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SIX PAGES LA (.! KAXDK. ()i;i:CONT, WEDNESDAY, AUG ITfrT 120. 1!Mfl SIX PAOES
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ATTEMPTS
SENATOR P1TTMAX HAS PRE.
PARED PLAN KOR RESER
VATIONS TO TREATY.
SEPARATE RESOLUTION
ON FOUR MAIN POINTS
MeNary Group of Republicans Indi
cate That No Plan Falling Short of
Reservations As Part of Ratifica
tion Will lie Considered Acceptable
to Them.
(By Associated Tress to Tho Observer)
WASHINGTON, Aug- 20. Four
reservations on the league covenant
are embodied in a separate resolution
prepared by Senator Pittman, of Ne
vada, Democrat, for introduction in
the senate today. These are in line
with the President's suggestion for
reservations in a separate resolution
to prevent new negotiations. They
deal with the right of withdrawal from
the league; the construction of Article
Ten; with affairs pertaining to domes
tic questions and with the Monroe
doctrine.
The MeNary group of Republicans
indicated that they would not accept
the Pittman plan or any other plan
falling short of including reservations
in the ratification.
STATE-OWNED FLOUR
MILL IS PLANNED
Ken-Partisan League About to Launch
An Unusual Experience in
North Dakota.
'(By Ausoi'lQtcd Press to The Observer)
BISMARCK, N. D., Aug. 20. Steps
toward providing North Dakota with
its first state-owned flour mill under
the Non-Partisan League program
were taken here recently when the in
dustrial commission, which will direct
the operation of all state owned hi
dustries under the league plan, auth
oiizcd J. A. McGovern, manager of
the Mill and Elevator Association, to
make a contract for the purchase of
the flour mill at Drake. The mill has
a capacity of 150 barrels a day.
'McGovern also was instructed to
plan for the establishment of the
state's terminal flour mill and eleva
tor, construction of which is expected
to be started next spring.
The industrial commission plans to
use the Drake mill as the basis for
the state organization, according to
Oliver S. Norris, secretary of the in
dustrial commission, and to train mil
lers for state work.
Purchase of the Drake mill will be
, made when the industrial commission
approves Mr. McGovern's contract.
YOUTH CAUGHT
IN ATTEMPT TO
TAKEJ0Y RIDE
Onp car Uhef was cauirht In the
act about 9:30 last evening when
Hal Bohnonkamp discovered two novo
in the act of starting off with his
Chevrolet car which he had parked
in the alley back ot the Bohnenkamp
store. Mr, Bohnenkamp, himself, was
In the back o the store at the time
writing a letter when he" heard the
machine running and upon looking
cut of trie window and seeing the
lights of the car -were burning
immediately made for the car.
One youngster was in tho car ready
to drive away while the other was
doing his part by pushlns on the rad
iator. As soon as the owner nppear
.ed. both boys tan across-the street
and up th! alley.
Mr. Bohnenkain'p started in pur
suit and caucht the one Hi the al
ley back of the Fifst National Bank.
Mr- Bohnonkamp mrncd the boy whn
is only 1 years of aso. over to the
police The lad gave his name as
Ern'st Manns, at tho same time con
fessing to the attempted I heft. The
other hi? has not yt hren tsen in
to cy.-,l and it at thoncht in loc
al, police fu.rte"" H'inB
DEMDGRA
MODIFY
I' r" IRr .T "ln it,., n3il under the ouspi.n of the
.tha ctlmt. - I Visiciana' L'mon of thi, rltf. The an-
TK tota a ' ' ! nouncement made la,t night In tft..
. ''' eyirhvrer naming tonight as the tin.-
o W'A.""4 " "' ,r was .Incorrect. A larte crowd is ev-
o.na;P .e '"5 ,,.,,! to bo In attendance. "d the
MI 'l romovit,,: 'Mto c o
. . -V . he heard. Two aKreci'Trn. W niusie-
0 0 o 'Mtjft,f(tXt. Va 11 he on hand and wll -ay al
flTl.am UK.2-?o:ryfreenn: lto,natelveoi.f?lylaL- music for th-
SUirnand, vrnfer; gvn: norther'
HIGJtOZS WANTED
BACK IN SOUTH
Southern Farmers and the Plantation
Owners Would Pay Kare Back
From Northern Stats.
(By Associated Press to The Observer!
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 19. Plenty
of farm and mill work, better wages
than ever before paid and improved
living conditions await southern
negroes who have gone to the north
and who now are said to be clamoring
to return to the south, according to
employers here.
