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Pull for a bigger, better
and more prosperous
Roseburg and Douglas
County.
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ronlght and Saturday, Probably
Bain.
HigheBt temp, yesterday. 67
Lowest temp:, last njght 44
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.VOL. X
ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, JO 10
NO. 33
MAYOR HANSON ISSUES AN UIMMATUM TO SEATTLE BOLSHEVISTS
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MEWS
8 A. M SATURDAY
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People of City Assured of
Ample Protection From
Mob Violence. ."
NO NONSENSE ALLOWED
Regulars On Hand to Prod Agitators
With Bayonets Car Linos WU1
. Mo Placed In Operation
Light Breaking Tacoma,
(By Associated Press.)
.
ULTIMATUM TO STRIKERS.
SEATTLE, Feb. 7 That May-
or Hansen is ready to deal out
Iron-handed justice to the strlk-
ers, Is evidence in the ultimat-
um served this afternoon on the
unionist strike committee that
If they did not call of the sym-
pathetic strike by 8 o'clock to-
morrow morning, he will take
steps to operate all esential in-
dustries and 'place the city un-
der control of the fcdoral gov-
ernment.
SEATTLE, Feb. 7. Accompanied
by an adequate force of heavily arm
ed detectives a municipal street car
made a trip to Ballard and return to
day. The car was placed in com
mission by order of Mayor Hansen,
who is determined to leave no effort
untried to whip the Bolshevist ele
ment in charge of the strike and com
pel return to peaceful pursuits. The
car service will be resumed Just as
soon as men can be found to operate
them, and competent motormen are
being sought out to handle the sys
tem. Anticipating that violence may
be resorted to' .by. the. strikers, when
they see workers returning to their
employment and throwing off the
yoke of agitators controlling the
strike situation, Mayor Hansen Issued
a proclamation early today guaran
teeing absolute protection to' the citi
zens of Seattle in their ordinary busi
ness pursuits, and urging the people
to resume enterprises. Indicating
that the guarantee was good and that
the city can adequately take care of
and protect its people from violence
of strikers. Mayor Hansen said: "We
have fifteen hundred police besides
fifteen hundred regulars from Camp
Lewis, and if necessary Will secure
the services of every soldier In the
Pacific Northwest to protect the lives,
business and property of Seattle peo
ple from destruction. The time has
come to. show a spirit of true Ameri
canism, and anarchists In this com
munity shall not be permitted to rule
the affairs of Seattle.'
' . TACOMA IS TIED UP.
TACQMA, Feb. 7. While Tacoma
street cars are idle at present it is
expected the company will be able to
resume operations shortly. A confer
ence between the president of the
street railway men's union and' man
ager of the Tacoma Railway Power
Company was held, and it is now de
clared that the cars will be run just
as soon as a guarantee of ample pro
tection from violence can be given.
It Is reported that "Paddy" Morris
and a half dozen others of alien birth
and sympathies, who have been act
ive promoters of the general strike,
hastily left the city in automobiles
when regular troops arrived from
Camp Lewis last night.
ARMY OFFICER IN CHARGE.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7. Major
General John Morrison, commanding
the western department of the army,
has left here to take charge of the
strike' situation at Seattle and Ta
coma.
BUSINESS RESUMING.
TACOMA, Feb. 7 Some of the un
ions withdrew from the strike today
and the members have returned to
their employment. Street car . ser
vice will probably be resumed tonight
and business in most lines Is being
carried on as usual.
STRIKE IN BUTTE.
BUTTE, Feb. 7. The whole day
shift of the Orlu Mine, a Clak prop
erty, walked out today due to the
announcement of the company yes
terday that a reduction of one dollar
a day in wages takes effect Imme
diately. An I. W. W. mass meeting
Is being held In Butte this afternoon
discussing the wage situation.
STRIKE IS THREATENED.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7. Labor
disturbances in three bay cities today
threaten to stop work on all govern
ment and private shipbuilding con
- tracts.
THREATENS A BREAK.
PARIS, Feb. 7. The allied pre
mies met today to fix new terms to
be Imposed upon Germany, whose tac
tics of obstruction and reclamation
ere reported to have reached a ci 1-
MACHINE GUNS PEER ROSEBURG BOYS
AT UN10NSTRIKERS ; ON WAY HOME
Wicked Looking Weapons Are
Sullenly Viewed by the
Throng of Idlers.
