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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAX, THURSDAY, MAT 15, 1919. K TC HENS FAVORITE L TARGET FOR BDCHES Many Killed at Mealtime Hundred-Hour Hill. on HUN PLANES FLY OVERHEAD Star Sliell Signals Dropped "Where Smoke Is Seen Rising and Then I Come Shells. BY COLIN V. DTJIEST. American Rd Cross farcher With the Ninety-Flrat Division. THIBTV-SEVUMH ARTICLE. There Is not SDace to describe In de tail each of the 250 deaths or fatal woundings that happened during the Hundred Hours, but the details of a few more that were of uncommon pathos or of unusual circumstance will now be ifiven. Paul Hill of Everett, Wash., was mess sergeant of company B of the 361st, and was a wonderful one. "He was one of the best I ever met," said his lieu tenant. His lieutenant was Gustav B. Appelman of Boise, who will be re membered as a University of'Idaho pitcher. While the men lay on Hundred Hour hill, they needed and wanted hot food. he died at the hospital of the 361st Chichilicas was a Vallejo boy. This heavy barrage was thought to mean something, and the 1st battalion i was told to get ready for a German at- tack. A skirmish line was formed in ; the shellholes and pits. Lieutenant Louis B. Jansen of company D went up over Hundred-Hour Hill to see what was, doing and failed to come back. Private Thomas Smyth of Skamokawa. Wash., was beside him when a frag ment struck the lieutenant dead at the edge of the thicket beyond the top of Hundred-Hour Hill. Smyth; himself, had both legs shat tered by the same shell and died after much suffering on October 8 at Mobile hospital 2. Corporal Joseph -A. Wallace of Battleground, Wash., carried Smyth in on his back and laid him in a fox hole till a stretcher could come. Captain Friend C. Dickinson, a tim ber broker of Seattle. later made Major Dickinson and given command of the 3d battalion of 361, was then in com mand of company D. Expected Shell Arrives. ' The kitchen of Company K, 361st, was near that of Company B and that afternoon had rice, stewed tomatoes, bread and butter and coffee for mess: a great treat for the men from the pits on Hundred Hour hill. Lieutenant James J. McKay of Portland was scout ' officer and had come back to regl- i mental P. C. for some orders. . - The j kitchen of Company K was in front of P. ,C. As the Lieutenant passed the kitchen, he smelled the good food and : stopped. Other men were congregat- I ing, and Lieutenant McKay told them! t scatter lest a lucky shell get a great ! many. Corporal Sidney Wright of Su mas. Wash., was near the front of the kitchen, having just brought down a detail of 25 or 30 for feeding. As the rice, tomatoes and coffee were not quite ready, ha had sent the detail back 100 yards or so to spread out for safety, remaining at the kitchen himself. This was five minutes before Lieutenant McKay came along. Well, I'm pretty hungry, lieutenant, ?",d numer f Uchen e.re my& said the corporal smilingly, explaining into the Bois de Cierges. i ritz used to his presence. Crash! came the noise of a nearby shell shell for those kitchens, especially around mealtime when he thought men might be standing in line with mess kits. The-kitchens were about a third of a mile back of Hundred Hour hill. Company B kitchen was the one tirought up to feed the entire first bat talion of the 361st, and Sergeant Hill and three cooks were doing the work. The men were coming back twice a day, in relays, for meals.. The Hun had con trol of the air on that part of the front at that time, and his planes flew over the woods, dropping star shell signals where they -saw smoke rise from the kitchens. Then would come ehells. One did upset Sergeant Hill's outfit, but the outfit was righted again. Fatal Shell Finally Comes. Then about 4:30 P. M. on October 3, one fell right beside the kitchen. Hill, Btrujk in the side, was fearfully torn and died at kitchen field hospital No. 3. Two of he three cooks were also wounded. ' The third cook, Alexander Rose, also of Everett, was partially covered. He crawled out, dug a pit for protection and remained to cook hot meals for the entire battalion, using a new detail, l'or no matter who dies, the men must have supper. Rose was recommended for the distinguished service cross. On his way to this kitchen for sup per on the same afternoon. Sergeant Ernest R. Krentz and Private WilliarA F. Bare of company B were hit by a shell. Krentz, an Everett man too, was one of the most expert automatic rifle men In the division. Bare was from Su mas. Wash. Both were killed Instantly. As a result Lieutenant Appelman pro hibited any more of his men from going hack to the kitchen. But the loss of hot supper by some of the men was