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LA GRANMIK. OliEGONV TUESDAY 'EVENING. OCTOBER 21. 1919.
EIGHT PAGES NUMBER lfi.
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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,"
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