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TITE 3IORNISG OREGOMAX, FKIDAY, APRIL 11, .1919. 8 FIRST STEP MEN TO ORGANIZE VETERANS Colonel Roosevelt Telegraphs Suggestions to Oregon. STATE CONVENTION AHEAD Delegates Will Be Picked for Na tlonal Meeting; Lieutenant Bur sa rd Temporary Secretary. Treltmlnary steps were taken yester day to form an organization open to all the men in the land and naval forces of the L'nited States in the recent war, when Colonel Theodore Koosevelt tele graphed to Lieutenant-Colonel George H. Kelly making suggestions for ac tion in Oregon. This organization, as yet nameless. Is designed to be the real, comprehen aire organization for the men who have seen service against Germany and to nh.i: out alleged fly-by-nlsht organlsa ttons which are begiiiing to sonna up. The urbanization will proceed In temporary manner pending the return of the men overseas, so that when tney arj borne they will have a voire In it Colonel Roosevelt, whose address s 1 West Forty-fourth street. New York City, la a series of telegrams to Colonel Kelly i.iulcated a general outline for faahWnir.;; a state branch of the pro posed war veterans" association. He aiked that immediate publicity be Riv en to the programme and that the name and address of a temporary secre tary be published, so that all the veter ans ran get In touch with the pending organization. It is suggested that a call pe Issued for a state convention to select dele gates to attend a national convention at tit. Louis. No data has been set for the statoor national meetings. buHhese will be announced later. Urease, Have la Delegates. . Representation In the national con vention will be based on twice the con gressional representation of a state. This means that with Oregon having two senators and three representatives, the Oregon branch, will be entitled to send to St. Louis ten dY-legates. That Colonel Koosevelt has perfected the details of the plan was indicated by the fact that he had even desig Bated the names of the men he wished aijrned to the call for the state conven tion In Oregon. The call for the con vention is signed by the following: Lieutenant-Colonel George II. Kelly Portiand: LIcutenant-Coloric! George A. White. Portland: Major William R. lsti. Oregon City; Captain Lo w V Walker. Portland; Lieutenant ' John Clark Burgard, Portland: Sergeant Carl R. Kenton. tatlas: Private Fred Kiddle. La Grande; Private Harry Crltrhlow. Portland. All of the men siose names were selected by Colonel Roosevelt to sign the call have seen service overseas. Lieutenant-Colonel Kelly was In charge of f filing all the lumber used by the American expeditionary force In France: Lieutenant-Colonel White, who was adjutant-general of the Oregon national guard. Is still In France: sev eral others signing the call are still In ranee. Complying with the requeit of Colo nel Koosevelt. Lieutenant John Clark Murgard has been selected as temporary secretary. his address Is zli Oak street. Portland. Lieutenant Hurgard, who recently was with the trophy train of the victory liberty loan, was se verely wounded In France. As soon as dates for the state and national conventions are established, the call for the slate convention will be Neued. It is the desire of Colonel Kelly to se large delegations from all parts of the state at the slate conven tion. In order to make the organization as representative as possible. has ordered the meeting of the zemstvo I and municipal assembly for the first! two weeks in May. ' - Thirty-five representatives of the I district zemstvo and 15 representatives I from the city and village administra tions will .be 'represented. Taxation, financial powers of the zemstvo, unem ployment and relief measures, public I health and sanitation, supplies and I trade are among the matters to be con sidered. LONDON". April 1. via Montreal. I Forces of the Russian, government at ! Omsk bave defeated two bolshevik regi ments In 3arapul. on the Kama river. according, to an official announcement I received here from Omsk. - June hun dred bolshevikl were killed. Bolshevik 'reports on the situation the region of Odessa say that Franco- I Greek troops have been driven1 back In the Crimea, the bolshevik! capturing Perekop. ' LONDON. April 10. (Renter's.) The bolshevik! armies which captured I Odessa are now trying to penetrate the I Crimea. -They have Already come into I contact with the Franco-Greek . troops I who. according to bolshevik reports, I were driven back. The bolshevik cap- I tured Perekop, 100 miles north of Se- baatopol. Jt is officially announced from Omsk that two bolshevik regl-.l ments were completely defeated at Sa- rapuL 900 men