VOL. LYIII SO. 18,327
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
FogtofflCf Scond-CV3 Matter.
POIITLAXD, OREGOX.f. FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
SUGAR PROFITEERS
MORO MAN IS SAVED
FROM DEATH IN SUKF
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PARDONED DOUGHBOY
- GIVES LIFE FOR FLAG
BANDITS BATTLE
EIGHT SHIPS OF NAVY
WILL VISIT PORTLAND
TWO CRUISERS, BIRMINGHAM
AND SALEM, COMING.
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CANCELED
GOSTLY CHANGE IN
SPRUCE LINE BARED
Disque Rejects Saving of
Millions Is Testimony.
TO LOSE LICENSES
BECAUSE OF STRIKE
U.S.T
E
PORTLAND PAIR RISK LIVES TO
SAVE BATHER AT SEASIDE.
DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED,
D FALLS IX BATTLE.
MTH
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Government Control
Selling Resumed.
of
FOOD LAW TO CARRY TEETH
$5000 Fine, Two-Year Term
in Prison, for Violators.
RETAILERS ARE INCLUDED
Regulation to Reach Small Dealer;
Attorney-General Announces
Fair-Price Policy.
WASHINGTON". Aug. II. Active con
trol of lugar prices was resumed to
day by the government, through an
agreement reached between the depart
ment of Justice and the food adminis
tration that license, will be revokd
by the latter when It is shown dealers
bave ben profiteering.
Sugar should reach the consumer at
approximately 11 cents a pound, it
was announced, based on the owner
ship of the entire domestic and Cuban
crop by the United States sugar equal
ization board, which is selling to re
finers at 7.2S cents a pound. Refiners
ire under contract w-ith the board to
tell at cents, less 2 per cent dis
count for cash, wholesalers and Jobbers ,
ire allowed a maximum of 63 cents pe
100 pounds for handling and retailers
are permitted a profit of 1 to I'j cents
a pound, making a fair price 11 cents,
except In cases where dealers have
purchased at an "unreasonable" price
due to misunderstanding in the trade.
When this is a fact a reasonable ad
vance over the actual cost will be
permitted.
Itetallrm t Be 'tarrlle4.
With the house agricultural com
mttlee's amendment for extension
the powers of the food control act be
fore It. the house tonight was prepared
to take action tomorrow on the amend
ment and thereby make its first exten
iva step toward beating down living
.osls. The amendment, which was re
ported to the house today by a unani
mous vote, includes retailers among
those liable under the food control
act. and Its enactment along with the
:ontrol exercised over sugar, officials
telieve, will do much to curtail profit-
ering by retailers.
-Our desire la to secure a fair price
Jor the consumer." said Attorney-Uen-
;ral Palmer, in announcing reaumptlon
!f sugar control, "and we do not wish
to pursue a w holesale policy of recotn
mending the cancellation of licenses.
Where trade adjusts Itself to a fair
price for the future, past transactions,
unless flagrant, will not ordinarily be
made the basis of a recommendation
by this department for the cancella
tion of the license."
Whale Army Sarplsm to Be .HIU.
Sale of army subsistence supplies
now In progress will cover virtually the
entire surplus, the war department an
lounced today. Including enough to give
two pounds of meat and one and one
quarter pounds of canned vegetables
to every person in the United States.
The amendment to the food-control
act as reported today would extend
the act's provisions to Include wearln
apparel, containers of food, feed, or fer
tilizer and fuel oil. A penalty of 15000
and two years' imprisonment is pro
vided for profiteering.
"The absence of evidence of any
profiteering by the farmers." the agri-
.-ultural committee's report said, "and
:he provision of the so-called Sherman
anti-trust law recognizing collective
bargaining by labor makes it wise to
not subject the farmer to Inconvenience
and expenses under the federal law."
Numerous bills and resolutions deal
ing with living cost questions were pre
rnted today in both houses of con
gress. Representative Hutchinson, re
publican. New Jersey. Introduced a bill
which would enable the aecretary of
agriculture to "prevent deception with
respect to cold storage foods and to
regulate the storage and shipment of
:old storage foods in Interstate com
merce, and limit such storage to It
months."
I.a bor Sleeks Abeolafloa.
