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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-01
THIRTEEN BIG ONES
WILL Be IN THE CANE
Camps Custer and Grant TO
Play---CalifOrnia Lays
Blame On Coach

Chicago, Dec. 1.-Thirteen former all
American players will be in action this
afternoon when the Camp Custer and
Camp Grant elevens meet at Stage
field
The Battle Creek squad has been un.
der the teutlage of Coach Yost of Mich
igan for several days, while Coach
Stagg Of Chicago has been directing the
play Of the Rockford team.
Neither team has had sufficient work
to give a line on its ability. The Him
ois men will outweigh their opponents
nearly 20 pounds to the man, but the
Michigan bunch is expected to be much
faster.
Fully $4,000 national army men will
come in from Camp Grant on special
trains and parade the loop before 60
ing to the field. Two thousand soldiers
are expected from Camp Custer.
Omaha, Neb, Dee. Ia record
breaking crowd with receipts well over
$4,000 is expected this afternoon when
the Camp Funston and Camp Dodge
football squads mix on Creighton Field.
Forty-five boxes recently were auction
ed to Omaha business men for $4,000.
Governor Neville of Nebraska and
his staff will attend. Walter Rekersall
will referee and George Graham, for
mer Michigan star, will umpire.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-01
NEwSY NOTES FOR THE
CLAY TARGET BREAKERS
By Peter P. Carney
Editor National Sports Syndicate.

IVaEV1VIE'sE
Governor Thomas Il. Campbell was
a participant in the recent Arizona state
tournament.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-01

More than 100 automobile, golf and
country clubs have installed complete
trapshooting equipment during the past
year.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-01

The Philadelphia Trapshooters' Leag
ne has done away with the Lewis Glass
System and installed class system of
its own, the classes being made up by
the secretary.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-01

strueted to arrange a second meeting in
the near future Chairman. Mrs. Heck
art, Secretary, Mrs. O. II. Taylor, Treas
urer Mrs. w. c. Chandler.
f. R. BROWN,
County Agent.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-01

Hundreds of women are taking to
trapshooting. There are us many WON.
en- trapshooters now as there are won.
en- golfers,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-01

Two state championships have been
decided recently. II. Z. De Mund won
the title in Arizona and Il. A. Hall in
Virginia.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-01

In recent shoot at Venice, Cal, a
squad composed of Pfirman, Mellus,
Bnngay Dodds and whiteomb, broke
All targets ont Of 500, each man shoot
ing from 20 yards. This is more than
likely a record for 90 yard squad shoot
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-01

There were big men, fat men, lean
men, short mon, ,tall men, rich men, poor
men, millionaires, laboring men, and all
other kinds of men not mentioned in the
Grand American Handicap all meeting
on common ground. In no other sport
is the spirit of democracy shown as ip
trapshooting,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-01

Time and targets wait for no one.
Evening star., 1917-10-21
JOINT EXHIBIT PLANNED
FOR NATIONAL FOOD SHOW
Department of Agriculture and Food
Commission to Have Display
at Coming Exposition.

The national food show and indus
trial exposition to be given in Conven-
tion Hall November > to Il. inclusive
will have a joint exhibit by the De-
partment of Agriculture and the food
commission added to the varied ex-
hibits of edibles.
These two institutions are now work
ing on plans for the part they will play
in the annual event given by the
Washington Retail Grocers Associa-
ton.
Some new ideas in regard to food
shows We're CLEANED by Perry p. Pat
rick. secretary and general manager
of the local exhibit. and John Bray
shaw. president of the Washington Re
tail Grocers' Association, from visit
they paid early in the past week Il
the Bronx show in New York. Some OF
them Will be used here.
Work has already been begun on the
booths which will house the varied eX'
hibits. SO as to have everything il
readiness for the opening night. No
Evening star., 1917-10-21
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Buys Over 5000 Horses Daily.

The Army remount service is daily
buying from three to five thousand ami
mails for the Army. 1t is operating
through fifty boards created for this
purpose, and they are sending the ami
mails to the divisional auxiliary depots
in the several camps and cantonments
as fast as the railroads can carry them
In each division there is school for
200 men. where they receive instruction
in military horseshoeing, in team han
ding and in packing. A wagon class
is instructed in the care of horse drawn
vehicles and in managing a four-mule
team.
An administrative staff has been ap-
pointed for the remount service: it will
consist of one colonel. two lieutenant
colonels and three majors: those al
ready designated are Lieut.. Col. John
S. Fair, Lieut.. Col r. H. Williams, jr..
and Majs. W. w. West and Hayden
Claiming. From his extensive expert
ence in this field it is probable that
Lieut.. Col. Fair will ultimately be
placed in charge of the service. which
embraces the purchase and supply of
all the animals for the Armys use in
this. country and abroad.
Evening star., 1917-10-21

Commissioning Of Civilians.

