TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, AUGUST 11, 1918. MEN FROM NORTHWEST IN SERVICE WRITE TO HOME FOLKS Portland Youlh Writes of Arrival in France. dm T. Hall Says Yaakeea Ilsve Heal Fighting Spirit. PORTLAND relatives have received word of the safe arrival In France of Private Oren L. Hall, known to his friends as "Bunk" Hall, a former Port land boy. Just prior to his departure lie wrote the following letter from Camp Mills to his mother, Mrs. Julia 6. Hall: -We have finally arrived at our port of embarkation and are waiting for a transport to take us across. We had some excursion from Fort Leavenworth here. We went through Kansas City and over the Wabash Railroad through Illinois. We missed Chicago, but went northeast to Detroit and crossed to Windsor. Canada, recrossing into the Elates at Niagara Falls. A Red Cross delegation met us there with candy, n 4-- choice of a- bath or shower, so to make T.o mistake, took both. I came into the lobby wondering where next I'd turn. It did not take me long to decide, for I had not been there five minutes when a 'Y' officer spied me and singled me out for a 'once over.' Before he was through with me I was perfectly at home in London. I had met an Anzac from New Zealand, a Belgian and a Canadian from Vancouver, B. C, besides several Yanks from all over the U. S. "There is not a thing that one can wish for, from a meal to a needle and thread or bed or Information as to the proper tube to take to reach Hyde Park, to news from home, home papers and magazines and home cigarettes and to bacco and home vaudeville, that cannot be supplied here right under this roof. One is given notepaper and envelopes, stamps may be bought, a wire may be sent, and ice cream eoda and toilet articles can be purchased. You can get shaved and have your hair cut by an American barber, cost for both five cents. A shoe shine Is two cents and you can play a game of cool for four jcerits. "There is not a camp In England, France or Ireland where one cannot see the red triangle sign displayed before some sort of a hut. It means 'home' to all of us, or rather It takes the place of home since we are so far away." Corvallis Youth Wounded on Field of Battle. Lieutenant Albert G. Sbrlton, of the Marine Corps, la French Hospital. xt4i Ores L. Ball. Parti Has Arrived laad Msa. Who I la Fraaee. J Transport Work Strenuous, but Worth While. Marioa P. Martla Describes Hia Experience With U-Boats. 0 REGON , AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, Aug. 3. (Special. Lieutenant Albert G. Skelton, of the United States Marine Corps, a son o G. V. Skelton, professor of highway en gineering in the Oregon Agricultural College and a graduate of the college in highway engineering, cabled hi father that he had been wounded in the arm, but was "all right" and had been taken to a hospital at Caen. Lieutenant Skelton was a Captain o Company H of the College Cadet Corps and vice-president of the senior class. He joined Company K of the State Militia when he was 18 years old. He was a sergeant during the Mexican border troubles and In May, 1917, re ceived a commission as Second Lieu tenant In the United States Marine gum and smokes. As It was dark we did not see the falls. "There are 30.000 men at this camp waiting to embark quite a village of tents. Will try to get leave so as to visit New Tork City while here. A trip across the country such as we took, with all the patriotic receptions and wonderful American scenes and all they stand for, certainly puts the fight ing spirit into any true American." Soldiers Find Home in "Y." on Both Sides of Atlantic L. O. Ralston. Jr.. of Portland, Writes Enthusiastically of Trian gle Comforts. AN Idea of how much the T. M. C. A. means to enlisted men Is obtained in a letter received in Portland from L. O. Ralston. Jr., written from the Eagle T. M. C. A. Hut in London. He Is a former Portland boy who lived at 60S Market street Drive. He became a member of the British Army Tank Corps in Seattle on April 27. 118, leav ing that evening for Chicago. "When I arrived in . Chicago," he writes, "I found that I would not be able to make immediate train connec tions and that I would have to remain there over night. My first thought was: "Where shall I stayT There were several things to be considered in con nection with this question, mainly, though, cleanliness, accessibility, and last but not least, the price. Let me ay right here, that when a Tommy draws only 34 cents a day, price as sumes enormous proportions In any argument concerning either food or lodgings. My first thought was the Y.' I inquired my way and found it to be very centrally located as con cerns the railroad depots in Chicago. On reaching there I found a real hotel with 1800 rooms, elevator service, tub nd shower baths, restaurant and lunch counter, open all night, and private phones. Imagine my surprise when I found that the most I could