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0 o the .Sunday Morning Observer A LOYAL PAPER 3 FOR 0 &OYAL PEOPLE o o ? INDEPENDENT ON ALL QUESTIONS o ! Sr.' KElBBS OTTHI ASSOCIATED VKEfl Action OrA Associated Press Report, Editorial, Society, Etc. m vm.iTMExvm SIX PAGES LA OliAXDFi, OKMMON. SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 101P SIX PAGES NU.ri)KR i(8 willfight 'Ship ORGANIZED LAHOR WILL CON TINUE CONFLICT AGAINST GRANT AND PRIVILEGE. REPRESENTATIVE OF LABOR ON THE WITNESS STAND Labor Would Be Jtlind to Its Interests If It Tried to Impress Proposals Upon Public By Threat of Violence or Strike, Is Assertion of Glenn E. Plumb Before Committee, t (Br Associated Tress to The Observer WASHINGTON, Aug:. 9 Organized labor will not attempt to impose the Plumb plan for railroad control on other' industries unless employes and the public desire it, and its fight for public ownership of utilities will not stop until it has reached the point where grant dnd privilege cease. This was the message delivered to day by Glenn E. Plumb, speaking as labor's representative to the house in terstate committee, who for three days has been holding a hearing on "tripartite" control of the transporta tion syateiii3. It was spoken calmly after the witness, worn out by the long ordeal on the witness stand, but still smiling, denied that the plan was Socialistic. Again today Plumb pounded the ta ble and denied in te.'ii.tt calculated, he said, to brook no repetition of thq charge, that the railroad brotherhoods! had attempted by threats of violence or strikes to force congress to adopt his plan for control of the railways! by the public, or operating forces and, the public. Denial was made in a state- ment from Plumb's office and signed by the heads of the fifteen brother-J hoods, and while Plumb was entering: a hot fire of questions from Repre- sentative Dewalt, Democrat, of Penn sylvania, who wanted to know where' the new idea would stop. "We unite in a definite assertion! that we have no desire and have had! none," said the statement and also Plumb, who paraphrased it, "to im-, press upon the public by violence or by i threat our proposal that the railroads be nationalized under 'tripartite con trol." . ''Labor would be blind to its own interests," Plumb added with em phasis, ''if it attempted such meth-j ods." j Later Plumb announced that infor mation would be put before the com-1 mittce in support of his charge that there had been systematic plundering of the great railway systems of the country. Plumb stood his ground while Rep resentatives Dewalt, Montague, Demo crat, Virginia; Merritt, Republican, Connecticut, and others asked ques tions which they intended to point out defects in the Plumb plan. Rcpresen- (Contuiuod on Page 4) FRED GASKILL BUYS A G, ! C. COXTIiVTOI! O.N IIK.MWAY WtlliK PITS ON THIKD .MAl'lllNi;. Makcw (immI IIfcord Willi Trucks fur the (tiitwl and Saull Hauling. Having eontractrd to furnish ..and and gravel for the Highway under construct inn in I'ninn ennntv Vrert Oaakell this week added another bis I. M. C. to hi?.f'rk oL truc ks which are hu-y early nnd l.-.te transport in gravel and r-rusiied rock to tVM.L . :. ...n ;., " i Islond City road. Mr. fiaskell now has two large C. M. C. trucks and a I'ackard. He is m.klng a g-c:it recoid with the machines and or day last week he . hauled x Ions of gravel and sando fto near Sumtnerville from Ia Grande igi two nours and 45 iiinuti) tor the round trip. - In i-ix-akln: f truck f-arisporta-tior Mr. Onskfll says it is tha only wayto do things anddo thei right. The day of hones foheavy worOn hauiing he believe ha g.