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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1918)
tite oitEcq ktati:smax:miv. octokkk i. H" BiBssnaBaasniaaaBaaaBaasaBBsnBaaisnn 1(0) PAYS -IT - ; 'ii-!;... MORE i II'" '- I ! ! of the Closing Out Sale of the Imperial Furniture Company Stock. LIST OF BARGAINS $40 Franz Premier Vacuum Cleaners. ' t i ' . . " $3.50 Burrows Card Tables....... ........ $85 White Rotary Sewing Machines. $5.75 perfection1 Oil Heaters $1.25 3x4 M: Congolium Rugs 4 i- .. - 95c 50c Bottles Furniture Polish, All Kinds 39c $65 Ranges Wood and Coal ... J. .... .... U $42.85 $22.50 Silk Flois; Mattresses...... .... .. ;... $14.50 $5.50 Springs Reinforced.......... i...... j...... ...; $2.95 $9 Mattresses Cotton Top and Bottom - i- ,,: .....( $5.95 $9.85 $29.50 .. $1.98 $39.50 .. $4.65 $14 2-inch Post Bed . . $22.50 Solid Oak, Dining Table $3.50 Solid Oak Dining Chair.... $25.50 Library Table Solid Oak $38.50 Seamless; Rugs 9x12 size 75c Cottage Art Carpets $28 Heaters . $18 Heaters - $10.50 Heaters r ri 1 f $15.95 . $2.25 $15.75 $24.85 45c .$21.45 $15.95 . $8.95 AH Pottery Ware 25 per cent off Curtains and Curtain Materials 25 per cent off j j . . . .. . . . If there is anything in furniture you need we are here to sell it to you at your price, v . , I j "... ' ' : "it 1 1 f Peldste i n- D rektor FURNITURE 1 3 7 North Liberty Street GO. Salem, Ore. 1! CAMOUFLAGE IS USED IN LUNCHES Great American Station in France Is Devoted to De ception' Alone -BEHIND TUB AMKU1CAN LINKS IN FRANCE. Oct. 12. Correspon dence of the Associated Press.) Nothing ii real in the great Ameri can camouflage station here. All Is deception. Huge willow tret-s like thore In Flanders with trunks two feet in di ameter and a mass of sprouting branches at the top are steel tubes designed to hide an observer. Even on close inspection they looked like real trees to The Associated Tress correspondent who visited the station and. with the commandant, explored their mysterious underground recess es. Ther were of plaster cloth wound about the central steel tube and with pieces of real bark fitted around the trunk. A small gsuze orifice, paint cd to match the bark, was not no ticed until pointed out by the officer This was for the observer standing with In the steel core of the tree. Then feet away the turf opened. disclosing a passage with steps lead ing to a tunnel and thence to the base of the tree. WKh a light we groped through the tunnel and up into the tree. It was a tight fit in this tree trunk, bat from the gauze orifice one had a sweep of the whole near-by country. . A huge boulder, such -as one see along country roads, was noticed among the trees. The big stone, five feet nigh, and seven across.l ooked very real, and yet this. too. was cam outlage a make-believe boulder In which an observer and machine gun could lurk. Examining the stone, it felt rath er like a big cardboard box. and gave slightly to the pressure of the hand. The frame was wood, the covering burlap, painted a gray-brown, with patches of moss. - And buried amid the moss the canvas flap raised to let through the nozzle of the ma chine gun. You have your own telegraph sys tem." was remarked on observing the line of telegraph poles stretching across the plain. The commandant smiled. "Those are periscope explained. eter. set a new record with his gangs The poles were veritable telegraph and drove 195.242 rivets in eight poles, with wires strung from the i hours at the Hog Island yard on Frl tops. Just as they are .seen along day, Sept. 13. Asked how he and his gilts Long.Cold, Dreary Whiter N i at Horned Buy a Piano now or some musical instrument to help pass the long Winter hours. Music will charm and help you to forget the unpleasant things of life. Buy your music from GEO. C.WILL Salem's Music Dealer Salem, Oregon 432 State Street SHIP-RIVETING DRIVE IS AN EXCITING FEATURE OF THE WAR WASHINGTON. Oct. 12. A drive that every rivet they drive Is equal for ship-rivcting record In an Ameri can shipbuilding plant Is like a drive of the Yanks against Jbe Hun lines in France. Doth demand intensive preparation. Pershing's commanders at the front and John Wilf, builder of ships in the Hog Island yard are using the same methods. That Is how Wolf, the world's telegraph poles," he champion general foreman ship rlv- AMERICANS PARTICIPATING IN BATTLES ON MACEDONIAN FRONT WASHINGTON.; Oct. 12Gencral Misich and hi Serbs ha v croesod th 'Vardarv ' In one of tho:e arnai- Ing combinations of tactics. and mountain-fighting which, in inarching in north-ditisipns all before I. is repre It has its Is 15, overwhelmed Aurtria; ern Serbia, a bandf til of have now been carrying them in the south. Acd everyone In America lias Just one wirh; that we were wun mem. Well, we