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DATLY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1917.
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That always please
Are these:
Christmas
Conroy
Cash
We wish you a good old
Yule-Tide greeting in the
good old fashioned way.
See you Wednesday
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AIUIKST 31 WOMKY
NKAR A IC3IY CAM I
Will He Intcrnofl at l.owton. Ok la.,
and rHt for hy the V. W. V. A.
CAMP DONIPHAN. Okla., Dec. 22.
Women who have frequented Ijiw
ton and associated with soldiers of
the 35th Division and those of Fort
8111 will be Interned in u detention
"camp" which is being prepared.
Thlrty-ono of them have been ar-
rcHted, ana as the city jail could not
hold all some are in the county Jail.
TO THE FINEST COMMUN
ITY ON EARTH WE EXPRESS
OUR SEASON'S GOOD WISH
ES FOR YOUR HEALTH,
COMFORT, HAPPINESS AND
PROSPERITY.
-Royal M. Savvtclle
CHRISTMAS 11)17.
The HALLMARK Store
riOODl.ES, CHOP SUEY, CHIfIA DISHES
GOEY'S
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JES
ALL
IN ONE
any make of records.
$30 TO $175
Also Complete Line of
Columbia Records
$1.00 down and terms to suit
! This step was taken on the udvfce of
Major General P. W'hitesett, Judge Ad
jvocate of the 31th Division, and Ma
jor V. S. Lawrence of the Marine
corps, attached to division head- ,
quarters.
A laiKO house in the city's suburbs
is being prepared to receive them, j
There a matron and social workers of
the V. W. A. will be in charge, but 1
'military police will guard the house j
constantly to muku sure no inmates '
, escape. I
KWONG HONG LOW
Weil All SI., UptUurl. Phon. 431
MONDAY,
MUlht Win Hi Stripe Tliero.
"I'm goifitf to one of these govern-
iiient training camPH and try for a
corpulency." hhIcI John Montgomery,
"The only government camp you're
I (iuallfied for la the one at McNeil a
iKlund, ' Bald hl friend, Itoland Ol-
lver.
Jta.WcI Transit,
Hoy Riahop, Red Cross campaign
; manager, got in such a hurry to
come down town from the woolen
mlllH which he Tuna that he forgot
all about speed ordinances Result:
pinched by Hilly Scheer and fined $10
by Judge Fita Gerald, Now Hoy
didn't figure that ten spot ought to
come out of liin personal account hut
he couldn't figure out under what
expense head he could book the Item
at the mill. "Ah. 1 have it." he said
at last. "I'll charge it to transpor
tation. "
Not A in In.
John Mill drew a pucka go In the
mail that came to the Golden Hule
Hotel. "Opened by mistake." he
tead aloud as he picked up the pack
oge. "Who Ik this Miss Take?" Mart
FergUHon asked, "one of the govern
ment censor?'
We DcHare a Tru for a Week,
This being Christ mas week we
have so much charity in our soul
that we will lay off of Kernel Wood
in this ls,sue and can even find it in
our heart to wish the old foswll a
merry Christinas and to express the
hope that Santa C'laus will pass up
his stockings and Instead fill the
empty void which Gd intended as a 1
house for his brain but which un
fortunately has been unoccupied
these many years.
I It Will Will lie ;okI to Ixxk At
; Sam-Thompson says he is obsessed
FIGURES GERMANS
3,130,000 ON
tiaoiu Tinn .t .'ar...... pninhul.
ant forces on all front.; art estlmat-
ed at 1.130.0DH by the military critic manner. Without counting recent
of Li Kcho de Paris. His estimate of levies made on the 77 German dlvl
the present total strength of the slons, there remain on th eastern
German armv is S.TioO.onn. Non- front l.non.noo Germans.
combatant units, which he says to
tal 2,370.0(10 men, are needed by
Germany for miardinjj the frontier,
occupying invaded territories and
maintaining the long lines of com
munication. "There are now exactly 13 4 divi
sions on the Anglo-French front," he
write. "Kurh division has only
three regiment n of infantry, to each
of which there are only two or three
battalions. These huttalions count
only upon a maximum effective of
650 combatants. Thus for the in-
iantry there are only a maximum of
.850 rifles to a division. If special
troous. artillerv. engineers. ceneral
staffs and other services are added
a German division possesses scarce
ly 12.000 men all told.
