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THE MORNTXCt OREGOXIAX, THUKSDAT, JTJXE 2, 1919. 19 AIRPLANE AND AUTO SM T AB POWER! tgyptian Insurrection Reveals Bedouin !ot Terrible Now. OASIS CANNOT HIDE HIM Gone Is Mystery and Might of Desert Fastnesses Historic Revo lution. Is Related. BY -WILLIAM T. ELLIS. Copyright by the New York Herald Com pany. All rights reserved.) CAIRO. Modern military science has loomed the desert's power to harass and hurt civilization. The oasis is not a refuge from the airplane. Dashing troops of fearless Arabian horsemen, however great their numbers, cannot prevail against the armored automobile Ishmail's ancient influence-- has been chattered. This is one of the great and historic changes which has come to pass within five years all unnoticed by the world at large. Most of the romance of the desert has now disappeared. The Bedotn are no longer a menace to civ ilization. Their sway of immemorial centuries and milleniums has been broken. What Persia's phalanxes, Alex ander's armies and Rome's legions could not do has been wrought, almost without comment, by the airplane and the motor car. This present Egyptian insurrection hae v'sualized and crystallized the changes that have come to the world since Gordon was left to die tragically In Khartoum. Today airplanes wing their way over the far deserts, gather ing news, dropping messages and am munition to the besieged and proclama tions to the natives and strafing' the enemy with machine guns, demolishing hostile crowds, camps or villages with bombs, and even occasionally bearing to safety an imperiled foreigner. The day's news from outlying districts reads like scraps of an American mo tion picture scenario. Arab Always Raider. Dwelling forever on the edge of civ ilization, the Arab has always been a raider. Even while I am writing these words, the Bedouin are attacking the Egyptian towns and farms, looting as they did in the days o Rameses. To day, as 5000 yearsago, they are plun derers, whose inclusions are the terror of the peaceable farmers. Already the Egyptian nationalists lament that they ever invoked this terror of the desert against the British, for it is their own lands and houses and property that are suffering. Others have built, the Arab has de stroyed. He laid waste the civilization of Babylonia, Syria and Egypt. Some body has called the Arab "the human locust." devouring everything that comes in his path. Always behind him -was the desert a cure, safe refuge whose oases only he knew, and whither the mightiest axmies could not follow him. His fleet Arabian steeds could ciutrace pursuit, and he was unincum bered by commisariat or other impedi menta, except the loot he carried at his addle bow. The desert sands proved the most powerful fortress of all time. This war has demolished the Bedouins' defense. Swifter steeds than the blood ed Arabian horse are at the command of civilization, and weapons before! which his high towers of mud brick are no protection may be turned against him. TTneonquered Is Conquered. Armored motor cars, which can cross the trackless deserts at twice the speed of horse or racing camel, and with en durance beyond the power of man or beast, now follow the Arab raider with swift, sure punishment. One car can withstand a tribe, for the sand dwell ers have no artillery. Add to the ar mored car the airplane, and it is all up with hitherto unconquered and uncon querable Ishmael. In one remote place two companies of Indian troops were besieged by the vil lagers and by the Bedouin, who have come in as if transported by a magic carpet to attack the British. A scouting airplane discovered the situation, its appearance encouraging the invested soldiers by the assurance that their position and plight were known to the government. Again and again the air planes came, bringing supplies of am munition and messages to the garrison. Heartened, the troops, numbering about four hundred, repulsed the besieging hordes storm attack, killing more than 400 men and wounding more. Thus Ihey held out victoriously by airplane aid until reinforcements arrived to en able them to disperse the investing host. As a simple matter of fact, the Arab cannot maintain himself against the airplane. His swift steeds are snails compared with the man-bird's flight. His most secret and secluded oases are known to the all-encompassing eye of the aerial observer. Wherever he flees the airplane can follow him with a hail of machine-gun bullets and with de vastating bombs. No desert is so wide that it cannot be crossed by the mod ern airplane and motor car. In a near tomorrow the police force of Arabia and Sahara will make rounds in air planes. Americans know the Arab only as a picturesque dweller in black tents on desert sands or beside green oases. 