La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 21, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI An Indopuadont News- I paper 1'rlntB the S News the Day it Hap- J pens. i 1 ' ; I Phoa the Observer J th .News snd Tour Want Ads. Main 87. J L.. ....... volume xvn LA GRANDE, OREGON, .MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1918. NUMBER 128 t ! ! 4 i ! FRENCH -SOLDIERS REJOICE OVER U. S. AID AMERICAN RED CROSS J. HOYS AND GIKU4' GAltDENS .J. m. EFFECT ON AUSTRIA-HUNGARY MILS fW LIES mvmwt PRESIDENT WILSON'S SPEECH HAS Papal Nuncio at Vienna Reports That Outline of War Aims Has Tremendous Opposition to SITUATION IS DESCRIBED AS MOST CRITICAL FOR Mr. Wilson's Speech Has Peace Ideas Industrial Karl Clashes with ROME, Jan. 21. The papal nuncio at Vienna reports to the Vatican, Austria-Hungary is stirred by President Wilson s outline or war aims and is smouldering with opposition to- militarist Germany. It is' understood he described the situation as "most critical for the Teutonic military combine." lie asserted President Wilson's speech had given a remarkable impulse to democratic peace ideas there. Industrial chaos of more than local nature is reported. Grave differences developed between Emperor Karl 'and pan-German leaders. ...'. :, It is reported the Kaiser is trying to smooth the dif ference by supporting Foreign Minister von Kuehlnian again von IJuclow whom Austria' hates. REGISTEeeiEO CE MAY li WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. Provost Marshal Crowder announced, registered men married since May.,18 will not be exempted. lie instructed Federal agents to appeal to district hoards all cases where the local hoards had granted these exemptions for dependents. - lie also announced, draft registrants will not be permitted to enlist in allied armies pending their call to American service. o GERMAN TROOPS - PARIS, Jan. 21. Six hundred thousand Germans were brought into Belgium the past few weeks. Belgium is crowded with men and munitions, it is reported. Am sterdam says Austrian troops are filling one Belgian province." GERMANY IS JUBILANT SEPARATE UKKAIMA PEACE IS HAILED WITH JOY AMSTERDAM, Jan. 21. Germany is jubilant over the Ukrainian peace pact. The Ukrainian decision to act apart is a severe blow to the Bol shevikl hopes. Foreign Minister Trot sky previously stated Russia could not allow the Ukrainian delegates to trea'. independently the question of occupied territory. They did so anyhow. Shippers Need Not Prove Actual Damage WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. The Su premo Court decided shippers award ed reparation by the Interstate Com merce Commission for excessive freight can collect without proving actual damage. Senator Stone Calls Down Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. Senator Stone addressed the Senate and threw, a challenge for Republican criticism of the administration war program, as campaign ammunition, declaring Roosevelt "the most pot ent agent of the Kniser and the most seditious man of consequence in America." America. He denounced those "mak ing politics of war" and called Roose velt a menace and obstruction to thejf. successful prosecution of the war. j . He said he ought to be prosecuti d , for some of his writings. '.J. Influence in Arousing Militarism TEUTONIC MILITARISTS Given Impulse to Democratic Chaos Is Reported Emperor Pan-German Leaders. CROWD BELGIUM Chamberlain Introduces is War Bills ntKSIDK.VT DISAOiiKIOS AND VOlt'KS DISAI'I'ltOVAIi TO co.;kicssmkx WAHINGTON, Jan. 21. In the face of President Wilson's opposition Senator Chauiboriain introduced a war cabinet bill, following a Demo cratic conference at which President Wilson voiced his disapproval of the bill. This will cause ono of the most vigorous fights In the history of Congress. PresldcntWilson Is call ing in leaders of both houses, appar ently to frustrate the measure. LA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL BOYS ON TOUR The La Grande higii school basket hall team are in Portland training for a r.erlos of games to be played during this month. More than one thousand miles will be covered In their travels, which will be the long est high school at.'iletic trip