OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE FRIDAY. NOVF.MBF.K 8, 1918
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MINING OF CHROME
IN SOUTHERN OREGON
MAY. BE CURTAILED
GOLD, HILL, Or.. Nov. 4.-The
chrome operators in Southern Oregon
and Northern California, who produce
the major part of the domestic output,
are anxiouly awaiting results of the
organisation recently of the Chrome
Producers' Associations at San Fran
cisco and Grants Pass. These organ!
lations have sent representatives to
Washington to urge relict for the
chrome producers, whoso Industry is
said to be facing ruin.
The production of chrome in this
region, as an essential to winning the
war, at first was encouraged and as
sisted by the Government, but since it
has failed to regulate prices and the
chrome supply coming In from foreign
countries is in excess of the demands,
the situation of the local operators is
discouraging.
The chrome Industry in this region
is clearly on the decline. The uncer
tainty of deposits, the high cost of
mining and the labor shortage are
factors in the decline. .
A substantial tonnage of chrome was
shipped in 1917, and in June, 1918, the
outlook for the industry was encour
aging. Jackson and Josephine counties
alone could easily have marketed 100,
000 tons this year, but chrome mining
under present conditions is hazardous
Most of the chrome, copper, quick
silver and manganese miners here
abouts before the war were engaged in
gold mining, and many, to recuperate
losses in chrome, will again take up
gold or other mining. The prices of
copper as regulated by the Governmen
is remunerative in Southern Oregon,
and the Government has signified Its
intention of protecting quicksliver In
this region and California, which pro
duced three-fourths of the domestic
output, by placing a heavy duty on this
metal after the war.
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AGE OF NINETY YEARS
NBTST YORK, Nov. 5 Mrs. Russell
Sage, widow of Russell Sage, the finai
eisr. died suddenly yesterday morning
at her residence here. She had been in
feeble, health for several years. She
waa II years old.
Mm. Sage's death resulted from
ailments incident to advanced age. A
aarse who Tisited the aged woman's
room about midnight found, her sink
ing and she died about an hour later.
Mrs. Sage, until she reached middle
life, had only the meager Income of a
schoolteacher and then in a day she
found herself mistress of one of the
greatest fortunes in America. Her ear
ly days were devoted to scraping to
gether enough money to give herself
a fair education, and her last were
spent In developing the science of giv.
,ing money away. During the laat sev
en years of complete stewardship of
the $70,000,000 left by her husband.
Xwsell Sage, she returned nearly $30,-
00,100 to the public by systematic
pfciUatkropies.
GOVERNOR'S SON IS READY FOR
FRANCE
SALEM, Nov. 1. Governor Withy
combe received word yesterday that
his son, Earl, has reached Washing
ton, where he reported to the hospital
authorities there. He was granted a
furlough a few weeks ago after an
illness of many months.
He hopes to be sent to join Com
pany A, 41st Battalion, 20th Engin.
eera, in France in a short time.
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FRUIT PITS SHIPPED
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. Car-
load a ot fruit pits and nut shells 'i
are en route from a number of
cities in the United States tothe'
gas defense division in New York. Q
Save Man Power
BUY A
Ford Ton Truck
$640.00 f. o. b. Oregon City
Fordson Tractor
WITH PLOW
$1125.00 f. o. b. Oregon City
Immediate deliveries. '
Pacific Highway Garage
OREGON CITY, OREGON
QUOTAS ARE TO
BE INCREASED
50 PER GENT
PORTLAND, Nov. 5.-John R. Mott,
aatlonal director United War Work
Campaign, has Just telegraphed in
sisting that the subscription of all
state in communities be Increased
Tit less then fifty pt cent above
notas to enable the several war
agencies to carry on their necessary
work. Mr. Mott states that this action
ins the unanimous endorsement of the
thlrty-Ove members of the executive
committee composed of Ave from each
participating organization and has un
qualified endorsement of the president
of the United States and the secretary
f war. Very important that you Im
mediacy get In touch with dally and
weekly newspapers of your county.
See that they give this matter ade
quate publicity. See that this oversub
scription is Incorporated in the proc
lamaton to be Issued by the mayors of
your towns.
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FIGHT API HOSTS
The aphid hosts which attack the
grain fields of Oregon and Washington
each drought season and cause serious
loss are to be routed by an army
of lr.dy-bugs recruited from the moun
tains and canyons of the National
Forests, if a plan now on foot is suc
cessfully carried out.