pay for a room for one night was 30 cents. "Upon arriving at Montreal, I found that I had missed train connections by ' a small margin and would have to stay there over night. Again the T came to the rescue. I found an enormous hut where the accommodations were practically the same aj In Chicago with beds for 501, meals at two-thirds the Drice chareed outside and cigarettes and tobacco at half price. The place j cruiser. Is maintained almost exclusively for the boys In khaki. "In London, the first Tommy I asked regarding a place to rest said, the American T Eagle Hut right up the Strand.' I went up there and the first thing I did was to enjoy a real Ameri can meal at a total cost of 36 cents. It was more than I could have had In a restaurant for 75 cents where there Is not the shortage of foodstuffs that there Is here. Then I booked a bed and bath for 21 cecs for both. It was a real spring bed with sheets, a scarce article in the British army. Had my GOTTAGE GROVE,Or.,Aug.lO. (Spe cial.) Marlon P. Martin, who was born here and is remembered by old- timers of the Cottage Grove country. and who la now. In point of years, one of the oldest enlisted men In the Navy, has written Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Hawley some Interesting war Incidents. He evidently is on a troop transport. He says: "We left New Tork May 10, arrived in a French port MT, 23, having a pleasant and uneventful trip. May 29 we sailed for New Tork In consort with three others, the steamer President Lincoln as flagship. The convoy left us early on the evening of May 30. All four steamers were running parallel with one another, the Lincoln 250 yards from us and on ou starboard side. On the morning of May 31 a sub marine came up. almost under our bow and hurled a torpedo which missed us by four feet and hit the Lincoln. She was so close to us that we eould not use our guns and from the protection of our sides she sent another torpedo into the Lincoln and 20 minutes later the boat stood on her stern and went down with four officers and 23 men. "Two and a half hours later another submarine came up alongside of us andj was received with two six-Inch shells, so we heard of it no more. June 1 at 5:20 we had a pitched battle with an other sub, all three ships that were left taking part. About 30 shots, were fired, our gunners getting another sea snake to their credit. We arrived in port June t. Left again for France on the 15th. July 1 we again left France heavily convoyed. Eleven hours later. Just at dark, an other of our sister ships, the Coving ton, was struck. The destroyer fleet stood by her and got her within two hours of a French port, when she went down with six men, among them one of my best friends. We came reeling Into port yester day. I am pretty weak, as this life Is strenuous, but dear friends, it's worth the money. No tongue can tell and no pen picture the sorrow, the desolation of poor, bleeding, broken - hearted France. It is a beautiful country, but everything Is sacrificed to the war god." ' - Mr. Martin says In his letter that the commander of the submarine which sank the President Lincoln was edu cated in New York, which would Indi cate that the crew was captured. Mr. Martin continues: I do not know whether or not shall go out again soon. I am kindly treated and can truthfully say that I have yet to hear the first unkind word from an officer. This life le wearing. I weigh 30 pounds less than I did four months ago. ....... f isyww" .munjj. mtm i'jje ' v 'l !l " - ' r I I f- r ; J I ' 4 , a yy r: 4? ' v y ,;: n - a " Vif . J ' " -T Us- ' V - 1 r - , - 3 n , ' v . lt t - ' - ' fr - I Ly, . . .a a-i-g? tnmt jf Lieutenant A. G. Skeltoa. Corps at the age of 20. He landed in Frtnce November 10, 1917. He was with the Marines- in the heavy fighting at Chateau Thierry and in the late offensive against the Huns above the Marne. He went through the thick of this heavy fighting without a scratch. Lieutenant Skelton was active in col lege life and always showed the kind of initiative that wins. ' . Portland Boys Catch Wat Spirit on Way to Camp. High Compliment Paid to Young: Men by R. E. Millard, Y. M. C. A. Secretary. umn of fours, and marched to the re ceiving shed, where they were given a preliminary examination and then as signed to their barracks. "A fact that impressed me deeply was that among the 700 men there was not a case of drunkenness, not a drop of 'booze' nor even the smell of liquor on any man's breath. They were, in truth, the very flower of Portland's manhood, and we have good reason to be proud of -them. When the American Army la in the Gresham Boy Not Bothered by Pounding of Guns. John K. Honey, With Ambulance Company in France. Tells of Nar row Escape. EVEN when the guns are pounding continually and Oregon Is hundreds battle line in its full strength, and the of miles away, John K. Honey, a for hour has struck for a general advance. I ,er Gresham boy, can imagine he Is will strike with our allies, swiftly and terribly, the more so because we fight for 'righteousness' sake,' and 'thrice armed is he whose cause Is just.' " Portland Youth Writes of San Diego Sinking. Clay Haxard in Water Six Hours Before Being Rescued. on a fishing party somewhere In the Oregon woods, so he says in a letter to his father, W. F. Honey, of Gresham. He has been in active service in France for a year with an ambulance company. "We are all proud as peacocKs In this section now," he writes. "We received ; a citation from our division for our I work during a recent attack. No Indl jvldual citations, but we can paint the Croix de Guerre (War Cross) on our waa7; burm.rh"ylUhaectoy.djuasCt6th0ef Br crtn, a German hand gren as reserve infantry all the time and aro waiting for Fritx with beaucoup grenades. I saw the boche put a beautiful barrage on our front line. What the Yank and the French artil lery do to Fritx all the time you can judge by the recent article In The Oregonian." "I am pleased with the tone of The Oregonian articles on the war. They express confidence. Many of the pa pers read like knockers compared to the spirit over here. If you want to know the morale of the allied soldiers, put it 60 per cent over anything you read." Portland Boy Saves Lives of Young Comrades. Ferris Abbett, With Steel Helmet, Covers Hun Hand Grenade. July 4 Is Celebrated on German Soil. Portland Boy, In France. Writes Bis Mother of Sad Fnle of French Girls in Hands of Hons. n one of the sectors the boys TJWGENE, Or., Aug. 3. (Special.)- CLAT HAZARD is a former Portland boy, who was on board the San Diego when It wits torpedoed. His mother, Mrs. G. M. Hazard, of 743 East Stark, was made happy recently when she received a letter from him saying j that he is none the worse for his ex perience. "We stayed to our guna and fired until our waists were in water," he writes. "After that we went over the side and swam as fast as possible. She sank 21' minutes after being hit. I was In the water for several hours, but the time went fast. We were all singing. Hail. hail, the gang's all here." "All I saved was one suit of under wear and a white hat, a Canadian nickel and two pennies. "Believe me, the water was surely sold. We had to keep moving to keep from getting cramps. We got into New York about three o'clock In the morning. The news looks good the last War to Work Big Changes Writes Hotchkiss. Captain Stationed Abroad Sets Forth His Impressions. Peter P. Gibbons Describes . San Diego. Graphle Story Told by One of Boys on Torpedoed Cruiser. OW the lads of the San Diego "car rled on" when that particular unit of Uncle Sam's fleet was sent to the bottom a week or so ago off the At lantio Coast is told In a letter from Peter P. Gibbons, who was on the I.EBtOT MAS FALLS WHILE KIGHTl.VG O.X FRO XT. t 1 W - : ' . ' . -.1 V :.' : ; If '" J-.--- ;. -.---4 1 f;-- .-f f , . i ' - . jf . V He wrote the letter to his sister. Miss Anna Gibbons, of 416 Multnomah street His mother, Mrs. J. B. Gibbons, ol Oklahoma City. Is visiting in this city. A brother, Lawrence Gibbons, is with the spruce production division at Van couver. "I was "hello boy on the switchboard when we left Portsmouth," he writes. "Everything was going fine until we heard a loud bang and felt a jar. "I did not see the submarine, but the boys who did said that we sunk her with the first shot. We all had our lifebelts and our canteens. "Some of the boys were killed when they jumped off. Luckily, the sea was not very rough, so with the lifebelt I got along pretty well. I swam away from the ship and kept close to a raft so that in case I should be seized with a cramp I would have something to hanr onto. "When I turned around I could see that the bost was sinking. There were still four or five men on her. They all waved good-by. The Red Cross Is tak ing care of us now." William E. Heinrlch. News has reached Lebanon, Or., in a telegram from Major McCain to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Heinrlch that their son. William E. Hein rlch. was seriously Injured in action in France on July 18. ,H enlisted last November at San Francisco, where be was em ployed at that time, and was sent to Camp Lewis. On May C he went overseas and was assigned to Company E, 68th Regiment. He went into the trenches on the Marne front. Private Heinrlch Is 24 years of age and was raised in Lebanon, where his parents have resided for more than 20 years. Gruesome Side of War Is Told by Dallas Boy. Detraction ef Towns In France Is Deplored Soldier Assigned to II u rial Details. SOMETHING of the spirit of the men who left here recently for Camp Lewis is told in a letter received from realization of the meaning of National ff'T'HIS war has been a good thing A lor us ail, writes captain Clar ence R. Hotchkiss, Company E, 162d Infantry, to' William Denney, of The Oregonian engraving department. America