as nothing to the bar rage that the Germang-''sent over that evening. It began at 5:04 P. M., about 30 minutes after the killing of Hill, Bare and Krentz and other 361st men and for 45 minutes the men huddled down in their pits, in which several were killed by shells that fell in with them. Just as the barrage began. Pri vate Fred Daniels of Horse Creek, Wyo., was standing beside a pit getting to bacco from Sergeant Frank McDonald of Seattle. Daniels flopped as the shelling started, but in a few moments lost both legs just over the ankles. He was : pulled into the shellhole and sriven first aid, then in spite of the shelling four men started back with him to a station. He had complained that his feet felt heavy. When the station was reached, the men found it, too, tolown up and a medic there with a leg off, so medic and Daniels were car ried together back to regimental. P. C. Daniels soon died." Shots Come Clone Together. . In the 5:04 barrage. Private Swan Palmgren of Seattle was struck about 6:15. He put his hand on his wounded Bide. In about two minutes another ehell came and killed him. Private Nick Chichilicas of company H, in a nearby pit, was struck by the nose of a shell that came off in the air before the explosion. The nose went into and on through . Chichilicas' groin. Sergeant Allen Passenger of route 4, box 255, Se attle. sent him back on a stretcher, but r HAVE t he Reds fallen in Hungary? Cable despatches conflict. Bela Kun gaye, our Budapest corres pondent the story of the revo lution. It is in this week's issue of The Nation lOr At all newstand Subscription J4 a vear WOMEN BACKING THE SOLDSER BOYS AY Tib ii ty -Forty - Fif ty That's the Prices for Good Clothes The soldier boys just returning home get more and better clothes for the money at Grays than at any other store. Let us prove it to you. This is possible because we sell for cash and share the prof its fifty-fifty with our patrons. Through this modern efficiency plan we save our customers $5 to $10 on the suit they, buy here, and through this policy we have more than doubled our busi ness. Result, mutual benefit. ' " . Compare Gray's When he history of the war ha3 been written, the work done by the women at home will impress itself upon this nation as few even now realize. Liter ally, millions of women left their homes and took up war activities into which women had never before been called and many more at home devoted long hours at work in knitting and prepar ing surgical dressings for the boys "over there." Some may have worked at the expense of health and are now suffering from headaches, backache, dragging-down pains or some derange ment. It should -be remembered that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound for more than forty years has been restoring such women to health and strength and is now recognized as a standard remedy. Adv. "Are you still hunsrrv. Iielitenant?" asked Sergeant Ralph Crossman, laugh ing, ior iney all liked Lieutenant McKay. Almost with the end of his sentence came the shell that did all the mis chief. It struck the shoulder and neck of Corporal Wright, and under his ribs, the last fragment going clear through. v rignt never spoke. Cook Earl E. Morrison was struck in the temple, the fragment emerging et the back of his head; neither did he make a sound. Crossman heard the shell coming and fell, escaping. . Cook Frederick P Theubet of . Ferndale. Wash.. in dropped and escaped. The lieutenant himself got a five-Inch cut across the left thigh, a cut across the ton of th right leg, one through the right arm. m an ear, one In the left chest, and one in a shoulder. He Is now rmn Lewis hospital nearly well from these wounas. Y. M. C. A. Gift Save Many. A gift from the Y. M. C. A. htmI . good many lives, that time. The "Y" had sent up a box of tobuen nri cookies and gum, and Theubet, Cross man and Morrison were sorting the stuff. This had delayed the sunner. Wright and Morrison were covered up by a shelter half, and the detail was called in and fed Just the same. Any death of a (rood soldinr i h. dening, but there are deaths that make man stop and think awfullv hnrrf about fate or providence or fore-ordina- tion or things like that. The deaths of Corporal Herbert H. Adams nr,H Private Clarence B. Frese wer of the kind that bring thought. Adams came from 1346 East Channel' street, Stock ton, Cal, and Frese from Dixon, Cal. Both were in headquarters company of the 363d. Adams was a mailman, and not knowing the companies would soon be relieved, -he insisted on going up front for the letters he thought had been written. This was early October 4, 5:30 A. M-, before breakfast. A few men not on the front line perhaps did have letters, so Adams went