La Grande evening observer., July 30, 1919, Image 1

phone Th Observer
Um Nswi ui
Taor Want Aas.
Mala IT.
ItUMtttt
An Independeal
Newspaper
Prints the News tk
Day It Happen.
HEMBBK 01 THX AS80CIATID FKKII
O ;
volume xvm
SIX PAGES LA(!IAN1)I0. OliEOON, WEDNESDAY. .11 W1A'.!0, SiX PAGES
NUMBKU 'I'M
o
o
!.
v
v
0
0
ra
o III
LE ROY J. LEISIIMAX IS ORIGIN'
ATOIt OF PKTIKES UV
TKLbXiItAPII.
YOUTHFUL GENIUS WAS
FORMERLY RESIDENT HERE
"Today's Picture Today" Becoming
Itegular I'Vatuie of Prominent
Mewspa)OlN Throughout (ho Coun
try Evening Observer Will Adopt
the Service Soon.
Le Roy J. 'Leishman, successful
Inventor of the process of sending
picturos by telegraph, is a La Grande
Tisitor. He is a son of J. H. Lelsh
man, former well known La Grande
losident, and lived hero with the
family until their removal to Baker
and thence to Ogdeu, their presont
hom. At that time Le Hoy was
nine years of age. lie is now 23
The young man sprung into promi
nence two or three years ago when
he announced that he could send
pictures by telegraph and proved it.
Last winter Salt Lake papers
published numerous pictures of
scenes and portitits sent direct from
New York and it was all done liter
ally as "quick as lightning."
The process is being comniet dal
lied end "today's pictur)i today",
are becoming features of the promin
ent papers throughout tho country.
The La Grande Evening Observer
will use tho service! as soon as some
preliminaries are completed In a few
weeks hence.
Mr. Lelshman described tho ipro
cess ao being "very simple" which
like all other Innovations of the kind,
It probably is. Th'a Apparatus if
said to resemble, a dictaphone In
which the picture is placed Tor
"record.'' A necelvcr at the other
end of tho line, no matter how many
thousand miles oway, receives the
Impressions and they are reproduced
not in the same manner but with tho
same facility that the recoad of the
phonograph is reproduced.
The. practical uso of tolephoto
graphy was demonstrated in a recent
"telegraphing" of three finger printn
by the Oakland police station, and
this pr.i t of the invention is now tho
property of the United States govern
ment, a fact which shows that there
is utility as well as novelty in the
Lelshman process.
The, young man is credited with
several other lnvenf.ons, mostly of
a mathematical character tho chief
of which Is the "nrcoscope" a devlco
of great advantage to students In
mathematics. It has been adopted
by upwards of a thousand college
and schools throughout the country.
Another invention is an adding ma
chine which is having large distri
bution, 600 of them having rejcently
been consigned to tlw Argentine re
public. Mr. Leishman, who is accompanied
by his wife, is spending the day with
the family of his uncle and aunt,
r. and Mrs. J. D. Stoddard, Jot
Frultdale.
. SEVEN MORE DAYS
ALLOWED AUSTRIA
. PARIS, July SI. Austria has been
granted seven additional days for con
sideration of the peace terms. Aug
ust 6 will be the final day on which
the Austrian representatives may sub
mit inquiries. This was decided upon
by the supreme council yesterday.
The council also decided to ignore
' Vort Bethmann-llollweg's remiest to
stand trial for the former emperor.
A commission of experts will be
named" to apportion control of ths roll
ins stock of the German, Austrian and
Bulgarian railways. The economic
clauses of the Brjlgariaii treaty were
approved.
REPORT SOVIETS MAkEl
PR0P0SALJ3J0 ALLIESljhc finl will be played off.
