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o 'li'l- t.Vft xi kANBE evening observer- WLHEf LAGRANDEBOYS HAUI.ES handing sends so ciety iITEM FllOU VR.NTE. Uiristmas Was Celebrated Near the Rhine in a Splendid Manner lioya Are All Happy. THREE DROWN WHEN"9' PI AVE GOE3 DOWN . aiuidtnent to the. war revenue bill DUM.R, England. Feb 1. Three jpruvlulnK for tle,avlllant of u uon members of the erew or Hie Amwf-. us of ,50 t0 listed men and nurses can cargo ship I'lave were Ui owned !llnd ,200 to lfic),a of the, arm. - -"-- - "',navy and marine corps upon, tfroir Deal. aceordlnB to tifty-uur urvlv.jdls.hllrfe : fl.0IU Bl,rvke been ore. who arrived ore today.. The,. lgraed upon b). lho 8fimUa all(., houfo Wave was on her maiden trip " ionfeives. Holland with 17, SOU tons M provi sions when the accident happenec. The vessel aud cargo were lost. wu.i.r.iVk.A.i.d Hoitauit! : - ' II 'CANADA MOVES !Tl) SOLVE wlftlKtwHT ! ! ! - I-.:,:- : WORLD'S VASlr-FOQD PROBLEM Rescinds regulations. Qnmands In tbo house for a Sepa rate vote on tho senate child labor, amendment and the provision pro hibiting Importation of :liu,uor into the District of Columbia tor befer Friday .night -Zoning regulations and practically, all rules for the distribu tion, of- fuel as well as most regula tions concerning oil and natural gas, promulgated under the Lever a.-t as war measures, also are rescinded. SIX INJURED IN MISSOURI WRECK Ft'LTON, Mo., Feb. 1 Six persons were severely injured and several oth ers-were shaken up and bruised when the combination passenger and freight train of the South branch of the Chi cago & Alton was wrecked at Davis crossing, five miles south of Fulton. The badly injured are: K. E. Lucas, manager of Missouri Stores, Columbia, Mo. fractured right hip and ribs. Woody Thomas, Mexico, brakeman, cut on head and severe injury to abdomen. E. 0. Shipman, Fulton, baker at the Missouri school for the deaf, injuries to shoulder and neck. C. F. Lander, Mexico, brakemoti in jured internally. The following important society lti-m to Eastern Oregon people was re ceived today from Charles Harding of the American expeditionary forces in France: Had Neuenahr, a beautiful little city la a pocket of the Eifel mountains not far from the river Rhine, was the scene of a gala affair last Christmas day which will be of much interest to East ern Oregon folks and especially to La Grande. The occasion was significant in that it marked the second annual banquet of the One hundred Sixth-eev-enth field hospital so long on overseas service with the colors. The spacious dining hall of the Ho tel K linger, the hostelry in which the men have been billeted for some time, wns transformed into a bower of er- nal splendor appropriate to the Christ mas season. Evergreen, mistletoe and ' holly gathered from the wilds of the adjacent region furnished the essential atmosphere for revelry. . Adding a pleasing touch of artistry . were tall vases of golden chrysanthemums and potted ferns and flowers which graced the long tables and illuminated the happy faces of the partakers of the cheer. The famous ''made in Oregon" idea was adapted as far as possible by the men, which assured that the menu was spirited and tasteful from consomme to taps. All of the frills and fixings that would be. used, in the land where rolls the Oregon were used with much success from the aluminum appointments of the service to. the se lective crepe paper table cloths. As the last luscious bits of pumpkin p:e were nestled away where they belong ed and the Omar aroma gently cur'i cucd up toward the overhanging but useless mistlet6e boughs the merry makers were greeted with a special program in honor of the occasion. Me lodious selections of varied repertoire were given by the Glee club, consisting of the Messrs. Kenneth Carpy,. William Silverthorne, Melvin Larson, Ralph Winters, John Stoddard, .Walter Stringham and John .Johnson, with Knust Knight accompanying on ths piano. Encore after encore neco?i--tated return after return before the music lovers' appetites for more were satiated. A paper affording a glimpse into the past and present historv and status of the unit by