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    OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30. 1918.
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Russian Rulers in Hiding
Take Minnie Worfers
Girk'In Good II a n d s
M a r i ne Is Coutusrtl
Governor Stands for
Nation and Preparedness
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RATES ARE PROMISED
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FT STOCK
REDUCED ROUND TRIP
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. rortland
and all Oregon points of Importance
will have the benefit o reduced round
trip rates from the Middle West and
Eastern cities every day In the year.
The new rates will average about 10
higher than the round trip rat In
force last year, will be sold every day
in the year and will be good for a
round trip for nine months.
The holders of low round trip sum
mer rates may secure extensions on
tho return portion by calling at a
United States railroad ticket office
and paying the difference between
the new and the old rates. A formal
announcement of the new rates will
be made In a week or 10 days.
This will do much to keep travel
continuous to the west coast as far
as war conditions will penult, and
means much for the whole Pacific
Coast. The new rates will be from
all points and will be arrived at by
adding regular fares and making a
percentage discount which will bring
the rate within a few dollars of the
old rate of last winter.
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NOG ALES. Aris., Aug. 27 Three
American cavalrymen were killed and
12 were wounded here today In a two
hour border battle with Mexicans.
Lieutenant Colonel Fredert k J.
Herman was one of those wounded.
The Mexican losses are estimated at
over 100 killed and wounded.
The fighting began at 4 o'clock
when the Mexicans began firing
across the international boundary line
from Nogales, Ionora.
Several hundred troops engaged the
Mexicans and drove them well back
Into their town.
Civilians aided the American sol
diers from housetops and other points
of Tan tags.
The Mexicans hoisted a flag of
truce, bat continued firing and sniping
was going on at 7 P. M. ,
Bullets were dropping thick and fast
in Nogales, Ariz., one civilian, Gaston
Reddock, was wounded.
Tonight Lieutenant Colonel Her
man, who was slightly wounded, was
able to retain command of the troops,
although he had to be assisted from
place to place.
The trouble was supposed to have
started as a result of an attempt on
the part of a Mexican immigration
official to pass a fellow countryman
across the border illegally.
American sentries drew guns and
Mexicans fired. Other Mexicans, ap
parently fully armed, came from all
directions and aided the Mexicans on
the line until they were driven back.
' An Infantry detachment was rushed
t the border and was followed by
negro cavalry troops who took up
positions along the street which forms
tne boundary line. The firing con
tinued until 5:30 P.. M.. when it died
down slightly, but occasional shots
could be heard.
Reports that machine guns were
brought into action by the American
troops were denied, although a ma
chine gun was set up in an office
facing Mexico.
MCCXr LENiKlC
LSON TRQTTKV
Premier Lenine and Foreign Min
ister TroUky. whose rule in Russia
since the overthrow of Premier Ker-
ensky has been one of the strangest
the world hag known, are now said to
be in hiding on a ship at Cronstadt
under the protection of Germans
LABORS DEIAND
OF DOLLAR HOUR
BRINGS CONCERN
PITTSBURG, Aug. 2. The entire
working force of the city fire depart
ment went on strike at uoou today bo
cause of the failure of the city gov
ernment to meet demands for a waga
increase.
Three hundred men in the officers'
training camp of the Carnegie Insti
tute of Technology volunteered to
man the city fire fighting apparatus
and several hundred technical men
also offered their services.
hire broke out in the wholesale
business section shortly after 2 o'
clock and a general alarm was sent
in. The fire was In a long row of two
story brick buildings and the flumes
were licking along the structures and
fust gaining headway.
Men from maunfacturing plants
nearby rushed with hese from the
plants ind attacked the blaie. Oueset
of ppa.atus was manned by the sol
diers and as it rushed through the
street, crowds lined the curb and
cheered.
