Morning Oregonian., April 18, 1919, Page 21, Image 21

THE MOKXIXG OREGOXIAX, - FRIDAT, APRIL -18, f919.
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EHTHUSUSM GROWS
PORTLAND'S VICTORY LOAN COMMITTEE DISCUSSING CAMPAIGN THAT OPENS NEXT MONDAY.
24 Counties Pledged to An
nounce Full Quota Monday.
MANY WANT TRIP IN AIR
Chairman of Aviation Committee!
Swamped With Applications or
Would-Be Passengers.
SEW LIGHT OX VICTORT LOAJT
FOR OREIiOX.
Twenty-four counties tr
tleded to complete their quotas
br o'clock Monday morning.
Jackson and Lane counties Joined
the honor roll yesterday. I
Delivery of 4i per cent no
tary notes promised during ths
cam pa ten.
Easter Sunday to be. observed
as -victory Sunday- In all Port
land churches.
"Flying- circus," famous Ameri
can aviators, to appear above the
city on Monday afternoon.
The grace and facility with which
even the mudhen navigates the un
stable air excited the envious emula
tion of man and led directly to the
swift plane which Ties with the birds.
Thus was the -flying circus," honored
in democracy's battle, presented full
fledged to the victory loan campaign
of Portland and Oregon.
If there is but half the enthusiasm
manifested In the sterling victory In
vestment bonds themselves, as there Is
In the nar approach of the "flying
' circus." which will waft into Portland
nest Monday morning, at the opening
of the drive, then Is Oregon abundantly
assured of her J26.747.5SO quota. The
opinion of victory loan officials la Iden
tical on this score.
First among the special and spectac
ular features of the fifth drive, the
-flymg circus." with Its gallant youn
pilots who drove the Hun from the
clouds over France, is proving a sharp
spur to local interest- Milton R. Klep-
per. chairman of the aviation commit
tee, has many applications of those whol ganisatlon of the force may not be de
would be passengers. I ayed
Major Mirr Approves Site. I Victory loan headquarters was con
Major Kenneth Mirr. advance repre-1 strutted In but a few days under the
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EDWARD COOKI.VGUIH (LEFT) STATE CHAJRMA.V, ADDRESSING THE! LOCAL. EXECCT1VK COMMITTEE. WITH EMERY OLMSTEAD (RIGHT) AS
CHAIRMAN OF THE CITY FORCES.
sentative of the aviation spectacle, ar
rived In Portland yesterday morning
and visited Mock's Bottom, just be
yond the I'crtland flouring mills, wherj
direction of Julius L. Meier, assistant
city manager.
Some fairy prince of finance, who
lies the fieid that has been selected as modestly withheld his name, offered to
a landing f-ite for the planes. The ma- "foot the bill" for 1C00 victory icii
Jor. who is officially credited with I workers and the visiting aviators when
lownlng three enemy plat-., ana wnii,ne Auditorium banquet and final con-
wears the croix be guerre, declared his
satisfaction with the landing field.
Mr. Klepper has been obliged to rule
that passenger flights with th circus
will be restricted to newspaper men
and but a few others the latter to be
ference la held on Monday night. His
offer was accepted quickly.
faster Sunday will be observed as
"Victory Sunday' In practically all of
the churches of Portland, the special
chos--.. probably, from heavy subscrib- featurM committee announces. All
ers to the fifth Issue. The planes will
fly In mock bsttle. scattering victory
lan .itera'.ure, at 1:30 o clock Monday
afternoon.
But not even the flying circus, a
sparkling stellar attraction, is being
permitted to clutter the way of the vic
torious city and state loan forces.
Thoroughness of organisation I. being
Uiade super-thorough.
24 Coaatlee tm Pledge Qaetam.
Twenty-four counties pledged unre
servedly to announce their fttll quotas
by 9 o'clock on Monday morning, just
as the campaign rustles its feathers
and prepares to sail ahead, speak for
the attitude of the outer state districts,
according to John L. Etheridve. state
director of organization. Two new
counties Joined the honor list yester
day with fully pledged quotas. They
are Jackson, with a S5;6,9f0 quota, and.
