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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14

After - days cigar stores pool
halls. bowling alleys confectionery
stores. soft drink establishments and
news stands may not open before 6
a. m. and must close at II p. m. on
every night except saturday when
they may remain upeu until midnight
An ordinance to this effect w,ts pass
ed by the council last night and Will
go into effect II days after passage.
The ordinance was first proposed as
a fuel conservation measure. arSu-
ments having been made that a mum.
Der of cigar stores had been keeping
open until . or a. IN. for the accom-
mediation of "A few card players. Near
~ all of the cigar dealers favored the
passage Of regulating ordinance aut
assisted the cuuucilmeu i'm getting mp
the measure.
Provision was first made for put
ting the opening hour at but this
was later changed Some Of the Ci-
gar dealers asked to have the closing
time ON saturday night at l230 but
city Attorney Fee declared this would
be contrary tn a state law.
Several of the couucilmeu as well
as dealers favored a placing of Ii
Cense upon cigar stores and such
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
SH|PYARDS AT
HOG ISLAND
UNDER FIRE
President Asks Gregory to
Assist Committee in Prob
ing Charges of Graft.
PLANT COSTS TWICE
MUCH AS ESTIMATED
Baldwin Declares Corpora
ton Can't be Kept Alive
on Patriotism.

WASHINGTON. FEB li.--Presi-
dent Wilson wrote Gregory asking him
to cooperate with the shipping board In
investigating graft charges at the HOG
Island shipyards. where it is alleged
government funds were used for pri'
vate interests.
Corporations Not Patriotic.
The Government contract provid-
ed that four per cent fee be paid
on all ships built in the yard The
corporation is not furnishing any cap
ital, buying material or paying salar-
les, the emergency fleet corporation
paying all, besides furnishing the
technical knowledge and organization.
George Baldwin. chairman OF the Am
erican-International denied before the
senate investigators that the eXpen-
ditures were excessive in view of the
order for speed. When he admitted
the profits would be Approximately
six million he added you cant keep
a corporation alive on patriotism
Plant VIII Cost 30 Millions.
The Hog Island work has been
watched for several weeks by the sem
ate commerce committee and it Is al
leged that the yard originally planned
to cost II million. will cost fifty mill
lion at the present rate of eXpendl-
ture. The government is building the
plant dlrough the American-Interna-
ptional corporation, which In turn is
building through subsidiaries and
paying them additional fees. which
are charged to the government,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
COffins Likewise Are of
Paste Board to Save Cloth
Wood, Zinc, Etc.
COAL FAMINE ACUTE
SAYS AMERICAN GIRL
Many Men, Women and
Children Forced to go
Barefooted.
CW. p. SIMNfS.)

CCopyright 1918, United Press.)
Germany no longer permits the br-
rial Of corpses with clothes. To save
cloth, wood zinc and copper, etc.
they are buried in pasteboard cofflr7
and paper shrouds. Wornout utter
sils bring high prices, according to an
American woman from Germany, who
says the people no longer expect vic
tory but only hope the allies will b.
exhausted before Germany is COM
PEELED to ask for peace. She un=s
derstands President Wilson's speech
made a deep impression and will
probably bear future fruit. Tho
Kaiser is reliably reported as declaEs
ing that Wilson's terms were reason
able enough to form a basis for ne
gotiations, but the military party not
the kaiser. are masters. Many chill
dren and grownups are barefooted
and unable to get shoes Traveller
say ninety per cent of the German5
have lost their enthusiasm for war.
Everything indicates the central pow
ers generally are in such turmoil tina.
the allies to win need only keep ths
equita BILE war aims published and holf
the west front.
The American woman says the coal
shortage is far more acute than out
siders imagine. There is plenty az
coal but labor and transportation
shortage render the production ana
distribution difficult. Rolling stoc
is in frfghtful disrepair and transpor
tation is reduced to little more than
sufficient for army needs. Silver ana
nickel are demetalized and all gold
gold jewelry formerly requested N
the name Of patriotism" is now de-
manded by the government to pre-
vent the too rapid depreciation o.
paper money.
Newspapers are actively sheerins
at America. seeking to diminish tho
of our participation ant
insisting the American effort is =
bluff.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
SNOWLESS. WINTER
DREAM DISPELLED
Pendleton Awakes to Fin
Mantle Four Inches Deep
Covering City.

