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THE SUNDAY OREGONIANY PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 9, 1917. ftMLUlPAflC n! mi n IflLIIIUM.U UUILU BIGGEST WAR BASE Tremendous Preparations Are Made to Care for Amer ican Army in France. PLANS STUN IMAGINATION , Storehouses Located to Supply Army .Anywhere on Front Within Shortest Times Roads . Built From Forts. BY LINCOLN EIRE. Copyright. 1017, by the Freu Publishing Company. Published by arrangement with the New York World.) AMERICAN FIELD HEADQUAR TERS IN FRANCE, Sept. 7. via Paris, Sept. S. In a five days' trip, during which our automobiles covered 500 miles, I have been able to sain some elight conception of .the titanic organi zation which is being built up on the lines of communication of the Ameri can expeditionary force. Today there exists only . the . barest skeleton of a structure which its architects intend will provide for every need of the great armies that will cross the Atlantic in the months to come. Many girders are not yet in place. There are still man it necessary rivets lacking in the framework. But enough lias been done already, thanks to the ewift efficiency of the builders and the energetic co-operation of their French counsellors, to permit one to visualize without difficulty the immensity of it alL Plans Stun Imagination. "What I have seen is interesting, en couraging, sometimes impressive; what I expect to see a few months hence is overwhelming. The plans which this trip reveal to me stua the Imagination. If they are carried to completion, as they will be unless their authors fall to obtain the whole-hearted support they ask of the people at home, the American lines communicating in France and that means everything pertaining to the army's requirements behind the firing line will be the most stupendous organization a world at war has ever seen. It will be an organization greater than the French, because France has an enemy In her front yard, ancj so can supply her poilus needs from hun dreds of bases within a few hours of the front; an organization greater than the British, because the British front Is separated from England only by the comparatively narrow English Channel; greater than the German, be cause of Germany's interior lines of communication. Vast Depot to Be Created. The problem General Pershing and the men helping him here and at Wash ington are working out is not confined to simply getting supplies across the ocean. - Equally difficult is the busi ness of bringing the supplies ashore quickly without dangerously congest ing the two or three IJiorts assigned to the Americans by the French gov ernment, blocking railroads or strain ing the capacities of quartermasters' bases in the interior of the country.. , The first of these perils must ' be met by enlarging the pier and ware house accommodations at the ports; the second, by laying down literally thousands of miles of special roadbed; the third, by creating depots in every available spot on so vast a scale that they can never become overcrowded. From the American front all roads must necessarily lead to the harbors to which come the trans-Atlantic trans ports. The lines must be as direct as possible in order to avoid long railroad hauling. This implies the maximum of concentration. On the other hand, over concentration, too, must be shunned. Many Store Required. There is no town or city in France big enough comfortably to hold all the supplies that will be required to feed and munition 1,000,000 men. Therefore field bakeries must be in one place, ration reserves in another, medical etores in a third and ammunition in many others. All these places, how ever, must be in or close to the belt stretching from the sea to the firing line, a good many hundred miles away. .. The problem of finding bases grows harder the nearer one gets to the front, for the best locations naturally have long since been - pre-empted by the French Army. Nevertheless, the Gen eral Staff, in perfect harmony with the French, weeks ago found a. suffi cient number of towns well suited by reason of their position and railroad facilities to house all the innumerable services behind the lines. Persning'a Headquarters Busy. The first town we visited on the tour Just ended was one which will become memorable in American history as the headquarters of the Commander-in- Chief of the first American troops to fight on European soil. The comfortable mansion in which it is likely General Pershing will live for many months, perhaps years, was shown to us, us well as the great buildings set at the disposal of his staff. For obvious rea sons detailed descriptions of these structures are barred. There is little to be eaid about them in any event. They do not differ radically from sim ilar buildings in towns of 20,000 or 30. 