La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 23, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextAn Independent Mm J . Newspaper. rfl H 4jf I Print the News the '"UB I Xl I Day It Happens i ft TSftVSR Phone The Observer the New and Your Want Ada. Main 37 ...J1 VOLUME XVII LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY; JANUARY 23, 1918 131 IS LOIS 3 TROOPS AUK GOING TO EUROPE FASTER THAN ORIGINAL ESTIMATE PRESIDENT WILSON SO INFORMS SENATORS Twice as Mnny Will lie Abroad by June Than Va3 Planned Presi dent Gives This as Example of Efficiency. (United Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-America is sending troops to Europe faster than originally planned. It is estimated, barring disaster, that twice as many will bo abroad by June as was estimated earlier. President Wilson told Senators this as an example of the War Depart ment's efficiency.. Besides a lair proportion of fight ing men, America furnished consider able units of stevedores, engineers and foresters badly needed there. Lack of coal, heretofore the obstacle in quid: transportation, is now being over come. ileitis WJTH SPEED TO GET CiTYCOAL COMMANDEERS rOl'R GIGANTIC TUGS TO HItEAK M'K IX NEW YORK HARHOR WITH HUGE CLIAMS TUGS BATTER THEIR WAY THROUGH Food Administrator of New York Works Fourteen Hours a Day Gets u Dollar a Year Countess Gets In Trouble Willi Red Cross. (United Pres3.) -NEW YORK, Jan. 23. (Special.) Federal control of railroads to meet, war conditions found most striking and picturesque expression in New York harbor during the re cent coal famine, Tho Kill von Kull, a narrow strait between Staten la land and the Jersey shore is the channel through which New York gels a great deal of its coal. Two (lays after the President appointed Secretary McAdoo as Director Gen eral df Railroads, New York poked its head from under Its icy sheets to discover that the mercury had dropped to an unprccodentodty low level; that there was no co.il in Its bins, and that many of the water ways about the city had frozen over. Among these frozen waterways, the most important was tho. Kill von , Kull. Tags had battered themselves ! almost to kindling woori against tho ! ice, but had been unablo to break their way through. Mr. McAdoo's representative in this city commandeered four gigantic tugs from as mnny roads. Tied to gether with hug'! chains, these four tugs, acting as a unit . battered a;v AMERICA ENDING 0 1 0 channel a hundred feet wide through ! The Plan in Brief Iho frozen Kill. Hero is the way tho thing should It might bo interesting for those jwork out: who most bitterly assail the railroads Each merchant, professional man or Tor their lack of equipment and for , manufacturer is asked to solicit his their failure in many instances lo;own fivm employes some time tomor handlo tho vastly increasing traffic! row, morning preferably. As soon as suddenly thrust upon them, to con- j template this thought: nnl-pooing laws and Inerstate commerce rules together will a lmiliplieity of state : boards and state regulations have ; prohibited in years past Just sucn pooling of resources as was exempli-; ., . . ! , (Continued on Page 8) GENERAL PERSHING HAS PRIVATE CABLE (By United Tress.) LONDON. Dec. 2 (By .J. Mail. I Central Pershing has J n private telecrr.ph-cable wire direct from his headquarters in France to the office In Lon- j don of Gen. Ilartlett, Anieric an commander in England. 4" Seven seconds is the average time for putting n flash mess- J age through. General Persh- ! Ing's first official message was t. a greeting to Page. Ambassador x V : :- 'i' LA GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL WINS FRDTv FRANKLIN BASKETBALL VICTORY IS WON IN PORTLAND; SCORE 23 TO 11 FAST, CLEAN SPORT PLAYED BY LOCAL BOYS Game Puts La Grande on the Athletic Map of the State Coach Reynolds Deserves Credit Boys Play Cor valliu High School Tonight. . La Grande High School, 23. Franklin High School, Portland, 11. That was the score of the basket ball game last night in Portland, and the victory puts Ln Grande on the athletic map of the state in fine style, especially after the great football vic tory last year when La Grande High School defeated Franklin High School at football, M to 0. Prior to that time Franklin High School had not been scored against. The game last night was a clean victory. La Grande took the lead at tne start and our boys were never passed. , The game was witnessed by J. E. Reynolds of La Grande, and he cays it was a fine, fast, clean exhibition of sport. Tho following comprise the team: Stoddard, B. Ash, Garrity, Lyman, J. Ash, McDonald, Taylor and Coach Reynolds. Too much credit cannot be given Coach Reynolds