La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, March 08, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text1 . ! f An Independent ' Newspaper. Print the Newa the Day It Happena ; J Phone The Observer J I the News and - i . Your Want Ada. J Main 37 i I. ........ VOLUME XVII LA GRANDE, OKKGON, FR;II)AY, MARCH 8, 1918 NUMIJEIl 144 mwaw WAR BILL REACHING F RAILROAD MEASURE ALSO NEAR CONCLUSION IN CONGRESS FURLOUGHS TO BE GIVEN ' SOLDIER FARM WORKERS Reimbursements for Losses Sustained by Tuscania Survivors Reported Favorably by Committee , WASHINGTON, March 8. The wur finance bill which thu 'senate paused with three dissenting votes, and the railroad bill are reaching the final processes In congress. Con trol conference reports are up for ratification of both houses, after which It Is expecter that President Wilson will affix his signature im mediately. Strong opposition to a number of the amendments to the war finance corporation, bill is expected to delay ' Its passage in the house. I'lilloliiisi to Farm Workers. , WASHINGTON, March 8. The house hus approved the bill which has been passed by the senate au thorizing the secretary of war to grant soldiers furloughs to work on farms during the planting or busy seasons whenever the situation de mands. The senate military com mittee hus reported favorably the resolution empowering the president to draft aliens whose governments have concluded or may conclude treaties with the United States to this effect. The resolution will per mit aliens to have the option of en listing under thoir own flag-. The committee has reported favor ably on the bill Tor reimbursements for clothing and equipment losses sustained by Tuscunla survivors. Soldiers for Harvesting WASHINGTON, March 8. Soldiers will be released for harvest work on their own application if these are ap proved by the division commanders on the showing that the men are needed. It is estimated that men will be drafted from four hundred branches or industry soon to fill the army needs in France. Many Soldier Letters Lost WASHINGTON, March 8. Thirty thousand letters en route from Amer ican soldiers in France were lost when the steamer Andania was torpedoed m January. The department of justice has rec ommended to induct slackers into service immediately on their arrest. New Grounds for Divorce. ASTORIA, Ore., March 8. Pro Germanism is now listed as grounds for divorce. Alleging that her husband married her through fraud by telling her he had taken out first citizenship pap ers, and that since then he has switched his views and roots for the Kaiser to win the tussle, Anna j Appclhagen today has u divorce suit on file against Otto Appelhugen, a native of Germany. Since the wed ding, Bhc alleges, Appelhagcn boasts he will never become an American and lias been paying too much at tention to movements along the water-front. LAST NIGHT WAS (Jl'lTE Home Guard Found No Necessity for Continuing Patrol Thc city slept in peace last night nnd the Home Guard were permitted I to regain thc loss in rest entailed by their vigil of thc night before. It is believed that there will be nothing more, at present at least, to lear ironi j the threatened burning of the city. INAL STAGE ROSS-GERMAN PEACE IS APPROVED (United Press) growing stronger. Several bare been WASHINGTON, March 8. Consul j killed with bomb" One of the Pol Summers of Moscow, cables to Pies-! isli brigades has deserted the Aus ident Wilson that the Russ-German j trian army In a body, owing lo dis peace is not approved there and 1 arrenion Willi the Ukraine peace, thai the nnarohistlc sentiment Is and i hearing on Poland. LUS TANA MAY AGAIN SAIL THE SEA (United Press) LONDON, Feb. 15. (Dy Mall.) The Lusitnnia may yot carry Auier ican troops to France to beat the Germuns. Salvage experts are now working on the problem pt raising her from the 300 feel of vAter she lies in off the Old Head of Kinsalc. At all events an attempt will be uiado to recover tho treasure from the strong i'oom on one of the upper decks The possibility of beaching the ves sel on the Irish coast is also being considered. Some of the keenest engineering minds of Great Britain are devising plans and means of raising torpe doed ships after the war. Many of the submarined ships lying on the ocean floor !n the "graveyard of the Atlantic" off Irland are in water shallow enough to majte the pro ject feasible. In addition to the value of the 'ships, vast fortunes In metals and imperishable cargoes are resting in the holds of the wrecks. , j 'Salvage companies are laying : plans for raising both