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VOLUME XVII
'LA GRANDE, OREGON,. SATURDAY) JANUARY 19, 1918
NUMBER 127
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STREETRIOTS
BREAK OUI IN
PETROGRAD
SEVERAL ARE KILLED AND
MANY WOUNDED WHEN .
ASSEMBLY OPENS
COUNTER REVOLUTIONARY
ATTACH DISCOVERED
Kerenaky Ih ltcpnrted to He in Hiding
and at Bottom of Plot Kerensky's
Minister President, of Assembly.
I.O.NOON, Jan. If) Petrograd
uIivU'skos (hut the Bolshevik! fac
tion, comprising the left wine "f the
Social ilcvoliilioi.aiic.s, have with
drawn from the constituent assem
bly. PETROGRAD, Jan. 18, via London.
(Delayed. )-rScvcral were killed and
many wounded in street fighting co
incident with the opening of the con
stituent assembly.
Many troops are here, following the
announcement of the discovery of a
counter revolutionary plot believed to
have Korcnsky'ut the head.
Kerensky and two former lieuten
ants are reported In hiding here.
Tho fighting occurred prior to the
assembly's opening.
.Stories of the cause differ, but it is
understood the Bolsheviki troops in
stopping the procession of the As
sembly Defense Society killed people
instead of firing in the air as ordered,
Many women were wounded.
M. T. Chcrnoff. a social revolution-
ary and Korensky's minister of ngri-ithe
culture, was elected president of the
nsscmbly.
The Soldiers-Workmen's soviet or
. dercd the workmen to pursuo their
occupations.
Troops are stationed everywhere.
Sailors are assisting in the patrols.
Situation Is
Now Quiet In
Vladivostock
TOKIO, Jan. 10. Japanese cruis
ers have arrived in Vladivostok to
protect foreign lives and properly.
Allied citizens and leading Russians
wildly cheered. Tho situation is
inet. -mere Is plenty or food, mil
tho unrest makes tho precaution o sai(1. ..0ul. (.hannel' ports are not
necessary. A British cruiser has aho.far from tho fi(,htinp Hue, and unless
arrived there. . I nrc prc,)are(i to stand up to the
I people who nrc dominating Germany,
CAHItllill IJOYS CONTES1 Ilritnin, British democracy, French
Folowlng aro tho standings in tho
Observer's Carrion! contest: No. 1,
Leo Dalan, route 1-A; No. 2, Clark
1'rlco, route 2-li; No. I!, Owen Price,
route It; No. 4, Itoy Wilcox, routo 0.
T.oo Dalan stands at the head of the
'Hat this week with the two Price
boys following in second and third
place. Itoy Wilcox comes fourth.
Big bodies move slowly. Apparently
tho rest of the crowd were caught
asleep at the post. However they
may have something up their sleeves
and surprise the crowd next week
whont they wake up.
FRENCH TROOPS METHODICALLY
BLIND GEBil ARMIES
Enemy Observation Points are System
atically Eliminated-Schonhalz, Fam
ous , German Spy Glass Point First
One Captured.
IJy W. R. FORREST
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
with Tin; French armies in
THE FIELD, Dec. 1 5 ( Lly Mail. )
French troops are methodically
taking away the German spyglasses.
Olio by one the enemy observation
points or advantageous positions
have been carefully spotted by the i fully fortified Oernian salient Juttinu
French command and effectively j into the French llnrs In Als.-ire, serv
ellniinatcd. Through French offir- Inr the double purpose of Oernian
ial communiques issued have regirt- observation of the French orgnniza
ered merely local actions these have lions and preventing the French see
had for the main objective that of Ing in the direction of Altkirch. On
snatching the binoculars from the
Teuton eyes. '
A brief artillery preparation, a
shrill whistle in the fiist line
trencher, and the "poiius" have
bounded "over the top" in actions
of signal importance in Alsace, North
Russians Will Not .
