Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, June 21, 1916, Image 7

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Newspaper Page Text7 COMPANY M, OF SALEM, IS FIRST UNIT OF OREGON NATIONAL GUARD TO REACH MOBILIZATION CAMP AT CLACKAMAS. GUARD WILL BE AT GAMP BY SUNSET Two Companies Delayed in Re cruiting, but Probably Will Have Quota Today. CAPTAINS WAITING ORDERS THE MORNING OREGONI AN, WEDNESDAY. J UNE 21. 1916. 11 4 ?Z.-im- r . 11 i -if- lit-' i ill V 1 5 f;- , Y If Line of Trucks to Haul Equipment of Battery A to Clackamas and Regular Training Is to Be Commenced. Btfore nightfall the complete strength of the state National Guard will be mobilized at Clackamas Camp, with the probable exception of two companies K, of Corvallis, and D. of Portland. Tonight nearly 1700 men will sleep on their arms, ready for the call for duty on the Mexican border. Before 6 o'clock last night reports had .come to Adjutant-General "White from all the various units of the mili tia, with the above two exceptions, and orders were issued last night for the men to move today. Companies C. E and H, Third Infan try, and Troop A and Battery A will leave the Union Depot today at 2 P. M. by special train. From Willamette Val ley points other companies will entrain for the mobilization camp. Guard Ready to Move. Within three days mobilization of the Oregon National Guard will have been completed. The assembly of the regi ment at home stations was accom plished within 36 hours. This is Oregon's response to the call of the President for the state troops for border service. Few states, if any, will be able to equal the record made by Oregon's troops. "Ready to entrain June 21, 8:40 A. M.. with 80 men," telegraphed Captain Michelbrook from McMinnville yester day, spelling preparedness for Com pany A. "Ready to move with prescribed strength, 65 men. Captain Blanchard. Company G. Oregon City," ran another message to Adjutant-General White late yesterday. "Ready to move with 100 men. Cap tain Todd, Company I, Woodburn," was the laconic message from that, place yesterday. Captain Helm, Battery A, reported from the Armory yesterday that he was ready with Battery A, 140 men. Some Are Turned Away. Troop A. Captain Hogan, had its full strength of 100 men last night, some having been turned away. By 6 o'clock last nig: t every com pany had reported ready, with the ex ception of Company K. Corvallis, where recruiting was reported slow, and Com pany D, Portland. The Adjutant-General will move his headquarters to the mobilization camp at Clackamas today. The Portland of fice will remain open. General White received a message from the War Department yesterday designating him to act as disbursing officer for the Government until tne movement is completed. He had pre viously telegraphed recommending an other officer for that position. A line of motor trucks from Portland to the Clackamas camp will be put into service today to haul the guns of Bat tery A and other camp equipment to Clackamas. The White Company has already given the officers the use of a one-ton truck merely at cost to be used In transporting supplies. SALEM TROOPS LEAVE COJIPAXV M IS GIVEN BIG OVATION UPON DEPARTURE, Five Thousand Persons Line Streets as Militiamen Entrain for Clack amas Encampment. BALES!, Or., June 20. (Special.) Five thousand persons blocked the square near the Southern Pacific Com pany's station, lined the track for blocks and crowded housetops In the vicinity early today, when Company M, of Salem, left, ISO strong-, for the mobilization point at Clackamas Sta tlon. Three Guardsmen were left be hind to obtain additional recruits. Reminiscent of the days of the Span ish-American War were the scenes at tending the departure of Salem's crack company. As the big;. company swun up the street leading to the station they marched through packed lanes of humanity. They were bombarded with flowers, sweetmeats and other delica cies and showered with the kisses and tears of their wives and sweethearts, The Southern Pacific provided two extra coaches for transporting Com pany M to the mobilization grounds, Sa lem business houses closed for a time this morning in honor of the company's departure. 9000 ME.V ARK ASSEMBLING Western States Have No Refusals to Answer Militia Call. SAN FRANCISCO, June 10. National Guardsmen up and down the Pacific Coast began today assembling at the various state mobilization camps in re sponse to President Wilson's call for men for service on the Mexican bor der. Between 9000 and 10,000 militia men In California. Oregon. Washing ton. Montana and Idaho will be mobil ized within three or four days, ready and easrer to entrain for the South, ac cording to the State Adjutants-General. Militia officers said the war strength of the National Guard could be reached within two weeks. From Alaska came reports today that a regiment of infantry will be organ ized immediately after the Army xe- orcanization bill takes effect July 1. California railroad officials have an nounced that both the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe railroads