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MDE THREE TIMES TMHHIGHMIHUBE IS WIRELESS OPERATOR | Deliver* Message* Which Perhaps 8aved Battalion of British From Extermination— Three Horsea Shot Under Him. BRITISH GIRLS STUDY RADIO T o Be Used cn Land Stations When Efficient, Later in Coastwise Shipping. London.— English girls are taking up wireless telegraphy. The Marconi company has started a special school fo r training women In wireless tele graphy at Its North Wales station. A t present the company Is tnklng only women o f experience In Morse teleg raphy, but this Is only a temporary re* striction. The course deals with slip reading, punching, record reading and the gen eral duties o f a wireless station. The girls will be drafted to land stations when efficient and w ill go on night duty In rotation. • It Is not proposed to extend the use o f women to ships fo r the present, but I f this Is to be altered It probably will apply only to coastwise shipping. FIRM OFFERS ENTIRE OUTFIT Contractors W illing to Give Service* and Complete Roadmaking Out fit to United States. Pittsburgh.— The firm o f James H. McQunde & Co., a Pittsburgh contract ing firm, has offered to the govern ment the services o f father and two sons, together with a complete road making outfit, to be assigned to duty anywhere, at home or abroad, during the period o f the war at a nominal cost o f $1 a year. W hile the tender practically menus a cessation o f the contracting firm's business, .lames McQtmie, the head of the firm, said it me- nothing more than a desire to rally round the col ors In what they conquered their best capacity. WEAPON DOES STARTLING STUNTS Third Blow o f Flaillike Implemt.,,. Puts Out U-Boat’s Eye emd A l lied Crew Escapes. IS SIVEN VICTORIA CROSS , HIS Thrilling Story of Trawler Skip per’s Exploit. Indian Rajput at Camdrai Es capes Without Scratch in Oaring Mission. London— Lieut. Goblnd Singh has the Victoria Cross and he earned It. H e Is a Rajput from Indlu and he Is a brave mun. Three times he dashed Into what seemed almost certain death and he eseuped without a scratch, al though the horses were shot from un der him. And furthermore he deliv ered messages which perhaps saved a battalion from extermination. There la no prouder Indian In Great Britain or France than Lleuterihnt Singh. It Is nothing unusual to see a soldier sa lute when he passes— Just out o f ad miration. Braves Barrage Fire. It was ut Cambral that he went through the bullet-swept areas to de liver his precious messages. The offi cer In command o f his battalion felt-It Imperative to send word to the gener al staff, and volunteers were asked for. There was no other way to communi cate. Lieutenant Singh offered his services. H e mounted a horse and fared forth Into No Man’s Land. Five Others had volunteered and been killed In the rain o f machine gun bullets from the German lines, but a few hundred yards away. Singh galloped at full apeed Into the region o f death. He Is a skillful ldder and his charger was ex perienced. A short distance away his horse fell under him. The Indian fin ished his trip o f 600 yards a fo o t The message required a reply and he volunteered to deliver It. H e sallied forth on another horse and with hla body glued to that animal he plunged ahead with the machine gun fire again playing on him. A second time his horse was killed. H e finished this journey also on foot running as sw ift ly as his trained legs could carry him. His colleagues cheered him as he drop ped Into the friendly trench and- all agreed that he led a charmed life. ' Makes Third Trip. But his task was not finished. His officer found that If one more message could he sent to the staff the battalion might be rescued. Singh said he would go a third time. The officers offered him his choice o f horses and he select ed a splendid animal, which he ca ressed before undertaking the last and most dangerous dash o f nil. The dis tance he had to go was a mile and a half. H e covered almost half the dis tance and heard not a shot. But In stantly a barrage started from the Ger man guns. A British sentinel In a shell hole warned him to pause, saying no human being could get