Pcudletou's dream OF a suOwls 81
winter was dispellcd this mornl. g
when the city awoke 70 find Itself r.-
der n four inch mantle OF whit.
Though the fore part of the night va
clear. clouds came up In the elr
morning hours and dumped load ..
damp flakes over this part OF tH.
country, the storm lasting until = r-
clock. The snow was wet and Dec5u-
very much wetter under foot "a &
hours later when the sun broke
through. The day for the most pHrs
has been bright and the snow -
melted rapidly
This is the first real snow PEND To-.
ton has had this riuter Several b
err slurrles have barely covered rh-
grouud for a. few hours. Yesterr-H
snow fell iu the foothills and az At,--
na and Weston. according To- rcD9...
Farmers have been forced 20 20
pend ulYwiug until The touch OF
Reg le past
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
i s. artillery EFFECTIVELY
AIDS FRENCH IN BIG ATTACK;
2,34O,OOO GERMANS IN WEST

their communication trenches and
preventing their retreat or reinforce
mcnt. JsttCr the American gtnncrs
cncirclcd The advancing French with
a protective curtain and destroyed
German trenches and fOrtifiCations.
The French infantry assaulted oil
a fifteen meter front. preceded by u
rolling outrage. An hour later. avia-
tors signalled they had obtained all
objectivcs to the depth Of a mile. The
Americans then fired the encircling
barragc, allowing the poilus to con
solidate their positions.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
PENDLETON MAN
DIES AT TRAINING
CAMP IN THE EAST

Death has claimed another Of the
Pcndlcton boys who was bearing arms
for his country. Word was received
here today that Roy Emery had died
of pneumonia at one of the eastern
training camps. Details are lacking.
lie enlisted at Spokane three or -four
months ago and had been sent on the
first lap of his journey to France He
Is survived by a wife and two chill
drcn in this city. Emery had been
employed on various farms about
! endlcton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
ed and British Masks i sed.

WASHINGTON, Feb, 1.-THE gi-
ant urgency deficiency bill, carrying
over billion, was reported to the
house today. over half is for the
war department, a hundred million
for shipbuilding and II hundred and
forty million to extend the American
supply, depot and rail system in
France It is the largest in national
history. Secret testimony published
when the bill was presented shows
that General Pershing is hg4npered
by faulty materials, congestion of the
receiving stations and lack of tonnage.
Gas Masks Inferior.
Major General Black, chief of engi-
neers, testified at the hearing that in
the case of the gas masks shipped to
Pershng, these were so inferior to. the
British masks that they were discard
ed and other masks borrowed. He
said Pershing is begging for more
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14

dred pounds owing to inability to
ship. In addition, large quantities of
grain are being wasted feeding hogs
and cattle which were ready for mar
ket weeks ago"
Sykes declared the government is
losing the farmers confidence" Be
cause the farmers and stockmen are
not given voice in the food admins
tration. He scored the food admins
tration's slowness in fixing hog prices
last fall.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
No Peace Until Each
Side Realizes 1t Can't
Win Says Vorwaerts

AMSTERDAM, Feb. 1i-Copies Ce
the Norwaerts received here say the
difficulties pertaining to peace can
not be overcome as long as each side
has not perceived it has not the pow
er over the other. To reach an u-g-
derstandinE. Germany must adopt q
suitable attitude. and asCertaiv
whether President Wilson's remark
are n diplomatic move or redeemi0r
the world for mankind. The German
answer should be. we are ready .ag
peace negotiations immediately
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14

cars, locomotives, steel, etc, and also
more engineers regiments to man the
railroads.
France To Buy Roads.
The hearing developed that France
has agreed to appraise the American
built railroads at the end of the war
to buy them for the French railway
system. The bill included four mill
lion to buy seeds and sell to farmers
at reasonable cost.
The food administration is granted
million and three quarters, the de-
fense council, quarter of a million; for
increasing storage and terminal factl-
tiles on the Atlantic coast seventeen
million the navy deficiency appro-
priation is forty nine million, mostly
for ordnance and training camp con-
struction. and a half million to con-
troll contagious and venereal diseases
among the troops.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
SAYS ALLIES WILL HAVE
BEST OF IT IN CONFERENCE

LONDON. Feb. 1.-THE Vienna
Neufrie Prese. discussing President
Wilson's speech. accuses him of seek
ing to arrange a conference in which
the allies have the best of it. He
wants to collect 23 belligerents in one
room. Austria and Germany would
have only two votes and would be
automatically overwhelmed on vital
questions. Germany would have to
ask China and South America if she
may retain AIsace-Lorraine."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
POLISH CABINET
QUITS IN A BODY
DISSATISFIED WITH TERMS OF
SEPARATE PEACE BETWEEN
UKRAINE. CENTRAL
POWERS.