The Bureau of Entomology, assisted
by the state and county agenU, is at
tending to locate a sufficient number
of the lady-bugs to meet any emer
gency which may arise in the grain dis
tricts of tho two statts. The lady-bugs
has no more use for aphids than civili
zation has for the Huns and attacks
and distroys them with great zest, ac
cording to entomologists who are fa
miliar with the insects.
The lady-bugs, which are really
beetles and not bugs at all, congregate
early la the fall at high altitudes or
in canycn bottoms, and are sometimes
found in all manner of places. They
romain inactive in those large colonies,
or caches as these- gatherings are call
ed, until late the following spring,
clinging to vegetation of all kinds. The
beetles have a red body with black
spots and are from one eighth to one
fourth inch in length.
The Forest Service will co-operate
with the Bureau of Entomology in lo
cating lady-bug caches, and thus facil
itate their collection then needed. A
circular letter has been mailed from
the District Forester's office, Portland,
to the forest officers of the districts
asking them to furnish information
concerning the location of large col
onies, containing twenty to twenty-
five quarts of tho beetles, date of dis
covery, and approximate size of the
colony.
The information furnished by the
rangers will be used in selecting sites
where the lady-bugs can be most con
veniently collected by the federal,
state, and couny officir.l this fall. In
this way the officials expect to have
the beetles available in sufficient num
bers to prevent a repetition of the
grain loss of the past season in Oregon
and Washington. .
HEAD OF CHURCH NAMED.
BOSTON, Oct. "0. Bishop Rodosco
Ion Alexander, of Athens, Greece, who
recently arrived in New York, has been
made head of the Greek Church in the
! United States. The appointment was
J announced today by Bishop Meletius,
primate and president ol the holy
I synod of Greece, who is nowpresent
I on an official mission.
LICENSE TO WED
Rosaline Booker, 26, of Parkplace,
and GeogTe McKIr.g, 31, of 1203 Gay
street, Portland, secured a marriage li
cense from the county clerk's ofllce
here Thursday.
Notable Guests Help Cardinal Celebrate
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Among the notable guests who have
in the priesthood were these who
Keating, bishop of Northampton, Eng.,
and Monslgnor Cyril Sigourney Fay,
to the cardinal in Baltimore.
OREGON PRUNES ARE
GREAT QUANTITIES
SALEM, Or Nov.. 5..-Through J.. S..
Marple, a representative of the allied
provisions export committee of the
British ministry of food, arrange
ments were made yesterday by Wil
lamette valley prune men for the Im
mediate shipment of 18,000,000 pounds
of dried prunes This, together with
the receipt of an order from the
United States government for 10,000,
000 pounds of th fruit, has the effect
of raising the prune embargo..
The British shipment w'll supply
the army, the navy and the civilian
populaion and to some extent the
Bc'gian population. It is said that
Oregon Is the only state from which
shipments of dried prunes are to go to
the allies, for the reason that their
flavor la considered superior to the
prunes grown in California. Mr. Mar
ple has handled Oregon prunes ever
since their shipment o Europe be
gan and declares they are much in
demand.
"They are particularly popular
among the Jews,' he said, "who al
ways ask for Oregon fruit and buy
heavily."
Prunes will be shipped out of Sa
lem as fast as transportation facili
ties can be secured. Mr. Marple wag
connected with one of the largest
dried fruit houses in London before
he was called into the service of the
army and navy canteen board.
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LONOON, Nov. 5. Chalking the
Huns is a game which the Yanks may
be playing in France, if they've adopt,
ed the practice of Tommy, who has
been long at the game and had much
opportunity for It lately. Nearly every
lad who goes over the top carries a
American
This unusual, photograph of Ameri
can oflcers who are or have been
prisoners of the German government
at Karlshrue was sent to the parents
of Lieutenant Edward Victor Isaacs
(seated at the right) by the Red Cross,
He had been taken prisoner from the
President Lincoln when she waa tor
pedoed, and after the photograph
was taken he escaped. His com
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gone to Baltimore to help Cardinal
journeyed a long distance to greet
with his chaplain. Rev. Charles L. H
deputy cotnmlastonor of the Red Cross
OREGON WILL
OBSERVE GAS
MASK DAYS
SALEM Not. 1. Because the re
sponse of the people to the govern
ment's call tor the saving of fruit
pita and nut shells tor gas masks
has not been sufficient to meet re
quirements governors of the several
states are being asked by the gas de
fense division of the chemical war
tare service to Set apart "gas mask
days" following the lead oi Governor
McCall, ot Massachusetts, who has set
November 9. Governor Wlthycombe is
in receipt of a night letter urging
that he also set that day or any otheH
day that may be convenient for the
people to put forth special efforts to
collect pits or seeds from peaches,
plumes, cherries, apricots, prunes,
dates and olives, and to gather from
the woods hickory nuts, walnuts and
butternuts. It Is suggested that rural
communities set apart special days
for the work.