'The Bedouin Lovesonp," which was really written by a Pennsylvania Quaker. Bayard Taylor, is the extent of many persons' understanding of the mind of the Arab. His storybook garb and home, his wild forays out of the mysterious deserts, his disdain of all the restraints of civilization, have made him good "copy" for all the cen turies since the day when the record of his misdeeds was written with a three-cornered stick on tablets of clay by Sumorian scribes. Hand of Bedonin Sera. Since the beginning of written rec ords the hand of the Bedouin has been against every man. He raided the children of Israel. Babylon, Assyria and Persia, even as he later harassed the Greek and Roman and Mongol em pires. To the last he has been a thorn in the side of the Turk; and it is but a few days since Constantinople states men have told me that, whatever her fate. Turkey is rid of the Arab for jver, and glad he is gone. Great Britain, within the last five years, has tsd to reckon with the dwellers in Arabia and Sahara. The one she made allies, the other she conauered. It was these two winged weapons of civilization that nulified the power of the Senussi. a fanatical religious sect of Bedouins that were expected to give tne allies great trouble in Egypt and Algeria. They were keen for the kaiser's "holy war." Fully armed by nne uermans and Turks and with an indefinite number of fanatical followers moved by the ancient twin motives of love and loot and religious fervor, the Senussi gave serious concern to the persons who knew conditions in the near east. They had all the will In the world to trike from the rear at the British and French in Eirypt and Algeria. When they made the attempt, though, they EDITH KNIGHT HOLMES TAKES TRIP IN A SOARING PLANE Woman Member of The Oregonian Staff Tells of Her Experience and Her Flight Over Portland. 1 BY EDITH KNIGHT HOLMES. I HAVE felt the thrill of a great ad venture. I have sailed way up in the sky. have floated gloriously among the clouds, have felt the tang of the west wind far above the earth and have breathed deep of the purest air one can imagine. Yesterday I was one of the fortunate few who flew in the Curtiss army planes. I know it was a Curtiss for I looked very steadily at that little nickel-plate sign lust in front of me while I was getting started. It told that the Curtiss aeroplane folk had built that machine in Buffalo. N. Y.. and the number was 11855. But for once In my life I forgot to be a good reporter and get the name of the flier who piloted the ship. He was a hand some, brawny, bronzed fellow and I felt perfectly safe and secure with him, but I didn't get his name. If I had it I would ask the composing room to get some specially large type and set it so that he would know I would ever remember him and ever be grate ful to him. But, to the story. Tuesday night at about 10:30 o'clock the city editor of The Oregonian called up and asked if I would go a-flying next morning. At first I said "No." I was afraid. Then, as every woman has a right to do, I changed my mind; said I'd go; called up a young girl and asked her to take charge of my work in the morning; told her to break my appointment with the dressmaker, made my will and went to bed and had a good sleep. When I tell you that I never would shoot the chutes or loop the loop because I was "too nervous" you may imagine how I must have changed. I realized all of a sudden that fear was foolishness and I dismissed it absolutely. Joseph A. Hill, president of Hill Military academy; C. H. Showermar., a staff reporter, and I motored out to the field in Eastmoreland. We got there early and had a good chance to get a close-up look at all the machines. They are like great birds with wings poised ready for flight and instead of legs, they have wheels on which they rest and start and end their journeys. Milton R. Klepper came up to me and got me' to sign a paper that I, Edith Knight Holmes, went up of my own ac cord and if I were smashed the gov ernment of the United States wouldn't be to blame, or words to that effect, and in case I were smashed they might notify, etc. I filled in all the blanks and the witnesses signed their names. Then on top of my serge dress, my suit, sweater and fur, I donned the colonel's leather jacket, an ace's hel met and some goggles, I climbed in, very clumsily with the propeller roar ing and the wind blowing me to pieces and then another gallant chap strapped