President Wilson is asked in a reso
lution introduced today by Representa
tive Carsa of Minnesota, to furnish
such Information as may be in the pos
session of the federal trade commis
sion which will identify the propor
tion that labor cost forms in the total
cost of production of coal, steel, cop
per, meat, canned goods and other nec
essaries. The resolution was introduced at the
request of the national federation of
federal employes, which announced
that the Information would "effectual
ly dispose of the vicious fallacy that
labor costs represent the chief Item
in the increased cost of living."
Blanket Sale Steppe.
War department distributing centers
through which surplus war materials
are sold were Instructed today to dis
continue the sale of army blankets. It
was explained that the distribution was
cot as wide as had been hoped for.
that the government desired to give all
an equal opportunity to purchase the
blanker. A new distribution system
will be worked out.
Eugene Cushman, Swept by Current
Into Hole, Floating Face Down
ward When Rescued.
SEASIDE. Or.. (Aug. II. (Special.)
By risking their lives C. M. Godfrey
and W. W. Gerling of Portland saved
the life of Eugene Cushman who was
near the point of drowning In the surf
at Seaside tnls afternoon.
Mr. Cushman, who is a resident of
Moro, was swimming in the surf with
a number of bathers and before any
one realized it. the strong current had
swept him into a deep hole. L. H. Mar
tin, a friend, saw Mr. Cushman's plight
and attempted to rescue him. Several
others endeavored to save Mr. Cushman
when Godfrey and Gerling. instructors
at the Oates baths, reached the beach.
They swam to Mr. Cushman, who had
ceased to swim and was floating face
downward to the sea. He was brought
to shore and resuscitated. The tide was
not far in at the time of the accident.
Mr. and Mrs. Cushman and Mr. and
Mrs. Martin of Heppner came to spend
a few days on the beach.
,vW TKilltor mlflifr-. W hrtni i Isanti 4 kn
SOUthem V .Utl . I Twice Wounded,
Is Exteru:
LARK AND OWL NOT TO RUI
Action by Santa Fe Crews
Also Feared.
POLICE RESERVES USED
Sympathizers Pull Off Trolleys
Grease Tracks and Obstruct
Operations in General.
HIGH COST STUNTS CHILD
Tacoma Doctor Warns of Tuberculo
sis Death Rate Increase.
TACOMA. Wsh., Aug. 21. (Spe
cial.) If the high cost of living con
tinues in Washington state the death
rate from tuberculosis will increase, as
it Is impossible for many families, un
der existing conditions, to get enough
nnurliihtnir fnngi In lrn nn t 1 . renifit- i
. . . . ... .'announcement
n ul iue puiir against i ti c Lii.na vi
tubercular bacilli.
That was the statement of Dr. Chris
ten Quevli of Tacoma. president of the
Washington Tuberculosis association
for the past nine years. In his annual
address delivered before the society,
now in session here. Seventy-five dele
gates from all parts of the state are
in attendance.
The children of the country, on
whom our future greatness depends,
will, like a plant that has not been
properly nourished or cared for, be
come stunted." said Dr. Quevli.
Mayor C. M. Fassett of Spokane was
another speaker.
ELECTRIC SYSTEMS LINKED
Eastern and Western Washington
Lines Now Connected.
SEATTLE. Aug. 21. Electric trans
mission lines covering a distance of ap
proximately 1500 miles from Coeur
d'Alene. Idaho, to Olympia, Wash., and
from Pendleton, Or., to Everett. Wash.,
were connected yesterday when a
switch was closed at the plant of the
Turret Sound Traction Light Power
company at Snoqualmie, Wash., near
here.
By the closing of the switch the
f'uget Sound company's western Wash
ington lines were connected with the
eaatem Washington system and plant
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railroad company. The two companies
w 111 now exchange power between the
western company's plant at Snoqualmie
and the railway's plant at Long Lake,
near Spokane.
LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Aug. 21. As
result of the strike of 350 switchme
and yard employes of the Southern Pa
cific company who walked out here
shortly before 8 o'clock tonight in sym
pathy with striking trainmen of the
Pacific Electric Railway company, de
parture of ail passenger and freight
trains leaving Los Angeles on that com
pany's lines, including the "Owl" and
Lark" were canceled, according to an
made at 9 o'clock by
T. H. Williams, assistant-general man
ager of the company.
