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PAGRO HUM) RULLKTIN, REND, OREGON, TIU'HHDAY, NOVEMREIt lit, ll)IH ft LABOR BOARDS HAVEORDERS WILL ItKCHUIT WAR WOIIKKHH FOK T1IK TIME REING TO TAKE CAKE OF MEN RELEASED FROM WAR INDUSTRIES. (From Friday Dally.) Tho control nnd responsibility for recruiting unskilled laborers (or war work will bo continued for tho tlmo being, according to a telegram re colved by T. II. Foley, chairman of tho community labor board, this morning from Federal Director Wil fred F. Smith. A gradual curtailment of tho war tlmo program la Imminent, tho mes sage further states, but thcro Is still a great deal of work to bo accom plished bytho mombcrs of tho local boardB, which are instructed to ceaso their efforts in securing men from tho non-csscntlal industries. It Is stated that plans arc rapidly maturing -which Indicato nn Inter departmental authorization for nn Immedlato labor survey by tho com munity boards, each board having tho responsibility of tho labor situa tion within its Jurisdiction, that of which ilr. Foley la chairman taking in tho counties of Deschutes and Jefferson. The boards nro Instructed to per feet their clearance organizations so as to bo in readiness to place In em ployment men who are released from positions In war industries, and In this manner as far as possible pre vent tho migration of laborers from ono section of tho country to an other. Tho work will bo taken up locally as fast as possible, although it Is not believed tho latter clause will effect this community, whero men who havo been engaged in tho war industries will retain their positions as under normal conditions. NEW LUTHERAN PASTOR HERE Jtcr. Cornollusscn Arrives to Take Charge of Lutheran Church in This City. CXutq MoPPJ tnoj-D Itov. Fredrik A. T. Cornollussen of JJutto, (Montana, arrived In tho city this morning to take charge of the church In this city, succeeding Rov. Brovlg, resigned. Rev. CornellusBen, a native of Norway, has been many years in the United States, being pastor in sev eral eastern and practically all of the western states. His last charges be fore coming to Dend wero Dutto and Helena, Montana. Last year he spent as an evangelist for tho Rocky Mountain district of the Lutheran church, with headquarters at Helena, Montana. SELECTIVE SERVICE RECORDS ARE KEPT (From Thursday's Dally.) Orders reaching the local draft board from tho office of the adjutant general aro to tho effect that a com plete record of the selective service within tho county must be kept for the convenlcnco of tho war depart xaont, and a heavy penalty is imposed for any poreon who causes or per mits tho destruction of any part of the record. Tho records aro to be filed away with other Important documents of tho county. RESTRICTIONS ARE OFF WHEAT FLOUR (From Thursday's Dally.) A message received this afternoon by County Food Administrator Hart ranft from tho stato food adminis tration advises him that, effective to day, restrictions as to tho purchaso of substitutes with -wheat flour aro rescinded. BRICK vs. OTHER BUILDINGS wi7rr,MI"i'"w'w"""''iiw'"Mi''"w"'''wwMw'i,i mtta BRICK BUILDINGS IN BEND VALUE ABOUT $500,000 FIRE LOSS IN FIVE YEARS NONE gu"lcwh BEND Dnfewi 5r Albert KDepei EX-GUNNER AND CHIEF PPTTVS-OFFrcnRMJrtf-NAVV MEMBER, OF THE FOREIGN V4AMAIN ttUN TURRET, FRENCH BATTLESHIP CASSARvD WINNER OF THE 'Contmi7R1&wiCTiwVKUAwM CHAPTnn vi. r" - ' Fritz Doe a Little "Strafelna." My outtlt was ono of those that saw tho Germans plnco women nnd chil dren In front of them ns shields against our lire. More than a third of our men, I should my, had been pretty tough criminals In their own countries. They nlwnys traded their pay against a handful of cards or n roll of the bones whenever they got n chance. They had been In most of the dirty parts of the world. This war wns not such a much to them; Just ono more job In the list. They could call God and the saints and tho human body more things than any boss stevedore that ever lived. Yet they were religious In n way. Some of them were nlwoys reading religious books or paying prnycrs In different ways nnd between them they believed In every religion and super stition under the sun, I guess. Yet they were tho toughest bunch I ever saw. After they saw tho Germans