Southern farmers and plantation
owners want the southern negroes
back. If there were some method of
getting in touch with them it is de
clared the expense of their return to
Dixie would be willingly borne. Thif
will hold especially true for the next
few weeks, because there is need of
negroes who know how to take care of
the cotton crop.
But these employers say they do
not want northern-born and reared
negroes. They would prefer to bring
in foreign labor, they assert.
"We would not hesitate to pay the
expenses of a hundred or more ne
groes from Chicago or other northern
cities to our place if we can get tho
southern negro, particularly those
who have gone from Mississippi, Ar
kansas and Tennessee," said A. C.
Lange, vice-president antl general
manager of the Chicago Mill & Lum
ber Company, which owns more than
70,000 acres of timber and agricultural
lands in northwestern Arkansas. "1
think it is safe to say that everj
southern negro in the north would be
brought back without expense to him
if southern farmers and plantation
owners knew where and how to get in
touch with the southern-born. We
don't want and Will not have northern
negroes."
The question of how to get in touch
with negroes who have gone north was
discussed at tjie Memphis meeting of
the Southern Alluvial Land Associa
tion several days ago and the subject
will be a special order of business at
the next meeting. The association i?
an organization of bankers, land own
ers, chambers of commerce, planter?
and lumbermen of the lower Mississip
pi valley, formed to serve, in n mens
ure, the same purposes for the delta
country as the chamber of commerce
serves the town or city. At the las'
meeting it was said that there ii.
great need for more labor in the lower
Mississippi valley and especially for
negro labor acquainted with southern
agricultural methods and with cotton
growing and handling.
Secretary Daniels Says
Part of Pacific Fleet
Will Visit Portland
(l:y Associated l'russ to The Observer)
ABOARD U. S. S. NEW YORK,
(En Route to Honolulu.) Aug. 20.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels an
nounced definitely today that he would
visit Astoria and Portland with a part
of the Pacific fleet directly after his
stay at San Francisco.
A. C. BARBER IS
E
(IJy Associated Tress to The Observer)
PORTLAND, Aug. 20. Deputy
Federal Attorney Ellon Watkins has
filed information against State Insur
ance Commissioner A, C. Barber for
failing to extinguish a fire in th
Santiam national forest on July 22.
Barber is himself a fire marshal with
I power to enforce the law against of
fenders.
It is alleged the offen.-e occurred
when Barber was reported lost in tho
mountains. Barber later denied being
lost, but a forest ranger declared hn
found Barber lost and exhausted. Tho
offence is punishable by a fine of
S1000 and a year's imprisonment as
tiie maximum penalty.
Thursday Night Is .. .
When the Musicians
Give Their Dance
.' tonight but touiorrnr (Thurs
day) n.phl 13 the dato of the dance
t,t heJ-ra muibtn thcity will,
UNDER Li H A K! G
dancers all cve-ii!" fioa nine uu!ilfl
s
ATTACKED
two AiitMKV Ki-rrriix to mais.
I A M I II 111 I I I I' IIOl.lCS
IX MACIIl.NKS
ONE MEXICAN KILLED AND
ANOTHER IS WOUNDED
Xo Information From (he Punitive
l-.Mditinii on Account of Storms
Which Inli'.-li-ic illi Plume !.
fcagc Americans .Hay Have 1 1 ail
t'laMi with llan.lils.
MAR FA, TEXAS, Aug. 20. Some
where in Mexico, opposite Cawlelar-
i, American nolilicra aro pnisuint
Mexican bamlls. There s no infor
mation from tho expedition, heavy
storms, in the Chihuahua mountain"
interupting communcations by tha
field telephones. The expedition may
have had Its first clasn vit In he ban
dits.
Two American aviators returned
with bullet holes in their machines.
They reported that tiny had been al-
tackd by a bandit gang of three Mex
icans. They killed ono with machine
gun ballots and wounded another and
put tho third Mexican to flight.
Neither one of tho aviator swag hit.
JAPANESE VESSELS HAVE DIF
FICULTY IN A fk;.
Later Report Indicates That One Huh
Ueen Flouted and Is Prut-ceding,
Hut leaking.
(My Associated l'russ to The Observer
SEATTLE, Aug. 20. A wireless
message states that two Japanese
steamers, Yoniei Maru and Shinfu
Maru, are aground on the shores of
the straits of JtrUn de Fur a on account
of a fog. The Yoniei is in a dangerous
position on Knee Hocks, 17 miles west
of Victoria. The Shinfu is on Hentick
Island.
. SHINFU IS FLOATED.
