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VOLUME LXI.
THE DALLES, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1921.
No. 80.
BRITISH COAL
MIS MAY BE
FULLY WRE
GENERAL 8TRIKE DEFERRED
GOVERNMENT TO TAKE OVER
INDUSTRIES.
COLLIERIES SMASHED
EMPLOYES PUMPING WATER
FROM PIT8 DRIVEN AWAY
Y MOB.
By Lloyd Allen
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
LONDON, April 6. The British
coal mining industry on which the
life 'of the nation depends, is threat
ened with extinction by the miners'
strike, Evan Williams, leader of the
colliery owners, warned today in an
exclusive interview with the United
Press.
"The miners threaten to bring dis
aster on owners and workmen alike,"
Wjilllams said. "We are doing our ut
most to save the pits and to save the
workmen from the terrible conse
quences of their action."
(Flooding of mines, destruction of
property and excessive wage demands
will crush the Industry, he declared.
No man will risk his finances in a
business which can be disrupted so
easily, he said, and the present own
ers cannot afford to salvage their
ruined properties.
"The difference between us and the
miners is basic," he said.
"The miners are demanding a no-
tlonal pooling of all mining and finan-.Hostetler, J. T. Henry, C. A. Jphn
ce which wlir destroy "th efHflncy4ton, J. B. Kilmore, H. L. Kuck, and
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CONSOLIDATE ALL
SOLDIER AID, PLAN
CHARLES G. DAWE8 MAKES REC
OMMENDATION AFTER INVES
TIGATING MATTER.
Bjr United Pres.
WASHINGTON, April 5. The cor.
aolldation of all soldier relief of gov
ernment agencies under one head, di
rectly responsible to the president,
withut the cabinet acting as inter
mediary, will be recommended to con
gress, it was indicated today.
The plan Is proposed by Charles G.
Dawes, chairman of the special com
mittee appointed by President Hard
ing to investigate the government's
treatment of the -world war veterans.
Dawes declared at the first meeting
of the committee today that he would
recommend the consolidation to the
president. It has been authoritative
ly stated that Harding will probably
Include in his message whatever
names Dawes recommends.
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VOLCANO ERUPTS:
PEOPLE FLEE T
HOOFS AND STREETS
CITIES COVERED
LAVA.
OF FOUR
WITH
By
VERA CRUZ, April 6. The volcano
of Popocatepetl is erupting again,
pouting lava down onto four nearby
towns, Puebla, San Martin. Texme
culzn and Amecameca, whence the
people are fleeing for their lives, ac
cording to telegrams received here.
Huge jets of smoke and gas are be
ing flung Into the air to as esthuated
eight of 3,004 meters above the cra
ter and are drifting over the country
aide, a menace to life and a blight to
vegetation.
The roofs ana streets of the four
cities are reported te be covered with
layer of lava.
W
(chamber to choose
ITS DIRECTORATE
21 LOCAL BUSINE3S MEN NOM
INATED FOR IMPORTANT
POSITIONS.
City directors of The Dalles-Was-co
County Chamber of Commerce,
eight In all, will be chosen at a gen
eral chamber of commerce election
to be held tomorrow. Votes will be
cast at the chamber of commerce
building, from 12. o'clock noon until
9 o'clock In the evening. All chamber
of commerce members may voe, re
gardless ol their places of residence.
Only city directors will be chosen
at tomorrow's election, county direc
tors to be nominated and elected ny
the various county districts affected.
Considerable competition is expect
ed at the election of directors tomor
row, with 21 names upon the ballot
to select from.
After considerable deliberation,
a group of business men has
recommended the following ticket:
L. Barnum, N. A. Bonn, John G.
Odell, T. H. West, R. T. Yates, H. S.
Rice, V. H. French and H. L. Kuck.
The list Is made up of the members
of the old board of directors, with
the addition of French and Kuck, in
cluded in order that' all local banks
might be represented on the board.
The following persons will act as
election judges: G. A. Pearson, H.
N. Crandall, Pat Foley, H. E. Greene'
and Edward C. Pease.
The following candidates for di
rectors In The Dalles-Wasco County
Chamber of Commerce, - have beeu
nominated:
Ed Merrifield, J. G. Odell, Hallie
S. Rice, Charles Roth, L. Schanno,
Bert Thomas, Dr. Fred Thompson,
T. H. West, R. T. Yates, N. A. Bonn,
L. Barnum, A. E. Crosby, Hal Fancn
er, V, H. French, L. J. Gates, J. C.
