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MEDeORD MAIL ' TRIBUNE, t MTCDFdl$D.16F.fl6N,' iMtRSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1017 PXflE TITREE ttT. AMERICANS USE Mil WOMEN H!1 FRENCH GUNS IN SERVING IN ARMY SSl THEIR TRAINING 10 HSU Huge Field Pieces Delight Veteran . Gunners of Uncle Sam's Regulars Calibers Vary From "I55's" to Staggering "400's" That Hurl Ex plosive Missiles Weighing Ton. AMURICAN TRAINING CAMP IX FRANCE, Oct. 11. Uy the Associat ed Press. Not far behind the Ameri can field artillery, which has been training in a rugged section of France for the past two months, have come the men of the "heavies." They are veteran gunners and many of them are familiar with the big guns at home and they greeted almost as comrades the monster French weap ons which they are now grooming for eventual use against the Ger mans. Some of the guns with which the t American artillerymen are training are wonderful and ponderous ex amples of the French gunmakers' skill and daring. They range from the modest but marvelously efective "153" up to the staggering "400" that hurls a high explosive missile weighing just short of a ton. The 400'b are more potent than the Big llartha's ever were in their days of great destructiveness. Cnllliei-s Vary. In calibers, the guns range from , the short, squat mortars, which sit upon their haunches like giant frogs up thru the various members of the howitzer family to the truly sinister naval rifles wtih their long tapering barrels. The Americans are delighted with their French weapons and are busy studying every detail and adapting themselves to the use of the French material. Most of the heavy gunners are men of long experience and do not need much actual firing practice before taking their place In line against tho enemy. The wireless branch of tho heavy artillery service is one of great Im portance. At schools already estab lished, radio pupils are being special ly trained In communication with air 1 planes and observation halloas so they can act as "spotters" for tho guns. Scores of reserve officers arc com pleting their technical education in the artillery schools hero. These of ficers, individually selected for the artillery service because of their edu cation in higher mathematics and en gineering, are proving a great joy to their commanders and instructors. It is predicted that all will make splcn did officers in active service. Hauled by Tractors. V Tho Amercan gunners have been 7.,.l. Inlflrnctnr) I thn M.r ).lllu tt'Mh are hauled by caterpillar tractors, but the real pets with the gunners from overseas aro thoso aristocrats among the heavies which command special cars. Some of those rulers ' of tho cannon world nrc so importnnt ' and so valuable that an entiro artil lery train is devoted to them. Theso trains are strange looking affairs In their fantastic war paint, resembling, at a distance a mammoth rattlesnake. Even the engines are Included In the camouflage and may resemble any thing from a hrlikhouse to a giant hedgehog. . The French senso of humor can not be suppressed by thrco years or more of war. French officers have named one of the largest guns turned 1 over to the Americans "coustlque" which means "mosquito." "It Is a compliment to any of your artillerymen who may have come ' from New Jersey," said the French commandant, who said he had spent ton years on the eastern coast of the Visited States. The French guns, alllio large and apparently unwieldy, aro balanced . easily, one man being aide to elevate Htid deflect a weapon weighing fifty ' tons or more. Worth Their Weiuht in tiolil. No man can do his best when suf fering from backache, rhcmuatlc pains, swollen Joints, sore muscles or other symptoms of kidney trouble. II. II. Stone, SIO X. 2d. St., Heading. I'a., writes: "I contracted a most se vere case of kidney trouble. I gradu ally grew worse and for months was unable lo attend to business. I be gan to use Foley's Kidney Pills and noon found tho pains were gone and have had no aches since. They have oeen worth their weight In gold to me." Sold everywhere. Not h e. The City Treasurer's Office will be 0en every day from S a .m. to r : " f ' p, m., and also druing the noon hour Russian Female Fighters No Novelty, for Russian Women Are Doing Ev erything Men Were Wont to Do Train and Fight Like Men, Forget ting All About Sex. (By Charles Edward Ttussoll.) (Member of Hoot commission to Russia. ) Here in the United Slates many persons were greatly- astonished when they read that the "ISattalion of Death," a regiment of women, had actually gone to the Russian front, drilled and trained to figiil in Hie trenches like men- We need not have been nstonished. There was nothing very novel about it. Russian women had been fighting in the army ever since the wur be gan. When I was on my way from Vlad ivostok to Petrograd the subject was introduced convincingly to my atten tion