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MEDFORD MATL TRTTlTINE, MEDFORD, PRECOX, THURSDAY, XOVE3 jTBER 14, 3918
HERO PICKET OF
CHATEAU THIERRY
A F
W. J. Piekett. member of tlio U. S.
Marino Corps, who recently visited
Sledford nnd posed us the hero o
i.nt.. wi,:.,...... ..i.i n,i..,:,.;n.,
audiences thrilling titles of the battlo.
in which ho niinutely described the
death of Private Hussell Hawk of
Derby, has been exposed as a fakir,
and Mayor Gates, Postmaster Mims
and numerous citizens who lavishly
entcrtnined him are rocoivinir con
dolences of friends over beinif vic
tims of a successful hoax.
In Murines AU IUght
Pickett was in t lie marines all
' right, but nver sot nearer France
than New Oreluns. The "shell
wound" on which ho secured his fur
louuh came from the surgeon's knife
in a nnvnl hospital, to cure a rup
ture. Some where or other, he picked
up the "fatal bullet" which a Med
ford jeweler kindly mounted in sold
as tribute to his patriotism but it
never enme from a Hun trim, ; Jlis
erstwhile admirers admit, however,
that a man with such a lively imauin
riiion and eflib tongue is wastinc his
time in the mnrines-rnnd that ho inir
lv earned, tho dinners lavished upon
him In a column article in the Med
ford Sun on October 27th I'ickett's
dnrinir exploits were related at length.
Ho lold of opcratring a machine gun
000 shots a minute, piling up the Ger
mans liko cordwood, of the forced
march of 250 mile.: .to . the front
(which was only GO miles distant)
and of many other heroic deeds too
numerous to mention.: , fc.'-'
Ilia Official Itecord
In response to a letter from Chief
of Police Timothy. Captain J. F. Jef
fcrds. U. S. M. C 112 Co., writes as
follows:
"Privato William J. Pickett, for
merly n member of 112th company,
8th regiment, enrolled in tho marine
corps reservo December 18, 1917. and
roccived his recruit training at Mare
Island, California. At the time of
enrolling ho gnvo his homo address
us Modford. Oregon, nnd that of his
mother as Canvonvillo, Oregon. He
weighed 164 pounds, was 70 inches
high, had brown eves, niibiirw hair,
and B ruddy complexion. Ho joined
tho 112th company March HI. 1018,
nt Galveston, Texas, and on Julv 20,
1018. was transferred to the U. S.
liuval hospital nt New Oreluns. While
serving with this eomunnv Privute'i
Pickett was in the hospital most of
tho time, with some trouble about tho
groin, which iimv havo necessitated
dn operation nt New Orolnns."
IjivlHhly KiitcrtalnoU
" Pickett, who formerly was em
ployed at the Modoc orchard and
vlaimed illustroils ancestry, blow . in
to Medford tho latter part of Octob
er and nt onco began telling his ex
periences on the battlefields of
Franco. lie found interested auditors
who listened bv the hour to his many
hair-raising experiences. One of the
first to fall for his bunk was Mayor
Gates who fell on his neck and told
him tho kovs to tho eitv were his.
JJext was Postmastor Mims, who es
corted him nil over the viillcv, includ
ing a motor trip to his orchard. Ho
was cnturtained at many dinnor nnr
ties including n chicken dinnor nt tho
Elks Club bv Colonel Mims. P. C.
Higham also entertained him and
vouched for lio truth of tho narra
tive. Pickett also uddrcKsed an aud
ience of prominent Modford society
h.
women from Iho mezzanine floor of
tlie Medford Hotel.
Of the heroes of Chouteau Thierry
there will no doubt be many, but
when historv is written the name of
Privato W. J. Pickett. V. 8. Marine
Corps, will not appear. However, his
name will ho foremost in the minds of
inunv Medford citizens for tho many
daring deeds ho did in the Hoguc
river valley.
"The next war hero that I enter
tain, says Colonel Minis, "will nave
to show me even if he bus a leg shot
off, un arm blown out und is minus
an evt even if he is the sou of a
rebel general." '
OF
JUSTICE FROM HUNS
COPKNHAGEN, Nov. 14. North
Sehlcswig newspapers are publishing
an appeal signed bv i02 Danish as
sociations demanding that Germany
at tho peace negotiations settle the
Xorth Sehlcswig Questions on the ba
sis of the right of sclf-dctcrminution
by. all peoples.
AT
COPENHAGEN, Wednesday .Nov.
13. (By Associated Press.) A
demonstration bv the Syndicalists
here against the imprisonment of
some of their partisans todav result
ed in rioting. Some street cars were
wrecked and at places the tracks were
torn up.
FRENCH SOCIALISTS DEMAND
END OF MILITARY REGIME
PARIS, Tuesday, Nov. 12. French
Socialists are demanding that the ad
ministration of affairs under military
law be ended immediately nnd that a
general election be held nt once to
take action on the problems arising
out of the economic nnd political re
organization of the country.
