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o o o' o Phone The Objervcr the News and Your Want Ada, . Main 3?. An Independent Newspaper PrinU the Newa the Day It Happens. VOLUME XVI U SIX PAGES - LA GUANl'MS, OUEG)NTllUKS.'AYt FEHRUAltY 6, 1919. SIX PAGES NUM BER 111 Nation Wide Strike Is Now Imminent J tja J ! o o oe o e e BUILDERS' UNIONS WILL j NOT STAND LOOKOUT Seattle Industry Is Paralyzed By General Strike Galled This Morning at 10 o'Clock All Business Suspended Police Department Is Busiest Place in City--Machine Guns Are Being Mounted on Trucks 1000 Special Policemen. Sworn in Soldiers Taking a Hand to Keep Order No Disturbance Has Shown Up as Yet. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. Henry M. "White, Thomas Barker anJ E. R. Marsh, labor commissioners, start for' Seattle at once to confer with labor leaders regarding a settlement of the strike. ' Hugh L. Kerwin, head of the division of conciliation of labor department, is in conference here with Miez of the Emergency Fleet corporation in an effort to clear-up the situation as far as it affects the shipbuilders. 'SEATTLE, Feb. G. Industry is at a standstill in Seattle today. Fifty thousand men are out on strike. Although it is declared the fight will be won by peaceful methods the Seattle police are preparing for war. The busiest place in the city is police headquarters following the colling out of all organized labor in a symputheM ic Btrike with metal tradesmen who have been idle for two weeks. Prompt ly at 10 o'clock this morning practical ly all the industrial operations were stopped. Street cars returned to their barns, restaurants closed and streets became clogged with idle men. At police headquarters a picked squad of fifty men with high-powered army rifles awnitcd developments. Outside returned soldiers and police were mounting machine guns on a big truck protected with bags of sand. Five other rapid fire rifles with plenty of ammunition were also on hand. Chief of I'olicc Warren called for 500 volunteer policemen and by noon 1000 special police had been sworn in and given their badges. So far there has been no disorder. . : NEW YORK. Feb. 0. A nation wide strike involving 2,000,000 em ployes in the building trades Is im minent todty. According to Union officials announcement that follow ed a conference between W. 3. ttowen, of Indianapolis, president ot the brick layers, plasterers and ma sons union, with officials -of the Building Trades Employers Associ ation concerning threatened lockout of bricklayers and engineers who struck in sympathey with the car penters. The carpenters walked out Novem ber 12 and all efforts to settle the disputo by arbitration were met by the announcement ot tho arbitrary lockout. Bowen said today "The nation-wido strike will result if tho lockout Is declared." WILL LEAD NEW FilEXIGAN PARTY (.KMIMI, .(;H.KS TAI.I.S ON . lll.l'OI!Mi:i:S TO JOIN PftnripaJ That the .Mexicans lint the IJighrto Kiubl Their Own liutllrs 1m I phrld. KU'ASO. Kill. 6. Declaring his lnt4jtion of headiri: an untied move- Uon or headlr an armed move- Scores of Centrales were surpris- Snt to restore the consiltu Ion otled Saturday wfn Harry ilwn. a o. and depose the resent il,xican former member of tf,Q Centnlla po - v-mment and nullify the allege io tm-co. whose death in Oklahu nien fx pnv obneiou:iGsvinFtllul ion Oiiprotitrn q - - i GenfrM Full itll H IJI. 1 MU unit d -reform party tocy had pub- HOd here a leu.' prniiotine c.nin all .wxitn.v toKemcr la re - id-anl.e t'e -gmVrnnw nt beforeor - C4rn99-.rera iuterr Ho sr that jir-ans hive ro s;Jir:inre rnat tho WIlMin'nfi irtrinn 'ii!i recognizes Mi'Tirans r'':hts 0 licbt their 0n-if nltlio.Oti sum Americans; e'k'.'' O ""'1"!," lOrcfty. win no- f be rev d by O' American peofg Atnerlcan peo under anC-Oaau"n!5,ra!lon' O 20010 STOLEN FROM ONE BANK WEST VIRGINIAN INSTITUTION BOBBED OF ALL MONEY. Robbers Hold Up Employes bf Bank and Make