Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, August 16, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTODAY" 4,605 SUBSCRIBERS (23,0 READERS) DAILY Only Circulation in Salem Guar antee! by the Audit Bureau of Circulations FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL LEY NEWS SERVICE OttN Oregon: Tonight and Saturday fair 'iI except probably showers north- ':', ,;,' I . - - . , wfrf portion; pen- .vf tie winds, mostly ,j sjSVtM t southerly. FORTY-FIRST YEAR- NO. 194. SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1918. PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTS i ALLIED ARMIES ARE NEA GERMfe ARMIES GIVE WAY SLOWLY mm HUMBERT GAINS FULL POSITION OF LASSiGNY KILLS French Troops Less Than Mile and Half From En emy Stronghold. GERMANS DISORGANIZED BY RECENT DEFEAT Losses In Killed And Prison ers Have Seriously Af fected Man Power. Paris, Aug. 16. One million, five hundred and twenty thousand Germans thav bean killed during the entire war, the Echo De Paris declared to day. The enemy's total losses to killed, wounded and missing, all estimated, amount to six million, of which a 'big percentage were wounded and have been sent back into the lines. From March to June, 120,000 Ger mans were killed, the Echo Do Paris said, while the number of killed in the past eight weeks has exceeded this fig- Paris, Aug., 16. Further progress to ward Roye, in the enter of the Picar dy battle front, was announced by the French war office today. . "On the Avre front French troops progressed iu tha Vi!lers-Les-Roye and Saint Aurin region, '.' the communique said. "East of Airmancourt we occupied our ancient (1915) first lines. In the Champagne we took prisoners in the Perthes-Les-Hurlus sector. East of Mai sons Do Champagne a German raid was repulsed. ' ' By John De Gandt -(United Press Staff Corespondent.) I'aris, Aug. lli. (4 p. in.) The Ger mans are giving way nort'h of the Avre little by little. The French are pro gi casing mid threatening to envelop t',;e enemy at Roy? and along the Oise. The alii-' ii:i,. lialf encircles-Roye. where the strongest pressure is contin uing. HUMBERT WINS PLATEAU V By Webb Miller ( United Press Staff Corespondent.) I'aris .Aiitf. lli. (10:30 ,a. m.) General Humbert is now in possession "f thn entire plateau south of Lassigny, "lominatintr the whole southwestern cor ner of the battle front. . (Continued on page three) j ABE MARTfN rusu Minium ' pa .-en wMi It AH WAR "Ole f :eni'.. oh; wine, ole prices" sighed Tell liiukliy, t 'day.. Two home ! iieopl" a!t seem ?o genuinely glad t' see each other. i TEADY PRESSURE ON LINES YANKEE BOYS AT FRONT ARE NOT FILLED WITH HATRED Prisoners are Treated Kindly and Well Cared for and Fed By Lowell MeUett. (t'nited Press Staff Corespondent.,) With The American Army In France, July 16. (By Mail.) The' hardest hat ing is done at home. And the nearer one gets to the land which is no man's the less hute one finds. In a town well to the rear, a town sa for than Paris up to tho present, I tame uKn a officer of sonic rank as lie was soundly condemning tlie conduct of an under officer. The latter had provided food for a young German officer, en route through the town as a prisoner. "Bread and water's good enough for him," declared the angry superior, "And dry, hard bread at that." The day before, I had seen a batch of prisoners brought into the 1st headquar ters back of the line. It was a hot day and they were exhausted by their march Two sickly looking lads faitiled'and fell just ns they were being lined up for inspection. Water was alnwdy beinp carried to the prisoners. Some of this was diverted for the purpose of resus' citating the two who had collapsed find the otlit'rs were then given as much as it was safe for them to drink. limned intt'lv after inspection all were marched to where food and hot coffee was wait" ing for them. I asked the officer in charge about this practice. "Starving prisoners after we have got them won't help defeat Germany," ho replied. ' Hate 'Em With Shells. He had been in real danger of German shells and bullets for a month, without a single day's rest.. And, It could be ad ded, the Germans had been in real dan- 1 gcr from the shells and bullets ho con1 trolled. "Hate 'em?" responded an officer in tho line, to the vnery; "Sure we hate 'em! We hate 'em with