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About The Forest Grove express. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1916-1918 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1917)
PATROL WORK IS FOLI OF THRILLS FOR MEN OF NAVY Blindfold Campaign of Submarine Chasing Is Replete With Surprises. “TORPEDO FISH” IS FOOLER Intersiting Sidelight on Work of Navy In Fighting U-Boat Peril— Many an Encounter With a Table Leg or a Swab Handle. New York. — Lrnvee from tho diary of the commander of u destroyer nnil Midi-light* on tho thrill* that com« to tho ini'ii uhonril tho vohho U o f tho Unit- o«l Staton navy In tho war zono were muilo public In a Htutoinont liwuoii by the navy publicity bureau of 318 Went Thirty ninth ntreot. “ It I* NtlinulatlnK from tho maze of convoy and submarine wiiroh work to untanKlc vivid .......... of ndventure," the atatement anld. “ For the llr«t half of a certain month a few [«dint* Ntnnd out for emphuMla or vlauallsatlon." They ore these: "Kncmy operation* have been large- ly In the southern part of our Hreu. i'alin weother ond the moon have fa- ' >red thriu. Merchant whip* have ns- Netnhled thickly at the retnlezvou*. and the eight line been frequent of one destroyer—often of the older type— with four or five great vessels on her baud’« before other* ii**lgiied have Join ed the escort. “ Many reHcue* of cri'W* hnvo been •ucce*Hfully made. "In ‘tit-hind the net,' however, It I* lc»* easy to horrow the lookout'* eye*, act for the pin Ihruxt of the distant per I «cope through tin’ blue fret* of the quiet, treacherou* ocean. Or to lienr In tin dark »moll hour* the throbbing general quarter* alarm, the blower* Itiiin In a racing crescendo, and the gun cr«'W* —like Tweedledum* nnd Tr-ecdledee* In their alate-hurd life preserver* —tear the cover* from the ummunltlon box«*«. It 1* a tension to hear down at "3 knot* U| miii ttie lean tramp that m:ik**s no re«|Miu*e to the flap-flap of your searchlight blinker, spelling out the challenge; to distin guish whether the pho*phore*cent streak that at night tliiHhe* across your bow ts made by n Hun torpedo or the animal «U p p er* have named the 'tor pedo fl*h’ a iiluckllsti or |>or|>ol*c. Sur vivor* come mutely up the side, often Luscnrx and Cingalese, muttering of Allah nnd America lndlHtlngul*hubly. Olven cigarette 'make*,' they ‘roll u pill,’ calmly stick It behind the ear, und a* the surgeon uncork* hi* Iodo form la the wnshroom for gn*hes made by wreckage, aome old gunner of the reserve take* pneumonia from Id* hour* o f ex|Hj*'jre, and I* put a*hore at X say, on n stretcher, and with hi* hour* of life numbered. Two Ships In the Thick of It. The Y and tin’ 7. have been In the thick o f such Incident*. At 18 minute* past 1 o'clock on the morn ing o f the II Mi. the X wan steaming singly at lf> knots, with a quiet sea nod good visibility for that hour. The captain was smoking u cigar on the bridge, wondering, he told me, whether Mr*. (5. would ever have the ph-as- tire of putting rose* on her old man's tomb up the Hudson A heavy explo sion, without (Tasli, shook (he dark ness about throo miles over the port bow. \ Whistle bleated thr«’e times, nnd tbe radio ahnek called up Mu* tube that the steamer Kioto was torpedoed 20 miles southwest by west of Fastnet Light. "The X switched on her general alarm for battle, changed her course to 228 degrees true and plunged thith er at fall speed. In two minute* she made out the staccato sparks of a blinker, repeating over ami over. Tor- pedoe* I—Torpedoes I* In live, she • hanged Iter course If) degree* faster eust, and at half-past one the tlu*h deek* o f a single stacker o f about Ukk) tons loomed over the cocoa mut- Mng anil thrust men about a gun. ' .Sbe wus now nearing the freight er, bow on, a bit to port. Suddenly out of the durkncM* to the right a livid beam rushed straight and shimmer ing at her under the sen. W e put over full right rudder. Tbe torpedo pa**ed eb.se aboard across bl* bows, to the left. Just ahead of the Kioto, und a* Mu- lumlnou* wake receded like a muf- Ib’d searchlight It seemed to break spent upon the near horizon. ‘Any how,’ said the captain afterward, 'It was worth crossing the ocean to see and feel that Instant. It made those roses *«’«'tn a lot nearer. "The destroyer began to circle the Kioto lit high