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Newspaper Page TextTHE aiORXIXG OEEGOXIAN. THURSDAY, 3rARCH O. 1916. COST OF BIG NAVAL PLANS ESTIMATED AixnmixOct c a (2 cJ"Merchand.sof cMeritOnly pimple cSongs Billion and Half for Ships, $760,000,000 a Year for Upkeep, Fletcher Says. FLEETS STILL REQUIRED Admiral Thinks Conclusion of War Will See Opportunity for Dis- armament, but Would Not y,' , Delay Preparedness. WASHINGTON", March S. Approxi mately a billion and a half dollars for new hips and an annual upkeep charge of 1760,000,000 is what Admiral Fletch er, commanding- the Atlantic fleet, es timates it would cost to carry out the Navy General Board's recommendation that the American Navy should equal the most powerful fleet afloat by not later than 1925. The Admiral's estimate was given today in testimony before the House naval committee. Representative Cal laway, who brought out the statement, called attention to published reports that Great Britain had added nearly a million tons to her fighting ships since the war began. lie was asked if the situation was not "hopeless." Admiral Kl etcher thought not, adding that, judging by its great wealth, the United States could well afford to give its interests the same protection ; that other nations thought necessary, j War Not Inevitable Result. I Representative Hensley asked if .a ' race in building warships or in any j other military preparation between j two nations had not invariably led to j war. Admiral Fletcher said no, and i expressed the opinion that failure to prepare was merely makinj certain that a nation must surrender its rights. Representative Callaway asked if it was not reasonable to assume that the Kuropean war -would end within a year or a year and a half at most. Admiral Fletcher thought it would, and added that he believed the close of the war would see the greatest opportunity in history for the success of an interna tional disarmament or limitation of ar mament agreement. He Insisted, how ever, that the United States could not afford to put off its Navy building on that account. "Why not put all our energies into completing ships already authorized?" Representative Callaway asked, "and, so far as new building is concerned, await the conclusion of the "war?" Hope of Disarmament Vague. Admiral Fletcher repeated his state ment that the hope of a disarmament agreement was too vague to build upon. Representative Oliver asked if any thing had been developed within the last two years to shake Admiral Fletcher's faith in heavy armored ships as the main strength of a navy. He asked particularly if high-explosive shells had made armor less trustwor thy. "There has been no development in high-explosive shells worth mentioning in that timey Admiral Fletcher replied. Representative Callaway took the witness through several hypothetical naval engagements to support his con tention that battleships In the presence of submarines, mines and torpedoes, no longer can fight in fleets. Admiral Fletcher disagreed, and resorted to pa per and pencil to map out the opera lions of two hostile fleets under the conditions set. Submarine Situation Explained. After Admiral Fletcher concluded his testimony Rear-Admiral Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Construction, and Admiral' Griffin, chief of steam en gineering, explained to the committee the situation as to the two fleet sub marines authorized last year. Secre tary Daniels has submitted the decision of this problem to Conrrress, bids on the two big submersibles not having fallen within the requirements of the act. Admiral Taylor said one bidder would guarantee a 19-knot surface speed and not the 20 knots specified in the act Both he and Admiral Griffin recom mended that the 19-knot proposal be accepted, if the boats could not be made to do better. Both Admirals disagreed with Rear Admiral Grant and other officers of the submarine flotilla as to the desir ability of abandoning all other types of submersibles for an SOO-ton boat similar to those used in the German navy. They believed it impossible that the requirements as to speed, endur ance and habitability required by Ad miral Grant could be met. Admiral Taylor recommended, how ever, that three SOO-ton boats be or dered as experiments, ordinary condi tions of construction to be set aside to produce them in the shortest possible lime. KENNEW1CK DEBATERS WIN District Championship Won by 10 Out of Possibly 12 Points. K F. NX K WICK. Wash., March 8. Special.) According to advice re ceived from Professor J. H. Morgan, of EUensburg. judge, the Kennewlck High .School debating team won the district championship on a score or 10 points out of a possible 12. Kl lens bur High team was second with a score of nine points to its credit. The Kennewick team, composed of Miss Ruth Cresswell, Barton tfherk and "William Sly, has defeated Rich land. Mabton, North Yakima and Sun nyside. debating each side of the state ouesTion on the "Monroe Poctrine