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- g . THE OREGON , SUNDAY- JOURNAL, PORTLAND.- SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST 4, 1918. ; 1 EXfLUMBER J AC K S USE BAYONETS IN BLOODY STRUGGLE Drive Remnants of Prussian Guard Out of BelievueJ Farm After Annihilating Maih Body. FOUGHT WITH COLD STEEL Courtyard of Farm Littered With German Dead and Fields Cov ered With Bodies. BOY CARUSO IS SENSATION-OF NEW MARQUAM PLAYGROUNDS ANOTHER FAMOUS With the Americana ion the Ourcq. Aug. 8. (Delayed.) Six hour after the Prus sian -guards pulled out of Bellevue farm. Just north of Cierges. this morning. I vis ited the scene of the 36-hour struggle be tween a battalion of American ex-lumberjacks and picked troops. The dead, of course, were still unbur led. ' Even the wounded of both sides were still about and the work of mercy was Just beginning. I was surprised to find that such a deeperate struggle had cost so few cas ualties. An American officer explained to me that it had been a battle between relatively small forces, but that it was a battle to the death. Few Houses Mark Village American and German artillery alter nately battered the hamlet which was' formerly the headquarters of the Ger man General von Wichuras. A few re maining houses testify that it was a vil lage a week ago. The fighting, however, took place mostly outside Cierges. Only a few Americana . fell In the course of the gallant charge down the lopes and through the wheat fields Into the village. In the outskirts, esp.wially on- the north side of Cierges, the Prus sian machine gunners stood ready to re ceive the Americans. Their guns "were Jammed by our boys before they could break down the attack. So the lumber Jacks leaped amoVtg the Teutons and frightful carnage ensued. It was a fight With cold steel all the way through. I saw more bayonet wounds among the dead and wounded than ever before. Germans and Americans lay side by side, transfixed by broWeu bayonets. German Head Ten to One Several ;bayonts which had been with drawn, had saw teeth filed In the blades. The bayoneted Germans outnumbered the Americans 10 to 1, owing to the fact that the Germans were serving muchine guns when the Yankees came Upon them. The stretch, between Cierges and Belle- vx.e farm was dotted with dead Prus sian guardsmen sniped by Americans. The German corpses presented a ghast ly appearance. The faces were pinched "and drawn and washed white by the pouring rain. Bellevue farm itself was turned into a shambles. As the German battalions were forming for counter attack there, they were caught by the American gun fire. The courtyard of the farm is lit tered with torn and twisted bodies, some times three deep where a shell had ex ploded among a knot of fighting men. Bodies Dot the Fields Between the .Bellevue farm and Cha mery -only a few Germans caught en-, route lay dead, except on the Dereddy farm, which became another burying ground for the kaiser's army. Prussian reserve battalions here were caught by the American gunfire and were mowed down. Even the nearby fields were dotted1 with, bodies, where shrapnel caught those trying to escape the shell fire. In the outskirts of Cierges I saw dead Prussians lying behind their machine guns. One, who had his cartridge belt clutched between his fingers, was wear ing the white brassard of the Red Cross. They had pretended to . be ambulance drivers or stretcher bearers. -A saw a dead Japase.se soldier of the American army, his hand clutching a bayonet stretched out toward a couple of Prussian machine gunners opposite to him. Ills comrades told me they had seen the Japanese knock out a Ger ' man gun crew with a German hand grenade. lie had a half dozen "potato mashers" tied to his waist. Thousands ot Mhells Abandoned IIUl 230 off the high road bsyond .Bellevue farm, was taken without a struggle, although a handful pf gunners were bayonetted when refusing to sur render to the Americans. . It was found that the enemy had with- drawn nearly all his guns, he was forced to abandon hundreds of thousands of hells and hundreds of machine guns and even live horses, though the animals In most cases were- shot dead. Dense smoke clouds rising from dis tant villages show the enemy is burning places far ahead of us. Aerial observa tion is still Impossible owing to a prac tically continuous downpour of rain. American troops, entering Nesle wood captured several batteries of field guns as well as six inchers. The Americans 1 .1 f 1 1 1 1 r II III III 1 WITirinrr TT'iit T-irnr"lrrr I sr Hui n hi'm i eumminwi' 11 liirn 11 mm 1 iiwMMwM i i.iiwi iiiMtMMiMii in.ni. iwfi.tii'w.,.v.v..i m m " 5. y writ ytv - v r- - fr " 'X. r '',4J - iAc ; t'A L -j :d 1 " ifWv , : C sV 3?h ylPS, i (hn WORLD VOYAGE IS TO BE T SOON RED Route Columbus Took 426 Years Ago Will Be Reversed by Aero planes in Attempted Flight. HYDROPLANES WILL BE USED Ease With j Which Craft Light Without Prepared Landing Is Reason It.Will Be Chosen. TO ALL WHO SIGNED ' i w. s, s. pledges; Do t not wait for notices. Begin now to make your purchases o? War 8avlngs Stamps In accordance with yuur pledges. Buy from any au thorised agent. Every pledge will be carefnlly checked Individually with in a few weeks and the stamps you hold will be your evidence of having purchased according to your pledge. The sooner you purchase the full amount pledged the more It will profit you. Limit club buttons are ready for those who purchased the S10CO limit. Call at headquarters. 