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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDlTs AUGUST 16, 1920 GEL'S TALENT passed in REVIEW French Recognition Based on His Accomplishments.' JUSTICE RULE SUCCEEDS denikine Debacle Corrected "When Sew Commander Brings Or der Out of Chaos. Pub- General Denikine. that officer re quested that he leave Russia. He retired to Novorossisk. where he prepared evacuation of the wounded, and then left for the Crimea. "Nervousness of the troops," th"? repcrt declared, resulting from the news of hin retirement, forced him to leave Russia, but on April 4, 1920, "public opinion caused General Den ikine, then head of the volunteer army, to resign and a council of Rus sian generals to elect Wrangel." Copyright by the Mew Tork World. Untied by Arrangement.; LONDON; Aug. lb. (Special Cable.) Several facts which should be con sidered in trying to understand the French recognition of General Wran gel are pointed out by a correspond ent in the Daily Telegraph. He declares that General Wrangel, who after Denlken's debacle arrived in the Crimea with a handful of dis organized soldiers, has achieved the seemingly impossible. With the help of a few officers We restored stern discipline. His rule was baaed on jus tice 10 every man, but he punished ruthlessly petty offenses, . specially when committed by officers. Sebasto pol and other Crimean towns wit nessed wholesale hangings of com manders who disobeyed orders and of civil servants found guilty of thiev ery. Two months after his arrival the disorderly bands which Wrangel found in -the Crimea were again a well disciplined army entirely in the bands of its commander. Transformation Appreciated. The bolshevikl do not seem to have Appreciated the significance of this transformation. Being busy on the Pollen front the bolshevik! had left against General Wrangel only an in significant covering cordon of troops. This was swept away with ease by General Wrangel when he marched out from his Crimean stronghold onto the wide Tauric plains. Since then, in several encounters with ' reinforce ments hurried up by Moscow, General Wrangel's military organization has been tested and found satisfactory to a great extent. But there have been bolshevik mili tary defeats which were quickly con verted into successes. Besides Deni lcine and Kolchak succumbed because of the appalling defects in their civil Administrations. General Wrangel seemed to have understood this and he is following a policy frankly opposed to that of his predecessors. He has grasped the es sential idea that the Russian peasant will decide his country's fate. There fore General Wrangel has sacrificed the Interests of the landlords and has declared the land to be the absolute property of the peasants. His agri cultural programme of peasant own ership precedes his troops and con solidates his Influence in the territo- ries he occupies. Peasants Get Self-Rnle. Not content with this. General Wrangel has gone one step further. He has proclaimed self-government for the peasants, free from any of the restrictions of martial law. Wherever territory is occupied by General Wrangel peasants are recognized to be the owners of the land they occupy without regard to the exercise of other titles to it. The peasants are also Invited to organize tneir own government in their communes. Thus they preserve everything they Had under the bolsheviki, but in ad C It Ion tney obtain an absolute pro prietary title to their land. This al ways has been their most ardent de sire and this the bolshevikl, bound by their communistic theories, could not give them. WRANGEL'S HISTORY STUDIED V. S. Analyzes Situation in Case Recognition Is Necessary. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. (By the Associated Press.)An information Inquiry Into the character and rol teles of the anti-bolshevik leader in southern Russia, General Wranerel. lias been begun by government offi cials. No immediate anticipation of recog nition by the United States is in volved, officials said, but should the inquiry develop satisfactorily, it is thought possible that the element clustered aooui wrangel may afford a road to the creation ,of conditions in Russia permitting her reacceptance among nations. One report on the general's career nas oeen receivea, -written by a neu tral observer attached to his staff. The general, but 39 years old. ac cording to the report, enlisted in the Russian army in 1901 as a private after having been educated as a min ing engineer. Though his ancestors are said to have come from Germany is stock Is of Baltic province deri vation. Leaving the army in 1902 after pro motion to a lieutenancy, Wrangel re enlisted at the outbreak of the Russo Japanese war and was twice pro moled. In the European war he dis tinguienea himself on August 19. 