Their Get-Away in Automobile. WHEELING, W. Va., Feb. 6. Three masked robbers entered the iBank of Fulton at Fulton four miles east of here this afternoon, held up all bank employes and escaped in automobiles withi $200,000. The bandits got away with practi' rally every cent in tho institution. CONGRESS TO PAY TRIBUTE i WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. The pro grams of the congressional memorial service for Theodore Roosevelt .Sun day afternoon in the house have been announced. Members of the Koosevelt family, former President Taft, members of the cabinet and the supreme cqurt, the diplomatic corps, high army and navy officers, have been invited to attend. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, a life-long friend of the former presi dent, will be the only speaker. FIGHT AGAINST CONFIRMATION WASHINGTON, Feb. fi. The office of controller of the treasury would be abolished and the duties of the con troller would' be transferred to the fed eral reserve board under a bill pre sented in the senate this afternoon by Senator Weeks of Massachusetts. Senator. Weeks is leadinc the fie-ht:rww r:itcs HfLMiali.n the Pacific coast to pr.ent the confirmation of Prcsi-' effect r the recent reduction of the direction of the. California Grape dent Wilson's reappointment of Jphn 'freight rates In the cant to 20 pur ! Protection association and the associ Skelton Williams to be controller of Ion on shipments between New York'ation oppose. to national prohibition, the treasury. MAX ItKPOHfKI) IKAI) IHMIK ik'iitrnltiii Woman Hurprixpl When HMnbuml Aptieujll. 'CENTRAL! A.. Wa, Fob. 5. ' ... - i . j j "as iei rimy ic;iuriru, BrriV'l in !ha PrAhoMu . ... - prise was Mrs. Brown hn harl 'V.nt been Informed that ;i report of hV . husband's demise wa erroaeous. j Mr. Drown u uncoowton fir ' f hr weeks during a serious Illness, which fact was probaUft Lie fottnda- tonT, the r.f.ort of i'.i. .. q IOorbcj. of .tho HraniTe TRonde Meat Co:i:t.H,T. left tills morning & a oiura.us trip to Noith Totrder London Strike Spreading Press asks a Settlement E AMONG STRIKERS WOOLEN INDUSTRY IN NEW JER SEY IS PARALYZED. Total of Ten Thousand Workers Are - on Strike in One City of Mosquito State. PASSAIC, N. J., Feb. 6. Approxi mately 4000 additional woolen workers hero walked out today, making the to tal number of strikers in that h.jus try 10,000. The workers are demanding a 11 hour week at increased pay. SCHOOL BOY SEES OWN GOLD STAR YAKIMA, Wash., Feb. fl. William Wheat, aged ,8 years, former Yakima high school boy, reported killed in ac tion, yesterday went to the high school building -to see the gold star pinned on the gold service flag for him. The star was removed. Wheat is a son of Mr. nnd Mrs. G. , art. L lL r i M. Wheat of this city. Rejected in , i i. i iu Ti r army and went overseas within four weeks. lie was gassed. Ho walked in on his parents yesterday morning, bringing an assortment of German hel mets and other battlefield souvenir. He may continue his ,'iigh school studies, but says that after seeing men fight and die, school life seems dull. FREIGHT RUE IS .MA OK OX TliAXK-PACII HMUVMKNtS. New Oiilcr l''nll;w Itedm Made ; liy ltritili Shipping Companies to ICcguin lAtst Trade. SAN FHANCrSCO; Feb. On and After March 1 tnero will be e drastic cut hi Hi 3 tnms-I'ueif ic freight rates between the 1'aoifir. ; coast ports and tho Orient, from $HH per do.'d weight ton to $12. Tho ; new raies also include a reduction r.t j frgm '',( to J 1 4 per measurement) ton: Harold 8. Lliey, rstdstant director of operations hero for the United States shipping board, announced to day thai he had Received authoriza tion to announce tho new rates yes- ereday from Washington. The and tho Orient by way r.f the rananu Of canal. The rate eductions are In Moll, secretary ol the. grape associa lln with the United States shipping lion, announced here yesterday, board's policy rerently annourceil a'.: 1 ' Washington to meet every slash in rates made by the JSiitlsh shipping companies in their attempt to regain their lost tr;nle even- though car goes, be earn at n iotHto urinw j opftim announced.a raT of HZ 1 por tlttl on rarKft betWM.n Liverpool : the 0rInl way of thp a ,na ?anal. " . 