big sliells.little shells, rifle bul'ets, maehinegun bullets, bayonets, bombs and gas. In fact wo HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR BARTLETT PEARS Thirty five Carloads Prunes to To Thirty five Differ ent Buyers The highest prieo ever paid for Bart lett pears in this community was $48 per ton net to the growers for No. 1 when the pool of the Salem Fruit union was closed a short time ago, according to the announcement of Robert J. Paii lus, manager of the union. Another deal that has just been made by the union of special interest to grow ers is the 'fact that 35 car loads of prunes 'have been sold to 33 different points in the central states and further east as well as Canada. These 3o cars might have been sold to 4 or three large jobbers in the east, bit! it ha8 been the policy of Mr. Paulus to distribute the Oregon prune into widely separated lo calities, giving each a taste of the best prune on the market. Just now Mr. i'aulus is regretting the fact that he has no mote prunes to sell as he has turned (Continued on page two) Fire Prevention Day Postponed by McADoo State Fire Marshal Harvey Wells re ceived a telegram today stating that Secretary McAdoo has requested that Firp Prevention Day be postponed from October Pth to November 2nd, so it would not interrupt the Liberty Loan drive. If- this request is granted, Secretary McAdoo stated that all four-minute men will speak during the last week of Oct ober in behalf of Fire Prevention and would participate on November 2nd in ail eu-reisps held for Fire Prevention. Mr. Wells wired stating that agreeab le to the request from Secretary McAdoo Fire Prevention Day in Oregon will he postponed to November 2nd. K ROVE are so busy hating 't in in that way that we haven't time to hate them with our mouths. But after we ve taken them prisoners it isn 't worth while hating them, is it? And, besides, what 's the use of wasting good first-class hate on .mn you've already eaplurcdi'' A British correspondent whoso name si well-known to American readers went with uie to visit an American division lie was anxious, he said, to get at the psychology of the American rivate, to learn wnat he was thinking and what the war meant to him; It was the da after the whole' British line first start ed chuckling over the Australian's si, ing-up of the Americans as "great fight eis b'd too rough." The men we saw were part of the fame force that liar1 ear ieu this real tribute from the rough niid-t'imb'.e Australians. , Picked a "Tough One." I tii-.'d to steer the correspondent iiii' a group of smooth-faced, bright looking boys, but he made straight for a lean leather-skinned veteran of the Spanisl war, whose tin lint slanted rakis-hlj down over his eyes, giving him an ap pearance of indescribable toughness, lie was chewing tobacco, which didn't alter the impression. . - . . f recently the distinguished correspon dent returned and pulled me aside. "By Jove," he said, "it's remarkab le! That iliap's fighting for the same things your f resident Is.' You "know what I mean says America's in it uitil Germany kirns she's licked and that then we've got to devis? a way to prevent any more wars like this. Says he doesn't believe in punishing Germany !ir anything like that, but he's willinir iu --:c nin'iin-i minimi ur IHU Of lllCiU killed if necessary to make the Germans understand. He thinks it will take about a year or a year and a half. The coirespondent added his lielief that men who waste their time hatinf coufdn't fight like men of the Spanisl War Veteran type. The group of boys with whom I talk cd offered another proof of the conten tion. They didn't talk of the "Hun," They talked of "Fritz" and "Heinie," These are the hateless heroes that the Australians found "too rough." WELL BY RED CROSS Surgical Dressings Turned Out In Great Quantities in England London, Aug. 4 (.By mail) One of the earliest forms of war activity un dertaken by the American Bed Cross in Great Britain was the manufacture of surgical dressings aud other hospital requirements from modest beginnings this work has increased until it now employs more than 20O0 workers in 30 branches throughout Great Britain. The monthly output of these -workshops av erages 300-000 separate articles per month, and the output has recently ris en to nearly twice that total. The center