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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, DECE3IBER 2. 1917.
CAPTAIN
TELLS OF
SEEADLER'S CRUISE
Captured by British, Craft Was
Later Taken by Germans
and Sent to Bremen
MEN PUT ABOARD RAIDER
After . Seeadler Was Abandoned
Masts Were Destroyed In Order
That Passing Vessels Might
Not Sight Them.
Washington. Nov. 20. The full
Btory of the cruise of the German com
merce raider Seeadler has been ob
tained by the Navy Department from
Captain Haldor Smith, of the American
schooner R. C. Slade, and three, other
mariners, who landed at Tutuila in an
open boat September 29 after being
marooned on Mopeha Island by ' the
master of the Seeadler when the raider
grounded and was abandoned.
The Seeadler, formerly the American
nhip Pass of Balmaha, belonged to the
Boston Lumber Company and was in
the Nova Scotia trade before the war.
After the war broke out she was cap
tured by the British and a prize officer
'was put aboard her with instructions
to take her to Kirkwall, Scotland. On
the way she was captured by a German
submarine and sent to Bremen and fit
ted out as a raider. A picked crew was
placed aboard, some of whom spoke
Norwegian, and sent out into the Atlan
tic under the guise of a Norwegian
ship.
The ruse worked so well that after
leaving Bremen on December 21, 1916,
the Seeadler was held up by the Brit
ish auxiliary cruiser Highland Scot, ex
amined and passed. Sailors' identifica
tion books Issued by the Norwegian
government were furnished the men,
although they probably were taken
from captured Norwegian vessels and
piven to the men who- seemed to fit
the descriptions given. These, together
with pictures of Norwegian kings and
Queens, ' gave the ship the appearance 1
of a Norwegian.
Captain Smith learned that, while
cruising in the Atlantic, 13 ships, val
ued by the Germans at 60,000,000 marks,
were captured, and four on the Pacific,
the R. C. Slade, the American schooner
A. B. Johnson, the American schooner
Manila and the French schooner Lutece.
Relating the story of the capture of
bis ship, the Slade, Captain Smith said:
"I left Sydney on April 24. 1917, and
proceeded without any incident until
the evening of June 17, when I was in
latitude about 2 north and longitude 150
west. On the evening of June 17, about
5 o'clock, the second mate reported to
me that a ship was firing on us. I
went on deck and looked aft, and In
stantly, as I came on deck, they fired
again, and I saw the shell fall short
about two miles. She was about eight
miles off. There was a heavy squall
starting to eastward wind favorable
to this time and I thought it possible
to get away, and kept holding on. But
she kept firing on me at intervals of
about five to 10 minutes and was com
ing upon me fast.
"The ninth shot fired, about 6 o'clock,
struck very close, passing the poop and
splashing water on the ship. Then I
concluded that there wasn't any use,
and I lowered down spanker, clewed
down topsail, hoisted American flag
and hove to. About 7 o'clock the raider
was up alongside and asked what ship.
I told him what it was and he told me
to lower down sails and stand by. and
lie would send an officer aboard me.
Shortly after the prize officer came
aboard, and a doctor and about 10 men.
The officers were in uniform. They
told me to leave the ship and to go on
board the raider and they would give
me time in the morning to pack my
clothes.
"They took all our men aboard the
raider except the cook. Next morning
I went back on board with all my men
and packed up. "We left the ship with
our belongings June 18. We were put
on board the "raider again. Shortly
after I saw from the raider that they
cut holes in the masts and placed dy
namite bombs in each mast and put
fire to both ends of the ship and left
her. I saw the masts go over the side
and the ship was burning from end to
end, and the raider steamed away."
Captain Smith said the raider was a
full-rigged ship of steel or iron, about
2300 tons, propelled by oil-burning en
gines. Her captain was Felix Graf von
Luckner, active Captain-Lieutenant;
the First Lieutenant, Alfred Kling;
prize officer, Richard Pless. There also
was a chief engineer, a navigating
lieutenant, a mate and a doctor. All
told, hr complement was 68 officers
and men. Mounted between decks, she
carried two four-inch guns (10.5 centi
meters) and two machine guns. The
name on her bow was Irma.
