THE OREGON SUNDAY ' JOURNAL1 PORTLA ND; SUNDAY ".MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1918.
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Dr. Gulette Says Almost Twice as
Many Patients as Good Samar
itan Holds Evacuated Daily.
HOSPITALS MOVtD AT NIGHT
Change in Location Made at Time
of Day When Fritzie Could Not
Se What Was Going 'On.
HELPED SPEED ON VICTORY
WAR SANS THRILLS
Mini Kmlly Loverldge. superintendent
Of Good Samaritan hospital, la In re
celpt of a letter from Captain Fred Gul
lette, well known Portland physician
and surgeon now In France with field
hospital 41. In which he details the work
of the medical rfien as follows.
"Our first actual hospital work was
three miles down the Marne river from
Chateau Thierry. We were too late to
do very much arid after 10 days were
moved to the south near Toul. Here we
were close to the lines of the first all
American drive in the St. Mihicl sector.
We were given an Immense Increase In
qulpment Including portable X-ray and
selectlve.outfit and many new tents. We
were able to accommodate a larger
amount of patients than your Institu
tion, almost twice the number, and
evacuated almoBt the entire number
every 24 hours. Three to five tables
are going night and day and these did
not allow of adequate care of more than
one quarter of the patients, so we chosef
first the severely Injured and at niRht
would carry the entire bunch aboard the
hospital train and Bhlp them back to
the base hospital, then begin to fill
again. Our only nurpes were inexperi
enced enlisted men.
Hoxplta! More at Mght
"The drive cndetj after a few days and
we were ordered to move in the night to
new location for the second American
push. The moving stunt is some job. All
tentage must be struck and packed to
gether with an immense quantity of
stores and equipment. We filled 34
trucks of two tons capacity ; traveled all
night In heavy rain and were dumped
down In a thick wood just before day
light. The night travel Is to prevent
Fritzie from guessing the point of next
attack. We had 48 hours to set up a
part tof our tents and necessary outfit
for work and then the big noise started.
"Thla is the third day of activity and
we are very buy. We are helping out
a Red Cross unit which was far too
small to handle the rush. In fact, we
are only one of the four organizations
working at this point, all under Red
Cross management. We have barrack
room for a large part of the Injured, this
being an old French hospital evacuation.
The buildings, which are of rough
boards, are 100 feet long and 20 feet
Wide and accommodate, about 40 pa
tients each. Today we Joyfully wel
comed 85 nurses who were sent from
1 Paris, We are running 15 tables in eight
, hour shifts, each table attended by a
team of two or three men. Our X-ray
outfit was a Godsend and positively
runs tO minutes of every hour. Only
fluoroscopic examinations are made.
Most of our work is removal of foreign
bodies, usually of shrapnel and shell.
Perhaps 10 per cent are machine bullets
with copper jackets spilt up. I had one
case last night with literally hundreds
of tiny shell fragments under his skin
from his toes to his scalp. He, - of
course, still carries many of the small
ones, but is ;n good shape this morning.
Train fiNFine'One
"From 4 p. m. till midnight I handled
16 cases with one assistant besides two
orderlies. I may get a nurse to aid this
evening. We evacuate here by train
and such a fine train I have never seen
all new American coaches with tiers of
three wire beds like our Pullmans : a
fine surgery, etc, and a great locomo
tlve which looks doubly large In com
parison with the tiny French engines we
are accustomed to here. When I go on
. duty at 4 p. m. I will find all of my last
night cases gone. 1 spent three hours
dressing them thin morning and a ney
-bunch of patients were awaiting their
turn.
"We have a very good class of medi
cal men here and they work hard. We
are not allowed to use sutures in our
work. No wound Is closed, amputations"
re left fully open. Some use a soft
soap solution to prevent adherent dress
ings and constant pain on removal, also
petroleum for the same reason, as we
have no time to soak dressings off ; they
sre ripped off In one motion. Every
thing Is figured In minutes here. Things
are more quiet today and we expect to
zatch up with the arrivals tonight un
less there should be something new.
"Our fighting boys are doing well. We
hear very interesting sidelights on the
fight from our patients. We have ad
vanced seven miles In not quite three
days. Just at this point we have three
regiments of Alabama darkles and they
have done fine work. They are very
comical aa patients and very amusing
to listen to. I am well and Very happy
over here."
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WRITES F.H JUL
Former Journal Writer in Army
Service in, France Sees No
Romance in Grim Routine.
