THE SUNDAY t dREGOXIAN, . PORTLAND," JtTCT 21, 1918.
OREGON UNIVERSITY LADS : WIND UP MONTHS STRENUOUS
TRAINING WITH HIKE UP McKENZIE AND SHAM BATTLE
One Hundred and Fifty of Colonel John M. Leader's Proteges Break Camp After Experiences Tending to Equip Them for Service Overseas, in Case
They Shall Later Be Called Into the Army. .. .
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UNIVERSITT OP OREGON SUM
MER TRAINING CAMP. Eu
gene, July 20. One hundred and
fifty Oregronians who have been re
ceiving military instruction at the Uni
versity of Oregon In preparing them
Bflves as candidates for commissiona
In the United States Army broke camp
today after a month of strenuous train
ing under the direction of Colonel John
M. Leader.
The next step for the Summer camp
student who aspires to become an offi
cer in the Army will be enrollment in
a central cfficers' training camp school
in connection with which enlistment in
the service for the period of the war is
required.
Fifty-seven of the men who have
Just completed the course of training at
the university have ijlven formal no
tice of their intention to make appli-
cation for admission .to a. central offi
cers' training school, through . Colonel
V. H. c. Bowen, military instructor at
the university, who has been designat
ed as one of the regular Army officers
in Oregon to examine and recommed
men for admission to these schools.
Twenty-Mile Hike .Taktn.
The closing days of the first Summer
camp were marked by a 20-mile hike
on the McKenzie River, a night in the
forest, followed by a 12-hour shift in
the trenches, with an attack at -night
by "Boche" forces. Dynamite bombs,
Tockets. and the explosion of mines in
"no man's land" gave the practice bat
tle all the appearances of real war
fare. The battle was staged along the
lines of actual observations made by
Colonel Leader while in service on the
Western' front. -' . - - "
Precisely at 3:30 -o'clock companies
A and B, commanded by Captain 'J. A.
McKinnon and Lieutenant : Robert 5.
!McNary, went into the northern
trenches of the training camp -system.
and C and D occupied those 200 yards
to the south, with -Captain E. E. Bro
sius and Major Charles Comfort direct
ing their activities. , '
Thus the hostilities opened. An. un
wary and uninitiated private in .the
southern" trench allowed his. head to
be seen over the "top." The' sharp
rack'of an enemy sniper's rifle woke
him with a start and he kept off the
'Xlring 'step for a time.' From then on
until dark observers stationed on the
high ground seldom saw a sign, of life
.in me rieia oeiow ihem, but an occa
clonal shot would tell of- some move
men that, had escaped their eye.
' ; Mght Battle Staved.
As darkness settled down the firing
bcame more regular and an occasional
lud -explosion told that' the artillery
was getting into action.. Sharp infan
try volleys would follow the ascent of
I. ares and rockets that revealed nront
ir-Z parties on "No Man's Land" as they
v-nt up. Now and then stretches of
the barbed wire, entanglement could be
seen under the glare of rockets or in
the flashes of mines exploding between
tno trench lines. Towards midnight
tne Dattie grew notter and hotter and
the flashes came "faster and faster,
until there was hardly a minute of
darkness over the field.-. The crash of
explosions grew Into an almost steady
roar.
At 4:30 o'clock Friday morning the
oiticers made their reports no casu
alties, no advantages. The sentries had
actecr.ea every attempt at an enemy
raid in .time for r it to be successfully
beaten off. The battle was over. Men
rolled the blankets In which they had
nought to gain a wink of sleep on the
firing line during the quieter moments
or the night and fell into line for the
Carch back-to quarters. , ..
Four Companies Reviewed.'
The closing feature of the camp this
morning. was a review of the four com
panies on the Cemetery Ridge drill
ground by Colonel Leader. The day
yesterday was devoted almost entirely
to. rest and recreation, with a reception
, and dance in the evening.
The second Summer training camp
will be given August 3 to 31. When
the applications are all in It ; is ex
pected approximately one-fifth of the
240 or more who will be chosen for the
next camp will be men who were en
rolled for. the first session of training.
They will be members of an advanced
class for which special courses will be
provided. .
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by.Gourley.)
EUGENE CAfilP LURES
Many Oregon Men Seek Train
ing at University.
CAMP TO OPEN AUGUST 3
Portland - Applicants Are TTrged to
.Inclose $3 to Cover Expense of
. Conducting Examinations; Age
Limit -Is Fixed at 40.
