La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, July 30, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text(BhttttiF iEircttitti . i Am Ia4epenlet f ' Kwpapr. J', I Mate Uo Nova tit Day It Happcaa. mm? Pfcocw Tha Oinwuf tha News aaa ; Yaar Waat Ada, Mala 17. m VOLUME XXI BftTTLELINE SURGES ON HEW FROIIT PROGRESS IS HIX1WEI1 DOWN - AH GERMANS TMIIOW IX MORE RESERVES. ALLIES GAIN IN THE EAST HUN GAINS IN THEwEST I'nrls Reports Fighting of I'nusuul Violence On Whole of Crescent Hliupcd Bailout Which -Now Is Germans New lilitu Of Defense '. llattlellue 50 Mile Iamuj. . LONDON, July 30. (By United . Press.) It was loarned today that the Germans havo . launched heavy counter-attacks along the whole of the front south of the Ourcq River. -The Americans have been driven out of Cierges, four nillos to the south-east of Fere-en-Tardenols, and- the French have also, with drawn their forces from Beugneux, north-east of Oulchy. ' ' ; - ' At the . same time, the French have advanced to the crest of the, plateau between the Vesle and the Ourcq Rivers, south-west of Reims. The enemy Is now employing more than 862,000 men on . tliU front, having brought up ten divi sions from the group forming the armies Of Prince Rupprecht, from the front north of Montdldler. - The heaviest fighting now cen ters between VIUe-en-Tardenois (on the .(Reims-Chateau Thierry front) and the River Ourcq. I-n the A r lard re Valley, north east of -' Ville-on-TardenolB, the French have advanced to Au billy, six miles southwest "of Reims. " FRENCH TAKE HOM1GNY LONDON, July 30, (By United Press.) It was today learned that the Frencli have captured ll)e vil lage of Romlgny, southwest of VIllc-ea-Tardonols. Elsewhere there Is no change to report. GERMANS ARU ANXIOUS. Depression At Home In Like That In Austria After Plave Buttle ROME, July 30. A Borne dis patch says that the news from the west front has caused depression among the German people similar to that which descended upon tho Austriuns, following the disaster to. their army on the 'Plave.. SEES IT. S. INVINCIBLE American' Force Arouses Greatest Admiration. . AMSTERDAM, July 29. Return ing here from a visit to France a correspondent of tho Handelsblad writes a long article; of enthusiastic admiration ' of the American . a chlevements and .concludes: "From America issues u Jorce against which no European nation can stand. It is a gigantic lorce which Is developing calmly and scientifically. ' , "The Gorman pooplo . uro "told that the U-boats will be able to conjure the American danger but the German pooplo havo not scon what I huve seen." ' . BEE STINGS ARE FATAL Grants Pass CJlrl Succumbs And Her Unit her Is Seriously III 'GRANTS PASS, Ore., July 30. ' Audrey Best, duughter of Isaac Best, prominent real estate dealer of this city, died Sunday night. Death Is thought to havo been caused hy yollow.Jackct stings re ceived lust Monday. Her brothor Noble, assistant fire chlor of this- city, Is dangerously 111 from tho same cause. MANY JAPANESE HIP" IN CYPI nlON' LIU ill L.i uvuivi i EIGHTEEN ('Alt MIA DM OK POW DER AND IM1MIIS CAUSE BIG DISASTER. . . TOKIO, Jul 30. (By United Press.) Eighteen carloads of pow - , dcr and shejls exploded at Sliimnno- i sukl, Japan's southern port, while veins loaueu uu uuaiu ami. j w nen we returned io mo oui- ' Thirty are known to bo dead and 'skirls or tho town and sat down 60 were Injured. . la few minutes to rest on somi So great waa tho foree of th-i smashed carvings in a shell ho.:e In . explosion that all the houses Injan old orchard, 1 asked-Clark win;! ' the neighborhood . of the docks ihe was and what he did back home: .were levelled with the ground. EARL OF STANHOPE Eg jPi ' i5W f The Earl of Stanhope, who has been with we Engnsn forces at the front, la tho man who made the statement before the house of lords, In substance: "The French hold, their trenches by their wonderful 75-mm. gunfire. The French system is expensive In ammu nition; ours is expensive In lives." ' 18 APPOINTED CHIEF Y. M. C. SEC. FOR IIAIMIOW.IMV. A. 'oriwi' La (ramie Clergyman Recognized As A Virile Force In War Against 'Iliu Hun. Is The.