300 Journal building. C. K. WONACOTT. Associate State Director War Savings Committee. smothered the remaining German ma chine gun nests, suffering f few casual ties. Advancing eastward from Cohan the Americans traversed GalsV wood en countering only feeblest artillery fire. Allied artillery is being ; brought up with remarkable speed as -the advance i goes on. Secretary Lane Is Pleased With Oregon! Resolutions Setting Forth Land Settle . ment Plan Passod by Commonwealth Conference Appreciated by Secretary. Secretary of the Interior : Franklin K. Lane, writing to W. H. Crawford of the Chamber of'Commerce, secretary of the Oregon Land Settlement commission, ex presses his appreciation of the resolu tions passed by the recent common wealth conference in Portland, which set forth the land settlement iplan of the Oregon commission. In connection with the plan of carry ing this scheme to other states, after Its acceptance and Indorsement by the dele gation from the state land settlement association of Washington: last week. Professor H. D. Scudder, chief in farm management of the Oregon Agricultural college, has accepted the Invitation of the Oregon and Washington organiza tions to go to California. In a letter to Mr. Crawford, he ex presses, his willingness to leave on this mission at any time, but requests two or three days in which to ppepare. It is probable he will go some time5 this week. He has charge of the single farm home unit experiment of the Oregon commis sion at Independence, where the theories that have been developed are being given practical trial. The plan is for a farm ;of sufficient size properly stocked and -managed, to support a family, the size tol depend upon conditions where the farm, is located. 0.: S.-- K -i t i in l-O W Juvenile' scenes at the new 5Iarquam Gulch playground. Above, left to right Alice Houlson, aged 3 years. Boys at work i digging cave. Tony Dioorio, "Boy Caruso." Below View of park, showing children at apparatus ptaj. Americans in Toul Sector Gas Germans By Frank J. Taylor With the Americana in France, Aug. 3. (Night) A heavy gas shell attack wa launched this morning In, the north Toul sector by American farces. Sev eral tons of gas projectiles were, hurled Into the German lines. The German casualties evidently were serious as the enemy artillery responded with a heavy barrage. During the day there was Increased activity in rifle, machine gun and artillery fire in the Lorraine sector. Red Cross Benefit Day Plans Complete All things are ready" Is the word that went out from the Portland "chap ter of the Red Cross for the benefit day at The Oaks on Tuesday. Julius L. Meier announces that the Red Cross will be 100 per cent beneficiary of all sums received. Many additional amusement features Portland has developed a "boy Ca- iuso. He Is distinctly: a war product, a fact which Is proved by his preference to "poular war" songs. His hatred of the kaiser is inborn and in rendering his favorite songs ;the boy clenches his fist, gesticulates, and puts on his worst fighting face. He sings In both Eng lish and Italian. The little vocal marvel Is Tony IMoorio, who lives with his parents U 633 Sheridan street. He is not quite four years old, but he has already earned the Bobriquet "boy Caruso.". It was at Marquam gulch municipal playground where the wee songster first attracted the attention of his playmates by his j wonderful voice. His audiences now include grown-ups and hardly a day -passes but what the lad stages an impromptu entertainment at the South Portland playground. Playground Director C. S. BotsforJ has been captivated by the little fel low's power of song and it Is likely that arrangements will be made for the lad's- appearance 'in public In the near future. Another celebrity who is attracting much attention at the playgrounds. ! a prototype of "Happy Hooligan1," the honor belonging to slx-year-oldj Paul Amato of 666 Sixth street. Master Amato looks like "Happy Hooligan's" twin brother and his happy smile is one of the star attractions at the park. Included; among the scores of bovn and girls who spend many Joyful hours at the Marquam gulch playground aro a number of sprightly colored tots. One of these is 3-year-old Alice Houl son. Clyde Ktigene, aged 3, of 00 First street, and Mary Brooks, aged 2, of 184 