La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 28, 1916, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textf ii i'r AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER " PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS VOLUME XV LA GRANDE, OREGON FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1916. NUMBER 192 m E. D. BRAHDEIS H ASSOCIATE IN HIGH COURT BOSTON I AN WITH PRO-LABOR LEANING WILL SUCCEED LATE MR. LAMAR. JAPENESE DEMANDS ON CHINA WORRY SENATE Resolution Introduced Which Puts Further Pressure fn Japan Squarely in the Light f f ; to America English J'. ii Have Seized American TratnTx.-crets. Washington, Jan. 28. 'ibi White House has announced the appointment of Louis D. Brandeis of 1 on, as as sociate justice,, succee.i"f -the late Justice Lamar. . iBrandeis is known to nave strong pro-labor views. . Brandeis was for a time employed by league and important clients in cluding corporations. 7dr acquir ing a fortune, he became a free lance and of late has devoted muh time to the welfare of poor puj)V, taking cases without fees. He the .attor ney who drafted the brio' that lead to the decision in the United States Supreme court upholding the eight hour law tor women in Oregon. He spent many weeks compiling data and statistics concerning cm ill ef fects of overwork on women. He is also the man who prosecuted R. A, Ballinger in connection with Alaskan coal deposits and claims. ENGLISH RUSE EXPLODED. Congress Hears Alleged Orders , , .Open American Mail for Secrets. to "Washington. Jan. 28. Senator Walsh sprung a sensation in wading wnat tie declared were Hntistl orders to blockade vessels and to obtain trade secrets by illegally opening nun U.-BI1 limit. ' JAPAN IS WARNED. V Resolution Introduced Which Explains Senate's View of Aggression. "Washington , Jan. 28. Sdnator Sherman has introduced a resolution declaring senate cannot regard Jap anese demands upon the Chinese with out profound concern, and will regard further pressure as restrictive upon American rights. COMMUNITY ICE HOUSE. Mt Glen Residents Providing Supply on Co-Operative Plan. Mt Glen, Jan. 28. ('Special) The residents of Mt Glen are storing ice on the community plan and" by this means expects to put away enough ice for the needs of air the people for the heated season. All the residents of the neighborhood are contributing to the work and expense of putting up the ice. The supply comes from North Powder, being shipped by rail to La Grande and then transferred by Warn to Mt. Glen, West Evolves Armored Posse Cars. Oklahoma City, Okla, Jan. 27. Jesse James and all that motley crew of picturesque co-bandits who lie buried in scattered mounds through out itihe wild west must be turning over and over in their graves since .the 1913-14-15 revival of stagecoach and express robberies has developed along such scientific, efficient and up-to-date lines. County officers in Ok lahoma are going to employ armored motor cars in hunting bank robbers an4 train bandits hereafter. There has been art unusual number of these holdups this winter and the offenders usually escaped because their horses were superior to those ridden by the officers. Orders have been placed with a local firm for a number of special steel bodies for motor chassis. The sides are several inches higher than those of the ordinary body and are to be pierced by rifle loopholes. Behind the windshield is to be a steel plate that can be raised or lowered. Fire at Chehalis. Chehalis, Jan. 28. Fire damaged the Hartman-Nathan apartmentbuild ine and store rooms this morning to the extent of $50,000. One of the" firemen fell twenty-five feet and was badly injured. The horses becoming frightened, dashed away and wrecked the chemical apparatus. SCANDINAVIANS 4 GROW WEALTHY GERMAN WAR ORDERS EN RICH EVEN CLERKS. K Own Sales and Middlemen for Other Neutrals Overfloods Coffers, BY CHAS P. STEWART (Copenhagen, Jan. 6. (By Mail) Scandinavia is enjoying a tremen dous war boom. It is mare or less common to Sweden, Denmark and Norway, but so far as appearances go, it is most pronounced in Norway, Sweden has' sold to the belligerents, esperiully to Germany, immense amounts of raw and finished products including war munitions, though these latter sales ware countenanc ed iby the Swedish government. Den mark, being separated from) Uer many only by an imaginary line in stead of a stretch of mined and dan gerous water, has done still better. The lion's share of the war business, however, has gone to Norway. The Norwegians have profited, to some extent like Sweden and Den mark, by sales of their own goods to the belligerent nations, especially to Uermany, but