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AMERICA
NEW YORK. Jan. 8. The hidden
force of Bolshevism operating In
small Independent groups in the large
American cities are coming into broad
daylight to be welded Into a powerful
national political faction at a conven
tion to be held in this city in the near
future, possibly within the next 10
days, leaders of the movement declar
ed today.
It was pointed out that the Ameri
can Bolsheviki are not planning a
reign of terrpr or destruction of life
or property, but intend to launch an
extensive campaign of propaganda to
enlighten the working classes on the
principles and purposes of radical
socialism.
ML JEALOUSY
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OF JAPANESE TROOPS
LONDON, Jan. 4 Announcement
that 24,000 Japanese troops will be
withdrawn from Siberia ia reported
by a Tokio dispatch to the Express
quoting an official statement by the
Japanese war office on December 27.
The statement says Japan intends to
sain tain henceforth only the small
est possible forces in Siberia.
"Public opinion here," says the dis
patch, "deplores the withdrawal. Al
lied observers, American as well as
British, speak bitterly of Intervention
as being relatively a failure, owing
ta disunity among the allies and their
mutual Jealousy."
LONDON, Jan. 7. The British gov
eminent has decided to abandon the
war agalnet Russia, the Evening Star
declared today.
Great Britain has not the slightest
Intention of sending any more troops
to Russia, the Exchange Telegraph
company stated. At present, according
to the news agency, there are not
more than 20,000 British soldiers in
Russia.
HIGHER RATE
GRANTED TO
EXPRESS CO.
WASHINGTON, Jan.3. The Amort
can Railway Express company today
was granted increased commodity
rates on fruit and vegetables from ex
press stations in Alabama, Arkansas,
Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Miss
ouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennas
see and Texas to all points in all
states east of Arizona, Utah, Wyom
ing and Montana, except Florida. The
interstate commerce . commission
'granted tha increase without a for
mal hearing.
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ST. HELENS. Or., Jan. 6.W. J.
Fullerton. county judge elect, will take
office today. He is a Democrat, and
was e'ected by a majority of three
votes over his Republican opponent,
Martin White, who, several weeks ago,
instltued contest proceedings. Judge
Eakin, who holds circuit court this
week, will decide whether or not a re
count will be ordsred, as asked for In
White's petlfion. Irregularities, ille
gal votes and other election techni
calities are alleged by the contestant.
On account of the closeness of the
vote, much interest is manifested In
Judge Eakin's decision.
The circuit court cenvened here to
day. A matter which is of general in
terest is the trial of Ham Kautzman.
editor of the Columbia Herald, who
was indicted on 21 separate counts and
charged with publishing libelous state
ments. The trial will be held some
time during the week.
CONCERN FELT
FOR SAFETY OF
TANKER LOOMS
SEATTLE. Wash, Jan. 2. The
Standard Oil company tanker George
W. Loomis, with a crew of 19 men,
last sighted off the Oregon coast by
the steamer Washtenaw, is believed to
be lost
The vessel left San Francisco for
Coos Bay December 19. The trip or
dinarily requires 4S hours. Sighted oft
the Oregon coast 36 hours after sail
ing, the tanker has not been seen
since. Office of the thirteenth naval
district today expressed serious con
cern for the safety of the tanker. Ac
cording to these officials the United
States lighthouse vessel Rose, search
ing in the Coos Bay vicinity for the
missing steamer, has reported no suc
cess. The George W. Loomis was com
manded by Captain E. E. Lapchas.
The majority o the crew lived in San
Francisco.
The Loomis was the first tanker to
be constructed by the Standard Oil
company, being bunt by the Union
Iron Works, San Francisco, in 1896
The steamer was 175 feet in length
with a beam of 24 feet She was of
614 gross tons. She operated tor some
time between Puget Sound ports and
Alaska.
TO BE INVESTIGATED
FOR PR0RTEER1NG
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8. Alleging
that profitesrlng has been practiced
and that irregularities are numerous
in government agency shipbuilding on
the Pacific coast, H. L. Stout, deputy
chief of plant protection of the United
States shipping board of the Emerg
ency Fleet corporation, has said that
every Irregularity will be traced down,
even if It takes years, regardless of
where the trail of profiteering leads.
