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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1918)
i Go1 OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Event of Noted People, Government! and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. Hugh Cameron, a Scotch painter of figure subjects unit portraits, ill oil In Edinburgh Monday, lie was born In IS.'iG. Ton thouMind persons In Bun Juan, Porta Kloo, have boon 111 of a thrce duy fever within two weeks, according to tho sanitary service. Tho bombardment of Paris with Gor man long-range guna began again Mon duy afternoon, according to a London Kxchunge Telegraph dispatch. A generally favorable national situa tion In Italy with unusually good har vest prospects was reported to the State department Tuesday In dis patches from Rome. The Austro-Hungarlan war minister, Bays a Vienna dispatch to the Vos slsche Zeitung, announces that more than 500,000 Austrian war prisoners already Jiave returned from Russia. Three hundred enlisted men were commissioned as second lloutenants In the Marine corps Wednesday upon completion of a three months' course of training at the Marine corps' train ing camp at Quantlco, Va. Major E. A. Rich, orthopedic Inspec tor, is at Camp Lewis inspecting the camp for foot trouble. . He reports 37 per cent of men In the entire draft for the national army reported affected with foot trouble are now available for the army. The summer vacation of congress began Monday. Both houses met for routine business. The senate ad journed until Thursday under the agreement for Monday and Thursday sessions only until August 24. House leaders had a similar plan. Having established working rela tions with the California State Rail road commission earlier in the day, William O. McAdoo, federal director general of railroads, began a series of conferences late Tuesday with chiefs of the national railroad administration. J. H. Klrby, of Houston, Tex., has been appointed lumber administrator of the Emergency Fleet corporation to administer all activities of the ship building programme connected with the production and storage of lumber. Mr. Ktrby will also assume control over all logging operations. A petition for a writ of probable cause, designed to keep Thomas J. Mooney out of the penitentiary until bis case could be acted on by Governor Stephens was denied by the supreme court at San Francisco Monday. Moon ey la under Bentence to hang for mur der in connection with a bomb explo sion. "The general situation Tuesday morning is regarded as satisfactory," says a war department statement based on dispatches from General PerBhlng and General Bliss, confirm ing press accounts of the fighting Mon day. Warning is given, however, that great pressure of reserves is still looked for. ' Gorman aviators at 11 o'clock Mon day night dropped bombs on the Amer ican Rod Cross hospital at Jouy, France. Two enlisted men were killed and among the personnel nine persons were wotinded. Miss Jane Jeffery, an American Red Cross nurse, was among those wounded, though her Injuries are not serious. The period for subscribing to the eighth Hungarian war loan, which was to close on July 12, has been extended uutll July 24, according to advices from Basel. Eugene V. Debs Thursday notified the socialist county committee at Terre Haute, Ind., that he would de cline the nomination for congress of fered him a week ago. Prevention of the threatened short age of harvest labor in the western wheat belt and the probable saving of every acre of the crop is annouueed by the federal employment service. The air superiority of the entente allies on the Austro-ltallan front Is in dicated by the figures made public Thursday dealing with the ten days' offensive of the Austro-Hungarians last June. A British submarine "was Bllghtly damaged and one officer and five men killed when tho craft was attacked by German seaplanes off the east coast of England July 6, according to an admiralty statement. Major Jmes B. McCudden, British Htar airman, who Is credited with bringing down 54 German machines, was accidentally killed while flying from Kngland to France Tuesday. He fell on the French coast. Throe Italian sailors and one Italian soldier are being tried by a court martial at Rome on a charge of having blown up the Italian battleship Bene detto Brin on September 27, 1916, by placing an infernal machine In the gun room. A political contest growing out of Sunday's election in David, a gold mining town near the western end of the Isthmus of Panama, resulted in the government Imprisoning the op position judges of election. In conse quence, a detachment of 35 American soldiers has been directed to remain at David to watch developments. WORLD HAPPEN ! STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. ! Following