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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1919)
0 I o 0 o o o o w o o o Iff It , Phone Thm Otxcrrw An Independent ' Newspaper Prints the Mewl the Day It Happen. Tyur Want All, IT. MEMS if S 0 1 THI ASllOCXATfD PUIS! NUMhf:il2(U , SIX PAGES LA (jTtANOK, OUK(?f)NT. TUESDAY. AU(HTS'J' 5. 101!) SIX PAGES o o VOMJMEXVHI ' m wJW e1 uieosi HUB SI "nil PRELIMINARY REPORT MAY III' Sl'HMlTTER TO PRESIDENT ' TODAY THREATS OF STRIKES WILL INTERFERE WITH SOLUTION Discussion Will bo Hold With Julius Humes on tlie ProHisiliun Throw ing Wlieat on tlio .Market Willi tlio Government to Sluml tlio De ficit in tlio GuuiuutceU Price. WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 AttorncJ GoneinJ Palmer is expected to pre sent a preliminary report to the president today concerning possible B'.eps to bo taken by government agencies to reduce the living costs The president is to discuss Witt J:il!us Barnes, president of the grain corporation, the proposal to restoro wheat to a free mui-ke,t, the govern ment milking good tlio diffuronco ho tween tho mwrkct price, r.nd tlie guar allied pricb. Administration officials believe thrt inoroascd productior. is -one waj to def reaso tlio living cost. The presder.t feels that strikes or thr.r.ts of str!ke3 now will intoi-fore mater : illy with a solution of .the problem. He may go before congress and recommend steps for relief. SENATOR WATSON IS AGAINST JAP CONTROL enjr Associated Press to The Observer WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. Senator Watson, of Indiana, Republican, de clared today that the history of tho German and Japanese acquisitions in Shantung had been one wrong ho-ipeJ upon another. He asked the senate ti reject tho treaty provision giving con trol of Shantung to the Jupunesc PENDLETON MEN OPEN NEW FLOUR MILL IN YAKIMA PENDLETON, Aug. 5. M. R. Eoff who has been employed hero as a bookkeeper at tho Pendleton Roller Mills, left Saturday for Yakima where he will be manager of the Miller Mill ing Company, which has as its incor porators J. G. Miller of Pendleton, M. E. Eoff and A. E. Knerr of Yakima. The mill will have a capacity of 300 barrels. The new building is now un der process of construction in Yakima. Mrs. Eoff and son Robert left re cently to visit her parents in Wasco and she will return here for a few days before going to Yakima to join her husband. I. H. Mayboom, who has been cm ployed at the Portland Flour Mill in Spokane, has arrived to be Mr. Eoff's successor in the local mill. STRAWED ROADS BURN. WALLA WALL9, Wash., Aug. 5. Automobile drivers of this section of Washington are reported to be liter ally ''burning up" some of the roads. Recently county authorities ordeied laid as a covering on some of the country dirt a covering, and shortly after rcnorts reached here that in sev eral places the' straw was set afire byl sparks from open automobile cut outs.' About a mile of straw on one roati near here burned recently, it was. reported.. Several years ago road fires were started in a similar manner anc a number of automobiles were destroyed-ly tjie flames. THOUSAND HOXl's TO AIRE. WENATCHEE, Wsh.,' Aug. u "Wcnatchee apple growers are ainvrj at a production of 1000 boxes of com mercial apples for every acre of or chard land in this section. To he!o the groers reach their goal, fruit glow ers' dt onstr.-t on will be held he e jJVugust 2:1 under fji dirccti i e Washington State Coge andsC$mty Agent Mcikle. o (ft.!5 SETTLERS" MEETING IlfcLLINfinAM, Wa.