The instruction of the chief of staff
that the commissioning of civilians in
the several reserve organizations
should be discontinued, unless there is
a vacancy which the applicant is needed
to fill. may have given a wrong impress
sion that no more officers would be
taken in the near future into these
bodies. Such was not the object of the
instruction, 1t was given to afford an
opportunity to take stock and ascer-
tain where the department stood and
what officers were needed: also to pre-
vent many civilians, upon the receipt of
their commissions, from getting the
erroneous impression that they must,
in expectation of being at once or
dered into the service. close up their
business, and then chafe at waiting
without pay.
1t is certain that for some of the
Enthusiastically the aviation service
nowhere near the limit Of the demand
for officers has been reached. but the
instruction will not stop consideration
Evening star., 1917-10-21
Women Rush to Enlist.

Women of all ranks rushed to enlist
in the Botchkareva Battalion There
We're many peasant women, factory
workers. servants and also a number of
women of education and social prom
inence. Six Red Cross nurses We're
among the number. one doctor. a law
Yer. several clerks and stenographers
and few like Marie Skridlova. who
had never done any except war work.
If the workingwomen predominated !
believe ii was because they We're the
stronger physically. Rotchkareva would
accept only the sturdiest. and all her
soldiers. even when they We're slight
of figure, were all fine physical speci-
mems.
The women were outfitted and equip
ped exactly like the man soldiers. They
wore the same kind of Khaki trousers.
looSe-belted blouse and high peaked
cap. They wore the same high boots.
carried the same arms and the same
camp equipment, including gas masks.
trench spades and other paraphernalia
In spite of their tightly shaved heads
they presented very attractive ap-
pearance. like nice. clean. outstanding
boys. They were very strictly drilled
and disciplined and there was no omis-
sion of saluting officers in that regi-
ment
The battalion left Petrograd for an
unknown destination July in our CAL
endar- In the afternoon the women
marched to the kazan Cathedral. where
a touching ceremony of farewell and
pressing took place. cold. fine rain
was falling, but the great half circle
before the cathedral as well as the
long curved porches, was filled with
people Thousands of women We're
there carrying flowers and nurses
moved through the crowds collecting
money for the regiment
Even though the woman soldiers
were under the protection of the church
during the ceremony. the situation was
rather tense. The Bolsheviki. we'll
showing the moral effect of women
offering themselves for death in battle,
had sworn that they should not he al
lowed to reach the trenches Well
Kill you first" declared these chiv-
Rlrous gentry.
Evening star., 1917-10-21
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Admiral Griffin s Detail.

The detail of Rear Admiral Griffin as
chief of the bureau of steam engineer
ing expires in December. and naval Of
fcers are wondering whether an ex-
ception will be made in his favor of
Secretary Daniels practice not to ap-
point any of the bureau chiefs for more
than one term. 1t is well known that
Admiral Griffin feels that he is en-
titled to be relieved from the heavy
strain that for the past two years he
has been under. but it is also felt that
he is entitled to the reappointment for
in Office.
Evening star., 1917-10-21
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$500 Men Pass Tests.

The official returns from the July ex-
aminations for appointment as provi-
sional second lieutenants in the Regu-
lar Army show that of the 1000 appli-
cants more than 1920 met the tests
successfully. Applications came from
every one Of the six classes provided
under the act-graduates of West
Point, men from the ranks of the Reg
ular Army. graduates Of distinguished
colleges, men from the National Guard
and men from civil life. Future addi-
tions will come from the ranks on rec
ommendation OF the regular command
ing officers, although some may be ap-
pointed from the third officers training
camp.
Evening star., 1917-10-21
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Berthier Gun Accepted.