-many .friends of Rev.. G. L. Clauk, former pastor or- the Presby terian church of La Grande, will be plased to know that he has boon appointed Chief Secretary for the Y. M. C. A. with tho 42nd Rainbow Division. In writing of this polntment Rev. Clark said: "It aii moans the biggest job yet and more problems to bo solved, but by the grace and morey-of the, living God, whose Son went forth to war two thousand years ago for the right's of humanity, I have laid bare my arm and ofrered my life, in any rorm to Him, If only I can endea vor to show my appreciation of what ho has done for me, and If I can, but help pavo the way for the Bons of men to find "the high rich meadows of Universal Broth erhood : and become strangers to the, sword and to all the weapons of torture and death. If I shall have had the privilege of helping to put out of tho way .of national prog ress the unthinkable bo'che, as he has foisted his reign of terror and hato on helpless humanity, I shall bo glad for the chance to offer my blood to help blot out his name forever, not that I havo any hi.i.e for him as an individual , but lint my respect and lovo for all tliat. is fair and -decent among nations makes my blood boll, when I even think of him as a polllie.il power." Pi-emotion Is Deserved. Thoro Is no question of the fact that . Rev.' 'Clark is demonstrating on the fields of Franco the full force or his fooling as so appropri ately expressed In Ms letter. But by a mere accident (here is an en dorsement of his work that haa reached ' this office,, which comes from a source that Is in no way influenced or prejudiced In his favor. It is an excerpt from an oastern publication, written hy Ralph W. Harbison, of Pittsburg. Among other things tho writer says: "Hero 'I snw the first real ncr- vlco of tho chief "Y" man Rov George Clark, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of La Grande, Oregon a real mail' among men, who had not left his post for 14 Idays. Ho entered the cave last noticing that the soldiers were. very quiet ana per imps a nit anx- Ions, he said cheerily: 'Boys, lot's Islng the Battle Hymn of the Re 'public . and then he read 80!r. jgond poems and talked to them. "We wire up next morning at ('line bonne heure' and after break- fast at the, officers' moss Clark and I started off for the trenches, each of us laden with fifty pounds or icnnteen supplies . besides our gas jniasks. (Continued on Page Six.) REV. G. L CLARK IS PROMOTED LA GRANDE, GERMANS THROW ALL III BATTLE DRAW RESERVES FROM PRINCE RUPPHECHT'S ARMY TO . STAVE OFF DEFEAT. MANY DEAD MARK LINE ' jOF HUN RETREAT Allied . Leaders Cuniint Ynt, T..1I Whether Germans Are Going To fliuko Another Stand Oil .New liino Or Are Trying To Have Supplies Ily Sacrifice Of Men. PARIS, July 30. (By United Pross.) Fighting of unusual vio lence has been resumed today on the whole of the cresccnt-shapod front, says a dispatch which -hus arrived here. , - The morning communique says. "There is nothing new to. report north of the Marne." ' The reports Issuqd hore indicate that the Germans are now prog resslng ut some points on tho west ern sldo of the Solssons-Foro-en Tardonols-Relms salient, but at the samo time the allies aru also tid vanclng at some eastern points of the same salient.' The ; battle, front apparently ex tends over a lino SO miles long. It was announced hero that tho Americans had withdrawn from Clegnes and tho French had aban doned. Beugnoux. GERMANS MAKE : RIG EPFOH'I Lino Stiffens As Allies Approach New Ruse At Fismcs. WITH THE FRENCH IN THE FIELD, July vjo. (By United Press.) The ic,rmnns this after. noon continue to offor a desperate resistance along the whole of their new -lino. The violence of . the fighting is indicated bv the num- up"jber of dead along tho lines ot the Gorman retreat. It is as yet Im possible to toll whether the now line of dfonso is chosen by the enemy from which to make a stand ,or whether- ho Is prepared to sa crifice a groat number of his men Ino'rder to save vast quantities of ihatorial which Is In tho salient. -; The hardest