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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1918)
TON:: EADER WES VOLUME 41 ' OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENEM INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Reader. The l.ane rouittr er board remmendrd thai the county mmim pur chase sld srme for 75 U-puty sheriffs. rtrurtlii of Ihr. John'ii miiiIU I Coiilll by flm threw 40 nun out ef employment nnd ru-l a l of HMflO. Knur iMTlmin tier hl' h were burn ing near ih Klamath national fnrel hare been extinguished and two otbere are under control, Hairs of white flour may tw resumed br Oregon deelere beginning Friday, July I, under permtnelon granted by the food edmlaletratlon. ('. R. Klrkard wa bnt nd Instant ly killed by hla divorced wife on the KU sards raneh, aaat of Tb Dallee. Mrs. Rlrbarde used ft rifle. Oregon raaka fourth among tba etstes In the percentage of pbyelelane furnished to tba medical reeerve corpa of tba United Btatrt army and navy. A censue of North Band completed recently by a directory eonoarn abowa an Increeee In tba population of mora than 1600 durlm tba laat two years. Designated sprue esmps under gov ernmeni supervision ara to work 10 houra day during July to meet an rmrrgem-y need for alrplana meierlale. Tha Aaiorla achool board received a letter from tba capital leaure com mlttat of Waablnfton dacllnlng to author Ha tba proposed 8128.000 laaua of achool dlatrlct bonds for new arbool buildings. Tha cranberry msrsbee In tha vicin ity of Aatorla ara now In full bloom. Oldtlwa cranberry growers admit that they hsvs never seen anythlnc Ilka the bloom on tha marshes that la seen Ihla year. Tha eleventh annual contention of tha Oregon Chiropractic association III ba held Tburaday. rrlday and Saturday. July 4. C and C. at Portland, with delegates present from all sec tlona of tba atata. All men In attendance at tha summer arbool of tha University of Oregon will ba required to taka part In a track mmt to ba bald on Klncald field on i ha afternoon of July 4. Tha conleat III bo between companlea. Tha little village of Harbor which neatlad on tha aoutb aide of tba Cbetco rlrer la Curry county, la reported to hare bean practically wiped out by a fire which etarted In tha C. 0. log glng camp Id tba neighborhood. Approximately 200. or 10 per cent of the 3000 eelected men aent to Camp Lewis from Oregon under tha laat call ara being turned back by tba exemln era aa "rejects." Tba percentage baa rlaen so btgb that draft leaden are In dlamay. State Fuel Admlnlatrator Fred J. Molmea baa announced that tba govern ment will not curtail auppllca of fuel oil to ateamera and rallroada of tba nortbweat. About ons-bslf of tba oil conaumed In Oregon la aald to go to theaa two claaeea of uaera. The flret completed Initiative peti tion providing for repeal of lawa of the laat teglalatura fixing compensa tion for publication of legal notlcea and requiring advertisement of delin quent taxea In newapapera were filed with tho aecretary of atate. The Lebanon Canning company baa juat completed ft 13000 addition to tha plant In Lebanon and bava added about f 5000 In new machinery and equipment which will about double tha capacity of the plant for handling fruit and vegetablea for canning purpoaea. A return to tha manufacture and uaa of victory bread, with 25 per cent sub etttuie and 75 per cent wheat flour, on the part of bakera and hotel and res taurant men of the atate for the sum mer la authorised In notifications aeut from tha atata food admlnlatratlon. Tba atata highway commission baa received notice from the government that it baa approved the project for grading alx miles of tha highway be tween Union and Telocaaet, on the old Oregon Trail. Thla la poet road project. The estimated coat la 130,000. rrohlbltlonlata of Oregon, asaembled In convention at Portland Saturday, with J. P. Newell aa chairman and Mra. Adsh Wallace Unruh aa aecre tary, Indoraed the candidacy of Oawald West for United Statea aenator and Oeorge M. Brown for attorney general. Representative 8lnnott haa Intro duoed a bill authorlilng cltliena of Malheur county to go over Into Idaho to cyt Umbw ft "4 " " uji-arnw nnvnnta. PRinAY. .WIJY G. 1918 NUMBER 5 ( Under tiie preaent law aettiar living In lie,' b nir rn not rut limber for do nii'niir iikc "ii (mi Mir lands of another elate. To provide for