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THE OREGON STATESMAN: TUESDAY, JANUARY 45, 191 4 ' OUT-MORE MEN I ; TO JOIN ARMY : ' " ' ' .. '.. ri" Nearly Half Million To Be Re cruited To Hold Own Against Enemy j MILLION NOW EXEMPT Enlistment of Skilled Workers Necesary Until U. S. Aid ' . , Arrives : ' LONDON, i Jan. 14. Nearly jalf a million men from Great Britain alone are to be recruited Into the British ' army at the. earliest date poslsble, and It is proba';!? that many more will, be added ,t that nnmlwr Id the coming months. These will comprise the younger men. who up to the present have been -exempt be cause of their employment in indU3 tries essential to. the war services.! Thisfannouncement fwas nade In the house of commons today by Sir Auckland Geddes, minister of - na tional service, whose statement of the government's man power propoe. a)s are replete with interesting de tails of Great Britain's strength, in the struggle Into which she means to throw her full resources. . The minister set forth the status and needs of the British .. fighting and munitioning forces and - the measures the -government is taking after agreement with most of the Jabor leaders for recruiting from the classes' of skilled workers who were promised f exemption when conscrip tion was adopted. ' . i - The empire has enrolled 7,500,00'' fighting and labor battalion forces during the war, according to the , statement of the miniate and now has more than 4,000,060 enrolled, hut needs more men to hold its own against the enemy until the Ameri can strength Is available. ' i Hhe praised the 'spirit In which the labor, leaders have met the gov ernment, but - regretted that the Amalgamated Society of Engineers had remained ' outside the confer' ence, adding, -however, the instito tlon was still open to the members of this society. lie paid warm tf i nte to the work of the women and declared that some of the poung men abonm. the million exempted workers apparently considered themselves a privileged "class and threatened to hold .up by strikes the building or airplanes and; ships.. j j-, - , "If, they. do." he exclaimed, "ther will get such a - blast of, hatred if frill surprise them. -5 & '- f X Yon Needn't keep on feeling "dis tressed after mating, nor belching, nor'.; experiencing " nausea between meals,, . Hood's Sarsaparllla cures dyspepsia It' strengthens" the stom ach and other' digestive organs"1 for the proper " 'performance ' of their functions -. Take Hood's. . , s ; Ccnkdlan Officers In ' Dallas Friday Homing - DALLAS. Or.. Jan. 14. (Special to The Statesman.) Hon.' W. V. Fullerr JPoIk county chairman of the state, council of defense, is making final , preparations - for the big . pa triotic meeting which will be held In Dallas next Friday when Major Ft B. Edwards; Lieutenant-Colonel Mc Millan and Casta I a E." J. Cook, the Canadian -officers, who. are , touring the" state telling of their, experiences on the fighting 11 ae la.' France, will, be here and will tell the Polk county residents actual facts of the war.; . ... Mr. Fuller hag went invitations to ""'. our ' SIioul ...... .'.-r.-.-w -.-.It thould harmonize with the business in which you are engaged. It mates no dif ference whether your message bia business card, a handbill, letter, a pamphlet, at a catalog-j-tbe rnie holds good in every case. Tori would not expect a machinist or a coal dealer to be attired the same as a florist or a jeweler. It would not be appropriate, either would it be appropriate for their printed message to be similar. .The coal ad mar be orbited in bold- black tvrw. If r -!;. n coarse, heavy paper; but -, wun ligm lace type in reunea colors and on finest quality ' C - - W hut m mnmi 4 Vitt tnnfl mocoi rrn cT nnl.l K tiquated-style in printing creates just as bad an impression the hobble akirt or the "train" if worn today., It'a our business to make your printed message appropriate. Our printing plant is supplied with the very -latest type faces, ornaments and pther equipment. The plant is in charge of a printer of unusual ability a man who, makes a study of what is appropriate and timely for each printing job.-. Ilis services and his advice are at your disposal. t ' V v . 