ever made In Ihe state of Oregon. Their firr.t game is scheduled with the Franklin high school on January 22. From there they will go to Cor vallls. playing Corvullis high school on January 23; on January 24 a game will bo played nt Eugene with U. of 0.f resbmcn ; January 20, O. A. C. freshmen; January 28, Walla Walla high school, and on January 20 they will compete with the Pen dleton high school, thence home. The folowing men comprise the team: Stoddard. B. Ash, Garrity, Ly man, J. Ash. McDonald, Taylor and Coach Reynolds. . -0- THE WEATHER PORTLAND. Jan. 21. The II. S. weather bureau forecast: "probably Rain." ! : 3 ARE NOT EXEMPT . Free Packages of .Vegetable 4- Scoil Will Ito Furnished 11' 4- Observer Ah : fxing As .J. the Supply Lasts. ' ' ' The Evening Observer has .J. 4" half a mall sack of vegotablo sood from tho Government for distribution. AH girls and J- boys who Intend planting vege 4 tables this Spring will be furn- 4. J isned free with packages of vogetablo seed until the supply Is exhausted. Apply at tho business office of tho Observer SECRETAUY OF TREASURY Al PEARS BEFORE SENATE IN TERSTATE COMMERCE ' COMMITTEE IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED TO FIT THEM FOR WAR Says Congress Should Not Limit Feu era! Control to Definito Period Does Not Believe in Government Ownership. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. Secre tary McAdoo told tho Senato inter state commerce committee a billion dollars must be advanced for railroad improvements before they are on an effective war basis. j ' Ho forecast the continuation of Fed eral control when he said Congress shouldn't limit government control to any definite period, saying financial chaos would likely result. He said he did not believe in gov ernment ownership, but believes in a greater measure of federal control hereafter. He said the Garfield fuel order would probably be discontinued after thirty days. Bill Drafts Workers Into Gov't Service SUNATOU MclT.MHUlt IXTItOIWC- US MKASl'ltK AFKKCTINU ItAII.ItOAD AND SHIP- ' YAItU WOKKHIIS (United Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. Senator McCuiubcr has introduced a bill drafting Into government service all males between the ages of 18 an(102, and Including all railroad workers and shipyard laborers. Tho bill also commandeers rooming houses to house the workers.. GEORGE H. CURREY, JR. SPENDS DAY IN LA GRANDE OeorRo HuntinRton Currey, Jr., editor and owner of the Malheur Kn terprlsc paid the Observer a pleas ant visit yesterday. Editor Currey was on his way to Portland for a short visit. He reports every tli In); at Vnle to be in a prosperous condi tion. Very fow feeders have been sent to the Idaho foodie; grounds by the cattle men this year mrlnj; to the open winter. To dato Vale has had only two Inches ol enow and many cattle are still grazing on the upper ranges. Vale always ships in a large amount or hay but this year the stockmen have not had to t- ed n .1 tt.A tmnnrt. htivn hnpn RTimll The Malheur Enterprise under the J management of Mr. currey has i.c-: mine r I papers of Eastern Oregon and has a circulation In excess of seventeen hundren and receives 15 cents per Inch for Its local advertising and 20 cents per Inch for all Interm't tent local or out of town advertising. Verily the owner of the Malheur Enterprise is to be congratulated on having a bright newspaper, a first class modern plant and a prosperous business. ' . i o Assembly Is Dixftolvcd. (United PresO i iMKuonAu. ...... The constituent assembly has been dissolved by the Bolshevik author-' .iM.1.11. ,.h s-ii. ors guards closed the assembly al 4 o'clock this morning and a decree of dissolution will be issued. RAILROADS . lllpi NEED MILLION ImWMlMW SAYSiAi) iii1(T SiVVfVA AW , . Bamrulea are coming! The Bdfltern In this Frond cacao ha1! Just heard latest reports of the number ot United States BoMleniaooutJ ready to leave tholr training camps behind the Ones lor tbo Urine front J The photographer caught two ot them doing French, version of thJ IHsoland fling, in celobraUan of the ar rival 9 ht aid la cmMn News at Home and Abroad UKRAINIA AGREES ON SEPARATE PEACE j AMSTERDAM, Jan. 21. Berlin reports Ukrainia agreed with t'ermany on a