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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1918)
page a The Bend Bulletin DAILY EDITION Published Kvcrv Afternoon Except Sunday BEND, OBJSGON Entered us Becontl CIiism mattt'r, Jmtufiry 8. 1917, ut the Post Office at Bend, Oregon, undei Act of March 8, 187!). QJSORQE PALMER PUTNAM Publisher ROHKUT W. SAWYER Editor-Manager M. A. HAMILTON Assi-cinte Editor RALPH SPENCER Mtchunicul Supt. An IndK-n(ltrnt Newspaper, stnnilinir for the quarc deal, clean buiineaf. clean ii"iiticn and the beat interL-sts of Bend mid Central Oregon. SUBSCRIPTION RATES liy Man One Year Bix Month .. Three Months r., Vs.. ..12.75 ,.$1.00 y Carrier Six Month One Month .60 All mbaerlptioni arc due and PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Notice! or expiration are mailed Rflbaeribera and if renewal in not made- within reasonable time the paper will be discontinued. Plena.- nutifv uh urornntly of any change of address, or of failure to receive tbe paper regu larly. Otfierwine we will not be responsible tor copied missed. Make all checks and orders payable to Tht Bend Bulletin. This paper has enlisted with the government in the cause of America for the period of the war MONDAY, OCTOIiKR 21, 1918. LABOR ENDORSES DRIVE. UnunimouKly endorsing the United "War Work campaign which ie about to make it drive for funds to support this seven welfare organizations rec ognised by the government for work among the soldiers and Bailors, the California state Federation of Labor hi Uh unnuul convention i San Diego went, on record as urging every t rade unionist to contribute to the fund. The resolution in an follows: "Whereas, the United War Work campaign, :;h promoted by President Wilson, is to commence on November 1 1 and to continue for one week ; and "Whereas, the purpose of the cam paign i to raise the sum of $170, noo.oou for the combined use of the American Llbra'ry association, (lie Jewish Welfare Hoard of the United Slates Army and Navy, the National Catholic War Council, the Knights of folu in bus, t he Sal vat ion Army, t ho WajJj C&ttp ( 'o mm unity service, t ho Yourfg Men's Christian associa tion and Young Women's Christian associal ion ; I herefore, be il "Resolved, by the California suite Federation of Labor in inth annual convent ion assembled at San 1 llego on October 11, 1918, thai we heartily endorse the United War Work cam palgn, to staii on November 11, and urged upon each la bur organlsal Ion and every Individual trade unionist to contribute to tin- best of their ability to this necessary and patriotic fund ; furl Iter "Resolved, thai a copy of this reso lution be submitted to each trade union and to the press." A wood pile is a great l hint; keep you warm these frosty mornin if yon have a buck saw and an a TiK' linns who spent the summer OH the sea shore are now igolng home for the winter. Is the war WllCll started scrap of paper going to turn paper scrap? The Hermans who are driven across the Holland frontier will gel an Dutch. What Wilson Bald was that a Wit helm was a poor helm to Bteer with. Wheat Not a Necessary Food. Wheat Is no) necessary. We are accustomed to regard wheat as a more or less Indispensable article of diet It isn't. It is nil article of luxury, ami absolutely nothing else. Wheat pos sesses over oats, corn and rice abso lutely no nutritional quality for man or beast. It has no more protein, and no better protein. It has no more fat. and no better tut. It has no mineral salt better or In larger amoniit. it has no more fuel or better fuel. It is Jus' one of the cereals, and there Isn't the Slightest evidence that it Is the best one. because so far as compara tive tests nre concerned In animals, It Isn't the best one; It Is very far from the best one. A. EX Taylor, M.U, l". s. Food Administrator. Germany From the Clouds. "Eddie" Rickenbacker is quoted as saying : "(Jermany looks rather peaceful from above and there seems to be little disturbing them bach a ways from the lines. That Is where an airman's point of view is defective. The Ger man hills and fields took as soft as ours. Probably they are. which Is not very soft. Any field covered with grass always looks soft ami you think It would make a tine landing place. When you get down lower and are forced to land on any old field that happens) to be under you. some time when you're enptinne you learn differently." an DTP Albert R Depew EX-GUNNER