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GRANTS PASS DAILY COVIUER Till ItSll.W, JAM AKV 1(1, IIJIII- MS PASS OIK COURIER ' Published Dally Except Sunday JOHN JACOB ROGERS SOLDIER LETTERS ONE ONLY AGE TWO i A. B. VOORHIE3. Pub. and Propr. .Entered at postofflce. OranU Pass, j Or., M second class mall matter. ADVERTISING RATES Display space, per inch..... ...15c Local-personal column, per Une..lOc Readers, per line 8 DAILY COURIER By mall or carrier, per year....l6.00 .By mall or carrier, per month .60 WEEKLY COURIER . By mall, per year - .13.00 'MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ! The Associated Press is exclusively .'entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It , or ail otherwise credited in this ' paper and also the local news pub- llshed herein. All rights ot republication of spe cial dispatches reserved. herein are also THVRSDAY, J AX VARY 16, 1819. ' OREGON WEATHER AND IT IS THE REST KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY QUALITY FIRST out, but leaves the matter tor con gress to solve. There are those who live in glass houses. TELLS OF WORK OF 91ST DIV. - Rain, f winds. Btrong southeasterly " JOHN LIARD, CRIMINAL John Cyril Liard shot. Deputy 8herit Twombley to death when that vigilant officer threw up his nand and commanded Liard to stop tor violation ot the speeding law. It 'was an act ot diabolical villany and so plea can be made tor Liard that H was due to any sudden .impulse, Liard had Just robbed the gatetender t the interstate bridge and he was trying to escape and he was armed hell fire and gassing. to resist any interference with his "plan. It was the misfortune of Twombley that he did not know that he was accosting a highwayman, It was in Flanders, fighting on Oc tober 31, that Lieutenant Burgard was wounded. A high explosive shell burst but a tew feet away as he was advancing in command ot his company. Fragments struck him in the back, injuring the ver tebrae and knocking him senseless. A tew minutes later, as he struggled to arise lifting himself on. his hands another shell landed squarely before him, inflicting a wound Just over his heart. "There was real coraradshlp -between the British and American troops, officers and men," testified Lieutenant Burgard. "Often you'd see an American soldter sharing his an English Tommy, while the latter was dividing his ration ot toffee. Candy and tobacco. It was share and share alike, each Riving freely that which the other lacked. As tor the English people, Ihey put themselves out to welcome and care for us. high and low; It made no difference. When you hear anyone say that the, The following story of the 91st di vision is told in the Oregonlan by Lieutenant John Clark Burgard. for merly a member ot the 91st and a "Those boys of the 91st? Are they "J" tob"co ,th, fighters?" Lieutenant John Clark Burgard, late of Company H, 362 Infantry, just home from France after fight ing through the Argonne and Flan ders with the famous division, laugh ed as he repeated the query. j "The only difficulty we had with them," he made answer, "was In holding them back. They plunged ahead too fast. They wouldn't keep under cover. They had seen their buddies' fall and they wanted a hand to hand argument with the Germans." "We were in the Argonne ten days before the drive started," recited Lieutenant Burgard last night. "All that time we were subjected to heavy The order to go into action came on September 26th. "You see, the French had been 'holding the Hun in that Argonne ; district for tour years. It was a 30 Grosvonor Gardens, London, S. W., Docotnbor 2. 19 IS. Dear Mother: 1 received 14 letters within the last work. I wish I could do that good every week. Throe of the let ters wero from Aurolla and four from Thelma. I got more mall from them thau I do from my mother. But ot course you are working hard so I can fore,. vc you. I hope you enjoyed your Thanks glvlng as much as I enjoyed, mine. I shall give you the events ot the day in chronologlcul order. At 9:30 a. m. I arose, shaved and dressed. This was rather-t-arly as I usually get up at 2 or 3 p. m. But owing to the scarcity ot Thanksgiving days I mndo an exceptionally early evacuation of my bed. It was com pulsory tor all ot us to attend church on this day, so at 10:15 we fell In In front of headquarters to answer roll call. After the captain was con vinced that we were all present or accounted tor, he dismissed the com pany and ordered us to our respec tive churches. I, being Cuthollc. went to the Westminister Cathedral, where our navy chaplain was hold ing divine services. Most of the boys attended this church because It Was near headquarters. I thanked the good Lord tor giving me what was good and delivering me from evil. Then a bunch ot us marines got Into a car and went to the Albert Hall where we wero entertained and fed as the guests of the British ad miralty. The food and ale was nothing to cause our mouths to water but the port wine wos