The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-11-14
END OF THE WAR
is CELEBRATED
GERMANY SIGNS ARMlSTlCE MONDAY
Local Event Combines Features of Fourth
of July and Thanksgiving
Joy Prevails


of the Portland News rushed over the
While citizens FASTENED
from homes ia their night clothes "a
purchase the papers, no preparations
10r celebration We're made until con-
10y the Associated Press.
With half holiday proclaimed by
Mayor DumbIe, all citizens Of the city,
Joued by hundreds from the valley,
spent the afternoon celebrating. 1t
was a Fourth Of July and ThanksglV.
ing combined. Gathering formally at
a prominent business street lntersec-
ton, with an open topped automobile
for a rostrum, Mayor pumble presided
A prayer was sand by Rev. }. d. Lew
ellen Circuit Judge Wilson here
holding term Of court, delivered an
address. j II. HaZlett urged an un-
tagging support Of the United War
Drive. A small organ was hurried to
the street corner from the Anderson
undertaking parlor by the Transfer 4
Livery Co. and Mrs c. IL Slettou and
members of the county Liberty cho-
rus sang national songs Of allied MAJ
tons.
Following the formal assembly the
populace, in an abandon of 10Y. spent
the afternoon in participating in spou-
taneous parades. A dead and mellow
ing cat, tagged the kaiser. was dragged
at the end Of rope from a buggy,
Various automobiles dragged etligies
If the ex-ruler Of hundom. Bert Stran-
ahan resurfected from the Fashion Sta
I.l a. Il Yt
hearse. A noneescript team was
hitched thereto and an improvlsed coffin
was thrust into it, Kaiser Bill was
hauled to public litter dump on the
Culumbla lowlands
The jollifcation extended until late
in the night. Enthusiastic men and
boys early in the evening gathered
from store entrances contributions of
old boxes, crates and tar barrels,
Buckets Of gasoline and oil We're con
tributed by garage men and one Of the
biggest boniires ever touched off in
Hood River famed forth to the Sky in
honor Of the victory Of right over
Prussian might.
Even the weather smiled Monday
No fall day Of the 1918 season has ever
been brighter. It seemed that an an
nouncement Of the glorious news dis
pelied the mists and fogs of the ele-
ments, and when the sun set down the
Columbia gorge the sky was cloudless.
Ilostittles ceased Monday morning
on all fronts at II O'Clock, Paris time,
six O'Clock Washington time The
American artiiIerymen, however, fired
up to the last second With watches
in hand the guuners on the stroke Of Il
fired a last salVo. the she'll cases being
kept as souvenirs OF the last shots O
the worlds greatest war.
Until President Wilson informed con
gress Monday, the people OF America
ana mol know the exact terms ol lut
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lstlce. ne TERMS eEeh more e, 't'lfR@n'
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1ef many y eailed oi' 70 comply WIZ
Ihe IoiiaHiie 'eiHis
Evacuation Of Alsace- Lorraine, Lux
umhJr re and all occupied territory mns'
Ie completed within n DAYS, Occ9pa
ton by the Allies and tine United state
forces jointly Will keep pace witt
evacuation.
Allinhahttants Of evacuated territory
must be repatriated within II days.
The German army must surrender Il
good condition 5000 guns, heavy an(
field pieces, 20, 000 machine guns, Boon
miuewefer, 20o0 air planes.
Evacuated territory on the Rhine
left bank Will be administered by thf
local authorities under Allied anC
United States control The Allies vii
hold the principal crossings Of th'
Rhine at Mayence, Coblenz and Go
logne with bridgeheads at these points
The wide strip along the Rhine
right bank becomes neutral zone
Eleven additional days are allowed
| fdr tine evacuation of RhlupIaDd