AWAITS DATE OF LEAVE
Prefers Jaunt Into Alps to Visit
to Pleasure Resort on First
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Left to right Corporal Robert W. Jlyers in coast artillery, service flag or Myers family bearing 21 stars, and
r to which four stars are to be added; Sergeant N. J. Myers and son, Sergeant N. K. Myers, 'who re
cently met in France.
1 Earl A. Hibbard, In France with C3th artillery. 2 Sergeant Homer R.
M( Daniel, killed in aolion. 3 Charles Krnest Hawkins, in transport
service. 4 Ernest Miller Jr., at Camp Lewis. 5 Herbert Miller, on
destroyer in European waters. (5 John F. Lufford, in France. 7
Fred R. Elliott, overseas with 37th engineers. 8 William Enos Slay
ter of Itlachiy. 9 Vern E..Reudy, assigned to officers' camp. (Photo
Rushnell.) 10 Lieutenant Parks Wightman, in France. 11 Chauncy
Wightman, motorcycle courier. 12 Frank A. Gansnedcr, who has en
tered tank corps. (Photo Bushnell). 13 Floyd S. AVarner, in France with
artillery. 15 Willard M. Warner, in France with marines. 15 Marvin
Smith, of Cottage Grove, wounded in France. 16 W. II. Downham,
of British army, killed in action.
Transport Services Provides One With
All Excitement Necessary.
Charles Ernest Hawkins, son of C. A.
KEEP LOOKING YOUNG
Hawkins of San Francisco, -who is quar
termaster on one of the transports run
nine between New York and France, in
a letter to his aunt, Mrs. V. R. Insley,
260 Sixth street, Portland, describes
some of the troubles of the transport
service as follows:
"This will make my fifth trip to the
other side. The trip is always one of
eternal strain and vigilance. Subma
rines are a small part of our troubles.
With -ships on both sides as welt as
ahead and behind .there is very little
room to maneuver. Not infrequently
steering gears, engines, boilers, or other
machinery of the ships give trouble. For
example, one night the ship ahead of us
broke down and did not show her red
distress lights until we were almost on
top of her. We missed a collision by
only 15 fet. Imagine, If you can, 32
ships grouped together on a dark, stormy
niKlit and you may get a fair idea of
what the strain Is. Every mdrning
shows six or eight ships out of place, and
it takes a couple of hours to get back
Into formation.
When zigzagging commences In the
war zone the real fun begins. For a
course In up to date sea going cussing,
take a trip across the Atlantic at this
time. Any ship will do. One captain I
know has become white haired since
April.
"Not a single trip has failed to give a
great deal of excitement. I made three
trips on a gasoline oil tanker. The
slightest bump with another ship and
the friction of contact would cause a fire
which cannot be put out A big new oil
tanker was torpedoed about 200 feet
away from us one night. The torpedo
passed under our stern and hit amid
ships. In 30 seconds Bhe was a huge
wall of fire. Not one of the crew was
saved. Those who jumped overboard
were burned by the gasoline which
spread on the water. The tanker astern
ran into her and suffered the same fate.
Our cargo was gasoline also, and we
"were quite gay and light hearted not.
"Coming back our convoy was at
tacked by a group of submarines who
stayed with us for three days and nights.
Six of our ships were sunk in these three
days. Their trick was to follow us in
the daytime and slip up at night My
ship rammed one of them. I was look
out on the forecastle head at the time,
and my feelings were indescribable.
"During another trip we were shelled
crossing the English channel. Being
shelled Is a novel experience and very
good exercise, especially for those on
watch who have to stay above and can
not get below decks away from splinters
from the exploding shells. All hands on
our ship acquired a lot of souvenirs In
the way of splinters and pieces of shell.
The first time I heard a shell burst I
found myself Instantly about 20 feet
from where I started. In about a tenth of
a second. A good record on such short
noiice.
"One of the most beautiful trips I have
taken was to Rouen, 100 miles from the
Seine river. France Is certainly a beau
tiful and wonderful country. Notwith
standing all the excitement and activity,
I neverfelt better in my life."
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BIG SHELLS NAMED
210 is a $250 bond, a 10-inch is a $1000
bond and so on. and they sure do make
the Huns want to talk peace. Well, when
we get in Berlin, then is where we will
talk peace, at least that is the way we
feel about it over here and from the
way things are going now it looks like
we will be there by the first of the year.
'.'This town is all shot to pieces as are
all the villages in this part of the coun
try. I am writing here in a place the
German jficers had for a mess room
and it iaill fixed up with a piano, etc.
