La Grande evening observer., March 10, 1917, Image 3

SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1917.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER.
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W051deympoiJ? Spring Suitings in for your inspection all imported goods, as we cannot guarantee domestic colors this year. The price of Ladies' Qua.
torn Made Suits are $40.00 up; Men's $38.00 up All Suits are made in our store. y P 6 01 iju . wu
We can take your measure and send and get you a suit for $18.00 to $27.00. This suit is made by the Royal Tailors of Chicago
We have Blue Serges, Ready-Made Suits, $15.00 These are American made clothes a good suit for the monoy. '
We are closing out the HARLOW SHOES, the line w e have carried for 12 years, but they have gone out of business. We are selling these shoes below the nresent
cost of them. Shoes that were sold for $3.65 wholesale, now cost us $5.40 wholesale. The shoemen claim they will cost double th! price within a vear This is
a good chance to lay in a supply. . ' . .
We guarantee everything that leaves the store. We cl aim to give better values for the same class of goods th an anyone in the city enquire of one of our customers.
TOGGERY
Simms Describes How It
Feels to Be Up in a Balloon
ialf a Mile Up In the Air With Hostile Battery Shooting
At Him Is the Experience of United Press Corre
spondentBatteries Are Called Up By 'Phone.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
(United Press Staff Correspondent
With the British Armies in the
Field, Feb. 8. (By Bail) What does
it feel like to have a hostile battery of
artillery pick you up and begin shoot
ing at you while you hang in a basket
half a mile high in an a captive bal
1 urn ?
Suppose, as you dangled at the t p
end of the wire cable no thicker than
a child s little finger, the Germans
nowiizers snouia suaaemy try lo
smash the auto-truck carrying ir.t
winch holding the ground end of the
string.
Suppose, you, up there in the winter
sky, saw an aeroplane making for you
and you knew it would do its best to
shoot fire arrows into your "sausage"
cause it to explode and chuck you
headlong to the frozen earth below?
Or, failing to explode, the balbor.
caught fire and you, to save yourself,
had to plunge downward to the tail
end of a parachute with shrapr.e1
bursti"g about you all the time?
Think you could do your work cal'.i
.y, accurately? Think you would be
sufficiently cookheaded to call up on
(he telephone, whose wires disappear
i-nder you in a dizzy dip groundwa'-d,
and tell somebody in a little office
ebout it and have him get your own
butteries working?
'.These are the working conditions cf
ivory day of the soldiers attached to
the balloon sections of the army.
Thanks to the courtesy of a maj'V
commanding one of those sections I
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The long-delayed Spring time will soon be
here in spite of the abundance of snow still "with
us." Are you, Mrs. Housewife, and Mrs. Mother,
mindful of the added dangers of contaminated
milk that come with warm weather?
Are you giving the same care and precaution
to clean milk that you are to the baby's food and
your own?
Are you aware that in Summer time greater
vigilance against impure milk is needed than in
winter?
Is .the dairy supplying your milk a clean
dairy, or is your milk supplied by people who give
milk scant consideration, having other work to do
and let you take what comes from the barn, milk,
dirt, filth and all? Are you Inning milk from
dairymen who make that their own and sole busi
ness along scientific lines?
Pure Milk & Cream Company equipment, sup
ervision and sole time is devoted to the end of
pure milk. It is only a matter of time until the
vision will come to every housewife and mother in
La Grande. Why not "Get the vision" right now?
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was allowed to go up with an observa
tion officer in one of these famous
"sausages."' The latter was a young
lieutenant, in reality an American,
whose father once lived in Cincinnati.
High in the air, over a world covered
by four inches of snow while the noise
of the Big War bounded up in lumpy
explosions and the concussions of the
I larger guns could -be felt distinctly, he
explained his work just as you would
explain yours, in the office, shop or on
.the farm. Through the glasses the
I zig-zagging white lines of the trench
j cp showed plainly.
"See", he said, looking through his
glasses, "there arc two distinct net-
worKs oi trencnes, with a narrow
space between which is free from
criss-crossing lines, mat space is
No-Ma :' Iind. Of course all activity
on the otiier side of that space is Ger
man activity, and that is part of the
job we are up here to attend to.
"See that village beyond the Ger
man lines to the left?" he continued
I steadying himself without touching
the sides of the basket one of the sec
rets of accurate balloon observation
"That is Blank. And, to the right
there, the road where you eee the
double row of trees. That is the part
of the line we this ballon section-
arc interested in. Other parts are un
der observation from those balloons
you see to the north and south of us
trough, naturally, we co-operate very
closely one balloon with another so that
the minimum observable activity gets
I past us. Troops in march, supply
I columns, working parties among or
behind the trenchcB, things like that
wu Bikini! io our uriiueryi ana gel a
battery or several batteries work
ing. We give them the range, then,
as they fire, we give them corrections:
So many degrees to right or left, too
long or too short. The whole thing is
done by telephone, right from this
basket. Here: Put this on your head."
l;The head-harness of a telephone girl
was handed me. I put it on.
"Time me," said the lieutenant, "I
am g-jincr to call up a battery. Hello,
AUC-44" he called.
"Hello, Battery ABC-44 I" came the
reply it seemed almost immediately.
As a matter of fact it has Ukcn 10
seconds. "Test!" the young officer re
plied into the transmitter.
"You see," he went on, "the thing
is very rapid. It has to be rapid.
Nevertheless my call had to pass
through a central. As the sausage
swayed gently to and fro, a frosty
haze of blueish purple stole between
us and the lines. Beneath, the snowy
earth was plainly visible but objects
two or three miles off were complete
ly hidden from view. High over the
haze, on the horizon sailed an aero
plane. About it, like a dozen lady's
powder-puffs, shrapnel were bursting.
Then, without warning, like a dozen
claps of thunder in rapid succession,
came the reports of shells bursting
about the lieutenant's balloon.
"Hello," he said calmly, in the tone
of a bliw man-about-town who sees
an old acquaintance approaching,
"what,'s this?" And slowly he turned
to size up the bursts of black smoke
drifting away in the wind.
"Yes," he said, speaking into the
telephone, "Yes. Yes, it was in our
neighborhood. Can't say. Can't ee
anything from hero. It's too thick."
"Believe I told you," he casually re
marked to me, "that though there isn't
one chance in a hundred of your hav
ing to do the thing, if you should
have to go over, remember all you've
got to do is to balance yourself on the
edge of the basket and then let go
The paachute, attached to the harness
you've got on, will do the rest." I
looked flown .Timi
And the face cf the earth all chapped !
and rough and frozen over with snow.
'These balloons are much be'.tc
thnn the ones we had at the beginning
of the war," he said, cheerfully chang
ing the subject. "I mean the one
you've no doubt seen -with kite-tuili.
They Another scries of
thunder-claps, thi-s time on the other
Ride of the balW.n. Seemed as if a
battery had turned loose all it had
with one pull the trigger.
"Don't lt thkt worry you," tho lieu
tenant said smiling like a cherub wltj
a cold reddenii'j face. "TKey near'v
always firo short.' Nearly alway.i,
NEARLYI
"As I was saying," he went on, 'tac
old fashioned ba.'ioona were the lim1'.
They wallowed .tound exactly like a
ship in a st-irin. And believe me! jc
be seasick in A balloon as many an
observer has bi-on and have to giv.
ili.ections to the artillery between aick
spells, is SOME job HodM
Hello! (Thi3 into tho telephone) Y'ix.
all right. (Tnen to me' Whenever yoj
get ready an-.', think you've sen
c nough, I'll signal to be hauled down "
(Continued on Page 6.)
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