fighting Is around Bougnoux, behind which -there is an elevation from, which the Ger man base at Flsmns, 12 miles dis tant, Is plainly visible. HUNS MURDER WOUNDED YANKS DISGUSTING ACT OF SAVAGERY AGAIN PROVES HI XS Itltl' TAL METHODS. WITH THE AMERICANS IN THE FIELD, July 30. (By Unltod Pross.) In a village which was taken and retaken several times before finally remaining in Ameri can hands, our boys found several i comrades who had be,en bayonetted and killed by Huns as they lay ,1 wounded and helpless. French troops on the road moving I im Hit Tmm iiiiMiiiiii i i liiiiiTrriiiiiTrT'-n'ifii iiriViirnrin-MiiiniiiiliiiTiiiiiwMliiw OREGON, TUESDAY, J CHORUS CHOIR' . HOLDS MEETING MORE, THAN SltrESSITL,' WfiH COMMKNT MADE ' STORY OF SONG TOLD. ..V; 'Wo accomplished moro this ov- cning ut the practice meeting of tho Community Chorus Choir than I had hoped for, In tact, wc' niudo splendid . progress tovurds thu goal wo aro seeking succors lis every sense of tho word," Bald Professor L, B. Edwards, ut tho close of practice mooting last night. : There was a larger number of moiubors last night, and the earn est exhibited by Proter.sor Edwards himself as they practised over and over again "The Long, Louk Trail" and '"Keep the Homo Fires Burn ing." ;, ,J : 1 v .. The story was repeated la3t night by tho Proleaoor, of the heroic death of the author of the song an English lady, whoso sons. It Is said, had been among the' f hat to volunteer for tho British army During ono of tho air raids over London, during last spring, Lena Gilbert Ford, who wrote tho Im mortal words of the song, sought ouaiiar. WIUI umeis ju 0110 01 tllo'frnm R.oe.illvo an,ol Tl, u- aubway passages provide for the; purpose, out me sneuer was notlDefonse nnJ ah iinnt.r.noi wu. sufficient, for a Bochp bomb ended her life. '';" ''. . . The Professor, however, told his class that her Bpiflt Is. living In the hearts of millions of people scat tered all ovor the oarth, - . MACHINE GUNS Id' QUELL STRIKERS GER.MAX PEOPLE HAVK TASTE OF KtLTl'R IX .STREETS OF HOME TOW'W : AMSTERDAM, July 30. (By United Press.) Tho Echo do Bolgo declares that, during recent strikes In Kalk, noar Cologne, tho German soldiery turned maChlno guns oa tho Btrlkurs and thus broke up their demonstration. The police dispers ed the crowds and urrcstod alio leaders. '-.-. ,. .. , KERENSKY IN U-BOAT BATTLE aNNKHS MATH KHDS UIOI'OIIT TO NEWSPAPERS THAT Will. MER PREMIER IS IN V.S. CHICAGO, July 30. (By United' Press.) Private messages received hero declare, lliat Kerensky : Is In Amorlea. A gunners' mate named John Haggurdo has wired tho , odilor of trade papers that Kerunaky wus on his Blilp during a U-boat huttlo.. He said that Kereiisky was calm thru the entire- engagemeht.- - ;' GERMAN PEOPLE ARE NOW NERVOUS lot tho country try and be present TREAT OF ARMIES IS NOW'hv lhr hour BECOMING KNOWN HOME. AT PARIS.. July 30. (By United Press.) The news of - tho German retreat became known In Berlin yestorduy and caused extraordinary nervousness anions the population, Isays a Zurich dispatch The Berlin newspapers declare. Ithat the ground los' Is Important. , FRENCH TROOPS ADVANCING TO FORWARD LINE up; British Tommies also ready to advance watch then pass. ULY .10, 1918 con CONFERENCE TO BE HELD EXECUTIVE SECRETARY JOHN K, KOLLOCH AND OTHER OF FICIALS ARE COMING. , REGISTERED MEN ASKED TO BE PRESENT AT MEETING County Council of Defense and All War Board Members Will Meet In La Grande General Public Invited Bund and Chorus to Furnish Music For Occasion. .. Following Instructions rocelvod Kollock. of the State Council of Hams, Chairman T. J. Scroggln, or the County Council of Defense, last evening called a. meeting of citi zens and set plans ' going to hold a big county war conference In La Grande on August 8th. .The oqcaBlon will bo the visit of Secretary Kollock, who will In struct tho pccple In noodful defense program during! tho ' war period. He, will also toll the registered men how to proceed from a logal standpoint In order to protect their property rights while absent at tho front. . Colonel John B. Hlbbard, com mandor