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VOLUME XVI
LA GRANDE, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST M, 1916,
NUMBER 55.
Brotherhood Chairmen Want An Immediate Strike Order
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TEUTONS
SUCCESSES IN
FRENCH FRONT
"GERMANS UNSEAT BOTH THE
FRENCH AND ENGLISH AT
SCATTERING POINTS.
SEVERAL PLANES FIGHT
DECISIVE STRUGGLES
' Germans Penetrate the First-Line
Trenches South of Estrees and
West of Soyocourt Haig Admits
Germans Gain Foothold South of
Thiepval on Second Attempt.
London,. Aug. 23. Paris has admit
ted .Germans have penetrated first
line trenches at several points south
of Estrees and west of Soyocourt.
Sevjral hours' bombardment preceded
the attack. North of the Somme Ger
mans have steadily shelled the French
but there was no infantry fire.
French grenaders repulsed a sur
prise attack at Hartmannsweilerkopf
and a French aviator destroyed his
fifth German aeroplane. Northwest
.of Peronne French aeroplanes carry
ing machine guns defeated and dam
aged four German planes.
General Haig reported Germans
twice attacked new British positions
south of Thiepval last night and that
one was assault completely defeated
but the second attempt gained a tem
porary foothold.
French Atticks Fail
Berlin, Aug. 2a. It is announced
Germans 'have recaptured trenches
from the French south of the Somme
near Estrees. Repeated British at
tacks were repulsed between Thiep
val and Pozieres.
JOINT MEETING NEAR
Mexican-American Conference to Take
Up First in September
WooViinDnn. Auir. 23. The state
-department has announced that the j
Joint American-Mexican commission
starts its meetings the first week of
.September. Secretary of State Lan- j
sing, and Consul Arredondo conferred
lor a nait nour. ine exact uaj mm
location will be decided by the com
missioners. Watch for Army Worm Is Warning.
Washington, Aug. 22. Warning to
watch for the army worm such as
struck Eastern Oregon last year has
been issued by the Department of
Agriculture to people in the Atlantic
rstates. An unusual abundance of the ,
moth of the true army worm in Mary- ;
land, Virginia and the District of Col- '
umbia indicated the possibility of an
impending outbreak of this harmful .
pest. The moths, the entomoligists '
of the department report, were laying
their eggs during the first week of
July. As it takes from three to four j
weeks for the caterpillars to mature,
their presence should begin to be quite :
.apparent this month. j
Farmers should be on the alert, the
department says, to discover this pest
in its younger stages, before it has
reached a large size and has commit
ted irreparable damage to growing
crops, especially grasses and grains.
l
Rockefeller Board Would Tame Sav
nees. '
New York, Aug. 22. Co-operating
with the International Health board
of the Rockefeller Foundation, the
government of the Philippine Islands
will send a hospital ship to the Moros
and related tribes of the Sulu archi
pelago, the Rockefeller Foundation
announced yesterday. The ship is be
ing equipped, and will be maintained
for five years.
The ship will be sent to the Moros
in hope that medical treatment will,
in the course of five years, lead them
toward civilization. They suffer from
various infections, and preventable
diseases. Medical dispensaries have
been established on the island of Min
danao and Jolo, but the aid they ex
tend reaches only a few of the people
on the numerous smaller islands. The
hospital ship will go from island to
island, meeting the people at estab
lished points, taking medical relief
to the sick, training midwives, and
giving general instruction to the na
tives. As the Igorates and other head
hunting tribes of Northern Luzon
were civilized largely by the men who
brought them medical relief, it is de
cided to reach the Moros in the same
way. If the experiment succeeds, this
.civilizing method can be applied wide
ly to other islands people in Eastern
.seas.
EDITORS MEET TO
EAT AND CONFER
BANQUET TO BE SERVED AT
7:30.
President and Secretary of State As
sociation Come to Meet Up-State
Editors.
Most of the Union county editors
and many of the same fraternity in
iWallowa county, will break bread to
night at 7:30 at the Foley grill with
President E. E. Brodie of Oregon City
and Secretary Phillip S. Bates, of the
State Editorial association. The
country editors are gathering to meet
the state association chieftains social
ly and "shoply" as it were, and dur
ing the meeting matters pertaining to
newspapers in general will come up
for discussion.