through the curtain o f shell fire alive. But Singh Ignored the warning. H e spurred his horse to new speed. A shell struck the animal and almost tore It to pieces. Singh dropped to the ground and half crawling and h alf dragging himself he finished his perilous Journey without receiving a bullet wound. T o the as tonishment o f the officers who had watched with breathless excitement his plunge through the shadow o f death the Indian asked If he were to make a return trip. H e was told It was not necessary. A short time later, due to the order he had delivered, his battalion was rescued from a most dah- gerous position. SHOVEL London.— When one's vessel Is In | danger from enemy submarines any thing will do as a weapon o f defense, ] as is shown by the story o f a captain I o f a British traw ler who used a coal I shovel with good effect against a Ger- man-U-boat. The trawler, according [ to the story told by one o f the crew, was in the North sea In a stiff breeze when the skipper saw a periscope j crawl through the breaking surface o f | the sea about a hundred yards off. There was no gun aboard and the traw ler’s best speed was less than eight knots. “ It was a situation to dismay most men,” said the seaman. “ Our skipper, however, has n fighting spirit. A touch o f the wheel sent the traw ler’s blunt bows pointing at the submarine’s whaleback, and, we wallowed menac ingly toward the pirate. “ The U-boat swung round to avoid the Impact and the sides o f the traw- ler scraped along the sides o f the sub- mnrine. The periscope still wns well out o f the water but wns beginning to slip down ns the submarine dived. “ The skipper bawled fo r a hammer, a crowbar, anything that would hurt. One o f the crew thrust a coal shovel Into his hand and he scrambled on the bulwarks and leaned over, two o f the crew banging on to hls coat so that he wouldn’t fall overboard. Backward Dn<1 forward he swung the heavy scoop at tbe fragile periscope, and the third blow reduced It to fragments. “ The submarine* commander, hearing ! the noise and wondering what new and horrible device the enemy had Invent ed, crept to hls periscope to have a look, but all was black. H e was blind, and the traw ler got away In safety. J Miss Elizabeth Duval, wireless op erator on the steamship Howard which plies between Baltimore and Norfolk and Savannah and Jacksonville. Th« young lady Is the first o f her sex -tc hold that position on an ocean-going steamship. She has just obtained het certificate as an American seaman. -u-_r_-u-i ,.IU, _ _ _ SAVING THE WOUNDED Red Cross Is Doing Heroic Work in France. Qeorgla Soldier Says, “ They All Work ed Like Dogs In That Hell Out There." Washington.— “ Test the nerve o f those Americans,” evidently was the order given to the German soldiers facing the sector held by our boys In France, and gas shells and all other methods were used. Completely re pulsed as the Germans were, the test must have been anything but reassur ing to them ! A correspondent talked with some o f the American soldiers wounded in the attack. One youth, whose home Is In Savannah, Oa„ and who looked to be not more than eighteen years old, made the following highly complimen tary reference to the American Red Cross stretcher-bearers and nmbulance drivers : “ I ’ve sure got to hand It to those men with the Red Cross on their arms. They all worked like dogs In that hell out there. They seemed to have but one Idea— to do their duty— and appar ently cared nothing fo r their own lives while doing It. They were game right to the core.” In this connection It may be said that there are a certain number of men who wear the Red Cross whose names are on the casualty list. I f any one has thought that a Red Cross worker goes out on a battlefield only a f ter the firing has censed and brings In the wounded, this statement by a sol dier will correct the wrong Impression. Stretcher-bearers work under fire— and the Germans have not hesitated to fire upon Red Cross workers. The knowledge thnt the Red Cross workers will be at hls side almost as quickly ns he fnlls wounded, to take him to the first-aid station and subse- qnently to the hoifpltnls, has given great comfort to the Amerlcnn troops. RAISE FISH DESERTER RETURNS TO FIGHT 8ay* Country Needs More Men a* Ha Surrenders to Police at Con- nellsville, Pa. Connellsvllle, Pa.