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Newspaper Page Texti i PAGE TWO THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE. INDEPENPENC&t OREGON - ' WILLI M R. BOONS Managint Dirtcfor Etitsom-WktU Cn - srvtr$ of Mm tie Summer Course of Music June 23 to August 2 Musicians and students in the Northwest are now within easy distance of one of Amer ica's best equipped Conser vatories. Our Summer Ses sion enables you to stu Jy with teachers of European exper ience, in Opera and Concert. Every piano teacher In the Tiserva tory ha attended the MusU. Pianist Clasa of Leopold Godowsky. Courses are offered in Piano. Voice, Violin, Opera, Public School Music and Theory. Professional training for Chautauqua and Lyceum work. Free class advantages. Write for our Special Summer Bulla in, and details of attrective Summer rates. Session from June 23 to August 2. ...:acway building PORTLAND. OREGON The Independence National Bank OFFICERS. H. HIRSCHBERG, Pres. D. W. SEARS, Vice-Prcs. IRA D. MIX, Cashier. INCORPORATED 1889. Transacts a General Banking Business Interest Paid on Time Deposit DIRECTORS H. Hirschberg, W. H. Walker, D. W. Sears, I. A. Allen Otis D. Butler. t . o M 1 A Grocery That Never . Disappoints Customers Groceries ChSHPCSf yli Not Best Beeause Biggist argeQuanuOes But Biggest Because Best No Order Too Large To Fill No Order Too Small To Fill This Store Aims to Serve the Public Pleasantly - and Well The Goods We Sell are Just as Represented and When.Drders are Given We NEVER DUPLICATE. We Send You Just What You Order, Never Send the "Just as Good" Kind. Calbreath & Jones Best for the West Established 1885 X Delicious Sweet Corn "Golden Bantam" Exceptionally early and in flavor and tenderness not equaHed by any other variety. The ears are short and compact and the kernels plump and creamy. This -and a thousand other veg etables best for the West, may be selected from fiisa cataloe and found at your dealers. Write (fjgj Seattle or Portland for Catalog, Free. WORK OF PIGEONS " , n.nr CPA ON BATiLliriaus umi . ii GREAT WAR Carriers of Vital Messages Ever Since Battle of Marne in 1914. U-BOAT IS TRAPPED BY BIRD News From Trenchea Taken at Full Speed to Headquarters and Supply Lines Information Gained From Captured Pigeons. Paris. At the Ternos gnto of Purls may be soeu a memorial, the work of Bartholin, on which Is Inscribed: "Monument to the Halloonlsts and Car rier Pigeons of 1S70." What memorial will acknowledge the services of car rier pigeons In the world's war of 1014 101S remains to be seen, but their work amid barrage lire, bursting shrapnel, the zip-zip of machine-gun bullets and the death destroying gases was of enormous value. Carrier pigeons were used on nil the battlefrouts but their best work wns on the western front, from the chan nel to the Swiss border nnd from the Alps to the Adriatic gulf. They car ried messages at the Marne, when the Huns were driven back by Marshal JofFre. Hundreds were used In ' the bottle of the Yser, in Flanders, when the Belgians and the French halted the German advance; and they made many nnd frequent trips In the first bottle of Ypres, In the drive on the channel ports when the British, French nnd Belgians -stopped the Germans de cisively In the final battle at the close of 1014. They aided In the capture of Neuve Chnpelle by the British and they died In numbers with the British Tommies at the second battle of Ypres, when tlte Germans advanced toward the Yser cnnal using for the first time poisonous gas. Again the birds did valiant service when the French tried to break through In the Champagne In the fall gf 1015, nnd In the whole series of the Verdun attacks lasting through July, oftentimes the only com munications with mon in advanced sta tions were the dogs that crept through the barrages and the carrier pigeons that returned with messages. Where telephone and wireless broke down, and men could not Survive the storm of snort fire, It Is recorded that 07 per cent of the messages carried by carrier pigeons came safely, through. Told of German Retreat. When the Germans retired to the "Illndenburg line," it was carrier pig eons carried forward Into the front advance lines that brought back the news of the retirement long before telephonic communication could be es tablished. Through the whole area, 1,300 square miles, on a front of 100 miles from Arras Jto Solssons, enrrier pigeons did their work effectively. And