it has -been as middle men that the bulk of their business has been done. Norway was the world's third maritime nation when roke out. English ranked first, Germany second. England still ranks first but even the British mercantile marine has suffered heav ily firom the destruction incidental to war. German's merchant shipping has been out of commission altogether since the early days of hostilities. This was Norway's chance. Compared with Norway, America's war . boom has been a small affair. This is speaking relatively of course. In actual dollars and cents the Eu ropean struggle unquestionably has brought more money to the United States than to any other country. Comparatively Norway has been the big gainer. That is, the Norwegians aire richer by the struggle to the ex tent of about $200,000,000 in actual cash thus far. -. To properties they already owned there has been a value of approximately ek much more. This is on a basis of a population of 2,500,000. An addition of $80 ;per capita to Norway's wealth In n voor .,,? half has been felt emphatically; ft nas meant a doom such as the old -world has not seen hitherto in histro- Jc times. Millionaires have been created wholesale. Many of them ar millionaires only in kroner a krona being in the neighborhood of 27 cents but a jump from nothing, m 18 months, to a fortune of $250,000 to $270,000, which has happened in hundreds of cases, is not so bad. The old shipping firms have profited in actual millions of dolars. The newly made are mainly more clerks in shipping houses or working officers of ocean going craft who were able to command a little credit and branch ed out in business for themselves. Numbers of the newly-made mag nates have never owned a ship. They have brought vessels in course of con struction or invested merely in char tars and have been able to transfer either their unfinished craft or their charters, so apid was the increasa in' the demand for bottoms at huge advances, sometimes in the course of no more than a few days; War tax es have been high, but profits have been so much higher that the taxes have hardly been felt. The Nor wegians count on being the. world's aecunu maritime power wnen the war ends. Only England, they believe will lead them. Neither do they believe their boom will burst with thp nt.rn.ir. Shipbuilding, with the exception of warships, has been' practically at a standstill since fighting began, they point out This means, rthev ,sav. that the supply of vessels has not been kept upi in proportion to the world's in creasing demand. Moue than this. emphasis is laid on the fact that there has been, first and last, a heavy de struction of ocean-going qraft by mines and submarines, adding great ly to the shortage the world, already feels and will feel still more keenly with the Post-bellum revival of in ternational trade. Finally, it is arc-ued that the shins which have simply been laid up in port because they dared not sail the seas, are slowly deteriorating from disuse and will be more and more nearly worthless the longer the war lasts, it will take years, the Nor wegians maintain, to restore an equal ity between the supply and demand for ship?, for purely commercial pur poses. During all these years Norway ex pects to continue gathering in huge profits, dwindling, perhaps, as time progresses, but gradually reaching a shtisfacta-y normal, without any violent shock and with the Norwegians finally the world's second nation as traders on the seas. The recent in flux of cash money has had its effect in all lines. The shipping trade has left it most but mining, manufacturs and every other line of industry has been enormously stimulated. An average of a big new development company daily is floated in Chris:- lania. Industrially lie Scandinav ian countries have been kept back Continued on Page Eight) ALLIES DRIVEN AND VIML FIGHT L Rome, Jan 28. Allies are evacuating all of Albania, except Avlona, on the Wast coast of Albania, and the immediate hinter land. Austrians and Bul garians are approaching Avlona from the North and East and official dis patches indicate that one of the most important battles in the Balkan strug gles may begin within a fortnight. Italians Prepare for Assault. Italians are fortifying the city against attack. Avlona is on the straight of Otranto, directly east of the Italian toe. It is reported that Austrians will shell the city with their fleet now near the Adriatic and a terrific naval 'battle with the Italian fleet also in the Adriatic, is extremely probable. . Vital Battle Shaping. Within 10 days the teutonic occupation of the entire Balkan peninsular, except Greece, will be