La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, March 29, 1917, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1917. LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER. PAGE THREB Favor One-cent Drop Postage. Washington, March 29. (Special) Republican Senators are receiving hundreds of letters from large con cerns throughout the country thank ing them for their efforts in beha'' ot one cent drop-letter postage. Senu tor Charles Curtis of Kansas was an advocate of that change in our postal laws, and spoke In favor of it. Jr. spite, however, of the efforts of Sena tor Curtis and other leading Repub licans the movement in behalf of that, reform failed because of strong op position from the Postmaster General. '' Washington, D. C, March 29. (United Press) Congressman Sin notit announced today that competitive exlaxminations for Naval Academy cadets would be held May 8, at Klamath Falls, Lakeview, Ontario, Bend, Baker, La Grande, Pendleton and The Dalles. OLD 7APERS For sale at The Observer office, 25 cents a bundle. 6YNUPSJS OF THIS ANNUAL, STATEMENT 0F o THE CONNECTICUT FIRE IN I SURANCE COMPANY. of Hurt ford, In tho Bute of Connecticut, on the 31at duy of iJecember, liUU, made to tho Insurance Commissioner of tho State of Ore gon, pursuant to law: S Capital. Amount of capital paid up 11,000,000.00 Income. "Net premiums received during -r h Jtf, m't-, :,m3,aO.M anterrftt, dividends and renta re ceived during the year 270,532.05 jneome from other sources re ceived during the year 12,458 01 j Total In com . $ 3,112. IM0. 07 Net losses paid during the yoar.f 1,875,017.01) Dividends paid on cupital stock during the year 200,000.00 Commissions and suluries paid during the year l.ltlS.001.05 Taxes, licenses and fees puld during tho year lss.oftD.Ofl .Amount o$ all other expenditures 412,204.52 . .Total xpJidlturt;g 4U, , , , , .fa,S4U,lS3.22 I -J AMetw. --Amount recoverable for relnsur ance on paid losses' per sched ule E, column 1 6,295.80 Value oi stocks and bonus owned (market value) 5.092,Ii2U.OO Lou ns on morttfuges and collat eral, etc ls4,0ft0.0d Cash In hanks and on hand Ultt,204.5 Premiums In course of collection written Since September lit), 1010 040,008.52 Interest and runts due and ac- , trued 78.034.0S Will Raise Japanese Emigrant Standard BY RALPH H. TURNER. (United Press Correspondent.) Tokio, March 29. With the hope that it will be on aid in solving the immigration problem between the United States and Japan, a new plan of educating Japanese emigrants in a model farm mlnnu c ui. ' J avatuv, Washington, will be started here next Monday. Beginning then a group of Japanese will be sent every year to worn on r.ne mouei colony acres. These emigrants will be graduates of the Kanagawa Middle school, a private in stitution of which Mr. Sumiwu Hat tori is principal. He is the eldest son of the late Ayawo Hattori, who worked for friendship between Japan and America until his death in the United States several years ago. He held the opinion that the best way to unravel the immigration tangle be tween the two countries was to raise the standard of Japanese In the United States. He died before he could realize this idea, which has now been taken up by his son, the princi pal of the Middle school. The land near Seattle where these educated emigrants will work was bought for this purpose through the efforts of Masi'jiro Furuya, a prominent Jap anese merchant In the Washington city. The Japanese government, which enforces the Gentlemen's Agreement with the United States, has not vet officiallv jimnrnverl tha plan, but it is not expected to meet wun oDjection it the emigrants are really educated. Total insets $7,313,332.73 Less special deposits In any lute (if any there bo) 03,4."J.01 Total assets admitted In Oregon 7,l!4ll, Liabilities. 'Gross claims for losses unpaid.. $ 313,027.43 Amount of unearned premiums on all outstanding risks 3.II7S.1ISS.47 All other liabilities 122.20U.UU 42,520.18 0.207.87 17.421. 4U 11.U2U.11 Total liabilities, exclusive of capital stock of tl.UUU.000 (4,413,815.00 'Total premiums In force Uocem- bar 31, 1U10 7,018,400.23 RiMineHH In Oregon for the Year. Total Insurance written during the yoar $2,728,055.00 'Gross premiums received during the year Premiums returned during the year Losses paid during the year. . . . Losses incurred during the year Total amount of Insurance out standing In Oregon December 31. 1U10 2.877,343.00 THE CONNECTICUT FlKfi INHl'KANCK COMPANY. By JOHN A. COSMUS, Secretary. Statutory resident general agent and attor ney for service: James S. Reed, Portland, Or. Security Land & Savings Co. Perfect Protection Agency Itasident Agents. SYNOPSIS OF THE ANNUAL ST.VTKMEN1 OP TUB to "WESTCHESTER FIRE INSUR ANCE COMPANY of New York, In the State of New York, on the .'list d.ir of December. 