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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22

Writing to the local Honor Guard
girls in appreciation Of Christmas
packages sent him, Dell Blancett,
who gave. up his life in battle March
80. left a missive that has become
of especial interest since news Of his
death was received. The letter is in
possession of Miss Virginia Todd, Of
the Honor Guard. and is as follows
Dell Blancett. No. 227O345, B. Squad
ron, c. r. c. r.. shamcliffe, Kent
England, January srd, 1918.
The Girls Natl Honor Guard
Pendleton. Ore. u. S. A.
Kind Friends
Your nice Xmas parcel received to-
day noon and want TO thank every
one OF you for It, and l know all the
boys in my hut join In sending their
hearty thanks. II was they who
smoked the cigarettes and made more
OF the tobacco and papers. 1 don't
smoke. but enjoyed veRyi much to
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22
PRIESTS AGAINST
IRISH DRAFT LAW

DUBLIN, April 22.-opposition to
conscriptlon has crystallized during
the week into a semblance of an or
ganization. Authorities are alert to
prevent a recurrence of the Easter
rebellion. A large section of Irish
are regarded solemnly against con-
scription. Great numbers accepted
the now famous pledge from priests
at Sundays srvices. Colleges and
universities will declare a recess and
students will return home soon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22
MAY DAY PROGRAM
TO HELP RED CROSS
A May Day Festival and Public
Auction for the benefit OF the Red

A May Day Festival and Public
Auction for the benefit OF the Red
Cross.
The Time: May first.
The Place; old Happy Canyon
grounds and Depot Park.
The event viii not be an ordinary
one. II will be something new as
a entertainment dnds as a means Of
raising funds for the county chapter
Of the Red Cross. II will he an ALI
day function and the program VIII
Include an auction OF innumerable Mr.
ticles a cafteria. lunch. folk dancing
and singing by the school children
and a good many other features. .
Chairman J. H. Estes has appoint
ed as HIS assistants Roy Raley, Rev.
J. e. snyder. claud Peniand, George
c. Rher. n. E. Chloupek and Lee ID.
Drake. The committee made Its final
plans at a meeting saturday after
noon and has already started the ma
chlnery 10 carry them out In Pendle-
ton style.
Anyone who has anything 70 do
nate for the auction sale Is asked 60
get Il ready. The old office room OF
the Bowman Hotel has been secured
as a storage place and will accom-
date.anythins FROM a harvester 20
knlttlnE needle. Chairman Estes
says those who have nothing else to
donate may offer their reputation
providing Il s. not too badly damaged.
Miss Louise BAILEY "a trimming high
school and grade pupils In folk dane
ing and Mrs. Forshaw n preparing
musical program for the afternoon.
Country people are asked 10 come
in FOR the day and accommodations
viii be such that they will not have
20 leave the festival grounds.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22

NEW YORK. April 22.-Dcscrib-
Ing heretofore uurcvealcd German
atrocities. Bmnd Whhlock. United
States minister 90 Belgium. indicates
that the Prussian horrors were con
dcted in the Prussian efficiency us a
part OF the plan of campalgn. Writ
ing in Everybody for May he tells
how carefully organized harharitics
followed in the wake OF the German
drive. heink especially cruel after
each defeat. ptcturing occurrences
August 2I when the French resisted
attempts Co bridge the Meusc. he says
the people were held there evidently
as "a sort of screen while the Ger
mans hcgnu to construct % tcmpora
bridge. The Germans sent a civilian
to inform the French that unless
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22
SLOW LOAN BUYERS
TO Be PRODDED UP
Thrift Stamps VIII be Sold
Those Not Wanting
Liberty Bonds.

The main offensive In the Liberty
Loan drive having been a completes
success in UmatiI1a county. the "mop-
pers up" will soon follow up TO clean
up the campaign by securing sub
Iscriptions for war Savings and Thrift
Stamps from all those whose plea OF
financial inability was accepted as a
reason for not purchasing Liberty
Bonds.
The general patriotic organization.
supported by Campaign Manager Bisf-
op of the w. S. s.. is now lining up all
captains and lieutenants for whirl-
wind finish of the campaign Monday.
April %, is set as the date for ad-
vancing this final wave of workefs in
the push toward a 100 per cent show
ing.
G. A. Price. district chairman at
Milton. telephoned down today to the
effect that he proposes to clean up
Milton's quota of War Savings Stamps
in this ''moppers up" campaign. The
quota is $40 per capita which would
mean approximately $4,000 subscribe
ed from the Milton district.
District Chairman c. Z. Engdahl OF
Helix was in the city yesterday and is
mobilizing his forces for the finish-up
drive. Word comes from other dis
tricts that similar arrangements are
being made.
The purpose of the finish-up cam-
paign is to solicit only those who
could not buy bonds in order to en-
able each person to loan 10 the gov
ernment according to his or her
means. However. the organization
wishes it understood that people pur-
chasing bonds should. il able. sub
scribe also for stamps They will not,
however. be approached during this
coming drive.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22
AUSTRALIAN WHEAT
COMING TO AMERICA