BERLIN, July 3J, 1.c Hungarian
peoples' commissaries sited Col Cun-
ningham, the alliedreprwerietive all
Budapest yesterday, according to thel
i . ,
-...!.. i f- ,h ,.fi ,..in. -
s. 7" I, ...J ..:..0' '..Su- ..;Jb'rned Aick
..,. u. " "
of a new government i ne proIt,sa,
CJvaS aiO eu i.nc inrvii iuihiu w
the supreme council at Paris.
. . O o
AIRPLANE SUPPLANTS
. THE AUTOMOBILE
BAN FRANCISCO. July SO To
Jump Into an automobile fof a run
out io the country club for a tennis,
match or a round of the links hus,
been a common practice in the past.
Now the airplane has supplanted the
automobile.
On a nunibeir of occasions recently
polo or polf players have flown to
field or links In their private air
planes. Complaints came quickly.
Polo players said that the lighting
of an airplane on the field not only
stampeded their ponies but might
prove highly disastrous should one
of the machines fall among the spec
tators or animals.
Golf rplcyers made the same com
plaint in regard to the danger. They
went a little bit further however.
They said it Interfered with their
game to hove the birdmen flying
'.over them and because they distract
ed them from their game, considered
the airplanes In the light of a new
fangled hazard.
The result has been that at Del
Monte, where there Is both a polo-
field and a couple of golf links, rules
and regulations to govern the flyers
already have been promulgated and
posted on the fields for the benefit
of the airmen. They aro prohibited
from landing on the polo field or tne
links and provision is being made
for landing grounds a little distance,
away.
I
IN
THE G-a, AX OBSOLETE t'llAI-T,
GOES DOWN.
Accident Ocrnred on Iong l.sloii'l
Sound While Craft Was Ex
perimenting With Bombs.
NEW LONDON, Conn., July 30
Peoplo on the boach at Waterford
reported that, a submarine, though'
to be the 0-2, suddenly sunk with the
hatches open today. It was later
learned that tlviee were drowned.
The G-2 was an obsolete craft used
In Mpei'lment'ul work. It -was engaged
In experimental work. It was engaged
and sank without warning in Lone
sland Sound. Five of the crew were
saved.
Junior Tennis Singles
In "Y" Tournament
Won By Harry Proctor
Harry Proctor defeated Waldo Stod
dard last night in the finals of the
junior singles on the Y. M. C. A. ten
nis court, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4. The playing
by each of the contestants was said
by those who saw the contest to be
the best of the junior sets played this
year. Both boys were on their toes
every bit of the time. The last set
looked as if it would go to Waldo
Stoddard, for he had four games
chalked up aftainst Proctor's two at
one time, but Proctor gradually sneak
ed up and won out. Prior to the game
with Stoddard, Proctor vanquished
Heidenreich in two straight sets, 6-1
and 6-2.
The junior doubles will be started
Thursday evening when Stoddard and
Hesse will play Proctor and Cham!
and Lynch and Lynch will play Kivcttc
and Black. Then on Tuesday evening.
August B, the winners will play each
other and on Thursday the finuls will
be played with Heidenreich and Thei
sofl as contenders for th4 high honor.
In the senior singles Ted Larscn
won from Francis Cramer by default
and Leslie Bennett walloped Ralph
Winters 3-A, 4-2, 4-1. Tonight A. N
Minton will play Stuart Bennett and
Cecil Bolton will struggle with W. II
Smort.
The ladies' singles have had to be
rearranged, due to the fact that some
of the ladies are away, and so the fol
lowing schedule will-be played: Wed
nesday afternoon between 4 and P
o'clock. Miss Francis Smith vs. Mrs.
A. W. Nelson, and 'Mrs. H.'E. Dixon
vs. Mrs. Melvin F. Boice; Saturday,
Miss Mary Groupe vs. Miss Mima
Cooper, and Mrs. W. II. Talltt .
Miss Geneva Smith. ,5lrs.0E. Pulack
will piny the winner of (.ne Talsjitt
Smith m-jtch Monday. On Monday iii-terno-m.