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PARIS, Aug. 19 Tho American
soldiers In Frapce are having a tough
time with the French and Gemma
military nnmea,
"Hey, .luck," shouted Corporal Hen
Adams, of the U.S. Murines, gleeful
ly to a pal of his. "the Marines have
captured two 'Minnie Werfers. "
"'Sail right," answered his pal, a
sergeant of Marines "the Werfcr
girls may rest assured they will be
In good hands."
HdVEMENTTDO
OS!
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. The de
mands of shipyard workers of the
country for a wage or Jl an hour,
with double time for holidays and over
time and a half holiday on Saturdays,
have precipitated a grave situation, it
was indicated today when it was
learned that the ship building labor
adjustment board to whom the de
mands were submitted, would confer
with President Wilson late this af
ternoon.
The board has had the demands un
der consideration for more than a
week, and it is known that the mem
bers fear a general strike if the men
are turned down. While members of
the board refused today to state the
object of their appointment with the
President, it is believed that they
will ask him to Issue a personal ap
peal to the men to remain at work as
a patriotic importance of their work
at this time, and calling to their at
tention the grave results that would
follow a cessation of their work .
STRIKE AT ST. HELENS
SAYS STATE NEEDS
EXCEED REVENUES
oALEM. Or., Aug. 22. State Tax
Commissioner Chafles V. Galloway
has totaled the requests and estimates
of all state departments and other
organizations having state aid as
recently submitted to the commission
to show the needs of the next Men
niura and finds the total to be ?9,
515,437. This total is on the assump
tion that an amendment to the
workmen's compensation act will be
passed whereby the state will be re
quired to give aid to that commission
amounting only to actual expenses.
Otherwise the total estimate would be
Approximately $800,000 more.
The total amount as arrived at by
Mr. Galloway is, in round numbers
$2,000,00 m excess of what Is avail
able for the next blennlum under the
G per, cent tax limitation amendment,
and is the figure upon which prob
ably will be based a bill which the
commission proposes to Initiate for
the November election to meet the
needs of the state In excoss of what
is allowed by the state constitution.
Such a bill, however, under the
statute, can make provision for only
one year. The tax commission will
meet Frllay to consider the estimates.
SEATTLE. Aug. 2:1. Resolutions
adopted by the Seattle Central Ihor
council and the shipyards laborers'
union, urging that Clareuee L.
Kcames. aoolstant nnorucy general,
be replaced by someone "more In line
with the president's wise policies,'
were answered today with a state
ment that he wus being condemned
because he prosecuted cases against
Hulet M. Wells, former president of
the council, W. II. Kaufman, a state
grange member, aud others charged
with blocking the government's war
plans.
"The resolution condemning we was
started by Gus Lukeu, former bus!
ness munager of the shipyard labor
ers' union," Mr. Reames told the As
sociated Press.
The labor council adopted the reso
lution last night It told of the prose
cution of Wells, Kaufman and others,
and declared Reames should be suc
ceeded by ''an official more Imbued
with real patriotism and less desirous
to serve the predatory classes by the
destruction of their opponents."
Mr. Reames also asserted the coun
cil was not speaking for Seattle union
labor. "I am assured by patriotic
labor leaders that Wells Is regarded
by union labor as disloyal to both his
county and his union." he said.
MILK OF SHEEP
FULLY AS GOOD
AS GOAT SUPPLY
AHEUDEKN, Wash., Aug. St.-The
greatest labor aud housing shortage
ever faced by the city, involving tho
recruiting of a force of 1000 meu tor
shipyard work, and the erection of
houses for a large part of that force,
was grought to a crisis Friday by ad
vices from the emergency fleet teor
poratlon to the Grays Harbor Motor
ship corporation demanding that tha
man power deficit ut tho yards be met.
Prestdeut Schubach of the Motor
ship corporation has Issued a call tor
1000 men. A part of those meu may
be recruited Ideally, partially reliev
ing (lip housing famine.
In order to secure the cooperation
of the United States department of
labor In recruiting labor from out
side points, housing guarantoes must
be given, which may mean the erec
tion of 100 houses within a U0 day
period by the Motors hip company.
