La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, June 20, 1917, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextThe Red Cross Drive Is On- People, Do Your Duty. WUVM PHONE OBSERVER YOUR WANT ADS. MAIN 37 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER - PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS I PHONE THE OBSERVER YOUR NEWS. MAIN 37 1 VOLUME XVI. LA' GRANDE, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1917. NUMBER 310. TEN THOUSAND SUBSCRIBED IN BIG CAMPAIGN O'NEILL IS STILL THE CHIP DEFEATS CHRISTENSEN AND IS NOW UNDISPUTED NORTH WEST CHAMPION. TAKES FIRST FALL IN 19 MIN.55.SEC. Local Wrestler Demonstrates His Wonderful Skill And Ability By Breaking All of His Opponent's Holds and. When He Took Offen sive, by Putting Christensen Out With His Famous Toe Hold Good Preliminaries Make Up Fine Even. ings Entertainment. Jack O'Neill, of La Grande, is now the undisputed heavyweight wrestling champion of the Pacific Northwest. Ho defeated Harold Christensen at the Arcade Theatre last night, taking the first fall and match in 18 minutes and 65 seconds. The match was close and exciting. When the two wrestlers took the stae both were greeted' with applause and O'Neill, especially. The latter got an ovation. It was seen that Christensen was the younger and the heavier. C. D. Emahiser, the announcer, gave O'Neill's weight as 175. Christensen's was given at 190. The latter looked heavier. J. H. Peare was time keeper and Fritz Lottos referee. The men jockeyed for position at s the opening of ,tho match and the spec tators were keyed up to a high pitch About half were women', who took a keen Interest in the contest. Chris tensen soon assumed the offensive, and O'Neill broke out of several dang erous positions. It was noted that O'Neill always broke Christensen's holds, and wiggled out of the dang erous hold for which Christensen is famous the leg scissors. O'Neill's tactics were to let Christensen get a hold, then suddenly break it and take the offensive. Three times he tried to get his famous toe hold. The' first time Christensen broke it easily. The second time with more difficulty, kicking O'Neill savagely in the face. The third time, Christensen was on the offensive when O'Neill suddenly troke loose and dove for Christensen' toe. He got it, and nroceeded to ap ply the pressure, Christensen was thrown into the crowd, O'Neill hang ing on to the toe like grim death. Finally Referee Lottes asked Chris tensen if he gave the fall, and the latter said, "yes". It was impossible from the position the men were in to get Christensen's shoulders on the mat, on account of the ring spec tators. After the intermission was over, Mr. Emahiser announced that Chris- (Continued on Page 8.) AMERICAN DESTROYERS With the American Destroyer Flo tilla, June 20. (United Press) Af ter a record breaking dash in response to wireless calls, two American de stroyers arrived at an English port with eighty survivors rescued from two torpedoed merchantmen. The rescues were made further from land than any torpedoings yet reported. Mrs. Harry Turner has returned from Spokane. She was accompanied by her mother. 1.0.0. F.To Hold Convention At Cove Beginning next Friday morning the Odd Fellows, Rebekahs, families and friends will enjoy the hospitality of Cove, and Cove in return will be hon ored by the holding of the I. O. O. F. Union County convention in their city. La Grande members are making preparation for transportation a.id many intend to go by autos. Cove is noted as the green garden spot and nappy valley of Union county andi.j. many families are planning on leading I.. Food Control Bill Now Before Senate 4 Washington, Juno 20. (Unit- 4- ed Press) The Senate began 4 j" the debate on the food control 4 4 bill today. Senators Reed and $ 4 Gore and Representative Joe 4 4" Cannom employed all their ora- 4 4 tory to block the measure. Sen- 4 4" ator Gore declared the measure 4 4" will bring famine in nineteen 4 4 eighteen and contended that the 4 4 Wll will cost the wheat growers 4 4 a quarter of a billion dollars and 4 4 the corn growers half a bil- 4 4 lion dollars. 