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VOLUME XL.
VOICE ORDERS
RULE AIR WAR
Development of Radio Telephone
Permits Personal Direction
of Fleets.
OPEBiTES WITH RAZOR
American Red Cross Nurse Equal
to Emergency.
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JHKNA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JULY 28. 1919.
NUMBER 30
The End of a Perfect Day
PREVENTS MANY ACCIDENTS
At Signing f Armistice Training In
Voice-Commanded Flying Was
Well Under Way Pilots DU
rected From Ground.
Washington. Previous to the entry
of the United States Into the war, the
problem of airplane radio development
had received attention from the army.
In August, 1910, the first wireless
transmission from airplanes was made.
In theyears following the development
of the airplane radio was carried on
through a series of accomplishments.
These may be summed as follows:
1912 Message transmitted from air
plane to ground by wireless telegraph
over a distance of 00 miles.
1915 Pan type of driving the wire
less power plant on the airplane de
veloped and adopted.
1916 Radio telegraph transmission
from airplane successful over 140
miles of distance; radio messages
transmitted between airplanes in
flight; airplane radio telephone con
structed. 1917 The human voice transmitted
by radio telephone from airplane to
ground.
Talk Thousands of Miles.
Contemporaneous with this was the
commercial development of the radio
telephone for ground and ship use by
engineers of the American Telephone
and Telegraph company. This culmi
nated in a successful transmission
from the naval radio station at Arling
ton to stations thousands of miles
away.
In May, 1917, steps were taken to
combine the experience of the engi
neers and of the army In developing
the airplane wireless.
Six weeks later the airplane tele
phone was n fact, and In October, 1917,
n long-range test was made. Tele
phonic communication was carried on
between airplanes in flight up to 25
miles apart and from airplane to
ground up to a distance of 45 miles.
The development of voice command
ed flying was definitely begun at Gerst
ner field, La., In May, 1918. On June 1
an aerial review was given by an air
fleet of two squadrons of 18 planes
each, followed by a close order drill
by a section of six uirplanes.
Throughout the review and the drill
command was exercised by the voice
of the commander flying with the fleet.
In September following, voice com
manded flying was Instituted at sev
eral other fields.
Avoids Many Accidents.
By using the airplane radio tele
phone In Instructing aviators In aerial
gunnery It was found possible to reach
the same efficiency jvlth a saving of
one-third of the 'time. By exercising
control over pilots in the air, accidents
were practically eliminated.
At the signing of the armistice, de
velopment and training In voice com
manded flying was well under way.
Numerous demonstrations were held
during November and December and a
fleet of 204 airplanes was maneuvered
in I he air at San Diego by voice com
mand. In the practical application of the
airplane radio telephone to airplanes,
over 0,000 flights have been made with
this apparatus In this country. In the
hist 2,000 flights there have been only
74 cases of airplane trouble and only
25 cases of radio trouble.
Shipments of the apparatus to
France in quantities began August and
September, 1018, and of trained air
service radio personnel In October.
Had the war continued the voice-commanded
military air unit would un
doubtedly have made itself felt
Performs Llfe-or-Oeath Amputation
With Improvised Instruments
and Succeeds.
Drama, Macedonia. With a razor, a
spool of cotton thread and a small
portion of ether and chloroform Miss
Maria P. Kouroyen, an American Red
Cross nurse, performed a Ufe-or-death
operation here as the result of which
and her other errands Of mercy she
has come to be known as "the Amer
ican angel" by the homeless and starv
ing Greek refugees.
Born of Greek parents, .Miss Kou
royen is a graduate nurse of the Mas
sachusetts General hospital in Boston.
Because of her knowledge of Greek
the American Red Cross sent her to
Macedonia, where typhus, smallpox
and cholera tread on each other's
heels, and where the refugees bury
their dead beneath the dirt floors of
their shell-slmttered shacks so that the
bread cards of the dead member of
their family shall not be taken up.
A Greek soldier, one of whose legs
had been crushed, was brought to the
box car on a railroad siding In which
Miss Kouroyen was living. Something
had to be done for him at once. Miss
Kouroyen spent no time in talking.
Borrowing a razor from Lieut. Abner
J. Cobb of Denver, Colo., an American
Red Cross field worker, who was shav
ing by candle light In the box car,
Miss Kouroyen anesthetized her pa
tient with her small supply of ether
and chloroform, and performed an am
putation, using cotton thread to "tie
off" the arteries and veins.