DEATH TO VIOLATORS
Mayor Hanson Orders Overseas Veter-
ana in Charge of the Batteries to
Shoot to Kill Upon the Slight
est Disorder Appearing.
SEATTLE, Fob. 7. Throughout
the first night of the great sympathe
tic labor strike there were no overt:
acts of violence committed, and the
city is comparatively quiet, although
the mutterings bf discontent can al-'
ready be heard by those who have!
meir ear to me giuuuu. x.,uuo&.4D
of union men who depend upon the
small restaurants and cafes for their
meals are going hungry because the
cooks and waiters of these places
have walked out In response to the
strike order. These men will not eat
at non-union restaurants, although
they stand on the walks in front Of
such places and sullenly and hungrily
watch less radical citizens enjoy their
meals. Armed policemen mingling
with the orowds prevent jeering of
those who do go into such places, and
the throngs have thus far made no
hostile demonstration. How- long
this situation will continue no one has
the least idea, as both union leaders
and city officials express confidence
in the success of the strike from their
respective sides. There is positively
no signs of a break in the apposing
interests. Union leaders allege they
are looking to Piez for a move toward
compromising the situation.' There
is no attempt today to operate street
cars.
At the doors of the ipolice station
machine guns are mounted. Across
the street lounge hundreds of scowl
ing strikers just waiting. A single
streetcar plleB on the municipal line
on Fourth avenue In three or four
places it displays large signs, "U. S.
Mail." It is her.vily guarded by sol
diers with loaded rifles. More than
1000 extra police have been sworn
in at the instance of Mayor Hanson,
who has declared that the city is
ready for any emergency and that its
officers have Instructions to shoot'to
kill If rioting or destruction of pro
perty starts. (
"Shoot on "Sight", is Edict.
' "We will BupresB disorder with an
iron hand. Our captains of police are
ordered to quell any disorder, no mat
ter what the cost. If we should tall,
which I hardly anticipate, the Gov
ernment still lives and troops will be
called.
"To the I. W. W. and Bolshevists",
exclaimed Mayor Hanson. "I say that
any attempt on their part to bring
about by force an overthrow of gov
ernment will mean their immediate
death. I shall give orders to shoot
all rioters on sight."
That there 1b an element, and a
strong one, In the army of strikers
which holdB that the day of revolu
tion is at hand, and that the general
strike in this city is its first stroke In
America, is variously evidenced.
When an isue of the Post-Intelligencer
appeared, carrying a cartoon
which depicted the red flag above the
Stars and Stripes, hundreds of stri
kers congregated at the Labor Temple
lifted a cheer. This was before they
had read the forceful caption "NOT
IN A THOUSAND YEARS."
Radical Paper Otrculated.
Hints in plenty that the Seattle
strike Is expected to produce far
reaching and revolutionary results
are to be found in the official organ
of the strike army, 'The Seattle Union
Record". In an issue on the eve of
the general strike the Record declar
ed, in capitals, 'it Will Lead, No One
Knows Where," and coupled this with
the prediction that organized labor
might find it advisable to take over
all industries, "under the manage
ment of the appropriate trades.'"
Shouting that no newspaiper which
carried ''capitalistic ads" would be al
lowed to be sold, vendors of the "In
ternational Weekly", official publica
tion of Washington Socialism, sold
thousands of copies foday when the
regular afternoon editions failed to
max at Weimar, when Chancellor Eb-
ert threatened that Germany would
break off negotiations with the al
lies. FOR EXTRA SESSION.
SALEM, Feb. 7. The governor
will call a special session of the leg
islature as soon as the reconstruc
tion commlsloner prepares its pro
gram. The legislature will then re
fer the program to the electorate for
approval at a special election not
later than June. ,
69th Coast Artillery Regiment
Complete Will Land on
February 16.