HILL GOES TO JAPAN
SEATTLE, Nov. 1. Samuel Hill,
Seattle, railroad builder and president
of the Pacific Highway Association,
sailed today to make a survey of Ja
pan's railroad and highway situation.
He left on the invitation of T. Naka
hima, chief engineers of the Southern
Manchuria Railway Company.
Several years aqo Mr. Hill, at the
request of the Russian government. In
vestigated conditions on the railroad
across Siberia and recommended many
changes which were made.
JAPAN NAMES ATTACHE
TOKIO, Nov. 2. Major-General
Inouye, of the Tsing-Tao garrl- ?
son, has bQen appointed military $
attache of the Japanese Embas-
sy at Washington.
Officers as Prisoners at
ml, in
panions are, standing, from left to
right: Lieutenant H. Gilo of the Avia
tion Signal Corps, whoee home is ia
Colorado Springs, captured at Mont
dldler on June 13; Lieutenant William
Hazel Plyor of the 27th Aero Squad
ron, who comes from Kershaw, S. C.
was captured at Metz on June 13;
Lieutenant Blanchard Battle of tha
31st Aero Squadron, Columbus, Oa,
Golden Jubil
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Gibbons celebrate hi golden Jublles
him. lit. Rev. Frederick William
Duelman, Shane Leslie, his secretary,
In Italy, aro here shown as visitors
IN FIGHT
WITH HUN U-BOAT
AN ATIwVNTIC 10 f IT, Oct. 3I.A
torpedo and ahcll-flre attack by Ger
man submarine on an American tuuKor
a BritiHh freighter and a NorweKUiq
freighter , October 21. 700 in Ilea from
the French const. In which tho Amerl
can tanker stopped to engage and ap
parently outfought the U-boat, waa d
scribed by the crew of the Norwegian
which arrived here today.
The three vessels were traveling to
gether, the Norwegian crew said, when
the submarine made its presence
known by launching a torpedo at th"
Britisher. The enemy then appeared on
the surface, and with two deck gaas
openod fire on all three ships.
The vessels scattered and the Brit
chcr, belna; the faster, was soon hull
down on the horizon. The Norwegian
ship unarmed, moved off In nn oppo
site direction, while the American tank
er, turning so ns to present a stern
targft, opened fire, and In short order
made the U-boat submerge.
New York. Oct. 31. With the ar
rival of 11 men of the crew of the Nor
v.eRlan bark Stiflnder, of 1746 gross
tonn, hero today, after their rescue by
a United States navnl vessel, It was
disclosed that the Stiflndcr was bomb
ed and sunk by a German submarlnecn
October 13, and the crew of 19 forced
to take to open boats.
Tho fate of the captain and seven
men of the crew wus not known to
thoso who reached this port. It was on
October 28 that the American naval
essel came across the men now here
The Stlflnder wub on her way from
New York to F.-eemantle, Australia.
She carried a cargo of oil suspled by
the Standard Oil Company.
Karlsruhe
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wno was made prisoner at Fllrey on
June 12; Lieutenant B. W. deLeyson
of Boston, Mass., who was captured
at Montdldier while acting as an ob
server for the Aviation Signal Re
serve Corps. Seated at left: Captain
Joseph F. Williamson ot Seabotsopol
Cal., fell into the bands of the bocha
at Thlercourt.
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OREGON CITY
BOY IS CHOSEN
AS ALTERNATE
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON KuRone
Nov.. 4. Slater Marcellus Miller, 18
years old of Rosnburg; left Tuesday
evening for tho U 8.. military acad
emy at West Point, Senator Chamber
lain asked tho University to recom
mend some youtlK man and Miller was
chosen out of twenty-flv other can
didates., John A., (tumble of Portland
and Mnrwlu Beverly Woolfolk of Ore
gon City were chosen alternates,.
