erpris
"I he " Enterprlae la the 4
only Clackamas County
Newspaper that print 4)
all of th nawa of thla
4 growing County.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1918.
FIFTY-SECOND YtAR NO. 10-
ESTABLISHED 1866
ENT
clack
furnishes
quota for
pershing
Claofcamas county will furnlib an
van dosen o( tha auto drivers wanted
for immediate aervlea In Prance. The
men will depart Thuraday morning
from Oreion Cltr tor Ban Antonio,
Teiaa.
Tolngraphlo advlcea were received
from the adjutant'a (eneral'a office
Saturday evening, and tha twelfth man
had atftned up for aervlce by I o'clock
Tuesday afternoon. The men axe
Henry Kruger, of Sherwood, Raleigh
Kckerd. Molalla. Clayde A. Warren,
Oreton City. Route 6: William L.
Fucht. Eagle Creek, Carl Allen Kirch
am, Logan; Fred Jaater, Sherwood,
Route 5; Ralph Carton. Orogon City; i
Ray C. Caffall, Mllwaukle; Ouy Elliott. 1
Oregon City; Delvle W. Montgomery.
City and Gilbert Callff, Oregon City.
Oregon la to furnish 100 truck drlv
era under advtcee from array head
quarters. From tha way volunteer!
have been coming before the local
board, Sheriff Wilson atated Tueaday
night the county could furnlah the
whole quota for the atata If neceasary.
The county loaea a valuable truck driv
er In Carl Klrchom ot Logan who baa
been the head man In hauling the "hot
stuff" In the county'e paving opera
tlona the put two yeare.
Kruger and Eckerd are two ot the
Ave boys who were held up In Oregon
City, after enlisting In the aviation de
partment which waa abruptly closed
he- the government. The lada are both
auto men and Jumped at the chance
01 QUICK Brii:o in riautv. uuviavj
Otia Jeweu, anomer tnetnoer oi we
quintette, waa permitted , to Join the
I7lh engineers by tha government peo
ple and Concie Keruejr, transferred
here from Montana, a fourth member
of the party, Is also awaiting final ad
vices to cast his lota with the new
englneera' regiment,
Raleigh Dowers, the fifth member of
the stranded crew, la about the bluest
man In Clackamas county. His am
bition hat been to become an aviator,
but he told Clerk Harrington Tuesday
ha would take a chance on anything
juat ao ba could get Into the big game
across tha pond.
K. Edward LeClalre enlisted in the
28th englnoera Tueaday, and was
granted bis release from the local
board. He departed for Vancouver
barracks, from whence he will go to
Camp Meade, Maryland.
LIVE WIRES GET ACTION
ON PAVING OF ROAD
According to an announcement made
at Portland Saturday afternoon the
stretch ot road leading from the end ot
the Clackamas county hard surface
road at the Sellwood-Multnomah line
to Mllwaukle avenue In Portland, a dis
tance of about t blocks, la to be hard
surfaced within the next 90 days. This
decision la directly due to the efforts
of the Live Wires, represented by Mort
Latourette, who haa Insistently pound
ed away at Mayor Daker, Commission
er llolman and Roadraaater Yeon that
they live up to their announced policy
ot co-operating for the improvement ot
connecting roada where counties con
cerned ahowed a disposition to "do
their ahare ot the work. The stretch
ot road referred to will be hard aur
faced tor a width of twenty feet.
This action on the part ot the Multo
xnah county officials Is the result ot an
energetic campaign carried on by the
Live Wires, who by thii accomplish
ment have made the hope of an entire
hard surfaced Oregon City-Portland
road, one notch nearer realisation.
THRIFT STAMP SALE
l PROGRESSING ILL
. Countr School Superintendent Cal
avan reports the thrift stamp sale of
the county achool children and teach
ers la progressing nicely. Reports
made a few daya ago to the state head
quarters show that the "baby bond"
salos have reached the sum of $7,'
452.01, since the drive began, and the
thrift purchases amount to $814.75
With their customary energy both
teachers and children' have gone Into
the big drive determined to go "over
the top."