ZURICH. Feb. 14--Warsaw, Off
cially announced the Polish cabinet
has resigned owing to dissatisfaction
with the terms Of the separate peace
between Ukraine and the central
powers. Encouragement of the
Ukraine boundaries gave the new re-
public a large slice OF Polish territory.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
UIINRN WOOD

WITH FRENCH ARMIES. Feb. II.
1t is believed that fully % 10000
Germans are concentrated in the west.
so far. I75 divisions have been iden-
tilted. including - recently from
Russia. II is indicated the Bulgarians
are replacing the Germans on the Sa-
loniLi front.
4. :. .N;TILLEIY AIDS
American iItiilCry effectively aided
n big French ntiuCi< in the Cham
pagnc region yesterday. The Yankees
barragcd, isolating the Germans from
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
1lINNIG Is ACQUITTED.

NEW YORK. Feb. fI.-\ftcr four
minutes dClibCration the jury aCquit-
ted Paul IICnni%, II German mechanic
charged with tampcring with torpedo
mechanism. The government asked
that the cu~C be dropped.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
suIp srElKE THREATENED

NEW YORK, Feb. tt.-It is report
cd an Atlantic coastwiSc shipbuilding
strike involving 10000 is imminent rs
the result of the shipwOrl,Crs dc
mandS for wage increases. ship car
pcntCrs want SG.i0 a day instead of
the $3.50 the shipping board granted.
Union officials are here confCrrin@
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
FORMER BRITISH
AMBASSADOR TO
THE u. S. DIES

OTTAWA. Feb. 1I.-Sir Cecil
Spring Rice. former British ambassa-
dor to the United States, died of heaFJ-
failure at the government house thL5
morning. lie has been i'll for several
years. He was sc years old.
The funeral will be held at Ottaw4
Sunday afternoon. 1t is to be privat-.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
CADET FLYER KILLED.

TORI WORTH. Tex, Feb. H.
Cadet Clifford Murray. of the British
flying corps was killed by II fall to-
day He il the fourth aviation fatali-
ty here in two days.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
X IRA

pAIiIS, Feb. 1I.-BOlo PaSha was
today convicted of treason and SEN
fenced TO death. Filippo CaNillini his
accomHiicc was also sentenced TO death
although in Italy.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
BULLETINS


WASHINGTON. Feb. 1I.-OffCial
London cables TO Secretary Baker say
2GI arc unaccounted for as the result
of the TusCania disaster. The surNi-
vors number 1891.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
HERES ANOTHER
RED CROSS RECORD

Another Red Cross record was
hung up yesterday afternoon
when the class In surgical dress
ing. supervised by Mrs. r. II.
Taylor. made 7SI four 10y four
gau2e congresses. This is only
the second meeting Of the class
and a total of 1925 have been
made. one lady made So i'm
three hours and another IS. The
making Of these congresses
calls for extreme care and ajteu-
tion To- detail
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
CAnPENTEEs on sTRIKE.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1i.-CaFpcn-
tcrs of the Baltimore ship building
plant and Bethlehem shipyards, near
baltimore = struck today. Plumbers
threaten to follow.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14

LONDON, Feb 14.-Thcrc was hos
tile artillerying south of Epohey. near
Eulecourt, the only west front activ-
ity, according to Hais's report.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
BANK WRECKED: CAsHu3E DEAD

PHOENIN, FCb. f1.--TlTCc bandits
this morning bound and gagged Cash
iCr Keeling ofthc Buckeye bank here.
They dNnnmitcd the vault. MrCCking
the building and blowing Keeling
through the window. fatally Woundin%
him.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION
ASSUMES CONTROL Of COAST
AND LAKE WATER NAVIGATION