-k, Aug. Clark Savidge, sU-.' land :land rnmmvnn- er. is to be e nf the suga'kor at a Hogcll, aged l., is held by the grand picnic of the O! Settlers' assoriati- jjury the0clri murderffig Lil be hc g here -Vigust 7 to 9. ''iilian Lcuihold, the high rh ' girl the last day of the picnic B.nn .h?t iwhnse body was fou'xi)enher homo between Bellingh-.m. Fermalc rnd .i--fb"-g British Columbia club? aic ttreit Cars Don't Pay In ralla Valla; Lin ' ' Vill Be Junked Sood WALEA WALLA, Aug. 6. C. S. Walters, manager of the Walla Walla street railway system, a sub sidiary corporation of the Pacific Power & Light company, announced here today that on next December 1, the company would abandon six miler, of the city street car lines in the out lying district" and that probably th remainder of the lines would toe aban doned as 'soon after January 1 as the company could dispose of its rolling stock;. Even with an 8-cent fare the company is not making any money, he said, and had not (or the past five years. The interurbanMino between here and Milton will be continued in definitely, us it is' a paying proposi tion, ho said. Municipal ownership of the lines and municipal subsidy tax are two solutions suggested here. IS ENTERPRISE MAY COME WITH A SPECIAL TRAIN. Announcement Tomorrow Whether Whether Adams' Umatilla Indians or Enterprise Will Come. C. II. Scranton, manager of the Un ion County Ad Club baseball team claims that he had the fastest team in Eastern Oregon at Enterprise last Sunday, when his proteges put it all over the Enterprise boys in a game that ended 6-2. As a result, he says. Enterprise is coming back with blood in their eyes, and will possibly be here next Sunday. Ho is awaiting word from the Adams Indian team at Uma tilla before announcing definitely that Enterprise will be here'Sunday, for il the fast Indian aggregation does not come Enterprise will. R. Alexnnder, the Cove pitcher, who is going to finish the season with Lo Grande, was mainly responsible for the defeat of the Enterprise bunch Sunday, although he was given fine support, by the locals. Only one error was made by La Grande. Alexander simply had too much speed for the other fellows and the only runs which Enterprise got were two homers which Steele, their shortstop, made. The one was a clean hit, the other the re suit of the lone error. When Enterprise comes, they are going to charter a special train, is the word the locals bring homo, and they are going to bring all the boosters for their home town they can muster within fifteen miles. Enterprise all behind the team, says Scranton, and- f thev do not show I .a Grande how to play bull thoy will show them how to snnnurt the home team. The Union County Ad Cluti snouiu start now to plan a reception for the visitors, says Mr. Scranton, for Enter prise is coming to talk good roads as well as to play ball. They arc hitting the ball on the goods roads proposi tion in their home county and they want to get action on the project to link up Union and Wallowa counties by county paving. METAL TRADES HALF MILLION MEMBERS JOIN IN APPEAL. PresieVlit ani Cengrcss .Expected Kdce Liviig Cost to .Avoid . ' Strike Disturbance. tBr stocltcii Treeu to "the Observer' SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5. Jamei O'Connelh chairman .of the metal trades department of the 'American federation of Iabor, announced today that half milliunwmenibers of the metal frdes crafts this month will de mand that cgngriiss and the President reduce k cost of living if possible, W avoid strike tnsiuroances. T(Ur AocfciW PyM to Tr O'rven MAKMiir-ui'. -.wig. o. I -ajlnndon last week. (V.rrol WnO.cn, ored 1R, arres'.ri 'th the Iftv.-ell boy GAME DUE SUNDAY MAKE DEMANDS Control Of Railroads Demanded By Labor GYPSY BAND FIRED OUT OF PENDLETON Three auto loads of gi'psies stonned in Pendleton this morning but not for long, says the East Oregoniun. Hardly hud their presence been detected when calls begun pouring into the police station and soon after Major Lee Moorhouso appeared at the police sta tion with a young gypsy girl in tow. Close behind came Traffic Officer Longley with the remuindcr of the nomada. The girl was yelling and the others all trying to talk nt once when Judge Fitz Gerald ordered the mob to be quiet or he would have them thrown into jail. An order evolved out of the chaos the judge started to talk and likewise the dozen gypsies began their explanations. Again the judge called he assemblage to order. This tim" they listened. 'I'll give you just 30 minutes to get out of the city limits, all of you," the judge said. One of the men in the party saw that Pendleton's hospitality was not for them and notified the judge tha 10 minutes would be sufficient. They moved on. railway ii 10 hold big picnic WALLOWA I.AKK IS SITU FAVOR KD HY MAJORITY. Special Traill Will Tulto All lint i'loycrs Out of Town Probably - S'liul.ij, August 1 Tt li. Sunday, August 17th, la the date that has been selected by tho several hundred employes of tho O.