of this activity is in a large building at 38 Grjisvcno'r Gardens adjoining the administration offices of the American Bed Cross. Fifteen rooms in the building are devoted to various branches of this work, which is in charge of Mrs. H. S. Waite as chair man. All the rooms occupied in the manufacture of surgical dressings are large, light and airy, and the most mod ern appliances are at the disposal of the workers. At this central station 3."0 workers are employed, of whom 2-"0 arc volunteers while 100 arc paid a mod erate allowance. The paid workers are all women who suffered firianially ow ing to the war, and to whom the small payments given them by the Bed Cross are a great boon. The outwork branches in various parts of England are mostly under British administration but the Ameri can Bed Cross furnishes all the mater ials and patterns, which are sent out in large hampers. Fifty hampers are in constant circulation for this purpose. The supplies, when gathered into the central warehouse, are sent out through a regular system of distribution, to 6 principal hospitals in Great Britain, and to a great number of hospital on (Continued on page two) A. NEW WAS STOKY. The following little incident is told after the advent cf American troops in France. An Irish doughboy of the American contingent was on sentry duty at the intersection of two important roads lead ing from the front trenches to the base hospitals at the rear, as he paced his boat in the- darkness an automobile chugged up. "Halt, who goes there" challenged our sentry. "An English ambulance with wound ed for the rear, sir," came back the resHnse. " "Pass on, English Ambulance," re torted Pat. Again an auto approached and again he challenged, and this time came the answer. . v "A French ambulance with wound ed." Some minutes elapsed in which all was silent and then the sound of an auto en gine at high speed whirred through the night. "Halt, who goes tltcro," Pat for the third time, and out of the night came the reply. "Aw, what the hell is it to youf" "Aho"., mused Pat. "Alio," and then our dignified sentry in military tones called out. "Pass on, vou American ambulance." BOMBING OE REAR AREAS PRINCIPAL nGermans'Set Many Ingenous Traps to Catch Unsus pecting Americans. By Fred S. Ferguson (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the American Armies in France Aug. 16. Intermittent bombing of the rear areas along the Veslo continues. Otherwise this portiou of the front is generally quiet. American patrols, cross ing the river ata new poitn, found the Germans had dug their entire line there and were strongly defending it with machine guns. Three Italian soldiers, captured near Soissons early in July, reached the' American lines today and related ex periences similar to those recently de scribed by tw-o escaped British sol diers. They corroborated the latter 's stories about cruel treatment of allied prisoners and lack of food. A big chat eau, dating back to the Fifteenth cen tury, has just been cleared of several tons of high explosives planted by the boches before their retreat. Innumer able traps had been set. A step ladder leaning against the wall was connect' ed with wires with batteries. If the ladder were removed the explosives would have been set. off. In one room was an American rifle. Its removal would have released a switch connect ed with high explosives. Ruins near by dating back to the Fifteenth century were also mined although they were useless in a mili tary way-v AIRMEN ABE ACTIVE. By Frank J. Taylor (United Press Staff Correspondent) With the American Armies in France Aug. 15. (Night). American airmen yards at Domary and Baroncourt, near Metis. Explosions were observed in the central and southern portions of the yards, which completely wiped out tracks and rolling stock. Other bombing squadrons made -scores of direct hits oji tracks in front of the Longuydon station. During a rec onnSisance flight American airmen bombed German military objectives at Thiaucouit. A hostile machine was brought down yesterday. Many Bombing Balds. London, ug. 10. Extensive bomb ing operations and heavy air fighting over the lines in France and Flanders were reported today in the official communique issued by the British air ministry. The statement claimed de struction of twenty seven enemy planes and said