of the Multnomah Guard and also adjutant of the ' Military Police of Oregon, will be in at tendance. Captain ' R. H. Russell has boen detuilod from Camp Lewis to attend this mealing and will address the registered men only after tho general public meeting. General County Gathering. That It will be a gonoral county gathering was decided last .ovenlim when Chairman Scroggin named the following commltloe to make nil urraugc,iiiGnta and attend to devils fof the occasion: Bruce Dennis, A. W. Nelson, J. H. Pearc, J. C. Snod- grass and G. L. Larlson. The committee Immediately held a session and decided on securing the L. D. 8. tabernacle for the oc casion. Mr. Poare and Mr. Nolsou will look after the. military phase of the evening and have tho Homo Guard out in review lor the visi tors. On the reviewing stand ho sldns the out bt town visitors will ha seated all mombors, or the Union County War Council and members of the County Council of Deronso. ulong with tho Union County court and the city commissioners of the city of La Grande. The band , was at once, engaged and. a request was sent to tho Com munity Chorus to assist In tho ov- oning'B program. i Promptly at 8 o'clock on Thurs day ovenlng, August 8th, tha pro gram will begin and it is requested that people coming from all parts RED CROSS SALVAGE HAY. Don't forget that tomorrow is ar other Red Cross Salvage Day, anr all good people who have any article or goods and chattels that will in any way help the good cause along, arc earnestly requested to call up the Red Cross shop, in the new Foley building ani the articles, a-oods and chattels win be called for bv the committee. l EARL OF BEAUCHAMP v ( ' " : ': t if -Mit: v 1 ' -rr' "-VT fdT-f"'' i fY'itftflntlwrilii r v The earl of Beauchamp has been elected president of an organization formed In English towns for the pur. psie of "adopting" American towns so as to give the arriving American sol diers all the comforts of home. The people of Worcester have "adopted" Worcester, Mass., and wilt do every thing possible to attend to the. wants of our boys hailing from the American city. Newport has "adopted" Newport, n. i ana it is said that London may aaopv mew York. '. TRIO OF BOYS F E WILL GO TO EUGENE MILITARY TRAINING CAMP EARLY , , IN AUGUS1 'Jack" IVare. W'. M. Pcare, Norman Dcsilcl, While L. L. Suodgrass t" ... , Aluy Also Attend. Capt. "Jack" Punrc, ,W. M. Pcaro and Norman Dcsilol -will leave Lu GramKi on tlio morning train next Friday, August 2, in order to report at tho officers' training camp at tho U. of O. in Eugene, bright and early on the morning of August 3, the time sot by the government for them to be there. ..-'-'' : L. L. tiundgruss also filed his uppli cation yesterday, for the privilege of taking Litis course in training. In speaking of their proposed train ing yestorduy, Captain Pcare said, In part:' ,': . '.- ' "Wo have aclcelod tlio i training camp at. Eugene or the simple roil;, son that the training ot officers for the United States urmy is now in tht hnnils of a master of the art, and, yoi might add, a past master, being no less a man than Col, John T. Leader now on leave in this country, having been wounded in action while ut tin head of his famous Royal Irish Rifles. "This is one of the most brilliant officers in tho entire British army, bar none, and wo who are going to Eugene to get tho benefit of his ex perience, and expect to learn much about actual trench fighting, the mun oeuvering of brigades and battalions on the field, th use of gas, und da fense from its uso by the Huns, , ' "In fact, while our positions in tht Oregon Guard havo made us more or less familiar with military tactics, as practiced by the United Statef army, you might well say, about mod ern wurfare as now being carried or in Franco by tho boys who went from here. "Personally, speaking for myself, will do what I can to get a commission 'over there.' " . CAMP IS PRAISED Th Siicccsh At Euuciic Ofliii?rs' TrainliiK 4 'amp. -'UNIVERSITY D.' OREGON. Ell- gone, July 30. Results rroiu the Hrst civilian summer I raining camp on the l'lattslmrt; mudel, held