TRANSPORT MERCURY
Regiment Contains Over Fifty Rose-
burg Boys Formerly Members-of
the Fourth Company Sta- .
tinned In This City. '
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(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. The
sailing from France of five
transports with 5700 men most-
ly from former National Guard
units, is announcedi by the war
department today. The trans-
port Mercury is due to dock at
Newport News, Fej. 16, with
the 69th regiment, coast artil-
lery complete, bound for Ore-
gon. There are about 300 Ore-
gon men In the regiment and
4' the rest of them are from the
4 Pacific coast and entrained 4
from Fort Stephens when they
4- were ordered overseas :
4 '
''' '!
The 69th Artillery contains a much
larger per centage of Roseburg boys
than any other oversea unit as the
non-coms of that organization are
largely made up from former mem
bers of the Fourth Company which
left this city at the outbreak of the
war. The Fourth Company was put
on guard -duty at Astoria and so only
four of its men were assigned to the
65th, the company being broken up
andj details Bent to various) other
companies to act as instructors -foi
the recruits which .were received' to
make up the 69th regiment. The
Roseburg boys with the 69th are:
John Busenbark, Delwin Jewett, Har
ley Watson, Edgar Rose'r, George
Smith, Leo Raipp, Edward Atkins,
Harry Mead, Wilbert Nelson, Mark
Simpson, Fred Worthlngton, Law
rence fKrogel, George Casky, Paul
Caskey,. James Dlllard, Charles Giir
ney, Chester Main, Avery Roser, Vic
tor Sether, Earnest Wilkins, Pirley
Wlnkleman, Edward Barton, Nllen
Belcher,. Ray Buell, Anton Burslk,
Scott Carinony, John Cornutt, Leon
ard Foster, Isaac Gilbreath, Hllery
Gilham, Frank Holtz, John Huston,
Edwin Johnson, William Keller,
Frank Lawrence, William Maddox,
Alva Matthews, Millard Meridith,
Fred Miller, Isaac Moore, Robert Mc
Ghehey, Willie Parsons, Ira Poole,
Monroe Porter, Worley Ramey, Al
bert Rother, Guy Russle, Ralph
Sands, Louis Thrush, Ellis Turpin,
Bonnie Whitsett, John Whlttlngton,
Earl Williams and George H. Wil
liams. Several other boys from Douglas
county are In the regiment and many
relatives are delighted by the news
of the sailing of the regiment.
appear on the streets. -
The Socialistic publication Is con
fident that the general strike portends
the day of revolution, and says so In
Its flaring headlines.
"Here in Seattle," it asserts, 'peace
fully and without violence may trans
pire the rc-olutlonary change in the
management of Industry from the
present exploiters to the workers."
See Bolsheviki Hand.
There is little contradiction among
Seattle business men of the belief
that Bolshevism is bared in tho pres
ent Btrike, by whatever name it may
be called, and that the radicals who
have gained control of organized la
bor actually Intend the city to be the
first wedge of the "revolution."' For
the most part they are confident that
the strike will fall. In the moantime
they are slowly growing in anger
wrath at the disruption of every
peaceful pursuit in a cause over
which they have no control. Turning
back to the original issue, the matter
of shipyard wages, they hold that the
Macy award was hot high enough in
Its minimum wage grant. Despite this
sentiment, they declare, they are be
ing chastened for a fault that cer
tainly Is not theirs.
Caught In the tangles of the most
significant strike that America ever
witnessed, the Seattle public Is all but
deprived of Informations With the
exception of the Seattle Star, none of
the local papers ventured publication
today, owing to the newsboys' Btrike
and the fact that print paper could
not be transported.
Heading its first page "Seattle,
United StatoB of America," this paper
prints a cut of the American flag,
with the caption, "Under This Flag
the Star Will Continue to Publish."
Its extra on the strike reached' the
streets In mid-afternoon.
L
Prominent Speakers Will Be
Present at Meeting For
'Laymen's Movement. '
ROSEBURG FORTUNATE
Only City Outside of Portland Sche
duled for the Convention and In
vitations' Are Now Being .
: ' '' Sent Broadcast.
