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i) WINTER 'SNTi un:TurD Yen I Oregon: Tonight anil Thursday showers west, fair east portion; mod erate south wcst erlv winds. FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 115 .SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY. 15, 1918 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TBAINS AK1 4,500 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 READERS) DAILY Only Circulation In Salem Guar anteed by tUe Audit Bureau of Circulationa FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAX WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS SEEVICE .hi tillim WILSON RESENTS SENATOR'S PLAN TO STIRTROUBLE Says Chamberlain Resolution Is Direct Reflection 0a President ASKS ALL DEFENDERS OF NATION TO OPPOSE Attempt of Oregon Senator to Embarrass, Chief Execu tive Is Crave Menace Washington, May 15. President Wilson today issued a challenge for expression of confidence from con gress. In a letter to Senator Martin, dem ocratic floor leader, he assailed the I'Uambprlain resolution cwlling for the creation of a (powerful investigating fOinimittee amounting virtually to a "committer ca the conduct of the war. ' 1 - "The purpese which it unslonibtedly expresses, wrote the president, "lias leen expressed agaia and again dur ing the present session and has always reined to originate In a rooted dis trust of those in charge of the execu tive functions of the government-" The president declared a vote to fav w the resolution would discredit him, ndlcaMeid upon those keek of the ad ininiatration iu its war work to defeat (Continued on page six) INTO SERVICE FOR CENTR ALE M P I R E S rts Are Being Made to . Make Russia a Mere Province of Germany By Carl D. Groat (United Press staff correspondent) ( Washington, May lS.-r-Gerniany is "seeking to augment her armies by eon wrirfting Eussiaus of the borderlands, fclie is striving; to make the rich Rus sian territory purely anil simply a Ger man province. These stafciments repre sent official opinion licre today, back ed 'by official information. Both programs are In line with the Teuton plan of ending the war this year. By getbing fresh men for the ewmy, Geniuany hopes to. make a mili tary decision possible, but, if she. can not get the borderlands to yield up the desired cnuhon fodder, she seeks at least to dominate- Russia utterly, so that shes ican later 'go before the world itfith the insidious i lea "we will give ' up the west if wp can hold what we have in the east." Both theso plans represent o. very Marions menace which the allies must nousider, authorities say. One said toiliay the wetcrn military rutuation, plus this tangled Russian problem, meant that England and Prance .must drain their man power mulch farther while the United States proceeds to throw in a greater force than we have thus far contemplated. Moscow is threatened. The boche has overrun Ukraine, violating the Brest Litovsk .policy indiscriminately. Ger many is mokinir demanldg that she be permitted a free hand in the present Cusaian capital- The boche is seeking tr ':rip away the last of tno Russian army, so he can mould the men into German soldiers or German war work ers. He has already put the Russian Tinricfi out- -of 'business. Hb i syste matically stamping terror into Ru.'sian hearts by his Belgian-like atrocities in Finland "and Russia pnvper. United States Steel To Erect Bis Plant for die Government Washington, May 15. The war de partment announcql today that the mammoth 'United . Stateg Steel Corpo ration ordnance plant will bo located lit. Neville Istond- ia. the Ohio river near Pittsburff. The east' of the tlant will be about $00,000,000 and -construction will be Btiarted aoon.-It will be the permanent property of tha American government. The; ateel corporation -will perform tiii, task of feuiilinir and operating due , -ita knowledge of the metal indus- ;,i.i ..j. 4. w nrrrfir. will be a ?heek.fcw one dollar, which, th SavwuToent i required to give, cannot accept services free. as it POSTAL BIPLANE .S. Army Aviator Flies From Philadelphia to Washing ton Today MANY LUrERS ARE DELIVERJO PRESIDENT Another Planbrries Heavy Mail Cargo K York to Riiladea Washington, May 15. Carrying c heavy load of mni, an army biplane ar rived here this afternoon from Philadel phia, completing the first aeropostal de livery. Many letters and packages for rrejiaeiit Vinson were Included in its cargo. Among them was a letter from the Aero Club of America, newspapers, box of flowers and a book. Marino, Bocabifo, aged 14, delivered the mai to the White House. Lands at Belmont Park. New York, May 15. Carrying mail from Philadelphia to New York, an army biplane, piloted