— Saying the “ coun try needs more men,” W illiam V. Cur ry o f Marysville, K.v., gave himself up to Police Lieutenant Thomas McDon ald as a deserter from the United States Marine corps. Curry says he ran away from hls division at Newport News, V a„ in Au gust, 1916. Since the outbreak o f the war with Germany he said that he has been constantly tortured by remorse, and when he heard o f the sinking of the Tuscanla he could stand It no long er. “ The country needs more men,” he said, “ and I might as well be back If Uncle Sara w ill have me.” FOOD COSTS 9 CENTS MORE 8tudent Who Has Been Living on 23 Cents a Day Find* He Must Pay More. G reenberg, Pa.— Roy R. Mumma o f Jeanette, Pa., who, while a student at Carnegie Institute o f Technology has been living on 23 cents a day, has had to Increase hls budget H e Is now liv ing on 32 cents a day. Since he graduated from Tech last June Mumma fonnd a Job, saved $400, took unto himself a w ife and has just been accepted as a private In the radio- mechanics branch o f the. aviation serv ice. Mumma’s diet program Includes broad- m,,k- cereals, cocoa, rice, pea- nut buttPr- fnilt. eggs, meat, gelatin, oleomargarine and even pie. , HOHENZOLLERNS DOOMED IN BACK YARD President of National Aquarium So ciety Sponsor for Latest in Con- servation of Food. St. Louts.— I f yon want to help Uncle Sam win the war raise fish In your back yard. The new food conservation scheme is going to be tried out here j with the slogan, “ Keep ten fish In youn bnck yard.” S. Chichester Lloyd, president o f the t National Aqnnrlum society. Is sponsor fo r the Idea and suggests It be adopt ed all over the nation. Lloyd In hls ! hack yard last year raised 20,000 fish In three 500-gallon pools. With little care the average city j dtveller with hack yard space enn raise all the fish he needs for hls j table, says Lloyd. Many types o f the ! finny tribe are eatable at the end o f j the first season, he declares. T'ne Ger man carp Is said to be the most popn- j lar and It Is pointed out Is a habitue ■ o f every back yard in Germany. \ S-S-S-SURRENDER? C-C-CERTAINLY NOT! N ew York.— About to be re jected at recruiting headquar ters o f the Marine corps here because he stammers. Solis Sol omon O'Hanna said: “ Dl-look Here, d-d-d’you w-w-war.t a t-t-talklng m-m-mnn or a f-f-f-flglitlng m-m-mnn? Pm a f-f-f-fighting m-m-mnn, lt-but I c-e-an’t g-g-get my words out q-q-q-qulck enough to s-s-s-say a-s-s-surrender If the whole d-d-d—-d O-O-Oermnn army's on t-t-tep o’ me.” The recruiting officer was greatly Impressed and took the case under advisement. “ Hair-raising stunts" by student aviators may seem foolhardy to the aver«s e civilian, but the knowledge of them w l'l e,,ve many lives in aerial battle, according to Lieut. Col. Charles ^-ce o f ^the British Royal I lying corps, who has been startling Wash- Ington fo r several days with seemingly impossible feats In the air. Colonel Lee’s demonstrations have done much to lessen the criticism In official Wash ington that student flyers have been killed because o f foolhardy tricks rather than in straight flying at Am er ican training fields: “ The eo-called danger o f flying lies not with those who do stunts In the air,” says Colonel Lee, “ but with those who cannot do them. Unless a pilot can turn hls ma chine any way and every way at any time In order to maneuver fo r position, all the straight flying In the world w ill not help him when he has a fight.” According to an ancient German legend the fall o f the house o f Hoheq- zollem will come when the statue o f ! “ Christ on the Cross,” a relic o f the seventh centnry which stands In Kaysersburg, decays. The statue 4 )os been fastly decaying In the past few years, and since the w ar the authort- ties have been continuously repairing the damaged parts because o f the e f fect o f the destruction o f the statue would have on the people fam iliar with the aneient legend. NEW AIRPLANE BULLET Special Cartridge Which Sur passes Any in Use. W ill Pierce Armor, Flight Can Be Been Day or Night and la In cendiary. Washington.