1914 taking a German battery, for whir-h lie was decorated with the cross of fcjt. George. Promoted to the rank of colonel, lie was appointed an aide to the cza and later became commander of the first trans-Baikal Cossack regiment, .-with which in July, 1916, he cap tured a battalion and several ma chine guns. He was promoted -to a major-general. Following the first days of the revolution, when the Russian ' of fensive In Galicla was preceded by a disorderly retreat, Wrangel is said to have "prevented a great military disaster." He continued with the . army until disorders of the revolu tion had destroyed its discipline. General Wrangel then retired to the Crimea. Arrested by the bolsheviki, lie was saved from execution by his wife. In the summer of 1918, with the growth of the volunteer anti-bolshe vik army, he was given command of a brigade under General Krdeli. Sue- ceeding to the command as the result of the illness of his chief. Wrangel, with other volunteers, routed the bolsheviki and liberated the Kuban, later entered Stavrapol and attained, in February, 1919, the liberation of all of North Caucasus and the Terek state. He was -promoted to lieutenant-general and placed in command of the Caucasian army. Stricken with typhus fever, it was not -until April, when the volunteer army had suffered reverses, that he could resume command, and because of the necessity of reforming the scattered elements of the forces of General Denikine, he was designated military adviser to General Shilling. With the evacuation of Odessa and" the reduction of Shilling's responsi bilities, Wrangel proceeded to Sebas ' topol, where he was informed by the British admiral there that on ac count of previous difficulties with CHERRY PROFTS ARE BIG The Dalles Growers Divide $22 2 8 6.86 for 10 Carloads. THE DALLES, Or., Aug. 15. (Spe cial.) A total of ten cars of cherries were sent to eastern markets and a net return of $22,286.86 was received for the 11,600 boxes, making an av erage of $2 a box. The largest figure for the season was received for the first car of 1120 boxes $6485. There was a total "of 50 orchard ists in the union this season and all reaped handsome profits. They di vided in all this season the sum of $87,384.71, $65,097.85 of which was for Royal Anne cherries sold at 15 cents a pound to local canneries. Local cherries were in demand this season in eastern markets and sold for higher prices than similar fruit from other growing centers. Blng cherries were the most popular, sell ine at 16 cent3 a pound, with Lam berts finding a ready market at 11 cents. 7 TAKEN IN PARTY RAID Moonshine," "According to Police, Figures in Brawl at Centralia. CENTRALIA, Wash., Aug. 15. (Spe cial.) The hearing in police court Friday night of W. O. Sloan. Mrs. Fay Misner, Mrs. Belle Curtis, Mrs. Mary Brown, Charles Eagles and Zoe Wells, arrested on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, was continued pend ine the outcome of the injuries of Walter Parker, a seventh defendant, who is alleged to have been attacked by Sloan. His condition is said to be serious. The defendants engaged in a free for-all fight Thursday night after filling up on "moonshine," according to the police. Eagles appeared in court Friday night with his head ban daged and Mrs. Misner had a badly cut arm. Columbus Supreme Officers Urge XT. S. to Recognize Republic. NEW TORK, Aug. 15 Resolutions urging that the United States recog nize without delay the republic of Ireland were sent today by supreme officers of the Knights, of Columbus to Secretary of Ctate Colby and to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house. The knights, the resolutions said, "recorded their recognition to the Irish republic. represented by its president, Eamonn de Valera. For the United States, they added to continue recognizing the .British regime in Ireland "a regime of alien frightfulness" while denying recog nition to the people's elected govern ment, is an unfriendly act by Amer ica to the people of a small nation that has never wronged us." KNIGHTS PLEAD FOR IRISH HEAD SEVERED FROM BODY W. Gehret, Railroad Man, Meets With Accident at Iloquiam. HOQUIAM, Wash., Aug. 15. (Spe cial.) W. Gehret, believed to be from Auburn, Wash., member of a railroad crew coming here three days ago from Tacoma to work on the road Y, was killed about 4 o'clock Saturday when he fell between two cars o which he was riding. Gehret's head hit on the rails and was severed from his body by the car wheels. A check book on the First National bank of Auburn was found In the man's pockets. Gehret is thought to have been about 30 - years old. The body was taken to the Whiteside parlors awaiting