a shut down of mora than a week a a result of the fire July 7, the Hammond Lumber company's mill ut Astoria resumed operations Wed nesday. The Ions from the fire, aside from closing down the plant, will total close to 100,000, July 10 was the formal opening of tho new Klurmith state bunk at Klam ath Falls In a new presscd-brlck block, The now Institution was launched with a capital stock of $50,000 and a sur plus of $15,000, A savings department Is to bo ostabllshed at once. Cutting of fall grain is well under way now In Linn county. Considering the lubor shortage, tho work of cutting Is progressing rapidly. From all In dications full grain will produce a fair yield. Owing to lack of ruin, however, tho spring grain gives very little promise. It has come to light that Lieutenant Raymond K. Terupleton, the Browns ville aviator who met his death on a flying field in Michigan, made a be quest for the good of his home town. He has remembered tho home of 'bis boyhood with a gift of $1000 and speci fied that the money be used to erect a drinking fountain for horses. In the belief that every woman in Klamath Falls under ordinary circum stances can devote at lcaBt three hours a week to the Red Cross work, a com mittee wus appointed at a meeting of the Rod CrosB executive committee to present a plan for securing greater co operation at tho work-rooms. Official Inspection of the Klamath Falls municipal railroad, now complet ed from Klamath Falls east to Olene, 10 miles, was made by tho officials Tuusday, under tho escort of the build er, Robert M. Strahorn, and Chief En gineer Bogue. The party went as far as the road terminus at Dairy by auto and returned by train. Dr. W. G. Hughes, a member of the Milton council and well known resi dent of Milton for the past five years, received a telegram from Washington, D, C, advising him to report for duty In the dental army corps within the next two weeks. Dr. Hughes expects to shape his affairs so that he can enter the service In accordance with the call. Superintendent J. A. Churchill re turned tO' Salem Wednesday from the meeting of the National Education as sociation at Pittsburg, where he ap peared on the programme a number of times. The sessions, he stated, were almost entirely confined to questions dealing with the schools In connection with the war and how they may be come a factor In developing citizenship and also in preparing youthful minds for the readjustments coming after the war. The University of Oregon's first summer military training camp will close Saturday, July 20, after the busi est week in the entire month of Its lifo. Applications for the second camp, in. which the enrollment has been limited to a maximum of 300 men, are coming In large numbers. More than 50 applications have been received since it was definitely decid ed last Saturday to provide a second course in officers' training, August 1 to August 31. The applicants reside in all parts of the northwest. Enroll ment will not close until August 1. The state tax commission has or dered Secretary Goodln, of the board of control, and Tax Commissioner Gal loway to secure estimates from all state institutions and departments as to the probable cost of operation for the next biennlum to determine how much of an increased levy should be placed before the people at the general election in November. The commis sion will meet again on August 15 to consider the estimates, most of which will be in by then. It is also the plan of the commission to hold hearings from time to time for organizations that may have suggestions to make relative to the necessities of state ex penditures. The A. J. Wisdom sawmill near El gin employs a girl high school gradu ate as a driver of the sawdust wagon, the young man formerly on the job having enlisted. La Grande is to have a liberty chor us of approximately 200 voices. More than 100 already belong and It has often decided to employ Professor Ed wards, of Baker, as director. A break In the A line canal of the Umatilla project, near Hermiston, dur ing the storm last week put the irriga tion system on the project out of com mission for two or three days. Miss Ella Nelson was the first girl employed at the Baker mills to suffer Injury, she losing the second finger and portion of the thumb of her right hand Saturday by a saw at the box factory of the Baker White Pine Lum ber company. Th Baker Commercial Club has ap pealed for assistance from the govern ment through Representative Sinnott to revive the Sumpter Valley irriga tion project, completion of which would water about 80,000 acres east of Baker. With the labor shortage so serious that farmers cannot handle the hay crop, young women have begun work in the fields In some parts of Linn county. From different