The Baptist Church of this city is
making preparations for. a big con
vention to be held here on February
24th and' 25th in support of the Bap
tist Laymens movement. This great
enterprise has been Inaugurated by
the laymen of 'the denomination in
order to meet the increasing demands
00
O. A. BROOKS,
Chief Speaker at tho
Bartist Laymen's Convention.
made necessary by the resultB of
the war. Roseburg 1b fortunate in
being selected as the only city out
side of Portland where such a con
vention will be held and the lay
men' are busy in sending out invita
tions as far north as Junction City
and as far south as Ashland and as
far west as Marshfleld. It Is expect
ed that delegates will be present
from every Baptist church In south
ern Oregon. -
Among the chief Breakers at this
convention will be C. A. BrookB
whose work has been largely among
foreign speaking missions. In tho Uni
ted States. His picture which Is
published In connecetlon with this
article shows him to be a man of
humor and he stands very high- with
the'promlnent Baptists of the country.
Another speaker will be Dr. F. A.
Agar, who Is an expert In church
efficiency. He will probably address
the convention on the last evening
which will be an open meeting. Other
meetings are open to those only who
are registered with the committee.
WANTS INFORMATION.
City Recordor R. L. Whipple, yes
terday morning received a communi
cation from Joseph M. Berkley, a
consulting engineer of Los Angeles,
in which he asks for information In
regard to the city, and which will be
used In a directory of Public Utilities
of the Pacific Coast, which he Is com
piling. The recorder is asked to re
port the population of the city, the
bonding capacity, the bonded indebt
edness, total tax rate, and whetlior
or not the city has gas, water and
eleotrlclty and If so, if these plants
are privately or municipally owned.
-
KOAI PROGRAM KNDOIIHIOI).
The Roseburg Commercial
Club has endorsed the etner-
gency clause of the proposed
110,000.000 bond lBsue by the
following telegram, a copy of
-wiifch-has been sent to the sen-
4 ate and house chairman of the 4
O committee on roads and high-
ways: "Business men and tax- 4
payers of Roseburg are unanl-
mous for emergency clause for
proposed ten million dollar road
bond bill. 'Never a time in tho
4 history of our naalon for deter- 4
mined effort as the present Is
demanding. Labor must find'
employment. Oregon must op-
en the way for great develop-
ment at once and good roads U
the key to the situation. Signed,
Roseburg Commercial Club.
. '
EXCELLENT OFFER
Wants Young Man to Take Up
Homestead Land Near Rail
, road In This County.
HE NEEDS ASSISTANCE
In Addition to Clothes, Board and
Wages Will Help Right Kind of
Young Man to Start a Farm
For Himself.
The opportunity of a life time
awaits an enterprising young man
who desires to locate on a firstclass
homestead. . The U. S. employment
service has tho following offer: A
f armor In thlB county will take a
young man, glvo him his board', his
clothes, washing and a salary and will
locate him on a government home
stead, within three miles of the rail
road, i This homestead is an excellent
piece of ground and one which tho
farmer had selected for his own son,
intending to help hint dofelop it
upon his return from service, but
the boy has . decided not to return
home and as the man desires to see
the community settled Is looking for
some one to take tho land. He is
well acquainted with the land which
is open to homestead rights and will
help the young man to look over the
territory and select a good home
stead and will help him get located.
In return the young man will be re
quired to help with the farm, work
for a certain time but will receive
fair wages. Dr. Bailey, Buperfntendr
ent of the local office, says that the
offer is" a golden opportunity for a
young man who desires to work for a
few years and .come out with a good
farm. Anyone interested can obtain
further information by applying to
iho .US! employment offloo near the.
depot, oh Cass street, where he will
receive all data . without - expense.
There are no charges attached to the
services of this office as It is Under
the government department of labor
and all work is being done in a 'pa
triotic effort to see soldiers return
ed to steady employment.
Dr. Bnlloy stated that only 30 per
cent of the returning soldiers need
employment and that tlo greater
part of those will be oasily provided
for. He says that he expects no
great unemployed .problem as their
has Deen little Immigration in the
past five years, while many laborers
have returned to their native coun
tries in Europe leaving a shortage of
labor when conditions return to nor
mal.1 He expects It will take a few
months for conditions to reach the
pre-war state but when this time
comes he believes there will bo n
shortage of lagorers Instead of an
overabundance. .
