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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

Miss Luca Smith and Miss Minnie
coehring went 60 Portland this morning
a pass few days. This noon they
we're hostcsses at a pretty luncheon
,riyen at the Multnomah Hotel in honor
a several of their sorority sisters in
T1brIand. Both Miss Smith and Miss
acchring are members OF the Aipha
mi Beta. They are connected with
fAe Salem schools this winter, Miss
smith being supervisor Of music and
Miss Gochring an instructor in the
Grant school. They win return to Sa
lem the first Of next week.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Smith of Leba-
non, who have been the guests Of Mr..
Smith 3 parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. d.
Smith at their home on Center street,
for a few days, left for Lebanon to-
dsy. They were returning from Port
land where Mr.. Smith underwent an
operation at the Good Samaritan hos
pital. Mr.. Smith met with serious
automobile accident this summer, from
which he never fully recovered, but
since the recent surgical operation in
Portland has shown decided improve
mont.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Livesley accom-
panied by Mr.. and Mrs. W. L. Nc
Dougal returned home yesterday from
Portland, having motored up Thurs
day Mr.. McDougal arrived in Portland
Thursday evening from Camp Pike
Arkansas, where he has been stationed
for the past six months.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

Mrs. Zadoc Riggs, who has taken up
the study of pharmacy at the North
Pacific College in Portland, returned to
Salem last night to pass the holiday
season with her husband.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

Mrs. Ralph White will entertain the
members of her dancing classes next
week at two attractively planned par
ties to be given at Cotillion hall. Her
Wednesday night clsss will assemble
for an evening of dancing Friday
night. All former adult pupils Of Mrs.
White : are extended an invitation to
this affair as well as those Of this
season. Dancing will begin at nine
o clock. The little people in the juve.
nile class will be given gay Juvenile
party Saturday afternoon from two to
four at Cotilhon hall.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

An informal military dance win be
given by the members of Company NJ,
Oregon National Guard, Tuesday night,
December 81, at the Armory.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

Among the Salem girls attending the
Oregon Agricultural College, who are
arriving home for a fortnight's Christ.
mas vacation are Miss Gertrude East,
the daughter Of Mrs. s. s. East and
Miss Dorothy Buchncr, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. w. +. Buchner.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

Miss Harriet Griffith is among the
school maids of the younger set in
Salem to return home for the holiday
gaieties. She is expected down tonight
from Portland, where she is attending
Miss Catlin's school. Miss Griffith is
the younger daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Irwin Griffith.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

Mrs John Maurer has returned from
a pleasant visit at Eugene, where she
passed several days this week as the
guest of Mrs. Vernon Parsons.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Fleming were
hosts Tuesday night for the Merry-Go-
Round club, the members assembling
at their home on Court street for an
enjoyable evening of five hundred. The
high scores fell to MRS. j. N. Smith
and A. N. Moores. Mr.. and Mrs. @. W.
,AIlcn were bidden as additional guests
A Yuletide atmosphere was SIMPLY
suggested in the attractive decorations
about the rooms. The evening culminat-
ed pleasantly with the serving hour.
dr. and Mrs j. N. Smith will entertain
4he club next time.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

Miss Constance Cartwright, an in
structor at Pacific University, will en-
Joy weeks vacation at her home in
Salem, having come down from Forest
Grove last night,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

Or. and Mrs. r. Z. Lee Steiner are
expecting Mr.. and Mrs. W. G. kerron
.ef Portland as their guests for CHRIST
snas The visitors will arrivo in Salem
Tuesday sharing the festivities attend
ant upon the family dinner for when
DIR. and Mrs. Steiner will be hosts We'd
ncsday. when Mr.. and Mrs. Milton
Meyers. Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Denton
and Mrs. q. Steiner, will be numbered
among the guests.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

Miss Margery Kay arrived home last
night from Eugene, to enjoy two
weeks vacation with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Kay, Miss Kay is a
popular University of Oregon student.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

An enjoyable reunion will take place
at the home of Mrs. William Goodrich
over the holidays, when the families
of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Savage Of Til
lamook, Mr.. and Mrs. c. G. Simeral and
Mr.. and Mrs. G. F. Patton of Portland
will assemble in Salem for the family
gathering.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

Mr.. and Mrs. William Burghardt, Jr.
will be among the Salem folk, who will
partake of the Yuletide festivities in
Portland, going down next Tuesday to
pass Christmas day with frienos.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