All conductors, engineers, firemen,
switchmen and brakemen belonging to
the four railroad brotherhoods and
working on the Los Angeles division,
were included in the walkout.
HUNTER IN PLANE BARRED
Airplanes Cannot lie Used to Bag
Migratory Game Birds.
Hunters of migratory game birds
who have had visions of obtaining
record bags by the use of an airplane
are to have their hopes dashed to
pieces.
A bulletin issued by the secretary of
agriculture, which prohibits the hunt
ing of the birds from an airplane, was
received by the state fish and game
commission yesterday. The bulletin In
outlining rules for the hunting of
migratory game birds conforms
other respects to the state laws already
n force. It specifies that no gun
larger than 10-gauge shall be used In
he pursuit of those fowls.
Switchmen First to Quit.
Members of Mie switchmen's organi
zation quit first. They were followed
by the other employes. More than 1500
men are believed to have walked out.
Switchmen and yardmen employed
by the Salt Lake and Santa Fe com
panies followed the action of the South
ern Pacific trainmen shortly after 10
o'clock. Officials of these companies
have not decided whether they will
be able to operate trains. The number
walking out on the Salt Lake and
Santa He- has not yet been determined.
Strikers Give No Warning.
The men walked out without warn
ng, according to -Mr. Williams. Officials
of the Salt Lake and Santa Fe rail
roads fear that switchmen and yard
men employed by these companies will
follow the lead of the Southern Pa
cific men before midnight. Mr. W ill-
iams stated he did not know when
service would be resumed but hoped
it would be some time before to
morrow. The strike of the Pacific Electric
company and the Los Angeles Railway
company took a more serious turn early
today, when crews of the street cars
operated by the latter company were
stoned and police reserves were called
out to disperse strike sympathizers.
The strike, which began last Satur
day, had run a peaceful course until
yesterday, with nothing more than
some rough exchanges between work-
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Wilson Is Told.
WASHINGTON", Aug. 21. One of the
two American soldiers sentenced to
death for- sleeping on outpost duty in
France, and subsequently pardoned by
President Wilson, was killed In the
great Aisne. offensive in July, 1918.
The other was twice wounded and
finally honorably discharged.
This was disclosed today by an ex
change of correspondence between Sec
retary Baker and President Wilson.
. Private Forest D. Sebastian of El
Dorado, 111., 20 years old. was killed
in the Aisne battle. Private Jeff Cook
of Lutie, Okla., aged 19, was wounded
in the same battle, but recovered to
again fight gallantly in the Argonne
offensive, where he received his sec
ond wound.
In writing the president of the gal
lant conduct of the boys after the
president had pardoned them after they
were sentenced to death for sleeping
on outpost duty, Secretary Baker said:
'It will interest you to know that
upon restoration to duty both made
good soldiers. Sebastian died in iat-
tle in the Aisne offensive in July, 1918.
Cook was wounded in that battle and
restored to health In time to fight in
the Meuse-Argonne battle, when he
again fought gallantly and was the
second time wounded. He has been now
restored to health through medical at
tention and has been honorably dis
charged from the service."
President Wilson, in acknowledging
the secretary's letter, wrote:
"Thank you for your thoughtfulness
Four Mexicans Killed by
Matlack's Men.
Six Destroyers Also lo Make Trip
lo Columbia New Plans
Made for Fleet.
SANTA BARBARA. Cal., Aug. 21.
i New Dlans for the visit of the Pacific
i fleet to California and ports to the
I'lull IJV TlfLv Dl flPlf LinilvL nrul were announced today in tne nag
UHIriLiI I IHiL0 DLUUMIUUOC
Dead Men Known as Outlaws;
Two Others Escape.
CARRANZA MAKES PROTEST
Withdrawal of Troops Requested by
Ambussador; Washington
Does Not Reply.
in telling me about the records made
by Sebastian and Cook, the two young
sters who were pardoned for sleeping
on outpost duty. It Is very delightful
to know that they redeemed, them
selves so thoroughly."
APANESE FARMER BARRED
Growers to Exclude Orientals From
Market at Tacoma.
TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 21. (Special.)
Japanese farmers will be barred
from selling their produce in Tacoma's
grower-to-consumer market. Farmers
of the Puyallup valley will rent a cen
tral location on their own initiative
nd will bar their yellow neighbors
from participating In the trade. The
action was taken by the white farmers
nd not by the city.