using the IJolglan women tho way they did, almost every man In my company took somo kind of a vow or other, and most of them kept their vows, too, I believe. And thoe that were religious Cot more so after Umt. Our chaplain had always been very friendly with the men, und while I think they liked him they were so tough they would never admit It, and some of them claimed he wns a Jonah, or Jinx, or bad luck of some kind. Rut How We Give 'Em the Butt. Jiey all told him their vows ns soon is they made them and he was sup posed to bo a sort of referee as to ffbether they kept them or not. During my second stunt In the front ines things got pretty bad. The Ger nans were five to our ono and they tept pushing back parts of the line ind cleaning out others. And tho a-eather wns as bnd as It could bo ind the food did not always come rcg ilarly. Now, before they took their rows, every last man la tho bunch vould have been kicking and growling ill tho time, but, as It was, tho only Jme they growled was when tho Ger nans pushed us back. Things kept getting worso nnd you :ould see that the men tulked to the :hnp1aln more and quito a few of them (ot real chummy with him. Ono morning Fritz started In bright ind early to begin his strafe. The leutcnant was walking up and down ho trench to sco that tho sentries vero properly posted and were on tho ob. A shell whizzed over his head ind landed Just behind tho parados ind tho dirt spouted up llko I imagine 1 Yellowstone geyser looks. Another officer came up to tho lieu jenant a new cao who had only olned tho company fihout u week fie 'ore. They had walked about ten mrds w hen another fchell whizzed over Hi? ' ' " V OTHER BUILDINGS VALUE ABOUT . $2,000,000 FIRE LOSS IN FIVE YEARS OVER $100,000 BRICK & LUMBER CO. vW . 1 fcMfrffi ? LEGION OF FRANCE ZP' CROIX DE GUERRE them. They laid to nnd n third ono ciimc. There wero three In less than Ive minutes, directly over their hcuds. Then n shell In titled on tho left sldo of the trench nnd u pollti yelled that four men had got It. They wero nil wounded and three died later. Tho lieutenant wont over to them and Just after he passed me n Ind got It squuro not fur from mo nnd was knocked over to where I was lying. The lieutenant canto hack and helped me with the flrst-nhl roll and then tho Germans begun using shrap nel. The lieutenant wns swearing hard about the shrapnel and tho Ger umus and everything else. Fnrlher to the right a shell had Just struck near the parados nnd made a big crater und across from It, ngalmt the parapet, was 11 juung chap with a deep gush In his head, sitting ou the Ilro step nnd next to hint n fellow nursing the place where hit arm had been blown off. Our bread ration lay nil about the trench anil some of thu pollus were llxhlng It out of the mud and wnter nnd wiping the biscuits off on their sleeves or eating us fast us they could. Only some of the biscuits had fallen in bloody water und they did not eat these. A young fellow, hardly more Ihnn n boy, stumbled over the parados and fell Into the trench right near the lieutenant nnd the lieutenant dressed his wounds himself. I think hu was some relation of the boy. The lieutenant asked him how ho felt, but the boy only linked for water and smiled. Rut you could see hu was In great pain. Then thu boy said: "Oh, tho palu Is awful. I am going to die." "You are nil right, old man," the lleutennnt said. "You will be homo soon. The stretcher benrers an com ing." So wo pnssed the word for tho stretcher bearers. Then he took the wnter bottle from the boy's side and sat hi in up nnd gnvo him some water. Ilo left the water bottlo with the chap nnd went to hurry tho stretcher hearers along. When he got around tho corner of tho trench the boy was slipping hack nnd the wnter bottle had fallen down. So I went over to htm and propped him up again and gave him somo inoro water. The lieutenant came back with tho stretcher bearers anil ho asked one of them, so tho boy could not hear him, If tho boy would live. The stretcher benrer said: "I don't think so. One through his chest and right leg broken." The boy had kept quiet for n while, but all of n sudden hu yelled, "Give mo a cigarette I" I handed him n ciga rette butt that I had found In the dug out. Wo wero nil out of cigarettes. So they