215 SOUTH COimZECIAI. people In every district In the county asking them to be-present at. the gathering and indication! are that! Dallas will see on that date thej larg est crowd that was ever in thei city. The soldiers are scheduled to arrive in Dallas at S;15 and the meeting will be'held at. 10 a. m. Card Party, to Raise Fund -for Club's Scholarships DALLAS. Or.. aJn. 14. (Special to The Statesman.)- A card party will be given by the Dallas Woman's club in the parlor of the Imperial hotel tomorrow night for the purpose of raising money for the scholarship fund of the club and -also for the Dallas Red Cross auxiliary. Mrs. W. Wynn Johnson, chairman of the com mittee In charge of the party, has been hard at work for the past sex- eral oays getting things ready for the, enjoyment of the players that evening and reported Saturday night that tickets for forty-five tables iiad been sold. Military whist will be played during the evening and light refreshments served. . NEW COMPANY JS. INCREASED Sixty-Three Additional Mem bers Sign; May Muster Next Tuesday Sixty-three, new members for Sa lem's new., military company were signed up at the armory-last night and . corporals were appointed. The new members added to those whose names were announced last week brings the total membership of the company un to 142. The company voted. to drill, every Tuesday night. At the netmeet ing,; which-will be a week from to- niKht, the officers hope to have an officer from the office of Acting Adjutant uenerai Williams to muster .. i a mr vuuiyiiij; ill. The new members are: Elmer E. Armstrong. Henry Gort maker, J. T. Welch, W. L. West. S. C. Worrell, kill. Davis. Clifford U Brunk, Russell M6fritt. Arthur R. Suttle, A. Albert Graber. E. J. Ray mond. John Zak, EL S. Barker. Fred Barker, Delmar t. Bond, E. W. Brous. Clifford Daue, Earl ,Daue, Dorain Dickinson, Raymond , Barton, Harold Deacen, Johnnie fZak, John P. Seymour. Clyde A tilt, Tee K. Abbe. Charles Smith, . J. n.. Garrison. Glenn T Rice. E. H. Kennedy, Orin C. Watkins. Roy JL Ilice, HrE. Daniels. H VS.- East,. II. Matteson. Howard J.' Gumm, Ariel 'D. Zlnser, Willie' Ector. Oscar "Bradford. Henry J. Fisher Edwin M. Hoffhetl.-Russell E. Winchcomb, Roy ,H. Gilbert. Clifford JBrnnlc. II. E. Gleason, J, L. Waters. Everett Lisle. Carl F. Smith, Ellis E. Cooley, Ralph Thompson. B. W.VJek, W; . M. Bogynske, W. A4 Cummings. Cafl.O, Esgstorm, Millen , E. , Cooper .Qacar Schwab. F- H. Begun. IT. L. Ross. T. C. -Waters, William Mixner, Oak- llrf Harvey; Harold L. Cook. , ... IlREAKLVfJ INTO PRINT. . Oh. II rs. Prunella Mehltable Jane ' ' Was stalwart of -muscle and able of -braln ' - , a . -: , . She could knit, if she would. And her biscuits were good, The care of a household she' wIl understood f -But of such things her home-folks : did not dare to hint . They never got any one's name into print. ' .l She' carried a banner and stood on Mpie pave; She Iauehed at policemen who sail. ; "Please behaver She' retorted. "Oh fudge!" To the affable judge. " ;- And obstructed' the sidewalk, ref us- Ing to budge She rejoiced In reproaches hestowed ' ' ; t without stint - -She Is certain of getting her name Into rrlnt. . - washinefon.S'tar. Printed Message d Be , Appropriate the high grade jewelry ad should be printed artistically JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT STREET PHONE 23 DRAFT BOARDS FILING CLAIMS ! -r , Thirty Cents iPer Man Is Al lowed Members Who De . mand Compensation PORTLAND. Ian. 14. A sweep ing rbangH in the nitthod of compen sating of local drart board tor tneir work in. connection vith the selective service law . has juat bt?en ordered by the provost marshal general at Wanhington. ed to appropriate, or the people to approve, for that purpose. Tne decision to change the method of compensation by placing It ,tm a fiat unit basis of 30 cents per j man classified for each board was large ly influenced, the provost marshal general explains, by the urgent sug gestions of many board members who felt keenly the erroneous position in V hich they were placed Jy. the heavy Claims of other board members. j Any board member who desires tol give his 'services to the government may still do bo under the new reg ulation. Furthermore, it is provided that any board may, by unanimous vote, arrange that one member, r two members of the' board, may re ceive the compensation, though in such case no two member my a recive more than 25 cents per man classi fied, or if only