9 MAN REPORTED DEAD . SH0W3 UPALIVE ! SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. B-That !Tw , lhfn Afc yi(Mli .,, w four prsoncrs whoapoi ' aPraft) mr.a An njurta in j from the a ny disciplinary barrack' day' lire i at Alcatrai Island last November were! .! ' e ai Aicairaz island lasi Aovcmoer were lrot drowned mea! supposed after W. inir im-Ml throuth the Golden Cate. J.nt m.nnvpil In Innd. n-n r.nnHpH hv'ioomirir hM toilav caused the Heath Herman Kuniit. on of the number, now r. s iviicuucu jvaiKtuay. LON'IH)N, Feb. G, Strikes have spread to tho Great Vestern railway this afternoon. There is also a strike on the main line of j the London & Brighton railway. Continuous confer ences on the labor sjtuataion are be ing held by member of the govern ment and Lloyd George, who is keep. ing in touch with things by wire from Paris. It is reported that a decision has been reached to fight the Bolshe vik element. The press is clamoring for decisive action to put an end to the strike. Con fusion in the streets brought about by the unusual number of vehicles em ployed to take tho place of -subway trains and tram cant was increased to day by fog, which turped mid day into the darkness of night SINN FEINERS SE McGRATII AND IHJltKOWS EACH GET SIX MONTHS IN JAIL. "Long Live Republic" Shouled Mc Gralh to the Court While I)e- ing Sentenced. . .. ., , . ,., LONDON, rcb. G.---binn seiners ,.,,'. , . McGrulh nnd Burrows were sentenced six months each at Dublin today on political charges, . McGralh shouted "Long live the re public" while sentence was being im posed. BAKER SOLDIER DEAD Remains of Kldon Sparks Brought llmno from Camp Bevler IiAKKU, Feb. 6. On No. IT yes terday morning tho remains o El don Sparke, tho soldier boy and son of Mr. and Mrs. H. II. Sparks, of Mil city, arrived, accompanied by Ser geant First-clans Tony Luna, a for mer linker boy, who was detailed by the camp orricinlt4 t escort -the body or his young friend and companion to IJaker. Tho renin! ni weie mot at tho de pot by tho sorrowing parents and r,,i;,tives and taken lo tho West chap- el. This morning they will bo taken to tho family home' In W'lliowvaln Addition whom th"Y can bo viewid until the time of tho funeral which will bo a military iiffulr and( will take p-laco Saturday afternoon "at 2 o'clock from Members of high school formation. tho Baptist church, tho Home Guard ana Cadetfj will attend In GRAPE MEN FIGHT PROHIBITION BILL KAN FItANCI.S, Feb. fiA state- f"r th' V'- 1 10 item was carried wide referendum; directed against the!'"1" the budget, by ex-t.lty Manager federal prohibition amendment, is lb j f rrey. but when the administration be started in the next ten days-unden'"1"'"1 ,thl f,'"tu w con""1; a national-wide organization, r. IK0IE1H-:. I nrTT PI H f ! DlATT L LIUL Shli I P rnr. I U Lfl 1 I LL I HlL JAt,IfoOMIN(lrt.r.SE 'l.snrvH - ft Tomii.M nai glests. ;, w Reared be fort the commission last U EATTI.E,aYb. 6.-ire in a JapS,i,.Q and a.ikl that an efficient man jofUlhri p-wns, Twarity othen e n,v,vuiwvu tivj. TAXES ARE LEVIED OH EVERYTHING NATIONAL GOVF.TRN.MKNT COM PLETES ITS NEW TAX tAW. AMERICAN P0CKETB00K IS HIT HARD BY WAR BURDEN Chairman Kitchin Gives Out, the New Hill Which Affects Every American Industry nnd Every Citizen From Soda Water to Movies People Muat Pay the Price of War. WASHINGTON, Feb. 0. Tho con ference on the five billion five hundred million revenue bill carrying the taxes the American poople must pay during the yenrs 11)19 and 1920 was submit ted to the .house this hfternoop by Chairman Kitchin of , the ways i'.ivJ nieana committee. ' Taxes aro laid on Almost every con ceivable