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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-08-13
WAR FABRIC SURPLUS
GREAT EST LINEN KING

LONDON. Aug. 13.-The sale of
| 40, GOO, 900 yards OF linen recently TO
l.. ]. Martin at so cents a yard al
| fects seriously great many inter-
ests. MIR. Martin himself acknowl-
edges that it is a corner in linen.
The history OF the government
dealings in linen is an interesting one.
Linen and war previously had been
associated only in the shape of band
ages, but the development of the air
plane changed all that. Not even
after the war had gone on for some
time did the authorities of any coun-
try realize that linen was an essen
tial fabric in the turning out OF effi-
cient air machines. The Royal Fly
ing corps of the ravy and army were
the first to discover that lipen was
the bestmaterial for airplane wings.
and in 1915 the whole product OF the
Irish factories was commanueereu'
The demand grew enormously as air
craft production expanded, ana nil
lions of Yards were called for. prac-
tically unlimited orders going to Ire
land, all weaving for other purposes
being stopped The result is that out-
side of Great Britain there is prac-
tically no linen cloth at all. France
and Italy are clamoring for it ana
Germany presents a vast market. She
has no linen.
Monopoly on Flax.
Last year the government took the
further step of buying up. for 90
million dollars the whole irish crop
of flax. the acreage of which had
been greatly extended as no flax was
coming from Russia. This price
worked out at about $4,000 per acre,
whereas the normal figure was SILL
The British government, in fact had
a monopoly of the worlds flax. for
Russia, having gone bolshevik' did
not count. 1t also spent more than
7 Ia million dollars on trying to cul-
tivate flax in Yorkshire, but the eX-
pertinent was not n success.
linen Battleship Cable.
Mr.. Martin is now in possession OF
the whole woven output of the irish
mills and stuffs produced elsewhere.
It was made to certain specifications
and is probably the strongest fabric
made. capable IL taken from the
loom and used as n cable, of holding
a battleshp. 1t is unbleached, but
can he used for dresses. sheets, ta-
BILE linen and underclothes. ana is
more enduring than cotton.
If Mr. Martin sells his holdings at
seven seventy-five cents yard ne
will make a gross profit of 10 million
dollars. What the cloth has cost the
government is rot known, Bel
fast manufacturer put it at nearly 81
per yard at the very lowest estimate
Belfast linen makers viii be seri-
ously affected by this deal TIL MT
Martin has disposed of it they Win
probably have to shut down their
mills. He makes no effort to disguise
the fact that he can undersell them
In any market. II will also prove dis
astrous to the cotton trade, for the
finer grades of fabric cannot he had
owing to the present price of cotton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-08-13

under No. I. Wheat grading No. 1
mixed will be bought at 4 cents under
predominating No. variety. No. 2
mixed at cents under No. OF pre-
dominating variety and No. 3 at s
cents under No. / prices of predomi-
mating variety.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-03
ADTER7ISEAENT.


Six millions Of French sons have
offered their lives that 1sn~e.asy
might live. 30 Million ether TrsDoi
men and women sacrificed their III
for the anne purpose. ArneFica,s
debt Of gratitude to France for this is
very great. We alao are lndsbtsd 70
ner for an invaluable remedy for
stomach, liver and Intestinal ailments
discovered BY her peasants, when Il
Is reported has saved Maay Amerfoaa
lives and prevented thousands Sc mn.
gical operattoHs.- Geo. n. NaSr. Tor
many years . prsMtasnt Chicago
chemist, imports the Ingredients ma
sells this remedy Under the mama, Of
NAYS Wonderfni Rstnedy. Is Il q
moves the eatarrhAi nac1 fson tsl
Intestinal tract and allays Tho inflam-
nation which causes practically ali
stomach. liver and intestinal a~ilnients.
including Appsndiciti6. ono doss viii
convince OF money refunded FOR
isle ey dr15gl5sts evsSyJ1hesss
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-03

Most Far-reaching and Rad
icals Legislation in His
tory Of State Enacted.
fBy stan Correspondcnt. J