Ut It for him and ho kept quiet As soon ns they could they got around tho corner of tho fire hay with him nnd through n communication trench to n field hospital. The lieu tenant nnd I walked n little way with him and ho began to thank us, rind ho told tho lieutenant, "Old man, you havo been 11 father and a mother to me." And tho lieutenant said to him: "You linvo dono well, old hoy. You havo dono more tlinn your share." When they started Into tho commu nication trench tho boy begun to scream again. And the lleutennnt acted like a wild man. Ho took out his cigarette case, but thero wero no cigarettes In It, nnd then ho swore and put it hack again. Rut In n few min utes hoTiad tho case nut again und wns swearing worso than ever nnd talking to himself. "Tho boy Isn't dying llko a gentle man," ho suld. "Why couldn't ho keep quiet." I do not think ho meant it. Ho wan all nervous and excited nnd kept taking out his cigarette enso nnd putting it back ugaln. speet tho sentries when Tito liny rolled Into thu trench und 11 pollti emtio up to toll us thai tho officer hud been hit. Wo walked hack to whero I hud been und there wits Iho oltleor. If I hud been thero I would Imvo got It ton, I guess. Ilo wits mi uwful mess. Tho veins wore sticking out of hli ttoclt itud one sldu of him wits blown off. Also, his foot was wounded, That Is what shrapnel does to you. As I erawled past him I happened to touch his foot and he cursed 1110 all over tho place. Rut when I tried to say I was' sorry I could not, for then ho npolo glzed mid died a moment later. There was 11 silver cigarette enso sticking out of the rugs whero his side had been blown away and tho lieutenant crowd himself mid reached In und took out tho ease. Rut when ho pried open tho case ho found that It had been bent nnd cracked ami all, tho cigarettes were soaked with blood. Ho swore worso than ever, then, mid threw his own enso nwny, putting thu other officer's case In his pocket. At this point our own artillery be gan shelling and wu received tho order to stand to with Uxed bayonets. When we got the order to advance somo of tho men wero already over tho para pet and tho whole hunch after them, mid, believe me, I was as pule its a sheet, Just scared to death. I think every man Is when he goes oer for tho first time every time for that matter. Rut I was glad wo wero going to get somo iictlon, beeatmo It Is hard to sit around In a trench under lire and havo nothing to do. I hud all I could do to hold my rllle. We ran across No Man's Land. I cannot remember much about It. Rut when wo got to tho Gorman trench I foil 011 top of a young follow and my I bayonet went right through him. It j wns a crime to get him, nt that. Ho, was lis delicate us a pencil. I When I got bnck to our trendies nftor my first charge I could not sloop I for a long time afterward, for ronieui- I boring what that follow looked llko nnd how my bayonet slipped Into him ' , and how ho screamed when ho fell. I I He had his logs and his nock twisted ' 1 under hlin after he got It. I thought ' about It 11 lot and tt got to bo almost , n habit that whenever I was going to I sloop I Mould think about him and 1 j thou nil hope of sleeping wns gone. Our company took 11 Gorman trench ' , that tlmo mid along wlrti another company four hundred prisoners. Wo 1 had to retire because the men 011 our I sides did not get through and we were being Hanked. Rut wu lust a lot of men doing It. When wo returned to our trenches our outfit was simply all In and w wero Ijlng around In thu front line, like a hunch of old rags In u narrow alley. None of us showed any signs of life except a working party that was digging with picks und shuvels at some bodies that had been frozen Into tho mud of thu trench. I used to think all thu Germans were big nnd fat And strong, and, of course, somo of thu grenadier regiments are, but lots of tho Roches I saw wero little und weak llko this fellow I "got" In my first charge. I It was a good piece of work to take ; the prisoners and u novelty for mo to iook mem in me nice 1110 ioiiows 1 1 had been lighting. Reciiuse, when you I look n Hun In tho face, you can sou thu yellow streak. Even If you nro , their prisoner you can tell that tho Huns uru yellow. Muybo you havo heard pigs being butchered. It