LECTURE FOR WOMEN
Tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock,
Dr. Janet Reld will lecture at the
High school auditorium to the ladies
of Roseburg, giving them a social hy
giene mosago on the subject of "Pa
triotic Womanhood." This lecture 1b
said to bo something that every wo
man nnd girl should hear, and will
help every one to a better under
standing of herseir. There will be
no admission charge. Dr. Reld ror
presents the commission on training
camp activities of the war depart
ment, nnd Ib sent out by the Oregon
Social Hygiene Society. The society
believes that results of education on
social hygleno In Orogon nre so well
appreciated that all helpful Informa
tion upon this subject Is most wel
come. No force Is so valuable In tho
fight for social hygiene as the mo
thers of the Btate. Upon them rests
the principle burden or the effort, and
properly instructed mothers can edu
cate their children as no one else can.
A generation of mothers who thor
oughly understood and hod the con
fidence of their children, would go
a long way toward solving the pro
blem that the social evil presents to
the state and nation. Every woman
In Roseburg should hear Dr. Reld nt
the High School tomorrow at three
o'clock.
The many friends of Mrs. A. S.
Buell will be glad to learn that the
lady Is again able to be up following
a sevore Beige of the "flu". It has
been about two weeks since Mrs.
Buell was stricken with the malady,
but she Is said to be convalescing
rapidly at this time, and although
quite weak, is able to be about the
house part of the time.
I
THAN IN BATTLE
Men Landing In Philadelphia
Report Terrible Condition
In The Camps.
SITUATION "DAMNABLE"
Hun Prisoners Held In Camps at Port,
of Embarkation Receive- Bettor
Treatment Than the Walt
t ing Soldior Contingents.
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' PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7. Brest,
the American port of embarkation
and Camp Pontonzan, hold no happy
memories, for the soldiers who arriv
ed here on' the transport Havorford.
To them their stay from December
27, to January 14, was-a period of
misery, and they point, with regret,
to the fact that more' deaths of men
In the 05th Regiment Coast Artillery
took place within that short period
from disease contracted- there, than
were received in 70 (lays in battle.
Officers and men alike complain
ed that housing conditions, living
conditions, creature comforts and the
ever Important itom of food, are In
a deplorable condition at Brest. They
added that the American soldiers
awaiting transport homo are suffering
untold hardships.
"It was damnable", was the declar
ation of one officer. "Of course, 1
am in no position to criticise, but the
men can tell you what they suh'ercd
there. ; .. .'
The roghhont arrived at Camp Pon
tenza on December 27. The men were
then In wonderful physical condition,
according to Major William H. Rock
well, the regimental surgeon,- from
whom the fact was learned that the
regiment had had' but three men
killed during Its tour of duty at the.
various sectors or the front, and only
99 wounuou. . ;
- The men best describe Brest. The
officers admitted that they had suf
fered many discomforts, but one non
commissioned officer, familiar with
the workB of the surgeons of the re
giment, declared that If the regiment
had been In Brest another fortnight
under the same conditions, many of
the men would have contracted pneu
monia and died. Two to three hun
dred men dally were On the sick re
port. '
' As It was, four men did die and
twelve were left behind In the base
hospital and several of these were In
such condition that their death was
imminent.
Nineteen sick men wero on the Ha
verford when she docked. These had
been under treatment In the hospital
bay of the ship during the voyage,
across tho Atlantic. 8ix,toen of these
were men from the roglment and the
other three wore colored' men from
the Casual Company.
Six wore litter oasis and had to be
carried to their pier. These men all
contracted pneumonia at Brest. There
was not a single wounded man under
going surgical treatment on tho boat.
The men who had been wounded, had
recovered from their wounds, nnd
were returning to this country for
discharge.
' Actually, the Gorman prisoners got
hotter treatment at Brest than wo
did", declared one soldier. "It was
a terrible place. The regiment had
to sleep In tents on ground that had
been rained upon for a long while. It
rained every day that we were there
nnd tho camp was a sea of mud at all
timos. ,
"Tho tentage was poor and tho
last night we were there,' they did
lot us Into some Incompleted bar
racks, but thore wore no flooring In
these buildings and they wore but
little better than the tents that we
had been using, v
"Tho food was vory, very poor nnd
we had to wade through mud almost
up to our knees to get It.- Actually
wo wore better fed while we were In
the Hold at tho front than .wo were
during our stay at Brest.