Bismarck, n. D., March 2.-Shortly
after 1 o'clock this morning, the six
teenth legislative assembly adjourned,
after the bitterest fight OF the session.
figh. in which personalities were
more or less dealt in and in which 1t
was charged that threats of vetoing
the appropriation for Dickinson
normal had been made to whip
three Stark county men into line for
the passage of the emergency clause
on the printing commission bill.
The closing sessions OF the legislat-
ure were unlike those Of former as.
semblies. The session adjourned six
need Of turning back the clock TO
complete the work, and there was no
good natured throwing Of ink wells
and paper. When the House adj
journed, members of the minority
were in a bitter frame Of mind as a
result OF the vicious attack made. up
on them by the majority.
ant in the history Of the state. and
1t accomplished the most ~far.reachtng
legislation yet enacted. The state now
is the socialistic laboratory Of the
country, and unless the people veto
the administration measures. The
experiment soon will begin.
The state now is the s%ocialistic lab
OEdlOTy OIL lne country. LAWS nave
been enacted which permit h state
to engage in industrial enterprises. in
the state banking business, in the
home building business and in other
enterprises have been passed, and.
unless they are overturned at the
referendum election which undouht-
eddy will lie called, the most interest,"
ing experiment in the history of the
country will be carried out in This
state during the next :wo years.
The Program Of Taxation.
Around the taxation program
there has been conferred a very large
interest, because Of the radical and
far reaching nature of the changes
that have been made in the laws.
program, and the related measures,
will increase the total taxation bur
den in the state from $22,500, 900, the
1918 revenue for state and local pur-
poses. to about $50, 000,0 900 of which
about $1,000 900 will be for state
purposes. compared with about S.
100000, the previous revcnue collect
ed for state purposes.
The first important proposal made
by the league was an assessment of
100 per CEN on unused" lands. and
so per cent on fused" lands. This
plan, the league leaders argued,
would result in the collection oc j
heavy tax from the me specializing
in land, and would force idle land or
the market. The farmers, however,
didn't take kindly to the proposition,
On the theory that such tax would
have the effect of driving land values
downward, and that their own i'm.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-03
General Assembly
OF Omsk Government
To Be Elected Soon

omsk. sunday, Feb. 7s.-tBy the
Assaciated Press3-Ths council OF
ministers Of the omsk government Is
siahoratins . plan for the Immediate
siection Of = general assembly. AZ.
miral Kolchak's trip to the rom! y
said Is have produced good results.
many elements Of the populatlon
heretofore Indifferent gtv1ng mose
hearty support to his regime.
As q result Of independent action
taken BY General semenoT IN the
Chita district and allegedly, with =
view to combating possible claims oy
foreigners growing out OF CONCESSIONS
ana special privileges oftered oy zen.
has declared all acts Of General
Serneno6 void,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-03

;a6snsssf II abiss bGsiness." The best
losSistaient ID thS Ctate, he said. had
asked him to bring suit for persona
libol against the Nonpartisan Leader
;yAsY, TpWnley And.others because Q!
one cartoon. but that he hAd re5usea
q simply sritted my teeth, he said.
s..and stoed1it,s I did not like At. but
Z did not eensuhrs any one"
Gahiu Deseuds Mot1on.
Cabin. defended the motion. De.
Glazing that &c was no more than 5tgnt
that the NetIatorS aocuSed Of signing
the statement should state their posi-
t3on. Ho declared. however, that ne
did not believe any member OF tbs
senate had siGned It. :.
Olson o. Eddy ceunty, demanded
that the senators who were said to
have signed the statement state their
,posttion. K !.
jacobson of. Nett declared that 1t
was unfair to Ask ,thsrn to do 30, ee.
cause, II they had signed it, they did
90 az private citizens. and no one
could demand such an explanation.
He spoke. Of the relations between the
ago. and Of. the fact that he and other
members OF, the minority had worked
faithfully WITH the majority this year
ana for the best interests Of the state:
He said that the league senators had
been warned by their leaders to be.
ware Of "Jaeobson Of Mott" and that
he had been Represented az the agent
of big business. but that he had tax
IN 1t good-naturedly.
Church Of Benson. an ardent
Lacquer. opposed the resolution. He
praised the members Of the minority
for their splendid spirit. Of co-opera-
ton and said he wanted. to 30 home
thinking that he wa their friend and
they his.
Wexford Of Psmbina, another
Lacquer, also spoke against 1t.
Liederback, moved that the senate
go into executive session to thresh the
matter out, declaring that 1t should
not be done IN the presence OF peo-
pie who we're taking notes." The
motion was defeated.
Mostad, a Lacquer. moved that
Liederback's motion be laid on the
table. but the motion was Withdrawn,
and Meess Of Morton moved that the
senate do not concur in the resolu-
ton. and it carried. It was a vive
'voce vote, and Liederback and Bow
man wer the only senators to re.
spond in favor Of concurring.>
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-03
laps May Be Given
Russian Rights In
Part OF Mongolia

