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-V 'ff"' DAILf EVEHINB EDITION .f umber (Gcplea printed of yesterday's Dally Kdltioo ' 2,964 Tbla paper I . member of nd audited by Uia Audit Bureau of Circulation. DAILY EVEHIHG EDITION WEATHER FORECAST . Tonight and Sunday fair. ireftonia COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL. 80 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON,' SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1918. NO. 9384 PRESIDENT SETS FOOT DOWN ON PEACE TALK; FORCEFUL WAR MESSAGE IS EXPECTED SOON TO END SI1ENCE ON THE SIBERIAN QUESTION Peace Talk Idle in View of German Ruthless Invasion . of Russia and East. STRONG ATTITUDE IN NEUTRAL SHIPPING Believe Teutons Will Hesi- tate Over Embroiling Holland. L ALL DRESSED UP AND NO PLACE TO 60! rU Via AMBRICAN TOONT- Murch 16. Paul 8. Baer of Indiana who arrived a month ago down- d his first enemy airplane Monday. . WASHINGTON"," March 16. forceful wtir message to the world 1 expected from President Wllnon Boon, It hi Indicated he la determined to en the silence regarding the America position toward the Japanese Siberia move. Simultaneously. It Is learned peace talk Is Idle in view of the Oer man ruthless Invasion of Russia an her activities In the near east. Peace by Sword. In the light of the fact that the President has set his foot down on peace talk, diplomat believ he will definitely state that peace must now come only by the sword. A stronger attitude 1y Amrlca Is shown In the determination that neutral shipping la neded for victory. Czernlne's failure to respond to President Wilson's last rrwoth and his demands upon Ru mania convince officials he Is doml nated by junkers. Germany la drunk on her conquest of the small rich countries "and does not 'consider any principle wera made more apparent y.y the near east Invasion." It ia learn d Japan and America will contlnuo friendly exchanges regarding Siberia. America'! position Is unchanged. PENDLETON DISTRICT ORGANIZED FOR ML FUTURE WAR WORK Georsre Hartman. District Chairman Has Meeting of , Precinct Committeemen. Organization of the Pendleton dis trict not only, for the third Liberty Ixian drive but, for oil future drives and for conducting all war work was begun yesterday afternoon when George A. Hartman. district chairman of the recently formed county organ Izatlon. culled his precinct committee men together and Instructed them as to the first steps necessary In tho or ganisation work. There are 20 precincts It! the Pen dleton districts, all tributary territory as well as the city Itself being In the district. Mr. Hartman announced his precinct chairmen as follows: N'o. 27, I. l Hagen: No. 28, Dr. C. W. Las sen; No. 29. J. R. Thompson; No. 32. H. M. Chambers; No. 33, Edmund Mable; No. 34, Judge J. W. Maloney; No. 35, B. L. Burroughs; No. 36, J. J. Hamley; No. 37, R. M. SaAtelle; No. 38, Clarence Penland; No. 39, W. W. Harrah; No. 40, R. M. MHynerry; No. 41, C. R. Bond; No. 4 2, J. C. Wood worth; No. 43, S, R. Thompson: No. 44. C. P. A. Lonergan; No. 45, George R. Roberts: No. 46, Elmer Moore; north half No. 57. George R. Roberts; north ha1V No. 58, H. C. Dunn. As members of Mr. Hartman'B own com mittee are George C. Baer. F. W. I. ampkln, J. B. McCook and J. Roy Raley. These precinct chairmen are ap- pointed for the duration of the war to be responsible for the precinct as signed to them. Their first, work will be to select team captains ot the ra tio of one for every 25 potential con , trlbutora In their precinct. The pre cinct will be divided among the team captains for the taking of a census of the potential contributors and each captain will make a report showing the name, address and occupation of eoch contributor In his pnxllcular territory. The nnmes thus gathered will be divided among the team cap tains as permanent lists for which they will be responsible during each drive. Meeting on 22nd. Each precinct chairman yesterday was instructed to have his census ta ken and reported In by March 22 up 0 on which date a general county meet ing will be held. On that day the county workera will meet In the morn ing to be Instructed relative to the Liberty Ian drive and In the after noon will meet for the discussion or matters pertaining to the further or. (animation of the county committees. 