will be a difierent America when we return, and you will find that a great change has also taken place in the men of the A. E. F. We have, many of us for the urst time, had an opportunity to compare our own country with other countries. And we have seen these other coun tries, not as a tourist would see them, but free from many of the pretenses aid artificialities that are likely to hide the true character of a people; have seen them as they really are, and have gained not a little from the ex perience. "The return of the men of the A. E. F., with their new spirit of patriotism gained from a knowledge of other countries and other people, to America, with her new spirit of patriotism gained from the anxieties and sacrifices of war and . the new T I- v - " St T i 4 ade with his steel helmet and standing on the headgear, Ferris Abbott, son of Rev. J. T. Abbett, pastor of the Univer sity Park Methodist Church in Port land, saved the lives of oomrades and escaped with his own life, according to an account of the incident related to friends here by Dr. William Carl Don ey, president of the Willamette Uni versity, who recently returned from France. Ferris Abbett lived in Eugene for many years, where his father was for merly pastor of the Methodist Episco pal Church, and later superintendent of the Eugene district for the Metho dist Church. Abbett was Btandlng with a group of soldiers when the bomb alighted. He acted before the other men realized what had happened, according toDr. Doney. He was thrown high in the air and severely (injured, but will re cover. Clay Hazard, Portland Boy, Saved From Sinking Steamer. Robert E. Millard, a Y. M. C. A. secre tary, who was one of those sent to ac company the men to Camp Lewis. "When the train stopped for a few minutes on the EaBt Side," he says, "one of the 'Y' men alighted and within one minute had the men in the coaches singing at the top of their voices: We're In the Army now. We're in the Army now. The Hun had better begin to run. We're in the Army now. "As the train moved on, one of the T men, beginning at the rear coach made a trip through the train, speak ing about 10 minutes in each car, giv ing various phases of army life; in' structions on what to do when reach' ing camp; answering questions, and lastly, giving the men a straight-front' the-shoulder talk on clfpn living, obe dlence to orders and the spirit of will ingness to do more than one's duty. unity, will be an advantage for u all, and I do not doubt that out of It will come an era oi pruisyciuj, glory end influence for our country that will make her a world leader for centuries to come. This is the reward for waging a just war. "I think that our participation in the war has been longer than most people In the United States -suspected It would be. There has undoubtedly been a general lack of appreciation of the magnitude of the undertaking. To those who did understand the situa tion, however, the results are satisfac tory. . 'The war will end in good time, with' victory for the allied cause. We have only to be patient and see it through to the end. "Our camp here is In an ancient city of the Old World. I am commander" of the camp we are stationed in now. and this morning I raised the Amer ican flag on a pole we had just placed. It is the only American flag flying in week. The civilized world owes a priceless debt to this wiry blue poilu. One of our cars brought in an escaped English prisoner, who had been cap tured the last of May. "We've been chased out of our can tonments three times; the last time we had to 'get' so quickly that we lost a lot of our stuff. We have been very fortunate in getting off without a scratch so far, although almost every body has had narrow escapes. We are minus one car, which we couldn't get out. After a gas attack, the men keep coming in for 48 hours afterward, the bad cases first and then those that were not affected at first. A shell lit about ten feet in front of our Lieuten ant's car, but the 'eclat', all went for ward, only two pieces hitting the car. One piece went through the cushion on which he i$as sitting, but didn't touch him. One other car had a big piece taken out of the body, but the driver did not know it had happened until he got back." - France to Be First to Take Up Western Ideas. Her People Quick to Cope With Any Situation, Says Leland Svarverad, of Eugene. Now at Front. July this year on German soil just to peeve the Kaiser," wrote Sergeant Merle DeA. Carr, demonstrator and in structor in the gas service with the First Army Corps in France, In a let ter to Mrs. Carr, 452 East Fourteenth street North. The letter was dated" July 3, the day before the Independ ence day celebration referred to. Ex cerpts from Sergeant Carr's letter fol low: "Up in the sector where our marines fought so gallantly they found after they had driven the boche out of Bol leau woods women's shoes and cloth ing that had belonged to tho poor little French girls who had fallen into the TRAFFIC MANAGER TO TAItB UP ARMS IS FRANCE. fmr nwy ,Wfl'WWW nfr wu1. y n'l w v I"". wiau www - ""'J' I . , . . J 1 . 