When the men from the Slade ar
rived aboard the raider they found nine
prisoners from the American schooner
A. B. Johnson, of San Francisco, cap
tured three days before. On July 8,
Smith stated, the schooner Manila was
captured and dynamited after the 10
officers and men had been taken off.
Aboard the Seeadler, he said, was a
Hollander who had been taken of-, the
first ship captured and was kept aboard
because he had made an insulting re
mark to the captain about German
money.
For about three weeks the raider
kept beating up and down looklner for
passing ships. Meeting none, they went
outn to .Mopeha on July 31, anchored
on the lee side of the island, and on
Auprust 2 the ship was driven hard and
fast ashore. The three American cap
tains had gone ashore with the Ger
man officers on a picnic and the pris
oners were left on the ship. Cannon
were fired to tell the party the ship
was in danger, but when they returned
they found the propeller twisted on the
coral reefs and the vessel beyond heln.
After working all afternoon they gave
ner up as lost and took ashore every
thing they could move, including the
boats, gear and wireless. The wireless
plant, a very powerful one, was set up
between two cocoanut trees. It was
equipped with sending and receiving
apparatus and without difficulty they
were able to hear Pago Pago, Tahiti
ana Honolulu.
On August 23. Captain Smith related.
the German officers fitted up and
armed a small boat and started for the
Cook Islands or the Fiji Islands, where
they hoped to capture an American shiD
and come back for the crew. Count von
Luckner, the- master, was in charge.
mey were never heard of again at Mo
peha Island. v
After their departure wireless mes
sages in code from Pago Pago to the
American consul were intercepted nnd
the German crew believed the Count
had been captured. On September 5 a
1' reneh trading schooner from Papeete,
the Lutece, put in at the Island. First
Lieutenant Kling took a motor boat and
machine gun and captured the ship. She
xiaa a large cargo or flour, salmon and
beef and a supply of water. Kling and
his crew dismantled the wireless Dlant
and left the island in the Lutece that
night, leaving '48 souls, including the
Americans, the crew or the French
trader and four natives of the island.
Scant provisions, and bad at that, were
left them. Besides these, .they found a
few cocoanuts, but the great' number
of rats on the island destroyed them.
There was plenty of fish and turtles.
A small boat had been left behind
and the marooned men fitted it up.
The captain of the Manila, with a small
crew, started out in the boat for Ta
hiti on September 8. They failed to
reach Tahiti and returned, exhausted,
on September 16. Captain Smith, with
three men, took the small boat: and
managed to reach Pago Pago 10 days
later.
Captain Smith said that' after the
Seeadler was abandoned the Germans
used dynamite to destroy -the- ship
masts so that passing vessels might not
sight them. They were unable to sink
the Manila, as she 'was loaded with
lumber, and the-derelict now probably
is a menace to navigation. Although
the Seeadler may be a wreck. It "is pos-
GRADE SACRIFICED FOR CER
TAINTY OF SERVICE.
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Lieutenant Joan C. Vaa Etten. '
At the outbreak of war John C.
Van Etten, Reed College student,
at once volunteered and helped -organize
Company A. United
States engineers. . In August he.
entered the second officers' train
ing camp and was recommended
for a First Lieutenancy of artil
lery. Then a special call came ..
from the War Department for 20
picked men for the Signal Corps.'
Mr. Van Etten was one of those:
selected and, attracted by the
promise of immediate service,"
sacrificed one rank, was commis
sioned ranking Second Lleuten-.
ant and left last week under or
ders. Van Etten is a member of the
Society of the Sons of the Amer
ican Revolution and of the Tellu
rlde Association.' He Is the son
of Mrs. C. E. Van Etten, of Olym
pia. Wash., and nephew of Mr.'
and Mrs. A. A. Llndsley, of Portland.
sible that, her guns still are in posi
tion to use.