twice. What to Do for Itching Skins A Special Introductory Sale of 100 Trimmed Hats At $4.95 Smart New Hats Dozens Different Styles We say dozens of different styles because there are not two actually alike. All are distinctively smart and represent the newest ideas in Spring Millinery. The collection includes Tailored Hats and Dress Hats, some simply, others elaborately trimmed. Mod ish hats for the woman of conservative style; charming creations for the more youthful tastes. Large sailors, medium sailors. Turbans, small hats with large, jaunty bows many are copies of imported models in plain colors and artistic color combinations. Third Floor Direct From France Potard White Angora Wool A large special shipment just arrived from France of this much-wanted Angora wool, which is in demand for making motor scarfs, sweaters and for trimming knitted garments. Price 50c a ball. In white and black. Fifth Floor . In Spite of Advancing Prices, Here Are the Newest Weaves in Spring Wool Dress Fabrics That Would Regularly Sell Up to $2.50 the Yard At $1.23 the Yard Because They Are 5 to 15-Yard Pieces of a Manufacturer's Mill Ends This purchase was made several months ago and arrived just now, when it is most need ed, and represents all the newest colors and weaves in melrose, whipcord, wool taffeta and serges, in both plain and striped effects. 46 to 54 inches wide and measure from 5 to 1 5 yards in a piece. Suitable for suits, coats, dresses and separate skirts. Second Floor New Elastic Band Top Silfa Petticoats Are Featured in This Sale At $2.95 These are the full-flounced, perfectly tai lored petticoats that are so essential this season for wearing under the new tailored suits. Made of chiffon taffeta silks and messaline silks. The assortment of styles is unusually large, comprising all the latest effects in knife pleating, tucking, accordion pleating and ruffle trimming. In black, navy, emerald, Copenha gen, Hague, hunter's green, royal, hay and changeable effects. Third Floor Unusual New Styles in Our Famous Wynall Blouses Which Co on Sale Today At $1.50 The woman who wants to freshen up her wardrobe during these early Spring days will be interested in the many new styles we offer today in our Wynall blouses. It would be hard to imagine more attractive or better made blouses than this collection con tains for this little price. Of fine voiles in plain or allover embroidered patterns, effectively trimmed with laces, embroidery and hemstitch ing. " Third Floor Today in the Economy Basement Store We Shall Continue the Sale of Newest Spring Silks $1.09 for 40-inch crepe de chine. 89c for black taffeta and messaline. 59c for 36-inch fancy checked poplin and fancy messalines and taffetas. Basement TRENCH LIFE "HELL" Harvard Student Writes of Gallipoli Venture. WOMAN SNIPER GETS MAN Eczema, ringworm and other itching-, burning: 5kin eruptions are so easily made worse by improper treatment, that one has to be very careful. There Js one method, how ever, that you need not hesitate to use. even on a b a b y's tender skin that is. the resinol treat ment. Resinol is the prescrip tion of & Baltimore doctor, put up in the form of resinol ointment and resinol soap. This proved so remarkably successful, that thousands of other physicians have prescribed it constantly for over 20 years. Resinol usually stops itching- instant ly, healinfr the eruption quickly, unless due to some serious internal disorder. Resinol ointment and resinol soap can be bought at any druggist's, and are rtot at all expensive. Write for free sample. Dept. 1-K. Resinol. Baltimore. Naturalized American Tells Thrill ing Story of Wat Against Turks, None of Keglment Expect ing to Survive. NORTH EEXD, Or.. March S. (Spe cial.) One of the most vivid descrip tions of the Gallipoli peninsula cam paign is told in a letter from Marion Reynolds to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Reynolds, of this city. The ex perience was that of A. John Gallishaw, a roommate of . Marion Reynolds at Harvard. Gallishaw is a naturalized American, born, in Nova Scotia. He was attend ing Harvard University before he en listed through patriotic motives, and went through an inferno while serv ing on the peninsula with the second battalion of a New Foundland regi ment. Gallishaw returned to America frightfully battle-scarred and resumed his studies at Harvard recently. To Reynolds he related his six months' story of the terrible warfare near Suvla Bay. where be was shot through the back and shoulder, shat tered with shrapnel while he laid out side a hospital waiting for surgeons to reach him to determine the serious ness of the gunshot, and received two bayonet wounds made by Turkish sol diers. "Hellish" is Gallishaw's term in de scribing life in the trenches and the charges which the gallant colonial troops made for England against the well-entrenched Turks. Following his coma due to his gun shot wound, Gallishaw was informed by the men of his company that he