for the victory. Both at football and basketball he has de veloped winning teams, who also play in the very best sportsmanlike way. Superintendent " Hampton, Principal McNeil and all the High School teach ers are much delighted over the vic tory. The boys will play the Corvallis High School tonight nt Corvallis. On January 24 a . game will bo played at Eugene with the University of Oregon freshmen; January 20, Oregon Agri cultural College freshmen; January 28, Walla Walla High School, and on Januiiry 29 they will compete with the Pendleton High School and thence home. More than one thousand miles will be traveled on the trip, which will be the longest high school ath letic trip ever made in the stale of Oregon. The people of La Grande expects the boys to bring home the cham pionship. EVERY BUSINESS HOUSE ASKED TO SOLICIT FUNDS FROM ITS EMPLOYES Tomorrow is Armenian Day in La Grande. while a drive for funds for these worthy people is going on in the lounty and state at present, tho La Grande drive will bo made in one day, so far as possible. The plan is new but is believed an improvement over previous drives as there will be no - eiiry and tiresome solicitations. tho employes have been solicited and the firm has given what it deem right for a cause that stands out as' concerning the very lives of 4,000,000 j people, the head of tho company or firm will turn the amounts in to J. G. King the following morning, and if every employe and the firm itself has subscribed, that firm becomes 100 per cent perfect. No large sums are, TOMORROW IS El LA GRANDE I asked, but a wide'and general giving! he is an expert chemist and mining 1 of all is preferred. Any employe who i engineer, A blueprint of a Krujip, gives at least a .dollar is deemed to'gun base also was found. It is re- have done his minimum part. j ported he told Feedral agents at ".vc- ! .Free-Will Giving Urged Imerton he graduated from a German- i In order to avoid a general canvass, university and served in the German of the county it is urgently asked that! army. Ho is a member of the cooks, citizens and institutions, who can, vol-' waiters and longshoremen's unions. untaiily send in their donations to thej o Y. M. C. A. this week. Cove Bank Elects ; This will probably be the last drive) COVE, Jan. 2-'i. (Special). The of any sort until the March Liberty i newly-elected officers of the Cove loan campaign. I State Bank arc E. C. Recs, president; "We believe this plan will work out J. F. Conley, vice-president; Hugh Mc to a more satisfactory conclusion than Call, cashier; John Dean, assistant the general canvass nlnn." ileclnreH cashier; C M. Rnmsdell. Robert S. q Prison today in announcing the: scheme for tomorrow. He continued: I (Continued on Page fi.) CANADIAN OFFICERS WILL SPEAK IN JOSEPH THURSDAY AFTERNOON, ENTERPRISE THURSDAY wwS If i Left to Right Liculenant-Colonel T. M. McMillan, Captain E. J. Gook and Major F. B. Edwards STEAMERS 758 UVES SECRETARY OK ADMIRALTY AN NOUNCES DISASTERS IX TH E .M ED1TEHHAN EAN LOXDOX, .Ian. 2:1. Secretary to the Admiralty McXamara aiinour.ced two sleamciH had been sunk in the Mediterranean, December 31, drown ing 7IX. Another steamer was Mink in (he mouth of the Meisoy and -III lost. EMBARGOES U FREIGHT III EAST IRE HERE WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. Direct or General McAdoo has ordered an embargo on all freights hut food stuffs and war supplies on the Penn sylvania railroad east of Pittsburg, on- the Baltimore & Ohio east of the Ohio river, on tho Philadelphia & Reading until the weather . moder ates. All linos are to concentrate on tho removal to coal- to Atlantic points and the return of empty cars to the mines. Director-General McAdoo and Fuel Administrator Garfield hold that It is "vitally necessary for the operation of shipyards and the relief of the poor." o ALIEN ENEMY ARRESTED: FOUND TO BE CHEMIST TACOMA, Jan. 2.1. Search of the room of Adolph Judd, an alien enemy arrested on the wnterfiont, disclosed French, directors. o ". St. Johns Oceanic Shipbuilding Co. i incorporates nt SPJ.'JIOO. . NIGHT AND LA GRANDE FRIDAY NIGHT PEACE PLANS RUSSIA GO filrVRy DISCONTINUANCE OF II REST LITOVSK NEGOTIATIONS IS FORECAST . NEWSPAPERS PREDICT . CONFERENCE IS ENDED Organs of Bolshcviki Sav Imperial istic Aims of the Enemy Arc Un masked Kuchlnian's Policy Is As sailed. PETROGRAD, Jan. 2.'