5000 CIRCULATION (85,000 BEADEB8 DAILY) He ( Only Circulation in Salem Guar- anteed by tha Audit Bursas of Wea&xRepon He Uireulations He Owpi: tiM and -Wed-. , aasday, ftiii; mSm d cold; FULL LEASED WIRE 1 He DISPATCHES if SPECIAL WILLAMETTE VAL- . c LEV NEWS SEKVICB He I l I ss Trmnw oiy aawxjy. . . FORTY-FIRST YEAR- NO. 309. SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1919. PRICE TWO CENTS ON tSAINS AND NEW 8TAND8 FIVE CRNTS 'OL!SHARMYOr40TH0USANDrfN ADFMflDPHMP --TAWADnDTDMIi HIIL riHIlUIIINU IUKVHUU ULIILI is now me ill 5 GERMANSFJASTILY REARflING DET40B1UZED "BOOPS TO STEM TIDE OF irtVADINiTilORDE Or tVN Report Says That Polish Force Consists Of Infantry, : Cavalry And Artillery, All Well Armed. Alleged To Have Entered Posen And Frankfort-On-The-Oder, Also Important Railway Station At Ban then. Geneva, Jan. & A 'Polish army of 30, . 800 to 40,00 men triklngi toward Bar ' lin haa captured Frauktort-on-iho-vwler, - only 50 miles from the Gorman capital 'the Polish agency in Iausanne was no tified by . telegraph, from Posen today. : 'he Germans, the report said, are ha tily re-arming their demobilized troops ia an effort to stem the invasion. The Polish force consists of infan " try,- cavalry and artillery, all well arm ed, the report said. Cavalry, moving rapidly ahead of the main body, was reported to 'have entered Posen and I'Vaukifort-on-the-Qder. The important railway stations at iBauthen, Guessen end Bromborg it was said, were occu lted with but slight resistance. Baron von Zu Belditz, a friend of the former crown prince, was reported to have gene to Germany to ask the government's permission for Frederick , Wilhelm tfl return to that country. The' "Jiaroh, it is understood, will ask; the German authorities to assign the for mer crown prince to a residence where Secret Of Mystery Paper Of Belguim Is Revealed Germans Arrested Every Possible Editor Of Patriotic ... Paper Except Victor Jourdain, Who Was Real Editor. He Used Printing Shops In Towns That Hun Troops For Time Being Were Not Occupying. , Brussels, Dec. M (By Mail) With tfiQ coming of ' liberty to Belgium, La J.ihre Belgiquo has departed, and The I'r.lriot. has reappeared. It is now iossiblo to tell that the most remark tilde of .war-time newspapers, La Libre Itolgique, which successfully . defied German efforts to suppress it for 1 years, was The Patriot, a long-established Catholic . weekly, . in disguise. Victor Jourduiu, aged editor of The fat riot, likewise edited the will-o-the-wjsp sheet which kept German offi cials in a constant state of irritation iluring their occupation of his country nd helped to keep the spirit of the; l.olgian people steadfast. ! He died a few weeks ago, just too; soon to see his city of Brussels liber-1 tiled. I Patriot Suppressed, The Patriot was suppressed by Ger-; nan- order at the outset of the war.' A few weeks later copies of a new jvuper began to fall into the hands of (lie German officials and army offi cers. It did not prove popular with tlie latter. Gen. von Bissing, military f-overnor of fered ' 25,000 f nines reward for the name of the editor and promis ed one year's imprisonment to any! ISelgian found reading it. There were nrrests in great number of persons sus pected of the editorship but no con victions. It seemed that almost every body -i who -could possibly have been guilty was arrested at one time oi uno'her everybody except Jourd.iin. One man was held by the German to Itave been proved sufficiently guilty to warrant a one-year sentence, but Bel gians in the seeret say he was inno cent. Germans Kept Busy. The baffled German police were kept iusy running down false clues. Given the tip that toe printing plant would lie found at surh-andirach s street; they would rush thither, only to find a va-i cant lot or an empty house. Told that! ri man of a certain name was the ac-j . tual editor , they would comb Brussels' for him, learning eventually be was not I n the city and never had been. While the police hunted, Victor Jour- dain prepared copy. Ho pointed out in-1 entional errors in the German official j communique, be gave the Belgian pe. i-l? the latest new of the Belgian armyj tnd the Allied armies, he ridiculed and! I impooned the German officials,- and! f-nerally