Lane, with a quota of 1657.000. At
state headquarters it is asserted that
the 3S outer-state counties will all be
tiumbered among the chosen on the
first day of the drive. The challenge
Is directly up to Portland and Multno
mah county.
Chairman Emery Olmstead. who
J-ads the city sales vanguard. witU H.
B. Van Duzer, as city sales director.
and Charles F. Berg aa assistant, is In
rltned to spend his spare time sawing
organisation timber and shying at pre
mature predictions of victory.
-Portland will do her share." said
Mr. Olmstcr.d yesterday. "I have no
riealre to underestimate the task of
the campaign, nor to magnify it. But
I w'.ll say that we are going to work
with the determination to finish It,
and thoroughly, at the earliest moment
possible.
MeMlaavllle Hears Address.
Executive Secretary tVillla K. Clark
gave a sincere sigh of relief yesterday
when William J. Piepenbrinl' manager
of Whitfield-Whitcomb & Co.. called
and donate-1 the service of his com
pany's entire organisation to the han
dling of the vast bulk of victory loan
accounting In the city, agreeing to or
ganise the entire accounting system.
Telling them all about t:amwork,
and how the victory loan couldn't
travel without It. Slate Director Ethe-rldg-
stormed McMinn -ille last night.
In sn address to all Tamhiil county,
where E. C Apperaon is the capable
chairman. .
-We entered the war. we fought the
war and we finished the war." asserted
Mr. Etheridge to his Yamhill audience.
"We achieved a victory beyond all ex
pectation, bnh in suddenness and com-pttenrtt-
It is true that we have paid
a heavy price for that victory.
-We turn now to the future. The
teamwork of the state organisation is
teaching and ill .leach Portland that
afultnomah county is but a small part
of the great staTe of Oregon."
Chairman Clmstead and Sales Di
rector Van Diixt. of the city organ
ization, have called a meeting of the
district sales directors and sales man
agers for noon today, at a luncheon in'
the grill of the Hotel Portland.
Prompt delivery of the victory lot n
notes has been promised by the treas
ury department, according to advtcea
received by local loan officials. The
official message is as . Hows:
"Treasury department promises de
livery of coupon victory notes, bearing
4-4 per cent interest, during the cam
paign. The J' per cent series In cou
pon form will bo available for delivery
after May SO."
clergymen bavo been asked to make
special pleas for individual support of
he patriotic drive. Men In uniform
will be detailed by the speakers' bureau
to visit the churches and speak briefly
for the fifth loan.
A thanksgiving demonstration will be
iield at tie Auditorium Tuesday night
Subscriptions aggregating 1140.000 to
the victory loan have been made by
three local life Insurance companies.
according to th; report made last night
by IL it. Blauvelt. chairman of the for
eign corporations bureau, as follows:
Oregon Life, J50.000; United Artisans,
$50,000. New England Mutual, J10.000.
Mr. Blauvelt has set the foreign cor
porations subscription mark at 12.500,
000. but believes that the total sub
scription will more nearly approach 3,-
OOO.OOi.
CAR LINES MIGHT PAY
SEATTLE OFFICIAL OUTLINES
ECONOMIES "ECESSAKY.
BIDS ASKED ON ROAD WORK
Pacific County to Rush Improvement
of Highways.
SOUTH BEND, Wash.. April 17.
(Special.) At the session of the
county commissioners of Pacifio
county. Just ended, calls for bids on
four pieces of road work in Pacific
county were ordered.
The first Is for the paving of a por
tion of state road P.O. 19, known as
the Ocean Beach highway and a part
of the National Park highway. The
second is for the grading and Improv
ing of 25 miles of state road No. 20
and a part of the National Park high
way system. On permanent highway
1-D. a part of the National Park high
way, the road is to have a rock base
with a crushed rock top.
More work on the National Park
highway between South Bend and Che
halis consists of the paving with con
crete of about eight milea of this road.
Bids for all the above work must be
submitted on or before May S and the
commissioners plan to rush the work
after the contracts are let.
The commissioners have appropri
ated the sum of S2U.O0O to be used in
the construction of a bulkhead and in
doing some filling work on the Na
tional Park highway between this city
and Raymond. This work is to start
Immediately.
Appeal Made to Citizens to Aid In
. Elimination of Expenses That .