me in Just as one would strap a baby in its carriage, only the belt was broad and very strong. And then we were off. We skipped over the green sward for were confronted by the armored car and the airplane. Even the treen flag of the prophet was no defense against the devastation that was rained from the skies by these man-birds, or against the death that was spat from steel walls that could travel faster than the best blooded steed of the tribes. "Finis" has been written to any formidable Arab rising in the future. Australian Aviator' Tale Told. An Australian aviator, blue-eyed. blond-haired and boyish, told me how the airplane is subduing the present insurrection. We met on the first train up to Cairo after the railway had been repaired. He had made a forced landing, seven of his nine cylin ders having failed him, but fortunately he was able to come down near a railway station where Australian troops were on guard. His was no such romantic escape as that of a comrade who had been caught by the rioters and got away during an altercation between the parties, one of which wanted to cut his throat and the other to burn him in his plane. By skill and stealth the lad made his way to one of the accustomed landing places of the airplanes, leaving his own machine to its fate, and revealed himself to the first that came near. As we rode along .amid rich green fields, watered by creaking shaddufs driven by blindfolded buffaloes, camels or donkeys, it was difficult to realize that Egypt was in a state of insur rection, and that any mile might- find us in armed conflict. Every remaining station many were down and every bridge and signal tower, was guarded by Australians or Ghurkas or "Tom mies." Every car carried an armed guard and the only passengers were military men. each girded with a pistol. The train crew were soldiers, the na tive railway workers having joined the general strike.' As we rode, our com partment companions. Australians. chatted -of home, of America, of poli tics, of war as waged in Palestine and now in Egypt. Our aviator, just in from a fighting expedition, said that the planes are busy nearly all day, scouting over the country, especially where foreigners are besieged. He had been on the lookout for mobs and for Bedouins. Whenever he saw a crowd, he flew very low over it. If the people threw stones at him or fired, he knew they were hostile and opened up with his machine gun. Only occasionally would he have to drop a bomb. Some hostile villages, though, have been entirely wiped out in this manner. That was all there was to it. One airplane could destroy an army of rioters or of Bedouins. As the smiling lad from' Australia modestly told his simple tale he was unconsciously nar rating the end of a social and political and military power which had defied civilization since before the pryamids were erected or Babylon was built. The airplane has tamed the Arab. PORTLAND DOCTOR RETURNS Captain McCuster Was for Nearly a Year In Medical Service. Captain C. J. McCuster of Portland has returned to this city after 11 months, during- which time he has been in the medical service of the United States army. For the past six months Captain McCuster has been stationed at the United States general hospital at Fort Snelling, Minn. Captain McCuster was stationed for a short time at Camp Greenleaf. Ga., then went to the army medical school at Washington. E. C, where he re mained for two weeks, and then was transferred to the Harvard graduate medical school, where he was stationed for four months Before entering the service Captain McCuster was secretary of the Oregon State Medical society. Park Lorad Not Sold. SHERIDAN, Or., June 11. (Special.) At a meeting of the Sheridan city council last Monday evening a peti tion stating the feeling of the citizens opposing the sale of any portion of the city park was presented and the council took action at once forbid ding the sale of this property. Action has been taken to repair all side streets and sidewalks now in need of it- j Read The Oregonian classified ads. a way and then up with a buoyant bound and a feeling just like when the car skida and yon are a little frightened for a second, but only for a second. Then came the thrill of joy, the exalta tion of mounting to the sky. The earth dropped away and I commenced to realize that nothing mattered; that there wasn't anything ever invented to compare with a flight like this. No wonder the ace is adored and admired as a hero. He gets above all the petty things of earth. He has a domain of his own. There is an exuberance In the jour neying through space that