Sergeant Elmer McManus was well received, as were the poetic reminiscences of Sergeant Earl Hearing, the., chirky jingles cl Wagoner Walter Palmer, the vivacious piano selections of Sergeant Ernesi Knight and the appetizing take-offi of the genial Private Frank Crippin. Favoring the assembly with their official presence and in impromptu speeches were Captain Peter P. Rnf fcrty of New Jersey, Adjutant Eldrcd B. Waffle, and Lieutenants Carl S. Moore and Michael S. Nolan. As inter-1 ton university, whoBe bodies were locutor and toastmaster First Sergeant 'found Friday night in their home in Charles Harding did much to inject the fashionable Mount Pleasant sec- spice into the program. Underlying the gayety of all was the knowledge that instead of being ten thousand kilometers from home next Christmas will see the men of the La Grande unit back over-there in -the bosom of their families and enjoying American pursuits once more. Small wonder that there was hardly a dry eve in the assembled company when the Glee club topped off the festivities with that song of songs: "The days at Or-E-Gon, They are the best of all ... M Selah. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. All price UKe purposes worn withdrawn Friday, control exercised by the fuel adniini3-!nsurlng ,nB retention i of these tration over anthracite and .bitumi- amendment!.- in the Heal dean of tho nous coal and coke ceased today under tilll. , a blanket order signed by Fuel Ad- Under tho conference agreement ministAtor Garfield and made public 'tha bouus .would tax givon tu enlisted men .nurses and officers already mus tered out, as well .-js those yet to. bo discharged, regardless of whether service was at home or overseas. Field clerks and others attr.ched to ) the righting forces would share In tho payments. NEW CUT I RATES. WASHINKTON, Feb. 1. To meet further rate reductions proposed for British vessels, the shipping board's division of operations Friday night announced cuts in freight tariffs on cargo carried in American bottoms from north Atlantic ports on the United States to Australia, New Zea land, South Africa and the far east, including Yokohama, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Kobe, Manila and Singa pore, and the usual ports of call.. FATHER APPLIES HUN PUNISHMENT ! i'. s. will xot. itKTAf.i.vrr: OX lUtlTISIl IVJitMiT; Rl'I.IMi WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. Tho war trade board will not talte.. retaliatory measures on account ,ot; import re strictions .promulgated by the Brit ish government. Thir. statement was authorized Friday by a member of the board. ', The British mission, here has explained- to war trado board officials that the drastic aotioii which prohi bits Importation to Great Britain af ter March 1 of many important com modities was necessary to stabilize finance. Industry and labor. It was United that the present labor situa tion In England required immediate measures to -re-establish the entire economic f rubric of the country and, moreover, that tho dollar exchange was lacking to pay for the commo dities on the prohibited list if they weer permitted to be brought in. VO- o : frk ; ''V-.:- S r-. . . i . V J-t ' I VH. Vj'V V ,r V .v i Hefbeft C. JbWirtlie-WorlMll " , l 11 SOUTH AFRICA AND JAPAN ABANDON OPPOSITION LONDON, Fob. 1. The Paris cor spondent of the Daily Mail in a dis patch to his pnper Friday says that Japan on Thursday formally accepted the theory of internationalization of colonies and that it was understood South-Africa had nbundoned its oppo sition to the scheme. While Herbert Hoover, food ad ministrator of the United States, proposes to solve the world's; food situation by conservation, the Hon. J. A. Calder, Canadian government minister and father of the new land legislation of the Dominion, pro poses to solve it by increased pro duction. This is the fundamental difference between the food programs o.' tlie United States and Canada. Mr. Calder proposes to force culti vation of every acre of unproductive land in the country.