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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1919
Page
3
The British army reports a missing 11 inch gun that started toward Dunkirk but never arrived. Moen of the army suspects it was stolen as a souvenir and jokes it might someday surface in the front yard of an American millionaire.
Salisbury Center reports Herkimer County proceeds with a £150,000 tuberculosis hospital project after delays caused by high material costs. Indifference had slowed progress despite evident need.
A Mohair chair bought today by K E Ward reveals bonds worth 4000 dollars from the Helen Sanders estate. The will left the estate to a daughter Georgiana Sanders who disappeared 25 years ago, and Ward claims the estate via his wife, the sister. Over 150 women presented themselves seeking Georgiana. Port. March 29 explosion injures four at Columbia River Shipbuilding yard. gas ignition caused by coal gas and hot rivets, hull No. 22. Spokane March 29 wage rise granted for streetcar workers. cent-an-hour increase tied to Attu list and federal war board approval. Shutte Wash March 20 to May 8 Hangen improving in southern California recovery attempt.
Fragmentary report shows Mayor Hanon unclear when he will resume official duties while hints suggest he may be ready to take up responsibilities again. He sent a telegram to Thomas F Morphine for publication in the Municipal Railway News, to inform city utilities department about street car patrons.
New York March 29 United Press reports England and America watch a striking display of spiritual influence claimed to support the play The Invisible Foe at Harris Theatre. Critics called it crude yet the run grew into a major success with patrons including returning soldiers. Producer Randy Cushing notes spiritual power aided progress even during rehearsals.
Vandam Warehouse Co upholds a loan on Broadway and Seventh Avenue property. Improvements are planned costing from 170,000 to 227,000 dollars. The project aims to upgrade facilities at the tailding estate.
In Persium on March 29 Rupprecht of Bulgarianly eyed a famed mansion gallery. Prince Frans, warden of the estate, inspected the collection with an officer. A stern rebuke from a senior official halted any theft attempt as German and American observers note the era’s wartime protectiveness of art. Frupprecht left without taking paintings.
United States Immigration Inspector Frank Watkins announced that five aliens from Oregon under sentence of deportation will be sent from Portland to New York tomorrow. They join nine others being deported by Seattle and a carload of aliens from San Francisco expected to arrive at the center tomorrow morning.
Washington dispatch reports US gasoline production rose after hostilities ended. Bureau of Mines official Van H. Mann notes output near 50 million barrels weekly during the war’s close, 65 million in 1918, and over 85 million barrels in 1919, highlighting wartime drive.
Two bar ge s of flour arrived from Rotterdam marking the first Rhine route shipment for the Third Army. Eighty cars of food for Bresian prisoners arrive in a German camp under American supervision. Consignments of clothing and other supplies are en route.
London, March 28. After trials of new British dirigibles of the right construction, the government ordered the building of enormous ships. Each will be about 1,000 feet in length with a capacity of 2,000,000 cubic feet. They will be powered by six engines totaling 1,800 horsepower and will have a lift capacity around 86 tons, compared with 89 tons for the heaviest ships known.
Paris and London plan to resume the cross channel service after wartime suspension. Officials say the line will reopen soon with restored telephonic and railway connections coordinating Paris Rome routes.
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