1 i 1kJ0 J0Jp VOL. XXX HOOD IUVEK, OKEXiOX, TIirilSDAY, Jl'XE fi, 1'jlS No. 1 V 56e Cleveland Tractor SPECIFICATIONS IS BRIEF Motorj Four cylinder, 3 j in. liore Track: length ea.li side 50 in., "j eiroKe. i roieeieu wi.un in. overhead valves. Horsepower: 12 at draw -bar; 20 at belt pulley. Length : in. Width: 50 in. Height: 52 in. Weight: Lees than 3200 pounds. Turning circle: 12 ft. Traction sirl'aee: Mure than tl(H) square inches'. Center to center of tracks: lis in. Clearance: 12 in. Beit pullev: Diameter, H in., face ti in. Suspension : three-p jiut. Price $1600 f . o. b. Portland J. W. ANDERSON AGENT FOR HOOD RIVER AM) WASCO COUNTIES Machine may lie wen at Delco Oarage at T he Dulles Lawn Sprinklers Lawn Hose Lawn Mowers Hand Seeders Hand Weeders Wheel Hoes Lawn Rakes Lawn Grass Seed Lawn Edgers Screen Doors Screen Windows Window Screen E. A. FRANZ CO. A complete stock of GOODYEAR TIRES AND TUBES together with our ser vice, makes this an ideal place to pur chase your tire re quirements. DeWITT MOTOR CO. OLIVER CHILLED PLOWS. Orchard Hay Rakes, Mowers, Disc Plows, Harrows. Winona Wagons. Orchard Trucks. KELLY BROS- Distributors. Phone 1401. Maximum The very Istest for Cloth-Lined our boys at the Rubber Gloves Front for Spraying Relax Air Pillows Jonteel Talcum I Klenzo Dental Jonteel r Cream makes the Face Powder Mouth feel so Cool Jonteel Face Cream and Clean THE KRESSE DRUG CO. Tw Ijj&xaM Store Come in and hear the latest Mav Records HOUSE PLASTER, CEMENT ARSENATE OF LEAD SPRAY BOX SHOOKS Give us your order at once so that you can depend upon your supplies for this season. Kelly Bros. Phone 1401 Urgent Call to Orchardists We again urge you to make up your mind whether you are going to need an IDEAL FRUIT GRADER this season. For it will be impossible to get help to harvest your crop as you should. By using an IDEAL GRADER you can cut the cost of packing greatly, and expedite your work to such an extent as to make up the cost of the GRADER, which is less than one half the price of others. And the IDEAL has given perfect satisfaction to all who have used it on past seasons. We have a machine all set up and ready to operate at our packing house any time. We will be pleased to have you call and see us and allow us to place you on our list; for we are not going to be able to fill late orders, on ac count of lack of help. Ideal Fruit & Nursery Co. GUIGNARD & ROSIGER Proprietors 1' FOR YOUR VALUABLE 8 PAPERS S We have just installed an additional section of Safety Deposit Boxes the rental is only $2.00 per Year 1 1 FIRST NATIONAL BANK Member Federal Reserve System HOOD RIVER, OREGON .J PLANS MADE will be best to exitriment hy photo graphing the sun with different exprs i ure times, and possibly with different pnn 111 I nCT ' s,"l's lefore the dav i.f the eclipse. If rl IK hi I I l'r I K lass plates are used thev should be the slowest obtainable. PARTIES WILL WATCH FROM HILLS Others Plan The Dalles Trip to Avoid Clouds Astronomer Gives Sug gestions for Observers I Numerous Hood River people are ' making preparations for viewing the i total eelipse of the sun here next Sat- urday. Many w ill go to the high points I around the valley. A number of fam I ilies have planned to motor to Wasco j county points in case clouds obscure the heavens here. Others have planned Ion a trip to Glenwood and Trout I.ake near the centre of the zone of totality. The moon w ill begin to cross the sun at Hood River at about 3 o'clock, present i daylight saving time. The total eelipse, lasting about a minute, will be seen from Hood River at just about 4 o'clock. To those who wish to observe the eclipse, the following information, taken from an article written lor the University of Denver Bulletin by Dean Herbert A. Howe, professor of astron omy, will be ot interest: At first one sees a slight flattening of the sun's round disc on the right hand side below the centre, as if it had been smitten by a mighty sledge ham mer. This flattening grows, and it soon becomes plain that the advancing circular edge of the moon is slowly eating into the sun's face. The heav ing billows on the sun's surface toss about in their usual fashion. Great storms, which we call sun spots, rage with their accustomed tury. 1 he jag ged mountains on the edge of the moon push their way onward, hiding the so lar storms from our vision. The ad vancing sphere is no longer, as Shelley describes it - "That orbed maiden, with white fire laden. Whom mortals call the For the softly Queen of Night has visage as black as Death, which moves forward with a relentlessness which betokens the entire extinction of the King of Day. In about an hour the sun is reduced to a narrow crescent, like the moon moon. radiant face of the given way to a