Mrs. D. A. Hodge is expecting her
daughter, Miss Ruth Hodge, teacher
in the high school at Oakland, Oregon,
home for Christmas. Owing to the ne
ccssitated closing of schools during the
Influenza epidemic, the Oakland high
school win have vacation only Christ.
mas day. Miss Hodge will probably ar
rive Tuesday night.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry j. Talbot will
be the guests during the Yuletide sea
son of their daughter, Mrs. Luther F.
Steele, Of Portland.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Hall priscilla
Fleming) Of Portland, will be guests
over Christmas, of Mrs. Halls parents,
Mr.. and Mrs.. R. B. Fleming.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
S Dead in Billiards.
SUeep Ouer MICHIGAN

DETROIT, Jan. 12.-With tempera-
lures ranging from 10 to 20 degrees
below zero and wind at times attain
ing sixty miles an hour, Michigan to-
night experienced one of the worst win
ter storms in years. Five deaths and
numerous cases of suffering from ex-
posure were reported, while the immi-
ncnce Of a milk famine and shortage of
fuel added to the seriousness of the
situation.
Two trainmen, a conductor and a
brak man, ~while protecting the rear
end of their train stalled in a drift in
jackson County, were struck and killed
by another train. Another railroad en-
ploye dropped dead of exhaustion at
Albion. Two persons were reported
frozen to death in Detroit. All activi-
ties at Camp Custer, the National Army
camp near Battle Creek, were suspend
ed early in the day. Numerous cases
of frozen faces and frost-bitten ears
were reported there.
All over the state the situation was
the same-streetcar traffic demoralized,
trains stalled and country roads i'm
paSSable.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Blizzard Has Paralyzed
Chicago; Menace of
CONFEDERATION Seen

CHICAGO, Jan. Chicago took
over sector of the Arctic Circle to-
day. Its commercial and industrial
blood was frozen in its veins. The city
had Do per cent recovered from the
blizzard Of last Sunday when the new
storm, with the added craelty of mer-
curry drop to minus IL, came upon it.
NO storm so farreaching in it's ef-
fects ever before afflicted the city.
Fire Marshal O'Connor, speaking of
snow-buried hydrants and impossible
streets, issued a statement calling on
the public for aid, and asserted that
the menace of a confagration was the
greatest since 1871. Fine snow fell all
last night and all to-day, and, while
the column in the official thermometer
rose slowly to zero as the day wore
on. the industrial mercury sank.
Most statements of the situation be-
gin with the word "No"-no trains. no
taXicabs, no coal, no milk, no produce
celved at the stock yards, no schools
next week, no department stores since
. O'Clock this afternoon, and innumer-
able minor "No's." There was even no
further work of the city's snow SHOW
oilers, for it was regarded as merely
humane, in the bitter cold, to send
them to their homes to thaw out.
Department stores, which were not
doing any business anyway, closed at
3 p. m. to conserve fuel. President
Davis of the Board Of Education an
nounced that the public schools would
be closed all next week, and instructed
that 10000 schoolboys report to their
principals as usual next Monday morn
ing with shovels and other appropriate
implements to attack the snow block
ade.
There were practically no trains,
suburban or otherwise. Tens of thou
sands Of men and women, boys and
girls were unable to reach their places
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

far south as Birmingham, Ala. while
in North Dakota the thermometer went
to 32 degrees below zero and it was
only IL degrees hig~,er in many parts
of the Middle West.
The cold wave was accompanied by
high wind in many sections, while IN
the West there was heavy snow, when
blocked railroad traffic in several states
on both sides Of the Mississippi River
Inability Of the railroads to deliver
shipments of coal urgently needed in
many sections. particularly in Ohio and
Michigan, was expected greatly to in
crease the suffering caused by the
storm.
The snowstorm was expected to pass
tonight, the Weather Bureau reported.
and with it's abatement it was expected
that railroad traffic would soon be re-
sumed. Wire service was so demor
allied by the storm, however, that full
operation Of some roads may be de-
layed several days.
New York and New England tonight
had not felt the full severity of the
cold wave, reports to the Weather Bu-
rcau showed but temperatures there
were falling rapidly and much colder
weather was forecast for tomorrow.
In the South the cold extended far
into Florida, and the cold along the
Gulf Coast was severe, the thermome-
ter registering l8 below freezing at
Mobile and 20 below freezing at New
Orleans.
The minimum temperature reported
to-day at Chicago was ~ below zero.
with colder weather expected tonight.
1t was 20 degrees below at Fort Wayne,
l6 below at st. Louis and even 8 below
at Memphis. At Birmingham, Ala, it
was above,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Urge "Half Time"
Plan to Save Fuel
Jersey Officials Would Have
All American Industries
Curtail Work