The Berthier may be accepted as one
of the automatic guns for the Army, for
it has had a trial before joint board
of the Army, the Navy and the Marine
Corps. The Berthier is a light machine
gun that may be carried by single
man when the line goes over the top
while one or more carry the ammuni-
tion that it will squirt out at the
enemy.
The board consists of Lieut. Col. Rob-
ert III. Willis. jr.. S. c., L. S. A, and
Maj. Robert c. McDougall. Z. s. NJ. C
Capt. Thomas w. Brown. G. s., L. S. A :
Capt. Walter L. Clark, C. A. c.: Capt
Herbert OLeary. ordnance department.,
and Ensign H. F. Claussen L. s n r f
Evening star., 1917-10-21
Nelus of Army and NavU
New Trucks Reach City;
DesK0yers, Are Rushed

ties of some well intentioned persons who
wanted appropriations to build thousands
of airplanes had been needed there
would have been, chaice collection OF
junk for disposal about this time.
About the same methods that the
watch companies use have been invoked
to make by perfect machinery and
tools liberty motors until they soon
will be produced SO rapidly that every
airman can have motors by the dozens
if the department thinks it wise to
provide them.
There are other munitions that are
being produced and assembled on a
scale that no one ever dreamed pos
sible. and the same wonderful principle
of cooperation and fabrication is
under them ALL
Evening star., 1917-10-21
Chattanooga Makes Coal Appeal.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. October 70
The Chamber of Commerce has ap-
pealed to Fuel Administrator Garfield
for relief from the coal shortage. The
falling temperature caught the peo-
pie generally without coal. and the
few carloads arriving are being meted
out in small quantities.
Evening star., 1917-10-21

of applica tions. nor will it cause any
substantial delay in the beginning Of
the prospective officers service.
Sg ss So IS
American Land in Europe.
The American flag soon will wave
over American land in Europe, Is this
country has acquired a leasehold upon
an extensive territory adjacent to a
certain seaport in France given to the
exclusive use of the United States.
The War Department has given a
contract to a Boston firm of contra ctors
to construct in this American" land an
ordnance depot and arsenal, to cost. it
Is estimated. somewhere about $780,
100000. Already engineer regiments.
mostly made up from the organization
of the Pennsylvania railroad and head
ed by experts from the construction
force of that line, are in charge of the
thousand or more miles of standard
railway that must be built.
All the man power for the construc-
ton of the ordnance plant. all the raw
material, all the machinery and tools
will be sent from the United States. In
deed. the French may have an oppor-
tunity to study American methods Of
doing big things on a temporary bit of
America in France.
Evening star., 1917-10-21
Suspension Of GUARANTEES Approved

MEXICO CITY. Friday, October 10
ihe Dill providing for a suspension of
constitutional guarantees was approved
today by the chamber of deputies. The
suspension affects only bandits and
rebels in arms against the govern
ment.
Evening star., 1917-10-21
iWOMAN SOLDIERS OF RUSSIA
MAY RESCUE THE REPUBLIC
With Aid of Cossacks Female Warriors to
Form Bulwark In Emergency Story
of Famous Battalion of Death.
BY RHETA cHILDE DORR.


The soldiers of Russia the amazing development of
the revolution itself confidently believe. will
with the Cosacks needed lead be
led dsorganized
the firing line
1t with the object the hope leading back that the
this is the truth.
Evening star., 1917-10-21
Reconstruction Expected.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS. October 2O-Reconstruction
of the French ministry. in the opinion
OF the Paris press, is now inevitable,
Yesterdays vote of confidence of 369
10 70 adopted by the chamber of depu-
ties notwithstanding. The exact sig
nificance of. that vote was set forth
succinctly by Rene Renoult. president
or the socialisttic radicals, who. in ex-
planning why he voted for the motion
of confidence, said:
I vote confidence because I consider
1t would be supremely unjust not to
recognize the great services rendered
by NJ Painleve as minister of war"
Evening star., 1917-10-21

The whole United States is security
for the liberty bonds. Invest your
money safely and at the same time
help your country.
Evening star., 1917-10-21

Claiming they have received no salts
faction on adjustment Of grievances.
two thousand anthracite miners at
Audenreid. Green Mountain and Honey
Brook. Pa. struck yesterday.
Evening star., 1917-10-21
Daughter Of an Admiral,

