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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, A2klL 21, 1918. V PETROGRAD STREET SEES BATTLES Junkers in Armored Car Fire Upon Crowd, Murdering . Innocent Victims. BLOODY SCENES ENACTED last Stand Mad bj Ke-r-ensky lorces AjaliAt Victorious Bol- khcTiki TCItaeased by Loalse Bryant. i BT LOUISE ERTANT. Ct7rirt. Cnda. lata, ay Pasua L4- XV. r-rry wornlnc aftar tha Bolahevls; cms d'etat I osed to call at BmolBy ad at tha Ory Duma. They both a-ava ut mwi quit wllUnc!y- I had passes from both to r around tha city aad a-et Into all the battlea I wanted to. Thm csmmlilM on ear in a tha revolo Hon and tha country aat In continual aeaaloa and outdid any American ad- vertisina aceney I ever caaia across1 They used to tell me tha wildest tblna-s. Whan I lavestlBated I Invariably found their statements antra or at Jaaat r.ri lonlou.lv axaca-eratad. Once I went to Mayor Ehraeder and eAmDlalntd. -At home." I said, "a politician wouldn't do that: ba would really be afraid to tell a reporter a deliberate atory. Now. tha other nlcht yon told me that tha prisoners In Peter and Paul were being- massacred and I went wv out there at S o clock In the mora In and found them sleeping peaceably In their bada." lie stroked bis beard aad looked se rious, almost rta-hteous. "Well." he aald. "thPT (meanina the Bolsbertkl), have all the force of arms on their side, amd we nave, after all. only the moral force." Tletarlas) Jfe-eer Oeerrated. At Bmolny they war frank en one aft.n thoroughly discouraa-ed. never averratlna- their vlctorlaa or undereatl matina tbelr defeats. 1 think ttala re markable way they bad of faclnc the untie was one of the createst reasons for their success. On the particular moraine. November 11. that 1 want to tell about. I learned at Smolny that one of the officials was very ill and I came back Into town with a Bolshevik leader who la now very close to Trotsky and had worked with him on a paper In America. We went stralsht to the Hotel Europe, where the American Rod Cross had its headquarters, in search of a, F.ed Cross doctor. As w walked thronrh the lobby I was surprised to see one of Kerensky's ailes standing In a corner with his arms folded and looklnc tragically tunny. He had loafed a lot In Babuah ka a room at tha Winter Palace and I had known him quite well. He had in vited ma to spend a month with his people In th Caucasus. Ha was like moat Kneslan officers. rather dudlfled and a little too immac ulate and perfumed, but he waa a Oeor clan, and like rooi-t of his race so ex ceptionally handsome with his dark eye and olive skin that you had to for give him his overfastidlousnesa. Dtagsls M,draaBatle.n Today. keicr, he waa a chanced man. Ho wore a coat too small and trousers too larr. and hla waxed, pointed mustache was ail frayed at the rnrtK. He had on the most amazingly tattered cap. I almost burnt out laugh ing. It was so Bus. Ian for him to do it that wsy. Juat becauea he waa in die sruiee. in hiding, he would put on a make-up that-would point him out to every one like a conventional villain. It aas with great difficulty that I stared right through him and paaaed on. My Bolshevik friend and I climbed the wide stairs and walked along the cvrriuor. When were near the e: d. tha voure- Georgian caugni up who u h was all out of breath, "Mad. molj!le.- he exclaimed, taking- both my bands. you did not recognUe me 7 am in disjtuiae'" Serreta Ctvew Away. Russians can never keep aecreta. It Is one of the things I like beat about Hi.hl t'ood. bad or Indifferent, their lives ar an open book. Hut on this occasion I very much regretted their la,k of renression. In vain 1 tried to silence him by wlnka and other under hand methods. He couldn't imagine what waa wrong-. He waa lonesome and glad to see a friend and that la all he tnoucht about. He blurted out all sorts of siartttnir Information. "Kerensky will b here by tomorrow with IO.OoO ComcU We will take all the Bol shevlk leaders out and string them up lunj th. afreets! m Xi, plena don't talk about It." 1 said, feeling awfully responsible for the stIous trouble he wss getting himself Into. Hut he mie understood me entirely and replied soothingly. "Now don't you worry, no one la going to hurt you." We did not escape trom htm until he had told ns every idea he bad of what ought to be done, and It never occurrea to him to Inquire the politics of my companion. -What ar you rolnc to do." I asked my friend from r"molny. when we were cut on the street again. Salvias: Bee-las la Street. "Have him arrested." he answered shortlv. So we entered Into a long ar gument. 