New Jersey fuel administration Off
cials suggested yesterday that the
whole United States be placed on "half
time" as regards coal consumption.
They urged it as a matter Of justice
to New Jersey. which, they declare, has
been hardest hit of all the states by
the fuel famine.
IL have been urging for two weeks
the limitation Of all industries in the
country to three working days week,
in order to conserve COAL" said state
ment issued by Richard c. Jenkinson,
state fuel administrator at is unfair
that the industries now on half time
in this state should have to endure this
handicap, while industries in other
states not SO badly affected by the coal
famine should continue full time. The
fuel shortage should be made equally
the burden of the whole country"
1t is matter of saving the labor Of
the state also, Mr.. Jenklnson declared.
The half-time power rule inaugurated
several days ago by the Public Service
Corporation affects about 1000 mills
and factories, the operatives of which,
it is feared, will seek other fields to
avoid the wage loss, which has been
estimated at nearly $50O,00O day.
All the industries of Newark and
other Essex County cities and towns,
which receive their power from the
Public Service Corporation, We're shut
down yesterday. Those of Hudson
Passaic, Union, MiddleseX and Somer-
set counties, which were closed Friday
put in full day yesterday. but they
tives will be idle again tomorrow.
Two more deaths, the result of ex-
posure, were reported yesterday al
Overlook Hospital for the Insane
This makes total of eighteen for the
first twelve days of January, numbe,
equal to the death roll for the entire
month Of January. 1917.
The Essex County Grand Jury is in
vestigating conditions eat the hospital
resulting from the cold weather.
The Board of Freeholders issued :
statement yesterday disclaming all re
sponsiblity and laying blame upon tn,
contractors who undertook to suppl,
new boilers. but failed to make deliv
cries on time. This failure, it was said
was due, first, to error in bids, and the]
to delays on the railroads
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
N. Y. Central Saves
Millions of Miles
Of Train Running
100000 Miles a Year Cut
of by the New
Schedules

Alfred A. Smith, president of the
New York Central Railroad, yesterday
announced reductions in service on that
line which become effective to-day to
economizc in fuel and man power.
Trains have been merged, those of least
Importance eliminated and parlor car
service reduced, with the result, it is
said, that 100000 passenger miles a
year have been saved. with minimum
OF Inconvenience to the public
Three of the through trains between
Buffalo and New York have been dis
continued, among them being the New
YORKER Two have been discontinued
between Buffalo and Wcehawken on
che West Shore.
The Empire State Express" which
has been running between New York
and Buffalo for over twenty-five wears.
has been restricted to one parlor car
in each direction. A very large num-
Der of parlor cars have been with
drawn from local service, also mum
ber from through trains. Parlor cars
between New York and Montreal. in
connection with the Delaware e. Hudson
and Rutland. have been taken off. and
passengers transfer at Albany to and
from each road.
ASIDE from the discontnuance of
obscrVatlon cars, large number Of
sleeping cars have been discontinued.
together with the compartment lounge
car. which has been running between
New York and Cleveland, also COM
partment cars.
The night train for the Adrondacks
has been turned into a local and con-
sol!dated with other service, and the
sleeping cars have been put on one of
our remaining through trains.
Through service on the Harlem divi.
sion between New York and North
Adams has been restricted to one
through train daily instead of two.
To help the freight situation on the
west side of New York City, all pas
senger service between Thirtietl
Street and Spuyten Duyvil has beer
temporarily withdrawn.
Sleeping car service from New Yorl
to Niagara Falls has been discontinued
ana passengers are required to trans
fer at Buffalo.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Plans Take Shape to
Curtail Use of Coal
In Manv Industries

WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.-Immediate
application of the Fuel Administra-
tion's plan for curtailing the use Of
coal by the less essential industries
was in sight tonight as a means Of
relieving the coal famine in the East.
Some industries may be asked to shut
down for three days a week
Wide powers have been given to
state fuel administrators in apportion-
ing coal, but the general policy is to
reduce the consumption of less essen
tial industries by voluntary co0pera-
ton. In emergency cases, however. the
local fuel authorities have been notl
fed they may take drastic measures.
To relieve shortages in Ohio and
Michigan. DR.. Garfield to-day directed
operators in the Pittsburgh, Fairmont,
Kanawha, Kenova, Thacker, Eastern
Kentucky, Jellicoe and Ohio districts
to give preferential shipments for ten
days to coal for the two states. The
coal will be distributed by the State
Fuel administrators. The following tel
cgram was sent to the operators in the
fields named:
at is absolutely necessary to in
crease shipments Of coal to Ohio and
Michigan points for a period of ten
days. At the present time there are
communities entirely out of coal and
immediate attention should be given
to orders you have on file for consum-
ers in these two states, and the Fuel
Admins tration requests your earnest
cooperation in shipments to Ohio and
Michigan and that you may discon-
tinuc, as far as possible. shipments tc
other points west. except coal Tor pub
lie utilities and by-product plants
Secretary Lane and f. S. Peabody
chairman Of the Coat Production Boart
! Of the Council of National Defence
/ have been requested to testify before
the Senate committee investigating
coal Tho Governors of Indiana ant
Iowa have been invited to appear. i
they have any suggestions to make TO
relieving the fuel shortage.
The committee to-day investigated
the fuel shortage in the national capi
tai
Lack of coal caused the loss of 3,81
working hours in paper mills durin
December, the Federal Trade Commits
sion reported to-day. During the las
week Of the month twenty-seven ma
chimes were idle because Of fuel short
age.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
72-Mile Wind, Snow, Rain
and Flood Do Heavy
Damage Here
Trains Are Delayed;
3 Coal Barges Sunk
Passengers Hurt When Six
Long Island r. r. Coaches
Are Derailed

Having experienced an cquinoctial
thunderstorm, n gale, spring freshets
and April warmth all in the course of
twelve hours yesterday, New York and
vicinity last night faced zero weather,
predicted by the Weather Bureau for
to-day.
With the storm centre somewhere
over Easterp Canada, however, the Sc
we're cold will be shortlvcd, the
meteorologists said.
By tomorrow, it is predicted, it will
have moderated considerably, without
coming near to the record 13 below
registered ten days ago.
The official thermometer stood at SO
degrees yesterday morning at o'clock.
At last night it recorded "a degrees
At 10 o'clock it was 10 and dropping
rapidly. BY 8 o'clock this morning, the
stand Approximately at Zeroa drop Of
90 degrees in twentyfour hours, due to
reversal Of the Weather conditions
which produced the gale.
Freaky weather conditions still pres
vailed last night. 1t began showing q
little after 10 o'clock, but the fore
caster did not think this would con-
tlnue long enough to produce a Slip
perry coating for to-day.
Wind and Rain Do Big Damage
These were some Of the things
achieved here yesterday by the 72-mle
gale and the rainstorm:
Caused a washout on the Long ISL
and Railroad at Whtepor Road. where
Il siX-car train from Rockaway Beach
was PARTLY dcrailed ana six passcn-
gers injured.
Flooded waterfront streets Of New
York and New JERSEY cities knee deep.
Backed up the tide in the Hudson
River. putting ferry house floors under
water and pouring a torrent down into
the Hobokcn terminal of the Hudson
tunnels that drove passengers out in
terror.
Delayed all suburban trains and
trolley cars in low-lying sections Of
New Jersey and Long Island.
Tied up the Erie Railroad ferry SER
vice entirely for an hour and half
by flooding the Jersey terminal
Blew the municipal ferryboat Rich
mond from it's moorings at St. George,
between Staten Island and the Statue
Of Liberty until Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad tugboats got hawsers aboard
and towed the vessel back to port.
Wrecked boats and yachts in ia
maica Bay and Long Island Sound.
Floated away summer lodges. small
villas and shacks close to the water
at various resorts.
Turned the Hampstead town hall and
the Mineola courthouse into islands in
the centre of lakes hundreds of feet
wide and from one to three feet deep.
Gale ~ Miles an Hour
The storm broke just before dawn.
BY daylight troubles throughout the
metropolitan area had begun. The gale
ragged ticrcely for two hours, reaching a
maximum velocity of seventytwo miles
an hour. Patrons of the lodging houses
along the waterfront were forced to
wade knee deep through water in the
streets. Early commuters reached
riverside terminals only to find streets
and ferryhouses flooded. Longshore-
men made tobacco money carrying men
and women back and forth in the
flooded areas
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Big Liner in Collision