SEATTLE, Aug. U0. A later report
says that the Japanese steamer, Shin
fu Maru has been floated and is pin
feeding to Port Anegeles, but is leaking.
B BANDITS
TWO STEAMERS
RU
Bia rojtiST tiri
TAKES CRAIG HOME
NEAR DRY CREEK
The George CraiK farm and build
ings were destroyed yesterday after
noon by the forest fire which is raging
in the Dry Creek region tyelow Sut'n
tnerville. The Peeper home and the
Dave McKenzie mill were saved after
a hard fight yesterday afU-rnoon and
it was thought that tho nearby farms
were out of danger for the time being,
when the fire suddenly changed and
took the farm.
The fire gained rapidly late yester
day afternoon and last night had
crossed the divide and was headed di
rectly for Elgin. All of the thresh
ing crews in the lower part of the val
ley and also all of the residents in
this section have been fighting day
and night. Last night iherc were
150 men working abend vf the fire.
While the men are fighting tho blaze,
the women have been kept busy sup
plying large amounts of foot!.
DISPOSAL OF
ELKAPRGBLEM
CAME WARDEN'S MAKE TRIP TO
WALLOWA COUNTRY.
Some or the Herd of Elk Will He
Distributed and Others Probably
Turned On the Kangc.
The disposal of elk which have been
kept in Wallowa county has become a
problem. The animals will have to be
fed and cared for or else given a
chance to care for themselves. Hay
at $:i0 p,er ton is quite expensive for
a big band of the noble animals.
This morning State Commissioner
Carl Shoemaker, Marion Jack, warden
for Umatilla county, and John Wal
den, local fish and game warden, went
to Wallowa to see what it. best to hfc
done under tho circumstances. One
plan is to put fit) on Hear Creek prai
rie and another f0 above Wallowa
Lake and turn the balance loose. There
is a proposition also to send them in
pairs to cities why:h may desire them.
In any case, humane provision must
be made for the elk, which are wards
of the state government.
AM KUICAN SAILOKS IIAVK
A SUiTKIT OF FISH
(By AKsrieidtud 1're.sn to The Olmurver)
LONDON, Aug. 20. American sail
ors on mine-sweeping duty in the
North Sea, probably will not crave
fish when they get back home. When
mines are exploded in the process of
clearing out the barrage, thousands of
fish are killed. One of the little sub
chasers in the fleet scoops up hun
dreds of pounds of them each evening
when operations cease for the day and
distributes among the several- vessels
for 'food. The men enjoyed it for a
time, but now hate the sight of a fish.
One. catch included a salmon which
was cruising around miles out from
land. Anglers say that a salmon
should not be so far from land.
Back to His Own
- Ml-.-
si:xvit: join's the hoi si: ix
o'i:iii:iiiX(i Tin-; riti si-
DENT'S VETO.
VOTE FIFTY-SEVEN FOR
AND NINETEEN AGAINT
l ain of tho Pnyliglil Hour Advuucn
hi Time OrtinitHy SetMn. and Will
In Hfftvt Alter I he (I,hUh An
Turned Hack on First Sunday In
October.
WASHINGTON, Aug 20. Tho re
peal of the daylight saving act was
accomplished today when tho senate
voted to sustain tho lum ho In passim;
tho measure for the repeal of tho
daylight saving over t lie president's
veto. The vote stoow fifty-seven for
repeal to nineteen against it.
Tha repeal becomes effective af
tr the clocks aro turned back on the
fliHt Sunday in October.
o. no;;lk, old timk opkka
TOKPfcXLS of riTi ui:.
ItelieveH Mid-Continent and TeaH Oil
ricldM Aiv DcHtiued to lie the
( rent cut In the World.
With a lifetime's experience in oil
operation, which includes service from
tool-dresser to superinlcndcncy of
some of the largest holdings, J. O.
Noggle, who is in La Orandc fresh
from the Hurk-Hurnett fields in Texas
and the Kansas-Oklahoma oil fields,
announced that the oil situation is so
fast and furious at present that few
people located away from the fields
of operation can realize what fortunes
are being made in oil production.
Mr. Noggle came here to interview
parties in La, Crnndc who own drilling
ligs in the mid-continent field with
the hope of leasing or buying one of
the rigs to place upon a lease in Okla
homa, hut found that the drills were
already at work and that one had just
been placed on a 40-acre lease in liut
ler county, Kansas, which lease is sur
rounded on three sides by producing
wells, and that the well just started
is located within one-fourth of n mile
from a 300-barrcl producer. Learn
ing that La Crande people were in
terested in this lease and knowing the
country and the surroundings as te
(Continued on Page .'I.)