1 malntalued that he waa of to importance, anyway, and ought to be treated like the aristocrats who were living In peace all over the city. There was tha Grand Duke Constantlne'a fam- ilv. for example, who lived in the Marble Palace built br the old Duke They occupied the top floor, while all the rest of the building is used by the bureau of labor. We were not able to finish the ar- srument. because as we turned the cor ner of Gosol street and St. Isaacs square sniping began from rooftops. A man walking In front of the German :uibasay suddenly dropped down dead shot by the bullet of an uuknown enemy. Cronstadt sailors, on guard at the Astoria Hotel, came rushing down the street to locate the offender, shout ing "rrovacatla'" J'eople were always beins killed In those first days by snipers Just to start riots, and It' was eaey enouah to place tbe blame. We could hear firing going on about a block away. Tbe Junkers had taken the telephone exchange on the alors kaya and the Hotshevial had surround ed them. I'ullets began to fly too generously for comfort. We hid In a courtyard behind the Angletieire Hotel and through the chinks In the fence we watched tbe ridiculous, padded Rus sian cabmen Ishvishchtcks who usu ally amble along like snails, whipping up their horses and rapidly clearing the square. Jsmkera ttfe w Crowd. As soon as It became quieter we started back to Gogol street. At the corner wa saw an armored car coming at full speed- We didn't have time to ee-k ahelter, all we could do was cram against a closed archway that had great Iron doors securely locked. We GERMAN YOUTH DEPRECIATES UNDER LONG WAR STRAIN National Neurasthenia Spreads Over Teuton Race, Due to Long--Deferred Peace Hopes. BT CTRIU BROWN. (Cevrrlftit, llfta. by the Prase Publishing Cam sear. Published by araagemaat with tha New Terk World.) HTOCKHOLil. March 17, -(Special.) depreciation of the German- nation's youth under tbe prolonged war strain shows In many ways. In 114 flaming patriotism, war enthusiasm, ZO.Ouu schoolboys volunteering for front ser vice: evea la 11S Juvenile enthusiasm for the super Boy Scout companies, for military preparation, for patrlotto gold collecting, bone collecting, war loan soliciting and what not. In 11. according to a German peda gogue, "there la everywhere complaint regarding th alnking of Juvenile en thusiasm for tbe military preparation of the youth; collecting la done much mora for th pecuniary reward than from patriotic motives: the older school boys have their Inner struggles be en bop of leaving school with In completed atudlas and fear of having to fight for the fatherland; In those social layers which are lesa hemmed In by tradition, education and disci pline. Increasing violation of tha law, at first merely crimes against property, then more and more tending to deeds of violence: thus fall deep shadows over the luminous picture of 114." Juvenile criminality la Berlin la esti mated to have Increased threefold to day over 114; still, only a small per oentage of th youth of th whole na tion, but aeverthelees an alarming problem for a society atlll sound ar the core, and wanting to keep so, war or no war. Great Days fer Few TexlcaVe. An outward and visible sign of graft la Germany Is the Berlin chauffeur, vintage 191. The competition for the few surviving taxicaba In Berlin Is so great that tbe chauffeurs can name knd obtain their own figures. Particularly In the still existing night life centers yon can aea columns of taxis, all wijh tha pal blue "hired" flag up, taxime ters showing suma of 20, SS and 10 marks. - Th strategy for capturing on of these evll-smelllng bensol tanks la to offer payment of all the meter sbowa. plus a tip of SO or SO marks, plus the legal tariff for destination. Nor are the drivers of those lean survivor horse caba behind their bensol brethren In the fine art of applied grafting. In general paper money works miracles in Ger many never mora so than today. Blaeksaall la Isgeataaa. Pood and eeonomlo pressure have bred Ingenious forms of blackmail on an unprecedented scale. Illicit traf fickers In food have been known to hold up old or new customers for higher pricea by a gentle threat to expose them to the authorities, this even where the