communities the past few days have come reports of girls being seen In the fields pitch ing hay. As an outcome of the trial for gam bling of M. H. Abbey last Monday, which resulted In his acquittal, Judge Harding of Newport dismissed the enses against B. B Baker and G. A. Schumacher, who were alleged to have been playing in the same game of poker with Abbey. Fire, believed to have been caused by a pelican flying against the wires and crossing a high tension power cir cuit at the Link river plant of the California-Oregon Power company at Klamath Falls Friday burned a $1500 transformer, several fences and a large plot of dried grass surrounding. S 8 AS DRIVESTARTS Counter Attack Hurls Teutons Back Across Marne. CAPTURE PRISONERS New Onslaught Begun Where Allies Expected -Weather Unfavorable to Germans -Situation Good. With the American Army on the Marne. The German prisoners cap tured In the counter-attack by the Americans at tho bend of the Marne number between 1000 and 1500. They Include a complete brigade staff. Paris (Monday). The first big day of the' offensive was a big defeat for the enemy, says the Ilavas correspond ent on the French front. On the entire attacking front the enemy was not able to break through the allied posi tions. The Blight advance made, he adds, may be considered aB nothing, on account of the efforts displayed and the losses sustained. A general im pression of confidence reigns within the French lines. French aviators were very active, In harassing the enemy and destroyed two bridges loaded with German troops. For once the Germans are not fa vored by the elements. The sky is overcast, the weather Is unsettled and, most Important, the wind Is southwest. This is a vital gain for the defense, for it makes it difficult, if not impossible, for the Germans to make extensive use of gas. When troops are muzzled for long hours with masks, officers cannot com municate orders and each man is thrown on his own resources. As a result, weight of numbers, which is always on the side of the attacking army at the beginning, becomes the deciding factor. Another advantage the allies have had Is that the attack was expected Just where it developed. It was con sidered logical, even unavoidable, that Von Gallwitz' army, the only one not yet used in this year's offensive, should be chosen to carry out these operations. BRITISH TROOPS SENT TO SIBERIA Washington, D. C. News of the dis patch of British reinforcements to Si beria to support the Czecho-Slovaks and Russians controlling Vladivostok and a long stretch of the trans-Siberian railroad, was received here Sunday through official channels. Apparently whatever may come of plans for allied and American military intervention In Russia on a great scale, the hard-fighting Czecho-Slovaks are to be given by, the allies the aid necessary to prevent them from being crushed by Bolshevik! forces operating with released German prisoners. Just what British forces have been dispatched Is not known, nor Is it clear whether the movement is part of a general plan of action determined upon in the absence of American approval and co-operation in an intervention program. British, American and Japanese ma rines and bluejackets are already ashore at Vladivostok guarding war stores. t There Ib nothing to Indicate that President Wilson had changed his view that a military expedition to Siberia could not be undertaken without weak ening the front In Europe. Until he is satisfied on this point, he Is expect ed to commit the United States to nothing beyond the extensive plan for economic aid. Final decision to put this scheme in to operation Is said to have been what offlciala meant last week when they said the period of waiting was over. Lines May Be Seized Soon. Washington, D. C Preparations for taking over of telegraph lines imme diately were under way Tuesday at the Postoffice department, though the probable action of President Wilson was not officially discussed. The reso lution authorizing the control was signed by presiding officers of the house and senate and transmitted to the white house. The belief is that Postmaster-General Burleson will be assigned to execute such powers as the president uses under the measure and that the taking over of trunk lines will come In the very near fnture. Diplomat Leaves Service. Washington, D. C Edward I. Wil liams, chief of the division of far east ern affairs, has resigned, effective next September 1, to accept a' profes sorship at the University of California. The name of his successor has not been made known. As charge d'af faires in Pekin when the Manchu dy nasty was overthrown, Mr. Williams recognized for the United States the new Chinese republic. He has spent 22 years In the service of the State department. War Declared By