when it hangs low in the west. As the sunlight dickers through the leaves of the trees, tiny crescents, like baby moonlets, shimmer and dance upon the green turf below. Faint and curious shadows run in rows along the 'ground and up the sides of houses. A swift larkness descends upon the earth. Away in the northwest the shadow of the moon rushes toward the observer with frightful velocity over the hills and valleys. It even climbs the steep of the Bky. The light blue of the heavens turn to indigo and stray cloud lets are engulfmed in sudden night. The indigo dome overhead rests on a lurid reddiBh yellow base around the horizon, and the whole immense struc ture seems to be falling toward the jbserver. The sun gives a last expiring Hash of rosy light, and the moon, now of inky blackness, is encircled by a pearly aureole of softly gleaming radiance. A chill like that ot night comes on. The faces of the beholders grow ashen, and their tongues are hushed in awe. A few stars and plantets, Udder than the rest, peer down through the un canny darkness. Perchance tinv gusts of wind flirt about in disconcerting fashion ; at times, however, there is a dead calm, as if nature herself were holding her breath. Suddenly there comes a Hash of light from the sky. The observers whirl about to see the shadow leaping away toward the southeast. Their lips burst into joyous exclamations of delight. fhe landscape lights up- the birds be gin to carol. iNature gramnuiy re. sumes its wonted aspect, and men go about their wonted occupations. While the sun is only partially cov red up one may look at it through a pinhole in a piece of paper, or through a dark glass. A glass may be easily smoked by a candle or oil lamp. It is best to have the glass so opaque that the sun looks rather dim through it. If one uses an opera glass or spy glass, the dark glass should be placed be tween the eye and the telescope. One must be very careful to have the glass so dark that the sun does not dazzle the eye at all. During the short time when the shin ing body of the sun is entirely obscured by the moon, one may see small red dish flames shooting up at a few points around the sun's disc. These are called solar prominences and are largely exu dations of hvdrogen gas. The entire sun will be seen to be surrounded with a halo of glory stretching out irregu larly in all directions. Near the sun this is quite bright and is likely to be brighter than the full moon in a cloud less evening sky; but it lanes away rapidly as it extends outward. It is called the corona and is so attenuated that comets have been known to plunge through it without appreciable change of their velocity. It is safe to look at the corona and prominences without any dark glass, even if one uses a small telescope, which should be so mounted or held that it will not tremble. If an opera glass or spy glass be simply held in the hands, it will not be sufficiently steady to give the best view. One may see the faint outlying portions of the corona by looking a little to one side of them, instead of straight at them. When the first flash of sunlight comes at the close of the totality the eyes should be instantly turned away or closed until they can be protected by a dark glass. During totality the planet Jupiter may be seen just above and at the left of the sun, at a distance of five de grees, or ten times the moon's diam eter. Twice as far away, below the sun and at the right at a distance of ten degrees, the ruddy star Aldebaran will appear. Ten degrees to the right and below Aldebaran, the coy planet, Mercury, rarely seen by cas'ial star- gazers, will shine forth. Nineteen de i grees at the left of the sun and a little lower down Betelgeuse, the giant star is one shoulder of Orion, will be visi ble. Almost directly above Belelgeuse and 35 degrees from the sun may be seen the twins, Casto and Polux. Before the sun is entirely covered up, and also after totality, it will be inter esting to take snapshots of the sun, es pecially when it is a narrow crescent. The smallest stop should be used. As photographic outfits vary so much it COLD WEATHER CUTS BERRY CROP SHORT While the strawberry crop is of trie best quality, the protracted cool weath er will cut the yield to tio ier cent of normal, it was stated Saturday bv C. W. McCullagh. Growers from White Salmon and Underwood districts report j that the cold weather has taken an i even heavier toll. Despite the chilly weather of the past several days, fruit of Lower Val ley fields is ripening in sufficient ! quantities for the assembling of large daily express shipments, Carlot ship-1 ments from Hood River, Underwood and White Salmon, to be handled jointly, will be sold to h North Dakota : concern, who distribute the