— The war department authorizes the follow in g: The present w ar brought forth a new kind o f ammunition fo r airplane S , . 0' , I SOME REASONS WHY WHEAT MUST BE SAVED “ A Man Cannot Think. Work or Fight Whsn He is Hungry” — We Must Feed Our Soidierc. "W e have the preservation of the world oil cur hands. Every single living human being in this republic, from ocean to crean, should make it his or her special purpose to save food." These are the words of E. F. Cullen, personal representative of Herbert C. Hoover, In a recent address. “ Men will resist any power but the power of starvation,” said Mr. Cullen "Hunger in the final analysis, is the only force that can weaken a nation ard demoralize an army. Food is strength, and without a perpetual sup ply of strength, the world can stand in danger of tottering, weakening and falling Into utter chaos. A man can not thick, work or fight If he is hun gry. * “ The alltee today are practically wholly dependent upon the United Staths for food. Upon this nation rests the responsibility of preserving the world from Prusslanism. This is the taik bf the people of this nation— to produce and save food enough to keep a steady stream of essential sup- plies moving towards the front so long as It shall be necessary to wage this war. If at any time we fail in thl*. we must Inevitably go down, with the allies, to defeat. This is no ex aggeration, but a serious fact. It Is the purpose of the United States Food Administration to bring the realiza tion of this fact home to every Am eri can man, woman and child, and to en list the individual aid of our hundred million people In producing and sav ing food. The Food Administration is not asking you to eat less; it only urges that you substitute one nutri tious food for another equally nutri tious food, thus saving the vital ato pies needed by our armies and th* armies and peoples of the allies. W e must, during the next three months, save wheat especially. Our surplus has already been shipped abroad, and a hundred million busheis more are needed. When you eat a slice of bread less, omit th* crackers with your soup, or otherwise conserve on wheat prod ucts, you are contributing towards the hundred million bushels needed over there by our fighting men and tha exhausted people o f Belgium, Franc* and England who havo tor more than three years beeh bearing the brunt of this war, which Is our war. Keep this In mind, and bring It before the minds of your thoughtless friends and nslgji- bors." SLOGANS STATEWIDE! Contestants For Liberty Loan Prize W idely Scattered. NEARLY TO W N EVERY C O U N TY AND IN OREGON IS REPRE. SENTEO IN ■r ftE M A T E R IA L SUB. MITTEO TO COMMITTEE. Slogans from over the entire slato were submitted for use In the Thlrh •Liberty Loan campaign, in the recent slogan contest, for the best of which a $50 Liberty Bond Is to be awarded opening day, April 6. Among the slogans which were con* sldered by the committee as possess* tng high merit and worthy of especial mention, are the following which a r » representative of the entire state: Open your purse — help kill th * curse. Miss Hazel McCoy, Dufur; buy a bond that binds Democracy, W. P. McMasters, Mills City; the Kaiser groans at Liberty Loans. Nettle Pago Scofield, Newberg; Liberty Loans a r* Liberty's stepping stones, Mrs. J. D. Slater, La Grande; bury the K aiser with Liberty Bonds, Geo. A. Barden. Grants Pass; Uphold the colors with liberty dollars. Mrs. Edward Hill. 'Marshfield: Over there our boys a r* watching, H. K. Donnelly, Salem Break Liberty's chains— Invest your gains, Buena Fisher, Dallas; Sow bonds— reap victory, Mias Elva S. Hall, Vauora; Build freedom’s foun* datiou with Liberty Bonds, C. E. Logs* den, Junction City; Our country’s arJ mor— Liberty Bonds, C. W. Collier. Milwaukie; The Liberty Bond is vie* tory’s wand, H. E. Allen, Hillsboro;) Gold were dross with freedom’s loss. Count that day lost, whose low de scending sun, . sees nothing done toi beat the Hun, both by T. P. McAn* drews, Baker; Your little mite m ay win the fight, Mollle E. Strlaght, Oretl gon City; Protect your homes withi Liberty Loans, Lonna Powell, Bakerd Buy a