"The general total combatant
forces on the western front, in clod
ing army corrs and army organiza
tions, amount to about 2.000.000
men, a figure considerably lower
than that of the Franco-British Ar
mies. The 115 divisions, of which
are German, oppose l to the Russians the American playwright or ash
and Roumanians on the eastern front ' ington, who has been serving as a
have been reduced thus far only to volunteer ambulance driver on the
113.1. but ' each division has been French front, has just been awarded
greatly diminished by withdrawals of 1 a divisional citation.
FLYER WHO MADE ESCAPE FROM GERMANY
! m-"w fmmamu ll) ill Jg jjig.wiCT.ro ranawnwa
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iv YV ' Arr ft II
Lieutenant Patrick CV Prion. an
American member of the British
Royal Flying Corps, who was brought
down in a one-sided battle by the
Germans, and who had been takn
into Germain on his way to a prison
camp, jumped from the tmin, which
was Ktnng thirty nub-s an hour, and
by makiiiK heroic and
maneged to got back into Holland
satVly, and t hrii baack to Kngland.
Itltrt'lMI NTKAMKIl SI NK.
MIXIHW, IHt: !. Tlif nclinlrallv
llliiillmfil Hint I hi" Iti-llKli houiilhi
SlfNIIllCr Stl"tll4ll -iirinksM hum suh-
niiitiniH vllli ri'lii'rs mill . iiwii
lo-l.
IMXKMIlim 21.
'wllh the notion that his wife In going !
to buy liiin un xpi'HHive ornamental i
unh Ktund for C'ftritiiut ihut tie will
not be uble to afford the -lijarn with !
i which to teat it utility.
,
i Study the l-x untl Ik; ftiiinliu;.
; "I see that Lnio WcNubb ha start- '
ed a fox farm,'' Huld Hill.
"I always suld he was foxy,"
said i
Jim.
lUmny showed Niwed Anyway,
Karl Sawyer and Pete Johl have
gone and nipped genius in the hud,
, have spoiled an artiHt. Itenny Hick
man, well known colored porter at
the Recta, shop, prided himself upon
being one of the most accomplished
and daring thicken thieves in the
whole wide country. He boasted ol
his achievements in this sly art.
though declaring he had not practic
ed it for years. So loud became his
boasts that Sawyer and Pohl called
upon him for . showdown or a shut
up. Henny was willing and so they
planned it to go to a little ranch Just
east of the city w in-re Henny was to
raid the roost. The owner of this
ranch was a friend' of Sawyer and
Pohl and they tipped him off to the
plan. The three plotters drove out
the other ni:;ht in a Ford and stop
ped in the road alongside the ranch.
The white men staid with the car
and Henny. with an unerring nose,
went straight to the chicken roost
and wan just about to grab off a nice
frier when the door of the house
opened and a voice bellowed, '"What
In the blankety blank are you doinft
out there " Before Henny could
answer, "Hank, bnnK,'' roared a double-barreled
shot gun. Henny got
away to a good start and those I?. B.
shot never had a chance to catch
him. Out through the field he tore
a no up i lie rouu umaru i iv n. i v -
yer and Pohl cranked their Ford and ,'
declared it took the flivver two miles
with thethrottle clear open to over-
i tu ke Renny.
HAVE ONLY
ALL WAR FRONTS
itul I 'i (1 1 im I milts. The AuHtrians have
v.eak-ned their diisions in the same
"To Italy, Germany has sent in
suppurt of forty-five Austrian divi
sions only seven divisions, or about
1 no.ooo combatants. on the lial
kan front, held chiefly by the Bul
bars with '244 battalions, the Ger
mans have only 3n.000 fighting men,
but certain indications point, to rein
i orcein en ts having been sent thither
recently from the Russian front."
l.SOO.Oflfl IS ntKN'CH FNTIMATK
AISTK1AS FOHCK IV FIK1.I)
An estimate of Austria-Hungary's
army strength, given in a United
Press dispatch from French army
headquarters, places it at 1.200.000.
The total war strength of the dual
empire before the war was 3.600.000.
The strength o? the Anstro-Ger- i
man forces in Italy, according to of- j
ciaI dispatches from Rome to j
Washington, is 840,000 men.