ENTIRE CREW OF
MAIISIIKIEU), Nov. 4. Aftor a
J.rlll'.tig escape from death and suffer
ing much from exposure, Cnptalu
tiiwrli Knaen and crew of live men of
tin barge Wallwctu were brought Into
port Sumliiy on the lug Pioneer. No
Ik a total Ioks. Hio u now wnxhtng up
on the bench a mile north of the Coot
Hay bar, and w ill rapidly go to pieces
lives were IobU but tho Wallactil will
An attempt Is butng made today to
save some of the property aboard.
Close to 1,000,000 feet of lumlwtr,
which made up the rarKo, Is washing
ashore along tae bcaciiea around Cous
Hay.
Harry Elklund.who waa at (be wheel
of the Wallucut, was badly bruised
when a wave struck him, and Is In the
hospital at North Hind, b.it his Con
dition Is not serious, t'aptuln KiiHcn.
who had a touch of the grippe, la suf
forlng from the exposure, but the men
all felt fortunate in being savnd. Ah
Chee, the Chiui'se cook, suffered con
siderably from exposure, as he was
clad In a thin linen Kiirtm tit.
The Pioneer and Wallucut are own
ed by tho Pugut Sound Tu Boat com
pany and were bound for Sun Fran
Cisco from Port liudlow with nearly
1.000,000 feet of lumber from the
Pope Talbot company, an allied con
corn of the tug bout company.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. -Austria
Hungary, tho laat and most powerful
ally of Germany, passed out of the
world war today ;inder terms of abject
surrender
Not only have tha armed forces of
the onc powerful Austro-llungarlan
empire laid down their arms to await
the end ot tho war and peace terms
dictated by the allies and the United
Stiites, but AiiHtro llue.niirliin terri
tory Is open for operation against
liorinany
Even tha munitions of the former
ally are to be uaod agaltiHt the kalxer's
armies If refunal to accept conditions
now being prepared for them make
prolonged fighting necessary.
The terms which stopped the vlc -
torloug advance of the Italian army
were accepted oy mo Austrian com
dander ln chlef In tthe Held In the
name of the Vienna government and
their execution Is guaranteed by the
thorough beating already administered
which converted the defeated army
nto a disorganized fleeing horde.
Even tho terms Imposed previously
on Bulgaria and Turkey are hardly so
dractlc.
In addition to all of the military
precautions, tho Aimtrlans are com
pelled to retire from a wide strip of
territory within tho borders of their
empire when the war began, sur
rendering all of Italia Irredentla and
thereby losing any advantage for
argument over boundaries around a
pence table.
A map survey of the geographical
lines fixed for Austrian evacuation
shows tho area Ih greater than that
set by tho Italians as goal of tholr
ambition when they entered the war.
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PROJECT 10 SIM
WASHINGTON, Nov. .-..--Tim Warm
Springs Irrigation rtlntrlet won tlie rec
ognition for which It has been fight
ing with tho announcement by tho cap
ital Ihb"Jg committee Into Monday
that It had grunted approval for a
$750,000 bond Issue for immediate con
struction. Tito welcome news earno to Repre
sentative Hlnnott al'tcr he, and Sena
tor McNury had attended tho final
review of the subject at c meeting at
tended by a representative of the war
industries board, which had inado an
unfavorable report. The bituation as to
priorities required for materials was
considered and tho question of labor
again gone Into. Vice Chairman Ooff
of the capital Issues commltteo ap
peared especially frlondly to the pro
ject, and after the discussion ended
tho committee went Into executive bob
slon with the result stated. The com
mittee stated that approval was given
with the understanding that the labor
will be supplied from farmers of the
near-by district affected by drouth.
CHAMP CLARK DEFEATED
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 6. Early
returns indicate the defeat for re
election of Champ Clark, speaker of
the IIoubo by about 400 votes. His Re
publican opponent, C. II. Dyer, baa
apparently won.
GERMANY'S POWERFUL
ALLY LAYS DOWN ARMS
N THIS COUNTRY WILL
BE SOLD IS REPORT
NKW YORK, Nov, a Anaotnee-
inont that tho great Gorman woolen
mills of New Jursny and other large
manufacttirles tlirotiitliout the country,
with an nmrcKnto value of mora than
I'joo.noo.ooo will bo sold within the
next two moat ha to Americans, waa
the answer today of A. Mlchell Palmer
alien property rustodtnn, to tha re
cent note from tho German govern
ment prntcKtltiK aiutiiiHt disposition of
former Teuton-owned Interest In tha
Herman property sehed In this coun
try totals fKoo.ooo.OOO and will soon
ruiuh 1 1, 000. 1)00,000, as compared with
$14,000,000 worth of American Interest
taken over In Germany, Mr. Palmer
said.