one members is to be compensated, he shall . not receive more than 15 cents per irian classi fied. Instead of being paid for their work at the rate of 1 ah hour, a) has been the case, they are to be paid on a unit basis. That is at a certain specified rate for every man to whom a questionnriire has been sent by the board and whose 2 final classification has been made. , Thirty cents per man classified for each board ha$ been fixed as the hate of compensation. In ordering this change- lp - the method of compensation, the proVost marshal general has emphasized par ticularly the fact that many board members,-and In many cares entire loards, are giving their servh-es to the government without any compen sation whatsoever. To these patriotic officials the gov ernmenthas expressed its deep ap preciation of the services: But unfortunate!; 'It' is explained, other board menibers have turned lu claims that aro felt to be extruva gant, - So high are these claims in the aggregate that they total more money than, congress could-be expect- ALEXANDER RIAY . JOIN IN RACE Pendleton Merchant May De cide to Run for State Treasurer .. . A; boom has been launched In Umatilla county in behalf of R. Alex ander, veteran merchant, for state treasurer, according to information reaching Salem. If Mr. Alexander decides. to enter the race he. will hie theixth Republican to aspire for that position oft the state .board of control. The others are City Auditor Adams and o. M. Plummer of Port land,' Thomas F. Ryan of Oreron City, Senator Cusick of Linn county and Ben . AVest of Salem. Mr. Alexander is one of the prominent Jews of the state and is high In If dge circles. He has held high position In the Odd Fellows' or- 1r a riff Ik a n VAlr anf Ifnlt nr -" -". . . lltllU i Pythias. ; Sllverton Ranker Starts Boys and Girls Pig Clab SILVETRTON, Or.i Jan. 14 Vspe clal to The Statesman. )-r-F. ,W. Callister; cashier of the CooWAyn & paper. , t - 1 . Mji as would the hoopskirt. 'AND WE WILL CALL CO McClahre frank: at Silrerton.'; has re cently 4eci4tlJo.conduct a pi club in his" territory. The club will be known as the Coolidge He McClaino Bank Pig club and . will be organized in the-." schools, with a; membership of about twenty boy within the age of about is and 48 j-ears. The bank propose . to lend the money to the boys-at the rate of C iwr cent interest 'on their personal notes up to S10. This work Is carried on In coniuftetlon with the agricul tiiral dopartment of the Livestock State bank, which is giving full a sistanee and - co-oneration in this work. , - - APPLE CROP IS PROMISING WELL Morton 5ays Weather is Fa vorable to Good Produc tion at Hood River "If this warm weather should con tinue longer, we will have a large crop of apples in the Hood River country, but a sudden cold spell, this month or next, would pp 11 ruin for most of ns." said J. W. Morton, who arrived yesterday fro Hood River. It will be remembered that Mr. Morton was a condidate for United states senator in 1912. When asked about the general con dition of fruits around Hood River, Mr. Morton said i that , strawberries were formerly the brag crop, but now they are paying more attention to apples, which they ship by" the car load to London and other foreign markets. "Last year." continued Mr. Mor ton, "wo shipped only about CO'.OOO crates of gtrawherries, and I thhik then- may bo about that many pro duced this year; although most of our growers are going into apples more extensively than ever. . "In my opinion, e have about 10. 000 acres planted to apples in the Hood River country, as our , land "seems to be peculiarly adapted . to growing the best apple In the nprth wesL. ! I 1111 .1 1 1 ,M .11 as A am considerably south of the best -"part of the county, but more people are coming and buying orch aid lands every year, and with the cliose of the war I look for a-larga Increase In, our 'foreign shipments. Boston .Broker Hanged For Marder of Wife CONCORD. N. II.. Jan. 15. -Fred erick L. Small, ; a 4. former Boston broker, was hanged at the state pris on nt 12:18 this mornine.for the murder of his wifev Florence Arleen Small, at their home in pssipee, in September, 416. Small's only words when he was informed he must die were: "I am resigned Cod's will be done." -, j . He was accompanied Into the death chamber by-his kplritual advisers, but