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Jfimfar Automobile News and Musical Resume SECTION FOUR Pages 1 to 4 VOL. XXXVII. PORTLAND, OREGON. SUNDAY. MORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1918. NO. 43. VI uy Furniture Now! efore -the Advance Furniture prices are climbine: higher and higher, and" they may never again be as low as they are now. Buy furniture now that's our advice. YouH save at least 25 per cent on the advance prices we know you'll have to pay by delaying your buying later on. HOMER MORGAN ACCOUNTS FOR 16 BOCHES IN RECENT TERRIFIC FIGHTING IN FRANCE Boys From Almost Every Section of Northwest Participate in Great Battle to Free World From Menace ofi Kaiserism and Autocracy Terror. And, just remember our usual credit terms are decidedly unusual when compared to the terms most stores offer. You cannot get easier terms or more liberal treatment than Gadsbys' offer that's positive. Your Choice Chair or Rocker $12.50 Th. Reed Chair and Rocker we ara offering on sale. This is much better than Illustrated. Has higher back and broader arms, upholstered, reversible ere ton cushions. Your choice, chair or rocker, special at, Gadsbys' S12.50 each. Sold on easy terms. Sl.OO a Week. pa leg mi - HillMl ijfeas- Gadsbys have just the Heater you want at the right price and right terms $1.00 a week. This l the bast-style combination wood and coal heater you can buy. Large fire door for big pieces wood, also grates that can be turned for coal; cheerful fireplace door in front. We also, have this same heater for wood only for less money. All heaters sold on easy terms. $1.00 a week. No charge for setting up. We carry In stock all sizes of wood heaters down to the cheap est, as illustrated above, from $3.50 up. Sold on easy terms. Sl.OO a Week. LIBERTY STEEL RANGES mst a PRIVATE CHARLES J. PORTER, son of Mrs. Elsie O. Porter, 494 East Ankeny street, refused an appoint ment to an officers' training school be cause it would of necessity break up a company quartet of which he was a member. The story was published in a recent issue of "Trench and Camp, the Y. M. C. A. paper, where Private Porter is stationed. He was inducted into the Army last June. Members of the quartet were chosen from 3700 con testants in the Presidio. He took part in many amateur entermininenLs in Portland. His voice has made him especially popular in Army circles. Dr. Thomas W. Ross, with offices In the Selling building, has been requisi tioned by Surgeon-General Blue, of the Public Health Service, and ordered to proceed to Camp Sheridan, Chilli- cothe, O., where he will be connected with sanitation in that district. Years ago the Public Health Service was known as the Marine Hospital and Quarantine Service, but a recent act of Congress changed the title. Dr. Ross is a graduate of the TJni versity of Oregon Medical School and took a post-graduate course in Colum bia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. He Is a specialist in ve nereal and skin diseases. The Range we are now offering for your approval is a guaranteed B a ke r, large firebox, cut-out lin ings for water coil, wood and coal burning grates, drop-feed door, 18xl6-inch oven. Price $55- Sold on easy terms. J. M. Agee, steward at the Hotel Portland since July 1, has joined the United States Emergency Fleet Corpor ation and sailed Thursday for Honolulu as chief steward of the new Portland- built steamship "Anoka." Mr. Agee H began as a dishwasher when a young boy in an eastern notei. ie was lor five years steward on the Ward Steam ship line out of New York, and for 15 th -i r a H n wa a atftwnni rtn ThA Nnrrhflrn I . . . -- - -- Michigan Transportation Company line, H from which position he came to Pbrt- land. Z Pretty White Bedroom Suite at $59.20 These pretty pieces will make your bedroom reflect the harmony and daln tiness which is becoming to the room you occupy most. Three pieces of excellent quality, designed to give good service, and inexpensive. IRKS5 l.t TABLE. THREE MlHItOHS. H2I.35I BED. 1A..10 LARGE DRESSER. 