In linn with tlitMloveriuiieiiU aotlry
of wiping out all the "outposts of
kultur" In the Untied KlaiyV, he added,
the former Gorman companies will ba
sold only to persons who can satisfy
the advisory committee of the alien
property ofllce of their Amerloanlaro,
This conimlttfe, headed by Otto T.
Hannard. of Now York, also will de
cide whether or net the price off tired
are Jist,
Among the nianufacturb to ba
placed on tho block are tha Paic
(N. J.) Woolen Mills, valua at $C0.-
000,000, principal among them tha
Great lUitmiy Worsted Mill, whoan ap
prulrnl at IU.CO0.0H0 haw Just twen
completed.
The Mayer Company, one of tha coun
try' leading maker of pharmaceutical
product and the lleyden Chemical
Company, a close rival of the Bayer
concern In dsn, also will be sold. Moot
of the auctions. It was, announced, will
taUe lace nt tho plant, though a few
will be held In New York.
Suio of the I'ansitic Wollen Mills,
Mr. Palmer awaorted, would terminal
(ierm.in control of one of the largeat
and most Important American Indus
tries. The first of the group of fac
tories, hn added, was built almost 30
years ago by ae'llne ar.enta ot the
German woolen kartel. who boixht to
this country Gorman capital, machin
ery and workmun.
Under the c.it.todlaiis direction theae
plants have been producing woollea
goods for the Army and Navy.
"FRONT" IS 80 MUCH
People are not always what they
seem. The shell of a man look Quite
similar to most of us. But the Inside
of the shell In a most extraorlduary
manner, nearly always give out a
sparkle of the man as ho really IS.
For FRONT la so much!
Musks are not nlwuya picked at a
distance, but tho man directly In front
of you, speaka a language of sllntire
or reality that cun "fnlse-faco" for but
a moment.
Clothes, display, show of power, do
not make the tuun. But they suKK't
the man.
And the man that I suggested 1
the man that you want to examine
and learn to know. Ho shall become
your compuiilon, your Inspiration, your
i object lesson.
I You can't leave the Idea. FRONT Is
so much.
1 listened to a man toll about
"plain" Chnrllo Schwab the other day.
"Why," said bo. "ho's REAL. And peo
ple work at hla suggestion because
they know by Batoning and LOOKING
at him that they ar WITH klm In
what he wants done,"
If you are afruld to lock tho world
squarely in the face and to placa a
mar. at his INNATB worth, yoa are
"wrong from birth" and nood to b
UK-born.
Find out what your front t worta
and then SHOW it us your g-eaUwl
"stock In trade."
TROOPS CROSS
SEA WITHOUT
CASE OF lLU
PARIS, Nov. l.-Flve thonsnad
American soldiers crossed the At
lantic wearing chemically soaked
white masks and disembarked at a
French port without contracting a sin
gle case of Influenza or pneumonia,
says the Stars and Stripes, the organ
of tho A. E. P.
Of 28,898 American Roldlors landed
In two days, only two died at sen
from pneumonia and there wore only
117 cases of Influenza and pneumonia
among them c-rfrouta.
Tho Influenza epidemic apparently
husirun lis courso In tho army over
here.
FLIGHT RECORD MADE
WASHINGTON, Nov", 2. A record
flight made hy a Navy seaplane
equipped with a Liberty motor is de
scribed In a report from Vlce-Admlrnl
Sims received today by Secretary
Daniels.
Tho plane remained in tho air for
nine hours, carrying a full military
load, four men, the regulation supply
of gasoline, two bombs weighing near
ly 500 pounds, and two machine guns.
SENATE MAKES APPOINTMENT
WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov. 4.
Uoprescntatlve Slnnott todny designat
ed ob his appointee to West Point,'
Charles O, Canham, of Nyssa, princi
pal, and Walter Marshall, of Voltage,
alternate, to Annapolis. He' designated
Robert Emahlaer, LaGrande, prlacipal,
and Joseph H. Weller, , Mosler, alter
nate, NO EARiLY SETTLEMENT
LONDON, Nov. 4.Chancellr Uo
nar Ixm announced In the hoase of
commons today that there will be no
early statement on the result of tie
Vereallle aonference, aa It must irst
he commnaieated to the United Mat..