-W. It. & N. hero for their annual picnic, and the site that has been chosen is Wallowa Lake, provided proper ar rangements can bo made there, for the accommodation of tho lnrge crowd of railway men and their wives who are planning to travel by special train to that beauty spot on tho date named. A meeting of the men In tho roundhouse held last night fa foicul Wallowa Lake and tno em ployes In tho other departments of the railway being agreeable the date wan set this morning for the. 17th no tin. most suitable time. A com mittee representing tho various de partment for the visit of the, plc nicers the following Sunday. The committee" are also Rotting busy at once to arrange a program of sports and general e.ntorUilnmont for the day. Tho O.-W. band will go along to keep tho crowd livened up and on arrival at tho Lake all members of the, big party will bn able to either enjoy themselves the rest of the ciowil or mo. tncfli- selvos off to a favorite nook lor i quiet day by themselves. Steady Boys,-Steady J Sni 1 &mms- ; ifl t;ffl l 1 a r- ) '- rr it? aw a. Atrv 1 ri ! i. m.-ni WASHINGTON. Aug. B Dlroctoi Genejrul -Hinos and Presidont J. D Forrester of the brotherhood of rail way clerks, freight handlers, express and station employes, conferred to day on the employes' denmnds for a wage increase unloss something is done to mntiylully ' educe the cost of living. Similar demands from the brot herhcods of locomotive onglnocrs and trainmen aro now be fore lllnes. Shopmen Tuklng Voto A vote Is being taken by 500,000 shopmen over .tho country on whether to call a. strike to enforce a twenty-tiro piir cent Increase Pending tho outcomo shopmen now striking aro expected to roturn to work in most places. Shopmen of the, Chicago district have refused to return and said that they will pny no attention to the grand lodgo plan of treating with the government separately. Trl-Partite Control Dentanilcil Organized labor was befoio tho country today with a denmnd that private capital bo retired from rail road operation and substituting tri partite cot ml of tho railroad pro perties by tho public, tho operating iininaRoiuont and the epiimloyos. Tho Engineers and Firemen and the Federation of Labor niodo tho de mand. It will be, laid heforo thn house into' state conimerco com mitte,e. FORD CASE SOON TO GO TO THE JURY (Ity Awmclntea rrcM to Th Observer" MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Aug. li. Tho submission of testimony in thn Ford libel case was ended today and tho case will probably go to the jury by next Tuesday. PACIFIC FLEET OFF SAN DIEGO triy Associated l'ross to Tho Observe") SAN DIEGO, Aug. 5. The Pacific fleet is to anchor outside the harbo' at daybreak tomorrow. ALLIES' THI NKS STOLEN (iel-iiinn AgiceiueiitH 1111 ltestltlllloi' Disappeared in lluuluiul, BERNE, Switzerland, Sunday, Aug. 3 (Itavas.) Advices from no lin report that trunks belonging to tho nlllcd armistice commission in Germany have been stofou. Tho trunks contained important documents concerning iigreenienln for tho restitution to Belgium am) France of machinery that had been removed by tho Germans. RETAIL JEWELERS MEET. SEATTLE, Aug. 5 Washington re- tuil jewelers were to hold their annual association meeting ncre wmuy nun tomorrow. W. G. Manckc, Tacoma, president of the association; George H. Docrr, Spokane, first vice-president; V. Hunziger, Walla Walla, sec ond vice-president; C. W. Davenport third vk-e-president, and A. J. Sur tori, Spokane, secretary-treasurer. 1- Remains of Mrs. Evans Cremated and Will Be Sent to Old Home The) remains of Mrs. Kenneth Evans, who passed away last- week at Pendleton, after- ki long illness, hnvo bcoii cremated Jit tlio State, Hospital in tha telty. It Is tho ex pectation of tho family later to for- ward the ashes to London, England, where thoy will rest In the family builal plot wlui 0 lio tho remains of her father, mother and sister. Tho lute Mrs. Evans was of Kngltnh bli-th, having como to die United Slates about seventeen yorra ago. For a time boforo coming to La (iinndo sho llvtyl in Portland. 