ships and car- goes on a big scale," said R. H. Davis, managing director of one of the ' largest submarine engineering corporations in the world. "Car-! goes to the value of millions of dol-! lars are awaiting recovery. Apart from the silver and bullion In sunk en ships, there is a huge quantity of; other metals. "In many cases where ships can not be raised, the cargoes can be salved. We recovered $350,000 in Spanish gotd from the Alphonse XII some years ago. She was lying 105 feet under the sea. Wo also recovered a large quantity of sliver bars from tho steamer Skyro off Cape Finlsterre in 186 feet of-water. This shows what can be done after tile war." Owing to the scarcity of tonnage after the war, ,cvery ship that can float will be worth a fortune. The salvage companies expect to raise many of the lesser damaged vessels with little trouble and put them into commission shortly after the war is ended. o Horse Inspection Held Tomorrow "Tile cavalry horse inspection wo had planned on having here early next week must be held tomorrow (Saturday the 9110," says Paul H. Splllman, county agricultural agent. "Wheel mules will be Inspected at the same time. If the board finds that we have the type of horse they are looking for in this section they will probably call for a later inspection which will give us more time to let tile runners of the coun ty know so that they will be able to bring in hordes from a distance. Horses shown tomorrow must be shown under tho saddle; weight from 1000 to 1200 pounds; 15 to IB hands; no mares, greys, light roans or buckskins taken. The inspection will- be held at the Furmcr's feed bain on Adams avenue." Horses may be brought in for In spection at any time tomorrow. Sheepman Leaves Large Estate The will of the late Donald P.ass, of Umatilla countv, has been filed for probate. He left an estate worth $150,00'). II is heirs are a wifo and seven children, THE WEATHER PORTLAND, March 8. Weather forecast: "Rain." AT BOW AMERICANS ATTACKED BY LIP FIRE! (United Press) LONDON, March 8. A German attack with liquid fire on the Am - erican forces northwest of Toil! yesterday was immediately repelled, Amoricun sentries at that place nl-! so drovo off u German patrol of i forty men. j There is considerable enemy ar- tlllerylng across tho Ypros sector; between the Manin road and Hon-: hflllit nlrn In tho Scnrnn vnlln ' In Honor of Enlisted Men . I Preparations are beinK perfected iox ! the luncheon toniirht at the Folev ho-: tel in honor of the twelve boys who will lnv i ii,t i t,. miiif, service of their country. Two new names have been added to the list that was published yesterday, F. J. Munn and Dalbort Fuller. About fifty per-j sons have signified their inientinn I attending the luncheon and a very in - teresting program has been arranged, One party' will leave on the 8:S5 train, which consists of Harlcy Rich - Inrdson in charge and Howard Richard. son, Hugh Hulse and Jay Wilson Johns members of the party. Another party consisting of Glenn Thompson, Dalbert Fuller, Claude Wright, Wesley lie-1 urary, nioouy tcKicy, Artnur Asn and,Ciated day in American history audi Dallas Green will leave on No. 5 for it scems peculiarly appropriate that I roruanu on tneir way to Lamp tveuy : Field. r. j . maim wm xeave in a lew nays, , houol. an(1 rif.hta of Ajnerlca and the just as soon as he can settle up his frcP(lom ot tho world should be eel business. Mr. Mann is from Flint, ol)rato1 wUh a min-wide drive t Tic ...ill I e t Micn.gan, but nas resided m LaGrande since hub.- Among tne speakers to night will be Fred Currey, toastmas ter; E. E. Bragg. H. E. Coolidge, A. C. Hampton, C. E. Humphries, B, E. Kid- die, A. T. Hill, Walter Pierce. T. J. Scroggin nnd A Itereaved Widow. MADISON, Wis., March 8. The following paragraph is clipped from a letter received by the Wisconsin industrial commission today from a widow recently granted an award by the board, on the death of her hus band: "I am having so much troublo in tryiug to collect tho money that 1 sometimes almost wish I hud my husband back." ELEVEN KILLED IN LONDON US RESULT OF AIR RAID (United Prebs.) LONDON, March 8. Eleven arc I six planes were compelled to turn of thc shecp caused them to investi dead and fifty injured as tho result! back by defense forces. A vivid Knte and Wheat and Brown were Hr ef two airplanes dropping bombs I aurora boreulis over Jhe North Sea jrcsted there. They are in jail here to over London last night, Lord French j Illuminated the coast'and made the ! day, awaiting arrest of Pratt, who is has announced. Several buildings ! raid possible. , ! alleged to have (00 sheep with him. This picture, just received from U!oat which turnedoed the trnnsnm-t camern are readily recognizable. Perhaps your l;y is one of them. LOAN DRIVE ! WILL BEGIN 6 ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICA'S ! DECLARATION OF WAR ! I . . ' i univ nrnitc rr i 1 "'iniw nt YET TO BE ANNOUNCED ' Cumpaign Will Prohaldv (over Period of From Three to Four . Weeks Secretary McAdoo authorizes tlio following: j ' The campaign for the third liber ' ty loan will bo opened on tho 6th of April, 1!I18, the first anniversary rot the declaration of a. state of war between the United Stales and Gov-! ,.. I ' 11,0 "".."" condi- "ns of thc loan hnvo not yet beeu decided because these features are j dependent upon further legislation. ; I expect to ask the congress at an , e:l,,y dute to Brunt' the necessary: additional authority. Of course, the' 1 lwnlnK lh" r tm campaign ' : i somewhat dependent upon the new. It'Slslatlon, but it is hoped and be-; ! "ovpd thal tlle "tetter run be con-j :oitlere(1 and. determined in aniplo ' t,mo ,0 bo'" the cumpalgn on the ; ,ate suggested. I j Day Consecrated in History. j April 6 will forever be a conse- ti10 opening of the second year of our participation in this war for the i for anot, 1U)e,.t. , Tho campaign' should", begin with great demonstrations of patriotism city, town and hamlet In j j.tho country that will truly express the spirit of aroused America. On this .lata AVAKV . Amn.Inon Dhnl,1 pledge anew to his government tho full measure of his resources and resolve to make every required sac rifice in the same fervent spirit that impels our gallant sons in the trenches of France ami on the wat ers of the Atlantic to shed their blood in America's sacred cause. Date Considered a Kitting One. To carry forward America's essen tial part in this wur for righteous- (Continued on Page 2.) were totally demolished. Five or,,.oi mon .1il, u10 ,.,i;n TUSCANIA A f 4 London, ahnw.nim Who Escaped Hun Torpedo Lined Up for Roll Call Sann suivivors of the Tusrsuin carrvin!f Amciirnll tlonus to the hull PRESIDENT'S WORK PRAISED BY THE POPE HOME, March 8 "President Wil son's pen is doing more for Just peace than twenty million swords," lo tho expressed belie.1, of thq Pope, according to Vatican attaches who further add in effect that thu ad dresses that have been ' made by America's chief executive will bo as mllo posts by which history will measuro events of tho war in the years to come. Foreign nuncios in thoir reports to the Vatican make practically the samo reports. Alt.MS KOI! ALL HI SSI WH PETROGKAD, March 8. Tho wur coiumlssariat has published a plan for arming all tho Russian people and offering to all who bo desire t), nnimrimiiiv r,ir l. on, .mini- nm opportunity foi becoming pio- jiicient in military selenee proparu- tory to future. renewal of war In thc Mrs. Schilke Goes to Washington Mrs. Schilko, state chairman of the child's welfare committee or the women's council of defense,, has received a telegram to be In attend ance at a child's welfare conference at Washington, D. C, on March 14 and 15, and will leave for tho east on No. 18 tomorrow night. FLOCK OF SHEEP IS STOLEN Driven from Malheur Ranges to W'n nemucca and Sent East VALE, March 8. Theft blooded ewes, worth $50,000, of, 240t. a forced dlive of thc8e into Nevada and ship ment of them to Omaha commission 4""" lu' Bu,e l,,B ""KBS UlMLCia Ul LVU LtlLVa OUCH, r I till IV Pratt, trusted employe of the N-Bar-N Livestock company. A reward of $1500 has been posted for his arrest by the company. Pratt was in charge of the sheep on the Malheur range, some distance from the ranch here. Acting with G. A. Wheat of San Antonio, Texas, and C. II. Brown of Boise, an uncle of Pratt, the fugitive is alleged to have relent lessly driven tho ewes into Nevada, despite the nearness of the lambing season, and, assuming the name of n prominent stockman, arranged to ship them east, sending Brown and Wheat with the cars to collect tho money. . The unfit condition of the ewes ex cited comment at Winncmuccn, No vadu, where they were loaded in cars, and word of this reached the N-Bar-N as its first intimation of tho affair. Similar comment from Omaha corn- SURVIVORS ff Mrf lined up at an Irish port fort for a lef inr.t i believed fn hnve been stink. j.Iest SHIP WORKERS DEMAND IRE PAY FOB OVERTIME THREE THOUSAND AREOUT Demand Double Pay for Overti me. . Saturday afternoon and for Holidays Conference Arranged In Effort to Avoid Tie-up. ; ';-' " . PHILADELPHIA, March 8. De manding double time for