MtSast
MINI OIL
ill IN CITY
mm
CONDEMNS THE
CONSCRIPTION BILL
National (inaril Is Opixwil l The
( llamlierlalti-knlm I'lan for
Enforced rk'rvleo.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. Tho
Capitol has not yet recoi'orod from
I he shock of the terrific, and wholly
nnexneiioil, attack upon the Cltam-
berlain-Kahn conscription bill made
by the National (Juard Association of
tho t'nlleil States which la holding
lis annual conference In the Swejity
first Regiment Armory In Now' York
City. Every member of the House
antl Senutn Military Affairs Commit
tee;: received last week ft telegram,
'ilatiiiK derinlloly and expllctly that
the men who curried tho day at Chat
eau Thierry and tho ArRonno, aro in
no mood lo trfle with permanent
Peace tlmo trnlnitiK and conscription
in America. That teleKinm, when wua
only jwrilnlly curried by the press
Associations, deuervos rehearsal In
full:
"l'onr inll'Ion veterans of tho groat
war aru a sufficient nucleus for tho
oi'Ki'ntzatlou of any army which may
he reiiulred for somo-ilnfo to coiuo.
"Tho American pcoplo will not tol-
oratu the ruthless 'ihandonments of
a pulley which croatod a great civil
army which answered tha call, novor
flinched in the faeo of the ooverodt
fire, and whoso record of achlove
ni.'iit stands ns a UKarnutoo of its
ability to hnndlo any situation which
may confront it.
"The Chamborlain-Knhn bill abol
ishes Ud citizen soldiery of the Unit
ed Htatoa which public seutliuont do-
mmls shall bo tho backbone of Its
military power; and nc a tlmo when
the people r.rj struggling tho burden
of excessive taxutlon, creates at onor-
moiis expense, tho machinory for the
ir.lahlishi'iout in Amorlca of that de
testable Prussian system which la ab
horrent to tha Amerl :i n people.
"The Lcaguo of NuliotiB and the
Chaniherluln-Knhn hill can never go
har.d in hand.
"Klther tho League of Nations Is
a snaro and a delusion or there Is no
necessity for the passago of the
Cbaiiiburlali -Kahn bill
"The Chamberlaln-Kuhn hill Is the
swan song of tho (Jonoral Staff. Kail-
lug ut'erly in its offorts to secui-e
necessary recruits for tho regular
)rmy 11 now attempts In tlmo of ipeace
under I ho gulso of ti universal ser
vice hill lo resort to tho conscrip
tion, and to seize from their homes
tho youth of Americai for sorvlco In
tho rogular army In tho I'hlllpplues,
in Hawaii, 111 Porto lllro, In the Can
al Zone and oven In Russia Bhould
the nilli'ary dictator created by the
provsons of this vicious bill to dotor
mlnn thut the emergency demanded
it.
"Tho Ohr.mberlnln- Kahn bill des
troys and places u Htlgma upon tho
cjil.on soldiery will bore the brunt
of fighting as shock troops, and cre
ates a cciiirullzod military oligarchy
with dangerous potentialities for pol
ltk':il almso, and tho destruction of
tho 'freedom which is vital lo tho
exist. nco of tho country.
Therefore the Natonal flaurd As
sociation of the United Htntes, thru
It officers, executive and legislative
(ommittes In conference assembled,
tepresentlng that gmat body of citi
zen soldiers whoso record of efficien
cy entitles It to the fullest measure
ol support, opposes the psasiigu of
the Chaiuliorlain-Kahn Hill."
(iOOD IIOAI) PKAX
IN MVMIl CAI.II'Oll.N'IA
KAN DIKOO. Cal , Aug. 20. Con
tinuing his announced policy of pro
viding Lower California as soon as
po'slhlo with a syst'.m of flno high
ways that will compare favorably
with those to bo found anywhere in
lliel'ntt.'d Stales, (1'ivoinor KstHhan
Cunt it, of Lower California .Mexico.
Is now oiiguged In tho construction
of a new road from Tijuana to En-
heniida.
The new highway. It Is slated will
be 112 miles li lengt'i against a dls
tancn of ninety miles that has to he
traveled between the two cities over
the present highway. This shoitenlnr
ol the distance lies ben nTDtltlplihcd
l,y the elimination of many '"f the
liuii.I .about grades. The type of road
being constructed is the same us the
fun: military highways, between Ti
juana and Mexicall and Ensennda.