4 4444444414 ARTILLERY STRUGGLE IS HEAVIEST GERMAN BOMBARD MENT IN SECTION EAST OF CHEVREAUX WOOD AND NORTH OF RHEIMS HEAVY FIRE AGANIST FRENCH LAST NIGHT The Violence of the Attack Suggests the Possibility of Hindenburg Pre paring a Counter Offensive Against the French. Paris, June 20. (United Press) A titanic artillery struggle is pro gressing along the greater part" of the France front, was officially stated. uetween Aiiette ana nounn laiaux, in the sections east of the Chevreaux ' Wood and north of iRheims the fire is the heaviest from the German bat teries. A violent bombardment against the French positions was di rected last night. Along the Cham pagne guns on both sides roared un ceasingly throughout the night. The German attack was repulsed near Monteton today. The violence of the German ar tillery suggests the possibility of Hindenburg preparing a counter-of- I fensive against the French. The Ger iman fire has been intense for the past three days. The positions under bom bardment are those mainly command ing the valleys leading to Loan, which were taken by the French in the April offensive. Red Cross Raises f $127,000 To Date Portland, June 20. (United Press) With reports from sixteen counties in the state of Oregon, excluding Portland, has raised one hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars, for the Red Cross, in the first two days of the campaign. REVEREND BUSSARD OF LA GRANDE RECEIVES HONOR Portland, June 20. (United Press) Rev. F. W. Bussard, of La Grande, was elected president of the Pacific Synod of Evangelical Lutheran churches today. WILSON DESIGNATES RECRUITING WEEK Washington, June 20. (United Press) President Wilson has desig nated the week beginning June 23d as recruiting week. The President asks for seventy thousand volunteers during this week. SUBMARINES MORE AC TIVE THE PAST WEEK 4 London, June 20. (United 4 Press) Twenty-seven British 4 vessels carrying more than six teen hundred tons of freight 4 each were submarined this week, 4 the Admiralty announced. Five- 4 vessels under sixteen hundred 4 tons capacity were destroyed. No fishing vessels were lost. 4 The report shows an increase in 4 the loss of tonnage. 4 4 4 ' 4 4 4 f 4 4 4 1 MISSING TEAM REPORTS (400 ITEM NOT INCLUDED Mrs Honan Contributes Five Hundred To Fund-Workers Are Showing En thusiasm-Last Thousand Is The Hard est To Get. Nine thousand six hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty-three cents represent the sum total of Red Cross subscriptions secured in and about La Grande between yesterday mornir.g and today noon. The second daily luncheon today saw the total subscribed yesterday noon just about doubled. Nevertheless this sum is not quite all that has virtually been sub scribed as one gift of $400 from the Royal Arch Masons was not (reported in today's totals. Neither was the report from the O.-iW. team the mem bers of which are scattered over the entire division and could not come in; neither has the George Palmer Lum be company report for today been in cluded in the .otal. So, while it is not definite just what sum is actually in hand if all teams were present to re port, one thimr is certain, the sum is over $10,000. The work this morning lagged not, neither did it this afternoon. The luncheon at the Sommer today noon Once again La Grande and Union county is abreast with the rest of the state, and fan ahead of many sections of it. Union counyt has done itself proud thus far in the mighty effort to raise the sum of $18,000 from this county. Will she finish as well as she started? Not only are the people stepping out to the front like true pa triots but the army doing the collect ing of subscriptions is proving itself a valorus body of men and women. Many a store and office has been woefully short of managers and clerks since Tuesday morning. With utter disregard for their personal affairs score after score of businessmen and women yesterday and today fine tooth combed La Grande and the im mediate vicinity for dollars. Com mendable spirit among the workers, excellent generalship and plenty of pep made the first day and a half a big smashing go of it. True Spirit Manifest. Then there is the spirit of the giv ers. Only in the most isolated in stances are solicitors turned down. So far as can. be ascertained, the man who flatly refuses to give at all is almost negligible. True, many can't afford to give but a few cents, but such donations are received with as much appreciation as are the larger ones. The fears entertained at the outset that La Grande wouldn't thoroughly wake up to the urgency of the crisis or. to the enormity of the problem, are proven to have been ill-founded. The people are awake to the need of giving., and have caught the