- Canada's great est asset is land and its greatest need population. There ore about 400,000,000 acres of uncultivated land in Canada, of which 250,000,00(1 acres ore in the rich prairie prov inces of Manitoba, Saskntchewnn and Alberta, where more than 1.000.000 American farmers Aave settled tai tlie past Tew years. Canada's land problem Is just now a world food problem. With all its land under tillage, Canada could sup ply the entire worla with food. If provinces alone ware farmed to wheat, the crop would be greater than the yiold of the United States of 1917, which was more than 000.000,000 bushels. Cunada's new land law Is radical In many of iU features. The settler will be given twenty years in which to pay for a farm and the govern ment will lend him $2.00(1 for build ings, live stock and improvements. The law is expected to set moving toward Canada a tide of immigra tion' unprecedented in history. The immigrants. It is expected, will be drawn largely from Great Britain, northern Europe . and tha United States. With most of the good land in the United Stntos settled, Canada, its government officials point out. of fers the Inst remaining opportunity to the world's poor men to become the un'.'.LVi land in the western owners of farm home. LUMBER MOVEMENT IS LIGHT ASTORIA, Ore., Feb. 1. Lumber shipments by water from the Colum- "President Wilson," the correspond-1 bia riv" during the month of Jnnu- CniCAGO, Feb. -1. J. Gessinger, charged with improperly caring for his five children, told Judge Richard son he held his children's hands on a hot stove "so they would learn from ..:., tk.l f ln.n. nnH wniil.l ent adils, "undoubtedly won an im mense diplomatic victory, but has had to motlify his original proposals to some -extent." ary were exceptionally light. Records compiled by Deputy Collector Haijdix show that eighteen vessels loaded nt lower river mills in that month, their cargoes totaling llt,!tl8,626 feet. Six teen of those vessels, carrying 11,428, 000 feet, went to California, while two vessels, with 1,8!)0,020 feet, are en route to foreign ports. During tho same period seven ves- RUMANIANS WITHDRAW PARISi Feb. 1. Jlumnnia hns com nlied with the wishes of the pence con- experience that fire burns,'1 and would If erence regarding extensions of terri- "ouit monkeving with the stove." The'tnrinl ni-cnnntions hv withdrawing children, with their hands pitifully!,,, rt f ,pknwinn. adiacont tnisds loaded 4,:i!0,73r feet of lumber at scarred, told the court the story ofjRumanian territory, Rays n dispotchjuP rivcr '"ills, making a grand total their mistreatment. . I to the Petit Paiisien from Czcmowitz. of 17,709,301 feet shipped from the "You should have a German uniform jThe Rumanians, the disnntch states, I Columbia river in cargoes during the ron vou." said Judge Richardson to i,ve rotirml hehind the line of delimi-; month. The shipments included 28, Gessinger. "You fully understand the tation gospel of flnme and war and barbarian cruelty to little children." Gessinger will be examined to de mine whether or not he is insane. MURDERS STIRS POLICE. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. Washing ton police Friday night were engaged in an nttempt to solve the mystery of the killing of T. T. Wong, chief of Jhe Chinese educational mission to the United States, and C. H. Hsie and Ben Sen Wu, students at George Washing- Jnn. 5, 1919. Mr. Bruce Dennis, edi tor La Grande Evening Observer, La Grande, Oregon. Mr. Dear Mr. Dennis: tion. They were last seen alive last Tuesday. TAKEN TO PORTLAND ON WHITE SLAVERY CHARGE BAKER, Feb. 1. United States Marshal Pace of Portland arrived in Baker to take charge of George Car ter, charged with white slavery, held here in the county jail. Carter was arraigned before United States- Com missioner W. L. Patterson Thursday and will have to appear before the federal grand jury in Portland in the near future. ASK RELEASE OF PRISONERS' NEW YORK,. Feb. 1. The release of all political prisoners in the It was not until a few days ago that I j United States oh Lincoln's birthday knew you were sending a special copy is requested in a cable Bent to Presi of the Observer 'o our mill. I hap-1 dent Wilson by the Women's Interna- ao'ictt to be on hand when gome mail tional league headquarters in thifYrity. came, and I picked up a paper which was addressed to the unit, and soon discovered that it was air Observer. 