Standfield: Lowest bid for grad
ing Columbia highway from Pendle
ton to Morrow county line $6,000
mile.
N COUNTY SCHOOLS
Molalla Editor After
Legislature Seat
Gordon J, Taylor, editor of
the
the
leg-
Molalla Pioneer, ia out after
Republican nomination (or tha
Gordon J. Taylor
Mature. He aayi: "I have not
asked permission from anybody to
run (or this office and will not
make any promisee in order to
get votes. I will keep myself free
ao H elected I will be able to rep
resent all consistently." Mr. Taylor
Is a man ot ability and haa a wide ac
quaintance in this part of the state
and la amply qualified to represent the
people If elected.
T
IN
Advlcea from the adjutant general's
office lnte Sunday evening, called a
halt' on tha preparatloua Tor departure
of tour registrants of Clackamas coun
ty who were to have left for military
posta Monday morning. The men,
Gtorge Otis Jewell, Raleigh Dowers,
Henry Kruger, and Concie Kearney,
are now being held In Oregon City at
government expense, awaiting advices
from Washington, D. C. as to what
branches they may enlist In. Word
from the adjutant General's office
asked the local board to hold up the
plana of the boys, all of whom were
Class 1 registrants permitted to Join
special branches ot the service. The
reason given waa that the aviation
corps was completely filled up.
Victor C. Judd of Oregon City and
William H. Oatken of Oak Grove, were
released by the local board Monday
afternoon, to enlist in the navy and
will leave at once for a aouthern naval
training camp.
Georg If. Denshadlcr, another
local registrant, was permitted to en
list In the 37th englneera and will de
part for Vancouver Barracks Immedi
ately. Several applications were made be
fore the local bonrd for the available
poHta in the auto drivers department
The call waa made Saturday and Ore
gon Is to furnish at leant 100 auto
drivers tor Immediate aervlce under
Pershing In France.
IT
The case brought by Ernest Schmld
against Clackamas county Thursday,
was dismissed from the record under
ordur ot Judge Campbell today, upon
motion of the plaintiff's attorneys,
Hrownell and Slevcrs. and Llvy Stlu.
Tbe suit alleged $2,000 damages
sustained by plaintiff as the result ot
an automobile accident on tne now
Era hill last July, the plaintiff clalnv
Ing he sustained a broken leg and
other serious Injuries when the auto
which he waa driving ran over the em
bankment on the hill. He alleged a
defective roadway as the basis of his
suit. ,
Why the case was dismissed ia un
known. District Attorney Hedges,
who handles the county's litigation,
had not made any appearance in court
in the matter, and knew nothing ot the
dismissal ot the suit until the order
waa filed with Clerk Harrington.
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$ HANEY U. 8. ATTORNEY
, WASHINGTON, March 6. The $
$ president aent the following nom- S
$ Ination to the senate today:
To be United States attorney,
Bert B. Haney o( Portland, Or.,
district ot Oregon; vice Reames,
resigned. S
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FOR $2000 DISMISSED
LAWS
STOPS
OF PE
Russell's famous 'movie"
The Divine Plan," tailed to
Pastor
billed as
move aa per achedule at Gladstone
Monday night, when a committee ot
nWiM.u t.A.riul hi Sheriff W son.
gently but firmly Informed the pastor'e
disciples that there would be "no
show tonight."
The action ot Sheriff Wilson came
"hMutal .1 Oood.o'. bit TUMtlfUVmtUtmMr -
T
JOY RIDERS
on
Oft
ENLISTS II;
U. S. ARMY
Tommy Moore, whose weaknesa for
joy rides haa kept him In the reform
Orm
two
school off and on for the last
yeara. visited hla parents In Oregon
City Wednesday night, coming home to
break the joyful newa that he had en
listed In tbe U. 8. army.
