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LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1918 ',
NUMBER 120
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HINDENBURG
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LUDENDOKIF IS THE ACTUAL
GENERALISSIMO UNDER
GERMAN GENERAL
KAISER IN THE HANDS
OF THE MILITARY DESPOT
Correspondent of the London Mail
, Says Stories of Political Crisis in
Germany Are Purely .Military Pro
paganda. LONDON, Jim. 11. Frederic Weile,
n former Borlin correspondent of the
London Mail, snys the German crisis
stories are purely propaganda..
General Hindenburg is the supreme
dictator of Germany..
, -General Ludendorff is the nctual
generalissimo under Hindenburg,
whom popularity nssured success of
any moTO getting his aid.
Tin Kaiser is entirely in the hands
f ths militarist despots; the crown
princ is s steadfast Hindcnburgist.
Chancellor Hcrtling is Ilindenburg's
political manager; the foreign secre
tary ! permitted to do only what is
ordered.
. The Reichstag is merely a debating
society, their only vestige of power is
Toting funds.
; The food situation is bad, but not
near breaking.
Th German army is war weary,
bat so are the other armies. Gcr
jroiny won't stop fighting until made
to e militarism does not pay. Ger
many will not accept peace until de
feated. farmToan bill
passes house
McAIKK) AUTHOKIZUI) TO Ut V
2(IO,K)0,(MK) OK I'AKM
EOAN UONDS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. The
Housa adopted the conference rcpoit
authorizing Director-General Mc
Adoo to buy J200.000.000 worth or
farm loan bonds in the next two
years. The ScnaW agr.cd to the re
port. This action saes the loan sys
tom from disaster.
PQSTOFFIC
The year 1917 was a good year at
the La Grande posloffico. ' Post
master Bragg's annual report shows
that tho postal receipts for tho year
ending December 31. 1917, were
$2G,0O0, an increase of S1500, or C
per cent over the year ending Decem
ber SI. IS 16. The receipts for the
quarter ending December 31, 1917,
wore $8000, nn Increase or $1200
orcr tho same period of the year
191(1.
Tho amount of deposits on hand
in the postal savings bank on Jan
uary 1 wa3 $1750, showing a heal
thy increase over the previous year.
Tho La Grande posloffico Jurt now
has a new department, that of look
ing arter the sale of thrift slamps.
The office has received $7000 from
the sale of these war savings stamps,
of which $;!000 worth were sold ot
North Powder, $200 at Imbler and
$2000 at the La Grande office.
Go to War
ROSEISURG, Jan. 11. War forced
a business firm out of existence here
today, when the Douglas Jur.k & Hide
company announced it will close it
doors while the proprietors, M. Chuscd
and M. Wolff, go to war.
THE WEATHER
.J. PORTLAND, Jan. 11
J" V. 8. weather forecast:
J. or Snow."
The
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RECEIPTS SHOW
Afj INCREASE
Bill Proposes to
Take over Oil Lands
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.
Senator Swnnson has Intro
duced a bill authorizing Secre
tary Daniels to take over and
operate the California and
Wyoming oil reserves. The
bill Is backed by Secretary
Daniels, and seeks to settle a
. long controversy over private
claims in the reserve
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FOOT OF SNOW
3 FALL
RAILROAD HAS NO TROUBLE.
ROTARY SNOW PLOWS
NOT OUT YET
About a foot of snow has fallen
since last night. So far nonrotary
snow plows have been sent. out. There
nro fivo inches of snow nt Kemeln,
and nine inches ot Tclocaset, hut there
are no winds and no drifting, so that
the railroad has had no trouble. The
morning trains were both l::te, No. 17
being three hours late, bat tho delays
did not occur on this division and were
not due to snow.
Early this morning tho city street
department got to work, having side
walks cleared off and the gutters
cleaned out in the down town district.
ClTiZKXS l'K(il'.l) TO Al!)
IN I'OKICST PltOTIXTION
Agricultural Councils of Oregon L'ntiS
Itesolution.'i Calling for Support
of Government Policy.
CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 11.
(Special.) "Resolved that we, tho
Agricultural Councils or tho Slato
in convention assembled at O. A. C.
this 4th day of January, 1918, do
most earnestly urge on all loyal citi
zens the subordination and renun
ciation of any opinions held by said
citizens relative to proper methods of
fire protection whien are in conflict
with the policies promulgated by the
government for th protection and
conservation of its forest resources."
This resolution was handed to the
news editor of the College, by U. L.
Upson, president of tho council con
vention, with the explanation that
most of the heavy annual fire losses
would be prevented by following its
provision::.
The farmers of the State have
pledged themselves to cooperate with
all departments of the government
In its war program, and cooperation
will rave the losses from forest fires,
90 percent of which arc of incen
diary origin.
County Agents and county agricul
tural councils are called upon to ex
tend all the Influence they possess
to foster thin cooperation.
