EUGENE DAILY GUARD o
V0L.M.
EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1918.
NO. 120.
o.THI
I FOR RUSSIA
FROM AMERICA
IS BEING URGED
Supply of Troops, More Red
Cross workers ana money oy
United States Is Suggested
in Washington.
MTI-GERMAN MOVEMENT
GIVEN ENCOURAGEMENT
Problem of Sending Troops,
Taken up Some Time Ago
and Rejected, Is Coming to
Fore Acain.
By CARL D. GROAT
United P" Stiff Corraspondsnt
Washinct-n. May Zl. Direct Amm
an aid for Ruaaia troopi, more Rel
Cress workers, or motey is being urged
npoo the jcovernment from Influeu.-iai
loorcrs today.
Troon especially the foreign-spe.ik-
inl men of this nation, are atron'r
irted.- The problem, taken up aerioualy
nmt time ago, and rejected aa imprac
ticable then, 'a coming to the fore agaii.
Aid in the form of troopa woull 10
nren only if Ruasia were agreeable. The
American poiition is that Rusia ahiuM
not be forced to accept anything she does
..t. mil. ah haa clearly indicited
he would regard aa an encroachment
any intervention by Japan.
Tk. niHeition for Red Croaa worker
toatemplates the infiltration of fa'
liner numbjrs of these than haa been
nj.rten 10 date. Their work nat-inl-
ly would be non-military. But their
pretence, some urge, would be a stlrn'i-
!os to Russia and encourage tne grow
ing antl-Gerraaniem there.
It ii held that atrong financial rein
forcement! would give the Ruasiana a
cbince to develop themselves, organiw
their shattered government and cuue-'ii
the anti-German movement.
The atate department today char
irtirized the whole nroblem aa military
ind left the impression that the war
department T.aa giving aerioua conaidert
Uod to aome form of help.
Membera uf congress who have studied
Kuuian affaire, v. ere enthuaiastic today
it the "direct action" policy of friendship
President Wilson is urging towara
Rossis.
"I have always believed," said Senator
Older, New lork, today, "that our coun
try has neglected tts opportuniti-- in
Russia, and the developments of the
list few weeks have indkatiJ mors
than ever that even today, with the
nrflner enroiraeement. a situation may
be created there that will brins even
the ruling powers of that country into
peiter sympathy with ours. We now
bim 1 wonderful opportunity which I
rat win sot be neglected."
MISER SPEAKS Oil
Tie Bed Cross workers were ad-
frened Monday night by Professor A. R,
Sweetser upon the use of sphagnum
nots in surgical dressings. The address
u ucompanied by slides, showing the
rk of gathering and preparing ths
lots, as well as much enlarged pictures
of the plant and leaf, showing its ab
sorbent anilities.
Hr. 8weetser showed by actus' tjst
bow much mors liquid x pad made of
iphignmn moss would absorb than would
similar pad of the best absorbent rot
we. Be told of ita use in a crude way
i tie war between HuaaU and Jpan, as
t Her makeshift, u bow it was being
osed, not ss 1 substitute, but as
u Improvement over oakum And cottin,
besides being much cheaper.
lolonel Creed C. Hammond, cora-
euiding at Fort Stevens, made short
to the workers and told how much
work had meant to the men at
feet Stevens, ind how much more it
"""Id mean to those in Europe than it
" a American camps.
ft public had been invited to come
H witness whst the Red Cross is doing,
"4 ejirite a number were in attendance.
Cross ReJ Cross orchestra furniehed
during the evening.
merman War Lords Have
Difficulties Over Failures
shington. May 21. Germany, slic
f her bread and meat rationa. is bavir :
"hi at home explaining why her war
do not push victoriously on in Italy
France. Diplomatic cables today re
'B"4 this predicament. American offi
predicted, as result, Germany
"'id make one or two more desperate
""its in the west and then set in
vtion kr insidious peace factory.
rotil!es S moving heavy artillery are
tsee bjl. iton shock hnrher as the
' t ... delay in reauming the west
oti.ii.ive.
' t!"'rs'.le weather conditions," in
, 1 ,a 'wrated fl.wd on tb?
re a-sgsed sa the excuse f.ir th-delaj.
