TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLA3TD, AJTSUJ 21, 1918.
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DEFENSE NEED SEEN
Portland Business Men Hold
Conference on Subject
HELM REPORT IS STUDIED
Results of Conference to Consider
Coast Need as to Xaval De
fense Are Reported to Stat
Council of Defense.
At a conference Friday ef repre
sentative business men of Portland
earnest consideration was given tbo
Bead for mora adequate naval defense
of the Pacific Claat than exlala at pres
ent. The conferees bad before tbem as
tba basis of tbeir deliberations a sum
mary of the recommendations of the
lielm Commission, recently published
at direction of tba Washington Stats
Council of Defense.
Formation of this eommlsslon to
snake a study ef defenses of tha Pa
cific Coast and offer suggestions and
recommendatlona was authorised by
act of Con cress In 114. Though Its
findings were voluminous and seem
Inslr backed by an abundance of facts
demanding attention they brought no
approprlattona and no action of any
kind. This neglect la leading to In
auguration of efforts In Washington
and Oregon and presumably In Cali
fornia, to obtain In some degree th
Increased protection It la held that this
Coast deserves.
Reeeaaaeeadarlraa Are Clteel
Tbo Helm Commission via composed
f J. 11. Helm. Rear-Admiral W.
Cappa, chief constructor; H. H. Rous
seao. civil engineer; G. W. McElroy,
Captain: C L. Hueaey. Commander, all
of tbo United States Navy.
Soma of Its recommendatlona were
these:
"Immediate provision for a narked
expansion In berthing, docking and re
pair facilities on tha Pacific Coast.
The present facilities of tha Pactflo
Coast yards must be Increased to
least treble their present capacity.
"For the acquisition of the necessary
Its and tha Immediately necessary de
velopment of same (submarine
aviation base) on-the Columbia River.
The Impression made and results ac
complished by tha commission are sum
tnartxed In the compiled report, entitled
"Naval Vn preparedness of tha Pacific
Coast, In tha one terse word. "Nona.
nork dona aa result of tha recora
mendatlons la summarised with equal
terseness In tha single word. "Nothing.
Caaferesiee Resalt Flat Clvea Oat.
Compilation of this report. Incident
ally, waa tha work of William H.
Lewis, president of tba Lewis Wiley
companies or Portland and Seattle.
Results of tha conference In thla etty
were not made public but were carried
to tha State Council ef Defense. Tbose
wbo took part In the meeting were
w. M. Ladd. Edward Cooklngham. Guy
w. .Talbot. A. U Mills. Henry L.
Corbett. W. D. B. Dodson, John K.
Xollock. Robert N. Strong and E. B.
alaOaugbton.
SPRINGTIME IN FRANCE SEES
WOMEN TOILING IN THE FIELDS
Oreg-oolan Staff Correspondent Finds It Hard to Realize That World Con
flict Is ao Near at Hand.
AMERICAN GIRL IN PARIS
Margaret IT. Wentworth Telia
Bravery Displayed la France.
of
eTATTOV. Or, April Mrs. ft. F.
Kortnek has received a letter dated
starch 14 from her cousin. Miss Ma
garet H. Wentworth. from Paris.
1 ranee, parts of which are as follows:
"Your letter of January 21 reached
ma only a little while before I sailed
and Just when I was extremely busy.
I bad been wanting to do something- In
tha way of war work for some time.
so when I heard the Y. M. C. A. needed
women workers I volunteered and was
accepted.
I sailed February II and had a
very good crossing for the season. No
storms, no bitter cold and no subma
rines. I am living with a charming
old French woman who has two sons
at the front and who Is very glad to
nave someone to keep her company
and share expenses. I know French
fairly well and. aa she speaka no Eng
llsh. I am getting splendid practice-
Paris Is almost as exciting as the
front these days. We have had half
a dozen air raids since I have been
here and now they have begun firing
the big cannon that carries 1i miles
at us. o one Is cowed, however, and
the city Is so besutlful in the Spring
sunshine, with the chestnut trees in
bloom, that It ts hsrd to believe In this
wicked war that la not very far away."
SOLDIERS GOOD WORKMEN
Carlo Sam's Men
Mills and
Make Good
Camps.
In
MARSHFTFLD. Or, April f. fnpe
elal.) Uncle Sam's sol. Hers constitute
a material portion of the logging and
milling forces that are rushing ship
and aeroplane lumber to destinations
of manufacture. There are now more
than lv soldiers engaged In the ramps
and mills, distinguished as follows:
l0 working with the Smith-Powers
Company; it In the Buehner Lumber
Company camp at Eel Lake: (ft em
ployed In the Buehner Lumber Com
reny and North Bend Mill a: Lumber
Company mills In North Bend.