Let Czar's Family Go
, PETKOGRAD, Jnn. 19. Rus-
I sinn peace delegates refused the
4 German request that the Bolshe-
viki allow the ex-czarina and the 4
! other members of the imperial
J family related to the Kaiser to
J go to Germany. 4"
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5 2 ! ! I J J I t J t
ALLIES PREPARE
TO 1EET 1ST
BUIT1SH MANPOWER BILL
ANSWER TO GERMAN YS
THREATENED DRIVE
IS
COAL ORDER MAY BE
PART OF THE PLAN
Gcrmany'i .Temporary Advantage by
Shifting Men to West Front Will
Be Offset by Gathering Men and
Supplies.
WASHINGTON, . Jan. 1!). Amer
ican and ul lied officials are con
vinced the German militarists are
firmly entrenched and propose to an
owcr President Wilson and Premier
Lloyd George with a west front drive.
This is the way the experts in-
jterpretcd Lloyd George's warning to
labor, and they also see a connection
between the west front situation and
Garfield coal order to hasten
i transports.
All indications are there will be no
concessions now.
The British manpower bill is in
tended to give sufficient men tem
porarily to offset the German tem
porary advantage from shifting men
from tho cast.
H is framed to offset any German
thought that tho allies may be weak-
enirr; In heir purpose of continuing
until their aims are accomplished.
The political offensive is to continue
to sway Russia and Austria to tho al
lied idea, but more attention will be
given to getting men and supplies to
offset the German militarists.
LONDON, Jan. 19. Premier Lloyd
George, addressing the Labor dele
gates yesterday, said no man standing
on the watch tower could deny the
urgency of the need for raising more
men. lie declared that no democracy
has ever long survived the failure of
,,..,. tn i, rPa,iv . ,iic for if.
democracy and the democracy of Eur
ope will be at the mercy of the most
cruel military autocracy tho world has
ever seen."
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T. (iriffitli Appointed.
PORTLAND, Jan. 13. (Special.)
For tho position of state director
of the United Stales public service
reserve, Franklin T. Griffith, presi
dent of the Portland Railway. Light
& Power company, has been selected
by I. W. Litchfield, associate direct
or of the service, and his name for
warded to Secretary of Labor Wilson
for official ratification.
of the Clu'iiiln iles Dailies and North
of Verdun at Hill 344. Neaily 1400
prisoners nnd valuable war material
is the "by-product" of these local,
stiategiral drives.
Spy Oiuwi Sei.ed.
The first '"ppy-glass" seizure was
inai 01 ine "Hrnonliolz," a power-
the afternoon of Nov. '
but violent artillery
after a brief j
preparation.
three rompr.r.les of French Chasseurs j
Blue Devils attacked the flrhon-
holz. c-niiipleiely wiping out the sal-
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FRONT DRIVE
"Vhal hannens when one of Uncle
and gunners arc at their places. The
"boom!" And Uncle Sam's Buhnera
up where the submarine went down.
up 10 ooservo tne cuect 01 the snot.
Garfield Has
Modified His
SAW MILLS FILLING SHIP CON
TRACTS ARE EXEMPT
FROM EDICT
WASHINGTON," 'Jan. 19. At the
request of the shipping board. Fuel
Administrator Garfield exempted saw
mills filling ship contracts from the
fuelless order.
WASHINGTON,--Jan. 1!). It is
learned the Garfield order establish
ing priorities in the distribution of
coal can continuo after the five-day
period, until Garfield rescinds it. It
may last until the congestion is re
lieved. Many industries have a small
chance of getting more coal. Laun
dries arc exempt.
ItlSINUSS MUX KKl'ONCILHD
Coal Order Is Accepted and File! Is
Now .Moving to Neaboai-d.
WASHINGTON.. Jan. 1 a Americ
an patriotism and optimism' turned
from protesting at the -Garfield order
to pushing coal toward tho seaboard.
Some business men granted exemp
tions refused to accept anil closed
their industries in order to help the
Measure. Congress has cooled off
and resumed work. Coal is now
moving. -.
Surpass I.ib;rty Motor.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. f fjpecinl.)
Experts under the aircraft Pruduc-
lion Hoard are at work, it was learned-
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today, upon an engine that is expected
to surpass the Liberty motor in power.
while reta.ninc all tha qualities lor
which the Liberty is noted.
Socialist Pi-:pi!uidi! Dunned.