Well, there is a Tank playing that piano
now and a dozen are around him sing
ing. Fritz left so suddenly that he didn't
have time to take much with him. I
think we will be home by the Fourth of
July."
PORTL ANDERS ARE NUMEROUS
It's Easy If You Know Dr.
Edwards' Olive Tablets
The secret of keeping young is to feel
oung to do this you must watch your
Efrerand bowels there's no need of hav
ing a sallow complexion dark rings
tinder your eyes pimples a bilious
look in your face dull eyes with no
Sparkle. Your doctorwiU tell you ninety
pier cent of all sickness comes from in
active bowels and liver.
i Dr. Edwards, a well-kriown physician
in Ohio, perfected a vegetable com
pound mixed with olive oil to act on
the liver and bowels, which he gave to
bis patients for years,
t Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets, the sub
stitute for calomel, are gentle in their
' action yet always effective. They bring
about that exuberance of spirit, that
' natural, buoyancy which should be en
; . joyed by everyone by toning up the liver,
and clearing the system of impurities.
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Shells of Various Sizes Are 'Called
Liberty Bonds by Soldiers
"I have three gas machines to look
after up here at the front, so I am
pretty busy," writes Private Fred TL El
liott, Company A, Thirty-seventh engi
neers, to his father. James F. Elliott of
251V4 Front street. He says: "The Boche
send over some shells every day and
night, but they seem to have a hard time
to hit where they-want to. They put two
about 150 or 200 feet back of my shack but
you soon get so you don't mthd them
a great deal. Guess they will not last
long now as we have them on the run.
We made a big drive on this front Sep
tember 12 and took about 25 kilometers
in depth and 65 kilometers in length,
took about 14,000 prisoners ; It was gTeat.
They walked through them Just as If
they were going to a ball game in the
old U. S. A. I guess the kaiser has found
out that the Americans can take any
thing they go after: I hear today that
he is wanting peace ; well, he will get all
the peace he wants. I wisli you could
hear and see the boys throwing over
those big Liberty bonds as we call them
over herer We have all the shells named.
a 75 Is a $50 bond, a 105 is a $100 bond, a
Lawrence Dinneen Writes About Many
Oregon Boys Recently Met.
"At the K. of C. clubrooms tonight I
met Will Bodw'ay of Portland, formerly
a member of the Portland postoffice
force," writes Corporal Lawrence
Dinneen from France. "He's on a ship
which is in this port now. I'm going
to visit Bodway in a day or two. Yes
terday I registered a letter at the army
postoffice. The man who waited upon
mo was C. W. Bowling, for a number
of years prior to entering the army,
postal service a member of the post-
office force in Portland. I enjoyed a
chat with him. He knew many of my
friends on the Portland postoffice force,
including Dan Duff.
On duty at the fire station here are
the following boys from the former
Third Oregon : Sergeant Arthur Tce,
Private Lee Wangman ; Corporals
Charles Ford, Norwood, Apperson,
Hugh Poff and Edward Pfeifer, who
lived next door to Father Murphy on
North Nineteenth street in Portland
Sergeants Alford Soudburn, Alford
Miller, Allen Higdon and Robert Sharp
Mechanic Joe Loop and Mechanic Whit
ney Rokin, Privates Lee Lorch (Con
don, Or.), John Wolling, Philip Beevely
Xicodemius, Henry Hagen, Glen Pow
ers, Irvin Abbett. Lawrence Bletch
Croft, Brant Tarkington. Frank Bele-
r.eus, Robert Hollis, Gay Evans (Van
couver. Wash.) and Frederick Warner.
These boys are in the best of health and
are profiting by their stay in France.
From these boys I get Portland and
Oregon papers, which I pass on to Fath
er Murphy, for neither of us has been
able to get our papers, and have en
joyed eating at their mess with them
1 have also enjoyed talking with Lieu
tenant A. A. Schwarr, these boys' com
manding officer.
"Yesterday's mall brought me 11 let-
ttrs that had been trailing me around
France. There is no comment needed, I
hope, on what kind of a reception a
letter to a member of the American E.
F always gets.
"I was surprised when Father Mur
phy told me the other evening that he
knew Joyce Kilmer, and that he was
the kind of man that I had believed him
to be judging him from his one short
note to me and from .the poems of his
which I had read. In yesterday's mail
Mrs. George Gardner of New York. Cali
fornia and Nice inclosed me a clipping
from the Literary Digest, of whose verse
department Kilmer was editor before
his entry into the army. Mrs. Gardfier
did not know that I was particularly in
terested in Kilmer. She just noted on
the page Bhe inclosed to me : 'Pity such
a man had to go so young.'