'Her long illness and sad ending nro a source of reiiret to her many friends, who had become cndcpircd to her and rcjmembor her us an exceptionally bright and lovable character, gifU'd with many charms, and call forth their sincere, sympathy for tho hus band and daughter who mourn bur. She was the wlfo of Kenneth Evans, of La Gramlu, and tho mother o .Miss Josephine, Evans, who has been attending high school in Portland. H FOLEY IS MAXAGFIt VOGMI. SAYS HE IS GO l. TO .V WIt'l KM Tilt; W IIOI.I-: PltEMIKES Dining INiotn FndcrgnrN Iteltiolfeliiig And Lobby Is llelng Brighten ed Today, A ca.niiiaign of improvement has started at the Foley hotel and al rornly tho dining room pjiysenls a new aippeaninco Willi its remodelud Intel lor, nowly decorated walls and modern lighting fi.tinii. Pure white is tho popular color at the Foley. Tho lobby is undergoing a change today and !u a short time the appearance of the hote will bo materially changed. "I am going to manicure the whole woirktf," said Manager Vogel, who in on too Job moriiln, iu.oii and night. "Wo rrullzo that this Is the high point In cost of iiupiovcitieiitH but thoy have to be made end Just as fast as wo can get to it, tlinr" will be ono improvement after nuothor m.idc until the Interior will be entirely changed." WFATIIEIi l-'OIl-;clST PORTLAND, Aug. C For (Hel en tonight and Weilti'yulny, fair; war or Wednesday exrupt. near Iheco.iK'. genlle westerly winds. 10 Relations Are Strained Between Argentina and the British Government lU'ENOS AIRES, Aug.' K Diplo matic relations be,tween ArgontinA and Kngland aro nt a dellcitto poise 11:1 tho nesiilt of the purchase by Argentina of the Germau steamship Ilahita liianca. England has refused to rccoii4ze the purchase which wa made during 'the wur. One ot tho ArJUMitino papers deplores the, Argen tine, government's "hostllo attitude townrd l'rltish Capital Invested Ir Argentina." AUSTRIA TO PRESENT COUNTER PROPOSALS I'AItV. Aug li Dr. Karl ne,nner. Au.iti iau chancellor, iviinounces that the Au.! rluii counter proposals to the pivico terms will he bunded over tomorrow within tho prescribed timo VOTED GRAPPLED is Challenged JOHN FKEBKItG, OF CHICAGO, IN THE CITY TODAY. Wauls to Meet Harold Christiansen, Who Has Been Spending the Summer Here. John Frebeig, well known hcavy- we ght wrestler, of Chicago, Illinois, stopped off today on his way to San Francisco, whero he has a match booked for August 20, and forthwith set about trying to arrunge a match with Harold Christiansen, another gruppler who is well skilled in tho wrestling game. Freberg, who claims the championship of Sweden, is heav ier by about lit) pounds than Chris tiansen, but he acknowledges that Christiansen is a very able mnn on the mat and he would like to take him on within the next ten clays, tie wants the match pulled off In timo to ullow him to reach Siin Francisco for his contest on tha 20th. Freberg accord ingly challenges Christiansen to n fin ish mulch hero in La Grundo within the timo mentioned. Christiansen and Freberg both hnvo met many of the best men in the game. Frelierg won a handicap fall over Zybszco at Birmingham, Ala., about two months ago and he has also wrestled 1-cwis nnd Stechor. Ho weighs 2'2.rj pounds when ready for the mat, Christiansen weights only l'.lii. With the difference in weight obviously against him, Christiunsol' mav hesitate to accept Frobcrg's challenge, but tho latter wants the match, anil hero is what he says: "1 hereby challenge Harold Christiansen, of La Grande, to a finish wrestling mulch, best two nut uf three-falls, to be held In La Grande on or before August IS. I will post any sum of money Christiansen may name, provided he will post a like amount. My light is 2'2. pounds. "JOHN FREBERG." E ASKS NO RIGHTS TO TERRITOR I.VL SOVEREIGNITY. Japanese Troops to Be Withdraw Immediately After An Agree ment With China. Ilr Assoelatnd I'ruM t The Obsorverf TOKIO, Aug, 5. Viscount Uthidn, Japanese foreign "minister, in a sale me nt sai'l that Japan 1och nut intend to ti.utn any rijchtfi affc-rtintt the tcr rit'irial sovcroiKnity of ( h na in Shan- "tuntr. He promiwii that Japanes tioop?) will he withdrawn imnicMlmU'iy if tcr on agreement i.stt'oncludcd with China. . JAPWJ TO IKE lIHI h XPLANATION Japan, m.'covor, is ronsiiIennK thiia, riit of 1 cent ocMtM Knnicnt oi a k1""1 wciircmen at Tsin-tn inxtati uf a purTIy Juf nrrj.se Kftl'.