WASHINGTON. April 22.-Mil-
lions Of bushels of wheat from Aus
tralia will soon be pouring into Pa
clfic ports 10 release American grain
for Europe. Negotiations with Ja-
pan and Scandinavian countries for
shipping are practically completed
aud will permit the landing OF over
one and half million bushels each
month on the California coast. it was
learned today.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22
HUN KILLS BELGIAN YOUTH
FOR HELPING AGED FATHER

they creased firing civilians would be
killed. Tho prisoners were then mass
cd together platoon was called up
and 90 old men. young girls. mothers
All night the Germans killed and
pillaEed iH Andenne. The crowd was
ordered tn walk 20 the place pes
Tielieulz Those who were not walk
Ing fast enough were shot down. A
son. cscorting his father. who was too
old o. walk alone. vas ordered to
hold up his hands. FcuriuE his faith
~ would fall he refused and was
struck Boo the neck with an axe by
big German who was particularly
conspicuous FOR ferocity and mutt
latlng victims of both sexes and all
agcs-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22

Los ANGELES. April 22.-
Four are known dead, the towns
of san Jacinto and Hemet, so
miles east Of here, are practically
i'm ruins, and a score of persons
are injured as a result of yester-
day afternoons earthquake. Miles
or paved roads in southern Cali
fornia are cracked and buckled.
Residents of san JaclntO say a
geiseF-Iike sheet of flame shot
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22
SAYS JAPS WOULD
NOT Be OF SERVICE

SAN FRANCISCO. April 22.--Jap-
anese Ambassador Ishii says that Jap
anese military authorities do not be-
lieye japanese troops would make
good fighting units ON the west front
The difference in Food. language and
climate would hamper them. He
warned against enemies trying to in
cite bad feeling between the United
States and Japan. Most OF the en-
emy intrigues handling our relations
in the two countries have been swept
away by the war. All the allies must
take precautions 10 prevent the sup
plies OF Russia and siberia gotting
into German hands. Japan is ready
to act as soon as a common danger
develops.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22
1IlO[. FROM old
CALIFORNIA VOLCANO
San Jacinto Residents Say Fiery Spectacle
Preceded Quake in Which Many Were
Injured; 3 Killed, Including Astoria Man

from Mount San Jacinto, the H.
600 foot extinct volcano. Then
huge clouds of dust rolled up OBJ
scuring the mountain. August
Cartons, OF Astoria, Oregon, died
i'm the street of Los Angeles OF
heart failure. windows were bro
ken in Los Angeles and surround
ing towns. Frank Darnel Of Bos-
ton was trampIed to death in a
panic i'm Santa Monica. The shock
was felt in Arizona and Utah.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22
CANAL "A BREAKS NEAR
HERMISTON, RAILROAD
is WASHOUT. SUFFERER

Through the breaking of Canal A
on the Umatilla project Saturday
night. a stretch OF the canal 200 feet
lcng was washed out and the O.-W.
r. & N. track west OF Hermiston
washed out to such an extent-that all
trains Sunday morning had to be
routed over the cutoff.
The break occurred a mile and a
half west Of Hermiston. The canal
Is 10 feet wide and is part of rhe dis
tributing system on the project. II
is said that during the early evening
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22
Figures, From German
Source, Show Only Actu-
ally Killed or Taken
Capture.
LOSSES SINCE AUG.
GIVEN AT $4,000
West Front Has Always
Been Chief Slaughter
Ground for Foe.

