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THE MORNING OREG.ONIAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1919. uimn 10 HERE'S ANOTHER PHOTOGRAPH OF THE "FLYING PARSON." WHO STILL LEADS EM ALL. 15,000 0. S. TROOPS Store Now Opens 9 A. M. Store Now Opens 9 A. M. liHfiU 10 "The Store That Undersells Because It ,Sells for Cash" 503 MILES OF GOAL H l FRANCE YET (T Agents for the Butterick "Patterns and Delineator all new styles now show ing. T Mail Orders received are given prompt and care ful attention same day as received. Eastward Flight Resumed With Repaired Plane. Men to.Come Home as Soon as Affairs Are Settled. ! A List of Timely Offerings Gathered as CLEVELAND' IS REACHED WORK MAY LAST MONTH I WTHIN Major Carl Spatz Withdraws From Derby and Machine Transferred to Captain Smith. L. CHICAGO. Oct. 17. At the end of the tenth day in the 5402-mile aerial derby twice across the continent. Lieutenant B. W. Maynard. leader since the start of the race, tonight was within striking distance of his fcoal. When Maynard settled down at Cleveland for the night at 5:30. he Tiad but 503 miles to go to reach Mineola, where he started the race October 8. Captain J. O. Donaldson. Maynard's nearest competitor, was at Des Moines. 620 miles behind the leader, who covered 750 miles today after riis plane had been repaired at Wa lioo. Neb. The leader among the westbound Tlyers on the second lap tonight was Captain Lowell Smith, who reached Chicago today from Buffalo in the machine flown by Major Carl Spatz, Maynard's closest competitor on elapsed time in the first half of the race. Spatz gave over his plane to Smith at Buffalo when the latter's was accidentally burned. I r arson Breaka Down. Lieutenant Alexander Pearson broke down today at North Platte, Neb., on the eastward return trip and Captain Donaldson passed him, leav ing him third in the race with Lieu tenant Karl Manzelman fourth, some 200 miles west of Pearson. Lieutenants E. C. Kiel. H. E Queens and R. S. Worthington left New York on the return flight today, the first two reaching Bryan, while Worthington rested at Binghamton. With 'the arrival of Lieutenants H. H. George, T. Hynes and J. B. Wright and Lieutenant-Colonel H. E. Hartney at San Francisco today, 23 of the 62 starters have made the first crossing. Kleven have started the second lap, but Major Spatz. westbound, and Cap tain Harry Smith, eastbound, have dropped out, the latter wrecking his plane yesterday in Nevada. Klc liter In Fanwd, Last in the return trip is Lieutenant H. W. Sheridan, who left Sam Fran cisco late today and covered little of the 2701-mile trip. The death list remains at seven. Lieutenant J. T. Richter, last of the eastbound flyers on the first lap, was passed between Chicago and Cleveland today by Maynard on the second lap. A number of westbound aviators are in the Rocky mountain region. The story of how they repaired their damaged airplane in a Nebraska cornfield was obtained from the "fly ing parson," Lieutenant B. W. May nard, and his observer, when they passed through Chicago today. Ex cept for the breaking of a crankshaft in Nebraska yesterday, they believed they were making better time going 3ast than they did westward. Lieu :enant Maynard was rather cryptic, merely saying he flew better than l:e -a Iked. f All last night while the pilot slept, W. E. Kline, Maynard's observer, with - farmer mechanician, and attaches t the Nebraska good roads service, vho happened to be near Wahoo, Neb., when Maynard plumped into a corn field, toiled to install the big liberty notor from the wreck of Captain Roy Francis' bombing plane into No. 31. These two did the skilled work alone. "We trusted to luck and went to work," Kline explained. They rigged up a chain over the limb of a big tree and with it lifted mt the broken motor and hoisted in Jie new engine. Start Not Delayed. Dawn was breaking when the last nut fastening the propeller was tight ened and the engine ready. O. K., warm 'er up," said Lieutenant daynard. Kline climbed into the cockpit and manipulated switch and throttle until -.atisfied that the big power plant was eady for his chief. Then he Bcram led into the rear cockpit and dozed eside Trixie, the German police dog, vtiile Maynard took up his share- of he race, fighting the bumps in the Ar and worrying about the route. One reason why they are breaking eorda is that Maynard does a lot f things not taught or countenanced y the flying schools. Coming into . -frant Park he had too high altitude. . rfficials said, and according to the chool of flying, should have gone ' u-ound the field again. Instead. May tard did a dangerous-looking skid one fay, then the other way. and set his l.ine down. This does not take bo oug. Quickest Method Followed. When time came for Maynard to !