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' LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUG UST 16, 1918
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RUSSIAN MOVE OtiE OF WAR S
. BIGGEST BITS OF STRATEGY
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BRITISH GO
500 BILES
NO ANNOUNCEMENT HAD BEEN
MADE OF THE INTENDED
BAKU INVASION.
OIL FIELDS LIKELY TO
BE LOST TO HUN
Situation In Trance Much the Same,
With 'Iloye and Albert Seriously
Threatened Tremendous Area Be
tween French Fighting and the New
Russian Sector. .
LONDON, Aug. 16. (By United
Press.) While continued progress by
the allies-in the Picardy salient, direct
ly threatening Albert and Roye, the
west front was today temporarily ov
ershadowed by events on a new front,
which has a scattering sector.
Asitch, in Russia, and Roye, in
France, are some four thousand miles
apart, but that is the situation of the
allied sectors today.
The arrival of the British expedition
in Baku, Ihe great Russian oil country,
following a 700-mille journey , from
Bam Dan by land and water, is regard
ed as one of the war's most dramatic
episodes. No previous announcement
was made that such a movement had
been planned. The expedition march
of 000 miles over land, through diffi
cult country, and the remainder of the
trip was made by ster mship.
BOLSHEVIKI CLAIM A VICTORY.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 10. (By Unit"
cd Press.) The Ijolsheviki claim to
have defeated the allies, a hundred
miles southwest of Archangel. Others
fighting against the Czecho-SIovaks,
claimed, a Moscow statement says, the
enemy abandoned their position, after
violent fighting. .
' GERMANS MOVE BACK.
PARIS, Aug. 16. The Germans are
moving away to the north of the Avre
river, little by little, while the French
are progressing at the same speed.
The French are threatening the en
emy at Roye, and along the Aisne are
this afternoon half encircled about the
Roye woods, the strongest pressure
continuing.
NEW MOVE IS STARTLING.
LONDON, Aug. 18. The Bolsheviki
throughout Russia are reported not
only fleeing the advancing allies, but
the newly aroused Russians who have
learned that the allies are not beaten
on the west front, as the Germans and
Bolsheviki have been persistently
preaching.
As the real news reaches the great
mass of the people t,he men nrc said
to be taking up the arms that they
carried home with them when they
were disbanded after the debacle at
rest-Litovsk.
Reports from all parts of Russia
indicate the news of the approach of
the allies spreading throughout the
country and that peasants are flocl:-'
ing to the standards of any group
openly anti-German and anti-Bolsho-viki.
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The landing of American troops at
Vladivostok, announced yesterday by
Secretary of Wur Baker, marks the
actual beginning of operations from
. the Siberian coast to the relief of the
IkCzccho-Slovaks.
British and French contingents have
been at Vladivostok for several days
and there is reason to believe that the
Japanese have also landed. The prin
cipal opposition by the Bolsheviki and
the armed German and Austrian pris
oners is on the Siberian railroad be
tween Lake Baikal and Vladivostok.
All the rest of the line to Moscow
is in the control of the Czecho-Slovak
troops and the loyal Russians and Si
berians. The control of the road from
Vladivostok and Nikolsk, the junction
of the Manchurian Eastern line and
the Siberian road, is in the hands of
the allies. This permits of striking a
blow directly at Lake Baikal, where
the opposition is concentrated becan.
the Manchurian road has been con
stantly under guard by the Japanese
by arrangement with the Chinese gov-
' ernment.
Road Opens For the Allien. ,
The arrival of British troops at
Buku is another feature of supremo
importance to the allies. Not only
does it mean that the German control
of the Buku oil lands and refineries is
seriously threatened, but it opens an
other possible road into Russia from
the south for allied troops to enter. ,
L The Bolsheviki troops in retreat be
fore the allied expeditionary forces
have been stubbornly resisting and ore
committing atrocities on the civilian
population as they retire.
IASSIGN Y IN DANGER.
PARIS, Aug. 16 (By United Press)
Humbert now holds the entire pla
teau around Lassigny, dominating the
whole southwestern corner of that bat
tle front. French forces are within a
mile and a half of Lassigny, Hid the
enemy positions at 'Bray and Lassig
ny are of the most unfavorable sort.
Their railroads are unavailable' for
transportation in the congestion.
Chaulnes, the extremely important
German center, is now under heavy
fire from the British.
ALBERT IS ENCIRCLED.