"There is one thing that I've noticed
the French are quick about taking; up.
That la the American scale of prices
based . upon living conditions in Amer
i t t . mil' . T , . .
The story of a box of cigarettes mailed
which finally reached their
Somewhere In France," the
oaly address left on the torn wrapper
being "Fred H. 23rd," is told in a letter
recently received from Fred H. McNeil,
a former member of The Journal staff.
"The cigarettes mailed April 15 ar
rived in Tours, France, October 2.
They went somewhere in the British
Expeditionary forces and back to the
London postoffice. Then the parcel
came back to France, wandered? around
a bit and finally free lanced into my old
company. The poor old blue paper
label was ripped to peices. All of the
address left was "Fred H. 23d." I have I
no doubt that it went to every private
Fred, H. in the British army and then
likely to all the Fred H.'s in the 23d
infantry, the artillery and all the other
outfits bearing that number. However,
the cigarettes were in fine shape. Fol
lowing the inviolable custom. I cracked
the bottle in the presence of the crowd
and by night only the tin box was
left and I am using it as a pin con
tainer. "The newspaper men have certainly
gone into this war in the right way.
All of my friends who were able to make
it are in the army or navy, and most
of them are over here. I see many men
of many outfits -and hardly any go
through but what there are a number
of men of "my profession. There are
a great many former newspapermen
holding commissions over here and I find
many in the excessively exciting jobs,
like trench mortar outfits or machine gun
companies.
Praises "T" Men
The 'Y' secretaries are good gien, ex
cellent men, and most of them are very
w en iiKea. l ney. are carrying on an
excellent work and more than one of
them has 'gone west.' because of his
anxiety to tote cigarettes and chocd
lates to the men at the front. In fact,
the 'Y' men do far more work for the
soldiers than the men appreciate. The
soldiers do not savvy the fact that they
are getting a form of social service
that no other soldierj enjoy. In fact,
the Americans are more or less pampered
and petted, speaking of them as a class
and these 'Y' men. Knights of Columbus
and Salvation army people deserve
generous credit.
'Really you folks at "home are jretting
all of the excitement and romance of
this war, without any of the dangers or
discomforts. You have box seats for
the performance. You folks get the
thrills of Liberty loan drives and mili
tary parades and big news stories and
all that sort of thing. A fellow from
Philadelphia was telling me the other i
night about the long troop trains craw
ling through that town last spring, one
after another, with thousands- of men
aboard. That was a thrilling sight and
one of the romantic phases of the war, in
my mma. You know how one conjures
up thoughts of adventures ahead of these
men. Well, I simply quivered with the
thrill of excitement at that picture al
though during the winter, I too, crawled
through Philadelphia on a long troop
train. I was quivering that night, but
not with excitement. It was zero in the
shade and I didn't have any blanket in
an unheated day coach.
"o Thrills Encountered
"There has been no romance or thrill
in this war business for me at all. The
most excitement I have had was the
trip over, something fascinating about
the constant lookout for subs, the mys
tery of the endless expanse of ocean,
the shaded green lights that we had in
our transport holds, the constant ten
sion that prevailed among the men.
Unlike the war stories which we read,
there is no pafkding, no music, no charg
ing. It is just mud and rain, and mud
and snow and mud and noise and corn
willy and noise, enough of the latter
to make you cuss the Chinese race
through three purgatories because they
invented gun powder.
"Have Just been paid again, am now
flush to the extent of 500 francs. I have
been promised my leave for November 3
or 4, and plan a journey into the Dau
phiny Alps. Rather late to go into the
mountains but I would rather hit the
bleakest mountain in the world than go
to the most desirable resort and have
all of ' my expenses paid. Thus am I
nutty (Mr. McNeil is a member of the
Mazamas and an enthusiastic mountain
climber.)
Censor Is Active
"I am a constant reader of the London
Daily Mail and the New York Herald,
army editions, both. These sheets print
nothing but war news: The Herald
is as old fashioned as a paper can be
and whenever anything happens that
its owners do not like, it does not give
a straight news story, but tear into
a front page editorial. Quite frequently
it has interesting front page yarns con
sisting only of a big head and about
10 inches of blank white column under
neath. How would you like an army
censor to walk into your composing
room at 12:45 p. m.. when you are put
ting the 2 o'clock edition away, grab
the proofs and then slash the guts out
of your lead story. I imagine those boys
on the Herald must tear their hair
frequently."