are. America sen ted In Macedonia, too. brigade, 6000 fighters frm Cleve land and Pittsburg, St. Lou's, Chica go, Seattle and San Diego. Their names may not precisely bo "Ameri can" names, as we still insist on tis-. Ing the term. And the t000 may not, to tell the truth, be naturalized Americans. But what is that be tween friends? - They are there and fighting. Just now -that is the n:aln thing. : Legally, most of them are citizens of Austria, But they aren'tj: citizens who love their mother, or top-moth er, country. They are ugoslavs" Croats and Slovenes andr jAnstrian Serbs; In America there arej virtual ly no Serbs from Serbia proper. And they began to . sail , for Europe long before we entered the war. You may remember tht Ambassador Dumba complained . constaatly that we were permitting i recruiting against his unofrendinf (country. There was no recruiting.! The first .members of Anstrla-riungiaty's sub- rning as on her country roaas.. nut eacn pole was hollow, to permit a periscope to be raised to a high observing point while a covered nit at the base of the' pole accommodated the observer taking the readings of the periscope. Uestdc-s the periscope poles, theie were periscope trees, with hollow btumps . fromwhich the observer's instrument was manipulated and the readings made In pits below, the root. X camouflage stone wall was an other curious device standing among me camouflage trees and poles. This wall, looking like the ruin of an old mill, was of light plaster construc tion painted and weather-worn to re semble a real mill. 'A wrecked house often serves as very good camouflage," said the com mander. "We had one with the win dows all gone so the enemy could look straight through to the walls Examine th Prnfitrrrlalde' hy painting false canvas exposing ine rromeer waUs jUBt back or the wlndowa the enemy still thought be was looking at the real walls opposite. But back National Restaurant Ject race were merely ret Individuals to make war alone. ' . . -. i Few Indncements were offered them. If they were capped they knew that they would asf ujredly be hanged, i By her own confession Austria has Just made a i wholesale execution of captured Jugoslavs on the Italian- front. , Whether they fought in the armies of France, Italy or Serbia, their paywould be exact ly one cent a day. with the -Initial privilege. If they had. the imoney, of paying their own way to j Europe. Many of them who sailed from New York direct, did this. For I the ma Jotily, though, their first step was to Journey quietly act oss the border Into Canada. M If the ITnited States wasn't at war with Austria. Canada wa. iOnce he had reached Canada, and Croat or Slovene. or-Ausfrlan Strb could rea sonably fust that there j would-te someone there to understand and do the hst And there was. Very soon Serbian and Jugoslav: officers, were being brought over from Eu rope. Two training ramp were es tablished, at Levis. In Quebec. nd tt Suuocx, New Brunswick. They were adjacent both to the border and the transports. Within-a few months 2000 Amrrioan-Canudian-JugoslavB were in uniforms.; And by the tlmo they had had their ptcllminary train ing others were-waiting to take the r places. More than 1000 are at Levis now. MennwMle the nucleus o fthls new army had been taking its second fstep.; It was being fioved across to Africa, to the great French aem-i tli camp at Blxerta. At Blxerta loo.OOO Serbians, all who, were left of Seibia's old army, were resting and training anew. And the volunteers from America trained with them. They were given their course, In Intensive tactics. An of ficers' school gave the best o'f them the charce to win Sebian commis sions. And presently a division, or what remained of iit. the Division of the Vardar. was filled out to full strength and renamed the "Jugo slav." Of its 1R.000 men abont 10. 000 had formerly, been prlroners In Russia, anl had workd their way to the English ships at rrhangel. The .other T00 were f "A-mericans. In due course they had 9 rhance to take the third step In their Journey to Saloniki. And they hr.ve been win ning glory ever since. Wo English-speaking Americana hive not heard nturh about them. But :thre are 7-0.oefj .fturoslavg n the Fnited States; who have. -Where we have had ourr: Lufbery's nd Put nam's and Quentln TtooseveH's. they have had their Mance's and Kovac's and' Trent's. the bravest of the brave on the CtTpn fiont. Captain Trost was a New! York bank cierk. Louis AJamlch.' another hero, was a clerk in Cleveland. Lieutenant Frank Kovas was making money in Pittsbnrg till he raw. his opportu nity ta do something better. All America will know r.f these nen some time. - , The Jngo 5lav division was assign ed the place of honor and difficulty In the la?t advancedthe position be fore Kosiak