off. with out mess, to the second battalion, a nair mile ahead. It Is said the mail sergeant advised him not to go up, saying the mail orderlies of the com panies would bring down the letters, but Adams went off anyway. With him went Frese. Frese had ar rived just the night before. In early September when the division left the Haute Marne Frese was In the hospital wltn com ana rever and not until 12 hours before had he got back to the outfit. Now he went forward to re port to the second battalion. It was his first taste of battle. Boji Hide in Foxhole. They reached the . battalion P. C, just behind Baulny woods, and found It was being shelled. Both hid in foxhole Jhree feet wide and three feet deep. Into the hole came a shell. They wero .both old men. In the company and their comrades hated to look at them. And in two hours the battalion was re lieved. Two University of Washington offi cers also lost their lives during hundred hours. Lieutenant Art .u- E. Carlson, a fearless officer who had won the admiration of his captain and of the men, had gone thi ugh the Gesnes fight unhurt, but the following day was doing a dangerous recnnaisance job on Hundred Hour hill when a shell killed him Instantly. Carlson was known as "Pinkie." He was lieutenant of an ammunition train in the 347th machine-gun battalion. "He brought up ammunition and rations in the face of heavy artillery-fire and I had fre quently remarked his" efficiency," said Captain Thomas of company D. Carl son left a bride in Seattle. He was an engineering student. The machine gun company of the 363d was supposed to have been relieved, be fore daylight on the night of the 3d, but the relief did not come and that cost the life of Lieutenant Truman A. Starr of Seattle. Shortly before 11 A. M. on the 4th, Starr walked Into the machine-gun P. C. Captain E. R. Col ptn of New Amsterdam, Ind., Lieutenant R. T. Robinson of Fresno, CaL, Lieuten ant Boyd, two buglers, aad Captain Woodville of the 348th machine-gun, were there. Shelling began and the P. S. was three times struck. Captain Woodville, Lieutenant Starr and one bugler then went out, but before, the Lieutenant had gone 10 feet he "was struck in arm and stomach. He asked Captain Woodville to put first aid on his arm, but as the captain did so he died. "Starr did as good work in the drive as any In the division, none bar red," said his captain. Krentz' Presentiment Fulfilled. At about this same spot five days be fore Lieutenant Joseph G. Kreutz of Tacoma had fallen. He had been told to support the left flank witrumachtne guns during the projected assault of the 29th. He went forward and took a po sition with two of his guns. At 1 P. M. the Germans made an attack on the left flank of the 91st and Kreutz, who was' also in the machine gun company of the 363d, rushed up his other three guns to resist. Three of his guns were shot out of commission and he was shot in the leg. After his platoon had re pulsed the German attack, he turned the remaining two guns to a sergeant and went back, for aid. A few feet on the way a shell cut him in two in the middle. Kreutz had a presentiment that he would die. He was buried with Private William W. Smith of Eureka; Mont., a company runner killed soon after him. (Tomorrow, the relief of the 91st and the march to the rear will be told.) Suits with Suits sold by other stores for $35 and $40 Compare Gray's Suits with Suits sold by other stores for $45 and $50 Compare Gray's 366 WASHINGTON AT WEST PARK Suits with Suits sold by other stores for $55 to $65 7 Discount To our customers on Men's Furnishings and Hats when pur chase amounts to $4 or more, contract goods excepted. No man or woman can afford to buy clothes until theyVe visited Gray's Store. , . GRAY'S VALUES WILL TELL . Wl. GRAY CQE. A 1 B- L ! I v i , J .:.'.v';v-.'.:.a.."." . Na I v - - I Bl KQ i r vr " TTU V - &. A i I 1 il 1 1 II I I i 'I1. 1 - I i w I 111 I El li t ftf.fl-vr 1 V MUHIIMM : 4 i i ti . t -. ? -w I i " -1 : - : - i I OF AN'EVIL" THAT HAS EATER fTS WAYIMTOTHE VITALS OF SPCIFTT PRAISE IS GIVEN CHAMBER COMMERCE BODY IS THANKED FOR RECENT ACTIVITIES. Port To wd send Folk Ask. Aid. Getting Better Railroad Serv ice in District. In a type to use as a model for such a statue as he has Just finished. The Idea for the model came to him by chance at a ranch In eastern Oregon, 200 miles from a railroad, when a rug ged, sturdy-looking hunter and trap per, with Ions, flowing- hair and whis kers, appeared one day. Directors of the Portland Chamber of Commerce received some gratifying messages at their regular weeKiy meeting yesterday.