AND CHIEF PETTOFFfCErVU.NAVY MEMBER. OF THE FOREIGN LEGION OF FRANCE C" wr i aiin uuin I UKKfcT, FRENCH BATTLESHIP CASSAPVD WINNER OF THE fccryrijh, Ml by P-oOy nd Brocr. Co., Through Soccitl CHAPTER 1. In the American Navy, My fath(. was a seaman, so, nat urully, all my life I heard a great deal about ships and the sea. Even when I wus a little boy, In Walston, Pa., I thought about them a whole lot and wanted to he a sailor especially a sailor In the U. S. navy. You might say I was brought up on the water. When I was twelve yenrs old I went to sea as cabin boy on the whaler Therifus, out of Boston. She was an old square-rigged sailing ship, built more for work than for speed. We were out four months on my first cruise, and got knocked around a lot, especially in a storm on the Newfound land Hanks, where we lost our instru ments, and had a hard time navigat ing the ship. Whaling crews work on shares ami during the two years I was on the Therifus my shares amounted to fourteen hundred dollars. Then I shipped as first-class helms man on the British tramp Southern down, a twin-screw steamer out of Liverpool, Many people are surprised that a fourteen-ycur-old hoy should he helmsman on an ocean-going craft, but all over the world you will see young lads doing their trick at the wheel. I was on the Southorndown two years and in that time visited most of the important ports of Eu rope. There is nothing like a tramp Steamer if you want to see the world. Tlie BOUtherndown is the vessel that, In the fall of 11)17, sighted a German U-boat rigged up like Q sailing ship. Although 1 liked visiting the foreign ports, I got tired of the Southerndown after a while am) at (he end of a voy age which landed me in New York I decided to get Into the United Stales navy. After laying around for a week or two I enlisted and was assigned to duty as a Becond-Class fireman People hav lid they thought I was pretty small to he a fireman; they have the Idea thai firemen must be big men. Well. 1 am 5 feet 7 inches In height, anil when 1 was sixteen I was just as tali as I am now ami weighed 108 pounds. I was a whole lot husk- Gunner Depew. ier then, too, for that was before my introduction ti kultur In German pris on camps, and life there is not exactly fattenlug not exactly. 1 do not know why it is, hut If you will notice the navy flromcn the lads with the red stripes around their left shoulders you will find that almost all of them are small men. But they are a huskv lot. Now, In the navy, they always hn.o a newcomer until be shows that he can take care of himself, ami I got mine very soon after I went into Un cle Sam's service. 1 was washing my Clothes in a bucket on the forecastle dock, and every garhy (sailor) who cjonjg ahinr wonld. gjvj me or the ' STOCK MARKET REPORT. NORTH I'OliTI.AXn. Oct. 21. Sixteen hundred und tlftv cuttle received. Market steady. Prime steers, $18918; good to choice, $11018; in,, Hum to good, $9.76911; fair to medium, $8.8501.86; common to (air. $CfS; Choice rows and heifers, $8fi ,i medium to good, $607-86; fair to medium, $66; cannon, $304; nulls, ?rSf7; calves $S12; Btookera and feeders. $6 OS. 8WINB MARKET. Two thousand Iioks received. Market steady. Prime mixed, $17.86017.60; medium mixed, $i"f? 17.86; rough heavy. $16.86016.60; pigs, $14. 50 15.50; bulk. $17.25. BHBEP, Blghteen hundred and eighty-eight sheen received. .Mar ket slow. Prime lambs. J 1 1 .50 Iff 1 2.50 ; fair to medium lambs, $Sjf 10: yearlings, $10011; wethers, J9fl0; ewes, $6jf9. Central Oregon Bank ( irrT 17 7" i CROIX DE GUERRE Amrcmi Wh che Cwge Mnhrw AoWm Scrviw. bucket a fclclc, and spill one or the both of us. Each time I would move to some other place, but I always seemed to be In somebody's way. Fi nally I saw a marine coming. I was nowhere near him, but he hauled out of his course to come up to me and gave the bucket a hoot that sent it twenty feet away, at the sume time handing me u clout on the ear that just about knocked me down. Now, I did not exactly know what a marine was, and this fellow had so many stripes on his sleeves that I thought he must be some sort of officer, so I Just stood by. There was a gold .stripe (commissioned officer) on the bridge and I knew that if anything was wrong he would cut In, so I kept look ing up at him, hut be stayed where he was, looking on, and never saying a word. And all the time the marine kept slamming me about and telling me to get the hell