- for- 0 Sl. BU 14 A PEST SAID TO BE. IN A STATE OF SIEGE tnr Aaaoclated Proas to Tba Obaar.r" VIENNA, Aug. 9 A state of siifre has been proclaimed v Budapest, it il reported. The inter-allied mission at Budapest, after a conference with Archduko Joseph and Premier Fricd erich, forwarded to Clemenceau, presi dent of the peace conference, a renort stating that the entente representa tives are in ftill accord with the new Hungarian government. SEVERAL DEATHS CAUSED BY EXPLOSION IN ELEVATOR (By Associated Proas to The Observer ST. CATHERINES, Ont., Aug. 9. Five are reported killed, 14 are-known to have been injured and 17 are miss ing as the result of an explosion and the wrecking of the government eleva tor at Fort Colbourne. A barge car rying a large crew is said to have been just off the elevator when the explos ion occurred. SF HATCHERY SHE THE SELECTION OF CATHERINE CREEK SATISFACTORY. E. CUmon, Master Fish Warden1 Exptfctd to Arrive This Week t Get Work Started. The announcement that Union coun ty's new fish hatchery is to be located on Catherine creek, below the town of Union, is received with general satis faction and pleasure by the sports men of the county, who had worked earnestly for some time to have the state fish and game commission take such action. A. V. Andrews, secre tary of the Wing, Fin and Fleetfool Club, stated yesterday that R. E. Clan ton, master fish warden of the state expected to be here some time this week to make arrangements for the erection of the plant and the installa tion of tho machinery. Fifteen thousand dollars is the esti mated cost of the new hatchery, the site of which will be on the Jamet Hutchinson farm. The state commis sion have intimated that they will senJ up a stock of black spotted trout, u rew species in this part of the country and Rainbow and Eastern Brook trout There will also be a car of black bass arrive to be placed in several sloughs in the valley. With these plans under way fishermen here are very optimistic as to the outlook for good fishing in the streams of Eastern Oregon in thr future. DID ON FORCE ACCOI NT CAl'S- ED REDUCTION. Rock Work. Contract Is Let Lone Pine to Hot l.ake By Commission. From Judge Frank I'hy and Commission- Townlcy have returned from Portland where they appeared before the high way commission relative to the con tract for. placing crushed rock on the highway from Lone Pine to Hot Lake. When bids were opened the highway commission rejected them suiting thi-v were too high, whereupon the county court of this county offered to do tlr? work at actual cost plus 10 jer ceni. Ths caused the Warren Construction company to revise its bid to within f iiOO of the engineer's estimate, and the countv then withdraw its bid fu tile mission has been accomplish i. - The highway commission then granted ; U.A U'..mn nnt.i-nn.. ttia.nntrni't . i This lamt company already hasHhco irnt f. m-inir i , Pine anJ with ,he R()d, d . . i to !rocee.t wim tne worK .com uu.r- Pine to the Lake. Th. work is sup posed to be ctiploted by winter and then the p;Ving will be laid. i a Q SATURDAY G&MES se INgCO AST5 LEAGUE j nt. ' (Hr Associated Preasio Tha Ohnerrer' rortluad 7, Seattle fi, (11! innings). Vernon 10, 0n Franc inco 9. (Inland 5, I.o Angeles Sacramento 5, Salt Lake . GOUNTY HELPED SPEED HIGHWAY if BIG II AIRPLANES PLANS FOR LABOR DAY CELE HHATIC-Si WORKING NICELY. Air Circus Management Intimate That Second Plane May Be Avail' able For Exhibitions Here. The committee of the Central Labor Council of La Grande, handling the Jans for the great labor celebration in this city on September 1, Labor Day, feel thoroughly pleased with tho nicety with which their plans for the big occasion are working out. A wire received Friday from the aero circus, the Watkins-Warncr people, ordered hotel reservations for six men, indicat ing that the second plane, which the airmen stated they expected to re ceive the latter part of August, maj be available for this celebration. They have also acknowledged rece:pt of their contract with the Central Labor Council committee. The members of the committee