bond— bridge the pond, Mrs. HS M. McKenna, Astoria; W e ’ll bridge the pond frith Liberty Bonds, M. B va Duel, Eugene; Join the band at Lib erty’s stand, Mrs. L. R. Whitney, Van couver, Wash.: Another Liberty Loan insures Entente success, W llna Debill. Am ity; Provide Pershing power to punish Prusslanism. The following slogans are a few o t those submitted by residents o f Port land In the contest: Fight, buy, or show us why, Grace N. Crow; Patriots all, subscribe to the call, A. R. Vandervlelen; Liberty, Loans protect what you own, W. W . Lawton; Our bonds dictate our sol f o o d a d m in is t r a t io n f a c t s diers’ fate, Mrs. D. W. Jackson; H avo a heart, do your part, They also servo i One ounce less of meat each day who only lend, Jennie A. Marshall;( for everyone means a saving o f 4,- Yankee Doodle dollars do or die, K eep 400,000 meat animals a year. Save the home funds fighting, W, S. Kirk your ounce. The sacrifice Is small, patrick; ’Tis freedom's call— lend your but the result for your country ia all, Be no shirker, be a worker, Flor large. ence B. Hoyt; Save America's fato from German hate, J. N. Reeves; Tho 1,185,000 tons of sugsr will be saved Liberty Loan safeguards the home. the first year If each of us uses one J. H. Mason; For county and home— ounce less each day. This will keep 'Liberty Loan/ Geo. E. H all; Be o sugar plentiful and cheap. backer, not a slacker, H. O. Furnish? Subscribe to loan, protect your home. The Allies are all In the same boat, Miss Myrtle Bates; Can you deny a long way from shore and on limited while others die, Anna Lavtlle Mc rations—and Uncle Sam is running Pherson; Ronds are better than Prus the relief ship. It's up to us to save sian fetters, Ruth Helen Underhill. the cargo. tracing, and incendiary purposes. With the progress o f the war the more vital parts o f the airplane w ere protected with light armor, so that It became necessary to Introduce the ar mor-piercing bullet. A s the gasoline tanks were particu larly susceptible to Incendiary explo sion, It was necessary to procure a bullet containing an Inflammable sub stance, Ignited upon discharge, which would carry the spark o f flame Into the tank upon piercing It. As the target, the enemy airplane, was within fighting range fo r only b rief moments at a time, and as there w ere no means o f determining the fire effect as on land, a tracer bullet con taining a bright-burning composition, Reduction, Production — th* 1918 HOW RETURNS ARE NOTED which would Indicate the puth o f the bullet in daylight as well as In dark watchwords. Map System to Be Used During Thir^ ness, and thereby allow the aim o f the Liberty Loan Drive. Food will win the war. Sav* I t machine gun to be corrected, was In Returns from the various rountlea Produce It troduced. The composition Is set on of the state will be Indlrated at the fire upon discharge and the bullet files Oregon State Centra? Liberty Loan If you run your household on three through the ulr as a brlRht spark plain headquarters, Portland, ou a color ly visible to the machine-gun operator. pounds of sugar a month per person, scheme map, as will every town and A t the outbreak o f the war, further when fall comes the grocer won't have district in which a quota has been Information was promptly gathered j to hang up tk^ sign "N o Sugar.” assigned, by a yellow thumb tack. from the allies and this subject was The counties will have a large headed studied by those responsible for this i The second helping is getting to be tack and the districts a small yellow work In the United States. O f eourse, bad form. one. on account o f the difficulties o f the } As soon as one-half of the assigned problem, none o f the special bullets ; There's lots of money to go round, possessed by any country Is entirely 1 but bacon, beef and wheat can’t make quota has been reached in each town or district a red thumb tack v,il) re satisfactory or whnt might be termed the circuit. Save your share. place the yellow one on the map. “perfect” In operation. Waste and want are twin sisters Similarly with the counties on th* The bullets developed by the United state map. Each county headquarters States ordnance department