THE SUNDAY OREGONIANY PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 9, 1917.
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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-
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:2 Blocks North of Wtishington1.
moted to commissions In the Officers'
Reserve Corps and they are now said
to be on waitlns; orders at Fort Wor
den. The scarcity of both light and heavy
field artiUery and the need of them
in Europe is said by Army officers
to be the cause of the change.
STAMPEDE KILLS SOLDIER
Heavy Caisson Dragged Over Man
by Frightened Horses.
FORT BILL, Okla., Sept. 8. Private
Joseph Lawrence, of Cincinnati, a mem
ber of K Battery, Eighth Kield Artil
lery, was killed here today when 60
horses, frightened at the heavy gun
fire, stampeded. 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. The general rains of last nlgrht
have cleared the smoke away and, with
dust laid, the roads will be more ap
pealing than at any time since Spring.
Monday thern was an attendance of
more than 400. The high school hail
95 as compared with 62 last year. Th
schools started off in fine shape with
prospects favorable for a successful
term.
Elina Schools Atendanco Large.
ELMA, Wash., Sept. 8. (Special.) Japan is Raining ground on England
When the Elma schools opened on in the manufacture and sale of toys.
FEVER AND COLD SORES
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hours of its appearance. I want you
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others. I also tried Santiseptic on a
cold sore which had bothered a trained
nurse for some time. It was instantly
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to find a cure until a friend advised
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If you are troubled with a fever or
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poison oak and Ivy. and is valued as a
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only 50 cents. If your, druggist hasn't
It, send direct to the manufacturers.
Large sized introductory bottle, post
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Esbencott Laboratories, Portland, Or.
Adv. ,
Removal Notice
We are pleased to announce that on September 10
we shall remove our offices to our new store at the
corner of Morrison and Front Streets.
The warehouse at Twelfth and Davis Streets will
be in charge of our Superintendent, who will gladly
serve nearby patrons.
We cordially invite our friends and patrons to visit
us in our new quarters and feel sure the change we
are making will enable us to still further improve
our service.
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