cannot be found anywhere on dry land. It is more inspiring than standing on a mountain peak and looking over the valley, the hills and the rivers. It is mightier, more compelling than sailing a stormy ocean with waves dashing high while thunder rolls and lightning flashes. I know, for 1 have tried these. Up we went, up and up till the houses were tiny blocks such as chil dren play with, and the great green hills were little mounds and the tallest trees were pigmy shrubs such as one plants in a garden border. If there is a more beautiful land in all this world than that which I saw, I cannot imagine it. If there are greener hills, more lovely, more picturesque rivers, that wind and wind like pale blue satin rib bons through a land of emerald beauty. I could not find words to tell of them; for the glory of the land I saw was far beyond anything I ever had imagined. There was such majesty in that ship in which I sailed. Its wings stretched out with such an air of security and I floated through the clear air or dipped into a fleecy cloud, or emerged again to look down on another cloud and see for miles a;id miles in every direc tion the land of beauty, I was exalted. I was not afraid except just for that instant that we started. The further we went the further I wanted to go. And, honest to goodness, I wasn't one bit seasick. The only sordid thing that entered my mind was I wished I'd worn a complete uniform. The officer told me not to touch the machinery, and you can believe me I didn't. 1 just held on to the edge of the com partment in which I sat and sailed on and en and if I had met with death I know it wouldn't have been death at all for me. I should have gone right on sailing. The awe and majesty of that flight has given me a thrill beyond all description. But all the good things come to an end and the Eastmoreland field was reached in a most graceful landing that didn't shock or jar me as I ex pected and I climbed out, thanked the flier, forgot again to be a reporter and ask how high I'd been. My mind was still up in the clouds. But I'm getting down to earth gradually, have torn up my will and am trying to scheme for another flight some day. OFFICIALS REVIEW POLICE PATROLMEN" WHO SERVED DUR ING WAR GET MEDALS. Portland Bureau Complimented by District . Attorney Evans and William F. Woodward. In the presence of a large crowd of citi zens and visitors. General Charles F. Beebe, Acting Mayor Bigelow, Chief of Police Johnson. Clief of Police Warren, Chief Inspector Clark, Police Captain Hedges of Seattle, and District Attor ney Evans reviewed the Portland police bureau at 10 A. M. yesterday in the armory. It was the occasion of the annual police inspection, which formally opened the Victory Rose Festival. Cap tain Moore was in charge of the bat talion of five companies made up of un iformed patrolmen and inspectors. Cap tain Inskeep was in command of the 1st company and the commanders of the other companies were: Captains Jenk ins and Harms, Lieutenant Thatcher and Detective Captain Circle. Mr. Evans and William F. Woodward addressed the police. Both compli mented the bureau on its showing and Mr. Evans deplored the recent criticism of the bureau, saying that in all his experience as a public official he had never known a policeman to testify falsely. Ben Selling was with the re viewing officers. One of the features of the inspection was the presentation of a medal to nine policemen who had served during the war. Those who received the med als were: Patrolmen Stanton. Sims. Schum. Willard. Parker. Van Deusen, Thomas, Grewelle and Keegan. Following the inspection the bat talion paraded 30 blocks through the streets. The Seattle police band and the local Red Cross band led the p ---rade and furnished music for the in spection. DIKING DISTRICT PASSED Xasel River Project to Be Voted On July 1. SOUTH BEND. Or., June 11. The big diking district to embrace lands on both sides of the Nasel river was passed by the county commissioners and the election at which property owners in the proposed district will vote as to whether the district shall be formed and also to elect three dikinir com missioners has been called to be held July 1. The proposed district contains 1440 aeres. and the owners testified before the county commissioners that this tide land, when reclaimed, would increase in value from a very low figure to be tween $75 and $80 per acre. OFFICERS ARE NOMINATED Centralia Organization to Hold An nual Election July 14. CENTRALIA, June 11. (Special.) The Women s Federated Legislative council of Lewis county Monday nomi nated the following new officers: Mrs. W. A. Jackson, vice-president: Mrs. E. C. Truesdell, recording secretary; Mrs. E. K. Harkness, corresponding secre tary, and Mrs. S. S. Davis, treasurer. The election of the council will be held July 14. Miss Myrtle Cotrill, president of the council, was elected last year for a two-year term.