11110. made to the Insurance Commissioner of the Stale of Ore gon, pursuant to law: Capital. Amount of capital paid up 500.000.0" Income. Net premiums received during the vear $4..10.1,S41 . . I' Interest. tMvldends and rents re- ,,,., culvert during the year .'.,!l,340..l Income fr.in other sources re- o celved during the year .I.H:..... Total Income ' SI, 027, 013. Hi $ IlMiurM'incnlH. 0 Net losses Iinld during the year.$2,523,5!ll.53 Dividends paid on capital stock ,.-,. during the year ano.OO0.nn Commissions and salnrles paid during the year 1.1.0.-m.M Taxes, licenses and fees pimi BOSTON MISSIONARY IN ' FIGHT WITH JAP STUDENTS . Tokio, March 5. (By mail) (Unit ed Press) The Rev. J. M. McCaleb, fill American missionary from Boston lis in the' midst of the quarrel with his Japanese students here today over the divinity of Christ. When one of the students declared that Jimmu Tenno, Japan's first em peror, was even greater than Jesus Christ, Dr. McCnleb took issue with ,him. The students, angered, passed a resolution demanding that the mis sionary leave the country. Dr. McCaleb, who came here 25 years ago and operates independently of any mission, refused to go; and al so objected to the students raising their national flag over the school on Kigensetsu Day, explaining that it contained tho element of ancestor wor "Without my consent," said Dr. Mc Caleb today, "the students went ahead and raised the Rising Sun. One stud ent openly told me the occasion was not only ancestor worship, but that Jimmu Tenno, who is supposed to have ascended the throne 660 years beforo Christ was even greater than Christ. "This put me, a Christian, in a very embarrassing position and I took is sue with him. The government is back of me and I stand pat." High School Boys Who Enlist in Na tional Guard Will Be Protected in Matter of Credits. Amount of ull other expendl- S0.501.5II 01in.S'.7.4U 4.50U.UM S,10'.l.4'i2.00 IIV.1,310.00 447.0S7.1.S Total expenditures $4.55."..20.4; Vnlue of -real estate owned market valu" ........... .5 Value of stocks and bonds owned (market value! Loe.ns on mortgages and collat eral, etc Cash In hanks nn.l on hand... .. Premiums In ei.urje ni written since September .10, ,.,,.. 11110 , 5.1,103.41 Interest and rents due and nc- ..,... crued 4...IIM). . 4 Total assets M,2.S.-,,503.33 Less Bpeclal deposits in any state Total "asretVa'dml'tled In Oregon ftSTio .nihilities. Gross claims for losses unpaid.. 4.-.0.S0U.41 Amount of unearned premiums .,. .,. ..II rtiitnten. lug risks 3,8-.!U-.4.i Due for commission and broker- 12 500.no S2.S51.41 Total liabilities, exclusive of . capita', stock of .-.oi.no, 4.3. 0,023... Total premiums in force Decern- ber 31. llllll I0l.IM3.0l! Himni'M In Oregon for the Yenr. Total Insurance written during Oross premiums received during r. lf Premium" returned during tho ,ls - Losel paid 'during' the 'year! '. I Losses incurred .luring the year. 21..U...0. Total amount of Insurance out standing In Oregon December 111, HMO I.I-I.I..O.O WUSTCIIKSTEK l lllKINSl HANCK COM- ny Gi-:oi!t?K u. citAWFoup. Stntutoo r lent g eneral aaent t.ey for service: James I. Heed, I orl.unu. Salem, Ore., March 29. J. A. Churchill, state superintendent of pub lic instruction, Monday afternoon an nounced that all high school students who wish to enlist in the national guard will be given full credit in all those subjects in which they have made a passing grade up to this time. This announcement followed a meeting of the state board of educa tion, which made the labove recom mendation. J. H. Collins, superin tendent of the Woodburn schools, tel ephoned that a number of the boys at tending high school there wanted to join the guard, provided they could receive full credit for this semester's work in subjects which they have been carrying satisfactorily. Should the guard be relieved from active service before the close of the school year, Superintendent Churchill announced, these students must return at once to their schools and again take up their studies. WANTED Clean white rags. Ob server office. 