BEGIN WORK- MEET
WAljECEPTl
Report People Prepared to Give
in This Drive One Old Lady
Gives Her Last Dollar and
Promises More.
With twenty teams including nearly
150 women workers, the second Red
Croia war fund drive op-rued early this
morning in Kugene. Before noon the trail
of the workers was evident all over the
city.
Keporta indicate that ft generous re
sponse is being made, with indications
that the city's quota of $11,825 out of
$15,000 in the county will be raised. The
ladies are making an extra effurt to ob
tiiin the quota in the first two days. To
this end they are putting forth a great
effort today and will continue at driving
apeed tomorrow in the hope of realizing
their hopes.
Forty automobiles were contributed
for the week to Carl O. Wnshbume. in
charge of this phase of the drive. "Wi
have enough cars now to handle the
worn," sow air. ni.snr.srne too ay.
"Thanks to the generosity of automobile
owners, we are 'fired for the week in
that particular."
Returns fur the day will be checked up
at headquarters at the chamber of com
merce lute this afternoon by Cashier
Henry Hollenberk.
The dial at Kighth and Willamette will
be turned ahead every evening at 7:30
o'clock, according to announcement by
City Chairman W. F. Gitstrap.
Members of the team are returning to
headquarters most enthusiastic over the
way the people are responding to the
Red Cross appeal.
Old Lady Gives Her All.
Mrs. J. E. feneiton, captain of Team
No. 8, tells of one case which struck
her as particularly inspiring. "An old
lady in our South Willamette district
who does mending for a liviDg," said Mrs.
Shclton, "was among our contributors
this morning. She reached into her purse
and took out the very last dollar she had
in it. Hunding it over glaJly, she inform
ed us that she would soon have CO cents
more for the lied Cross when paid for a
little job of mending. She is the same old
(Continued en page eight)
Clean Sweep of Leaders in
Every Community Leaves
Organization in State of Dis
order. London, May 21. Official evidence of
complicity between Sinn Fein leaders ind
Germany will b mads public shortly, It
was learned hers today.
BY WEBB MILLER
United Press Staff Correspondent
Dublin, May 21. Dublin today Is
outwardly still very calm. The streets
are thronged with groups of men dis
cussing the blow which fell upon the
Sinn Fein when more than 100 arresta
were made. It is evident the government
msde clean sweep of rebel leaders in
every community. It seems to have left
the Sinn Feinera guidelesa and uncertain
what action to take next, although they
appointed Alderman Kelly snd John Mac
Neil to replace De and Griffith. Kelly
and MacNell are of the milder element
and its expected to counsel moderation
snd no violence.
In their street talk, the Sinn Fetners
defy the government to show proof of 1
German plot for an Irish uprising ind
demand the proof be quickly produced.
The more rabid ones ssvagely snd open
ly svow that talk of German influence is
a plot by England to kill Sinn Feinism.
The majority of the moderates de
scribe themselves ss being sntJ-English,
pro-Iriab snd not pro-Germane.
"If the government has got the goods,"
they said, "then we'll repudiate our lead
ers snd get others. However, we do not
believe that so many have been connect
ed with 1 German plot."
Sinn Fein headquarters have reopen
ed. Officials announced thr 84 leaders
have been arrested and that they expect
ed more arrest,.
The interior of Ireland is calm. Eve
ning newspapera demanded the govern
ment produce proof of its German claims
snd chsrge that the government an
nounced th alleged plot eimultaneously
with the visit of th American labor del
e tales, so ss to blacken Ireland in the
eyea of the Amerirana.
The American labor men have met
Lord French. Lord lieutenant of Ireland,
and John Dillon, M. I.
All Sein Feinera are deeply Intereeted
in what effect will be produced in th
I'nited Statea by the events now trana
pirirg. The anti-conscription fund. It ws
learned f.Jay, is now nearly ll.OOO.OW).
HUNS SEI2E DUTCH SHIP
Amsterdam. My 21. Th Or- ,
mans bar.' sailed th Dutch ship
Anera and have taken it to iwin
nuii'le. it "as reported tnd.iT. Ti
cargo eon sted of lumber. 1
IN FEIN H
IN PRISON; IRISH
REBELS ROUTED
GERMANS SEEK
T
OF THEIR ARMY
General Vackensen Widely Re
ported to Be on Western
Front Ready to Strike Upon
von Hindenburg's Order.