Peking, Sunday, March 2.-.(By the
Associated neutrality-suspicious. are
proceeding at Hardin and Urga, it has
been learned from authoritative
sources, for the purpose of giving the
Japanese the right to take over Rus
sian rights and privileges in outer
Mongolia.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-03
NATIONAL GUARDS
OF WEST STATES
BACK IN AMERICA

New York, March 3.--with 1862
troops the cruiser Frederick arrived
here today from Brest. Units on
board included National g~uardsmen
OF Washington, Oregon, Montana,
Idaho and Wyoming, detachment of
the forty-first division: aero squad
rons and New England troops.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-03
Sherhsnd. s Davs

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::,tssnss..paes q a ia R e sssa t9r
Smsleney Surprisingly simni.
t aSsns . sSsSey: !n z sew hours yoa aar .k sa,y
!.i,nf iox .s''s ais,a thisn gain .pssa in
spSeehe4. orders Sfe.. ~ :. conversation
fnssItse s{ lsa..eas win 10 mailed 81 eKts ,0a
NJ SA.s2S. Station ,, Gev fHsasSES
SSlsss ana L, 4 ser ": lkkatssss..
Stta s.3spT aiilty snA ~ 'S -. svesyteay
saew o.ness tais a4vsrt7sepsnt. 0sass.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-03
statesmen INST
REPORT MONEY
FOR EXPENSES

Washington, March 3.-salesmen
and other employees receiving per
diem allowances. in addition to reg
ular salaries r required to report
t IL ,nternal reve snEe"e b .nx 1eeut ans.
nounced today. b.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-03
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-09
OVER $4,000 u. S. TROOPS
LEAVE FRANCE FOR HOME

Departure from France of more
than 13.eo0 officers and enlisted men
of the American expeditionary forces.
including the 42d, sgd and SD Coast
Artillery regiments, was announced
yesterday at the War Department
The troops are aboard the battle
ship Kansas and the transports Har-
risburg, Louisville. Kroonland. Polar
Bear. Maiden, Pocahontas and Caserta.
All are due to reach American ports
between February IS and IS.
The FocahontaS is due at New York
February IS with the SD Regiment
Coast Artillery. complete: the head
quarters of the 33d Artillery Brigade.
convaleseent detachments Nos. 65 and
20. casual companies of Illinois troops,
Ohio, Wisconsin and Regular Army:
one quartermaster casual company
of Virginia men. the medical detach
ment. Sd Battalion; detachment of
Battery r and the ordnance detach-
ment of the 61st Regiment, Coast
Artillery.
The Caserta- is scheduled to arrive
at New York about February Is with
practically all of the SD Regiment.
Coast Artillery, and So casual officers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-09
FOUR NOTED SPEAKERS
FOR VICTORY DINNER
Secretaries Lane and Baker, Mrs.
c. G. Gait and Catherine Bresh-
kovskaya Listed.

Franklin X. Lane, Secretary of the
Interior. is announced as one of the
speakers at the victory dinner to be
given at Wardman Park Hotel on
Lincoln's birthday. Other speakers
Will be Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait.
Catherine Breshkovskaya. the famous
Russian woman. who spent half of her
life in exile in Siberia, and Secretary
of War Baker. The toastnristress will
be Mrs. Desha Breckenridge of Ken
lucky. The topics for the dinner are
THE League of Nations" and The Re-
direction of Women's Energies in
Peace"
Two sessions of the victory confer
ence will be held Thursday. In the
morning DR.. Josephine Baker of the
New York city department of health
will talk on Health, an Interna tional
Problem" with the discussion to be
opened by DR.. Martha Tracy. dean of
the Woman's Medical School of Phil
adelphia. Mrs Jane d. Rippin of
Washington, who is member of the
commission on training camp activi
ties. will speak on Social Hygiene as
Factor in international Health.
Miss Julia Lathrop, head of the United
States children's bureau. will talk on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-09
First Taken to Rastatt.