931.33. ALL COMPLETE AT UADSBVS' K58.2W. ' - $195 Nine Piece William and (Jl A C Mrv Dinincr Room Suite at?1 Iff This Dining Room Suite at $64.00 Pictured here Is an up-to-date dining-room suite large buffet with mir ror, six dining chairs and round pedestal extension table all solid 9CM flfl oak. finish either fumed or golden oak wax. Price vUTiUU S1U CASH. a WEEKLY. Good Couches Cheap a f7iff Ronton Imitation Brown Leather JU6.KO VVVvS, tLt"' Heat Imitation Brown Spanish Leather. .. . 1K0 nj With six genuine leather-eeated chairs. The William and Mary dining- room suite shown here is only one of the many beautiful sets we have on exhibit at our store. Any change can be made in this set, or we eell any piece separately. Large round table, beautiful buffet, large china closet and aix genuine Ieather-aeated chairs. Price complete at Gadsbys', $143.00. Large Buffet $24.85 Large Buffet, solid ash, large mirror back. 1 mall drawers for eilver, large drawer for linen, and double-door cabinet. 4tOf QC Special at Oi'iiOO THIS COLUMBIA GRAFONOLA OUTFIT $80.10 LICllDWO 11 SELECTIONS OP VOIR CHOICE $9.50 Cash, $2.00 Weekly. We charge no interest. This beautiful Colombia Ormfonola may be had in golden oak or mahogany. Columbia Grafonolaa are priced from $20 up and sold a uy weekly and monthly payments. I i f Ronton Imitation Brown Leather tl6.f0 Heat Imitation Brown Spanish Leather. .. .X18.SO Two-Tone Plush or Velonr S1S.OO These couches we are offering are golden oak finished frames, upholstered on well-tempered steel coll springs, securely fastened. The imitation leath er usea closely resembles real leatner in appearance. A close examination would hardly enable you to detect the difference. Easy terms. Six Leather-Seat Dining Chairs $24.00 Six solid oak chairs, genuine leather seats, finished golden or fumed oak. Regular $30 value. Special 24.oo AT uadsuys'. Library Set of 3 Pieces $36 George F. Hastings, of the 16th Com pany, Fifth Regiment of the U. S. M. C. who was gassed and wounded recently in France, is a ,23-year-oId Portland boy. He is the son of Mrs. Mary Davis, who resides at Tremont station. Mount Scott. He entered the service in 1916. . Mrs. H. F. Jeaunet, of this city, has received word from her son, Fred D. Jeaunet, saying that he was in a hos pital in England, where he expected to undergo an operation for varicose veins. He then hoped to be able to go Into active service in France. Fred Jeaunet enlisted with the 159th Aero Squadron, at Vancouver Barracks, last November, and has been studying gunnery in the U. S. air service in England for the past eight months. J. A. Staggs, of Oregon City, Is in re ceipt of a letter written by Private Reginald Vowles, a former Oregon City young man, who left a year ago last July to enlist in the Canadian army. He was born and reared in London, his mother having died there, and his father later died in America. The young man enlistea in tne Canadian army when reserves were canea ior. He was for five years an employe of the Oregon City Woolen Mills, and his star appears on the service fiag of that company. Ward Holcomb, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Holcomb, of Mount Tabor, has received, a commission and has been appointed as an instructor in the train ing school in France. He had four years' continuous service, being with the troops two years before they were ordered to the Mexican border. When the Third Oregon went overseas he went with them as a Sergeant. His long experience and capability as an in structor in fundamentals has kept him in the front-line trendies. fX. X:-M Sn. I . m S:rM L9 II sZ ' ' s. r jsH ,"i f ' tXf: JM 2u LhJ- This etyle Library Set is of eolld oak, fumed or waxed finish: chairs have seats covered in brown Spanish leatherette. It is an unusually VQC flfl good value at tfuDiUU TERMS $3.85 CASH AND $1 PER WEEK. BedroomOutfit$29.50 Consists good, eubetantlal eteel bed, woven-wire spring and our Special Won der Mattress, all for K9.S0. ?riK:U- SiV at.. $11 Sale Room Size RUGS Whittall Anglo-Persian Rugs Whittall Anglo-Indian Rugs Whittall Royal Worcester . Rugs 9x12 Axminster Rugs at $45.00 9x12 Velvet Rugs for $38.00 9x12 Tapestry Rugs at $35.00 9x12 Tapestry Rugs. $29.50 9x12 Wool Fiber Rugs 50 $35 China Closet $25 S bend glass ends, ad justable shelves, fin ished pretty golden -oak; regular $35 value. Solid oak china closet Special S25 at