FORTY DIVISIONS OF
FRESH TROOPS READY
More than 1,200,000 Huns
Await Command to Advance,
According to Calculations
Made by Observer at Front.
By WILLIAM PILHIP SIMMS
United Pees Staff Correspondent
l?ith the Ifrftuh Armies in France,
May 20. Uvneral Mackensen is widely
reported to be on the west front, ready
to strike the moment Field Marshal Ilin
denborg fintia an opening.
I calculate that 100 divisions of shock
troops (1,200,000 men) are awaiting
Hindenburg's order. Forty of these are
fresh, not having been used in this sea
son's fighting. The other 60 have been
out of the line long enough to be rested
and doped up morally by Germany's pro
fessional sp'rit boosters. Without pro
phesying what will be the nature of his
next blow, or blows, this effort naturally
ought to be his final or semi-final at
tempt. From now on, all prisoners returned
from Russia, together with the 11)19
class, returned wound od and the rest,
probably will barely suffice to keep his
active divisions up to anything like their
intended strength.
The kaiser may undertake elaborate
feints here and there, but the indications
are his maia thrust will be against the
British or tLe French and British com
bined. By information Is that the Germans
will hammer the British with the bulk
of their army, simultaneously spread
ing propagauda to the effect that the
British do mt fight aa well as the other
allies, in order to create friction among
the entente rations.
Meanwhile, prisoners eimit that Ger-f'
man mouths tire still watering for Amiens
and the cool, gray valley of the Somme,
stretching toward the sea.
Thus, with double objectives one im
pudent and sinister, the other daring and
desperate Hiudenburg may be expected
shortly to S't the western battle front
ablaze.
In the meantime, events out here are
proceding as usual before an offensive.
There is coasiderable shelling by high
explosives and Jockeying for the high
ground that furnishes the advantage of
position. Cue air along the Soinine Is
buzzing with allied and German planes,
the aerial figiiting being of unusual scope
and intensity.
The finest fighting weather of the war
continues. There has been only one
shower since a week ago, and this was
insufficient to settle the dusty, bone-dry
roads. The trees lining the roaus are
covered wltii a fine, white powder, while
motors resemble the dust-covered hero in
the third act of "Shenandoah."
The fields are a beautiful green, right
up to the trenches. Both the Homme
and Lys battlefields look semi-tropical
more like Louisiana than northern
France. It would be strange if Hiuden
burg allowed such weather to be wasted.
These dsys favor an offensive far more
than a defeasive battle.
ARTILLERY IS ACTIVE
London, May 2L Successful British
raids In Flanders and Ficardy. active
hostile artillery firing in Flanders and
near Arras snd the repulse of a Germsn
attack on the western portion of the
Flanders front was reported by Field
Marshal Haig today.
''Surrey troops carried out a success
ful local operation northwest of Mer
Tille yesterday evening and brought bark
thirty prisoners and six machine runs.
the statement said.
MA hostile counter attack at the ssme
point early this morning, following' a
heavy bombardment, was bsoken up by
our artillery and machine guns,
"We msde a successful raid southwest
of Arras last night, taking a few pris
oners and a machine gun.
"Hostile artillery fire was more active
than usual about Hebuterne between the
Nieppe Forest and Meteren, between the
Scarp and H II 70 and north of Lens.
"Gas shelling was reported hravy
north of Bethune yesterday."
Three Killed in Action
Is Peport from Pershing
Wsshington. May 21. General Per
shing reported 41 nam in today's cas
ualty list, divided as follows:
Three killed ia action; two dead of dia
ease; one deed from wounds; seven of
accidents; eighteen wounded severe It;
eight wounded slightly snd two missing in
action.
Lieutenant Cyril M. Angell, Attleboro,
Msas., and Lieutenant m. K. B. Kmer
son, New York, were killed in actio.
Captain Hall, previously reported killed,
is now known to be missing in action. His
h"me is Coifs i, Iowa.
No names of Orcf'-a boys appear in
the list.