PARIS, April 22.-German writer's
estimate the grand total OF German
killed. prisonered aud died Of illness,
wounds and casualties and in colon
iaI fighting, etc, at five million. Karl
Bleistreu, German military writer,
declares in his NeueuroDa that Ger
man losses on the west front from
August, 1914, to 1917. were 2,6O4961
killed and taken prisoners. on the
east front 1.484,55O, He estimates
that from August, 1917 to January
81, 1915. 367,45O were Killed or ta-
ken as prisoners on both fronts.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22

a small leak in the canal was seen by
o.-W. r. & n. trainmen and reported
to the station at Hermiston. Some
railroad workmen were sent to the
scene but no notification was given
the project engineers office. Had the
government been notified, says Mr..
Newell project engineer, the water
could have been turned off quickly
and the railroad saved from any
washout.
The damage to the canal will be
repaired by tomorrow.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22
SEATTLE man GETS
CROIX De GUERRE

WASHINGTON. April 22.-Lieuten-
ant Aibert Smith and Private Edward
Bickel. a University OF Washington.
Seattle. graduate. have been decorat-
ed with the Croix DE Guerre. They
spent nine days carrying wounded un-
der Smelling and machine gun fire. For
six days they had not slept or rested.
Bickel volunteered and rescued
wounded from "a trap so dangerous the
French command would not order an
TO attempt the feat
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22

LONDON, April 22.-Haig to-
day reports: "We improved our
position during the night in the
VilIers, Bretonneux, Albert and
Robecq sectors. South and north
of Lens we conducted number
of successful raids capturing pris-
oners and machine guns. The
enemy is Smelling different sec
tors chiefly astride the Somme
and Ancre, and in the neighbor-
hood of Festubert and Nieppe
Forest. A strong local attack.
made last night at MesniI was re-
pulsed The enemy only captur-
ing otif advanced outpost.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22
rs POUND BOMB
AT LIFE" OFFICE

NEW YORK. April gg.-A dyna-
mite bomb weighing ss pounds vas
tound today az the entrance 81 the
lie Publishing Company. Police
arr working on the theory that lt
was used with the intent a. blow up
the Pennsyifanla suhways. An In
spcctor of comhustabicH says m A.
the most powerful explosive machlns
he has ever seen "a contained five
pounds % dynamite ard WaH bulk 10
explode on coucuusion o. fuas.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22
Wilson Is Against
Martial Trial for
TreasOnable Action

WASHINGTON. April 22.-Presi-
dent Wilson today expressed a strong
opposition to Senator Chamberlain s
bill providing for court martial for
those arrested for reasonable utter
ances or acts. He declared such a
legislation would be unconstitutional
and would put the United States on
the same level with the people which
we are fighting.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22

'DOLFIN IS GIVEN
10 MONTHS IN JAIL

PORTLAND. April 22.-wiIliam
Dolfin, alias Dal Bon, former cook of
the third oregon, who was arrested
at Pendleton, was sentenced to ten
months in the county jail by Judge
Wolverton- The jury asked for
clemency.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22
FAMOUS GERMAN
AIRFIGHTER WILL
FIGHT NO LONGER

tCwILLIAM PHILLIP SIAIMS)
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES.
April 22.--Baron Rittemeister Won
Richtofen. famous German avia~
tor was held Sunday in the SOM
me valley. At his funeral he will
be given the same honors as
British flight officer. Richtofen
is said by the Germans to have
won IS air Victories. His squadron
was called Richtofen's Circus by
British flyers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22

AMSTERDAM, April 22.-The
German writer, Captain KnhIi-
yetter, in the LokaI Anzeiger says
the U-boats are not sinking Ann
erican transports because they are
so well conveyed. The attacks
are either impossible or extreme
Iy hazardous.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, April 22.--Twelve hundred
German "shock troops" attacked the
! American infantry northwest OF Toul
early Saturday morning in the same
sector where the two day battle was
fought last week.
The result was an American vic
tory. e.
There were more troops engaged
in this battle between the Americans
and the Germans than had previously
been the case.
In the beginning. owing to the SUI
perior numbers of the enemy. the
Americans fell back a kilometer. the
Germans taking the devastated village
of Seicheprey and the BoIs du REM
ieres and the Bols du Jury.
Then the Americans. without REIN
freements, drove the enemy after an
AL day fight which was marked by
exceptional artillery fire and some
aerial activity.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22

LONDON, April 22,--A German Of
flclal statement claims the capture
OF lS3 Americans in assaults on the
Americans positions near Seicheprey
Sunday. II declared the American
losses were not extraordinarily high,
and claims the Bavarians advanced
a mile and a quarter and repulsed
counter attacks
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22

Let me have the luxuries." said
the man. carefully dissectlng his por-
tion OF the leaf OF lettuce. "and / will
look after the necessities myself"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22
Seventy Two on Casualty
List as Announced by
Washington.
GERMANS CLAIM 1873
PRISONERS TAKEN
Aerial Activity Was Feature
of Fighting on Toul
Front.