had been shot by a woman sniper, who was secreted in a tree. "None of us expected to come out alive. Men prayed for a cushy wound. which means & slight wound that lets one cet out for a while. he said. "We knew we would never take Achi Baba. It was hot all day and cold at night. A terrible draft always pre vailed through the trenches. Our posi tion was exposed fully to the mur derous shrapnel fire of the enemy. You couldn't leave the trencnes without drawing fire. A man would fall and wc would ask his name out of curi ositv. Men were dying about the trenches of dysentery, pneumonia everv disease there is. I believe. "Always the- shelling was terrific. and especially at meal times, when we moved about. We only got four miles inland at any time. "On Saturday morning. October 23. Just after breakfast, the brigade Major passed through our lines. There was a new trench we had just taken. I. with five others, was sent out to remove some rubbish to a dump behind the lines. This order came in spite of the fact it was broad daylight and that two men had already fallen to our right who were on the same errand. We had no shelter, excepting when we were given short leave and hid behind bushes near by for a few moments, and then went at the work again. Shortly a sniper in a tree to the right of us commenced shooting rapidly. We broke lor cover and were near safety when I felt a dull thud in my left shoulder and my right chest. At first I thought some of the men behind me had thrown a pick which struck me in the back. "Connecting the sensation at my back with the pain in my chest I concluded I was done for, and I can distinctly remember feeling quite calmly that I was indeed fortunate to be conscious long enough to tell them what to do with my papers, pay book and will,' which 1 had in my pocket. They took me to the rear, and the hospital was full of wounded and the odor of chloroform was sickening while I waited for treatment. I asked to be taken outside and was laid on the ground, while almost instantly a shell burst and I got three splinters in my legs and one in my arm." Gallishaw said the Irish were the fiercest fighters in the British army where he fought. Colonial troops would not submit to the regular army discipline, and hundreds of officers from England were driven away from their commands because the privates made it too hot for them. ; The Turks Gallishaw characterizes as brave and clean fighters, but he has a natural dislike of the Germans, whom he terms "swine." The British, according to Gallishaw, had only "five miles of graveyard" on the peninsula. Gallishaw was discharged January 24. 1916, and the instrument reads simply: "In consequence of wounds received in action at Gallipoli." He was given S1S0 by the province of New Foundland before he returned to Har vard. Trench life on the peninsula was ter rible. Gallishaw said, and the water. could not be used from the small streams coming from the hills, for it was polluted with effluvia from corpses and typhoid germs. The trenches were filled with water at times, and were vermin-infested as well. RAILWAY UNIONS CONFER BEPEREVDUM VOTE OVERWHELM INGLY FAVORS DEMANDS. Announcement of Result Is Deferred. Issue Involves "400,000 Men on 528 Different Roads. CHICAGO, March 8. Announcement of the referendum vote of 400.000 rail road employes involving every road in the country, or E28 different lines, on the 'question of demanding an eight hour day with time and a half for over time will not be made until tomorrow or Friday. The vote of the men is said. to be overwhelmingly in favor of demanding a shorter day with pay for overtime when the present wage agreements ex pire. March 31. The taking of the vote has been in progress by mail for sev eral months. Officers of the engineers, firemen, conductors and trainmen organization met here today to tabulate the vote and consider plans for presenting the demands of the men to the railroads. The union leaders were in conference behind closed doors all day, but said no announcement of the result of the vote would be made within 48 hours. W. G. Lee. president of the Brother hood of Railway Trainmen, said to night: "There is little question that tne vote will be in favor of the eight-hour day and for immediate action. If that is the case, the railroads will be notified that the men demand an eight-hour day, and they will be given 30 days in which to prepare their reply. If the demands are refused, our next step will be to call for a referendum strike vote and negotiations will be begun with the railroads. "There is a prospect of a strike, but there are many conditions which may arise between the present and the final calling out of the men which may pre vent such action." Eugene Storm Loss $1000. EUGENE. Or., March 8. fSpecial. ) Helps you up "On High" HOW beautifully the sympathetic tonal sweetness of Columbia Records brings out the sentiment, the heart-appeal, and touching simplicity of the fine old ballads! All the romance of the Springtime of Love, of the. age "when all the world was young," is expressed with, tender, poetic charm in these Columbia Records : A t71S lO-tnch. 73c Blue Label Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes. (Words by Ben Johnson.) (Old English Mel ody.) Walter W'heatley, tenor. Orchestra accompaniment. All Through he NlKbt. (Old Welsh Air.) Columbia Stellar Quartette. Orchestra accompaniment. A 5733 1-lnch. ' Love's Old Sweet Sonar. (Molloy.) Corinne Rider-Kclsey, soprano. Orchestra accom paniment. Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon. (Burns.) Corinne Rldcr-Kelsey. soprano. Or chestra accompaniment TWO EXQUISITE SONGS OK SENTIMENT. A 1913 lO-inch, 7rc When Aon and I Were YonnK. Maggie. (Butter field.) Harry McClaskey, tenor. Orchestra ac companiment. The Gipsy's Wsrnins;. (Henry A. Coard.) Harry McClaskey, tenor. Orchestra accompaniment. The quaint tenderness of these records makes an appealing addition to the musical program of a "Columbia Evening." By all means hear them at your dealer's, then select those you wouk! Hke to hear on, quiet eveningsat home. - And if you have other favor ites among the ballads of long ago, you will find them all, sung by favorite artists, in the Columbia Record Catalogue. Kew Columbia Records on sale the 20th of every month. C T T' iVJi GRAF0N0LAS and DOUBLE-DISC o y gt1 '' JiffT if kfHMfF bisCrafosoU8S r y Col RECORDS FOR SALE BY -Henry Jennln; A Son Kurnltvre Co. Cor. Fifth and Washington Streets. -Hyatt Talking: Machine Co. 350 Alder Street. -Kllers Talking; Machine Co, Broadway and Alder Streets. -Meier Frank Co, Basement Balcony, Fifth and Alder Streets. I.lpman. Wolfe 4z Co. Keed-Kreaeh Piano Co., Cor. Tenth and Stark. Colombia Graphophone Co, 48-431 Washington. Bait Jt I. mar Piano Co, Cor. Twelfth and Wash ington Streets. Graves Mmslc Co, 151 Fourth Street. Sehtian Piano Co, 111 Fourth. Street. The city of Eugene sustained a loss of $1000 as a result of the recent snow storm, according to G. W. Geller, su perintendent of the municipal power plant. The grreater part of the damage was to distributing system, which the city recently purchased from the Ore gon Power Company. Teachers to Sleet at Milton. MILTOK, Or., March 8. (Special.) A teachers' Institute for Eastern Uma tilla County will be held at M;iton Sat urday. Superintendent Young will con duct the meetings, and Rev. Mr. Klem me. head of KUensburg (Wash.) Nor mal School, will be the principal speaker. School problems will be discussed. Centralia Streams Rising Fast. CENTRALIA. Wash, March 8. (Spe cial.) The continued heavy rains of the past few days have caused the streams in this vicinity to rise rapidly. This morning the China ditch, which bisects the business section of the city, had overflowed its banks in places and a continued rise will result in another submersion of that block of Tower ave nue between Maple and Center streets. The Skookumchuck River is also run ning high. The Eastern Railway Ac Lumber Company was forced to sus pend operations this morning on ac count of the high water. Reports from Walville are to the effect that 46 inches of snow fell there Sunday night, sus pending operations in logging camps in that vicinity. JXJ FOR MEN -fe Gasoline of Quality puts the "hop" into your car, gives you the quick "get-away", and the "pick-up" on the hills. It's because Red Crown is the unmixed, refinery gas, with extra power in every drop. At dealers everywhere and at our SERVICE STATIONS. Standard Oil Company , iCsUforals) '3.00 s3.50 4.00 s4.50 & s5.00 SHOES YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY WEARING VV. L. DOUGLAS SHOES VALUE GUARANTEED For 33 years W. L. Douglas name has stood for shoes of the highest standard of quality for the price. His name and the retail price stamped on the bottom guarantees full value and protects the wearer against high prices for inferior shoes. They are the best known shoes in the world. W. L. Douglas shoes are made of the most carefully selected leathers, after the latest models, in a well-equipped factory at Brockton, Mass- under the direction and personal inspection or a most perfect organization and the highest paid skilled shoemakers: all working with an honest determination to make the best shoes in the world. W. L. DOUGLAS $4.00, $4.50 and $5.00 SHOES are just as good for style, fit and wear as other makes costing S6.00 to $8.0O, the only perceptible difference is the price. W. L. DOUGLAS '$3.00 and $3.50 iHULb hold their shape, fit better and wear longer than other makes for the price. None genuine unless W. L. Douglas name and the retail price is stamped on the bottom. BARON'S SHOE STORE, 230-232 Morrison W. L. DOUGLAS WAS PUT TO WORK PEGG ING SHOES AT SCVEN YEARS OF AGE. HC BEGAN MANUFAC TURING in i ere, and IS NOW THE LARG EST MAKER OF S3. OO S3 SO AND OO SHOES IN THE WORLD. BOYS' SHOES Best in the World J3.0O S2.5 S2.00 .0. , ; w . .-r-. 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