overtime, for Saturday afternoons and holi day work, hundreds or carpenters, machinists and pile drivers em ployed at tho Hog Islnnd yards have struck, after notices were post ed announcing that time nnd. a half for overtime and Sunday would be paid. ' . Labor representatives say that that the strike will spread to all shipyards In the district. The men say that the reduction by the fed eral wage board In the overtime rate breaks a 20 year custom in the Philadelphia dlHlrict. - A conference between the women and officials has been arranged Tor this afternoon in order to avoid a tie-up. AUSTR1ANS SENT TO WEST FRONT HOWE, March 8. Austrian forces liavo been sent to France, the Prus sian war minister told the reichtag today, according to dispatches re ceived at lierno. Tho number that huve been sent is not stated.. Herlin papers say that a Japanese eiipoditlon to Siberia with the as sent of the allies will bo u false move. o WHEAT STAXDAllHS UKVIMIOI) Hxiicting Arranged Itiilus' llavo for Grading. Uvon WASHINGTON, March 8. A new and less exacting plan of wheat Htamlurds has been adopted by the government. Tentatlvn revisions as announced by tho ngrlcult -al de partment will be laid before farmers and graimnen before final uetion is taken. Five meetings will be held AR at wheat centers, one at Spokane, i family in the sun country. March IS, for price fixing. The use j The young surgeon did his best with or wheat substitutes will permit re-!his first war case. The Poilu strug laxation rrom former grndings which Igled and pulled through. He went nmny hold have been too strict. ;back to his wife nnd babies, minus an roll call lo determine the missing. The Thu rlnv..n r.f mum u,.l,liitii tuinri.a fltn FHUITDALE PQPUUTfON Among those who enlisted yester day were three who are residents of Fruitdr.le. This locality which is just across the river north cf La Grande, has now furnished sixteen to go with the colors. There aro but three pps Bible soldiers of that entire locality now left nt homo nnd nil of thorn have been classed as "farmers" and are not, subject to call for tho present at least. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wjright furnished four, all the sons they have of military age; while both the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Thomp son are registered with Uncle Sam's men. Tho same proportion of enlist ments to population as that of Fruit dale would probably raise an army of twenty million men.' : o- CAPTURED BY FRENCH NURSE Surgeon . at Hospital ; Capitulates Wedding in the Spring - By J, W. PEGLER i.' (United Press Staff Correspond6nt.) . - WITH-THE AMERICAN EXPEDI TIONARY ARMY, FRANCE, Feb.ll. (By Mail.) And they will be married next spring. He is a surgeon of thc Roosevelt base hospital. She's French, dark-eyed, brunette and ever so fetching in her white nursing costume with the little red cross on the front of the snow white cap. And only eighteen years old. It has been announced and every thing. The papers have been s'ncd according to tho French custom and the young surgeon has shaken hands with her gray-haired father, a proud member of the Legion of Honor who performed operations in operi trench es under fire at Verdun. They met over tho cot of a dying Poilu. The American surgeon was called in to help when the French sur geons were working 18 hours out of 24. She '.ad adopted this patient as her particular protege and prayed that he might be spared to go back to his I arm but wearing the military medal and the cross of war. So she thinks the American surgeon is just the greatest in the world. And they will be married in spring. . o " has si:i:. PEitist opes Pendleton Young Man Writes of War Zone Kxperience, ; In five trips ucross the big pond, (as a member of the marine armed -; guards on thc transport Philadel phia, Earl Friedly, Pendleton boy, says he bns seen seven periscopes 'but has so far escaped danger. Writ ing to his father. A. C. Friedly. he tells some of 'his experiences. He has been 32 days In all In the war ' zone and, as a member of the crew ; on the forward gun, was the first. to sight a sub during their lust ' Hip. For that he will receive a 'prize of $100. He says he has had i the experience of seeing a torpedo ! slip by the stern ot the ship about :j : 3 0 In the morning when there ! wasn't a sub In sight and said it 'felt like having rocks thrown at lone and not knowing where they came from. Itesldence Property Change Hands, A. V. Andrews has sold his resi dence property on the corner of O avenue and First street to F. S. The price paid was $2fi00.