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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22

Colonel Bishop and Lieut. w. A. Rob Iertson were lost following an attempted airplane flight from San Diego to Calex- ico, Cal, January 10. After a nine-day search by Mexican troops, American army aviators and hundreds of civilians, Rob- ertson was found by a partysof searchers and directed them to where Bishop had fallen exhausted on January +. Bishop s condition was such it was impossible for him to detail his experiences. It was necessary to carry Bishop on a stretcher for 15 miles over the sand dunes and thick underbrush to the am- bulance.
 Winn Probstel, who was the first of the searchers to find Colonel Bishop, gave
 d detailed story here today of the find- ing of the officer.
 T found Colonel Bishop about o'clock
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
PETROGRAD REPORT

Petrograd. January 2l-t Via Lon dcn.- British Admiralty. Ter Wire less)-Conditions along th6 Isumaaatan front were generally quEt yesterdays according to todays war office state-s ment. the only developments reported being successful reconnbitering opera tions by Russian and Rumanian scouts. Similar conditions prevailed on the front in Russia and 4ialivia- The of ficial statement reads
 Western front: Ir the direction of Kovel. in the region west and north
 tContinued ons Page six)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
BRITISH SHELLS ARE SUPERIOR ID
 AMERICAN MAKES
Secretary Daniels Defends Award of Contract-Raps the Bethlehem Steel
 Company

Washington, January 21.-Secretary
 Daniels issued statement today ex- plaining and defending his action ih awarding to Hadfields limited, Brit ish munitions company, contracts for a large number of navy armor- piercing projectiles at price of about $200 each below the. lowest American bid. The statement is in reply to published comment upon the contract which, MT. Daniels says, convinced me that a concise statement of the experiences of the department in obtaining shells equal in quality to those used by for Eeign navies at a reasonable price is necessary to enable the public to un- iderstand what has been going on" Referring to report in certain American trade journals that the Brit fish government had urged Hadield' S to seek this contract for the purpose of creating panic in the American steel market and resultant reduction in the export price of American stee., the Secretary says that lis patent ab- surdity," as such an order would have IlO dPplctldDlt GllCSt upOI lHe I1ldI- ket.
 MT. Daniels says the Bethlehem Steel , company, which has been filling the papers with advertisements criticising the department" admitted in one of these publications that it had failed
 to make satisfactory shells on con tract awarded two years ago.
 HITS BETHLEHEM STEEL
 Until it is able to fill it's contracts he adds. it does not become the Beth lehem company to criticize the navy ldepartment for awarding contracts to
 manufacturers who can make shells that meet the tests. 1 regard the at titude of these companies in this and in other matters as most unfortunate, and. were there no relief through com petition either by the government or by other more patriotic firms, 1 would 1 feel that they were putting our en- ltire programme of preparedness in peril. The department wishes to give all of it's orders to American manu- iacturers whenever they quote reason. i able prices and furnish shells that meet navy ItQulIeHeHtS. 4>OInlnG but the utter failure of the most patient l negotiations and appeals to the pat
 riotism of the little group of steel manufacturers which have a practical
 monopoly of this business have made 1 1t imperative for the government to
 build a projectile factory and give a
 contract to "a foreign bidder"
 | The statement reviews the depart
 ments dealings with American shell
 makers during the last few years to
 show that bids from the British con- 1 cern previously had been instrumental
 in compelling a reduction in price for
 projectiles furnished to this govern
 ment. The financial loss to the govern
 ment in that connection has been i'm,
 portant it says. and adds:
 1 AMERICAN SHELLS INFERIOR What has not been made clear however is the failure of the com panes manufacturing projectiles with
 no spur of competition to drive them
 (Continued on Page sixl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
.TWEL VIZ STATESWILL URGE MUSCLE SHOALS.
Predicted That Ex-Secretary of War Jacob Dick inson Will Be Spokesman Prominent Del egatiOn Will Ask That the Nitrate
 Plant Be Located There
ny HUGH W. ROBERTS

Washington January H.-(Special) Tomorrow afternoon special committee rep, esenting in it's membership dozen states of the union, together with the executive officers of the Muscle Shoals association, Senators Bankhead and Un- derwood of Alabama, Fletcher of Florida and Shields of Tennessee. will present Shoals in it's contention that it should be designated the site and source of power
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22