Lincoln street, are otherj HttH colored children who are ' patronizing the playgrounds. Probably the youngest member have been added for the pleasure of the visitors. There will be a big entertain ment in the auditorium. Dancing will be the order in the roller rink. A band concert by all . of the shipyard bands in one . huge organization is to be one of the main attractions. All concessions will be under th management of the Transportation and Rotary clubs. A cafeteria in the open air will be a fea ture. The Carpenters' union erected the big pavilion Saturday and the Caterers' association will serve the tons of jfood which have been donated, largely through the efforts of the East Side Business Men s club. ' W ante d STEADY WORK - j 6 Lumpers on Briquet Trucks Report to N. E. cor. 2d and Flanders, 1:30 P. M., Monday, Aug. 5th, ready to start work. Wages $4.50 to $4.75, 8 hours. 10 LABORERS AT GASCO ; Take free bus at Front and Glisan. Wages-$3.75 to $4.00, 8 hours. Portland Gas & Coke Co. UNMARKED GRAVE CHAMERY P0SS1B YOUNG ROOSEVE 1 !.Y LT'S the park contingent is Morris Reich enstein. 8 months old. son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Reichenstein of 830 Sherman Washington. August 3. The most fam ous voyage In ; the history of the world was made Just 426 years ago. Columbus sailed from spaln, touched the Portu guese coast, paused at the Azores, and then drove across the uncharted seas until his jolly-boats nosed tha sands of a new world. Another voyage that will shine in his tory beside that of Columbus will al most surely reverse the route of the great discoverer from the American continent at Newfoundland, say, to the Azores, thence to Portugal and finally to France. i But it will be made through the skies by airplane. And, if there Is anything In prophecy based on science. It will be made this year before the leaves fly, possibly In September. At least this is the settled opinion of Major General William S. Brancker. comptroller general of equipment on the British air council. General Brancker Is now In Washington to help coordinate the effort of the allies in the air. His position as to the right across the At lantic is simply this : That it must be done some time in the present war ; that It is already possible to do it, and tbtft therefore it should be done now. Once the first flight Is an accomplished fact he sees steadily growing fleets of huge planes making the trip as a regular part of the Independent aerial offensive by which it is hoped to bomb-spatter every Industrial center in Germany. Nothing Startllngly Sew "You see, this Idea isn't anythtng startungiy new, ne declared. it was suggested to us more than a year ago and since then many designers have be come Interested and many designs sub mitted. All the time it has been devel oping as one of the practical problems of this war. "What we call the 'aerial offensive has been constantly before our eye; the attempt to smother Industrial Ger many under an unremitting hall of ex plosives. Obviously, for this sort of thing, machines of great weight carry ing power and wide range were neces sary if we meant to attack centers everywhere within the German empire. But machines of this design would be quite the type which could cross such vast stretches as the Atlantic under their own power. N "Now, America as a factor In the aerial war was looming larger all the time. But! shipping was the limiting factor so far as America's participation was concerned. Airplanes which can't float across the ocean have to go by ship. Let's ship as many of them as we can. They are most useful and necessary. But If. In addition, we manu facture planes which can fly acrosa. we are not only saving ships and increas ing our output of planes, but w-e are carrying to the battle front exactly the Money Will Not Go to Drake Fund: I ' ' i ! : " Telegram to Graham Glatt Says That X3XZ Faods Collected ai Setalt of Golf Kt hibltiont Will Go Direct to Red CroM. The money collected by Mri. V. Gavin, who has been touring the coontjy and playing exhibition matches again the leading professionals and. amateurs In various cities; will be used for the pu' chase of ambulances for the Freticn army, accordlnr to a telegram rcr.ivad ' f Friday from Mrs. Gavin by Graham Glass Sr., president of the Waverly CoUa- -try club. The telegram Is as follows : " "Am-, pleased to be able to state that arrangements have been definitely con cluded with Charles F. Thompson, presi dent of the Western Golf association, an official representative of the, American Red Cross, whereby all money collected by Mrs. W. A. Gavin for the Drake fund shall go to him and he will instruct head quarters to apply it to the specific pur- London. Aug 3. (U. P.) There will P08 or ambulances for the .French army. always be seats in the subways, railways M origmauy intended. Please, therefore. and bases for maimed English