mountain. And In a few honra they carried It by storm. j flon i snow now tr.ey old it." says an English attace, Just bark from tht Saloniki front, "but they did." So there you are. What is more, the members f of that! Jugoslav division have appar ently had their wtsh In another way. Thy didn't go. to Europe t i fisht Bulgaria. They went to fight Aus tria. And. once they had made the first break throuch. they found themselves a part "tit that army which was swwng westward agalnrt Pnlep, which is .where the Austrian are. and i the Germans. And for onr "Americans" under General Misich, they are all the same. LONDON, Oct. 12. restaurant which has Iisncd to expose profiteers, is not only self-supporting but is making a good profit, according to Alderman C. F. Spencer, its director. Caterers bad charged that the enterprise was able to supply good food at reason able princes only because It had gov ernment a!d. After deducting rent,' management charges ana all other expenses the restaurant has been clearing about $2LQ a week or 70 per cent a rear on its capiUl. Meals sold for 13 cents yield a net profit of about 2 cents, i Commenting on this the Manchester Guardian ob serves: "It is thus beyond question that, even at war prices, excellent food in sufficient quantities can be bold at prices within the. reach of everyone .with a sound profit lcrt over." The British Food Controller thus is encouraged in his policy of open ing national restaurants in other big cities. CALLKS FAVORS PROHIBITION NOG ALES. Mex. Oct. 12. Free schools and orphanages; prohibition on penalty of death and peace arc the three planks In General Plutarco Ellas Calles' platform as military governor of the state of Sonora. Gen? eral Calles considers his school sys tem the biggest project he has un dertaken, adding that both prohibi tion and peace were nccesary to the fulfillment of his plan to make bet ter Mexican men and women of the boys and girls of his native state. He has established free schools In all of the larger towns of the state. In hi? CruZ Galvez orphanage for war or phan at Hermosillo 300 boys and 200 girls are attending school at the expense of the state. MANY SOLDIERS AT MISSOCLA MISSOULA. Mont. Oct. 12. With the arrival here next week of 400 registrants from various parts of the state, to. undergo an intensive tech nical training in mechanics at Fort Missoula, near here, under tho di rection of the University of Montana, the largest number of roldlers will be stationed here since the days of Indian warfare. There are now 400 men at the university proper, enter ed in the students' army training corps. It)RTO RICO HAS yVOTA. ' SAN JUAN, Torto Ilieo. Oct. 12.- Porto Rico's quota for the fourth lib erty loan bas been fixed at 14.000.- o. ror tue third liberty loan, Por to Rico subscribed a little less than I3.OO0.000. making a total of 18. 000.000 subscribed for the first three loans. The national been estab-lof the canvas our observe and min. . i - - - - - - - ers were at work and the devise was very effective.' A pile of gravel stood near the wall or what appeared to be a nil or gravel, tor this, too, was camou flage. The pebbles were heaped around a hollow frame with its aute opening for the observers and the flap through which the machine gun barked. Further along was a pile of brick camouflage. . and over In the field was a stacktif hay camouflage Each one of them was a small fort ress as well as a post of observation. W.VE MK.V TO MEET. SPOKANE. Oct. 12. To consider the war situation as it affects their business, members of the Western Pine Manufacturing' association have been called to meet here next Mon day. While the pcl'ic purpose of the meeting Is not indicated by the call, which has been issued by the secretary, A. W. Cooper of Portland. local pine men declare demands upon the spruce and Dougtas fir manufac turers for airplane and shin maten ails respectively is likely to operate to namper the production of nine in this distcirt. They declare the merl ins is ratiea wun the purpose or forestalling, inasfar as possible, turn a condition. men did it. Wolf said: "Before the American troops over yonder make a drive on the Hun they make careful preparations days In advance. I follow the same princi ple in getting ready for a riveting drive. "Riveters were as scarce as mon key wrenches In a parlor when Uncle Sam opened the ball In the shipbuild ing game. W e've had to make 'em. that's all. "Every one of my 4 gangs of riv eters were as green as fresh sine only a short time ago, I got 'em from the training school which has been established in the yard by the Indus trial Relations group, or the United States Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet corporation. I have worked like a coal heaver whipping this raw