R. Marshall.
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EFFECT OF WAR 8HOWN i when Superior Judge St. Sure grant
BY FRENCH CEN8U8 ed her a divorce from B. V. Douglas
I and with it title to the land.
By United New
PARIS, April 5 The effect of war
on the population of France la
graphically shown in the partial cen
sus returns from various districts of
the republic, all of which show a
startling decrease.
The department of Ardennes, for
example, reports a population of 275,
165, or a decrease of 43,731. The
Nord reports 1,780,337, a decrease of
181,443; Meurthe and -Moselle, 501,
2000, deficit of 63,530.
The southern department, where
the Riviera resorts are situated, is
the only one showing an increase,!
and figures indicate a general mi
gration to the South. Losses in thy
Pyrennes region, however, are con
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NOTE OF PROTEST
SENT TO. ALLIES
YAP AWARD AND MESOPOTAMIA
OIL DEAL BASIS OF REPRE
8ENTATI0NS. By United Press
WASHINGTON, April 5. tA new
note has been sent to the principal
allied powers by Secretary of State
Hughes, protesting against their atti
tude on the mandates of territories
seized during the world war, it was
learned here today.
The note, it was stated authorita
tively, was dispatched last night. A
copy is understood to have gone to
Great Britain, France, Japan and
Italy. It deals specifically on two
points in the controversy between the
United States and the allied powers.
First, the United States holds that
the island of Yap, an important ca
ble point in the Pacific ocean, should
sot be included in the Japanese man
date over former German islands
north of the equator.
Second, the American protect
against the San Remo agreement be
tween Great Britain and France for
the division of the
Mesopotamia, held
oil supplies or
under British
DOOM OF PARIS
PEACE TREATY IS
SEALED BY U. S.
PRESIDENT MAKES IT PLAIN,
RATIFICATION OUT OF
QUESTION.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, April 5 The doom
of the treaty of Versailles, so far as
the United States is concerned, has
been pronounced definitely by Presi
dent Hardigg. In unmistakable words,
the president today niade it clear to
newspaper men that the United States
cannot consider the ratification of the
treaty. Harding denied, however, that
he approved immediate action on the
Knox peace resolution.
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WINDSTORM HURT8 TWO;
DESTROY8 10 HOU8ES
Bjr United Pres.
WHARTON, Texas, April 5. Dam
age estimated at $50,000 was done
here today when a heavy windstorm
'swept the city during a downpour of
i rain. Ten houses were demolished
and 40 damaged. Two persons were
injured.
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BANDITS ROB BANK ,
OF $50,000, DIVIDE LOOT
By United Press
.ST. PAUL, April 5 The state bank
of Wdthrow, Minn., 18 miles north
east of here, was today robbed of $50,.
000. The bandits divided the loot in
a nearby school house.
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WOMAN GETS DIVORCE
AND BRAZILIAN JUNGLE
By United Press
OAKLAND, April 5. Mrs. Ella M
j Douglas today became the owner of
1 1,500,000 acres of Brazil jungle land
I intend to go to Brazil and live,"
she said.
Douglas is said to be serving time
in Sing Sing.
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BABY DIES, MOTHER
HELD RESPONSIBLE
OLDER CHILDREN GIVE CRYING
CHILD BOTTLE OF
LYSOL.
By United News
SEATTLE, April 6. Accused of
manslaughter in connection with the
death of her 14-months-old baby, Mrc.
Gladys Primeau is today held in jail
Here without bail. The complaint al
leges that the woman locked her three
children in their home Saturday
night and left them. The baby In some
manner secured a bottle of poison and
died in the city hospital Sunday morn
ing. When she left the children Hhe
wrote n note to her husband, telling
him not to worry. The baby was dy
ing when he returned.
SEATTLE, Wash.. April 5 The
lure of the cabarets overpowered Mrs.
Gladys Tremeau's mother love last
night and tonight police were looklngJ
for her in the dancehalls lo tell hor
how the 14-montliB' old baby that nho
locked in the house and deserted had
fatally burned itself with a bottle of
jysol.
When she left Mrs. Tremeau wrote
a note to her husband, telling him not
to worry. He arrived home to find
the baby dying from the burns. Two
older children had given the baby the
1 bottle of lyeol to play with because
! be cried so much after IiIh mother left.
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PLANT OF POLK COUNTY
OBSERVER GUTTED BY FIRE
By United Press
DALLAS, Or., April 5 The plant
of the Polk County Observer is in
ruBI today, following a disastrous
fra which gutted tin building late
yesterday.
VOTES
SHALL
BE"
"BLUE JAYS" TRIUMPH BY 55
BALLOTS THEATERS TO
TEST LAW.