separate peace basis,, : j EUROPEAN CLOTHING PIRATES ' OVERCHARGE ''By J. W. Pi-gler, United Press Staff Correspondent. WITH THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY ARMY, 'France, Dee. 18. (By Mail.) Pretty booh '.the clothing pirates of Paris and London will begin to realize there's a war on. It's a war of prices. When an American officer can buy trench boots for $9 from the quartermaster's canteens, there'll be a slump in sales in the forty-dollar boot stores.' And nine dollars is the price fixed for leather trench l)oots.;;Tha first supt ply. is .on the way. - Boots will l)e followed by a stock of whipcord breeches to sell at 7 a pair. Just now you' can'buy a fairly gootj pair of whipcords in a Paris 'military tailor shoo for about $20, and in London they cost Sam Brown belts are another article of officer s equip ment which will be sold through the quartermaster at bed rock prices. Some of the officers who bought belts in New York before sailing paid, as high as '$20 for them. The quartermaster will sell them for $8 each. And there will bo twitch coats :with the detachable lining, for $28. There seems to be no limit to the price of warm-lined trench coats can be had for I0 and they run to $(i0 and over. A I! tin? big officers' outfitters in Paris'-and London claim they are selling at the lowest possible prices. They blame the high cost of equipment on scarcity of labor and material. - . ; Maybe that's so; but you can get a uniform Ironi a civilian tailor in the American headquarters town for about $:5:". And a good Paris tailor wants' about $55 for a suit, a difference of $20. And the quartermaster will undersell them both. , o FIVE THOUSAND U. OF P. MEN SERVE PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 21. Five thousand irraduates of the Pnivcristy of Pennsylvania have enlisted in the war and are either on the battlefields" of Europe or in training camps in this city. Eighteen Penn men already have given their lives for the cause of world democracy, according to compilation made under the auspices of Provost Edgar Pahs Smith. Approximately forty nationalities art; represented in the roster at the I'niveisity of Pennsylvania in normal tiltlOS. It is not strange, then, that the Red Hlld blue has several hundred graduates who now are officers in the I ,rt'lll!ltt Ml'lllV fl IM'il I'fH 1 'Mr'illlur 1 Wi ttltm Xf'iloU "1 have only sympathy for in announcing this fact. I On (usually l.lsl. ! OTTAWA. Jan. 21. The eastinl j lies list gives C. I). Fitzgerald, I.a i Grande( Oregon, wounded and miss ing: P. Ji ffc r ion, Seattle, Wash., wounded. The Observer p?inted the news of Private Fitzgerald being' missing Friday. . M Hannah Rogers Is quite 111 .. .. Bt the home of her son, Adna Kogos, ; on Flrit Street. C. 1). Emahiper left Saturday night for Portland where he will be for a wooft or ten days on business. $25. in Paris add London. They them," said Provost Smith State War (imilen Campaign. (United Presi.) OltEfiON AOKICULTL'KAt. COI. I.IOOl:, C'orvBllls, Jan. 21 (Sperlnl.) A state wldo war garden campaign will be carried on through the ex tension service of Oregon Agricul tural College. City back yards, empty lots and all other nvallahle garden soil will be put Into culti vation If the plans are successful. Through a central organization to be 1 known ni the Food Production' and Conservation Committee, tho cam ! paign will he handled. At Time of Italy's Severe Reverses, Spies Were Spreading -Word That America Was Unfriendly Tly and ' Didn't Care What Happened MAJOR MURPHY CABLES HOW WERE MET AND PROPA : f I) A. X -i :( t ii i ED When Red Cross Help Reached Italy, Refugees Were Streaming Down from the North Pathetic Conditions Existed Red Cross Opened Shelters and Distributed Supplies, Money and Milk to the Helpless. (By George Martin, United WASH INGTON, Jan. 21. nipped a flourishing German propaganda against America in the bud by carrying the Stars and Stripes arid needed relief into Italy at the time of Italy's first severe rcvcrse according to a cable from Davison of the Red Cross today. ' Spies were rapidly spreading the word that 'America was unfriendly to Italy, didn't care what happened to her and was afraid to antagonize