speed*, with alternate right and left rudder. Her biluker stammered on, that she had been hit In the port quarter abaft the engine room. Then the light* censed. Ten minutes after two loaded lifeboat* einrrged out of the starboard durkne**. They held .">» men, Including the second officer and a tull engineer, wounded In tho leg. Soon after two o’clock ull were safe aboard the X. .She continued to circle the steamer, which wu* slowly sinking by the stern. Alarm of the dis aster had been flashed to adjacent pa- trol*. The Y nosed Into sight nnd stood by, likewise II. M. S. ----- , who signaled that ahe had tuken aboard 16 more survivors and the Kioto's Im petuous captain he that returned to the wreck. At 20 minutes past 3 the freighter sank, leaving only float ing wreckage and a Coston light, which flickered up from time to time until daybrenk like a lantern In u lifeboat. "Neither submuilne nor destroyer had used gun *rv. The Merman wn* not even sighted. Only two torp«-do«‘s were known to have been flr«*d—the on«* which croKscsl the X's bow, ami the one which settled the Kioto. "Only two days before tho X bad had a better brush with a ‘sub,’ nnd may have got h«*r; skippers put In the claim on evidence as good. She was steaming In the same area, un der like conditions, when ut ten min utes past eight la the evening *he sighted a pronounced wake. One could even estimate the speed ut which the submarine had been submerge«!—about «•Ight knots. "The X worked up to full speed, turned with 1« ft rudder, und ran down on the right hand side of the slick. In six minutes she had reached Its 'head,' ready to drop a depth charge; four minutes to run to the end of the wake, two more to nllow for the 'sub’s' run beyond—and she tripped the pump. With the charge, which was set for 80 feet, was dropped a cal cium torch pot to mark the place. The explosion audibly Jarred the blowers, and within three minutes bubbles swirled to the surface. Hut In the 20 minutes that tin* X circled the vicinity, hoping the Injur«*«! enemy would rise to the surface, no further sign of damage was revealed. Four days Inter the ----- turned her convoy over to the ----- at two hours before daylight, am! returned to her regular patrol. About five o’clock In the morning sh«> took under her wing the steamer Pentwy, bound for Man- Chester. At a quarter to eight Cap tain Lyons sent a quartermaster aloft to th<> main track to clear a fouled commission pennant. Scarcely hnd the quartermaster reached It when he called down to the watch on the nfter deckhouse, 'Periscope, two points abaft the port beam !’ The thing was 1,500 to 3,000 yards from the ----- , who wns 400 yards ahead o f the ----- , one point on her port bow. The whole body o f the submarine wns distinct to VETERANS BUSY IN LONDON Civil War Society Members Attend Many American Functions In Metropolis. WOMAN INSTRUCTS STUDENT AVIATORS Sandusky, O.— Mrs. Al.vs Mc Kay Bryant Is the only woman Loudon.— A prominent pnrt In nil In Ohio who Is training aviators tho Atnerlcnn war activities here for possible war service. Mrs. since tbe United States entered the Bryant, an exhibition flyer nnd list of combatants hns been taken by Ihe widow o f Johnny Bryant, nn the local Society of Civil wnr veternns. aviator who was killed during a Tbe society now numbers only thirty flight four years ago, accepted members, of whom nil ure over sev a position ns tutor In the school enty years old, nnd several over established here by Tom Be eighty. They have their headquarters noist for aviators. Benoist dl«*d In nil old office building nenr London a few months ago nnd Mrs. Bry brblge, where they hold weekly meet ant took clmrgo of the school. ings. Despite their nge, they always She has volunteerod her serv ninrch nfoot to tho American func ices fo r war, but w ill not be tions, such ns this week's opening of summoned unleM an "emergen tho Red Cross but In tho Btrnnd, with cy” arises. tho Stars nnd Stripes at their head, nnd it bunting banner alongside pro claiming "United States Civil Wnr Veterans; Not for Ourselves but for Kverythlng keeps getting dearer— Our Country." except our sweethearts and wives, who couldn't possibly bo any dearer than The man who commits suicide to get they aro now.