excep tionally good. We loft the Albert Hall about 2:30 p. m. when the port wine made llscir conspicuous by Its absence. At a llttlo after 2:30 we arrived at the There Is no need nt present nud for some time to cuino for any re turned soldier to go without work In Jackson county for, arcordlug to Milton Janes, superintendent ot the federal employment tiervlce liure, al though he may not bo able to give them just the class of work they wont, yet he can furnish t lie in work. Last week he found Jobs In orchards and on farms for ten soldiers, and yesterday two uioro aoldluis, one from Jacksonville and ono from Texas ohtalnod Jpbs through Janes st 12.50 a day and went to work on the Webster ranch. "The trouble Is that a number of soldiers want work In town and that I cannot give," said Janes today. "A few have romo Into this office and stated that thoy needed work badly, and when I directed thorn to an or chard or farm where they could have employment, they turned the offor down, saying they wanted work In the city. One man turned down a tempor ary job In town here at 35 cents an hour. I can find Jobs for a number of soldiers outside of the city for some time to come." Medford Trib une. that It's a lie.' RADICALS AND 1. W. W. TAKE BIT IN THEIR TEETn English and the Americans didn't get along together, tell them tor me fofd the first American game of football was played between the navy headquar ters and the IT. 8. S, New York, champion ot the grand fleet. Owlnn to the usual dampness of London weather only a half a game wbh played with a tie score of 0 to o. At 5 o'clock I wont to my room and dolled up in my best uniform and made myself presentable lor the strenuous evening-1 saw ahead of me. At S o'clock I arrived ni ssian- Chlcago, Jan. 16. Socialists and members of the I. W. W.. after de feat In the organization of the Na tional Labor Congress, called to adopt a program for obtaining a new trial for Thomas J. Mooney and War ren Billings, made a determined at- ra"' ' I PORTLAND POIJCK RAID DIG GAMBLING DKN County Jail headquarters shortly after last midnight looked tike the melting pot usually semi around nn immigration office. Fifty-four men, representing seven different nations, assembled before the dosk, where they had been hauled by ten deputy sheriffs who hud surprised them at a vigorous gambling game In the Commonwealth building. Sixth and Burnslde streets. Austrlans, Swedes, Americans, Hindoos, Italians, Poles, and Finns signed their names to the sheriff's blotter. The largest cash amount of ball that has passed over the sheriff's counter in years was given by the lenders of the "black jack" game. Charles Craig and Harry Tregaskls gave $2,500 for the rolease ot the 54 men. Portland Telegram. Representative John Jacob Rogers of Mfsraehusctts ashsd his local draft board to have him called Into service, sod left Washington for Camp Zschary Tiyior nt s prlvato. His wife Is nursv inu v ounded soldiers In Walter Rt4 hospital. Proper Locomotive Signals. i Experiment conducted by the Southern I'uclflo railroad to And the) most cltlcleiit mean of hm.dllrig the) locomotive whistle show the averager motorist or pedestrluu Is familiar with the slumlord crossing slguul two long and tw.i short blasts and that, un less the signal Is given just so, be la apt to dispute priority right to a cross ing. Hupcrll.tcnricut T, Ahem, In a letter to cnglncera, suys: "nxtenslvsj tests show that a whlstlo rail for station lf:iinl should never be loss) than flvo seconds, tho long blasts of the creasing signal, two au'l a hatf seconds, and the short ones, one sec ond. Particular enru should be ex erclsed to cut off the blasts ahnrply and cot to slur tlteui. It la of the ut most lmportunce In causing sound Xm travel that theso Instructions be car rtod out." for he might then have taken pre-:tough proposition. All the open caution against whatever might hap- Pe "ere woven into devils' nests or. oarDea wire. ine uui; yiatr pen. It is no excuse at all for Liard that he supposed Twombley was af ter him tor the former crime. where troops could advance was through the thick wood. And the woods were the cloak for hundreds we weat In. "We drove so fast in that first rush that in a few days we got ahead ot our own artillery and had to slow up and wait for the guns. The artil- lerv support was wonderful. I do Liard obeyed the controlling in-lof German machine gun nests. Well, stlnct of his lawless and desperate nature when he killed Twombley. He la a murderer without scruple, a des perado who lives by excitement and an adventurer who matches his wits aealnst the law-abiding that he may . not believe that in any sector any - tt. Vhere during the entire war there sjex unearned mouey. no is muic - was greater concentration ot artil He Is a betrayer of women in a'lert double sense. He sought, In thej ..0un casualties from the very most deliberate and heartless fash-'first were heavy. It was guerilla Ion, to fasten the crime of which he, I warfare, mostly a stiff and contlnu- nd he alone, was guilty, upon the,oua Proposition of surrounding ana 'wiping out the machine gun nests. And the Germans fought to a finish. chance companion of his gayer hours. He has not one spark of Tney nad tDelr oraer8. -when the kindness or gratitude, or truth, in boys had them surrounded, however, bis nature. His wickedness Is com- it was the usual thing tor the enemy plete. He is entitled to no pity elth-l to throw up their hands and yell er from sentimental women or soft hearted men. 