customer baa been a muni cipality. Employes bring gentle black- mall pressure on employers by threat ening to expose their violations of the and employers In turn can and do blackmail employes by threatening to revoke their reclamation or otherwise call th attention of the military au thorities to the fact that recalcitrant employes are eligible and fit for mili tary or civilian auxiliary service. Geed Haas- la Gone. Symptomatic of war's Increasing wear and tear, perhaps less of moral depreciation than of nerve attrition un dr prolonged food scantiness and eco nomic pressure, with no certain end in sight, la th marked tendency to brawl, to start a "rough house," to quarrel vio lently on slightest provocations, to be emotionally explosive and "go off" over trifles, so too there Is frequent lament and complaints over, increasing lack of courtesy and allied virtues, this par ticularly In Berlin. The "bledere" Ber llnera. once soul of good nature and racy, tart humor, have become of bear biting dispositions, snappy, quick-tempered, quick to wrath over next to nothing. World war neurologists are Justified In diagnosing it as nerve- strain, tending toward national neu rasthenia: though the Germans still have nerves of iron, if they do give way occasionally. Unwonted, symptomatic scenes re sult, such as the scandaloua "battle" between crippled war veterans and champions of the Fatherland Party at a Berlin mass meeting, tbe invited war cripples, though guests of tbe pan Germans, being roundly abused and beaten by their ruthless annexationist J hosts. uverworked police, with no time to hunt down criminals even, have plenty of extra, work trying to pre serve order at mass meetings or close them up before outbursts occur. IS FAVORED Would-Be Soldier Would Deny Wife Allotment. DIVORCE SUIT. IS STARTED Walter -IT. Huelatr Says He Doesn't Want Woman Who Calls Him ' low-Lived Bum to Share ' in Army Earnings. "Brat Strength Wins la Subways." Overcrowded subways and surface cars ar peculiarly useful hlgh-pres sure gauge for revealing the extensive temperament of the latter-day German war mind. A German observer sings of the stopping' places: "Hera combat reigns and only brute strength wins." while another asks plaintively whether a little more common sense and good will on the part of the public might not mitigate "the wild scenes 'In the subway." Mutual vlrtuperatlon not Infrequent ly leads to hostile conflict between women conductors and passengers; .a German eyewitness reports the symp- matlc scene of traffic being tied up on busy Berlin line because the con ductress climbed down from the plat form to beat up a girl who had tried to get aboard despite the peremptory All full!" a long line of cars oeing stalled while the combat raged In the street until the motorman dropped his neutrality and assisted the conductress. Bad War Manners a Menace. Loud and frequent too are the pub lic's complaints about the high-handed, insulting tone of many shopkeepers and clerks, this particularly the case in food stores where food scantiness has reversed the ordinary rulea of com merce; the seller holds the whlphand and feels that he is doing the buyer a great favor. Increasingly large is the number of tradesmen and shopkeepers whose licenses have been suspended or revoked by the authorities. That bad war manners might ulti mately become a menace of military Importance, for Insulting or Impolite treatment of the buying public if al lowed to go too far is, however, fully recognized. The Imperial Postlfflce Department has sent out circular or ders instructing all postal and tele graph employes to practice the utmost politeness in their business intercourse, and the Ministry of War. too, has or dered all its subordinates to deal promptly and politely with the public. The only cure, however, for Berlin's war "nerves" is more food mixed with the hope of peace. (To Be Continued.) directly In front of ns It stopped with a Jerk as If something had gone wrong with the machinery. Its destination was quite evidently the telephone ex change. We had no way of knowing which side it was on until It began to spout fire, shooting up the street and occasionally right Into our midst. Then m knew that It belonged to the Junkers. There were 10 In our crowd and about six were Cronstadt sailors. Tbe first victim wss a workingman. His right leg was shattered and he sank down without a sound, gradually turning paler and