out of there. Finally I said to myself, "I'll get this guy if It's the brig for a month." So I planted him one in the kidneys and another In the mouth, and he went clean up against the rail. Hut he came back at me strong, and we were at It for some time. But when It was over the gold stripe came down from the bridge and shook bands with me I After this they did not haze me much. This was the beginning of a certain reputation that I had In the navy for fist-work. Later on I had a reputation for swimming, too. That first day they began calling me "Chink," though I don't know why, and it has been my nickname in the navy ever since. It Is a curious thing, and I never could understand it, but garbles and marines never mix. The marines are good men and great fighters, aboard and ashore, but we garbles never have a word for them, nor they for us. On shore leave abroad we pal up with foreign garbles, even, but hardly ever with a marine, or course they are with us strong in case we have a scrap with a liberty party off some foreign ship they cannot keep out of u fight any more than we can but after It Is over they are on their way at unce and we on ours. There are lots of things like that in the navy that you cannot figure out the reason for, and I think It Is be cause sailors change fheir ways so little. They do a great many tilings in the navy because the navy always has done them. I kept strictly on the job as a fire man, but I wanted to get Into the gun turrets. It was slow work for a long time. 1 had to serve as second-class fireman for four mouths, Qrst-class for eight months and in the engine room as water-tender for a year. Then, after serving on the U. S. S. Des Moines as a gun-loader, I was transferred to the Iowa and finally worked up to u gun-pointer. After a time I got my C. P. O. rating chief petty officer, first-class gunner. The various navies differ In many ways, hut most of the differences would not be noticed by any one but a sailor. Every sailor has a great deal of respect for the Swedes and Nor wegians and Danes; they are born sailors and are very daring, but, of course, their navies are small. The Germans were always known as clean sailors; that Is, as In our navy and the British, their vessels were ship shape all the time, and were run as sweet as a clock. There is no use comparing the vari ous navies as to which is host ; some are better at one tiling and some at another. The British navy, of course, is the largest, and nobody will deny that at most things they are topnotCn least of all themselves; they admit it. ltut there Is one place where the navy of the United Slates has it ail ov sej every other navy on the seven ll.!)iL that Is rnunery. Tbe Amer. lean' navy has the best gunners In the world. And do not let anybody tell you different. CHAPTER II. The War Breaks. After serving four years and three months in the U. S. navy, I received an honorable discharge on April 14, 1011. I held tbe rank of chief petty ! officer, first-class gunner. It is not uncommon for garbles to lie around a while between enlistments they like a vacation as much as anyone and it was my Intention to loaf for a few months before Joining the navy again. After the war started, of course, I had heard more or less about the Ger man atrocities In Belgium, and while I was greatly interested, I was doubt ful at lirst us to the truth of the re ports, for I knew how news gets changed In passing from mouth to mouth, and I never was much or a huud to believe things until I snw them, anyway. Another thing that caused me to be Interested in the war was the fact that my mother was born in Alsace. Her maiden name, Dier vleux, is well known In Alsace. I hud often visited my grandmother In St. Nazalre, France, nnd knew the coun try. So with prance at war, tt was not strange that I should be even more Interested than many other garbles. As I have said, I did not take much stock In the first reports of the Hun's exhibition of kultur, because Fritz Is known us a clean sailor, and I figured that no real sailor would ever get mixed up in such dirty work us they said there wus In Belgium. I figured the soldiers were like tbe sailors. But I found out I was wrong about both. One thing that opened my eyes n hit was the trouble my mother hud In getting out of Hanover, where she was when the war started, and hack to France. She always wore a little American flag und this both saved and endangered her. Without