Augusto4, the winners the
J?'
spective sets will play th scnri-b
1 1
and on Wednetr.y, August C;
TRANSPORTS cWILL BE
0l W IV lIM-un ivuhu
T Q
WASHINGTON. (A T ftnay lfc,
ni no ns. amonK eii'j rnm-i ,
mom; eii'J iniKi " '
cds transportsew, be
to shlppirjK bgaril
Dim? placed in South
" Jng used
iimmitf lately Oi
, Am9Timu pannffT ,nd frleght er
vice out of New Ywk, after tney aro
overhauled.
HREE DROWN
SUBMARINE
FIGHTING .
CHICAGO CONTINUES:
TOTAL NT.MUKU DEATHS NOW
''IIKI'OKTKD IS TWENTY
KIGIIT. NO CALL HAS YET BEEN
MADE FOR SOLDIERS
Whites mid Negroes Slash i;,uh
Other With Knives and Shool From
Ambush I'rulmhly a D-i.-n Filial
ly Wounded Grand Jury A'l.'inpt-
ing tn Fix I.I.I.IR-.
CHICAGO, July 30 B'etc- fiL-hl-
ing between whites and ne-'oos
spread to all parts of Chicago lust
night. Heiious casualties are hcroni-
ing more numerous than at any other
period of the racial war.
The city authorities have mulu no
cull for troops and lacking such re
quest Governor Lowdcn could not
order tho soldiers to take charg-?.
although SOOO are now costing on
their arms.
The death list has reached twenty-
eight. Two' negroes-were killed last
night and a hundred persons wero
Injured. Whiles and negroes slushed
orxh other with knives, shot from
ambush and ran down isolated mem-1
hers of tiio other, race and beat them.
Thero lies been some looting. Prob
ably a dozen have beyen fatally wound
ed. The whiles Boom more nggics-
olve than at ary time previous.
A session or the grand jury has
been called to attempt to fix the re
sponsibility for the riots.
WOMAN SHOOTS NEGRO,
CHICAGO. July SO. A white wom
an shot a negro in the side on Nortl
Wabash avenue this afternoon. She
escaped uninjured.
HUNGARIAN PRESIDENT
SUICIDES IN ASSEMBLY
GENEVA, July 30 Alexander Gar-
bai, president of the Hungarian soviet
government, killed himselt in tne as
sembly building at Budapest after de
livering a speech against the soviet
and the communist supporters and ac
cusing Bela Kun, the soviet leader
and minister of foreign affairs, of
leading the nation to ruin, according
to the Munich Nnchrkhtcn.
NEBRASKA LAW DELAYS
SUFFRAGE RATIFICATION
LINCOLN, Neb. July 30. Members
of the Nebraska legislature, called in
special session here yesterday, decided
it will take three (lays to artify the
woman suffrage amendment. There
is practically no opposition to ratifi
cation, but the Nebraska constitution
provides that joint resolutions must
take the ferm of a bill, requiring read
ings on three separate days. A ratifi
cation bill was introduced.
D
o
S4 KIN I HAVt A SMld& R
m-'m mixr 2iux& mn
WILL NOT HURjRY.8
TO REVIEW F1HT
WASHINGTON, July 30 President
Wilson will not review the Pacific
fleet at Sag Francisco until tht fourth
or fifth of September, it has been de
cided. Secretary DanKls will review
the fleet at Los Angeles on August
9, and then the vessels will spend a
month visiting ports south of Los
Angeles.
VOTE CONFIDENCE IK
NEW GOVERNMENT
WEIMAR, July 30. The German
national assembly voted confidence in
the government yesterday, by a large
majority. .
The assembly had previously re
jected, by a vote of 243 to 51, a mo
tion of lack of confidence offered by
the party of the right.
FOLKS WILL HOP
TOMORROW EVE
O.-W. HAM) HOLDING ANOTHER
OK I'OPl'LAIl DANCES.