kept alive the people's faith in a better dsy to come. ' he can live jwith his wife and children -under a guard if necessary. Frederick Wilhelm, it wag further reported, is willing to do any work the government thinks him fitted for. . "I was unexpectedly called to the cabinet and am in n0 position to out line mr whole program," Noske told the United Press today. "But my first action will be to suppress Polish vio lence," CAPTURED SIX CITIES By John Graudez (United Press stafi correspondent) Berlin, Jan. 1. (The Polish army advancing- along' the railways toward Berlin has captured six German cities, according to information received here today. ' ". : . - ... The-Politflr mobilisation and advance has alarmed the German government. Counter measures are expected to be undertaken : immediately. ,..' Obscure Shops Used A few times obscure printing shops in this city set up and printed tno little 4-page paper. For the most part, however, the work was done in shops olscwhero. Jourdain would appear by night at the home of some small town or city printer, always selecting one for the moment free of German troops. Next morning he would depart in his automobile with the entire issue con cealed in the car. Distribution would begin as far as possible from the place where the printing was done. In spite of the difficulties of publica tion La Libre Belgique nearly always was neat and attractive typographical ly. Sometimes when the services of u complete printing plant were obtain able, the first page would be bordered in the national colors, red, yellow and black. Editions, of course, were not regular regularly irregular was the paper's own statement of its publica tion dates, but Jourdain managed us ually to issue one eaft month His Compensation. Part compensation for his trouble was found by the editor in such an nouncements as uiese: "Not submitted to any censor." ''Telegraph address, Commandatur, Brussels." 'Offices: Not being able to establish these In a fixed place, they arc install ed in an automobile cellar." ''Advertisements: Business being nil under the German domination, we have suppressed the page of advertising, and advise our readers to keep their money for brighter days." "Price per conv: Elastic, from zero to the infinite. Please do not exceed this limit. A typical article from La Libre Bel gique,' printed on the 3d anniversary of the war, follows: 'August 4, 1914, Daine Germany started off to war. The plan is simple: Belgium does not eount. Paris tnken in a weeks. Russia crushed before winter England remaining alone, too small a thing not to understand iha' nothing is left but to negotiate. ''WE made the house of cards crum ble! WEI After they decided to takr Calais, pass into England, etc., therr was the Yserl f'till US! London Suffered Little. ''Zeppelins were to destroy London. I.omlon suffered rittle, the twmfntion of the Zejipelins suffered much. Mean time they tried to finish Bussia, by mil itary means first; the coup failed; by o diplomatic mean then; the Buasiaa peoplo put a atop to that They plotted in the Balkans, they bled themselves while at Yerdua. All was useless. And all this time the people of Germany were suffering .enormously. The new chancellor began to realize it. Then they made their last throw: the sub marines! And even ia Germany itself mey nave oarea to announce publicly that this weapon ia ineffective- . Them it is tho end! Yea, it certainly it the end "Since the coming of America into the arena, the account of tho Central Powers has been definitely settled. Ia a Httlo while they will have to bog for mercy.- No doubt another winter will moah groat hardship to us.