Thursday evening"" he said. He was
 half-sitting, half-reclining under a bush in an arroyo, wet to the bone and almost speeches.. The first thing he did was
 to aa6 who was and what I was doing out there. Then he asked me to make him cigarette.
 "co'aael Bishop had spread his coat in d depression to catch rainwater. "He said that after Lieutenant Robert son had left him last Wednesday morn ing to press on for help he had not
 moved goo yards. A fire he built was extinguished by heavy rains. He felt sure, he said, that Rob ertson would find aid
 Probstel said that he and his compan-
 ions built a>fire on each side of the
 rescued man. wrapped him in sweaters and gave light nourishment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22

for the proposed government nltrate plant
 At o'clock the advocates will gather at the Hotel Willard and organize. It is the prediction that ex-Secretary of War Jacob Dickinson will be chosen spokes- man. At 3 o'clock the advocates will again meet and proceed to the executive offices where they will be received by President Wilson.
 II is the plan of the committees to visit Secretary of War Baker immediately after having talked with the President.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
French Pugilist Killed

Pau, France. January 21.-Georges Bernard, the middle weight champion pugilist of France, was killed yester- day while making a flight, He enlisted at the beginning of the war when 19 years of age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22

The guardsmen designed for return and muster out include:
 Louisiana: First battalion field artll- lery; field hospital No. 1.
 south Carolina: Troop A. cavalry; Company A. engineers; field hospital company.
 Tennessee Ambulance company No. field hospital No. |
 Arkansas, First infantry.
 Kentucky: Second infantry.
 North Carolina: First infantry.
 MANY OTHER UNITS NAMED
 Other guard units to return under the latest order are two battalions of Della ware infantry; one battery District or Columbia field artillery; Third Illinois infantry and brigade headquarters; Sec ond Indiana infantry, with ambulance company and brigade headquarters; Third Iowa infantry with field hospital and ann bulance companies and brigade heaquar- ters; Fifth Maryland infantry; ambulance and field hospital companies of Massa- chusetts; First Minnesota infantry and First field artillery; Fourth Missouri infantry; Troop A., Montana cavalry; Fifth Nebraska infantry, with field hos pital and signal corps; First New Hamp- shire infantry; Seventy fourth New York infantry, with supply train and ampu- lance company; Fourth and Fifth ono infantry with First squadron cavalry and third brigade headquarters; Sixth and Eighth Pennsylvania infantry, with Sec ond field artillery; c Company engineers and Third brigade headquarters; Fourth co,,+b nakota ipfa aptrv. second squadron Utah cavalry; Second Virginia infantry, and Second Wisconsin infantry.
 NO COMMENT ON MOVEMENT
 War department officials continue to withhold comment on reports indicating that the movement of General Pershing regulars out of Mexico is under way, and the statement announcing the guardsmen designated for relief does not connect these orders with the withdrawal plans m any way. The understanding has been. however that with the return of the expedition in Mexico and readjust- ments of the border patrol all of the state troops gradually would be sent home The departments statement said
 "General Funston has selected these organizations chiefly in accordance with the rule of returning first those troops longest in service on the border. To some extent however. this rule could not be followed with unequal weakening of the border guard and the departures from it are so explained The total strength of the organizations selected is 2524s.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
Second ADidtor Brought From Desert Is Expected to Recover From HdrroWing Experience


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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
MORE REVENUE LEGISLATION

Revenue legislation soon will be be- fore the House for action The reve- nue programme, shaped by the ways and means committee democrats, who will report to the House after per- functory submission of the new bill to the republican minority of the com mittee, provides for $2S9, 100000 in bond issues to meet preparedness and other expenses and for the raising of $261 0o0,0 900 by taxes on excess profits and by an approximately 50 per cent increase in the inheritance rates
 The House will have another fight early this week over the rivers and harbors appropriation bill. That meas ure is pending. The banking and cur rcncy commission is considering pro- posed administration amendments to strengthen the federal reserve system.
 Bills to prohibit the liquor traffic in Alaska and Hawaii are about to be reported from the territories commit ' tee of the House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
EXTRA SESSION NOT DESIRED