Haiti. Port au Prince, Haiti. The council of state, acting in accordance with the legislative powers given it under the new Haitian pnnstitntinn. nna unani mously voted the declaration of war on uermany aemanaea By the presi dent of the republic Haiti Is the twenty-second nation to declare war on Germany. Seven other countries have broken diplomatic relations. YANK OVER By An American Arthur Guy Empey Soldier Who Went Machine Gunner, Serving in France EMPEY GOES "OVER THE TOP" FOR THE FIRST TIME AND HAS DESPERATE HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT 8ynopls. Fired by the sinking of the Lusltanlu, with the loss of American lives, Arthur Guy Empey, an American living In Jersey City, goes to England and enlists as a private in tho British army. After a short experience as a recruiting; officer In London, he Is sent to train ing quarters in France, where be first hears the sound of big guns and makes the acquaintance of "cooties." After a brief period of training Empey's company Is sent Into the front-line trenches, where he takes big first turn on the Are step while the bullets whiz overhead. Empey learns, as comrade falls, that death lurks always in the trenches. CHAPTER X Continued. We bad a sergeant In our battalion named Warren. He was on duty with bis platoon In the fire trench one after noon when orders came up from the rear that he had been granted seven days' leave for Blighty, and would be relieved at five o'clock to proceed to England. He was tickled to death at these welcome tidings and regaled his more or less envious mates beside him on the fire step with the good times In store for him. He figured It out that In two days' time he would arrive at Waterloo station, London, and then seven days' bliss 1 At about five mlnptes to five he started to fidget with his rifle, and then suddenly springing up on the fire step with a muttered, "I'll send over a couple of souvenirs to Fritz so that be'll miss me when I leave," he stuck bis rifle over the top and fired two shots when "crack" went a bullet and he tumbled off the step, fell Into the mud at the bottom of the trench, and lay Still In a huddled heap with a bullet bole in bis forehead. At about the time he expected to ar rive at Waterloo station he was laid to rest In a little cemetery behind the lines. He had gone to Blighty. In the trenches one can never tell It Is not safe to plan very far ahead. After "stand down" the men elt on the fire step or repair to their respec tive dugouts and wait for the "rum is sue" to materialize. Immediately fol lowing the rum comes breakfast, brought up from the rear. Sleeping Is then in order unless some special work turns up. Around 12:30 dinner shows up. When this is eaten the men try to amuse themselves until "tea" appears at about four o'clock, then "stand to" and they carry on as before. While In rest billets Tommy gets up about six in the morning, washes up, answers roll call, is inspected by his platoon officer, and has breakfast At 8 :45 he parades (drills) with his com pany or goes on fatigue according to the orders which have been read out by the orderly sergeant the night pre vious. Between 11:30 and noon he Is dis missed, has bis dinner and is "on his own" for the remainder of the day, unless be has clicked for a digging or working party, and so it goes on from day to day, always "looping the loop" and looking forward to peace and Blighty. Sometimes, while engaged in a "cootie" hunt, you think. Strange to say, but it is a fact, while Tommy Is searching his shirt serious thoughts come to him. Many a time, when per forming this operation, I have tried to figure out the outcome of the war and what will happen to me. My thoughts generally ran In this Channel : i Will I emerge safely from the next attack? If I do will I skin through the following one, and so on? While your mind is wandering Into the future it 1b likely to be rudely brought to earth by a Tommy interrupting with, "What's good for rheumatism?" , Then you have something else to think of. Will you come out of this war crippled and tied into knots with rheumatism, caused by the wet and mud of trenches and dugouts? Tou give it up as a bad Job and generally saunter over to the nearest estamlnet to drown your moody forebodings in a glass of sickening French beer or to try your luck at the always present game of "house." Ton' can hear the sing-song voice of a Tommy droning out the numbers as he extracts the little squares of cardboard from the bag between bis feet. ! CHAPTER XI. I " V I Over the Top. , On my second trip to the trenches our officer was making his rounds of Inspection, and we received the cheer ful news that at four la the morning we were to go over the top and take the German front-line trench. My heart turned to lead. Then