UOOL BOY '' PRAISED
J3Y PERSUING
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SYLVAN TAYLOR c
Private Taylor, Washington boy
who went to France with U. S.
engineers In Aurust, has been
commended by General Pershing
for coolness in action. His detach
ment was doing construction work
on a front line trench Nov. 10-16
when the sector was shelled, and
gassed by tho Boches.
Taylor and tho others worked
under the shell fire, suspending
operations only whllo they wero
compelled to wear their gas masks.
Taylor U 21 and enlisted In
July.,
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LATE NEWS BYWIRE ALLIES FACE :
RAILWAY AND FUEL DIRECTORS MEET (j f J CRISIS
WASHINGTON', Jan. 11.
working organization, tlio director general of railways
held a conference with Fuel Administrator Garfield to
consider plans looking to an immediate improvement in
the transportation of coal.
The ni'cds of New England find other sections that are
short of fuel were given first consideration to relieve suf
fering incident to the Mi.zard. As a consequence an order
was issucfl ordering the movement of coal trains eastward
ahead of all other freight.
To facilitate- the movement of coal the director general
is considering a plan of transferring locomotives from
the roads West and South for use on the busiest eastern
lines. With the equipment will also come employes to
assist the overburdened 1'Iast."
The fuel administration has delivered to the director
general of railway full data as to the sources from which
New I'higland coal moves, in order that shorter routing
may be adopted wherever possible. A. distribution sched
ule covering the North Atlantic states and eastern Ohio
has been worked out. This shows the various milling dis
tricts and the distribution lines along which coal must
move to points, of consumption. The effort of the fuel
administration will be to' eliminate, the cross' hauling of
coal. Specific coal-producing districts in West Virginia
and western Pennsylvania wilf be set aside to supply the
distributing- tenters in the North Atlantic states.
MEW PLAN WORKS WELL
V.'AfilMNGTON', Jan. II. The reports received froin
Deputy Fuel Distributor D. R. L-iwson of Fairmont,
W. V;., show thi't. ilie-new plan of tlir fuel administra
tion of dci-eiitra'iziiig the distribution of emergency order;;
for eoal is working admirably. Under the new plan every
mine in the district has been receiving at least partial
supplies of cars, and the daily loss of tonnage, which for
merlv ranged from :!2,)()0 to :;S,0()() tons, has been reduced
to from loOO to 2")()() tons.
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SERBIAN LEGATION IW WAR TIME3
V.WKlIIX.iTOV, Jan. 11. Italy had her vit-ion of an
Italia Irriiieiita; Greece still cherished The Great Idea,
and other Fuiopean nations hare "dreams that never can
come true."
Hut, while, then1 statesmen like to talk about national
aspirations in hushed tones and "not, for publication,"
there is no false modesty ev ident at the Serbian legation,
the home of the Jugoslav Confederation.
Serbia aspires to be-on;e the dominating power in the
I'alkans.. Her statesmen remember heroic Serbia in the
days before the Turkish tide swept over the Ralkans to
the gates of Dudapest. The- remember how Serbia ahme
refused to vield to the Ottoman yoke and her bitter strug-
(Continued on
AT BELSHAZZAR'S FEASTJ
Co m
Promptly after uffi'irthig a
I'atre Two)
w Aoecamc!i
IN THE WES!
WIXSTON CHI IM'IIILL SAYS COM-
iNC iia itli; will m;
Alt.MAUKDDON
GERMANS ARE HEAVILY
REINFORCING THEIR LINES
Only Vehement American Action On
a Itig Sciilo ('nil Save Uio Day
Allies A 10 Confident of Victory.
LONDON, Jan. 11.- Winston
Churchill, addressing tho American
Club, declared tho allies am at a
great crisis, solvable only by rohe
inent American action on tho larg
est scale ever planned.
He said tho unceasing flenuan re
inforcing on the west front Indicated
the worst Armageddon In history
was coming, but tho allies aro con
fident of tho result.
; :,i;r imaciiinkiiy do itj
i ' NKW Sl,)(i.N Oh' l-'Alt.MHIt
l.alior Sliiirl.'iei! Tails for Mmli Whi
rr I sc of Iniiiiovt-d I'artll Mnrh-inm-y
on Oregon rrmM.
COltVALI.IH, Ore., Jan. 11.
(Special.) It's always handy to
have some one or r.omcthltm to pass
the hnrlt to In limn of tronhte, and
fnrm machinery In looked to an the
coat by Ko-ihead fanners in many
parts of Oregon. ItlKKor crops than
over before with scarcer and higher
priced labor than e?er before quite
evidently can be raised In no other
way.
Tractors for plowInK and harrow
In, combines for harrentlnK nd
threphliiK the grain crops, and hulk
elevators for handling the grain, are
the types most counted on for doing
the work of tho rami help railed to
On. douches or other lines of service.
