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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1917)
17 field m wanted tary of the Oregon Irrigation Congress, is at the Imperial. H. O. Miller and family, of Spokane, are at the Carlton. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Lee, of Seaelda, are at the Cornelius. vjpence Wortman, of Salem, is reg istered at the Seward. J. L. Lawton, of Hoqutarn, Is regis tered at the Oregon. M. H. Reeves, of Spokane, 19 regis tered at the Oregon. K. W. Allen and family, of Hermis ton, are at the Seward. Mr. and Mrs. Lauren Gale, of Grants Pase, are at the Imperial. PLAY Ambulance Service Sending . J00 Workers a Week. GAME NOT FOR SLACKERS Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Thompson, of Astoria, are at the Carlton. Mrs. C A. Brobuck, of Santa Rosa, Cal., is at the Washington. F. E. Booneman and family, of La Grande, are at, the Carlton. Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Hardin, of Salem, are registered at the Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Scott, of Salem, are registered at the Perkins. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hitches, of Tacoma, Yolunteers to Drive Transport M ugoiis Are Early - on Battle fronts Enlistments for Seven. Months Asked. are registered at the Carlton. They THE SUXDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND," SEPTEMBER 2, 1917. NOW ens With the arrival of John Honey ready for field ambulance work on the west ern front, -with the trip planned by Alan Green, hosband of the former Helen Ladd, for the same destination In the Eime line of work, comes a call from the American Field Ambulance Service for men not of the draft age, according to the announcement of Wells Gilbert. Northwestern represent ative of the service organisation. Mr. Gilbert yesterday gave out extracts from letters of" Lieutenant George R. Young, of the Bervice, in answer to re cent criticisms of alleged 6 lackers. They follow: Ambulance Men In Thick of Fight. The very fact that men are receiving- cita tions from the French government dally, thai the French officers cannot be generous enough in their trust, would make it seem rather ludicrous for anyone to imagine that the boys are slackers. On the other hand, "they represent the. true type of American "who wish to iro loto the fray at the earliest moment and take the shortest route. One might be Interested to know that In the past two weeks 30 of oar men have teen killed and more than a score wounded. This sounds like a slackers' games, doesn't It? I presume these bits of adverse criticism re no more than are to be expected, but when an organization becomes really a very big thing and embraces OOu men-, there is bound to.be much more criticism than when the organization contains only 400 to 000 men. Just a word In regard to the transport service: Wn now have more tian 10O0 men driving munition trucks In France. There isn't a single man who Is dissatisfied with his work or who does not believe he is hold ing a vlial position with the French army. The Importance of a transport service is obvious to anyone. Those who do not know what the transport service involves - ara hound to think It is work which should be rsrried tm by day laborers or men taken from the street-cleaning department. Such, however, I am glad to say, is absolutely not the case. The werk is one which requires brains. Intelligence snd physique. We now have three large training camps In France, and are still sending men at the rate of loo a week. Older Men Are Taken, We are working now more for men over draft age. The service, as you know, pre sents an opportunity to get into active work Immediately. I realize the draft quota has cut seriously into available men, but strange and fortunately the movement Is gaining prominence among older men. We can now take a man over draft age who has a busi ness of his own and who is willing to sac rifice seven months of his time. (It will take about seven months for six months' service, counting the time for traveling.) These men must understand, however, that when the United States Government takes ever out service, they must be asked either to enlist for the duration of the war or re turn home. The. militarization of the ambulance serv ice has already started, and plans are under way for the militarisation of the transport service.