Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, June 04, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTODAY0 WEATHER 4,500 SUBSCRIBERS (22,000 HEADERS) DAILY Culy Circulation in Salem Guar anteed by th Audit Bureas. el Circulations FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAC LEY NEWS SEE VICE like Swum Oregon: Tonight and Wednesday fair; gentle var iable nindi. . in FORTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 131 SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1918 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AKD ASWf STANDS rtV rtm ( I AMERICAN SUGBIOW DRIVE GERMANS BACK n?r Attack Force Which H( grossed Marne River Forcing Them Back and Takitae Hundred PrisonersGer mans Are Held All A Line. Makin No Material 1 Progress at Any PfS -British In Flanders Repulse Small Raids and Make i Slight Gains Paris, June 4. American troops have struck their first blow in the new battle of the Marne. Fighting side by sjde with the French, they hurled back a German force which reached the southern bank of the river the first time the Marne has been crossed by the enemy since early in the war. , "In heavy fighting south of the Ourcq, the Germans, with the help of heavy artillery concentrations, carried .Mosloy, Neuilly-flja-Porterie. In violent fighting these villages were taken and re-taken." .The Germans crossed the river south of Jaulgonne, mid-way between Chateau-Thierry and Dormans. The Franco-American force took a hundred prisoners. After the boches had been hurled back the French' and Americans destroyed the bridge. An American force also stopped the German advance before Neuilly wood, hurling the Huns back by a magnif icent counter attack. , "An American force stopped the Ger mans attempting to reach Neuilly wood,' 'the communique said. "By a magnificent counter attack, they, hurl ed the Germans back north of the wood. fNouilly wood is on the south bank of the Ourcq river, just weSt of tlws vil lage of Neuilly- St. Front and seven miles west and north of Chateau-Thierry). "Further south, the Germans realized no gain on the Marne front. One Ger man battalion which reached the left bank near Jaulgonne, was hurled back by a Franco-American counter attack, with heavy losses. The Bridge was de stroyed and prisoners taken. "The Germans were held without pro gress by the Ftench between the Oise nnd the Aisne. "Between the Aisne and the Ourcq the battle was going on with great vio lence yesterday evening and last night. "Violent attacks Wi?rc made in the region of Pernant, ..Baconin-Et-Breuil, Missy-Auic-Bois and Troesnes. Pernant was taken by the Germans at the cost of heavy losses to the assailants. "Further south the French withdrew a little to the w.st of Saconin and Mis-sy-Aux-Bois. Faverolles and Troesnes were held by the French. London Says Foe Checked. London, June 4 The Germans' ef forts to advance southwestward down tlw vallys of the Marne, Ourcq and Oise toward Paris nre still checked, ac cording to the night official reports. Elsewhere on the new Marne front they appear to have fared no better. The German war office claimed SALEM'S SECOND ANNUAL BARGAIN DAY, JUNE 15TH MERCHANTS DECIDE UPON DATE EVENT AND ARE LAYTOft EVEN MORE PRONOUNCED YEAR AGO. ")" MltlttlHUHIIII imidhI Salem is to have its second "bargain day. A concerted action of the mer chants in Salem has decided upon Sat urday June 15 ;h as a proper occasion for the event. Salem's first Annual Bargain Day was held Saturday June 2nd of last year and it was pronounc ed by the merchants to be the most successful merchandising event ever held in Salem. This year's bargain day promises to be bigger and better than ever. More (merchants have joined the list of bar gain day stores and there will be a friendly rivalry between them as to who can offer the greatest inducements to the buying public The decision to hold this second Annual Bargain Day is in response to requests and demand's from residents in various parts of Ma rion and Polk counties from people who participated in the bargains of fered a year ago and who appreciated wonderful money savings they secured ty buying on that occasion. Ia speaking; f Salem' first Annual Bargain Day, the following quotations from some of Salem ' leading mer chants will demonstrate what they SOLDIER: "fresh progress" but all of the gains described were admitted by the French war office forty eight hours or more ago. Berlin reported the arrival of "fresh French