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.
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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.
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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. :
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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.
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Water Hate Rise Verdict Awaited.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Aug.-15. (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
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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-
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