- Several commissions already have been granted to me in the ambulance serv ice. The Portland committee of the serv ice includes James F. Ewing, chairman. First Presbyterian Church house: W. JT. Warrens, Dr. Ralph Matson and C. Henri Labbe. Mr. Gllbert'announced that Maurice Dooley would join the service at an early date. PERSONALMENTION. C. D. Daly, of Eureka, is at the Port land. R. Malory, of Fresno, is at the Wash ington. H. ir. Hum, of Seattle, is at the Im perial. Dr. K. C. Gipe, of Albany, is at the Ecward. Harold Hayes, of Eugene, Is at the Perkins. William K. Perry, of Gaston, is at the Perkins. Mrs. M. A. Boyd,, of Eugene, is at the 1 ortland. A. "W. McCoy, of The Dalles. Is at the Oregon. L. . c. Laursen, of Tacoma, ia at the Nortonia. R. F. Cole, of Hoquiam, Is registered t the Oregon. A. .T. Bosworth, of Medford, is at the Multnomah. II. G. KIopp and son, of Spokane, are et. the Portland. M. S. Wiess, of Condon, Is registered at the Multnomah. Fred W. Wallace, of Tumalo, secre- LA GRANDE HOSPITAL UNIT OFF FOR WAR SERVICE . IN FRANCE Contingent Entrains at Clackamas Station for Trip East Rumors of AH Kinds Are Rife at Camp of Third Oregon, but Few Are Substantiated. BY WILL G. MAC RAE. WITH THE THIRD REGIMENT OREGON INFANTRT. Sept. I. (Special.) Escorted by the Thjrd Regiment band, the La Grande Hospital unit, to be known in history as part of the 42d Rainbow" division, entrained at Clackamas station this morning and started on the first leg of Its Journey to France. Major M. P. Graham is in command. The men and officers of the unit were to get half an hour to visit the home folks as the train passed through La Grande. Yes terday Major Edwards paid them. It was with considerable envy the members of the other units in camp saw the hospital men leave camp. They knew that the hospital unit from La Grande would reach France before tbey did, and while the remaining Oregon soldiers are not bloodthirsty, they know there is a Job for them to do and therefore wish to be up and doing. The camp this week has been a hot bed of rumor. One cheerful concoctor of rumors had It that the Government bad decided to make Winter quarters of the camp and that the building of a cantonment was to be started right away. Another had it. and bets are being- made, that the Third would get orders to move within ten days. Two things are sure: There were only eight men to answer sick call this morning, which Is Saturday and going-home day, and next Wednesday Major Arthur Ed wards, the paymaster at Vancouver Barracks, will pay the men of the Beaver regiment. The Third Regiment now has its com plement of doctors. The regiment is entitled to four and the arrival of Lieutenant Howard E. Carrutb, of Yamhill, completes the number. Now the regimental hospital staff Is Major M. B. Marcellus, Captain Stewart, Cap tain Birney, Lieutenant Kettle and Lieutenant Carruth. The regimental Ulf IVERS1TY GRADUATE PASSES HIGHEST IN EX-AMl.VATIOS. V . r 4 MIms Jevrcl M. Tozler. Miss Jewel M. Tozler, a grad uate of the University of Oregon, passed highest in a municipal civil service examination held August 21 for positions as senior gymnasium and playground di rectors. She received a rating of 93.6 per cent cut of a possible 100. Thirteen women took the test and all passed. Civil Service Commissioners say the examina tion was-one of the hardest ever given by the city. Miss Tozler took a four years' course in phys ical education in the university and during 1916 and 1917 super vised physical education lu the La Grande public schools. Sho has been employed for two Sum mers In the Portland play grounds, having been assigned to North Park playground this Sum mer. are visiting hie mother, Mrs. Julia Hughes. Mr. and Mrs. Wiiford, of Salem, are registered at the Multnomah. Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Leider, of "Walla Walla, are at the Washington. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Foster, of Dallas, are registered at the Cornelius. J u dare and Mrs. It. H. Belt, of Dallas, are registered at the Cornelius. Mrs. IT. G. Shuham. of Waitsburg, and children are at the Seward. Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Eastwood, of Lewiston,r are at the Multnomah. Mr. and lire. Montague Sidney, of Hood Kiver, are at the Nortonia, Mr. and Mrs. ,C. W. Griffith, of San Francisco, are at the Washington. Earl Pulliara and Merlin Schneider, or Clatskame, are at the Perkins. Judge William T. Daren and family. oi lioldendale, are at the Nortonia. Captain and Mrs. C. W. Kchube, of San Francisco, are at the Cornelius. Mrs. Sarah end Mrs. Mary Mitchell, of me JJalles. Or., are at the Nortonia. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Clousin, of Spo kane, are registered at the Portland. Kelso Mill Xvcudy to Operate. . KELSO, Wash.. Sept. 1. (Special.) Clark & Robb have their mill on the West Side, the old Clark Lumber Company mill, ready for operation and the first log that has been unwed in the plant in several years was cut up s cmr i uajr to test me machinery. Re pairs have been in progress -for the past few months and everything is now in shape for operation. William Clark, one of the owners, is in Portland this week arid following his return to Kelso announcement of the plans for operating the plant probably will be made. The mill has a capacity of 40,000 feet of lumber in ten hours and will employ about 25 men. X !s Lleute"ant Richmond Wells, and the dentist for the squadron Is Lieutenant L. G. McAloney. The Third v. led second dentist, but whether one will be appointed, before the regiment is ordered East is not yet determined. The motor ambiilanfa r .. x. rm.t.j Oregon, costine- I3a7 ..... i for. and. according to reports. It is on 1 " """n' The Army and Auxiliary announ-.. h. -n r the money has been collected and in ... Dl lne ambulance fund com mittee. When It Is rememk.r.j .