at Brighton Beach in lsy. The, former is boxing in structor .at Camp' Dodge and the lat tor holds the same position at Camp Taylor, Louisville. Their bout will fea ture an, inter-camp glove tourney. 3E 3 GERMANY REALIZES HER CONDITION IS DESPERATE My Chance Is To Win at Once ad This Is Only a VaiaHope New York, April 18. THo war is now in n the- most critical period hitherto reached. Our enemy realizes that ulti mate defeat 1b inevitable unless he can win a great victory while Kussia is on lier back and America not yet in full force at the front. He also feels keen y the growing loss of man power and the decline of economic resources. His position is desperate; his difficulties in carrying on the war arc growing at a discouraging rate, and his strength has been declining more rapidly than tlmt of the allies. This is his last, chance. Ap parently it is a .grapple to the death. If lie can break through the allied lines, or divide the British nnd French, or enp turo Paris, ho could prolong but not win tl.o war. Can the allies withstand the present terrific onslaughts ngninst them; or will they be obliged to give way and make their stand behind pres ent lines? Tho best answer is the quiet confidence shown at allied headquarters in spite of recent reverses. Both Franee and Britain aro making vigorous renew ed efforts to carry on tho struggle. As ling as the allied lines bend and do not l.reak, all is safe. There is uo doubt where victory will ultimately stand; but our help is sorely needed, if only to nhorte.ii this terrible slaughter. The quicker tho great decision is reached the better for all the world; and for the fake of freedom, justice nnd humanity his country must speed up to a still higher, piteh its efforts for pushing the war. About Liberty Loan. To say that the Liberty Loan will be On overwhelming success is not suffi cient. We should bo able to say that it will be the greatest success on record, nnd doubtless it will be; provided the campaign is conducted with unremitting vigor. About $100,000,000 has already Ik'ou subscribed. Overconfidenee, how ever, is extremely dangerous; it is en ervating, and tends to slackness. Our patriotism, our love of justice and lib erty, our ideals of free government and our belief in the right of small nations to live, will all vanish like smoke un less we back them with Liberty bonds. No great ideals and uo great spiritual attainments can ever be secured until we are prepared in some form to pay tho price. The whole country, and es pecially our boys at the front who are battling, not only for these great ideals, but alHo for themselves and their homes, depend upon those at homo backing the loan. Crop Outlook Is Good. Spring opens with a generally favor able crop outlook. The position of win ter wheat is very encouraging, tho gov ernment report of April 1 showing a condition of 78.6 per cent, compnied with 03.4 per cent a year ago. This suggests rv crop of 000,000,000 bushels, against 418,000,000 bushels a year ago. Should tho spring wheat crop yield the same rate of increase, the food adminis tration expects a total wheat crop of about 850,000,000 bushels, or 200,000,00 bushels more than last year If these calculations are realized, the wants of our allies will be well provided for. Our rye crop promises nn increase of 2a,- 000,000 bushojs over a year ago. Lar ger crops ore also expected in Canada tlreat Britain and France, so that the food problem promises to he less acute in somo respects than in 1917. The Brit ish government announces a large in crease in the number of sheep; nnd the world supply of meat animals is decid edly larger than last year, as shown in a recent report issued by the department of agriculture. war Dominates All General business is more and more Jomitiatod by the requirements of war. This means a steady expansioi, of gov ernment control over industry from pur chaser to consumer. Tho war board has uist promulgated a preference list of Attsll Got Decision. ' pu. poses; am. u,u stngillg a comeback, had a deci the double purpose of securing materials Will Be A Sailor. . Chicago, April 18. Groyer Alevand will bo a sailor, not a world famous pitcher, if he joins the navy. That vas Commandant Moffett's announcement at Great Lakes today following tho re- ccpit of instructions from Washington If he joins here Grover will be pushed through preliminary training and hust led directly to sea. Got Their Money's Worth. Oakland, Cal., April 18. Oaklund fight fans today felt like they had their money's worth arter seeing the bout be tween Jimmy Duffy and Young Brown last night. Duffv floored Brown in the third and in the fourth Brown was rath er weary, but it was a hot fight all the way. Duffy got the decision. also to protect consumers as far as pos sible from such food and fuel crises as occurred last winter. The production of non-essentials is being persistently dis couraged". Shipping is coming under more rigid control, a bill having