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e o O o o o e o O O 09 o LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER I Ad Independent Newspaper rhone The Obsenrer the News and Your Want Ada. Main 17 BrinA theNewlha I II Day It Happen S31KB1K OF THI ASSOCIATED. PRESS volume xxin. EIGHT PAGES LA GRANMIK. OliEGONV TUESDAY 'EVENING. OCTOBER 21. 1919. EIGHT PAGES NUMBER lfi. 0 PRESIDED WILLME SOI PART Dl'RING HIS II.LXES UK HAS KEPT POSTED ON IMM.NUS IX TUB CXH'NTKV. ANXIOUS TO GET CAPITAL AND LABOR ON SOUND BASIS Written llcnorm of Events Have Been Furnished Daily to Chief ; Executive by Secretary Tumulty and Senator Hitchcock Did Not Bleep Well Last Night. WASHINGTON. Oct. 22. The president hits kept In touch with national affairs during his Illness and is informed regarding the threatened bituminous coal miners' strike, the treaty situation and the national industrial conference. This was learned today for tho chief executive has been kept posted daily by written reports from Tumul ty. - He also had a letter yesterday from Senator Hitchcock, who Ib ad ministration leader iu the peace treaty in the senate. The President, despite his illness, is understood to be preparing to trke a band in the national Industrial conference, and will try to avert a break that Is thrcateed as the re sult of the. inability of capital and labor to reach a satisfactory agree ment on collectlive bargaining. President Wilson did not sleep so well last night but howcd no signs of fatigue this morning. HIb pros title condition remains the same. Washington, Oct. 22. It Is learn ed today that President Wilson has dictated a letter to Secretary Frank lin K. Lane, presiding officer of the industrial conference, and the let ter Is to be used if there seems to be danger of the conference break lite up. The President signed the letter In pencil i a somewhat shaky band. Washington, Oct. 21. Declaration of imperative necessity of holding na tional industrial conference together until it accomplishes the purpose for which it was called, is understood to form the keynotfc of the six-hundred word letter President Wilson sent to Secretary Lane, presiding officer of the conference. Those who sa wthe letter describe it as an "extremely powerful document" written in the vigorous style which characterised his writings before his illness. Some conference leaders said a week's recess might be taken to give the groups a chance to work out a new program and reconcile the differences between capital and labor. Secretary Lane approves of this. THE WEATHER. PORTLAND, Oct. 21. This after noon and tonight rain in northern por tion and fair in the south. Wednesday fair with westerly winds. NEW PEOPLE FRED DUTLI DISPOSES OF OLD PROSPEROUS BUSINESS. Portland and Eugene People Buy the Dutli Bakery and Property in La Grande. Fred Dutli, who has for many year vry successfully conducted the bakery business in La Grande, closed a deal today wlttreby he retires from active Winrss and the bektry and property connected with it pses into the own. trseip of William Adltff, of Portland, b4 G. Nrttlt, of Kufone. Mr. AsiffT ia on of the best sos "tst e'i "n tha Nortf.cJt avl for M-.t.t ttera ka hartiltd all tk p'ttry Vr itelkfOasthaE of Commerce in nfilcn. ffor.tit de connct- tit the. Sfultnoetafc hltel.and te BAKER! SOLD TO Jrlirto cl. o 1 pedallf (lilor that ..rt .f t; Mr Nettle it frdn Eutfene. where hel, r. -htrh ovld. that before I jwen interested in the OsburR ho- tel. the rtearnna novr oi ine ngnt, line ana inierei in erlwvn. In Speaking of,'h change, M I property, real o,d "personal, nnir Nettle said to The Observer: "Wei4yO transft-Pred to the ferrltorr . 