By United Press
POMONA, Cal., April 5. Pomona
yesterday went on record as favoring
the blue laws, closing all of the city's
amusement places on Sunday. The
"Blue Jays" triumphed by a margin
of 55 votes, with a total of 2078 fa
vorable votes caBt for the ordinance.,
Chairman Harry Arthur of the
American 'League of Freedom, declar
ed that his organization will take le
gal steps to determine the validity of
the ordinance. Theaters, Arthur as
serted, will continue to operate after
the ordinance goes into effect on
May 11, in order to make a test case.
George T. iLiddlo, chairman of the
civic betterment league, proponent of
the ordinance, declared that the vic
tory was a protest against "out of
town" forces which have brazenly
endeavored to force their low stan
dards of morality upon 'he people."
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FORMER EMPEROR CARL
LEAVE8 FOR SWITZERLAND
By Unltea Press
BUDAPEST, April 5. Former Em
peror Carl left Steinamanger for
Switzerland this morning, according
to an official announcement.
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STAN FIELD INTERE8TS
FORM BIG CORPORATION
By United Press
PORTLAND, Or., April 5 Thirty
one corporations, companies and
partnerships in which United States
Senator R. N. Stanfleld is interested
have been pooled into the It. N. Stan
fleld company, with resources of
$2,000,000, according to announce
ment here today.
The Stanfleld sheep interests in
Eastern Oregon represent a major
ity of the capital involved in tho.
pool.
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BIG Y. W. A.
BENEFIT BILLED
15 ACTS ASSEMBLED, EVERY
ONE KNOCKOUT, 18 AD
VANCE WORTJ.
A 15-act vaudeville show, with
singing, dancing and surprise num
bers guaranteed by the advance
agent to "knock 'em dead," is billed
for presentation at the Empress
theatre Friday evening, April 8. Tho
show will bo put on entirely by
home talent, under the direction of
Miss Harriet Schrum, and will be
for the purpose of raising money for
the budget fund of the local Y. W
C. A.
Tho vaudovillo program will bo put
on In addition to tho regular picture
bill for that evening, "Tho Romance
Promoters," starring Karl Williams.
Two performances will bu given, tho
first show starting at 7:15 6'cIock
and the second at 0:15.
Among the numbers planned uro
Spanish dances, in which six little
girls will take part; a Scotch dance;
several vocal solos, assisted by a
chorus, and tlio "surprises," the na
ture of which the management re
fuses to disclose. A feature dance
will be given by Mlns Schrum, fol
lowing which she will do any type
of danco requested by members of
the audience.
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NUMBER THREE RURAL
ROUTE IS MOTORIZED
(Chronicle's Washington Bureau.)
.WASHINGTON, April 5. Repre
sentative N. J. Slnnott today appeared
before the post of flee department and
secured the change of rural route
number three out of The Dalles into
a motor rural route, effective May
first. The new routs wll be nearly 2C
miles longer and will supply 142 families;
POMONA
SUNDAYS
PADLOCKED
STREET SURFACING
IS COUNCIL TOPIC
PETITION FOR MACADAMIZING
CERTAIN STREETS STARTS
DISCUSSION.
Street surfacing, bithulithlc, macad
am and Just plain dirt, was the prin
cipal topic of discussion at a mee'ing
of th'e city council last night.
The question of which surface was
the most practical and economical for
use on the city's streets came up as
a result of petitions by a number ot
property owners living on Kelly ave
nue, Webster, C, B, Calhoun and D
streets for the laying of a macadam
surface upon parts of these streoto,
25 percent of the cost of construe
tlon to be paid by the city.
Explaining that he had seen Ninth
street macadamized three times and
that tho macadam surface had not
stood up under the traffic any one of
these times, Mayor P. J. Stadelman
took occasion to say that he was
"very much opposed to the snendine
of any more of the city's money upon
the laying of macadam streets'."
City Engineer P. W. Marks cot:n
tered that the present system of lay
In macadam surfacing was altogether
different than that used several years
ago when the work was done upon
Jackson streot. He explained that ma
cadanr street surfacing, as laid to
day, would stand up for a' period of
10 years if given a small amount of
attention each winter.
Mnyor Stadelman took the aland
that if tho city continued to grant pe
titions for the laying of macadam
streets, It would never havo those
streets paved, which, he contended, Is
one of the important essoin tu's of u
modern, well-kept city.
Councilman F. W. Sims udtlod fur
ther complexity to the situation by
informing the council that the city
doeB not have sufficient funds at the
present time to pay for it. 25 percent
share of construction costs, nnd
would have to call a special election
for the people to vote this money.
