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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war measures, also are rescinded.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.
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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.
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M
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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
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Goal,
Wood,, Hay, Grain, Lime
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