Th3 plant protection unit of the
shipping board is just now getting
Into action on the Pacific coast, and
with the opening up here of this sec
tion it has developed that there is
friction between government investi
gators and officials of construction of
the shipping board.
3. A. T. C. OFFICERS DISCHARGED
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE, Corvallls, Jan. 6. Two more
officers of the college S. A. T. C. have
been honorably discharged. They are
Lieutenant Harold W. Kennedy of
Pomona, Cal , and Lieutenant L. F.
Davis of Pasadena, CaL
Standard Oil Co., Parkplace, Or.
Bert Finch, Estacada
F. Hendriksen, Molalla
G. Blatchford, Molalla
A. Mather, Clackamas
DYNAMITE IS
DISPLAYED AT
THLOFLIJ.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 8. Nine
sticks of dynamite and a complete lab
aratory for the manufacture of ex
plosives and incendiary materials
were brought into the court room and
Introduced as prosecution evidence in
the trial here yesterday of 45 Indus
trial Workers of the World, charged
with various acts of terrorism in this
state.
The dynamite, according to tire evi
dence, was purchased by William
Hood. The prosecution charged that
he intended it for use against public
enterprises here. The laboratory was
saized from the ark of Robert Con
nellan, known otherwise as "Dublin
Bob," in a canal near Stockton. Oil
Both are defendants.
United States District Judge George
H. Rudkin, of Spokane, who is hear
tng the casa, ordered the dynamite
removed from the court room immed
iately upon Its Introduction as evi
dence. E
BYCOMMISSION
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. Congress
and not the president, should deter
mine when the railroads are to be
turned back to private management
said Interstate Commerce Commis
sioner Edgar E. Clark today, continu
ing his testimony before the senate
interstate commerce committee at the
hearing on legislation. Yesterday he
submitted a statement from the com
mission recommending private opera
tion of the carriers under stricter gov
ernment supervision.
The commissioner believed most of
the legislative and operating reforms
proposed by advocates of unified op
eration could be effected even if the
railroads were relinquished before
congress had a chance to act.
WELL KNOWN ARMY
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VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 6. Col
oneel George S. Young, one of the
best known army men in the North
west, died at 6:30 o'clock Sunday ev
enlng at the post hospital at Vancou
ver Barracks, to which he went Thurs
day from-Salam, where he had been
on duty at Willamette university in
connection with the student army
training corps. Co'onel Young had
been ill with influenza for more than
two weeks.
Colonel Young started his army ca
reer in 1875 whsn as a young man of
slightly more than 20 years, he was
given a commission in the regular
army by President Grant. He had been
in the army continuously ever since
Colonel Young saw service in a
number of Indian campaigns and in
the Spanish-American war he was
captain In the Seventh Infantry In
Cuba, and saw active service In the
batt'e of El Caney. He served three
tours to the Philippine Islands. In
1912 he came to Vancouver barracks
as colonel of the Twenty-first infantry
and was in command at that post until
1916, when he went to tha Philippines
for the last time in command of the
Eighth Infantry.
NEW TRAFFIC LAWS
OF PORTLAND PASSED
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PORTLAND, Jan. 2. The new traf
fic ordinance was finally passed by
th city council late Tuesday after
noon. The ordinance becomes effec
tive in 10 days. ,
Among the changes made In the or
dinance was the adoption of a new
congested diatrct. The present con
gested district Is considerably en
larged. Hereafter parking during the
hours from 9 in the morning till 7 in
the evening wll not be allowed at all
on Washington and Alder streets from
First to Park and in Park and West
?ark streets from Oak to Taylor.
In the congested district automo
biles are permitted to park only 30
minutes in a two hour period. The
dlstrct has been pushed south as far
as Taylor street and north as far as
the Union depot. It has been extended
on the east to Include First street.
No left turns will be permitted un
der the new ordinance on street inter
sections where traffic officers are on
duty except by special permission of
the officer.
RANCHER KILLED
CENTRALIA, Jan. 4. Charles A.
Benedict, aged 46 years, a rancher liv
ing on the Skookumchuck river, seven
and a half miles from Tenino, was in
stantly killed last evening when his
automobile was struck by a north
bound Great Northern ' passenger
train at what is known as the Blu
mauer crossing, a mile south of Ten-
ROLL OF HONOR
DIED OP DISEASE
Private Vincent Wlnnlford, Wilbur,
Or.