WASHINGTON. Jan. IS. Orders
forbidding all Socialist propaganda
In the Gein.an army have been Issued
by tho Gorman military authorities,
according to a dispatch from Switzer
land. .
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.lupanosc Ambassador fines Home.
A PACIFIC POUT, Jan. 19. Dr.
All, nun Sato. .11, panes'" ambassador
to the United Sl.itei: :,f rived here yesterday-
enroule fronf Washington lo
Tokio. The object of his t.lp, ho
asserted, he did not know.
To He Promoted
WASHINGTON, Jan. HI. (Special.)
Eighteen thousand temporary sec
ond lieutenants in the regular army,
were made eligible for promotion to
first lieutenants in the national army ,
by a war department older. j
o j
fiuard Ship Building Plan!
PORTLAND, Jan.-10. (Special.)
Mayor Baker h.-s placed guards nt all
ine snip ouiioing piaois, ool-ks hmu
' wharves. i
A PERISCOPE IS SIGHTED!
Sams slims siirhts a penscono?' This
"man behind" the range i inner is busy
arc tho best marksmen in the world.
Note the officer at the rail, to the left
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Four Stalwart Sons
Serve Uncle Sam
Ml!
AM) iMI!S. .1 AM ICS nitOWN
A II IS I'ltoriJ PA RUNTS
Nell 8. 11m! ,laincs". Krown Are In
the .Marines, Fred II. Hroivn Ik In
(he Artillery, and William II.
Ki-own Is In the Ariiiy.
. Mrs. James Erown, of ISOfi X
nvenuo Is proud of tho fart that foor
of her stalwart sons are serving
Uncle SiinCand says that if it were
not for the fact that the baby of the
family a sturdy school boy of 12
roi 11 Ires her care she would bo In
France as a nurse.
James Urown, her husbnnd. agrees
with her. Mr. llrown -Is employe I
In the O.-W. shops and Is doing Ills
bit there in helping to keep r.ho roll
ing stock and the machinery in order
that carries food, provisions and
other supplies to his four boys nnd
their million anil a half comrades.
The mother of these four lads
Nell S., who is in tho Sth regiment
of Marines; James 1)., who Is also
In the Marines; Fled II., who Is In
the Artillery, "Somewhere in France'
and Wm. II. who Is In the Army at
Fort .Crocket, Texas in 1111 old pion
eer. Mis. Drown It; a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Wilson who crossed
the plains in 1X4.1 and settled in
DotieJas county. Oregon. ll"r
mother, Mrs. Wilson. Is still alive
and a halo and nearly lady of Kfi,
nnd lives at Drain.
lire. Drown Is 11 native daughter
of Oregon, was born in Douglas
county and removed from then- to
La Grande 1S yeris ago with her
husband and fnml'y. They have five
sons and five daiicblers and father
and mother; the boys and girls are
everyone of them doing their full
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rroud of their boys? Yes. Re- ?-!.. now under way, feel it porll
gret their Joining the Army to fight, "ft t 'lUoto from a recent I ortland
for the betterment of the world? No. 1
"We give our boys to the cause,"
said Mrs. Drown. "'Naturally we I
hated to pee them ivf; we nibs them i
terribly, but we are proud of our j
boys; we me proud to know that
they arc doing their duty to their j
roiinu y bum Mum .u,..,.. .......
tions rjom the boironi or Prussian
Ki.lt.ir. We pray that Ihev may all
re.,.,-,, safelv tn but If any of
Uiem give their lives for their conn-
y Ihev have but dune, their duty to
humanily and we mr,t I r our sf-
fe,in ss ...say. mnny tbonsands of
n.otbe.s and fathers, brothers and
sisters are at (he present moment,
Yes, wo aiT all pioud of our four
big boys."
Germany tt Suffering
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"lany is reported suffering a fuel nnd ,
fo'l shortage. 1
LONDON, Jnn. 111. (Special.) Or
i
THii WjAIilll.iC . I
).. POT'TI.ANI), Jan. IP. Tho 'I- told agonies and is now being extcr-
;.t. ITni'ed Stiles weather forecast: ''mlnnted. Not less than 1.000,(100 Ar-
'4, 'i.-air."