-mcnt. . W.U: CONTINGENT LANDS YORK, Aug. 4 '.'i,;iT arrived -TI tjjjins today 1.1 out t wjlh IIS iifrieers of thn 2'Id Infantry. and 304'.i Tho J3d I.Ot :,f the, regular army, nm-rtne artillniy0troops. luxcept w brief jewtO.n-rlods, tD! regii vim In action from CI-it"Mi - . - V rt'0"y WlUI AJ, signing oi tlio at- 1H1 CAPITAL JS - PLUNDERED HOVMAXIAX TROOPS BEGIN SYS. TKM OF .Ml ItllKll AXD itonuKity. FIFTEEN OR TWENTY ' KILLED DURING DAY Hostages Demanded by Invaders who Arivot Some of the New lliingar-. Ian Minister- .'Machine (inns nro Mounted ami Hie Irficnl l'ollcn Force Is Compelled to Disband. PARIS, Aug. 5 Telegrams from Aniorican offlcms nt Uudiiprftt stato that the Roumanian troops on enter ing Budapest started plundering in. tho suburbs of the city. Fifteen or twenty civilians wiyo klllod during t the day. The Romanians domanded ' hostngos, threatening to kill five hostages for each liounmnlan killed In Budapest. They arrested some ot tho members of tho new liungnniaii ministry. Muchino guns were mounted In the streets nnd the, local pollco forco was demobilized. MORE SHIPS NEEDED FOR PACIFIC COAST (Ity Associated Pross to The Observe-) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5. The San Frnncisco division of tho shipping board has asked tho allocation of 81) more vessels for foreign trade from this coast. Of tho 40 now assigned; Which are to be finished in August and September, 20 are assigned to Sail Francisco, 10 to Seattle, and 12 to Portland, ,. ,.,...,.,,..,, COAST LEAGUE BALL PLAYER HELD FOR DEATH OF JAP SACRAMENTO, Oil., Aug. 5. A wurrant charging manslaughter was issued here late today ngainst Jumcs Cuveny, shortstop of tho San Francis co busebini club, following tho deuth of Y. Maiiknnash, who wns injured last Thursday night in a fight in which San Francisco baseball players wero alleged to have participated. JAPANESE Itl'Y ORCHARD Iiii-ouiIh of OrleiilulN In Hood Itlvcr Iteglon Alarm Wliilosi HOOD 1HYER, Oro.,. Aug. 4 John Fiohur has Bold bis 20 acro orchard pluco on Deo Flat to n partnership of I'oi-tland nnd Hood Rlviy Japaneso. The orientals have boon making heavy purchases .of iitrawbopiy land In tho district tho liast few months, huvlng recently bought tho place of Tony Flint. Morn than 12 families upw resldo in tho district, owning an aggregate ot more thun 200 tucrcs. RAILWAYS TO BIJ WILT Milwaukee lt-Mirted AlKnt -to Ite sumo Coiistiucthm in O.'ymptcs. HOQIIIAM, Wash.. Aug. 4 R3 ports wore circulated horo today that tho Chicago, MLrwuukoo & St. Paul railway Intends to n-iwuino con struction soon ppoij tho Olypl'c ponin sukiii railways upon which work was halted by, tl-.o slguini; of the tiTmls llt Tlie-Rier.ter part of tUo right-of-way hi! been obtained, it was said, and deeds ar sin record. Work vJll bo stsirted In botii tho I'ort Angoles nnd Grays. Harbor divisions, Is, is said. Lf)f tETKIiAX FARE I'KGED Ceiit-n-.MlIn Italo rfo Sun Frnncisco Ciiliveutiiip knight. . WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 Prusldent Wilson was ui-.o-d by Senator f I'he luu of Callfo nlsi; today to.recoui- uicnd to the railroad admlniutratioa mllo to IJ. S. ir voterais at- . , npanin-Anioric;in tendirfg tho convention to be held soon in San FianclHCo.0 , The piesldeiR, according to Senate I'tHdan. took thoinutlur under ad" visemont. 0 , C.(aD (ft'OPS HELP FAIRS. C1IE1I ALLS, W.ish., Aug. .". Tho ''burner" crops la-ing harvested icl Iwis county this year have led offi cials tc declare that the coming SouliO west WaslO'gton Fair will have on, display tho finest exhibition of gr.Tn snd grass product-QCVcr shownQere. The fair is to be held Augusi 13. )hduled. wO' rfica.f o 0 o - O a O O o o O O CO o o o " o c?o 0 , o o 0 o 00