The Porto Rico Line steamship Car
olina, outward bound with fifty pas
sengers aboard, was in collision with
an unidentified vessel last night, and
was so badly damaged about the bow
that she was beached near Bay Ridge
to prevent sinking.
. The accident occurred shortly after
6 while the Carolina was steaming
through Ambrose Channel. She was
abreast of the Ambrose light at the
time of the collision. The other yes
sci, believed to have been tramp.
at once backed away and was lost in
the darkness.
Government tugs and pilot boats
went tQ the rescue of the liner which
had large hole stove in her star
board bow With their help she man.
aged to reach the beach at Bay Ridge.
No one aboard the Carolina was in
jured by the accident.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
3 Killed, 20 Hurt, When
Gale Upsets Stack
60-Mile Wind Hurls Brick Ch;m-
ney on Workers in Lynn
+ Factory

LYNN, Mass. Jan. IA sixty-milc
gale that came out of the northwest
with unexpected fury, swept over the
waterfront section here to day and sent
a big brick smokestack crashing
through the. roof at the sprague Box
Company plant on Broad Street, in
which two hundred men and women
were at work.
AS the mass of debris fell it caught
and mangled many of the operatives
three of whom were killed and more
than a score injured With the first
cries from the injured, pinned down by
falling timbers, the police and rescue
parties worked desperately. as fears
were expressed that the wreckage soon
would be roaring flame. There was
no fire, however, and this preventes d
greater loss Of life.
The smokestack, a square structure
measuring II feet at the base, towere
more than SO feet above the roof of the
factory. 1t toppled over and struck tho
roof with report that resembled n
explosion.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Ma jor Gardner Ill
Of Pneumonia in Camn

MACON. Ga, Jan. -. = Major Au
gustus p. Gardner, of the 121st In
fantry, formerly Representative from
Massachusetts, is i'll of pneumonia at
the base hospital, and his condition is
causing some uneasness.
Major Gardner, son-in-law of SEN
ator Lodge, recently was reduced from
colonel, which he held as division
adjutant, at his request. so he could
be assigned as line officer and go to
France He was the first Congressman
to resign to enter the army when war
was declared
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Small, Wife Slayer, Fails of
Retrial in New Hamnsh;re

OSSIPEE, N. H., Jan 12.-Chief
Justice Kivel of the Superior Court to-
day dismissed petition for "a new trial
for FREDERICK l.. Small, sentenced to be
hanged at Concord, Tuesday, for the
murder Of his wife.
A special meeting of the Governors
council was called for Monday after
noon at Concord to consider the case.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Storm Stops Sale of
Pennsylvania Tickets

PHILADELPHIA Jan. 12.-The Penn
sylvania Railroad announced tonight
that it had placed temporary en-
bargo on the sale of tickets to all
points on its main line between Pitts
burgh and Chicago, because of the
storm "
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Nation Swept by
Worst Cold Wave
In Nineteen Years

WASHINGTON. Jan. 1.-The coldest
weather experienced in the United States
since 1899 tonight extended from the
Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Coast
and from the lakes to the Gulf. Zero
temperatures were registered almost as
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-03-02
SCOUTS NEED NOT BE CADETS.

BY agreement between the military
training commission of the state Of
New York and the Boy Scouts OF
America, a scouting unit has been or
ganized under the state military train
ing act. Other states may do this
also.
The purpose Of the law Is to provide
military trimming for periods aggre-
eating not more than three hours a
week between the 1st of September
and the 18th Of June for boys between
sixteen and eighteen, inclusive.
Recognizing the military and civic
value Of training in scouting and pa
trolling the military training commits
sion has deemed It advisable to estab-
Msh scouting unit, ranking with the
Industrial, farm and military training
units.
This unit is composed of duly reg
Istered members of the troops Of the
Boy Scouts of America who are be-
tween sixteen and eighteen. inclusive.
Boys enrolled as members of the
scouting unit are not required to at
tend the drills Of the military training
unit or battalion. hut Will march in
assemblies with the scouting unit.