La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 17, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textm mtm PHONE OBSERVER YOUR WANT ADS. MAIN 37 1 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PRINTS THE NEWS THE DAY IT HAPPENS PHONE THE OBSERVER YOUR NEWS. MAIN r. TOLUME XVII LA GRANDE, OREGON, . THUKSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1918 NUMBER 125 VAL DEMANDED COLLECTION OF CITY LIENS IS DISCUSSED CITY ATTORNEY AND CITY MAN AGER ARE INSTRUCTED TO PROCEED Many Property Owners Are Paying Amounts Due Contract for Crave) I.i't Firemen Wnnt Curfew Bells Discontinued Contract for City Dump Let City Manager's Report. The City Commission mut last night President MrKcnnun in the chair nnc. Messrs. Brownton and Palmer being present. The commission discussed at some length tho methods of collection of past duo improvement assessments and interest. The city nttorney nnd city manager reported thut they were proceeding vigorously, Bending out notices to nil delinquents, and follow ing tho procedure of tho charter. Many of tho property owners arc pro ceeding to cleas off their liens in ordei to avoid foreclosure proceedings. The contract for snivel to tho-cemetery road was awarded to Mr. Mc Murray at $1.24 per cubic yard. Six bids wore received, ranging from $1.24 to 1.25. A petition was received from the volunteer firemen, asking that use of the fire alarm system for curfew sig nals be discontinued. This was re ferred to the city manager for addi tional information. Tho contract for tho city dump was entored into with William Hotho. The dump will be located at the end of North Fourth street. Tho city manager's report was rend as follcws: January 1G, 1918. To the Honorablo Commission, City of La Grando, Oregon Gentlemen: I herewith submit my report for the week as follows: Fire chief reports one fire for the week; call came from Box !)!". O.-AV. R. & N. outfit car was on fire. Fire resulted from over-heated coal stove. Location of car was such that fire hose had to be laid over the viaduct and then down to scene of fire, GOO feet of hose being laid; 11 volunteers respond ed to the call at a cost to the city of $11. The chief of police reports two ar rests for tho week. These arrests were mado as n result of the hold-up at tho Silver Grill. Prisoners were turned over to tho stale the morning following orrcst. One was held to ap pear before tho Circuit Court, the other wns discharged for lack of evi denco sufficient to convict. Amount of fines, $10. This fine was paid by prisoner arrested in the preceding week. Three individual lights reported out and on tho night of the 12th nil lights north of track and west of Fir street went out shortly after 2 o'clock and remained out balance of the night. On the night of the i:ilh, all arcs north of Spring street and west ol Fir street went out about the same time and remained out during the night. Water and street superintendent ro- (Contlnued on Pago G.) o La Grande Girls Enlist In Red Cross Hospital MISS ELLEN GRADY AND MIS? ETHEL GULLING KM'fccr ORDERS TO LEAVE Two of La Grande's well-known young women have enlisted with the Oregon I(cl I ross oase nospimi. i ney are Miss Ellen Grady and Miss Ethel Gulling. The former will go as nurse and the latter ns a stenographer. This work is just as important as the soldiers, and the young women are entitled to jutt ns much credit ns the bovs who have gone to the front. . Whereas the soldiers arc furnished their equipment by the government, the Red Cross young women furnish their own outfits at an expense of about 525(1 each. Some of thp leading women of the city are planning a testimonial bene fit for the purpose of contributing to ward the equipment of La Grande's two representatives. Orders to leave for the front are expected soon. TWO SONS IN HER COUNTRY'S SERVICE .4 LA GRANDE, Jan. 17 (To 4 tho Observer.) --Seeing tho notico desiring the names and addresses or the Union conn- 4 ty men In tho U. S. army or ! navy I write to state that I have a son in tho lBt U. 8. cavalry and one In tho U. S. navy. Albert L. Workman Is J- in Uio 1st U. S. Cavalry, F 4. troop, Fort Douglas, Arizona; J and Win. B. Workman, U. S. 4 Navul Training Station, Marc .J. Island, Calif., lllnttallon 133. .J. . MRS. SARAH WORKMAN, .J. 1315 Jackzon Ave, La Grande. 