the welfare of the men employed la the production of eprure for airplanes In the logging rami and sawmills of western Ore roii and Washington, the war ramp nnununlty ervlre aertlon of the Foe illrk ronnuleelnn la planning an ener rlr campaign la co-operation with the alaff of Colonel lltlre P. Plaque, roinntnndlng the Portland hesdquer Irra of the United States elgnal corpa. Further reduction In atorka of Wet Co..! lumber mills by 13.IU.I0I feet la reported In the bulletin of the West I nail juw-latlon. The exreee of ship-m-nta over production during the peet five week assregate 53.571.327 feet and has served to make a big hole la surplus etorke. Further Increase of etreet railway fera In Portland, to 7 or I cent, may be forecast by eo agreement reached by the Portland Railway. Light Pow er rompanr. and Ha employee, to aub mil the teaue of Increased wage, de manded by the carmen, to the national war lebor board. It Stannard, of Curry county, waa given the democratic nomination for representative from Cooe and Curry, and It. J. Moore, of Newberg. the demo cratic nomination for repreeentallve from Tillamook and Tambtll counties. In drawing held by Secretary oicott to break Ilea between the men. The Oregon public service commission wired Senator McNary asking him to urge that rcpreeenutlve of the atata commlaalon ba placed on the local freight traffic commission. A ablpper, l u aaeertad. would only represent one locality while a commissioner would represent aa entire atate. The lane county court will at once place, on tbe principal hlgbwaya of tba county, signs warning tourists and others that they will be proeecuted If they exceed the speed limit of 35 mllea an hour with automobile. It la deter mined by tbe court to prevent wear of tba roada through excessive apeedlog If It la possible to curb tba speed flenda. Out of a total of 6 accident report ed to tbe atata Industrial accident com mlaalon for tbe week ending June 37, aeven were fatal aa followa: A. Weleen field. Aatorla. shipbuilding: T. J. Baty. Portland, shipbuilding; Joba F. Casey. Takllma. mining; If. W. Rea. Portland, shipbuilding; Oscar Cornellua. Brigh ton, lumbering; Vaney Cooper, Boring, lumbering. Captain II. E- Wllllama, Lieutenant J. W. Knocker and 43 membera of tba Oregon atata military police are In Pendleton. Tba entire company will remain for about two weeke, under going course of Intensive training to prepare them for duty when tbe need cornea. They will be assigned to posta aa patrola la tba wheat country during tbe harvest and beullug season. Tbe aale of 100.000.000 feet of timber on the Klamath reaervatlon of the Pelican Bay Lumber company baa Just been approved by the government Tha price paid waa 33.35 per 1000 feet Tbla timber Ilea la tba northern Mount Scott unit, and la directly adjacent to tbe 300.000.000 feet of timber In the Crater lake and Paulina national foreeta. bought two yeara ago by thla aame company. J. P. Logan, who baa operated tha Klnga Valley Flouring mill on Luckia muta river In Benton county for 80 yeara, and who more than half a cen tury ago built dams to furnlab water power for the mill, haa Instituted In junction proceedings agalnat tha Cbarlea K. 8pauldlng Logging com pany, of 8alem, and the public aervlce commlaalon. which will teat the con atltutlonallty of tha boom franchlae law passed by tha laat legislature. A price of $3.30 a buahel at Portland for wheat of tha 1(18 crop, aa against $3.05 for tbe crop of 1817, haa been fixed by tbe food admlnlatratlon. Al lowing for the 38 per cent Increase la the freight rate on wheat from tha interior to Portland, the farmera will at 111 receive about 12 H centa ft bushel more for their wheat than they did In tbe paat aeaaon. 