The Sunday Oregonian., June 03, 1917, Section One, Page 7, Image 7

TIIE SUNDAY OREG OXI AN, PORTLAND, JUNE 3, 1917.
GERMAN AIRPLANES
- BREAK-UP EASILY
Machines Fall to Pieces Im
mediately When Aviators
Lose Control.
CLOUDS USED AS SHIELDS
I'aion for "Digging In"' Is Deni-
oiii ruled Kvcn In Air Artillery
Activity on British Front
Growing in Intensity.
C?ioin a St;ifr Correspondent of the As-s-"'iaud
Press.)
WJTIf TMK BRITISH ARMIES IN
l U.VXc'K, vi Undon, June 2. While
ov-rtTHMt. rikifs have limited the aerial
ofJi-iiMive in the las' few days British
pilots foptiiiuo to bring: in accounts of
Oermnn airplanes breaking to pieces in
the air short iy after being- attacked.
This tendency has been noticeable for
more than a fortnight. Once shot out
of the control the German planes have
lost their winfrs, tails and other Kr
to such an extent that when they final
ly crash to the ground very little
wreckage can be seen.
A day or two ago a British pilot
l:w at an enemy machine head on,
maneuvering at the last moment just
In time to avoid a collision. One of the
wings of the British plane scraped one
of the German wings, whereupon the
latter began to fall. The British pilot
dived after him and was startled to
see the German's damaged wings fly
completely off while the tail dragged
as if its back was broken.
Whether faultiness in so many Ger
man machines is due to the speed with
which the Germans have to turn them
out to meet the British offensive, or
to lack of suitable material, is a mat
ter of no concern, on this side 'of the
line.
Clouda laed a Shield.
Recent attempts by the Germans to
use floating clouds as screens for air
plane raids have led to some rather
t-pectacular sny bombardments by Brit
ish anti-aircraft guns. These guns have
occasionally driven the raiders from
cover and forced them to turn back
over their own line. German aviators
seem especially trained in the defensive
use of clouds, for during air battles.
If a bit of passing vapor is available
they invariably dive or sidestep into it
This is only another demonstration of
the German passion for digging in
such as first brought the world war to
trench fighting. The Germans dig in
on the land, in the air, and under the
sea.
The artillery activity appear- grad
ually to be growing in intensity along
most of the British front, with raids
and counter raids going on first in one
sector and then In another. These raids
are the means that the armies have of
keeping in touch with the enemy and
harassing him.
First Introduced in the British armies
by the Canadians, these raids were
taken up by the French and Germans.
The last-named were never very suc
"t the art, however, although
recently captured Germans asserted
their company commanders promised
them iron crosses and long leaves of
absence if they brought back even one
British prisoner in a raid.
Strangle Worklnir Parties Seen.
Strange working parties recently have
been seen just behind the German front
line. They labor under the eyes of
German guards with bayonets fixed.
The workers are clad in a sort of gray
uniform, but wear straw hats, derbies,
or civilian caps, such as often are giv
en to prisoners of war. It has been
reported many times lately that the
Germans are deliberately working Brit
ish prisoners in very close proximity to
the front line.
Three British soldiers who had been
given up as lost returned to their lines
yesterday after three days behind the
German outposts without food. The
trio became lost on patrol duty and
discovered they were inside the Ger
man lines. They hid in a shell hole
during the daytime and tried for three
successive nights to return to the Brit
ish lines before they finally succeeded.
Such experiences are possible now
adays with a ragged and irregular
front line for outpost positions as they
exist in the battle area east of Arras.
The fighting there is more difficult in
some ways than when the armies were
in fixed trench positions. Then each
side became accustomed to the other's
trench habits and the slightest, un
familiar move by day or night had an
easily defined significance.
East of Arras at present there are
only short stretches of trenches with
posts between them, but each shell hole
is a potential strong point and may
hold a nest of machine guns. A chain
of connected shell craters makes a
first-class trench position under the
new order of things.
YOUTH KILLED BY TRAIN
DEATH FOLLOWS AMPITATIOJT OF
LEG,
Body of Willamette Lad Brona-ht Home
By Parents After Accident
at Wee Calif.
OREGON CITT, June 2. The body of
Frank M. Bennett. Jr.. youngest son of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Bennett, of
Willamette, arrived in this city from
Yreka. California, this morning. The
funeral services will be held Sunday
afternoon, when Rev. Abbott, of Salem,
will officiate.
The lad had applied for entrance into
the Navy, but. owine to his youth, he
was rejected, ana, as his brother. Ves
tal, is in the Navy, it Is thought that
he was on his way. to see him. The
boy was riding in front of the baggage
car of a Southern Pacific train and he
was thrown under the wheels of the
car near Weed, Cal.. when his left leg
was amputated, below the knee. He
was taken to the hospital at Yreka,
Cal., and medical attention was given.
He was conscious for one and one-half
hours before he died. He informed the
nurse In the hospital the name of his
parents and their address. He also told
the nurse that the brakeman had
thrown him from the moving train soon
after the train had left Weed.
The parents were immediately ad
vised of their son's condition, and left
here on Tuesday, but a second telegram
arrived after their departure, stating
that the boy had died from his injuries.
Frank Bennett was born at Bonanza,
Oregon, January 22. 1902, and came to
Oregon City with his parents about
seven years ago. He attended the Ore
gon City schools, also the Willamette
school.
