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Sidney B. Carnire, radio sergeant in
charge i.f the ;rtleis siatiun at Fi rt
Arilrews. Ma?s.. cbarrtcr;zrS as
iVet.tful hi exirie:ice prei-edir.jt and
i.coon:pan r.g the arrival of I'mdtrt
Wilson' party at Boston aboard the
' ieorge Washington. Sgt. famine,
who was formerly bugler cf l'Jth Co.,
minus his parrr.ts. Mr. and Mrs. S. B.
Carnme, as follows:
'. 'Krom Saturday until Sunday ninht I
received messages constantly from the
trai:Sxit tieorge Washington. There
were messages exchanged tetween tiie
Ceorge Washington and nearly every
larue radio station un this part of the
; coast- greetings to the 1'resident and
; congratulations upn his succestf jl
; work abroad. The Boston Naval rauio
I station w as kept busy getting details
i for his reception.
I "The Fhip, w ith its escort, came in
sight on the horizon about 4.3' p. m.
Sunday. Then all the forts blazed
forth a salute of 21 guns. They pro
ceeded up into Boston harbor, anchor
ing off leer Island, which is just op
posite Fort Strong, staying there until
morning. 1 got up at 5 a. m. Monday,
and took the early morning lioat for
Fort Andrews with the soldiers who
were to form a part of the President's
body guard. Lvery ship in the harbor
w as decorated with Flags. The boat
we were on passed within about 50
feet of the George Washington, so
close that we could give three lusty
cheers for the ,1'resident and the sol
diers returning from overseas. In the
city all was aglow with the colors of
the allied countries. American Flags
were massed over the entire city.
"1 had my kodak and went up to the
state house, where the reviewing stand
was in order to get some good pictuies
of the President. I got some'pictures
when they pinched the sutfragttes. 1
was talking with Betty Cram, the girl
from Portland, who refused to move
and was forcibly taken away by the
police. 1 also got a picture of her. I
' got a dandy picture of President Wil
son.
"The reviewing stand in front of the
state house was occupied bv the boys
of the ."Hist Kegiment of the 'Jt'.th Di
vision, Boston's ow n regiment. Many
uf the boys were wearing distinguished
service medals. I had a place right in
front of the stand with newspaper
men, and when President Wilson came
in sight of the boys he stood right up
on the back seat of his car, took off
his silk hat and gave us a bow and a
smile a yard long. "His hair is quite
white, and believe me, he seemed glad
to net back to the United States.
"There were enough secret service
men around the state house to till a
regiment. Sharpshooteis were sta
tioned with rilles on top of all the
buildings lining the route of the pa-
rade, and soldiers or sailors were
j formed all along the line of march
; from Commonwealth pier to Copley
Plaza hotel.
! "Now of all funny incidents that
have happened to me for a long time
i here is one: After the parade 1 went
I to a movie in order to sit dow n and
: rest. After I had been seated for say
! about in minutes a lady behind me
touched me on the shoulder and handed
me a note. 1 looked the note over and
! on it there was an address which 1 was
unable to recognize as anyone I knew
so then 1 looked behind me and saw a
eounle of girls beckoning for me to
come up and sit with them, so 1 de
cided 1 might as well call their bluff.
When 1 had sat down one of them said,
'Hello, blank. Mv but it seems good
! to fee you again. When did you enlist
j and where are you stationed." 1 real
ized then that they had mistaken me
j for someone else. 1 didn't know
I whether to tell them of their mistake
j or to see how far 1 could go without
their finding; it out. So 1 decided upon
I the latter course. 1 let them ask all
; the questions and 1 talked as little us
l possible. She asked nie, 'How are all
'the folks?' I said, 'Well, mother has
gone on a little trip to New York.'
jW lien it came time for me to go she
: said, 'Frank, can't you come out home
I Saturday for supper? Mother would be
' mighty glad to see you again.' 1 said,
'I'd call her up if 1 could get liberty.'
And so it ended. Quite an episode,
I wasn't it.'.'"
W. W. Aldredge, formerly a conduc
tor on the Mount Hood Railroad just
back from France where he was a
member of a railroad transportation
corps, dots not think much of the
French rail equipment. However, he
has the greatest praise for the con
struction of their roadbed.