Despite the prophecy of a local doc
tor that the aged patient would not
live through the night Miss Kouroyen
some time later received a visit from
her patient.- He hadvan American
artificial limb made for him in the
American Red Cross artificial leg fac
tory for Greek war mutlles In Athens.
IQcpyrtKhi)
P RED ORGY Of MURDER
City, Freed of Bolshevist Rule,
Reveals Terrible Story.
YOUNG AERO ENTHUSIAST
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Cotton Seized in 1867 ,
Is Paid for by U. S.
Savannah, On. The claim of
the Imperial Importing and Ex
porting Compnny of Georgia for
telMjmM, for cotton Illegally
seized by the federal govern
ment in 1867 hits been paid, It
developed through the filing of
a petition in superior court here
for permission to notify by ad
vertisements stockholders and
others interested.
The money is to be divided
among residents of Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, North and South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and
Virginia. Lawyers, however, will
get half of the total. The case
reached final decision in federal
courts recently after ten years
of litigation. i
DAVID R. FRANCIS
Civilians were recently allowed to
go up in airplanes at the British flying
Held nt Hendon, Kvf-Nmd. Photo shows
little boy getting dressed to take his
first flight.
HOBSE HOLDS PLACE IN ROME
Th Crow's Voice.
The crow Is one of the most widely
disliked of birds.. His reputation Is
bad, and is probably deserved.
No matter how long you study the
crow, you win always have something
to learn, and at the end of all your
study he will know more about you
than you will about him. At times It
seems as if he knew what you were
thinking about.
The crow has a large variety of
notes or calls, and each one seems to
be thehtnshest in all bird vocallsm
until Hie next one Is sounded, which
Is a little harsher. Be is an accom- .
plish''d bird and intelligent, if tamed, '
he can be luugtr. many things, but
never to be good. He is n natural
thief (ind cuppo! be reformed,
Sfnw hats are higher tlmn ever this
nr. Maybe lost year's bird nest will
ive to do, I
Thousands Orawing Cabs Not a Sin
gle Taxicab in Italian
Capital.
Rome. The horse here has not va
cated his position to make room for the
automobile. There are still thousands
of horse-drawn cabs operating in Rome
while there is not a single tuxiouh.
Two reasons ure given for this equine
superiority. First, there are 8.000 cab
drivers in Rome, acoeftlpg to the mu
nicipal statistics. These exjreise a oon
sldcruble influence in the municipal
elections of Rome, nnd as n conse
quence no motor vehicle concessions
ore granted.
Besides, the supply of gasoline In
Italy Is not large and to Insure enough
for the military needs it was found
absolutely necessary to discourage as
much private motor vehicular traffic as
possible.
Girl Struck by Lightning.
Harrington, Kan. Mlsg Mary Har
ness was struck by lightning the other
evening while helping her brother,
John Harness, in an nlfnlfa field In
an attempt to save some hay from an
approaching storm. Her clothing and
shoes wore torn from her body and she
wa painfully burned.
Need for Eternal Vigilance.
"We Hist make our habits and then
cur habits muke lis." said an unknow n
fiige. In other words, what we are
at this moment, what we can do at this
moment, depends not only upon wak
ing up our minds at the time being,
but also upon how we have made up
our minds countless oilier time3 In
thousands of minutes already gone by
and now out of our control. The one
thing we cannot control Is the past;
It may, however, control us for good
or for evil. The fact that we should
remember In forming habits Is that our
minds and hearts are the meeting
ground of strange conflicts; that good
nnd bad in us are making opposite
suggestions; that each Is striving for
the mastery; and that sometimes we
are so self-deluded that Hie bad may
seem to be the gpod. At any hour the
beginnings of a vicious habit, perhaps
through the suggestion of someone
pise or by our own carelessness, Indif
ference, pr faults, may find their way
into our hearts. The price we must
pay fpr continually proving and pos
sessing the good Is eternal vigilance.
rr4xclmnge. , A
hnlshevibl seldom takes wfte
nor map.
During the rainy weather a fly six;
tef Is as essential as n hoe.
In tb notlABiil war garden. Hie t
-beviki Is the baruerrjr bush.
Pisceuraged Aids to Beauty.