8 K.v. hn watchma-thu city for aionu (Continued oaWage Six)" PLANS FORMED FOR FESTIVAL SALVATION ARMY IS TO HOLD CHICKEN DINNER SATURDAY Sale of Fruit, Fancy Work.Vcgotables to Begin at 7:30 Arabian Night Dress to Be Auctioned. The Salvation Army ate completing the final arrangements for their Har vest Festival sale which will be held next Saturday evenign at 7:30 o'clock """ v- 101'K- ' "K0" in the Dave Stewart Building which ''' Lutherans of America was occupied this summer by the Unit- ""lke. a "n f a "i1"n ?' c.a.aa K'oHl p,v ti Blol'rs to tho Lutherans of Poland In will be made up of ready-made gar ments, fancy work, canned fruit, vege tables, fresh fruits and home-made candy. Come of the garments and the fancy work will be on display in the Hoover Store window several days be fore the'salc begins. One silk Arabian Night dress, all hand work, will be auctioned off Sat urday night. The dress was given to Captain J. F. Purdy to be sold at the Harvest Festival last year, but on ac count of the influenza epidemic, the Harvest Festival was not held, so t.ie garment has been saved for this year. Saturday noon at 12 o'clock and as long as the chicken lasts, a regular old farm dinner will be served in the Stewart building. Roast chicken, dressing, pumpkin pie, baked apples, and all the fixings will be on the menu. The Harvest Festival is an annual affair among all of the sixty-two Sal vation Army posts of the world, locat ed in the different countries and colo nics. At this time, Saturday is given over to the making of money with which to carry on the winter work of the Army, Sunday is taken up with a "Thank Service," both morning and ev ening, and Monday to a prayer meet ing. The local post hopes to make enough money at the dinner and the sale, so that they can carry on their winter's work as they had planned. Anyone desiring to donate home made candy, fruit, fancy work, ready-made gar ments, or anything for the dinner, will please phone to Main 707, where their o-ifta will hit verv mucn appreciate. " ONE DOLLAR IS POPUL ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL HSU BEGINS TO GROW IN BANKS l-iirgc Donation Not AnKimi Itllt small Ones arc Welcomed Dollar donations are the popular ones for tho Kooseveit memorial fund which Is being raised thin week throughout the entire nation The campaign started Monday morn ing and will close Saturday night In all! of the schools of the county children aro ' invited to contribute small offerings to tho memorial for tbe late president and the rank and Hie of the people are also asked to show their appreciation of the great Bti'.tesman If they sen fit to do so. The Ad Club of La Grande ban the matter in hand and committee: have been named for the different parts of the county. In La Grand Superintendent A. C. Hampton has taken It up In the schools and all children are asked to be represent ed in the long list of names from this county which will be deposited with the national committee and these rostera will he encased In the. great monument that Is to be erect cd. Both La Grande banks are receiv ing funds and all that Ib necessary to do Is to step In either of the banks, make . your offering and give your name and addresa- to the cashier or teller. Pension Terms Excite Alwka People Who , Want to Hold Property Correspondence of tht-.Assoclsled Press FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sort 2. (Be Wall I Terms of thy recently in tod territorial pension u" have routed the Indlgnatioa of pioneers of this section, as ,mbred In Llalo't No. . Iloneer of Alaska A ; trjutlon dpted by the laloo es- pprscain Ue eligible fi?r a pen.ion.j -Kfforts It Ik and. will De.tnT w , : next legislature repeal' oflhe -I to have the AR OFFER thli tcfllon LUTHERANS TO JOHNSOH Ml MAKE G FT nniirrpncp LARGEST CHAIUTAULE M)A. 1 ix history. Lutheran -of America - To Ijoan iiUtlieraiiM of -Poland One MI1-- , . lion Dollars for. Itcllof. ecofdiufe to a '.Report iiublished by! tliO'-Hfcropeiitr Rollef eommltluii of ithe . N'titlonalr Lutheran Council, ordor that they may be re-establish ed on their farms and in their oc cupations. Rev. O. H. Pannkoko of Now York, in charge of the campaign for clothing and money, inado the fol- owng-i statement: we are racing twdvexiiig problems In trying to help- tHo.'Luthcn'ns of Poland. The Imhtcdialjb problem is to bring ro- lefj ft, group of (ivu.uuu people arc In danger of dying by tens of thoito- ands unless cloti'tittg is Btipplied them before tho winter Is far ad vanced. We have that tack well In h'.:ul now. From practically every state clothing is on tho way In car- lord lots. Much Is already crossing the aca to Danzig. "Their Need Is Credit" "While this means iiiucli to the people over there it somes to us ft is only a: temporary palliative.. It Is not a-cure. Next year will find thenii where they are this year. agu,in a charge on our charity. 