Reports were made to Mayor RIddell
today that wholesale and retail fish
dealers were profiteering. Salmon on
Fridays sells around 35 cents a pound
In Tacoma markets and during the rest
of the week it ranges from 18 to 20
cents.
TALIANS GREET PERSHING
Warm Welcome Given to American
General in Milan.
MILAN. Italy. Aug. 21. General J. J.
Pershing arrived here today from
Verona.
He was warmly welcomed by the mil
itary and civil authorities of the city
nd the American, British and French
colonies.
MARFA, Tex., Aug. 21. Four Mexi
can bandits were killed by American
troops In Mexico yesterday. Captain
Leonard Matlack, who arrived here by
airplane tonight, reported. They were
surrounded in an adobe block house
that the Mexicans had constructed in
a mountain pass.
The bandits fought desperately when
they found they were trapped, and two
escaped.
When the American troops ap
proached the blockhouse with the in
tention of searching it for hidden ban
dits, the Mexicans opened fire from
port holes.
All Four Known Bandits.
The fire was returned and the block
house captured by the American cavalry
troops. Three of the four Mexicans
killed -have been identified as Jesus
Janlr, Francisco Janir and Jose Fuentes.
All four are known to Captain Mat
lack as bandits operating along the
Big Bend border for years.
' The two men who escaped were pur
sued, but the trail was lost In the moun
tain canyons.
It is known that Jesus Renteria,
leader of the outlaw band that cap
tured Lieutenants Harold G. Peterson
and Paul H. Davis, American aviators,
was not among the dead.
Go Ahead, Says Carranzista.
Captain Matlack said he passed a
column of 200 Carranza troops below
the border yesterday. The Carranza
commander, Matlack reported, asked
where the American troops were going.
When he was informed that the Ameri
cans were pursuing bandits who had
held American aviators, the Carranza
commander waved hia hand and said:
'Go ahead." No effort was made to
hinder the punitive expedition.
Captain Matlack came from Mexico
at sunset this evening in an airplane
driven by Lieutenant Eugene Eubank,
who landed in a Mexican mountain val-
ey, picked up the cavalry commander
and returned with him to report the
progress of the punitive expedition to
General Joseph T. Dickman, commander
of the southern department.
According to Matlack the American
troops are in high spirits and keen
office of the dreadnaught New Mexico,
Admiral Hugh Rodman's flagship, an
chored off Santa Barbara.
Some changes were made in the pro
gramme previously made public for the
visit to Monterey and Santa Cruz and
definite arrangements were made for
the review of the fleet in San Fran
cisco bay at 10 o'clock the morning of
Labor day.
Immediately after the review at San
Francisco the Birmingham and the
Salem and a division of destroyers
six will start for Portland, Or., and
the Georgia and the Seattle, with six
destroyers, will proceed to Astoria.
Secretary Daniels has radioed from
Honolulu an invitation to the wives
and women relatives of officers of the
fleet to Join the presidential and secre
tarial reviewing parties aboard the
Oregon.
Three destroyers have been ordered
to San Diego to serve as aviation
supply ships during the flight from
that port to San Francisco of Lieu
tenant W. L. Richardson, who will
photograph the fleet as it enters the
Golden Gate and passes in review.
RAIL. CHIEF'S ADVICE HEEDED
$33,000 a Mile, Not $11 2,000,
Fair Cost, Logger Testifies.
BRITISH MULCTED, IS VIEW
Colonel Stearns Accused of Selling
I'nfuir Salvage Basis for Eng.
land; Hearing Is Stormy.
POSTAL TRAVELS SLOWLY
Distance of Forty Miles Requires
Nearly Four Years.
HOQUIAM, Wash., Aug. 21. (Spe
cial.) When Mrs. Harry Wilson failed
to receive Yuletide greetings from her
sister in Montesano at Christmas. 1914
she was rather perturbed and reminded
her relative of her neglect. The sister
insisted she had sent a card with the
compliments of the season.
The mystery was cleared up yester
day when Mrs. Wilson was handed the
missive, bearing the postmarks, "Mon
tesano, Dec. 23, 1914"; "Hoquiam, Aug,
20, 1919." It required nearly four years
for the transportation of the piece of
mail between Montesano and Hoquiam,
a distance of 40 miles.