In the d;iy,of Luls XIV LjiRruyere
wrote t' t "If women only desire W
be bea in eacly other's eyes they
may, urse, follow their own ca
price or taste as to the way in which
they dress and adorn jthemselves ; but
if they desire to please men, ff it Is
to charm them they rouge and paint
I can assert In the name of mankind,
or nt least of those men whose votes
I have taken, that white and red paint)
make women look old and hideous ; that
t Is as disgusting to see women with
paint on their faces as with false teeth
In their mouths and waxen balls to
puff out their thin cheeks; and that fur
from countenancing it, men solemnly
protest against all such arts, which In
fallibly tend to cure them of love."
The wonder arises If Lallruyer
spoke only for the men of AU time.
David R. Francis, American ambas
lador to Russia, who left Archangel
for London recently to undergo an op
sratlon, met President Wilson and Sec
retary of State Lansing In Paris to re
port on foreign affairs.
GIVES CAT PALM OF WISDOM
i Fire Horse Refuses
to Be Left Behind
Philadelphia Burglar, an ex-
K tra horse of Truck Company
K No. 13, was left behind In the
J firchouse on Baltimore avenue
when -firemen responded to a
Are fifteen blocks away.
Burglar, a big, beautiful bay,
pushed his way out of an in
securely locked stall and with
Instinct traditional of fire
horses galloped unbridled
through the streets until he
spied the lire. He whinnied
with Joy as he came up to the
engine which was industriously
I
d pumping. I
Men, Women and Children Killed
Without Trloi, Many After
. Horrible Torture.
London. Parm, the first city of any
size retaken by Admiral Kolchak's
All-Russian nrray'flom the bolshevlkl,
offers a great study In "red" atrocities.
Perm Is virtually a slaughter house.
Hundreds of bodies of bolshevlkl vic
tims already have been recovered, and
more are being found every day.
In the garden of a seminary, where
bolshevlst chieftains were wont to
hold their revels, the bodies of two
dozen schoolgirls already have been
recovered. These girls, ranging In age
from twelve to sixteen, were first at
tacked by "red" officers, then when the
fiends had tired of their orgy the Vic
tims were killed by being tarlpel on
the head with a wooden mallet.
This seminary garden Is one con
tinuous grave of naked bodies and
skeletons. Identification of the vic
tims is Impossible. A Russian countess
nnd her daughter were tied to posts
in this garden, stripped of their
clothes, then killed by a succession of
dagger pricks all over their bodies. A
dozen priests were crucified head
downward ; two others were boiled In
oil.
Hundreds of the upper classes of
the city, men. women and children,
sentenced to death without trial, were
tauen to the edge of a swamp outside
the city nnd given their choice of flee
ing Into the swnnin or holno dint
down where they stood. Many dashed
imo me swamp, only to be engulfed
in the quicksands. The others were
shot down at the edge of a ditch, into
which their bodies fell, and left un
covered during the entire winter.
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Writer In California Newspaper Comes
Forward With Loud Praise
of Household Pet.
It is often a subject for discussion
as to which la the wisest animal.
Some say It Is the dog nnd some are
In fiivor of the horse, while scientists
appeaf to think it is the elephant.
We beg to differ with alf these
views. We do not eves agree to the
movement In certain quarters to give
the palm for wisdom to the fox. To
our mind the wlspst animal that lives
Is the cat. And. If it goes to that, we
are willing to have It further known
that of all animals we like the cat
the best.
A cat is. so wise that It succeeds In
not Kiting us know limv wise it really
Is. ff yoq will be friendly with cats
and that's nil easy tiling to do you
will be astounded tit their wisdom. And
yon could not Imagine how affectionate
u cat can also be.
There Is an old yellow cat up Ip the
Verdugo hills that we wottldui trndp
for all the dogs and horses and ele
phants outside of Itanium's circus.
When the Inst of his nine lives Ue
porta from the earth those mountains
will be a very lonely place for ue. Los
Angeles Times.
Patriotism.
Who can measure the compelling
force of patriotism? At 8undi(y night1
Battery concert, largely intended by
Manhattanitcs to whom aorth of Four
teenth street i a foreign lam), the lead
er asked that after the singing of the
national anthem the npdlence offet one
minute" silent prayer-for Hie boys over
there. One whose lead 4to not' bow
promptly, seemingly held alert by the
shock of some amazing surprise, soon
acknowledged the force of patriotic
emotion by saying, as he bowed his
bead: "I prayed last Easter, brt If
It Is for the boys here goes." New
York Sun.