have expressed their pleasure at the grant ing by the city commissioners of their request for permission to use part of Jefferson avenue for the carnival at traction which they have arranged for in connection with their celebration They have also secured the use of cer tain private property near the street, practically without charge. The car nival will be located on Jefferson, west of Chestnut street. The committee has not yet succeed ed in arranging for the speaker they set out to find. They are still contin uing their efforts, however, nnd in tend to see that this part of the pro posed program shall not fail. The general advertising will be is sued very shortly, and the special ad vertising which the air circus people have is on the way here for posting. WITHDRAW GUARDS IN HOPE THAT MEN WILL RETURN (By Associated Preaa to The Observer) CHICAGO, Aug. 9. Five hundred policemen, 250 deputy sheriffs nnd the last of troops have been withdrawn from the stockyards in the hope that striking employes will return to work Eleven hundred police are still on duty. Labor leaders declared -there would be no return to work until ev ery guard is withdrawn. Permission was granted to unionize 900 negro employes. STRIKE OF PRINTERS CAUSES JAPAN NEWSPAPERS TO QUIT (By Associated Preaa to The Observer! TOKIO, Aug. 9. Virtually all the newspapers of Tokio have suspended publication owing to the demands of the printers for higher wages, which the owners refuse to grant. Numer ous strikes arc in progress elsewhere in Japan. PACIFIC FLEET IS UNDER WAV FOIl SAN PEDRO uty ABflucinuta rrena m -ino uimorveri SAN IHLGO, Aug. 9. Headed bylturning from a. ttlp over pait or the destroyer squadrons, the Pacific fleet got away today for Han Pedro. i . , ; IJKK'K IJUKMNi. FOR MANUAL JKAl.MM, 10 UK lil'JLT. . . T" i Will He I .out fed Jnt HnrU rf U,h School and Will l ace On M A venue. RUSH US WORK HONDA 'l'li"n In tho dit. I' t. liiorgn Slr O.titraitor G. II. Hush wiff he,' 11 ij0n:,ld had a new oiti practlcallj t"n"'. ' "no-story brirl-! I ouilding tW'rh wl' house the manuil tm-?""m M departS cp;v n nign scnool tomorrow. Cs Me rriven the contract hv tnr.ttl.n leslllts Ol .'it - - - - """--'. "....,,. , ,, .iblnM reOW,-k buihling is to be ,HI 'i9 It will b. ; i-iz "feet Old will l constructed IllonM modern lirna !... f..T the new ,l,,tr. i. 1,... 1 1 f ft. An rr, v A n " high s-Jionl, ing M avenue. i ; Q . . . .. o oi nis nas long been n!i sv.-d i w hi;'? ine scnool t lil tomt B jrO- nt beinc wced to hudl whi(S cotl?tructi, s so hik' it was considered the w: d thing To do so the ohools will have ample munty facilities for the work ofOhe tv.O dePnoIng Ortn.OQi. P SLEUTHS TO GO HUNTING PROFITEERS AGENTS OF THE SECRET SER VICE BUREAU GET ORDERS TO HUNT HOARDERS. WILSON MAY CONSIDER HIGH COSTS ON TOUR Department of Justice Officials Re port Uncovering of Profiteering Is Being Vigorously Prosututed and Many Prosecutions May Result at An Early Date. (Ey Associated Tress to The Observer' WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. Tangible results from the investigation of of hoarding and profiteering initiated by Attorney General Palmer are ex pected to develop in the immediate future as the result of an order to day directing the entire secret service of the bureau of investigation to as sist the force now at work trying to uncover instances in which the public has been gouged by the illegal control of prices. Officials of the Department of Jus tice said reports from many sections of the country show the search for evidence of extortion in the necessi ties of life proceeding vigorously and many prosecutions might come soon. Announcement was also made today that congress would proceed promptly with legislative measures recommend-: ed by President Wilson as necessary to stop the ''vicious practices" which have been largely responsible