AMERICAN ARMY, Lorraine.
April 22.--IRcports describing the ac-
tIon northwest OF TouI when the AM
orleans attacked the Germans Sunday
retaISing all the positions lost I'm Sat
urday's strategic retreat say the
ground is covered with German dead.
The Germans, sdope crazcd." were
sent TO action in front OF their own
artillery barrage, yelling like wild
beasts and wiIdmen, and failing be-
fore tho American fire
The Americans fought eight hours
with gas masks ON their faces. In
Seicheprey the Yankee machine gum
ners didn't know when TO quilt. An
officer found two with semi-circles
OF German dead piled around them
They had refused 90 retreat when
enemy airpIanes poured machine gun
fire into their positions and finally
dowsscd the planes. Sheer bravery
enabled the holding of the American
lines. Ambulance men went into No
Mans Land gathering the wounded,
and ambulance men who have been
at Verdun said the Smelling was the
heaviest they had ever seen.
WASHINGTON April 22.--seven-
ty-two casualties were announced
this morning. 10 killed in action. five
dead OF wounds, four of disease, one.
accident and two other cases; 2 were
slightly wounded, seven severely, one
previously listed as missing is now re-
ported killed.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22

It takes three generations 20 make
a gentleman, but the rule fails TO
work when the third generation is "a
girl. a
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22

Marriage Is a lottery In which the
blanks are husbands--so says a wife
who takes In washing.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22
GERNLANs REPULsED.

PARIS, April 22.--German sur
prise attacks east of Rheims and
east of sAvre were repulsed. war
office today reported In the re-
eion of Themes tnear Hangard-
,cn-Santerre) we took some pris-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22
THE WAR

oners. Artillery fire continues
active on various parts OF the
front.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-04-22
FOE lost 500

FOE LOST 500
WASHINGTON, April 22-Gen-
eraI Pershing reports the Ger
mans suffered 500 casualties in
the battles at Seicheprey.
BOAIBARD AAIIENS.
PARIS, April 22.--Germans to-
day resumed the heavy lombard
ment of Amiens. hitting the Ca
thedral directly three times.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
Women Bring Car
From Buffalo in
Driveway Crisis

Again women have come to the res
cue of the automobile dealer, who be-
cause Of man shortage and congested
railroad conditions is in difficulties.
The insistent demand for cars is hard
to appease, for there are practically
no new cars to be had hercabouts, and
the factory heads have issued the
word: "Come and get them, If you
want the cars, as we cannot ship"
Chester Maxson, of the Brooklyn REQ
branch. and James j. Hunt, general
manager of the REQ Motor Car Com
pany, of New York, were in just such
a fix, and through the efforts of the
Brooklyn Corps of Motor Corps of
America q number Of REQ cars are now
to be had here.
Six young women of the Brooklyn
Corps went to Buffalo, where they took
charge Of cars which had been sent by
boat to that point. The party, in
charge, of Miss Mildred Schwaibach,
left Buffalo at noon on June II and
made the trip Of 476 miles to New
York in thirty-six hours. including all
stops. The others in the party were
Miss Rosemary Cleary, Miss Renie
Nichols, Miss Ada Winslow, Miss Jus
tine Sackett and Mrs. Daisy Seaman.
The trips itinerary was as follows:
Buffalo. Elmira, Binghamton, Liberty.
Middletown, Goshen, Tuxedo, Suffern.
HRckenSack and Fort Lee.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
Righf-Hand Drive or Left?