"After four years, without any re
paits or maintenance, the tracks were
still in very fair shape," says Mr. Al
dredge "but the American equipment
is so far ahead of the French that the
latter will not bear comparison.
Freight trains have no air brakes. An
American has a lot to watch out. for to
keep from getting injured. Lines are
all double tracked, and the trains run
on the left-hand system. The tracks are
so close together that the cars barely
clear.
"A conductor over there was known
as a chef de train. That was my title
the most of the time of my service
abroad. The trains carried over by
the United States created awe in the
minds of the French. The freight
cars of the French lines had a maxi
mum carrying capacity of nine tons,
w hile those sent over for the use of
the A. E. F. carried 60 tons,
j "The American hospital trains
formed the finest equipment I paw in
, France. We had 16 such trains, all of
! huge steel cars. The French used
buggies, as they call passenger cars,
and their ordinary box cars to carry
wounded."
William Vctlu're returned home last
Tues:a from Hrr. ton Roads. Yi...
whero r.t. has len stationed at a r.aval
flyiiii? base. Mr McGuire, who kceom
paned pilots m their rhuMs &s a riving
mechanic, was engaged m patrvlstr
vice ft.r several months t-fore the war
closest. He wears a gold service chev
roti su.h as are awatiied for overseas
service.
Mr. McGuire tells of two inventions
that have been success!'!!)' worked out
by th naval aviation service.
"Fiying" he savs, "has lost much cf
; its danger by the success of experi-
! merts w ith parachutes fi r pilots ai d
observers. During the past several
month naval flyers have perfected de
vices, faltered to the airmen by har-
; ness thut enables them to land with
ease from a plane in flight or after it
; has K en w recked.
"The niot notable achievement,
; however, was connected with the per-
fecting of great sea sleds drawn by
fast motor U.ats and carrying land
! planes, which were able to start from
! the water trom the wide surface of the
: sleds. Experiments had keen success
ful and plans were under w ay to ap
proach as close to Berlin as possible on
the sea w ith these sleds, carrying giant
Caproni planes, and to bomb the hun
capital from the powerful planes."
Lowell Nickelsen, who has been in
the navy for nearly two years, and
who was sent to Harvard University
where he graduated in the radio de
partment, writing to his parents from
Cape May naval station says:
"1 have been adavneed to senior op
erator at this base and am in full
charge of the work with fume fine
boys under me. 1 was a little scared
when they handed me this job, as 1
realized l.ie responsibility that would
fall on my shoulders. Since the war
most of our work is with merchant
ships and has to do with traffic control
and a fellow has to be right up to
snuff on the regulations. 1 have just
returned from a trip to sea, and talk
about rough water. Well, one is ready
all the time for shark bait. 1 w ill be
back in time to start to school next
year and in the mean time 1 will re
ceive the rank of first class electri
cian. While at sea the last time 1
picked up a radio message sent from
the Bureau of Navigation at Washing
ton, ll. C, to my commanding officer
at Cape May relative to my discharge
from service and caught his answer.
So 1 judged that someone has been
making inquiry from the Bureau. 1
like my work better every day, and if
it was not for my schooling, would
stay with the job for the balance of
my enlistment."
b: used in whalirj: and for far-t trave
along the nurticm coast ii: e. Trie
I young man states in his letter that
! Americans in the nertfcern capital gave
the men aboard the eiit-hasers a royal
' welcome.
Mr. Lofts enclosed in his letter to j
his parents a i -lipwr.g from a Norwe
; k:ian paper. They have bten inter
ested in having local men who can
read the language translate the cl:p
j I'irg-
Although they have been home less
I than two davs, tne most of the H'k1
I River members of the tMh Regiment,
j recently returned from Fiance to
i Camp Lew is, w here they were mus-
tered out, are back in civilian clothes
i eegaged in their old tasks, ch'ttly on h
i ardmg. The following are the local
men of the 6i'th Regiment back home:
I VV. . ( handler, Floyd I.. French, Leon
i P.entley, Harold Sexton, Hayes Bick
j ford, Robert Barr, Therkild Hansen.
I Ray Wickham, Eugene Lattisaw and
i Hugh W. Copple.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mays are en
titled to a service flag with five stars.