for the rising cost of living. ! Republican Leader Mondcll stated in the house that appropriations would be made at once to enable the government to attack the profiteers. The agricultural committee would be gin hearing Monday on legislation to control the time food could be held in cold storage. There were indications at the White House that the President might let the high cost of living pair with the league of nations speaking tour of the country, which he is to make. I V1KM) .NOT I.AIUil-: HIT yi AIJTY is i; ixi.fnt. County Auenl Sit Prom Up Of Abundant 'urn H;i vewt Far mers I'.twt New Silos. ('niinlv AL'Hrnliti..lnt uillm-it. r county Friday, Htafes that tho fruit crn iH ln ri,M! hapi Jiound imbln iind in i n e 1 ' it in pk i n K Id section The yield l not mtiiiK to be heavy, he say; but the fruit In of Hplendiri flavor and quality. Mr tfjilUman is Kieaily plenm-d with the rvsull obtained by h pray In y tho ok hard. e.'trly In tho year, thus preventing the disimtruii.s ravage o the apply leaf uoller. Them arc vwy lev worms to bo found in the fruit in I the orriiards whirl, were spraye1 promptly, ho stat'. An unldenti fie.d variety of parasite aw'-urt-d hi in.? Imhlev orchards this year iin fiH believed to have- d-n muh to. j ward doing away with ,to appl- (leaf roller, thourh the spraying du the most Kvldem-e of an .ilmndant com harvn.t wiih m en hy Hi" county ngr-n. i,n his ttlp, nr.d ah a ri-mllt i.cvi'ra' wt' uitiu i,n nn Jli'! w av to0 coin rt ct'd and AII'-tI llunteft anil Vr.l!e- Pierre lia each a new om on fi. way. It Ik a iittin irly lo )iid-c wiie.it harvst '. it9 IPA a"! Ulf WI1)0'1I"- q,'''I of the yield ne lomitig :Q d yiets CJoOffl lew to nnow wijr : TOtlnaX- In beuiad v . L..Vy I . ' -U-ltltnr- . ... i t I. ll lhl ti. , . , .." , so far. hut the ii (H;tects for n goot' i,. n crop are quite promising Import' "A- ,., srlh p.,M OThtrict , .,,li r thought 'wnout tn iatdt it part oftlv j cato that th- thinfrVHri j Indie hotter I her IhkO fR j he O than 9i anticipated Ffilll GOOD RICHEY BUYS A BUSINESS HOUSE DEAL MADE YKSTKUDAY WITH S. A. GAUDI.MEU. Property Houk-IU Ih the Building Oc cupied Hy Hug (irocery " Store. Yesterday 0. M. Richey purclmsed from S. A. Gardftiier the two-story brick building now occupied by the Hug Grocery store. It is u first class brick building with modern front, a hcatitiR plant, and the second story contains fine living; apartments. Pos session will be given to Mr. Hichey on September 1. This is not the only first class bus iness property owned by the purchas er, for Mr. Kk'hcy built tho building on Washington ami Depot streets, which ho sold to Clydo Pennington. "I have confidence in I,a Grande property," said Mr. Hichey yesterday. "There are few of tho smnller cities in the country where values in real es tate are ns good as they arc here. One of the best evidences of that fact is the strong demand for business prop erty and I believe if I.a Grande hud another business block today it would be filled with business." 10 PROSECUTE PROFITEERS 1)1 ST ItUT AT l' 1 1 X FY 1 1 X K Y FOI,MVS 1XSTIU CriOXH P"hlic Ih Ask.il to ..(lp Hie (Hflcial on ('nscM or llimi-ilintr ami on , FxccmmIvo Profits. PORTLAND, Auk. 10 Food hoardhiK in Oioon will bo Investi Rated by tho Uupartment of justice aj;ents, under direction of II. F. Hanoy, United Status attorney, In tho nation-wido Oiiinp,'i;n to reduce the hiKii Cost of HvIiik. Tho ma clijunry was put In motion yesterday by .Mr. Ilaney, on Insti u tlonti from tho United ytntes altorncy-Koneral. Prosed! tioiiH, ,11 any ar biouKht will come under tho Shcrmuu anti trust act and the rood control act. While the food administration has paused; out 1 oxlatance, the law which tho administration enforced has not been repealed and hoarding Is as great an offense now us it w;i' during tho war. "Tho excess Ivo cost of living, in ronnoetlon