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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-01-08
PEANUTS AND MOUNTAINS

n contemporary that has
IA never seen much good in
President Wilson and
never will because blinded by
partisanship, asks why Nc
Adoo was named to handle the
railroads. The answer to the
question may be found in the
prompt and mastery manner
in which the Secretary of the
Treasury has entered upon his
monumental task. There was
a job for a big man and the
President rfghtfuily placed con-
fidenee in the man who set up
the federal reserve system
against powerful opposition,
and made it work to the safety,
prosperity and financial saliva
ton of the nation. Already the
results secured justify the Sc
lection of McAdoo as railroad
director. Moving along big
and courageous lines the direc-
tor general is rapidly bringing
order out of chaos He is cut
ting red tape and accomplish
ing over night necessary chang
es that the railroads, under
private management, had been
dallying with in vain for
months. McAdoo is exactly the
type of man needed to mobolize
our transportation resources IN
accord with the war needs of
the country. He has a big
grasp of affairs and is bold in
carrying out his plans.
Only narrow, trivial mind
could credit the appointment
of Secretary McAdoo to the
fact he was the Presidents s
son-in-law. Why confuse pea
nuts with mountains?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-01-08
RUSS SOLDIERS NOT WANTED.
Practice of Voting on Their Moves
Hurts Value to L. 5. Army.

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Jan 2.-Gen. Gurko and
other high officers in the Russian ar
my called some days ago on General
Pershing to offer their services to the
American expedition. They said they
spoke in behalf OF the Russian Off
GERS now in France and of many at
home and in other countries.
1t was impossible to grant them
the desired comissions on account of
the American ccitizenship require
ment and the inability of many Of
them to speak English. with their
experience and training some of them
might provevaluable. as they could be
used in an advisory capacity
The enlisting of several thousand
Russian soldiers now in France into
the American army could net be con-
sidered. The men hold a daily pie
'biscite con the moves they are eX-
Pected to make and this does not in
crease their value as soldiers. The
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-01-08
RED CROSS AS SANTA
CLAUS TO NAVY BOYS

How the Red Cross befriended the
navy boys at Christmas is told in the
following letter from local boy,
Charles Morton, to his mother and sis
ter. of 512 East Railroad street.
Mare Island. Cal, Dec. 25, II.
Dear Mother and ALL
Well as this is Christmas day l will
try and write a few lines while l am
not busy.
1 am still ON mess duty and helped
serve about the incest dinner that a
bunch of boys ever sat down to.
They are going to take a picture of
what was left in my mess hall after
72O men had finished dinner and if it
develops alright 1 am going to send
you one.
Instead of snow we are having a
glorious rain today and 1 must say
that it does not seem any more like
Christmas than it does like July
fourth
We had a Christmas tree here last
night and every one of us got nice
box from the Red Cross and they
were, sure fine. Mine contained
Ia blet. bunch of envelopes, pencil,
paper of assorted safety pins, tube of
shaving cream, shaving mirror, tube
of camphorice, one linen handker-
chief and a box of stuffed dates and
shelIed walnuts. They were not all
the same but similar in quantity. /
also got twenty five dollars in money
from u. S. Quite a number of our
accounts have not been transferred
from Goat Island yet 50 we were given
some money each. Not so bad was it?
After the tree a dance was given
which was attended by about two
hundred ladies from Vallejo ana
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-01-08

show an increase. This we
lay to the appeals made to the
American people to purchase
the bonds out of their earnings,
for them from week to
week or from month to month.
The people appear to be doing
as they have been urged, pur-
chasing the bonds from cur
rent savings"
There is no more slavery in
the draft law than there is in
forcing citizens to do jury duty
and to pay taxes.
~O~S$S$
East of the Rockies snow lies
deep; west of the Rockies the
sun shines bright; what is the
answer?
Here's hoping Germany
catches the bolsheviki measles.
SS-0S-$O~~~~
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-01-08
AMERICAN RED CROSS
ON ITALIAN FRONT
Where French Army Fought 5S Years
Ago, Scene of Aid by U. 5.
Body.