— Boston Transcript out of going to war seems more o f a pessimist than a coward. ▲ witticism provea nothing. the quartermaster though, oddly, In visible both to the bridge nnd the fore top lookout. The periscope seemed head«*«! westward, jin»l she of once started to submerge. Wltfiln 20 sec onds, as the destroyer enrne to gen eral quarters, first one torpedo, Instant The Clataop county exhibit for the ly followed by n second, radiated from the point whore she had vanished Land Products Show has been shipped Both were making surfuce runs, for to Portland. It made a full carload. the sub's conning tower batch still The exhibit w ill he under the super must hnve been near the surfuca. They vision o f B. S. Worsley. thr«*w spray up fully 20 feet, clearly The side arms fo r the officers o f the visible against Ihe choppy sen. All Astoria Home Guard have arrived. bunds on the bridge and decks saw They include Colt automatic .45-ealiber them—as did t h e ----- , astern; for she pistols, be Its and scabbards. The swung sharply to starboard, present Springfield rifles, belts, bayonets and ing her tall to them. At the same mo ammunition for the men are expected merit the ----- sounded six bluet* on soon. her whistle, followed by two, to mean Two men were convicted in the that tho uttack was being mude to Marshfield Circuit court for selling port. Small Force Left at Mercy o f Enemy, liquor. Andy Erickson was fined $200 Mis* by Small Margin. and given six months in jail, but both Which Launched Desperate At- “ Both torpedoes missed the -----, penalties were suspended. Fred Nieme tack — 5 Return Wounded. but by the smallest margin. T b e ---- . was given like penalties, but was not making high speed, swung with full paroled. left rudder toward the submarine. At Corporation* have no moral charac five minutes past nine o’clock a third Washington, D, C. — Armed forces torpedo was flred at the convoy, np ter, according to an opinion given by pnrently from another submarine, Assistant Attorney General Henajmin under the American flag have had their about 200 yurds nhead of tho first. It to State Labor Commissioner Hoff, ' first clash with German soldiers in an approached from the broad on the and consequently licenses cannot be attack which the Germans made on ----- '* beam. ul*o mnk'ng a surface granted them to conduct employment first-line trenches, where the United run lit about the sume range a* the i agencies. first two, and missed. W. H. Jewett, o f Gardiner, an States troops had been taken for in nounced Saturday that he has arranged struction, and three Americans were "But now t h e ----- wn* In sight, some four miles distant, rea«ly to relieve for the immediate construction o f a killed, five wounded and 12 captured or t||(. ----- of her convoy. She. too, new 60,000 to 70,000-capacity sawmill missing. made full headway on signal, 'Muke all at Gardiner, to replace the old mill be The War department made this «peed to us; submarine In night;’ and longing to the Gardiner M ill company, known Sunday night on receipt o f a •wnrehed In the vicinity of the ----- , ! which burned last spring. dispatch from General Pershing, show while the ----- followed the 'sub’s' Arthur Caskey, o f Springfield, died slick*. The first wake tended east, at the Eugene hospital Thursday night ing that the German forces, soon after hut In ten minutes lost Itself among as a result o f injuries received at learning the position o f the new enemy the whlteeaps. The second and plaln- ! Springfield when he stepped from the from overseas, had launched a desper ' er one l«*d westward. Irregularly, as If running board o f a moving automobile ate effort to overcome them. I the 'sub' had bee- zigzagging. A and was thrown, his head striking the The Teuton attack came in the form depth charge wns dropped at Its end, sidewalk. He is survived by his w ife of a heavy barrage fire which isolated hut n half hour's search found proof and two small children. a section of the American trench and of nothing. T h e ----- really hnd snved A number of state officials see in apparently left a small force o f Amer herself t»y quick and efficient hand the opinion o f Attorney General icans at the mercy o f their enemies. ling. Brown, rendered Saturday, which al That the American soldiers fought •*q*he ----- 's adventure with the lows the University o f Oregon to take gamely is shown by Pershing’s report