sounded llko that when wu got to them. When they attacked us they yelled to heat tho band. I guess they thought they could senro us. Rut you cannot scare machine guns nor tho foreign legion either. Ho when they could not scare us they wero up against It und had to fight. I will admit, though, that tho first tlmo Fritz cumu over and began yell Jng I thought thu whole, German nrmy was after me, ut that, and Kaiser Rill playing the drum. And how they hate II bayonet I They would much rather sit in a ditch and pot you. I admit I urn not crazy about bayo net fighting my?.clf, us a general prop osition, but I will say that thero havo t been times when I wnH serving n gun behind tho froK lines when I wished for a rlllo and a bayonet in my hands und a chnncu at Frit 7. mini to man. It was In this charge that our chap lain was put out of commission. Ah wo were lined up, waiting to climb on to tho flro step nnd then over tho par apet, this chaplain camo down the lino speaking to each man ns ho vent. Ho would not say much, hut Just a few words, and then mako tho sign of tho cross. Ho was In u black cassock. Ho was Just ono man from mo ns wo got tho word and stood up on tho flro step. Ilo was not armed with us much us a pin, hut ho Jumped up on men wero iilwayHTn good" humoriit such times nnd It seemed to mo even more ho when iho enemy llro wus heavy. If 11 mini wns slightly wounded down would coino tho rllles to order iirum, und somo pollu wiih stiro to shout, "Right thla way. Ono frunc." It was a standing Joke nnd they always did It. Tho pollu who did It most was 11 Kwlss and ho was nhvuyfl playing 11 Joko on somebody or imitating somu ono of us or making faces. Wo wero nil sorry when this HwIsh "went west," as tho Limeys say, und wo tried to keep up his Jokes and say tho samo things and so forth, Rut they old not go very well uftcr ho was dead. Ilo got hli) In tho sumo c-hargo In which tho chaplnln was wound!. Ho was ono of tho bunch that charged beforo tho order was given, when tho chaplain got t, nnd wiih running pretty near mo until wo got to tho Rocho wire. I had to stop to get through, though roust of It .un cut up by urtll- StJKIHUfJP Stuck Hit Head Over the Parapet anU Got It Square. the step nnd stuck his head over tho parapet mid got it square, lauding' right beside me. I thought hu was killed, hut when wo got hack wo found he was only wounded. Tho men who saw It wero over tho parapet before tho order was given mid then the I whole hunch after them, because they, , too, thought ho wns killed mid figured he never would know how they came . out ajiotit their vows. All thu men In the company wero glad when they found he wns only wounded. While half of us wore 011 tho llrlng stop throughout the dny or night tho other half would ho In tho dugouts or sitting around In the bottom of tho trench, playing little games, or mend lag clothes or sleeping or cooking or '" "- tUinml nud ono thins. Thu lery fire, hut he must havo Jumped It, for when I looked up hu wns twenty or thirty pares nhond of me. Wo got to the Germans about that tlmo and I wns pretty busy for a while. Rut noon I suw him again. He was pulling his bayonet out of n Roche when nn- other mndo n Jah at hint and stuck him In tho arm. Then the Rocho mndu 11 ' swing at him with his rllle, hut the KwIm dropped 011 one knee and dodged it. Ho kept defending hlumelf with his rllle, but there wis another Ger man ou him by this time and he,rotild not got up. Tho corporal of our squad cnuio up Juit about that time, but he was too late, becatte ono of tho Roches got to the .Swim with hit bay onet. Ho did not have time to with draw it before our corporal stuck him. I The otlir German mndo n pass at tho corporal, but ho woh too late. Tho corporal boat htm to It and felled him with n terrific blow from his rllle butt. Tho Huns wero pretty thick around thcro Just ns another fellow and my- J olf camo up. A Rocho swung his rllle .at uiu corporal ami wiion 110 iiookcu 11 the Rocho nlmost got me. The swing took him off his feet and ihen the cor poral did ns pretty n hit of work as i ever saw. Ho Jumped for tho Roche, who had follen, landed on his face wlth both feet and gnvo it to the next 0110 with his bayonet all at thu siiiuu time. Ilo was tho qulckckt man I ever saw. Thcro