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TUESDAY, AIT.VST 13, 1019.
. OREGON WEATHER
f Fair and wanner Wednesday -
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ARMY FOOD
The government's otter to sell the
urplus army food stock to the pub
lic by parcel post Is probably as good
a solution of two pressing problems
as could fee found. It ought to re-
' suit in disposing of that troublesome
surplus with little more delay, and
it ought to have an immediate effect
in relieving the food situation and
lowering retail prices of the com
monest oommoditlea.
Attempts made to dispose ot the
accumulated stocks 'by car-load sales
to municipalities and big dealers do
not seem to have succeeded. Pri
vate concerns, for some reason'' or
other, hare seemed wary of such
goods, and cities and towns have
lacked proper facilities for handling
them. 'By Belling direct to consum
ers, the market Is vastly broadened.
The list of goods for sale, which
shows considerable variety and cov
ers some 350,000,000 pounds of food
la to be distributed by 54.000 post
offices. The orders are to be given
and the money paid through , post
masters and carriers, thus insuring
the widest extension of the oppor
tunity. There will be no profit ex
cept that which falls to the purchaser.
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SUSPECTS SHOVLD BE HELD
A movement has been started to
procure a general amnesty (for . all
persons arrested and imprisoned for
violation of the espionage law in
force during the war.
There is little reason to believe
that the authorities having the fate
of these people in charge will take
any such sweeping action as setting
them free without further investiga
tion, nor should this be done.
Every person now imprisoned un
der the espionage act was taken into
custody because his actions indicat
ed that he was opposed to the laws
of this country and the decisions of
this government. He was as dis
tinctly an enemy to the peace and
safety of the United States as if he
had joined the enemy's military
forces. '
There is no half-way business
about loyalty. The man whose loy
alty can be questioned is disloyal.
E
GIRL HIS IN HILLS
( Roseburg News)
Dama Messenger, aged 24, feeble
minded ward of Mr. and Mrs. C.
G. Voorhies, of Sumner, disappear
ed late Saturday evening from the
camp established by the party at the
summit of the Coast Range, five
miles from the 19 mile house on
the Coos Bay Wagon road. Sheriff
Quine and Juvenile Officer Agnes
Pitchford directed searching parties
today and the entire vicinity is be
ing covered In an effort to locate
the young girl, who is said to be an
adept at hiding.
Unable to make headway the
search was abandoned until morn
ing, when footprints were found
leading past the Wilson place. Com
ing on into Roseburg, the matter
was turned over to the officials who
immediately wired in all directions
to prevent her escape. Deputy Sher
iff Raffety got into communication
with County Judge Gillette ot Jose
phine county and confirmed the
story in regard to the girl's Identity
&Hd from Coqullie learned that adop
tion papers had been taken out by
Mr. Voorhies. The road was well
travelled and a cattle buyer was
camped near the tourists on the
night of the occurrence. The girl
left the camp clothed only in a
white middy blouse, black and white
checked skirt and old ragged shoes.
She wore no hat nor coat. She is
24 years of age, pretty, has dark
hair and eyes, is about 5 feet 5
inches in height and weight 125
pounds. It is believed that she wentj
in the direction of Ten Mile and:
the searchers are working on that
theory.
Mr. and Mrs. Voorhies went to
Sumner about a year ago from Jo
sephine county where they were con
nected with the Findley vocational
school, and shortly before their de
parture were hired by the girl's fath
er, Clarence Messenger of Dryden to
take care of her. It Is claimed that
after paying the stipulated sum for
one month he refused to pay subse
quent expenses and would not take
his daughter back.
SAILORS USE WINE 10
Hans Stove has been home from
the war since spring. Just the other
day his parents received word that
he bad "died In service." The war
department better look out. Such
carelessness is likely to make the
Stoves red-hot, .
The president refuses to give the
enate any inside iniformtion on the
Shantung settlement, because of
"confidential references to other
governments." ' Further proof ' of
"open covenants openly arrived at."
' Carnegie gave away $300,000,000
He did his toeat to better his chances
of passing through the eye of the
iieedle. , , .
Oakland, Cal., Aug. 11. The
United States may be "dry," but
Oakland fhi launching will be
"wet" for some years to come. To
this end the shipyard owners of this
city have laid In a supply of Cali
fornia' champagn to 'be used at christ
enings. This step was taken In def
erence to sea superstition.
"We had to do It," said 'George A.
Armes, president of the Moore Ship
building company. "Sailors will not
go to sea on a ship that has not a
bottle of wine broken over its prow
at Its launching. It is a' 'hoodoo
ship.' It would be difficult for us
to sell our ships if they were not
christened according to custom."
COMING EVENTS
Aug. 1 1-29 Josephine county
teachers' training school.
Aug. 23, Saturday Civil service ex
amination for postoft.ce clerk-car
rier postponed from July 12.
Aus?. 23, Saturday Josephine Conn
ty Orange meeting with the Mer
lin tJrange. A good dinner with
an Interesting program Is In store
for those who attend.
Sept. R, Monday Board of equali
zation meets.
SONS PLAN SURPRISE
FOR MRS. LIZZIE RUTH
la all the 53 years of .Mrs. Lizzie
Ruth's life she never hud a more
complete or pleasing surprise than
was given her Monday evening by
her sons, Orrin and Luther Ruth, in
honor of her birthday. Each guest
had been personally invited ami .Mrs.
Ruth had been told by her boys to
be ready for an automobile, ride at
S o'clock. Mrs. Ruth was all "doll
ed up" for the ride when not only
one but several automobiles with
guests arrived with cordial birthday
greet iusss.