Mrs. Mays has two brothers in over
seas service. Cpl. John ft. Lauter
bach is in France as chief gunner of
the Fifth Balloon Co. He enlisted at
Vancouver January 4, 1918. He train
ed at Kelly Field, Texas. He was in
service at the front from September 1
until the signing of the armistice. Ben
' C. Lauterbach was inducted into the
20th Engineers at Vancouver early in
February. He sailed for France with
his regiment after special training at
American University, Washington, I).
C.
Chancy Y. R. Mays, at the Hge of 17
j enlisted in December, 1!H7. Atfer
: training at Fort Worden, his regiment,
I the 4!Uh Artillerv, arrived in France
in the early fall of 11)18. Clyde B.
Mays was called into serivce in July.
101S. He was assigned to the tilllth
Infantry and sailed for France in
i time to arrive just before the signing
of the armistice. His regiment, while
assigned to the army of occupation,
; according to recent letters may he sent
to Siberia.
Homer E. Maya was called into ser
vice at Fort McDowell, Calif. His
regiment, the 63rd Infantry, after a
short training was sent to Camp
Meade, Md., where it was awaiting
embarkation when the armistice was
i signed. His company, Co. M, is now
; stationed on poilre duty in New York
i city.
No local war exhibit has created as
great interest as that made Saturday
by Sgt. Joe M. Johnsen, who was first
sergeant of a company in the First
Gas Regiment. Sgt. Johnsen, muster-
! ed out a week ago, has placed the in
jteresting war trophies he brought
j home in a show window of the shoe
i store of his father, J. C. Johnsen.
Sgt. Jolmsen's relics consist of a
hun sniper's ritle, a flare pistol used by
! the Germans to light up No Man's
Land when scouting parties were out,
an assortment of shoulder straps,
identification tags, belts, shells and
I gas masks. The flare pistol is a pecu
! liar instrument, about a foot long,
I made of brass. It uses a cartridge
about the size of one fitting a 10 guage
I shot gun. Sgt. Johnsen also brought
j home a neat little automatic pistol, re
captured from a German who had
taken it from a Belgian prisoner.
Paul F. Pferdner, who is with a re
muont contingent on the Rhine, in a
recent letter to his sister Mrs. B. E.
Wright, sent the following poem en
titled, "Silver Threads Among the
Black."
Darling I am going back,
Silver threads among the black ;
Now that peace in Europe wears,
I'll be home in seven years.
I'll drop in on you some night
With my whiskers long and white.
Yes, the war is over dear,
And we're going home next year.
Home again with you once more
Say by nineteen and twenty-four.
Once I thought by now I'd be
Sailing back across the sea.
Hack to where you sit and pine;
But I'm stuck here on the Rhine.
You can hear the gang all curse,
War is h- , but peace is worse.
j When the next war rolls around
i In the front ranks I'll be found.
! I'll rush madly in pell mell,
j Yes 1 will, like h , like h .
I Bugler Rolle S. Waddell, Co. F
! 361st Infantry, of the Dlst Division, in
j a letter to his uncle, Walter Waddell,
declares that the task of waiting for
j embarkation home is a dreary one. A
day, he says, seems as long as a week.
"But we should be thankful," he
says, "that we were not killed or crip
pled in the Argnnne forest, where so
many of our comrades lie, never to re
turn. It was certainly a hell, and it
seems impossible that anyone could
escape without a scratch. This busi
ness of kicking about something is
more of a habit with us soldiers than
anything else. I suppose when we get
back in the States we will growl be
cause they do not give us our dis
charges as soon as we get off the
ships. "
Local friends have just received let
ters from Robert Orr, former high
school boy, who is now in the service
of the United Shipping Board aboard
the S.S. Benvola, which recently sailed
from Portland to the Panama Canal
zone w ith a cargo of lumber. Young
Orr has perhaps had the most interest
ing experiences of any man aboard the
Benvola. At the age of 19 he began
serving his country as oiler in the first
battalion of the Oregon naval militia.
Later young Orr was assigned to the
U. S. S. South Dakota, and aboard her
made eight trips to France in the con-
j voy service. He applied for his papers
as secona assistant engineer wnne
aboard the South Dakota. He is one
of the youngest men in the navy to
have received so high a rating.