being. killed- . PARIS. April 10. Reports received by I the Russian, commission in Paris from the all-Kusslan 1 government at Omsk show that the official expenses of that I government are declining and there is I in progress a rapid increase in the I monthly revenue. The last totalled loo.ono.goo rubles In Fetruary. as I against si. "00,000 rubies for the pre-1 vlous month and 1 5.000,000 rubles last I COM M. X D KR MAKES ItEPORT War Department Itecelves Notice of I Soldiers' Action. w ASHi.NUTOX. April JO. The war I department Issued tonight an official I statement confirming Associated Press! advices from Archangel tha twhat I amounted to a mutiny occurred among the American troops there on March I JO. A company of infantry, the message I stated, refused to entrain for the front! until personally urged to do so by Colo-I nel George K. Stewart, commanding the I American contingent. Open threats 1 were made of general mutiny unless ent worn Washington in- TROOPS ASK WITHDRAWAL P'onHnuvN, rrm Klrnt Page the Americans were keen for fighting the bolshevikl. whom they had been told were German ascents. They have fousht bravely throughout the cam paittn. and they still are doing so. However, alnce the armistice with Germany was declared, the soldiers have been subjected to constant bol hevik propaganda, which, together with their desore to return home after the end of the war for which they were drafted, and the hardships and loneliness of the Arctic winter, has caused them to lose their spirits. Meanwhile they have had no official statement from the government to an nwer bolshevik propaganda and no American In Archangel is In a position to tell them officially what they are fighting for. WASHINGTON". April 10. Advices from Archangel to the state department tolv Jitte the trovl"j(nn t government CASTOR I A For Infanta and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears . r Si nature of 'DANDER1NE" FOR FALLING HAIR Stop dandruff and double trauty of your hair for few cents. definite statem uring early withdrawal was forthcom ing. The text of the paraphrase of the code message, dated March 31, follows. he department having eliminated only he Identification of the company and certain military Information not bear ing on the Incident: -yesterday morning, March JO. a com pany of infantry, having received or ders to go to the railroad front, was ordered out of barracks for the pur pose of packing sleds for the trip across the river to the railroad station. "The non-commissioned officer who was In rharge of the packing soon re ported to the officers that the men refused to obey. At this, some of the officers took rharge. and all except one man began reluctantly to pack after a considerable delay. The soldier who continued to refuse was placed in con fincmenu Colonel Stewart, having been sent for. arrived . and had the men assembled to talk with them. L'pon the condition that the prisoner above mentioned was released the men agreed to go. This was done, and the company then proceeded to tne railway station and entrained there for the front. That they would not Ti to the front line positions was openly stated by the men, however, and tney would only go to OboiHi-skaya. Tney also staled that general mutiny would soon come if there was not tome definite statement forthcoming from Washing ton with regard to the removal of American troops from Russia at the earliest possible date." The department ha-, cabled for more Information. From the message re ceived today officials were unable to ascertain whether a condition of mut iny had In fact developed in the past ten days. Pending fuller advices, no comment was forthcoming as to the course to be pursued. 1'resum.-" y. it was said. Colonel Stewart already had been advised di rectly that it was the purpose of the supreme war council, in charge of the policy governing the movement, to withdraw the entire force from north ern Russia when the ire blockading the harbors goes out. The British relief expedition. originally scheduled to be 3400 strong, has sailed, as nave the two companies of American railway engineers sent at the request of the British au.horities to keep open the railroad south of Murmansk. The diipatch today did not show to what extent bolshevik propagandists could be held responsible for the be havior of the troops, nor has any in formation reached the department tend ing to show the extent to which the rebellious attitude may have spread through the whole American contin gent. The 339th Infantry of the Both division forms the bulk of the American contin gent in the Archangel region. The unit is almost wholly composed of selective service men from Michigan. It Is com mar.r'ed