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nicturc is thn answer. Tho sailors
in an instant. Next thing you know
If a hit is scored, oil and bubbles como
of tho range finder, with his glasses
WILL PRESS
MINISTER OF MUNITIONS AND
WAR COUNCIL TO HE
CREATED
WASHINGTON, Jnn. 19. Senator
Chamberlain completed his plans to
prcsn for immediate action on his bills
creating a Minister of Munitions and
a war council.
The military committee will then
continue its Investigations, consider
ing the aerial and medical corps and
cantonments.
The war council will consist of Sec
retary of War linker, Secretary of the
Navy Daniels and one to three expo-
riunccd business men, responsible only
to the President.
It is believed tho House will be
harder to swing into line on this cen
tralization, though the idea is steadily
gaining there.
fflSMES TO LB
Secretary of Armenian KulScf Makes
Strong Appeal for Starving Itnce
' 'ny 1,11 ura .e peopie n.e
.expressed (he holier that the suffering
a 1 ni n 1 11 lis arc ii iK'irfiicruLu uir:umb
,ho mIinI1I?era of .hc TOUnl- drive for
paper in this connection, which says
anions other things:
"It was a stirrinK message which
Dr. J. P. McNauKhton, executive Hec
rctarv of the Armenian and Syrian
relief for Southern California, itnve to
a larjre audience yesterday at tho
White Temple when he told the story
r .1,.. .., ra
: n sm.i. e, .,... .... "" " ',
,W t he ArmeniM people un.ler the
oppression of the '"unspcakab le Turk
"IT. McNaughton appealed not for
a degene. ate race, but for one of he
most br, ban t people of the O, c nt,
evidence, by the fact tha t h M they
to this and other countries they
(soon rise to hijch positions.
Al u.e present Liiim, nnn, w. i'.
er, "we have representatives 01 vi.ai.
brilliant race on the professorial staffs
I of Harvard, Yale, Hart ford seminary.
j Iowa university and Oregon untver-
sitv They have distinguished them-
.,.,, nroducing that typo in
largo measure is now under the cruel
r,f ii,p Tuik nnd has suffered un-
mcninns have perished in this awful
CHAMBERLAIN
HIS WAR BILLS
(Continued on Page 2.)
RUSSIAN SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY
BEGINS TO
German Socialists Are Developing Lost Spirit of Inter
nationalism Situation Is Becoming Extremely
Serious for, the Kaiser
CONTROL EXERCISED OVER GERMAN
SOCIALISTS IS BEGINNING TO BREAK
Present Movement Must Receive Further Impetus Before
mere is upen Estrangement .Between uonenzoiierns
and the German People Socialists Have the Upper
Hand If They Are Insistent. ,
(Written by J. W. T. Mason for the United Press)
NKW YORK. Jnn. 10. infV.i'finn of thn Knuoinn uiiir-it
of deinoeracy is beginning to manifest itself in Germany,
.For the first time sinee tho outbreak of the war, German
Socialists are developing the lost spirit of internationalism
in iiifir ntiHutie townra tne
The new sitniltimi flint i
- ... i...w . U vuun ... 111 v.villliuu, 0
extremely serious for the Kaiser, The patriotic control
iMiiHiiriBin niiuerio nas exercised over tne uerman social
ists is beginning to break. When it vanishes completely,
Kaiserism will disappear. 'Interference with the German-
lilissiilil lieili'e nptrnt.intimiN hv thn Onrmnn S!niiliKtu !.
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caiiie apparent as soon as
suiiteo to inject imperialistic aims into the proceedings.
Tins was the first refusal to heed the appeals to patriotism
that the Teutonic Socialists have displayed since l;he be-"
ginning of the conflict.
The present movement must receive further impetus
before there is an open estrangement between the llohcn
ssollerns and the German people, but the primary impulse
has been given. The Kaiser cannot afford to risk much
more domestic criticism of his way of making peace. Au
tocracy has always feared a revo'luti ; neighboring
country next to a revolution at hon.. .