1 Fitting army mules with their leath
er packsaddles is a task that requires
patience on the part of the animals as
well as the men in charge of them, ac
cording to W. B. Davidson, just re
turned to his home at Mount Hood
after a service with a pack train at
Fort Bliss, Tex.
"The saddles," says Mr. Davidson,
"are made of leather. The new sad
dles, fitted with willow or hazel wands
freshly cut, to give them more rigidity,
are soaked and while still wet are tied
to the mules. The animals have to
wear their saddles in this wet state for
three days. Each saddle is numbered
to correspond with that of its mule.
The mules bear their numbers on their
feet."
Arthur C. Lofts, who served aboard
a subschaser and w ho lias at- least one
hun U-boat to his Credit, writes his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Lofts,
that he is now in Chri tiana, Norway,
where a number of the trim chasers
were taken to be exhibited to prospec
tive purchasers. The Bmall boats may
While his unit has not been assigned
as a part of the army of occupation,
Mrs. Carroll M. Hurlburt says that
letters from her husband, ("apt. Hurl
hurt, member of the 23rd Engineers,
indicate that he will remain in France
for several months. Capt. Hurlburt
has been engaged in road work in
Fiance. He is now in charge of main
tenance of the main road between Ver
dun and Luxemburg.
Mrs. F. G. Hutchinson, of Barrett,
has just received a cablegram from her
brother, Bishop R. L. Paddock, an
tiouncong that he w ill remain in France
indefinitely. Bishop Paddock, who has
been in Y. M. C. A. work in Italy and
France for the past eight months, en
deavored to secure permission to return
home following the armistice. Author
ities, however, according to his mes
sage, have requested him to remain
while the armies are in process of de
mobilization. "Am glad to set my foot again on
the dear old U. S. A.," was the mes
sage Mr. and Mrs. G. II. Robbins re
ceived Monday from their son. Wade
Robbing, just arrived in New Y'ork
city from overseas service. The young
member of the 6;"th Regiment was
seized with influenza while the regi
ment was awaiting embarkation at
Brest. He remained at the camp for
two months and live days. In this
time, according to his recent letters
conditions at the port of embarkation
made a great improvement.
Cant.. Fdw. W. Vnn Mum u.lio ivnn
his advancement while in action at the
front a few days before the armistice
was signed, has returned to his peace
time avocation of orcharding. Follow
ing his discharge at Camp Lewis Capt.
Van Horn was joined by his wife and
daughter, who, during his absence in
France, have been visiting Mrs. Van
Horn's parents in Sitka, Alaska.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Slutz last week
received a message from their son,
Samuel J. Slutz, announcing his arrival
from France aboard the Mt. Vernon
at New York city. Mr. Slutz, mem
ber of the (i,")th Artillery, became ill at
Brest and was forced to remain behind
in a hospital. Delbert Slutz. another
son, who was with the 65th Artillery,
returned home several weeks ago ami
has been mustered out of service.
J. M. Ledford has just received a
letter from his son, John Ledford, who
has been in France with a naval Hying
unit, announcing his return to Ameri
ca. The young man, who had been 111
France over a year, expects to be mus
tered out soon at Charleston, S. C.
Another son, Bert Ledford, is still in
France with an aero squadron. He
expects to be sent home soon.
George Ogden, who recently returned
from overseas, has arrived home from
Camp Lewis, where he was mustered
out.
Notice to Creditors
In the County court of the State of
Oregon, for Hood River County.
In the matter of the estate of Virgil
Buchanan, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been appointed executrix
of the estate of Virgil Buchanan, de
ceased by the County Court of the
State of Oregon, for Hood River Coun
ty, and has duly qualified as such. All
persons having claims against said es
tate are hereby notified to present the
same to nie, care of T. Hartt Gardner,
410 Board of Trade Building, Portland,
Oregon, with vouchers and duly veri
fied within six months from the date
of the first puhlicatirn hereof.
Dated and first published this March
2(1, ID ID.
Last publication, April 17, 1910.
Ella M. Buchanan,
FOxecutrix of the Estate of Virgil
Buchanan, Deceased.
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