Forty-four persons still are on Mo
peha Island, but Captain Smith said
they were not in immediate danger of
starvation. There are turtles and fish
on the island, he said, and the water,
while brackish, is not dangerous. The
only danger, he said, is of sickness.
One man had. gangrene when he left.
Some medicine was left, but he doubted
that the survivors knew how to use it.
Recent dispatches indicate that the
captain of the Seeadler and five of his
crew were captured on September 21
off the Fiji Islands by Fijian constabu
lary. A hat became of the men who
left Mopeha Island in the Lutece is not
known.
EX-CZAR'S JFUNDS SEIZED
Steamship Company Obtains Attach
ment In Breach of Contract Suit.
NEW YORK, Nov. 23. A writ of at
tachment on the personal property here
of Nicholas Romanoff, former Emperor
ot Russia, was signed by State
Supreme Court Justice Russell Benedict
recently in a suit for $2,800,000 brought
against Mr. Romanoff by the Marine
Transportation Service Corporation for
alleged breach of contract. According
to Bernhard Noumburg, attorney for
the corporation, the former Emperor of
all the Russias has several million
dollars' worth of property. in this city,
mostly money in banks, which will be
seized under the writ as soon as
located.
The corporation alleges that.lt con
tracted with the Russian government
in 1915 to transport goods to Russia
and in so doing incurred . liabilities.
The Russian government. defaulted
upon the contract, the corporation al
leges and In order to pay off these
liabilities the corporation turned over
to Its creditors the $3,000,000 steamship
Vigilancia, since sunk.
It was explained that the suit was
brought against the Emperor as con
stituting the then Russian government.
Phone your want ads to The Orego-
nlan. Main 7070. A 6095.
VAR BOARD MOVES
Supplies Transferred to Court
house, New Headquarters.
MEDICAL ADVISERS NAMED
D. K. .'A. J. Mackenzie, Commis
sioned In Reserve Corps,' to As
t elst In JTamJng Draft Bodies.
Men, 3Iay Still Enlist.
Local war exemption boards Nos. 1
to 10, covering the city, will be housed
at the County Courthouse. They have
been given quarters In the room on the
ground floor, formerly given to reg
istration purposes, on the west side of
the building, and Instead of these
boards being scattered to all parts of
the city as heretofore they will ad
Just all matters coming before them
at this headquarters.
Yesterday the required supplies were
moved in and the boards will occupy
the- room - officially, commencing to
morrow. The board of which Sheriff
Hurlburt is chairman and County Clerk
Beveridge is secretary, which attends
to all registration matters - in the
county outside the city, will occupy
room S25, Courthouse. The district
board. f which Dan J. Malarkey is
chairman, will remain in room 360
The organization of medical advisory
boards to aid in the draft work
throughout the state is in progress at
the offices of Adutant-General Will
lams and will probably be. completed
tomorrow. The office was advised that
Dr. K. A. J. Mackenzie has been ap
pointed an officer in the Medical Re
serve Corps, although his rank Is not
given, and he will assist at state head
quarters in organizing and naming the
boards.
It is expected there will be 22 med
ical advisory boards named for this
state. They are being established with
the aid of the American Medical Asso
ciation and the medical section of the
Council of National Defense. Location
of hospitals and railway lines to facil
itate examination and care of men
when necessary i will determine to
some extent the location of the various
boards.
Registrants are still permitted to en
list in whatever branch of the military
or. naval forces they may desire, and
this avenue will be open to them until
December 15. This information was
again conveyed to Adjutant-General
Williams by telegram yesterday by
Provost Marshal-General Crowder at
Washington. The telegram was at once
wired out . to all local boards yester
day and was as follows:
"Between now and December 15 It Is
desired to afford registrants as wide
an- opportunity as possible to enlist
in both the Army and Navy. -Therefore
any registrant, even though he
has been called by his local .board to
report for physical examination, may
enlist until December 15 upon presen
tation to the recruiting officer of a
certificate from his local board that
he will , not be needed to fill any de
ferred percentage of the quota of the
board. Regardless of examination of
registrants under new regulations,
each board should refuse permission
to enlist-to a sufficient number of se
lected men to complete deferred per
centages of their quotas."