1 fcJ The other secretary from Camp ln Pw ." rou"1"' "u " " 6"uu T.Attric .c.lol.il hv W TT Warran nt I lO Bee 11. the Portland T. M. C. A., covered the Portland Girl Assists in Coaling Steamer. Bliss Evelyn Hill Writes of 'Trip Across Atlantic. IX 'Mof'l I AVAL FORCES, V . 1 DALLAS. Or., Aug. I. (Special.) James Lynn, of this city, who en listed at the outbreak of the war with Company L, Third Oregon, describes his first experience in the trenches. In a letter to his brother, Charles Lynn, of Dallas, he writes: "I have had my first hitch at the front since I ' started this letter. I might have finished up there, but it is a poor place to write too much noise. We are located on one of the worst sectors on the western front, and ii surely is a tough place. It Is a great comfort to know that while Fritx deals us misery with his shells and gas. he is getting it about 10 times as hard in return. "It is an awful thing to look upon the destruction of war. I wish you could see some of these towns that have been shelled, but I hope that you will never have to come across. "I have been on five different burial details. The men are buried after night and also under shell fire. If I live to get back, believe me, I can eat. anything or sleep any place." After arriving in France Lynn was transferred from Company L to A reg ular regiment of infantry. entire train distributing free of charge maps of Camp Lewis and adjacent ter ritory, postcards, paper and envelopes, copies of Trench and Camp,' the offi cial paper of this cantonment, and sev eral hundred copies of a Portland dally paper. Stamps were then sold, and the cards and letters were collected bv the secretaries for mailing. . I T were tne experiences oi anss "The boys detrained, formed in col- j Evelyn Hill, Red Cross nurse, who Is -with the Base Hospital Unit. No. 46, PORTLAND DENTIST COMMISSIONED I American Expeditionary Forces, in her recent trans-Atlantic voyage. These experiences, which included assisting to coal the steamship, were recounted In a letter just received by Miss Hill's family, who live at 1932 East Morrison street. "One day we were taken over the en tire ship. by the second officer and we even helped coal the steamer for a couple of minutes," wrote Miss Hill. "It almost broke our hetr to see the lads stoking in the engine room, but they do not mind the heat, replying to our inquiry, "oh, you get used to it.' Last night we had a beautiful concert and a collection was taken up for the wid ows and orphans of the men lost at sea. Everyone was very liberal. I felt like giving my last cent, but we had to keep a little for future emergencies. 'We have a boat drill each day, when we all rush madly to our own boat. Afterward we have a band concert and tea served in the music room at 4 P. M. In the evening we usually have a sing In the officers' smoking room. 'I can hardly wait for the day when I go on duty again. We are living in an inspiring uncertainty you never feel tired, yet, I go to bed and sleep like a baby. Our beds are very com fortable and our food Is exceptionally good much better. In fact, than In the metropolis of our own United States. But these letters should not be too long for the sake of the poor censor. I saw him wading through some lengthy epistles this morning and he did not look altogether pleased." Morale of Allied Troops Is Reported High. Dean II. Dickinson, Former Reed College Student, Confident Ger mans Have No Chance. t I -if 1 THE morale of the allied soldiers is 50 per cent stronger than the most optimistic reports in the press, ac cording to Dean H. Dickinson, former Reed College student in the engineer ing service "over there." Young Dick inson, who was among the first to en list in the 116th Oregon Engineers, has been made a corporal and awarded a gold service stripe for six months' service in France. In recent letters to his mother and sister, he says in part: "It. must be about noon out in dear old Oregon. The sun la Just going down in the west here. You should see this part of France, It is wonder ful in this season. The fields are red with scarlet popples and here and there are patches of bright yellow mustard. It seems to be a rich grain country. The wheat Is waist high almost every where. Nature is wonderful, you know. When a town is shot up it lies lke a scar on the landscape, but nature patches up the fields as fast as the shells fall. Trenches abandoned a year ago look now like grassy old drainage ditches. "Tho other day I got my litsje gold service stripe for six months in France I have been in the 'advanced zone' al most since landing, so that am almost entitled to It under the. old ruling Also was made corporal ; lately. i "Since I last saw Corporal Virgil Hyland I have moved to ten different places and have had some experiences, too. Sometimes I wish Virgil Hyland and Mead Gillman were with me and then again I am glad they are not. 