word from relatives. DR. LOVEJOY ARRIVES Democratic and Prohibitionist Nom inee Greeted by Friends at Station Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy, demo cratic and prohibitionist nominee for representative in congress from th third district, arrived in Portland last night at 7:45 from New York city where she has been completing som of her war work since early in June, A group of friends, comprising a rep resentaive company of physicians, of fleers of the democratic committee and democratic friends, welcomed her at the train. Dr. Lovejoy has been national chairman of the American Women's .Hospital association for more than a year and was needed in the east this summer to aid the association. The organization has been conducting hospitals overseas. ALL OF DEril E II TO flEGLISEl E Wrangel Charges Failure to ' Take Precautions Poles are readjusting their lines to shorten the front. Near Prussia, where bolshevik' cav alry Is endeavoring to reach the'Vls tula, the Poles- evacuated Rypin. but to the southeast near the Warsaw front Polish successes are reported. Plonsk and Nasielsk, to tha north west of Warsaw, are now held by Warsaw. - . ADVICE HELD REJECTED Warnings That Might Have Pre vented Disaster at Gates of Mos--- covj Declared Ignored. WASHINGTON. Aug. 15. (By the Associated Press.) The Russian vol unteer army of General Denikine col lapsed because of, his failure to take adequate military precautions, ac cording to charges-contained in a let ter written to Denikine by General Wrangel, now recognized by France foremost anti-bolshevik leader. A copy of the letter reached here I today and gave the first story of the break between v Wrangel and Denikine. It also threw new light on conditions in the volunteer forces ; which marched to the gates of Mos cow, only to be hurled back and scattered. It charged that Denikine failed to heed warnings that might have prevented that disaster. Written on General Wrangel's re tirement from Russia in April at Denikine's request, the latter said: Situation la Reviewed. "Having tasted power, poisoned by ambition and surrounded by dishonest hangers-on, the struggle so bril liantly started by you and so ' un worthily lost is coming to an end. Into it have been thrown hundreds of thousands of Russia's best sons, inno cent of your mistakes. "Finish the work you have com menced, and if my staying in our country hinders you, I will leave. I joined the volunteer army and placed myself under your orders, be lieving you were an honest soldier. On January 6, 1919, I proposed to you that you should move my army to help Admiral Kolchak. My pro posal was rejected. What I foretold was fulfilled. Increasing Honor Cited. "The fortune of war smiled on you. Your honor grew and with it your ambition increased. Coinciding with a series of your victories, your order. subbrdinating yourself to Admiral Kolchak would appear to prove the opposite. But ambition, intoxicated by suc cess, was not able to carry out this sacrifice. Kolchak, left to himself. started to retire east. Treacherously abandoned by us, his troops were an nihilated. "Even when the volunteers were -advancing to the heart of Russia alarm crept into the' heart of (many subordinates. Waning Power Is Watched. "An army taught to loot and drink, and the example of whose leaders demoralized the troops, could not save Russia.- "We saw how your power lessened and authority slipped through your fingers. Clinging to It in absolute blindness, you set out to search for treachery and mutiny. "Two-agents conducted a campaign against me among the Cossacks and spread reports of my intention of bringing about an upheaval with the aid of 'monarchists' and of my desire to take German orientation." POLES APPARENTLY HOPELESS Warsaw Holding Out, but Battle Increasing in Violence. PARIS, Aug. 15. Warsaw was still holding out tonight, as far as known, but the battle raging before the city is increasing in violence. From the i vague news Poles are making, a good fight, but seemingly all they can hope for is to delay the city's fall. Reds continue to advance and are less than ten miles away. Military opinion here does not vis- I ualize how any counter-offensive op- I erations are possible, except in the event of the Poles having been able to keep, or to send northward, forces capable of maneuvering on the right flank of the red column. summer outm GERM AX AIKMEX ORGANIZED Preparations- Made to Supply Mili tary Data to Reds. PARIS, Aug. 15. (By the Associat ed Press.) A German aerial service has been organized, said advices to the French foreign office, to supply Russian soviet staffs with all mili tary information concerning Polish strategic movements German pilots can perceive. Russians are also being supplied with