England Steamship Firms Aroused.
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. Nov. 17.
The North of England Steamship As
sociation is anxious about the present
and future of shipbuilding of Great
Britain and has adopted a resolution
expressing deep concern over the fact
that large orders have been placed
with British shipbuilders by neutral
owners at 25 per ton for delivery
after the war. This was regarded as a
serious menace to the maritime su
premacy of the country. The amounts
recovered for vessels lost could not
possibly be sufficient to replace ton
nage at anything like such a figure,
and the association called on the gov
ernment to take such steps as would
enable British owners to rehabilitate
the British mercantile marine.
Pope's Peace Plea Discussed.
Father E. V. O'Hara will preach this
morning at St. Mary's Cathedral. Fif
teenth and Davis streets, on "The
Pope's Plea for an Enduring Christian
Peace." The sermon will begin at 11
o'clock. Father O'Hara will take up
Pope Benedict's recent appeal for end
ing the strife in Europe and analyze
it. showing what the Pope had In mind
as he Interprets it.
Big IiOg at Ostrander Mill.
CASTLE ROCK, Wash., Dec. 1.
(Special.) A log 60 feet long, seven
feet at the base and four feet at the
little end, was brought into the Ostran
der mill this week. Also out of the
timbers recently turned out of the mill
this week was a piece which was two
'feet square and 120 feet long.
PROMINENT McMINNVILLE COUPLE CELEBRATE GOLDEN
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY.
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McMINNVTLLE. Or., Nov. 2. (Special.) Sheriff and Mrs. W. G.
Henderson, on Saturday evening, November 17, celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary in the parlors of the Christian Church, sur
rounded by members of their family. The celebration was in the
form of a family reunion and 6. o'clock dinner.
Mr. and Mrs. Henderson were married on the Glenbrook Farm, 10
miles--northwest, of--MeMmnvHle, on November 16, 1867, by Rev.
Sebastian C. Adams, uncle of Mrs. Henderson. Mr. Henderson was born
In-S5anesviHe; O.,- in- 1846: -He came to Yamhill County 51 years ago.
He is now serving his seventh term as Sheriff of this county. Mrs.
Henderson is a native daughter, her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver
Adams, being among the county's earliest settlers.
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A MOST IMPORTANT
of DRAPERY and-jr T1
raoncs
SL I UPHOLSTERY
as well as a goodly number of Sample
and Odd Pieces of High-Grade
FURNITURE
is announced from the establishment of
THE SALE BEGINS TOMORROW
More Than 400 Pieces of Drapery,
Upholstery and Decorative Materials
are involved in this timely sale. Unless specified otherwise, the following listed
lengths average 50 inches in width. Not a single piece that is undesirable
every one priced considerably lower than imported cost to us. Some of them i
1-yard lengths English Wool Tapestry, regular
$10.00 to ?40.00 yard; now, yard
1-yard lengths Imported Cotton Tapestry, regular
$3.50 to $9.50; now, yard
1-yard lengths, 27 inches wide, French and Italian
Brocade, regular $8.50 to $27.50; now, yard
1-yard lengths Figured Velvets, regular $6.00 to
$25; now, yard
1-yard lengths Imported Uncut Velvets, regular
$8.50 to $15.00; now, yard