1 4 iAMERICAN ARTILLERY WRECKS GERMAN GAS PROJECTOR POSITION Sniping is Increasing; Brit ish Aviators Down 118 Planes Since March 1. RUSSIAN AN-SOVIET RATIFIES HUN PEAOif: ;EATY BY OVERWHELMING V( i AMERICAN AID IS REFUSED i V . v , I ., 1 $i , I t LI' M , 1 : '' K r-' j Of, I , I' ft AMFTK'ICAN FtUXT. March 16. American artillery dewtroyed another German gas projector position in the Luneville sector today, Snlfirif? Ih !n creainff. Sharpflhoiters on both Hides are active. .There Is normal artlllery- inff. The Toul 'sector Ih o,niet. TiOXDOK, March 16. The Biilgar lanH fienrely hombarded MujiHHtlr to day. There were minor raids along the west front. Jtrftlsh avUitors have downed 118 enemy airplanes In day fKti 11 nir nlnee March first. Aviatom In relays bombed the DuKe where the Hermans were niafwlnt? troopa presumably for attack, frustrating the move. Night air fighting continues. Tons of explosives are dropped behind the enemy lines. On the battle, line, ex peciancy everywhere Is evident. Ar tillery duels are sporadic. STORM Bite E AKS BROAD POWERS Lonpfworth Assails Wilson While Kitchm Attacks War Finance Measure. OLD CLOTHING WILL BE. COLLECTED FREE WRAP IT IV BfXIM.H PLACK ON FRONT FOKC'U JiKroitK MAIUlf 25 AND MARK 'iu:i -ROSi.-' ...mi The latest -photograph of Me und der "Hero of Verdun' taken on the West front. They're all ready and wafting waiting for "that Paris train" you can almost picture the young hopeful" turning to the kaiser nd asking "When do we start for Paris. Papa? Pet papa wishes he knew! The kaiser wears a wool hel met under his .pointed one, but not the fastidious crown prince. What's that standard sticking In the ground between them? Your- guess is as good as anybody's. If you have any old clothing to contribute to suffering Belgians and French, do them tip in a bundle and place them on your front porch be fore llarch 25. As a matter of pre caution, pin a tag bearing the words. "Red Cross" on the bundle so that the delivery boy will not take your laun dry by mistake. y t AH such bundles will' be gathered up free of charge by the Penland de liveries, either .upon Motifytng the de livery boys or calling Penland Liros. Five thousand tons of enthing are to be gathered by the lied Cross throughoyt the country during the next few days and Cmatilla county haji been asked to contribute three and a half tons. After March 25, the Red Cross will not receive anv cloth- WASHINVJTON". March 16. The storm against granting thf executive sweeping power broke in the house this afternoon with Senator Iong worth assailing President Wilson and Kltchin attacking the war finance cor poration bill. Ijongworth charged "the Incessartt reaching for legislative functions by the executive nnd greed for autocratic power menace our sys tem of government. . If Wilson In his isolation from the people be Im mune from attack we must change our war plans." Kltchin said "If this and a few more bills pass, congress had better abdicate." Long worth said: "Things have come to a pretty pass here if legisla tion is to be simply a matter of execu- ti-e order and if the committees In this house be no more than register ing machines for the will of the ex ecutfve. I believe the time has come definitely to impress on the executive and the country that we propose to do some thinking ourselves." .. -He said the powers Secretary McAdoo asks under the war finance corpora tlon bill would make him arbiter of American business and finance. Js'o war lord In history, not even the kais er, ever had such powers." Cold Reception Given Message of Sympathy from Unite'd States; Eeply . Regarded as German Directed Thanks U. S. Working People and Appeals to Them to Overthrow