spirit of self-sacrifice in a splendid way. Last Thousand Hardest. The last thousand of a campaign like this is always the hardest to get. Team captains are emphasizing upon their men the need of fighting it through, to a complete finish to hoe out their rows. The public, recogniz ing that the first two days were re markably successful, must not rest on the giving, or become over confident lest victory yet slip away. "Give, give, ! give and give until the actual amount is raised" pleads the general staff jand adds: "Don't let up in the fight 'until we know without a doubt we have enough. With victory ready to burst on the horizon like the rays of ' a glorious dawn, we can't and mustn't let slip a Binglo cent not until vic tory is ours beyond a question of doubt." Sidelights on the Drive. Merchants are evolving clevcr ideas BUSINESSMEN DISREGARD AFFAIRS WORK FOR RED CROSS was full of vim and pep and the Neighborhood club again electrified the diners by announcing $500 in small subscriptions ' gained from .house to house canvasses. G. L. Lari son's team is still in the lead for the two days with Rev. Chas. A. Edwards' team in second place. After a bite to eat, and listening to speeches by Bruce Dennis who dropped into town from Portland, Rev. Chas. A. Edwards, Rev. G. L. Clark, Mrs. Ray W. Logan and others, the workers beat a swift retreat for tho streets and hard work again. The old-time pep is still bubbling over like Beaver creek. Tho standing of the teams so far as reported at noon is: O.-W., $178; Grande Rondo Lumber Co.; $272; George Palmer Lumber Co., $161; Neighborhood club, $1061.66; Rev. Clark's team $878; Rev. Edwards' team, $1370.88; W. R. Jones' team, $755.65; Dir. A. L. Richardson's team, $1000; E. Polack's team $583.53 and Mr. Larison's team $3,237. to help in the Red Cross drive. The Oxner paint store is giving 10 per cent of its business this week to the cause. Next Saturday Cherry's Florist will give to the cause all the receipts turned in by volunteer flow er girls who will sell carnations on the streets. The proprietor A. B. Cherry will furnish the carnations as long as the ylast. Tho Honor Guard girls will handle the sales. The sacrifice and right spirit dis played in many instances is a source of gratification to tho teams. One fanner who lives on a rented place out in the valley with no prospects in the world of getting a crop this year turned his pockets inside out and scraped his little shack called home to makes up an even dollar. It was all he had and ho didn't know where another was coming from. But he gave it gladly. His loyal wife, sorely in need of a new dress, smiled benev olently upon the transaction. A group of ladies met at the George L. Cleaver home in Imbler this after noon to devise some means to comb their town for subscriptions. Jmbler is turning her gifts in via the La Grande office. Hal Rees started out yesterday by giving very generously to the cause and then driving his Overland 167 miles in the quest of subscriptions r1niMtr flin oftnrnnsin Af Attn limn ne was stalled in tne midst or a large flood lake covering the highway but a little headwork and plenty of me chnnical power got the party out without anyone being drowned. Dr. A. L. Richardson and T. J. Scroggin were other drivers of cars touring the adjacent territory yester day afternoon. They too had a strenuous afternoon but came back well rewarded for their efforts. Cove citizens night before last met and decided to raise $760 in Cove and surrounding farm district. Yes terday morning the solicitors were out bright and early and kopt going ' all day in quest of Red Cross money. The national committe had not dole ; gated Cove with this duty but the ; people of the cherry distinct want to do their mite vory thoroughly, so in stituted a town-wido campaign. In ithat way more subscriptions, prob ably, will be obtained than if teams went out from La Grande or Union. Wheat Prices Drop Thirty Cents Today - 4 Portland, June 20. (United 4 Press) Wheat on the merch- 4 4 ants' exchange declined between 4 4 thirty and thirty-two cents per 4 bushel todav. This is the vrent. mU 4 est decline in history of the 4 i local wheat trade. The drop is 4 4 nrobablv due ton tha attemnt nf A - 1 - . f aeaiers no get quotations down J to new crop figures. Both club 4- 4 and bluestem are quoted at two 4 4 dollars. 