- But seeing tho importance of our goal we wish, we Belgians, to suffer etui, if neces sary 4n order that- Right and Justice shall triumph more completely, 1 more gloriously. "What tho Allies know: That we do not ask that consideration of our suf ferings should haste the end of the war one singlo day I" L TO 8E HELD TONIGHT City Police Matron And Other Interesting Things To Be Definitely Decided. Tho new citT council for next year will hold its, first official meeting this evening to aol tae -customary -caucus to decide as to Who shall hold various city off iocs thaft sre not voted oa by tho people. . For the first time in many years, ac cording to the generally accepted opin ion, tho new city council is now in the gamo of politics. Neither the incoming mayor, JS. Albw, nor any of tho new aldermen have ever played tho game nor aro they supposed to have E-ny po litical aspirations. To use a well known expression, "politics is adjousaeO" while the new council holds down the ctiy affairs. However, notwithstanding the fact that the new mayor and new sOdermen zre beginners as far as politics is con cerned and it is thought thero will be nono, in order that cortain city offi cials may be quickly elected, tho cau cus will bo held this evening and every thing docided except the formal voting of tlio first meeting of the city council next Monday evening. According to qencral information and the opinion of the wise political boys, tliero is some doubt as to who will be named city attorney. The present in cumbentBert W .Mucy, is a candidate f ir re-election and also Elmo 8. White. It is also said that John Carson is in a rcccptivo mood and has been spoken of most favors 'ily. Anyhow; I'.ie best guessers on political matters are up in tho air. As for pol.,'0 matron, thee appears to be a feo'ing that tho public has caught up on the emphatic competition between Mrs. M try Shank and Airs. Le- 1 ill Lynch. The various women's clubs have' recently taken an interest in the police matrot. proposition and it is pos sible that the wishes of the women will have som influence with the aldermen. One of the candidates already has the endorsement of some club of" women. There is also a chanco for the naming of a dark horse if this political term may be appliod to the selection oi city police matron. From the expres sion of various aldermen in past coun cils since the time Dr. B. L. Htcevcs was mayor, tho city matron muddle has been the cause of considerable grief. It is probable that C. B. Roberts will be elected as alderman from the sixth ward. Merlin Harding was elected si dermnn laf.t fall but has since moved out of th" ward. It is now up to the council to elect and as Mr. Boberts has been on the ouncil for the post two y.'iirs. bis election by his fellow coun cilmcn is assured. According to the political wise men, Dr. Bry Pemberton will be clected'city physician. It is understood that lr. O B Miles was not a candidates although he has held the office for a number of years. The work of Walt 8. Low as street commissioner has met with the approv al of tho 1918 council end the forecast ia mado that ho will bo elected without much opposition. City Engineer Skcl ton will also succeed himself As to who will be elected to assist Chief of Police Varney in maintaining order for tho community, the wise ones have not even a guess or at least are not making their inside information public. Dr.- Hs-rry 8. Tanner, noted for his long periods of fasting, is dead at Ban Diego, aged 91. WORLD WAR COST AS KUCH AS TOTAL VEALTH OF AMERICAN HATIOH Ttttl Expnditcres Up To No Tessher 11, Aggregated AI isost 25ft BOHai. Washington, Jan. 1. The world war cost an amount almost equal to the en tire wealth of the America nation, figures- available today -revealed - that when the armistice was signed Novem ber 11, war expenditures aggregated ap proximately -t 249,780,000,000, The wealth of the United States is esti mated at 1255,000,000,000. Interest o I this debt based oa ' the latest reports from European countries, will total near ly ? jo,ooo,ooo .a year. America's share of the cost when ac tnnl fighting eeused was $21,000,000, 000, but treasury officials said toda) thai figure reached $24,680,000,000 when the new; year began. ; Germany .spent (47,500,000,000 direct ly on her military program reports from German publicists show. Of this sum he borrowed mere than $38,000,000(000 in loag term loans. ' ' , The expenditure of Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria have never been scpasatud but -treasury statisticians place their war cost at $33,000,000,000. - While the figures given represent the direct coat of the world war, official t explain that no computation m be made, of course,, of the economic los o 'he nations involved. Balshevik Forces Capture Capital Of White Guards "London, Jan. ' B, Bolshevik . forces captured Ufa, capital of the wUto guards, Tuesday, a wireless dispatch from Moscow reported today. They also cap ' tured Stilitan. " . i' . - 4c ,The Lithuanian government, because oi the Bolshevik succes-. es in western i&ussiav has been remcved from Vtlna to Kovno. - ITfa is an important. oity 200 miles north of Orenburg and .750 miles east of Moscow,. , . : . COOLIDGE BECOMES Oath Of Office Administered Before Legislature By Sen ator McKnight Boston, Jan. 2. Calvin Coulidge of Northampton lieutenant governor un der Gov. MiCall, was inaugurated gov ernor of Massachusetts today in the cressnco of both branches of the legis lature. Tho oath of office was admin istered 'by Sen. Edwin T. McKnight. Coolidge, republican, succeeds Sam uel W. McCell of Winchoster, who was governor since 1910. McCall is retir ing after 30 year of public life. Chamung H. Cox of Boston succeeds Coolidge as lieutenant governor. The new governor is a lawyer. Ho was born in Plymouth, Vermont, in July, 1872, and is a graduate from Am herst college. He s.Tved successviely a a city councillor, city solicitor, may or of Northampton, and in both branch' es of the state legislature. ABE MARTIN Our idee o a that git shaved spendthrift is a feller fer a S-eent the-ater. i Mrs. Qabe Craw has two daughters one married ac' one still painted, Former Crown Prince Makes Attempt To Escape . ' Wierengen, Hoi., Jan. 2. Friederich Wilhelm Hohennol- lern made an unsuccessful at- tempt to escape from his exile ' 4 here, it was reported today. No details could bis obtained. - STAT! HEALTH BOARD m m mm Issues Leaflet Telling Of Need For Better Protection Of MeHeajdi. ''The responsibility for the lives al ready sacrificed and the numbor that wll be sacrificed during the next few months because of insufficient health protection cannot be placed upon the board of health," says a leaflet which will soon' be issued by the state board of health in support of its request for an appropriation of . $93,225 for the next biennium. 'The responsibility rather lies with the legislature since it makes the ap propriation and possibly in a mcas ure with you, too. since you help elect the legislators. If the appropriation is insufficient the protection will be in sufficient. Protection eosts money; it is not secured by waving a wand nor in uttering incantations. On the con trary it takes a lot of well directed continuous hard work and work has to be paid for with real money.", The board is asking for an appropria tion much larger than it was given by the last legislature and is proparing to conduct an , -organised campaign to arouse sentiment throughout tho siatc in support of its request. I he last ap propriation was for $25,000, as against the $95,900 now being sought. Plans for the . expenditure of tho $95,000, if.it is obtained, are outlined by the board in the pamphlet now being printed. The work of the board will be segregated . into five divisions, follows: - Executive office, headed by the state health .officer at ..a; .salary of .$2400 a year, total fT.loo annuany. ... . Bureau of vital statistics, headed by an assistant registrar at a salary of $1800 a year, total $3000 annually : Bureau of oreventable diseases, head ed by an epidemiologist at a salary of $2400 a year and including five dis trict health officers at $2000 a year each, total $19,000 annually. Bureau of hygiene and sanitation, headed by a sanitary engineer at. a salary of $2400 a year, total $83,00 annually. Bureau of laboratory work, headed by a bacteriologist at a salary of $2000 a year, total 4ou annuany. General expenses applicable to all bureaus, $4,700 annually. Permanent apparatus, $725. M Kl fflS 1ST ROUND House Adopted Rule Concern ing Revision Of Postal Zone Law. ! Washington, Jan. 2. Chairman Kit chin, of the house ways and niennr. eommittc today won tho first round in his fight to prevent revision of tje postal 7.ono law when the house adopt led a rule to send the new revenue bill to conference without a separate voto 'on the senate zone amendment. ' Supporters of the senate amendmont were so evidently outnumbered that they did not demand a record vote, deciding to wait until tho conference ! report is returned to fnc house before making any