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LA GRANDE, OREGON, .MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1918.
NUMBER 128
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FRENCH -SOLDIERS REJOICE OVER U. S. AID
AMERICAN RED CROSS
J. HOYS AND GIKU4' GAltDENS .J.
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EFFECT ON AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
MILS fW LIES
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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.
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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. .
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THE WEATHER
PORTLAND. Jan. 21. The
II. S. weather bureau forecast:
"probably Rain."
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3 ARE NOT EXEMPT
.
Free Packages of .Vegetable
4- Scoil Will Ito Furnished 11' 4-
Observer Ah : fxing As .J.
the Supply Lasts.
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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.
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Assembly Is Dixftolvcd.
(United PresO
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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. ,
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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