LONDON, Aug. 16. (By United
Press.) General Haig's report shows
the British are slowly encircling Al
bert, and are already menacing the city
from the west and south. British have
crossed the Ancre on a wide front to
the northward. It is also reported that
progress has been made south of Al
bert. . '
LARGE PEACH
SALE IS MADE
i rk M'KKvvnv miYS pritit INI
EAGLE VALLEY. ' '
Price Paid Is Not Public Peaches
Are Reported Generally Scurce
Delivery Next Week.
J. D. McKennon last night returned
from a motor trip over to Eagle Val
ley and brought with him a contractor
purchase of one thousand boxes of the
celebrated Eagle. Valley peaches,
which he sold to the W. B. Glafke Co. j
branch house in this city. I
The prjee paid for the peaches i&
not known, but it is safe that Mr.
McKennon expects to realize a profit
on his purchase the first large sale,
of the season, and any one familiar,
with prcsont market prices on fruit of
any kind will know that he must have
paid a pretty stiff price, for it is well
known that no finer flavored peach
than those grown on the banks of the
Snake river can bo found anywhere.
Mr. McKonn'on's contract of purchase
calls for delivery of the fruit the first
of next week, in lots to suit the re
quiements of the consignees.
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LADY HARCOURT
Ludy Harcmirt. formerly Mijs Mary
Kthei Burn, ilttuiriitcr of .the late
WnltiT H. Knrns of New York, Is the
wife of the lit. Hon. Lewis Harcoiirt,
Jl. P., first commissioner of works,
,tniste of the Wallace collection,
;Brltlh miwnm, London iniiseuui, Na
tional Portrait gallery, nnd executive
iof the Driilh - ' ' at Rome, . ,
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A happy group of sisters of n Brlilsh Red Cross hospital bantu holding a piscatorial coutcst on u French canal la
suowu in una bruisu ofhcioi pictures Tne sisters nre giud of a mue recreation, since most ot their ttino Is consumed
In working hard at all hours nursing and bringing cheer to the wounded Tommies. .
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MEMilEH OF HOKI ITAI. I'XIT
ItKI'OKTED AS WOUNDED.
Vague Information Fulls to Ulw
Full lufoi illation Hiiiiem'd
lu July.
Lyle Strlngham, of Imblcr, one
of the La Orando Hospital Unit,
now in France, wue taken to a buso
hospital-in July, probably wounded
but 10 what extent is not known.
A card, presumably wrlten by a
Red Cro3s nurse, . on July 20th,
was received by Lyle's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Ed. Strlngham, and from
the wording cf the message it is
clear that he was wounded, . yet
the ciisualtios thus far published
In th-s papers carry no information
In tliij matter. Lyle Strlngham
was - a stirKon"8 motorcycle ' nies.
senge,r. Lynn Strtngham, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Strlngham or
tmblor, wrote a Jotter on July 10,
paying Lylu had just arrived there
after a prolonged absence. Tho
Injury, whatever Its nature must
have occurre.d between 'the l'Oth
and 20th.- ' -'
As there has been no word from
tho government tho relatives be
lieve that the injuries; may have
i o.sm I tod from a motorcycle ."spill"
and not necessarily very serious.
BOYS IN HOSPITALS
WANT HOME PAPERS
This Class of Literature Is Most Ac
ceptable For Our Soldiers
"Over There."
LONDON, Aug. 10 (United Press)
"More home newspapers" is the ap
peal continually, made to the library
committee of the American Red Cross
by American soldiers in hospitals in
Great Britain.
The library is at present furnishing
reading matter for more than 25,000
men a month, both in hospitals and
in camps. The committee has its
headquarters in a building at 14 Pall
Mail East, London, where it keeps on
hand at ail times about 25,000 books
and a large supply of mngazines and
newspapers.
The books are cither ;gifts or are
purchased in London. In its pur
chases, the committee restricts iteslf
almost entirely to cheap popular edi
tions, costing from fifteen to thirty
cents a volume. "Our reason for do
ing this," says a committee report,
"is that we get most for our money
in this way. The books inevitably get
hard usage, and some of them, used in
the hospitals, must be destroyed im
mediately, owing to the danger of in
fection. Altogether, the life of those
books is exceedingly short, and cheap
editions, bound in paper or light cloth,
are undoubtedly the most serviceable
and economical.