organized fignt Late Reports Show That Rescue Work of Northern Pacific Less Hazardous Fire Island, Jan. 2 With . a s"a calmer making rescue work less haz ardous, six hundred wounded landed inoq jC,i;Oij jo subdiu Ki jCb;bs Sonic ot the troops aboard the trans port transferred to relief vessels stand ing by. But they will not attempt to land bed ridden soldiers unless forced to by sudden change of conditions. Twelve soldiers, five coas'guard, were thrown into the water when life boat capsized as the result of a heavy soa. Soldier guard cn shore swam to their rescue, dragging all of them to safety. Some were half drowned, and others wore in a semiconscious condi tion, but all were resusieitutcd. Government destroyers arrived late this afternoon and immediately spread oil around tho transport so the rescue heavy sea. The trolley boat may con tinue operations all night if roughness of the sea prevents transferring of the men to relief ships. BREECHES!) 1G III Position Of Hospital Transport Northern Pacific Much Improved Since YesterdayBoat Lay Close To , Beach, In Shallow Water, This Morning At Low Tide. Naval Wireless In Constant Touch With Ship. . Capt. Connelly Says Relatives Of Boys Needn't Fear. Naw Tork, aJn. 2. Wounded soldien. were being transferred this afternoon from the hospital ship Northern Pacific ashore on Fire Island ,to the transport iialiory. . The sea subsided suffiomutly to permit the starting o f this operation, according to a wireless message receiv ed at the port of embarkation, Habo ken, N. J. The Mallory was scheduled to dock in Hoboken this afternoon. " - - 'A relief party of Bed Cross nurses, physicians and soldiers crossed Great South bay from Bay Shore to the island this morning to care for those brought ashore. The weathor continues bleak with a penetrating rain. ' .- i four Brought Ashore. Fire Island, N. Y., Jan. 8, Four sol diers were brought ashore from the stranded transport Northern Paeifia by coast guards this morning. They were Private Albert Litchner, Buffalo, N. Y, Company G, Thirtieth infantry. - Lieutenants Joe A. Logan, Millton, Pa.., 111th infantry. , Bobcrt J. Thorpe, Washington, Ind. Litchner was the first to step ashore. Captain Joseph Tuttle of the coast guard, brought these men ashore In a small boat, after a perilous trip through the surf to the transport. AH Bppy. All the boys are happy and feeling fine, declared Litchner. This was the Captain LcVine from the port of em first word brought 'directly froms the, barkatioa. replied -, that, he and Colonel vessel since the coast guards boarded her yesterday. There was no panic or excitement when the transport struck, he said. "We were all sloop. When the shock came the boys thought they had and wounded, 710 other troops and Wi reached tho dock." ' crew of tho Northern Pacific will bo The men crawled out of their berths made just as soon as wind and seus per and were much interested when they mit. If conditions are right , they will learned the ship was aground, Litchner be taken off in small boats and trana said. Then they spent New Years ferred to the vessels standing by. , watching the ehore operations and the Carruot Be Done Yet. efforts to rescue them. They were This cannot be attempted for soma gloomy at being dolayed at the very time yet. The unsuccessful effort of gates of homo. the destroyers and tugs to approach tr-.u "We're all happy aboard," said Lo-! Northorn Pacific this morning showed gan, "the band is playing, tho mon are! the feat to be practically impossible nn- dancing and we aro having a general good time." Tho four mon who first came ashore were volunteers in the rescue work. Have Trolley Arrangement. Captain Tuttle said ho expected to bring the woundod ashoro within & few ashore from the ship. The plan wes to hourg by trolley arrangements. rig a double lino of cables and to at- The men wore busy arranging Hum tat-.h a lifo boat to it by a trolley ar and gotting tho trolley boats ready rangement so the bedridden wounded while on the trnnsport tho wounded were being got to the deck and propar cd for tho transfer. ' A hydroplane hov ered over head watching operations. Bod Cross workers landed additional supplies from the mainland and dis- tributcd a great quantity of sandwiches