LOOT RETURNED BY MAIL
Robbers of Salem Store Restore Sil
ver Taken in $300 Haul.
SALEM, Or., Aug. 21. (Special.) A
solid silver toHet set valued at $55 was
taken by robbers from the Hartman
Jewelry store here Wednesday night,
but was returned to the owners in to
day's mail. The postmark indicated
that the set had been mailed from
Portland
The police believe that the robbers
were acquainted with' the store prem
ises, and upon obtaining the loot, which
amounted to about $300, left for Port
land in. an automobile. In the car
were three men, apparently about 25
years of age.
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SALOON TURNSJ0 CHURCH
Hoquiam Building's Lumber to Be
Used in Making Addilion.
HOQUIAM, Wash.. Aug. 21. (Spe-
ial.) Radical transformation of one
f the oldest saloon buildings in this
ity into an addition to a church is in
rogress.
The Vega building at Eleventh and
streets has been purchased by the
Baptists. A force of volunteers under
direction of the pastor. Rer. W. R.
Jewell, is razing the building and using
the lumber for the addition to the
church.
BE PATIENT, SAMMY, THE CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE WILL FIND WHERE
IT WENT.
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GREEKS SEEK PROTECTION
Inhabitants of Caucasus Allege Pil
lage and Massacre.
SALONIKI. Aug. 21. Delegates
claiming to represent 35.000 Greeks liv
ing in the Ardahan district in the Cau
casus, according to the Athens News
agency, have telegraphed to the peace
conference an appeal for allied pro-
lection against bandits and Turkish
troops, who, they assert, have pillaged
the country and massacred Greek inhabitants.
j The Turks, it is claimed, operated
I from a base at Erzerum. -
HOUSE PASSES TARIFF BILL
Duty on Crude Tungsten Set at $600
a Ton by Party Vote.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. By a strict
party vote, the house today passed and
sent to the senate a bill Imposing a
tariff of $10 a unit or 1600 a ton on
crude tungsten ore and $1 a pound
on serro-tungsten and other tungsten
salts.
Democrats led by Representatlv
Kitchin, North Carolina, sought to
reduce the rates.
OMAHA, Neb, Au. II. Charles
Trimble, produce commission merchant,
today told the state committee In
vestigating marketing conditions that
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4000 MEN QUIT STRIKE
Shipyard Workers Near Baltimore
to Return to Jobs -Today.
BALTIMORE. Md, Aug. 21. The
strike of the 4000 union workers In the
Bethlehem shipbuilding corporation
yards at Sparrows Point was called off
tonight.
The men will return to work tomor
row.
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I DAILY CITY STATISTICS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 80
degrees; minimum, o7 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair and cooler; gentle westerly
winds.
National.
I Federal government resumes control over
sugar selling. Page 1.
1 Chamberlain bill forces remission of many
soldiers sentences, rage 4.
Leasing bill is urged in senate by Smoot.
Page S.
I Revolting Mexican atrocities against Amerl-
. cans reported. Page 3.
Eventual home rule for Corea is promise of
Japan. Page 2. ...
Doughboy whose life sentence is taken off
by president gives me on batdeiied.
Page 1.
Pittman's compromise plan on league pact
Is not pushed, rage l.
Mexican bandits and United States troops
in oattie. rage i.
Packers' methods attacked and defended in
senate hearing. Page a.
Domestic -
Two filers are missing on Mexican border.
Page 8.
I American goods to curb profiteers in Eng
land, rage o.
Commercial and Marine..
Advance apple sates are made at high level.
Page 23.
Selling pessure in corn market resisted and
prices average higher. Page 23.
Many net gains made in Wall street stock
market. Page 23.
I Houseboats near Willamette bridges will
have to move. Page 22.
Sports.
Four Portland golfers battle for honors in
Gearhart tournament.- Page 14.
Pacific Coast league results: Portland 2,
Vernon 1; Salt Lake g, San Francisco 1;
Los Angeles a, Sacramento 2; Seattle 2,
Oakland 1 (13 innings). Page 14.
J. W. Piatt eliminates Francis Oulmet In
national amateur goll championship play.
page l-.
Sergeant J. B. Rhine of marine corps wins
United states military rule champion
ship. Page 15.
Pacific Northwest.