-,. not a person of wealth contributed to the ambulance fund, it can be readily seen how hard and faithfully the wom en mo auxiliary nave worked for this cause. Contributions to the am bulance fund were from th mnt,. fathers, wives and friends of the men In the Third. Now the loval womon who are behind the movement ,- going to see that a fund is raised mat wm ob cauea. a maintenance fund. Major Marcellus and the rest of hU hospital staff have) never been able to solve the slim attendance at Sat urday sick call. Beginning with Mon day, sick call at the regimental hos pital tent resembles pay day. Some times as many as 10 or mora respond to sick call from a single comnanv. From Monday until Friday sick call nas a run muster. Saturday, the day for going home, the number of sick are lew. e Corporal Franklin S. Grovenor, Com pany K. has been made a sergeant. ana tTivate raui c. Stevens a cor porai. Private David S. Cook, Ralph H. Fegley, C. McBrlde, D. F. Holden and James A. Strange, Company iv, were made corporals. Corporal Richard O. Hansen, Com pany K, was made a sergeant, and Private Jacob Fuhrer a corporal. Corporal Albert A. Lamb and Private John P. Fleming. Company I, have been made sergeants. Privates Bruce t'. Sims, Harold, p. 3 Riches, M. J. Mahoney, D. R. Brani gar. Company I, have been made cor porals. Corporals Hans Wyttenburg and Arthur R. Thompson, Company D, were made sergeants. Privates K. A. Hastings, John Alex ander. Victor L. White. Jens Jensen and K. ,A. Weston, Company D, were made corporals. Troop L, from Pendleton, has been invited to Pendleton for the Round up. It is hardly possible that the cowboy soldiers-will get a chance to ride In another round-up. Time for going away is drawing too tear. The big bass drum which the War Department has issued to the Third Oregon band has the state shield painted on It. The painting as done free of charge by Foster & Kleiser. TWO JURIES TO HEAR CASES Condemnation Suits for American Lake Acreage Start Sept. 2 4. TACOMA. Wash.. Sept. 1. SpeciaI.) Two juries sitting concurrently in condemnation suits to' bring land Into the military reservation at American Lake probably will be the method to be pursued .when- the case -is -called In the Superior Court here on September 24. The reservation embraces 76,000 acres, but 35,000 are represented In the condemnation suits. It is planned to have one jury hearing evidence while another is out looking over the land and in this way delay will be elim inated. The last half of the $2,000,000 worth of bonds voted by Pierce County to buy the land for Goernment use has been sold. The highest bid was given jointly by the National City Company, of New York, the Equitable Trust Company. E. H. Rollins, Chicago, and John E. Price & Co., Seattle. The Joint bid was at 6 per cent interest and $6070 premium. Tha Lumbermen's Trust Company. Portland, represented by Carl Kelty. bid for 6 per cent bonds and $8663 discount. Representative McArtltur to Speak. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Sept. 1. Representative McAr thur will speak at Seneca Falls. N. Y.. September 3 at a celebration in honor of the draft army. Announcing the New PACKARD A more beautiful car -fuselage lines, the latest style in carriage design, coupled with the achieve ments of the epoch making Twin-Six We now put before you the last word in motor carriages 3-25 128-inch wheelbase $3625.00 - 35 -136-inch wheelbase Fully PORTLAND MOTOR CAR CO. Burnside at Tenth Phone Broadway 521 FIELD HOSPITAL COMPANY B HAS REPUTATION FOR LEARNING Members of Crack Portland Unit Rapidly Being Turned Into Doctors' Helpers. . x- AMP LEWIS, American Lake, I I . Wash.. Kept. 1. (Special.) Going V into the eighth week of Intensive training at thi camp, the Field Hob pltal Company B. First Lieutenant John Guy CStrohm in command, has gained quite a reputation for speed in learning. During the past seven weeks classes have been he.ld daily and at these meet ings the members of the crack Port land unit have been instructed in the methods' of handling and caring for wounded men. It has been necessary to learn or he come familiar with every bone, muscle, artery and vein In the human body. Several timoa the Instructors have brought' a human heart or brain to class to be examined by the members of the unit. Work of instructing the boys has fallen on the heads of First Lieutenants John Guy Strohm, Frank R. Mount. Max R. Charlton. Hamblen Anderson and Splro Sargentlch. Since his arrival two weeks ago. Captain Herbert Green has lectured. Tent pitching and striking, building incinerators and general camp sanita tion have been "worked to death" in preparing the members for future work around. Camp Lewis and elsewhere. Another "shot" in the left arm was given to the boys yesterday afternoon, and this time it was a para-typhotd injection. Two more para-typhoid vac cines will be necessary before the com pany will be declared fit for actual assistance in the field and still be free from being made ill. They will be