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DAILY EVENING EDITION I v fHP JL . V DAILY EVENING EDITION 1'om-awt for l- a-di rn oreuon hv Hie MM State n,l r otr-crver at INirtlnnil TO ADVERTISERS. The Eaat oregonlan h the largeat paid rlrculatlou of any paper In Oreguu, eaet of Portland and over twice tbe circulation to Pendleton of any other newapaper. fOUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL. 27. DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBF d!5. NO. 8672 AMERICA NOT TO GIVE REASON IN SEEKING RECALL State Department Makes Formal Re fusal to Cite Circumstances in Boy ed and Von Papen Cases. SITUATION GROWING TENSE Breaking of Dtploiiuitic Rotation, With QUIelllJ MM M PMsiMlltl II Berlin Does Xot Agrco to IV- I- of lulled States Musing Holds I oufcrriH c, WASHINGTON, Deo, 7. Re ports that Germany had rivalled Vou PaiMii and Itoj-ed MM -nr- r-tu Oits afternoon. The slate department said that while such nl laid not MM received at nOOII, It was ll"t unexpected. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. The alate department's formal refusal to cue the reasons for aaking the recall of Von Papen and Hoy-ed waa forward ed to Berlin last night. Simultane ously it was handed to Vuli Bern storff. The Herman embassy inter preted the action as "very unfriend ly" The state department will not at tempt to minimize the probable effect nl the refusal of Berlin, but declared Secretary Lansing followed strict pre. i dent. WASHINGTON. Iec 7. - In his -le-CJitoh to retuse Germany's reiiuest for America's reasons for desiring the recall of Attaches Von Papen an I Hav-ed, 8 son's expr known to retury lousing has Wll-jand MM backing, it became y Von Bernslorfl ar- nference with Lansing for re were many Indications the situstb ibilitles. pregnant withj pliSS The German I hat the Berlin embassy explained foreign oirice nad as, d mat Americas reasons lor u. rei 'I be given aecretly. If it waj. not Wished lo make thelll public, it was .said thai l.inslng had refused any information It is believed here he rofUMl may have the effect of calling ' lor a showdown from Kerlln. Get - mini nrobnbU will ask Von Hern-' . torfl to confer with Lansing further It was admitted generally that ne- . n- over me ijupiiuniu will le hopelessly muddled If Ger many makes good in her apparent In tention In these cases. The complete at quiescense to the American demand or the breaking of diplomatic relu toM arc the only alternatives un las the stale department permits a long serlea of conferences which may keep Boy-ed and Von Papen here Indefinitely tome. pending the out- Honesty Essential in Business Says D U ' A J J ' DUflKcf Il ACIUr6SS .. It lUCE U1VKS LVTKREWTING TALK TO MKMIII Ils OK BOYS' 1XHH.M. "Alisolute Honesty As a Hualneas Fundamental" was the auhject of an informal tulk made luat evening the Boys' Korum by (I. M. Klce, vice pftUont of the hirst Nutlonal Bank. The boya held their semi-weekly meeting and supper at the Presbyte rian church and Mr. Rice's talk an I a discussion by the boys themselves on the subject "la a Man Ever Justi fied in Having Fun at the Expense of Another," were the chief features of the meeting. The banker told the young men that honest, absolute honesty, is the . da mental principle of business. "I have not read this in a book, or heard it in a lecture, nor dreamed It," he said. "The experience of life has tAUgfll It to me. A young man who has character has security that Is bel ter than first mortgages. He has Credit with banking Institutions even though he has not a dollar hack t! him But once let him get loose III i. is hablta and his credit vanishes." Mr. Klce declared (here had been Innumerable Instances In his own ex perience us a banker where yoMlsJ men hud started In business with honesty and clean character aa their nly aaaet and had made good. Ills talk noticeably Imprcsacd his vouth fiil hearers, as did the remarks ol Itev. J. E. Snyder who endorsed all that Mr. Klce had said. The boys elected officers of their lorum as follows: President, Ralph Hargett; vice president, Ear) Snyder; secretary-treasurer, Lawrence Wood worth, sergeant-at-arma, Irwin Carr. and yell leader, Zoe