been introduced into congress giving the pre sident power to fix freight rates, char ters, dock charges, buying, terminals, etc. Tha coasting vesels have now been taken over by the government. There is also an agitation on foot in Washington for curtailing the. activities of the mid dleman, reducing ns far as possible the number of brokers and commission mer chants. Much discussion is going on re garding the price fixing of cotton fab rics and woolen goods, the production ion over Huilor Wilson today because Wilson's seconds got excited and jump ed into the ring nt the wrong time dur ing their bout last night. Attell was floored in the first and again in th second. Cubs Are Worried. St. Louis, Mo., April 18. Bad weather and that lost opening game worried the Cubs today only little more than the Germans. Because of the latter the Chicagoans are apt to lose Harry Weaver, pitcher, who passed his draft examination yesterday, the din "ar my" includes Alexander, Killifer. Weaver, Elliott and Kilduff. Tyler or Vaughn was to pitch against Biil Doak today. of which is already very largely under government control and is dailv becom-. ing more so. Along with the agitation B,u.c is expected owing to the long per to fix the puce of cotton goods is re-,i(Ki given for its payment, and the newed talk of fixing the price of cot- fa(.t that a large share of subscriptions ton, the most important staple which i,as already been provided by institu- thus far has escaped government con- tions and wealthy buyers, who took on trol. Increased governmental activity, large amounts of treasury notes which in managing railroads is also seen in re- later on will be turned in as payment cent imrcha.se of 100,000 freight cars for bonds. The various issues have been and 15,000 locomotives, tho cost of actively dealt in during the week, the which will approximate $500,000,000. Ke- 31, per cent, first loan being especially cent railroad reports have been very strong owing to the tax exemption priv- discourngiug and dividends on certain ileges, which make them a favorite with roads nre more' or less uncertain. It is large holders of securities. Until the war remembered, however, that these reports assumes a more definite phase all finnii- cover the worst period of the railroad cial operations should be conducted on crisis ami bad weather, and that the re- conservative lines. HENRY CLEWS. sources of the government will unques tionably be utilized to tide the compan ies over their temporary crisis. Mean- : while embargoes have been removed. '' and most of the transportation lines are now enjoying a large traffic at better rates. A survey of the business situaion said the French, were coming up leaves one very distinct impression, viz idly and in great force FRENCH HELP MAY (Continued from page one) rap- to aid the that government sway over business has hard pressed Britishers. It is assumed not yet reached its limit and is not like- here ithat Foch is playing a game that ly to stop until the control has been Will not permit the situation to get made much more complete. out of hand. Financa) Steady. .The Flanders battle is admittedly ... . , .. . . , , , i'li an unpleasant stage for the Brit Jinanc.nl sentiment is remarkably w but for ar? thflr. steady. The great German dnve seems 0111?hh. tht. thn (! win spirit of resistance j(t fc-,.ieve his ohie,t o im-kine Success, thrniurl, tha Ttritiuh umtr r nf nlmilrh- ing through to the channel port to have roused a spirit of and a confidence in ultimate Hint is plainly reflected in security values, which yielded but slightly to un favorable news. For the time being, at tention is centered mainly upon the Lib erty Loan, and ordinary market activ- industries essential to war, which will ity is correspondingly restrained. Upou bo the first to be supplied with fuel and the money market the loan has had raw materials. This step is taken with relatively slight effect, and uo disturb The bloody fighting for Meteren and Wytseheate, the British retire ment near Ypres and tho German claim of capture of I'celiapel'e and Lange niarek nil formed a situation which may compel further British retirement. The German apparently wishes to reach - ft 1 Si L v23ZJra?!3l it.-,...,,-., - 1 1. ,..-, -.-....a;.