Reports credit the soldiers with be
ing excellent workmen and mostly ex
perienced. In addition to soldiers In
service, tha two Coos Bay shipyards
have In taelr employ at present about
tit men of draft age, who In being
exempted, might be classed with the
Army workmen. making toa-ether.
oio-seventh of the men encaged In
lumbering; lines In Coos County.
MRS. A. H. BALTIMORE DIES
Lebanon Pioneer Passes at Home
April 7 at Age of 78 Tears.
Martha A. Baltimore iUZ it ti ;:
tly home near Lebanon. April 7, at the
aae of TS years. She wss born In South
ern Indiana, May 12, U3J, and crossed
tha plains with her parents. John and
Sarah Clifton. In 1I4T. She waa mar
ried, to Aaron K. Baltimore, December
L 1T.
Surviving her are three children:
Anthony, of Lebanon; sirs. Annie Pow
ell, of Spokane, and Mrs Viva Stuart,
of Bend, and one sister, Mrs. S. E. Bar
ger. ef Spokane.
Funeral services were conducted at
tha family home, April t. by Rev. Hiram
Smith, pastor of the Church of the
Brethren. She was laid to rest by the
aide of ber husband la tha Masonic
Cemetery near Lebanon.
BT WILL Q. MacRAB.
Staff Correeposdeat of The Ore son tan.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMT IN'
FRANCE. March 2L (Special.) It's
Spring time In Franca, plowing time.
It is hard to realise that off on the
western front men are being killed,
maimed and gassed when one travels
over tha rural district, and the farm
ers, for tha most part old and young
women, are breaking the soil In prep
aration for the planting of Spring and
Summer crops
Traveling far Into the Interior to
within 2 mllea of the actual fighting
front one goes long miles through agri
cultural Franca. On tha south tha chief
Industry are the vineyards, and how
beautiful and peaceful these look from
the car window.
As one goes whirling by these rural
scenes It Is hard even to visualize that
along tha fighting front men are fling
ing themselves at each other's throats.
that some are dying and others being
carried to the rear frightfully wounded.
In spite of all this, Una Is a land of no
hysteria. If hysteria ever existed In
this stricken land It has been burled
along with those heroes who have gone
before. I have looked la vain for the
explosive emotional French so often de
scribed.
Cnlesa one bare the misfortune to
have been born and bred among the
canyons of New Tork one has a pretty
general Idea of how farming Is done In
the States. Well, after seeing the
French farmer, hie very precise man
ner of laying out his farm for cultiva
tion, checker board fashion. It Is a bit
mystifying, seeing the crude tools be
has to work with, that ha Is able to
raise such crops as he does.
SaldlerV rnafarsas Seen Everywhere.
One aees In this land the soldier
uniform of every nation, whether that
nation Is at war or not. One aees men
In these uniforms In Paris, In the
larger towns and In the villages. The
prevailing color scheme of Franca Is
the pale blue of tha French soldier or
the olive drab of America or Great
Britain. Soldiers are everywhere, and
at first on seeing the thousands on
the streets one at first wonders If there
are any fighting men left at the front
or whether after all the war bunt
ceased. However, study the facial ex
pression of the soldiers on leave and
one quickly comes to the realization
that these men are not on holiday bent.
They are only on limited leave per
mission, bent on getting out of this
short permission the greatest amount
of rest possible.
One of the Interesting; sights as one
goes hurtling by rail or automobile
through the rural districts Is a soldier
In uniform following behind a team of
horses driven tandem, or perhaps It Is
team of patient, slow-moving oxen.
Sometimes, quite often, one sees off In
the distance a queer plowing team
Perhaps It's a small Jackass, or what
we call at home a burro, hitched to an
antiquated plow almost twice the bur
ro's slxe and weight, and alongside or
the animal a poull. home on permis
sion, with an Improvised shoulder har
ness, pullinx bis share of the load as
the plowshare cuta a shallow furrow
through the mellow soil, while the
wife, stumbling and cluttering about
her wooden shoes, holds the bandies
of the plow.
This la tha way the farmer soldier
spends his lesvo permission. While this
la the condition In the country, the only
change In conditions In the towns and
villages la that the work is being done
by women, some of them gray and very
old. and old men and crippled soiaiers.
I have seen women employed even In
paving tha streets, country road repair
Ing. in short all tasks that men were
formerly engaged In.
Here in this city where I am writing
thla. as I look out of the narrow win
dows. are three buxom, sturdy women
and three old men repairing a break In
tha street paving and relaying cobble
stones between the streetcar tracKS.