by the vision of an armed woman Soldier patrolling the platform of a station at which we had stopped one morning. ' Women in filiform. She wore the regular uniform of the Russian army, with tho number of Iter regiment done in yellow on a red bund at her shoulder, and very likely I should have not noticed it was a woman if it hadn't been for her hair. This was done lip in a big yellow twist, like a section of haw ser, at the back of her neck directly under her cap. It must have been a rather remarkable mane she had, judging from the size of the roll it made. The women that enlisted in the "P.attalion of 1 tea III" had their hair lipped close to their heads. This woman and others 1 saw afterward in the ranks still held to their long locks. Khc marched up and down the plat form exactly like the man soldier patrolling the other end, and was ut terly indifferent lo liny staring at tention she might receive from pass ing (ruins. It was evident she was used to the service and its duties. Served as Soldiers. I asked a Russian officer with us on the train about this apparition anil he said it was a commonplace sight. lie said there were hundreds of women serving in the Russian ranks us regular soldiers. They had offered themselves for enlistment, making no attempt to disguise their sex, and the government had willingly taken them. Without exception they made good soldiers and many of them hud been decorated for acts of con spicuous courage. I nsked him what induced them to enlist. "Apparently," he said, "it is he cause they want to fight. They seem to be interested in the war and want to lake part in it. I suppose with some it is sheer love of adventure, but with the most it is a patriotic im pulse. .Some have lost their hus bands in the war and enlist to take their husbands' places. Some, think, are aroused by Hie falsehood that Russia is to stop fighting and want to show that the old Russian spirit is not (lead. That was what brought out the 'liatlalion of Death,' you know. Trained Like Men. "Yes, they are (rained exactly like Hie men, go thru 1 ho same course of instruction and have the same duties lo do in the field. Xo distinction is made. In fact, when they go into the army they drop every consideration of their sex. As a iu-, they are ser ious-minded persons. There is n skylark about their performance. J hey are m the army to light." I asked him what class tliev came from, lie said I hey were mostly pousuni women, out lucre were wom en of all classes in the army. He said the only weakness the woman soldier developed was usually about her feel. She could not stand the long inarches so well as men Otherwise she could march, !hl, dig trenches and handle machine guns as well as any of them. There were au thenticated cases, he said, where women hud clung to dangerous posi tions lifter men hail letrciitcil, and he told me the siury j' woman soldier who, finding nil her company oll'ieers had been killed, assumed the enminanil, rn-hed the enmpunv for ward and took a trench. Women Jir Conductor... This, I found afterward, was an incident in the lite of the woman that ei.tnninll'ls the "liatt.ilion of Dentil." 'flic RuMun woman im often found more to do in this war than to sit at home ur.d knit sock. Of i rc, she is nose the conductor on all the street ears of Petrograd. Mos cow and oilier cities. This is not o SAI.KM, Oct. 11. (iovornor Withyeonibe litis issued n proclama tion making next week patriotic week in connection with the liberty loan cumpaign. The governor says : "Ore gon thus far has responded to every appeal. We have given the flower of our young manhood. Let us not he sordid people. Let us not place, greater store by our money than b. our men." lie pleads with every Or egouiuii to buy liberty bonds. . The proclamation follows: "Whereas, the American teoplc have set themselves the task of rais ing n second liberty loan of from three to five billion dollars. Twenti eth century war requires vast sums of money. The requirements are far beyond what the wealthiest country can raise by taxation. The great na tions of Kurope have been at war for throe years. They have floated loan after loan successfully. It is un thinkable that this country should fail with its second loan, six mouths after the declaration of war; and "Whereas, failure to provide the nec essary money would mean failure properly to provision and equip our troops. An army insufficiently equipped and supplied is led to un availing slaughter. We owe to those who are to do the fighting to stand behind them loyally, to give them ev erything which will add to their ef ficiency anil bring nearer the day of victory. Let us not fight this war half-heartedly, with one hand behind our backs. Let us fight it manfully, in a manner worthy the best tradi tions of the republic; and, 'Whereas, Oregon's share of the fund required is sixteen and it hall to twenty-four million dollars. This is a sum