1-yard lengths Plain Silk Velvets, regular $6.50
to $15.00; now, yard
1-yard lengths Plain Velours, regular $3.75 to
$9.00; now, yard
1-yard lengths Stripe Damask, regular $2.25 to
$8.25; now, yard
1 'St -yard lengths Silk and Cotton Madras, regular
$2.00 to $5.50; now, yard
1-yard lengths Scotch Sunfast Sample, regular
$1.25 to $3.50; now, yard
1-yard lengths Figured Silk and French. Taffeta,
regular $1.25 to $10.50; now, yard
1-yard lengths French and Italian Damask, regu
lar $6.50 to $32.00; now, yard
1-yard lengths Domestic and Imported Damask,
regular $2.00 to $8.50; now, yard
1-yard lengths English Printed Linens, regular
$3.25 to $7.00; now, yard
1-yard lengths English- Printed Cretonne, regu
lar $2.25 to $6.25; now, yard
1-yard lengths French Warp Prints, regular $2.50
to $8.50; now, yard
FINISHED CURTAINS OF VARIOUS HIGH-GRADE
MATERIALS, READY TO PUT UP
Seven pairs, English Printed 7XZ
Linen, reg. $16 pr, the pair.. DOt t J
S4.75 to S17.75
95c to S3.75
$3.00 to S10.75
$2.75 to $8.75
$3.50 to $6.00
$2.95 to $6.25
$1.25 to $4.25
95c to $2.75
75c to $2.25
60c to $1.40
45c to $3.95
$2.95 to $11.75
75c to $3.50
95c to $2.95
75c to $2.75
95c to $4.25
ELEVENTH and STARK
A SALE that we can rightfully term "compulsory, for the
reason that certain imported lines of fabrics, which, on ac
count of war conditions can no longer be secured, compels
us to dispose of all samples, these constituting the most ar
tistic and novel of foreign productions. The startlingly low
prices which apply on every one of these samples, together
with the fact that the fabrics represented are specially appro
priate for Christmas gifts when made up into
SHOPPING BAGS, KNITTING AND SEWING
BAGS, TABLE THROWS, PILLOW TOPS
and the like, should see every length of these goods eagerly
snapped up.
Many Beautiful Pieces of
FURNITURE
contribute to the importance of this sale.
Six pairs Kapoc silk - lined Curtains,
with valance, regularly $45. C1 f" O
the lot. now O-Hr.UU
Six pairs French Cretonne, 0yA ff
worth J48 the lot. now 0txvHJ
Two pairs Blue Sunfast Silk. ? C
worth $3 pair, now, the pair
Seven pairs Pine Sllklyf 7tt
Damask, worth 45. the lot JlTtl O
One pair English Printed QC
Linen, regularly $15. now for DII7J
Single Panel Sunfast Silk. 7C
worth $8. now 00 t J
One set Sunfast Window Curtains, val
ance attached, formerly $8, CJO O C
now for POtJ
A Solid Mahogany Easy ARM
ROCKER, black lacquer fin
ish, u phodatered, 7E?
originally $22.50 OiJm I O
Arm Chair to match
also at $9.75.
ALarge Cpholstered Easy ARM
CHAIR, originally (in Cf
$30. to go at 913U
A Fine Colonial SOFA, frame
of crotch mahogany, origin-
?o!r!.3:..V.1.0:..,:.o.r.S42.50
A Solid Mahogany TEA
STAND, with tray top. orig
inally $22.50, nowJ2 50
A High-Back. Enameled Wil
low ARM CHAIR.-, -a f C
originally $20. f or O 1 1 O
A Very Fine Italian Renais
sance Large DRESSINO
TABLE of finest mahoganv,
originally $110. (in eh
now for P4iC.t)U
An UMBRELLA STAND, lac
quered and hand d e c o r a t ed.
originally
now
A FLOOR LAMP In old gold
finish. originally O 1 f ff
$25, now offered at O lUiUU
One odd DININO CHAIR, solid
mahogany, leather C Cfl
seat, originally $15.. ODtOU
One odd DININO CHAIR, solid
mahogany, well Q "TC
worth $8, now...... DO. I Sj
A Heavy Scroll Colonial BED.
three-quarter sixe. fine ma
hogany, originally (nn Cf
$70, now for tfkaOU
A Solid
TABLE.