A
 Before the House interstate com merce committee the hearing of labor legislative proposals of Representative Adamson will continue. ". $ Stone, of the Brotherhod of Locomotive Engi- neers, will appear before the commit tee in opposition to any measures that might restrict the right of labor to strike. notwithstanding The Presi- dents insistence upon such legislation the prospect for it's enactment grows less probable as the time for adjourn ment approaches. With this stumbling block out of the way, nearly all demo- cratic leaders and some of the repub- licans of both houses believe that an extra session could be avoided and if the railroad programme does not fail there are a few who believe that session to consider such legislation alone.
 There is a spirited contest among democratic senators over the majority leadership to be relinquished by Sena- tor Kern on March 4, When the new Senate meets in extraordinary session mediately after adjournment to pass on the Presidents cabinet, the selec- tion of a new leader probably will be pressed. A real contest between southern and western democrats has been simmering for several weeks. Senator Walsh of Montana is the can didate of the westerners for the lead ership and Senator Martin of Virginia, the choice of the southerners. East ern and northern demoerats are being besieged by leaders of both sides and at this time the outcome is uncer-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-22
With Transfer of Leak h. vestigation, Congress Will
 Take Up the Measures
EXTRA SESSION IS NOT WANTED BY CONGRESS
Brotherhood Leaders Will Fight At tempt of Congress to Pass Strike Restriction-Prohibition For
 Alaska and Hawaii
 Possible

Washington, January 21,-With the peace note leak investigation trans ferred to New York, administration leaders in Congress are breathing sighs of relief because the attention of members generally now can be con- centrated upon the clogged legisla- tive programme.
 House and Senate leaders are just as anxious as President Wilson over the press of important business and no SC oret is made of the fact that all of them earnestly desire to avoid an ex- tra session of the Sixty fifth Congress if is possibly can be done. Tomorrow the Senate steering committee will endeavor to arrange a programme for the remainder of the session and for a longer day and possible night ses- sions.
 Democratic leaders agree that some sort of railroad labor legislation should be enacted and the subject may be given the right ofway over pend- ing water power legislation before many days. The Senate interstate commerce committee is expected to meet early in the week and Senator Newlands, disappointed at the refusal of the committee to recommend a strike prevention measure, will en- deavor to maneuver the Presidents bill into position for reconsideration Even if another vote is had on the subject, opponents of the bill think the committee will not change it's at
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-03

than are the growers of the
northwest. The thing is not a
square deal for the northwest.
Our people have a reason for
complaint.
The same action that causes
a disparity between grain
growers also makes a disparity
in the treatment of consumers.
If wheat must be sold at the
prices designated by the gov
ernment and flour mills, the
country over, are to be allowed
only a certain price as mill
ing charge, it may be seen that
our consuming public should
have the benefit of that 80
cent differential when the
price of flour is fixed. But if
they are given it will not the
consuming public in the mid
die states have grievance?
They may we'll ask why the
government should make them
nay more than the northwest
does for flour.
If the price fixing board had |
established its basic price to |
apply at a certain number of |
terminals all over the country |
the action taken would have
been more equitable in many
ways than the action that was
taken. The producer and con-
sumer would have been treat
ed alike all over the country
and there would consequently
be less complaint than there is.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-03

Hugh d. Smith of Pendleton was in
| Echo Wednesday looking after his
business interests.
Mrs. NJ. f. Pearson went to Lena
Tuesday on the Echo-I.ena stage for
"a visit to her sister.
Leon Allen, who spent the summer
here left Wednesday for his home in
Portland. Mr.. Allen was employed
for a while in the local telephone Of
flee and part of the time assisted his
father, Contractor Allen who has
built several residences here.
Visitors Return to Home.
Miss Marian Lee and Miss Nellie
Maxwell left Tuesday for their home
at Belingham, Wash. after six
week visit with relatives and friends
here.
r. r. Lewis and wife returned We'd
nesday from an extended visit to the
coast and California.
Mrs. w. l.. Cook and little grand
daughter Vera Fisher left this morn
ing for their home at Yakima after
a weeks visit at the home of MIR. and
Mrs. l. NJ. Sans.
Miss Adaline Mccormick left last
evening for La Grande where she is
nursing in the la Grandc hospital
Miss Mccormick has been visiting
the past ten days with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Mccormick.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-03
28 Years Ago Today