UNIVERSITT OF OREGON, Eugene,
July 20. (Special.) More than 100
persons, mostly from the western part
of - the state, have - made inquiry to
Colonel William H. C. - Bowen, pro
fessor of military -science and tactics
in the . university, - asking, for infor
mation regarding the central officers'
training schools just opened in the
East. Many :of the prospective appli
cants are from Portland.
Colonel Bowen announced today that
he would go to Portland to examine
applicants if a sufficient number
should request it, instead of conduct
ing .the examinations in Eugene, which
is authorized in the Adjutant-General's
announcement. He asks that each ap
plicant in Portland enclose with his
application- postofflce money order for
$3 to apply on the "cost of his trip
there. . The unused portion of the
money, he says, will be returned pro
rata to the senders.
No applicant will be considered by
Colonel Bowen, who has passed his
40th birthday, but exceptionally well
qualified men who are only slightly
above that limi$ will be referred to
the Adjutant-General of the United
States for a decision. -
Each, applicant, is. required to. send
Exploding Mine on "No Man's Land."
Photo by Courier.; . 4 Company B
to Mr. Bowen ' on a blank' to be "fur
nished by the Cofonel a certificate
from a surgeon as to his "physical con
dition. ' . .
. The Colonel urges - that all pros
pective applicants, who can arrange to
do so attend the second Summer train
ing camp to be conducted at the Uni-
PORTL.WD DEXf 1ST AT TfAVY .
TRAlMXti 'STATION.
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Dr. W. I. .North op.
Dr. W. I. Northup. Portland
dentist, who maintained offices in .
the Oregonian building, is now
stationed as a dental surgeon at
the United . States Navy training
camp at Great Lakes, 111. He bears
the rank of Lieutenant, junior
grade. The force of dental sur-.
geons at this station numbers 28
members. Mrs. Northup is with
her husband. For this reason she
will not be on hand this year to
defend her title as state cham
pion in the women's singles in.
the tennis tournament, which
opens tomorow.
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(Photo by Gonrley.) 3 Private E. II.
Entering , Trenches , for Mcht. , (Phot
versity of Oregon from August 3 to 31.
as preparation for the- training school.
It will be useless at this time, ac
cording to Colonel Bowen. to inquire
about coast artillery, engineering or
aviation tamp, as he is not authorized
to .receive applications for -training
schools in these branches of the serv
ice. .. . ..
The infantry instruction will be
given in Camp 'Lee, near Petersburg,
Va.; Camp Gordon, near Atlanta, Ga..
and Camp Pike, near Little Pock. Ark.
The Oregon men will be sent to Camp
Pike. Field antillery training will be
given at Camp Taylor, near Louisville.
Ky.t and machine gun instruction at
Camp Hancock, near Augusta, Ga.
The infantry, and- machine gun
schools will last for four. months, and
tne new artillery course . for three
months.
C0NDENSERY WILL REOPEN
Plant-at Sclo to Resume Operation
. Tomorrow.
ALB ANT, Or... July . 20. (Speoial.)
The milk condensing plant at Sclo, the
chief manufacturing Industry in that
section, will resume operation Monday.
- This plant has. been idle since about
February 1 of this year, when the com
pany operating it became -Involved in
financial difficulty and later went into
bankruptcy. -' It has been sold by the
trustee In bankruptcy to the Henning
sen Produce Company, of Portland, and
will be operated by that company; with
E. C. Peery. of Scio. as manager. "
The reopening of the plant will. be
welcomed, by the people of the north
western part of the county, as it estab
lished ' a good milk market for - the
splendid dairying country -of ' which
Scio is the .center. -
Motorist Fined' $200.
On a charge of reckless driving. A.
Finley was fined $200 yesterday in Mu
nicipal Court: R. C. Baker, a compan
ion, was fined $50 on a charge of
drunkenness and Mable Bert-and Marie
Bert, two women, companions,, were
found guilty of drunkenness and their
cases continued ior sentence.
The nation expects it to take the load
off the railroads' shoulders.
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WILLAPA HARBOR FISHERMAN
NOW IN GERMAN PRISON CAMP
Strange Tale of Disappearance of Willie Calhoun, of Bay Center, Long
Given Up for Dead by His Family.
ILWACO. Wash.. July 20. Exception
'al, yet credible, is the tale unfolded
by Dud Yerks. a fisherman of Aber
deen, who arrived here Monday with
his trusty little fish boat, the Liberty,
to troll for the royal chinook salmon.