losing consciousness as the pool of blood widened around him. Not one of ua dared to move. A man In an expensive fur coat kspt re peating monotonously, "I'm sick of this revolution !" All that happened In the next few mlnutea Is not exactly clear we were all so excited. One thing that I re member. Which struck me even then, waa that no on In our crowd screamed. although aeven were killed In that time. I remember the two little street boys: One whimpered pitifully when he was shot and th other died In stantly, dropping at our feet an inani mate bundle of rags, his pinched, j little face covered with his own blood, i I remember the old peasant woman who kept crossing herself and whispering prayers. The hopelessness of onr position waa Juat beginning to sink In on me when the sailors with a great shout ran straight Into the fire. They succeeded In reaching the car. opened it and thrust their bayonets Inside again and again. The sharp cries of the victims rose above their snouting ana tnen suu- denly everything was slckeningiy quiet. They dragged three dead men out and they lay face op on the cob bles, unrecognisable and struck all over with bayonet wounds. Only the chauffeur escape!. Dr. A. I. Lucas MENTAL SPECIALIST and VOCATIONAL DIRECTOR Report, yesr 1917: "Dr. Lucas prevented 223 di vorces (advised 3 divorces), 13 murders, 31 suicides, 97 cases of insanity; corrected over 300 other cases of mental and psy chical derangements and physi cal disorders caused by fear, worry or sorrow. He has given over 500 physiological, psycho logical and psycho-analysis ex aminations for therapeutic and vocational guidance.'' Dr. Lucas' vocational chart informs yon of your natural vocation; over 90 per cent of the people are "mis fits." When In doubt about your health or happiness, or your vo cation, phone Main 718, A 2484, or call 538-539 Morgan Eldg. Note Address all mail to Dr. Alzamon Ira Lucas, P. 0. Box 567, Portland, Or. begged for mercy and my companion, the Bolshevik, said to the sailors. "For God's sake let him go; let's not kill any more of them than we have to." It was a most characteristic remark. They all feel that way over there. Russians hate violence and they hate to kllL At a time like that Anglo-Saxons or al most any other race would have been insane with rage at the death of their seven comrades. But the Kussians let tbe chauffeur go. We came back to the argument about Kerensky's aide as we. strolled "up the Nevsky. "I will tell you what I will do," he said. "I'll give him three days to get out if he Isn't out then he will have to go to prison." I don't think he ever thought of it again. However, In three days Kerensky's troops had been defeated and he himself was in disguise. ' Vladimir School Battle Bloody. One of the most amusing things I heard about disguises was a story con cerning Axentlef. who was very infa ential with the peasants until he Voted for coalition at the democrat con gress. By that vote he lost Vrerything, not only his position and, fits popular ity, but his long. sill;y whiskers, of which he was particularly proud. Ma dam Lebedev. rince Kropotkln's daughter, sheared them off for him when she heljMd him out of Petrograd. The . Ore- Walter TV. Huelat wants to go to war; not as a conscript but as a vol unteer. But when he goes he wants to allot half of his pay to his aged mother Instead of to his militant wife. who. he says, is endeavoring in every possible way to get him drafted. "I don't want to allot my pay as a soldier to a woman, who calls me a low-lived bum," he said yesterday In starting suit for divorce from Ethel S. Huelat on grounds of extreme cruelty. He alleges his wife has frequently expressed the wish that he could be drafted. She does this, he says. In order that she may obtain a part of his wages as a soldier. They were married In Portland In 191. William G. Cruse objected seriously when his wife, laicretla Cruse, spread butter on a sandwich for her younger sister's school lunch. At least, this is one of the allegations contained In the wife's divorce suit, which was filed yesterday. Sirs says he obtained $1000 from her younger sister, who Is yet a minor. Charges of cruelty alsq are made. They were married at Baker City in 1911. That his wife Margaret, rented their Rose City Parle home and then com pelled him to rent an apartment at more than 139 a month, while she col lected the rent from the Rose City Park home, is one of numerous