Tommy, who' waa paroled from the
training school a short time ago,
couldn't wait to take a street car to
convey the glad tidings, so he hopped
into the automobile of R. O. Wllhelm
ot Portland, drove the car to the lane
leading to hla home In the ML Pleas
ant car, and there left it. Hearing ot
the stolen car, Deputy Sheriff Joyner
visited the old familiar haunt of Tom
my and found the car but no Tommy.
neighbor told the officials that he!
had aeen the lad last evening, but did
not give the matter any attention at
the time.
After his visit, Tommy went back.
evidently to Portland, and he haa not staged the first round ot a bitter fight
been seen since, unless he la merrily for the possession ot their minor child,
swinging a gun over at Vancouver bar- Robert Nordmark, before Judge Camp
racks. The young lad's folka did not bell Monday afternoon. The caae waa
know that he came borne In a car, and
after his many similar - expeditions,
Tommy didn't take the trouble to tell
them.
The lad is abont 17 years ot age has
nroen away irom tne training school
several timea ana amen norae in bor
rowed automobiles, the last time be
ing nearly a month ago. He waa first
aentenced to tha Institution tor similar
charges, and waa recently paroled up-
other folks' machlnea in the future.
With patriotism as his keynote,
Frank Irvine, noted blind editor ot the
Portland Journal, delivered an Intense
ly Interesting address before the Live
Wires at their weekly luncheon held
Tuesday noon, at the Commercial
club parlors. Urging hla audience to
a proper realisation ot the enormity ot
the present war and the sacrifices it
would entail, he told ot how Ralph E.
Williams, Republican state chairman,
recently returned from a trip east, had
stated that east ot the Mississippi the
country was overcast with a gloom but
that in the west it was Just the re
verse, evidently because the people
failed to thoroughly understand the
gravity of the situation. He advised
that everyone prepare tor the increas
ed lists ot casualties that would con
stantly continue to grow until they
reached the proportions now suffered
by our allies, and that only through a
proper understanding; of the gigantic
task ahead ot us, could we give our
government the support it needs and
must have. '
The appearance of Mr. Irvine
brought out an unusually large attend
ance U. S. GRANT MARRIED.
SPARTANSBURO, S. C, March 4.
U. S. Grant IV, a Lleutenant.of ord
nance in Camp Wadsworth here, an
nounced Saturday that he had been
secretly married here last October to
Miss Matilda Bartikofsky, of New
York, while he waa an enlisted man
in the camp.
FRANK IRVINE MAKES
SIRING PATRIOTIC
-ADDRESSTOLIVEWIS
RIGHT AM
MOffiESS
outfit la the same one that waa chased
out of Grants Pass, McMinnvllle and
one or two other Oregon towns tne
cast few weeka, and is said to be a
"nac flat" snow, caraounagea nenina
the acrlptnrea. When the sheriff learn-
ed of the nature of the exhibition,
handbills or wmcn were nanoea auuui
Gladatone Monoay aiiernoon, ne oe-
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I OLD GLORY OVER CITY HALL t
if SHOULD BE REPLACED.
The old flag, once ao clean and
beautiful, but of late Uttered and
torn, and the cause of no little
censure directed at the city fath-
era, will be taken down. Council-
man Friedrlch Wednesday night
aald the city was disgraced ny v
' permitting such a rag of a flag to
float over the city hall
Mayor Hackett, ever practical,
uggested that instead of buying
new flag that the money be dl-
verted toward subscribing for the t
Morning Enterprise, the Weekly
Courier and the Morning Oregon-
Ian to be aent to the members ot i
G company, from Oregon City, '
now In France and his suggestion
waa approved.
In passing, the Enterprise will
say that If the city is too poor or
uvtuiu ui awiuunm iubi it -c
cannot or. will not Insist upon a f
new nag over tne municipal tern- v
pie, that thla newspaper will head
$ a subscription list to raise money 4
for that purpose.
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OVER THEIR CHILD
John N. Nordmark, a business man
of Spokane, and hla former wife, now
Mrs. Kathryn Dalzell of Oswego,
continued pending the filing of further
Spokane records in the divorce decree
between the two.