Dud's tale concerns the disappear
ance of 'Willie Calhoun, the Bay Center
Indian, who one day, during the Christ
mas season of 1916. sputtered out be
yond Goose Point into Willapa Bay in
nis gasoline launch in r,urt of crabs,
and never returned. Willie Calhoun,
one 'of the most populat. industrious
and skillful fisherman who ever pulled
a salmon from the waters of Willapa
Bny or the Columbia River, had van
ished without leaving an inkling of his
fate behind him. Willie's family, which
included a wife and four children, ex
hausted every means at their disposal
to learn his fate, and then settled down
again to their placid Bay Center exist
ence, believing that the husband and
father had ventured out into the Pacif
ic, and had met his death in its treach
erous waters.' The lifesavlng crew at
Nt rth Cove, across the bay from Wil
lie's' home, thought they discerned a
craft in trouble in the tteml-darknes
of the evening of the day Willie Cal
houn disappeared, but this craft, if
craft it was. disappeared before assist
ance could reach it.
Weeks passed, months passed, a year
passed, and apparently Willie Calhoun
had passed. The matter of the parti
tion of his estate loomed up before
the prospective heirs, and the Indian
agent at Tacoma was petitioned to take
stepa to declare the lost one .legally
dead.
Time dragged into June of this year,
and at that time a Norwegian sailor.
Nordln was the name he gave, made
th port of Aberdeen and sought the
haunts of seafaring men. One day
Nordln overheard a conversation be
tween friends of Willie Calhoun, who
commented upon the impending dispo
sition of the property, ar.d the strance
circumstance of the disappearance. The
sailor became interested In the discus
sion, and placing fragments of the con
versation and of his own experience to
gether, a new light dawned upon him.
He asked questions, compared dates,
and finally concluded that he could dis
pel the veil of uncertainty that con
cealed the truth about the disappear
ai.ee of the lamented Willie Calhoun.
On the day following the date of
Calhoun's departure from his home In
Bay Center. Washington, said Nordin.
a British steamer which carried him as
a member of its crew sighted a gaso
line launch - drifting helplessly in the
turbulent waters near the "straits
Bearing down upon the launch, the
crew discovered that its lone occupant
was an Indian who was tinkering fu
tllely with a refractory engine, and
that he was worn out. tired and hungry.
The launch and Its lone navigator were
picked up by the tramp, which con
tinued its voyage toward the Panama
Canal. ,
Eventually the steamer entered the
submarine-infested waters of the At
lantic. and, like thousands of luckless
ships, fell a victim of a well-directed
shot from one of these undersea
prowlers. The crew of the sinking
ship. Willie Calhoun with them, were
transferred to the submarine, and later
were landed in a German port. This oc
curred before war had been declared
between the United States and Ger
many, and Calhoun, a ward of Uncle
Sam, virtually an American citizen,
was placed in -a - German detention
camp, and subjected to the vile treat
ment accorded allied prisoners of war.
This. then, was the-fate of Willie Cal
houn, as told bv Nordin. the Norwe
gian sailor, who. it appears, effected his
release a short time after nis arrival
lr.' the German port.
Unable to read or write, or other
wise explain his position to the. Hun
captors, the Bay Center Indian wa
forced to submit to the inevitable. It
Is doubtful, however, in the light of
German atrocities and flagrant viola
tfons of the - laws of neutrality,
whether appeals or explanations would
have been a factor In any effort that
Willie Calhoun might have made to
pave hla way to liberty.
Sailor Nordln's story and the de
scription of the Indian picked up by
the tramp steamer harmonise so ac
curately, with, the facts concering Cal
houn and his disappearance that the
Ii dian agent believes that it is still
possible to locate him in some Ger
man detention camp, and an effort is
new being made to secure his release,
or at least to determine his location,
through Swiss intermediaries and the
Red Cross.
Meanwhile. Willie Calhoun's family
ere w&itjig and hoping and trusting
that the tidings shall soon arrive that
will prove to them that the lost one
is still
live, even though he may be
hoping against hope, within
toiling.
the noxious confines of a German pris
on camp.
FIFTY-FOUR RECLASSIFIED
Slorc Changes Likely to Be Made by
Linn Exemption Board.
ALBANY, Or, July 30.- (Special.)