A campaign was started tonight to
get the men. The Grant Smith Porter
yards have Issued a call for 200 nwn.
U.S. CHASER IS SHELLED
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TOTAL 20,444 MEN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. Casual
ties in the American overseas forces
since the United States entered the
war total 20,444, including those given
our for publication today. They are
divided as follows:
Killed in action (including 291 at
sea), 4212; died of wounds. 1260; died
of disease, 1594; died of accident and
other causes, 715; wounded in action,
10,478; missing in action (including
prisoners), 2187.
Casualties given out today total
124, divided as follows:
Killed in action, 9; missing in ac
tion, 17; wounded severely, 73; died
of wounds, 12; died from accident and
other causes, 6; died of disease, 1;
wounded, degree undetermined
prisoner, 1 .
ST. HELEN'S, Or., Aug. 27. Three
hundred men employed in the yards
of the Sommarstrora Shipbuilding com
pany at Columbia City walked out at
10 o'clock this morning when the com
pany refused to replace Felix Som
marstrom, foreman on Hull No. 8, by
a union man. There is a possibility
mat tne remaining 200 men may
strike, completely tying up the plant
where four government ships are un
der construction.
The removal of Sommarstrom, one
of the four brothers ho own the
plant, was demanded two weeks ago,
but no action was taken by the man
agement. The Sommarstrom company already
has launched four ships for the gov
ernment, two being put Into the Co
lumbia July 4. It is a wooden ship- mediately and with deadly accuracy.
WASHINGTON, A113. 27. Mistak
en In the dark at 3:30 this morning
for a submarine, the United States
chaser 209 was shelled and sunk by
the merchantman Felix Toussig. The
commander, executive officer and 15
men are missing from the chaser
while nine have been landed eight
in New York and one at Lewes, Del
according to navy information that
afternoon.
Tue rescued were picked up CO
miles east of Sandy Hook from a safe
ty mattress. All but two of them were
suffering from wounds.
According to unofficial information,
the patrol boat had been operating
along the coast In search of enemy
submarines and she was making her
way to her base when she was sighted
by the merchant vessel.,
According to reports, the gun crew
of the merchant vessel opened fire Ira
SALEM, Or.. Aug. 28. A sheep of
the long or medium wool class will
produce as much milk as a $75 milch
goat, declares Dr. W. H. Lytlo, state
veterinarian, and for this reason lie
avers that, If every Oregon lawn were
made to support one or two sheep,
there would be no milk and wool
shortage.
..eep's milk Is the finest there Is
for babies," said Dr. Lytle, "and the
sheep I have described will yield $i
of $8 worth of wool. If the lamb Is
raised until It is 3 months old It will
hring $10, but the lamb can't be raist'd
if the milk is wanted in the home."
Dr. Lytle says that the wool short
ae has arrived and that the milk
shortase is on its way. The way to
meet the difficulty, he asserts. Is to
put a couple of sheep In each door
yard. "A strap to serve ng a collar around
the sheep's n' k, and a rope to stake
her out, Is all the equipment needed,"
NEW YORK. Aug. 26 Rev. Mark
I). Matthews of Seattle ripped prec
edents to shreds at tho Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian church of this city when
he told whut he tlu,iht of Germany,
the kulser and the German army. The
congregation shouted and cheered.
In the most heated pulpit discourse
on the bIus of Germany heard In this
city since the I'nlted States entered
the war, Dr. Mathews consigned the
kaiser to exile, outlawed the German
nation for 100 years and demanded
the execution of Gorman leaders.
These officers, he declared, who had
the authority to prevent atrocities by
the German armies and did not do It,
should bo court marttaled and shot.
He recommended the same thing for
submarine a plains. He declared the
.atlc.Hi should not have a seat at the
peace table, pi-cause It Is not a bet
liger. ut.
Germany, he declared, should not
have a chance to negotiate peace but
should be forced to accept tlicated
terms.