Sticct. Concert Will bo Given From
Eight o'clock 1'ntil Diuiciiig
Starts at Nino.
Pray for cool weather for tomorrow
evening if you mo i dancing fan.
Hut the dance will be on, whether tho
night Is hot or cool, and Rex Hall
will once, mo o bo a scone of gaiety
and pleasure, with tho O.-W. band
as sponsors for tho event. Every
body of course is Invited end It Is
'expected that they all will be there.
dancing will not start until nine,
o'clock end will not continue longer
than midnight, but ntolght o'clock
tho band will comtnonce a stroat con
cert f(" which they have arranged
u -very, iiluaain g- lurogra mi..- Taff pro
grain will bo piinted in full in the
Observer; tomorrow ovanlng.
ELEVEN HUNDRED OI'ICERS ARE
TAKEN FROM LIST.
Measure Ih Necessary On Account of
the Smaller Number to lie
Maintained.
(Br Associated Frest to The Observer)
- WASHINGTON, July 30. Major
General Harnett announced today the
reduction in rank or discharge of over
1100 officers in the marine corps. This
has been done to reduce the corps from
a wartime strength of 75,000 officers
and men to a permanent strength of
25,000.
REDUCTION IN
MARINE CORPS
Conflicting Tlioughts
SOLDIERS
TESTIFY 10
DESTRUCTION OF WAR PUOI'ER
TY IN FRANCE DIRECTED
BY ARMY OFFICERS.
HUNDREDS OF AIRPLANES
DESTROYED BY BURNING
Only the Engines and Gas Tanks Were
Saved Armed Guards Pal rolled the
' Places Where the Planes Were liv
ing Burned, and Prevented Photo
graphs Being Taken.
toy Associated I'rciia to The Obsbrvorj
NEW YORK, July 30. Tho house
sub-committee, headed by lioynl L.
Johnson, of South Dakota, which has
been investigating cruellies of the
American military prison camps in
France, today turned their attention
to tho destruction of American army
supplies under directiuu of army of
ficers. The testimony tended to show thiil
hundreds of iiirphities nt Colombos,
Lcs Belles, were damaged tun! then
burned. Tho engines were chopped
out and only the gas tanks mid radi
utors were saved. The planes were
then thrown in u pile and bullied.
Armed guards patrolled the vicinity
which prevented the taking of photo
graphs, the soldiers testified.
FRUIT MEN ASK
REPEAL OF TAX
(Hy Associated Pfoms to Tlis Obsurvor
WASHINGTON, July llll. Wash
ington, Oregon and Pennsylvania lo
ganberry and grape juice producers
renewed beforo the senate committee
today their arguments for the repeal
of the ten per cent tax. They de
clared that the tax would bankrupt
the industry.
1 BOLSHEVIK UPRISING IS
REPORTED IN BULGARIA
LONDON, July 30. Bolshevik up
rising in Bulgariu was reported in u
wireless dispatch from Moscow Tues
day. The outbreak is declarer! to have
occurred in a garrison town, tho gar
rison joining the revolutionists.
Tho town mentioned in the Russian
Bolshevik dispatch us having been
"occupied by Bulgarian Bolshevists'1 is
given us Amboli.
Tho dispatch also declares that a
strike has been declared by the Bul
garian railway and transport workers.
WFATIIEIt I'OltlOCAST
PORTLAND, July
gon Fair in tho r
eastern portion; gentle
winds.
10 For
t; cool:
north W'.-.
to- ly
0
SWIMMING MEET c
ON LABOR DAY
S. DIEOO, Cal.. July 30 An
Important swimming meet will be
held in San Diego on Labir Day un
der tho nuuplces of the San Diego
Rowing Club, which now is making
preliminary arrangem-nia. . .
At this meet the Pacific const In
door chumplonslitps will be decided.