it, the Ger mans would huve Interned her us a Frencbwomun, and with it, she was sneered at und Insulted time und again before she Anally managed to get over the border. She died about two mouths ufter she reached St. Na zalre. Moreover, I heard the fate of my older brother, who had made bis home In France with my grnndmother. He bad gone to the front at the outbreak of the war with the Infantry from St. Nazalre and had been killed two or three weeks afterwards. This made tt a sort of personal matter. But what put the finishing touches to me were the stories a wounded Canadian lieutenant told me some months later In New York. He had been there and he knew. You eould not help believing him ; you can nl ways tell it when a man has been there and knows. There was not much racket around New York, so I made up my mind all of a sudden to go over nnd get some for myself. Believe me, I got enough racket before I was through. Most of the really Important things I have done have happened like that: I ilid them on the jump, you might say. Many other Americans wanted a look, too ; there were live thousand Amer icans In the Canadian army at one time they say. 1 would not claim that I went over there to save democracy, or anything like that. I never did like Germans, and I never met a Frenchman who was not kind to me, anil what I heard about the way the Huns treated the Belgians made me sick. I used to get out of bed to go to an all-night picture show, I thought about it so much. But there wus not much excitement about New York, and I figured the U. S. would not get into It lor a while, anyway, so I just wanted to go over and see what it was like. That Is why lots of us went, I think. There were five of us who went to Boston to ship for the other side: Sam .Murray, lid Brown, Tim Flynn, Mitchell and myself. Murray was an ex garby two hitches (enlistments), gun pointer rating, nnd nbollt thirty-five years old. Brown was a Pennsylvania man nbout twenty-six years old, who had served two enlistments in the U. S. army and had quit with the rank of sergeant. Flynn and Mitchell were both ex-navy men. Mitchell was a noted boxer. Of the five of us, I am the only one who went In, got through and came out. Flynn and Mitchell did not go in; Murray and Brown never came bnck. The five of us shipped on tbe steam ship Virginian of the American-Hawaiian line, under American Hag and registry, but chartered by the French government. I signed on as water tender an engine room Job but the others were on (leek that is, seamen. We left Boston for St. Nazalre with a cargo of ammunition, bully beef, etc., and made the first trip without anything of Interest happening. As we were tying to the dock at St. Nazalre, I saw a German prisoner sit ting on a pile of lumber. I thought probably he would he hungry, so I went down Into the oilers' mess and ! got two slices of bread with a thick piece of beefsteak between them and handed It to Fritz, lie would not take it. At first 1 thought he was afraid to, but by using several languages and signs he managed to make me under stand that he was not hungry had too much to eat, In fact. I used to think of this fellow occa-; slonally when I was in a German pris on camp, and a piece of moldy bread tbe size of n safety-match box was the generous portion of food they forced on me, with true German hos-1 pltality, once every forty-eight hours, j I would not exactly have refused a beefsteak sandwich, I am afraid. But I then I was not a heaven-born German, j rvvas only a common American gnrby. lie was full of kultur and grub; I was not full of anything, There was a large prison camp at St Nazalre, and at one time or an other I saw all of It. Before the war it hud been used as a barracks by the French nrmy and consisted of well i made, comfortable tWO-Story ttone buildings, floored with coawete, with auxiliary barracks of logs. The Gor man prisoners oceupien uis buildings, while the French guards were quartered In the log bouses. In side, tbe houses were divided Into long rooms with whitewashed walls. There was a gymnasium for the prisoners, a canteen 'where they might buy most of the things you could buy anywhere else in the country, nnd a studio for the painters among the prisoners. Of ficers were separated from privates which was a good thing for the pri vates nnd were kept In houses sur rounded by stockades. Officers nnd privates received the same treatment, however, and