units, from far distant fronts." , . ..... "The Germans -have been cheeked west of Soissons," the Paris commun ique said. "We recaptured Favereulles (14 miles southwest of Soissons)."' Al Frauco-British gains on the east ern flank were maintained, acording to the communique. On the Flanders front, Field Marshal Haig reported the repulse of hostile raids near Baillcul by French troops. "Theryj was considerable hostile ar tillery fire between Albert and the Sot re river early this morning," Field Marshal Haig reported today. "A f.ew prisoners were taken in a successful raid west of Merville last uight. "A hostile attack on one of our po sitions west of Viux-Berquin was repuls ed and a few prisoners were taken." Germans Capture Booty. Amsterdam, June 4. German news paper correspondents claim that 175,000 allied prisoners two thousand cannon and "innumerable" machine guns have been captured since the start of the present offensive March 21. Women Are Killed. London, June 4. Nine members of the women 's auxiliary automobile corps were killed in the recent bombing of British headquarters behind the line's, it was announced today. FOE BIG MERCHANDISING PT.AWS rntf uirrvi Tl A XT SUCCESS THAN IT WAS A t I 'thought of the event: "It was a wonderful success a suc cess to the merchant who sold so large ly and to the buyer purchasing so eco nomically. I have believed from the first that it would be a success but it has by far surpassed mv expects tiensf said William McGilchrist of the Imperial Fnrmtnre company. "Fine," said E. T- Barnes of the Barnes Cash store. "I never believed newspaper publicity had such 'pulling power, lou can just double my sub scription to the Bargain Day public ity fund." "It's opened my eyes as to what concerted effort of the merchant backed by strong newspaper publicity can accomplish," said Chauneey Bish op of tie Salem Woolen Mills store- "Biggest day I ever had," said O. E. Price of the Price Shoe company. "All records broken in this store," was the comment of P. E. Fullertcn. Mr. Kafourv was strong in his praitt of tho event. ' 'I had many extra sales people but will have to apologize for 110 ADVANTAGE GAINED BY RAID UPON OUR COAST Failure to Create Reign of Terror In American Ship ping Circles Apparent SECRETARY DANIELS WILL NOT CHANGE PLANS Thoroughly Organized U-Boai Hunt Is Under Way All Along Coast By Carl D. Groat (United Press staff correspondent) -Washington, June 4. Germany has failed to gain any military advantage from her spectacular U-boat raids oft the American coast- If she intended to terrorize the Am erican mind she has failed likewise to accomplish that. These two facts stood out in bold lelitf today in thei wake of the star ling news that Teuton U-boats had been perating since May 25 off our coast, bagging probably twelve or more vessels of various types, but missinj any cargo or troop transport. Secretary of the Navy Daniels was authority for the flat statement that American naval strength abroad would not be diverted to home shores because of the foray. Germany, he suggested, wanted strongly to dent the American lineup abroad, so she perhaps could un dertake important naval actions over there. Scouting Vessels Active , Every available scouting vessel was (Continued oa page six) CASUALTY LIST HAS BUT40HWE "KILLED1N ACTION" Lieutenant Colonel Robert Maxey of Montana Dies of Wounds Washington, June 4. Forty names were included in today's casually list, divided as follows Three killed in action; two dead from wounds; six dead from disease; nineteen dead from accdent and oth er causes; eight wounded severely; one wounded! slightly and one prisoner. Lieutenant I'olonel Hobert J. Maxey, Missoula, Mont., died from wounds; Lieutenant William L. Miller, Sagi naw, Mich., died of disease; Lieuten ants John L, Mtc-holl, Milwaukee and Richard Blodgett, Newton, Mass., died of accident. Killed in Action Privates Lon Meadows, Krupp,.Ky. Howard I- Milton, JLartford, Conn Nelson A. Pluff. New Haven, Conn. Diod of Wounds Lieutenant Colonel Eobcrt J. Maxey (Continued oa page six) nuc moiuu v is y.v mm It almost kills some folks t' git op at uiirise, t tay not h in o bem' shot A woman is nev-r satisfied unless die's put tin' confidence in tome one. 1 secoHi a zrM , ml mm iiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiHniiiiiniiiiiiiiiitiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiii 1 War Summary of United Press I iiiiniiiiiiiiniiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinitniiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiitiiiiii 1 1402nd Day of tie War; 75th Day of the big Offensive IIIIUIllUIIIIIIHllllllIlllllllllimilll!IIIIIIIHllllllllllllilllllllllllIIIIIIllllllUllllllilll Marne Front. American troops sig nalized their appearance in the new bat tle of the Marne yesterday evening by defeating the Germans in two sensa tional counter attacks. In conjunction with the French, they hurled back a German battalion which had forced the first crossing of the Marne south of Jaulgonne. This town is mid-way between Chateau-Thierry and Veruuil, which represents the four teen mile front by the enemy north of the river. Further to the northwest an Ameri can detachment, operating alone, stop ped the Hun advance at Neuilly wood and threw the Germans back to the northward. This represented the high tido of the enemy's westward progress during the day and stood out above a series of temporary French defeats to the north and southward. Betweeu the Aisrue and the ' Oisc rivers the Germans failed to gain, but to the southward, between the Aisne and the Ourcq, and between the Ourcq and the Marn.9 they took seven vil lages. Twe of these, Mosloy and Neuil-ly-La-Porterie, were taken and retakon several times and their ultimate fate was still in doubt. On the eastern portion of the new front, between the Marne and Rheims, there was no ehange. Picardy Front. Field Marshal Haig reported considerable hostile artillery fire betw.een Albert and the Serre SUBMARINE BLOCKADE OF AMERICAN COAST DECLARED Mate of Raiding U-Boat Tells of Raid Pians to Amer ican Prisoner ; AFTER TROOP SHIPS. - New York, June 4. "I won't waste, a torpedo on anything less than a troop ship. Torpedoes are too expensive." This the declaration of the command er of one submarine to Captain Gilmore of the schooner Edna, who was. held prisoner aboard a submarine for a week. ' New York, June 4.-nGerniany has es tablished a permanent submnrine block ade of the American coast and within a short time a fleet of U-boats capable of operating against every important Atlantic port will be here, according to the mate of the submarine U-151. The mate, who Berved five years as boatswain in tho United States navy, made this statement to Enoch Bocker, boatswain'yif the schooner Edna. After (Continued on page two) REGAIN MASTERY Are Now Dropping Tons of Bombs Upon German Troops Behind Lines By Henry Wood (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the French Armies in The Field, June 3. French aviators, regaining complete mastery of the air, dropped sixty three tons of bombs ou German troop concentrations back of the Marne battle front Saturday and Sunday, it was learned today. The principal attacks were directed against Bivouacs and marching troops iu the concentration regions of Fismes and Oulchy-Le Chatcav, One squadron commander sent more than fifty machines against a column of marching Germans, five kilometers (three miles) long. Charging like cav alry, the air men descended to within 3-j feet of the ground, raining bombs and machine gun bullets on the column until it was completely routed. " During the first week of the Marne drive the French brought down 23 Hun airplanes while six "sausage" balloons were destroyed in the region of Rheims in one day alone. Everywhere the French squadrons are successfully breaking op columns of Ger mans marching to the front. Reconnoi tcrii.g plane kept the French command ers informed every 13 minutes of the precise location ot -the boches. together with their density and the direction of. (Continued oa page six) Germany. An Amsterdam dispatch osiil thA nrmiii newsnaner correSDOnd- ents claim 175,000 allied prisoners, two . 4 . 1. I I , thousand cannon ana --mnumeruuie mm-hiiio puns have been taken since the start of the big offensive March 21. - Congress May Investigate Its Own Law Breaking Washington, June 4. Congress pro poses to investigate itself. Professedly shocked by disclosures of a local newspaper purporting to show use of liquor in the house office building in "dry" territory, niembers wore demanding an investigation. The newspaper printed a picture of twenty nine "empties" which it said came from a barrel in the lavatory of the fourth floor of tho office building. It carried quotes of janitors and others tending to show that a collection of "dead soldiers" daily in that region was not uncommon. t ' Prohibition people attempted to make the pictuie and story appear a