Thiee Inreei of men, It Is slated
are now at work One crew Is.workinr
south fioin Tijuana, another, north
'from point near Ensenadii uacl the
ihlnl crew is digged about. mUIy
h.tw..u th io cill.vt. It Is the gov
ernor'a It.tenlion to'f mild"' anil op
en the nihiy for traffic by Jan
uarv I, next.
Offiir at Bend i 0
pts;ijw Fu(iti.s An
, . 0 In Deschutes Country
SALKM, Aug. 20. .eriff lioberts,
Cj'if Iti nd, averted positively today th'St
the iiviris, Hrihov? al Wnitwi',
an- fh'piruj-jf rom-offi9ers inQ trT' Dvl-
i tunvn rouify. I he fugitives are sd
)o be heavitt a-d. G ,
T
IN PAPER
SENATE AIMMIOVES KKSOI.UTION'
FOIl INVKSTIUATION BY
SENATOR HEED.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BEFORE
AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE
Objects lo Amendments diving Presi
dent Power to Fix W holesale and
Hetail Price's On Certain Commodi
ties As Being Too Drastic, and
Would Provoke Discussion.
(ty Associated Press to The Observer)
WASHINGTON, Aur. 20. An In
vestigation of tho news print paper
Industry to determine whether it is
engaged in illegal practices and wheth
er the prices are excessive was auth
orized today In a resolution intro
duced by Senator Ifced, of Missouri,
Democrat, and adopted by the senate.
Attorney General Palmer appeared
before the house agricultural commit
tee today and opposed tho proposed
amendments to the food control act
authorizing the President to fix whole
sale and retail prices on certain com
modities. Ho said that such executive
power was too drastic and would pro
voke discussion and the delay in pas
sage of other amendments. Palmor
said that with the nntl-profitcering
law the department of justice could
obtain specific indictments in various
cities, which would "make unneces
sary a far-reaching fight against high
prices."
ITALIAN HOUSEWIVES
HAVE DIFFICULT TIME
Many Hours Aro Connumid In (.ald
er. tig Food Supplies Servant
Problem Ih Uncertain.
HOME. July 28. Asauciutcd I'resu
Correspondence.) Seven houiB ot
em-h day of the Italian housekeeper
must be devoted to buying food. Tho
problems of the ordinary American
housekeeper pule into insignificuncn
even with their troublesome soi vunLs
when compared to the Italian. Do'
m oh tic strvanU' strikes in Italy aro
chronic.
The recent upheaval in Italian eco
an mini
HOLISM
nomics when the government ordered
prices of foodstuffs and clothing re
duced fifty per cent has begun its i
reaction and the factor affected most
is the housekeeper. She must start
to market at 7 o'clock in the morning
und is forced to hurry from one storu
to another. To obtain a piece of meat
usually takes two hours. To obtain
bread about an hour, eggs two hour.i,
vegetables one hour and n half, und
canned goods about an hour.
Tho housekeepers' day stmts by
placing herself ut the back of a lung
line of waiting custumur.4. The linn
sometimes extends for a half block,
guarded by armed carbineers. When
the buyer is permitted the enter thn
store she finds inside, a scramble fur
all sorts of commodities. Guards aro
stationed there to prevent any mis
chief. If she obtains what she want
she is lucky.
iShe treads over the streets a whole
morning searching for the things foi
lunch and then in the afternoon must. t
start on the hunt again for food. IT
she is looking for butter she is us
ually disapopinted, for there is littlo
to be had. She may obtain meat, but
i usually thankful to go away with
can of American "bully-beef. '
It often happens that her fnruil'
must miss a meal but that is usually
overlooked. It is too evident on ovary
hand
Housekeepers ' sometime'!) -watch a
car of " produce, unloaded at the iait
road station and follovi the0 motor
trucks to th store 'hero the product
ill r. sold. When a wu'load of egg
arrived lite other day tbt women cMnrf
to th, truck carrying te. rs ts
Kor, others "running ulongsufe. gt
Ujc stms the clerks stood in doorways
a'f landed j?nt the TP.Chrer nnlj
, ; customer, fc'onie customers h .
:cdrovepi4(fhers' hcas with liicir itfj
while otlwrs pushed aside the wcuke 6
ones, o O a
Mrvants take thfir rent, davs o
lo Tt0- '"yvr)lt(,in(r lhp lls(,k)0l(,r 10yaio'goinrf
for a ilttv or two,
TIm-v come bark
wiif n it itiv ft them. I he dni
The djivs of thnso
"poeet Italii servants' R3 AmeiV
cat used to call them, have passed
away i01 a housekeeper is lucky tr
have a tenant at all.
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