"I want it understood that tho peo.
pie are entitled to permanent Im
provements and that this council is
not going to block any legitimate de
mand for such improvonimiifc if it can
help it," Mayor Stadelman said. "Tim
only question in my mind Is whether
macadam streets can be called perma
nent improvements."
The council finally decided to hold
final decision on the mailer over un
til the next meeting.
The petitions read befove thr coun
cil asked that tho following streot s
be mucadamlzod:
Webster streot, from tho east ride
of U streot easterly on Wobster street
to tho connection with tin; pavement
on Kelly uvenue.
Starting at C street, oast oily on Cal
noun street to nnd connecting ulth
tho pavement on Kelly avenue.
Starting at Webster strcjf, touih
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IS
BRUTALLY KILLED
BATTERED BODY FOUND ON BED
IN PADLOCKED
ROOM.
Bv United Nuwa
TACOMA, Wash,, April C DopUtv
sheriffs were today seeking some cluo
to an apparently cuVefully laid rob
bery plot, believed to be back of the
brutal murder of Henry Bacon, SO, an
eniplojo of the Northern Pacific rail
way. ,
Ilacon's battered body was found
Sunday evening lying on the bod in
hi loom at llm Dupont water sta
tion, by li. F, IluniHeet, Hcction fore
man, by whom the dead man had been
employed.
Bacon had been missing since Fri
day evening, Entrance to his room
was gained through a window, all
doors being padlocked on the outside.
A door led from Bacon's room to
that of George Akl, a Filipino Inter
preter, employed by the Seatle courts,
who is spending a vacation at Dupout.
Akl told the pollco there had been no
llgn of disturbance Friday night.
MAN
ROBBED
GREEK AMIES
SHATTERED By
TERfllSLE TURKS
TWO DIVISIONS FLEE IN PANIC
OVER DESERT, LEAVING
DEAD.
3
HIGH GREEK OFFICER8 8LAIN
CONSTANTINOPLE WILD
' WITH JOY.
By Laurence Moore
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 5
Greek armies in Asia-Minor have
been shattered and routed by the
Turks.
Dispatches brought by couriers
from Brussa and Songuldak today
showed the Greeks overwhelmed.
Three divisions were annihilated.
Two escaped in panic flight over the
desert, leaving a bio-.id trail ot dead
and dying, smashed wagons, aban
doned guns, wrecked ambulances,
mnline.-l horses and flaming ruins.
Prince Andrew, brother of King
Constantlne, and many high officers
Including a divisional general, were
left among the slain.
Word of these losses, trickling
down the lines, had a disastrous ef
fect on the Greek morale.
Constantinople was wild with Joy.
From Stnmboul to Bebek and from
Soutarl to Pera, Islamic banners and
devices , fluttered over jubilant
crowds.
Everywhere in some of the big for
eign colonies the population joined
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THREE YOUTHS LOST
IN BLIZZARD, SAFE
FOUND BY FORE8T RANGER
WHILE HUNDREDS 8EARCH
M0UNTAIN8.
By United Press
BUTTE, Mont., April 5. The three
missing youths were discovered todr.v
in a cabin on tlio east sldo of the
Rockies, by Forest Rungor Maxwell.
The young mon escaped from the bliz
zard unharmed.
BUTTE, Mont., April 5. -Searching
parties numbering hundreds of men
and boy scouts today engaged in a
search of tho main range of the Rock
ies for Henry Chrlstonson, James Mc
Donald and Eugeno Gill, youths lost
in a blizzard since Saturday,
They hud been hunting In tho moun
tains nnd when they fulled to return
yesterday posses were organized. It
is believed that tlio young men may
havo frozen to deuth and it may bo
impossible to recover tho bodios until
tho snows molt this summer.
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PLAY BALL," CRY
IN COAST LEAGUE
SNOW STORM AT SALT LAKE
CITY PREVENTS DIAMOND
OPENER, c '
ny United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, April G In
three Const leaguo cities San Fran
cisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles
tho Coast league baseball season
got under way today.
But In tho fourth city scheduled
for an opening game, Salt Lako City,
they'll havo to wait until it quits
snowing. Snow has been falling there
for tho last fiftoen hours und if they
play they'll do It on aklu 'or snow
shoes. Clear and cold was the weather in
tho other three cities and while it
couldn't be called Ideal, the weather
contained the consolation that there
wus no Indication of rai'a or any
thing which mlsht force postpone
Tionj. . '
DIVISIONS WIPED OUT
"4A .