0 BOOST SPIRIT
LUFBERRY HOIHO
ST
Homage Paid to Great Amer
ican Ace Killed in Air Fight
Sunday Morning.
BY FRANK J. TAYLOR,
United Press Staff Correspondent
With the American Army In Lorraine,
May 20.- (Night)-American and French
soldiers paused this afternoon In the
game of war, wherever possible to pay
homage to Major Raoul Lufberry, the
great American Ace, who was killed n
an air fight Sunday xnorniug .
The funeral services were held In a
hospital within the sound of the big guns,
French and American companies stood at
attention while an Amvican baad play
ed. French and American aviators w- re
present in large numbers. A French
general and an American general also
paid tribute to the fallen aviator.
The coffin, draped with an Aman
flag, was carried by four French aviat
ors to a tiny, grassy cemetery behind the
hospital. Infantry companies were lined
up on one side of the road while officers
and aviators were drawn up on the other.
ing above the grave, showered tiie coffin
with flowers as the chaplain completed
the rites.
During the services a report was re
ceived from an American observer in the
front lines that a German plane had been
brought down by ne of Lufberry's com
rades. "It's as Raoul would want it, said an
American airman. "He'd care fur more to
have a Roche brought down than t" have
elaborate services in his honor.
Later It was reported that the Ger
man biplane responsible for Iuf'tirry's
death was brought down by a French
aviator. This has not been officially es
tablished. The Roche machine which caused Lnf
berry's death came directly for the
American aviation field yesterday nA
acted in an unusual manner. American
aviatora believed it waa designed for a
special mission, it being the only Germsn
plane in sight at the time. It stuck right
to the American planes behind the Amer
ican lines, running only after Lufberry 's
comrades had emptied over a thousand
machine gun bullets into it.
It was 10 o'clock yesterday morning
when Lufberry and two other American
airmen responded to an "Alerte north
of Toul and spotted the lone Roche bi
plane. Lufberry attacked at sa altitude
of 4,000 meters, his companions follow
ing closely.
Lufberry snd the enemy machine open
fd fire simultiineoualv. The major's ma
chine sudden! j bverCHrned trntf fell like
a plummet, its petrol tank spouting
flames. When about half way to the
ground Lufberry's body shot out of his
seat, falling some distance from where
the wrecked machine struck.
The 'famous American was dead when
a number of French -peasauts reached
him. His body wus removed from the lit
tle garden in which it had fallen to a
bouse nearby, where it was covered with
a flag and wreathe of flowers. During the
ftineral todny the services were filmed.
The picture, it is understood, will be ex
hibited in America,
HALL WILL RECOVER
With the American Army in Lorraine,
May 20. (Night) Captain James Nor-
man Hall of Colfax, Iowa, who was
brought down behind the German lines
May 7, is alive in a German hospital, it
has been learned today. He is wounded
but not seriously.
AIRPLANE PUfiT IS
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Owner of Property Had Re
ceived Letters Threatening
to "Bond" Factory.
SAN FRANCISCO, CaL, May 2L
Th plant of the Fowler Airplane com
psny, snd cabinet factory next door
which was making airplane parts, wre
totally destroyed by fire which sppar-
tntly started in several places at the
ssm time today.
The firs swept the entire block of
wooden structures bounded by How
ard, Mission, Twelfth snd Thirteenth
streets. Dsmase wss estimated at
nearly $1,000,000. Fourteen fists
were destroyed. The Walter White
Hardwood Lumber Co., was burned out
A new shipment of Irish linen to be
used In making slrplsn wings, wss
burned up. Robert Fowler, owner of the
airplane factory, said the linen waa
worth several hundred tb iussnd dollars.
The L. and . Enamel Co., cabinet
mskers, who were making airplane parts
for the Fowler under s government sub
contract, have recently received anony-
moo threstening letters.
The fire stsrted sbout 7 s. m. At 9
o'clock it was practically under control.
Firemen saved some of the machinery
from the Fowler plsnt.
Two completed sirplanes which were
to hsve been delivered to th govern-
mrnt today, were destroyed. Two others
were delivered yeterday.
The Fowler comtiany's plant has been
under close guard for aeveral week,
according to Sidney Ribbero, director
of the factory. He said some of the linen
and other valuable material, bad been
removed from the factory recently, and
the linen destroyed was probably worth
atx.ut t-'iO.OOO.