'In our little bivouac we only have a gas guard; the doughboys see to the boche in the front line. We are held T71UGENE, Or., Aug. 10. (Special.) Hi France will be the first of the na tions of the old world on recovering from the effects of the war to adopt th progressive ideas of the new world, i the opinion of Leland Svarverud, son of M. Svarverud, secretary of the ap peal board for the second district Oregon. He writes from Paris under date of June 30: "The great German war machine ha now established as her objective the wonderful city of Paris, a city know in the past as second to none for he gaiety and beauty, but now a city full of conscientious and industrious people a people who are striving with all their might for their freedom and the freedom of the world. "By the time you get this letter will have been in France six months, and, although I have been in Paris most of the time, I have also been in the nural districts a short while and from my observations I have neve known a more grateful and home loving people than the French. "They are quick to cope with any new situation that may arise and more than ready to accept new ideas introduced by the Americans, and there is no doubt but she will be the first European nation to accept the new ideas that are sure to come after the German menace is extinguished. "Although America and Franee have always been on amicable terms, you can now see that the future will bring forth a binding friendship, caused by Intermarriage during the war and com mercial activities after the war. "The defeat of Austria on the Italian front and the failure of the German offensive on the western front prove that Germany, a nation that held kultur as a philosophy and was as a science, is doomed and will be defeated in such a decisive way that she will never again hold enough power to put the world in another great turmoil. "The people, having had a taste of the horrors of war, will bend their en ergies toward higher civilization and make a world that is wanproof." Corporal Dalby on Firing Line in France. Portland Boy Says Oregon People Are Loyal to Cause. FROM France, dated May 81, arrived a letter from Corporal C. M. Dalby, written to his father, C. E. Dalby, of 935 East Ankeny street. He says he Is on the firing line and that things are surely humming. "We surely have some airmen," he says. "In a gas attack, we kept our masks on for two hours, and that was not very nice. The gas masks and helmets are our best friends. I am sitting beside my old gun now. Have named It Oregon's fighting piece, and it . surely makes good. The boys over here surely feel that Oregon is true to us. The papers show that the people over there' are back of us." BLACK BEAR CUB IS MASCOT FOR SOLDIERS. -V i to-? Hood River Youth Writes Under Shell Fire. "Billy" Haras, of Hood River, la Anxlons for American Tobacco. 1 4 4 irlAi'X CTferf Lieutenant Francis C. Jones. Dr. Francis C Jones, dentist, for merly in the Oregonian building, has been commissioned Lieutenant in the HOOD RIVER, Or., Aug. 2. (Spe cial.) In a letter received re cently by Edward Thornton from Billy Moran. members of a Canadian regi ment, the latter reviewed his experi ences In the trenches. He writes: "I am sitting In a dugout, writing this letter while big shells are burst ing nearby." At this point the letter was interrupted. On resuming)! he says: 'Pardon the break in"-this missive. I thought the Germans had thrown an automobile at us. I went to Invest! United States Navy and has been or- gate. A shell from a 'Jack Johnson' dered to the Pelham naval training struck a pile of beef tins and scat station in New York. Lieutenant Jones tered them to the four winds." had been practicing several years fol- Mr. Moran says the greatest desire lowing his graduation here, and he is of the soldiers In the trenches is for well known in medical and dental clr- cigarette tobacco or their favorite cles, brand oi cigarette, ' ' v.-' : .''itt ' Captain Toose and Charge. i OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL- LEGE, Corvallis, Aug. 10. (Spe cial.) A little black bear re cently purchased by the soldiers of the Oregon Agricultural Col lege detachment is a great favor ite with the men. The bear has been named Poppy. The bear was caught in the mountains. A farmer boy living near Corvallis traded a calf for it and later offered it to the men of the detachment. Twenty-five dollars was raised in ten minutes and turned over to the youngster. The bear will be turned over to the second soldier detachment, which will arrive at the college August 15. Oregon Best, Writes Aviator From France. Carter Johnson Says France Is Pretty Women Doing All the Work. Si-,:. : -otv., - : . 