wherever the Americans fought, at Cantlgny, Chateau-Thierry, Torcy, TSouresches, Belleau wood, Conde-en-Brie, Buzancy, Jaulgonne, Fere-en-Tur-denois, Bllgne, Cierges, VIlIers-Argron, Fismes, Frapelle, Bazoches, Juvigny, St. Mlhiel, Argonne forestcarrier pigeons were likewise on the Job. A carrier pigeon aided In capturing a U-boat and her crew. A coast wntch er on one of the loneliest parts of the west coast at sundown saw the tip of a periscope arise and then the conning tower of a U-boat. The underwater boat stopped, and the officers and crew were seen on deck. The lookout mnn tied a note bearing, thelnformatlon to the leg of a carrier pigeon and released It from his basket. , The next morning a German submarine, which Jiad run out of gasoline, and Its officers and crew were taken to a naval sub-base. A British patrol boat was discov ered by a German submarine and tor pedql and shelled. The skipper, hav ing on board a carrier pigeon, wrote a brief message, telling his position and what had happened. As the bout sank, the skipper began swimming for some wreckage to cling to. The pigeon went up gradually in a spiral, and the Germans, seeing it, began shooting at the bird. The skipper, drifting on the wreckage, gave up hope when he saw the bird had been hit. Twenty miles away, however, It lighted on a patrol ling destroyer, its silver-gray plumage . . ....... i.i i iu tall feather" specked no """" J ,..., ml shot away, nnd one of its w ,,. The eomnmndlnt: officer message, the destroyer wit rus -.1 full H,"eed to the Vlnce within three-quarters of an boar ,ho ,me that the plg.-n """ the- officers and crew of the patrol e. picked up where they chum to the wreckage. Spy With Pigeons. An American at I-lcge. In wrltliut of the German advance, told this Inel- "As I returned to the city, walking along the IUver Meuse, I saw one who, oblivious of war and Its alarum, was dangling bis" legs over the water and peacefully tlshlng. The battle In Iho air, which be must have witnessed, ba.l not moved 1dm. The certainty that tho Germans were only a few mile away had not concerned him. I e smoked his pipe and placidly cast his line. It was soothing to overstrained nerves to see that clnip, but It was only n few hours later that 1 learned n Gonnim spy had been arrested as be posed ns a fisherman, with a creel full of carrier pigeons." Another story reads: "In the cowl, habit and tonsure that mark the monk n young man told his bends obourd the train bound for Ant werp. And a woman, hardly more than a girl, kept her eyes fastened on the man of prayers. She studied on the devotion with which his lingers slipped from decade to decade of the long, well-worn rosary that bung from the cincture about his waist. Hut, al though bis lips appeared to move in humble supplication, the woman saw that he had failed to kiss tho cross. The lapse was significant. "'Spy!' the girl hissed Into the face of the alleged ascetic. In an Instant two guards had seized the man and rushed him down the train corridor. The woman examined the small wicker t.uskot behind In the seat. Lifting tho lid, she found three pigeons." Get German Pigeons. A news dispatch brletly summarized such a find thus: "A German trawler was captured by a British warship near the Orkney iv.l.,,w!u t.t ihn nnrth nf Ki-ntlnml. She j is believed to have been engaged in spying, as carrier pigeons were found on board. Inference has already been made to the number of messages carried back to the French Hues by carrier pigeons In the defense of Verdun. A pigeon captured by the French conveyed this information : "The rolling fire of the enemy with guns of the heaviest caliber is such that sectors S., C, and II. are to a great extent leveled. The garrison. In cluding that of sector V., Is disorgan ized completely. Some of It has been obliged to fall hack on the Kighty-tblrd nnd Ninety-eighth regiments, which also had to retire. "Sector V. (von Ilium's) was sub jected to .such fire that its observation post was put out of order. All sorties are being bombarded and one is occu pied constantly In replacing them. "The battalion asks Its immediate .. . .. , , i,v freh troop, relliT Till" e can tight " 1,""i''r' ,,,:;Sm'l,,i,Kl'.'