AMERICAN SHOT
DOWN BY FNEiVlY
HIKES ESCAPE
Aviator with Broken Leg Ef
fects Landing in No Man's
Land and Crawls from Shell
Craters to Safety.
MACHINE IS SMASHED
BY GERMAN SHELLS
Incident Is First Evidence that
American Aid Forces Are
Definitely Engaged in Flan
ders Operations.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
United Press Staff Corssnn.s.-s
Wit hthe llrltiah Armies in France,
May 20. An American aviator, s cap
tain from the region of Fhiladrlphla,
fought the Germans over the lines east
of Tprea, with his leg broken by a ma
chine gun bullet, until bis engine was dia
abled. Dcacending in No Man's Land, he nn-
atrapped himeelf from hie seat and
crawled into a shell hole.
A German battery, firing at his dis
abled machine, acored a direct hit and
emaehed it. The captain, surrounded by
bursting ahrapnel, drugged himself from
crater to crater until he reached the al
lied front lines, near the juncture of the
Belgian and llritiah armies.
The aviator waa taken to a hospital,
where he Is reported doing fine.
Frsnch troopa, attacking brilliantly
near the Relsjian border Inst night, retook
the Locre Hospice, Brulogee, the entire
wood south of Brulogsc, the crossroads
nearby and several farms, sdranclng
their line some distance to th east of
Hill 4-t. They took 500 unwounded pris
oners. The French cssualtiea were light.
The attack greatly improved the French
poaltiona around Mont Rouge and Mnnt
Scherpenberg. The French auddenly
threw themselves on the Germans on a
front of between two and three miles,
and tho result waa never In doubt
British troopa advanced their line on a
front of six hundred yards between A ve
iny Wood and Hebuterne, diminishing a
sharp, dangerous salient and occupying
four enemy posts. A hot counter attack
was repulsed.
The sbove despatch Is tbe Sirst to men
tion American sir forcea aa definitely
engnged in operations in Flanders,
The American troops, which recently
took their place In tbe British line were
officially reported aa possessing their
own aerial detachment.
Simms' despatch may mean that these
American troopa whose exact location
haa an far been withheld are in the vicin
ity of Ypres.
B YFREO S. FERGUSON
United Press Staff Correspondent
With th Americana in Picardy, May
20. (Night) An American reconnais
sance patrol penetrated the German
wirea tonight, put an enemy patrol to
flight returned aafcly to th American
llnea.
The patrol crept across No Man's
Land at s point where the lines are
about 200 yards apart In th distance
the shattered church tower and the jag
ged walla of other buildings in Csntigny
stood like ghosts in tbe moonlight.
A strong Borh patrol attempted to
surround the Americana but scattered
when the latter opened fire. The Amer
ican patrol made its way back without
losing a man.
The greatest aerial activity continues
day snd night slong ths front Bombs
were dropped near sn American hospi
tal, but do on was injured. The barking
of th sntl alrcraft guns, th breakirg
of shells in the sky snd th hum of sir
plan motora Is almost constant
Across In th German lines, flashllghta
siresk the sky, mingling with the flare
snd glsre of guns.
The expected bombardment in conjunc
tion with the acheduled resumption of
tbe German offensive haa not materialis
ed. This mornit.g tV American artillery
shelled German poaltiona and tbe Bochea
made only a slight reply.
GERMAN DRIVEN DOWN
With th American Army in Lorraine,
May 20. (Night) Captain David I'e
terson of HonesdsJe, Ps., jumped into his
monoplsn esrly this morning for a trial
spin, to test th motor.
Northesat of Nancy be spotted a Ger
msn biplane. Atucking it he forced th
Iocb to drop behind the German lines.
Peterson has officially brought down
five German planes in four days, but aa
the encounter today was not witnessed
by sny others, h does not get official
credit for begging soother.
Tomatoes and Beans
Are Damaged by Frost
To ics toes and besna were badly
damaged by troat Monday night, accord
ing to reports from the F. It. Chase
gardens. Tbre were about two a errs
of toroats rsught by the frost, and
it waa thought that ths hari wbirh
wre up were all killed. Tbe tomatoes
will be reset, it is etnected
AIDOFPAeiYWHlCH
Food Taken to Los Angeles Men
and Wives Who Spent Months
in Snow Near Summit of
Cascade Mountains.