steamship Tarquah cannot be told un money from its maintenance fund to o f a prisoner being taken by them. til that flivver comes Into port. The furnish the new woman’s dormitory, a How some o f his troops escaped, bring 1__________ Hint ----- had a hand In wide opening which may establish an ing this German back with them, is not I t ; and the first's account of the sink entirely new precedent in the handling told in the brief dispatch o f the Am er ing oi the Obunsl— where she arrived o f state funds. ican commander. long after the deed— shows the defect The United States troope were tak Following reports from Camp Lewis, ive functioning and poor marksman en, in charge o f veteran French sol Washington, that a large number o f ship o f German torpedoes. The ----- diers, to a quiet portion o f the long r«*|M«rts to the same effect. At half- Oregon drafted men are being sent line that runs from the North Sea to back from the cantonment because o f past ten o’clock on the morning of Switzerland and for a few days condi physicial defects, or for other reasons, the 13th she picked up In her sea area tions were normal. two boats and 23 survivors of the Governor Withycombe Baid that he Many French and British military Greek steamship Charllaos Trlcoupls. would ask the Adjutant General to writers have warned America that T w o hours before, two torpedoes had advise physicians to be more careful Germany would hurl terrific blows at been fired ut her, ut an interval of in examinations in the future. the Americans as soon as news o f their 25 minutes. The first «truck the star | “ Made in Germany” w ill no longer location reached the German side, and board quarter, between rudder nnd be imprinted on all articles o f pottery when the Americana went into the propeller, nnd, fulling to detonate, did ware sold in America. Clackamas trenches W ar department officials here little damage; but the crew abandoned county is to have a manufacturing es predicted this would happen. ship. The second hit the starboard tablishment that w ill turn out articles It was pointed out that this was a side amldshlp, blowing up the Greek o f pottery that w ill compare with the favorite trick o f the Germans when so that she sunk In five minutes. Be product received from Europe. The British territorials from Canada br tween th** two shots the submarine plant is to be established at Molalla, Australia went into the trenches for | came to the surfuce, hut Instantly sub and has already been incorporated for the first time. merged. Not a man appeared on deck. $100,000. The incorporators are P. The announcement from General | This submarine, like all others report- M. Boyles and Guy Dibble, o f Molalla, Pershing gave no names o f the casual ed for the fortnight, are declared to Clackamas county, and H. H. Dailey, ties. The announcement also omitted have been of the U-50 to 00 types. o f East Liverpool, O. to mention whether the trench had “ So, ns yet. no blood has been spilled Seven cantonment buildings are to been captured. on any o f our gun mnttlngs. The be erected at once at the three forts The official statement issued by the mean, blindfold campaign continue* at the mouth o f the Columbia river, War department is as ■follows: with small apparent losses either In according to a letter received from "T h e W ar department has received •subs' or shipping. W e follow oil Senator Chamberlain by President a dispatch from the commanding gen slicks with the thrill o f a woodsman Gray, o f the Astoria Chamber o f Com eral o f the American expeditonary striking a strung«' cross-trail In the for merce. Senator Chamberlain inclosed forces which stated that before day est ; we mass guns over a 'periscope' a letter to him from the Adjutant Gen light, November 3, a salient occupied that turns Into u swabhandle or table eral, which explains that the canton for instruction by a company o f Am er leg; vble the ----- ’s and ----- 's fa ments w ill be built because o f the ne ican infantry was raided by Germans. mous battle with n ventilator off the cessity o f providing winter quarters. The enemy put down the heavy bar French coast. And the ----- and ------ . Three buildings are to be erected at rage fire, cutting off the salient from I h«*ar, hnve celet«rnted the ehngrtn Fort Stevens and two each at Forts the rest o f the men. nnd thrills of It all in ballads which 1 Canby and Columbia. Our losses were three killed, five shall try to send you." wounded and 12 captured or missing. Joseph McDonald Stewart, a rancher The enemy losses are not known. aged 30, was shot and killed Monday Potatoes Without Vines. One wounded German was taken Findley, O.