have been and neither beautiful. will have their own map with til* tested on land and from airplanes to county divided into convenient dis Potatoes for Patriotism. see If there Is any difference In their performance when fired from n quickly By eating potatoes instead of wheat tricts which are to be bulletined like moving airplane In the upper atmos the people of the United States can wise. When the full quota in each town phere and when fired on lnnd. help win the war. We have not T h e s e tests Indicate that the United enough wheat tor the Allies and our and district is attained It will be des Stntes has developed a class o f speclul selves. We have an abundance of po ignated by a blue thumb tack. This .cartridges with n performance fully tatoes. Wheat flour is a concentrated system will afford an accurate check -qual to or surpassing that attained food and therefore good for shipping; and will Indicate those counties and Abroad. potatoes are bulky and are conse districts of the state which are doing quently not suited for limited shipping the most effective work In the Third ! • • • • • • • • • • * • * * • * *4) , « • M 4 * * | i* t H « .. t . .e .. e .. * * . (.. f * - e * * 9 n 9 * * 9 " > space, nor are the Allies so short of Liberty Loan Campaign. In each town and district a solicitor potatoes as of wheat. Next to cereals, AUSTRIAN FOR AMERICA potatoes have been in this country will be sent out with the Government FIRST, LAST— ALWAYS the mainstay of atareby food, which household questionnaire upon which supplies energy. Is written pertinent facts concerning Greensburg, Pa.— Peter Dor- The more potatoes we eat. the less the individual's ability to subscribe. zuk, an Austrian shoemaker, Is wheat wo need. A medium sized po Should the person be unable to sub fo r America first, last and all scribe one half of the amount esti tato. weighing about 3 ounces, sup the time. H e was sent back piles about ss much starch as two mated that he is able to, a yellow from Camp L ee because o f phy small slices of wheat bread one-half card will be sent into district head sical disability. When more than one-half Inch thick. In other respects also, quarters. Before going to camp Dnrzuk the potato measures up well with but less than the full assignment has Invested all hls snvlngs, amount wheat bread and even has the advant been received a red card replaces th* ing to several thonsunds o f dol age over It In supplying certain salts Yellow, and a blue card is used when lars, In Liberty bonds. l ie also which the body needs to counteract tho full quota of the Individual bas made a will bequeathing “ any the acidity resulting front the us* of been subscribed This system gives and all properties or money or such foods as cereals, meat and eggs. an accurate and detailed check on whatsoever o f value I may have By eiercltin g her ingenuity the heuao- every person and the state and county or possess at tho time o f my wlfe can prepare potatoes la many headquarters will know exactly what death to the United States gov different attractive ways, thus lpcreas- can be expected and what Is being ernm ent” Ing their proportion la the family diet done. and conserving wheat and other sta The master map at Washington. D. ■ * ..* ■ • O- I . « . .«■*«■ . ples needed for shipment abroad. Aa w ill Indicate the advance in each Woman Honored by French. important use of potatoes, also. Is la state and the entire country. Cincinnati, O.— An Ohio woman, tha mixing of breads, la which aaah- | Miss Jeanne Emma Morhard, has re- «d potatoes up to fully ton per cent Everyman's Pledge. reived the budge o f the Legion of may be used without detracting from Am erica shall win this war! Honor from the French government In Its appea-aace or taste; la fact, many Therefore, I will work, I will savs^ recognition off hei work as head o f persons hold that potato** pc^reriy I will sacrifice, I will endure. I will the Franco-Belglan relief fund In Cin mixed In bread. Lai provo* both appear fight— cheerfully, and to my u tm o s t- and flavor. cinnati. For 23 years Miss Morhard os If the whole outcome of the strug gle depended u*un me alone. tanght French at Hughes High school. %