La Grande evening observer., December 13, 1921, Image 1

MkMBER OF TRS ASSOCIATED PUSS
VOLUME XXV
LA GRANDE, OREGON,, TUESDAY, (DECEMBER 13, 1921
NUMBER 58
! I
RESERVATION
MADE BY U. S.
ON YAP PACT
Four-power Treaty Was
Formally feigned This
Moruuiu; ,
D SLEDDING
IS 111 FOR
FAIR TUXES
DOMESTIC PROBLEMS
NOT IN AGREEMENT
Yap Question is Expected
to be Settled "Within a
Few Days and Reserva
tion Will Then be Erased.
t (By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. ly. Japan's
acceptance of the American proposal
on the 5-5-3 naval limitation ratio
has been communicated to American
and British delep-itcs und an agree
ment is expected to bo reached late
this week. Japan asked that she bo
allowed to retain the new battleship
Mutsu jn place of one of the old line
ships she would have retained. The
American delegates met today to con
sider this requst but arc not yet pre
pared to grant
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. The
quadruple troaty to preservo the
peace of the Pacific was formally
signed today by the plenipotentiaries
of the United Statos, Great Britain,
Franco aiul Japan. The signatures
were affixl-d In the ante room of tho
socretary of the state's office
Tho American delegates signed
first. The approval of the United
States is, however, given subject to
a written, understanding with the
Japanese providing that tils Aiuer-
La Grande Is
Now Healthy
( joniparison
Year
Chan
With
x Biff
o
Last
PENDLETON, Dec. l!i. If senti
ment which Senator Roy W. Rltner
discovered among legislators in Pojt-
laiiu is a lair inuex 10 me lociiug 01
all lawmakers it looks as If there
may be hard sledding ahead for the
Portland fair measuru when the Bpo-
clal session starts on December 19.
According to Senator Rltner the men
whom he met In Portland Saturday
were with one excoptlon opposed to
the idea of a general property tax for
the fair. However, tiuito a few legis
lators are favorable to the idea of an
income tax for the fair and Speaker)
Bean of the house is nrenarinc a,
measure to that effect. Even in the bcr of ca5CS ot contagious disease has
According to the quarnnllno rec
ord ot the police department La
Grande Is enpoylng much bettor
health today than a year ago. At
this time last year there were many
Contagious dlseuso cases under quar
antine and many of the cases were
very serious. The epidemic of last
year, which began early In autumn
and continued until late in winter.
saw many days when there wcro sev
eral hundred people detained because
of quarantines.
Today there are only five cases of
contagious disease In the city. These
are all cases of diphtheria and none
of tho cases Is serious. The num-
Multnoiiialt delegation thore is oppo
sition to the property tax measure.
WKLLOWAMEH
INCORPORATE
ID A N COMPANY
SALEM, Doc. 13. Capitalized at
tn nnn ih Wnilnwi. v..nw t
company with headquarters at Enter
prise filed articles of incorporation
with the state corporation department
here Saturday. The incorporators are
E, F. Johnson, Wade Siler uud Daniel
Boyd.
POPBGATEPETL-.
IN ERUPTION
lean-Japanese treaty regarding Yap'Mexico's Great YolCJUTrte
Showers Country "With
must be consummated beforo the
four-power agreement Is binding.
This reservation is expected lo be
erased within a few days by the sig
nature of the Yap treaty. Another
American reservation provided that
the' domestic questions of various
powers aye not to be considered
within' the scope bf'the treaty."
Ashes and Rocks.
Famous Musical Case
' - Decision Reversed
' SAl.KJf, Dec, 1:1. . Tlu su
premo court today reversed the
decision of Judge Phelps in
Vnlon county circuit ' court on
the cnKk. of tho Kiwlern Oregon
Music '., appellant, against !.
M. Itilihey. The action was on
u breach of contract.
been kept very low at all thuds since
last spring and there have been very
few serious cases of any kind.
le
Red Pepper, Bread'
and Butter used as
Ammunition in War
Women Rent Air With Their Shrieks,
and Beat Hp Men at Coal Mines;
: Sheriff Pelted With Edibles.