Finally j reached the prison camp
at Rastatt, where / found some Ameri-
con officers and doctors who pulled me
around. for by this time / was so
weak and sick that when / went 10
sleep almost hoped I'd never waken
got hospital treatment at Rastat I
through the good offices of Capt Max
son, a baltimore man. At this camt 1
found some English officers whose
condition was so pitiable J can hardly
Dear TO think of it even now Their
wounds originally Were comparative
~ slight, but neglect by their captors
mad caused gangrene to set in and
two of them had lost both arms and
both legs. l worked here as a nurse
which helped me forget my own COM
paratIyefy slight troubles in the con-
temptation OF their pluck and patience
Il was finally shipped away from
this camp; i guess they thought L
was finding out too much. L went TO
Karlsruhe, thence to Landshut where
were only United States flying Off
GERS. All this was in Bavaria and Ba-
den and there the people are more de-
cent and -considerate than in Prussia
and also more careful of danger of
infection to their own communities
We were all given many serum in
jections and vaccinations against ty-
phus, smallpox. etc. So numerous had
been stories about the Huns infect
ing their prisoners with tuberculosis.
etc, that We were all frightened stiff
saw several officers faint, not from
the injections, although thew were
severe ones, out from mental anxiety
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-09
RAILROAD STATUS HINDERs.
Director General Unwilling to Aid
Betterment Projects.

A delegation of Chicago aldermen
calling on Director General Hines
yesterday to urge immediate prose-
cution of railroad improvements in
their city, were told that the railroad
administration would do all possible
to cooperate, but that It was ham
pered by uncertainty of the future
status of railroads and government
control
The Importance of undertaking ex-
tensive improvements on railroads at
once to obtain the benefit of them and
to give employment to labor was one
reason why he advocaed extension OF
federal management, Mr.. Hines ex-
planned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-09

my familiarity with propa ganda lit
erature.
They asked some of our men, by
the way. if the submarines had not
played havoc and | hear they caused
a great sensation by replying Sub
marines? O, yes. we heard something
about subs. Didn't they sink a few
British vessels way back at the be
ginning OF the war; Germans are
very credulous up to certain point.
One young aviator, l learned after
ward, enthralled his captors with tales
of a new model of airship that tapped
its wings like a bird and could cross
the ocean. He was asked 10 make a
drawing and. being a good drafts
man, Obliged. The Huns were in
tensely interested and all day long
kept him making drawings iIlustra-
tive of the various parts and features
before they finally caught on
After this for three weeks l was
moved from camp to camp. ] had no
trouble getting my hurts dressed |
would simply demand medical atten-
ton in believing tone of voice. and
that voice and attitude resulted in
almost automatic compliance. You
can get anything from a Hun if you
order him loudly and fiercely enough:
you get nothing if you ask him de
Gently.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-09
STOLE RED CROSS BOXES.
Germans Committed Many Wrongs
Against Prisoners, Sergeant Says.

Many offenses against prisoners OF
war, including the pilfering of Red
Cross boxes of food and clothing sent
them. are charged against the Ger
mans, by sergt. Edgar U. Halybur-
ton of Stony Point. \. c., who was
elected president" of the prison camp
at Bastatt by his 2.4oo fellow Ameri-
can prisoners.
BY dint of sturdy protests, the or
ganization formed by the prisoners
eventually obtained certain rights
from their jailers, Sergt. HALLIBURTON
said. but even then their lot was a
hard one
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-09
Told Hun Aviator Was Woman.