"We have made no attempt to im
port books from America, because wc
realize that at the present time ton
nage is needed in more essential di
rections. As to the class of reading
matter selected, wc leave it mainly to
the demands of the men, and they ask
principally for fiction, and light fic
tion at that. We arc supplying more
or less permanent libraries for hospi
tal staffs or for American naval sta
tions, wc try to give an all-around
tone to the collections of books, in
cluding classics, essays, poetry, biog
raphy and scientific works, but still
for the greater part, fiction.
''The magazines and newspapers
must of necessity come from America.
It is our experience that this class of
literature gives greater satisfaction to
the men than books. Their cry is con
tinually for more of the home newspapers."
SIMM
IS IN
HOSPITA
RED CROSS SISTEbS IN A FISHING
onsiliiaKiKHMimt'Pa
WAR TAX LAW
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iSOMK
1XCOJIR TAXES
BEEN DOUBLED.
HAVE
Family Exemptions Still Stand, How
ever Minimum Necessities
Exempt In S"ew Law. .
WASHINGTON, Aug. li (United
Press) Practically complete drafts of
tho eight billion revenue measure have
been published. It shows the income
taxes have been doubled, and in some
instances trebled. The exemptions of
$1000 for single men and $2000 for
married men with $200 additional for
each child under 18, stands in the
new law.
. Taxes are boosted, more than 50 per
cent. Taxes hit practically everything
except the necessary food und clothing.
FIRST WHEAT SHIPPED
Two Carloads Sent From La Grande
By Kerr, Gifford & Co.
' Kerr, Gifford & Co., grain buyers,
reported this morning that they had
just shipped out the first two carloads
of this year's wheat, and that it was
of good quality.
The rain l&st night, as well as the
continuation of. rain this mornirg in
Union and Walmwa counties, will re
tard the work ofhnrvesting, for iov
eral days, perhaps, suid Mr. Owsley,
and in this opinion was corroborated
by County Agent Spillman, who hns
just returned from a short trip in the
country. ;
Late News
BREWER IS FINED.
PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 16. (By
United Press.) The , federal judge
here has fined Alexander Davison,
president of the Blue Ribbon Beer
company ,'of Sun Francisco, $10,000 as
punishment for conspiracy in bootleg
ging. Davison will not appeal, but will
pay the fine.
BRAZILIAN SCHOONER SUNK.
AN ATLANTIC PORT, Aug. 16.
The captain and 22 members of tho
crew of the Brazilian motor schooner
Mamrugda, f.iciieii and sunk by a
German U-boat near winter quarters
of Virginia, have been brought into
port. They were rescued by a steam
er. The U-boat shelled; the schooner
from a distance of 200 yards, the
captain said.
AUSTRIAN'S REPULSED.
ROME, Aug. 16 (By United Press)
"In the Intcnale region the enemy
attempted a powerful reaction against
our advanced position, but were com
pletely repulsed," said the official
Italian statement today.
"On the Piavo the enemy thrice at
tacked an islet wc had captured on
the pre-'ious' day. All attacks were
repulsed with heavy losses. Our air
men brought four enemy pfanes down
and captured a balloon."
AIRMEN BOMB GERMAN TOWNS.
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES,
Aug. 16. American airmen yesterday
and today bombed railroad yards at
Dnmary and Barencourt, near Metz.
Explosions were observed. They com
pletely destroyed tracks and rolling
stock. Hostile machines were de
stroyed. Intermittent bombardment of rear
areas of the Vcsle front continues.
Otherwise this portion of the front i3
generally quiet. American patrols are
crossing the river at a new point, nnd
found the Germans have dug ih on the
entire line and are strongly tirtif'ed
with mnrhine o-tinit. ...
READY
CONTEST
ODE
FOR
CALLED
tiOVKHX.MK.VI WANTS 20,000,000
OR MORE BOXES FOR ARMY.
All Lumber .Mills of the North
west To (iet Piirt uf the ;
, Older. . , . '
SPOKANE, Wash.,' Aug. ,15.
(Special.) The, govorniueut today
asked for bids on the largest wood.
en oox order ever submitted to
Nortwest. manufacturers. The or-
der wll mean from $5,000,000: to
$7,000,000 for manufacturers. V
From , 20,000,000 to . 26,000,
000 boxes, will be needed for army
shipmonts and domestic boxes will
be . u Bed by - the War department,
according to, a telegram re,ad hero
this morning at the meeting of -the
box ouroaii, of the Western Pino
Manufacturers' Association.