Mahogany DININO
coioniai. n-lncn ton.
inally $15, now jJ 75
10-foot extension, O a fx r ri
originally $115 &4i7.0U
A Very Fine Florentine. Hand
Dec orated Porcelain Electrlo
TABLE LAMP and SHADE 28
inches high. orlg. i n pv
Inally $45. now. . . O
Mahogany TABLE LAMP,
electric in Verdi fln-Q TrT
ish. originally $3o..OO.o
A Fine. Large Mahogany
CHIFFONIER, colonial, orig
inally $95.00, now 50
A Solid Mahogany SEW1NO
TABLE, originally ; 7Ef
$15. now ODi O
Pedestal BIRD CAGE, decorat
ed, o r 1 g I nally $25. Q 7C
now for OiilO
A Finely Upholstered
LIBRARY ARM CHAIR, orig
inally $75.00. now 50
A Solid Mahogany LIBRARY
TABLE, colonial. CO7 C f
originally $70, now Oa 4 .OU
A Fine Solid Mahogany
LIBRARY TABLE. Empire Co
lonial. orlgiuallyCin Cf
$:, now o4Z.OU
EvFstt IBalbcocIk & Coimpainiy
INTERIOR DECORATIONS
(Incorporated)
FURNITURE
ELEVENTH and STALJI STREETS
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IRISH LEADER. EXPRESSES APPRE
CIATION OF PORTLAND SUPPORT.
"Tay Fay," Now In Chicago. Writes to
ZOO Blcn AY ho Denounced Sinn
Fein tn Resolutions.
Warm appreciation of the indorse
ment given T. P. O'Connor, the great
Irish Constitutional Liberty leader, by
Irish-Americans of Portland, has been
conveyed here in a personal letter from
the Indubitable "Tay Pay," who Is now
at Chicago. Mr. O'Connor expresses
deep gratification over the fact that
200 Portlanders of Irish lineage, at a
meeting on November 11, denounced
the Sinn Feiners as disloyal and laud
ed, in their resolutions, the Constitu
tional party.
The text of the distinguished Irish
man's letter, as given in a copy fur
nished by J. Hennessy Murphy, fol
lows: "I have just received the papers con
taining the resolutions of the Irishmen
of Portland. I" thank them for their
recognition of my work for Ireland. I
thank them still more for their confi
dence, in the patriotism and policy of
the Irish party. But I thank them
most of all for their clear recognition
of the supreme fact of the situation
that the alternatives to every Ameri
can citizen is to be pro-German or
pro-American. Such utterances as
theirs, backed by the splendid response
of the young men of our race to the
call" of America, are the true expres
sion of Irish America's loyalty.
"May our people at home learn from
such expressions of opinion to abandon
a policy which would rob Ireland of
the friendship and badly needed sup
port of the liberator of millions of
Irish exiles, and tear the chalice of
liberty from Ireland's lips."
20 MEN STAND GAS TEST
Camp Meade Engineers Fight Poison
Fumes Successfully for 2 Hours.
CAMP MEADE. Md.. Nov. 22. Twen
ty chaps of the 27th Engineers here
bearded a by-product of German kul
tur in a box car recently and came
away with all the honors. They com
prised the first "poison squad" in camp
and for two hours battled against the
deadly fumes similar to those which
the Huns unloose on the troops over
seas. The battle was staged in an
abandoned freight car which had been
hermetically sealed, and the only
weapons the squad had were the new
gas masks, which arrived a few days
ago. For two hours the men were in
the car, but when they were released
they were as fresh as daisies.
The 27th is a volunteer unit which
Is shortly to go to France, where its
members will become a part of the
mining and sapping outfits already on
the field. The car had been prepared
for several days for the test. The men
were cautioned to adjust the masks
before they ventured into the danger
zone, and the moment the car door
was slammed the gas was turned on
full force. Watches were held to time
this exposure to a full two hours and
when the time was up every man came
out apparently, without a single handi
cap other than the weight of his mask.
Similar tests will be made eacn aay
until all the men who will be assigned
to gas and flame work will have a
chance to get into one of .the "gas
houses."
Four hundred Philadelphia negroes
gave General and Mrs. Kuhn a pleasant
half hour recently. Under the direc
tion of Ken Clark, the chorister, the
negroes sang for the Kuhns and other
visitors in the barracks of the E block.