by Colonel George E. Stewart of the regular army, who served in some of the most northerly posts in Alaska and became thoroughly familiar with weather conditions such as those in Archangel. While the action of the company at Arohangel undoubtedly Is mutinous un der any strict interpretation of the mint- -y code and would render the men liable to severe disciplinary action, un der ordinary circumstances, war depart ment officials did not believe such ac tlon would result. It was pointed ou that the men apparently obeyed their orrt. -s subsequently when the situation had '.ietn made clear to them. Only In the event of a refusal which jeopard ised the lives or other men. It was thought, would any drastic measures of discipline be Invoked. Officers here were frankly doubtful that publto sen timent at h"Ot would permit any other cojrse and many of them expressed synpathy with the feelings of the men. 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Appointment of Milt .Missionaries n Conflict. ric- Daadrutf cause, a. feverish irritation of the scalp, the hair roots shrink, loosen and then the hair tomes out fast. T stop falling hair at once and ri-1 the .calp of every particle of Oandruff, get a small bottle of aandcrine" at any trug store for a few rents, pout a little In your hand and rub It Into the scalp. After several applications the hair stops coming out and you can't find any dandruff. Your hair appears soft, glossy and twuie ae-thlcK and buadanU. Try j:: Adv, ,MONl, la.. April 10. Frederick M. Smith lias offered his resignation as president of the reorganised Church of Jesua Christ of ljitter-Pay faints to the general conference In session here this week. It was learned today. Mr. Smith action. It Is said, was due to a difference of opinion as to whether the appointment of the church's Jul) missionaries should be in his handa or left to the "quorum of Seven hundred delegates from all parts of the United States and several other countries are attending the conference. Lieutenant Recti Expected Home. First lieutenant Kenneth ft. Reed, sou of Mrs. George M. Heed, 733 Vpijer drive, is expected to arrive In Portland today or tomorrow. Lieutenant Reed saw overseas service as aide to Brig-adier-tieneral Colwell of- the TS2d brigade of the Mst division. He was mustered out nt Camp Podge. Ia. The return from France was made on the steamer Keiituckian." In 1959 the trees which will be plant ed this week and In the near future under the direction of George Cecil, district forester, will be ready for the market, according to estimate- of the forest service. Planting was started In four Oregon forests and one national forest this week. Directions have been given to plant with fir and pine 3080 acres of national forest which have henn burned off a number of times and which would produce no new trees if left to nature. naming la to take place on luu acres near Hustlers creett on the Crater na tional forest, on 425 acres near Oak ridge, southweft of Kucene. on the Cascade national forest, on 600 acres at Mount He bo, south of Tillamook in the Sluslaw national forest, and on 65 acres on the old Solduc burn on the Olympic national forest. Trees two years old are used for plant ing. The trees were all grown on the Windy river government nursery in the Columbia national forest and are of Douglas fir except those- to be plant ed on the Crater forest, which are yel low pine and grown at a nursery in that forest. It Is expected that within 20 years the timber planted this spring Will be large enough to be used for piling: nd post timber. Within 75 to 100 years from now it will be ready for saw timber. Centralis to Clean Up. CENTRAWA, Wash., April 10 (Spc- c!al.)-;The school authorities have des ignated next Monday as clean-up day in Centralis. The school children are to clean the rubbish from the streets and alleys. The city commission will furnish teams to haul the trash away. The schools will adjourn early to per mit the children to devote -a maximum of time to the work. Preperty owners will be expected to clean up their own premises beforo Monday, all unsani tary yards to be reported by the chil dren to the city authorities. JURY SAYS DEATH ACCIDENT Joseph P. Arthur Exonerated of of Blame In Drowning of Women. OAKXAN'D. Cal., April 10. Joseph P. Arthur of Waukegan, 111., was cleared by a coroner's jury yesterday of re sponsibility for the death of Mrs. James Stockton and Mrs. Paul V. Smith, who were drowned when Arthur's automo bile plunged off a wharf on the Oak land waterfront two weeks ago. Arthur Is In a local hospital recover Ing from injuries suffered in the acci dent. 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