wllh Iho approach of winter, muku.ii it finperullvo Dial nothing ho ovoilotdted In an nllumpt to reduce tho cost T fnodstuff," announced Mr. Hiivy. "It Ik the intention of the department ot justice to proHoeuio any Individual, firm or corporation deemed to be guilty oi" violation of the tSlierinan art of tli-j food control act. l.4MkitM of Hili Pri'TK Ake I-'ur "Tho public in vitally Interested In Ihln fii(!tlor, and I Invito icportH from any pciren IndlcHtiug a viola tion of either of tho acts mentioned. (Continued on Pago C) L coitrs or mrnns sixtrkd AM) KKAIlY I OK START. Home ('haniM'H In iVrsonnel, Hut Far ulty For Com inn Year Ih Kxrvllrnl One. idoes. Bnc month more of O, you f fun and hack to the ,ooks. Hack to j tho tan of the wij?. r.uk U M'stem' .li-iplne. For n montli no will ! find every chiM in Us jmi-r place sirnl th' books f ffarninj? open hi-fore him. SCHDO G 5 IN A fill I II orupi-rjiuenm-ni inwnpw.n ih vt'r.vjThy Hi IviiiR ab.uK a rouiOry well pleaaiil with the teaching force fioad lin fevo'ii nrhool rhildren which he has manage, to save H. iMj; ! 1 1" '""'t "f he cir. The driver thege ttmn of chant?'. The tuw whf Q..., t i i 1 ',0n (.rarJe Hfhools will open with a i" tr-nc'oiO-rce and w-i'.h every in n fnchnixBrce nnrl with evcrv u -it'r tinn of necompliKhing exrelyit result Cjuring the school year. STAGE HANDS IN NEW YORK JOIN IN ACTOHS STRIKE (Ily Associated Preaa to Tha Observar) NEW YORK, Aug. 9. A sympa thise stfike on Monduy of theatre mu sicians nnd stage hands in support of striking members of the Actors' Equ ity Association was forecast in a statement issued t tho Equity head quarters tonight. The statement quoted an address by James A. Holland, president of the New ork State Federation of Labor, with which the actors are affiltated, itv which lie was said to hnvo declared that unless the"strike was, settled to night the musicians nnd stage hands would bo called out Monday. At headquarters of the international alliance of stage employes it was stat ed a sympathetic strike would not be culled. The number of theatres closed by the strike was brought up to nine this afternoon. IlKi MUIOTIXG HKIXfl IIIXD tillOVH MCAI KI.G1N. Annual Hull)- of American S, S 1'nioii, HcIkmiIn in NoiilieiiHt 1-Jml of C'ounly Joining The annual rally of the Sunday Schools In tho Northeast end of tho county orgnni.ed by the American Sunday School Union, will bo hold today at Knight's Onovo, about three miles from Klgln. Tho mooting will coiumimno In tho morning, .with ad dresses by K. It. Martin, tho district, superintendent of the American S. S. Union for Oregon, Washington and Idaho; by W. F Landrum, of La Grande, president of the Union County Sunday Schol Association 1 and hy Jno llodglu, of La Grande. Tho afternoon program will Includo addressee by Rev. R. Coker, pastoif of tho Christian church In La Grande, and by 1). 1. Rimdull, who Is thu Union's irilsiilons for the throe counties of linker, Union nnd Will Iowa, will) headquarters ln this city. Tho addresses will follow ono of tho most Important features of tho pro- I rain, n groat buHltot dinner. All tho visitors wilt bo welcomo to take their lunch uluug and enjoy a plcnin v. llh Iho others nt the rnlly. Hope: Inlendent Martin, who nr lived yestordny, accompanied Mr. Handall to Elgin yesterday to make final w r.'ingcuiciilH In regard to tho details of the rally.. it DESERT RAT" ANGI- i,o; 'i KM MAN MAKI.G Kir ON WAGKIl. 'fl Ho With Hill. (Ill toCriMS (Vin. tiiient and lU'tlirn, l-juii. lug I'tpi'iiso Money. For a coupfo of days this Wc'ik l.a Grand will entertain '.llioiuv Iirako, or I.om Angoles, California, and his traveling companion, Col. Stanley, who ham ifrlvcn from Ixis AniM l.s In Mr. Diakos Maxwell, the "In ncil Hat," to llio Atlantic coast ami baric llui farin their way to a ?5.0ni check which was wagered iiualiisl llieni on their po formance. Drain left hi, homo city with ,$10 and'was to mi te tho whole trip In the" car wit limit drawing on his ro-la-rve fifnds for'Sxpetise money. John K. Andi'rson, local Maxwell doiler, lia.H ivrelvry v,oul tha they nr;-e in La Grande Taiesday , w, a v(,r of d Urom li'roit, where n visit was I'aU1 " ! T' '"tf U "v Vl ?'," -'l.l,,-i VI I I tar it it tr tn n-nl I -Orrk, SUNDAY SCHOOLS RALLYING TODAY DUE ON TUESDAY N. ak.'