by Lieutenant raid Culver landed at Belmont Park, Lung Island this afternoon. The machine arrived at 3:37 and the mail cargo was on the train for New lork three minutes later. The mail carried by Lieutenant Boyle is being brought back to Washington and if another machine can be secured it will be sent at onae on its way. Other wise it will go by special courier, the postoffic.e department announced. The machine at Philadelphia will not wait, giid will go on with its load. The New York Machine' is expected to ar rive in Washington soon. The nlaiv carrying 182 pieces of mail for Philadeluliia and 480 pieces for Washington, weighing in all 144 pounds, (Continued on page three) P. HERO OE MERR I MAC QN AMERICA AT WAR Advocates a Greater Navy, and Is For National Prohibition Eiclnnoud P. Hobson, who will speak Thursday evening at the armory on "America at War." has for the past i) y. ars beeu a national character, tust as tlie hero of the Merrimae and later as the chief advocate of prohibition iu the house of representatives. During all these 20 years, he has been an ndvocate of not only a navy ?.'cond to none, but one that would in sure this coiuitrv from invasion and one that could enforce the Monroe docfrine. His contention is that if we do not wish RICHMOND P. HOBSOX. to become the greatest military nation in the world, we must maintain the big gest navy to stand between our shows and the world's great armies. Mr. Hobson was born in 1870 in Ala bama and was graduated from the naval . hool at AnnaDolis when 19 years old. He- taea couunueo. ma biuuh- .France. At the time of the Spanish American War his rank wa that of lieufrmant (Continued on page three) CARRIESU TO WHITE HOUSE GlIIANS trying to GAIN A FOOTHOLD IN TAHPICOOIL REGION Some of Armed Forces There Germans Lansin? Minim izes Danger Washington, May 15. Germans re cently endeavored to gain a foothold in the Tampico oil region by purchas U1K "erne. Some of the armcl forces in that re gion are known to be Germans. lurap two significant tacts ape kuotwn today to have come to tho at lenTiou or tUe American novemment The first is important because it is a direct effort by Germany to stir no trouble in the region from which comes large oil supplies for American and British use- The Teuton attempts, it ws indi cated.have been thwarted. At any rate the administration 'maintains .Ma posi tion of friendliness for General Car rauza and its fee'jng that Mexico should be permitted to work out it own destiny. The recent assassination of the Mex ican general, Nafarette,; threatened for a time to complicate the Tampico situation. He has been sufficiently powerful to keep the district compos ed and the oil coming out. This production is possible through payment of high taxes on all output. Great Britain and the United States have ibeen contented with the taxes becaue they helped Mexico gt on her feet while at the same time they made possible the attaining of vital fuel sup plies. Secretary Lansing appeared today before the .senate foreign relations committee to discuss the Mexican prob lem, particularly as it relates to the Tanvpico situation. Members had been perturbed Iby local press repoits as to the situa'ion. Lansing in the main min imized the stories. Government Takes Over All Platinum Washington,- May 15. Platinum has beea commandeered for war purposes, the war industries board announced to day, Supplies iu the hands of jewelers, manufacturers, wholesalers and import ers and platinum received by them up to June 30, must be sold to the govern ment at $105 a troy ounce. Irridium is( also requisitioned at $175 an ounce, pal-; ladium at $135 an ounce. Jewelers way withhold 25 per cent of their platinum supply on condition they waive ajl claims to additional compen sation from the government. Manufac tured articles containing platinum may be held by dealers on the same condi tions. Commandeering ljecam.3 effective May 1. Limited supplies made in the United States and the increasing demand for this metal for war work made the com mandeering necessary, officials .declar ed. Russian platinum upon which Amer ica depended, is now availablo to Ger many. SMALLER CITIES TO Work Being Sent to Central States -May Come West Later Washington, May 15. The small city is going to do its bit of war work. Munitions and supplies, now manufac tured almost entirely in the great man ufacturing centers, will hereafter begin to pour out of factories in the smaller manufacturing citks. Forced by conges tion in eai-teni states, officials are at tempting to push government work east ward. They have already refused to per mit r.pw factories to be built in Penn sylvania. Agents are scouting through the mid dle