!. Discontin uance of all lirest-Lilovsk negotia tions are forecast in all the Itolsho- viki newspapers. Their unanimity in dicates the prediction is made wiih a,ifl)i-l' .r Tlw... I,. ,1.1 4 V... ( "'. enco. the negotiations have accomplished. Senator Chamberlain is backed by was unmasking the real imperialistic ! soldiers letters regarding camp condi naturo of the enemy demands. Noth-! tiIls niu other ing more can be expected from thej He proposes to proceed with tho war discussions, it is said. The nevrepn-:c;,,jna iln(1 con,puaory training bills. pers bitterly assailed Kuehlman's 0 treacherous dual nolicv. ' Navy Recruits are Sent To Bremerton ! BREMERTON, Wash., Jan. 2:.!. ' j Navy yard officials say four thotis- and recruits from the Great Lakes station aro coinim: here for train-i i ing, owing to the cold and tho fuel scarcity there. Tho ca nip here ac- I coiaodutos five thousand. DRAINAGE PLANS APPROVED SALEM, Jan. X!. State Engineer Lewis approved plans of drainage and ' (United Press) irrigation of the Big Bend district,1 PORTLAND, Jan. 2.'!. (Special.) Malheur county, which is to reclaim N- YounK of Enterprise is not a 5000 acres. The plan is to include the,1'1'1"11" nor B "slacker." All charges reclamation of '.WO Idaho acres ad-"liainst him have been dismissed by joining. The work will le bv contract llls ,oc!" "oar" Bnfl nc n" "V with the reclamation service and the li'"-rty. Mr. Young proved to the snt watcr will ,-omn f,-m the A ri owrorfc , Infncttnn of hut hoard m-mlicr and the dam, Ji-i::c, Idaho. The ele-tion wiirofficiala who were holding him that be held soon and v,,.rk will be rushed. lh(?h misunderstanding his notifi 1 1 il In Cosliinifs ( lic;(icr. WASHINGTON. Jan. 2:!. Spring F.ihhinnr, In thu-e hreddid wheat af-' fr.ii n tho Raiubnl around in, in j Hawaii, will be elieuppr next yenr f or ( Hula rlarwH h r Tlw I. f. C. has i reduced rate on rupra from wbieh j tho "Karmfliit" Is marto and tmporla-1 ti(-ns may Inrre;i.se. THE WEATHER The United States weather bureau forecast: rain." "Probably V PLANS FOR ARE MAD E ADMINISTRATION FORCES TRYING TO LINE UP CONGRESS ARE WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. Holding "without harmony, the war will bo Insf,' the administration forces are lining up legislators who are waver ing on the war cabinet bill. It appears likely a compromise may end the storm. Roosevelt's presence has done much to consolidate the Democrats for President Wilson, and there is oven ,nik of a Wilson-Chamberlain confer- ;Haig Reports That Raids Are Made LONDON. Jan. 2:!. General Haig reports patrols and hostile raiding Pi'ities are skirmishing southeast of St (i'lontin. An attempted enemy raid south of Lehasse was repelled. OL1H PROVES HIS LOYALTY I F. N. Young of Enterprise Is Neither Deserter Nor Slacker cation ot change in aridrcss inu not reach the proper draft officials and consequently he did not receive his notice to report. Mr. Young would hr.ve gone with the first contingent of drafted men last fall had he received notice. As it is, he will be allowed to enter the service in whatever branch will waive a slight physical disability, his right forefinger having been chopped off in an accident while at Turner. Mr. Young convinced the authorities that he lost his finger entirely by acci dent. i was ready at all times to enter the service nnd am trying to get in now,' he-snid yesterday, on Itcing re- CANADIAN OFFICERS PH AND ENTERPRISE WILL DELIVER PATRIOTIC MES SAGE FROM THE FRONT USE TRENCH EM WILL SPEAK HERE AT TABERNACLE FRIDAY Big Public Rally With Military Es cort Arrangen Meeting Is Free No Collection Nor Solicitation for Funds. Canadian officers who fought In tho first lino trenches will speak in Union and Wallowa counties as fol lows: loNcpb, Thursday' afternoon, Inn- t'ary S t. : Enterprise, Thin-winy night, Jan uary a-t. , La Grande, Friday night, Jan. 2.1. Tho officers will arrive ln La Grando tomorrow, Thursday morning They will bo met by T. J. Scroggln, chairman of the Union county Pnt- lotlc League, aud tho following committees will have charge ot their ntertainment and reception: Local Committees. Breakfast Lee Warnlck. Escort and program J. G King and Fred B. Currey. Publicity A. C. Hampton and Clarke Letter. Reception Leo Warnlck, 'H. E. Bragg, Vincent Palmer, George Pal mer, Dr. M. K. Hail, J. Frank Phy, rod B. Currey, George H. Curroy, Clarke Loiter, Fred L. MoyorB, J. O. King,. A. C. Hampton, A. W. Nelson. -Tho Program. They will be ta'aori to breakfast at the Foley hotel, and will leave up the branch at 0:30 a m. They will bo given a royal reception at Joseph and Enterprise. Returning to La Grande Friday evening they will be met by the Elks band, tho La Grande Home Guards and the high Bchool cadots, and a military escort formed to escort them to tho Mormon Tabernacle where the addresses will he given. - - There will bo no collections taken at the meeting, no appeals for funds, the meetings are free. The public 1b Invited. They will give a patriotic message, toll