Gadsbys' Use Our Exchange Dept. If you hav furniture that docnt autt want tvm thine mora up to date and bttr phona us and we'll nd a com Mimt man to aee it and arranr to take It aa part payment oa the kind you want the oadsby kind. We ll make you a liberal allowance for your good and we'll eell you new furniture at low prices. The new furniture will be promptly de livered. Exchange rood can be bonirht at our Warehouse. First and Washington Wm. Gadsby & Sons Member Greater Portland Association CORNER SECOND AND MORRISON STREETS IjlllllllllllllI IIIIIII II1IIIBII IIIIIIIII Private Elmer C. Douglas is -with Battery B, of the 147 Regiment of the Field Artillery, In France. Parts of a letter to his sister, Mrs. Ji;iia linigni, of 546 Clay street, are given here: "Gee, we surely have got the Huns on the run now. I don't know whether they will ever stop or not. The pris oners come In like droves of sheep, and most of them have smiles on their faces. They don't seem to like stand ing up In front of the Americans. Bat' tery B Is doing her little bit. Our bat tery and regiment has a good reputa tion and on several occasions have re ceived some flattering remarks from high-rank French officers. I hear that some of the boys in our battery are to receive the Iron "Cross and the regl ment the Saxon Cord." Mrs. A. Spellmah has Just returned from New York City, where ehe spent two months visiting with her relatives and three sons, Joseph, Jack and Will iam, in the United States Navy. It was Mrs. Spellman's intention to see her sons before they were sent across, but two of them have been stationed in the United States for land duty. Jack Spellman is now at Newport, R. I., and William Spellman at Cape May, N. J. Joseph Spellman expects soon to go to Princeton to take an assistant pay master's course. Mrs. J. P. Studholme, of 667 Sumner street. In a letter from her son, Ser. eeant John D. Studholme, has receivea a picture of American soldiers landing in France. Part of the letter reads as follows: ' "It was a slow trip and the accom modations were not exactly of the best, but the fact that we landed safely balanced that, I guess. All the details will have to keep until after the war, much as I'd like to give you them. Naturally, there were many amusing instances. One evening while we were all on deck I heard some fellow say Well, boys, I'm Insured for $5000, but I'd sell out pretty cheap right now.' I believe that 80 per cent of them bad never seen the sea before. "Land never looked better than on that foggy morning when I woke. up and saw the coast of France." Homer Morgan, In France with Com pany C. of the 127th Infantry, has been severely wounded, accoramg to a tele gram received by his grandmother, Mrs. B. F. Xavey. This is the second time that he has been wounded since September 1. In July he was wounded in the battle of Chatteau Thierry. Part of a letter dated August 8 is given here: "I have not had time to write much lately on account of moving so much. I was surely after the Germans until I was wounded. I went over the top six times and will soon be ready to go over some more. I got 16 that I know of, and they won't go to the hos pital, either." . Private H. Rayburn is In France with Company A, of the 170th Military Po lice. Parts of a letter written home re cently are given here: "I am resting now behind the lines, after being in .the battles of Chatteau Thierry, Alsace and Soissons. I have had several close calls from shells. "The only time I got a shock was when I was making my way to a big shell hole, when the shrapnel sang too close for comfort. The whine of a big shell made me dive for a shallow trench. Consequently, I lit on a dead German. It did not - take me many minutes to wiggle -to better shelter. I do not know why it bothers me, be cause I have seen hundreds of dead men." Private C. R. Everett is with Com pany D, of the 318th Engineers, with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Passages from his letters fol low: "It is a lovely country over here, but all the same, you can look for me making tracks for home when It is all over.'' A brother, Edmond Everett, Is with Company D, of the 10th U. S. Engineers. He writes that there is an American