WASHINGTON Feb. IA direct these forms of traffic,
The railroad administration cooperating with the ship
today assumed control of all ping board and navy in
coastWise and lake water ordination with rail
navigation. W. H. Pleas ment and transatlantic and
ants was appointed manager coastwise shipping They
of the marine section of the will usehe water routes
transportation division to break the coal famnes.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14
PERSHINC HANPfRED
BY FAULTY IIz:T7!FRIAL
TESTING, q; >>>>>;5:;Ll.CIILARES {

Secret Evidence Published When Presenting Urgent
Deficiency Bill to the House; Measure Carries Over
Billion, 140 Million of Which is to Extend Amer
ican Supply and Depot Rail System in France; Gas
Masks Made in U. S. so Inferior They Are Discard
ed and British Masks u sed.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14

This paper IL member OF and audited
BY tho Audit Bureau OF Calculations.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14

Number copies printed OF yettcrday's
Daily Edition.
2,744
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-02-14

Tonight and FFidny SNOW.
Maximum. 40; Minimum, so; Preci-
pitation, 80; Wind, west; Weather,
clear.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-14
THE COMMUNITY LABOR BUREAU
Z PROVIDING government employment agencies the gov
eminent is not moved by desire excent TO summon

PROVIDING government employment agencies the gov
eminent is not moved by any desire except to support
the war In the best and most efficient way.
Since the began the nation been deprived of its
annual influx of foreign laborers of whom there were mil
lion year. 1t has removed from ordinary pursuits several
millions of men to be soldiers and several other millions
carry industry.
ls absolutely necessary that the remaining stock of Ia
Dor should be used ntelgenty where is needed The gov
eminent employment agency will attain this purpose.
One of the greatest wastes of industry of
bor the continual shifting of from one plant another
with loss to the and industry Some manufacturing
concerns turn over their entire force two three times year
Labor in the east is hired to go Labor
hired come east The group going passes group
ing east Work is delayed and nobody benefited least
all the workers.
This change is for the period of the war So most of
the changes Most of what is good will kept the
What is wastefu in time of wasteful when
peace.
Out of the will be derived system of Justice control
ling the job 1t is remarkable that SO long mans right
work has been left to anarchca continuance which
pened to exist TO charged ntoxcaion
trial. elaborate social machinery has long existed that
citizen will not be fined little five cents he is limo
cent
But almost any citizen might be deprived livelihood
without cause and without Justice.
There is coming into existence law of the Job right to
be employed and right to safety in the employment is
a wholesome change.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-14
OK 3D. Read CO
FehahEebn4 RSSI'
.EsSah/Isheo 1851

atoms are the clearing Of the Chateau
Thierry pocket. ending the menace
to Epernay and Paris, the liberation
of Montdidier, ending the menace to
Amiens, the freeing of the important
eastern railroad line from Paris to
Chalons, and the equally important
northern line from Paris to Amiens,
restoring to the Allies means of COM
munication which give them enor-
mously greater ease in future move
ments of troops.
These successes render impossible
any rupture Of the line which would
separate the French armies of the
centre from those to the east, or a
rupture Of the junction between the
French and British. The most disas-
trous consequence to the Germans,
aside from the heavy losses they sus-
tanned in men and material, is the
collapse of their plan to drive wedges
into the allied lines and the subse-
quent widening and joining which
would have threatened general dislo-
cation.
Marshal Foch,s strategy in reducing
the salient wedges wrested the initia-
tive in operations from the Germans
at once obliging them either to order
a general retreat to strong line such
a. the somme, or to engage reserves,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-14
LUCKY MILITANTS