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Governor Illchaid I, Manning of
South Carolina, believe in the Ameri
can Nation and preparedness for Its
protection. Ho has six sons In tho
army ready to die for their con vie
Hons. He bus one brother as u major
and another as a captain, and hu Is
one ot tho stanch supporters of the
National Security League.
TWO LIBERTYLOANS
EACH YEAR INTENT
POUTLANI), Aug. 27,--Thmdor H.
Wilcox, Well known milling aiaa of
Portland, left n tstuta valued at,
about $3,000 000, according to tk In
ventory and appraisement tiled In the
county court, Holdings ! the Port
land Flouring mills, which since
lils deuth been sold to M. II. Ilouser,
ar valued ot $805,000, and It the
Puget Sound Flouring mills at $S4.V
000, according to tha appraisers.
It. ml estate In Portland and other
parts of tho state Is placed at $ir,0,0tio,
Liberty bonds, purchased b Wllcux.
are quoted Ht $100 000, Other large
Items of the estate are: Stock In the
llawley Pulp & Paper cotnpsay, $123,.
000; Wilcox Investment coMpauy.
$:t:'tl.'.'07; 1'nllod States Steel corpor
ation, $r,i,100.
OF
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2S.The gov
ernment contemplates but two Lib
erty loans each year, according to a
telegram received here by George K.
Weeks, Liberty loan campaign mau-
aKer for the U'th federal Idlsirlct ' Hons of vital moment to tho
KPUINGFIKU), III., Aug. IT.-He-daring
the election of Mayor Wllllum
Halo Thompson, Chicago Hepubllcaii,
aspirant for the I'ulted State senate,
would be nothing less than a calam
ity, Colonel Theodore Hooseve'lt has
Injected himself Into the Illinois pri
mary tight.
The colonel at thtt same time hut
evaded the responsibility of sponsor
lug either George Kdimind Foss or
Medlll McCormlck, who are opposing
Thompson.
Colonel Roosevelt set at rest re
ports that he might have discussed
with Governor Lowdcn the possibility
of a Hooho veil Low ib'it national tick
et In 1920. He said:
"Tho times are too critical for us to
deal with anything except tho que-
holt-
from L. H. I ranklln. director of war I people."
loau organization of the treasury de
partment. Tho telegram was made
public yesterday.-Franklin's (clearum
was in answer to u query sent him
by Weeks regarding the truth of re
ports that two more loans were to fol
low the fourth loan during this flm-iil
year.
MURDERER OF SHERIFF
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MOTOR COUPS IS
FORMED AS UNIT
OF DEPARTMENT
SEATTLE EMPLOYES
SALKM, Or., Aug. 26. Dogs from
the state penitentiary were taken to
Mount Angel today by State Parole
Officer Keller to help In a seurch
for Hev. Father Othmayer, a priest
connected with Mount Angel college,
who has been lost since hu attended
the Grassy Hat road celebration a
week ago. The missing priest is 77
years old and wears a long white
beard. He Is supposed to have wan
dered Into tho mountains losing bis
way and, becoming exhausted, has
been unable to relurn to Mount Angel.
An aiive search has been made for
him, but thus far without finding a
trace o. the aged man.
yard, building
vessels.
1000-ton Hough type
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STEEL OPERATIVES OUT
HOP PICKING TIME
DALLAS, Or., Aug. 24 Hop picking
time has again arrived in Polk coun
ty and the harvest of the early Fug
gles began in the yards throughout
the county this week. Most of the
pickers are women and children, the
men folks being engaged in work
where more money is to be made. The
picking season proper for the big
yards will begin as soon as the Fug
gles are all gathered. But few yards
remain about Dallas, the most of
them having been plowed up the past
two years and now make ome of the
finest wheat fields in the state.
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DRAFT IDLE ACRES
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22.