'iTheir- need Is credit. They can not got it in JOiiiope. Thoy uio ask ed to pay 25 per cent on insignif icant sums. It Is pity the lViris con ference did nothing to malte cred its available to rehabilitate lire in Europe. 'It scorns our duty to do what the peace conference failed to do. viz. to aeo that those people are supplied with sufficient funds to get onto their feet by 1'ieir own Indiistyr. That will be real charity. The mutter ha-, been placed before groups of' influ ential Lutherans In various parts' of ti'ie country, notably North Dakota Minnesota;' 'Illinois, Wisconsin "and New York. They, agreed to do ii and promised to back -it. '.'Tho money Is to be. given to the National Lutheran Council as a Kill' It will 'administer the fund, inakini. such arrangements as uro necessary. Land mortgages' will securu the loans. . r "To my knowledge this la. the largest tiharltublo loan contemplat ed In the history of Christian char Ity. It Is the only worth while thing to do In the situation, how ever. It means a permanent curr and not u temporary relief." OLD HAWAIIAN DIES Correspondence of the Associated Press HONOLULU, T. II., Oct. a. (By Mall) William Kahalo, horn (,n t'.e Irlal.d of H -wall April 5. 1S20, t.'io year tho first missionaries from Bcstcr. rrrlved, died hero recently aged 9 9. , ' FORMER PREMIER IS DEAD (Ity AssoclMtfd Press to The Observer.) TOKIO. Oct. 22 Field Marshall Count Solkl T'Tiiuchl. former prem ler of Japan, died today. ! Ml M K hK l-, :y,..' -. v ' I .'Kit TO NOME. ALASKA AND iicofair,k"to a" .fenort published WHEN fArOIIT TOLD VOIAVU -rn ininnrnl IU 1TIUIIUL.II I.ED TO NOME, ALASKA AND WHEN ( At tilIT TOLD POLICE OK HIS CRIME. WAS A PATROLED CONVICT AND KILLED MRS. FREEMAN Claim. That Ho Was Afraid She Would Semi Him Hack to lrlson at San Oucntlii Jealousy of Mrs. Ei-ccnnm la Also Alleged lly Mur derer. tUy Associated Press to The Observer.) 'ORTLAND, Oct. 21. Cluronce Johnson, who was brought back rrom Nome, Alaska, charged with the murder of Mra. Eunice Freeman, u W. C. T. U. workor and his bene factress hero last August, told t'o nowapaperinen todny that he waa prompted by a fear tihut Mrs. Froo- nan would have him Bent back to Sun Qiicntln prison for breaking his parole. The Nome police assort that Joj'in- son confessed the murder thoro al- Johnson said Mis. Freeman, who was about sixty years of age w;-.s jealous of his attention to mother woman. He Bald he waited over an liiotir to kill the other wo men also but failed. Then he fled to Scattio and later to Alaska. JUDGE TAKES HIS LIFE WITH GUN I. (il'IIEEN. PROMINENT IDAHO POLITICS, IS DEAD IN Was In I'oilland lluital and (lave I p tll Eight for n ... Curo. (Ily Associated I'rens to Tho Observer.) PORTLAND. Oct. 21. J. J. Oil linen, former circuit Judge of Poca toll(i. Idaho, and a prominent man In Idaho politics, shot and killed himself ti'ils morning while taking a walk. He was a patlont at tho Portland Medical Hoiipital and was suffering from nervous breakdown. It is believed his case waa regarded hopeless. He was fifty-eight years of age. OLD CHINESE DEAD. Oorrespomlcnee of the Associated Press., HONOLLU, T. If. Oct. 3. (Ily Mnlll A. Ke. 9 years old, who came to Hnwall from China 7H years ago, one of the first of hla race to reach the Islands, died horn recently. In attendance at IiIb funeral wo.-e night children, 2 gr; ndchlldren aid :n grcit-grar.dchlldren. Teeter-Totter . wjjrAfxVi DANCE TO OPEN BRAMWELL SAYSREDS VilH NEnGARAGE IRE. IRRIGATION ahq LOSE MR. AND MltH. CHARLES Mc UiAllY TO UK HOSTS FRIDAY House Wurmiug ami lUill to Bo (Iven In Honor of Now Hayues Home. There will be a dance Friday ulght where? At the new McGrnry Auto Co. gar age tho new one. Just acrosB from the Foderal building. For that is the place and Friday night Is tho time when Mr. and Mra. Charles Mc Crary will act us host and hostess to tho large number of young peo ple who are going to miiko merry during tho ovenlng in honor of op ening of tho now Huyncs homo the new McCrary garage. Mr. and Mrs. McCrury hnvo built the new structure this summer un der difficulties nnd now that it ia completed they feel much like danc ing and