eight others were forced down out of control. Nineteen British machines are missing. The principal targets for bombing squadrons were Peronne, an ammuni tion dump, the docks at Bruge-s, the towns of Douai, Cambrai and Thion ville. Ground targets were successfully attacked with machine gun fire Parts Is Balded. v Paris, Aug. 16. Hostile airplanes dropped many bombs in the I'aris re gion last night, inflicting gome cas ualties, it was officially announced early today, The alarm was sounded at 10 p. m. aud ''all clear" at 12:32 a. m. GIBBONS COMING HOME. ' Park, Aug. 10. Floyd Gibbons, war correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, who was wounded by machine gun fire in the battle of Bcileau wood in June, is en route to America. One eye was destroyed by a bu'.'et. He received the eroix de guerre. FROM WILLAMETTE VALLEYIS YEAR Manager Paulus of Salem Fruit Union, Says Move ment Will be Large The shipments of green prunes from this part of the valley will take on lar ger proportions than ever this year ac cording to Boberj S. Paulus, manager of the Salem Fruit Union. In fact, the present price for green prunes is so high that if carefully handled, they will net the grower more money than dried prunes. The Idaho crop was entirely cleaned out b- frost on May 29 and while there has been usually from 100 J to 1800 car loads of green prunes shipped from that state, this year they will ship barely 100 cars. As a result of this condition, prices for green prunes have already gone up to unheurd of prices. To handle the marketing end of the business. The Salem Fruit union has made a deal where it is in position to advance its members $1.50 a bushel on a guarantee, and out members aro to receive in addition, all tho prunes bring less the union's commission and the packing charges. This deal permits the union to pay its growers $1.50 a bushel upon delivery of the green prunes at the warehouse and iu case of rain or the development of brown rot in the prunes, the uuion and grower are relieved from further fulfillment of the contract. Thig proposition is especially favor able to thoso who wish to relieve their trees of part of the fruit before drying. Mr. Paulus said. Whatever the growers can pick off before drying would be saved in case of rain. The prunes on the trees will receive the lclief due to the thinning. Pickers will have about twice as long a season as it would not take so many pickers to handle the crop. On the other hand, it will cost a little mpre to pick the prunes green and there is a little loss in w.vight due t yit.:ig thchu "before they aro mature, but this loss will probably be absorbed by the prunes left on the trees to ripen. The Salem Fruit union will handlo this year from 100 to 150 cars of prunes which will be about all that it can handle, aud the union asks those W'ho in tend to ship green prunes, to send in notice in time. Fred Mahan, who js tho union's field nipnnger will have charge of this work. Members of the union will be taken care of first a,1( "'en others as much as possible. On the basis of the present market, if prunes carry iu good condition, they should bring from $1.80 to $2.00 per bushel net to the grower after deduct ing all expenses. On this basis, the green prunes would net much more than the dried and the guarantee of $1.50 a luisiiel is practically the same us the grower roceives for a 50-60 dried prune at $11)0.00 a ton after taking out $40.00 per ton for drying. Mr. Paulus says that beginning uxt Monday the union will put on a day anA night shift in order to care for the green prunes. Enlistments For Oregon National Guard Enlistments are now being signed up for the company of Oregon National guard to be organised in Salem. The proper blanks wre on hand this morn ing mid recruiting stations were opened up both in the armory and at 444 State stroet, in the store building lor merly occupied by the Red Cross Phar macy. With the Siberian question developing as it has the past few days and the passing through the city today of 400 regulars, supposed to be on their way to Siberia theie is a feeling that by the first of the year the Oregon Nation al guard will be federalized and be among Hie first to leave for Russia. This feeling was intensified somewhat today when it was known that Df'H) regn lar troops from the Philippine Islands