— Fred Neeley Is grow night in a duel with a neighbor, W. E. ■ prisoner.” ing some vineless potatoes In his war Butler, aged 53, on the latter’s farm, garden here. When bis potatoes failed ! on the Brownsboro road, two and a PREMIERS PROCEED TO ITALY to come up he started to plant cab half miles from Eagle Point. bage plants, and found that the pota The apple growers o f the Dallas v i toes he hnd planted were developing, cinity. who are members o f the Polk Lloyd Georgn and M ilitary Leaders but that the vines were absent. They j County A rrive in France. Fruitgrowers’ association, were larger than walnuts. have been packing their product the London— Premier Lloyd George has I past week, and several carloads are left London for Italy, accompanied by It's a long lane Mint lias no cafe. | ready for the Eastern markets. a number o f high m ilitary officials, it Governor Withycombe has appointed was announced officially Monday. GRAND DUKE IS FUGITIVE Charles Wendt, o f Baker, and William The party accompanying the Pre- ________ • I Hanley, o f Burns, as members o f the ! mier comprised Lieutenant General J. Former Commander In Chief of the ; Advisory Livestock Brand Adjustng C. Smuts, the former South African board, created by the last legislature. commander; General Sir W illiam R. Russian Army Said to Have | Jerry Snow, brand inspector at the Robertson, chief of the imperial staff Made Escape. Copenhagen. It has been reported Union Stockyards, o f North Portland, at army headquarters; Major General here that the Grand Duke Nicholas, acts as ex-officio member o f the board. F. B. Maurice, chief director o f m ili tary operations at the W ar office; Ma uncle «»f Ihe czar and former comman D. G. Horn and J. L. Sparretorn are jor General Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, der In chief o f the Russian armies, attempting to raise funds with which o f the General staff, and other officers. hns escaped from his estate In the to build the grade o f a spur from Bo STATE N E W S IN BRIEF. 3 ».»S K ILLE D ; HUNS CAPTURE 12 Heavy Barrage Fire Cuts Off American Troops. SAMMIES ARE GAME Cuucusus, where ho retired nfter the revolution nnd where he had been practically held a prisoner o f the pro visional government. Tho dispatch comes from the Helsingfors corre spondent of the Polltken, who says thnt the rumors persist In Petrograd Mint the grnnd duke Is a fugitive Garden Heated By Stove. Helena, Mont.— Early frosts will havo no terrors for the garden of James Swartz of H olier Dam. newr here. The gnrden Is heated by a stove from the Instde and Is protected on the outside by a curtain which la lowered about on a frame. When the ladles ask us for suffrage^ wa say “ K n ltl" nanza to the new Klamath Falls Mu nicipal Railway being built from Klamath Falls to Dairy by Robert E. Strahorn, and a considerable sum for that purpose is already in sight, ac cording to J. 0. Hamaker, United States commissioner, o f Bonanza. Reports o f the death o f several head o f livestock from rabies have been re ceived at the county agricultural agent’s office in Redmond during the past week. Coyotes infected several hogs, two o f which died. In case when cows are bitten, requests for methods o f treatment have been re ceived. There is little that can be done unless the owner is on hand at the time the animal is infected. No cure o f a case o f rabies is on record. Paris — David Lloyd George, the British Premier, arrived in Paris Mon day evening. He will accompany Pro fessor Paul Painleve, the French pre mier, to Rome. Berlin Rceidenta Shiver. Copenhagen— The Berlin Vorwaert says many residents are shiverin from unheated homes. Delivery c the quarter-ton per room o f coal proir ised November 1 may not be all give until Christmas. Long coal lines, r« warding all-day waiters with a fe) scoopfuls, are daily featursa. The three weeks' allowance, on storage egg, costs 12 cents, and mua be eaten quickly. Chicken and gam live r sausages coet $2 per pound.