Though officially It will Ke Xnown
cs an Indoor meet, the races rwlll he
swiiiii In the hny. This arrangement
ns allowed in 1917, whan tho sains
championships wore held here.
l'ho best 8Wliimij4U thf, coast
ma -expected to entel Jt those events
and thero will be cniTrfnts from Pied
mont, Olyinpla, I.os Angvles Athletic,
Multnomah Athletic, San Diego Row
ing and other aquatic clubs on this
mast. The program wiit Includo
events for women and Frsnces
Si'liioth. Aileen Allen, Dcrothv Burns
.-ml nilu'i UN)"t omen swiiuine's
w.ill be vntured.
WILL TRY TO END
CHICAGO STRIKE
, CHICAGO, July 30. W. d! Mahon,
iuternationaj president of tho street
car employes' union, arrived today
and took' charge of tho strike, which
he promised to try to settlo without
delay.
HOT STUFF GOES
ON OOAD TODAY
WORK IS WELL ALONG ON THE
ISLAND CITY ROAD.
the
Ih'
First Until of lli(,nlilliic
Applied On Union County
Highway.
to
The Island City-La Gr uiulo road, on
which the preparatory work for hurd
suiTuring was started some timo ago,
got its first hot bath of bitulithic to
day. Tho Warren Construction Com
pany, whu hro handling the Job, have
their healing plant, in which the as
phalt mixture is prepared, locuted
nenr tho Ln Grande Iron Works, and
the mixture is carried to tho rond by
motor trucks. Tho hurd Burfuce will
be applied sixteen feet wide.
Trucks have been traveling from
early morning until Into at night for
mnnv davs past carrying loads of
crush..! rock from tho Mars quarry
on tho hill above tho hospital to the
rew roadbeds on tho Island City and
Dot Lake roads, which the Warren
people have contracted to build of bit
ulithic pavement. The use of the
trucks altogether for this work and
for all the hauling done in connection
with the work indicates one of tho in
teresting developments In industry
during the Inst few years. When the
Warren Construction Company had a
contract here a few years ago, horses
were used entirely for this heavy
work.
CITIES THAT MADE
GOOD WITH SOLDIERS
Figure Made Public Shows Han Diego
(.cutting 8i enty-Sevm Ijarger
MllliiclpallllfS.
NEW YOltlf, (A. P.) Ran Dh'go
Ciilifor nln stands at the head .of A
lint of 77 American cities in tho por-r-riiiik'-.
of returned sohliVis placed
In Jobs ilurhig the five woeks ending
Juno 2H, according to figures mad"
public hcre Tuesday by Col. Aiithur
Woods, r.::ri:;lnnt to the secretary of
w.ir rrml head of tho government or
riinl.iitlon for tiro re-omploynient of
Srvlrfl UM'l.
.M i n n'-n polls follows Han DlngoM
cronl of 152 per cent wlt4l 12ft anr
c "lit. Hpnka.nl', Wash., placed !M psi
epni. The average for the entire
r'onniiy 'wan Mi 'per cent.
I.os iikii'i', Portland: Ore., Phila
rVlpl.la and Chicago placed sllghtl?
nioi'o thrill 70 per cent of tfielr flght
llil: lii''n. closely followed by Reattl
jinid llalrlrnore. New York, with 15,
jyl'.-:iH nnillcanti., found posl
irons d,r ttiiont a') per cent.
eh' v.'iinr'. Wyomlri!:. of tho "HUM
n il In- Hindi, the b-st showing by
I'lnelni; Slid of N II 5 applicants In Johi
Jtntle, MonUirin, and lt'inn, Nevada
J exr-ci c. ! ilio 7T M' r cint mark."
ilHM.S.AT SKATTUE MAIrttEf
BRING r.!.U.i; V. S. RECORD
.'il'.AT'lf.E, July 30. When hogs,
' Imri'ly of sufficient iiuality to bo iu-,
d in the "prune class, toucncl
';" per JiMI pounds on the local
I market T'O'IO. liOWock men said a
i new hirrh mark had bi-Mi U for the
plates. Three loads of Mug
or -31 Lead, told ut the high figure.