Mr. Brodie and Mr. Bates were in
Baker yesterday meeting interior edi
tors in that vicinity and after their
conference here will go on to Pendle
ton tonight to confer with the Uma
tila county scribes. While several
editors are already in La Grande, a
bigger portion will arrive on tonight's
train from Wallowa county.
AUTHORITIES CHARGE
AS SPIES.
THEM
England and America Urged to Begin
Immediate Relief.
Eagle Pass, Aug. 23. The British
consul has telegraphed Ambassador
SpringJlice asking him to demand
immediate release of Malcolm Muir,
a Scotchman, arrested as an Ameri
can spy by Piedras Negras authori
ties. The consul also wired to Car
ranza. The American consul has urged the
state department to act immediately.
!Dr. Walter Staub, a Swiss, has been
arrested on the same charge and was
jailed on a bread and water diet.
LA GRANDE ON THE SCREEN
Motion Pictures of "Prosperity" Will
Be Shown at Arcade.
There will be at least two days of
intense local interest in a portion of
the program at the Arcade. To see
ourselves as others see us will be ex
emplified in every detail in the repro
duction of the Speed 'Em Up cere
monies which have been filmed, and
according to reports the pictures are
faithfully correct in every particular.
There is to be seen the arrival of Miss
Prosperity; the civic industrial parade
and the final assembling at one of the
spacious lawns in the residence dis
trict, where the children were given
profuse reminders of the arrival of
the bountiful goddess.
The portraitures of all the local
people are wonderfully accurate in the
moving pictures including Miss Leona
Newlin and her assistants; so, also,
are the different floats and other part3
of the parade. The most striking fea
ture of all is probably the final wind
up at the home of Mr. Dennis where
the youth of La Grande ran riot in
completing the picturization of "Pros
perity." The "Prosperity" film will especial
ly interest every resident of La
Grande and wili be at the Arcade to
day and tomorrow.
Chicago Will Eat, Drink, Sleep, Work.
Chicago, Aug. 23. Life here is
just one foxtrot after another. It got
that way at an early hour and will
continue so until September 2. Ine
reason being that 450 members of the
American National association of
Masters of Dancing including Louis
Fretlow, 75 years young are one-
stepping around the Blackstone hotel
getting ready for their 33rd annual
convention. Don t forget r retlow.
When it comes to the conception and
execution of steps that stagger, he's
very heavy in the head and light as a
feather in the feet. He has done
wonders, they say, taking the heavi
ness outo of aspiring ieet and putting
it in the very light heads that accom
panied them, lhe masters used to
meet about ths time the first robin
was poking his nose over the Mason-
Dixon line, but their pupils objected;
said they must have ihe very latest
steps well in foot before the very
earliest weeks of the winter dancing
season. About the only step these 450
debonair gentlemen didn't invent is
the lockstep. But nobody cares be
cause that's going out.
GOTHAM BUILDINGS FALL.
Collospse Catches Workmen Killing
Two and Injuring Many Others.
New York, Aug. 23. Two partially
completed Bronx tenements collapsed
today and two workmen were buried
under the debris. Three are dying
and police reserves are digging the
ruins for more buried men.
SCOICHW AND
SWISS ARRESTED
PROLONGED DELAY CHAFES
E
THOSE DEMANDING STRIKE
President Wilson Calls Congressional Aides
And Wants Greater I. C. C, Membership
Washington, Aug. 23, President
Wilson today summoned Chairman
Newlands and Senator Adams of the
Joint Inter-state Commerce commit
tee to the White House for a confer
ence. They discussed possible legis
lation in connection with strike nego
tiations. This is the first time Presi
dent Wilson has conferred with con
gressional leaders. Newlands may
press a bill directing the Interstate
Commerce commission to investigate
railroad wages and hours. This the
law-makers have thus far refused to
do, railroads petitioning them previ
ously to keep off.
Senatorial Action Urged.