'The new crop will ba at leaat 10.000.000 buahela larger than that of 1817, and the added wealth that will go to the grain producera will b about 325,000,000 over what they re ceived laat year. By eating, more perlshablea hera at home wa may aave others from per ishing "Over There." Tha farm aa well aa tha front needa men who aee straight and shoot atratght , Waj- la OUR BUSINESS; wa co1 via ty carrylai It u aid Una. i i GENERAL LIGGETT LIEUT. CAMPBELL M lli ill M II 'I 114 II A no. rk Oaneral MunUe Liggett, reported commander of the new American fight ing unit of two army corpa recently formed In Franea. RECORD ARMY BILL PASSEOJY SENATE Washington, Carrying approprta tlona of mora than twelve billion dol lars for tha prosecution of tba war and conferring authority on tha prealdent to ralao aa large an army aa may ba necessary to Inaura final victory, tha aeaate Saturday pasaed tbe army ap propriate bill. There waa not aa opposing vote. Doiena of amendments, aoma ef large Importance, but moet of them of a minor character, were aougbt to be added to tha bill during tba last day of Ita conelderatlon and moat of them were accepted without objectlone. Others were rejected by vote and aome were thrown out on polnta of order. Tbe numeroua amendmenta to tbe bill aa It came from tba house makea It necessary for It to go to conference. An Important amendment added to the bill authorlica the prealdent to raise a Russian legion In the United Statea to be composed of friendly altena of that nationality. Another amendment authorlica the training In thla country of soldiers of other countrlea. particularly of Cen tral and South America, and the war department la authorlxed to equip the men for aervlce overeeas, Thla la regarded aa paving tha way for active participation In tba war by tha aoutb em republlca. INCREASE IN HOURS VET0E0 Prealdent Kills Attempt to Make Gov ernment Clerka Work Longer. Washington. Preeldent Wilson ve toed tbe legislative, executive and Ju dicial appropriation hill, on account of a provision Increasing the houra of work for government clerka from eeven to eight houra per day. In hla veto message, the prealdent aald alnce, at tbe outaet of the war he had called upon all employee to aee that there waa no change la condi tions unfavorable to laborers, he did not feel Justified In aaaentlng to a measure In whtch tne United Statea Itself makea auch a change. Wllaon Aaka For Control ef Telegraph. Washington. Government control and operation of the nation's telegraph and telephone ayatema waa recom mended to congress by Prealdent Wll aon. In tha face of aa Impending strike of union operators employed by the Western Union company, an effort will be made to put through before the recesa of congress thla week pend ing legislation empowering the preal dent to taka over the systems. Eugene V. Debs Arrested. Clevolend. Ohio. Eugene V. Debs, four times socialist csndldate for the prealdency of the United States, wss arrested here by a United States msr shst as he wss about to deliver a apeech. The arrest waa made on a warrant in connection with his speech at the socialist state convention In Canton, O.. June 18 last Senatt strong For 32.50 Wheat Waahington. The senate by an overwhelming majority refused to yield to house opposition "to an In crease In the government' minimum fuaraatse for whst t 3J0 a buibai rv Lieutenant Douglas Campbell, of California, the flret American trained aviator to ba badly wounded In battle In France. YANKEES ADVANCE AND TAKE PRISONERS With the American Forces on the Marne Front In a brilliant operation after hard fighting. American troopa on thla front captured the village of Vaux. together with a large alice of tbe Parts highway west of Chateau Thierry, and two palcbea of wooded land. Tbe village of Vaux. tbe height to the weat of the village, two patcbea of wooded land, a large allce of the Parte highway weat of Chateau Thierry and other ground gained by the vlctorloua Americana haa been retained. The total number of priaonera cap tured by the Americana la now estim ated to be about 500, of whom aeven are offlcere. Many groups of prison ers already have been aent to the rear and others have been located in boa pltala where they were removed after being wounded. The Americana have captured many machine guna and other equipment An entire German regiment baa been virtually annihilated in the fight ing west or Hill 204. sccording to of ficial Information. BRIEF NEWS OF THE WAR Americans took 40 prisoners In sur prise raids northwest of Monldldle. Between 80.000 snd 60.000 Austriaris were killed in the battle of tbe Plave. according to an official dispatch from Rome. The Hungarian premier In a elate ment ssld casualties on the Italian front In recent battlea totalled about 112.000 men. During last week American actlvl tiea In Franca have been local In char acter. but official reports show that the Americana at all ttmea and places have more than held their own. Forty-nine German airplanes were brought down