The accompanying photographs show
the service flag of the Myers family of
Portland and Oregon City and three of
its members who are in the service. The
Myers family, which is one of the larg
est and best known in this section, holds
an annual reunion and at the last re
union the beautiful silk service flag bear
ing 21 stars in the shape of an M was
presented, this having been made by
Mrs. H. E. Warren and MIbs Winifred
Myers.
Since that time several new members
of the family have entered the service
and these additional stars will be added
at the-next family reunion to be held in
June. The members of the family in the
service are : Charles F. Beatty, Robert
Beatty, John Beatty, Everett Green.
Clyde Green, Robert Green, Earl Green,
Charles B. Myers. Thomas Aldrich, Holt
Guerin. Clay Hamilton, Robert W.
Myers. Max Rands, Robert Lynn, Frank
Hamilton. Clay Hamilton. Shanon Ham
ilton, Samuel Hamilton, William Hamil-
ton Carter Hamilton. Newton Hamilton,
Walter C. Hickok, Norman J. Myers.
Norman E. Myers, Clay Myers.
Mess Sergeant Norman J. Myers of the
Sixty-ninth artillery, and his son. Nor
man E. Myers of the Sixty-first artil
lery, met In France recently and spent
three weeks together. Sergeant Norman
J. Myers Is the son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. H. Clay Myers and enlisted with
his two sons at the beginning of the
war, the second son. Corporal Robert W.
Myers, is in the coast artillery.
Boys From Oregon Country,
Encountered in England
Fred Lockley Enjoys Chats With GreatUumber of Men in Service
From Portland and Neighboring Cities.
By Fred -Lockley
Mr I-ocklej of The Jonnul sUfi h jnt
r turned frnm n extruded Uy oTerse in T. M.
C A. serrice. J
Shortly before leaving England I was
asked to act as Y. M. C. A. courier be
tween London -and Liverpool. I had my
own trunk and bag and 6000 feet of mov
ing picture, film to be sent to America
beside some other Y. M. C. A material.
ica. Heretofore in my travels in France
there has been one (shall I say
"trlght"?) exception. That was the
washerwoman. But the washerwoman
of A. P. O. 701 has learned the Ameri
can price list, and for an inferior grade
of work to that which I have had done
in several other Franch places she
charges the top price that an American
laundry charges without ironing', too.
in many cases. So even the washer
woman has learned. Tm wondering
what the French tradesmen will do
when, after the war. there are no more
Americans to charge high -prices to.
"Without getting Into trouble, with
the. censor, I believe I can quote from
my diary of a day this past week:
"October 2L-1918 Arrived at port en
trance ft :!? a. m. Masts, paint, streaks, some time.
ships ; American stevedores crossing
bridge ; Poilu with 1870 rifle guarding
German prioners ; American M. P. on
duty ; ships, guns, funnels ; American
sentryman on post; French civilians
passing to and fro ; American trucks
and motorcycles and automobiles ; Ger.
man prisoners digging sewer ; cranes,
green water, ships, French sailors,
French army officers, freighters, trans
ports, small port, many ships, steam,
worklngmen everywhere, British flag,
American flag ; 8:25 a. m., out of sight
of tort.
"This sort of Impressionistic descrip
tion of some of the thoughts that came
to me on a walk the other morning may
interest you."
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Mrs. J. L. Smith of Cottage Grove has
received a letter from her son Marvin,
who has been at the front, saying that
he had been wounded in the chest and
that he would , be in the hospital for
The baggage man weighed up my bag
gage and said : "Pick out what you want
to take up to 100 pounds. No one is al
lowed to have over a hundred pounSs of
baggage."
I said. "I'll pay excess on all over 100
pounds."
"You cannot carry more than 100
pounds. It's against orders," he said.
It was nearing train time, and I was up
against it. I walked down the length of
the platform in search of an American
en route to Liverpool. I spied a private.
I stopped him and said : "Do you happen
to know anyone who is going on this
train to Liverpool?"
He said, "I am. Why?" I said. "I am
going to get some of my baggage through
on your ticket."
"Sure. Glad to oblige you," he said.
"What's your name?" I asked.
"Ed M. Smith." he answered.
We walked back to the baggage de
partment and I said : "Check my trunk
through on my ticket. The blanket roll
and the bag will go on my friend's ticket.
He also is allowed 100 pounds." Hailing
a porter I said. "We want to catch the
train. Show a little speed and earn this
shilling." The baggage man looked dazed
as we moved off and the porter chuckled.
'My eye. but you Americans are keen.