For Success In Business.
Wealth Is, after all, only what Is
produced by us. either by mentnl or
physical labor. It stands to reason,
therefore, that If a man would become
rich In this world's goods, or In knowl
edge of things or men, he must work
hard and long to acquire such knowl
edge and skill. And he will be reward
ed in proportion to his work. Despite
ft lucky stroke occasionally here and i
there in a man's life, I am a firm be- !
llever In the motto that nothing really j
comes by chance to a man which Is of
much value beyond the ordlnnry.
Success has usually been prepared
for, striven for, helped onward by his
own Innate ability, work, or tact In
ways the exterior world often failed
to recognize, flnnl work Is the best
I friend any man ever embraced.
' I would Rfiv tn nil vonlhfnl hw,lnn.hB
In business thnt business Is like the I
hind the more you put Into It the
more you will get out. If you put
nothing In, you will get precious little
out ; If you tend It In desultory ; v
Ion, you con only expect nn lnillflVrt.it
harvest, If any at all. Exchange.
Where Is Teschen?
This Is the latest breakfast table
problem, Although the town has fig
ured prominently In European history
at various times for over n century,
Lloyd George had to confess, when It
was mentioned at the peace confer
ence, thnt be did not know exactly
where It was situated, ,,
Nor was be alone tn his lack of
knowledge. It Is doubtful If one per
son In fifty would be able to give you
any Information about the town.
And yet It was once the scene of a
great peace conference that of 1779,
when Vergennas, the foreign minister
of France, arranged the peace of
Teschen. thereby avoiding a great Eu
ropean war. and nlso, In nil probabil
ity, sedating the Independence of the
United States.
South Sea Beauties Use
Chalk on Complexion
Philadelphia. Paint and pow
der on the faces of "women the
world over" were condemned by
Rev. Dr. A. Pohlman nt the
Presbyterian ministerial confer
ence In the Wltherspoon build
ing. Doctor I'oblmnn, who was
formerly an African missionary,
said:
"In their desire to make their
faces attractive by paint and
powder women are the same the
world over. In Liberia they use
white chalk on their black faces.
I Here they use red and pink.
i What Is the difference?"
JENNY LIND'S PIAN0IS SOLD
White and Qold Instrument That Cost
P. T. Barnum $5,000 Is Treated
as Junk.
Mlddletown, Conn. On a big plat
form truck, with Its legs In the air,
the white and gold Crystal Pnlaco pi
ano specially built by P. T. Bamum for
the concerts of Jennie Llnd In 1850
was carted off a few days ago by a
New Haven collector who had pur
chased It from Thomas K. Smith, a
local dealer In antiques.
When Barnum contracted with the
Swedish Nightingale for a concert tour
pf the United States, for which he
paid her the then magnificent sum of
1308,000. he had Pox & Co. of New
Tork construct a mammoth square
piano for the concerts, the price of
which was over 5,000. While this pi
ano was used no duplicate was to be
made. Its case and legs Were of Son
Domingo mahogany, enameled In Ivory
and embellished In gold.
DENSOR HELPED
DEFEAT GERMANY
Performed Great Service fa
Guarding Allies' Interests
During War.
THWART MANY FOE SCHEMES
DESERTER IS FOUND IN CAVE
gig; Wight Pivot
A dnrky ias unloading horse and
when he had the liuller hanks of six
horses he started np the road toward
camp and the stables. Just before en
tering camp the roud turned sharply
to the right ; In fact. It made a right
angle with Its previous course.
At this point the durky with his six
halter hanks experienced some diffl-
tilts In getting all the horses to make
the turn and he was heard to shout:
"Here, what's the matter llli you
all? Don't you all snow how to muke
a turn to da right ? Number one pivot 1
IMvot dar on dp right." Pittsburgh
Luroniele-Teiegrsph.
Navy Man Living In Blue Ridge Moun.
tains Escapes Prom
Police.
Reading, Pa. Berks county was
thrilled recently by the discovery that
Charles Struusser, former Hamburg
soldier and navy deserter, was living
as a cave dweller, deep In the Blue
mountains north of Hamburg. He was
trapped In Ills cave high In the virgin
tlmbeiiand by state police, but escaped
after on exchange of shots.