west for available plants to take new war contracts. A survey of power and equipment in the middle west and the south is being made for u? of the war industries board in alloting orders, Because of congestion, no more con tracts and new construction will be per mitted in the district east of the Al leghenies aud north of the Potomac for tlie present. Power shortage is holding up work in some eastern sections. Phil adelphia is sixty thousand to ninety thousand kilowatts short of electric- power now. Buffalo is trying to provide more power from Niagara Falls. Hundreds of small factories are idle in the middle west, due to audita de crease in civilian needs. They have been unable to get contracts because rep resentatives f larger eastern industries tot on the ground first and took orders wholesale witnoui regard io amiuj n; execute. But agents of the government! are now seeking oat plants "which could do war werk with alight changes in equipment and are rcomMeadin tliat (Ooatianed oa pag5 twp TROOPS ON MARCH TO BAM FRONT II NEW EPOCH Correspondent Describes the Scece As American Armies Advanced NO BANDS PLAYED AND ffO FLAGS WAVED Only Long Lines of Determ bed Men Swinging in Grim Lines to Front By Fred S. Ferguson (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the American Army in The Field, April . 17. (By Mail. The march of marches, insofar as America is concerned, was under way today. There hawe beeu other marches in France aud there wiH be more. But to day the first Americans to throw their weight into the line ef battle where the fate of free nations is at stake, w.?rc tramping over the winding roads of Pi eardy. : The march began at daybreak. There were no bands. There were no brilliant uuiformd men, or, flying flags. There wer,' no wives or sweethearts to wave good-bye. As the men swung away toward the batte linefo the music of their own songs they w'eig puttiug their hands to the turning of a itt-w page in American history. A movie camera filmed them Ivre and there on the road. But French peasants and laughing children, who J turned from their play to wave them good-bye, were the principal witnesses. This was the mateS from the mobil ization area in Picardy into the lino of battle. After the journey from Lorraine bv train and on feotj there was a per iod of rest for the soldiers in the vil lages. They drilled now and then, but for the most part straightened up .equip ment-Hind played. They made friends among the villagers,' picked up new French words from the children and staged a crap game or a poker sossion. After more than a month in th.o trenches (Continued on page three) Wants ParKamejits for All Three Countries London, May 15- G. M. Barnes' speech Sunday) advocating parliamenits for Ireland, Scotland and England, modeled on America's state legislature is viewed in some quarters today as a government 'Mdto" to test public opinion. The eaVinct is divided but is tending to the view that the only chance to win Ulster is "federal scheme," tho Daily News said. The Express sai,d U understands Barnes' idea was also that of most the cabinet members, including Pre mier Lloyd-George. Barnes is a member of the war cabi net, without portfolio, representing British labor. He succeeded Arthur Henderson. Abe Martin Politics makes strange good fellers. Mr. Lemmie Pters, who graduated with such signal honors several June's ago, ! arose at tfc' usual Hour tnis mornin, an' partook of a light breakfast. Ho chatted in a light rein with members of his household aa' appeared t' be more hopeful that th' war would aoea eci than he has beea at wf tim since he woz eescrjfte'3. IF GERMANY NOW CONTROLS AUSTRO-HUNGARI AN EMPIRE Emperor Karl Forced to Call Upon Kaiser to Sustain Han In Power By J. W. T. Mason (United Press War Expert) New York, May 15. Internal condi tions in Austria-Hungary have become so critical that the governmnt of the Hapsburas empire has been compelled to subordinate ituflf to Germiiu control in what is apparently a final effort to prevent the breaking up of the dual monarchy. The visit of Emperor Karl to the kai ser's field headquarters and announce ment that new treaties are being drawn up between Austria-Huugaiy and Ger many, mean that K"rl and the ruling casU at Vienna are auandomng (he sov ereign rights of their country because i Lev cannot control tht domestic situa tion. 1 Hcriaftef the German government will dictate Austro-Huugurv 's policies as long as the method of suzerain rule keeps the Austro-Hungarians from re volt. The food situatina in the dual monar chy, as well as the attitude of Vienna toward the German peace in the east will be under management of the Ber lin militarists; and for the. time being Kmpeior