Captitalism; Trotsky Declares Rob ber Peace Can Not Last. ' . - - . . C. ANIBAL DIED MOSCOW, March 16. HERE LAST NGHTjThe Russian Pan-Soviet con- . ress today overwhelmingly "e. c. An.bai, weii known painter a.;d (ratified the Brest-LitQysk contractor of Pendleton, died laat iteiTnS. evening at 9:15 at the hospital where he had been for the past eleven days following a collapse. Mr. Anibal. was born in 186f "in Wisconsin and for the past 18 Vars had been a resident of thia city. He is survived by his widow and 4 two daughters. Misses Nellie and Verna (JOSEPH SHAPLEN) . PKTROGRAD, March 1 Presi dent Wilson's message to the Russian people was read at the Moscow Pan Soviet congress amid silence. They Anibal. A mother and brother live to ; passed a resolution in reply thanking; the- east. He was a member of the ithe American working people for Christian church and of tho Moose their sympathy and expressing hopes lodge. . the masses everywhere would soon. The funeral will be held tomorrow overthrow capitalism and establish afternoon at 2:30 at the Brown chap el. Rev. H. H. Hubbell will have charge of the services. FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT OFFICE OPEN MONDAY Monday the United States employ ment office, under C. B. Green, will open here, with headquarters in the office of the Burroughs-Chambers Co. in the East Oregonian building. A SUBMARINES BEING SLOWLY BUT SURELY DEFEATED IS DANIELS MESSAGE TO HOUSE WASHINGTON. March 1 6. The submarine, Germany's trump card, Is being slowly, but surely beaten by the rapidly Increasing number of destroy er chasers, Secretary Dant-els Inform ed tho house naval committee. lie felleves the menace will be greatly lessened this summer. Daniels said: I understand we are going to win over the submarines we are winning surely and steadily. ..hut even at the best we'll always I rise some ships ami will be a constant fight. The Itrit- ish admlrnlty believes i he allies arc capturing submarines faster than ermany can build them." He said with the massed allied fleet f battleship and d rendu a ugh! s, con sidered Invincible, the allies have dis continued building bigger ships, di recting all their efforts on a. mam- ! oth destroyer fleet. The I'nited i Slates will contribute scores of de- , stroyer chasers this year thrrtugh a contract with Henry Ford. INDEX FOR TODAY I'ajr I'asf Iuk Pajit' I'uuc l'at Paw laj;o laiv I'u iiur. Paw In Train I'll FIKST RF.CTION. 1 Ti'lcfiraph and local news. 2 Household. 3 News of Pendleton. I Kditorfiil. 5 Social and Pcj'Honal. . 0 Antiw. 7 Autos, H Wluil ads and roinic, SFJt'ONI SI-tTION. O I'irture Shows. HI Picture Shows. II I Vaunt's. 1'J Home Industries. 13 "vc-r Tliore.'' II Feature luiKe. 'oul ut- Feature, Princeton Hoys 1 in;r. " 1 Id Northwest News. j rnii:i Mcmox. j , four putt's. ' Ing. The Kelgian rollef commission Ispeclal phone has been installed for has sufficient ships to transport the 'use of the office and the number is clothing and the need for such relief 1538. George Howard Thinks West More Civilized Than Eastern Stajtes George Howard, Pendleton boy. now in the service of Uncle Sam, writes as follows: Norfolk, Virginia, March 8, 1918. Dear Mother and Father: socialistic society. The socialist revo lutionary commisaries quit the Russian cabinet, pending the settlement of tho peace question by the Moscow con gress. They will resign if tho Ger man peace is ratified. Prospects for reassembling the constituents assem bly to form a coalition cabinet are stronger. - - "Robbery Peace" Not iMtinjr. "The Pan-Soviet must tear up the Brest-Litovsk treaty and create an army necessary for its defeat," de- t dared one social commissary officer w.ii t am a i- v from home!"1 quitting, "Germany knows the rob- dared. ' CARL GROAT) : WA8HIXGTOX. March- !. ThiH bolshevik! leaders will definitely cast their lot with the Germans is further now for sure. I am right on the east coast. We had a fine trip across the continent. We went fromSan Diego to Salt Lake City