/ ROME, Italy. Jan. S.-Fifty eight
years ago France and Italy were fight
ing Austria on the Italian plain at
Magenta and again at Solferino, where
the Austrians were decisively beaten.
Wandering over the battlefield of Sol
ferina, the Franco Swiss, Henri Dun
ant, conceived the idea of an interna-
tiunal organization of the Red Cross
to relieve the suffering of all wound
ed, regardless of color, creed or ma
tionality.
Now France is again fighting beside
Italy against Austria, while sixty AM
erican Red Cross ambulances are
coming to help the United States al
lies, constituting the first American
contingent on the Italian front. These
ambuances, with six trucks, six mo-
tor cars and three kitchen trailers,
the gift of Maj. B, Prentice of the
Red Cross. passed over the battlefield
of Solferino. Today all the ambu-
lances divided into three sections are
doing first line evacuation work along
the Plave and behind the mountains
So the year 1918 sees America lined
up here in Italy besides the allies.
TriumphaI Progress for Americans.
The drivers are all American vol
unteers and most of them college men
who have seen service in France.
Their approach to the front was like
a trumphal pilgrimage, the pOpula-
ton turning out by hundreds to see
the Americans pass
on the Italian front the outlook for
1918 is good. Late in December the
Austrians and Germans strove dcsper-
ateIy to reach Monte Grappa the CEN
ter of the range, and force a passage
along the east bank of the Brenta.
The invaders even occupied the most
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-01-08
THE NEW TRIPLE
COMBINATION

Treatment for the blood, nerves and
liver-purifying, strengthening,
cleansing, winning its way wonder
fully just n6w-is: ss
Hoods Sarsaparilla, the superla-
tive blood purifier and appetite
giver, known for over 40 years.
Peptiron, the superlative pepsin-
nux-iron-celery nerve, blood and
digestive tonic; .
family laxative for biliousness, con-
stipation; pleasant, easy, effective.
What are your troublesf If such
ms to need all three medicines, why
not have perfect, well-rounded re-
lief by getting the eombinationf
Elf you need only one medicine,
get it and take it-but do it now.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-01-08

then lunch was served. Those OF us
that dance sure enjoyed it;
This bunch is the same as any
other bunch of men and boys, some
kick at the treatment they get but
most of their trouble is brought on by
themselves. l would not ask to be
used better anywhere than l am here.
L got my box from the girls of the
C. E. and it is useless to say that 1
enjoyed it very much. I wish that
you would thank them all for me.
When any one gets a package of eats
from home about a dozen others line
up and help him eat it and are as
glad to see it as the ol@ that gets it.
We get all the substantial food that
we can eat but there is not as much
sweets as most of us were used to
having before we came here so you
can see why every one looks for the
packages of sweets from home. -.
Well 1 must close now and go to
evening mess.
Ever Your Son and Bro.
CHARLES MORTON.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-01-08
HEADACHE STOPS.
NEURALGIA GONE
DR.. James Headache Powders
give instant relef-Cost
dime q package.

Nerve.racking, splitting or dull,
throbbing headaches yield in just few
moments 10 DIR. James Headache Pow
ders which cost only 10 cents q pack
age at any drug store. It's the quick
est, surest headache relief in the whole
world. . Don't sufferl Relieve the
agony and distress nowi You can.
Millions of mon and women ? have
found that headache and neuralgia
misery is needless. Get what you ask
for.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-01-08
THE PEOPLE ARE SAVING

n T has been pointed out as
evidence of how strongly
the duty of saving had
been impressed upon the Eng
lish people by the war-savings
campaign in that country that
in the year 1916, although pur-
chasing billions of dollars of
war bonds, the small savings
bank depositors in England in
creased their deposits in saw
ings banks over $60,000,O00,
this in face of the fact that the
English have been noted as a
spending rather than as a saw
ing people.
1t seems that a similar pro-
cess has taken place in Amer
lea. Two great Liberty Loans
were floated in the year just
closing, and nearly $6,000,O0O,-
600 of Liberty Loan Bonds
were purchased by the people.
Yet instead of being depleted
the savings banks deposits of
the country have been increas-
ed. The president of one of
the large New York savings
banks is quoted as saying on
December 20, 1917:
Zone of the most remark
able things about the Liberty
Loan campaigns is the small
effect they have had on the
savings banks accounts, which
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-01-08
THANKSGIVING DAY FOR
ENGLAND, Jan. 9TH
(By United Press.D

LONDON. Jan. SIN a letter
addressed "to my people the
) King set aside sunday, January
6 as a Especial day of prayer and
) Thanksgiving in all the church
es throughout my dominions.
The Kings proclamation says:
"The world wide struggle for
the triumph of right and liberty
is entering upon its last and
most difficult phase. The enc
my is striving by desperate as
sault and subtle intrigue to
perpetuate the wrongs already
committed and to stem the tide
of a free civilization. We have
yet to complete the task
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-01-08

gold braided Russian officers, former
~ conspicuous on the boulevards OF
Paris, have mainly disappeared. The
soldiers are billeted In quiet parts OF
an already overburdened country.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-01-08