munitions and food across the East Prussian frontier, according to reports from the French military mission in Warsaw. GERMAN FLAG AGAIN RAISED Poles Flee Soldau Soviet Declares territory Never Again Poland's. BERLIN. Aug. 45. The comman dant of the 12th Russian soviet divi sion, which Friday night entered Soldau, declared to inhabitants that this territory never again would be long to Poland, said dispatches today. The Polish burgomaster fled. The Russians appointed a. citizens' com mittee from which Poles were ex cluded. Citizens are jubilant, the dis patches say, and the German flag again is floating over the town.' French Aiding Poles. I3ERLIN, Aug. 15. Re-organization of the Polish northern front, says a special dispatch from Meseritz, Prus sia, has been undertaken ay French officers. Wm LI tMsVJiV tisV Y .fcw. r-'.iiJIll Mill Ills ,1- , 1 I . 1 I p - - SUFFRAGE FATE DOUBTFUL FIGHT IN TENNESSEE HOUSE .WILL END TUESDAY. DRY WORLD HELD DISTANT TOKIO V. C. T. U. HEAD PAYS VISIT TO SEATTLE. PASCO SCHOOLS TO OPEN Regular Work to Begin Day Fol lowing Labor Day. PASCO. Wash.. Aug. 15 (Special.) According to announcement of the school board,- the Pasco schools will open on September b. However, as that is Labor day it will be observed as a holiday and the pupils will not enter school until September 7. . By a decision of the board, the law re quiring an eighth grade certificate of students entering high school will be adhered to strictly. As many of the parents and stu dents are unfamiliar with the courses offered by the high school. Superin tendent Lillie will meet with the par ents on Friday, September S, at 2 P. M. to outline the courses. OLYMPIC GAMES STARTED (Continued From First Pagre.) represented in the lawn tennis of the seventh Olympiad, which began today, Fourteen nations have entered: Bel- glum, Denmark, Spain, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Italy, Norway, Aus tralia, France. South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland and Czecho-Slovakia. The matches are expected to con tinue until August 23. Swedes Beat St. Louis Team. STOCKHOLM, Aug. 15. The Swed ish Olympic football team defeated the All-St. Louis association football team, 5 to 2. "today. Madam Kajl Yajima, 88, Declares Generation on Generation Is Needed to Reach Goal. ' SEATTLE, Aug. 15. (Special.) "Japan must be Christianized before it can ever go dry," said Madame Kaji Yajima, president of the W. C. T. U. of Tokio, Japan, who arrived In Seat tle on her way home from London, where she attended the World's W. C. T. U. convention. Madame Yajima declared that it would be a hard task to make the world dry. She was doubtful about England and France going dry, at least not' for centuries. "There may come a day, and I pray there will," she said, "when the world will know nothing of intemperance, but it will take generation upon gen eration and centuries to work it out. until the very knowledge of drink is lost." , Madame Yajima has been president of the W. C. T. U. society of Tokio for 37 years and now, at the age of 88, she is returning. She will sail on the Katori Marti August 21, "to continue my work" and to "come to America again sometime If I am able." Opposition Leader Predicts Rejec tion, While Supporters Are Confident of Victory. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 15. Pre dictions that the Tennessee house would have disposed of the suffrage question by Tuesday night were made tonight, but whether it would ratify or reject the amendment, was uncer tain. Speaker Seth Walker, opposition leader, said tonight he was "reasoTi ably sure" of rejection. Miss Sue White, president af the Tennessee branch of the national woman's party, said the issue was undecided. Other suffrage leaders still were confident. The committee in charge of the ratification resolut'on will meet to morrow night. A report was ex pected Tuesday. Majority and mi nority reports were considered cer tain. RALEIGH, N. C, Aug. 15. North Carolina anti-suffragists have sent an emissary to suffrage opponents in the Tennessee legislature, it was learned tonight, to propose an al liance to defeat ratif'catlon of suf frage in the two states. The envoy, understood to be Rep resentative W. W. Neal. was in structed to give the Tennessee legis lators the "moral support" of house anti-suffraglsts of North Carolina and to assure them, it was stated, that suffrage could be defeated here if it can be accomplished in Ten nessee. : VicttoIalV, $25 Oak 13-YEAR-OLD BOY KILLED Companion Loading Gun at Time Accident Occurs. WALLA WALLA, W3li., Aug. 15. Melvin dinger, 13 years old, son of Jasper Olinger of Milton, Or., was accidentally shot and killed by Hans ford Brittaln. a companion, at Sail ing's camp in the Blue