.:NANT 8TIC.N. IS'r'S . ; ;;,; .H.s.rucllnn of the ""; '2;, had I n accomplished l b . "rt ,,,,.ss as could ""rl l ' wJ ,lirl,ed by eurrler H- J means that the CI f J . French ! '"'r , , ,,en carried, and that a. Muimulson Fort wa taken. A M Vllc.mn. village bad been oecupt d I . prisoners numbered , tb-ma.u . ,,;,, ,,,,,,,,, 1(.s,,i, tro-p- were ad. e g across the central plateau to- ward Ynud n and M.,t Pan.a.so nnarrv At 10 :'M the new M that C were a .1 of 1UU t : "j- liml in a quarry '-'-'0 yards ' fort. B)' -':' 1h" ."h " ,-lmvlgnoa nnd Vnud m. oml .dKW.,.r... ..rrl.- lyhK .. northern edge of the Am- bHU. ha been occupied. CbaMgnon h furthest point cuiiieinplated '' Un ...al'tei-roenied an adwu.co o a.e and one half mile ''"'" "!'f face of the best remaining troop, of the German empire." Aided by Camouflage. While many carrl-r l'K'-'"V',,',n1f th.-tr habits of splrnllntf. "'" 1 dangerous practice and learned to ny !S and tin forward n ... H l j comparatively low. can.oullat:" Mnl.- considerably In K-tili ,helr loft carrying with t'" "Vv from tro,n,s In front. At rt tn the battle of Verdun, (be crown "rtnee's army bad a H-clal umnp t I,,,.,, shooting down carrier pl-on n they left the fort. , And unother story of Verdun , It was at Thlaumou. hUleen tlm ,uken. lost and retaken. Wireless and telephone bad long ceased to No human being could cro the -r-niln. The comiiiaiobiid was l' pernte Heed of comuiuulcallng with the rear. Suddenly the glasxe re vealed a dog, crouching on 1 Ml, crawling through the tb.hhe. and In n moment of temporary lull leaping forward. n Its back was a pannier. Nearer and nearer the dog came, and pravcrs were Involuntarily offered a the'beast flattened out here and them In the debris for shelter. Am-lher lull and the dog leaped forward and at last It scampered Into Thlnnmout with the pigeons safe III the pannier. On the dog's collar was tbl messae : "We relieve you by attack on Frold terre, 8 p. in." "Stop the German battery on mir left. Here are the element for point ing." was the written message of tho commandant sent back by one of the pigeons. Another momentary lull nnd the pigeon Is released. Iog and pig eon, faithful and distinguished friends of man, have done their work to suve civilization. PKOrmsiONAI, C0LTM Red Cross Workers Aid Exiled Greeks Athens. In Its work In the Greek Islands the American lied Cross has the co-operation of the United States navy. Six submarine chasers have been assigned for transporting person nel and supplies. On the Island of Mytilene an- .r,2,000 Greeks, who fled there from Asia Minor five years ago. Bed Cross work ers are regularly visiting all the towns and clothing has been given to about 20,000 of tho refugees. At the outbreak of the war, in 1011, there were 3,000,000 In Asia Minor. More than 500,000 escaped to the islands In the Aegean. Thousands were massacred. Armed hands of Turks roamed the countryside, plun dering and murdering Greeks wherever RACHEL M'MILLAN BABY CAMP IN ENGLAND DR. ELLSWORTH TUB VTKKIUNAUIAN 10th urn! II. Strwu, I'hona M-3122, SWOPE & SW0PE Lawyeri I. O. O. F. Building Independence. , , ft. One of the features at this big English nursery ennm is the mit ,,f ,i eleeping quarters for the children. Every day that weather pern .,"1 ,hl children take this healthy way of getting their afternoon pUD. 9 found. Tho others, driven out of thHr homes nnd sent Inland, are now return ing, to (hid their homes either destroy ed or occupied by Turks. The refugees in the Aegean Islands intend to return t. Asia Minor as soon io-i conditions penult. At present the Greek government gives each refugee six cents a day. The lied fross Is devoting much at tention to the prevention of further epidemics, such as the typhus scourge, which took ouch a heavy toll at Myti lene. Food Is hcnriiy mid costly, and most of the refugees are underfed, even In the largo towns. Nearly nil are In rags. Tho hospitals are short of medi cines and other supplies, and have been crowded by Intluenzn cases. Clothing, blankets and medicine nre needed on all the Islands. Canned meat for broth Is wanted n the hos- rtmerican women run ' the I wnrwtwmo id, ...... ..i...i. , cunning is mndo'on the three Islands of Mytilene, Chios and Samos. 22,000 In Town of Mytilene. 9o?JJh" fm r(;f,l",,M Mytllpne 22.000 are In the town of Mytlleno nnd Its suburbs; tho others are scattered about In 02 villages. Of the 20,000 refugees on Crlos part are sheltered In old ,IOUHes m)( the rem n wooden barracks, divided with bagging and old carpets into "rooms" each accommodating tt family of from live to ten persons. 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