not; wtrdT4"8akt there. J5e fore the trafv wa sprung - all thn' lights were turned out and Small went to his death ih the darkness. ' Postcards fp Urge Baying -of War Savings Stamps WASHINGTON 'ian. jl 4. -Sale of war stamps through a system . of "cash on delivery" at the home of the purchaser is the latest- plan of war financing announced, hy Secre tary McAdoo. ' The plan Is to send postcards into 25,uou,uuo homes appealing ror sut Hcriptions to the saving stamps. To each card will be attached a return card on which inay be written the amount of stamps desired and which may be mailed without cost to the rearest postmaster. A postman wil! deliver and collect for the stamps. Conservation Lectures Heard by Dallas People DALLAS. Or.. Jan. 14. (Special to The Statesman.) The second of the series of conservation lectures, to be given in Dallas by Miss Edna Mills of the food conservation bureau of Washington. D. C. will be heard in the auditorium of the Dallas Public library, Wednesday afternoon, Jan uary 16. Miss Mills will bo assisted in the lecture and demonstration by Miss Fern J'arr domestic science in structor in the Dallas highi school. The subject of the lecure will Ik; "Meats and Fats." Docket so Light Polk Jury Is Hot Summoned . DALlAS, Qre Jan- 14 (Special to The Statesman) -The-January session lnot- the 'Polk county circuit court convened. In this . city today with the lightest docket that the court has known for years. Therte are but! few jury cases on the dock et and rather than put the county to the expense of summoning a jury Circuit Judge Harry II. Belt post poned tbesQ cases until' the next term of court and as a consequyence the jury will not- be summoned. Lack of Fuel Shuts Down 105 Big Plants NEW YORK, Jan. ' 14. Lack of fuel has compelled 105 industrial plants throughout New York state to suspend operations without awaiting instructions from fuel administrat ors, it was announced today by Harry i. . . VL .a . , I T. Peters chairman i of the state fuel conservation committee. Telegrams and appeals for coal from, hundreds of other plants' were received, Mr. Peters said. - State and local fuel administrators. before issuing orders suspending or limiting Industries and amusements have been awalttng action by Wash ing which: would limit the use of coal In all the eastern, states: but Mr. Peters said many plants haVe already exhausted their supplies and the question of closing, has been decided THOUSANDS OF GARTilENTS FROM FRONT REPAIRED Train Loads of v Worn-Out Clothes Present Peculiar Spectacle ALL MATERIAL SORTED Recuperating Hospitals Get Material Not Returend to Battlefield LE MANS. DEPARTMENT - OF TUB SAltTHE. France, Jan.. 7- One an average of eight trains a day are bringing to Le Mans the astage-at the battlefront consisting, of thous ands of tons of damaged , and' ruined Boldlerg' equipment There . bav been as many as swente.cn trains a day heavily loaded with this ma terial picked up oa battlefields and around camps. Le ' Mans would be the paradise of ragmen and dealers in second .hand goods were It not for the fact that the French army is finding Its own 'use for such of this, material, as it Is able to recup erate or repair, v; " Establishments located, here by the quartermaster's department' recuper ate monthly 50.000 outer garments. 125.000 under garments, 3.500 pairs of shoes.-60, 000- -fcAirs of trench boots, 25.00 steel helmetsV 270.000 hheep-jskln.apes and 120,000 pieces of equipment. ! These' articles are made-ready for -use again by disin fection" renovation ana repairs. Therd'. are In ! addition, made each month' from pieces of - clothing that ar not repairable, 1 00, 00 ; pairs of slippers, 120.000. cases for .soldiers' canteens, 50.000 forage caps. 75.UUU shoe laces, 20,000 cloth cass for bread loaves and 10, 0Q0 wash rags. Tltousands of Articles Repaired. The recuperation and repair of worn and damaged articles began in the spring of 116 In vast warehouses and tepair shops In which R.OOO per sons including ,000 refuges, mostly women, aro employed. 