"German Socialists cannot help ii.-n'ig svmpathftti.-ally
inclined toward Russia's freedom , to expeiiniunl ; with
ultra-democratic doctrines. This sympathy is becoming
more and 'more obvious, and more and more disconcerting
to KaiserisiiL The threats of the Russian Bolshevik ; that,
they intend appealing to the German people to ni ko a
democratic peace over the heads of the Kaiser's statesmen,
may turn, out to be no idle boast. Certainly the Kaiser
dare not scoff at the possibility. V.
The German government has never before been faced '
with an internal situation s KiTimw thia Tt iu not
probable that the Socialists and the militarists of Germany
will permit a dispute among themselves to teach the stage
of open revolution. But ,the Socialists, because of their
number, have the miner hand. Thcv can pointnil mwhi.
ance of their views if they are
strongly tliey will exercise
pence now tiepeiKis more on tne influence of the Russian
revolution than on any other single fause.
Judge Ben Lindsey
Go to France
Will Study Conditions Among Women
and Children in Kecnpturcd
French Territory
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. Judge
Hen Lindsey, the Denver juvenile
court judge, accepted an assignment
from America and the Allies to go to
France to study social conditions nnd
rehabilitation plans among the women
and children in the repatriated terri
tory. ,
Cove Alfalfa 1)11.1.
COVE, Or., Jan. III. (Special.)
Alfalfa and grain hay, looso, Hell now
In Covo and High Valley, five miles
out, at $15 a ton', and In Union, eight
miles away, alfalfa, baled, sells at
$22 n ton. High Valley reports
eight Inchon of snow covering hor
buttercups nnd green pastures since
Wednesday last. Meantime, in the
vicinity or North I'owder, the coldest
part or Eastern Oregon, according to
tlierinoiiieter records, farmers are
plowing for Spring grain.
iGirls, Here's a Chance
Send In Your Photoe
I- WASHINGTON, Jan. 111.
(Special.) A hunt for the pret-
J tiesl girl in America, whose pic-
tuie will be borne by posters ad
J vertising government inaurunce
for soldiers was announced today
I by the soldiers' and sailors' cam
I paign council, a body of insur- !
mice men and army officers in
charge of a special drive to soli-
cil insuinnce before February U.
Only the pictures of young !
womnu having close friends or
relatives in the military or naval $
, service will be accepted, and all '
! Iihotoirratihs must be submitted !!
! before January 22 tn the cam- . I
' paign council, Tenth and B 4 I
! streets, Washington.
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RISE IN GERMANY
socialists ot Kussia.
thua nriainrr in riniMniitur iu
".7 v..., . ......... jn.vij tJ,
the Kaiser's representatives .
sufficiently insistent. How, '
their power for a democratic
WILL NOT BE
McADOO SAYS THEY MUST BEAU
TIIEIIt LOSSES FOR THE
PUBLIC GOOD '
WASHINGTON, Jan. ln.Sccro-'
tnry McAduo told the Senate inter
state committee the weather is block
ing tho Clearing of the railroad tangle.
Ho said he did not intend to tnko
over tho "flaliy'' roods unless needed.
"They must bear their losses as 'a
pari, of tho genoral sacrifice for vic
tory. Others beside, tho men in bat
tle must sacrifice. We can't burden
the treasury and spend money to save
people from losing money."
1YAOK IIOAItl) IS APPOINTED
WASHINGTON. Jan. 10. Director-General
McAdoo announced last
night the appointment of a railroad
wage cominlssiun of four public men
to nnnlyzo and recommend action 011
all wage and labor (locations pend
ing before the Government railroad
administration, including tho Hall
way Itrntherhoods' ileniands.
At the same time tho director
genorsl put Into effect a new system
or Government railroad administra
tion, apportioning tho country Into
three operating regions, East, South
and West, nnd placed a railroad ex
ecutive a iead of each as hla
repn.se-
t . ' ..." : isslon 'sto
Of fit ':: !.,,.. 1 itCI'Stllt. 1 Clll-
inerc ' 'outicKsiouer .'. C. Mct'len-d,
Judge J. Harry Covington. Chief
Justice or the District ot Columbia
Supremo Court, and William K. Wit-,
cox, who has announced h' resig-
nation as ctfinlrman of thv rtep.tib-
llcnn National Committee.
BABY ROADS
TAKEN OVEB