Austria. The people be lieved the stories. Major Murphy's graphic cable speaks for itself: "When we reached Italy, refugees, were streaming down from the North. Indescribably pathetic conditions existed. The unexpected military reverse had stunned the nation. Rumors of all sorts were in the air. "A vicious propaganda America was not friendly to forested in the war and even tagonizo Austria, as well as "America apparently had pression. Congress was not in session. Our army could not aot. Fortunately, the Red Cross was in a position not only to respond immediately to the call of the suffering, but also to carry the message of the American people to Italy in tho hour of her distress. , ; .. ' "Working in conjunction riient and the Italian ;ovejnment,: wn AihoiV every avail able means of supply and distribution to assist the ally of our country. Within approximately 'two weeks after our arrival we had established warehouses and branch warehouses to supply all important points. "We opened shelters for homeless women and children. "We distributed condensed milk to little children. " ' "We dispatched three emergency workers on a tour of Italy, .with five hundred thousand lire in small bank notes, to give immediate aid where it was needed. "At the presentation of our first three ambulance sec tions to the Italian army, through the general of the divi sion, there were represented the French army, the British army, the Italian lied Cross, and the .military sanitary department of the .government. As our sections passed through the streets on their way to tho j front, after the ceremony, the str"'T were filled with enthusiastic, crowds and American v every where. . "Whatever else we may have done ), we have raised the American-flag from i. v to the other, and our youngsters todav al't in helping to hold the Piave line.'' K. C. DRIVE A I , Tho K. C. drlvo Is now in lt:i final stages. Workers In the outside towns are putting In their final licks and the final reports will soon be In. It will take a day or two to hoar from tho outside points. I.a (Irando has raised over $2,000 and the final figures are not all In, It Is certain that tho drive has been a success. General Chairman Meyers and chairman of tho execut ive committee are well pleased with the hearty cooperation received. Tho Catholic ladles realized well over JI00 as the result of tholr card party Friday night. Elks Initiate Forty New Members The Elks held a big Initiation laHl Saturday night when a special meet ing wan held and forty members, mostly from Wallowa county, were Initiated. The Wallowa party was met at tho train with tho F.Iks' band and the visitors put Into a big wag on and a parade formed. After the Initiation a Boclal meeting was held and refreshments served. o Xoiner Film. "The Making of a Newspaper," a film ahowfng the Orngonlan plant In Portland, will he shown at the Ar cade tonight. This Is an Interest ing educational film. UREA Press Staff Correspondent) The American lied Cross Major Murphy to Chairman War Council received here - had spread the report that Italy; that we were not in- : that wo were afraid to an-. Germany. no available means of ex with our own State Depart- our own state department, Austrian Cabinet Kas Resigned VIUNNA DISI'ATCII TO A IIUItMX NKWM'.U'I I. fMVKS TIIK Kl.l'OltT (United PresB.) AMSTERDAM, Jan. 21. Tho Aus trian ministry has restgnod, accord ing lo a Vienna dispatch tn tho Ber liner Morgan I'ost. It is reported Count Von Toggnnburg, Minister of of the Interior, la attempting to ro fom tho cabinet. Cove's layor HesigtiN. COVE, Or., Jan. 21. (Special.) At' a special meeting of the City Council Thursday, F. A. Onlloway resigned tho office of Mayor of Cove,' after giving two terms of satisfactory service Harry Welmer, who has made a good rocorder Die last threo terms, was elected by the council to fill Mr. Galloway's place. o Turkish 'miner Sunk. LONDON, Jan. 21. In a naval ac tion between Urltlsh and Turkish forces at tho entrnnce to tho Darda nelles, tho Turkish cruiser, Midullu, formerly the German Ooeben, was sunk and the Sultan Yawui Snlini, formerly thte Hermann Ooeben, was beached. The announcement was made by the Admiralty last night. Vft fe. R3 ' ;. t.