Wise is the prophet who does not
allow his predictions to go on record.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-01-08
WHERE OREGON MIGHT
! HOOVERIZE

- PEAKING of economy,
9 why cannot Oregon do
g away with it's public
service commission, thereby
Saving approximately 100000
"a year, if the East Oregonian is
mot mistaken?
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Man Scales Woolworth Tower
But Only in Crowds Imagination

Jaw, say. Name, cantcha see him ?
Look now, wiliya, right where I'm
pointin!"
'And Name saw him then and so did
hundreds of others among the thou
sands that gathered along Broadway
and Park Row and in City Hall Park
yesterday afternoon to watch man,
that existed only in their own minds
and their neighbors'. climb up the face
OF the Woolworth Building.
No man was climbing the building,
nor had been, yet from o'clock or so
until Ut became too dark to watch at
about O'Clock. passers-by paused, fol-
lowed the gaze of the staring thou
sands and fell under the spell. Occn-
sionally groups disintegrated and their
individual constituents went about
their business-doubtless to relate at
the dinner table later the marvellous
sight, they had seen and to wish they
could have stopped to see whether the
Climber ended at the top or at the bot
tom. But the crow was constant
quantity for matter of about four
hours.
In hundred different places at the
same instant keen eyes picked out the
tiny, daring human, and willing arms
pointed him out to whoever happened
to be nearest
There he is now, climbin' right over
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

that thing bout halfway up on the
corner that sticks out like the things
on castlcs-a kind of wart-like, you
know" some rapt gazer would explain
lucidly. and ten chances to one his
neighbor, who had been peering at an
entirely different spot with concen-
trated gaze, would Immediately identify
the excrcscence on which his eyes were
fixed as the "wart-like" and would see
the man at once.
At $3.50 p. m. P. J. Cruddan, spe-
cial policeman in the Woolworth Build
ing, dispelled the last doubt md DIS
perscd the crowd by assuring dubious
Thomas in olive drab that there was
no human fly on the Woolworth Build
ing and there hadn't been. The soldier
went out and informed the crowd.
"'Twas all joke. | guess" said
Cruddan. "Some guy started it an it
spread. You can't vaccinate New York
against rubberin'. Why, one time this
afternoon there was four separate
crowds watchin' this buildin' an each
crowd saw the feller climbin' on the
side Of the buildin' it was watchin'.
It's q great town."
1t is believed that the rumor started
from the fact that "human fly" did
climb the Singer Building few blocks
south
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08

of his place in line and hit Tho gang.
ster in the nose.
fincus, who is said to be a yery
good waiter indeed, improved tho on,
portunity of this diversion to remove
$500 roll of bills from his pocket
and stow it away beneath his under
snlrt; Meanwhile the gangster, wiping
.he blood from his nose, is said to
nave remarked to Pritchard before 60
ing on with the business OF collection
You wait; III get you for that when
l go out.''
The walters believe the bullet that
struck Griffths in the head was in
tended to make good this threat against
Pritchard.
~ According ass,o to the police this
'heory agrees with "Rickey's" rec
ord. He is said to be member
known, without any connection with
tuturist art. as the "Greenwich Vii
lage Terror" His picture hangs in
the rogues' gallery. and assault is
alleged to be among the charges
that have been brought against
him. His present address is given as
GAS Washington Street and his age as
twenty-four.
De Primo appears to have been the
Youngest OF the gang-just turned six
teen.
In The hospital, Harrison and his
companion. true to gangstcr tradition,
have thus far refused to make any
statement. The police. however. ex-
press confidence that tho two missing
members of the party will be rounded
up before long.
AS for the walters. if it were not for
Grlffiths, they say the worst hurt to
them would be that which their pride
being on that end Of holdup.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Federal Express Crash
Hurts 10 at Woodside

Ten persons we're injured yesterday
when the Federal Express on the New
York. New Haven G. Hartford Railroad.
running between Boston and Washing
ton, crashed into an electric engine
near Woodside and Polk Avenues,
Woodside, Queens.
Arthur Gresnbaum, sailor of 1929
linton Avenue. The Bronx. was taken
to St. Johns hospital seriously injured
internally. The other hurt, most Of
whom were cut by flying glass, con-
tinued their journeys after receiving
medical attention.
The railroad officials began an inves-
tigation. 1t was thought that the tow
erman neglected to give the warning
signal or that the semaphore system
failed to work
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Albert 3. Kerr Resigns