the officer car ried on with his Instructions. To the best of ,my memory I recall them as follows : "At eleven a wiring party will go out In front and cut lanes through our barbed wire for the passage of troops In the morning. At two o'clock our artillery will open up with an in tense bombardment, which will last un til four. Upon the lifting of the bar rage the first of the three waves will go over." Them he left. Some of the Tommies, first getting permission from tbs sergeant, went Into the machine THE Copyright 1617, by Arthur Quj Impey gunners' dugout and wrote letters home, saying that In the morning they were going over the top, and also that If the letters reached their destination it would mean that the writer had been killed. These letters were turned over to the captain with Instructions to mail same In the event of the writer's being killed. Some of the men made out their wills in their pay books, under the caption, "Will and Last Testa ment." Then the nerve-racking wait com menced. Every now and then I would glance at the dial of my wrist watch and was surprised to see how fast the minutes passed by. About five minutes to two I got nervous waiting for our guns to open up. I could not take my eyes from my watch. I crouched against the parapet and strained my muscles in a deathlike grip upon my rifle. As the hands on my watch showed two o'clock a blinding red flare lighted up the sky In our rear, then thunder, intermixed with a sharp, whis tling sound In the air over our heads. The shells from our guns were speed ing on their way toward the German lines. With one accord the men sprang up on the fire step and looked over the top In the direction of the German trenches. A line of bursting shells lighted up No Man's Land. The din was terrific and the ground trem bled. Then, high above our heads we could hear a sighing moan. Our big boys behind the line had opened up and 9.2's and 15-inch shells commenced dropping into the German lines. The flash of the guns behind the lines, the scream of the shells through the air, and the flare of them, bursting, was a spectacle that put Pain's greatest dis play into the shade. The constant pup, pup, of German machine guns and an occasional rattle of rifle firing gave me the impression of a huge audience applauding the work of the batteries. Our 18-pounders were destroying the German barbed wire, while the heavier stuff was demolishing their trenches and bashing in dugouts or funk holes. Then Fritz got busy. Their shells went screaming over head, aimed in the direction of the flares from our batteries. Trench mor tars started dropping "Minnies" in our front line. We clicked several cas ualties. Then they suddenly ceased. Our artillery had taped or silenced them. During the bombardment you could almost read a newspaper in our trench. Sometimes in the flare of a shell-burst a man's body would be silhouetted against the parados of the trench and It appeared like a huge monster. You could hardly hear yourself think. When an order was to be passed down the trench you had to yell It, using your hands as a funnel into the ear of the man sitting next to you on the fire step, In about twenty minutes a generous rum issue was doled out. After drink Ing the rum, which tasted like varnish and sent a shudder through your frame, you wondered why they made you wait until the lifting of the bar rage before going over. At ten min utes to four word was passed down, "Ten minutes to go!" Ten minutes to live ! We were shivering all over. My legs felt as if they were asleep. Then word was passed down: "First wave get on and near the scaling lad ders." Before a charge Tommy Is the po litest of men. There Is never any push ing or crowding to be first up these ladders. We crouched around the base of the ladders waiting for the word to go over. I was sick and faint, and was puffing away at an unlighted fag. Then came the word, "Three minutes to go ; upon the lifting of the barrage and on the blast of the whistles, 'Over the top with the best o' luck and give them hell." The famous phrase of the western front The Jonah phrase of the western front To Tommy It means If you are lucky enough to come back you will be minus an arm or a leg. I glanced again at my wrist watch. We all wore thetn and you could hardly call us "sissies' for doing so. It was a minute to four. I could see the hand move to the twelve, then a dead si lence. It hurt Everyone looked up to see what had happened, but not for long. Sharp whistle blasts rang out along the trench, and with a cheer the men scrambled up the ladders. The bullets were cracking overhead, and occasionally a machine gun would rip and tear the top of the sandbag para pet How I got up that ladder I will never know. The first ten feet out in front was