Trivate William A. Johnson, Perduo,
Or.
Private Frederick Kaston. Portland,
Or.
Private James C. Mlntor, South
Head, Wash.
MISSING IN ACTION
Private John R. Ponrce, Enterprise,
Or. 1
WOUNDED, DEGREE UNDETER
MINED, PREVIOUSLY REPORTED
MISSING.
Private Flotihor Culhm, Noise, Ida
ho.
Private Thomas Murtin, Sand Point,
Idaho.
RETURNED TO DUTY, PREVIOUS
LY REPORTED MISSING
William II. Shaw, Olympla, Wash.
Private Harold F. Wennor, Okauo-
gau, Wash.
DIED OF WOUNDS
Corporal Martin L. Klmuiel, Port
laud, Or.
SEVERELY WOUNDED
Private Delbert L, Rouse, Portland
Or.
Corporal John Ronuld, Roslyu,
Wash.
Private John G. Ltnse, Yukltua,
Wash.
Private Albert E. Rhodos, Yakima
Wash.
MISSING IN ACTION
Private Thomas A. McDonald.
South ttelltngham. Wash.
WOUNDED, DEGREE UNDETER
MINED
Cook Lester E. Sharpe, Mt. Vernon.
Wash.
Private Edward II. Mante, Hoqulam,
Wash.
WOUNDED SLIGHTLY
Private Earl M. Wood. Portland. Or
Private Albert R. Colson, Portland,
Or.
Private James H. Downey, Portland,
Or.
Private Maml Falrhart, Morton
Wash.
Private Vernie II. Munyon, Filer,
Idaho.
KILLED IN ACTION
Private Guy R. Vaughn, Baker, Or
Private Thomas E. Bradburn, Kel
so, Wash.,
Private Arthur William Lyford, Fall
City, Wash.
DIED OF ACCIDENT
Private Roy E. Flinn, Spokane,
Wash.
DIED OF DISEASE
Lieutenant Ima G. Bedford, Illllsbo-
ro, Or.
DIED FROM WOUNDS
Corporal Francis M. Yost, Cush
man, Or.
Private Harry J. Weller, Baker, Or.
Private Thomas C. Baker, Pilot
Rock, Or.
Private Robert MacGregor, Port
land, Or.
Private William H. Martin, Spo
kane. Wash.
Private John Setwkk, Seattle
Wash.
Corporal Andrew H. Bailey, Men
am, Wash.
WOUNDED SEVERELY
Portland,
Private Morris Berllnt,
Or. I
Corporal Larry Hay, Sunnyslde.
Wash.
Bugler David W. Lachance, Ray
mond, Wash.
Private Frank E. Woods, Rosebury,
Wash.
Private Alfred Jullen, Spokane,
Private Clyde W. Russell, Pome
roy. Wash.
Private Robert V. Stephens, Taco
ma, Wash.
Private Elslno Aslls, Dayton, Wash.
Sergeant Bruee E. Arnold, Seattle,
Wash.
Private Fred Schollars, Cotterall
Idaho.
Private Clyde H. Jessup, Idaho
Falls, Idaho.
Private Walter Hooreth, Portland,
Or.
Private Fred Nix, Aberdeen, Wash.
DIED OF WOUNDS
Sergeant Floyd R. Young, Methow,
Wash.
Corpora.' William. P. Stroehr, Sultan,
Wash.
t DIED OF DISEASE
Private Omer C. Akin, Beaverton,
Or.
Private Gustave Young, Vancouver,
Wash,
MISSING IN ACTION
Prlate William II. Parker, ' Hood
River, Or.
Private Hilmer O. Pelt, Pendleton,
Or.
Private Raymond Dewltt, Seattle,
Wash.
Private Bert E. Vehrs, Condon, Or.
WOUNDED SEVERELY
Lieutenant Cedrlc W. Clark, Canyon
City, Or.
Sergeant Royal F. Brown, Port
land, Or.
Corporal Jess L. Llnebaugh, Pendle
ton, Or.
Private Tony Defabros, Portland
Or.
Private Floyd E. Hillsberry, Clats-
kanle, Or.