nrticlo and tho hi!? will 'hit tho great American pockotbook from soda water to movies. Adoption of the conference report of the house and senate will mean that tho bill will be come a law as soon as it is rfincd by the president, i CANADA HAD A BIG AIR FORCE LONDON, Feb. ti. Canada. Bent 8000 aviation oN'lairs ovorsoaa lo johk tho royal lr servleo dtirlitK tho war, according to a Hlatoinnnt Wed nesday by Hlr Edward W. Kemp, Canadian minister ot oversells ser vleo. FIRE CHIEF HAS III THE JOB Til It 1 0 10 V KTKH AN FIKKMKN KKKI THINGS MOVING. Search Itring Made for Man to Head Important IHyinion of City's Oporatioim. a (irandu in prat tically without a fire department, owing to u number of r-hariges that bave recently come about.' Fire Chief Muchiaon has resigned be en u so his nalary was not increased. He woh receiving $100 a month and stay ed on tho job IiihI year 'with the un derstanding that he was to red-ivu a raise when the budget wan made up t'reu una ) u n'.tun int: nit: cun-i sought a field with lie tier pay. Thiy city found Uself "witlioud a head to the fire department and IxjU Knodgrass Clauilc Mackey and Iat I Foley, thre of the old vgterau firemen voluntue rvH to relay enfh other in or der that Iji (Jrandc miKht have fire, protion unUI the tani:lc coulU bo ironeaoui. in inemciintiine me city - n .... i.i r. r l. . 'Ilii the wjrk,1ut it is 1'iitc evident ! that under the old salary s'udule. such a man will not be found. e There is lome fear that the eir . writers may become acquainted with conditions lin"Lrv.iuc'rni4.Ie if - fire. .ries. of. heart jEnrn. the -ree 'men above rtientioned the lty is keep it f i w appatus in shape .'Cid reaily ito're,nd to calls, but each of the,, ?.,ed hy J, C, i three is fwipiiuy that somet.iK will . inanaKcr, yesterday. u giauiicn very ,n t'-elieve them. Tw9ampln of tho 1 Hie three vAinlecr firemen arTon JiSmirv C,ihiS twn ilie tnree VfOHHeer .Airemen ail" tL. v,n.rrr.. .ki,.r . II.-. f.O 'orRahizatiiClof La GnOle may be re- Miiica in me Qiiuro at in no pail. BREMEN HAS NEW GOVERNMENT SCIiNK OK MUCH TIlOllilMS l'ULI.S 1TS1C1.K T)(iETIli:it. ' Five Socialists Are a Part of Ihc New Governmental Plan Adopted by German City. AMSTERDAM, Fob. 0. A new Kovemment has been eHtablished at llremen, ineludinir five Majority So cialists. Itremen has been the scene of recent hard fifrhtinu between tho &nurtncides and government troops. E LODGE HAS FINE TIME WI'II'O.MK :xTi:Mi:n to (jiiano iti;rmosi-:NTATivK Vlvllor KpreKK Gratification Over Hpleiulid CnndKloii of tho Local . Itraiu li of the Onler. ...La Grundo Lodge of Moose held a rtunarkablo . mootln,? last ovonfng when tho mouthers and Immediate relatives gathered to welcome Owen. F. Jones, direct roprosuntatlvo of tho Grand Lodge, who came to talk to Uio lodge on the ritualistic work and nlBo to talk to tho semi-public meet ing oil tho gcod that the order Is doing. i ; i Mr. Jones Is ono of tho host versed men in Mooso lodge work In the northwest and has boon at Muose hoart several IIiiioh, Moosohonrt ts tho grout Institution' whore Mooso members tukn care of all chnrltublo work and u description of It by.tho speaker last evening awakened a keen Interest' In Hie work tho Moose Is doing (tt benefit mankind. In speaking of the Ln Grande lodKe, Mr. Jones s:ild:, "It Is very gratifying Indeed to seo surh an ex cellent lodKe In La Grande, At the meeting hist evening thoro was n largo nUnndanen of Interested people and I Hhnll miikn an excellent report to tho Grundo lode on the meeting." CONVERSATIONAL JAPAN KSK LOS ANGKLKS, :al Feb. (i. Co nperating with the chamber of com merce of 1xh Angeles to stimulate a knowledge of Oriental languages, the University of Southern California has IDS opcrwd a class in conversational Jap-jus anesc. Ir. Kiyo Sue Inui, professor of ptlitienl science at the university, is ndiicting the class, nnd the first students to ioin include two chamber ol commerce