mountains, east of Milton, yesterday. The boys, with dinger's father and three other sons, were camping, and the two lads had gone out before breakfast, hunting. Brittain was loading his rifle when it was dis charged, the bullet striking Olinger in the heart and killing him instantly. REEDSP0RT VOTES PLANT Charter Amendment Provides for Light and Power. REEDSPORT, Aug. 15. (Special.) At a special election Saturday the Reedsport charter was amended bo as to permit the issue and disposal of 25-year general obligation bonds in an amount not to exceed $50,000. - The proceeds would . be used to construct and maintain an electric light and power plant. RICH MAN SCORNS BERTH San Francisco Eccentric Travels to New York in Day Coach. SAN FRANCISCO, ' Aug. 15. (Spe cial.) Word was received from New York that Peters Didovitch. aged and eccentric resident of San Francisco, had been taken off a train there ill and apparently penniless. At a hos pital $5000 was found scattered in his clothes. He said he was 70 years old and was en route to Serbia. . Investigation disclosed that Dido vitch was a wealthy but thrifty pa tron of the Hotel Chatham, Chatham place, San Francisco. He made a for tune mining In Alaska, but did not put his money in banks, preferring to use a safety deposit box. He was a stock holder in the Hibernian bank and dur. ing the war bought 850,000 worth of Liberty bonds. - Didovitch had been- suffering from paralysis and some one had recom mended taking the baths at Carlsbad, for which he started, traveling in a day coach. See and hear these portable styles of the Victrola today at any Victor dealer's. 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(Spe cial.) -The public service commission is expected to render decisions the coming week following hearings held in winlock on .protests tiled against increases in rates charged by the ; Body Returned to Portland. PROSSER. Wash., Aug. 15. (Spe cial.) The body of Charles A. Barn ard, ' of Portland, representative of The Wolf company of Chambersburg, Penn., who bought a ticket from Top- penlsh to Prosser and died of heart disease as train No. 3 on the Northern Pacific reached Prosser, was sent to his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Barnard Stuart of Portland, Or. Mr. Barnard was a member of the Elks lodge of Moline, 111., also of the Laurelhurst club of Portland, and of other golf organizations throughout the country, He was 55 years of age. Soviet Trade Envoys Held Vp. LONDON, Aug. 15. The Russian trade union delegation which reached Reval, Esthonla. July 20, has not been permitted to proceed to Eng land, it was learned here, because of the "international s'tuation." Pythian Picnic at VToodburn. v v w w l-j.v a.-., ii., vu. lope I cial.) Three hundred members of the Knights of Pythias held their annua picnic here today at the city park. The event was featured by airplane flights and sport events. In the base ball game between the Mount Angel and Woodburn teams the former won by the score of 16 to 11. Lunches were served by the women. S. & H. green Holman Fuel Co. -Adv. stamps for cash. Mala 853. 5S0-21. ATTACK OF REDS FAILS (Concluded on Page 3. Column 1.) ehevik line covers about 700 kilome ters, extending irm the Rumanian iroiiiier nortnwest to the Prussian border. When the bolshevikl began their offensive five weeks ago the line was approximately twice that length. The , front stretches diagonally across Poland. It is slightly bowed in the center with a buckle in the Warsaw, sector. Slight bolshevik gains were announced in the extreme north and In the south, where the Plant Moved to Springfield. ALBANY, Or., .Aug. 15. (Special.) The Aico wooa roaucts company, whose plant here was destroyed by fire recently, has purchased a plan ing mill at Springfield and will op erate the plant there for the next three or four months while a new building is being erected in Albany. Winlock Water company and North Coast Power company. Old contracts, statistical valuations and engineers' reports were admitted as evidence at the hearings, which the . commission will review before rendering its decisions- lean Sunday School union. It was ing held in this section to increase one of a series of similar events be- interest in rural Sunday school work. Washington Sunday Schools Picnic. CENTRALIA, Wash., Aug. 15. (Spe cial.) Sunday schools in the vicinity of Toledo held an all-day picnic there today under the auspices opthe Amer- mmm m m. 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Parts and repairs, instruction to owners and students, complete air plane service. Let us demonstrate how little it costs to own and operate a Curtiss Airplane or Flying Boat. Vhona Broadway 33 i 1 Uewis&Ckirk Fie1d-29th&Unnton Portland. Oraion i