Sergeant Henry Crane, Multnomah,
Or.
Private Clelt C. Brown, Pendle
ton, Or.
Corporal Frank L. Phillips, Chehal
Is, Wash.
' Private John W. McPherson, River
side, Wash.
Private Arthur E. Brown, Blaine,
Wash.
Private Walter E. Fleming, Anacor
tes, Wash.
DIED OF DISEASE
Lieutenant James D. M'Kay, Port
land, Or.
Corporal James H. Jones, Centralla,
Wash.
WOUNDED SEVERELY
Private Henry L. Christie, Port
Blakely, Wash,
Private Lawrence Schlrmer, Weis-
er, Idaho.
Private Philip Weigandt, Portland
RAIL
ARE
BY
WASHINGTON, Jau. 7. Majority
and minority views of the Interstate
commerce commission on wuut shall
he done with the railroads wiro luld
before the somite Interstate com
merce committee today by Commis
sioner Edgar E. Clark.
All members ot the commission
with tht exception of Commissioner
Robert W. Wooley, believe, Clark said,
that It would not bo "wise or best at
this time to uhhuiuo government own
ership or operullon" of the railroads.
Wooley attacked the majority view
and came out emphatically for Direc
tor General MeAdoo's five-year control
plau. To turn the roads to private
ownership Immediately would send
many of them Into bankruptcy ho be
lieved. .
WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. Govern
ment ownership of rallrouds, the rail
roads to be leased to private oporat
lug companies, was udvocatod today
by Senator Cummins, Iowa, Repub
lican. He will b, chairman of the sen
ate interstate commerce committee
after Murch 4.
FIRST MEETING
OF CONFERENCE
MAY BE JAN. 13
PARIS, Jan. 4. The French dele
gates to the peace congress. In addi
tion to Premier Clemenceau and
Stephen Plchon, the Foreign Minster,
are likely to be Louis Klotz, Minister
of Finance; Leon Bourgeois, president
ot the French Society tor a Lougue of
Nations, and Captain Andre Tardleu,
head of the general commission tor
Franco-Prussian war matters, it was
reported today. It Is also expected that
Marshal Foch will participate in the
conference.
There is every llklihood, according
to the morning newspapers, that the
peace conference, or rather a prelim!
nary conference ot the tour great al
lies, will open January 13. The secre
taries ot tbo conference will be Paul
Dutasta, French Ambassador to Swlt
zerland. and Philippe Barthelot, of
the French Foreign Office, it is said
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U.S.
PORTLAND. Jan. 3. L. R. Alder
man, superintendent of war work ac
tivities of the city schools, was Thurs
day assigned to oversells work under
the supervision of the National War
Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. by
th9 school board, at its regulur meet
ing. Request for Mr. Alderman's re
lease from Portland school work in
i order to engage In the edcatlonal cam
paign being conducted among the
American soldiers In Franco, was sign
ed by Amedee M. Smith, chairman
Portland personnel committee, H. M.
Stone, general secretary Y. M. C. A.,
and Frank E. Sickles, personnel secre
tary of Oregon and Idaho.
It was felt by the board, In grant
ing th.. releuse, that tho present need
of the typo of service Mr. Alderman
was performing In the city schools
was not so great and he could easily
be spared for the Important services
he could rendt-r In France.
VALLEY
BAKER, Jan. 6. The first time
since the strike was called on the
Sumpter Valley railroad a mall train
was started over the road Sunday. The
train was manned by the officials of
the road and was not Interfered with
In any way by the men.
It was stated Monday that it hag
been decided to send a delegation to
Washington to confer with the railway
admlnstratlon in regard to the Sump
ter Valley trouble. The delegation will
leave today and will consist ot D. C.
Eccles, president of tha Sumpter Val
ley; Frank Gardiner, manager and
vice president of tho White Pine Lum
ber company, who will represent the
Interests of the lumbermen; and W.
E. Meacham, who will be the repre
sentative of the Raker business men
who are defraying the expenses of
sending him to Washington.
BRINGS HOME DOG. HERO
NEW YORK, Jan. 4. A French
spaniel which saved a wounded Yank
by leading rescuers to a shell hole,
was brought here Friday on the trans
port MatBonla by Private C. E. Averill,
Garfield, Wash.
