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ir TIIE SUNDAY OltEGONIAN, . PORTLAND, JANUARY J9, 1919. ADDITIONAL UNITS ORDERED TO RETURN 250 Officers and 6500 Men to Leave France. TWO TRANSPORTS ARRIVE First Unit of Ninety-First Division Scheduled to Reach Spokane Next Thursday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. Assignment to early convoy home from France of units comprising 250 officers and 6500 men was announced today by the Wir Department. The units include the 11th Engineers complete, 372d Infantry, Medical Detachment and Second Bat talion; 371st Infantry, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Engineers; and Third Eva cuated Ambulance Company. NEW YORK, Jan. 18. The American steamship President Grant and the bat tleship South Dakota arrived today from Brest with troops. On the warship were 116 officers and 1372 men, representing the 56th Coast Artillery and the 474th Aero Squadron, seven officers and 145 men. Three Die of Influenza. Troops aboard the President Grant Included the headquarters' company of the Eighth Field Artillery Brigade, two officers and 41 men, and the following Field Artillery Regiments: Second. 32 officers. 1434 men; 81st Field Artillery complete, 83d, 23 offi cers, 1371 men; Company H, 347th In fantry, four officers and 207 men, also were aboard. All these troops are reg ulars. Aboard the President Grant also was the 113th Trench Mortar Battery, con eisting of nine officers and 121 men. There were 150 cases of infuenza among the troops during the voyage, of which all recovered except three, pneumonia setting in. SPOKANE, Jan. 18. The 346th Field Artillery, the first unit of the 91st Di vision to return from France, will be welcomed to Washington during: a two hours' stop here January 23, it was an nounced by the Chamber of Commerce today. The regiment, which comprises men of the Western states, left New York Friday, according to word re ceived by the Chamber of Commerce t today. It is en route to Camp Lewis, where it received its training, and will fctop also at Seattle, it is announced. CAMP LEWIS. Jan: IS. Demobiliza tion of tjje entire 13th Division, Camp Lewis, was authorized in orders re ceived today. This order involves 10.000 men. An order was received a week ago to de mobilize 8000 men,, and as this has not been completed, it was st-.ted at camp that the execution of the new order will not be begun before 10 days. Order Are Explained. Replying to charges made by Chair man Crombie Allen, of the 'military af fairs committee in the California Leg islature, that California soldiers were being held here while Washington men were given, the preference in the dis charges, division officers today sali it was untrue. War Department orders, issued for the demobilization of the men, they pointed out, are that men from this date, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and as far east as Minnesota will be dis charged here and given ;ravel pay to the point from where they were in ducted at the rate of 3 cents a mile. There are two demobilization points in California at the Presidio, near San Francisco, and at Camp Kearney, near Pan Diego. The demobilization orders from the Adjutant-General of the Army are that men from California will be discharged at these two points and will be sent from here, so far as prac ticable, in troop trains. If there are 50 men from Washing ton, Oregon or any of the states in the Camp Lewis demobilization area to be discharged on the same day that a sim ilar number from California are ready, those from the Camp Lewis territory are discharged, while, according to the War Department order, those from California must go there before being released. The difference in the time is the number of days it takes to reach the California discharge stations and two days thereafter of the necessary clerical work to be done there before the men can be released. Officers were vigorous in their assertion that Ta coma had nothing to do with the dis charge of the men. Oregon, tide and overflow lands of the Lower Columbia and coast region, irri gated, water-logged lands of Eastern Oregon. From studies on drainage of white lands it has been established that on lands of this character tile laterals should be four rods apart and three feet deep, with capacity of the main drain for removing an acre inch of water from each acre every 24 hours. Because drainage is expensive and im provement of white land is slow, 4t is necessary to locate drains and handle the land after drainage, so as to loosen the soil and facilitate the entrance of moisture into the tile in order to make the drainage enterprise most profitable and successful. Lime, clover, manure, green manure and combinations of these were em ployed In these trials to facilitate op erations of tile. On one area of white land drains are installed to study the relative value of gravel as against straw for bedding over tile lands, to assist water in entering these drains in sticky soil. Results thus far favor the straw bedding as most desirable and far cheaper. It has been thor oughly established that white land can be successfully tiled and there is a great increase in the use of tile on such land. Outlet ditches on the dis trict plans will greatly stimulate til ing of individual fields. 1,25110 SOLDIERS ORDERED S Strength of Army in Europe Now Being Discussed. 