After the conference with Newlands
and President Wilson it was an
nounced the chief executive had urged
immediate senate action on the House
bill increasing the Interstate Com
merce commission's membership. It
is believed Mr. Wilson wants facilities
for hastening the rate hearings on the
railroad's new demands for a strike
settlement. I
Brotherhoods Chafe.
Brotherhood chairmen held a meet
ing again this morning. Thomas Don
ovan proposed the chairmen return to
their homes leaving four brotherhood
presidents here to arrange for an im
mediate strike. Many speeches were
made. Brotherhood heads spoke
against such drastic action and the
leaders finally succeeded in killing the
plan.
Two More Days the Limit.
One leader feared it would be im
possible to control the men over two
days longer.
Washington, Aug. 23. The Senate
today passed the revised army appro
priation bill after it eliminated Un
derwood's amendment prohibiting
hinors from enlisting without their
parents' consent. The senate then
substituted the senate's original re
vision of the "articles of war' for
Representative Hayes' revision
which passed the house yesterday
which caused President Wilson to veto
the bill last week.
BRANCH FREIGHT DAILY.
During Rush Season New Arrange
ments Will Be in Order.
Attempting to overcome the handi
cap of reaching the upper country too
late in the day for expeditious work,
the O.-W. is sending the branch line
freight trains out at an early hour in
stead of 10:30 a. m. as previously
done. Also, while the fall rush is on,
the freight will run each day. The
aim is to have freight trains reach
destination in daylight,
instead of
working the Wallowa county towns at
dusk and in the dark.
The freight will continue to carry
Hilt FIELDS
(Baker, Aug. 23. Walter Fields of
La Grande, an O.-W. R. & N. brake
man, lies in St. Elizabeth hospital
here at the point of death and with
little chance of recovery as the result
of an accident ntar Durkee early last
evening. He suffered a fractured
skull and his left leg was cut off, indi
cations being that he fell from a train.
He was semi-conscious for a time af
ter reaching the hospital, but unable
to talk and givj details of his mishan.
Fields was found along the track by
F. C. Smith, an O.-W. employe, who
took him to Durkee on his motor car,
and if the injured man's life is spared,
according to Dr. W. L. Parker, the
company surgeon, it will bo because
Smith used his head and did just the
right .thing. Ho made a rope tourni
quet, with which the flow of blood was
partially stopped and Dr. Parker was
profuse in his praise of the young
man.
It was stated at the hospital that
SENATE REVAMPS ARMY
LEADERS
CALM
All railroad presidents met this
morning to hear a submitted report
on last night's conference with Presi
dent Wilson. No acceptable plan wa3
proposed at this meeting.
The railroad presidents are believed
willing to yield if they can preserve
their arbitration right. They call
arbitration the only remaining bar
rier against labor and asked Mr. Wil
son to devise an acceptable substitute.
WHEAT CLIMBS AGAIN.
Dollar Twelve Is General Price in
Grande Ronde Today.
As the week progresses wheat con
tinues to crawl. In the Grande Ronde
valley $1.12 may be given as the pre
vailing price today, a raise over yes
terday's figures.
Portland, Aug. 23. A local miller
has sold 5000 bushels of September
Bluestem wheat to a Ixs Angeles
dealer for $1.30 a bushel. This smash
es the record 83 the highest previous
price for this option was $1.20
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM SOUGHT.
German Catholics Expect State De
partment to Guarantee It.
Nw York. Autr. 2M The flprm.'in
rftoman Cathoilc Verein has passed a
resolution demanding Secretary of
State Lansing to force Mexico to
guarantee religious liberty and pro
tect Americans. It telegraphed the
demand.
BILL AND PASSES IT
passengers between La Grande and
Elgin and between Wallowa and Jo
seph. Commercial men will take kindly to
the temporary arrangements as it will
allow them to work Elgin and catch
the passenger into the Northend all
in the same day. Nothing definite
concerning the running schedule or
permanency has ibeen determined, the
present schedule being largely exper
imental. Will Mark Roads.
Pendleton, Aug. 22. Walter E.
Meacham, secretary of the Baker
Commercial club, and Frank B.
Mitchell, a Baker attorney, were here
last night in the interests of good
roads and the Baker County fair.