berries through the Rocky Mountain and north middle western states. George E. Crum, member of the Da kota commission firm, who is just back from California, where he participated extensively in the Florin berry deal, is optimistic over prices for fruits. The chief worry for all fruit interests, he says, is a possible car shortage. Mr. ( rum says the car situation re mains an unknown quantity. Sizing up the fruit outlook of differ ent Pacific coast fruit districts, most if which he has recently vioiteit, Mr. Crum, here Saturday, said : "The Kennewick berry crop is pret ty fairly cleaned up. ft will all be practically moved this week. In Yak ima, except for Jonathans, the yield of which will be somewhat lighter than usual, apples of all varieties will yield heavily. The Yakima peach and cher ry crops w ill be 50 per cent of normal. The prune crop is good. All deciduous fruits of California will yield heavily this year. While 1 have not been to Wenatchee, reports we receive from there indicate a heavy yield of all kinds of fruit. 1 am told that, the cherry crops of The Dalles and Mosier districts will be light. The Lew is ton, Ida., fruit crop will be good this year." Mr. McCullagh says that his organ ization is preparing to handle straw berries in freight cars, in case express refrigerators are not available. The Clark Seedling berry will stand pro longed shipment, it is said, better than any other variety. w. s. s. IS NOWWAGING JUNE FLEDGE MIST BE $130,0C-O Counth Has Already Sold $30,000 of the Small Securities - Chairman Vaughan is Confident of Success With all Hood River merchants and district committeemen, appointed by Chairman Vaughan, leading, a cam paign has been launched to pledge the sale of JlHO.ooo worth of War Savings Stamps in this county during June. Mr. Vaughan says that'he is confident that he will be able to report to state headquarters liefore July 1 that the county has reached the goal To date $30,ooo worth of the small securities have been sold here. "Hood River county has exceeded every quota in the raising of Liberty Ijoans and other war funds," says Mr. Vaughan, "and w e are determined that we shall not be lagging in the sale of War Stamps. "I know that all of the orchardists and business men of the city and val ley are exceedingly busy at the present time, but they should also realize that w e w ho are engaged in this war work are even busier than they. We would appreciate it if all would" learn before hand just what they propose to pledge, so they will be prepared to sign up at once. It would facilitate matters if pledgers would learn over the telephone points at which they could make their pledges, and then act accordingly." While the per capita quota is $20, it will be necessary for those who are able to buy several hundred dollars' worth of stamps, since many will be limited to smaller purchases. All school districts have been given re vised quotas, based on population and assessed valuation. Mr. Vaughan calls attention to the fact that the nation has figured the $2,000,000,000 War Savings Stamp al lotment in its budget. If the securi ties are not sold, it will be necessary to raise the funds by taxation. MRS. BELL PRAISES Y.W.C.A.WAR WORK HOOD RIVER DRAFT QUOTA NOW 31 Oregon's i.et remaining quota to be raised in the second draft is 5158 men. Official announcement of this figure has been made from the War Depart ment in Washington, In the first draft, Oregon's net quota was 717 men. Since the filling of this quota, the state has furnished in vari ous draft calls a total of 'ihi'A men. The announcement from Washington states that all these men will be cred ited against the state's gross quota on the second draft of !,.'!!'.! men, leaving a net (junta still to be raised of 5,15s men. These men will not be called out all at one time, but will be inducted into service as calls are received from Washington for draft increments of various sizes. At the rate inductions are now being made, however, it will not be long before they are all inducted into the service. This county's quota still to be filled under the second draft is ;il. CROWD BIDS GOD SPEED TO DRAFTS A large crowd was present at the station Friday afternoon to bid good bye to six National Army men, who will be assigned to Fort McDowell, Calif., for duty. J. H. Crenshaw, of Dee, who has served in the army, was placed in charge of the local delega tion. Men leaving here were as fol lows : Sid R. Coleman, Edgar Kile, George H. Thomas, James 11. Crenshaw, James Elmer McCuistion, Charles Wesley Al len. Homer K. Mays, of Hillsboro, was inducted by the local board. Four other local men were inducted from other Northwestern points. The little black dog belonging to children of Joe D. Thomison.came