want all their friends to dance with them. Tbe new building Ib u fine one and occupies sixty foot of ground across the stroot from tho postof flee. It is a niodrrn si met urn in every way and contains reBt rooni'i and bath roouiB for tho tourlBt trade. Equipped with healing plant and all tho late duvlcos for making an automobile moilorn, the McCrary Company feel, and hnvo right to feel that It is one of tho excellent gar ages in Enstorn Orfgon. Tho social ovent which opens the homo Friday night Is not confined to strict invitation from u card standpoint but rather will ho one of La Grande's oldtimo partlen whero ladies and gentlemen are wel come. Lindsays orchestra will fur nish tho music. LONGSHOREMEN TO CO BACK AFTER BEIN GOUT SOME TIME. Congestion Which Has Filled Eastern Seaports May Now Re Lifted and Transports Resume Work. . NEW YORK, -Oct. 21. The long shoremen are expected to return to wor ktomorrow. If settlement is miulc, as now seems apparent, tomorrow will end one of the,, ! worst strikes that the eastern const 1 hus ever experienced. For weeks car goes of perishable foodstuffs have j rotted because there was no labor to transport it from the ships. So dins ( tic became the situation that troops I could not land and yesterday Secretary jof War Maker ordered soldiers to begin ' the work of the longshoremen to re lieve the congestion. STRIKE SEEMS NOW SETTLED FORMER I.A ORANDW CITIZEN SEES NEED OF WATER SUPPLY Would I m rouse I'nion County's Pop ulution Materially if Installed. Tho following leltor from F. 8 Iiiamwell, formerly of La Grand but now vice president of the Ore gon Chamber of Commorco, to hit friend. L. M. Jensen of this city, once more Impresses the great need of irrigation In the Grande Rond valley: "I am vnry much pleaBed to read in tho Ln Grundu Evening Observer that a masa mooting was hold Octo her 15th last, looking to the devel opment of Irrigation for Grande Rondo vulley. "Dining my recent visit I apoko tc ono or two gentlemen about reviv ing the spirit necessary to develop tho Meadow Brook reservoir proposi tion, but I am sorry to say I war met with discouragement. I pre sumo I got hold of tho wrong fel lows. 'Of course, you will romemher that 1 was uctivo ln the Irrigation movement startod some years ago. I am still deeply Interested In thlt trailer, and not only ln a personal way, but tho Oregon Stato Chamber will bo very glad to lend Its strength to develop this project. "When I bco hundreds of Binall tracts ln the suburbs of La Orand croplesa for want of wutor, I can appreciate the terrible loss thut thu country Is sustaining each year With lirgutlon a family of ordinary millll,or can easily make a living on five urres of land since the land In your vicinity Is excodlngly rich and producuvo. "If you will contomplate for a moment the vast acroage that Is lying Idle In the Immediate vlolu'ly of La Grande, you can easily flguie up tho Iocs sur.tained - each yeat-by the iiiorchiinis of La Grande, the banks, ns well as all other btisli.esi Int-n -is I t-Minot ilit ik of nnyl.ilnn that would bring larger peoflls 1". a business way than tlin expenditure of tho money necessary to develop th's n-';;aiioii i.roject "There Is no better people on tho nice ot tho earth than Is found In Union couuty, but there are bo few ot' them who appreciate the necessi ty of proper Irrigation and It Is tl matter of (nlsslonary education to l.i lug nboui the desired remits nnd I can i hlng of nothing tlm'.. would make me happier than to devote so'iio of my energies If you can sug get how I can do so. "1 hr,t hud a long !;'. otiiu'-I niico iu Irrigation mutton and there. fore can appreclato tho results of proper Irrlgtlon bettor thnn many who have not hud such uxporlen-e If you run outline how I can uld , ,,., ,,, know (lm, , an. at your command. Let's pull tonothnr until Gnindo Rondo Valloy snail tiiossom as a rose gardon until It shall bo ilnublod In popula tionand nothing but Irrigation can accomplish, this until t lie. as sessed valuations ahull ..Increase soinnwhatiiiull moiy heart shall rejoice and nlug . as psalms , the splendid resources of Union county, developed as result of Irrigation TEN STATES TO CALIFORNIA TO HAVE AN INTER NATIONAL SHOW ALSO. Cavalry Troop