You did the baggage man proper."
When I had seen the baggage aboard I
turned to my soldier friend and said:
Meets Fellow Townsman
"Where do you hail from?"
"Portland. Or.." he said. I gave him
my card and he was very much sur
prised. I had him take lunch with me.
My folks lived at the Knickerbocker
apartments when I enlisted," he said. "I
went to the Jefferson high and later to
the Benson Polytechnic school. I am
on the headquarters' staff at Knotty Ash
rest camp at Liverpool in Company F.
The old Third Oregon is pretty well
scattered.
"If this train drew up at the East
Morrison depot where would be the first
place vou headed for after you had seen
your folks?" I inquired.
Well. I think I would take the street
car out to 7236 Fiftieth avenue southeast.
Then I would drop in and visit a pal of
mine at the corner of Morrison and East
Thlrtenth streets. But don't talk about
It It makes me homesick. I hit Liver
pool on Christmas day. 1917, and I would
like mighty well to spend Christmas day.
1918. in Portland, but I have seen a lot
of France and England so I am learning
more than ever I would from studying
history.
"England is a beautiful country. I
like it because it is so much like the Wll
lamette valley."
Another Fortlander Encountered
I spent a day at the beautiful little
rural 'tWage of Chingford, at least at
Jubilee Retreat near there, and at the
airdrome.
I walked oyt from Chingford to Jubilee
Retreat. The first chan i met was nurs
ing a smoky fire In a sheet iron brazier
I stopped to chat with him. He said :
"My name is D. E. Newsome. I live at
201 Hazelford Place in Portland. TJid
you ever see the Iralda that plies on the
Willamette? My dad built her."
Fred Ross was the next soldier I met.
His folks have a farm on the Santlam
river near Waterloo In Linn county.
The next chap was Clarence Rathey
whose folks have a farm at Dufur.
enlisted from The Dalles." he said.
Corporal G. L. Camory of Roseburg,
Or.. Joined the group and said : "Say. Mr.
Y man. Can't you get them to send Petit
out as a Y secretary. He is the llvest
newspaper man that ever hit Roseburg
and he Is a fine hustler.
As I stood In the baracks yard the sol
diers began gathering. It was a regular
volunteer state meeting- E. J. Johnson
of 670 Wilson street, Portland, said : "J
worked under Dave Smith and Harry
Ely for four years on The Journal."
"You haven't got anything on me.
said Robert F. Knight. "I was on The
Journal four years, too, in the press
room under II. A. King. Now I am as-
sembling airplane engines and we are
the boys that can make them carry out
Oregon's motto. 'She flies with her own
wings." "
Louis Kindt said, "We have a farm
Just south of Spencer's Butte at Eugene.
Williard J. Granger said, "I came from
Portland, but my people live at Ray
mond. Wash."
Walter Moore said. "I was a switch
man in the S.. P. & S. yards when I en
listed. I lived at the Bradford hotel in
Portland."
Oregontais Galore
Corporal Lewis J. Lack told me of his
work in the transcontinental freight bu
reau in Portland. - He lives at 231
Nartilla street, Portland. '
Corporal Viggo Madsen of Astoria
said, "We have met before. You got a
story from me about the crab industry of
the North Beach district when I was
clerking in Ross A Higgins fish market
at Astoria."
Sergeant Carey W. Green said.v "I at4
a farmer. I hail from Dufur. My uncle,
D. S. Young, is the postmaster there."
I fat down in the office of the laun
dry and chatted for 10 or 15 minutes
with the soldier in charge, Donald G.
Shelton. "This is some change from my
took a truck and went back behind the
lines for extra parts for trucks. We sure
had a good time. I had the first real
feed I've had since leaving the states.
There was a fellow along who could talk
French, so he ordered what we wanted.
When they found we were from the
front they said we could have anything
in the house and to cap the climax we
had a big feather bed to sleep in. 1 came
as near to being happy as is possible
when I am so far from home. One of the
boys who is going back to a base ord
nance is going to send you an apron that
I got for your birthday. It will, no
doubt, be late but it will show you I did
not forget you. This is the second birth
day you have had since I left home. Let's
hope that I will be home by your next
one and it sure looks like I will."
A
Parks Wightman. second lieutenant,
sigfial corps. Sixth field signal battalion,
writes : "I have telephone exchanges In
several different towns, consequently I
have quite a little running around to do.