/ IFrom the Daily East Oregonian
Sept. 5, 1SS9)
DR.. w c. Mckay has received Il
sort Of a pioneer present from Mrs,
Almorand Hill, of Yamhill county. a
pioneer of 1913. in the shape of a
last years squash which looks almost
as fresh and sound as one of this
ears crop.
A remarkable solo hand was held
b. a player last evening in the Laurel
Club room. 1t consisted of the ace,
ten. king, queen and knave OF hearts;
the ace. ten, queen. nine and seven of
clubs and the ace of spades: the
holder of course played a solo best"
and took every trick making $50
points.
Miss Jennie Elwel returned this
morning from her visit to Kansas
Bishop Talbot will arrive in Pen
1:eton Thursday evening and will
conduct services at the Episcopal
church.
The engine, mail, baggage car ana /.
moker on Mondays east bound train I
we're ditched near Pelican station al .
. O'Clock.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-03
SCHOOLS
OPENED TODAY
PROF W. W. GREEN IN CHARGE
WITH CORPS OF FIVE
TEACHERS.
Campers Return From KamcIa With
We'll Filled Hucklcberry Baskets:
Other Newsy Notes of Interest to
Community.

ECHO, Sept. 3-Echo public
school will open here on Monday.
Sept 2, 1917. Prof. w. w. Green,
principal, and five other teachers as
follows: Mrs. Elizabeth Hamman
VIII have the domestic science work
and two subjects in the high school;
Mrs. f. Mutton will teach the sew
enth and eighth grades: Miss Nellie
Chandler of Durkee, Ore. will in
struct the fifth and sixth grades. Mrs.
w. W. Green will have the third and
fourth grade pupils and Mrs. w. b.
Hinkle will have the first and second
grades. The directors have not yet
secured IL teacher for the manual
training department but expect to
soon.
Elmer Spike and family. G. H
Eranstetter and son, Louis Scholl Jr
and other Fchoitcs who have been in
kamela after huckleberries are home
returning various days this week.
They l have a goodly quantity Of
berries to their credit
Mrs. Ralph Singer and children re
turned the first of the week to their
home at Waitsburg. Wash, after
visit Of severed Wceis With NTrs Sing
ar's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alex NAL
colin and other relatives. Mrs. Sin
gcT was accompanied home by her
brother Dclbert Malcolm.
J. p. Ruthlefsen returned home to- |
lay after spending q week in the |
country visiting with Jacob Rhode |
md family.
Mrs. harv PowwaH and son Perry |
Davis returned to Echo Yesterday af- |
or spending the summer in Califor- |
Tia.
Away on Auto Trip.
J. l.. Hoffnagle and wife are away
m an automobile trip. They are Wis
ting friends in the OkanogHn coun-
~ Washington. They viii be away
couple Of weeks.
Miss May Elicit has resumed her
uties as bookkeeper at the George e
iilier co. store after a few days alb
"nce while visiting with relatives at
he Dalles.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-03

Jack Barry. the young manager OF
the Red Sox, is now in death grip
with Clarence Rowland. manager OF
the Chicago White Sox. for the PEN.
rant in the American League They
kave see-sawed back and forth in and
out of first place. Baseball experts
believe the fight in that league will
remain between these two clubs
While it is possible Detroit twill pull
up to them, few baseball men outside
o. Detroit have expectations of this
result. In fact. baseball men believe
the fight for the national champion
ship will be ebtween either of these
clubs and the Giants of New York
City.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-03
Hardwick Bill Defeated.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-The sen
ate military committee reported ad-
versely the Hardwick bill providinc
that the men drafted cannot be sen,
I" France unless they specificall,
volunteer for foreign service Not
one member of the committee voted
for the bill. The COMMITTEES voted Il
favorable report on Senator F'letch-
er's bill to restore American citizen
ship to men who enlisted in the Brit
ism and French armies before the
United States entered the war.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-03
E,ncrlcnce The Best Tenchcr.