Th matter waa broucht In the clr-
cuit court on the application ot the
father who petitioned for a writ of
habeus corpus, citing the mother to!p,aiined-
produce the child In court at once. Af
ter hearing the arguments of the at
torneys In the case, Judge Campbell
continued the matter.
Circuit Judge Campbell declined to
take Jurisdiction Wednesday night in
the application of John N. Normark,
Spokane business man, tor the posses
sion ot his minor child. The mother,
Mrs. Kathryn Dalzell, of Oswego, con
tested the application. The court held
that Inasmuch as the Spokane court
had given the child to the mother,
when the divorce was granted, that
the ease would have to go to that
court
WOMAN RUNS FOR SENATE.
WASHINGTON, March 4. Miss
Anne H. Martin, ot Nevada, vice-chair
man ot the National Women's Party,
tonight announced her candidacy to
(111 the unexpired term of late Senator
Newlands.
7 to Be Left Behind
6 Can Go to France
Many Motor Drivers
There will be a pretty how-de-do at
Clerk Harrington's office bright and
early Thursday morning, when 13 auto
truck drivers, who are "rarin' to go"
learn the sad news that not over six
of their number can be taken.
The sad news was learned by Clerk
Harrington and Sheriff Wilson Wed
nesday afternoon, when a call from
Captain Culllson, ot the adjutant-gen
eral's office, informed that the 100
mark quota for Oregon was to be filled
from approximately 150 applicants.
The call came Saturday evening for
Oregon to send 100 truck drivers Im
mediately and a dozen had applied In
Clackamas county by Tuesday noon.
Several more came Wednesday but
only one before the word was received
from the adjutant-general's office. The
board is in a quandry to know what to
do.
PAfiTX
which he proceeded to do, backed by
Deputy Diatrict Attorney Thomae A.
Burke ana Assistant u. . Attorney
Latourette. A volunteer brigade of
some nny uiaasionmns, neaaea bj
Justice ot the Peace Sieve, waa also
present at eeverlng relatione between
the "international Bible Studenta' as-
goc,aUon th MCt ,nd the
n.
Jesse Merle Jones, self-confessed
slacker, was given a three months'
sentence by Federal Judge Bean in
Portland Monday, and at the conclu
sion of his term in the federal Jail, tie
will bs Inducted into active military
service for the duration ot the war.
The cas attracted wide Attention,
when It was ascertained through the
efforts ot local officials, that Jones
wife cut oft his finger, In order to
disqualify him from military service.
The operation was performed about
the 22d of January, shortly after Jones,
who lives with his wife on a farm
near Mullno, had received hla classi
fication card from the local board.
In a confession mcde to Deputy Dis
trict Attorney Burke, County Clerk
Harrington and Assistant U. S. Attor
ney Latourette Jones admitted the
deed, and claimed it was done to
evade service- This confession was
made about two weeks ago, and the
following toy, the wife appeared at
the court house and after some ques
tioning on the part of the officials,
she too, confessed that she chopped
off her husband's tlnger In an effort
to get him out of army service The
father, too, made a statement to the
local officers, giving an entirely dif
ferent version ot the affair than that
of the husband and wife, who had
When the sentence was imposed,
Jones' young wife, Just 18 years of age,
broke down and asked the court to
give her a like sentence that she
might be with her husband. The
Jones' ware married at Vancouver
only a few months ago, and the young
bride claimed to the officials here that
the separation waa performed at her
own Instance, and that her husband
was not all to blame.
Jones Intimated at the time of his
confession here that he would proba-
ly plead guility and tako his medicine
without trial
L
BACK AT CAMP LEWIS
T
CAMP LEWIS, Wash.. March 4
After an absence ot several months
In France familiarizing himself with
actual conditions In the war zone,
Major-General Greene, commander ot
the 91st National Army Division, re
turned here Saturday to resume his
duties.
During Major-General Greene's ab
sence abroad the camp has been in
charge ot Brigadier-General Fill.
"I am glad to be back," v was all
General Greene had to say as he
alighted from tha train and shook
hands with friends who crowded
around him, but before reaching Ta
coma he consented to an interview.
