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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1919)
THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, APRIL. 12, 1919. LESLIETOOZE'S DEATH Sale of Boys' Two-Knicker Suits! SAD EM OF Tomorrow I propose to outfit scores of Portland boys with these Regular $12.50 and $13.50 Belted Suits With Two Pairs of Knickers For $9.85 Oregon Twins Separated at Eclisfontaine. I!,Sj"SJss, "UBEJCTV COBNFJtJ .-L--!..'' - TWO EAT AT SAME MESS the alem Lieutenants, Captain Pond a and Colin Y-Dyment Gather at Meal Before Great Battle. BT COLIN V. DYMENT. 4atrtcu Bad Cross Searcher Wltb the 91at Division. FOl'RTH ARTICLE. Not a rreat many letters were wr't en as the 91st moved up to the front. Paper was almost as scarce as delicacies. The Red Cross, the T. M. O A. and the Knights of Columbus pro- Tided what they could ft. and as far north as Condrecourt a little could bought In the French stores, but gen rally speaking', stationery was exceed inrly scarce at the front. Just before the Ninety-first went into action t Red Cross contrived to distribute 900 sheets of paper with envelopes. That looks like a large quantity, but when 55.000 sheets and only 12.509 en velopes are to be divided anions; 25,000 men not every cousin and aunt Is sure of a letter. Nor la every mother, more Is the pity of It! Relatives of the tst dead, and lela tives of wounded who have not bee beard from for months, and relatives ven of men who have been neithe Jellied, wounded, sick, missing nor ab eent from duty frequently say to th writer that the last letter received was dated during September, always prio to the 26th of September. Such letters were written during these inarches. Censorship was then strict. Somewhere In France was as spectfl a place of writing as was permitted there waa no chance even to say ' East rn France. and every letter was read. Those who have letters written durin September should treasure them long. They represent, often, difficulties little "understood In the west. Some of the Ingredients that enter into the compos! tion of a good letter are a table, chair, light, heat, paper, pencil, en velope, time and freedom to speak. On the way to the front the men of the 91st never had tables or chairs; no light except daylight: no heat: sometimes not even a French pencil, and a Frenc pencil is scarcely as good aa nothing little time, and no liberty to write of the things of which they wanted most to tell those at come. From the Vavincourt area, described In the previous installment, the men load one of the hardest of their night marches. The weather was good, but the distance was long. The area to which they went was Just back of the Foret de Hesse. Those who care to trace the course of the division on map should locate Clermont. In the de partment of the Meuse Clermont-en-Argonne, as the French call it. From September 17 to 20 the towns of the Clermont region first saw American troops in numbers, though there were few civilians left in these battered places to see them. The only time when any part of the Slst touched the Argonne forest was in this area. Two Infantry regiments, in pup tents just northwest of Clermont, were right In the forest itself. The 316th sanitary train, with its hundreds of California, Portland and Seattle men. was near Lavoye. Division headquarters were at Aulrecourt- Froidos. Karecourt and Auzeville are other towns of the neigh borhood. Asserlcaas Coart Danger. The 364th Infantry, mostly from Call lorn la. lay on a steep sidehill in an orchard near Aubreville. They were the men nearest the actual front, then held by the French seven kilometers. or between four and five miles, to the north. The small brown pup tents were supposed to be camouflaged and the Californians rustled branches and bushes from all directions. A few preen leaves over a tent makes it seem to the German aviator Just so much foliage, r e w Germans ventured over, however, for the allied planes resented, like so many hornets, any attempt of the boche to find out what waa coming behind the French lines. The Germans of the air did not come into their own till the battle began. On the 19th the 91st saw Its first air fight. Americans are really well disciplined, except when there is some thing to see. If the salvation of the world depended on his keeping his six feet out of sight when something he had not seen was happening, the wild west soldier would throw salvation away. Had Frltx ever got close enough, lie would have seen thousands of up turned faces, though most of the men did try to look from some place of partial concealment. Four years of war had made the French different. Curiosity never made the Frenchman court danger in the fail of 191S. and "hence his mixed feelings toward the crazy Americans." On this orchard sidehill the writer met many officers of the 364th, all looking forward to action. He first saw Major Hal Kasch tthen Captain Kasch), of Portland, sleeping contentedly in a long cavern. The cavern had been built aa a shelter from shellfire and air raids. On the bottom was much mud and some water. The roof was scarcely man's height. The air contained not an atom of Pacific coast osone. Major ltasch. however, was sleeping as soundly as ever he did In the