1t IS generally admitted that eNrer-
ience is the best teacher, but should
we not make use of the experience of
others as well as our own? The eX
perieHce of thousand persons Is
more 10 he depended upon than that
of one indiv dual Manv thousands
of persons have used Chambarla'n'S
Cough Remedy for coughs and colds
with the best results. which shows it
to be a thoroughly re'iablc prepara-
ton for those diseases. Try it. If
s prompt and efte ctual and pleasant
10 tlke-Adv
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-03
PLAY FAIR TO ALL

I'm passing upon exemption
claims the Umatilla coun-
ty board followed a fixed
policy, based on instructions
from the adjutant general, and
that policy was enforced with
out fear or favor against all
alike.
The district board at La
Grande has not yet established
such record. Its Umatilla
county list as tentatively given
Saturday showed a rather pc
Culiar state of affairs. Some
men are exempted on occupa-
tIonal grounds while other men
In the same catergory, being
engaged in farming. have not
been exempted. If this sort of
thing is allowed to stand it is
easy to see that dissatisfaction
win arise. Few men will object
to military service if the coun-
try needs them and they are
called under conditions tE2t
gives all men a square deal.
But it is human nature to OBJ
Ject when favoritism is shown.
As a supporter of the COM
palsory service law the East
Oregonian trusts that its en-
forcement under Oregon Off
Cialdom will not be such as to
bring the law into disrepute.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-03
LIOUIDATING
IN IQUIDATING in the stock
" market has now contin-
ned with SliCht inter-

N IQUlDAT1NG in the stock
y market has now contin-
ued with slight inter
, ruption for several weeks, says
Henry Clews in his financial
review. This downward
movement was based entirely
upon disposition to discount
price fixing; upon the injurious
effects of an excessive profits
tax, and upon the growing
prospects of peace. All three
of these influences mean a re-
duction, though not necessarily
an early end, of war profits
which had been the principal
basis of abnormal advances in
the war industrials. Some idea
of the volume of these orders /
will be gained from the fact :
that during the fiscal year our
exports of war materials am
ounted to $2,127,OOO,OOO, of
which SSOO,0OO,OOO was ex-
plosives. $187,O0O,OOO chemi-
Gals, $120.000,0O0 copper and +
brass, $95,OOO,O00 fire arms, I,
automobiles, $751;
900, 900 horses and mules, $84,-
100000 metal working machin-
cry, and 100000 wire. In
the fiscal year 1856, our to-
tai war exports were 81, ,329,-
the increase last year 4
being chiefly in explosives, c
firearms, copper and grass.
Since the war began in 1914,
our total exports of munitions $
nave amounted to $3,892.0 .00O,- v
200, last years shipments being
about 60fs of that total. The =
profits in these transactions,
IS is we'll known. have been
cry heavy, and it is easy to T
calculate in what direction 81
heir curtailment will be first e
.pplied. n
Whether the coming shrink ii
.ge Of profits has been fully W
discounted or not, remains to o.
ie seen. For the time being r. r.
he market has been much dis
urbed by these developments; #
nd there is little doubt that
he high water mark of war
rOfits has been permanently Il,
assed. and that a great deal wi
liquidation has been resort re
d to by those who foresaw er i
lese conditions. It will be "
lonths, however, before any II,
'eaty Of peace can be signed,
nd months more before dis
is possible of the oe oe
arious armies. which mean Re
me must be fed, clothed and er
uuipped. To the purchases an
the Allies must also be ad- tn
ed our own heavy buying of '
Iunitions. which combined =
-ith those of the Allies will in
Ire a high degree of activity
the war industries for some
me to come.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-03

Ike different woman, and now have
healthy little baby girl and do aA my
house work. 1 will always praise Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to
women who suffer as | did. b Mrs.
ALTON d. OAKEs. Fort Fairfield, Maine
When a remedy has lived for forty
years, steadily growing in popularity
and influence, and thousands upon
thousands of women declare they owe
their health to it, is il not reasonable
to believe that it is an article of merit ?
If you want special advice write 10
Lydia f. Pinkham Medicine Co tconfi-
dentiaD, Lynn, Mass. Your letter viii
be opened and read by women only.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-09-03
DISCRIMINATION

"N essential to the success
~ full operation of any gov
ernmental program is
that it be void of discrimina-
ton. All men and all sections
should look alike to Uncle
Sam.
But in fixing the price on
wheat the middle state farm
sgrs are allowed in round fig
J1res 80 cents a bushel more