plant by tho wets. It has been common gossip here that some congressmen though voting for dry measures, "got theirs" in the way of liquid goods even though the -town is dry and importation from adjoiniug cities more or less restricted. Rome congressional leaders professed to bo shocked at the insinuations of the ncwsnaiDCr and clamored for a probe. BY GERMANS Shins Sunk by U-Boats In Atlantic Coast Raid i- Wluneconne: 1,869 ton freight steamer, owned by the Arneri- can Traiis-Atlantin company of New York. Carried crew of B8. Sunk of Cape May, N. J. May 28 Herbert L. Pratt: 8,000 ton tank steamer, owned by the At- Jantic Refining company of v Philadelphia. Carried crew of 38. Bound from Tampico to Phil- adclphia. Struck by mine or .tor- pedo yesterday and beached about five miles south of Over- falls light ship, off Cape Hen- lopen, Del. One of crow lost. Texel: 3,210 ton steamer, tak- en from Dutch Corporation by United States shipping board. Carried crew of 38. Bound from the West Indies to an Amcr- icau port with a sugar cargo valued at $2,000,000. Sunk with- out warning off New York har- bor Sunday afternoon. Crew landed at Atlantic City, N. J., early today. Edward H. Cole: 1,791 ton schooner owned by Crowcll and Thurston of Boston. Carried crew of 11. Bound from Norfolk to Portland, Maine. Sunk by bombs about fifty miles off Bar- ncgat, N. J., Sunday afternoon Crew landed at New York yes- terday morning. Jacob M. Haskell: 1,778 ton schooner owned by Crowell and Thurston of Boston. Carried a crew of 10. Bound from Boston to Norfolk. Sunk by shell fire about fifty miles off Banwogat, N. J., Sunday noon. Isabel B. Wiley: 611 ton schooner, owned by the Atlus company of Philadelphia. Car- ried crew of eight. Bound from Perth Amboy to Newport News Va. Sunk between Cape Henlw pen and Cape Charles, May 28. nattie M. Dunn: 305 ton schooner owned by Dunn and El- liott of Thomaston, Maine. Car- ried crew of six. Sunk between Cape Henlopen and Cape Char- les, May 20. Edna: 325 ton schooner own- cd by C. A. Small, of Machias, U Maine. Bound from Philadelphia to Havana. Sunk off Winter Quarter shoal lightship, midway between Cape Henlopen and Cape Charges, May 25. Hauppauge; 1,339 ton auxil- iary schooner. Carried crew of ten. - Ships Believed To Have Been Sunk. Carolina: 5,093 ton passenger and freight steamer owned by the Nw York and Port Rico Steamship eompany of Now York. Sent wireless calls for help while being shelled 125 to 150 miles off Sandy Hook, 7 p. m. Sunday. Samuel W. Hathaway: 1,038- ton schooner owned by Crowell and Thurston of Boston. Car- ried erew of nine. No details. LIIERCAill SUNK BUT PASS ARE REPORT Port of New York Reopened rearing Airplane Raids No New Activities of Submarine Raiders Are Reported-Coast Is Patrolled by Crafts cf Various Descriptions Hunting the U-Boats Airplane Ia Great Flocks Are On J-cakout Far Out at Sea New York, June . The Port of New las these early 'victims of German sub York hc been reopened, it was an- marine piracy against the United State nounced at headquarters of the Third j stepped ashoro. naval district today. ' j Commander Barbour of tha Carolina Nw York, June . New York will be dark tonight for fear of airplane raids or bombardmnt. The order was Issued today by Police Commissioner Enrlght. Atlantic City, N. J., June 4. Forty survivors of the liner Carolina landed licfe today. ' Woyr York, June 4. The ' schooner Edna T. Douglas is off Barnegat with approximately 250 survivors from the liner Carolina, it was stated at the of fices of the New York and Porto Elco Steamship company this afternoon. This accounts for practically all the Carolina's passengers and citx - Now York, Juno 4, .The liuer Caro lina was sunk by a German submarine, according to survivors who were land ed today. Practically all the passengers and erew have hen accounted for. The sinking took place Sunday night, survivors, declared. There are 150 pas seugers and 94 members of the crew aboard the schooner Edna P. Douglas off Barnegat bight, where they wore found iu ureboats. Forty survivors landed at Atlantic City. Nineteen additional survivor's came ashore at Lewes, Del. It was reported that bodies had been washed ashore at Bieach Haven, N. J., but It was known that these were from the Carolina. The New Y'ork and Porto Eico Steam ship company here understood that the schooner Edna Douglas would come here with all the Carolina passengers it had rescued. Howevor, it was reported at Atlantia City