! Milking tuachlneB are also being In
! trnduced In large numbers into tho
dairy districts of the State.
Kami tractor deiiirrs put 21 tract
orH, big and little, Into the Karmnrs
Week demonstrations at the College,
to give farmers a chance to seo and
rtudy them and pick nut the ones
lir-st suited to their use, This In
dicates the strength of the demand
I hey cxp"ct. Th" College farm me
chanics department Is conducting a
four-week tractor course, to train
farmers and farm help In using and
caring for the big machines.
GERMANY REFUSES TO
EET RUSS
Russian Foreign Minister Trotsky Moves to
Conclude the Meeting. . German Delegates
Blame Allies for Failure t o Participate in
General Peace Conference.
Russian Delegates Charged With
Inciting German Troops to Revolt
Official Statement Says Russian and Ukrainian Delegates
' Are to Formulate Answers to the Teutonic Proposals.
War Preparations Are Resumed and Troops . Ordered
to.Their Posts Occupied Before the Revolution.
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 11. The Brest Litovsk German,
Russian peace eonferenee terminates.- '
t was suspended yesterday when the Germans flatly
refused to transfer the negotiations to neutral soil, Trotsky
moving tho conclusion of the meeting. - ; - -
The German delegates announced plans for a general
peace meeting was definitely off wj the result of the allies'
failure to respond within ten days, to an invitation to par
ticipate, so the central power are seeking only a separate
peace. The Germans charged, the Russian officials wire
lessed the' German troops, urging a revolt. Tho meeting
was bitter. J ' ." y- -: ' ' ;
11?l,R.nm?.AT .Tiin 11.
Trotsky asked the suspension
tne Jtussiati-UKrainian ueiegates were aoie u Lormuiate
a reply to the Teutonic proposals, according to an official
statement.
It is reported Trotsky told the conference Russia would
not agree to a German planned peace. War preparations
have been resumed, officers ordered to ante-revolution
posts, and troops are preparing for service.
No Stock Dividends Permitted in Russia
POTR.OG RAD, Jan. It. The Dolsheviki suspended
payments by private companies of dividends, and pro
hibited stock transactions, pending the nationalizing of.
business and the determination of the interest rate.
CREW OF JONES
COOL AND HEROIC
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. -Tim re
port of Lieutenant Oomiuandor Itat!
loy on tho tornoilooinK of tho de
stroyer Jones HhowK that heroic
HtlckliiK to posts inniio poHXlhlo the
t'oscuo of 4 4 memborrt of his crew.
Tho destroyer sank cltiht minutes
after helnu hit. The men's coolneas
was hlKhly praised.
U Elt.M AN ("HAN CHI.U lit
WILL A NKW Kit ADDlllOSSRS
I1EUMN, Jan. 1 1 Chancellor llert
lintf will probably reply to l.loyd
George's and President Wilson's ad
dresses in his Reichstag speech Mon
day.
Sweaters for Camii l.cwin
CAMP LEWIS, Wash., Jan. 11.
Soon there will be sweaters galnro in
this cantonment. A shipment of 17,000
garments, knitted by Red Cross mem
bers on the Pnrific Coast, are expected
within a few days, for distribution to
the men not provided for already. The
oigamzatinn has distributed 10,01)0
swenters here already, and the new
distribution, together with the receipt
of sweaters from relatives and sweet
hearts by many men, will enable
every enlisted man in camp to sport a
knitted garment.
Pendleton Has Home Ouards
. PKNOLETON, Jan. II. Pendle
ton's home gunrd unit has anneved
considerable territory. Known orti
! chilly as the Umatilla County Cuurd,
I it htis been given official recognition
by the State of Oregon, nnl it is fully
equipped and armed. The Pendleton
reserves and n number of promising
recruit comprise the unit, which is
commanded by Captain I,ce I). Drake.
Russian Fornism .Ministrtr .
of the peace conference until
BOTH PARTIES HELPED
SL'PFRACK AMENDMENT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 The Na
tional woman suffrage association is
sued a statement that tho passage of
suffrage was due to neither party hut
to friends of tho movement in all par
ties. This is to forestall tho possibil
ity that both parties are seeking to
ninko political capitaU The women
aro working for immediate bonato
action.
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"TRUST riMITIT TO
MOVE FKJSIGllT"
iptiwqawjwiwwy.-'y
in
ALFREDH.5M1TH
A If red It. Smith, McAdoo'g first
assistant, tho man who will bo In
direct charge of tho operation of
oil Oio railroads In tho country. Is
nut a "front otlico maii." Ho knows
lallroadliig from tho ground up.
There aro other lallroad offtclal3
win are bettor financiers, bettor
engineers, or clovoror politicians;
but when It comes to getting Indie)
over the tricks they all tako eff
their h"" to SuiiUu
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