wero a couple of well-known snvntc men In thu next company and I saw ono of them get under Fritz's guard with his foot mid, believe me, there was some forco In that kick. Hu must have driven tho German's chin clear through tho buck of his neck. Wo thought it was pretty tough luck to Ioho both tho chaplain and tho vil lage wit In tho samo charge, along with half of our officers, und then havo to givo up tho trench. Kvery man In the hunch was soro us a boll when wo got back. (To Ro Continued,) hiiixt .Mirr.! Hiioi- aitou'H. (From Thursday's Dally.) From 11 slnglo workman In Novem ber, now Foreman A. W. Ayn, thu sheot metal shop at tho Foundation company's plant has grown to ho ono ot tho most compluto plants of Its kind In tho uorthwuHt, with 2G men employed. From tho making ot drip pans and other simple Jobs by Ayn In a corner of tho Joluors' shop, tho work has grown until now about 00 Jobs aro handled on every ono of tho shlpii turned out, In 11 commodious shop ou tho fitting out dock. (Tho above Is from tho Portland Orogoiilau. Mr. Ayn Ib 11 brother of Alfred A. Ayn of La I'luo and both aro well known In this city.) IHHTIUCTH UMI'ORT CHNHUH. (From Monday's Dally.) Tho school consul In tho county has hcou completed, with tho excep tion of nlno districts. In practically ill districts hoard from, with but 0110 or two oxcoptlons, tho comma Is showing un Incroaeo over that of last year. Something to soIlT Advortluo In lh nalldtln's classified column. m a mvf a r for sale by I A N I . Al , The Owl Pharmacy EIGHT CASES ARE REPORTED greatest ntmrek ix one day mince tiii-: opening of the emeegencv hospital no luting ok thi: ran vet. (From Thursday's Dnlly.) Tho liilluiiiiza situation In the city took on a nuw phase yesterday after noon when eight piitlmitii worn ad milled to tho KinerKiincy hospital, tho largest nti'mber reported lit tho samo spacu of tlmo hIiico tho open ing ot tho Institution. Four of theso cases am iiorloitH, possibly critical. No doiithn occurred from tho dis ease In thu city lust night so fur as has buuu pottslhlo to duturmliio today. County and city officials this morning wero emphatic In their statements that (hero would bu no attempt to lift (ho hail lit thu city or county until after tho disease had abated to a cousldurablu degree morn than at tho proHuut. W. I). Ramos, county Judge, In u statement this morning declared thero could bo no reason for lifting the lid at this tlmo. Iloth Iho county and oily Imvo been at a heavy expense In maintaining tho Kmurgeucy hospital, and to open tho county to public gttthurlugs would bo a means of Kueplng tho epidemic nllvo In tho community. Iloth tho city and county health physicians nro agreed wltli the of ficials that under Iho existing com!!-, lions tho lid should ho kept ou fur n short length ot tlmo at least, ITALIANS WONT STEAL SAYS SECRETARY (Mr tfnltft I'rm lu Tt IUihI llulUlln.) ROMK, Nov. 3. (Ily Mull.) "Italy ought to bo called tho coun try of unlocked doors," says F. C. Thwults, Milwaukee, Wis., Ill charge of a largo section of Amsflcaii Red (.'rims work In Italy. "I think honesty Is tho chief trait of the Italians," ho says. "The best proof ot this general statement Is that I uuvor lock my hotel door any whero In Italy, nor do other Ameri cans litter they havo boon hero it few weeks. Wo o away from our own hotels, perhaps for days at it lime, leaving our doors tinlookud mid all our personal belongings at tho mercy of tho llrnt comer, and wu never I ono anything. "Out on thu trout you can lenvn your automobile iinywhuru you like, with your overcoat and other be longings, and ho stiro that nothing will ho disturbed." LIIUIUTV .MARKItT TllltOl'OH. (From Frldny's Dnlly.) Thu Liberty miirkut, which tins been operating In this city during thu past throe mouths, has been dis continued, thu manager announcing ho ban slaughtered all of hlu stock. Here are some popular uses for Mapleine for deserts and pud dings it gives them that tempting "niu pley" taste. to make soups richer meats better and give a brownish tang to gravies, baked beans, sweet potatoes, etc. Corn lyrup di luted with warm water and flav ored to taste with Mapleine makes a fine eprcad for hot calceg, Ask tiH for roulpos I'-oz. bottlo .':u all giouers Crescent Mapleine SOLE AGENTS Hi