.OUNDED 8EVERELY, PREVIOUS
LY REPORTED KILLED IN
ACTION
Corporal Giles A. Simons, Seattle,
Wash.
WOUNDED (DEGREE UNDETER
MINED) PREVIOUSLY RE
PORTED MIS8INQ
Private Henry Baxter, Centralla,
Wash.
Private John E. Campbell, Black
Bear, Idaho.
RETURNED TO DUTY, PREVIOUS
LY REPORTED MISSING IN
ACTION
Private Fred Krause, Spokane,
LARGE AN
Oil
OF FOOD ASKED
BY II. HOOVER
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.-.At least
1,400,000 tons of foodstuff s, costing ap
proximately f:l!iO,O0O,OOO delivered
will bo needed to carry through, until
th,t next harvest, the populations of
the districts thus fur Investigated by
the American staff ot the Commission
on European Relief, This estimate
was sent by Herbert Hoover to the
food administration
The survey made by tho American
commission, Mr. Hoover said, ills
Hose that meats, fats and milk are
so short In many nylons Hint the
health of tho people Is very much Im
paired, mortality among children Is
appalling, and there Is a constant
mcnac,, llironxli the threatened spread
of NoMievlsin, especially In the cltW
OF
WASHING! ON, Jan. 7. Senator
Nelson questioned t heloyalty of the
W. J, Burns Detective agency, New
York, at thB reopening of the senate
Gorman propaganda Investigation to
day.
The attack came after Gaston 11
Moans, commercial manager of the
agency, volunteering for tho record
dotalls of the agency's activities dur
ing the war, staled that Burns had ac
cepted assignments by the Hamburg
American 8teamshlp linn.
Means replied that he was not aware
ot this at that time. He then pro
corded tc recite how he had set up
a ruse for captains of tugboats plying
the Atlantic coast so as to obtain ac
curate Information concerning the re
port.
"We let It be known that we want
ed tughout to supply English cruis
ers with provisions," Means stated.
"We had calls from many tugboat cap
tains, no made affidavits that they
had been carrying provisions to Eng
lish shtpn We then Investigated and
found that they had sworn falsely In
a belief that by so doing they could
gut our business," Merfns explained.
wortm t they taken In tho pre
once and at the Instance of Burns de
tectives?" Inquired Nelson.
The witness replied that that was
true, but that they were probably In
fluenced to make a false statement so
that they could get the business that
wns being advertised.
MANY YANKS ARRIVE
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NEW YORK. Jan. 7. Tho t'nlted
Stat s battloshlp North Carolina, the
first of Undo Sam's men-of-war to
bring homo soldiers, docked at Hobo
ken Monday. She brought over 1 3:1.1
enlisted inch ami fit officers, Includ
ing B!t0 marines, heroes ot Chateau
Thierry. Solssons and St. Mlhlel.
Thnre was also a contingent of tho
Forty-ninth uero squadron and 113lh
ammunition corps on board.
While the North Carolina wns
wurped to her pier amid tho strains
of "Home, Sweet Homo," and "My Old
Kentucky Homo," women police re
serves toBHtd cigarettes nnd choco
lates to the soUllerg who thronged the
battleship's rails.
Nearly every marine on tho gray
fighting ship wore at least one wound
strlpo. Tlrny belonged to the Fifth and
Sixth marine regiments, which have
been citod by tho French and award
ed the Croix do Guerre and D. S. O.
The North Carolina arrived here
three days ahead of schedule.
B0LSHEVIK1 RAVAGE
Y
ARE KILLING MANY
COPENHAGEN, Jan. C. A foarful
situation exists at Riga .
Throe hundred international fugi
tives who arrived here today oh the
British armed liner Princess Marga
ret, declared that bands of Hobdievlkl
are ravaging the country about Riga,
killing, burning, and plundering.
These were the last two fugitives
to leave Riga. At the moment of their
departure a strong well-organized
force of Bolshevlkl troops led by old
system officers, had reached Riga, but
had not yet occupied the ctly.
Bolshevik armies are approaching
both Vilna and Grodno, in tholr march
into Poland.
Reinforcements of anti-Bolshevik
soldiers are being convoyed down the
Baltic by Britah warships.