band of 35 pieces at Aix-Les-Baines which plays every day, and that h certainly enjoys hearing them. "One o the little French girls came Into the park with her mother to play In the sand, he writes. "She ran up to me, threw her arms around- my neck and settled herself In my lap. She and became great friends. She spoke Eng lish, French and Italian, so we got along nicely. Her father was a Cap tain in the French army and had been wounded. James Young, son of Mrs. Frances Young, 864 Dunckley avenue, a for mer pupil of Jefferson High School left Wednesday for Mare Island to en ter training in the Marine Corps. C. A. Keller, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. PORTLAND OFFICER DIES IJT TEXAS FOLLOWING SERV ICE IN FRANCE. R"..WMJ!p.'W.!H.-. v $ A -'"S'' i Captain Don R. Gather. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Cather have received a telegram announcing1 the death of their son. Captain Don R. Cather, at El Paso, Tex., October 22. Captain Cather was formerly an engineer with the United States Reclamation Serv ice and was commissioned as a Lieutenant in June, 1917. Within a few months he was promoted to Captain. He was sent to France and served there until recalled to the United States to serve as Instructor. P. Keller, of Rainier. Or., one of the survivors of the U. S. ship San Diego, has sent his parents the following: original poem written on the sinking of his ship: The IT. S. S. San Diego. She was a wreck all battered, with a hole torn In her side. No more shall she sail the rolling- sea, no more the storms to ride; For far below the surface and upon the ocean's floor Lies the good ship, San Diego twelve miles oil Fire Island's shore. Sh? went to her low and watery grave on the nineteenth of July While he seas were calm as calm could be beneath an azure sky; Like a crippled bird she seemed to try to right herself again. She was crippled bad, and our attempts to save her were in vain. She was spitting fire from her old six-Inch and her colors flying still. Her crew was calm and faced their task with firm determined will. And not a man was seen to cringe when death looked in his face And each man knew his battle form, and they found them in their place. The captain's voice from the orldge rang and it sounded clear and free: "Abandon ship," and calmly they leaped into the sea. A rousing cheer rose from the crew as the shin rolled on her side. "With another heave her mighty keel waj turnea tow ara tne Ky. As gracefully she sank beneath the At lantic's mighty swell. Bearing the bodies of six of our mates we had learned to love so well. They gave their lives for the U. S. A. and bravely did they die. Perhaps they man Saint Peter's Yacht up there in the clear, blue sky. We had learned to love that dear old ship. and hated to see her go. But Sherman safd that "War la Hell," and I guess I ought to know; But revenge is sweet and all her crew have sworn by Old uiory s priae To avenge the sinking of our ship and shipmates that died. POLK YOUTHS WILL TRAIN Six Soldiers Are Sent to Fort Stevens for Service. DALLAS, Or, Oct. 26. (Special.) The Polk County draft board received word last week from the War Depart ment to call eight more men from Class 1 for general military service. Two .men, Clinton Tom, of Grand Ronde, and Charles D. Ferguson, of this city, were sent to Fort McArthur, Cal., and the following will be sent to Fort Stevens; Fred W. Moore, Salem; Roy Neville Pfeifer, Portland; George Van Santon, Salem, R. F. . XJ. No. l; Harry Lloyd Heffley, Independence. Two more men will be called at a later date. Moscow Nurse Respond. MOSCOW. Idaho, Oct. 26. (Special.) Moscow people are responding freely to the call for nurses and help and sup plies for the soldiers in the S. A. T. C. and the vocational, training corps. The soldiers- arrived more rapidly than their supplies and bedding. As a result some of them had to sleep on the floors of the barracks for a few nights until conditions became known, the cots having failed to arrive .owing to delay in shipment. When the need of these became known tne Belgian renei com mittee took the matter up and secured about 100 beds for the men. Moscow omen responded to the call and gave bedding. v