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.