agony. Then we passed TOP through lanes In our barbed wire. I knew I wus running, but could feel no motion below the waist. Patches on the ground seemed to float to the rear as if I were on a treadmill and scen ery was rushing past me. The Oer minis hud put a barrage of shrapnel across No Man's Land, and you could hear the pieces slap the ground about you. .After I hnd passed our barbed wire and gotten Into No Man's Land a Tommy about fifteen feet to my right front turned around and looking in my direction, put his hand to his mouth and yelled something which I could not make out on account of the noise from the bursting shells. Then he coughed, stumbled, pitched forward and lay still. His body seemed to float to the rear of me. I could hear sharp cracks In the nlr about me. These were caused by passing rifle bullets. Frequently, to my right and left, little spurts of dirt would rise into the air and a rico chet bullet would whine on its way. If a Tommy should see one of these little spurts In front of him, he would tell the nurse about It later. The crossing of No Man's Land remains a blank to me. Men on my right and left would stumble and fall. Some would try to get up, while others remained huddled and motionless. Then smnshed-up barbed wire came Into view and seemed carried on a tide to the rear. Suddenly, In front of me loomed a bnshed-ln trench about four feet wide. , Queer-looking forms like mud turtles were scrambling up its wall. One of these forms seemed to slip and then rolled to the bottom of the trench. I leaped across this Intervening space. The man to my left seemed to pause In midair, then pitched head down into the German trench. I laughed out loud in my delirium. Upon alighting on the other side of the trench I came to with a sudden Jolt. Right in front of me loomed a giant form with a rifle which looked about ten feet long, on the end of which seemed seven bayonets. These flashed in the nlr In front of me. Then through my mind flashed the admoni tion of our bayonet Instructor back in Blighty. He had said, "whenever you get in a charge and run your bayonet up to the hilt Into a German the Fritz will fall. Perhaps your rifle will be wrenched from your grasp. Do not waste time, if the bayonet is fouled In his equipment, by putting your foot ' on his stomach and tugging at the rifle to extricate the bayonet. Simply press the trigger and the bullet will free It." In my present situation this was the logic, but for the life of me I could not remember how he had told me to get my bayonet into the Ger man. To me this was the paramount Issue. I closed my eyes and lunged forward. My rifle was torn from my hands. I must have gotten the Ger man because he had disappeared. About twenty feet to my left front was a huge Prussian nearly six feet four inches in height, a fine specimen of physical manhood. The bayonet from his rifle was missing, but he clutched the barrel In both hands nnd was swinging the butt around his head. I could almost hear the swish of the butt passing through the air. Three little Tommies were engaged with him. They looked like pigmies alongside of the Prussian. The Tommy on the left was gradually circling to the rear of his opponent. It was a funny sight to see them duck the swinging butt and try to jab him at the same time. The Tommy nearest me received the butt of the German's rifle in a smashing blow below the right temple. It smashed his head like an eggshell. He pitched forward on his side and a con vulsive shudder ran through his body. Meanwhile the other Tommy had gained the rear of the Prussian.' Sud denly about four Inches of bayonet protruded from the throat of the Prus sian soldier, who staggered forward and fell. I will never forget the look of blank astonishment that came over his face. Then something hit me in the left shoulder and my left side went numb. It felt as if a hot poker was being driven through me. I felt no pain just a sort of nervous shock. A bay onet had pierced me from the rear. I fell backward on the ground, but was not unconscious, because I could see dim objects moving around me. Then a flash of light In front of my eyes and unconsciousness. Something had hit me on the head. I have never found out what it was. I dreamed I was being tossed about In an open boat on a heaving sea and opened my eyes. The moon was shin ing. I was on a stretcher being car ried down one of our communication trenches. At the advanced first-aid post my wounds were dressed, and then I was put into an ambulance and sent to one of the base hospitals. The wounds in my shoulder and head were not serious and in six weeks I had re joined my company for service in the front line. Empey joins the "Suicide club." The thrilling details are told In the next installment (TO BE CONTINUED.)