Honor Roll Mixup Errors In Action Reports
Private Wesley T. Wells of Portland Oregon was erroneously reported as wounded in action. Private Roy Brown of Portland Oregon is also listed with an unclear status in the honor roll notice.
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1919
Page
5
Private Wesley T. Wells of Portland Oregon was erroneously reported as wounded in action. Private Roy Brown of Portland Oregon is also listed with an unclear status in the honor roll notice.
Washington February 3 enforcs rules allow holders of all reserves to lease Ianda from the government for an one eighth royalty. No new wells may be drilled in naval oil reserves under the rule.
A sanitary science note urges starting each day with a glass of hot water to purify the digestive tract and body. It claims the tonic cleanses internal toxins, stimulates digestion, and improves complexion, linking frequent constipation and illness to failed internal sanitation.
The Alto theater showcases Klinor 1 today featuring Pris cilla Dean and Herbert Rawlinson. A wounded veteran seeks work in New York after discharge as Ruth Orton influences him away from crime amid a bill of five popular acts including The House of Hate and The Hooded Terror.
London reports British and Allied investigators describe booby traps used by Germans as they retreated from France. An officer recalls discovering a two‑part iron plate detonator and spring detonators in a captured factory near Bray. A petrol can hid eight pounds of deadly powder and a spring detonator, which would have exploded if lifted, killing soldiers in a dugout. The colonel narrowly avoided catastrophe after a hunch led to opening the can with a can opener.
In London on February 4 seven hundred American sailors slept on 700 mattresses laid across the stone floor of the law courts hall. The Red Cross arranged the temporary barracks as the fleet waited orders to meet President Wilson. Each morning the sailors packed up and left the hall to return to ship duties.
Brisbane dispatch reports natives repairing the steamer Tambo’s broken rudder post in rough water infested with sharks. Sailors fought off sharks with revolvers, remaining in the water for hours. Two sharks, 16 and 12 feet long, were killed and two wounded.
A royal marriage links Japan and Korea as the daughter of the late emperor of Japan weds a prince from the former Korean royal line. The ceremony includes reporting the marriage to imperial ancestors and is seen as a gesture amid tense history between the nations.
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