WANTS EMBARGO LIFTED
..WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. Mexico
need ammunition to fight banditry
and is appealing to the United States
to remove the arms embargo order
ot 1916. Ignacio Bonlllas, , Mexican
ambassador to the United States said
RANCE MONDAY
PARIS PAPER GIVES
U. S. PLANS FOR THE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
PARIS, Jan, 7. What It calls th
American plan tor a league of nations
Is outlined today by the Paris edition
of the London Dally Mall. The paper
saya that the British unvertnmmt not
only has accepted the plan, but Is pre
pared to go much further,
Th,i framework of the American
scheme, according In the Dally Mull,
follows:
The working orgs nl.nt Ion to be lo
cated In a small country, such as Itel
glum or Holland. ICuch nation shall
send an ambassador, who also will b
a member of the cabinet of his coun
try. The ambassadors would sit con
tluuously and would net always In
agreement with their home govern
ment. The court of the leu Hie of nation
wou'd be subordinate to and distinct
from the ambassadors.
Arbitration In rase of disputes
would be voluntary If desired, compul
sory If necessary, In caso of a refusal
to arbitrate, It Is added, the league
would Nnntt some of Its members hi
exercise pressure.
MURDER SUSPECT IS
HELD AT
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OLYMt'lA, Wash., Jan. 6 -Stoutly
maintaining bis Innocence of any con
nection with the murder of bis wife
and two babies, whose decomposed
bodies were found In shallow graves
on Hawk's Pralrlo near here Inst
week, M. K. Hurnett, Olympla ship
yard worker, was subjected to a grill
ing by tho polb'o yesterdoy. Circum
stantial evidence which point -d to
Hurnett as the possible murdered, was
strengthened by other evidence which,
the po'li-e say. In gradually tightening
the web around the accused man, who
Is reported to be breaking down under
the grilling.
When asked by the officers about
the disappearance of his wife last
spring, Hurnett Is alleged to have said
that ho and. his family took a trip
to a beach near Olympla to dig clams
and that he left them there. That was
th lust seen of them, he claims. The
story related yesterday by Hurnett
dlfft;rs materially from his etpluna
tlon voiced after his arrest HaUrday.
the pollen say.
DIRECTORS OF STATE
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PORTLAND, Oregon Jan. 6.-A
meeting of the board of direc tors
of tbo recently organized Oregon State
Chamber of Commerce has been called
for this city on January 11, for the
purpose of outlining tbo work for the
vurloUn committees for tho ensuing
year. Tho meeting will bo held In the
rooms ot tho l'ortlund Chamber of
Commerce beginning nt 9:30 o'clock In
tho morning, and any member of tho
stuto organization who happens to be
in i'oriluml Is Invited to attend. As
the meeting Is to bo he'd on tho clos
ing day ot tbo Irrigation Congress
convention a good attendance Is an
ticipated. In the first of a series of news let
ters, to bo sent out from tlnio to tlnio
as circumstances warrant, (1 'iiorol
Secretary Georgo Quayle announce
that tho by-laws of the organization
soon will be ready for distribution
nniong the members. The letter a'so
asks for suggestions "tending toward
a more efficient state Clminbor of
Commerce,' and states that "any
question of especial Interest to your
'section of the state, which properly
should come before this organization
will receive duo attontlon."
OREGON TROOPS ARE
OF
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. California
Orogon and other Wostorn lads of the
91st division, who have seen some of
th0 most active service of the Ameri
can expeditionary forces In the Ar
goniio forest and at other points a'ong
tho western front, are on the first
leg of tholr long Journey home. War
dopnrtmont officials last night an
nounced that this crack dlvlnlon was
undor orders to lonve Its station In
Belgium and proceed forthwith to the
great American concentration camp
at Lomans, France. Later thos8 West
ern boys will be moved to an embark
ation port probably Brest from
which point they will take, tip the sea
Journey as soon ns transports can be
arranged.
TROOP8 NOT EN ROUTE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. While the
Oregon boys in the 91st division will
soon be ordered home, the war de
partment officials do not expect that
ships will be available for them for
some two or three weeks. It la not
known yet, of course, whether the men
will come Into New York or Newport
News.
BERLIN, Jan. 8. Paymaster Haul
zer, ot the Republican guard, was ar
rested today in connection with the