Add to Operation Cost. .
SEATTLE. Wash.. April 17. Spe
clal.) Declaring- that with contem
plated economies possible through co-
operation of the citizens, the newly
acquired traction lines can be made to
turn a profit Into the public treasury,
Thomas Murphine, supreintendent of
public utilities, asked the assistance
of the Rotary club in bis noonday
luncheon address before that organ!
zation at the Masonic clubrooms in
carrying out the chances.
The first, eliminating free rides
which had saved the city $50,000 per
year, had caused, the speaker . said,
what lawyers called "mental anguish
and bodily pain. He hoped for a more
favorable reception cf other economies.
Skirvstops, which will save $100,000
more a year in power and trainmen's
time and cut short the arrival at termi
nals by six to eight minutes; prohibit
ing parking of automobiles In the bus!
ness streets: extension of the systems
to producing territory without Increas
ing the operating charge and the aban
donment of small feeder lines that have
been showing a loss.
The speaker said cutting out these
lines would compel passengers- to walk
only two or three blocks to reach
through lines, which woulu result in
faster time to the business- section.
Mr. Murphine said that the revenues
of the traction lines had Increased' $2000
per day ov.. the same period last year.
notwithstanding the larger Industrial
operations under war speed. He at
tributed this to the rapid growth rf the
city.
LETTERS AWAIT SOLDIER
Fred Munson Returns After Service
AVlth 65th Artillery.
Fred Munson. former employe - of
Woodard-Clarke drug company, who
went everseas with the 65th coast ar
tillery, returned to his home in Port
land last Wednesday evening. . He is
the son of Mrs. O. Munson, (96 North
Twenty-third street.
Toung Munson was separated from
the 65th artillery more than five
months ago. He had seen just two
days' service at the Metz front when
his foot, which he had cut several days
before, became Infected and he was
sent to a base hospital at Mars-sur-Alier.
During the last seven months
of his srmy service he received no
letter from the United States and upon
his return Wednesday evening found
waiting for him a pile of letters dating
back as far as July, which the govern
ment had returned to him. Bad man
agement is . his explanation.
Mr. Munson landed in New Tork on
March 25, exactly one year after he had
left that port with the 65th artillery
for France. He came over on the trans
port Venlcia. He will resume his work
with the Woodard-Clarke drug com
pany. He was one of the first of the
36 men who left the employ of that
firm to enter the service and for whom
the comrany is holding open positions.
NURSES TO MEET APRIL 23
Standard Rates and Other Questions
to Be Discussed.
The quarterly meeting of the Oregon
State Nurses' association will be held
at the public library, room H, April
3 at 2 o'clock.-
Important topics that should be dis
cussed by all nurses of the city will be
presented, namely:' Standard rates . to
be set for ail nurses of the state, the
serving of meals for special nurses by
the hospitals and the completion of re
organization of the state association to
comply with the plan outlined by the
American Nurses' association.
At 3 o'clock Mrs Sadie Orr Dunbar
will speak on "How We Obtained Our
Open-Air School" and Miss Jane Allen
will tell of her work with the children
of the school. . ,
TWO ROBBERIES REPORTED
Masked Highwaymen Stage Holdups
In Different Parts-of City.
Masked highwaymen staged two
holdups In different parts of the city
Wednesday night, according to reports
to the police yesterday. C. R. Wilson,
423 Pacific street, reported that robbers
stopped him at East Sixth street and
Holladay. avenue and relieved him of $5.
Mr. Wilson, who is a dental student.
said the highwaymen returned his
watch after examining it.
Jeff Davis reported to the police that
two masked men answering the de
scription of the persons who robbed
Mr. Wilson, had held him up and
robbed him of $16.60 at Ninth and Flan
ders streets.
WALLA WALLA TO BE HOST
TRACTOR SHOW WILL BE OPEX
APRIL 23, 24 AXD 25.
Demonstrntldas Will T.'tTie Place on
600-Acro Yenne; Ranch and
Many Visitors Are Expected.
WALLA WALLA. Wash.. April 17.
(Special.) Walla Walla is ready to en
tertain the thousands of visitors ex
pected in the city for the tractor and
power farming demonstration April 23,
34 and 25. The home owners-of Walla
Walla have thrown wide their doors to
the Commercial-club's housing commit
tee, with the result that Walla Walla
will be able to take care of 20,000 visi
tors daily.