among volunteers eager to greet the boys with food and cigarettes. SPEECHES TO ITALY TO CHARACTERIZE WILSON'S VISIT TO ROME President And Mrs. Wilson ual's Private Train At Their Disposal. Enthusiastic Crowd At Paris Station To Wish Them "Bon Voyage" By Robert J. Bender (United l'ress Staff Correspondent.) Aboard President Wilson's Train Bound for Italy, Jan. 2. Pursuit ue same course ho has followed in Francs' and England President Wilson will talk dintly to the people of Italy, as well as confer with their leaders. He will make every effort to eclar up anyy pos sible misunderstanding entertained by the Italians concerning his petce pro gram. In summing up tho president's work in Europo so far, it is evident he has mndo the greatest progress 'toward lin ing up tho allied countries in favor of the league of nations. His speeches i have emphasized tho United Press' fore I east that he intends the league shall Be j tho foremost subject of tho peace con ' ferenee. Ho has mado it clear that i America will refuso to join any combi ) nation except a world lengue, oppose any "balance of power" and insist up on a peace of justice. Tht leaders of j tho associated .nations, lie has duclured, twill sit in tne cor.roicnees as tao peo UOVFOR SOLDIERS PATISLID Destroyers and tngs standing by tried to move closer inshore this morning to ! launch some small boats for removal of some of the 464 soldiers aboard. But the heavy seas prevented. The little vessels jockeyed with the tide, approach ing the transport and then backing oat as the waves swept them toward the treacherous sands. There was a pelting rain and a brisk wind, with a northeast er predicted by unofficial forecasters. DiuOy Discernible. The stricken transport, 300 yards off the beach, was at times but dimly ia ecrujble through the mist which shrqud ed everything in a bleak grayness. Tha sea pounded the Northern Pacific a.l night, but still the ship showed , ao sius of going to pieces. Before dawn a staff of the army medical corps who. nurses and supplies arrived Whenever the weather lightened a bit, the transport talked to the shore by means of wig-wag signals. During the night, the wife, mother and sister of Lieutenant Averell Broughton, Brook lyn, reached the beaeh and when it be came light enough a signalman wig waggod their message to the ship. Tho reply was "all's well," and an admo nition for them not to worry. Captain Bonds Message. , At B o'clock Captain Connelly of the Northern, Pacific sent , this message: "Who is in charge on the beach t" F. I, Poaree of the medical corps were. in command. . t ' "We have ample food, blankets sr.d litters in case you hind men hore," they signalled. The rescue of the 144 sick til the wind veers and tho waves do- crease in violence. Captain Joe Tuttle of the Oak Hi.l Life guards reached the trnnsport afte a dash through tho breakers in a sma i boat. Ho made a try at bringing a line ; could bo ferried ashoro m sr.tety. Breeches Buoy Still Intact. The breeches buoy rigged curlier was still intact but no effort to use it had been made as the sea was considered to0 rough. At da-'llgi t it was seen that the Northern PMinc has Dccn ariven I I (Continued on page three) PEOPLE OF Have King Victor Emman- ple's representatives, not. their maators. Freedom of the seas is plainly the one outstanding difficulty now, but thu American delegates are very hopeful thut a complete agreement jvill bo reached on this subject. . ; President Wilson is thoroughly en joying tho trip his second successive day of coniplet relaxation. King Vic tor Emmnnual's private train, which was placed at the disposal of tho presi dential party, is the very acme of com fortable luxury, its nine coaches jr in charge of the king's persona staff. President and Mrs. Wilson's ear is ia the center of the train. Its exterior is of tho sa.do dark blue as tho other coaches and is emblazoned with the roy al coat of arms. Its interior is a com bination of mahogany and blue satiu. A small ut enthusiastic crowd gath ered at the station iv Paris yesterday evening to wist thu President bon voy age. In response to repeated cheers, ho canio out on the vestibulo just bcfm ;the train left and stood hat in .hand bowing and smiling, but made no specett