- A. J. Rhodes, presi dent of the Seattle chamber of com merce, warmly thanked the Portland body for Its services in helping to bring the members of the house naval affairs committee to the Pacific coast ports. Senator McNary assured the directors of his active support of the chamber's recommendation of assistance to the Klamath Indians' tribal council to. se cure funds from the Indian, bureau to Improve farms on the Klamath reser vation for betterments in stock raising. Lieutenant-Colonel Wallace JX Wells sent for the information of the direct ors the regulations and rates posted at Nantes, France, where he has been in command. A letter of thanks came from the Oregon Land Settlement commission for aid in solving the problems of working out a practical land settlement plan, and for financial support prior to passage of recent legislation that cre ated the state body. L. B. Hastings, mayor of Fort Town send, Wash., and George E. Frost of that place, were In conference with chamber officials yesterday. The Influ ence of the Portland body was sought in the interest of railroad development by which the Northern Pacif io will serve that section. President II. L. Corbett, of the Cham ber of Commerce, will attend the in dustrial conference to be held at Pebble Beach Lodge, Monterey, May 16, 17 and 18, and the shippers' conference at Mon terey May 18. W. J. Burns, resident partner of Balfour, Guthrie & Co., who is in San Franciseo, has also been asked to attend for the local body. . BERRY GROWING PROMPTED Lower ' Columbia River" Farmers Hold Convention 'at Astoria.. ASTORIA, Or.. May 14. (Special.) r BROADWAY DYE WO.RKS MASTER DYERS AND CLEANERS Ffaone Eaxt 625 The first of a proposed series of farm ers conventions was held at the cham ber of commerce rooms here today, when scores of farmers from the vari ous sections of the lower river district met as the guests of merchants of the city. The special object of the gather ing was to promote interest in berry growing with a view of supplying a large berry cannery that is projected here. Talks were made by C. C. Chapman and J. F, Langner of Portland, John Paver of California, and Professor I. C. Lewis of the Oregon Agricultural college. The agricultural committee of the chamber will make contracts with the various farmers for planting a specified numoer ox acres to berries this year and organize an association for mar keting the crop. COWLITZ GOES OVER TOP Kelso District Oversubscribes Its Quota of 986,000. KELSO. Wash., May 14. (Special.) L.. N. Plamonaon of Woodland, chair man of the victory loan drive, has an nounced tnat uowiltz county is over the" top,, largely through oversubscrip tion in the Kelso district, where 96.- 700 worth ol bonds were taken by 428 purchasers. This district had a quota or 6,uuu. The Woodland district subscribed it quota of 121,500 before the drive opened. Kalama fell a few hundred dollars short of reaching its quota of $21,500. Castle Rock purchased $34,500 worth of bonds on a quota of $43,000. Read The Oregonlan classified ads. INFANTRY HEAD IS NAMED Harry Keener Elected Captain of Eugene Organixation. EUGENE. Or.. May 14. (Special.) Harry G. Keeney was the unanimous choice of the members of the new com pany of infantry of the Oregon Na tional Guard of this city for captain at the election held in the Armory last night. Captain Keeney is a veteran of the world war. having served 21 months in the new army, first as a lieutenant of the coast artillery, then as captain of the coast artillery, later being trans ferred to the Infantry branch. He was discharged from the service- a few weeks ago. - Major W. G. White, who conducted the election last night, announced that Dr. A. O. Waller of this- city, also a veteran of the late war, has been com missioned as lieutenant in the medical corps of the state troops. Mr. Slnnott Reaches Capital. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, May 14. Representative Sinnott returned from Oregon today which completes Oregon's full representation in Washington for the extra session. 'PIONEER' STATUE IN PLACE Formal Unveiling Ceremonies- to Be Held at Eugene May 22. TJNTVERSITT OF OREGON, Eugene, May 14. (Special.) The statue, "The Pioneer," the gift to the university of J. N. Teal of Portland In memory of the Oregon pioneer, was placed on its foundation rock on the campus yes terday. Unveiling ceremonies will be held Thursday, May 22. The occasion will be a formal one and elaborate plans are being made. Mr. Teal will make the presentation address and a response will be made on behalf of the university. R. A. Booth of Eugene and A. Phimister Proctor, the sculptor of the statue, are also scheduled to speak. The statue portrays In bronze a pio neer, walking with gun slung across one shoulder- and a whip in his hand. 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