3-7-tf .1 SniAtxii . if o i ray mm Does Not Rub Off, Lasts 4 Times a Lc-j tt Other, Ssves Work. s$ Get a Can Today ASK FOR MCCARTHY'S IMPERIAL CIGARS Office and Factory, w. d. McCarthy 106 Depot St. Lewis Bldg. lllllll MUBII ! WHIM I ! Ill I llllll II II IM II H IIWIIIHI I HTHIIITI 11111 IT ; "" ' II f flip '37 I 'l JX k Thoma9 Jefferson jjj gp 'o Dection m nmssv X i fcoSAmuATr At VW i..nUvivn;. Ill 'MIS. A direct descendant of William Penn and Thomas Jefferson Manufacturing expert of The American Tobacco Company A famous authority on chewing tobacco and Head of the fourth generation of tobacco experts who have produced and given name to No Avonder ill at Pcnn's Tliick is of such superior quality. TRY A 10c CUT TODAY Kj p"rwTMni 1 "r'o" wi I'Wsiiii ti i' smni'ii w mii M 1 1 M !M It's as mellow as a June apple and as sweet as a nut. WW.STAlj If Penn's Thick does not satisfy you in every way, return it to any dealer. He is hereby authorized to refund H the full purchase price. '1 iv. - "France Will Not See Pro hibition For Years"Finot BY WILBUR S. FORREST. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Parts, March 8. (By Mail J- "France will not see prohibition of alcohol for years." This brief ex planation of one of the most agitated internal subjects in France just now was made to tho United Press today by Jean Finot, noted French writer, author and President of the French society for action against alcohol. M. Finot predicts a long and bitter fight before France is placed on the footing of prohibition. Widely circulated re ports that French legislative bodies would soon enact a dry Franco were denied by M. Finot. "Prohibition in France does not mean, as the word means in America, an absolutely dry France. 'It means the elimination of brandy, whiskey and other spirituous liquors which do so much damage to tho peoples of any country. The pro verbial French light wine will always remain. The fight against alcohol which tho prohibition forces of France are making has the most bitter oppo sition. When it is considered that over 4 million people have their in terests connected with the production, distribution and sale of liquor this is not surprising. "But Franc will eliminate liquor in time, probably in about three years, just as many American states have done. The movement already has groat and growing support and is backed morally by some of France's greatest men." M. Finot's latest book, entitled, "Tho Enemy of The Interior,'! quotes various authorities to demonstrate that French wounded during tho pres ent struggle, who wore habitual users of alcohol, have shown la remarkable tendency to succumb to wounds which would not prove fatal to non-alcoholics. Prohibition will be one of the great est after the war questions in France. It is expected to precipitate more leg islative and populnr interest than any subject has done for years. FORTY PORTRAITS OF LOUIE XVI AMONG PRINTS SOLD New York, March 29. (United Press) Fifty thousand dollars worth of portraits of the French Kings, sol diers and statesmen of revolutionary and Napoleonic itimos will be sold from the Frederic R. Halsey collection at tho Anderson galleries hare today. This sale is expected to bring tho to tal proceeds from the Halsey collec tion sales to within a few thousand dollars of the half million mark; the greatest sale of its kind ever held, fincluded in the collection today are portraits by famous artists of the 17th and 18th centuries of Louie the 15th, of whom thoro iaro 40 poses, cov ering his career from his marriage to Marie Antionctto at 16 up through his trial, conviction and execution; 45 portraits of tho famous daughter of Maria Theresa, portraits of the load ers of tho reign of blood, including Calonno, Neckor, Beaubarchnis, Mira bonu, Marat, Paiere, Couthon and five portraits of Charlotte Corday, tho women who murdered Marat in his bathtub, including tho wonderful stip ple from the drawing by Hauer, made when Cordny was on trial before tho tribunal. The Empress Josephine and the Empress Mario Louise also arc represented. ALLEGED BOMB CAR DRIVER ON TRIAL San Francisco, March 29. (United Press) ilarapl Weinburg, jitney bua driver, went to trial here today on the charge of complicity in tho suitcase dynamiting hero during the Prepared ness parade last July, which killed 10 porsone and wounded 50. Weinburg is the third of the five persons indict ed in connection with the case, to go to trial. Tho first two trials resulted in convictions. Thomas J. Mooney is under sentence of death land Warren K. Billings has been sentenced to life . imprisonment. Mrs. Rena Mooney, ' wife of tho convicted man, and Ed ward Nolan, former organizer of the machinists union, havo not yet been tried. Tho part Weinburg is alleged to havo played in tho dynamite ct rago is tho transportation of tho al leged conspirators to Stcuart and Market streets, where the fatal bomb exploded. It was Wcinburg's jitney bus, driven by Weinburg, which the prosecution asserts carried Mooney, Billings, Mrs. Mooney and "a man with a scraggly mustache" to that coiner. Weinburg and Mrs. Mooney aro alleged to have waited in tho jit ney bus while Moonoy, Billings and tho mystcrous rrfan planted tho bomb.