@ OMEBODY is doing the militant suffragsts good turn
- What needs is advertising. Nothing is
fatal to program of change than that nobody shall
ton it.
When the miants began to parade in front of the White
House. all the nice people and all the hOughess people, and
those too busy to think about it, said, isn't that awful"
1t wasn't The preest part of modern parade the col
umnhere the march, The suffragsts who parade in
Washington very good looking women who the best
pleasing gowns They carry banners carefully adapt
please the eye, and the whole setting is attractive No
doubt the spectacle of these ladies' determined to get the
ballot diversion for the president busy all day. with
prosac men, in wrnked and shabby black garments.
president became the strongest champion of
He took position for equal suffrage far ahead of other
statesmen not because the ladies paraded but because of his
belief in the justice of the cause
The dispersas of wOmens meetings in Washington
come at appropriate time The senate will vote upon
suffrage amendment and but two votes needed there
In the background 100000 who already have the
ballot, waiting to hear the story
The ladies who holding those meetings eloquent
and able They know exactly what they about They know
to retire to private life senators who do not understand
the nature of democracy especially after those senators have
been told by the president what is.
matter voting state afford to let the vot-
ing population another state double its relative proportion
the vote The is power. Connecticut is small. But
neccut will be smaller if the vote oNew York state doubles
through the voting, and its does not.
a state by wants to be SMALL and inconseque-
ia and without influence in the government it will thai
its women remain disenfranchised
in which do vote, will look to it, through
the representatives elected by hem that very
granted states in which not permitted
TO vote.
Fancy in SOME future candidate for president
the who is resident of state in which
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-14
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING,

The first mountain climber to
reach an altitude of $4,000 feet was
Miss Annie S. Peck, who broke all
previous records by attaining the sum-
nit of Mount Huascaran, Peru, the
highest peak of the Western Henri
sphere, 10 years ago today, Aug. IA,
1905. The previous record for noun
tain climbing was held by W. w.
Graham, who reached a height of
2S,800 feet in the Himalayas Miss
Peck's first attempt to reach the peak
of Huascaran failed on account of the
cowardice of her guides, after she had
reached 1880 feet. In 1908 Miss
Peck accompanied by Rudolph Tang
valdez and Gabriel Zumtangwald,
two famous Swiss guides, who suffer
ed terribly from Understanding the
cold and in consequence failed to pro-
vide themselves with sufficient cloth
ing. Tangwalder was terribly frozen,
and all the fingers of one hand had to
be amputated. Miss Peck was better
provided with clothing and escaped
unscathed. The altitude attained bv
Miss Peck is 10000 feet less than the
highest ever reached by aeronauts.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-14
WORK OR FIGHT

ENATOR REED of Missouri has offered in the Senate as
~ an amendment to the draft BILL this resolution
When placed in or ex-
enped there unless he shall
continue in good faith while do
follow occupation,
This just provision Of the law proposed and ought to be
accepted something that is equivalent duty to fight
is the superior duty Exemption duty because the
person exempted will be useful in employment grant
ed solely that the country may have the services the man
in civil employment If he does not follow this employment
justice to the soldiers to who have gone 'front.' re-
qures that the exempted man. who longer engaged the
useful work, shall go ALSO
Nor should there any considerable allowance of time to
exempted men who in strike This also is suspen
sion of the work by which the receives favored treatment
Government has arranged matters that there need
strikes Every labor dispute will be adjusted by prompt dec
sion, if the authority of the government is invoked.
While the continues strike of labor must be regard
ed not very much short of muny in the army. Is
denied that in the final analysis their own
destiny The vast body of soldiers if the great
enough superior to those set them Otherwise there could
have been revolution in Russia
But muny is something soldiers must undertake at their
grievous peril is not right which exists in small body
of men, does not exist any group smaller than majority
and has it, that is not strong enough to make its will
prevail
In these days strikes rest upon the ground They are
mot to be justified unless they the consequence
lar feeling amounting to successful revolution.
While the American soldiers fighting it is expected
Americans they civilians can aid
the victory The duty work is imperative duty
fight This is the will of the American people. It threeod
the will of those of the American people who have
to the
is assumed that employment in these days contains ele-
mems dpleasng to In time of peace dispeasure might
be shown by separation from the employment During the
dagreeabe conditions should be endured 1t is dsagreeabe
to stand ankle deep in water in trench in Flanders to be shot
at by Huns But the soldier does it, proudly vaantly and
gladly,
Crying toes, pnched thumbs and mosquitoes is
not valiant in civilians The civilian who not endure fol
the period of the the trfng annOyances attached to
ployment useful labor belongs in TRENCH where he
lessons in fortitude, and Americanism
fellow who welches the job in these times is doin!
his little best to lay the bones of other American in tn
dust of France
The who does what he and all that he
lives soldiers and helps to make respenden the
of the United States Like the glory of the is the will
the American people perform speedily every task.