Lieut.. Baker says that after he re-
turned to France he heard on unim-
peachable authority that one of the
fokkers that had attacked him had
been pifoted by woman; that the
plane had been brought down by an
American. and that the woman died
in an American hospital next day.
He says he does not for moment
doubt this, as the stories of German
women manning machine guns are
too well attested. Moreover, al
though every effort was made to cap
ture one of these feminine gunners
alive, it never could be done. because
they would always fight on until
killed.
Although he is not even a member
of the Y. NJ. c. A. and. as he puts il.
holds no brief for that organization.
Lieut.. Baker has this 10 say anent the
work done by the ''Y'' and the recent
criticisms directed its way.
81 have travelled $1,000 miles in
France alone, and have seen as much
of the " l imagine, as any Ameri-
can soldier. A large part of the criti-
cism. so far as individual cases are
concerned, 1 believe to be true. but
taking the work as whole. ] will say.
emphatically, L do not believe the
agency deserves the knocks it is now
getting.
II think the average soldier is in
clined TO overlook the fact that most
of his amusement and practically all
of his library facilities, especially at
first, We're furnished by the " Dis
regarding the hundreds of times the
" has been of real service to him, he
is apt to recall only that on such and
such an occasion he was overcharged.
As to the reasons lying behind this
overcharge, he has probably no con-
ception. The Y cannot afford to let
itself get out of any of it's stock in
trade.
when 1T is out, then it has to go
into the open market and buy, and
buy quickly at that. Moreover, the
'Y' as far as I know is pre-eminent in
all efforts to counterfeit the peculiar
evils, social and physical. of Army
life. and for that reason every right
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-09

However. we found the treatments to
be genuine preventive measures.
az believe we got better food in
south Germany than was given pris
oners in Prussia, but 1T was poor
enough. Red Cross parcels, and. later.
the carload shipments, sent by that
organization. which included deiica-
cies and much-needed toilet articles.
helped a lot, but we were a pretty
hungry set most of the time. We took
no exercise at ALL so as to make our
two daily. scanty meals stretch their
utmost.
Although the Bavarians were much
more decent than Prussians in lots of
ways. that did not stop them charg
ing us $50 marks Il month for table
board and lodging. They cashed our
checks on Cox & Co, the English
bankers used by British officers, and
that firm. although it had never even
heard of us. honored the checks, and,
l feel sure, were reimbursed later in
case
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-09
Rooms With Two D. C. Boys.

They kept me at Landshut until
after the armistice. During that time
roomed with two other Washington
boys. George Wise. 1880 33d street
northwest and James c. Duke. jr I
had rowed on boat club crews with
one of them al home. We ended UP at
Viilingen. the great prison camp, two
days after the armistice. We went
without even u guard We could have
walked unmolested, but waited for n
train, and also because there was
more food at Landshut than theirs
would be en- route. There we joined
with some two hundred other Amer
lean officers and were sent in a spe
ciai train and in first-class carriages,
the first time ] had even seen such
coaches. to konStanZ. We spent
Thanksgiving day only zoe yards
from the Swiss border, and our holt
day dinner was mostly n first and
second helping of very poor cabbage.
THE Swiss next made up special
train for us and that days travel
through the little republic was abso
lutely the most wonderful | ever hope
to experience. AT its close we didn't
have a laugh or tear left, nor even
d voice. We were talked out, laughed
out. cried out. fed to repletion-eX-
hausted. but happy"
Finally the contingent reached
France and many of the officers
started TO return to duty. Lieut..
Baker says he was fit for duty and
was about TO apply for active serv-
ice with the army of occupation
when he heard for the first time of
his fathers death, three months be-
fore. He then changed his plans and
den City. l.. J., whence he got his
present leave
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-09
AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA

ALEXANDRIA, Va. February S.
The killing of Louise Lunsford. the
twelve-year-oid daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Wallace 3. Lunsford, by an aU-
tomobile driven by Chrest Constant
was an unavoidable accident This
was the substance of verdict given
this afternoon by coroner's jury
which met at Demaine's mortuary
chapel. after hearing the testimony
of seven witnesses
Constant. who is twenty-six years
old and native of Bulgaria. and who
lives in Washington, told the jury that
al the time of the accident his ma
chine was travelling at between five
and six miles an hour He blew his
horn. he said. when he saw number
of children from the Mount Vernon
School of Del Ray playing in the ROAD:
the children left the road and after
going short distance little Miss
Lunsford ran in front of his machine
and before he could stop it she was
struck. Witness said he rushed her to
the hospital. where she died. His
testimony was corroborated by play
mates OF the Little victim.
The funeral will take place at 3
CLOCK tomorrow afternoon from the
Methodist Church at Del Ray, AieXa1-
dria- county, and services will be cor
Quoted by Rev DR.. +. V. REGISTER.
pastor of the NJ T.. Church Sout1.
Burial VIII be in Bethel cemetery