of war conditions ln Europe, tell what the people at home need to do to liolp our boys, and tell Jut! what war is. Major Edwards Wounded. Major F. B. Edwards lost both rma ln action. Upon his recovery ho was fitted with a pair of artificial (Continued on Page Five) 1 ADDO MAY RAISE' PASSENGER RATES TRAINS MAY HE CURTAILED TO RELIEVE FREIGHT CONGESTION' WASHINGTON, JaS. 23. Dlrcct--Genornl McAdoo told tho Souato ntoiHtiito Commerce Committoo ho ay Incrcaso passenger rates, ; ad curtail passenger trains as a means f relieving freight congestion. He ard Ing tho revolving fund ln the railroad bill ho said the railroads ould do tholr own financing under tho Federal control program, but that the government would uacK om and stabilize their credit. Ho h.-i lit eninlovees of the railroads In effect were Federal employes but ichnlcally not so considered. ' Germany Recalls Submarines to Bases PARIS, Jan. 2 3. It Ih rnportnd Goriuuny is rncalMriK Buhmarlnon to tholr Imm'H propitiatory to adopting a now plan of campaimi. H i hur pested that olnVr dlvrrs may bo re placed by now armored cruisers carrying hravy kuiis. Republicans Will Wail PORTLAND, Jan. 2!!. (Special.) No attempt will be made to reorganize the Republican Central Committee un til after the primary election next May. At that tune the Republican voters In tho different counties will select their county contrnl committee men, who ill turn will nnmc their county representative on the state committee. At n Inter date these state committeemen will convene lind organize by electing a chairman, sec retary and members of an executive committee. EMMA Rl'RGMEISTER IS ACQUITTED OF MURDER SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 23. Emma liurgmeister was ncquittcd of the murder of Otto Koehler. The jury was out eighteen hours. THURSDAY LABOR PARTY IS MEETING POLITICAL REVOLUTION IS SAID TO BE IN THE AIR IN GREAT BRITAIN CHANGE FROM OLD ORDER COMING RAPIDLY Arthur Henderson. Leader of tho Labor , Party, Expects to Exert Great Influence in National Elec tions. J. 4"1. !? .T. J. .T. J., t, j. I- NOTE: Tho Nottingham con. A J. feronce of the Labor party of j. i- Great Britain, which opens to- 4" day will, according to Brit- J ih writors, give Arthur Hen- J dcrson, head of the Labor party, tho greatest onportunitv of his A life. In an. effort to learn what A A Henderson expects to develop 4 h from this opportunity and what A general effect the conference .J. H will have on British political af 4" fairs, Lowell Mellott. United A Press Staff Correspondent, re- A 4 ccntly interviewed the Labor A j party leader. During the Inter- A J. view which follows, Henderson A 4" made several startling prcdic- A 4" tions as to the future of "the 4- Party of the Future.'' United A A Press. ', : '- ' - " : 4 A " A 4" 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4" 4 4 4 4 4 4 LONDON, Jan. 23 British writ- era of a liberal -dc M have, -writUn a great deal in the past several weeks about the conference of the Labor party Which 0"" t'day in Not- , tingham. . Sor ' ' the course ' of most such has ap peared the p Mender son has a g before him." The ' - . 1 the head of th' hat ho expoc' - -eat opporti- - , ,v : - - ' "R0Vo.u!.!-." . -.: . ,. He spulw in a bullous manner, his head down in tho peculiar bulldog manner of British fighting politicians, but he looked up immediately and smiled. - "There's a revolution com' g, ' all right," he explained; "but it v. I be a bloodless affair, entirely political. The British people are seeking the means for a swift transition from the old order of things to tho new, but they wish it to bo smooth as well as swift, i Wo are reorganizing the Labor aarty to make it the vehicle for the change." '' The reorganisation referred to is that proposed by tho nntional execu- , (Continued on Page S.) Three Americans Privates Are Killed In Action CLASHES BETWEEN GERMAN AND AMERICAN PATROLS ARE QUITE FREQUENT WASHINGTON. Jan. 23. General Pershing reports three American pri vates killed in action yesterday. Ap parently Amorican-German clashes are frequent in patrol skirmishes. Seven deaths from natural causes are reported, including Private Thomas Coyne of Gooding, Idaho. FRENCH OFFICER SALUTES MESSENGER A A (Ry United Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. A largo number of old men fifty to seventy-five years arc employed as messengers In Washington. A French offic er, newly arrived, saluted one In a very deferential manner nnd turning to his more exper ienced companion said: "To what branch of tho ser vice do theso old men belong?" "Tho Western Union," his fellow officer replied. The Frenchman was satlf fied. 4- A I- 4-( 4- 4-4- II ElLAi A.J..J..J.