General Greene admitted, rather re
luctantly, that he had been under shell
fire while on the battle front, and told
ot a German airplane attack on his
son, Major James S. Greene, the Gen
eral s personal aide, who, with a
brother officer, had. gone in the Gen
eral's car to the battle front The
Germans got the range and soon
shells were crashing around the au
tomobile, he said. The abondoned
the car and then a German airplane
suddenly swooped down and directed
its machine gun fire against the
Major.
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SLACKER IS
GIVEN TERM
III PRISON
COUNTY BOY DROWNED
0MS1IRTUSCA1
The faint hope which has beejViflJ
lensinea oer mice tno xu" kW e.
the Tuscanis. for .TTvc h O'
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Verner G. Branland
land, vanished Tueaday when the war
department in a message to the fam
ily further confirmed the report that
he was among the unidentified dead or
totally missing.
Verner G. Branland waa born at Oc
onto, Wisconsin, February 2, 1894, and
nobly gave his life for his country on
the evening o (February 5, 1918, when
the transport carrying over 2200 Amer
ican troops was torpedoed.
He leaves a father and mother. Mr.
and Mrs. C. A. Branland, and one sis
ter, Jaunita, besides a host of friends.
CLACKAMAS HAS 31 :
NAMES IN RAIW
SALEM. Ore., Mar. 6 (Special)
Clackamas county has 31 names in
the list of the First Jonior Rainbow
Regiment made up of the first 1000
school children selling 150 worth or
more of thrift stamps. These names
as compiled by Superintendent
Churchill from the first 1000 received
are aa follows:
Kenneth Baker, Oswego; Lester
Boring, Boring; Richard Suchow, Bor
ing: Jesse Boyd, Rout 1, Oswego;
William Boyd, Route 1, Oswego;
Ruth Chinn, Oregon City, R. L.; Gen
evieve Duncan, Oregon City, Route
6; Lawrence Duncan, Oregon City,
Route 5; Arthur Fiala, Oregon City,
Routs 5; Lily Fiala, Oregon C(ty,
Route 5; Mary French, Eagle Point;
Florence Graden, 561 E. Salmon
street, Portland; (William) Grossen
bacher, Oregon City; Marion Hanson,
Route 2, Oregon City; Hans Hansot
ter, Mulino, Route 1; George Johnson.
Mllwaukle; Esther Jones, Boring;
Alice Kraeft, Oregon City, Route 2;
Alice Landren. Milwaukee; Ruth
Larklns, Mulino, Route 1, Box 34;
Ernest Leek, Oregon City, Route 2;
Lena Lehman, Oregon City, Route 5;
Edgar Noyer, Molalla, Route 2;
Edwin Redder, Wilson ville; Everett
Whltten, Oregon City, Route 5;
Leonard Whitten, Oregon City, Route
6; Beulah Wright, Central Point;
Carl Wilsoq, Mllwaukle, Box 256;
Julia Wilson Oswego; Marjorle Wis-
singer, Mllwaukle; . Wallace Young,
Wilsonville.
At the least calculation this list of
names represents $1550 worth ot
stamps sold by the children in Clack
amas county, but as many of the
children sold more- than the necessary
S50 quota the sum will exceed that by
quite a little.
Superintendent Chuivhill has an
nounced that he will start organiza
tion at once ot the Second Regiment
to include any children not members
of the first regiment who sell or buy
$50 worth or more ot the stamps, or
any who are members of the First
Regiment who sell or buy $50 worth
or more ot the stamps after March 1-
MILWAUKIE SUED
BY CONTRACTORS
FOR LARGE SUM
The Montague-O'Reilly company of
Portland has Instituted suit against
the city ot Mllwaukle tor $8,190.14, al
leged due on contract price for street
Improvements dating back to 1914.
The complaint charges that warrants
were given for the sums due on the
contract, that the warrants were duly
endorsed, but were withheld for want
of funds to take care of them. The
complaint further charges that the city
failed to provide the necessary tax as
sessments to take up the outstanding
warrants, which were tendered into
court with the filing ot the complaint.