had been ordered to entrain for Vladi vostok, the Husdan naval base. It is confidently expected that the company will bo raised and fully or ganied bv September 1. After the com pany has been federalided, the members are exempt from the draft, as it is un derstood that as soon as the regiment is federalized, it will soon go into sei vice. Meu between the ages of 18 anci 45 years will be accepted and those who have seen service in the regular army be yond the age of 45 years who are in good physical condition. Anyhow, as the military men in the citv "e the situation, enlistment in the Oregon National guard will be a quick wav to gci into service in Russia and at the same time to do preliminary train ing at home. MARGUERITE MAEKIEE. ' New York, Aug 10. Marguerite Clark, the motion picture actress, to day is the bride of Lieutenant H. P. Williams of Washington. Both gave their ages as 31. REVENUE BILL WITH WAR TAXES 18 HADE PUBLIC Eight Billion Dollar Measure Now Practically Com pletely Drafted INCOME TAXES ARE MATERIALLY RAISED Automobiles Heavily Taxed As Well As AH Tobacco Products The new $8,000,000,000 rev enue bill provides for tuking more money than there is iu cir ulation in the United States. Experts figure our maximum in circulation is $5,300,000,000. The payment of these cuorm oils taxes on one day would bankrupt the country temporar ily but this is avoided by. pro viding for payment in install ments. Washington, Aug. 10. Within less than a half billion of its $8,000,000,000 goal, the new revenue bill was rapidly Hearing completion today. The house ways and means ommittee still had to decide the excess and war profits ques tions. ' ' Some few minor taxes will have to be added. Some of the language of the bill, aud perhaps some of the less im portant rates may have to bo hanged as the committee writes its report In preparation for submitting tho. bill, to tne House. But practically complete draff of the measure, made public for the first time today, which will stand in all its essen tials, gives an adequate idea of the greatest revenue bill in history. Inome Taxes Income taxes in some cases are doubl ed, and in the easeg of intermediate in comes, trebled, in the bill, as compared with the one passed by congress a year ago. Exemptions of $1000 for a Mnglo man; $2000 for a married man, with $200 ad ditional fur each, child under 18, stand. The normal rato of the first $4000 of taxable income is five per cent. After that the rate goes up to 10 per ent, with the following schedule of sur taxes: On portions of incoino between $5000 and $7500, three per cent. Between $7500 and $10,000, six per cent. Be tween $10,000 and $15,000, ten per cent Botwtcn $15,W)0 and $20,000, 15 per cent. Between $20,000 and $30,000, 20 tier cent. Between $T0,000 and $40,000 twenty five per cent. Between $10,000 and $50,000, thirty per cent. Between $50,000 and $00,000. forty per cent. LUweeu $00,000 and $70,000, forty five 1T cent. Between $70,000 and $80, 000, forty-seven per cent. Between $80, 000 and $00,000 forty-eight per cent. Between $00,000 and $100,001) forty nine p.-r cent, Between $i00,000 and $200,000, fifty per cent. Between $20(1,000 and $300,000, fiftv-fivo per cent. Between $300,000 and $500,000, sixty per cent. Between $500,000 and $l,0ii0,l-00 sixtyfive per cent. ' Between $1,000,000 and $5,00,000,000, seventy per ent Over $5,000,000 seventy five per cent. Inheritance Taxes. Inheritance taxes are boosted more than 5o per cent, and Heprescntnt ive Ruiney of Illinois, has warned that he will lead a fight for a program leading to virtual confiscation of estates when the bill conies before the house. Th,. rates agreed upon alter an ex emption of $50,000 nre: $5d,(IOO to $150,000, six per cent, $150,- (Continued on pngc two) Schooner Attacked Off Cape May Yesterday Washington, Aug. 10. The schoonci Dorothy Berrett was attacked otf Capo Mav, . r., by a submarine vesteMnv the navv department announced today, The crew abandoned the vesstl shortly after the U-boat appeared and beganj filing. The attack took place six and one half miles off Northeast End light house near Cae May, N. Y. I Aviators arriving over the scene ie ports they suw n thick wake and bub bles and depth bombs dropped exploded near the bubbles. Mine sweepers scoured the vicinity. The crew of the Dorothy Barrett