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50 RECRUITS WANTED
COMPASV OF ENGINEERS LIKELY
TO GO TO FRANCE IN MONTH.
Baker will be Mayor. Adv.
Men From IS to 43 With Kail road Ex
perience Needed to Supervise
Reconstruction Work.
Fifty recruits are wanted for the
company of engineers now being en
listed at the office in the Multnomah
Hotel for foreign service. Captain H
W. Young, head of the company, will
leave tomorrow night for American
Lake, and the company is expected to
get away on Wednesday of this week.
At American Lake it is expected
they will be in camp for a month un
dergoing training. At the close of that
period it is expected they will be sent
to France, where they will be set to work
rebuilding ruined railways in Northern
France and in carryfnsr out such other
transportation projects as may be de
sired there.
Railroad men with track experience
and bridge carpenters are wanted to
fill up the company. They should be
strong and capable, and their work, it
In expected, will be to act in the ca
pacity of foremen and command pris
oners of war who are to perform the
manual work in railroad construction.
The Portland company is to be re
cruited to a war strength of 164. En
listment in this regiment will be for
the period of the war. Recruits must
be 18 years old at least, but not more
than 45 years.
Pay ranges from $51 for first ser
geant to $30 for privates. This pay,
however, is increased 20 per cent while
the men are on foreign service.
SAM F. RICHARDSON DIES
Pioneer Prominent In Eastern Ore
gon Passes at La Grande.
LA GRANDE, Or.. June 2. (Special.)
Death today claimed one of the early
pioneers of the West when Sam F.
Richardson, well-known lumberman
and rancher, passed away.
Mr. Richardson served in the Legis
lature in 1909 and long had been a
prominent figure in this part of the
state and in Idaho as well.
GAME PAPER INTERESTING
"Oregon Sportsman" Issue Describes
Handling of Klk.
"The Oregon Sportsman." the publi
cation of the Oregon Fish and Game
Commission, is an unusually interesting
number.
Transplanting elk In Oregon la the
theme of an article that tells of the
transfer of elk from the Billy Meadows
pasture. Wallowa County, to Southern
Oregon, for propagating purposes.
Angling eXDerlences are rnnt rihiir.H K x.
W. T. Wright, of Union, and early-day
hunting on Mount Pitt Is described by
John B. Griffin.
ADMINISTRATION WITHOUT
POLITICS
q ROBERT G. DIECK, Commissioner of Public
Works, has given you a. clean, efficient administra
tion, without handshaking; or speechifying his way
to popularity.
J He has reduced expenditures 29 per cent, in spite
of a 27 per cent increase in the city's area, with an
. additional 100 miles of streets and 10 miles of sewers.
CJ Your millions of dollars of hastily constructed
public improvements have been kept in excellent
repair, at a total cost of less than 1 per cent yearly.
3 He has reduced the cost of all pavements, and
prevented indiscriminate improvement work and
confiscatory assessments.
This record of public service, during four of the
most trying years in Portland's history, could only
be made by strict attention to duty by a man of
thorough training and experience.
J Shall it be business or politics, training and ex
perience, or experimenting with untried men?
No. 27 on the Ballot
Is an Engineer of High Standing, Qualified by Ten
Years' Administrative Experience in
City Government.
Maker will he Mayor. Adv.
Phone Your Want Ads to THE OREG ON IAN
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Memnieinifl:
were.
Telephone Interchange will increase the cost of telephone service to all telephone users
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This fact is recognized in the proposed ordinance.
Companies
Must Make
Extra Charge
Section II. Every such public utility shall include in
its regular monthly charge to its subscribers an amount
sufficient to fully compensate it for the additional ex
penditures or investment required, if any, and the
additional service thus imposed upon it, and such
charges shall be published with other tariff charges, and
shall be subject to revision by the duly constituted
authorities of the city of Portland, or other duly consti
tuted authority.
The Railroad Commission of the state of California recognized this fact in rejecting telephone interchange for the
city of Los Angeles and has spoken as follows:
"That interchange would necessarily be more expensive than consolidation and hence would call for higher rates to be paid by
the people of Los Angeles and the other people living in the area here affected was frankly admitted by Mr. F. D. Howell, Chief
Engineer for the Board of Public Utilities of Los Angeles.
"We are satisfied that a system of interchange between the two existing telephone companies would not merely result in an
increase in rates to be paid by the people of the City of Los Angeles, but would also give to them a less responsible and less satis
factory service than will be the case under consolidation. For this reason, we cannot see our way clear to make any recommenda
. tion which would look to the establishment of a system of interchange as opposed to the plan of consolidation herein presented."
J. B. Middleton, manager of the Home Telephone Company of Portland, at a hearing before the Public Service Com
mission of Oregon, held in Portland in connection with the petition filed by the Public Service League for interchange of
service between the Home and Pacific systems, stated:
"As I have studied the matter, it will never give as good service as one. telephone system in the communis
"That where you have interchange in your own business you can get an action through your employes that you can't get when
two competing companies are attempting to work each other's apparatus.
"There is not a single instance in the United States of two competing companies, one operating an automatic and one operat
ing a manual, connecting together. '
TELEPHONE INTERCHANGE WILL INCREASE THE COST OF TELEPHONE SERVICE
TO ALL TELEPHONE USERS, INCLUDING THOSE WHO HAVE SERVICE WITH BOTH SYSTEMS
VOTE 1 O X NO
CPaid Adr.)
THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRA PH COMPANY
W. J. Phillips, Division Commercial Superintendent.
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