"Most of the men had no bunks to
sleep on and had' to sleep on the bare
ground. You can readily Imagine
what followed. The hospital was a
busy .place, and big as It Is for It
ombraces some forty or fifty wnrds
It Is not big enough, for thore are
thousands of troops there and their
men are Just as sick as ours wore.
Many of the men slept on boards thoy
had gathered up, but everybody could
trot get a board.
"During the time we wore there,
the men answering sick calls, rose
from only a dozen or more to the
high water mark of 340 on ono day.
That Is the proportion of ono out of
every six."
The higher officers of the regiment
docllned to comment on tho condition
at Brest. They confirmed the fact
that an abnormal number of man hurt
been on the sick report during the
mux oi mo regiment, out thoy point
WALNUT CULTURE
Paper Is Submitted By W. C.
Harding to Grower's Con.
) vention In'Portland.
SUCCESS IS ASSURED
Confident That Douglas County Grow
ers Will Take Their Places in
the Future Culture of these
' Marketable Nuts.
The following is a paper submitted
by W. C. Harding to the Western
Walnut Grower's Association, now In
convention at Portland. Mr. Harding
was scheduled to address the meeting
but on account -of the Illness of his
wife he was not able to be In attend
ance. The paper gives a summary of
the work In this county and will be
of interest to all who; are desirous of
seeing this Industry established In the
community:
: There Is sllrjhtly loss than 100
acres of valnuts In the Umpiua Val
ley, but a .great doal of lntorest has
been manifested recontly In the nut.
The river bottom lands present con
ditions that are ideal, being very
rich, deep, and exceedingly well
drained. It Is this type of soil that
has made Douglas county famous for
her prunes and It is interesting to
recall that the Myrtle Creek country
Is the only district in the State that
still produces Petite prunes. The
French prune attains a size- that
makes It very prout:.blo.
It Is evident that there can be
no mistake so far as adaptability,
production or growth Is concerned.
We are confident that Douglas county
will take her placo alongside of her
sister counties in the Willamette Val
ley In the lutjira culture of nuts.- .
The finest yoanf walnut grove In
the county Is the young orchard in
Garden Valley near Roseburg. There
Is 20 acres in Franquette and Mayette
walnuts which this last season, their
8th growing ser.son by the way, pro
duced 30 pounds to the treo. These
nuts sold readily In the local markets
at prevailing prices. Tho growth has
been so rapid that the apple and ipear
fillers must come out within a year
or two to make wny for the expansion
of the nuts.
' The clrcumferon below the first
limb on theso measures 26 Inches.
One five acre tract on rich bottom
land which has recelvod little care
except from Mother Nature haB large
walnut trees which have n spread
of 60 feet. One of these produced
S30 worth of nuts In 1918. These
are .10 years old but are covered
with moss through the owners neg- '
lect and It Is problematical what the
size or profltB would have been with
the right sort o attention.
It is interesting to note that wal
nuts are dolnc well on black mud or
sticky soil on the hilsidea wJiere the
apples will not prosper. Of course on
this type of land where It is flat and
extremely wot, no tree will mnke a
fortune for its owner. Our experi
ence Is that nuts will not stand wot
feet.
Mr. F. D. Owen of Roseburg has
3 large 20 year old trees which' bore
him 50 worth of walnuts lri 1917
md 75 worth In 19-18. Judge Hnm
'Iton has a 17 year old seodllng which
yielded 150 pounds In 1917, but after
the fashion of seodllnge produced
nothing at all in 1918. Other numer
ous examples prove beyond a doubt
that walnuts will do well on the right
kind of soil In Douglas County.
Filbert culture has attracted con
siderable attention this winter among
the fruit growers and a number of
small plantings have been made Ono
nloneer patch contains about 50 fil
bert trees or bushes 25 voars old it
4s the Umpqua Valley experience that
wnerevor prunes do best nutB also do
woll." ,
GERMAN PEOPLE ARE
READY FOR NEW ORDER
(The Associated Press.) ,
WBIMAR, Feb. 7. The old order
of affairs in Germany has now gone
beyond recall and the people are de
termined to rule themselves, declared
Chancellor Ebert, In calling the na
tional assembly to order here today.
Kbert Bald that' the ''German poo
"lo will cnll on the old spirit of
Weimar and we will be an empire of
justice and truth."
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