Enjoy my work fine and to top it off.
j I have as good a "bunch of men as ever
to ret soma paper. Then we went over
to the .French Y to write letters as in
thla place there la no American T. We
are having good mail service now. The t ,
letters are coming in every three or four
days. Our regiment la doing some won- -derful
work over here. We have heard
that we have been cited twice and It we :
are cited the third time we will receive a v.
medal of som kind.
I am sending you a piece of German
money as a souvenir and also a helmet
and a gas mask. . I also have a lilt Ger-,
man pistol. We have just heard that the
Sixty-ninth artillery from Fort Stevens
has Just arrived in France. I Just re-,,
cetved my birthday gifts. Anything that
reminds us of home and the old U. 8- A.
is sure welcome. I think that the :war
will be over in two or three months and
maybe sooner.
l
Vern E. Reudy. 7l Corbett street, a
former carrier of The Journal and more
recently a student at Reed collece. has
been appointed to the officers training
camp at Camp McArthur. Waco. Texas, v
Mr. Reudy is a native of Portland and
a graduate ofthe Lincoln high school. .'
Frank A Gansneder. the son of Mra,
Mary Gansneder of 310 Cook avenue, left
last week for Camp Colt. Gettysburg.
Pa. where he will enter training In the
tank corps. At the. time of his enlist
ment he was employed as foreman at ths
Foundation company. (
Private William Enos Slayter of
Blachly. Or., is range finder for th
first machine gun company. Having been)
transferred from the headquarters com
pany of the first United States infantry. :
He says he is very glad he was trans- ,
ferred as his new associates are a fin
bunch of men.
Brothers In the service are Ernest Mil
ler Jr.. who Is In the artillery at Camp
Lewis, and Herbert Miller, who Is aboard
a destroyer in active service on the other
side. Ernest was manager of the Miller
Paint &. Wall Taper company and Herb
ert was chief clerk.
work as an attorney in Portland," he
said. "My father, John L. Shelton, came
to Oregon in 1M4 and I have read hun
dreds of your stories of the pioneers in
your column in The Journal under the
title "In Earlier Days." I have always
wanted to meet you. but I had no idea
that we would meet for the first time in
Chingford. England. My home? I
at 1055 Williams avenue. I was a teacher
for some time at the Hill Military acad
emy. Later I went to the U. of O. law
school."
Sergeant Ed Ebele of 43 East Third
street in Portland, invited me to come
out to the airdrome a mile and a half
distant A Tommle took me out in a
Ford. I am not allowed to go Into de
tails about the work there.
With the Alrlpanes :
I met dozens of Oregon boys setting up !
fighting and bombing planes. I went into
the "dope" room where the linen on the
planes is treated with the dope and into
a room where several machines had been
reduced to toothpicks and tangled, metaL
"What made them fall? I asked.
"Nobody knows,", a soldier replied.
The men in them were as badly broken
as the machines so they couldn't telL L
am taking my exam next week for my
commission so I am studying pretty
hard. Back in Portland I worked for the
National Biscuit company."
We went from building to building and
met scores of boys from Oregon. I
shall not attempt to reproduce our con
versation for it would take too long. In
stead, I will merely set down the names
of the lads I met, either in the shops, at
the work benches, or out in the flying
field helping the flyers get aloft.
Here are some of the men I chatted
with :
Private Walter E. Luark of 560 East
Morrison street
August A. Zugg of La Grande.
Frank Langenburg of Roseburg.
Sergeant Harry Bennett of Woodburn.
Floyd L. Attridge of Vancouver.
Clarence Broddie of 755 Haight street.
Portland, a Jefferson high boy.
Leo S. Peterson of Grays River,
Wash.
Corporal Vic Vandervlugt of 183 East
Seventy-sixth street. In Montavilla a
Washington high boy.
Clyde H. Bailey of Mosler.
Corporal Ralph E. Woodruff of Wbite
Salmon, Wash.
Sergeant W. M. Dickinson of Oswego.
Corporal E. G. Narregon of Medford.
Lewis A- Mitts of Aurora.
Elbert P. McKean of Oswego.
Vernon J. Wray of Hoqulam, Wash.
Herbert V. Daugherty of Baker.
LeRoy B. Ritter of Mabel, Or.
Dee W. Patton, a telephone lineman
of Eugene, whose home is In Glasgow,
Mont
Frank D. Shields of Roseburg, who
quit driving a Jitney to ride in the air.
C. R. Weaver of Myrtle Creek.
John E. Doan of 125 Sixth street Port
land, who left his farm near Forest
Grove to -enter the service.
A Bsekaroo From Barns
Jeff Cloer who was a buckaroo on the
"P" ranch near Burns, for Bill Hanley.