A telephone message made possible by
repairs of a forest telephone line by a
besr hunter on his spring trapping expe
dition brought the first news that party
of four peraons, two men and two wo
men, had spent the winter nesr the sum
mit of th Cascade mountains In the
wildest snd moat deaolats psrt of the
state of Oregon. The message stated that
the party' food aupplies had been ex
hauated and ssked that someone b sent
to their relief with provisions.
The members of the party were: Mr.
and Mra. C. II. McKean and Mra. and
Mrs. Karl Ladewlg, of Los Angelea, Cal.
The trapper who repaired the tele
iuum rtt m enmea rood to the party
waa J. II. Ililla, of Oakridge. He bad met
the Celifornlana going Into tba moun
tains last fall, taking In provislona from
Bend, and advised them that no one had
ever before attempted to spend the win
ter In that region snd said he did not be
lieve it possible. He bad forgotten them
until Mr. McKean, by chance, succeed
ed in rescblng him when he wss trying
to call another party.
Repair of Lin Fortunate.
The repairing of the telephone line
cam aa an act of providence to the Call-
fornians. Several days before Ladewlg
had fallen down a hill. He waa knocked
unconscious for a time and his bsck waa
injured. He walked for daya with a high
fever and collapsed aoon after assitance
reached the party. He la now in BrocA'a
cabin, IS milea above Oakridge. The
other member of th party were nest
ing the point of exhaustion, and their
food supply had been exhausted 'or two
daya.
They have been delayed in miking
the trip down th river because they had
lost their way. The McKentls and lb
Willamette rivers sre shout thrc milis
apart in that region. They started for
th Willamette and cam out onto th
McKeniie, making their mistake by .urn
ing down wrong draw.
Light Snow Fortunate.
The Cullfornlnna made their ramp last
full by building cabin near tho head
wntere of the McKenxis river, three
miles north of Puck Saddle mountain. It
ia atated that snow from 40 to 60 feet
deep la possible at thia poiut during s
severe winter. The winter thia year was
light and the greatest amount of anow
atnmllng on the ground at one time was
SO feet, according to Mr. McKean, who
with Mra. McKcnn has arrived in Kugene.
Men have had such experience in the
Caacadea, but it is said to be the first
time two women hsv ever wintered so
near the summit. The women in the party
were dressed in khaki conta end trousers,
They walked a total of SI miles in the
mountains, covering much territory in
which there were no traila and over up
and down mountalnsidea by catching hold
of the branches of trees. The psrty se
cured a mrnt supply during the winter by
killing martin, porcupine, squirrels snd
csmp robbers. '
From December 1 to April 27, ths
members of the party had Been no on
from tbe outside world. During that time
Mr. Idewig wrote two volumes of
poetry snd Mr. McKesn, a book.
ALLIED LOSSES
Statement Shows Total of
220,709 Tons of British
Shipping Destroyed by Sub
marines in 30 Days.
London, May 21. Allied, other than
British snd neutral merchant ahips, lost
during April totaled M.3U3 tons, th ad
miralty announced todsy. Ituring the
same period th loss in British tonnsgs
wss 220,700.
This Is tba first bulletin Issued by th
sdmlrslty sine th announcement of
April 24 that fonthly reports would be
aubstithiited for weekly losses. At thst
tims th total tonnag loaaes since the
beginning of unrestricted submsrinlng
waa given ss follows:
Neutral and
Quarter ending British Allied ahip'g
March, 11117 .... Oll.fctO 1.619,378
June, 1017 1,301.870 2,2.10,934
September, 1017 . 052.938 1.494,473
December, 1917 . 782,8X0 1,272,843
March, 1918 .... 087,670 1,123,610
HCBMARINES IN CHECK
Vesjlce, May 21. "We have good rea
son to believe we are masters of th sub
marine sitsutions In the Medltorrsnean,"
Admiral Del Bono of lbs Italian navy de
clared In an interview here today.
"A great mnny enemy submsrine have
hern sunk in these watera. The situation
is regarded with confidence.".