4 A I. h . ) f " V t . , -V ?WV. -i 1 1 f -, V1 - j, r - ; , r - ,t il 4 Lieutenant Frank M. Moore. Frank M. Moore, well known in railroad circles and for eight years traffic manager for Olds, Wortman & King, has tendered his resignation and departed for the front. Mr. Moore received a Lieuten ant's commission In tho Construc tion Engineers' Corps, with In structions to leave at once for port of embarkation. clutches of the Crown Prince's army. The next trip I take up there I think I shall bring back some of those ar ticles and send them to the papers at home to display In the window as an ad for German kultur. "Last night, as is usual every night. the big guns were tearing up Heinie's affairs. The flash of the guns on the sky is like Summer lightning and at times the detonations blend together like the roll of a drum. "At times when Heinle's planes start out on an air raid the anti-aircraft guns make the sky ring with the nolne and the bullets come down like hnil long after the guns stop. "Some few days ago I witnessed three airplane attacks on one of our observation balloons. Each time Heinle made a dash at the big sausaco we showed him plainly that we were annoyed by his presence. We would haul down our balloon and shower Heinle with little puffs of white smoke that represent the burst of anti-aircraft shells. But Heinle is persistent. On hia third effort Heinle threw( all cau tion to the winds. He made a dash for the sausage, but an anti-aircraft shell hooked him and Heinle came down 'by the run' with his tail on fire, and he hit the ground so hard that they had to pick him off the scenery with 'cootie comb' and a putty knife." CENTRALIA ATHLETES WIN Shot Put at Field Sleet in France Taken by Dale Hubbard. CENTRALIA. Wash., Aug. 10. (Spe cial.) Dale Hubbard, a former Centra- la high school athlete who Is in France with a regiment of foresters, partici pated in a field meet held In France on July 1, Dominion Dny, according to a letter received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Hubbard. He won the hot put and was a member of the team that won the tug-of-war. Palmer Brunton, another former Cen- trallan, participated in a meet on July 4, winning the 100 and lbO-yard ashes. Ha ran the former In Army togs in less than 11 seconds. Young Brunton tells of having met William Scales, a former Centralis usincss man and officer In the Second Washington Infantry, who enlisted as private the day Company M, 161.it Infantry, left Camp Murray for the East Mr. Scales at the time Brunton met him was commanding a casual company. "REGON is still the best place of J all, writes Carter J. Johnson, of the Naval aviation forces, after seeing all of the West Coast, Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coast and a good bit of France. He Bays that he has always wanted to make that trip, but never thought he'd do It under such favor able circumstances. "Quaint, old-fashioned houses, set among clumps of trees, shrubbery or grape-vines, greeted me on my arrival in France, be writes. I saw old men and women, some of them very old, and young boys and girls In the checker board fields, working as peacefully as though the war were not within 100 miles or so. "This is a beautiful country. A net work of roads is lined with maple, elm, oak and pine trees. Many of the roads are long and straight, but oth ers wind gracefully through the small villages. Houses are mostly one story high, made of concrete, tile or stone. The workmanship is very good, though the structures seem to us massive and clumsy. Most of the dwellings have fireplaces, but little fuel is used. The poor use grape-vine twigs, dry weeds, grass, leaves, pine cones ana pine needles for fuel. "The climate is much like that of the Pacific Coast mild and healthful. "We are in a grape belt. - There ta lots of wine in evidence. Every store or cafe has it for sale, but the Amer icans don't take to It very much. "Women of all ages are doing farm work, driving teams, making roads, railroads, manufacturing lumber and running streetcars and autos. "We couldn't be treated any better. We are welcome everywhere. The mothers give us their smiles and. the old men take off their hats to us. "Forests here are being conserved better than in America. Theyare plan ning to have Umber always, and take care of every stick of it," ' , PORTLAND BOY HOPES TO BE t HOME IS YEAH. "V ft t - I I r - J r A y a Private John Clcmensoa. John Clemenson, a private In Hospital Unit 46, now in France, expects to be home by this time next year, according to a letter received by his parents, Mr. end Mrs. J. A. Clemenson, 8S8 East Burnslde street. He writes: "We are now at our perrrancnt camp, and I am rather ghd that our traveling is over for a vhile t at least. I will have lots to tell J about It when I come hoi.e. I France is a pretty country and Is I very much like Oregon. Our camp is a dandy. Ws have barracxs and good bunks ajd plenty of food." . - .... -e-e-Sj f