that some of them would be landed there. As the first ones to arrivo at Atlan tic City came ashoro, a Shriners band, standing on tlve board walk, played "The Star Spangled Bunner." The crowd stood uncovered, cheering THESE ARE CALLED TO 20 ARE FROM SALEM Local Board Sent Out List This Morning-Men In Service From Date Sixty five men of draft ago have been called to entrain for Camp Lewis on or about Monday, June 24, this be ing the number required of local board, division No, 1. Marion county. In addition to the 05 who have been certified, the call will include ten al ternate part of whom will entrain at the same time should any of the 6 .men be inducted into other service or fail to report for June 24. The lal exemption board sent out the following list this morning. After a man is addressed nd orders given to report.( he i practically in tho ser vice. The list includes 20 mei living in Salem: Alvin Curtis Greenfield, Indian Creek Koad House Mile. 8, Anchorage, Bollo' Forest Axley, 1096 north 17th street, ttalem. . Calvin Arthur Ager, Mill City. Phillip Mathias Albus, Aumsville. Earnest E. Baker, 1445 Oak street, Salem. Dudley Bruce Taylor, Turner. Arley Bay Libby, Jefferson. Nick Stangaronn, 834 Fourth street, Portland. Edward Frederick Schroeder, Stay ton. Ernest Clarence Bouck. El Centro, Calif. Francis H. Hoeretb, Sherwood. I Emiddio Bollo, 895 south 21st street Salem. Louis Tyler Tooker, 257 south 16th (Continued on page three) A WAS Ens ED SAP But City Fill Be Dark Tonight, sent a message to his offices here, say ing lie believed all hands were acounf eu for, but that two boats were missing. of these boats, containing nineteen was picked np and those it carried landed at Lewes, Del. The other was found drifting, apparently splintered by shell fire, empty, except for a man ' cap and three biscuit tins. Aside from the rescue of the Carolina victims thete were no further evidence, up to mid-afternoon, of U-boat depre dations on this coast. As a precautionary measure, Police ' Commissioner Enright ordered lighting restrictions for New York, effoctive to night. Coney Island and all eleetrieal displays will bo dark. Street lights are unaffected. Whero lights are left burning in of fices and dwellings, the shades must be drawn whorcver possible. . The Illuminations at Conev Island and other beaclws are ordered discontinu ed. .. The following order was issued by Enright: .. "All display lights, advertising signs or such illuminations In the city Include ing the seashore, will be discontinued until further orders. This will not In clude city lights or lights in dwelling and office buildings when inside. Shades in these will bo drawn whenever pos sible." ' Millionaire Packer Drives Army Truck Chicago, Juno 4. NelBon Morris, milliifiiaire rookie . at lie ftanin GrAnt. wnft ftssiirned to a 3k supply train today; The former head of a Chicago packing eom- pany will drive a motor truck to the Atlantic coast and prob- ably be sent overseas at once. CELEBRATE RAID ON A'iHl COAST Sixty-Four Loyal Subjects of Kaiser Are Gathered Up and Put In Jail New York, June 4. About the only persons in Now York who are excited about the submarines are sixty four Germans and they're in jail. The city took the news with summer cnnuik Crowds watched tlkfl bulletin boards, but there was little nervousness. Tulk of possible air raids predominated. Coney Island blazed with lights as usual last night and island boats sailed boldly out of the narrows until naval author ities swung the submarine net across. United States Marshal McCarthy con ducted raids during the night on meet ing placeB of Germans and gathered iu sixty four who were ho'ding hocn fests in celebration. All were jailed snd will probably be interned. Crowds as sembled around automobiles containing the enemy aliens shouting, and at one point school children sang patriotic songs as the Germans started for prison. Nervousness on the part of people in other lections of the country who hav friends or relatives here was manifest ed by thousands of telegrams which came in, almost swamping the telegraph, offices. The police are ready for eventualities. In case of an air raid Bfd Cross work ers in each district wil be summwiel by the blowing ot whistles. Stores of surgical supplies are ready rooms have been prepared for use as tempor ary hospitals. . . New York is defenseless sginst ir attacks, asserted August Post, secre tary of the serial league. ..' (Continued on page three)