104,000 MEN RETURNED 0-a0nBa0nBOn104IMn40 i rv ED I i m0 1 SDLDjEHS TP BET WELCOME LIBERTY TEMPLE WILL REMAIN OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY. Many Boys Are Said to Be Arriving In Portland Without Posi tions or Fnnds. Liberty Temple will remain open to day to greet every discharged soldier or sailor who arrives in Portland with out a position, friends or funds for food and lodging, according to Cap tain James O. Convill. in charge of the soldiers' branch of the United States Employment Bureau. "Friday night 139 soldiers or sailors stayed at the Atkinson School because they were without funds, had not found jobs or had not received any pay from their employers." said Captain Convill. "A similar number were there last night and undoubtedly there will be many discharged men in straitened financial conditions arriving in Port land today. "Up to the present time there have been no funds from which to loan money to these men. Every day men come in here and break down crying when they confide their., needs. They are hungry, discouraged and un nerved." A. F. Flegel, member of the general Portland welcome home committee, has suggested that each organization fly ing a service flag be held responsible for obtaining as many jobs for Captain Convill as there are stars in each flag. Captain Convill has found that the work at Liberty Temple. has grown to such an extent that it will be neces sary to add several new employment examiners to his force. The following appeal has been made by the women who report daily in co-operation with his work: "To the Women of Portland: All who can and will devote a little time each day on the reception committee nd will help to welcome the return ing soldiers and sailors at the depot ill please advise the soldiers' recep tion committee. Main 313, Liberty Tem ple. We owe a debt to our soldiers and sailors and let us not fail in our welcome to them." WEST PLANS "JOB DRIVE" Washington Employment Service Di- rector to Aid Soldiers. SEATTLE, Jan. 18. Plans for a "job drive" throughout Washington, Ore gon. Montana, Idaho, Wyoming ai.d other states for positions for the men f the 91st Division are being made by Lawrence Wood, Seattle. Federal Di rector for Washington of the United States Employment Service. "We hope to be able to offer jobs to the men as they step from the trans ports on the east coast," Mr. Wood said today. "This cannot be done how ever, unless the employers of the div:s ion's home states come forward with positions " 9,8011,800 ACRES AVAILABLE OREGON'S NEEDS SHOWN BY O A. C. EXPERIMENT STATION. Burned-Over and Logged-Off Acre age of 2,750,000 Suited to Con version for Profitable Farming. CORVALLIS, Or., Jan. 18. (Special.) Approximately 9,000,000 acres of land await reclamation in Oregon, according to the official report of Dr. A. B. Cord ley, director of the Oregon agricultural experiment station, for the biennium of 1916-1918, which has just . been, made lo President W. J. Kerr, of the college. Almost 3.000,000 acres can be profitably reclaimed by irrigation, more than 3,000.000 acres of swamp, tide and other wet land needs drainage and 2.750,000 . acres of burned-over and logged-off lands can be converted into profitable farm lands. Operations exemplifying combined drainage and irrigation are cited by the report in the field work in Klamath Basin. Two diked areas of peat lands in Klamath Basin, formerly tule lands, were drained to a depth of three and one-half inches an acre of storm water at the beginning of the growing sea son. Later about six acre-inches were applied last season as supplementary irrigation. ' " The effects of these operations are Indicated in the production of forage crops and removal of alkali. Th average yield of the tame, grasses was about three tons an. acre, chiefly aluik and timothy. An appreciable amount of alkali was pumped off in these drainage and irrigation trials, the total solids amounting to 266 pounds an acre beintr the net amount removed. . Fairly definite methods of improving the wild meadow and alkali lands have been developed. In the reclamation the peat lands .drainage is the first step, while on the wild silt meadow better control of the irrigation water is of first importance.' ' The average all trials indicate a general field duty of 12 to 17 inches of these lands. With better control of the water, use of tame crasscs and legumes, it is believed tha it will be possible practically to double the production of about 500.000 acre of marsh and wild meadow lands in th state. The wet areas under investigation in elude white lands of the Willamette Valley, seeped hill, lands of Western Marshal Foch Insists Upon Force Sufficient to ITandle Possible ' Disturbances. WASHINGTON. Jan. IS. What Army strength is to be maintained in Europe is under discussion now by American j military officials and the allied military j leaders. No report has been received indicating the number of divisions to be supplied by the United States, but i General March was positive that it I would be far less than the 30 divisions given in unofficial reports as the prob able American military contribution. The American force for the occupied zone was fixed by international agree ment at the time the armistice was signed. General - March said Marshal Foch undoubtedly would refuse to per mit a reduction of his total strength to a point where it would be inade quate to handle any possible disturb ance. Demobilization of all Army units in the United States has ' been ordered. General March announced, with the ex ception of the regular Army regiments needed fcr camp guard purposes and various detachments necessary to con tinue the demobilization process. The total now listed for demobilization is 1,177,000. Troops actually returned from France for demobilization now number 104. 000. This gives a grand total ordered discharged" of 1,281.000, of which 768.