. where tli'09' "V Auto Company, I I M nt II' I IUVII I to occur in t ho 1 0 ;H(f) mill n of tolr trip mot them rvcii tin- rn.H'iiii 1 ami It Tvent h"il f I rftt fiOi a d ep mud hIe, the mini tMin or idintor (Op wis ftYmcwt Bub- (TK rc' il. 1 he ju;u h(tia won not (liim- ..,,.,,1 i, ....- t.iuit nni innt I nr.tlt the (0111 jnt h were onOthelr way at; a in- SHOPMEN TO ' Sill WITH THEIR CIS INTERVENTION OK PRESIDENT FAILS TO SEND tllEM BACK TO WOIUv. WILL STAY OUT UNTIL CONCESSION IS MADE Conferences Held at Chicago to In fluence Men to Return to Jobs Are Dominated By Representatives of the Shopmen's Union, Causing Fail ure of Efforts Made. (Br Associated Preaa to Tba ObserTer CHICAGO, Aug. 9 Representa tives of the Chicago council of the federated railway shopmen's union,' which called a strike on August 1 in defiance of the International officers of tho shop craft, today dominated conferences at which some of the in ternational officers sought to have tho men return to' work in obedience to the wishes of President Wilson. Tho council sent a telegram to the President stating thnt unless some concession can be made the attitude of tho men would remain unchanged and they will stay on strike. Tho secretary of tho council assorted thnt notwith standing tho claims of the interna tional officers and railroad officials that not more than 40,000 were on strike, and that not fewer than 250,000 were out. In Chicago tho secretary said no men had returned to work. In the Chicago district only a few had re sumed work, nt Champaign, Illinois, ho said. At the request of the district coun cil, former .Senator James Hnmilton Lewis, of Illinois, Inst night tele graphed to President Wilson a recom mendation that tho director general take up the subject with the view to bringing harmony between interna tional officers nnd the heads of the men's committees or confer with the committees! direct hy having them go to Washington and sit with tho grand lodgo president in the conference, so that an ngrcoment to get the men hack at once might he reached. Tho council asserted that their com mittee sent to Washington to servo notice of the strjko'decision were un able to sccuro n conference with tho international officers or the- railroad administration, hence the strike was called as ordered by the convention, nnd will remain in effect until somo concession of the original demands presented on February 10, and retro active to February 10, is granted. Johnston Loses Singles Championship to William Tilden, of Philadelphia NEWPORT, Aug. 0. William Til 4rn, of Philadelphia, defeated William Johnston, of. San Francisco, in- tho final round of of the tennis singlo tournament. L ki.ki.ii .s, ;ti,i ti iii:u ii k. ( H"HK.r. V. I). I'ltOM .MrCltAltY . Will Br I In TruiiKHf-..MK Lum ber In Thn KIkIii ? uiiiitr)P Anolhor Ann to soe tho nicrlU o e of turiiutn trurk for lumber h:iul InK jKimlot n OroKon Ih tho firm of ! hHV J,Mt ,,";h,1M'U onc f tll n1 jP. W. e thoiMainl dollar rtooka 1'he machine has been delivered and BG TRUCK W LL U LUMBER Is now at work. e "Ono of'c g:ont ndvautages of thin ti uck," said Mr. McCrary, "Is c lt' Mi?er on tho frnrv as well an0 Ike rear Phcels. It isrjnado to last 80 r.-ver ndQn dry and is a sturdy plere of machinery, ln the ariry ft Franco the govmuinent used many of the 10 W. I). Trucks but ojtll rocently It ffjt's not prOthleJo pro- gjtro thonWur this torritory. V 00' O e 6te - r. ' i rL i o,