COPENHAGEN, Tucsdnv. Nov. 12
Tho Lokal Anzciger of Pel 'in an
nounces that it had obtained the pro
tection of the government against tho
Spartacus group which seized the
newspaper and renamed it tho "Itcd
Banner," according to n dispatch
from Berlin. The I.okal Anzciger hns
resumed its old title.
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WITH THE AMERICAN TROOPS
I NFRAXCE, Oct. 15. (Correspond
ence of The Associated Press.) An
amazing underground shelter or dug
out eoipped with many luxuries is the
home of tho staff of one Arncricnn
army corps which took a prominent
part in the St. Mihiel fight. It is lit
tle less than an underground city
club, with offices, sleeping niinrtcrs,
baths, restaurants, kitchens, electric
lights, telephone nnd bell boys in the
persons of orderlies and messengers
and mnnv other appurtenances of ho
tel life.
Its occupation hns permitted the
staff of this corps to operate in close
touch with the fighting troops much
more closely behind the lines thnn
such a corps ordinarily ventures,
rinco Inconspicuous
From the outside the place was so
inconspicuous, standing about two
hundred yards from the rood, that
ninety-nine out of n hundred motor-.
.ists would have driven bv without
seeing it at all. The one hundredth
would have seen mere ground that
might have been old shell craters or
anything else.
In reality the mud and grass cov
ering was nothing but n concenlment
of a thirty-foot "ceiling" of rein
forced coneerte, tho -black holes well
camouflaged entrances lending dwn
a slopimr runway to the brilliance of
tho electrically lighted interior. So
stoutly was the whole constructed
that an cnemv shell of big calibre
would scarcely do more than clip off
a piece of the top. and no aviator's
homb could ever, even hitting dircetlv.
do much damage.
Corridor's Slain Street
Inside, parallel with the rond ond
traversing the length of tho dugout,
was n wide corridor the "main
street" of the institution, in which
the commanding general rubbed shoul
ders with the orderlies ond messen
gers as thev went from office to of
fice. Off the main street led minor
streets running to the rear and being
used, for economy of space, as sleep
ing rooms for the enlisted men nt
night.' Artificial ventilation provid
ed I'm' tho constant purification of the
whole dugout, and the smell through
out was clean and sweet.
Off the small streets, and off the
big one too, were the offices, con
structed likewise for economy of
space. Euch was titioiit ten feet
wide and ouito deep, with a narrow
Initio running the length of tho rooms
at which sat the officers and their
assistants, working, working, all the
time, answering the telephone every
moment or so, giving instructions and
receiving reports.
No sound could penetrate the great
concrete roof, and the grent bombard
ment Hint opened the St. Mihiel
"show" could not be heard, ns nn As
sociated Press correspondent who
wus there can attest. Yet outside the
building the cannon were going "great
mins" and the whole night was thun
dering with the noise.
TWO MORE PRINCES
ABDICATE THRONES
COPENHAGEN. Wednesday, Nov.
1:1. The abdication of Leopold IV.,
Prince of I.ippe, nnd Duke Edward of
Anhnlt, are reported from Berlin. The
lntter ras resigned the throne in fav
or of his son, Joachim Ernest, who
wns born January 11. 1001.
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STOCKHOLM. Oct. 10. (Corres
pondence of Associated Press.) Ever
since the -Russian collapse Germany
haB been laying the foundations for
commercial conquest of the Baltic
provinces of Courlanwl, Lithuania and
Esthonla. It Is prob-aule that she al
ready has obtained tan economic ad
vantage there that will be difficult to
wrest from her.
A large part of the German cam
paign Is In the hands of the "Eastern
Territories' Noo-Getrman Economic
society." Among the active leaders
of this society are the Prussian and
Imperial ministers, representatives of
the military authorities in the Baltic
provinces, members of the German
reichstag and bankers. Plans have
been adopted for extending credit
tor the work of reconstruction and
economic conquest, und the German
Eastern Bank of Commerce and In
dustry, an institution whose turnover
last year exceeded twenty-six billion
marks, has -planned to devote the
greater Bhare of its activities to work
in the east.
A large number of organizations
for tho study of conditions in the
Baltic provinces and for the "educa
tion of leaders of enterprise" there
have already been formed. The "Ger
man Association for Research in Eas
tern iSurope" is in full action. Direc
tors of the Deutsche Bank are taking
an active part in the work.
Professors at the University of
Berlin have oganized an '.'Institute
for Russian Research," and their ac
tivities extend to financial, commer
cial and Industrial matters. Munich
and JeDa professors will shortly open
a higher institute of learning "for:
the education of leaders of enterprise
In the Eastern territories."
In the Baltic provinces themselves
there are already In operation special
teachers' institutes and schools de
voted to the development of the lands
economic life. All these are, ot
course, supported by Gorman funda
and manned largely by German
scholars and experts in the various
lines of thought and activity.
MADRID. Nov. 14. Tho Spanish
chamber of deputies today adopted
by lo'O votes to 2 a resolution to ex
press the satisfaction of the chamber
over the hannv ending of the war.
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