WHETHER automobile should appears
w to ALL if the majority
Gliding factor OF all the made in the United States
the rghand
well follow suit the Others without expense
inquire what rghthand drive
The who sits the right alongside the
road and his chances of getting who
sits at the left Furthermore
likely to his tires against the sidewalk reported
who interested rghhand
whose wheels or tires AGAINST
the curb in making a landing"
better aroour
OF he give coming the opposite
narrow road he the ditch
IN better shape the traffic.
another what occupant
OF the front seat need road
street If he to leave the the sidewalk
Again. efthand drive coupled with
and gear shift lever reach the right open part
OF the driving If there
control the shift levers nut in small
at the right there
hand with the right the sinister for
rapid and
This not be the complete sde and doesn't an
why some stick to the rghtand course in foreign cou
es where the OF the road the opposite America the
ehthand drive universal Arguing oppos therefore, in this
country where keep the right
obtain And, as you see in the majority of
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
When Dreams Come True;
Motors Make Spotless Town

"The dreams of a decade ago are
coming true and bid fair to come true
in evcry town and city in our fair
land" says George Stowe, president of
the Mitchell company, of New York.
Ono dream was of spotless town with
out horses or animals of any kind. The
high prices of horse feed and the lack
of horses are making this come true.
Motor trucks are doing the heavy
hauling, where hundreds of horses for
merly were used. and passenger auto
mobiles are replacing the horse and
buggy. In fact, the change has already
come. Sometime when you have an
hour to spare. stand on a busy corner
in the downtown section of this CITY
and count the number Of horses and
wagons that pass.
"You will find so few that it will sur
prise you. Even the junkmen use some
kind of an automobile. have never
had doubt Of the final victory of the
motor car in its every branch in the
battle to drive horses. with their un-
clean habits, off the roads of America.
"Motor cars. motor trucks. motor
tractors and motor-driven machinery Of
every character are revolutionizing the
world to-day, and the farmer, using all
OF them, will one of these days mount
into the air in a motor driven airplane
ana travel to great distances"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
Fad" Attachments Held
To Be Needless Waste

Judging by the large number Of
automobiles on the highways and city
streets doing utilitarian work, it is
evident that many motorists have cut
out all unnecessary riding, have
stopped buying fad automobile
equipment and are putting the money
thus saved to good use, such as buy
ing War Saving Stamps" says A. M.
Robbins, general manager of the
Chalmers Sales Company. Inc.
Generally speaking. the utility of
the motor car is we'll known. It's
proper use should not be curtailed
or discouraged. We could not get
along without tho motor car to-day.
However. there are many things that
motorists can get along without.
I'VE see some cars so loaded down
with junk and alleged accessories that
it Is wonder that they run at all.
Some of these accessories frequently
give more trouble than the car itself.
for they get out Of order and rattle.
"These things cost money and very
few save money in the long run. Many
can easily be classed as general nui-
sances. If they were of real value to
a, car manufacturers would put them
on as standard equipment. Never lose
sight of the fact that car makers are
always endeavoring to improve their
product, AMI as fast as an article of
merit appears on the market it is
adopted by some makers at least"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
Meeting to Settle the
Question Of Legal
Headlights

ALBANY, June 22.-Secretary Of
State Francis NJ. Hugo announces q
hearing to be held at his office at AL
bany Tuesday afternoon to discuss the
proposed uniform specifications for
automobile headlight tests. All manu-
facturers of automobile headlights and
headlighting devices who have I'D to
the present time submitted samples
of their product to Mr.. Hugo for test
in compliance with the new automobile
headlight law in this state have been
notified Of the hearing and have been
asked to have their representatives
present
A list of automobile headlights and
retary of State Hugo will become
available to the general motoring pub
lie very soon. 1t is Mr.. Hugo's inten-
tion to convey this information to
motorists by sending the list of ac-
ceptable lights to all newspapers, mo-
toring magazines, traffic squads, chiefs
Of police, justices of the peace, boards
Of safety, automobile clubs and SINH
lar organizations throughout the state
An additional list will probably be is
sued early in the fall to cover such
lights as are subsequently submitted
The uniform specifications in rela-
tion to the headlights, which will come
up for general discussion and sugges-
ton at Tuesdays meeting, have been
prepared by Mr.. Hugo after carefully
going over the ground with technical
experts. The specifications are natu-
rally couched in technical language
and cover the subject in an exhaustive
way. The conditions Of acceptablity
Of any light in this state under the
law have been clearly defined.
In the last few weeks Mr. Hugo has
been getting in touch with the secre-
taries of other states, in order that he
might become better acquainted with
what these states have done up to the
present time along headlight matters.
There appears to be a general in.
clination on the part of motorists tc
have already written Mr.. Hugo, asking
if this or that light meets with the re.
quirements of the law.