soldiers. "ur "irect 10 nartes . even though they appear to be sound i Thompson. McCormlck building, Chlca-" with their false arms, hands or legs. j ; W,U ,n'1 you an offlcll A new badge has Just been authorized th, t -rr,. nf ,v. :xoi-. consisting of a white brassard to be I Kv Mp. n.vin w k. ." Maimed Heroes Will Wear Special BadgeJ worn on the left arm. embroidered with scarlet Crown, Issuable to all dis charged soldiers having artificial lfmbe. At present many discharged men. wearing only the silver discharge badge, are Jostled In traffic crowds without any more consideration than is given an paid to Miss Drake.' able bodied slacker, because their fellow passengers can't distinguish them from . other discharged men who have won back their health. f1 j -"er y j ill ii ill mW' i 1 1 1 street. The boy, who Is too young t type of machine which will be most walk, occupies a cradle swing at the park when taking an outing. ! Formal opening of the Marquam gulch playground will be held Tue day, August 6. The place Is rapidly being rounded into shape. iA comfort stat'on has lust been erected. Swings and other apparatus have dangerous to the enemy. Can Be Made Here "All I can say Is that, from the point of view of the design, we have machines to do the trick noW. I'm not going Into a technical discussion, but I an tell you that absolutely. And they are ma- been installed chines which can be manufactured right and mora equipment will be addei later. Miss Lauretta Sheehan Is play ground supervisor for the j'ounger children. Miss J. Goldslaub and Miss Bertha Mnsing are the other super visors. ; The side hill which Is the southern boundary of the playground, offers a great oportunity for the young cava diggers- - Boys, armed with shovel.' and other .Implements, are havin? much fun digging their way Into the clu. bank. Unmarked .Resting Place Shattered Airplane May That of Dead Aviator. Near Be have hardwood floors a.nd will-be modern In all its appointments. The owner will have charge of the construction' work. The estimated cost is 33500. With the Americana on the Ourc, Aug. 2. (Delayed.) Upon', the heels bf tha advance guard of the American Infantry which followed French cavalry recon- noitering patrols seeking contact with the retiring enemy, I entered Chamery today, where according to German newspapers. Lieutenant Quentin Roose velt was buried after he had been shot down on July 14. I, did not ' find a . grave marked as young Roosevelt's resting place, but I did discover one without a cross, in a shell cratered field a furlong northwest by ; west t of the hamlet, which probably la nia grave, for a hundred yards away I aaw tha burned debris of an airplane and the hilltop might have- been; Quen tin landing place. I ; The grave was not cared for in any way. . Scouring around the hamlet I dlscovereed a burial plot, tha gravea of 1 German officers, in rows of fives. It is possible that Roosevelt's grave was decorated. " The cross and Inscription may have been removed, as was done with Rlchthofen's grave. Both aides usually bury aviators, marking the spot by a croaa made of propeller blades. - No civilian - remained in Chamery. Two 'wounded : Germans 'were found In a hay loft. : They died without regain ing enough strength to apeak. I attempted to reconnolter the : ad jacent terrain but the enemy was shel ling the neighboring tillage of Le Mon- cei neaviiy,, r v , . 1y ;-r ... pan9 for Bungalow Plana have been completed Hough taling &Dougan for a six-room bungalow to ' be. built- tn ; Hose City Park for J.tlvttasoa. The house - will U-Boat May Be Lying In Wait for Victims Bastport, Maine, Aug. 3. It was con sidered 'probable here tonight that the U-boat which sank the British schooner Dornfontein off the Bay of Fundy yes terday, may bJying in wait for other victims. Smoke from the burning hulk of the lumber laden schooner was still visible off the Bay of Fundy today. An Atlantic . Port, Aug. 3. The of ficers of a British steamship arriving here tonight reported that they had seen a submarine early yesterday morning about 300 miles off the American coast. The submersible was about two miles off the port bow of the steamship, they said, and made no motion to molest her. Dog Food Exhausted; Canines Face Crisis London, Aug. 3. (L N. S.) Fldo will have a hard time of it if the .war goes on much longer. The Canine Qefense league announces that the supply of dog biscuit is -exhausted, the makers being unable to get new supplies of low-grade meaL - . Charles R. Johns, secretary of the or ganlxationT fears that starvation among dogs Is Imminent. Feeding a purp Is one ot the problems of a household which may have such a pet. Horse meat is the usual provender for dogs.. Few tables have any food scraps left. , i A. Sontherland A. Southerland. sen of the late T. A. Southerland. and well known in Port' land, died in Alameda, Cal.. Thursday, after a long