-ave he did not run down to the jther end of the field and take off 'Tito the field. He simply "gave "er 'lie gun" and took off from that part f the field where he happened to be iouarely across the wind. It was more langerous, but quicker. He held the ship close to the ground for 100 yards, foomed a couple of hundred feet .hat is, shot his plane almost straight "P turned the nose southeast and was on his way to Bryan. Ohio. Dozens of questions were flung at the tired pilot by the crowd. "Don't you get awfully tired?" asked one. "No. I don't get as tired as some of -hem.. One aviator whom I met on the 'ay to the coast looked like a corpse. This country is all right to fly over, out those mountains " he stopped as .f description was impossible. "Which side of the country would vou recommend to cross-country fli ers?" Wnt Chom for Beauty. "Well, I'd recommend the west if they want to see pretty country," he sa.ld. Lieutenant Maynard said he rarely went up more than 2000 feet or at most 3000 feet above the terrain over which he is flying and that he did not run his motor to the limit of its pos- - -, . . - . - Jkr - '.:. . - j - S - ' '? , r" iff' . 1 . - - , yj t - i - - . I -e - " ' -- i - I 4 - - f I ,.--.,- 4 f , j J- i . - - t L ? ' ' ' -' t I " " 1 ' -. ' 4 LIEITEXAXT BELVIN W. MAYNARD STANDS AT RIGHT. IN CENTER LIEITENANT 9WEELEY, LEFT CAPTAIN DRAYTON. THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN AT SAN FRANCISCO. SHIP CONFERENCE GULLED MR. KAHX TO ASSEMBLE PA CIFIC COAST CONGRESSMEN. Freight Rates on Westbound Steel Under Scrutiny Army Store Sales Here $97,876. (CTharles C. Hart is in charge of The Oregonian News Bureau at Washington. His address is 82 Riggs building.) OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, Oct. 17. All members of the congressional delegations of Washington, Oregon and California have been called into a conference to be held at the suffice of Representa tive Julius Kahn of California next Wednesday morning. The conference is to dlscuvs the general shipbuilding conditions of the Pacifio coast with particular reference- to the alleged exorbitant railroad freight rates on steel from the east to the Pacific coast yards. Sales made by the army retail store at Portland, Or., which serves all of Oregon and Southern Idaho, aggre gated J97.876 up to October 13, the war department reported today. The store at Seattle, serving Wash ington, Northern Idaho and Montana, made sales in the same period aggre gating 17.098. Resolutions favoring universal mili tcry training were adopted, the post favoring the plan of military training in connection with education as op posed to compulsory military training, which demands two years of service in the regular army. Y. M. C. A. WORKER HEARD THIEF REVEALED AS SON Willamette Students Plan to Send Delegates to Conference. WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITT. Sa lem, Or.. Oct. 17. (Special.) Aa a re sult of yesterday's conference be tween Gale Seaman. Pacific coast sec retary of the Young Men's Christian association, and the cabinets of the two associations at Willamette. Im mediate action wtil be taken to pro vide the means of sending delegates to the national student volunteer con vention In Des Moines. Iowa. Decem ber 31 to January 4. The conference, which meets every four years, will this year have in attendance 7000 college students as official delegates and 2000 non-official visitors. Each college is allowed one repre sentative to each hundred students, making Willamette's quota five stu dents and one faculty member. Mr. Seaman boosted for a large delega tion of Willamette men at the state Y. M. C A- conference for college as sociations, to be held at McMinnville tomorrow and Sunday. As a result, the university will be represented by 25 to 30 men at the two-days' meeting. "GARRULOUS" WIFE SUED FATHER OF SIX SAYS MOTHER OF FIVE TALKED TOO MUCH atl,er, Deputize lor xrip, nNEW COMPANIES FORMED Prisoner is uwn Jttoy. EUGENE, Or., Oct. 17. (Special.) To come all the way from Asotin. Wash., to take charge of an alleged thief who had stolen his car and to find that the man wanted was his own son. was the experience yester day of M. J. Garrison, assessor of Asotin county. Wash. Young Garrison, who had been ar rested here by Deputy Sheriff Croner, was using the name of E. J. Edwards, and had been charged with defraud ing a boarding house keeper. When he was lodged in jail It was learned that the automobile in his possession had been stolen at Asotin. Mr. Gar rison was commissoned by the sheriff to bring both the car and the thief back to Asotin. Mr. Garrison will take the car. but says the young man can go where he pleases. sibilities. U. S. AVIATORS SOUGHT Destroyer Takes Party to Recover Officers' Bodies. SAN DIEGO. Cal.. Oct. 17. After a delay of two days caused by waiting for authorization from the navy de partment for use of a warship, an army party left here yesterday for Angeles bay, on the Gulf of California, to identify and bring back the bodies of Lieutenants C. H. Connelly and W. " H. Waterhouse, American army avi ators, who were lost while on border patrol duty two months ago. The trip to Angeles bay is being made aboard the destroyer Aaron Ward and is expected to consume . about eight days. POST BACKS ' JOHNSON Klamath Kails Legion Indorses Stand on League Covenant. KLAMATH FALLS. Oct. 17. (Spe