4 444444$4I SURES URGED COAL AND COKE SITUATION WILL BE BIG PROBLEM IN TRANSPORTATION PRICES TO BE KEPT DOWN. RECOMMENDATIONS ARE VERY REVOLUTIONARY Production and Distribution of Coal and Coke To Be Conducted By a Pool in the Hands of a Government Agency. Washington, June 20. (United Press) A drastic war time govern ment control is urged for coal and coke transportation by the federal trade commission as the only adequate' remedy for the alarming coal price and supply situation. Recommenda tions made are the most revolution ary the commission ever submitted. The commission declares the coal sit uation threatens industries and indi viduals and it recommended that the production and distribution of coal and coke be conducted through a pool in tho hands of government agency. lhe commission recommended that all transportation agencies of the United States, 'both rail and water, be pooled and operated on govern ment account as a unit. EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA CONFRONTED WITH TASK London, June 20. (United Press) Emperor Charles, of Austria, is con fronted with the most difficult task since he has assumed the throne. Tho entire Austrian cabinet has resigned. Vienna dispatches, via Amsterdam, emphasized the difficulties the gov ernment must overcome to obtain a cabinet which all factions will sup port. Baggagemen Appeal . Service Commission Salem, June 20. (United Press) Baggagemen on the Oregon and Washington Railroad between Port land and Green River appealed to the Oregon Public Service commission for assistance in securing a reduction of hours. Baggagemen say that they arc on continuous duty for thirty-two hours and longer when trains are late. Their average working day is ten hours and twenty-six minutes they declared. Baggagemen and train electricians are not benefitted under the Adamson eight-hour law. Mrs.Turnbull Asks For Bread Regulation Salem, Ore., June 20. (United Press) Mrs. Millie Turnbull, repre senting the women's division of the state defense council, asked the pub lic service commission today to regu late the size of a loaf of bread. She declared that loaves vary greatly in weight. Mrs. Turnbull also said that the price of fish has soared beyond reasonable bounds and she urged that the commission regulate its price, the same as the price of electric light ond telephones is regulated. DRASTIC MEA BYC01ISS0 SUFFRAGETS SHED BY AS RUSSIAN COMMISSION EN TERS WHITE HOUSE SUF FRAGISTS FLAUNT BANNER CLAIMS WILSON AN OP PONENT OF DEM0CRAY Justice Department Starts Investiga tion To Find Out If First Line of Banner Contained Any Statement Which Is Treasonable. Washington, June 20. (United Press) Incensed at suffrage pickets, who flaunted denunciatory banners before the White House gates as the Russian1 commission entered, an angry mob of three hundred men and women. Unoatly government clerks, charged the suffragists and tore the banners to shreds. The banners read: "President Wil son in sending Root as an envoy to Russia is deceiving her. They say we are a democracy Help us win the world 'war so democracies may survive. We women of America, tell yoii America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. President Wilson is the chief opponent. Their nation' fran chisemcnt would help us make this nation really free. Tell our govern ment it must liberate its people be fore it can claim free Russia as an ally." The: Justice department started an investigation to determine whether there Is anything treasonable In the first line of the women's placard which accuses the President and Root of deceiving RubsIb. The state de partment is not determined whether the banner constituted a meddling in the delicate negotiations involving the government or not. WILL NOT BE Washigton, June 20. (United Press) The war department will as sign all conscripts to different branch es of the service at the department's discretion, Provost Marshal General Oowdcr announced. Men will not be allowed to pick service. Most conscripts will be assigned to the in fantry and in no case assigned to tho navv. General Crowder declared that there are two kinds of exemptions, permanent and occupational, lhe oc cupational exemptions will probably be conditional, exemption ceasinjr when the holder changes industry. LA GRANDE'S AND UNION COUN TY'S RED CROSS CAMPAIGN FUND EXCEPTING UNION AND ELGIN DISTRICTS 116,000 i ' . :i $10,000 $9,G34.43 (TODAY NOON) ? 5,000 . Y $ 3,000 1 ' $ 1,000 ' 1 o ,r ANGRY IB conscripts IN WATCH GLIB o (Continued on Page Six)