Seats were arranged in the yard
where the cool moonlit evening gave
an added pleasure to the music and
visiting: A large freezer of Ice cream,
a basket of cakes and a box of
peaches furnished most delicious re
freshments. It was nearly midnight
when the surprise party guests were
taken to their homes In the waiting
cars.
Those present were: Mrs. Dora
Boesch, Miss Josephine Boesch, Mrs.
Helen Carlson, Mrs. Dora Cleveland,
Mrs. X. F. Clements, Mrs. Marie
Keinlen, Mrs. Nina Iathrop, Mr. and
Mrs. Will Lewman, Mrs. Alice Mal
lory, Mrs. Anna McCulley, Mrs. Mar
tha Metzen, Mrs. N'ejlle XI p per, 'Miss
Essie N'ipper, Mrs. Lizzie Ruth, Mrs.
Luella Ruth, Mrs. Tracy Smith, Mrs.
Florence Smith," Mrs. (Lucy Smith, i
Mrs. Emma Sharp, Mrs. Caroline
Tetherow, Mrs. Martha Wiggs. 'Mrs.
Ruth Hammond, Mrs. 'Lillian Reyn
olds, Luther Ruth and Henry Cole.
SOLDIER LETTERS
Headquarters 2nd Division,
(American W. A. V. O. 710,
Germuny, July IS, 1919.
IVar Father:
You will see by the ahove head
ing that our army bus reached the
land fur which we etarted from the
1. S. A. iWe are encamptHt on the
banks of the 'Rhine river and I have
exoullenl rooms in a house whiob is
right in town. The country up
throimh .Belgium is much diunuged
and somo ot the towns and villages
are so shot to pieces as to look much
like a pile of stones loft after a
wrecking crew have "been working
tor ix week tearing down a row of
houses. Trees about the battle line
ot France look much like telegraph
poles with some branches sticking
on. Houses are Iblown to pieces and
in some places no persons at all are
llviug there. Belgium is trying to
recover us much us she can, she Is
filling up the shell holes, which are
over the surface of the ground, and
where it is poSHlble to patch up some
of the holes In the houses, theso are
be-In repaired. The pictures as they
are shown In the newspapers are
true to conditions and giv you a
very good Idea of 'what things look
like. The cities In Bolgium which
have not been destroyed are very
nice Indeed and I was much pleased
with Belgium.
Weather In France is always cool,
the nights all being good for shap
ing under covers, and the mornings
and evenings are also cool. The mid
dle of the day may 'be a llttlo cool,
but not so hot as we are used to
having in Philadelphia.
I hope you have a good hunt this
season and I look forward to bnving
one If possible.
r,T. COU BliLIS K. W. GIVEN. M. C.
American K. F.. Oerniuny,
A. V. O. 710
IN THE COBLENZ AREA
NATION WILL RAISE
Portland, Aug. 11. William
Boyce Thompson of New York City,
president of the Roosevelt Memorial
association, has appointed Dr. Henry
Waldo Coe, of Portland as chairman
of the Oregon state committee to co
operate with the national committee
in a nation-wide campaign, October
20 to 27 for a $10,000,000 memorial
fund.
The purpose of the campaign is
to raise funds for the erection of a
suitable monument for the perpetu
ation of the memory of Theodore
Roosevelt, the great American.
The fund Is to be expended in
erecting a monumental memorial In
Wasblngton, J). C, the oiie cfty
which belongs to all Americans and
which was so long the scene of
.Roosevelt's great labors for public
welfare. Also, for the purchase and
maintenance of a park at Oyster Bay,
including at some future date the
Roosevelt home at Sagamore Hill
and the formation of an association
for the development and application
of Roosevelt Ideals.
The memorials are to be the gifts
or me nation, me triDute which so
many thousands of men, women and
children have so ardently desired as
a means of expressing their recog
nition and appreciation of the Ideals
and noble teachings for which Theo
dore "Roosevelt lived.
With the American Forces in Ger
many, Aug. U. -Old material used
by the Third army on the Rhine Is
bolng disposed of In a! hurry. Ger
man civilians alone recently have
been 'buying from 25 to 40 carloads
of salvaged material eati day. Ger
mans assemble in Coblenz, or the
other towns where the auction sales
are held, by the hundreds, some com
ing from Cologne, from Mayence, and
others as far as Frnnkfort-on-Maln,
Cassel and other parts of unoccu
pied Germany.
(At a recent sale in Coblenz with
a' German-sieaking doughboy as auc
tioneer 125.000 leather Jerkins were
sold to the Germans for 2,000,000
mar'ks. (The recent army exchange
on marks is 2.50 marks for one
franc). The same day 30,000 'rain
coats, many of themhavtng been
used by American soldiers during
the war, were sold for 250,000
marks.
The Germans eagerly buy anything
offered by the Americans, particular
ly any articles containing leather or
rubber. Ten thousand American
made gas masks were sold a fow duys
ago to civilians who planned to make
use of the rubber for commercial
purposes. More than one hundred
tons of harness, some of It German
made and abandoned after the ar
mistice, were disposed of at a recent
auction Bale near Coblenz.
Forty thousand pairs of American
field shoes, many of which had been
worn and torn In the march of the
doughboys from Luxembourg to the
Rhine in December, Were sold In lots
at a special sale.
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Salem, Ore., Aug. 9. When visit
ed today by a delegation of suffra
gists.' Governor Olcott explained his
position on the suffrage amendment
but stated that he would not call thp
legislature together until a' malority
of the members of both houses re
quested a special session.
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Our oils and gra. are the best money can buy, and
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