They came down to see what Uma
tilla county had done toward marking
the tourist roads and will take up the
same plan for Baker county and will
try and induce Union county to do the
same. Mr. Meacham says that Baker
this year is going to have the best f air
ever given. The newly formed racing
circuit has turned out in fine shape
and some fast hourscs are in the var-
ious stables
BADLY INJURED
Smith is a signal man, but the lo.al
O.-W. states he is section foreman at
Durkee. At any rate, he is entitled
to commendation for his action.
Fields was taken to Durkee :nd
brought here on the 9:50 train, lr.
Parker having been notified and meet
ing the train with the Ilettner ambu
lance, which took the injured man to
the hospital. He is 38 years old ami
married. His parents reside in l.u
Grande and have been notified.
Mrs. Fields, who lives at 151):: l
avenue, left last evening on a freight
train for the bedside. While r:o '.f-
inite news is obtainable here the i ii
pression prevails Fields fell between
two cars in jumping from a box car
to a load of timber. The extent of
the injuries are Raid to be such th.it
there is considerable alarm about his
recovery. Jt is reported hero Mb
Fields lost one ear but that he lost
both legs is an unfounded rumor.
HAT THROWN AT
DEER ON ROAD
IMbLERITE HAS ODD EXPERI
ENCE WITH GAME.
Ranges About Imbler Stamping
Ground for Big Game This Week,
Say Report.
Ilmbler, Aug. 22. (Special) The
faithful bird dog is now enjoying him
self chasing feathered game but se
cure in the law's protection, deer are
coming down from the hills to investi
gate grazing conditions on the ranch
es, several having been encountered
lately one along a public road.
One "nimrod" being without better
means of defense threw his hat at a
deer.
Gets Large Haul of Gold Dust.
iW. II. Estabrook. well known min
ing man was held up by a masked
jobber and reliovcd of $2184 in gold
dust near lioise. The dust had been
taken from one of the dredges and
bstabrook was on his way to town
with, the treasure when he was at
tacked.
STILL AT SEA
ADMITS
FIVE
DAYS OVERDUE
HERMAN.
Director of the Deutschland Company
(sives Out Report.
Berlin, Aug. 23. Alfred Lopman. a
director of the Deutschland company,
announced today there is no news of
the Deutschland yet.
The craft is five days behind her
schedule.
ALIEN INSTRUCTION URGED.
Government Bureau Seeks School for
Candidates for Citizenship. '
Washington, D. C. Aug. 22.
Greatly increased school facilities are
to be provided this fall for the in -
struction of foreign-born residents of
the United States and especially for
alien candidates for citizenship. Dur-
ing the last scholastic year the pub-
lie school authorities of approximate-
ly 650 cities and towns in 44 states of
the Union were cooperating with the
Bureau of Naturalization of the U. S.
. . . T , ,
Department of Labor in this branch
DEUTSGHLAND
of its educational activity. According ment, it has been pretty generally
to information thus far received by known that Commissioner J. D. Mc
the bureau, nearly 100 others have Kennon ihas 'been after Lafky's scalp
signified their intention of joining in ever since he went into office thia
the movement and all indications now year. Mr. McKennon announced at
point to a most gratifyig record for the time ho took office that he be
the 1916-17 school year. . lieved a man could be obtained to do
It is the desire of the Bureau of the work for less money than was
Naturalization that public school paid Mr. Lafky. However, Mr. Lafky
night clnsses be installed wherever was retained by the commission and
the need exists for the education and several months, seven to be exact,
Americanization of foreigners. This have elapsed since the present corn
field of operation of the public schools mission was organized. It was gen
is not limited to those who have ap- erally predicted that Mr. McKennon's
plied for naturalization, at is intend- presence on the commission, would
ed to include all foreignborn resi-
dents whose instruction in English
and civics would, beyond question, re
sult not only in great personal benefit
to themselves but also would be of
signal advantage to the city in which
they reside and, logically, to the na
tion as well.