- Mrs. J. C. Applegate tendered her resignation as secretary of the council, which was accepted. Yakima Guard Sworn In. YAKIMA, Wash, June 11. (Spe cial.) The Takima company of the state guard was sworn in last night as company C. 3d regiment of the Washington national guard. Major W. T. Patton of Seattle and Major Ernest H. Keen, assistant to the state at torney general administered the oath and made the subsequent inspection of the 105 men who lined up for that purpose. FRENCH CRITICISE U.S. 1EBGT IH TREATY American Willingness to Meet Hun Objection Alarms. RATIFICATION IS DOUBTFUL Conservative Thought Denounces Change In Terms at Expense of France; Hun Expansion Feared. BT LINCOLX EYRE. (Copyrlrht by the New Tork Herold. Pub lished by arrangement.) PARIS, June 10. (Special Cable.) Anxiety over Anglo-American willing ness to meet some of the German objec tions to the treaty becomes more pro nounced In French political circles every day. Conservative French thought emphatically denounces any change in the treaty's terms at the ex pense of France and it is claimed that weakening of Poland's status in Silesia, as proposed by Premier Lloyd George, would be harmful to France in that it would assist German expansion in the east. There is also strong opposition to the speedy Inclusion of Germany in the league of nations. Ratification Held Doabtfnl. That the chamber of deputies will ratify the treaty, in the form it is likely to assume when the big four have said their last word, ie doubtful. The militarists on the right and the socialists on the left in the chamber are displaying steadily increasing ani mosity toward the Clemenceau minis try from widely divergent motives. No peace that Premier Clemenceau could possibly produce would be "red" enough for the socialist deputies. The terms as originally drawn were ac ceptable to the conservative element, although only barely so, but any amel iorations in Germany's favor, effectu ated or proposed, arouses a furious pro test from those who have always been partisans of Marshal Foch's most ex treme doctrines. It is not only the socialists, however, who deem the treaty in its initial for munduly severe. Former Premier Viviani described it as "a peace heavy with glory and booty" to a fellow parliamentarian the other day. Turkl.h Delegation Gives Hope. There is general satisfaction among the French, on the other hand, over the announcement that Turkish "ex perts" will arrive on a French warship tomorrow. The prevailing belief is that these '."experts," among whom are some of Turkey's leading statesmen, have plenipotentiary credentials tucked away in their inside pockets and will come fully prepared to talk of peace as a whole. Instead of merely to discuss technical matters for which they are ostensibly summoned to the confer ence. The Turkish delegation has in dicated Its intentftm to follow the Ger man and Austrian precedent hv all blame for the war on the defunct Bovernmeni committee of union and progress. CLUBS' PROGRAMME ISSUED Women's State Federation Opens Tuesday at Centralia. CENTRALIA, Wash.. June 11 fSn.. cial.) The programme has been an nounced here for the convention of the State Federation of Women's clubs, to be held in Centralia next week, open ing Tuesday and closing Friday. It includes addresses by manv nrominent educators and social welfare authorities of the state. Numerous entertainment features have been provided for the convention Tuesday night there will be a recep tion ior me aeiegates in the Elks' club rooms. Friday afternoon an automobile trip will be made to the state school for girls at Grand Mound and PrMav evening there will be a picnic dinner in me auditorium. The hospitality committee for the convention has received requests for reservations for 200 rooms for dele gates. FRUIT ESTIMATE REDUCED VaLima Apple Yield Is Forecast at 13,510 Cars. Ti VTvr A TJC.u t.. i i ... District Horticultural Inspector Mil- 'l1 icvioeu me estimate made by uco tainci in i iie iseason o l the probable fruit yield of the Yakima VnllllV Th Klnecrnm . 1 - a i . was llC:; a.r U (till i this to 13.510 cars, as follows: rtppiew, iovv cars; pe acnes, soou cars; pears. 