and then east through Wyoming, Nebraska. Mis souri. Illinois. Ohio. West Virginia and then through Virginia to Norfolk. I don t like the eaM half as good as proved by the chilled reception given I did the west. The people here act j President Wlbon'i message " to the than tney do in tne a lot different went. I always thought the east was civilized but I believe the west is more so. wThen we were coming through the eastern states, especially West message Pan-Soviet congress, and its re sponse Inviting an appeal to Amer ican labor. The resolution Is regard ed here as German directed. Au thorities say it will not be heeded. It Virginia, 1t i looked like some Of the wiII discourage attempts to sway th pictures of the old time houses. All bolshevik!, but will not halt Amer- the houses were of lots with mud ican afforts to aid the Russian oeo- chimneys or fire -places. I d be darn-ipe, as it is felt Wilson's message will, have a good effect on the peo ple is not distorted by the Hun. a crying one. Germans Seize Belgian Grain Steeamer Despite ed If I would want to live there. I liked Wyoming and - Nebraska fine but Utah and Nevada were noth ing but deserts. This Isn t so bad j right here on the coast but I like San Diego lots better. There were about three hundred of us came on the same train. There were aboA five hundred firemen oent from Frisco at the same time. We met them at Ogden. Utah. They were coming here to Norfolk; too. I thought Sam might be with them, but he wasirt. They have us stationed in nice big bungalows with about 4 0 men to the bungalow. The miy ining max mis nas got on i" DrClnrMTC P TUT? Diego is their accommodations." It is ! 1 tOlLCI V i O Jt I tits Mots colder here than in California at j night but warms up some in the day time. We just got here so. we have to wash a lot of dirty clothes. CHASF.R FI.ACSHIP don't know just what my address will . be for one of the officers said we I A company of the Umatilla County would probably go on a ship bv Wed- j Jard has been organised in the east nesday. I Will write again as soon as '. end of the eounty, according to word t . . . i . i , . , . ! from T. A I. (noma,, f ivrm nw ll.nlul. announced eight were killed and 22 .highly Important assignment a. radio Y,,u can tell Nellie ami emI I nt n ' the Pendleton company and Mr. Green expects to be here for a month and to return later to handle fthe harvest season. All workmen de siring to enroll for work are asked to register with him. All farmers or Safe Conduct Promises 'other peopIe needin help are asked employment office. No charge is made of either employe or employer. COPKXlIAiiKX, March Ifl. 1espite their promise of nuTc con duct, the C-Vrmans seized tho Swedish steamer Princes Inge lMnr, grain laden for Hellau re lief and took It to Kiel. Eight Killed, 22 Hurt In Hartlepool Raid . Harold Frock, local man now in the I LONDON, March 0. lord French 'military service, has been given the j HAROLD BROCK IS CHIEF RADIO MAN Big Movement German Troops Into Belgium AMSTERDAM, March 1. News papers report an unprecedented Ger man troop movement Into Belgium. Hindenburg and LUdendorf have es tablished headquarters at Spa near Liege. EAST END FORM GUARD COMPANY Injured In a Hartlepool. German air raid who recently moved to his ranch near Freewater. Mr. Reineman Issued ........ I nnpr-iliir nn th ftsis-uftirt ttf Ktlbnia irine chaser squadron. Word to this I wood that 1 wi" them , as i : . k m j I soon as I can. I have only arot on Mrs W F Brock parents 'of' the ,nrpe c"nt s,amP ,(,ft- enough fb ' for " interested to attend a ?. 1 ' P ; send this letter. 1 will borrow some meeting and reports that S8 were .TAPS ITV TUATVrHITT?TA i' ..V, ' J ! 