cial.) Indorsement of the stand of Senator Hiram Johnson on the league of nations covenant was expressed bv Klamath Falls post No. 8 of the Amer ican Legion in the following resolu tion: Resolved by Klamath post No. 8 of the American Legicn That the post favors the amendment offered by Sen ator Hiram Johnson to the league of nations covenant, which seeks to equalize the voting power of the United States and Great Britain in the league of nations, and. "Be it further resolved, that we stand for a 100 per cent Americanism and that we do not concede superior ity over the United States to any na tion in the world." Articles of Incorporation Filed With Commissioner. SALEM. Or.. Oct. 17. (Special.) The State Investment company ot Portland today filed articles of incor poration with H. J. Schulderman. state corporation commissioner. The capi tal stock is $10,000 and the incorpora tors are Joseph Roberts, W. Y. Rob erts and W. H. Marsters. The Washington-Broadway Invest ment company of Portland, with a capital stock of $5500, filed articles. The incorporators are J. W. David, W. H. Dedman and A. Rhodes. Supplementary articles were filed by the Independent Automobile com peny of St. Helens, changing its name to the Fieldhouse Motor company. In corporators are Guy Fieldhouse, T. R Howitt and C. C. Hale. Certificate of dissolution was filed by the Mount Hood & Barlow Road company, of which Jessie M. Carson ia secretary. , LINN CHAPTER ELECTS Daughters of Revolution Hold Meeting at Albany. ALBANY, Or.. Oct. 17. (Special.) Mrs. J. K. Weatherford was elected regent of Lynn chapter No. 3. Daugh ters of the American Revolution, and other officers were chosen as follows hi the annual election this week: Mrs. Percy A. Young, vice-regent; Mrs. Charles H. Cusick, secretary; Mrs. H. W. Barker, treasurer; Mrs. L. G. Lewel- ling, chairman of the board of man agers; Miss Christine Pipe, registrar; Mrs. Alton B. Coates, historian; Mrs. Fidelia Woodcock, chaplain. Mrs. J. K. Weatherford, Mrs. Rock- ey E. Mason, Mrs. Willard L. Marks, Mrs. Percy A. Young and Mrs. H. W. Barker were elected delegates to rep resent the chapter at the next state conference and Mrs. L. G. Lewelling, Mrs. Alton B. Coates, Mrs. J. V. Pipe Miss Mae Lewis and Mrs. O. J. Hawtfn were chosen alternates Woman Objects to Hosband Baying Silk Stocking for His Conquests and Seeks Divorce. . When Jacob Link remonstrated with Sophia Link for her abuse of himself and his six children she would fly into an immediate rage "and go to the neighbors and tell them a lot of stuff that never happened." complains Link in bis divorce suit filed yesterday In the circuit court. When the Links were linked March 17 of this year, the husband brought six children by a former wife to the altar and the wife led five children by a former husband up to the minis ter. All were between the ages of 3 and 15 years. They did not get alontr well together, and within two weeks after marriage the husband complains that his wife "picked on" him and his children. Eight times in three months Mrs. Link threatened to leave her new hus band, he declares, and finally did leave. Every day for six weeks. Link asserts, be pleaded with his- wife to return to his fireside and be a mother to his children, before she acceded to his request. But on October 14 last Tuesday she left him again, he says. Wallace W. Dawson bought silk stockings for ladies of his acquaint ance, of whom his wife. Thelma. did not approve. She might not have known It. but Dawson boasted of his conquests and purchases In her hear ing, she asserts In a divorce action started yesterday. Harry M. Kerr took other women to dances. Mrs. Ono Kerr did not think proper for he husband to attend, says tne wire in the divorce action filed yesterday. Other divorce suits filed were: Min nie Temple against Hayes Temple Arthur A. Sehani against Sophie Bchatii: Sena de Penning against Vic tor de Penning, and Lillian Moore against Lloyd Moore. SAFEBL0WING IS CHARGED James Clergy Held to Grand Jury at Astoria. ASTORIA, Or.. Oct. 17. (Special.) The case against James Clergy and Albert Meadors. charged with com plicity In the blowing of a safe in the Kallunki store, was called for bearing in the Justice court today. Clergy waived a preliminary hear ing and was held under $5000 bonds to await the action of the grand Jury. Owing to the failure of two witnesses for the defense to appear, the Meador case was continued until tomorrow. Arlington Crossing Authorized. SALEM. Or., Oct. 17. (Special.) The installation of a grade crossing at Arlington over the tracks of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Naviga tion company tracks is granted in an order given today by the public serv ice commission. It is ordered that warning signs be installed and that the cost of the crossing be borne by the highway commission, which is the applicant. WILLAMETTE 'RUSH' IS ON University Societies to Announce New Pledges Soon. WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY. Sa lem, Or.. Oct. 17. (Special.) Today. being the first day of college year for pledging new