Ormell Standard of Eddyvllle in Lin
coln county.
Frank Schlund of Baker.
Fred W. Layzell of Astoria, a member
of the Astoria fire department
Vern Magruder of Central Point
T. R. Fowler of Hoqulam. Wash.
Sergeant Victor R. Buntzel of 162 East
Eightieth street north, who for the past
six years was with the J. K, Gill com
pany. Billy Martin of Gresham was on leave
and some of the other boys I did not see.
Half of the squadron was at Oxford. I
passed through Oxford recently but did
not know the Oregon boys were there.
Chingford is beautifully located in a
rich and fertile farming country'. It is
near London. As I watched a small 24
foot plane looping the loop over and over
and over till it made me dissy to watch
it. I thought what a wonderful experi
ence our boys are having. They spend
their leave days In London seeing things
that will dwell In their memories for
ever. They are learning to be expert
mechanics or fliers and they are doing
their bit Hi a big way.
T3S IS
John F. Lufford of the ordnance de
tachment of the One Hundred Forty
eighth field artillery, has written to his
mother. Ma Alice Cheney, 187 Twelfth
street, as follows : Gee. but we .sure
have been busy the .last two or three
mmithfl will fak nut vfir tn trmxtnt nn
In sleep when I get home. Four of ua I
ran a telephone exchange. For instance.
three of them work all day and then
put in all the night cutting over a new
piece of cable. They took it on them
selves without any prompting on my
part They Include everything from a
minister to a moonshiner but they are all
hitting the ball."
ive nauncey w ignunan is a courier ana
irom nts experiences in riding his motor
cycle sends home the word that, "I used
to think that roads In Oregon were bum,
but wait until you hit a road that runs
through No Man's Land. It isn't a road
but a bunch of shell holes and mines.
Right now I am writing in a place
which the Germans held 48 hours ago.
and I have been here pretty nearty 30
hours myself.
Private Wightman formerly belonged
to the machine gun corps. Third Oregon,
but now he is on special duty at divi
sion headquarters, which usually re
quires covering 75 miles a day. The
two boys, sons of Mr. and Mrs. S. E I
Wightman. 485 East Holland street at- j
tended Portland high schools. Lieuten
ant Wightman was a Washington high j
school boy and Private Wightman, a Jef- i
ferson high school student
Mrs. W. W. Warner of Jefferson, Or.,
has two sons In service overseas. Wttr
lard is with the Seventy-ninth company,
second battalion, sixth regiment. United ,
States marine corps. In a recent letter'
to his mother he says : "We have Just
returned from the front after putting
on a big drive. This makes the third -time
over the top for me. I have put In
so much time at the front that it don't
seem right to be away. Everything ha
been going great lately and I don't ex- .
pect to be- at the front much longer, at.
least I hope not This Is the only coun
try I have ever seen where it rains all
the time. It's got Oregon cheated a mile. .
This paper I'm writing on. is some Ger
man paper I found in a trench. I sure
got a lot of souvenirs, among them an
Iron cross."
Floyd Warner, who Is with Battery E.
Sixty-fifth artillery, arrived In Franc
the first of last April and after training
In an auto and truck school, has been '
employed In bringing trucks from South
ern France.
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Downham. 7S1
Burnside street, have been notified that
their son, Private W. H. Downham. was
killed In action October 16. Private
Downham was with the Suffolk regi
ment He had lived in Portland seven
years and went to England and volun
teered In the British army In 1915. He
was twice wounded before being killed.
He was not yet 19 years of age. He was
a graduate of the Creston school.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. McDaniel of this
city. are In receipt of a telegram from i
Adjutant General Harris of San Fran
cisco, notifying them of the death of
their son. Sergeant Homer R. McDan-
iel. who was killed In action. October 12. '
Sergeant McDaniel. who was 36 years
old and a native of Polk county, was ;
among the first to offer his services to J
his country, having enlisted March 28 :
In Troop A of the cavalry, from which '
he was transferred to the One Hundred ,
Forty-eighth field artillery. Besides his j
parents, he is survived by a brother, j
David L. McDaniel of San Francisco. Mr. j
and Mrs. McDaniel received a letter j
written only three days before he was
killed which was written in a cheerful
vein and described a battle and the tak
ing of a hill.
a Ki
German souvenirs and a letter have
recently been received by the parents of
Earl A. Hibberd with the Sixty-fifth ar
tillery in France. Hibberd says :
"I walked back from the lines tonight
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