near being mascot for the drafted men. A score of the eastern Oregon toys aboard the train spied the dog and made a rush for him. Running like a jackrabbit, the dog beat a retreat, the rookies pursuing. UNDERWOOD FOLK SHOW PATRIOTISM "The Underwood district with a Red Cross quota of $150, has subscribed more than $400," writes Henry K. Love, of Hear Springs ranch. A solicitor who visited the camp of the Climax Lumber Co.,in which Judge Derby, of this city, is interested, dur ing the recent drive met a most en thusiastic and generous response from the millmen and loggers. With few exceptions the men each subscribed a day's pay to the fund, the total amount raised being $173.70. The Climax men are proud of the fact that they alone subscribed more than the quota for the whole district. Mrs. C. A. Hell, who recently visited Camp Lewis in company with Mr. Bell and members of the Northwestern Ho telmen's Association, returns home with highest praise for the work that is being done by the Hostess House as conducted by the Y. W. C. A. "1 was a member of a local commit tee that solicited funds for the Hostess House here last winter," says Mrs. Hell. "If I had known then what the place means to the soldiers, their fam ilies, friends and sweethearts, I would have been a great deal more enthusias tic in my appeals for money. 1 want to tell those who gave to the Y. W. C. A. fund that their money is doing a grand work. Aside from the large reception room the Hostess House has cafeterias, where the soldier and his friends mav purchase a meal such as he might find at home, for reasonable prices. "We spent four hours driving over the grounds of Camp Lewis. Every where one was impressed with the neatness and orderliness of things. We saw the practice trenches. Ihe bar racks and the bath houses established for the soldiers. We were made to re alize the value of the Y. M. C. A. and K. of C. huts. The boys have entered into the spirit of keeping the camp in a neat condition. They have planted narrow parkings in front of the prin cipal buildings to grass, which is kept neatly trimmed. In front of a Red Cross hut a pebble mound, on which appears the symbol of the organiza tion, has been reared." Miss Dorothy Wissinger, their niece, had charge of the Mount Hood hotel while Mr. and Mrs. Bell were away. HOTEL ASSOCIATION MAY VISIT HERE Provided the links of the Highway, on which crews of men are now rush ing work, are completed in time to make possible a round trip automobile tour from Portland here in a day, the Northwestern Hotelmen's Association may visit the valley October 7. As sembling in Portland, the members of the greeters' organization, according to C. A. Bell, who has just returned from a tour of the Puget Sound coun try with members of the organization, will go to Los Angeles, Calif., for a meeting October 11. "1 find that all of the hotelmen were keen for the Hood River tiip," says Mr. Hell, "and I hope the Highway will be in shape for arranging for it.'' The visitors, in case they come here, will be given luncheon by the Hood River people. GERMAN WOMEfT MUST REGISTER MARSHRLL PINEO KILLEDJN FRANCE Marshall Wilder Pineo, former high school student and son of Geo. W, Pineo, of this city, was killed in ac tion in France May 1U. Lieut. H. D. W. Pineo brought the news here to his father last week. Because of the elder Mr. Pineo's poor health Lieut. Pineo feared telegraphng him, and he made the journey here to break the sad news. Marshall Pineo has been residing in British Columbia for the past several years and had enlisted in a Canadian hospital corps. He had been in F rance j less than a month. It is presumed that t he was killed when a hospital was be . ing bombed. The registration of German alien fe males, to begin Monday, June 17, and end Wednesday, June 20, will be con ducted in cities or municipalities hav ing 5,0oo population or over by the police officials. In communities having a population of less than 5, OIK) the reg istration will be handled by postmast ers. In general the plan of registration is the same as that followed in the regis tration in February of German alien males. Each person who must register will be required to register her finger prints. This method of identification is also used in the military and naval ser vices of the United States. 13 Men in Next Draft To fill a draft quota of Oregon to be entrained between June 24 and 29, Hood River county will be called on to furnish Hi men. Men listed by the lo cal board to answer the call are as fol lows: t" Ralph Waldo Arens.WilhamB. Snow d'n, Lewis J. Audrain, Hans K. Hocr lein, John ().. Kelly, William W. Coch ran, Weino Annala, David R. Cooper, Herbert R. Field, Ixuie William Preg e, Emmet H. Thomas, Am Hnkari, o