complete. Allies are determined to Hold Avlona like ! Saloniki because of the great strategic value as a basis for further cam i paigns. Italians are evacuating Durazzo, directly north of Avlona, and on the j Adriatic too. It is announced that Austrian occupation of the port is hourly I expected. Austrians are moving toward Plannif to unit with Bulgnrs moving west ward to the "Albania district ' . J Saloniki Assault to Be Delayed. i Officials believe teutons have abandoned the proposed Saloniki assault until Avlona is attacked. Greece has long wanted Southern Albania, hencs the teutons expect to take that point and have it ready as additional peace offering and it is generally admitted that the success of the venture will have political effect on King Constantino's attitude. NEW CLEAN N6 PFEOGESS BEGINS First consignments of the 200 car loads of wheat which will be 'cleaned by the La Grande Flour mills, and re loaded in bulk for shipment to the sea board where it will in turn be put di rectly into ocean-going boats, haivo reached .La Grande. II. C. Oliver, freight agent for the O.-W. is here now, looking after details with Agent J. H. Keeney. The plan is a new one, introducing as it does bulk wheat shipments and one-location cleaning. The O.-W. has been searching foiH some time for a suitable place in which to clean this wheat It found no elevators west of Denver willing to NEW SETBACK SEVERE CHILL ADDS TO COMFORTS TODAY. DIS- Archduke Karl Constantly at Emper or's Bedside, Say Reports. London, Jan. 28. Franz Josef, em peror of Austria, has suffered a severs chill, and is growing weaker and de pressed, a. Copenhagen dispatch re ported. Archduke Karl is in constant attendance at the bedside. ' Little News O' The Day StPaul, Minn. Jan. 28. Horse rac- J smHCk. She went to sea last night to mg on ice was a feature today of the 'uump garbage and encountered a ter Northwest Outdoor Can-nival that will ,.;h otm-m sii tiir nr.A last until Feb. 5. Purses aggregate $2,000. Horace Irving is, sponsoring the race program. La Fayette, Ind. Jan. 28. Chicago i.-jnt. Program of Music, Readings and and Purdue indoor tracks teams are , Speech Making, to meet hare today in the first Biff i Lj ' Nine meet of the season. Mt. Glen, Jan. 28. (Special.) . There was a very large attendance at W innipeg, Man. Jan. 28. Drys and the meeting of the Mt. Glen literary wets were today in the midst of tho held yesterday evening. In addi campaign preceding the vote to be tion to the assemblage of local people taken on. prohibition in Manitoba, at there was a big load from La Grande, a general election March 10th. jThe program included: o ' iiv t nn t , . i Singing Joseph P. Price and com- oupcuui, ry is. ami. crt, iuck union of Indianapolis and Billie Miskie of St. Paul, heavies, are to meet in a ten round no decision go here to night. Fulton Gets Chance Tonight New Orleans, Jan 28. 4Banring accidents, peevish nromoten and other justly famous slips 'twixt cups and hps, Fred Fulton, Minnesota Giant, will mix here tonight with Porky Flynn over the twenty round ; route. It is Fulton's first genuinu opportunity to show what he's got. ' If he can scramble Porky into de-' feat, he'll probably get that long-' deferred chance to commit assault , on the Kansan who holds tight to the , neavy line. LABORER FATALLY INJURED Five Others Seriously Hurt in Collis ion at Celilo. Canada where he has been looking The Dalles, Jan. 28. One laborer . after his father's farm. Ha was ac was fatally injured and fjve were companied by an uncle who will take seriously hurt and others bruised by . charge of the Peter Allen place, Mr being caught between a freight and Allen having gone to Southern Cali some outfit cars at Celilo in a blinding fornia on a mission for the L. D. S. snow storm. The eight outfit cars; church. were crushed and a fire started which j Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Lock, of San was extxinguished with great diffi- Francisco, are visiting relatives in Mt culty. Glen, Mr. Lock is an engineer. TO LAST I handle the immensV quantity until tho Kiddles took hold of it They are now equipped to do the work, and it is likely the beginning of a plan that will be permanent. ' The wheat is coming from all' points in the northwest, and the scheme' of cleaning is to reduce freight rates by removing surplus weight. Then too, the saving on sacks is very material amounting to about 10 cents each. The . work of cleaning will continue for at least 00 'days, and carload after carload will be sent to the mill with sacked wheat, and leave for the east With hulk .wheat ,. ' .... GATE ROCKS FATAL GARBAGE SCHOONER CRUSHED TO PIECES. Not Believed Any of the Eight Aboard Escaped. Sun Francisco, Jan. 28. Eight are believed to have perished when the steam schooner Aberdeen was dashed to pieces on jagged rocks at the en trance to Golden Uate. Life savers are certain none of the men escaped. The Aberdeen was used in the Oakland garbage service, but formerly was a Seattle fishing ouirklv wnt. to niives. .. MT. GLEN HAS A "LITERARY" pany. Reading David B. Stoddard. Duct Mamie Black and Nellie Gar rick. I Poetic Reading L. M, Jenson. I Solo Joseph P. Price. Three 'minute '. talks in foreusn languages Tongo Tongue, by Joseph hpiker; Danish, L.