Costly change in spruce road bared at Seat
tle Hearing, rage i.
Choice of J. N. Burgess as highway com
missioner opposed. Page 7.
Portland and Vicinity.
Peace portal on Pacific highway at Canadian
border proposed. . page 12.
Ex-soidier perishes in batting- forest fire
Page 9.
Sale of army foodstuffs by mail continues.
Page 8. . .
Retail clothiers of Oregon will organize here
Monday. Page S.
Weather report, data and forecast. Page 22.
Street cars stoned by T.os Angeles strike
sympathizers, raa
BY BEN HUR LAMPMAN.
SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 21. (Spe
cial.) Evidence that the Olympia
peninsula logging road, built for the
spruce production corporation by the
Seims-Cary-H. S. Kerbaugh company at
an approximate cost of $112,000 a mile,
was originally projected through the
Pysht river route, further to the west,
and that this project had the approval
of the secretary of war, was intro
duced today at the hearing held by the
house subcommittee, now probing
spruce production expenditures In the
northwest.
That the Pysht river route was set
aside by Brigadier-General Disque, on
his own authority, after a conference
with officials of the Chicago, Milwau
kee & St. Paul Railroad company, and
the Crescent lake route to Clallam
county spruce was substituted, was the
substance of excerpts from the Ray
report on spruce operations made last
winter.
Clashes Enliven Sesaion.
The reading of the report by Chair
man Frear of the subcommittee con
stituted another phase of the attempt
to determine whether the Milwauke
line had an actual interest, as has been
charged, in the location of the logging
railroad constructed at government ex
pense.
The sessions of the committee today
were surcharged with development
and accusations and were further en.
livened by an actual clash between
Representative Frear, republican, and
Representative Lea, democrat, fellow
member of the committee, regarding
the chairman's method of examining
witnesses for the spruce production
corporation. Branding the Inquiry ai
one conducted outrageously and charg-
ng Chairman Frear with browbeating
the witness then on the stand. Colonel
P. Stearns, chief of the spruce divi
sion and president of the spruce pro
duction corporation, Representative Lea
declared that he would carry the fact!
to congress.
Coat Plus Production SmalL
It was also developed that the per
centage of finished airplane sprucf
supplied by the cost-plus operators
totaled less than S per cent, and that
the remaining 92 per cent was fur
nished by independent loggers and
millmen. In all 143,000,000 feet of
finished, airplane" stock were shipped
from outside mills and from the Van
couver (Wash.) cut-up plant.
Relative to the investigation mad
last winter by Major M. H. Ray, as
signed by the intelligence office, and
to testimony taken at that time, chair
man Frear read voluminously from a
report of the proceedings, quoting let
ters from Secretary Baker, other of
ficials and lumbermen. The statement
of Brigadier-General Disque, made at
that time, was to the effect that he set
aside the shorter route, via Pysht river
to the Clallam county spruce, on his
own authority, and determined upon
the Lake Crescent route, which was
followed.
The testimony of General Disque at
the time of the Ray inquiry, while he
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GENERAL LUDENDORF F'S
STORY TO START IN THE
OREGONIAN SUNOAY,
SEPTEMBER 7.
General Ludendorff, the one
compelling figure of the German
military machine, has written
the story of the great war from
the Teutonic viewpoint, and it
will be published In The Ore
gonian daily and Sunday, begin
ning Sunday, September 7. It is
a thrilling and startling story of
the failure of the mightiest mil
itary organization in the world's
history to bring other nations
under the domination of an auto
cratic and heartless regime. Why
this plot against the world failed
we know in part, but the secret
of the great German collapse as
revealed by one who directed the
mad efforts of the central pow
ers from the first of the war
has never yet been told. Luden
dorff knows, and in his story he
has laid bare the internal trou
bles of Germany and why the
German plans miscarried.
The German story of the first
battle of the Marne is sure to be
a revelation. The German side
of Ypres, Arras, the Aisne, Cam
brai, Verdun, the Somme, the
Argonne, the Russian, Italian
and Roumanian campaigns will
thrill the world as Ludendorff
tells it
It is a momentous work and
holds the attention from the
start, no matter how much the
reader may disagree with the
views of this Teutonic militarist.
Ludendorff does not attempt to
defend Germany's crimes, but
writes frankly confessing the
colossal failure of might against
right.
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