all were given exactly the same rations nnd equipment as the regular French army before It went to the front. Their food consisted of bread, soup, and vino, as wine Is called almost everywhere In the world. In the morning they received half a loaf of Vienna bread and coffee. At noon they each had a lurge dixie of thick soup, und at three in the afternoon more brend and a bottle of vino. The soup was more like a stew very thick with meat and vegetables. At one of the officers' barracks there wns a cook who had been chef In the larg est hotel in Paris before the war. All the prisoners were well clothed. Once a week, socks, underwear, soap, towels and blankets were Issued to them, nnd every week the bnrrncks and equipment were fumigated. They were given the best of medical atten tion. Besides all this, they were allowed to work at their trades, If they had any. All the carpenters, cobblers, tailors nnd painters were kept busy, and some of them picked up more change there than they ever did In Germany, they told me. The musl cinns formed bunds and played almost every night ut restaurants nnd thea ters in the town. Those who had no trade were allowed to work on the roads, parks, docks and at residences about the town. Talk about dear old jail t You could not have driven the average prisoner away from there with a 14-lnch gun. I used to think nbout them In Bran denburg, when our boys were rushing the sentries In the hope of being bay ouetted out of their misery. While our cargo was being unloaded I spent most of my time with my grandmother. I had heard still more nbout the cruelty of the Huns, and made up my mind to get into the ser vice. Murray and Brown had already enlisted in the Foreign Legion, Brown being assigned to the infantry and Murray to the French man-of-war Cas sard. But when I spoke of my Inten tion, my grandmother cried so much that I promised her I would not enlist that time, anyway and made the return voyage In the Virginian. We were no sooner loaded in Boston than back to St. Nazalre we went. (To Be Continued.) Roll of Honor The following casualties are re ported in the lists for today, sections 1 and 2: Killed in Action. B. W. Bertolet, Clallam Bay, Wash. Elgin J. Hnugen, Dufur, Ore. Missing; in Action. Mike Botam. Spokane, Wash. Earl C. Dunham, Adam, Wash. Lester W. Embree, Sunnyside, Wash. Wounded, Degree Undetermined. Jacob Willgin, Ruff, Wash. Died of Disease. John Patrick Driscoll, Seattle, Wash. Ernest D. Stout. Tacoma. Wash. Alphonso Bon, Tulatip, Wash. Walter G. Held, Seattle, Wash. Wounded Severely. Geo. A. Burke, Unity, Ore. Itulph E. Nelson. Tygh Valley. Ore. George Aldridge. Ustick, Ida. Ralph Cordor, North Bend, Ore. Clarence B. Elliott, Seattle, Wash. Cory A. Hullock, Caldwell. Ida. Arthur R. Linck, Payette, Ida. Slightly Wounded. Nicholas Ward Hempel, Bow, RIVER TERRACE The River Terrace Addition has been turned over to me as Sah's Agent. This Addition is the most beaut if u 1 residence property in the city. All patmentt on farmer and future contract to he made (AroufA my o0ict. Libtits Bondt taken on payment. J. A. EASTES, Agent for Rnxr Ttrratt Ctmeant you are not satis fied with your groceryman give us a trial. We Guarantee Satisfaction GILBERTS R.OCERY Cor. Next to P. O. Red 721 Wash. S. Clevenger, Blackfoot, Ida. Max Hoegh, Idaho Falls, Ida. Died of Accident ami Other Causes. Leon Serbert Wheeler, Ellensburg. Wash. ALL CASUALTIES NOW REPORTED (Ily United Press to The Bend Bulletin) WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. Com mencing today, all casualties, both major and minor, are reported in the casualties to the war department by General Pershing. Heretofore only the major casualties were reported, these being sent daily by cable. Th& minor casualties reported in the lists released for publication today are sent by courier. DAVIS WINS HONORS. Leslie W. Davis, son of W. H. Davis of this city, who enlisted with tbe Marines several months ago, has received the modal as an expert marksman, with an additional $5 per month pay added to bis salary. Pri vate Davis is the third man to join the Marines from Bend who has won this honor. Something to sell? Advertise its The Bulletin's classified column. "Put Your Duds In Our Suds" Finished Rough Dry Wet Wash Dry Cleaning The BEND LAUNDRY Phone Black 3 1 1 Safety First! Next is a Square Deal Take your car to the SQUARE DEAL AUTO REPAIR. SHOP WALL STREET For General Repairs 1