-.M. Jenson; Hoi- land, Estei Wright; Swiss, fred Zaugg; Mowery, (New Zealand) by Mr. Chadwick. In addition to these addresses each of the speakers also sang a song in the respective foreign tongues. After the meeting Mrs. Greiner of Mt. Glen entertained the La Grande visitors in a very acceptable manner, A supper was served and various amusements were provided, furnish ing the visitors an evening of great enjoyment. j The Mt. Glen Literary Society will j hold regular weekly meetings till i further notice on Thursday evenings. ; Ernest Zaugg has returned from THREE-CORNERED CONTESTS HELD ORATORY AND STORY-TELLING PROMOTED. Imbler WIIK. Send Three Teams Against La Grande M. I. A. This ..." ' .Evening. ,T Oratory,, story-tolling -and physical agility in the fil. I. A. Btakes at Imb ler and La Grande will be matched tonight ' when teams , representing these three branches : of ' endeavor within the church meat at the Amuse ment hall beginning at 7 o'clock.. The basketball nhase of It, ,4s Jiart .and parcel of that whiph has been"' going on for some, time within the county. A magnificent loving cup will be awarded to the team winning it three out of fiv-seasons. JuAlges are keeping the score of the story-telling and oratorical con tests which go hand in hand with the basketball league games. At,, "the close of tho season these wilt be an nounced, and are ehmnators for tho big field day to be held in La Grande May 15. Stake : : ponnants will be awarded the winners. In the mean time some very interesting contests, showine marked ability in speaking and story-tellingj'ire being brought out . . . I,- The trnneular wriitesU aib In charge of D. B. Stoddard, SUBerin- tendent of istake for the M. i,i flr. ana Evelyn Rosenbaum, president pf the L. M. I.' A. and these two are presi dents of the entiro league. Harvey La r sen also of this city is general M. I. A; manager of contests. ! Gibes of Scribes Made Solons Modest. Washington, Jan. 28. The gentle gibes of the heartless scribes in the house and senate press galleries, tho scribes aver, aire responsible for ibhe almost total absence fr.om.tnis year's Congressional directory ' of the once numerous annual crop of. tutobloirra- phers of "self -jhade"Sfclqnav,, Mighty tew oi ine extraordinary large num ber of new congressmen, this ' year dwell unon the dava in The log cabin and the haraampa ,'iojr eany youm. Some men wnotormeny took mucn space-to. tell about themBelvej now viuor Btinction ,&y Jtoiny to wib w Minority Leader Mann made ''one mistak'- in his brief description of hirnsUf. He w."ia. "James R. Mann, Ttcpublcan, T of "Chicago, was bVra'.ltf 18b6. elected tu the Fifty-fifth and Buscei ding congressts, Member . . of tho Banking aAd Currency .Cotrmilt tee.".. This las statement got Into the ' pi oof sheets of the directory, but the committee makers did not put Mr. Mann on the B. & C. committee. . .. ;.Here is a notable sample of brev Hy: . "Thaddeus H. Caraway, Democrat Jonesboro." This is a whole story of the life of the . Representative1 of the First dis trict of Arkansas as told by the mem ber himself in the directory. The member from the Fourth dis trict of the same State says of him self: . "Otis Wingo, Democrat, of De Queen, member of Sixtythird Con gress, re-elected to Sixty-fourth Con gress." ' - There is another brief sketch in the directory which records modestly the story of the rise to political fame of a 'Western Senator.' The story was first told with more regard for detail. Then somebody gave, him a "hunch" and he beat ihe jokesmiths to it by j a neck and stopped tne proois ana now three lines tell the story. Colorado has a delegation in the House that reads like this: Representr ative Ben Clark Hillard "was born in a log cabin on a farm . eight miles north of Osceola, Clarke County, la." Representative Charles Bateman Timberlake: "His boyhood was spent on a farm." : Representative Taylor: "Spent his eaHy life on a farm and stock ranch." Probably the most interesting nar rative of one's self in the directory is that of James