000 population at home, save that there is less plumbing and better archi tecture. At present they are being riddled with apertures through which hun dreds of telegraph and telephone wires will be strung in the next few days. Many hours distant from the "Ameri can Great General Headquarters" we spent a night in the city which houses the army bakeries and meat refrig erators. Every day long trains go out from this place carrying thousands upon thousands of pounds of bread and meat to the. training camps, and every day equally long trains roll in with fresh provisions from a maritime base. The bread served to the soldiers is three days old, but baked from white flour ' the only pure white bread baked today in any belligerent country in Europe. The reason it is white is that no other kind of flour is being milled in the United States. Giant Storehouses Go In. Another 150-mile jaunt brought us to the Quartermaster's Department base, where giant warehouses, turned over to us by the French, are packed with mountains of potatoes, canned goods, tobacco, clothing, boots and everything else the mind of man has ever figured might be needed by American soldiers. It was pleasant to see French soldiers and working girls helping the men of the Quartermaster's Corps in the tre mendous task of sorting and arranging huge piles of supplies, but I found the American officers eager for the day, doubtless in the near future, when the need to call on the French for such aid will have ceased. ."Of course, the French are delighted to work with us and we .with .theni," an officer remarked, "These girls would be out of a Job if it was not for this, because the French army establish ment in which they had been employed moved away so as to give us these storehouses. The girls get better pay, too, though they have to wprk harder for it. But the point Is, labor is mighty scarce in this country," and we don't wan to ask France for anything she needs for herself. That is why we all like to keep as close as possible to the policy of doing everything fo.- our selves making this an all-American Army in every branch." Base Chosen With Care. 1 learned that the Quartermaster's base was chosen with the greatest care in order to assure the most valuable location from the point of view of swift, adequate transportation and commodious storage accommodations. Already, however, new warehouses and railroad spurs are under construction for the town of Is overflowing with products destined to keep the American soldiers comfortable. "We have to plan to feed an Army of 1,000,000 men or more on any part or a line from Flanders to Switzerland, a Quartermaster officer told me. bo . they are sure of three square meals a day wherever they may go? 1 asked. "You bet they are." was the reply. "Moreover, they get now and will keep on getting the best grub ever drawn by soldiers since the days of Caesar and a long time before." At yet another place we discovered the medical base. Scattered about few acres of ground, in newly built sheds, there is everything required for the treatment of the wounded from a fighting army of several hundred thou sand men. including such luxuries as baths and irm chairs. It looks as though every American "casualty" will have a private, bath and an individual arm chair or rocking chair for many months to come. He can also have sev eral sets of crutches if he needs them. Medical Base Most Interesting. The medical base, where also French soldiers are helping out an insufficient force of American officers and men, will provide all the reserve supplies for every hospital unit attached to the expeditionary force as well as for the regimental medical services. These units arrive in France fully equipped in every particular. Nevertheless, some of them have already begun to apply for fresh stocks of medicines, anaes thctlcs and hospital furnishings. Of all the departments in the lines of communication, the medical base is the most suggestive of the grim pur pose underlying the whole huge ma chine. Here are the new type gas masks, which, unless the War Depart ment finds something better, will re place the French masks recently served out to the troops. Here, too, are piles of stretchers and ghastly looking appli ances for supporting the limbs of the wounded. And here are the coffins. POSTAGE BAN PLANNED GOVERNMENT MAY CLOSE MAILS TO ALL DISLOYAL PERSONS. ENGLAND TO STAND BY WILSON'S NOTE Further Reply to Pope's Peace Proposal May Not Be Necessary. Correspondence of All Sorts as Well as Printed Matter to Be Barred. I. W. W. Cause of Inquiry. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. Closing the mails to disloyal citizens is under con sideration by the Postoffice Depart ment and. the Department of Justice as another step in the Government's cam paign to wipe out disloyalty and sedi tion. ' The subject was discussed today by William H. Lamar, solicitor of the Post office Department, and William C. Fitts, Assistant Attorney-General, under whose direction the Nation-wide seizure of Industrial Workers of the World papers was made last Wednes day. The;two officials will hold further conference, before a decision finally Is reached. Attorney-General Gregory also has conferred with postoffice au thorities "on "the contemplated step. Should it be decided to close the mails to disloyal citizens and others suspected of disloyalty, the action would not be confined to passage of printed matter through the mails, but would include correspondence of all sorts. Activity on other phases of the cam paign to suppress anti-war movements continued today unabated. Investiga tion of the mass of documents taken by Government agents in raids upon Industrial Workers of the World offices has resulted, it was said, in many in teresting disclosures for presentation to Federal grand juries. HOUSE NAMES PROBERS BROAD POWERS GIVEN IN AMMUNI TION INVESTIGATION.' Hearing; Into Sending of Defective Sup plies, to American Troops May Begin This Week. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. Armed with broad power for investigating the am munition situation. Including the Bend ing of defective cartridges to American troops in France, a House committee will begin hearings probably next week. The committee was named today by Speaker Clark, following unanimous adoption of a resolution for its creation Introduced by Chairman Dent, of the military committee. Five Democratic and four Republican members of . the military committee were appointed. They are Representa tives Dent (Alabama), chairman; Fields, Kentucky: Quinn. Mississippi; Gordon, Ohio, and Shallenberger, Ne braska, Democrats, and Anthony, Kan sas; McKenzle, Illinois; Greene, Ver mont, and Morin, Pennsylvania, Repub licans. Secretary Baker already has named a board of two civilians and one Army officer to investigate the defective am munition turned out by the Frankford arsenal. PANIC FEARED IN VIENNA GOVERNMENT NOT TO PERMIT STOCK EXCHANGE TO OPEN. Be Official Attitude Is Declared to Uninfluenced by Effect Extend ing to Berlin. BERLIN, Sept. 7, via London. Sept. 8. A Vienna dispatch quotes the Aus trian Finance Minister as saying that the Vienna stock exchange will not re open until the present unsettled eco-, nomic conditions have abated. In the present circumstances. It is said, reopening of the exchange would be bound to bring on panicky mar kets. The official attitude in this re spect in said to be uninfluenced by the effect which may extend to opening of the Berlin bourse. Last June the German Society of Bourse Interests petntioned the Prus sian Minister of Commerce to re-establish official quotations on the Berlin bourse, but there has been no recent in timation that the bourse might be re- openeu. . irunsiicuuiu. flav beeu on GERMAN CITIES PROTEST President of United States la De clared to Have Insulted German Feople Gravely and Shame fully In Ills Reply. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. Great Brit ain has advised the United States that President Wilson's reply to Pope Bene diet's peace proposals Is In effect Great Britain's reply, as was Indicated recent ly in a statement by Lord Cecil. COPENHAGEN, Sept. 8. The Cham ber of Commerce of Elbing is the latest commercial organization to join those of Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg and Lu beck in protests against peace without annexations and the note of President Wilson. The municipal authorities of Halle have issued a naming protest against Mr. Wilson, declaring that he Insulted the German people gravely and shame fully in his reply to the Pope. Only a few newspapers thus far have printed the reports from Wash ington stating that the American note did not necessarily mean that the elimination of the Hohenzollerns was regarded as essential to peace. BERLIN, via London, Sept. 7. (De layed.) The semi-official North Ger man Gazette today devotes a full page to a parallel reproduction of the origi nal and German texts of President Wilson's reply to the Pope's peace note, and also to the publication of a com parlson between the German text and a distorted French version which the newspaper says was circulated outside or uermany by the French news agency. German newspaper readers have been favored with no less than five different renderings of the President's note. They vary but slightly in phraseology, and generally agree textually in the reproduction of the President's stric tures upon the German government, which