The big 600-acre Tenney ranch, where
the tractor and truck demonstration
will be held is close to the city. Trans
portation will be by automobile and
more than- 200 Walla Walla citizen
have donated their cars for the even
This will enable visitors to reach th
grounds rapidly and return at the!
convenience.
Many exhibits already have been re
ceived in Walla VV alia, and there
hardly a day but what some new type
of truck or tractor is seen on the streets
of the city. .
Within a very few days all of th
many department heads of the Orego
Agricultural college, the state college
at Pullman. Wash., and the University
of rdaho will be in Walla Walla
participate in the event. So will b
county engineers and county agricul
lural agents from over the northwes
Acting-Governor Hart will be in Wall
Walla for the show on April 24 and
other prominent state officials also.
SOLDIERS IfJ BATTLE
91st Division More Fortunate
Than Some Others.
light field piece, that lobs explosive
over the men who may be less than
300 feet distant. The four men were:
Corporal Floyd Wenks, Sergeant Nor
man R. Sheehy. Corporal Lewis E.
Morgan and Private Earl Sutton.
"They got me," said Corporal Mor
gan, who died before they could get
him to the first-aid station. Morgan's
mother then lived at 6321 Central ave
nue, Los Angeles. Sheehy was carried
in an Improvised stretcher made from
a slicker and rifles as far as the
dressing station, where he died an hour
later. His aunt, Mrs. William Cobble
dick, lived at 853 West Fifty-eighth
street, Los Angeles, but his home ad
dress is said, to have been 2735 Fifth
avenue, Sacramento. Shee"hy's arm and
Iao. m- A KkaItah (-'...- V. . . ...
RESCUE OFTEN DIFFICULT speak when the" 1-pounder came. He
H1CIC1 IIIUUIII4UI VL Ull I IUUI 1UU.
days later was gassed). Wenks was
killed Instantly. His father lived in
Andalusia, 111.
A quiet and much-liked private of
D-363 was Henry Ragello of Dos Palos,
CaL He and his companions wero
mopping up in the Boia de Cheppy.
They came to a place that seemed
likely to hold some of Fritz, and pro
ceeded more cautiously. Machine guns
did open. They began crawling and
watching intently. When Ragallo was
struck, a mechanic named Bust) of
company D, from Los Panos, Cal.,
crawled to him and found liim uncon
scious. He did not answer Bush's "How
are you?" He had been hit in the back
of the head and died in a few becouds
while Bush was beside him
Troop Contingents Losing Their
Bearings In Conflict Often Scat
tered and Shot Cp.
BT COLIN V. DTMENT,
American Red Cross Searcher with the 91st
Division.
' TENTH ARTICLE,
The 91st division has never had
battalion lost, as was the case with
the 77th a few miles to the left, in the
Argonne forest itself, in which a New
York battalion held out for three days
until rescued. Whole platoons have
been lost for a time in the 91st; that
is, they have run clear out of touch
for a time with the main body of
troops, and in such predicament have
got into dangerous Dlaces. Later on,
for example, the story will come of a I ward from Very.
Junction City. Boy Killed.
An Oregon boy la company C of ths
363d, who was killed at 11 o'clock, wis
Peter W, Peterson, son of Anton Retor
son, route 1, box 3, Junction City, Or.,
who was shot through the head by a
machine gun locatea two miles south-
Shortly before, Jo-
is
to
Bend Would Wipe Out Debt.
BENT). Or.. April 17. (Special) In
special meeting last ' night, the Bend
city council voted to contract with
Freeman, Smith & Camp, Portland bond
buyers, for the sale of $18,000 worth of
serial per cent bonds, providing an
election already authorized, the date
of which has not been set, carries. The
bond issue is for the wiping out of
the tity's warrant indebtedness.
CAR STOLEN FROM THIEVES
Jack Delaney Arrested and Held
Under $2 000 Bonds.
For stealing an automobile from fou
automobile thieves Jack-Delaney,
was arrested late Wednesday by In
spector B. F. , Smith and locked up ii
the city jail, charged with larceny. His
bail was set at $2000.