Marie Skridlova is the daughter of
ADMIRAL Skridlon. one of the most dis
finGuished men of the Russia navy.
She II about twenty, very attractive ii
not actually beautiful, and is an ac-
complished musician. Her life up to the
outbreak of the war was that of an
ordinary girl of the Russian aristoc-
f1cy. She was educated abroad, taught
several languages and expected to have
q career no more exciting or adven-
Sdrous than that of any other woman
o9 her class.
When the war broke out she went
INTO the Red Cross. took the nurses
Er1tning and served in hospitals both
at the front and in Petrograd Then
,eame the revolution She was working
IN marine hospital in the capital
me saw many of the horrors of those
i1ebyuary days. She saw her own father
1et upon by soldiers in the streets, and
'e4eoued from death only because some
Ok his own marines who loved him in
uasted tkat this one officer was not to
be killed
She saw her hospital ward invaded by
q mob. and wounded officers murdered
I'm their beds. Her own life, when she
fvainiy tried to defend one of her pa
%lents, was threatened. She heard men
me had nursed back to life curse her
TOO an aristocrat unfriendly to the revo-
t3ltion. which happens not to be a fact
tNe10 o4W women ana children killed in
E3A0ir homes by wild bullets from the
kGerset. She saw what was coming In
ooasia, and she went home and took OF
s&pr Red Cross uniform.
women will need to do something
4ooTe for Russia than bind up wounds y
~ told her father. And when the an
was made that a woman'a
AAAtallon was forming she went to him
Ao6 told him she was going to enlist.
Ae took her, his only daughter. to
3Uechkareva. and himself wrote her
Aqmo on the regimental rollbook.
2varY woman in the battalion has
oonle such history
O3de4h0e 40 cane- Kitueas 4 mora
Evening star., 1917-10-21
For Light In Every Corner.

Discussing scandals. NJ. Painleve said
the policy was Tight in every corner
of the house" He protested against the
exploitation of these affairs by the
press, and asked that justice be permit
ted to carry to the end the work it has
begun.
pressed into action by the newspapers
he called attention to the evidence
against Bolo Pasha. obtained in the
United States. as proof of the govern
ment's energetic procedure.
With regard to the whitewashing of
NJ. Malvy. the premier exclaim ed,
There is not single member of this
chamber who has ever evinced the faint
est belief in these abominable charges
against the ex-minister of the interior. -
The government is for victory for
France and for the republic, which for
us are inseparabIe," was NJ. Painleve' 8
concluding sentence
Evening star., 1917-10-21

vember s. when the show wifi be epsa
from 7:30 to 1880 o'clock. On all
other days the show will also be
open in the afternoon from 40 to $50.
Evening star., 1917-10-21

] know those woman soldiers very
well. i know them in three regiments
one in Moscow and two in Petrograd.
and l went with one regiment as near
to the fighting line as l was permitted
] travelled from Petrogrsd to a military
position somewhere in Poland with
the famous Botchkareva Battalion of
Death.
I left Petrograd in the troop train
with the women. I marched with them
when they left the train. l lived with
them for nine days in their barrack
around which thousands of man soldiers
were encamped. ] shared Botchkareva =
soup and casSia. and drank hot tea out
of her other tin cup. ! slept beside her
on the plank bed.
/ saw her and her women off to the
firing line, and after the battle into
which they led reluctant men | sat
beside their hospital beds and heard
their own stories of the fght- want to
say right here that country that can
produce such women cannot possibly be
crushed forever.
1t may take time for it 70 recover its
cover II surely will. And when il does
IL will know how to honor the women
who went out to fight when the men
ran home.
The Battalion of Death IS not the
name of one regiment. nor is it used eN-
clusively to designate the women's bat
talfons- 1t is a sort of order which has
spread through many regiments since
the decentralization began. and signifies
that its members are loyal and mean to
hght to the death for Russia. Sometimes
an entire regiment assumes the red and
black ribbon arrowhead which, sewed
on the right sleeve OF the blouse, marks
the order.
Evening star., 1917-10-21

sublime heroism than that Women. in
the long years which history has re-
corded, have done everything for men
that they were called upon to do. 1t
remained for Russian men. in the
twentieth century. to call upon women
TO fight and die for them. And the
women did il.
Evening star., 1917-10-21
PA|NLEVE MAKES
VEHEMENT DEFENSE
French Ministry Faces Recon-
struction Notwithstanding the
Latest Vote of Confidence.
PREMIER ANSWERS CRITICS
CableSram to The Sunday Star nnd
New York World. Copyright, 1917.