4 j j j j j j j j j j j SENATE 10 SEND FOR GARFIELD I'TEL AD.Ml.MSTIIATlOX WILL 111- ASKED TO EXPLAIN HIS DHAST1C OltDElt WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. The Senate sub-committee investigating tho coal situation haa decided to summon Fuol Administrator Gar field immediately to explain his dras tic order. Senators Hitchcock and Gallinger introduced a resolution asking Garfield to delay his order five days in order to allow protests to be heard and Investigations mado. Members of both houses aro amazed and mnny indignantly say tho order is calamitous. Garfield May Have to Post pone His Order VIOLENT PROTESTS AND LACK OF LEGAL AUTHORITY CAUSE RECONSIDERATION WASHIXGTON, Jan. 17. The Semite niloiteil a resolution to post- pono tho fuel unlor live dnjs. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. Cnurfit in the whirlpool of business confu sion and dismay, Fuel Administrator Garfield this afternoon sought to draft an mleliiblc order as to the suspen sion of industries. Not since tho war beijan hus there been such violent protests over n gov ernment order. Garfield, consulting attorneys ami onftressmen, wns told everywhere he i hasn't the needed authority to exc-1 cute his proirrnm. Garfield admits it I may lie necessary to postpone the execution of his order nt midnicht. ' WEST WILL ME PORTLAND, Jan. 17. Oswald West iroes to Washington today to induce government to jbin Oregon lis n party in the suit to recover 15,000 acres of land the state failed to recover in the recent victory in the Hyde land suits. ADVERTISING FIRMS MERGfl PORTLAND, Jan. 17. (Special.) Through a consolidation of interests nnd a combining of forces of two of the best-known advertising ngcncles in Portland, all of their energies and activities Will be centered in one, un der the name of the Dotsford-Tylcr Company. Former competitors in business, their reorganized staff will now co-ordinate their efforts, which consist largely of the exploitation through newspaper and magazine space of Oregon-made goods, several lines of which they have helped to make famous. The agencies which have combined their forces nre the Dcute-Tylcr Com pany nnd the Eotsford Advertising Company, both of Portland. P. S. Tyler, David M. Botsford, W, K. Rots ford nnd A. E. Iiloch, all well known in the advertising and business world, arc prominent among thoRe who will be heads of departments in the new company. Progressives Are Out .SALEM, Jan. 17. (Special.) The Progressive party will not be entitled to have n ballot in the primary elec tion in May. GERMAN PRISONERS 1 i-Tntr- V-r 'i ff' Ttft''fWWlifotfiniri "nrii.iiiiiw mm MR HAS ITS EFFECT ON FllTEKN MOttB MAItltlAGIi LI- CENSES lSHl'ED IN 11)17 THAN IN 11)10 The war lias evidently had its ef fect oil the number of 'marriaKo li censes issued in Union county duriny the year 1917. According to the rec ords of County Clerk Kenneth Mc Cormick, 15 more licenses were is sued in this county in 1917 than in 191U. A perusal' of the license book falls to show how many of -tho sold iers were niai riedi during the your as it appears that most of them In procuring their licenses ; gave tholr civil occupations', only .a few otill-; lug that they were soldiers. by occu pation, but it is known that a large number of the . Union county boys now In service have, married during tho year. . . ' . The total number of licences Is sued by the clerk during the year just past was 19fi as compared wttn 181 in 1910. The-record for each month during both years follow.!: . 1916 HU7 January 13 it February 12 9 March .1C- 1U April . 