1 - Ifeto and at Les Murllns. tiorth- west of Orleans, among ttne quays from which the m obi I zed men o the Eth military region went off to war in'August 1914, German prisoner of war now. line np in : front of In coming freight trains and unload quantities of great sacks that look like the product of a gigantic rag man's shop. ,Tho Indescriblo mass invokes the confusion as well as the tragedy of the battlefield. There are pierced and dented helmets, worn and stained pieces of uniform, for agecaps, great coats, leggings, army shoes aJ' trench- boots,' some of tbem pierced by bullets, some - torn by shrapnel and" other shredded by violent, contact with barbed wire. All of them are covered wit hlay- era of mud of varying thickness and not infrenqucntly a garment pre sents a stain of an Indefinable color, always easily recognized but gotten rid of with difficulty. These gar ments receive special treatment. They are first thrown Intc a recept acle "where they go througn a long and thorough cleansing before being treated as other garments. Goods Are Sorted. The first" operation on the arrival of a train is the porting of th load into three piles, leather,' metal and cloth. The cloth and canvas go at once Into Inimcnre disinfecting tanks that are in operation night and day, and from there to the laundry. Then they go to another warehouse where they are separated - into repairable and unrepairable: here there is a great deal of ripping to separate trimmings from. garments and to di vide the garments . themselves into pieces of as nearly uniform size as possible to facilitate their transfor mation Into comfortable clippers. The sheep-skins are purified by a sulphur application In the abandoned valut of-an old cemetery nearby where 6,0.00 of them arj. treated each day, after which they are made pliable and ready for wear again by a beating machine. Some of th-m, are able to take another turn at the front but the most of them along with pleces-of uniform are distrihut ed among the assembling stations at the rear for the equipment of auxil iaries and among tbe hospitals for the clnthine rif convalescents. Rags, are sold hVre at the rate oi a hundred bales per da, weighing in tne aggregate about twelve tons. This represents tbe wear and wast age of clothing received at Le Mans alone; an equal qcantiy ts received at" Les Murlihs. Kettles, braziers, lanterns, drums, musical instruments and all kinds of tools also pas through, here oc their way to Renne to be dealt with by special establishments where the per centagur of reenperation is saifi to be very slight. 1 Conwell Connects Present ' With Ages of Literary Men ' K ' i Russell 1 1. Conwell, who lectures at fhe armory tonitrht. Is about' the only connecting link in American public life today between; the pres ent generation and the days of Oli ver Wendell Holmes,' Henry V.. Longfellow "and other men eminent longrellow and other mei jn AmerIcan iIterary life. If Dr. Conwell gives any other addresses .while in Salem It will be a mistake 1f he Is not asked to tell the delightful utory of tbe humorous narodav wh!ch Holmes wrote on LongfertoWg "Psalm of Life. "Acres of Diamond, the lecture to be-delivered by Dr. Conwell In Sa lem tonl?ht. has been eiven by him thousands of times and has become an American classic. Get Wise-Try a Classified Ad The Boys in the ARMY AEBO, SERVICE Will enjoy News from Home - - Pays 3 months subscription (by mail) SUBSCRIBE FOR YOUR BOY :. 1 We pay all postage rx . - ' . STATESMAN PUB. CO. , v - 215 South Commercial Street : ; ' ' Phone 583- WIFE SAYS, HE WAS INSANE A YEAR Tragedy; at, Corxip Fuhstbq Explained-as One of faptain's Spells . LARGE SUM- IS -STOLEN Over 565,000 lis Missing : Mysterious Motor Car Perplexes Officers SAL.INA, Kan.,, JanJ 14.-r-Mrs Vadne Wnlsler, ' divorced wife of Captain Lewis - It. Whisler. - who killed himself at Camp Funstont Saturday, today discussed the trage dy for the finst time.. . Mrs. .Whlsler declared that Jier former husband, t in the opinion of his friends and herself,, has been in sane for more than a year. . She ex plained the tragedy at Camp Funston by declaring that anything. Captain Whlsler wanted, when seized ' with one of his "spells" he had to have. Mru Whlsler BtataA thai chu Irnoar of her former husband's friendship with a younir woman of Ottawa, Kansas, to. whom he. wrote just be- rorr be committed suicide. . Humors of this' friendship, she said, came to her lefore she instituted, proceedings ior divorce a year ago. : CAMP - FUNSTON, ' Kan.. Jan. 14. Interest in the amount of money taken Friday night by Captain lewls Whisler front the'army bank here after