'i. , ,hJ if I can till I get paid and then I " "P the first night in Freewater i ' . " . . . , . , .. I will write to all of them. . and that 20 have since been added. .,. ..iii. nn iwi u.u unit?. UK 1' BOLSHEVIKI KILL 150 TOKIO, March lfi. Tito Itussian ' radio man on the flagship and ItoMieikl murdered: 150 Japanese therefore ir near the Manehiiriaii frontier, news- i sponsibility. papers "hem rejHirt. i position of great re There are seven v eight sub chasers in the squadron. have some washing to do. Good bye. I am as ever your son, GEORGE L. HOWARD. AMERICANS IN THE "CHOW" CAMP BACK OF LINES IN FRANCE OTATOES LISTED FLOOR SUBSTITUTE " WARNS SOLDIERS TO STRICT SILENCE i w Order Fordid Them to Tell 'ami lies About Their 1 Movements. i Hecause wheat substitutes are scarce ut this time In Oregon, potatoes ill for a limited time be regarded as substitute, according to a ruling received this morning by r. W. I. cXary, chairman of the council of efense. from Food fommissimier yer of Oregon. The following tele gram is self-explanatory: Owing to thi' extreme scarcity of substitutes In this state the fond ad ministrator telegraphs that tempor arily potatoes may be added to the list of substitutes on the basis of four pounds f potatoes to one pound of other substitutes purchased. For 11 Instratlon, with a sale of M pounds of flour tho buyers may take l imi pounds of potatoes and 2" pounds of substi tutes from the official list. Senate Accepts ayllubt mil. WASHINGTON. March 1 ti. The senate accepted the house daylight saving bill. It goes to 'resident Wil son now. It advances the national railroad and government department al clocks an hour between March and October, l A YK II, Mass.. March 16. Officers ; and men traveling from one military Pt to another may not telegraph ; ahead to friends to meet them, under new orders for stippressng military , Information, which were received nt Camp 1 foveas today. The orders say: i "All persons connected with the r military service who receive Infor mation of proposed Inland or propos ed overseas movements of organiza tions, detachments or Individuals, are prohibited to make public the details ttf such movements. The names of organizations,' dates of de parture, arrival or embarkation, or , the ships to be used in such move i ments will not be disclosed. ''When necessary to advise rela lives or other private persons of ap proaching departure, persons connect ed with the military service will con vey only Information absolutely ne cessary, which will not Include rail 1 1. Hieing er probable time of arrival ai any station or dates or names ol ships or port of departure or the des tination' of organizations' This is to arrive Americans V: :. .w..-:Jfs :, v.s . - .: ;:-; . (-i- .i'CnMi one oi i ne i irsi pin M tlw. t'n;i..,l Vl.ila. n tin RUNAWAY BOYS ARE TAKEN NEAR RIEfll ! Ed Larkin and Art Stebbin of Spokane First Caught at Pilot Rock. l Two runaway boys from Spokane. Ed Larkin and Art Stebblna by name. j were picked up yesterday afternoon this side v: Itieth by Sheriff Taylor anil Chief Roberts. The boys were ieke;l up the other day In Pilot Hock for having broken Into a cabin and stolen mime canned fooda with vhich to satisfy their hunger. How ever, i hoy succeeded In getting away from the Pilot Rock offlcem and get ting to Kieth. The local officer were notified and. as they were driv ing to Uleth.' passed a car In which the boys were riding. When the auto a halted the ooh caught xlgrlt of Chief Huberts' brass buttons, leaped from the car and started to make a rapid (jeiaway. chief Roberto drew his hilly dm. and. pretending It was a gun. pointed It at the boys.Don't -hoot. Al." yelled the sheriff and two very scared boys stopped running and came to the officers. They admitted they had run away front home and the officers are now awaiting word ft u their parents. icrnians loKr;i'h o nre In l.o chow camp. Just wtthin fu iii distance of the tic . .k...ili,M V.....L. f- I.n t I "aV...,..'. Iu a.ipunr.u.t l.. riylitiny line. These for some" warm food. While they are the lloeh caunot see it. Church, of iih Kedennrr. ltev. Alfred Lockwood. rector, a. ni. Holy Communion: :45 church School ; 11 a. m. Morning prayer and st-rmun. 1:30 p. nt. evening Drav.r an ami sermon. Huhject of morning sermon "Facing the Inevitable,"