students to the men's literary societies, was the most eventful and exciting time of the fall term thus far. The rushing by the organisations is governed this year by an inter-society committee, which has drawn up a new set of rules. At present there are three men's societies on the campus Web sterians, Philodorians and Chresto philians. The pledges will be an nounced by the societies in a few days. Lewiston Post Fights Reds. LEWISTON, Idaho, Oct. 17. (Spe cial.) The Lewis-Clark post of the American Legion has agreed to lend every effort to keep away from Lew- inon radical speakers and agitators! Phone your want ads ta The Ore- tendencies toward bolsnevism. gonian. Main 7070, A 6035. Water Application Filed. SALEM. Or, Oct. 17. (Special.) A. Virtue of Murphy has filed appli cation with State Engineer Percy A. Cupper for the appropriation of water from Gravelly slough for the irriga tion of a small tract of land. Mark S. Mack of Kerby has filed application for the appropriation of water from Althouse creek for Irrigation pur poses. Applications have been filed by William Downing and J. C. Miller of Merlin for appropriation of five second-feet of water from Midnight gulch for placer mining purposes. Repatriation of Germans Is Ei- pation Army Leaves TJ. S. PARIS. Oct. 17. (By the Associated Press.) The actual number of Amer ican troops now in France is less than 15.000 and Is rapidly diminish ing. General W. D. Connor, command ing the American troops in France, said today. Within a month, he stat ed, virtually all the soldiers will be gone, as the task oT repatriating the German prisoners is now completed. Only a few Germans now remain under the charge of the American forces, and these are ill in hospitals. They will be sent home through Coblens as soon as they can travel. The work of completing the liquida tion of army supplies, squaring ac counts and the policing of American peace conference headquarters are now the only tasks detaining the sol diers and officers in France, and General Connor said he expected that this liquidation work. too. will be ter minated within one month. Prmpk Equipment ITsed. All American supplies, including office fixtures and automobiles, are already the property of the French government and are merely being used by the Americans until their task is completed. Army officials are still working on the settlement of about 7000 small claims arising from automobile ai- dents and damage by fire to houses In which Americans were billeted. Those not settled shortly will be turned over in bulk to the French government as a credit against the amount France is to pay for the American supplies. The army commissary will soon close since the supplies have all been sold to France, subject to the proviso that the American army be supplied from them until it can close up its affairs. German Force Independent. The officers in Paris have no con trol whatever of the American forces in the occupied area of Germany, which are under the command of Major-General Henry T. Allen and are supplied independently of the Paris offices. Should American troops be sent to France en route to upper Si lesia to supervise the plebiscite there. General Connor will merely direct the movement of the troops across France and they will pass out of his Jurisdic tion when they reach German terri tory. On every side there are Indications of tne speedy termination of the work of the American army in France and probably within three weeks the army automobiles used by the peace con ference will be turned over to France, the American soldier orderlies will be withdrawn from the Hotel Crillon and all activities of the American gov ernment will be handled by civilian officials and employes. NEW YORK. Oct. 17. A provisional division of 5000 United States regu lars, commanded by Brigadier-General William H. Sage, assigned for serv ice in the American army of occupa tion in Germany, sailed tonight from Hoboken on the transport President Grant. Eventually it is expected the troops, comprising the 5th infantry, com manded by Colonel E. M. Fry. and the 15th infantry, comnanded by Colonel F. J. McConnell, will be sent to Si lesia to supervise the plebiscite to be held there. STATE ENGINEER NAMED Captain II. J. Flagg of Seattle I? New Washington Chief. SEATTLE. Wash.. Oct. 17. Succeed ing D. F. McCurrach as chief engineei of the state public service commission, the appointment of Captain Herbert J. Flagg of Seattle was announced to day. Captain Flagg is a graduate ot the University of Washington and during the war served as an artillery instructor at Fort Monroe. Recently he has been appraisal engineer for the public service commission. McCurrach resigned to enter the service of a Portland firm. For Colds and Influencm and a a Prvpnlllv. take LAXATIVE BROMO QUIN1.NK Tablets, luk for E. W. GROVK'S ytgnwMir on the hoy. 3"c. Artv. Sure Relief S. & H. green stamps for cash. Hol man Fuel company. Main J53, A S353. Block wood 4 feet or short slabwood. Utah and Rock Springs coal; sawdust. Adv. 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