Illness.. He was about 14 years of. age and resided In Portland until three years ago. He was a stepson of J. H. Smith, a well known early day railroad man . in the Northwest. Mr. Southerland Is survived by his mother and a widow, - here, in the United States. "My own personal opinion Is that It is possible now. If the flight Is made this year, say In September, it will prob ably be made by a seaplane. A sea plane, though it carries a good deal of weight In its boats, doesn't require much preparation as to landing stages. It uses the harbors offered by nature. "But what we need over there are great weight carrying machines to bomb Germany. I think that by next year that Is, within the next 12 months we can get them over under their own power on an appreciable scale. By that I mean' enough to help out and count materially In the fighting. And you must remember that even a. half dosen of these big machines are worth while." "How are you going to send them over, general by what routes?" Tnroagh Routes Available "Take a map. Broadly speaking. there are three routes the northern, from Newfoundland to Greenland, thence to France toy way of Ireland ; the cen tral, direct to Ireland and thence to France, and the southern, by way of the Asores and Portugal. Tou can rule out the northern route on account of the weather. The central route Is. In many ways, a most Interesting one. I don't know that you could call the sky a terra Incognita, but the weather In certain parts of the mid-Atlantic Is practically unknown. From the viewpoint of the weather the southern route is really the most attractive. It is steadier and eas ier to forecast. Given fair weather, we will back our engines to do anything we expect. 'I 'Of course there are many other dif ficulties to be overcome. There is the matter of signal ships, for instance. In the first phases bf this work some form of craft stationed at intervals along the selected route would seem to be abso lutely necessary. There Is no need to consider landing ships, however, because If we could spare ships of that sise we might Just; as well pack the airplanes In them. ! "The work of training pilots Is not go ing to be an easy one. These men must understand a certain amount of naviga tion. They1 can only make a few trans atlantic flights In a summer and there fore they should begin their work now. There would have to be two or three pilots on each machine, to relieve each other, but there won't be , any difficulty there as the machines will be big enough to provide almost commodius eating and sleeping quarters." Sliding racks for silverware Instead of shelves feature the bottom of a new sideboard. - The Firfley Institution Quiet, Refined, Beautiful in TAKING the services Into this quiet, refined at mosphere, removed from other associations, has proven a step forward. The Finley Institution provides the comfort and appointments of a fine home, together with modern facilities equalled by few establishments anywhere. Whether the services are conducted at home or from our chapel, there is a marked attention to details. And the sum total of these details is a service that has done much to give the profession Its present-day efficiency. The Finley Institution is for all regardless of their means. At any price which you may select and .is within your financial limits. We do offer facilities and service which few establishments anywhere are able to render. J. P. FINLEY & SON Progressive Funeral Directors Montgomery Street at Fifth t4 I ,.'... ' illil I lllilhi 1111 K II III II I I ' "" ' Jf "fl f?CTra HUM: Clerk Turns Over Fees During the month of July the county clerk turned over to the county treasurer fees amounting to $6298.83 and law li brary fees amounting to 1443.50, and to the state treasurer fees for game and fishing .licenses amounting to 1131.10. The report of the turn over shows there were $20JJ.7S In circuit court fees and fines, I33S.83, in fees In naturalisation proceedings and $3323.20 In miscellaneous fees. Interest on the funds deposited In various banks representing money deposited by the county clerk fees and claims in j suits pending In- the courts amounts to $214.83 for the month.; For a Sunday of Real Pleasure, Go to Columbia Beach h's the place where the BIG CROWDS of merrymakers father. The many thousand of people who were at COLUMBIA BEACH last Sunday and previous Sundays is proof that this is the Popular Pleasure Resort of the People SWIMMING the finest, cleanest and safest Bath' ing Beach in the Northwest. An ideal plate for : women and children. I- . DANCING All day Sunday and every evening. Delightful music. - ROLLER SKATING and a world of other popular' amusements for old and young. j SPLENDID PICNIC GROUNDS Take family and friends out tomorrow. f .' . ' ; : i i .. i enrnf ai i xirvr tirrpii DANCING CARNlVAL-i-Erery ! Night SPLENDID PRIZES.; Our Music Gets' th Crowds. i I v-