Karl must be regarded as lit tifi more than m viceroy. This sacrifice made by the Hapsburgs. the proudest liiliug house in Europe, can have been accepted only as a last dsperate ex pedient to save itself perhaps even from the fate of the Bomanoffs. The change of front is all live more humil iating iu llapsburg pietcnsions because Karl hud pcviously tried to make him self independent of the kaiser's influ ence. It is improbable that German control of Austro-Hungaiy will be exercised, so as to compel Austro-Hungnrian for ces to fight along the west front, ex cept perhaps as a final gamble with fate. The Geriiieus realize that they now control Auatro-Hungarian policies only because 'of the dangerous ferment proceedinir -among. the antagrfnistic ole ments in Kail 's two kingdoms. The growing hatred of the Germans is one of the most serious problems Germany must face in Austria-Hungary, , Any slaughter of Austro-Hungarian troops for Pcrman purposes in Picardy and Flanders might be the final blow needed to causo a revolutionary out break. If German ruthlessness is used to restoro order in Austria-Hungary, Russia's example of Begnant anarchy may bo followed by the llapsburg do mains, KEHOE FOUND A BUG. San Francisco, May 15. Mrs. Esther Kejioc. had to pay her husband $425 ali mony today, besides giving him pos session of a peculiar species of bug which Kehoe had discovered. Mrs. Ke hoc said bIio earned $200 a month and saved $2,200 while Kehoe was trying to invent a way to win the war and studying the liiHtory of the bug he had found. , vast wmmi Seattle Firms Awarded Ship Contract Orders for Car Lumber Received Seattle, Wash., May 15 (,'ontracls for steel ships worth $100,000,000 have been let to the Skinner & Eddy corpo ration of this city by the United Btates shipping boar.d, according to announce ment made. hei today. This gigantic order is declared to smash all previ ous Pacific coast shipping contracts. The merged plants of the Skinner 4: Eddy corporation and the Seattle Con struction & Drydock company will handle tho. contracts. Details of the number of ships and tht- size of them were not announced. Oregon Oets Big Fir Order Portland, Or., May 15. Through the efforts of a ccnimittee of car experts sent to Washington by the West Coast Lumbermen 'a, association, orders for 52,000,000 foot of Douglas fir lumber have been allotted to the mills of (1re gon and Washington by the govern ment purchasing board. Approximately 50,000,000 feet of fir will be used in freight car construc tion and 2,000,000 fret goes to the British admiralty. Thfl orders were placed with the "fir production boards of Portland and Seattle. H. B. Van Duzer, director of fir production for Oregon, received advices from Wash inirton. D. C. Monday afternoon indi cating that one third of the order will , r ... r : M .1 i I be placed with Oregon mills and two thirds in the state of Washington The car order represent the entire lumber requirement tor a complete unit of 15,000 cars and calls for approxi mately eOjOOO.000 feet of 2 by 8 tfm- (Ooottnued pit paja three) President Asks Hughes to Investigate Aircraft; Former Rival Accepts Washington, May 15. Pres ident Wilson today -called upon Former Justice Charles E Hughes fca act as a co-itfvesti-gator in tho probe of Gutzon Borglum'g charges against the aircraft production beard. Hughes aocopted tho call. Total Death Roll. of American Army Washington, May 1j Today's casualty list brings thp total to 5,788, according to figures to the war department, divided as follows: Killed in action, 715. Died of wounds, 175. Died of disease, 1,044. Died of accidents, 237 Died from other causes, 63. Severely wounded, 492. Slightly wounded, 2,800. Unclassified, 8. Missing in action, and prison- ers, 254. Total, 0,788. :c Submarines Are Being Gradually Beaten London, May 15. "On the whole, the general trend of the warfare against the submarines has progressed quite satisfactor- ily since January 1,"' Dr. Mac- Namara, financial secretary of the admiralty, announced in the house of commons this after- noon. MacNainara said that 172 steamers were unsuccessfully attacked by German submarines between January 11 and April 30. . . "News from neutral countries and the increased bousffuinesv r and disclaimers of our enemies are proof of recent successes'. against tba submarines." Mac- Nanwira said. LARGEST CASUALTY LIST VET REPORTED IS RECEIVED TODAY Cadet Stuart Freeman, of Portland, One of 19 Dead ---39 Washington, May 15. Today's cas ualty list is one of the longest yet re ported by General Pershing, containing a total of 120 sames. Thirty nin,e men ure New England soldiers missing in action. The other casualties are: three killed in ac