A morement to draft every idle $
5 acre west of the Rocky Mountains
for food production was started 3
here today.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Aug. 27. The
plant of the raclflc Coast Steel com
pany here was closed today when
nearly the entire force of 1300 work
ers went on strike. Failure of the
company and the various unions of
its employes to reach an agreement
in negotiating for new working con
tracts caused the walkout, which fol
lowed an unsuccessful attempt of the
mediation service of the United
States department of labor to prevent
the trouble, as the plant has been
working almost entirely on war con
tracts. The wage demands of the men, ac
cording to officials of the steel com
pany, amount to 68 per cent above
their last year's pay.
The employes say they are only
asking for the same scale and condi
tions that apply in all other metal
trades industries here doing govern
ment work.
No conferences were held today but
it appeared probable that the case
wou. be submitted to the war labor
board, when Henry M. White, the
government's mediation, who was out
of town today, returned.
LODGE SUCCEEDS
TO LEADERSHIP
OF REPUBLICANS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts,
today was elected Republican leader
by Republican senators to succeed the
late Senator Galllnger of New Hamp
shire.
The conference electing Lodge was
attended by about 3.0 Republican sen
ators. They also passed a resolution
favoring the immediate passage of the
Susan B. Anthony nation-wide suf
frage amendment.
Half a dozen shots were fired and
nearly everyone of them struck the
patrol boat.
Apparently the merchant ship pro
ceeded on Its course, the officers be
lieving the encounter had been with
an enemy submarine.
A United States destroyer plying
near hurried to the scene when the
watch reported hearing the shots fir
ed by the merchant ship. The destroy
er arrived in time to pick up eight of
the survivors.
PARIS, Aug. 23. In special type
L'Heure prints prominently this
enigmatic note:
"Will the echo of the great Bertha
soon be heard? Will that echo have a
Yankee accent?"
The possibility of the construction
of monster cannon by the United
States government was intimated in
dispatches from Washington soon af
ter the first bombardment of Paris by
German guns situated eome 65 miles
from the city.
The foregoing dispatch from Paris
hints at the possibility of these new
American guns actually having been
received in France and that they may
be put into action within a short time,
AIRPLANE3 OVER PARIS
PARIS, Aug. 22. Several enemy
airplanes flew over the suburbs of
Parle -this morning at 9:45 o'clock
They were at a very great height but
were subjected to heavy fire from bat
teries and were pursued by defense
planes. They returned toward their
lines, going toward the north
SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 26. Follow
ing the breaking off of negotiations
last night between representatives of
the Pacific Coast Steel company here
and employes of the company engag
ed on contracts for the Emergency
Flet corporation, a strike was de
clared at 7 o'clock today. The em
ployes declared that more than 1000
workers went out. They demand pay
and working conditions similar to
those In effect In the shipyards.
General Manager S. L. Cllnger, of
the steel company, declared that 00
per cent of the employes were cov
ered by contract with the central la
bor council providing for 30 (lays' ne
gotiations and that the calling of a
strike at this time Is a violation of a
contract which was to ran until next
June.
S. L. lioddy, of the Metal Trades
.ouncll, representing the employes,
says the agreement with the company
expired last June 30 and negotiations
for a new wage scale have been con
tlnulng ever since.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. The Sep
tember call of selective servioe men
Is about to be issued by Provost
Marshal General Crowder and prob
ably will summon 300,000 to the colors,
it was learned this afternoon. It will
practically clean up Class 1 and will
also include a portion ot ell of the
available 21-year-old men, wh reg
istered on June 5. Practically every
state will contribute quotas to this
call. The men will probably e sent
to the cantonmento during the period
of September 8 to 6.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. Organisa
tion of a motor transport corps of the
war department, to take over nil motor
vehicles
and tractors of tho caterpillar typo,
1 was announced Monday. The new corps
will have a force of C000 oltlc.-rs and
200,000 men. Heretofore this has
been handled by the quartermaster's
department. Motor transport schools
have been established for tho train
ing of officers and men .