were prepared to handle any troop movements toward the Mexican border without interrup tion of their reeular service. Applicants for enlistment In the "Washington National Guard poured In rapidly yesterday. Several prominent Vniversity of Washington athletes were among the recruits. Other members of the school's teams are members of the militia- Ten companies of the uniform rank cf the Oddfellows yesterday offered their services in Montana. Jn all the V. estern states not one militiaman has refused to answer the call to arras. Monroe Is Drilling Company. MONROE, Or.. June 20. (Special.) Monroe Is ablaze with patriotism and has determined to raise a company at once. The nucleus of a company has already been formed and is drilling un der the command of F. H. DePew, a vet eran of the Spanish-American War. Posters are out announcing a meeting next Monday night. . 77. C'a 7-7-7 JO o2Zy 7 si. 7&eci. Salem was the first city In the state ff 1 1 '1 "'4 " i v:v;:.;--v:y-;;:.MWiaMJ. ' JT themselves ready for duty at the Clackamas camp. They left Salem yesterday shortly after noon. The company is George Palmer Putnam, secretary to said Captain Gelihar had earned the Honor of going into camp rirst with company at Decause or nis rapid, worn in assembling his men and equipment, and he was advised Monday night to move on Tuesday. HUNGER AIDS ARMY Starving Peons Join Carran- za's Force to Get Food. MERE LADS ARE RECRUITED Mexican Troops, Totaling 25,000, Now in Chihuahua American Expeditionary - Command Is Threatened. EL PASO, Tex., June 20. Hunger Is swelling the army that General Car- ranza is recruiting in Northern Mexico, in preparation for possible hostilities ith the United States, according to stories brought here today by Amer lean arriving from the Interior. Peons, who for some time have been on the verge of starvation, have been flocking to his standard in the last few days. In return for promises of food and clothing, they said. No ap plicants have been rejected, according to stories, which told of Doys of lu and 12 years of age and men too aged to stand erect being recruited. Carraiua Troops Increase. One of the arrivals, an American business man of Mexico City, estimated that there are now 25,000 Carranza troops in Chihuahua state, of whom about 2000 are in Chihuahua City, 4000 In Juarez and 5000 In Villa Ahumada, the Northern Chihuahua base, which is 83 miles south of El Paso. The re mainder practically surround the American expeditionary command on the south, east and west. He said also that several thousand troops, which had been at Chihuahua City recently were sent toward San Antonio and Madera, ostensibly to be stationel along INDEPENDENCE GIRL II I ' jf"sr . fly I . r L - y " - lrtt t Rijcht Chaplain TV. S. Gilbert, of Third Infantry. Who Tied Ihe Knott Mra. Rena Gronnd, Slter-ln-L.aw nt the Bride, Who Acted aa Maid of Honor; Miu Marpraret Gronnd, the Bride, and Serjeant Ward M. Ackley, of Company E. the Urldrcnxm) First Sergeant H. V. Vlckery, of Compan y E, Standing; Near Bridegroom. m 73$ri ST". 477s?. to assemble its militia company with commanded by Captain Max Genner ana Governor Withycombe, is a Corporal in the the line of the Mexican Northern Rail way, south of General Pershing s com mand. Economic Conditions Bad. The refugees brought with them graphic stories of economic conditions. One man said that he and his fellow passengers would have starved had not the train stopped at .times long enougn to allow them to get out and eat raw beans from fields. Another said he had vainly offered $5 American gold for a tortilla. "The Mexicans are desperate," a refugee from the El Valle district said. "Even though their attitude otherwise might be friendly, hunger is apt to force them to attack an American sup ply train.'' CENTRAL1A MEN ENLIST Recruiting Office Opened and Com pany Roster to Be Increased. C i : N'TR ALT A, "Wash., " June 20. Fol lowing orders received by Captain David Livingstone to recruit Company M to 142 men. Lieutenant Ralph, Todd was appointed recruiting officer and he has opened an office in the business district. Captain Livingstone is mak ing arrangements to secure either the tract in front of the depot or the Nudd tract near the Armory as a camp site for the company until it is called to American Lake. Captain Livingstone acted as toast master at the noon luncheon of the Commercial Club yesterday and said that within half an hour after he re ceived orders at midnight Sunday to assemble his company he had 62 men at the Armory in uniform. The com mander expressed doubt that this re& ord was equaled in the state. Recruits Taken From Ilopyards. INDEPENDENCE. Or., June 20. (Special.) Company L, of the Oregon National Guard, of Polk County, was on the streets today maneuvering. Lieutenant Piasecki was in command. They motored from Dallas this morn ing and visited the several -hopyards, picking up new recruits and calling out others. Lieutenant Piasecki was a candidate in the recent primaries for nomination for District Attorney. BECOMES WAR BRIDE AT PORTLAND ARMORY WEDDING. '- ' - T - J their complete