by British and French airplane squadrons in one dsy Isst week, according to the official an nouncementa of the respective wsr offices. Attacking the Austro-Hungarian lines on the Aslago plateau, the Ital iana have taken Monte Dl Valbella. captured more than 800 prisoners snd hsve held It against repeated counter attacks. Repulse of violent German attacka west of Sotssons and southwest of Rhetms; successful British, French and American ralda and considerable artillery activity In varioua aectora, waa reported In the British and French official statements. Over Million Amerloana New Oversea! Waahington. American, troopa sent oversees numbered 1.019,155 on July 1. This waa made known by President Wllaon, who made public a letter from Secretary Baker disclosing a record of achievement which the prealdent aald "must csuse universal aattstac Uon." Senator Tillman Oead. Washington. United Statea Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, veteran of 24 yeara' aervlce In congresa and chair man of the aenate naVal affairs com mittee, died at his home here as the result of a cerebral hemorrhage suf fsred lsst Thursday. Uruguay Makea July 4 Holiday. Montevideo, Uruguay Uruguay has made July 4 ft permanent national lelttty ta ao&er at t&a TJaltftS States. NEW WHEAT PRICES OUT Minimum Price ef 82 le Fixed fee Number One Product New York. New wbeet prices, ne cessitated by advanced freight rates, were announced bere by the food ad ministration grain corporation. It was asserted tbst a minimum price of $2 a bushel for No. 1 wheat aboard ears In tbe letermountaln territory will be made effective. Tbe corporations announcement said that No. 1 wheat of tbe northern eprlng, hard winter, red winter, durum and red winter grades would be sold in various markets at the following basic prices: New York. $Z.J 14; Philadelphia, $2.39; Baltimore and Newport News, 32.38H; Duluth and Minneapolis. 32.21 H; Chicago, 32-28; St Louie. 32.24; Kansaa City and Galveston, 32.28; Tacoma. Seattle. Portland, As toria, Or.. Ban Francisco and Loo Angeles, 32.2r. Tbe price baala for No. 1 wheat will be 3 cents below No. 1 and for No. 3 4 cents below No. J. Grades below No. 3 will be dealt la on aample. Special claaaee of wheat the com mission said, will be sold oa the fol lowing schedule: Dark hard winter, I centa above hard winter; dark northern spring. 2 cants above northern spring; amber durum. 3 cents above durum; yellow hard winter. 2 cents under herd win ter; red spring, 8 cents under northern spring; red Walla, 7 cents under red winter; red durum, 7 cents under durum; soft white, 2 cents tisder hard white; white club, 4 cents under bard white. Perishables Not Mailable to Troops. Wsabingtoa. No. more perishable goods, auch as fruit and foods, will be accepted at postofflces tor mailing to troopa because almost alwaya they cannot be delivered la edible condi tion. Grades on wheat and rules covering corn grading are amended In a few particulars In a new order Issued by the public aervlce commission cover ing tbe grain inspection departmeuU The new order will become effective July 18. The principal change relative to wheat grades covers hard red spring wheat which under the present rules Is subdivided into tour classes, but under the new rblea will be divided Into but three classes, these being dark northern aprlng, northern eprlng and red spring, tbe red eprlng humpback grade now In use being eliminated. There accrued to the state of Oregon on Mondsy 3236.062.11 from the United States good roads fund, making a total of 3473,124.13 to tbe credit of the state from that fund. None of It haa yet been used, but projects have been ap proved calling for an eatlmated total of 3436,983.80. Theae projects will not be affected by the recent announce ment of the United States highways council discouraging new highway un dertakings, as the projects approved are deemed to be "vitally Important towsrd the winning of the war or for the movement of essential commodi ties." The federal aid road act pro vided a fund of $78,687.37 for the state of Oregon la 1918, double that amount for 1917 and treble the amount for 1918. Seven projects have been ap proved In Oregon. In five of these federal participation la to be 50 per cent while In the other two federal participation is for a stated amount something less then SO per cent. The projects cover a total of 111 mllea. THE MARKETS Portland. Oats No. 2 white teed. 359 ton. Barley Standard feed, $50 per ton. Corn Whole, $73;. cracked. $74. Hay Timothy. $3233 per ton; al falfa. $24.60. Butter Creamer, 44c per lb. Eggs Ranch, 37c per doxen. Potatoes $1.251.60 per hundred. Poultrjr Hens. 27c; broilers. 