of Dorset to Be One bf the Features of the Occasion at the San Franriseo Show. SAN FKANCfSCO, ' Oct. 21. T. slates Wl the Hawaiian Islands will show cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, poul try ntd . rabbits at the California 111 ternational Livestock siow whiih op ens at the California huihlingon the Marina here November 1. according- to Gordon H.fl'rue, who said that the en tries indicifc'c Him-xhilet of lOUO head of liyiwtock. In addition looCalifornia, entries have beeniode from Arftona, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Wyots,ng, ! Ncbraa, Missouri and Texas, and the J(aUi?an Islands Entries for the , O..!-, RII'.V. .IF V A ICO V I Ulll IvMOKn. I III aMn to iftghtly showing of h.w'ii-clasa srdli- horses, Captain ,aHcriiharO Renziehausen, of the U, S .cavt rv statiTneir' at .the Presidio. Ir diTlling; a cavalry troop to show in Otion. O . SHOW LIVESTOCK NINETEEN REGIMENTS MF GEN. EltAL MA.MONTOI'F'S ARMY ARE ROUTED. PETROGRAD SEEMS TO BE , NEARLY IN ENEMY HANDS Bolshvlkl Army W ithdrawn In Many Plm-CH to Strengthen tlm Lines In Front tif Petrogrud Where the Fight for l-'ate or the City Seenik to lie the Strongest of any Uat tie In Progress. (By Associated Press to The Observer.) LONDON, Oct. 21 Orel has boon rotation by tho Bolshovlkl who also have defeated nlnteen roglmenta ot General Mamontoff's army outsldo of Voronoih, according to a wire lots Soviot dispatch. Unoflfelal reports from Pctrograd state (ho Soviet forcos aro being slowly driven back to tho lust de fenses In front of Potrograd. Yitd enllch has boon captured, Pulkova seven inllos Botith, nnd Llgovu eight milea Bouuhweat. Bolshovlkl troops are suhnornly contesting along the Potrogrnd-Luga-Pskov front. Ilolslievlkl Forces Dlsperscil. Holslngforo, Finland, Oct. 21. . Bolshovlkl forces concentrated on Gdoff on J.ake Pelpus, which con stituted tho most serious throat to the roar of Yudnnltr.li, have boon dtsporaed. They removed men on account of advance against the communications of tho niitl-Ilolsho- vlkl forcos now before potrograd. which Trotsky recently . declared would decide tho futo ot tho city. American Games Have Been Introduced in ' , China's Big College SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 21. Anier- ' lean football nnd baseball hnvo been" successfully introduced at TsinK Hun college, Peking, China, according to Ming b. Lowe, registrar of the collcgo who was here recently en route to China after a tour of the United States. Eight years ago Lowe left for China after Having graduated from the Uni versity of California where ho was known ns an all-round athlete. After his arrival in China he ob taincd tho service of an American conch and physical director, 1). K. Brace, a Reed College graduate, to conch the various teams then organ- . ized in a tentative way, in harthull. American football, socca', tennis, track and swimming. American football apd Yankee Imse- .bull arc Hmonir the must, popular sports lit Tsing Dua College. . A K''if ,: course ir, soon to.be luid out nca" thu college. , . , Sunday Is the Time for Turning Back the Clocks Over Nation Next Htindav I ho clocks of the na Hon will to buck one hour accord-. Ing lo tho man date Issued by con gress and there is no power that can , now chango the procedure which has been ordered. The nation quits tho 'artltllit schedule and goes hack to tho normal days. 1 INSPECTORS FORM FN ION. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21, Cus tom inspectors at this port have formed a trades union, known as the Customs Inspectors Association, with 100 chafter members. . RMi GAME IN NOVEMBER ' STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cnl. Oct. "21. The annual soccer game bc twetn Stsnofd University and Cali fornia will vt plt. hero on the morn ing- of Aovt4U i 22, the date set for the ""big !" of ;VneTican football bejwoeji the ta institutions. An irfratcrity. scries is to pfayed before the inter-coll -ginte con test Jncs A, Quimby is coaehim; tho Stanford sipraff. ACKER IS ON JOR. STANFORD .UMYRKITY, Cat., Oct. 21. A., U, (U'ker, formerly conyrj, at the University of Kentucky, Ims at-" fotd 'on the campus here and will handlPthe freshmniP'.cam this season," r I .Dti, I -.viid - -