equipment and report morning and reached Clackamas numDers approximately iou men. company. Adjutant-General White 2 GUARDSMEN WED Portland Has Two War Brides Because ofMobilization. ONE CEREMONY IN ARMORY Miss Pauline Heuschke Becomes Wife of Private C. II. Benton and Miss Margaret Ground and Ser geant Ward Ackley Wed. Portland has two war brides. They were married yesterday, the weddings being hastened because of the mobiliza tion of the Oregon National Guard, with which their husbands are on duty. The first war bride was Miss Pauline Henschke. She was married at 11 o'clock to Private Charles H. Benton, of Company C, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Jaeger, 456 East Eighteenth street, where she was a domestic. The Rev. Henry Marcotte, of the Westmin ster Presbyterian Church, performed the ceremony. The bride, who Is 18 years old. Is a daughter of Paul Henschke, of Orenco. Private Benton, who In civil life is driver for the Crystal Laundry, lives at 11 East Fifteenth street North. The other war bride. Miss Margaret Ground, was married under even more picturesque circumstances. The wed ding took place in the officers' quar ters of Company E at the Armory, and the Rev. William S. Gilbert, of As torla, chaplain of the Third Infantry, performed the ceremony which made her the wife of Sergeant Ward M. Ack ley, of Company E." Mrs. Rena Ground, sister-in-law of the bride, was the maid of honor, and A. i I Your Station in Life Read this title again; it has a lot to do with the kind of clothes you wear. And it is out business to fit you perfectly in Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes. These clothes will give you that refined, well-dressed appearance. And they'll hold their shape, and always look good. Come in and see what we have to offer you in Varsity Fifty Five a model for every man, young or old. A big selection of fabrics awaits you here. They're Priced Right $18 to $40 SAM'L ROSENBLATT & CO. The Men's Store for Quality and Service First Sersreant H. P. Vlckery, of Com- ! pany E, stood up with the bridegroom. SALEM MILITIA PRIVATE WEDS A. T. Wolpert Takes Bride Just Be fore Company M Starts. SALEM. Or.. June 20. (Special.) Half an hour before Company M left Salem this morning for the Clackamas mobilization camp. A. T. Wolpert. Salem druggist and & private in the company, married Miss Edith E. Fu gate. a popular Salem schoolteacher and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Fugate, of this city. Rev. R. N. Avison. pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, performed the ceremony. IDAHO IU.S FIRST WAR BRIDE Sergeant Clore, of Company G, Weds Mabel Smith, or Milton, Or. CALDWELL. Idaho.' June 20. (Spe cial.) Caldwell contributed the first war bride to the Becona inano xvegi ment today, when Miss Mabel Smith was wedded to Sergeant Clore, of Com pany G. The bride is 18,- and the groom is 21. Miss Smith's parents re side at Milton, Or., and Sergeant Clore's at Parma, Idaho. INSPECTOR IS CAPTAIN HC5TER1XG OFFICER. PASSES EX AMINATION AT VANCOUVER. Guardamen Are to Be Taken Into Federal Service, but Proeeaa will Take .Two Weeks. It's now Captain Kenneth P. Wil liams. United States Army, for the past year inspector-instructor, and now mustering-in officer, of the Oregon Na tional Guard. Up to yesterday It was plain First Lieutenant Williams. But yesterday he learned that he has passed bis ex aminations, held for the past two weeks at Vancouver, for promotion to captain. The rest is a matter of form only. Although he will not officially be a Captain until his commission arrives from Washington in the next ten days or two weeks, he Is already unofficial ly a Captain. If the necessary blanks ana rorms arrive in time from headquarters ' oi the Western Department of the United States Army, at San Francisco, Captain Williams will be ready tomorrow to begin mustering the National Guard troops mobilised at Camp Clackamas Into the Federal service. The process of takimr the Guardsmen into the Federal service probably will take about two weeks. In the mean time there will be some Intensive drill- ng at the camp and plenty of work on the rule range, in wnicn many ox the men are deficient. After each Guardsman has been mustered irv and has taken the oe dual oath of allegiance, he will be ex amined tor physical defects by Captain Williams and a medical officer. This does not mean that the men are to be put through a second physical examination. The Oregon National Guard physical examination require menta for the past year have been kept up to regular Army standards, so that men accepted into the Guard will also be accepted into the Federal service. The purpose of the examination to be made by Captain Williams is to note anv physical defects a man may have and put them on record, so that tney may not be used as a Dasis tor pension application some years hence. JOBS HELD FOR MILITIA Mills Near Aberdeen Also May Be Joined in Move by Merchants. ABERHEES. Wash June 20. (Spe cial.) The job of every man enlisting in Company G of this city will be held open for him on his return from