The machine, which . is owned by
F. A. Coleman, proprietor . of the
Ramapo hotel, was stolen several days
ago. yesterday Delaney noticed the
four culprits in the automobile and
represented himself as the owner. The
quartet became frightened and desert
ed the machine in Portland Heights.
Delaney was taking a joy ride In his
newly acquired car when he was
stopped and arrested by tne police.
Read The Oregonlan classified ads.
GROUP OF BRILLIANT AIRMEN WHO WILL BE HERE WITH THE FLYING CIRCUS NEXT MONDAY.
VOLUNTEER WORKERS WANTED
Special Headquarters Building Will
lie Occupied Today.
The victory liberty loan drive, some
what of a 1.x at waif the past week or
o. will enter its own home this morn
ing in the special headquarters build
ing erected at fr'lxth and Morrison
streets, on the corner of the Federal
bntldtrtg property. With its occupancy
the call goes forth for volunteer work
ers In the city forces.
"All volunteer workers who assisted
tn the city headquarters during the
fourth liberty loan are requested to
report at the new victory headquarters
this morning fo- service in the present
campaign." announced Willis K. Clark,
executive secretary. "It is urgent that
)ou result to me promptly, au that or-
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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT MAJOR CARL SPATZ, CAPTAJV JOHN HAMBLETOI, CAPT.4IX l H. SMITH. CAPTAIW W. H. IIOOVLK. LIEl'TE.AJST GEORGE W.
Pl'RVEAR. LIEITE.AJ1 Ii, W. FOUMEO.
361st nlatoon that, but for its rescue seph L. Peterson, private first class in
Just before dawn, might have lost all I company C, had been killed before he
its men. got into action; the latter's people still
There was one group of 16 men that live in bweden.
was lost for four days, however. Most Other men of the 182d brigade killed
of them carrie from luckless company on the 26th were: William Jakox, pri-
D of the 364th. which was so badly vate c-jt3, brother of Nick Jakos of
scattered and so badly shot up when I Garfield. Utah, high explosive; F. Lee
Lieutenant Noble was killed that forlJudd, private hdq. C-363. brother of
days the company was not much but a J- J. Judd of 910 Myrtle street, Oakland,
shadow. . I Cal., high explosive; Arthur McCoanl,
This group, scattering off to the left private in G-364, son of James W. Mc-
and quickly getting lost in the fog of I Coard, 1621 Florence avenue, Butte,
the 26th, fell in with company A of the died September 28 at mobile hospital
140th infantry a part of the 35th di- o. a irom wounds; Pearl Mentzler, nri-
vision which went in at the 91st left. I vate in H-363. brother of Ray Mentzler
What they did during the day is un-I of Kenton, O.. died October IS of pneu-
determined; it . was evening when I monia following a wound received on
company A took them in, and promptly the 26th; Samuel P. Parr, private first
next morning they started over the top. iciass in c-JbJ, son or Mrs. Charles Parr
All day they were under machine gun of Fillmore, Cal., gunshot wound;
and shell fire. Corporal Logan Wheeler Charles F. Rosecrans, private in M-36i,
of Yakima, Wash., had charge of the brother of Fred Rosecrane, Crescent
group. He was a corporal in company City, Cal., bullet received while in tem-
D. His people live at 402 South Eighth porary service of the 34Sth machine-
avenue, Yakima. Others of the lost gun oattalion: Irvine A. Westerberg,
group were Privates J. F. Wilson of I private In M-363, son of Peter Wester-
Lemoore, Cal.; W. W. Thomas of 229 oerg of Sst. Cloud, Minn., gunshot
Boyle street, St. Louis, Mo.; George I wound.