material Into shape, and I want to say right now there are not better working buddies in the world. Any time of tho day or night I'll stack my huskies against the cream of the famous Scottish yards on the Clyde. hat is the secret of the success of my gangs? Well It's as simple as the nose on your face, : The first tbing I do Is to nut my huskies next to the big Idea in the shipbuilding game. I hammer it into their beads ' CLEARS t;00 NAME. MAI.DKN. Wash. Oct. 12 To clear his name of the wrongful lc- nomtny of deserter, Oacar W. Whit- worth of this town arrived here re cently from Wbite-horse. Yukon ter ritory, where he was engaged in min ing wnen he r-eeivcd word from his parents that he had been posted a rawing to respond to the draft call Whltworth registered for the draft with the local board from White norse, out nls questionnaire failed 10 reacn nim ana was returned to the board by the postoffice. He re ported for service immediately after nis long pourney. SEES LOST III BUY IX MOVIE. SPOKANE.. Oct. 12 Mrs. H. C ieriieson ot this city, was not aware mat her husband. Sergeant Bertl son, was In France until, seated in rocai meater recently, she saw him true by on an automobile truck In company wun omer soldiers on h way to the front line. The picture was a- -.'close-up" and showed the aergcant waving his arms and Utter ing, in tho excitement of hr ur prise, .Mrs. Bertieson stood In hei hill.. a M .1 mmmmmJt t . . - . more, she remained for the nt nr formance. She had .not seen h-r hua- nanci i,inre he l-rt IK-re May 1 to Join an engineering unit, .and bad not ncara of his arrival la France. to a stout nail into the coffin of that arch child murderer, the kaiser. In other words. I make their part In this war game so real that they pound rivets like the boyi over there pump machine guns. To hit the ball's eye In a rivet ing drive, you've got to prepare for It like the Yanks arrange for a drive against the Huns. When General Pershing gets it Into his head that be wants to give the Hun a good hard bump he takes a few thousand Yank huskies back of the line, and puts them through a stiff course of sprouts in the way ot Intensive train ing. When the boys have completed the course they are as hard as steel nails and they can wade through anything. "I lined things np for my drive ia I mucn tne same way. W hen things opened up I bad the holes all reamed and the proper tools all in place. So when the drive started we had a whirlwind start, and the way we walked away from the other gangs was good to see. According "to "my way of figuring this thing called mor ale is blamed Imortant ia any game. I don't care a rap whether it'a sol diering or driving rivets, you've got to have the boys mentally and phys ically up to snuff. I aim to keep my huskies standing right np on their toea most of the tlrs- I a the respect of keeping the boys In a fight lr mood. am aided by my boss riveter. Joe Diamond, who baa been in the game for more than 20 years, and haa worked in shipyards all over the country. How about It. Joe?" Wolf turned to a stocklly-built man in soiled overalls and jumper who stood nearby. Joe shifted bash fully from one foot to another. . "I try to do my bit. boss." said he. "bat all of as woald go to - U f;t yea. John, you know that." Wolf grinned pridefolly. "You see the spirit of my haiku, don't yoa?" he said. "Why whea U drive was the hottest even or rt perintendent. Walter Blandford. the fever. - He chocked off his eott. grabbed a riveting hammer a& drove SO rivets. My huskies katt the spunk and the ginger and Uit counts." . I The record for the entire, yard ei that day was 19S.242 rivets la tlx!: hoars, or 31 rivets per boar per p re daction gang. Wolfs gangs dro 19.027 rivets, or an average, pn hour, per gang of ti rivets. Wolf Is St years old. a seasose! shipbuilder of the old school. a.-i familiar with every tarn and wrist or the shipbuilding game la the Ut:. ed States. In addition to beiag competent shipbuilder, -he Is a ti tural leader of men. . , Eastern MtQer Pitches His Tent Toward Oregzz 0 If proper inducements can be r" eente4 the Kensington Farmers It :: Ing company of Kensington. Jils:. may establish a flouring 'mill ot 4. barrels capacity daily somewhere t: a polls, president and general man spoils, presdent and general mat' ager of the concern, has writtes t letter to Secretary of State O'rfr making inquiry about kinds of whea suitable for the man a fat tare of flc -that are available In Oregon and sl acking the population ot the state. One of the requirements Is ctri: power, either electric or water. Kr Coe says farther that It wotril necessary that SfO.000 bushels c' wheat be delivered at the mill. eilV by the farmers directly or by r. or boat. 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