Cab!egram to The Sunday Star and
New York World. Copyright, 1917
PARIS. October @0.-in the face of
the bitterest hostility from the social
lists ever displayed toward any war
ministry. the Painleve cabinet has
made vehement defense of its policies.
The premier succeeded in winning a
slightly increased ma jority in the
chamber of deputies this afternoon.
That temporary victory was obtained
on test vote, the result of which i'm
piled confidence in the government.
The vote was 369 to 50. but the number
of deputies who abstained from casting
ballot was considerable. and the ma
iority was still too low to dissipate the
that NJ. Painleva viii be
obliged to relinquish the premiership.
NJ. Painleve spoke strongly and with
greater conviction than in his previous
parliamentary battles.
Evening star., 1917-10-21
Arouses Warm Applause.

An accusation. launched by a radical
member, that an officer holding sec
retariai post in the war committee was
suspected of enemy affiliations led the
premier to defense Of his subordinate.
which aroused the chambers warm ap-
plause-
In replying to criticism of the
cabinets general policy. Painleve pro-
voked a storm of plaudits.
The allies have victory in their
grasp" he exclaimed, .'if only they
know how to discipline themselves"
Concerning Alsace-Lorraine, he in
sisted that Germany had violated right
in seizing those provinces. and right is
the same now it was them
He denied that the French foreign Of
flee ever repulsed any possibility of a
peace to be concluded in accord with
her allies. This was explanatory of NJ.
Ribot's remark OF last Friday that
peace murmurs from Germany had
reached him. but had been seen to be a
trap and SO had not been taken seri-
ousiy.
Evening star., 1917-10-21
Earns Cross of st. George.

She fought IN campaigns on several
1sonts. earned medals and finally the
coveted cross of st. George for yalor
under IRE. She was three times wound
Cd the last time in the autumn OF 1916,
% badly that she lay in hospital for
-FOUR months. She got back to her reg
1ment. where she was now popular, and
imagine something of a leader. just
before the revolution of February. 1911
Zionist. and her regiment was one of
the first to go over to the peoples side
Aer consternation and despair were
great when, shortly after the emanci-
patton from czardom, great ma sses of
the people, and especially the soldiers
af the front. began 10 demonstrate by
riots and desertions how little they
were ready for freedom.
The men of her regiment deserted IN
30mbers. and she went to members of
xne duma who were going up and down
yhe front trying to stay the tide, and
oaid to them: Give me leave to raise
. regiment Of women. We will go
ynerever men refuse to go. We will
night when they run. The women will
1ead the men back to the trenches"
Thas ID the history of Botchkareya's S
0ettAlion OF Death, or rather of how it
came to be organized. The Russian war
ministry gave her leave TO recruit
fine woman soldiers are not school
girls. and Botchkareva's battalion has
no man officers. Three drill sergeants.
It George cross men all of them, did
Asatst in the training of the battalion
while II remained in Petrograd Other
mon drilled 1t behind the lines. but
botchkareva and another remarkabl
woman. Marie Skridlova, her adjutant,
Oommanded and led 1t in battle.
Evening star., 1917-10-21
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The Airplane Situation.

One may not speak about airplanes
in these days. or aviation matters. but
talking about what might have been,
and that is to say that if the importuni-
Evening star., 1917-10-21
Battalion of Death.

Regiments have been made up of vol
unteers who are ready to wear The in
sigma Such a regiment is the Battalion
of Death comma nded by Mareea Botch-
kareva (the spelling is phonetic). the
extraordinary peasant woman who has
risen to be a commissioned officer in
the Russian army.
Botchkareva comes from a village
near the Siberian border and is.
judge. about thirty years old She was
one of a large family Of children. and
the family was very poor. Mareea mar
rled young, fortunately a man with
whom she was very happy. He was the
village butcher and she helped him in
the shop. as they had no children.
When the war broke out in July. 1914,
Mareea's husband marched away with
the rest of the quota from their village.
and she never saw him again. He was
killed in one of the first battles of the
war. and the only time | ever saw
Botchkareva break down was when she
told me how she waited long months
for the letter he had promised to write
her. and how at last wounded COM
rade hobbled back TO the village and
told her that the letter would never
come.
The soldiers have it hard" she said.
when her brief storm of tears was over,
but not SO hard as the women a home.
The soldier has a gun to fight death
with. The women have nothing"
For months Mareea Botchkareva
~atcueQ the SuKeTlnRS OIL lNe women
and children of her village grow worse
and worse. She decided that she could
not endure il to sit in her empty hut
and wait for death. She would go out
and meet it in the easier fashion per-
mitted to men. That is the way she
explained to me why she Joined the
regiment of Siberian troops encamped
near the village. The men did not want
her. but she sought and got permission
and when the regiment went to the
front she went along.