fine Turkish bath of the Multnomah club. In the came cavern, on blankets in the mud, were Capt. MacKay of Seattle (then Lieu tenant MacKay) and Lieutenant Ham ilton, of Van Francisco. Presently Major Rase, of Portland, came to the cavern's mouth. Orderlies brought in savory food that was eaten in unsavory sur roundings. Hase. Kasch. MacKay and Hamilton ail fought splendidly, and all aurvlred the great war. Seaaratloa of Twlaa Sad. Down the hill, after mess, came the Toose twins, Leslie and I-amar, of Salem, Or. boys inseparable from babyhood: Together in public school, to gether in high school, together in the same courses In the University of Ore tron, together at Harvard rn '17. and now in the fall of 'IS lieutenants to gether In adjoining companies In the 164th Infantry. Though not In the same company, they still contrived to sleep under the aame blankets and to eat at the same mess. One of the saddest things of the war was the separation of the two Tooies when Leslie met death near Eclisfontaine. His glorious end was to come In less than ten days. So one might go on telling how offi cer after officer and man after man lived for a peaceful two days on the hillside near Aubreville. and in the Ar gonne timber Itself, two miles away, and up and down the Aire river valley. The papers of Montana and Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, Washington, Oreson and California, have paid them individual tribute aa they died. Those who lived are returning, and their tributes are coming. When Seattle, for example, vierlcomes the 161st Infantry, that will oe a day of days. Tet after Septem ber 19. 1390 men were wounded or killed In this regiment alone, and few of those will march in the Seattle parade. Meanwhile the wonderful road up the Aire valley and the wonderful roads Men's Hats $5, $6 Stetson Trimble Dunlap Connet In colors green, seal brown, pearl, fawn, olive. Men's Spring Caps $1.50 to $2.50 Ben Selling Leading Hatters Morrison at Fourth leading into It carried a strange pro cession. Of all the sights of the war, the traffic up the main road to the front was among the most wonderful. Can one who has not looked on make himself see in fancy the never-ending miles of war material horse-drawn or gas-driven miles of guns, ration wag ons, truckloads of infantry, bridge and trench supports, ammunition, ambu lances, horse feed, gasoline, hospital supplies and a dozen odds and ends of things? Now a long line of camou flaged cannon, hauled by horses rid den by blue-clad French; now a more active. Jauntier line of supply wagons driven by khaki; French coming out, French going in:, staff cars passing by straggling Americans, lamed by the last long hike and solemnly hunting their companies: a veritable pot-pourri of war. yet seldom disorderly. The trucks often met grief sliding over the edge of the well-crowned French road. After a rainy night, the morning would show one every few rods, lopsldedly clinging by two wheels to two leet o highway. March Is Short. Two or three days of this novel sigh and the division moved on once more I the next to the last march before saw action. The march was a short one. There Is little to tell about Headquarters moved from Autrecourt to Vraincourt. three kilometers back of the southernmost Jut of the Foret da Hesse. The 316th sanitary trai oved into the Bois de Farois. a part of the Foret de Hesse. The 316th en lnr thA 346th. 347th and 348th ma chine gun battalions, and the 361th, S62d. 363d and S64th infantry reg ments moved Into the forest Itself. The lfith ammunition train, the S16tn sup ply train, the S16th military ponce, in 316th signal battalion, an S. S. U. uni with ambulances, and minor units were scattered on duty. It was beptemoer 20 when the division moved into the Vrrt rift Hesse. The great Foret ae Hesse is aooui ight miles in length ana averages three in depth. Its easternmuoi reaches are scarcely ten miles from Verdun; Its westernmost border all but innrhM the Argonne forest. Readers ho.iirt distinguish between tne Argonn forest and the Argonne district. One takes its name from the other, but the Argonne forest is merely a part of the Arconne. When the battles of the 91st m.nt nnrt - 1 naVinK UCeil luufeii th Arrnnne. tne Argonne uieirt. o Th. division naa mucn nKiuuis to do in woods, but none or tne wooas was a part of the Argonne toreet proper, in which the 28th and 77th and 2d divisions were ngniing vu i -w nr th Hrive. ,""''" .T Ji.l.lnn. lnv Not fewer man mi kM.u. in th. Koret ae tiesse irom September 20 or 22 to the day of the . ai . ffnm Jumpoff. Tney were Missouri and Kansas, on the left, the 91st in the center ana tne .w., Ohio, on the right. East of the 37th as the 79th, largely iron Again the western men set up vw tents. The Foret oe nesse was ij. and the nights were cniuy; oui iu woods were beautnui periecny ful with their green-ieavea or iriunu trees, their many p nd their thick undergrowth. How many a man enjoyeu n. f his life! Many of those who j .hi. mov remember receiving let j,i.H tietween sememuiir v . Men were in writing mood. They ould come almost running when they saw the Red Cross giving out Paper. Orders were strict in the woods. .The allied front line was the northern edge of Hesse. Were Frltx to learn that 75.