Fitzhenry of Redding. Cal.. and Chepan I Meanwhile the 181st brigade, the 361st
Andrigasvich, proably a Los Angeles I and 362d Infantry regiments with the
man. I 347th machine gun battalion and some
Wbeeler Sticks to Doty. scattered units, had gone over the top
Andrigasvich was killed by a shell at tne left of Avocourt. had crossed
at 6 o'clock on the 27th. The same a. rougn open space in which were the
shell killed a second D man whose German front lines, and had swept
name the writer has never been able 11,1 6" lne center ot uneppy wooas
to get, and who was badly torn up. almost without loss. From the Cheppy
The following day, about 5 o'clock, woods tnis redoubtable brigade, which
Wheeler was hit in the temple by a I save such a wonderful account of itself
machine gun bullet that went through in later fighting, moved through tho
his helmet. He lived for five minutes. BO's oe very, skirted the edge of the
Even in those last dying moments his Boia Chehemin. beyond which it was
mind stuck to his duty. He knew that he,d UP loT time by machine guns,
the rrmin wa tr.v nnri that .Its and by late afternoon stood in front of
credit with company D might not be the village of Epinonville.
good until It had given account of it- I Miller Man of Fen Words.
self. He had carefully taken the names Company L, composed mostly of
of all the lost men so that he could I Washington men, lost two on this
show they were fighting. journey. The first to be killed was
Nearly always a man is excused If he Gilbert Miller, nrivate first oIhrm who
hows he was fighting. Lost men would died about 2 P. M. The company was
ttach themselves to units of the same half a mile bevond Chennv woods, ft
regiment, or of another regiment, or was in the front wave of the battalion,
of another regiment in the division, or and had run into the first machine
even of another division, partly for gun resistance. Miller, an automatlu
companionship, protection and orders, gunner, known in the company as a
but partly, too, so that the authority of man of few words, had been fightins
their new unit might stand back of at the machine gun emplacements al-
the statement that they had not been though he could not SDOt them exactly.
skulking. It is not hard to skulk in I Suddenly a bullet struck Just under his
wide open fighting. Little of it was helmet and oierecd his forehead. Ha
done in the 91st: much could have I died without moving or sueaklntr. Tha
been done. I nests were later mopped up by support-
So Wheeler wanted his men kept ing waves, before whom the occupants
straight, and these were his dying I "kameraded." Company L sent back
words: "Take this book with our 1 108 prisoners that day.
names and turn it in to the company," I Magnus Vestergaard, private of corn-
then he died. This was the tale of a pany L, son of John Vestergaard.
private named Tipton who later was
wounded himself.
There were men of the 91st with the
35th even when they made their at
tack upon Exermont.
Others of Company Killed.
In addition to the men already de
scribed as having been killed In com
pany D, 364th, the following other men
lost their lives the first day out of
"Cy" Noble's company:
Private Louis F. Schindler, 2.125,105;
emergency address, Mrs. Hattie Schin
dler, mother, 106 Howard street, Le-
mars. Ia.
Corporal Wesley Glass, 1,283,881;
emergency address James Class,
Charlottesville, Va.
Private Rudolph Woodcock, 2,784,528;
emergency address, Mrs. Annie cook
aunt, 401 East Broadway, Butte, Mont. I GautSche,
private v. alter n-nneoerg, ,uua,ija;
emergency address, Mrs. Dagner Enne
Derg. ot. Ansgar, ia. chest, on the Avocourt-Verv roarl.
t-rivate rrea r ox, o,ijj,; emerg- mii- frnm lm,t . th. oH n
ency address. Thomas F. Fox, father. wood oautsche wn North nnkm.n-
nis rather living at Langdon. He ran
Fourteenth and Yesler Way, Seattle,
was killed an hour and a half after
Miller. Company L had gone around
the original nests, leaving them for tha
moppers. At 3:30 the whole company
was sitting on a small reverse slope. It
seemed safe, but from the northeast,
the direction of the great fort of Mont
faucon, came a small shell which
struck his stomach and burst. Vester
gaard was there buried. A bayonet
with a piece of wood across it is the
mark of his grave. Sergeant Stephen
hi. Jones, who was close by his aid...
was shell-shocked and was a month
in the hospital.
Early in the morning company I. com
manded by Captain Everett May noted
Oregon Agricultural College football
player and later assistant athletic di
rector of the O. A. C, lost private Lee
A machine gun posted In a
tree In the Bois de Cheppy, manned by
crew ot rour, shot Gautscho in the
Hedgesville, Mont.
Some of these men were probably
killed when their commander was
killed. Enneberg had joined the com
pany only the day before, when six
new men came into company D.
