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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.
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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.
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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
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Company E. the Urldrcnxm) First Sergeant H. V. Vlckery, of Compan y E, Standing; Near Bridegroom.
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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.
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their complete equipment and report
morning and reached Clackamas
numDers approximately iou men.
company. Adjutant-General White
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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