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7-Charles P.
Rowland, of the firm Of Murray, Prem
tice & Howland of New York City,
was to-day appointed chief counsel Of
the Bureau of Industrial Housing and
Transportation, succeeding Albert B.
Kerr, of New York, who has returned
to the firm Of Zabriskie, Sage, Kerr e.
Gray. Mr. Kerr will continue as coun-
sci for the bureau in the Staten Island
development without compensation, the
bureau announced to-day. The state
ment said:
"The increasing demands of private
practice have compelled Mr.. Kerr to
relinquish the duties, which he dis
charged with signal success"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-08
Policeman Bertram Mas
k;el Battles Single Hand
ed With Five Gangsters
Loot Recovered
In Club Hold-Up
Detectives Now Seeking
Two Who Escaped in Dar-
ing Sixth Avenue Raid

Somewhere in the byways or sub
-sllars Of New York to-day two youths
ave skulking. They were members of
rsrty Of five young desperadoes who
inst before dawn yesterday held
m and robbed twelve members of
ths Knickerbocker Club of American
Waters in the clubs second story
CHARTERS at TS7 Sixth Avenue. OF their
companions, one is dead. shot down by
pa;rolman Bertram Maskiel at the out
a.. Of rough and tumble scrimmage
.bat began at the head of a darkened
stairway. The other two, likewise vic
Tins Of the policeman's ready aim and
cool head. are wounded prisoners in
Bellevue Hospital.
Meanwhile, in the same ward with
this pair George X. Griffiths, dis
charged British soldier, with two years
in the Flanders trenches to his credit
hovers between life and death as a re-
suit OF the raiders reckless gun play.
The loot collected by the men, however
500 in cash and $4,000 worth of
watches and jewelry-has, with the ex-
eeption Of one ring, all been recovered.
Praise for Maskiel
ct so happened,' said Captain
Charles f. Mckinney. Of the West For
ty.seventh Street police station, that
the men Maskiel shot were the ones
who had been intrusted with the tax
iags' OF the holdup. The pockets OF
the dead man-who, according to a
registration card he carried, was twen-
ty-two-y -year-old Michael Cont, of 299
Mott Street, but who in point of fact
was Euro de Primo, who was arrested
for grand larceny last March-were
erammed with bills and jewelry."
Captain Mckinney added that never
before in the course of his long police
service had he encountered so thorough
and altogether expert piece of police
work as Pstrolman Maskiel performed d
in rounding up these robbers.
81 have son in France" he said.
who has been decorated for a service
not a bit more valorous or competent
than this"
1t was during Maskiel's thirty-min-
ute relief period, when officially he was
lot on duty al all, that the call came
to him. He had just entered a Sixth
Avenue restaurant in the block between
Forty-ffth and Forty-fourth Streets
when dishevelled and violently ex-
cited man rushed out of the kitchen.
Bandits" cried the man, vehement
~ gestculating. "Seven OF 'em!
Next door! Quick"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-05-23

dering whether he was killed or was
able to bring his machine safely to
earth after his battle in the air over
Pagny-Sur-Moselle.
Indications are that failure will at
tend the efforts OF A. r. Morrow,
school superintendent at Orange City,
to induce pupils to buy German text
books to replace those recently de-
stroyed by fire. The state council Of
defense has asked Garrett Clay,
chairman Of the Sioux county council
to take this up with Superintendent
Morrow and see that the pupils are
not required to buy new books. Sup
erintendent Morrow claims the pupils
should finish their years work in ord
or to get credit at the state universi-
ty, but A. M. Deyoe, state superin.
tendent, says this is not necessary.
The establishment of telegraph
line between Camp Dodge and Boone,
in thirteen hours is the record of the
404th telegraph battalion, Camp
Dodge. These points, thirty-four
miles apart, were connected by an
outfit of thirty men, under the direc-
ton of Captain Roscoe Whiteside,
commander of Company d. This is
thought to be worlds record for
line establishment. Nearly all the
men in the 404th telegraph battalion
are from New York, and have had
professional experience in the con-
struction of telegraph and telephons
lines.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-05-23
u. S. MAIL SENT BY AIRPLANE.
Aviator Flies From New York to Cap.
ital With $4,000 Letters in 8 Hours
and 20 Minutes.