1 1 wish to thank you for your kindness. , I feel that I am safe in saying in b-j half- of the whole outfit,, the . home, town paper means great deal to an outfit like this unit, practically every, man from Union county. j Since arriving at our present loca-: tion, Ead "Neuenohr, Germany, wr have had Very easy going, compared; with the many hard days which we . . , .i t. went througn, ana were gumg iaruuKn at the time the armistice-waa signed. .This place is a soldiers heaven. Thinking that . perhaps you would like to print a good society, item, I am, enclosing a little ''copy' which our old reliable, Maxwell E. Ball, has pre-; pared. j . All thi' boys are feeling fine phymc aily, afid mentally they are polling! hard for a trip house soon. H is ru-1 niored tiat our divisionohas orders to j etibark, but I gioubt very much if we! shall mokg it before spring. Cordially your3, e j CHAS. R. HARDING. new Foley builyine. LI) HATS made to look liVf new nt Wilson Bros.. fil5 bundles of box shcoks and 750C hinglcs. - 2-1-nt suits. Observe- advertising will brlnff re actme women Looking their Best all the Time b the Chief Basinets ct the Bine Grass Belles. This Secret of Their Beauty It is health, robust health, thai Is rHponsllile for tho Konturky girl's good looks. It she gets Bick, nie prdreetU to got woll. PosseHacid of health, she knows that personal ihariA and aitractlvoness need not -worrv. They are hers. That is thelecrf!t. The story or ttira. imiae mnmi Inn S17 Mvrtln Avanui1. Triton Kentucky, ts typical. She any a: "l have never In all my life, until re cently, wctKhed over 102 pounds. Finally, I began to take Feruiiii. My weight now Is 5 20. "U'IiIIp 1 didn't reallv need ft, I hnvc ntartcd on the third bottle. IVruna Iii.h r?rtulnly done me u Krcnt dnl of food iiid 1 recommend it to my rtends. Several are taking tt. ' It t eurpriBlnf tlie amount of de pendence, placed by women every where upon Ir. llartinun'H World Kumous I'eruna. For forty -live vfarH It nan been a household rein pdy for c.ouRhH, colds, catarrh and til catariiiuU lullaininution whetlK-r ii rcnnlratory nyntcm. atomnch olliur oiirun or part of the bodv. Tlie recoid of Verurni for nenriy lilt r cfiiinty ih a mart llnir one. TlohnnndH have dlncovered and t'- Ko ItH ntiirvolouH mprlt. 1'eruna 1 il v vc r v w here. AI a v be i u r- rhfistd In cither liquid or tablet form. Yonr dealer naH U. Ank tor Ir. Hartmnirn well-known I'eninn Tonic. Do not accept a nubntltme or "nomnthlng Just as good.' limlat upon l'eriiiia, If yon are flok and mifferlnK from nny caiiNe whatever, write The I'e runa Computiy, ifit, 76. Colurnbu, Cdilo, for It. Hartmiin'e H'siltll Hook. The- book n free and may help you. Ak your dealer for a I'cruna Almanuc. HAIR WORK. Ladies modern hair work done; now switches made to order. Combings made to order. 1427 Washington St. 1-132-13 Chamberlain'eOTahleta. ??tinctions n&turufty. Ind ideation is When you . trjUH Wth ind, . . ZS gestion or constipation, take Charrj Taft use a 'gsntle move- Wrluin's Tahlts. They strfligtHen the "ment of the bowels, relitvtng the0con-0 stomach and enahlg ft to perform its stipated condition. Adv. o The Golden Rule sale is true to name. Closing Out. If the lust two -lays are like the pant few have been the closing out will be almost com plete, v . 1-30-2 Hot watcA bi inges, rubber cub best that nionky at ittles, fountain eyi ng, atomizers, all the will buy. See them ino-;it FAMILY DRUG STORE I.A GBANOCOntaON. Yon "are. ptarticiikr nhmX your Cottars and Shirts- iMlMtafV at it So are we Up-to-date equipment and careful operators , enable us to turn them out the. way you like 'them. PHONE MAIN 56 STANDARD LAUNDRY CO. awyer -Holmes M er can tile Co. glasgow has ! troubles; per- CLASGOW, Fb. 1- Several nons were inj&ed whQ mounted po- rrArhartTpd s crowd oVstrikra in the . treeU hfjOe8terday - A number oiTjP A Good Line of Used Cars For Sale Cheap i SfGarage COR. FJR !SP AD JEFFERSON AVE: yHONE Iain 17 Goal, Wood,, Hay, Grain, Lime ( Cemerft, Storage o O i e o ! P5 o o o o