No passes for 2 4-hour leaves for the
selected men will be granted, except
under such special conditions as de
mand it. It 6eems the division chief
tains have been prodigal of these fur
loughs, but that the men have abused
the privilege, the officers state, to such
an extent that it was deemed best to
curtail it entirely, except in pressing
cases. This will not Interfere In any
way, however, with the passes for boys
to go home for Thanksgiving, nor will
it affect the leaves to attend the foot
ball game against Camp Dix at Frank
lin Field.
The tempest in the teapot which was
stirred up when the Baltimore Musical
Union, comprised of the union musicians
who play in orchestras here, refused to
play gratis for the soldiers during the
performance of "Oh, Boy." on Thursday
afternoon at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium,
has been settled amicably and normal
conditions are re-established.
The union will permit the orchestra
at Ford's Theater to play as requested
and will pay the Individual musician
who is. a member of the union out of
the organization's own funds.
There had been a considerable uproar
created because of the number of Ger
man musicians in the union, and those
who attacked the attitude of the organ
ization said it was a part of pro-German
propaganda. S. 6. Pearson, presi
dent of the union, said that such a re
port was false. He declared that it was
a fixed principle of the union to demand
pay for all services, and that no dis
tinction could be made in this case.
Marine Bugler Pays Penalty.
' WASHINGTON. Nov. 25. As an
American transport carrying United
States Marines to Europe was leaving
port, somewhere, sometime, the marine
bugler aboard sounded "taps," which
is the military way of saying "good
night." Now the commanding officer
of the transport didn't think it was
"good night" for his packet and saw
no humor in the marine bugler's pre
mature surrender to the "tin lizzies of
the sea." Nor could the young sea
soldier see the point when he was
given "three days' bread and water" to
ponder over his wheeze. It's serious
business to joke at sea in times like
these, and after his enforced "Hoover.
izing" the marine bugler is convinced
that that is so.
River Rises 4.3 Feet.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. Deo. 1. (Spe
cial.) The recent heavy rains have
caused the Columbia River to rise
from .2 feet below zero, November 22.
to 4 feet above zero today. For many
weeks, the extremely long period with
out rain this Fall, caused the river to
drop even below zero, and steamers
were compelled to steam cautiously in
a number of places in the river, where
the channel is known to be partially
filled with sand.
Mercliants Study Community Needs.
CHEHALIS, Wash., Dec. I. (Spe
cial.) A meeting and luncheon was
held at the St. Helens Hotel in this city
last nig-ht which was attended by prac
tically all of the retail merchants of
Chehalls. The mHna- -.n. k..
A. F. Marsh, secretary of the Citizens
Club. Matters pertaining to business
and means of creating more of a com
munity spine lor cnenalls were discussed.
Beth Israel Womea Help.
In response to a call from the Na
tional organization, a meeting of the
Sisterhood of Temple Beth Israel wss
held yesterday, to make plans for re
membering the soldiers and sailors of
the Northwest with Hanukah boxes.
All women interested are requested to
help pack the boxes next Thursday at
3 o'clock at Temple Beth Israel. Con
tributions of knitted articles and money
may be sent to the chairman. Mrs.
Julius Lippett. 191 Cactus drive.
The Methodist Episcopal Church now
numbers 4.1S0.S64 members. This is an
increase during 1916 of 100.651.
EIGHT
in the UP -STAIRS
CLOTHING BUSINESS
never DOWN except in
price.
Eight years of LOW,
RENT and LITTLE
PROFITS.
And I still retain the dis
tinction, "THE ORIG
INAL UP-STAIRS
CLOTHIER."
Men's and Young j -cl
Men's SUITS and
Men's and Young $
Men's SUITS and
20
BUILDING
HATS AT $2 AND $3
Fit Enough for Any Head
RSw CLOTMIEf
Trade Upstairs
Save Your Dollars
Open Saturday Until 8 P.M.