Stno'tser, who has been sought by
nuvy officials for months, fled deeper
Into the eeclUBlon of the wild moun
tain land after he eluded the police
net. He had been discovered when
campers caught sight of a wild man,
haggard and scantily clad, fleeing
through the hills. The state police, led
by Constable Wilson Lewnre of Ham
burg, have returned to the chase with
reinforcements.
According to vnrlous exponents, It Is
perfectly clear that It Is solly what
somebody else Is doing that Is re
sponsible for the spread of Bolshevism
wherever it happens to be spreading.
British Official Expunged "Lord ol
Hosts" From Lloyd George's Speech
as Kaiser's "Aid de Camp"
Smuggling Prevented.
The British postal censor is soon go
tag the way of the telegraph and cable
censorship out. Judging from criti
cisms in America, such as thnt of the
Merchants' association to the postmas
ter general, the going of this war in
stitution will be Just as Joyously wel
comed abroad as In England. Bat
whntever the petulance of those whe
think war restrictions have held over
too long, the postal censor, In the opin
ion of those who have watched his
work from the viewpoint of British and
allied security throughout the war,
has been of the greatest service In
defeating Germany.
The nearness of the date of the de
mise tit this Institution has called forth
considerable Information about Its
work. Thus far, however, there has
been no amusing side such as was
shown during the obsequies for the
cable censorship.
Just after Mr. Lloyd George succeed
ed Lord Kitchener as secretary for
war it is related that he provided the
ammunition for the censor to give the
paragraphers a lease on war life. Mr.
Lloyd George went to Bramshott to
bid good by to a Canadian division
about to cross the channel. After
the Inspection he made a speech from
his motorcar, concluding with a quo
tation from the Bible: "And may the
Lord of Hosts be with you." Corre
spondents who sent their dispatches
first to the censor were surprised to
find the final words of the secretary
running In this fashion: "And may
,e wth you." It
was amusing, but also serious, In the
minds of the news writers, so they
protested. However, they got their re
ply from the censor's department:
The kaiser, having claimed the Lord
as his ald-de-camp, no reference must
be made to the Divinity In this connec
tion."
Enemy Schemes Thwarted.
As I said, the postal censorship has
ns yet turned up no. morsel of rela
tive cholceness. The postal censor
ship, however, has thwarted many en
emy schemes that make Just as In
teresting or more Interesting read
ing. Furthermore, the British postal
censorship was a much farther reach
ing organization than was attempted
In America, simply because England
was the channel through which virtu
ally all questionable mall matter flowed.
The postal censor In London was the
ilnni which held the flood of continental
ninll until each portion of It could be
passed upon nnd approved before be
ing scattered over the wide wqrld.
An Idea of the immensity of the task
can be obtained from the fact that ft
staff of nearly a hundred expert lin
guists was constantly employed to ex
amine nnd approve mall nitittef writ
ten nnd printed In more than a hun
dred languages and dialects. Manu
scripts In every conceivable tongue
found their place In this great mass
of mall, estimated at about 150,000 let
ters dally.
Much of the mall was passed with
unly mechanical Inspection, so sure did
the examiners become of certain cate
gories of communications. Hut con
sldernble more than the time saved on
harmless mall was consumed In ex
haustive examination and tests ot
tiuestlonnble matter, some of which
was subjected to all manner of acid
and X-rny Inquiry to detect hidden
messages.
Smuggling Prevented.
There was also for a time ft great
smuggling campaign, harmless looking
bundles such us newspapers contain
ing various commodities then obtain
able in enemy countries, such as cof
fee, rice, tobacco, sugar, nnd so on.
Some even contained rubber hlddtn be
tween the pages of the papers.
The most-sought-nfter evidence was
that of military character, and tho
censorship of malls more than repaid
lis expensive outlay In detecting in
formation that might have wrought
havoc with allied arms, or at least
helped Germany In no uncertain de
gree. There Is little doubt that none,
of that character of Information which
the censorship obtained will be made
public, but officials directing Britain's
war machines have not been slow to say
that thanks to the postal censorship
much valuable military Information, ot
every conceivable character, came to
their attention.
When the world does settle down
to peace nnd quiet, bow it wUI enjoy
the uoveltyl