The two medical detachments of the
brigade each lost a man the first morn
ing. Private Ernest E. Leal, a 364th
medic, came from Anaconda, Mont.,
where his wife lived at 405 Locust
street. Sergeant Uriah M. Epperson of
the 363d came from ModestOc Cal., his
mother living at box 409, route C.
The 3d battalion of the 363d was
linirrg up on the forest road when
about 25 yards before he fell dead. The
four Germans were captured and were
sent back alive.
Fierce Fighting Follows.
Other 181st brigade men reported
killed on this day were Leroy Sherman
Gray, private in E-362, eon of Mrs. L,
Nora Couse, 2830 Gary avenue, Daven
port, Iowa: Howard Kahl, private In
H-361, whose wife lived in Wasco.
Cal.; Victor Anton, private in head
quarters 362, probably from Butte;
Walter T. Beach, private in M-361, of
Landrum, S. C. Beach was killed by
Epperson was killed. This was the a noi m me mug just alter tne jump.
holline- rftirlnf wrilcn INODle was Killed. I
The lieutenant and Epperson went into
one grave.
"Got Mine.9 Says Steadman.
Oliver J. Steadman, private first
class, of C-363, stood up to adjust his
pack. Company C had just gone through
flat place and across some barbed
The night of the first day finally
came. By late afternoon the ambitious
foremost waves had penetrated the vil
lage of Epinonville. at the right, and
from there to the left of the lSlst brig
ade had almost a straight line. But
as the most advanced line of this great
gain was untenable, the units were
wire. Two German machine guns began ordered back. They took up a position
sweeping the area. Lieutenant F. A. I for the nicrht. nartlv In the v.rv.
Cobb of 2973 Folsom street, San Fran- Epinonville canyon, where they slept
Cisco, nan tne men an get oown, ana i on the reverse slope of the canyon,
with half a dozen of them got into a but principally on the high ridge across
hell hole himself. Steadman was one I the canvon from Eninonvllln off tn h
of the men. As he raised to straighten northeast of Very. There they slept
his pack he was shot through the in the old German trench system. From
stomach. "I got mine." he said as he the Jumpoff to the night line of the
fell. That was a common expression 26th, as the crow flies, was Just about
mong tne eirucH. men. iuo uunundiii sevn Kilometers.
thing in their minds seemed to be that I it was a wonderful gain, but two
the Germans had bested them. They days of desperate fighting were to fol
got me." were the last words of many I low before the line could again be ad-
of tnem. vanced.
Michele Colucci, a private of H-364,
was buried by a 35th division detail, I In the eleventh Installment Lleuten-
but the facts of his death were as fol- I ant Dyment will take up the fighting
lows: He was going down a hill and I of the second day, September 27, in
had reached a communication trench.
The company was passing under a
roofing 12 feet long, covered with dirt
nd logs, when a shell, burst hit the
nd of this roofing. Lieutenant Robert
L Sabin of Portland went back at
once, but Colucci was dead. He was a
Sacramento Italian.
Another Italian, who died the first
day, was Guiseppe del Debbio of F-363,
horn a machine gun killed. A third
was Private Ottavio Fishcalinl of corn-
any E in the 361st, probably from
Temecula, Cal. Many a California
Italian won American admiration in
the Argonne.
Garros it Gnn Deadly One.
About 3 o'clock on the 26th, four
en were sitting logeifltr in circle
fashion.
which the division losses were much
heavier than on the 26th.
Brownsville Plans Improvements.
BROWNSVILLE, Or., April 17. iSpe-
cial.) The new city officers which
were elected last November took their
seats last night and the new mayor,
E. E. White, strongly advocated paving
the principal business streets of tho
town. In his Inaugural address he Bet
forth a splendid progmmme of recon
struction for Brownsville. The offi
cers who took their seats were as fol
lows: Mayor, E. E. White, and coun-
cilmen. A. D. Baker and William Uber.
Holdover city officers are aa follows:
Wingo Eggleston, W. J. Moore. J. If.
They were among the men of Ferril and A, B. Miller, councilmen;
recorder, lraign; maiauai, viuuu, unu
treasurer, Elmore.
company A-364 who were held up by
achlne gun entrenenments. Among
ie entrenchments was a German one-
pounder, a big-mouthed, deadly sort of
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