Washington, May 16t-Aerial mail
service in the United States on Wed.
nesday became an accomplished fact.
Piloted by army aviators, airplanes
carried consignments of mail from
New York and Philadelphia to Wash
ington and from Philadelphia to New
York. A plane which started from the
national capital for Philadelphia in
the presence Of President Wilson and
other high government officials was
forced to land at Waldorf, Nd, thirty
miles away, because of broken pro-
peller. With the exception Of Sunday,
daily trips from each end of the New
York Washington air mail route are
planned by the post Office department.
Three hours and twenty minutes after
a machine piloted by Lieut.. Torrey 81.
Webb left the Belmont flying field
near New York the mail it carried
was landed in Washington.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-05-23
THE MARKETS.

FLOUR-The United States administra-
ton flour standards are as follows: Per
bbl., in jute, 98 'lb. sack basis, barley -four
1920; corn flour, $1120; white rye. s11. 80:
dark rye. $11.00; spring wheat, $iO.6o@
1880: special brands, 1910; hard winter.
s106OQ10S0: soft winter. $10.6O@l0.S0.
HAY-Choice timothy, s23.00024.0O; No. /
timothy, $21.O0022.00; standard, s1900@00Oo:
No. timothy and clover mixed, $4,000
1900; No. 8. $12.00Q16.O0; clover, 5000
400: thrashed timothy. $6O0QS.OO.
LIVE POULTRY-Turkeys, zee: fowls.
28c; BOOSTERS. 201ac; ducks. 2l025c; geese.
13c.
CATTLE-Choice to fancy steers, SIG. 75@
l7.75: good to choice steers. $l550D1676:
plain to good steers, $ll.50@l55O; yearlings.
good to choice. $11.00@17.25: stockers and
feeders. $9.00Q13.76: good to choice cows.
s950@1300; good to choice heifers. 10000
140O; fair to good cows. $S.50g9.5O; Gamers.
$7.c0G7.50 cutters. s7.55QS.35 bologna bulls.
Sill. 00G13.60; heavy calves. $9.00011.0O: veal
calves $11.OO@14.00.
HOGS-Prime light butchers, SIT. 4O017 80:
fair to good light. s17.25@17.S0; medium
weight butchers 225@250 lbs. $l745a177O:a
heavy weight butchers. 250I4o0 lbs, Sl7. 300
1875; choice heavy packing, $1725ll760:
rough heavy packing, $17.0OlD17.35 pigs,
fair to good. S15.50Q17.35: stays. SIS 00Q7l6.25
SHEEP-Shorn yearlings s14OO@15 co.:
western lambs, good to choice. $lS.ooGl19. 75:
Colorado lambs. sl9.5oG20.50; native lambs.
good to choice. $1S.0oG19.50: shorn lambs.
sl5.00116.75; shorn wctliers sl3O0Gl4 az:
shorn ewes. $ll.0NlJl14.50; shorn eve
breeding lambs, s16.0cQl75.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-05-23
THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Food Administrator Hoover asked
the house appropriations committee
on wednesday for 100000 to pro-
vide offices and clerical hire for the
1000 county food administrators.
Porto Rtcan laborers are to be trans
ported to the United States within
month for farms in the southern
states and shipyards and other war
industries along the Atlantic coast.
An amendment to the post Office APP /;
preparation bill providing for an in-
crease IN the salaries of clerks and IN
creases of 20 per cent for rural mail
carriers was adopted by the senate.
While on an air patrol trip above the
German lines in France, Lieut.. Frank
4. Knapp, an American with the Brit
ish Royal air forces, disappeared on
April l6 and his fate is not known.
PRESIDENT Wilson's autographs On
numerous articles sold at auction are
swelling the funds Of the Red Cross.
Ihe president has been signing daily
copies Of his speeches and other arti-
cles.
The strike Of conductors and motor
men of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
company, which operates all of the
street car systems of Philadelphia, is
more serious, from 1900 to 1000. men
being out.
An agreement has been reached at
Berne, Switzerland between German
and Italian commissioners in regard
to the exchange of sick and crippled
prisoners Of war and the management
Of prison camps.
A report issued in London, based on
information from German sources,
shows fall in the birth rate in Ger
many during the three years, 1915-17,
inclusive, equivalent to the loss Of
100000 infants.
Three men were blown to pieces by
the explosion Of quantity Of nitro
glycerin being hauled to the oil fields
near Pleasant City, O., by John Huey,
whose horses were killed. The other
victims were farmers.
Argentina is at peace with all ma
lions and has no reason to change her
present policy of neutrality, declared
President Ir0goyen in his annual mes
sage at the opening of the f1fty-seventh
congress session at Buenos Aires.