Fifty-four Linn County draft regis
trants who wer given deferred classi
fication on the original examination of
the questionnaires have been reclassi
fied by the local exemption board and
the district board at Eugene, itx more
cases in which the local board, recom
mended reclassification are yet under
consideration by the district board.
Fifty-three of the men were ad
vanced from classes 1. 3 and 4 to class
1. One was advanced from class 4 to
class 2. Eight of the men reclansified
re now in the emergency fleet work.
The list of re-classiflcatlons was an
nounced today by Miss Mae Tillman,
clerk of the local exemption board, and
is as follows, the men in Emrirency
LIFT OFF C
Frcczonc is magic I Apply a few drops on
a sore, touchy corn or a painful callus. Instant
ly that corn or callui stops hurting you. Then
shortly you lift that bothersome corn or callus
right off, root and all, with tlfe fingers. No!
Not one bit of pain, no soreness, no irritation.'
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A few cents buys tiny bottle of the magic Frcerone at any drug store
Sufficient to remove every bard corn, soft corn, com between the toes and
painful callus from one's feet. ? reezone is the much-talkcd-of ether tlis-
covery of a Cincinnati genius.
a twinge of pain. Why wait?
Fleet work being indicated by the Ini
tials "E. F.":
Registrants placed in Clas 1 Frank A.
Snx, Kclo: l'!trnc Plrec. Harnsburc:
Krl Calvin VinHh.n. Harriftburg: t i c k
PortUnd. Clyde Lnrrell Uountng. Ietro;t;
Christian Conrad Gcrig. Albany: Irv1!'i
Judd 1 hompHon. tin of Euuene: Walter
Kng-elmann, Lebanon: Holt Craft. Crabtiee;
Jania Hoffman, now of Sarramomo. Cal.:
Harvey Ikellar ToIIert. Foilrr: Kobert
Llvtnpstott. Albany: Jesse. Kay. Joseph;
Lester Thomas Northern. Brownsville: Kl.ay
Gilbert Syiveater. Lebanon: Rov te.l Rey
nolds, now of Lon Beach. Cal. t K. F. 1 :
Clarence M. Sprinsate. Harrishnr.c: William
Fiona. Brownsville: Hiram W. Torbet. Al
bany; Robert Lynn Houston. Albany: Tioy
Henry Klnser. Crabtree. Harry Clifford Pat
ton. Mabel: Fred Lee Cornel. Lebanon:
Emll Ht-nkel. now of Leroy, Mont.: Clarence
Leroy Weser. Brownsville; Woodson Pleroi
Jenks. Tangent: Joseph Anton Schneider.
Sclo E. K. ; Klein Frtsar Newton, now f
Portland B. F. ) : Walter G. Stellir.acher.
Tnjent: Frank W. Combs. Sclo: Kay W.
Billings. Foe-er: Orvtlle. J. riownlnx, t. -comb:
I. via Biffbe. Seattle. Wash, t F. ;
Charles H. tvairU ficlo: Clark B. Huiei. Tort
land: Glvlnarl PloneJI. rot-Hand; Ilalpl) M.
K-nton. Tortland E. F.I: Louts t. Mnem-b.
Albiny; Clyd Earl Starr. PortlajnJ (E. F.i;
John P. Sllb.rnael. Portland (K. F: Fred
erick H. Champagne. Portland f E. F.); Fred
Carlton, ncv of Cle Elum. Wash.; AIMn
Benjamin Nothlser. Pwet Home: Ora r.
Baker, formerly of Albany and now of Pose
burg: Joseph Vaniieriander. Lebanon; Wal
ter JuhnKe. Foster; Ernest H. Buelow. Leb
anon: George W. Beers, Cornelia; Roy T.
Cooper. Tangent: James Jabper Caswell. Al
bany; Willis Earl Brown, Lyons; Hutfh.
Isom. Albany.
Registrant advanced to Class 5 Nell M.
Bain. Aatorla.
Six to Take Training Course.
SALKM. Or.. July 10. (Special.)
Six Willamette University students, in
addition to the 12 already named, will
be sent to the Presidio, for intensive
military training to act as assistants
In the training course to be given here.
Pean George II. Alden tonight an
nounced that the following three of tha
six named have accepted: Carl Davis.
Salem: Harold Nichols, Newberg. and
R-lssell Rarey, Seattle. The 12 selected
several data ago reported at the Tre
"sldlo July in.
Read The Oregonian classified ad.
Corns and calluses lift away without even
No humbug
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