0 21 May . ; 9 15 Juno IX 2D July i 10 17 August 12 17 September 17 27 October 21 13 November 19 1U December 22 ltl Total .1SI iyi; NEW POLITICAL PARTY ENTERS THE MELD I COLU.MUUS, O., Jan. 17. A new political party ,in Ohio, made up of Prohibitionists, Progressives and So cialists who have withdrawn from the Socialist party because of its anti-war stand, was launched at a meeting here . today. Delegates were to be selected to morrow for a meeting of the New Party in Chicago next summer. ' Complete state and congress! iv;l tickets will likely be put in tho field at the next election. Womnn suffrage, prohibition and patriotism are to be the. principal planks of the New Party. Army Hank Money Found rlMH L'tlVKTOV Kiin.. .Tun. 17. The money taken from-the Army bank at Camp Funston by Captain Lewis Whislcr, said to have been more than t2,000, wns found yesterday hidden in the walls of Whislcr's ijuartors in the barracks here. Captain Whisler evidently had pro pared for It. The finding of the money, it was said, probably closes tne case as far as the accomplice-theory is concerned. IN UNITED STATES MAKE TOY SOLDIERS Turkestan Proclaims Republic STOCKHOLM, Jan.-17. It is reported Turkestan liWlaitiied its independence ns a republic;, allied with a 1 ... .. nil l I...1 it. 1 i Turkish coinctlcraimn. me scneiiie iiichkics a hldiiuiu medaii general congress, appointed by the provisional tyovciiHiient. o . . Six Killed On U. S. Battleship WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. Six .were killed and three injured when the battleship Michitfiui's foremast toppled over duriiu;' it heavy gale at sea Tuesday, Secretary 'Daniels announced. ' 1 ' . German Officers Reported Killed LONDON. Jan. 17. A dispatch in the Express says thii'ly-ciglil -German officers were killed in a recent mut iny of the German naval fmves at Kiel. o Packing Plants In The East Close CHICAGO. Jan partments not producing peris rovernnient run unless (!k -o- INDUSTRIAL STOCKS GENERALLY DECLINE NKW YOUK, Jan. 17. Industrial stocks generally dc-lined todav as the result of the fuel administrators order to close industrial establishments five (lays on ae .iiiint of the fuel shortage. GENERAL HAIG REPORTS RAIDS LONDON, Jan. 17. General llaig reported a success fnl British raid north of St. Quentin. The enemy is artil lervitig in the Ypres sector. . Hulk Oriiln Convent Ion. (United Press.) SPOKANE, Wnfli., Jan. 17. A r rangeiiieiils an' bi-ing made to ac comodate a large uallo-ring lit the bulk grain convention to be held in Spokane, January 25 nnd 2 i nt the chamber of coioineico ar.Beinbly rooms. Crowois, dealers, shippers, Insnodoir.' and county agent nre showing much interest in the meet ing. The chief dcisioii will be up on the question "How Shall the 19m Grain Crop of th" Inland Empire be Handled?" Oilier hiiliiecti- of Im portance to be considered include "The tirain Sack Sltuulion," "Avail able Storage nt .Const Terminals In 1911," "Incre.is' d Food Produc tion." "firadlng and Inspection Rules," "Labor on the Farm." The last subject will probably r.mk near ly as important n the chief subject. ' ! LIKE KAISER'S OWN I A member of Hie Prinz Eitcl Frederick, prisoner of war nt Ft. McPhenon, Ga.,' who has spent Ms idle moments making toy soldiers fashioned , after, the well known Gerinan ' model, helmet 'and all, Other prisoners make toy . battleships,'? sailing ,ves sels and miniature can non,, : 17. Packing lantsHos'(l m ail ue 'imr iter islialile foodstuffs. These will orders them to close. Murines Have Group Mchsm (United Press.) WASHINGTON. Jan. 17. After lif-inf roimirlled to dine in tho com niirniive solitude of their own billets I aemnu'here on the battle front in ' France, officers of the United States j Marine Corps and their associates ! have formed irroun messes, where nothing but harmony anrt rooh com radeship prevail. A nnvv rhanlnin. nrencher. bishop and Y. M. C. A. secretary are seated nt ths table. A correspondent to Washington headquarters states that, whatever the iirovoration. there is never nnv swenrinff at the rook, and the deportment of everyone ' D"yono the slightest criticism. o Kygsa fiG per cent of ditch work for Nvssa-Arcadla drainage district completed. 