loo large to be raised with out the co-operation of the whole people. Every Orcgoniun wilh an in come should consider it a duty and a privilege lo purchase one or more bonds, in proportion to his means. The Government asks us not to con tribute, but lo invest. There is no safer investment in the world than a loan to the United States; "Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority in me vested, as governor of the slate of Oregon, I, James Withyeonibe, governor, do hereby proclaim the week of October U to 120, 1 !1 T. as Patriotic week. Oregon has thus far responded to every aiv peal. We have given the flower of our young manhood. Let ns not he n sordid people. Let us not place greater store by our money than by our men. Jf our people can only be aroused to the necessities of the sit uation we cannot fail lo have the co operation which will spell sui ss. "In testimony whereof, I hnvo hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the state of Oregon to be hereunto nffixed this ()lh day of October, A. D. 1017. "JAMKS WITIIVCOMlin, Governor." reniiirkable, because women are doing such work in other belligerent coun tries of Kurope. In Russia she is working in the factories, hiving pave ments in the streets, building rail roads, becoming n carpenter nnd 11111 chiuist nnd learning other unusual trades. At Ihe town of Ziinii, in Siberin, a switch engine on 1111 adjoining (rack came down past us as we were in Ihe dining car for linicheon and revealed the fact that the firing person on it was a woman. A Woman Itiivinan. She was dressed in greasy over alls and wore an old black cup above her liHir, which, ns in the case of the woman soldier, wns done up in some kind of a knot nt the nape of her neck. She handled the coal shovel wilh neatness mid dispatch; ulso, 1 judge, with skill, for e were nt thai station about an hour, the engine kept steadily at ils switching job and she furnished all the tiring. When she wasn't handling the shovel she Whs sitting on the seat at the fire man's side of the miieliiuc and con templating the world with that air of profcssionul unconcern that the ex perienced railroad man always has; so I gathered she was no new hand. In fact, I know she wu-n't, because no one around the -tution paid nny attention to her. Afterward we found that she was not the only woman tir ing person, and no one in Russin nnu uus astiinisheil to see 11 wmiiini en gaged in nnv kind of work that men could do. i I believe there are still tho-e in the Vniled States who are enough asleep to parrot the old talk nhoiit woman's place being the home. Thov should take a few trips thru Ihe warring countries nnd see; Colonel Howard A. Hanson, who has been here for the past week con ferring with the city council on city re-flnancing, leaves this evening for Seattle, but Intends to soon return to 111" ritv. L T Captain .lames .1. Crossley and: l.letitenant Mnlkey of C company ; met with some odd experiences and . not a little excitement during tho re- j cent movement of California and No-, vada drafted troop north to tho, American Lake cantonment. j In addition to having his company scattered all over the Southern Pa- ciflc right of way from the Siskiyous to Leland. a distance of 100 miles, patrolling tho tracks night and day, Captain Crossley, aided by Lieutenant Mulkey, kept a watchful eye on overy troop train passing thru 'o prevent tho thousands of youn men from gambling and drinking on tho trains. It was In the performance of this duty that they had no difficulty in passing the time or keeping awake. First Lieutenant Alexander, who was In command of the regular C company detail guarding the tunnels and trestles in. the Siskiyous, also boarded trains on themountalns . Much (iambling and Drinking. There was, naturally much drinlt- Itig and gambling on tho trains among the thousands of young men drafted from all walks of life and society who were traveling without any military restraint whatever, ana It was part of tho duties of tho cap tain and lieutenants to see that all drinking and gambling were stopped while the trains were passing thru C company patrol territory. Either the captain or his lieuten ant boarded every troop train when it reached the Siskiyous and passed thru the train ordering taht all liquor be thrown overboard and that all gambling games be stopped. As general rule tho orders of either oflcer were obeyed without trouble but there were several notahlo excep tions. On every troop train there were from three to five gambling games going on when the train reached Ore. gon territory. Whenever commanded to stop tho game, most of tho con scripts engaged, did so with fairly good nature. Once or twice Captain Croaslcy had to become stem and threaten to stop tl;e train at Medford and have players-placed under m 1 1 1 tary arrest, by a detail of his company Squeegee Tread Experienced mo torists demand diamonds in far greater vol