BONUS ACT
is upheld f
HIGH COURT
Supren(i)
loduv
Couilfc of State
Handed Down
i Decision
WAY OPEN TO THE
PAYMENT OF BONUS
Act Provides For V.itlipv
Cash Bonus or Loan on
JJeal Estate; Has People's
Approval. v
(Hy AKot'litfwl rrmft
niTTSISUKU, Kansas, Dec. 111.
Mobs of shrieking women at the
coal mines today beat, up four
men and wrecked two automo
biles. They strewed dinner palls
about. The women are said to
have used red pepper and stones.
The sheriff was pelted with bread
and butter. 'A smaller mob was
repulsed at Mulberry.
TODAY'S WHEAT.
(By Associated Press)
PORTLAND, Dec. 113. Wheat was
.$1.01 to $1.07 today.
ANOTHER COM'EHE.NCE.
(i:- A.iK-iat.-i1 Prenyl
LONDON, Dec. 13. Humors nf
the possibility of an international eco
nomic conference in Washington -tm
current here. Vague reports that Lloyd
George and Premier Briand may go
are also floating around.
Gardner Gets One -
.More Sentence Of .
. A Quarter Century
rilOENIX, Ariz... IDec. 13. Itov
.Gardner, twice convicted mail robber.
(V.v AfsociBted Press)
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 13. Popoca
tepetl, the great volcano southeast of
this city, burst into violent eruption
Sunday afternoon, a column of smoke
and a.-hes being thrown 2i00 feet
above the mountain summit. President whose trial here on a charge of rob
Obregon was. entertaining a party of(bing a mail car at Maricopa, Arizona,
friends at Chapultepec castle, and had resulted in a hung jury Sunday, pleatl-
Tlif Bnnrnia fniirt1 1 1 uu icon veil guniy Monday in tno United Statos
"a .OUprme . VOUI I (phen he' observed the eruption. He call- jdistrict court to a charge of attempt-
led for strong field glasses and after, ing to rob a mail car here and nsstiult
i closely observing the column of smoke 'Infr- Herman F. Inderlied, mail clerk
rising 40 miles awa He directed that In charge of the car. Judge Williaii
! two aviators be sent to the mountain jjl. Sawtclle immediately sentenced
jto ascertain the seriousness of the Gardner to 25 years in the federal
outbreak. prison at Leavenworth, Kansas,
The aviators reported upon their Gardner now faces a total of 7u
return that they had heard! heavy years imprisonment for sentences im
rumbling in the iountain, and thai ; posed upon him for robbery of the
llava was liowing down me slopes uo- malls.
ilow the crater. Warnings have been
sent to the residents of villages near
the mountain, but reports indicate
that these small towns have been do
scrted for weeks.
PAY UUAItAXTIil IS AIM
(By Associated Press) '
SALEM. Dee. 13. Tho state sot.
diers bonus and loan act was unheid
today by tho supremo court in a
friendly suit instituted on behalf of
the American Legion to test tho law
preparatory to the issuance of bonds
to make possible the carrying out of
the bonus and loan features of tho
act.
,The" act provides for the payment
of $15 per month cash up to $500 or
the loan- of $3,000 on real estate to
ex-service men. The act was passed
by tho last legislature and approved
by tho people at a special election
June 7.
Boxing Match
Here Toniqht
bonne Past Bouts Looked
Forward to by Local
.Pans
This evening at 8 o'clock at tho
star theater, sport fans will havo an
opportunity of -aeolug some bouts
that are expected to bo among tho
oost that have been staged horo In
recent months. Kid Karthor, who
has a record of 20 straight knock
outs, will meet Mickey Dcuipsoy, who
na rought 35 times and has novor
been licked.
Thcro will bo throo fast prelimin
aries. Speed llutlor and Kid Terry
box and K. O. Jess will meet Battling
Tiffany, while Young Thompson and
Midget Allen will also put on a bout.
FLOODS
LA FOLLETTE'
mm nnnjiu
oppose pactABATING
' (Br Associated Press)
WAShmUioN, Dec. 13. Senator
Latollctto doclared in a statement
on tho new quadrunlo treaty todnv
that it has all tho "iniquities ot the
league of nations with none of the
virtues claimed for that document."
Ho declared that ho would fight rati
fication.
Farmers Oppose The
Proposed Tax For
Portland's Fair
Ad Club Speakers Sec Much Harm in
Proposed Tax for Fair; Farmers
Would Kace Kuin.