tion; three dead from wounds five from disease; one from acicdent; seven from other causes; six. wounded severely aud forty e'ght wounded slignt ly and eight wounded iu action. ' The separate list pf "eight wounded in action" as apart from the other wounded, it was explained, was duo to the fact that no information has lven received as to the severity of the wounds of these eight. When this information has been re ceived the meu will be properly clas sified it was stated. Anion? tlun missinir in action are Cap tain George C. Freclnnd, Westville, Conn, and Lieutenant James F. Craw ford, Warsaw, N. Y The list: Killed in action: j Corporal Patrick Farrdl, Edgewatcr, N. J. Privates Hurry J. Clarke, Stronifjiurht, III. Joseph Dilley, Tliomsoiwille, Mich. Died from wounds: Privates Thomas W. Cole, Bpringvale, Maine. Charles Conklin, Grand Haven, Mich. James Cromie, Brookline, Mass, Died of disease: Corporal Robert Carroll Mailer, Dick inson,1 T.'xas. Privates John Duhig, New York. Stanford M. Grant, Brooklyn, N. Y. Chester M. Maciejewski, Berlin, Wis. Patrick L .Moriahan, New York. -Died of accident: Oadet Stuart Freeman, 341 Twelfth street, Portland, Oregon; Died from other causes: - Corporals Will?tt Brightman, Mont gomery, Ala. , Harry J. Lewis, Buekfield, Maine. Privates Walter H.- Young, Lynn, Mas. ' Kenenth Klein, Fort Kont, Me. "" Alfred Goodwin, South Hiram, Ms. (Continued oi paj' tares). GERMANS MASS FOR LAST GREAT WAR OFFENSIVE Every Man and Every Gsa Empire Can Muster Called Into Action Class 1919 Being Heavily PRISONERS SAY LOSSES HAVE BEEN VERY HEAVY Drafted In Order to Fill Gaps Made by Ales . 'By William Philip Simms (United Press staff correspondent) With tho British Armies in Franee, May 14. There ia littlo doubt that Germany has embarked on her last great adventure, in whioh every man, boy, hjorac and machine will be used in a desperate endeavor to gain a favor alblo decision during the present fighl- The German drafts are refittmg di visions which are aibout half composed of returned wounfled and wwruits. The latter include acme 'boys of 18 years. Few if any youths of tuts age were in the line at tho beginning of toe of fensive, when Hindomburg depended largely on the class of 1918 which foiujht with great impetuousity bnt lacked the stamina to win a victory A caiiturcd non-commissioned offi cer of the Sixty Second infantry de clares that regiment lost fifty per cenl (Continued on page six.) CONGRESS WIILKEET IN KOVEHBER IF TAX BILL IS NOT PASSED House Leaders Must Arrange for This To Get Off for Election By L. O. Martin, (United Press Btaff Correspondent.) Washington, May 14. Congress and American business men today eagerly awaited the result of a conference be tween Secretary of the Troasury Mf Aduo, Senator Simmons and Kcpre sentative Kitchiu to determine wheth er congress must pass a new war tax bill this session. To iconxress this1 weans a session lasting unit.il Utto in t'he fall an ex tremely distasteful prospect, in vinw of tho congressional election iu No vember. To business it means, according to thousands of letters and te-lcgrama touring on congress anil the treasury, suspense- end uncertainty. McAdoo in to tell Simmons and Kitchiu the government must at onco provide meams for raising muich larger revenues. It is therefore considered unlikely that Simmons and Kitihin will con vince McAdoo to defer the tax bill un til the December short session. If they do, it proibiiibly will bo with the un derstanding that, congress will mee in November instead of Iecmber and t onco take up the tax measure. While this important confercn-'e is going ore today, a showdown is to come iu tho senate on the aircraft investi- Senator Thompson expects tu report the Chamberlain resolution au thorizing the military aftairs com mittee to investigate aircraft produc tion and o her phases of. tho war de partment work. If ho does not reportj it, Chamberlain and Senator Hitchcock II csill it up and oWuand its passage. . Way were a'so cleared todny for launching soparaue invistigaiion in to tho $840,000,000 aircraft expendi tures. The house military comimttoo today had a letter from fecreta-ry ci nar (taker replying to charges ajrainst tna liberty motor. The text or we icuer was not made public, but it is known Baker denied tho hoerty Trvmor was only a variation of toe rac-sara jnoior revealing that many features werej adaptations of the Gorman Mercede motor. Germans Lie About Blocking of Canal '; BeiKn, via London, M J9. Ex amination of the British emser Vin dictive, which wart sunk at the n- true to Oetend harbor, how that ho did not contain ewarn'-, Oa Ger man' admiralty anJveud. ... ' "Oonaaa taafSra snk ' Vidiat- Ire,'' tht tatmlt S4