the front, according to a signed state ment which Aberdeen roll! and camp owners will issue tomorrow. The move. ment has been indorsed by a number of leading mill men and will be taken up and acted ' on at a meeting -of th lumber Interests in the morning. They Chamber of Commerce also h asked merchants and wholesalers to take & similar attitude. - Seventeen men have enlisted since yesterday morning and the strength of the com. pany is now 83. Branch recruiting sta tions will be established in all outly ing towns tomorrow and. it is expected. that the muster of Company G will exceed 100 by tomorrow night. Washington Troops Move Sunday. SEATTLE, Wuh, June 20. The state troops now being mobilized have been ordered to proceed to American Lake Sunday morning. Beginning tonight, all enlisted men will sleep at their armories. Oopulght UsTtBctiiffacraU RECRUITS GOME FAR Montana and Astoria Men Are Added to Company C. TROOP A NOW IS FULL Woodburn Company Takes Mayor and Now Has No One to Wliom Armory Keys May Bo Given ' Wliile Men Are Away. Recruiting went on briskly at the Armory yesterday and last night and a large number ot new men were en listed for service in the National Guard, subject to the direction of Gen eral Funston and the President. The chief long-distance recruit yes terday was William H. Gardner, who has been away from the city one month, in Montana. As soon as he learned the National Guard was ordered mobil ized by President Wilson, he took a train for Portland and paid bis own fare to re-enlist in Company C. Corporal Joe G. Reddick came from Astoria to add his name to the roster of Company C and numerous local men were enlisted yesterday. Company H filled up to its full quota of 69 yesterday, there being brisk re cruiting at its headquarters at the Ar mory.' Iven Cantrell was one of the newly- enlisted men. He arrived in Portland this week from Tennessee. A mere youth, hunting new scenes, he was Just n time to get into tne Guara Decause of the Mexican trouble, and he will march away to the mobilization camp today. Troop A. Cavalry, Is full to Its quota of 100. Captain Cicero Hogan, how ever, says he can use 10 more men who are qualified as horsemen or ei-cav lrymen. Others he cannot enlist. Corporal Crick, of Company B, dis played a blackboard at his headquar ters door yesterday asking, for 10 more men. That number was all required to bring Company B up to full strength. The Armory was a busy place all day, even after the troop train left for 5 Victor Company's Special A.dvrtiinent on m Pratnotfs Pag. PER Victor Sherman Sixth and Morrison Opposite Postof flee AW the Victor Records. Victrolas from $15 up On the easiest terms. Dealers in Steinway and Other Pianos, Pianola Pianos, Player Music. Etc. - ' j- - Southeast Corner Fifth and Alder Clackamas. Company C was on guard duty all day. There were marching men in khaki, troops getting equip ment and supplies from the Quarter master, soldiers drilling, men arrang ing their outfits in neat blanket rolls, polishing their arms, visiting with friends and doing the innumerable! things the soldier has to do to keep his uniform and equipment in order. A war regulation provides that in the event of the departure of the National Guard from the slate, keys to the Ar mory shall be turned over to the Mayor of the city, the building being left in the hands of a suitable caretaker. This will be the order if the mili tiamen depart from the state. Wood burn called the office of Adjutant General White yesterday on the tele phone and asked information as to whom the keys of the armory at that place should be entrusted when the company leaves for Clackamas camp. The information was given that the Mayor was the proper custodian of the keys. But he has enlisted in the company: what shall we do?" was the response. Camp to Have Wire Service. The Western Union circuits over the Southern Pacific will -be extended from Clackamas station to the military encampment, a distance of between 600 and 700 yards, to handle official and public business. Messages to the sol diers will receive the best of attention said Manager W. A. Robb last night. The office will be established in a tent supplied by the military authorities and two wires are ordered cut in to be ready today. If necessary, further facilities will be arranged. Operator J. C Giles, of the Portland main' of fice, will have charge. NAVAL MILITIAMEN SOUGHT Organization to Be Brought TTp I'ull Strength. to No call for the mobilization of the Naval Militia has come, but Captain George F. Blair, of that organization, is anxious to prepare fully for service, if the call shall be received. He is en couraging enlistment so as to bring1 this unit of the state forces up to full strength. Recruits. particularly those wno know something ot the sea and prefer ably those who have had former ex perience in the Navy or on shipboard, are wanted by Captain Blair. To at tract all who wish to join, officers, who will enlist applicants, will be on the Marblehead. moored at tne root or Jel- ferson street, evenings. F E C T Service ,play& Go I 3 ! . f