given at 10-day intervals, according to present plans. First Lieutenant Spiro Sargentich haw been ordered to Company E, 117th Regiment, U. S. - A. Engineers. The unit will leave for. "somewhere" very shortly. Company, K Xurmerly. .was equipped at Portland T l Company B, California Engineers, but the change was announced' ten days ago. -The .company is a member of the "Rainbow Division." Private Charles Graham, of the Pro visional Field Ambulance Company B. which arrived from 1 'ortland last Mon day, visited with Privates Dr. Alfred Schilt, Dr. Laurence A. Rosenthal and Earl R. Goodwin, of the Field Hospital Company B. All were classmates In the June '13 class of the Lincoln High School. Signing the payroll was one of the attractions yesterday at the Field Hos pital camp. The boys expect to have their second pay day early nest week. The Masonie Ambulance Company. which arrived from San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. has moved into barracks on the cantonment. Every one of the 119 membens of the company are members of the Masonic lodge. From now on entertainments will he held at least three times a week at the camp Young Men's Christian Associa tion. The Y. M. C. A. expects to go into a permanent building very shortly. First Lieutenant Everett May visited the Field Hospital Thursday. He was graduate manager of athletics at Ore gon Agricultural College until his ad vent into "the war game." Second Lieutenant Leon Behrman was a visitor at the Field Hospital, as was -Second Ueutenant Lindenberg and Miss Anita Lewis, of Tacoma. Privates C. C. Callahan. John Sturm. Esker Raymond Mitchell and Leslie Wade Hartley were guests of the Clo verleaf Masonic .Lodge, of South Ta coma, Wednesday night. The occa sion was open huuee to all members of $4025.00 the order who are wearing the olive drab. Miss Alma Ehemanskl, Mrs. Herman Jacobs and Miss Rosenblume visited the Field Hospital last week as the guests of Privates James M. Vraniean and Dr. Laurence A. Rosenthal. Miss Shemanski Is visiting Mrs. Jacobs in Tacoma, but she will return to her homo in Portland next week. There are two sets of brothers In the Field Hospital Company B. Fred H. and William Harrison iStipe Is one set." while James M. Vranisan and Dom inic Vranlzan is the other set. Private Carl Freilinger, of Company C. Oregon Engineers, expects to keep in condition In hopes of obtaining matches this Winter. Freilinger was one of the best 145-pound wrestlers ever turned out by Instructor Eddie O'Connell, of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club. Private Ralph Henderson, formerly of Company C. Oregon Engineers, but now of Company E. 117th Regiment U. S. A. Engineers, paid his last visit to the Field Hospital Company B yes terday. Henderson was employed by The Oregonian before his enlistment. Privates Dr. Alfred Schilt. George Simons. Leonard Kaufman, James M. and Dominic Vranlzan - and Earl R. Goodwin, accompanied by Second Lien tenant Leon Behrman and Joseph Gor man, Hurley-Mason Company's sani tary Inspector for the cantonment, at tended the regular meeting of Tacoma Lodge of Elks, No. 171, last Wednesday night. Abe Kemp, tormerly sporting editor of the Spokesman-Review, of Spokane, Wash, - is with the Quartermasters' corps here. Dr. Leslie Clongh and A. D. Stone, editor of the U. S. Army Weekly, of Tacoma, were out to Camp Lewis Thursday. Dr. Clough was physical director of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, bnt now is Northwest representative of a Portland firm. Albany Milk Now- 1 Cents Quart, ALBANY, Or.. Sept. 1. (Special.) A schedule of Increased prices for milk went Into effect today by an agree ment of Albany milk dealers. The price for a quart is now 10 cents and for a pint 6 cents. Orasokerlte is a natural mineral wax, found originally oozing in small quan tities fr m rocks of the coal formation. It has been discovered In Moldavia and Galicia. and is used chiefly in can o making. "Get's-It," 2 Drops, Corns Peel Off! For 25 Cents Peel Off 25 Corns. "Gets-It," the greatest corn discovery of any ace, makes joy-walkers out of corn-limpers. It makes you feel like the Statue of Liberty. Buy a "liberty" bottle of "Gets-It" rightf now free "It Will Ci yourself at once from all corn misery. It will peel off painlessly. In one com plete piece, any corn, old or younp, hard or soft, or between the toes, any callus, or any corn that has resisted everything else you have ever used. Off it comes like magic Guaranteed. All you need Is two or three drops of "Gets-lt." that'M all. "ieta-lt" Is the only safe way In the world to treat a corn or callus. It's the sure way the way that never fails. It in tried and. true used by milUoua. Never Irritates the flesh or makes the toe sore. It always works; peels-the-corns-of f-likc-a-banana-skin. 25c a bottle is all you need pay for "Gets-It" at any drug store, or sent on receipt of price by E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago, 111. Sold in Portland and recommended as the world's best eorn remedy by The Owl Drug Co. Adv. we Off Ik Ob Complete Piece!'