It, to them, seems all a part of the day's
work. The women laugh qulety as they
work and often they do double work
In order to spell the old men-
There are women conductors and mo-
torwomen. They seem to have consid
eration only for the soldier. They are
very centle. especially If the soldier
be wounded, but she, the conductor
scolds and sputters loudly at the
women, children and men folks wbo
ride on ber car. She doesnt hesitate
a second to bawl out a passenger If
they do not happen to be In a soldier's
uniform or the man, woman or child If
they happen to be of the "end seat hog"
variety. It Is better than going to see
a vaudeville show to bear ber bawl
these people out. Often one sees them
allsrbt from theelr car and assist
wounded soldier up the steps and Into
the ear. If all the seats be taken, her
eagle eye will light upon some smug
Individual who tries to bide Denina
newspaper.
Biff, she will clout the paper with
hanad. reddened by the weather and
about the sise of a bungstarter, reach
over and yank that "gent" out of his
sear- and with a courtly bow place the
soldier In the vacated seat.
Wesson Haadle Baggage.
- Women are on duty at all the rail
road stations, handling baggage, and
on tbe trains, punching tne ucKeis.
When first over one Is apt to be a bit
shy about allowing women to carry his
basraae-a. Perhaps, as is often the case,
you can hardly carry It yourself. Rest
your chivlary. Hold tight to your van
ity. Tour woman baggage-smasher
will xrab your bags, as like as not
swing one to ber shoulder and grasp
the other In ber hand and hit a pace
up the depot platform that makes you
recall the days when you were trying
for the varsity track team
Not often does one see a man huck
ater. If one does, he Is almost as old
aa the stars. Here again the woman
has taken the man's place. It Is the
same with tha newspaper venders. Once
In a blue moon one will see a young
girl either selling papers or trundling
a pushcart. Not often. For the most
part they are women, either very old
or well past middle age. Through the
narrow streets they go crying their
wares. There Is always a dog. a
leather thong around his neck tied to
the axle, aud he helps Dull the cart, in
which there Is usually a little dab of
watercress, a few onions, a few badly
pitted apples and other vegetables. It
Is a big sale when they sell to one
housewife two carrots, an onion or a
bulb or two of garlic, a small bundle
of watercress, maybe all told IS cen
times worth. The buckstress will
cheat, but she Is always polite and her
"Mercl. madam," la well worth while.
INQUEST TO BE HELD
Coroner to Investigate Death
of Motorcycle Policeman.
CORNER IS DEATH TRAP
Fraction of Second Slore Time
Would Have Resulted In Avoid
ance of Accident, Is Testimony
of Bent Fender of Auto.
Investigation Into the cause of the
eath of Motorcycle Policeman Lltxen-
berg. wbo waa killed almost Instantly
Friday afternoon at East Seventn ana
Beach streets In a collision with an au
tomobile driven by E. Ehlenberger, has
caused Coroner Earl Smith to conduct
an Inquest. The Inquest will be held
the County Morgue, second ana Jei
ferson streets, at o clock tomorrow
izht.
Ehlenberger. who races a charge or
manslaughter. Is suffering from shat
tered nerves. His ball was fixed yes
terday at 1500. which he secured, and
e was released. He maintains mat ne
was driving his car not to exceea m
miles an hour, and that be made every
effort to turn his machine out of the
way of the officer's motorcycle. The
extreme front end of the left fender
of the car Is bent abruptly, showing
that If the turn had been made a frac
tion of a second sooner the accident
might have been avoided.
The intersection at Last Seventh and
Beach streets Is regarded as hazardous
to motor vehicle traffic, being known
i "blind corner. On tha seventh-
treet side there Is a bluff about eight
feet high and on the Beach-street side
there Is some dense shrubbery. There
lso Is some cordwood piled along the
Beach-alreet side. With these various
obstructions It Is almost Impossible to
observe vehicles coming along either
reet until the crossing Is reached.
Lltzenberg's funeral probably will be
held at 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
The services will be conducted at the
Elks' Temple, Broadway and Stark
reet. the officer having been a mem
ber of the Portland Lodge. Twenty-
five police officers who are brother
embers will be special escorts. Mem
bers of the motorcycle squad of tha
Sheriff's office and many motorcycle
owners of the city who bad been close
friends of tbe officer also will attend
the funeral. Arrangements for the fu
neral are In charge of Sergeant Irvln,
of the police motorcycle squad-
Besides his widow, his mother and
sister, who live In Portland, and two
brothers, ons residing In California and
ona In the East, survive. The brother
living In California will come to Port
land to attend the funeral.
Robertson writes, tha men were drilled
constantly regarding the abandonment
of their ship In the event of submarine
trouble, and every man had bis sta
tion. There were lifeboats sufficient
for most of the contingent on board.
When the vessel was torpedoed she had
a list of nearly 40 degrees, and but few
of the lifeboats could be launched suc
cessfully. Some that were released
went down to the water end-foremost,
and one was cut away by an excited
landsman and the entire load of hu
man freight waa dumped Into the sea.