Borah Wanfs Public
tr.y A.i.ioi-lati Press)
WASHINGTON, iD. C., Dec .13. A
resolution directing the war depart
ment to, transmit to to senate the re
port of Brigadier-General Mitchell re
garding tho airplane bombing of naval
ships off Hampton Koads was intro
duced today by Senator Borah, repub
lican, Idaho, who said that the report
was being withheld from the public.
, At the war department it was said
that the Mitchell report was submit
ted -to the special joint board which
later published .a report based tm-all
the data beforo it. i r- . ', ..
i 'iA t TOS I' A St'i.NflTE. INDIANS,' ,
WAS'HlK'afON'lfeW 13. t- Th'e
Approximately 50 men listened to
day noon at tho Ad Club luncheon to
earnest and logical presentations o!
the farmers' viewpoint on the pro
posed 1925 fair tax. Chairman Lee
Bouvy had arranged for the oppon
ents' hour and v. 1'. Huffman and
E. I,, Ecklcy were the speakers. Mr.
Huff called tho attention of tho audi.
enco to the fact that tho cost of rais
ing wheat is now as much, or moro,
than the price of the rotnil bushel;
ho argued that land was now produc
ing 85 per cent of tho total, tax land
that it had about reached its limit;
that he was paying moro taxes today
than ho formerly got in rent for the
same land; that, loyal ns farmers are
to the atatc, they cannot look upon
the tax with favor and maintain good
business judgment that ns a 'busi-
To Know Of Bombing h is way out to take on another ad-
ditional cent of taxation for any pur
pose whatsoever. He contended that
lew larmers nro auie 10 see ueyonu
their indebtedness and that tho time
ia toon coming, if Oregon does not
stay close to the shore and quit spend
ing, that tho farmers will have to
gjve up.
Mn. Eckley took tho position that
it was a Portland job; that ho was in
no wise opposed to the fair; that the
1905 fair had made tho state t a very
largo degree; that Portland would be
immeasurably benefited by tho pro
posed fair and that an indirect bene
fit would redound to all sections of
the state, i but, ho. steadfastly main
tained, the project should.be financ
ed by the Portland taxpayers aijd sucn
individual- Volunteer subscriptions as
miirht bd obtained from 'the state nl
automobile "Boema to possess thojlasge. It was tho opinion of both
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. Formal
application was made by the Union
Pacific railroad to the interstate
commerce commission today for au
thority (b guarantee payment of in
terest and principal of an issue of
$16,424,000 In Oregon Short Line
railroud bonds.
The money will be used to pay" off
a maturity obligation of the Oregon
Short Line, which Is a subsidiary of
the L'nloll Pacific.
it? 85 8 Ht ' Hj
w MINERS LOSE LIVES.
BOOZE
I
GLUBS FLOURISH
VANCOUVER, II. C. Dec. 13. The
sudden growth in the number oT Van.
r.t :.rcouvcr clubs licensed to sell mait
(liy A."ociau-(i PrestO ' :: liquor to members has resulted In
:r MORRISON, Colo., Dec. 13. v the reopening of about IS hotel bar
rr Twenty-five miners were en- :!-jwith similar licenses, as a test of the
tombed by an explosion in the !. prohibition restrictions. Membership
c coal mine of the Colorado Col- jin the hotel "clubs" costs 10 cents ami
-! leries company here this after- !- j business is flourishing. H'he police
noon. The first report said that lhavc decided they cannot interfere un
six bodies had been recovered. vjtil February 1, when a new chatter
giving the city control and regulation
J of all clubs becomes effective.
Three Finger Jack Is
Not Done With La Grande
"1 am parked in a Grande until Ijcialion declared today that he im
am done here," Three linger Jack pression that had gone forth that th-j
uoawin, railroad evangelist, declared union meetings with Three Finger
last evening in his first union meet-! Jack at the helm are over with, is
ing in me isaptist church. Jot unt'l (erroneous. All that happened was tha
moral conditions in this city arc great- .the M. E. church has withdrawn for
ly improved, will he move el.-ewhere the time being because of mcding th'
according to the statements made by Ichurch for other purposes for a time
mm last mgnt. Bootlegging, he a!-'All the other ministers are said to
leged, was so bad in this city that he still be actively supporting the cvnn.