OE SHIPS CUT N
IT HO PI
UNITED STATES
hah nn n army
Ull I IILIIUII UUIL
Organization of Approximately
200,000 Men Is Formed,
with Colonel A. W. Bjornstad
as Chief of Staff.
GIGANTIC STRIDE IS MADE
IN ASSEMBLING FORCES
By August 1 Number of Amer
icans on Front Will Approxi
mate Size of Haig's Forces
Now Facing Germans.
Waahlngton, May 21. America's first
field rv ssaroxinutely 200,000 mea
haa been farmed uArrsnce.
It is understood to consist of two srmj
corps of three divisions each, with Col.
onel A. W. Bjornstad ss chief of staff,'
Major General Hunter Liggett is under
stood to command one of th army corps.
While no official announcement has
been made of th make-up of this firs)
srmy, It wss suggested by army officer!
hers thst Major-General Char'.ea X
Mencher probably will ! Ita commander
Both field and corpa commandera are ex
pected to receive the rank of lieutenant-
general by set of congress when Persbinf
makes his recommendations.
The American divisions, of which it it
understood there will be three to s corps
consist of thirty thousand men. In addi
tion, however, each corps haa aome 10,
000 "corpa troops" hesvy artillery an4
signal battalions, field artillery, cavalry
and pioneer regiments snd aero equsd
rons making each corps approximately
100,000 men.
I'nleaa the British srmy Is great!)
reinforced In th next two or three
months, it is likely thst by August 1 ths
number of United States troopa In
France will iloseiy approximate the size
of Halg'a forcea now facing the Germane,
This startling revelation of gigantis
strides being made by thia country In
putting men on the firing line, csms to
dsy from authoritative circles her.
-Brigading of American troopa with the
British continues. Presumably men from
the national army are tbe ones used to
take their places with the British.
Formation of the field army is accom
plished by use of aeasoned troopa which
have been In France for a long period.
THREE SLi WHILE
SLEEPING 111 TENT
Kelso. Wash., May 21. One errest
ws msde todsy In the triple murder
mystery, which was ss Its vlotlsai sn sal.
dsntlfltd womss sad her two young ehll
drosj. Sheriff Stidehtkor wis Informed thst
man driving a Dodge ear was arrestss
at A merles Lake.
The aherlff islleves th murderer es
caped In a Ford oar from the spot near
th Paotfle Highway where the three
were toned allot.
Kelso, Wash., May 21. All of Oregon
and Washington within a 200-mile radius
wss being combed todsy for sn old style
Ford machine and Ite driver, who Is be
lieved to be the murderer of a woman
and her two children shot In cold blood
while they slept.
Tbe woman, eged ebout 83 yeara, a
girl about 13 and a boy of 11 wer found
in a tent along the Pacific highway by a
stnsll boy from a nearby ranch. Th
thr had been dead for about 48 hours.
Penciled records Indicated ths party
hsd motored 132 miles on Wednesdsy,
Thnrsdsy and Friday but had not trav
eled on Saturday. People elong the high
way remember having aeen th party end
described th marhin aa an old ityle
Ford. Th man who waa driving, they
said, was short and stocky, weighing
about 140 pounds.
The suthorities presume the nan was
husband and father and ehot his family
following a quarrel, waiting, however,
until they fell asleep. He removed all
identification marks and fled.
Hundred Will Take Part
in School Orchestra Concert
On hundred pupils of ths city schools
will offer th public a musical entertain,
ment of unusual Intereat Friday, May 24,
at 8 o'clock in ths. Eugene high school
gymnasium, the occaelon being the initial
appeaianc of th Public School orches
tra under the direction of Miss Winifred.
Forbes of ths University School of Mu
sic. Ths twenty-fire young people includ.
ed la th orchestra, which wss organised,
only two months ago, have achieved
highly commendable results, and promlss.
a varied and intereeting program. Mem
bership ia drawn from tho high school
snd the grades sbov the third.
A group of school songs by chlldrel
will b directed by Miss Nell Sullivan,
Other attractive features of the evenini
are a minuet by repreeentatlvea of the
Psttersnn school, and special violin dubs
bsra by members of the orchestra.