ume than any " other non-equip. ment tire. Why? Mileage built in to bouncy rubben "tough fabric and heavy, long wear ing tread. The Diamond Factories, LOCAL Garnett-Corys Hdwe. Co.' ' MLDKOKD, ORE, ant sent qs prisoners. to the Vancou ver barracks, or the American. Lake cantonment. This threat always end ed tho card game. Officer Whips Culifonilnn. Lieutenant Mulkey, however, had an exciting experience last Monday during which some blood was spilled. As a train was nearlng Grants Pass, In ono of tho coaches ho sided a gambling game going on, and ordered It stopped at once. One of tho play ers, a big railroad fireman, drafted from California, disputed tho lleu- era, a big railroad fireman, drafted from California, disputed tho lieu - tenant's authority to stop tho game, and suddenly, while still seated, hauled off nud struck the lieutenant in tho mouth with his fist. Then tho fur flew. The trim and athletic llueenant, while of medium or under build.'and who would rather fight than eat. sailed Into his big an tagonist and gave tho latter the beat ing of his life. When tho fireman had enough, ho apologized to tho scrappy litlo lieutenant. At Grants Pass Lieut. Mulkey got off the train to wash tho blood off j for tho delivery to the nearest moblll his lips, and meeting Sergeant Sum- nation camp of men who have desert- mervlllo of C company, who was 011 guard duty at the platform, tersely explained tho situation. SuniniervUle who Is the 135-pound fistic champion of tho Third regiment, grew much ex cited and insisted that ho be permit ted to get on the train and help the lieutenant cloan out the rough nocks, but was refused. Much llooz on Trains, And talk about booze. There was loads of It on most of the trains coin ing into Oregon. The officers made tho drafted men throw It all over board. From one car between Siski you and Ashland Lieutenant Mulkoy according to Captuln Crossley, alono threw out of tho windows twelve quart bottles of whiskey. Tho Oregon bono dry law was a puzzle to many of tho California and Nevada soldiers, ('apt. Croedey says. A number of them asked if tho rule forbidding Intoxicating liquors was just a local section law, and If after they got out of tho captain's patrol territory they could have liquor again. "I explained to them," says Captain Captain Crossley, "that now that they wero in tho army their drinking days wero over and that whllo they were in tho sorvlco, especially after reach ing tho American Lako cantonment, they would never seo liquor again that its uso was forbidden soldiers, "Considering that theso thousands of young men camo from all kinds of homes and walks of life, it is remark able that whllo they were traveling without any restraint thero was little trouble. They will all make RubberCaJna Akron, onio. DISTRIBUTOR Tire O.UIP LKWi:-, T.vc'OM A, Wash., ! Oct. n. Tho llurlev-Masoii com- ( muly has been Instructed to construct ; (our tar(tot ranges and a firing trench t 200 yards and ono prone trench : ai inn yards. Much of thoso will be 1100 feet long. Tho now ranges are In addition to tho rifle pit now being 1 built, which is nearly a mile long, j lluildlngs ordered for tho rifle range Include an administration build ing 2SxS0 feet, threo buildings to store small arm targets 20x20 and 0110 storehouse fur machine guns 20x 4 2 feet, A reward of $.10 will bo offered ed and according to Information re ceived from Provost Marshal General E. 11. Crowdor, the military officials will be ompowered to arrest desert ers until tho reward system is prov en a failure. W. L. Scawrigbt, Y. M. C. A. sec rotary for physical work of the west ern department, Is the first Y. M. C. A. man to accompany a troop train of drafted men to Camp Lewis. He was sent by tho San Francisco as sociation. Lincoln high school of Portland, Oregon, conceived a new Idea of helpfulness to the soldiers when It sent GOO towels to tho Y. M. C. A. headquartors at Camp Lewis yester day, for distribution. Wild enthusi asm greeted their unpacking. good soldiers, even tho worst of them, after they havo settled down to n.rmy llfo undor discipline. Most of tho drafted boys were perfoct gentlemen and of good breeding." Xiook After Sick Men. Tho C company officers also had to contend with a number of cases of sickness among tho drafted men. Dal ton Lawrence of California, when his train reached Oregon, was seriously ill with appendicitis, lly a C com pany officer's orders he was taken from tho train at Ashland to a hos pltal whero 'ho was operated on by tho resident Southern Pacific, rullrond surgeon. Ho is still In tho hospital Dr. Stearns, tho C company local physician, was summoned to meet the train nt Medford several Hiiicb to care , for sick, drafted num. It If o0 V If Mil si PdwwfoSml I kmmim, kmmm Cough Nearly Cone 1 in 21 Hours Thnt'i tha iant rprlrnee frith Uila hiine-itm(l rented. Coal Utile Uj it. 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