' "The army has decided to use
domestic boxes for domestic ship
ments this season and Is asking for
domestic iprlcc," says the telegram
received from J. C. Nollls, aocre.
tarymauager of, the National as
sociation of tho wooden box In
dustry, Washington, D. C,
"Can you glvo .prices on domes
tic boxes In accordance' with the
food administration specllcatlons?"
Tlilrty.Avc box manufacturers
from tho coast and Inland Empire
points uro now holding a mooting
hero.
Sales Agent Vincent Pulnier, of
the Palmer Lumber Co. when acen
at his ofTco . ypfllordny afternoon,
said that undoubtedly both , the
lumber manufacturing companies
of , La Grande, with many other
companion In Eastern Oregon,
would receive their full sharo of
this, tin, biggest slnglo order of
tho kind ever called for by the
United States government, as soon
as bldi cun be submitted by- the
Nortwestern Whlto Pino. Associa
tion, -.hioiiKh which association al
lotments -will be, made to tho dif
ferent lumber mills In this terri
tory.
UMATILLA COUNTY
WILL REGISTER 3200
PEAMJELTON. Aug. 16. Tho
local draft board Is In rcHdlness
for the big registration which la
to be set by the law now pending
in congress. Instructions which
are bMng sent In advance to locul
boards have been received In Pen
dleton. They are- found to be, al
most diipllcnte or the regulations
for the registration of June 5,
1917. ; . ,
In the registration of List year
Umatilla county enrolled a totul of
2380 men between the ages of 21
and 31 years Inclusive.' It Is es
timated the number to bo registered
under the proposed "man power"
law wll be about 3200. Reglstra.
tlon boards will bo In every volhig
precinct In the, county and the en
tiro proceeding will be conducted
us last year. -,
JAPANESE OFFICERS
VISIT CAMP LEWIS
'CAMP LEWIS. Aug. 15. Majo:
K. Mldzatanl. or the Imperial
Japan:oP army and a party ot
Japanese observers ' are visitors
hern today. Major Mldzalanl has
Just relumed from overseas where
he, hs been getting first bund Im
pressi'ins on the Italian and French
rrnnta. Major Mldzalanl saw act
ive dii,y -when the Japunnse wreted
ChlnUn rrom tho Germans. He .Is
cn ro'ja back to Japan.
GOAL SHORTAGE
NOW PREDICTED
DEMANDS INCREASE At A MOST
STARTLING RATE.
Navy Alone Will Require 100 Per
Cent More Since April Sap
ping Board Aa Much,,
PORTLAND, Aug. 16. "(Special.)
Instructions limiting the amount of
coal that can be ordered may be sent
to Fuel Administrator Holmes soon.
This is indicated by the fact that he
has just received advices from Washington-
that there has been an as
tounding increase in the government
requirements. The necda of tho navy
alone have increased by almost 100
per cent since April and the shipping
board's have jumped from 10,000,000
tons monthly to 13,000,000 for the
same length of time. ; "
The above news, published in the
Portland Telegram of the 14th, is
somewhat startling in its import, and
only emphasizes the recent injunc
tions of the State Fuel Administrator
Fred J. Holmes that if families in
Eastern Oregon have delayed order
ing1 their winter supply of coal, they
should order what they can without
delay. Not only In view of tho above
information, but that cars for hauling
domestic coal will not be available
soon, if at all.
, These conditions have been plainly
outlined by railroad men recently, as
well as' by the fuel administration
itself; direct from headquarters in
Washington, D. C. - !
STATE KrVHHlNTHNDKNT FIXES
DATES FOR THE- -'
. .. STATU." , .
1 , J ."-, ;.'
t'nion County Institutes Set Dunn
For October -U-I I An
Joint Airuir.
SALEM, ,Or.,' Aug. 15. Jv A;
Churchill, superintendent, of public
Instruction, hus fixed the, dates for
the teachers' Institutes which will
be hold in evory county In the
state. Tho llrst Institute opened In
Clackamas county dn August 5 and
will continue until August 23.
Others will run down through tho
rest of tho year until. Christinaa
wreuk, ns follows:
Augupt 19-Sopioiuber 0 Joaoph-
Ino.
September 3, 4, E Klamath.
Septumbur 2, 3, 4 Malheur. ' .
Sepioinbiy-. 4, 5,.f) Wasco. -
Sep ombor , 23, 24, 25 Grant.
. September 23-28 Stato Fair.