- 626 men and 51.593 officers have been discharged to date. The rate of dis charge again is nearlng the maximum capacity of 1000 men per camp per day after an interruption by the holidays. In addition to the regular regiments. the exceptions from the blanket de mobilization order include the cavalry on the southern border, coast artillery troops In the coast defenses, detach ments at ports and the medical per sonnel. This last force now numbers 95,000, but General March said it would be re duced gradually as the number of men it had to care for was reduced. Government Boys Material. Surgeon-General Ireland's attention having been called to a published re port that wounded soldiers undergoing reconstruction instruction were forced to purchase raw materials upon which they worked. General March emphasized that the Government paid for all such material. He also denied another pub lished report that the War Depart ment was holding up reports of -casualties. j There Are Some Good Ones Left j I Our Great January ! Sale of Used Pianos ! 9 Has Been a Wonder- I nil buccess. Many homes in Portland, and in fact throughout the entire Northwest, have been made happy by the purchase of pianos, players and baby grands during the progress of our annual Janu ary Piano Sale. These instru ments have been sold at remark ably low prices and on com paratively easy terms. We still have many good bar gains to offer and some of these include a very fine Weber Pian ola, the latest style 88-Note; a beautiful Knabe upright, Clough & Warren upright, Franklin up right, Whitney upright, Prescott baby grand, Kimball grand, and others. Player rolls replaced. Don't let this week go by with out calling on as. i i ft SJipmancitc & (2a t Phone your want ads to The Orego- nian. Main 7070, A 5095. PLEDGES ARE DELINQUENT More Than $14,000 In Portland Subscriptions Not Paid. Over $14, 000 is now delinquent in pledges made during the Red Cross drive last May in Portland alone. The number of pledges Involved is 2426. Many of the delinquents have failed to make any payment whatsoever on their pledges and mail advices are dis regarded. R. V. Holder, assistant gen eral manager of the Portland chapter, believes thin is because o. unreported changes of addres3 Si' hundred and sixty-six pledges are delinquent at one shipbuilding plant, although practi caily all the other plants have paid their pledges 100 cents on the dollar. Of the total number of pledges all or partially unpaid, 1566 have failed to make any payment whatsoever. Tneir delinquencies amount to $8438. Four hundred and ten pledges, representing $1964. have been returned by reason of incorrect addresses; 450 pledges are de linquent in part, totaling $4038. "Because of the urgent need for fl A Cheerfulness Is a Splendid Tonic for Mind and Body Come, then, and dine among congenial people Sunday, and en joy the music of Prasp's Novelty Orchestra. Dinner $1.25 The Portland Hotel Under Management of Richard W. Childs. You will find our dining-room light, airy, pleasant and the food most appetizing and delicious. nances for the American Red Cross, of ficials of the Portland Chapter appeal for the prompt payment of the pledges. ADVENTIST CHURCH BURNS Building at College Place, Jfear Walla Walla, Destroyed. WALA WALLA.' Wash, Jan. 18. (Special.) In a fire which for a time threatened the sanitarium filled with patients, the Seventh-Day Adventist Church at College Place, three miles west of here, was burned to the ground this morning between 9 and 10. just as the -first few teachers and children were gathering for- the morning Sab bath school services. The church when built six years ago cost $12,500, the total valuation, including furnishings. being estimated at $18,000. The trus tees carried $10,000 insurance. The origin of fire is believed to be a defective flue. Walla Walla College students rushed from their dormitory and carried out the organ and some other furnishings before tha roof fell in. A stronar wind carried across the road toward the College Place Sanitarium, threatening the build ing. Members of the Walla Walla fire department went to College Place, but the fire had so much headway they could do nothing. Villa Moves Toward Border. MARFA, Texas. Jan. 18 Rumors reached here tonight from the border that Francisco Villa, with his main command, and General Felipe Angeles, with his rebel force, were moving in the general direction of the American border at San Antonio. Chihuahua, op posite Candeiaria, Texas. No rebel bands have been reported closer than SO miles of the border tonight, however. French Ambassador Sails. NEWPORT NEWS. Vt, Jan. 18 William G. Sharp sailed today for France to resume his duties as Amer- the sparks loan Ambassador In Paris. WESTERNERS ARE FEARED Captured German Order Shows How 91st Division Was Rated. TACOMA, Wash.. Jan. 18. (Special.) "Early tomorrow we must be ready to meet a hostile attack. It ta therefore or dered that from 6 o'clock on companies will be ilert for action. Munitions may be obtained at the K. T. K. at any time. Extra light machine-gun feed boxes must be exchanged for full ones. Opposite our sector lies the 91st Amer ican division; for each prisoner brought in from this division 18 days' extra leave will be given." This order, found on a German offi cer taken prisoner, shows on its face that the Huns realized they were up against real men when they found that the "Wild West" fighters, trained at Camp Lewis, opposed them. The orlg lnal order was sent to Miss Ora Fife. of Tacoma, by Sergeant George A. Mc Donald. Company I, 361st Infantry. 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