The boat to which Mr. Robertson
was assigned was lost In trying to
launch It, and the men assigned to It
bad no recourse save to wait for the
scouting war vessels. It was two
hours after the explosion when a de
stroyer drew up beside the Tuscan ia.
where Robertson and his companions
waited. Ropes were uesd to lower the
men to the deck of the rescue vessel,
but when Mr. Robertson's turn came
and ha slid down the rope, the vessels
had drawn apart and his rope would
not reach. In the confusion no atten
tion was paid to his predicament and.
clinging to the rope In the hope of aid,
he became exhausted and gave himself
up for lost when be could hold on no
longer and dropped, expecting to be
swallowed In the water.
Instead of falling Into the aea. be
landed on an overturned lifeboat that
naa wedged between the two ships, and
was shortly afterwards thrown a line
from tne destroyer and saved.
CAMP ATTRACTS MANY
CORVALLIS ITIDEMTJ TO TRAIN
AS ARMT OFFICERS.
Men With Advanced Standing Required
to Attend Government School
Scheduled te Open May 15.
OREOON AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE, Corvallls, April 20. (Special.)
The students training camp o be con
ducted by the Government this Summer,
snd whlcn has been announced to open
May 15, will arrect large numbers of
the boys of O. A. C. The greater part
of tbe Juniors snd seniors are In the
Reserve Officers' Training Camp, con
ducted by tbe college military depart
ment, and these men and all others
having advanoed standing will be re
quired to enter the Summer training
camp. Underclassmen who may be rec
ommended by Captain Minnl!. com.
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"Economy Through Quality"
C. H. BAKER
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A Sale Extraordinary of
TTiETCM SMO
When a man buys Nettleton Shoes once he will never
afterward resort to a lower quality. The present sale
at all Baker stores is your opportunity
to buy Nettleton shoes now. Eight
lines, original values $10.00, $11.00,
$12.00, are now on sale for
4018 The "Ardsley," patent colt but
ton. Regular price 511.00.
4562 The "Hampton." Black
kid. Regular price $11.00,
Via
One Price Only
B4561 The "Tarsic." black vici kid.
Regular price $11.00.
7206 Tan Russian calf Oxford, Eng
lish model. Regular price $10.00.
For the Remainder
of This Month
Ml
5532 The "Saxon," tan Russian calf.
Regular price $12.00.
4862 The "Ardsley." Black gun
metal button. Regular price $11.00.
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San Francisco
Portland
380 Washington St
308 Washington St
Largest Retailer of Shoes West of Chicago
270 Washington St
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mandant of cadets, will also go to the
namn. Official notice of the camp has
been received by Captain Maglnnls from
H. P. McCain, Adjutant-Generals or
flce, but tbe place to which they will
be sent has not been specified. Oregon
Agricultural College Is one of the few
Northwestern schools to De auoweu w
enter men In the camp.
t i. .neelfied that boys entering un
t.i. certain conditions will go Into such
service as the Government may put
tbem if they do noi receive cummia-
sions. Reports must oe in ior applica
tion by April 18.
Captain Maglnnls has been Instructed
by the Quartermaster-General to enlist
senior agricultural students of Oregon
Agricultural college wno are specially
Portland Man on Tuscania
Has Narrow Escape.
Wllllasa C Robertson Saved After
Utvtag Hlasarlf Is for Last.
Entertainment Is Planned.
Waverly Heights Church Aid Soci
ety will give an entertainment on
frlday at I P. M. Among those who
will assist on the progrsmme will be
the Sunday school children, J. Shearer.
Willie Griffith, Katharine Kressmsn.
Margaret Kressman. Mr. and Mra
Koberf Robertson and Miriam Schmulki ,
MARSH FIELD. Or, April 17. (Spe
cial.) Although It seemed that every
thing had been told about the Tus
cania disaster, a belated letter came
to Marahfleld recently telling of the
miraculous rescue of a well-known
Portlands r. W. G. Robertson, who Is a
member of the loth Engineer Regi
ment. Mr. Robertson haa a wide ac
quaintance on Cooa Bay through his
short residence here In handling prop
erty belonging to the Portland. Eu
gene A Coos Bay Land Company.
While crossing l&s Atlantic, Mr.
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qualified In a unit, which will doubtless
be a sort of agricultural army for
speeding up crop production. The reg
ulation srequirethatheirenenllsted
bo recommended by their deans of hlghi
scholastic and personal standing. Cap
tain Maglnnls said that a large number
of Oregon Agricultural College men
sould qualify for this work. They wlU
doubtless be sent out over the country
to act as farm specialists in various
communities.
J m;housedeaniri
is the splendid cleaning
power of the soap and naptha
in Fels-Naptha. Saves scrub
bing, saves time, saves yon
effort and yet it removes the
last speck of dirt.
Use Fels-Naptha on the walls
and floors, on the carpets and
rugs, on the curtainson
everything you wash this
spring.
full directions Inside the red and
green wrapper.
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