Septcmbor 30-Oclubur , 1, 2
Jackson. -
October 2, 3, 4 Like.
October 7, 8, 0 Douglas.
Ootober 0,"l0, J 1 TIHumook.
October 9, 10,. 11 V, kor-Unlon-WttUowa,.
(Joint.)
(Continued on Page Two)
SERGT. MAJ. J. A. WHITE
Sergt. Ma J. J. A. White, who Is doing
his bit serving as chiropodist with
Uncle 8m's forces In France. The
care of the lower extremities Is of the
utmost Importance to the success of an
rmy, and this expert sees to It that
the feet of our fighting man are always
In tha "pink of condition." ,
INSTITUTES TO
OPEN AUGUST 19
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MRS. POOK
SOU'S FATE
LA-GRANDE RELATIVES LEAKN
ONLY PART OF FACTS CON- .
CERNINU "DOUGHBOY,"
MISSING IN ACTION WORD
SENT TO THE MOTHER
Mrs; James Schilling, of. La Grande
Us Sister of Missing Man Pook
Not of This City, Having Signed Up
In the East Further Details Are
Now Being Awaited. ' . "
Mrs. Louise Pook, a resident of Li
Grande, was advised today that her
son, Private Pook, an infantryman, is
missing in action. The distressing
news , came to ihe La -Grande woman .
through the adjutant general's office
and the telegram promises . that, as
soon as additional information is avail-
able she will be notified.
The missing man was a brother of
Mrs. James Schilling, of this city, ind
although his relatives live here, he en-
listed in the east and was not him
self a La Grande resident. ' ;
Whether Pook is killed or taken a
prisoner, remains to be determined,
nnd probably will soon be learned.
The disappearance occurred on July
6, somewhere in France. ,
ENGLISH WOMEN ABE
EAGER FOR AIR WORK
LONDON, Aub.,16. Lots of women
have been told thex are angels, but
ungnsn women want, to make a step -in
that direction by becoming experts 1
at flying..,.:, ,, . ;;,-: v':, ;"- -r"
Tho flying temperament Is a combj-.'
nation of "qualities" as likely to be
long to the female sex jis to the male,-
and many women are asking "Can we
or can we: not prove' useful in air
work?" ... -,.-.,. ,- .. . '
They arc told by mere man that .
good eyesight und good nerves are -
essential. Most women s.have both;
And combined . with these qualifica
tions women have also the Intense de
sire to do something,-and they are
now set upon proving how -much they
could do. Naturally they don't ex
pect to servo over the firing line; but
there is a variety of ways in which
a woman with a flying temperament
could trmko herself useful.
Airplanes could be used for locating .
uiid removing wounded from the field,
und for carrying certain casos from
the clearing stations to hospitals
surely a sphere in , which a woman
would run no risk of becoming un- -soxed.
" -.
English women havo no lust for
blood. They don't want to kill but
they do want to help their men. The
fwish is so fervont that it becomes al- .
most an ache. Thus they are already .
an integral part of tho British army.
They cannot be excluded from avia.
tion on logical grounds. It is no use
putting forward the sentimental at- - .
gument, because that iB all in their
favor.' ... ' f , .
There is a great probability that
women will be needed, and they are
willing. All they ask is to bo trained
so that they would be ready should
the emergency arise.
Here is a way in which women can
help their men folk, and to want a -thing
badly enough is to get it!
MEXICO'S ATTTTVDH DlSTllllW
t ,
resident Will DIhcuks Absorbing ,
' PrnhleniN With Col. House. i
MAGNOLIA, Mass., August 15. '
(By United Press.) Presldont WI
son today arrived here and will
probably remain ns guest at Col. '
House's homo over the week end.
The President Is said to be rent
ing but. it Is believed that he will
sciis8 with Col. House many dlf-
dlploniatlc questions, Includ
ing Mexico's defiance of both Great
Britain nnd the United States over
the oil tax question, the, Bolsheviki .
nttuck on the consulates of the al- -
lies and the attitude of unrest to
wards Germany now displayed In
both Uulgaria and Turkey.' '
BHIDS VEUY PLENTIFUL.
l lrst liny of (Iriuiso Season
Find '
Jinny Well-filled bug. '
That kioiibo are generally plon
tlftil la the best feeding ground U"
shown by the census or hunters
who worn nut yesterday. Tho
marked degree or young ones on
tho reeding grounds Is commented
on by most hunters, the year
having been less propltuous for
thulr giowth, '
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