BRFAraiYPLANTS
IN WALLA WALLA
MAY BE UTILIZED
LITTLE HOCK. Ark., Aug. 14 -Outwardly
reconciled to his fate, Hen
G. CaiiKhron, L'U ycuroM tmxiiber of
the Working Class union was elec
trocuted In the state penitentiary Fri
day mornhg for the murder ot Charles
Klrklaiid, a deputy sheriff, shit was
with the exception of tanks '"hot to death last April In 11 raid on
' Caughron's home In Polk coaaty for
I dntf'. evuders.
! Caughron's father was sentenced to
( hing for killing Allen Htiiivy It Mont
gomery county but was pardott-d lat
er on the representation that Htaeey
had broken up his home.
More than a dozen former members
of tho Working Class union la Polk
county have been held to the United
States grand Jury for cnnsplraiy to
resist tho selective service aot since
Klrklnnd was killed.
!ER
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NEW YORK, Aug. 23. Sir Robert
L. Borden, premier ot Canada, arriv
ed here today after a 10 weeks' stay
in England and Francs, firm "In the
conviction," as he expressed It, that
"never was the spirit of the allied
nations more Bteadfast or more reso
lute than at present."
America's mighty effort in sending
'more than a million men to France
was the deciding factor In bringing
about Germany's defeat on the west
ern front, Sir Robert said.
"It Is beyond question that the vic
tories of the last four weeks would
not have been possible except tor the
American divisions which have taken
their place In the battle line," he
continued.
CEMENT PRICES FIXED
WASHINGTON, Am 27. Prices on
Portland cement in 29 cities as adopt
ed by the price-fixing committee, were
announced by the' war industries
board late this afternoon. They range
from $L57 a barrel at Bufflngton, Ind.,
up to $1.97 at Oswego, Or., and are
effective for the four months ending
December 31,
FLAG IS DESTROYED
NEW YORK, Aug. 26. A white flag
bearing in its center a red triangle
raised in an uptown street by Jewish
Red Cross workers resulted In sev
eral jhots being fired and the banner
destroyed in a bonfire.
Soldiers, sailors and civilians took
part In a fight when the military
men mistook the flag for the emblem
of tho Bolshevlkl. No one was Injured.
WALLA WALLA, Wash., Aug. 28.
Walla Walla's two brewery plants, one
making soft drinks and the other
standing Idle may be commandeered
for federal use us cold storage plants.
A telegram was received late Satur
day nlfiht ordering a survey of the
plants to determine their value as cold
storage plants. A general survey of
the Industrial resources of this sec
tion Is being made.
Ell
B! FEDERAL OFFICERS
I MAHSIIFIELI), Or., Aug. 25. Art
1 hur W. Jones of tho United States
I wage adjustment board of the Eleventh
j shipbuilding district, Is on Coos May
Investigating the wage scales In the
two shipyards. He promises that all
back pay which may be duo to men,
bocnuse of s difference In tho amount,
paid and the scale of tho government,
will be forthcoming. Jones said that
he found some misunderstandings
and adjustments to make, btit that the
shipbuilding companies showed a
I willingness to do whatever was right.
LONDON, Aug. 23. A large British Lator Jones will make another trip
N
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airplane carrying its crow and nlnoj
passengers has made the trip from
France to England, it Is announced!
here. The whole journey occupied lit
tile more than halt an hour. I
The test was made with on ordinary .
service airplane of the lurgest type. I
The passengers carried the normal
amount of baggage as if traveling by
train or boat.
from Portland, and will open offices
on Coos Hay for a time so ho can
personally hear any Individual' grievances.
HOOVER RETURNS FROM EUROPE
NEW YORK, Aug. 23. Herbert C.
Iloovor. United States food adminis
trator, returned today from his trip
abroad.
You'll find more tobacco sat
isfaction in the condensed
Real Gravely Chewing Plug
than in a thick piece of ordi
nary tobacco.
Peyton Brand
Real Gravely
Chewing Plug
10c a pouch and worth it
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Crawtyla$t$tomuchlonfr it cost!
no mor to chaw than ordinary plug
P. D. Grvly Tobacco Company
Damrill, Virginia