AMFKIC'AX ATTHOH
CITKI FOR HHA VERY
PARIS. Dec. 22. Preston Gibson
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ftl.XGIE HANDED.
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iCHARD' ALLAfiBLOUbJT (
While fighting with the Foreign
rl I1
: Legion at Verdun. Richard Allan ! star of this noted beauty, actress and
i Rlount, son of It. E. Blount, of North ! dramatist who created the famous
Carolina, captured single handed 30 1 roles of Mary Turner and Kllen Neal.
; Germans. He was awarded th "The spreading Pawn" is a plctu
1 'roix de Guerre, with palm, for his 1 rization of a remarkable story by
heroic deed.
CANNERS HOARDING
GOODS, IS CHARGE
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Federal
Trade Commissioner I
Murdock Threatens to Pros-
ecute "Bloodsuckers."
WASHINGTON". Dec. 20. Kvl-!
i dence that certain canners of the j
j country have joined the "procession j
of food profiteers" was laid before
the federal trade commission today.
reports receivea hy the commission , marrie(i her soldier lover at the out-
Indicate that canned goods are being j break of the Civil War. In the midst
stored with some meat packers, who I or her happiness, her husband, back
are not in the canned goods business i on a furiough, meets with death under
and that these goods are'belng hoard- circumstances that apparently reVeal-ed-
red his faithless, and the proud girl.
We are discovering." said Com-: never relenting, lives on Into old age I
missioner Murdock, today, -that cer-l.i,h ,h firm rnnvirrtinn that love Is!
tain canners of this country are turn-
"K into a
t Of Unadlllaterated !
Mood suckers on the public. Their j
method of gouging out-Kaier's the
Kaiser himself in unprincipled break
ing of formal agreements. These
canners are not living up to their
contracts with the wholesalers and
jobbers and they are seizing upon
the present situation to soak the
trade. Where they have contracted
to furnish a wholesaler or jobber a
certain amount of canned goods
they are furnishing only a percent
age of the amount and telling the
trade that the remainder has had to
be turned over for government use.
However, they have bungled in over
looking or forgetting the fact that the
federal trade commission has on file
ccpies of all the contracts they made
with the wholesalers la.st spring.
"These practices on the part of th
ctnners are absolutely unjustifiable.
Every canner caught with the goods
will have to deal with me.''
Carrying out its determination tc
jreVeiit food waste by punishing pro- !
duce dealers w ho continue the prac
j tice of unjustifiably rejecting ship
ments of perishables. the federal
food administrator today ordered the
I firm of Lester Brothers. produce
) merchants, of Newport News, Va. to
j appear for a hearing. This company
is cnargea witn reiusing six carload
of potatoes, and a carload of onions,
from shippers in the middle west be
cause of a decline in prices.
Instructions will shortly be issued
by the food administration adding
to the wheatiess and meatless days a
pork less day a-s well. The consu m
er will be urged to use sugar on the
pasis of three pound
month.
per person per ;
"As a nation we eat and waste
SO ;
per cent more protein than we rc
otifiv to maintain health." the direc
tions declare. "Therefore.; we can
reduce the amount of meat we eat
without harm. We eat and waste 24 0
per cent more fat than is necessary "
Gl.KM AX ARMOR IS HIIlLKJ.
-i
Tests Slum 11 Will Nt Withstand
A uteri oa n Bullet s.
WITH TH K AMKRUWN ARMV IN
F 1 1 A NX' K. lXc 2 1 . T he tlcvm a n
Soldier's armor will not withstand
the hard hitting American bullet, it
has been show n.
A heavy breastplate removed from
a German prisoner for a test was lit
erally chewed to pieces by machine
gun fire after a rit'le bullet fired at,
a Rnul range had torn a hole in the
armor as bip as a silver dollar.
F.ven the bullets from an automat
ic pistol did the work it was expected
t hey would in this respect.
Coughs Worse at Night
i he simplest and qmckeit war to Ret
rid of a wearing, racking night cough,
tickling throat, bourse, wheezy breath
ing ii to take
Foley's Honey and Tar.
In it, you get the curative influence of
the pine tar and other healing ingredi
ents, together with the mollitying and
laxative action of honey.