5 AMERICA TESTS AT CLOSING ORDER Business Men Object Action Suspending FUEL By Kobcrt WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. violently protesting at Fuel Administrator Garfield's order virtually suspending the operations of the eastern half -of the nation's great plants. U utter an avalanche of hundreds ol thousands of tele grams, Garfield is planning ting the order m eitect at reveal dismay, confusion, charges of inefficiency, 'unbe lief that the step is necessary. . . Telegrams are Hooding the revocation of the order, Garfield's removal, and de claring the upset of industries is dangerous nationally and internationally. : , ' ' Hie fuel administration power by saying the Lever of fuel. Conferences of Garfield and the shppincr board resulted in a declaration some steel plants must close, as sufficient supplies are, enroute to the shipyards. . Hundreds of questions to thousands of the affected communities and caused general confusion. - Garheld explained the only the eastern half of the ndnnnistrators are empowered to .rnfOree ft fuel holiday 1.1. i . . ' 1 mere aiso. .. , lie said for the present ' for information. Ho said the order was solely for f"-' restrictions. Business offices, etc., wishing to ... ien and not use coal can do so. Garfield amended his original order m il u ill he-el'lcc- tive midnight instead of this morning, allowing plants to prepare. HEAVY LOSS OF WAGES CHICAGO, Jan. 17. A million and a half of Jl-nois, workingmen and women will be affected by the fuel order and loss of wages and income, of approximately four aJid a half million dollars daily will result. Business men and relief workers believe a week POORER CLASS IN NEW YORK WILL SUFFER NKW YOUK, Jan. 17. will cost New York State workers ninety-five million dol lars in wages. The poorer classes will be near starvation its many live from hand to Sun condemn the order. II. 8. WAIt HIU.S KXCKF.I) EXPKNSKS I'OK CENTURY (United Press.) WAK1HNOTON. Jan. 17. Aniiro- nrint. inriH bv 'Conirress durinir tho last und present sessions will approximate $.'15,000,000,000 or $9,000,000,001) more than tho $26,000,000,000 appropriates liir r'miirrcxH from Georiro Washing ton's administration up to March, 1017, covering all expenses ol me rov ...nn,ni inebifliiti. the costs of the Civil, Mexican, Spanish-American wars and the war of 181'J. ln other words, theso two Con ,.mn. will have impropriated $!',- 000,000,000 more than was appropri ated in the whole lliH years ol ine nation's history up to tho timo of America's entrance into the world war. Driven to lie Regulated .V,,. 1 IC.OIMhM fUltlliAHI'i dno. VI' The committee on co-ordination of - . ... . :i ..t li,,r.,Maf work of the huue louii " - and the Portland War Kmea'onsy ..-.I.... nl.rhl in Council at a mecuoK i u -vj .....- the Northtvestcrn Hank buildini? decid ed by resolution that after tho present .. ... r f '..i.....t.a (Irlvp. the an- Kni;nis "i viu . : . r . I m mm, would lie proval oi wm ii civen to those scckimr to conduct . .. .... i iKnl thpv drives on tne uimcrnu. -; - . .i nnlninl for which he limiieu m mt . - -they ask, plus a sum not to exceed 10 per cent nuuiuuum. o Olcolt Will Kun SAI.KM. Jn. Siwcinl.) Secre tary of State Olcott, in response to inquiries, is Informing his Pe'jJ friends in many l-nrts of the sta U that he will become a candidate for the Uepulilican nomum""" n nor at the primaries next May. to Fuel Administrator's Industries In the East J. Bender Industrial America arose with his state aides for put midnight. Business protests the White House, demanding answered charges of usurping bill authorizes the restriction reveal tho order is not clear ' : . . ' " Monday holiday order affects nation, , but the western fuel all must rely on newspapers s notice should be given. The five-day closing period mouth. All papers but the Germans Do Not Accept Peace Terms REMOVAL OF TROOPS FROM THE CONQUERED TERRITORY IS DECLARED IMPOSSIBLE LONDON, Jan. 17. Berlin wireless messages assert the Central powers' peace delegates formally notified the Russians their proposals for the re moval of German troops from Cour Innd, Poland and Lithuania while these sections were voting on a future gov ernment were not acceptable, holding the withdrawal of tho armies impos sible while tho war lasts, but promis ing an endeavor to reduco the number of troops. They said the Teutons wcro "willing in a benevolent spirit to ex amine tho question of the return of refugees.'' Portland W. U. II. Dodson, sec rotary Chamber of Commerce, Is making an effort to. secure develop ment of flax Industry to help out In linen shortage for 1rpIano wings. THE WEATHER 4- PORTLAND. Jon. 17. rno p J U. S. weathor bureau forecast: 4 i "Rain." 4 .t. ' 4.