charges In the divorce complaint of Harold J. Jones. This home, valued at 15000, was given to his wife by his mother, the plaintiff asserts, because she consented to a reconciliation last year after di vorce proceedings had been started be tween thm. He saya he' gave her a $1000 diamond ring after they became reconciled. He also declares she has refused to ennduot their home on $2iH a month. They have two minor chil dren. They were married at Cincin nati In 190S. Agnes Gilman says Charles Gllman compelled her to work on a farm. She thinks she is entitled to a divorce. They were married at Sacramento in 1911. Stella Stewart alleges that Otis Stew art is intoxicated most of the time, and has destroyed their marital hap piness. She wants the custody of their two children and $44 a month for their support. They were married at Coun cil Bluffs In 1907. ' Extreme cruelty Is charged against W. R. Haixlip in the complaint of Mary Edna Halzlip. They wera married in Portland In 1910. Louisa Carhart wants a divorce from George C. Carhart on grounds of desertion. They were mar ried In 1S94 and lived together for 1$ years. It took just two months to wreck the matrimonial bark of Nettle and Gust Danielson, alleges the wife, who wants a divorce on grounds of de sertion. They were married In. Janu ary, last year, and separated early in March. Cecil Allen wants, -a divorce from Richard Allen and $10 a month for the support of their minor child. They were married ' In Tillamook In 191 ". She charges extreme cruelty. Divorce decrees to three mismated couples were granted ' by Presiding judge Morrow yesterday afternoon: Agatha M. Gregory from N. C. Gregory. cruelty: Jennie A. Britt from Ortn W. Brttt. cruelty and non-adDoort. and Kid on Park from Myrtle M. Tark, de More Than Good Clothes Here " You'll find - good ' clothes : here ; Hart Schaffner & Marx is the answer to that;'but that's not enough; you want the serv ice of men who know how to help you get the right thing for you. . Our salesmen are experts; they have studied the human figure; the likes and dislikes and the needs of you men. It's a good place to buy clothes any way you look at it.' These clothes are sold on their merit of all-wool econ omy. . .$25, $30, $35 and up to $50 Sam! Rosenblatt & Co. The Men's Store for Quality and Service. Southeast Corner Fifth and Alder. jTopyright Hart Schaffner & Marx the first of next month Mr. Moore ex pects to have his mill operating stead ily and cutting about 30,000 feet of lumber dally. Mr. Moore's shingle mill and sawmill were completely destroyed by fire last December and the new sawmill was built on the site, of the old one. The lumber will be hauled across the Kelso bridge and loaded onto cars on the east aide of the river. Kelso Church Calls New Pastor. KELSO, Wash., April 20. (Special.) Rev. A. W.'Bondk of Woodland, has been called to the pastorate of the Kelso Presbyterian Church as a supply, taking the place left vacant by the resignation of Rev. P. 1, Fraser. Mr. Bond will preach at both Kelso and Woodland. . filling the pulpit In each church once each Sunday. He will make his home at Woodland, where he recently purchased several acres a short distance from town. The Kelso congregation voted unanimously to call him to the pastorate of the local church. Car Situation Improves. ABERDEEN, Wash., April 20. (Spe-cial.)-The car shortage situation has greatly eased up on Grays Harbor and mills generally are receiving as many cars as they can load. Railroad men expect cars to be plentiful during the Summer months. Phone your want ads to gonlan. Main 7070, A S095. Klickitat Section. . Goes "Over Top." WHITE P.iMON. Wash., April 20. fSpecial.) vfhat nortion of Klickitat County tributary to White Salmon has gone, setter than 100 per cent over the if'in its third liberty loan drive; Its quota was Jli.ooo and to date there has been subscribed $36,660. The in terest is stili'on and these figures will be substantially increased. Is the opin ion of the Columbia State Bank, which is handling the, fund. Lyle reports splendid returns for their section. ' Sew KMso Sawmill In Operation. KETSO. Wash... April 20. (Special.) J. K. Moore's new sawmill on the West Side has been completed and the first lumber was pawed this week. By Have You Ever: Had a Sunday Dinner at THE HAZELWOOD? If not, dine here today you will enjoy it every bit of it. 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