secretaries, two high chool teachers, u banker and a number of women lawyers. CLASS Ol'' I' IX AT ii'fi;i: ii ui; TAK ION LAST NKillT Tliirf y -one mem he. n of 'K haled Temple No. 170, Dramatic Order or KhoiaMsan, put ntlfe wor k of the initiatory di-gree of their onler ;it llaiin.H IiihI. nlMitl. fifteen enndi- d;,teH iirefvllg tt'dr lllltlli)Il. Heprenentiitves of 11 a lodges nt II.. ker, Klgln, Vt-lnn a'td other tu.vr were In alteiidiinee bL Wi i f ereinou ial also. ihe local pariy speak of havtvig hi a royal chicken dinner was tluto. A flfte 1 thm up- on lUi'lr arrhnl, and before leavlni; ,.rlv ii. lu monilnir Lit !ol. Lholr trtilii (, lh(.y W(fI0 glv ,a s h.i'f, t w.h - Report frit Grande Ronde 'Water is N6v Favorable9 . 0 ...... f.,,.:.l.l.. ? an tho ;K",""k" ur ""''" " rnur iumi iu dj.eiiw; nu board for analys!t$ ro ii$g:iB O ei? city wern sent niry OtlLiS two moro on J irjiry HOth, a"ovdavs alter the chliirlnntlorila had ieeti ln oiq eratlons. Tno samples of the 2Slri contained 611ft an iOnr;frK0of bacclln. ..... . . ..... .0. iiim .'.oiir.!! EFFORT TO GET BOYS RETURNED AUMY AND NAVY AUXILIARY HAS STAIITKI) THE MOVE MENT. HOSPITAL UNIT AS A WHOLE WILL BE URGED HOMEWARD Many of the Doys Have Not Finished School Some Want to Go to CoIIego and Many Are Needed by the Folks, nt Home Now That the World Strug gle Is Over. i , Tho Army and Nnvy Auxiliary to day started a movement that is hoped to result in bringing home the La Grnndo hospital unit which has made such an excellent record in the world war and which Is now detained on the other side in tho army of occupation. Patience has marked the attitude of every parent regarding tho La Grande boyB and today If there is good roa son shown by tho wur department why the boys are needed abroad there, will not be a murmur, for the parent of tho boys fromaLa Grande are the old blocks from which the chips came that served so faithfully Inho struggle. Some of the reasons given for the requested return are that many of the boys are not through school, many others hnvo mapped out a college course for themselves and others are badly needed by home folks, providod the country can spnro them at tbjs time. He it understood firmly and emphat ically that the present movomont has started right hero jn I.K Grande and not a mother's son of the hospital unit now in Europe has ever so much as suggested such a procedure. Today Judge Thomas II. Crawford volunteered to make the work of In teresting Senator Chamberlain and tho war department a personal matter and a program is being outlined this after noon upon which till will work. LARGE NUMBER IN THE HOSPITALS WASHINGTON, Vol). 6. Hospital reports front tho expeditionary fore- show 1 wounded lioro worn !)u,!H2 sick and among thi American sol- liters on January 11. This was a net ideerease of 97,4X( from that total on ! l'ecember 10: Tho total for January comprised 67,293 soldiers iiicapacl- taled as a reuult of dJseaso and (it; 9 from Inlurk WIFE HELD THE WINNING- HAND HWINK, Colo., fell. 6 Armed with a hlg revolver Mrs. Oliver Hid it It 1arft night held up her h US bum! nnd six other men with whom he was playing poker and took all tholr money and left them linked up npilti't the wall, wUh orders to "ttlay there for fivo minutes." . Tho holdup was prompted uy Surtth a loss m i JO In the game. Mi's. Hmith got her money Jack with Intercut. Thn aiitlinrllles huo refuseil to Issue n warrant for her arrest or, to iattdnpt lo obtain th money. i'li'Rible dQnse In the number was O noted. daiiKeriA's foil ound Jn .either of ty, sainiO-s, Hl?r water submitted to the i state board for analysis a Ojpleif mouths shoved haciO'i preset, t ln dan kuiub iiuiiiOqi. so It Is apparent that the clilorlnutl'O plants are do Inn woik lu a very thorough tuO" 1 nO o The city manacer has oHer sam- 0!. takeQirom tliQclly s supply t more recent dates, t.'.ider analysis 10 'the hiiard ul health at preseut. i o o o e o o no- o