at tha University of Oregon, have 30 pleased Col. John Leader, Into of the British ai my, th-il ho is con sidering holding a second camp LEATHER IS WANTED Caal Off Kid Gloves- and Shos Tops Arc Acceptable, Please bring your old kid gloves and soft tops of old leather shoes. This is for the military relief work ! of the Red Cross chapter, and will be ! mmie inio vesis lor tne aviators just as fast as the materials aro furnished The Standard Laundry company has kindly offered to clean tho materials ready for use. Please leave at Hill's Department store, N. K. West's, the J. C. Penney Btoxe. or at the Golden , Rule. . ROM LA GRAND NTJMHKB 260 TURKS W II GERMANY'S HACK DOOR IS IN- had con nrno.N rkcausk . TURKS ARE GREEDY. TURKS NOT SATISFIED WITH SHARE IN SPOILS Germany Is Peeved With Ottomans Hwause They Wuntctl Too Much Roumanian Terrliory HiilgaiiU) Also -Was , No Satisfied With Share Of Tcriltory. WASHINGTON, -D.C., July 30 (By United Press.) Reports aro arriving - here' to the ' effect " thit Turkey, has broken relations with Germany. All hough ;,tha ; report la not confirmed, there is Increasing evidence that Germany's back door In not ao strong as .Gorman wrlto s would have the) .world believe. Official dispatches show that Turkey Is greedy jfpr territory. wnicu has mude Germany angry. : It la bellevod that Turkoy will try Und strike a bargain, with the ' Allies boforo iiude,rtukinK to broak with her ally. ; t , It has been known for several Weeks that considerable heart-burn-' InglexlBts in the Near . East Blnce Germany acted as arbitrator In tho division of tho spoils, following .the, defeat of Rumania and Russia. Turkey, . who had Played , a very minor; part In jtho subjugation! of tho Rumanians, was awarded opa." rifth of tho territory' which fell' to Rulgarlu, as her share of the spoils. Shortly afterwards,' it was annunoc oA that the Turlils)) cabinet had fallen, and It is prosumod that the caune of Its retirement was public dissatisfaction at the Blutrs Turkoy was to rocolve for her participation In .the war.,.-;. :,;v.i':::, . '..- . ' It Is also anjiouncod that tho ' recent change in the Bulgarian cabinet waa the outcome of Bulgar ian dissatisfaction at the ; division of the territory between herself ' and her German ally, VISITED A CRUISER ' lai Graiido Young Ijldy lterelvc! 'i Unigiio Soiivenii' from! Crew : V Miss ArdlB Paliiior rolui'nod yes. '- tcrday evening froni a vlBlt of se,-: veral weeks with friends in Salem and Portland. One of her moBt ploasant experiences V whlle absont wan a visit wlth a lady frlond, ac companied by an Amorlcan army officer,' to 'a-cruiser Just completed in tho Vancouver -yards for tha . French government, and which had Just boon turned over to the Fronch . marines for sailing to San Francis- ; co, whore It will be equipped with tho, necessary guns. .While on tho cruiser, the ladles inot many of the crew, and through an Interpreter had quite an interesting time. Among the crew wore four French men who had been woundod i In ways that unfitted thoiu for the : front, but yet allowed thorn . to serve In the,-bout's crow. One of these, on learning that Miss Pal mer hud a brothor In the service in- Franco, presented her with a ring cut from a piece of shrapnel removed from ;i;t breast uftor the battle in which he received tho wound. The piece of shrupnol was large enough to make threo rings. and tho carving was dona by him. jself while recovering.- It 1b a sou venir oi me irip mat. miss rainier values very highly. Bho. Bays the Frenchmen had almost the entire ship covered with American flugs and could not do too much for their American guests. NOTED CRIMINALS IN JAIL BREAK BENNETT THOMPSON, NOTOItl. OI'H Ml' It DEI! EH, ESCAPES FROM SALEM ' ' SALEM, July 30. (By ' United pP,fl. I Bennett . Thompson and Fred Thuiber, both doaporato trim. Inala. csruped from tho ' penitent! ary this morning and are still ut largo.- Thompson was undergoing a llfo sentence tor the brutal mui'dor ot Mrs. Jennings, owner of a ranch, in Washington County, and a jit ney driver, two years ago. BREAK 111 11 11 m W m Fx? Vvr-;