LITTLE W
INCIDENTS OF AN OLD CASE RE
CALLED BY CALIFORNIA
COUT ORDEIL
i
CHILD TURNED OVER
TO PROBATION OFFICER
Mrs. Grace Sclig Recovered PosscKsioa
of Six-Year-Old Son in La Grande
Two Years Ago Child Afterward
Forcibly Taken By An Aunt at
Telocaset.
(Br Associated Prota to Tne Observer.'
, MODESTO, Calif., July 30. The su
perior court today ordered six-year-old
Losello H ran mm to bo turned over
to a probation officer. This is tho
climax of a four-year buttle for tho
boy between tho child's mint, Mrs.
Bortha Mordvie, and its mother, Mrs.
Grace Selig, who gave tho child to tho
aunt in order to keep its birth a
secret.
Two years ago tho mother gained
possession of tho child nt La Grande,
but the aunt regained the littlo boy
at tho point of a gun nt Telocaset and
then Mrs. Mordvie fled with tho child
to California. A fight for its posses
sion has been on since that time, cul
mimiting In the order of the California
court toduy.
Generals Pershing and
March Are Approved
For Permanent Rany
(tty Associated Tress to The Obsorverl
WASHINGTON, July 311. Tho
house military committee has favorab
ly reported hills authorizing tho ap
pointment of Cieneruls Pershing and
March to the permanent runk of gen
eral. The vote on Pershing was unan
imous while tho vote, on Miirch was
eight to seven.
BRITISH STRIKE
NOT SETTLED
LONDON, July So The attempt
to Bflttlo the Yorkshire coal m'u-rs
striko wiis not Bucce.ibful. A coa
fe,rnnco between the ownors und
strikers to effect an agrjumuut.
RUSSIAN SOVIET STUDENTS
BARRED FROM UNIVERSITY
LINCOLN, Neb., July 311. Chancel
lor Avery of the University of Nebras
ka, Tuesday announced he had denied
the application to admit to the Uni
versity of Nebraska for technical
training, a number of students identi
fied with the federal soviet republic
of Russia. Tho chancellor said that
until the government of tho United
States had recognized the Russian
soviet republic he feels ho cannot with
propriety comply.
WASHINGTON KAIIt
SEITRMUEU
I IITEENTII
YAKIMA, Wash., Juljr 3D- P.vtic-.
iilar Intiei'at officials expect will at
tach this year to the government's
var, navy and agricultural exhibit
at tho Htate Pair to ho held he.ro
Septoinbor 15-20. Tho nin-jciiltlli.-
part of tho exhibit alone. It Is sadi.
Is being designed to show the, re
turned service men opportunities
available for them. The livestock
feature) of the fair probably will
exceed nil p cvlotis records In size
Premiums in every" class havo beer)
doubled.
WILL HUM) MEMOKIAIi 1IAI.L
HOQUIAM. W.ash. July SO Con
struction of a new city hall lure tn
cost mo o than o0.iin, and to b-
dedicated as a irnioiial to all war
voteran o llr,iUUiin, Is til"! proposal
of .Mi.yor Ralph L. I'lillbrieW. Tht
mayor miauled thai tho bnlldln.:
bo buWl-on tho bunding idan mid a
section of It sot Ssido ex.tiiivcly for
tho use: of war veterans.
HONEY SHOUT IN HONOLULU
iieNb1'"' T Jui"" - n'"r'
Mailf A niigaif roiniiuny of MOnl,
owring the blgucst iihioiation In Ha
waii, has JiKit ce .pli.i.i rl grinding this
year's crep of c.i:.e, proilirciiig 40,
!I02 tons ufOsultlr. llV.anse! of
dn8i::i! . tlvj mitpn was li . inan
h"0bcen t-xlAted.
n O '
o
9
9
9
... WQ-
e