That the cost of the establishment
and maintenance of such schools is
relatively small as compared with the
great good accomplished, is convinc-
ingly shown by reports received from
the public school authorities who co
operated with the Bureau of Natural
ization last year. With this in view,
the Bureau is urging the Superintend
ents of Schools all over the country to
niseri in wieir municipal ouuget ior
next year an item providing funds to
cover the expense of carrying on this
public night school work.
ESCAPE WAS CLOSE.
Auto Party Struck by Fast
Train
Near Wcatherby Crossing.
- i "hostile" battleship squadron ap-
One of the death trap crossings be- proaching the Atlantic Coast in the
tween Baker and Huntington nearly navy's greatest war game. Seventeen
claimed three more victims today, destroyers and seven cruisers are
says yesterday's Baker Herald and hunting the "enemy."
goes on to say: I The navy strategy board interccpt-
The rear of their auto struck by No. ed several "enemy" code radiographs
4 east bound, at the crossing just east but were unable to decipher them.
.f Weatherby tunnel, at 10:30 o'clock Sixteen submarines are ready to meet
this morning, Mr. and Mrs. 1. C.
Baldwin and Robert Ross of Port Or
chard, escaped without injury aside
from nervous shock, while the ma
chine, although badly dented, was able
to complete the journey to Baker on last evening in the Observer concern
its own power. The party arrived in ing relatives of Mr. Penewell, step
the city this afternoon, having left father of the two Lovelace boys who
Weiser this morning. committed murder in Idaho recently.
Sir. Baldwin said that the train Mrs. Clyde Palmer and Mrs. John
whistle sounded just as they were on Aikens are not related in any way to
the track and that before the machine the Idaho man but Mrs. L. A. Pene
could clear the steel, the crash came, j well of this city is a great niece of the
Ross, only 19 years of age, jumped. two ladies mentioned. . Hence there is
The crossing is higher than the ' no blood or marriage relation with the
county road, while the general trend . Idaho man on the part of these
of the railroad track is down grade. two ladies.
CITY MANAGER
MAY RETIREAT
A NEARBY DATE
NO ACTION TO BE TAKEN UNTIL
PRESIDENT PALMER RE
TURNS HOME. '
J. E. FOLEY SUGGESTED
AS PROBABLE SUCCESSOR
Retirement of City Manager Lafky
Neither Denied Nor Confirmed by
Mr. Lafky Himself Mr. Foley
Would Accept Position Only as a
Temporary Proposition.
No offlciul action has been taken,
and the city manager himself hasn't
expressed himself finally in the mat
ter, but it is understood F. J. Lafky
w'" fi'e ms resignation as manager
of La Grande a week from tonight.
City President Vincent Palmer is out
of town and until his return it is not
expected the pending resignation will
come to a focus.
While it seems likely the present
manager will retire after having had
the governmental reins in hand since
the establishment of the Commis-
gioner-Manager form of government
in La Grande, rumors as to his sue-
cessor have also been current, of late,
focusing upon J. E. Foley, prominent
taxpayer. No official tender of the
office has, of course, been made him,
but it is understood some of the city
commission members have interrogat-
ed him and sounded him out on the
Prospect of acceptance should such an
ff toSS?' today Mr. Foley
gaid that if the job was offered him,
which had been hinted would be the
case in duo timo, he would take it only
j am wnnted for the position until a
suitable man is found I would accept
it on that understanding" said Mr.
Fo'.1today v u A
While no specific item can be cited
aa th) cnU8e o M, Lafky. retire-
eventually wedge between the present
manager and the commission, and it
now seems that prediction is to 'be ful
filled. SPECIALS LEAVES TONIGHT.
Portland Press and Chamber of Com
merce Trains Steaming Up.
.
Portland, Aug. 23. The Chamber
0f Commerce-Railroad jubilee special
starts for Coos Bay at 11:15 tonight
and the press special starts at 11.
Rehearsals of Coos Bay songs for
both trains are set for 9 tonight and
all will go to the official opening of
the Coose Bay railroad.
ENEMY NOT LOCATED.
Atlantic Seaboard Approached by
Enemy Fleet in War Game.
Washington. Amr. 23. The naw
department has announced defending
fleets scouts have failed to locate
the hostile fleet.
No Real Relationship.
Misleading statements were made