- aiia men were nreDarlng to leap at nun. with another 75,000 at their right and another 75.000 at their left, then divis ions to the right and left of these, by some bold stroke he might spoil the ni.n of attack. So fires were taboo, except a smokeless sort of fire pre- ...rihed for the kitchens. Men must not venture out of the woods. Officers going beyond a certain line towara tne front must put on French uniforms. Touring cars must not go into the woods by day. and even truck traffic was moved at night as iar aa was pos sible. ytem Eat Jaaa Before Drive. Food was auite good. There waa the inevitable "slum gullion," made of canned beef: there were also canned beefsteaks; there was also "corn Wil lie." The men often tired of the end less succession of beef in one of the three forms described, but the quality of It waa good: bad beef rarely If ever came into the 91st, and the good beef was usually well cooked. Potatoes, rice and prunes, one canned vegetable, such as tomatoes or peas, and army coffee comprised the rest of the diet, A scarcity of water was the principal drawback of the cuisine. Then men. hardened by the trip north ward, their systems craving for addi tional nourishment because of the strain, could sometimes have .ten more, but actual hunger was absent, except for sweets and tobacco. There was a hunger for these that never could be appeased. The Sunday before the battle the writer sat at mess with Panda of San Francisco, captain of Company K, 364th infantry; Lieutenants Leslie and La mar Tooxe, and some other offioers. "I'd give a thousand francs if I could get some Jam for my men," Panda sud denly said. "Why, I'll get y-u some," said th writer, in a moment of rashness, never supposing that Panda carried the thou sand franca Plump went a thousand-frano note on the table in front of him. Hearing of what had happened. Griffin, cap tain of Company F, produced a twin My regular stock of boys' suits at these two prices! You save exactly $2.65 or $3.65 on every suit ! Tweeds, cheviots, cassimeres, mixtures all tai lored in the bestm anner. Every age, from 7 18 years. Boys' $1.25 Blouse Waists Only 85c The remainder of the stock from last Saturday's sale. Absolutely new, crisp waists in the newest stripes, both light and dark. Chambrays, percales, madrases; all ages, from 6 to 16 years. One of the best boys' waist specials I ever have offered. Boys' Shop, Second Floor. IQenSelliri Morrison Street at Fourth? sal LAST TIMES TODAY The second and final installment of Martin Johnson's Cannibals of the South Sea Isles "CAPTURED BY CANNIBALS" Positively your last opportunity of seeing the wild est, most ferocious aggregation of Cannibal Brutes ever seen by a white human being. thousand frances. It waa up to the Red Cross. The Red Cross Ford and camionette were started next morning southward, but not until Bar-le-duc. 40 miles off, was r.. hed, was there jam. There a French commissary cierx listened to a tale of Frenchmen up front who were dying for jam. The plight of his countrymen touched him. He asked how much jam would do. "Four hundred kilos," he was told, and in an hour the Red Cross vehicles started back to the Foret de Hesse with 880 pounds of orange marmalade The whole night of the 24th was spent in getting' it in. Guards were put out by companies F and K to guard this Jam with their lives, and before they went over the top 400 men at least of the 91st division had all the sweets they could eat- In the fifth Installment Lieutenant Dyment will describe the great bom bardment that preceded the Argonne offensive and put the division over the firing line.) COMPANY TO REORGANIZE General May Confers With Captain Stafrin at Dallas. DALLAS. Or., April 11. (Special.) In a recent visit to Captain Conrad Stafrin of this city Adjutant General May. commander of the Oregon troops in France during the war. brought up the subject of reorganization of old company L of this city into the new national guard organization of the state. Members of company L believe that a larger company of soldiers can be organized in Dallas than before the war. Captain Stafrin says he himself has no aspirations for the captaincy, as he already has served the state and coun try several years In the guards. General May stated that Independ' ence wants a separate company and has 80 men signed up for service, but that the county is too small for two separate organizations and Dallas, hav lng an armory, would be the place se looted. RED CROSS WORKERS MEET Conference Representing Xorthwest Is'ow on in Seattle. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Eugene. April 11. (Special.) Dr. George Re bec, director of the Portland division of the University of Oregon; John C. Almack, acting director of the exten sion division,- and Karl W. Onthank, secretary to President Campbell of the university, have gone to Seattle to at tend a three days' conference of Red Cross workers representing Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Alaska, closing Sunday. The fufture of the Red Cross organi zation will be discussed, with particu lar reference to its programme of pub lic health nursing, home service, junior membership and training for various lines of work. The university has been asked to prepare a statement on the resources for this training offered by this institution. BETTER MAIL ROUTE ASKED Sheridan Resident Desires Co-opera' tion for Improvement. Improvement of the Salmon river star mail route so that a striving com munity will not be cut off from com munication with the world during the winter months is urged by M. Petersen of Sheridan in a letter to the state highway commission. Mr. Petersen is a member of the State Chamber of Commerce and has for years cham pioned the cause of good roads in the Grand Ronde district. . "I hope the counties, state and fed eral government will co-operate to provide a road that will permit all-the-year travel," he writes. "The peo ple there will volunteer labor and money to assist i i the clearing off of the right of way and grading." HOOD RIVER PLANS DRIVE Committee Meets to Arrange for Victory Loan Campaign. HOOD RIVER, Or., April 11. (Spe cial.) "Busy? Sure, but we'll finish the job." Such was the sentiment of Hood River orchardists expressed to L. P. Hewitt, district field manager of Hood River, Wasco and Sherman counties for the victory loan, who was present at a conference of Hood River county com mitteemen. Despite the busy season. for merchants as well as orchardists, all but three of the district captains for tne county were present. In the victory campaign Hood River county will not endeavor to go over the top the first half day or day, as was the case in the last liberty loan. Truman Butler, chairman of the local committee, explained to his fellowwork ers the plans of the local campaign. All citizens of the county will receive let ters just before the drive begins, ask ing for their subscriptions. At the sug gestion of E. O. Blanchar, subscribers will be given a tentative rating. STRAHORN ROAD INSPECTED Officials of Klamath Falls Guests of Builder. KLAMATH FALLS, Or., April II. (Special.) Members of the city council, the city attorney, city engineer and chief of police were guests of Robert E. Strahorn Sunday on a trip of in spection over the new municipal line to Dairy. The party was carried on the train to the end of the rails, 15 miles out, and then walked a distance of two miles to view the rock work in progress on the two big cuts. Members then were taken to Dairy, where some time was spent looking over the situation. J NEW SHOW SUNDAY A STORY OF NB DREGS TO THE d TO MB W YORK LIFE FROM THE 1EAM, FROM THE BOWERY XIONAIRE ROW. Astoria Men Ask Fees. ASTORIA, Or., April 11. (Special.) A suit has been filed in the circuit court by G. C. and A. C. Fulton against Clem W. Rogers to recover $2500 al leged due as attorney's fees. The com plaint says the plaintiffs represented the defendant in presenting his claim in the sum of $193,891.21 against the United States spruce division and the sum of $47,500 was allowed. ' They ask $2500 as remuneration for their services. TACOMA PLANS WELCOME Homecoming for Members of 9 1st Division Being Arranged. TACOMA. Wash.. April 11. (Special.) A mass meeting win De caiiea witnin a day or two and the wheels set In motion for a civic celebration to honor the returning heroes of the 91st divis ion, who are expected to arrive In la- coma In relays covering a period oi several weeks, beginning some time late this month and extending into the middle of May. The first action of the council In un dertaking the homecoming welcome of he division was to appoint Lieutenant- Colonel Harrison Grey Wlnsor, Taco- ma's ranking officer in the Washing ton National Guard, to take general charge of the arrangements. ACOMA TEACHERS TO GO Instructors Apply for Positions In Other Cities. TACOMA. Wash.. April 11. (Special.) Many Tacoma teachers, eager for a wage increase, are applying for posi tions elsewhere, despite the lact that the board of education probably will make the salary advance on April 23. The attorney-general has ruled that the board can make the increase retro active to September 1, 1918, and it will be necessary to take immediate action, for next year's contract must be signed by May 1. The board was told that many teach ers are placing their applications in Portland and other nearby cities. Special Excursion Train to St. Johns Terminal. The special train to be operated to the St. Johns municipal terminal on Saturday 'today), 12th, under the aus pices of the Portland dock commission for the benefit of those wishing to at tend the dedication of pier No. 1, will leave Union station, Portland, at 1:30 M , and on return will leave the terminal at St. Johns at 4:30 P. M. Adv. If i t . $ Iff :V fe HOMATAIMADGI AJg m M I H m 111 B I u III II H H FJ I Bil tin l fl He n Direction of Jensen - Vorv Herbert; 5 aa-daW V 1 liafltaatBatasaoaaDatBa NEW 1 "plenty K ONE I ' SHOW for 1 ENTIRE j L . jy : TODAY j WEEK jCTV . wa-....... ... - . UX:--: -w ! A-ikt as MhAcifxX Pictographs Mutt and Jeff A Scenic Do they walk into her trap? Do THEY! These men were pals, be cause they ALL hated women. Now, they hate each other! See the picture, and find out why. Perfect IP REMEMBRANCE "CORDIAL CHOCOLATES" AFTER LENT bring the feminine candy-lover the rarest treat imagin able. This handsome lavender package contains aa assortment of rich fruits en liqueur pineapple, cher ries, strawberries and raisins chocolate covered. Ideal for Easter giving. $ 1 .25 the package.