- -ft-":- fat-ttiea-r nM 1 ,m mi 1 j Liberty Bonds are the real weapons for Sfltkory We have made a start on the long hard road to Victory Our men are fighting at the front in France. Our American industries have accomplished prodigious results in building up a war machine to fur nish munitions and supplies. But we have only begun. " We must do more and more. This is not a war of armies but of nations in which every citizen must do his part. Every worker in our industries is truly fighting in this war. Every man, woman and child who gives Buy Liberty "B of substance and savings is adding to the national power, x The foundation of ail our vast war - making machine is the Liberty Loan. Money is needed to build more and more ships; to furnish food and guns and powder and trans port and airplanes; to raise and equip new armies. We must oversubscribe this Third Liberty Loan and do it quickly. We must show the courage that is in us. We must show a cheerful will ingness to make sacrifices for our boys in the trenches. onds Mow United States Tires are Good Tires hlTg?" 4 Cassel and his strcikea have aided him materially. . However, the arrival of tho .trench may cheat nun of the strategic aa vantago thus far gained, and it is deemed quite likely the next few days will see ithe tide turning against him. BEITISH TIGHT DESPERATELY 4y William Philip Simms (United Press staff correspondent) With the British Armies in France, April g Von Quast's freshly arrived guns were pounding the villages in the areas back of ,the British lines today. Throughout last night tho region along the Labaasee canal was bombard ed with gas shells. Morth of the Lys, the British communications are con- tautly under indirect machine gun fire. Ypres is being shelled intermittcnt . The British guns are keeping up a harassing and intense fire. un the north flank of .the Lvs bat tle field yesterday there . was a cease less struggle. British, fire from the clus ter of Jails eciuthwest of Ypres raked seven German assaults in the evening besides Von Armin's attempt to ad vance into the portion of the Ypres sal ient which Haig evacuated. Here Brit ish artillery smashed the troops of Generals Marshall and Zudohna, which were caught in the old shell torn bat tle field. Trench Scattered Them Paris, April 18. "A strong enemj attack in the region of Corbeny (on the Cheanin-des-Damea sector) follow ing heavy artillery preparation, was caught under our fire and dispersed,'' the French war office .announced to day- "East of Caurieres wood toward Damloup (east of Verdun) an enemy surprise attack was repulsed and pris1 (mors taken. "We conducted a successful raid northwest ttf Eheims and took a num be rof prisoners-" STARTING TODAY CECIL B. DE MILLE'S BIG MASSIVE PRODUCTION SHOW DOUBLE The WHISPERING CHORUS" ALSO BEN CIIAPIN IN HIS LAST PICTURE "UNDER THE STARS" BY JEANNE McPHERSON THE BIGGEST PICTURE SHOWN IN SALEM FOR SOME TIME HEARST-PATHE WEEKLY , THE LATEST Jl foe ME GON go Dahlias, Snapdragons Sweet Peas and other flowers will bring added cheer and sun shine into your home. They help to brighten up the house these war-days. If your garden is but a window box what of it? You can get Morse's seeds to flower there. In a world's competition Morse's flowers were Judged the best Old -time favorites or new novemes get tnem rrom your dealer or direct from us. Our 191$ Garden Guide tells all about Morse's flowers when to plant them and how to prepare your ground. Write for your copy today. It's free. C. C MORSE & CO. 729 Front Street San Francuce Kiatm'i SfJ ( italm eotrywhtn TO aiPJflilON (Continued from page one) , ' 1 1 Y-; tat ( dtaltn eotryuihm f y U handled by water will be diverted to the canal. Plans Are Drastic. Chicago, April 18. Passenger " traf fic schedules on every railroad west of the Mississippi have been- carefully studied for the last three months by a committee appointed to work out the details of Director General McAdoo's' order to place the lines on a war basis. It became known here today that the plans of the director general were even more drastic than anticipated by the committee and that first reiport snh mitted to Washington was turned down because it did not "go far enough." Further chopping was or dered ind the committee, headed by P. S. Eustis, passenger traffic manager of the Burlington, is still meeting here daily. The body in charge of working out the details is composed of passenger traffic cjperts of every western rail road. Members admit that trains will be cancelled in every case where they are not absolutely necessary. The schedules are being cut right and left and the second report will be made to .Washington some time next week. ietails as to just what roads will be affected most will not be given out un til after the Chicago. committee. has re ported finally to Washington. B. H. Aishton western regional di rector, left here this morning1 for Wash ington. Attaches of his office refused to say whether or not he had been called into conference on the proposed passenger cut. Although elimination of many pas senger trains is included in the plans, the traveling public will not be ser icisly inconvenienced, according to J. G Woodworth, assistant regional di rector. The new plan simply means th cancellation of trains in service un der the old competitive plan of tha pristely owned roads. 'Under the old plan," said Mr. Woodworth, "there would be four or five trains on different roads leaving at about the same time. Now we will spread them out more. In the long run it will no doubt mean better pas senger service. It will mean less cost for operation, too, which is the funda mental idea in making the change."