could not leave here until he had see-i :gehst s meetings.
great reformation in this respect The crowd last nitht auffere-l
as well as in reforming other things somewhat in numbers because of th7
that need to be reformed. erroneous impression that the nwt-
Unil ht feels that coiditi.m? have ings had ccawd but it is expH-ted th it
been made mucn hotter for the rail- this evening's crowd will lie larger.
riid men and their families, the evi.ii .Sunday niirhi there were lit" in at-(,-etnt
declared, he wmild stay h s,- jt'.'ndance at tho mectinz .arcorduttr to
, -i-.--.ri . ik iiiiii;'--!.!. jl-'-'-.i '.""in; jiiCU,
same Irresistible fascination tor tho
Indian that It docs for many of his
white brnftircn,'" Bald the mutual re
port of the board of Indian commis
sioners, made public today.
Tho rport recommended that citi
zenship be conferred on all noii-clti-zen
Indians, but that tho govern
ment continue Its ''protective super
vision over their property affairs." I
spenkors that the matter should not be
referred to the people as is. propos
ed through the special session of th-j
legislature about to convene.
Work will stnrt early in the spring
on the new state training school fo:
boys at Salem. The cost of the Pro
poed school, including furnishings,
will be $10,000.
FOR GOODNESS SAKE, THROW THE ROPE!
....
(Uy Assoclatod Press)
WASHINGTON. Doc. 13. Tho
four-powor Pacific treaty will be
nothing but a "straight out military.
alliance unless "real disarmament"
results from tho Washington confer
ence, Senator Borah of Idaho, repub
lican trroconclliable leader In the lea
gue of nations fight, doclurcd Mon
day in discussing tho now troaty in
tne senate
Wants Something Iteal,
Mr. Borah, breaking his sllcnco
with respect to tho troaty, declared
that his nttitudo toward the pact
would be largoly dotorinined by what
me urnis contoronce does with re
spect to "real" disarmament and
Chinese questions. Ho doclared the
work of the conference would bo
"discouraging" if it adjourned with
out prohibiting the submarine, poi
sonous gna aud other "barbarous
weapons." . .
As it Is, this allinnco mukes It
necessary that real dlsarmamont
tuko placo In this conference or this
Is nothing but a straight out military
alliance," he declured. "It's no dif
ferent in that rospoct than tho Auglo-
Japaneso alliance.
.Mural Obligation.
"Thoy Bay there's no provision for
military forco lurking In or ubout
this treaty. 1'vo nover Boon one In
which that did not show on Its faco.
None over havo had tho totnorlty to
write It into any alliance or any lea
gue. But It's there. Kven though
tho Amerlcnn representatives In
whatever coivforonce. may bo called
under the troaty, cannut bind tho
congress there asyot tho moral ob
ligation." v .
.'l'lio work of Socrotary Hughes In
presentation of tho Amorlcan naval
reduction program was commended
by Mr. Borah, who doscrlbod tho pro
gram of naval reduction as worthy of
pruluo, but ho added that tho con
ference, "so far as the public has
been Informed, has not doalt with
tho weapons with which tho next war
will be fought."
ARE
II!
nil6T0
Streets in Seattle
- Oth'cr Places Still
Under Water
and
ABERDEEN DEATHS
, NOW COUNT SIX
Thousands xf 'Acres - Havo
een Flooded by 1 Dikes
?ri'uking 'Along Several
liivers. '
SEATTLE, Dec. 13; Flood eiimH.
tions in the Puiret Sound section srs
somewhat better but somo strcots in
eaciuo, Kent and Tacoma are tlU
under water.
. (Hy Associated Press)
EKLLINGHAiM. Dec. l.X.lWjiler It
flowing throiftrh the streets of Rnr-
lington and Hamilton. Thousands ot
acres along tho Skagit ore flooded.
(By Associated Press)
EVERETT, Wash.. Dec. 13.-frha
streets of Stanwood are under water
as tho result of the breaking of a dike
along the otillaguamish river.
(By Assorlnted Press)
ABERDEEN, WasrTinirton. Dec. 13.