was landed at Cape May. The vesrel was on fire, according to I last reports the navy received. Whether she sai.k later is not knowii. Tne Do- ipiittiv I'.n i-ri.t t u-liti'ti H'nt an Aiiitrii-un 'schooner, was bound from New York to Norfolk. AMIS OF ALLIES INVADING RUSSIA AT MANY POINTS Unifti; iftig Forces With Czecho slovaks To Save Former , Empire. BRITISH TROOPS REACH SOUTHERN OIL FIELDS Allied Forces Are Now One Hundred Miles South of ArchanseL By Robert J. Bender (I'nited Press Staff Corespondent.) Washington, Aug. 18. Battling against Germans, Austrians and bolsbe viki, small allied armies are penetrating Lall eorners of Russia today, valiantly seeking to savp the people from oppres sion of the common enemy. Without A pre determined program ! upon' which t operate, these forces British, American French, Japanese, Italian and Czecho slovak constitute the world's most dramatic "opportunist army." It is learned on unquestionable authority he.'8 their moves will depend entirely upon developments hore and there in dark Russia and their forces will be every where to tako advantage of e,very op portunity which may arise. - - British fortes havo crossed the Cas pian nnd reached Baku, center of south ern Russia 's oil fields. . Allied forces in northern Russia aro 100 miles south of Archangel and still going. American regulars have ' roinfoiecd allied troops iu Vladivostok in prepara-; tion for activity in eastern Russia. Czeeho -Slovaks are battling along tha Volga "Viver. , . . British troops, reported t Jinve land ed and seized the outer defenses of Ba ku, are expected to see hard fighting before unlives there give up this prize, which the Germans havo had their crafty eyes on for some time. Military officials today applauded the feat of the valiant British force, which was com pelled to fight its way over a mountain ous conntiy of northern Persia from Bag dud 700 miles bwhv. Turkish troops at Batun aro prepar ing to advance on Baku, according to reports here, and German, contingents) probably will accompany them. From. Baku the allies, if opportunity affords) can operate in southern Russia, .joining forces with the Don Cossacks, who havo been fighting the bolheviki. I'nder the Biest-Litovsk trealy, much territory In the region of Baku was ced ed to the Turks, Armenians, however relisted bitterly mid the city changed hands several times during tho spring and summer. Both Germany and Tur key Want Baku for it oil and also be cause of its proximity to the Indian frontier. Bolshcviki in northern Russia aro flceiuir before the expedition operating out of Archangel, Marching along tho railroad. to Vologda, allied troops havt progressed 100 inileg or more, fighting Leiiiiift's troops all along the way. Czechoslovak troops stationed thinly along the 34,000 mile stretch of Siberia runninj from the Volga river to Lnka Baikal are pressed hard by tho bolshc viki. The force is poorly armed and short of food and equipment. Early Si berian winter, which is now approach ing, threatens to catch the Czecho-Sio-vaks on 1 lie steppes before they can push on to their objective and join, their comrades in eastern Siberia. Japanese forces are expected to move on Lako Baikal and feizo tho railroad there and open up communi cation to the stranded Czccho-Slovaks." Japanese now in Manchuria, it is said here, are in a position to take this step. American regulars landed at Vladi vostok yesterday may also go to tho America's stated intentions in Siberian rescuo. of the Czetho-Slovaks as one of intervention is to give direct aid to tho Czccho-Slovaks. While it is . hoped that tho Hinted States soldiers will not bo called upon to invade Siberia, officials are be lieved to be ready at any minnto to order them into the interior if this seems necessary. Meanwhile, they aro to guard militdry supplies and Amer ican property at Vladivostok. t DISPERSE IRISH MEETING ' Dublin, Aug. 10. Police and 500 sol diers dispersed a meeting at Oniagh, where John Dillon was about to deliver an address. There was no violence. Dillon refued to the last to desist from efforts to speak, claiming the right of ameinber of parliament to addrcs his constituents. Officers advised him to disperse those who had gathered to hear him and thu avoid bloodshed. The gathering was broken up anl the Sinn Fein demonstration stopped.