Editor C. T. Miller. Cannrlton Ind. (En
quirer: writes : "1 a iroubird with bron
chial affection andconshrit cnnatantly duv and
n't H. 1 uok Foley's Monev nJ 1 r nd nt re
lief It it tfreat tttr bronchi! rold and cough.
ll Ir-prf and bronciiul fttiah, . rrxip, hoar
near, ncLIiua throat, are all quickly relieved.
TAI.IAI N A t o.
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MOTION PICTURE NEWS
What the Picture Theaters
Have to Tell You.
Coxy Sunday and Monday
"The Lady of the Photograph, an
Kdlnond five reel feature releane
through Klelne-F.dIon-Sellg-Esanay.
h a red-blooded romance revolving
around an American heiress. tf
abound with entertainment from
etart to flnlnh.
Hhlplnv Uawn WllKOn'M nptite ataT.
Is featured In the feminine lead and
intemretH dellrhtfullv the character ,
of Marjorle Van Dam. Raymond I
McKee, in the leading macculine role, j
portrays the mannerlsma and effecta-
tlons of Count 8oho wllh nuch ec- 1
curacy and precision that one would j
almost believe he In the descendant '
of a peer. An all-star supporting cat .
assists considerably to make this pic- ;
ture an offering of rare slgnlfiance. .;
This feature will be exhibited Sun- ;
day and Monday at the Cosy Theatre
STAIt FINDS l"KRFKT FIT
IX 'SFILEAIING DAWN" KOI.E
Jane Cowl, the heroine of "Within
the Law" and "Common Clay,'' and I
'one of the foremost of American dra-
ma tic astresses, comes to the Alta !
Thentr Sundav and Monday as the
i star of the Goldwin production of
..Th yrjreiwjing Dawn." This is the
I first creen appearance as a Goldwin
Basil Kink, which when la was pub
lished In the Saturday Evening PoJt
attracted country-wide attention.
Georgina "Vanderpyl wishes to
marry her soldier lover before he '
leaves for France and is prevented f
from doing so by her aged aunt who I
dominates the family and is a dls- j
believer In live. Challenged as to .
her right to disavow the existence 01
love the aunt reveals to her niece
the story ot her own romance In years
before.
Thrniiirh h.r diarv she relates how
! u..t,.ii, raa. 'anrin-nvi itan.
Cowi , belle of N-ew York society.
a mockery. There Is a letter which
Rhrt hurl novor nnpnorl nH r.fnri'lnna '
insists that it should be read. It 1st
the last word from Patricia's dead
husband and reveals the truth about
his death. Convinced that she had
misjudged him. the aged Patricia
sanctions the marriage of her niece
and then goes to meet Anthony in
The Spreading Dawn.
I" as time Sunday-Monday The Nar
row Trail.
Ice Harding William S. Hart j
Betty Werdin Sylvia Bremerj
"Admiral" Bates ....... Milton Rosa ;
"Moodse" Holloran Robert Kortman
The King Fritz
THE STORY.
Never on the screen, stage or can
vas has there been recorded a west
ern character of such powerful ap- j
peal as the portrait of Ice Harding,
a typical "bsd man" of the plains,
painted by William S. Hart in his
newest photoplay. "The Narrow
Trail." Popular "Bill" Hart has pre-
sented many stirring portrayals de
picting famous types of the great !
west In its palmv days, but in his j
latest picture he easily outshines j
even his own splendid pieturizations j
of the past which have resulted in j
making hirrt one of the very foremost i
actors in the hearts of the motion
picture public. I
BAKKIt TKAMCTKK KIXJLHI.
I
Lumber Load I'psrtN When Wheels j
of Wagon Slip on Snow.
BAKER. Or.. Dec. 2 4. rtlle I
Smith, a teamster. was Instantly
killed today when a load of lumber ,
ho was driving slid off and crushed
Ms life out. Mr. Smith was driving
the load along a road on the side of
Oooley mountain. about 20 miles
from Raker, and snow in the road ;
caused the wheels to slip, overturn- ,
ing the lumber which fell on him. ;
The coroner was notified and the
body wa.s brought to Baker.
Mr. Smith, who lived near the 1
point where the accident occurred. v
was 4 0 years old. and Is survived by j
his widow, but had no child ren.
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