the kilflng of oar -men wit'b. an axe and the injuring of a fifth, tonight was secondary. Xo the ques tion of what - became of it , and whether Captain Whiter, who com mitted suicide when suspicion point ed to h m, bad accomplices'. Careful search of the cantonment has" revealed " nothing, and Major Frank Wilbur Smith, assistant chief of staff and head of the intelligence department, ' went to Kansas City, Mb. itoday to conduct an investiga tion of: packages mailed from: tbe cantonment Friday -night and Satur day morning. ' : - ' ' . . . The amount stolen is estimate at from $65,000 to $80,000. Anny an thorities have been Investigating the report r that a motor - car . went , through the guard lines at the west gate of the reservation Friday nisbt an hour and a half after the robbery and murders, -despite the restrictions elamped down when the crime was discovered. liefore and after the robbery. It 13 reported, the motor car was seen standing in front of the Y. W. C. A. hostens bouse. . The information ob tainable tonight is that it was occu pied by a man .and two women, the man being-a service car driver. . Austria Recognizes Finland' Independence AMSTERDAM, Jan. 14. Austria- Hungary has officially, recognized the independence of Finland, . according to a I dispatch received here from Vienna. : . . - ;: : -: : : . Several women dentists In' New York city are said to enjoy Incomes of f 10,000 or more from their pro- 1- BROWN IS READY FOR NEW PLACE Former fJarion ConntyAgent May Go to Morrow County in Few Days '':-:';-:"- .- ; , ... "Do yon know there are:just six coantles in Oregon, that have Just' passed appropriations larger than! the one desired from Marion for the maintenance of county. agents? Wei!, it Is a fact." said F, It. Drown yes terday, on his return from Corvallis. lie said he jvlll. be here for a few- days, la order to pack and move his . furniture and other belongings to another, county seat. ' , Clatsop,. Lincoln, Wheeler, Sher-'. man and Morrow counties-have made the necessary appropriations, at the suggestion of the federal govern- ' menC and each Is anxlohs To securff'" a county agriculturalists 'but Just which county the government will send him to Mr - Hrpwn does not know, although from recent corres pondence. It will probably be Mor-' row county, with his office In llepp ner. t - Mr. "Brown said that the govern ment had recently purchased several thousand tons of nitrate of soda, for fertilizing purposes, . which It will distribute through Its county agent? at$7S a ton.; the regular price havV Ing been $100. f This is 4 an invalu able, fertlllier for many orchards, and It may be possible, he say?, for some arrangement to be made by which some of this supply can be had In Marion county. .' O. M. PInmmer, the federal food " agent. Is still lecturing In the Inland Empire, near Spokane, Mr. Brown said, but will probably ! return to Salem sometime next week, at about. which time the newly' appointed county agent for Polk county, J: TX"" Larson, will assume his duties. Mr. Larson has been in the extension department of the' Oregon Agricul tural college for the past three year ENEMY SUSPSCT " REFUSES TALK filrs. Gimtorf, ; Only Says She Was Circus Performer For 20 Years IIANFORD.. C&l. Jan. 14. At th end of the fourth day; in Jail her, Mrs' Elizabeth Guestrf, held .as 1 suspected enemy agent on account of messages and documents found in her possession, still refused to tell the local police or operatives of the army -Intelligence bureau anything that would tend to elear the mystery that in said to surround her reepp activities and her appearance in Han ford Thursday night, Mrs. Guestorf said she was a cir cu performer fmr 20 years but de clined to give further details, to te'-l with whom she worked or when she abandoned this profession.. She bi the appearance, the police said, of a woman about 3 3 years of age and. Is prepossessing. - At the time of her arrest Mrs. Guisstorf was said to have letters in her possession tending to show b had recently visited many points of m'Htarr lmnnrtanre on t the . Paclfl jcoast and possessed!-knowledge t luiKbt De Udeihi io the enemy. One of her letters was said to haT closed with the words "Germany over all. Doesn't. It beat all how easy It 1 to explain the high Price of any by necessity. 1 thing In the market! 4 4 lession.