3000 cars; cherries, 60 cars; prunes and plums, 200 cars; miscel- o.il:uun, 1 V MAI O. J lie priIlCipH.1 l"e- duction Is in apples. Both peaches and I'taio aif coiuiitticu auuvc me ngures made at blossom time. YOUTH INJURED BY AUTO Charles Clark Pinned TTnder Car on Sfontcsano Highway. MONTESANO. Wash.. June 11. f Spe cial.) Charles Clark, son of E. L. Clark, was seriously Injured in an automobile accident near Satsop Sunday evening With a party of friends Clark was driv ing on the highway and as the machine struck the graveled section the car was thrown off the road, turned turtle and pinned the young man under the motor. He suffered two fractures of the skull, a fractured arm, and his face and body were cut by glass. Mr. Clark was re moved to a hospital. Physicians say he has slight chance for recovery. OIL CLAIMS COVER BEACH Over 100 Locations Are Filed on Shore Property Near Moclips. MONTESANO, Wash.. June 11. (Spe cial.) Moclips beach, from five or six miles north of Moclips nearly to Damon point, a distance of more than 20 mile!-, has been located for oil. according to the f'frures ou file with the court; :iu d'tor. The It caters include pe-;j'e from nil parts of the Grays Harbor district, but particularly of Hoquiam, Ab.n-.ieen ard Montesano. feixty new claims were filed Monday, ttinging the total of filings cn the beach property tj more than 100. Elks' Campaign Progressing. NEWPORT, Or., Jin 11. (Special.) The Elks' campaign to raise funds for the Salvation Army is progressing favorably under the direction of Lester Martin, who is chairman in the absence of Fred Dawson. Newport expects to raise 11500. Dr. Charles Wheeler, of Chicago delivered a stirring address Saturday night and the campaign started Monday and continues through Saturdav. Mr. Martin is ablv Assinreri by Georger Savage, Chauncey Hawkins, ! Lee W. Williams, William Armitage , and others. 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A fresh Insight into the extensive preparation made by the United States to insure the continuous production of aircraft lumber was afforded by the announcement yesterday by the United States Spruce Production cor poration of the offer for sale of its railroads, sawmill and timber prop erties. These properties consist of some 75 miles of complete permanent main-line railroad, wo lartre sawmills and a 12.500-acre tract containing over 800.000.000 board feet of virgrin timber. Bids will be opened September 2. 1919. About one-half of the railroad mile- ace is located on the Olympic penin sula, in Clallam county. Wash., travers ing a timber area of 400 square miles. containing 6,500.000.000 board feet of fir. hemlock, spruce and cedar timber. From the main line 70 miles of loccintr spurs had been graded into the timber. A sawmill to cut 400,000 feet of lumber per day now stands 90 per rent com ROSE FESTIVAL OREGONIANS will be the most interesting and complete issues ever published. 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HOOD MERCHANTS SPLIT Plan to Close Stores Thursday for Rose Festival Makes Dissension. HOOD RIVER, Or.. June 11. (Spe cial.) "Off agin, on agin, gone agin, Finnegan!" The literary gem of the Irish section boss has been recalled by vacillation of Hood River merchants over plans for closing all business houses Thursday, in order that the local population might devote the day to participation in the Portland Rose Festival. Last week it was announced that' all stores would be closed and Thurs dav observed as Hood River day at the HOME PAT PAT BtTT- DO WX JIOSTHLT S 50 S 6 S 4 100 12 8 150 18 10 200 24 12 AND UP f $10 Down f I $6 a Month I ft festival. Many of the mercantile es tablishments, however, it is said, signed the agreement to close under protest; and counter-plans for keep ing the stores open were favorably re ceived, and original plans were called off. Somebody, however, t!s determined to close the town Thursday, and colored dodgers, announcing such plans, were circulated last night. The handbill scheme has left numerous merchants considerably peeved. SHEEP OWNERS ARE TAXED Hood River Judge Successful in Se curing Returns. HOOD RIVER, Or.. June 11. (Spe cial. ) The campaign of County Judge L X. Blowers, to round up eastern owners of sheep sent here for sum mer pasturage and secure a report of their flocks for purposes of secur ing a portion of the year's taxes for the county, is bearing fruit. George Wilkinson of Condon, who has a large herd on local pasturage, called on Judge Blowers today and has promised to make a report at once. The law provides that livestock owners, on leaving counties in which their animals have been Hated for assessment, must make a report to livestock inspectors or county clerks. Read The Oregonian classified ads.