Tho third landslide today stopped
rescuers wno were workimr to find
the 'bodies of Mrs. Gerald Willis and
W. T. Lalielle, who wore entombed
when . S- logging train was wrecked
hero Sunday night. John Lind, who
was Injured, died last night. This
brings tho dcalh list of the slide to
six. . . I
BULLETINS
3, 4r-
(Hy Associated. Press)
l' fill i nuiun, l.u', wnp. lo.
Nourly BOO workers wcro turned
back In the packing house district
toilay when crowds stoppod stroot
cars, turned trolley polos und forced
caiB to roturu to Fort. Worth,
fllv AsHiK-lntnl Press)
WASHINGTON Due. 111. Churles
W. Morse, whoso transactions with
tln U. S. shipping board aro bulug
Investigated, was arvalgiied today be
foro U. S. Commissioner Hltton on G
warrant charging coimplrucy to do-
fraud tho Culled Status.
M:v Akhik-IiiU-i! Press)
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 111. Tho
enactment of tho veterans' adjusted
compensation bill will bo completed
by congress within fHi days, llitiiford
McNIder, American Legion command-
was advised by Senator McCUm-
ber and Representative Forduey to-
Mlv Ahmiii:IiiIii1 Pross)
DETROIT. Dec. 13. One mini and
seven children wero burned to death
and threo other persons known to bo
badly Injured hi a fire that destroy-
etl homo near Itoyal Oak, a su
burb, today. The dead man's naide
was Waketi. Four ot the children
wero his and throu wcro visiting children,
WAltM WAV1S IN DF.NVF.lt
DENVER, Dec. 13.' A warm wav
almost without iprocedont, according
to tho wouther forecaster, la sweep
ing this section ot tho wost. All
records for warm Docembor daya '
woro shattorod this morning In Den
ver when tho mercury recorded 60,
dogrooB uboy zero.; Thoro Is ho ''re
Hoi" In sight,: according 'to i 'it
Drlst, district forocantor. u.
Tho warm wave began Sunday In
tllo Canadian northwest after a eef-
lus ot low baromotlc pressure areas
along tho Canadian bordor and' also
has spread over most ot tho United
States, Drlst Bald.
MILLION TO AID
DYING VETS VOTED
WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 13.-.
Told by Senator Ashhurst, democrat,
Arizona, that hundreds of ex-scrvicd
men wcr cdying of tulierculosis "on
the deserts of Arizona," where they
went seeking a euro for disabilities
resulting from gas ntuncktt nf tho
Germans, tho senato tonight voted an
appropriation of $1,000,000 for addi
tional hospitalization.
The funds, which are carried in tho.
first deficiency bill passed b ythe sen
ate, would be expended by tho veter
ans' bureau.
There ore 952 cx-scrvicc men dyinfT
of tuberculosis on tho streets of
I'hocnnix, Ariz., Senator Aslihurst de
clared. He had "beseeched" tho sen
ate appropriation committee, he add
ed, to relieve the sufferings, but th,at
committee, "while agreeing to an ap
propriation of $1,000,000 forvAmerican
participation in an exposition in 'Bra
ssil," had refused.
Former Soldier Wants
The Army Much Larger
rtf
WASHINGTON, I .Mr. I3.-Wniing. " " , ' , ' , ' , . ,
against a permanent reduction of the 1
regular at my IrIow two hundred ;nC!' lo Im'L,t whatever emergency
thiiu.-sind enlisted men is sounded in
the last annual report of Mai. tieli.
Peyton f!. March, now retired, war
time chief of staff of the army. The
report covers the il'J months' pcrio I
prei-eding the general's wliremrnt
from the post of chief of Vtaff on hist
July I, when he wns succeeded by
General Pershing, with Mai. Gen.
Harbord as di-put chief of staff.
General M.-atdi declares in his re
port that the idea that an army of
one hundred fifty thousand men, th
si l ength now authorized by mandato
of congress, furnishes 73 per cent as
much national defense: as forco of
vo hundred thMiranri "Is fallacy."
-i.t;' til-: j-..-t .in. ,fii
may develop. ITie reduction t oho
hundred fifty thousand will almost an
nihilatu this force, constantly needed
in peace, nnd providing the life-sa,
ing first line to hold lmck the enemy
in time of war until the reennd line;
elements .f defense arc mobilized."
Tonight nd Wednesday, rain in)
inn west and fair in the eastern Vti
i i -f !-. .i.-.t. . fi.. ( ,nii;h(,