Harvev Davis of Tex as, "Cyclone" Davis, as he is tech nically known in the nomenclature of political explosives. Mr. Davis takes I up some space to tell about this matter as follows "Tn .Inhntinir tha monev ouestion 'with Gen. Watt Hardin in 1802 at the Capitol Buildinfr in Frankfort, Ky., ,he was reported by the Cincinnati In- ouirer and Chicago papers ns 'Texas Cyclone,' under which title over half of ma mail is now received.." ' The final triumph is recorded ns follows: ' "Was elected to the Sixty-fourth Congress with the Hon. Jeff Mc Lemore (chosen to fill a temporary vacancy n3 colleague, receiving some 200 votes less than his colleague, an alleced penalty for not having al ways been a 'collar' Democrat, and hevily scrnt'"hed by rabid antis.'' The "colleague" to whom Cyclone Davis refers adds a bit of spice to the TexaB delegation chronicles, "Jeff McLemore," as he signs' himself, rdeuds guilty to having been born "on a farm two miles west of Spring Hill, Maury county, Tenn." He adds that the event occurred on "Fridnv, the 13th of March," and "who's afraid in a Btorm." "He is a bachelor and a newspaper man." says he. "Had but little schooling," write3 STOLEN MONEY RECOVERED BY II OH HOTEL NEWSBOY GETS AWAY WITH - GOODLY PORTION OF THE SUM STOLEN. . , WOMAN'SJIP send? v POLICE ON THE TRAIL Senstional Attempt to Escape After Arrest Frustrated Believed New York Gang Recently Arrived, Exe cuted the . Escapadip Yesterday Money Fountain a Hotel. Chicago, Jan. 28. Police raided the West Side hotel and captured five men and three women, and recovered $7, 800 of the $15,000 obtained in a dar ing holdup in the Jake Stahl bank yestorday when four boys rode op and took tne loot away. j Newsboy Gr.bs jiooty,' . A woman's tip brought about the raid. When the officers jumped into the quarters of the alleged bandits. they hurled a box containing currency from the window. A newsboy seized it, according to the police. With drawn guns .the police sur rounded the building. Two bandits. handcuffed, attempted to escape when they reached the Criminal court build-, ing. One dived at the officer's feet and the second butted him in the stomach. They ran 'but were over? taken. The gang' is believed to have re- cently arrived from New York i Near Proximity of Circuit Court Ses sion Causes Activity., v ! Motion day was a Ibusy one todayT Judge Knowles heard a long grist of legal business prepratory to the com ing term of .circuit court which con venes a week from Monday. - "THUMBS, toOWIN," SAYS JUDGE No Clemency from Judge Stevenson . . ..... .in wrwr- h Ihi.ii Zn nn I I i n mil .111 ". 1 Portland, Jan".' 27. Bootleggers who came before Municipal Judge Steven son need expect nothing save heavy fines and in aggravated offenses jail sentences. - 7' Ju4ge 'Stevenson established a precedent yesterday. ' He fined P.. H. ' Swabb, manager of the Shasta hotel, $250 for selling two qquarts of beor and a half pint of whiskey. This was followed by a fine of $200 on Charles Thornton, proprietor of Thorn's place, 115 North Third street, and a fine of $100 on Henry Oakley, an . employe of Thornton's. .. V'Drunknesses is to be treatod as a 'misdemeanor in this court in tho future," declared the ljudge this morning. ''Boaltlogging is ojliothor matter. The very fact that the pro hibition .law is being broken is not so serious as the effect the poison the bootleggers sell for whiskey has on the human system. Heavy fine and stiff sentences will be waitng from now on. Everyone has had ample time to adjust himself to the new condition." . DRYS WIN VICTORY. Railroad Companies Don't Have to Turn - Liquor Shipments Over to Draymen. Portland,- Jan. 27. Railroad com panies need not deliver to transfer men shipments of liquor consigned to individuals via the transfer companies. Circuit Judge Kavanaugh ruled last nght, dismissing the application of Rudolph Wilhelm for a writ mon- damus forcing the Southern Pacific to turn over to him 25 quarts of beer consigned to J. P. Ryan of 55 north Ninth street. Tho decision was based on the position that. draymen because the v do not operate on fixed routes between fixed points are not common carriers within, tho prohibi tion laws. The decision, in the opinon of friends of the dry law, closes one of the best channels for bootlegging devised .to defeat prohibition meas ures. It. P. Hutton of the Anti-Sa-loon, league, said that in Iowa a de cision allowing draymen to receive liquor shipments on the order of tho consignee made illegal sale of liquor easy. . Jeff McLemore, "because of his aver sion to teachers, and as a pupil he never saw the inside of a school room after he was 14 years old."