30 82c. Ssattle. Butter Creamery, 48c per lb. Egga Ranch, 47c per dozen. Poultry Hens, heavy, dressed, 35c; light 33c; broilers, 42c; roasters, dressed. 28c; ducks, live 30c, dressed 34c; goese, live 27c. dressed Sic. "We stand behird our boya in France and we will not call It a sacri fice but a privilege to do our bit to ward feeding them Over There." Emma V. MilUkea. conaerve. reserve sud preserve all of thM- tm tru;u and TegetaWea thtt u now a your reach; you vai nsid tbaa the cealag winter. AUSTRIAHS RG'ED in itauaii mm t. Monte Di Valbella Captured ly Allied Forces and Many Priaonera Taken. - Rome. Italiaa forces supported by allied troops attacked Aastre-flua-gariaa poeiUone oa tbe Italiaa moea taln front and captured Monte Dt Val bella after a bitter etraggle. Tee Italiaa war office announce that score than 800 Aastro-Hangariaas were ta ken prisoner. Strong enemy counter attacka were repulsed by tbe fire ef tbe Italian In fantry, artillery and macblae gun. Tbe text of the official etetcmeat reeds: Aa Auatriaa attempt to resume tbe offensive hss been smashed by Italiaa troops, who Inflicted a crushing defect on tbe enemy la the vicinity of Moote dl Val Bella, the Italiana eaptariag more than 2000 priaonera. Twe ter rific attacks were made by the enemy. Both were repulsed with enormous losses to the Aoatriaaa ta killed la addition to the prisoners takes. Tho Italians la a brilliant attack sa Cot Del Rosso carried that formidable Austrian atronghold. Inflicting seere losses, and also were saccesafot fa surprise attacks on the left eide ef tbe Plave la the Montello satleet Several enemy poet were carried sad numerous prisoners, machine guss and other war.materlal were taken. ALLIES ADVANCE ': ATJWO POINTS Parts. Southwest of Solssose French troops la an attack ever ft front of four and a halt mile tress the south of Ambieny to the east ef Montgobert captured Germaa poettleas snd at some points advanced thetr line to a depth ef a mile aad a quarter, says tha French official communica tion. French troops slao carried out aa operation on the front southeast ef Amiens by means of which their tinea were advanced In Seaecat Wood aad the Avre Wood, the war office ea aounced. With the British army ia Fraae. Field Marshal voa Hiadenberg'e troops) east of the forest of Nieppe get ft nasty and unexpected knock, whea taw British drove forward la a surprise attack along a front of more than three miles and hurled the startled gray-coated soldier back to aa aver age depth of 1500 yards. The offensive was at a point where the enemy thrust waa hardest la the Flandera battle la aa effort to cap ture the forest, which would have opened his way to Hasebroaek, the capture of which would have entailed the British retirement from Ypres. TOTAL U. S. EXPENSES BIS America Spending About $5000,eOd Each Day to Carry en the War. Washington. The government Sat urday closed Its books tor the fiscal year the first full fiscal year la the war. In the government financial history the year will go down aa a period ef expense hardly dreamed of a decade ago. More than $12,600,000,000 le the actual outlay since July 3. 1917, to meet the multitude of big bills inci dent to the conduct of the war. : la peace timea the government spent less than $1,000,000,000 annually. With the addition of the $1.200,00.' 000 which the government epcat la the three months of wftr preceding thla fiscal year, the wart eeet" la money to date has been $13,300,000, 000. War activities now drain about $80, 000,000 a day from the nation's public treasury. Germans Sink Canadian Hoepltal Ship. London. A Germaa submarine 78 mllea from the Irish coaat on the nlgtt of June 27 torpedoed the ll.OOO-toa, hoepltal ahlp Llandovery Castle, char tered by tho Canadian government and in the aervlce of carrying weuad ed and alck from England to Canada. The ahlp waa then oa her wcy to Xngland. She had oa board 288 fees sons. 80 giaa ei tha Cadiaa anew medical eorpa aed 14 women girreea. Only 34. Including the csjrtain, are repdrbf&fgred. The attack wag at wftigdsf 9mm ' i