the press of the central empires hae made the outstanding feature of the note. In the discussions of the President's reply, Phillip Scheldemann. the Social Democratic leader, and Mathias Erz berger, leader of the Catholic Center party, are counselling calmer judgment and urging that the perplexing work of bringing about peace should not be handicapped by a wave of indignation which threatens to drown out sane dis cussion of the note. These two leaders are pleading for an unbiased perusal of the essential features of President Wilson's programme. Peeling over the supposed intention of President Wilson to insist upon the dislodgement of the Hohenzollern dy nasty continues to agitate the press and non-political circles. Rations for 150 Provided One Lone Negro. Officer Receives Impression Sol dier Is Advance Guard and Issues Orders Accordingly. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 8. Al though it had been intended to bring no negroes to the cantonment for the present, Lambert Hayes, of Magee, Miss., arrived at Camp Pike yesterday. The officer who received him got the mpression that Hayes was the ad vance guard of a large delegation of negroes and telephoned hurry-up or ders to the cantonment. As a result when Hayes arrived at the cantonment barrack building intended for 150 men was in readiness and rations for 150 had been prepared for him. Tm hungry. I ain t had nothing to eat for two days, but Z can't eat 1 that stuff," said Hayes when he saw the rations. Last night Hayes was In solitary grandeur in the big barracks building with his 150 rations and four soldiers standing guard over him. He appears to enjoy the situation immensely. The Store of c Million Friends BOOTLEGGER IS CONVICTED Marshfield Citizen May Have to Face Federal Prosecution. MARSHFIELD, Or.. Sept 8. (Spe cial.) D. L. Foote," convicted today in Recorder Butler's court of selling liquor, will be sentenced Monday. The evidence against Mr. Foote was se cured by Night Officer L. T. Matthews, who saw the liquor sold to Edmund Smallwood, a Southern Pacific brake- man. The Sheriff and police have sus pected Foote " of selling illegally for two years. Jack Little, deputy from the United States internal revenue office at Port land, was present at -the trial. Dis trict Attorney John F. Hal. has de clared his intention of prosecuting for ihe et&te all liquor offenders convicted in the municipal courts. the open market. COLLEGE ADDS BRANCHES Washington State Faculty Will Train Stenographers. WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE, Pullman. Sept. 8. (Special.) Govern ment announcements recently received by Principal F. O. Kreager, of the State College, department of elementary science, are that on account of the war, many male stenographers are being re placed by women. Principal kreager is asked to urge persons of known qualifications for work of this kind to respond, as a patriotic duty, by taking civil service examinations. Recent faculty action on this .matter. grants full college credit for the year's intensive training in stenography and supplementary branches now being planned to help meet the Government need for services of this kind. ARTILLERY FORTS USED 1500 Men to Get Special Training tor Coast Defense Work. T A COMA. Wash.. Sept. 8. (Special.) Fifteen hundred members of the Na tional Army who will report at Camp Lewis will be trained at Coast Artillery forts on Puget Sound to take the places of an equal number of regulars and Washington National Guardsmen who will be converted into artillery. This change became known when It was announced that 48 former non commissioned officers in the regular I Coast Artillery forces have been pro- 9x12 A StF USTS "Sumptuous as the palace of any King" that's how your home will be with rugs like these. 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Eleven other men were Injured, two of whom are not ex pected to live. Privates Peter Dyl. of Malby, Pa., and Roy Davis, of Converse. S. C, prob ably will succumb to internal Injuries. Lawrence was killed when the wheels of a heavily loaded artillery caisson passed over his body. AUTOIST RUSH EXPECTED Columbia Highway In Hood River Will Be Closed After Today. HOOD RIVER. Or.. Sept. 8. (Spe cial.) Since the County Court has an nounced that the Columbia River Higrh way will be closed Monday for an in definite time, so contractors may rush work of gradlns stretches of the road over new surveys, local garagres are expecting one of the heaviest traffics over the route for any day of the Sum mer tomorrow. Many Portland motorists. It is said, have- not taken the trip up the river the past two months because of the obscuring bank of smoke from forest fires. 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