STRIKE ON RAILROAD
TOROONTGt Ont., March 4. Five
hundred treighthandlers at Grand
Trunk terminals went out on strike
today. Indications were that the walk
out would spread to the Canadian Pa
cific railroad, as the men have refus
ed the company's offer (or an adjust
ment of differences.
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TERMINATES
Robert Vorpbal, of German lineage,
and Ralph Campagne, whose ancea
ters hailed from sunny Italy, engaged,
in a free-for-all tight in Vorpnal's barn,
about ten miles sountheast of Oregoa
City Tuesday evening. Tbe fight waa
a draw, with possibly a shade in favor
of the Italian.
Wednesday morning the combatants
appeared before Justice of the Jeaee
Sievers, on a charge ot assaalt and
battery preferred by VorphaL The
second round of the battle, scheduled
to be a verbal tilt ot some moment,
came to an abrupt close when Deputy
District Attorney Burke asked the
court to dismiss the -complaint and
free the son of Italy. -
The abrupt action on the part ot the
court (olio wed an admission on the
part ot Vorphal, that he had told Cam:
pagne, during the course of the fight in
the barn that he, Campagne, "ought to
be back In Italy where the Germane
wera rightly killing all Dagoa off."- "
Just a minute" interrupted Deputy
Burke. "If the court Is wluing, the
state will dismiss this ' complaint,
right here aad now." - - , s
"The court most certainly la wilt
ing" replied Judge Sievers and .the
game little scrapper from the land ot
blue Italian skies, was sent on his way,
unscathed by Judicial decree.
The court eautloned Vorphal about
making such remarks and informed
him that the federal government
would be after him If he made any fur
ther remarks of, similar tenor. .
Vorphal had engaged the Italian to
do some plastering, and according to
the Italian's story, he objected when
he appeared with a horse and buggy,
stating be would not feed the Italian'
horse. When the Italian offered to"
pay, he claims Vorphal became abus
ive in the extreme, and Campagne
finally struck the blow which led off sj
most interesting 15-minute round.
Sheriff Wilson and Deputy Joyner
arrived shortly after the bout was
over and instructed both men to an-.
pear on their own recognizance. ;
Vorphal had a badly bruised head
and Campagne bore a tew scratches ;
as evidence of a first-class bout. -
FRANCHISE DECLARED
DEFECTIVE BY PUBLIC
SALEM. On.. Mar. 6 (Special) .
Assistant Attorney General Bailey ;.
has advised the Public Service com-'
mission that the notice issued in the I
matter of the franchise for the Clack
amas County Driving and Rafting
company is defective, in that it was
not issued by the commission, and as
a result . another hearing must be '
held. '
The attitude . assumed Is that any
notice to dam holders or others along -the
stream must come from the com-
mission under the statue or be With- '
out effect. ,
One hearing was held by the com- k
mission last August- and plana were ;
practically matured for Issuing an ;
order granting a franchise, when the :
questions of the defects in the notice
arose. ;
It Is probable the next hearing held '.
will be merely perfunctory In its na
ture to allow people a chance to ob-
Ject or be heard If they wish, but it ia
not expected any considerable i
amount of testimony will be heard4
The date for this hearing ban not
been set.
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Mrs. N. A. Bowers, ot Canemah, kt;
in reclept of word from her grandson,
Wlnnifred May, who Is stationed
"Somewhere" in France, saying that
he has been promoted to first sergeant
of Battery B, Sixth Field artillery. The
young man has Just reached his 21st
birthday .and is one of the most popu
lar members of the company. He was
among the first Oregon boys to reach
that place, having arrived there before
Christmas, and he Is much Interested'
in the work that the battery has ao--complished.
Sergeant May Is well;
known in Oregon City, where he at;
tended school (or some time, and later
took up his residence at Springfield
Oregon, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs..
Lawrence May. He was employed in
Eugene when he enlisted.