'Kamerad!' "At such times it was difficult to restrain the men. They had seen Liard eannot be hanged as be 'their 'buddies' drop and they wanted tempt to capture control or me Doa7 nope Garden where three of my later in the day. I l8 had apartments. Fifteen mln- With. the galleries packed 'thute, later 15 petty officers and my- radlcals they did abont as they Bei were piaCed around a table set pleased at the afternoon session un-Wtn foodstuff that could not have til the proceedings were ended by Deen bought in London at any price, adjournment. The conservatives jjiost of the material came from Am- were compelled to change their plans er)ca Enclosed you will find a in several particulars because of the'menu wnch will give you some Idea unexpected show of strength made 0 now we eaj war worn London. by the radicals. Sounds nretty good, eh! Well, It - was just twice as good as it sounds After having fully convinced our- Beet-Sugar Industry. selves that It was a physical Impos- The Cnited States and Spain are the sibmty to eat any more we retired only countries which produce both T00m an(J puffea onr cane and best sugar In any consider- . able quantity. The development of n h k..... n.tr. in th. TTn!ti ' We were all veterans of the Bat- States has been one of the great ag tie of Paris" so we told stories of ricnltnral and manufacturing growths our most embarrassing moments of this country. From 1808 the beet spent In fighting In said battle. I sugar production In the United States have to blush to even think of them. Increased from 50,000 tons to approxl- At 8 '30 the whole mob of us went mately 800.000 tons in 1913. t0 Albert Ha wnere tne tj. g. avy Mere Pleasant to His Ear. "Lemtne see one o' rtcm cuckoo clocks." said Mr. Erostus. "Here yon are." "Could you kind o' cliuiige de tune a little?" ."Whnfs tlio Idea?" "I wants n n alarm clock. I don't take to dese husty an' excited ulnrui clock. If you could train one o' dese to cackle like a chicken I could wake up spry an' hopeful every time." Eastern Folklore Character. A churucter In folklore with whom the Occidental world has only slightly familiarized Itself Is Nnsr-ed-dln-Hodjn, the Turkish Till EuleiisplogeL Lineally the Ilodju, holy man, as he U known, draws his descent from Aesop; but during the course of centuries his nature became somewhat changed. From tho wise man he was transform ed, gradually, Into the simple bucolla fool, who, In spite of his folly, has certain very winning traits. As a rule, however, poor Nusr-ed-dln gets th worst of every deal ho Is mixed up In, as has his unfortunate and muddling race. Only every now and then does) tradition allow him to come off vtctas In an Intellectual encounter. DAILY HEALTH TALKS Where Most Sickness Begins and Ends BY FRANKLIN DUANE, H. D. should be, but he win go to prison .payment. There isn't anything hu- for a life sentence. It Is likely that "13" about the typical German sol a man of Us Intelligence and rare!mer' "Jow th n,9 mtle round . . ... cap and steel helmet, his vacant eyes cunning will be a model prisoner. . and h,8 genera, t,p of abject lgnor. In a few years, doubtless, there will ! ancei ne is a repulsive spectacle. No ie an effort to parole him because! initiative, no spirit, absolutely brut- his behavior in prison has been ex-h. These were the fellows who mplary, and he has repented of hls ni,d been P0""1 our n0- 'T tt1raA with nnnw fka Iac. 1 a mincu vi u ill a u j ui liic uci- Bins. Oregonisn. man prisoners. TWO OF A KIND? In his biennial message to legislature, Governor Withycombe points out no -way of straightening out the tangled finances of the state, which have become badly involved as a result of his extravagance dur ing the previous term. He suggests no method of meeting the existing 3980,000 shortage. Medford Trlb- nne. Indeed, what an awful mess. And then there's President Wilson who, in regard to the miserably tangled mesa ot the railways of the United States, says he has no solution to offer and nothing to say as to how the controversy is to be straightened ! intelligent men. The most astound' jlng thing was to be told by them tjje that they expect, in many cases, to come to America and settle down as soon as peace is declared. They seem to have absolutely no concep tion of. the feeling their acts must have engendered. ' "Our heaviest casualties were on September 29, when we took the town ot Gesnes. 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