Carney. L. p. oaniDea or tne nign scnooi faculty presided over mnir meeting last; i)r. nest elnrted mayor: IVnland. night Mr Qambee has gained the kirkpatrick, Taylor and IX.Lsom omn confldence ot the boya and Is work-1 cllmm. lug with thsm In making their forum Balvntlon army to open headquar a success. ten here. Wilson's Message to Congress The following Is the text of Presi dent Wilson's message on prepard MM a delivered today at Washing ton: Gentlemen of the Congress: Since I IM had the privilege of addressing you on the state of the union the war of nalnns on the other aide of the sea, which had then only begun to dis close Its portentous proportions, nas extended Its threatening Md sinister scope until It has swept within Its i benefited Mexico by the course wo flame some portion or every quarter have pursued remains to be seen. Her of the globe, not excepting out ovviC loriunes ale In ber own hand.". Bui hemisphere, has altered the whole j e haw at least proved that we will face of International affairs, and now! not take advantage of her in her Jis prescnts a pros pet t of reorganization j tress and undertake to ImpOM upon and reconstruction such us statesmen h,.r an order anil government of our and peoples hae never been called upon to uttempt before We huve stood apart, studiously neutral It was our manifest duty to do so. Not only did we have no ought ever to be set. Every Amel nart or interest in the nohi ies which! nan who has drunk at tht true foun- jseem to have brought the conflict on; It was necessary, if a universal ca- tastrophe was to be avoided, that a 'limit should be set to the sweep of j destructive war and thut some part of the greut family of nations should keep prt jf p. live. If only to i unomlc ruin and the breakdown throughout the world of the industries by which its populations are fed and sustained It was manifestly the duty of the self governed nations of this hemisphere, to redress. If possible, the balance of economic loss and confusion In the other. If they could do nothlnir more In the day of readjustment and recti-; t..rti.. n, c .... ....i i.. lleve that they can be of Infinite ser-' vtce i In thl. neutrality, to which K were bidden not only by their separ- ate life and their habitual detach-1 menl from the politics of Kurope but also by a clear perception of interna tional duty, the states of America have become conscious of a new and more vital community of Interest moral partnership In affairs. more clearly conscious of the main common sympathies and interests and duties which bid them stand logeth- er ytfl , , a time In the early days' ,.ul. ro, ... I fighting their way to inde- : penih nce In Central and South An ,.rl , , h,. ,nc Kvernnien, ,)f tna , ,.,, S(ae8 upon u ... , ,h ,., r lh r... I publics to the south of her as agaln d anv ,-lit roaeli IMMrtl nr efforiu nl n .. ,,,.. .,,.nlr frnIn lh nIh.r . tha . u ..,., i w , n IKa (lull HI 'I.I i M , part even without mvltaion from them; ami 1 think that we can claim ' that Ihe tusk whh iin.!..r! :, ayi u-ltt. try.. .....I Interested enthusiasm for Ihe freedom of the Americas and the unmolested self-government of her independent peoples But It was al ways difficult to maintain such a role without offense to the pride of the I pies whose freedom of, action we sought to protect, and without pro voking serious lllisi oneelitforiH of ulir ..,... and everv ,nnuhifi , ! of affairs must welcome the altered circumstances of the new day In whose lighl we now stand, when there Is no claim of guardianship OF thought of wards but. Instead, a full and honorable usoclatioii as of part-1 ners between ourselves und our . "e'Khbors, in the Interest of all Am- erica, north and south, our concern for the Independence and prosperity of the states of Central and South. America la not altered. We retain ! unabated the spirit that has inspired 1 us throughout the whole life of ourj government and which was so frank-1 l.v put Into words by President Mon- j We st ill mean always to make I a common cause of national Inde pendence and of political liberty in America But that purpose is now better understood so far aa It con cerns ourselves It is known not to be a selfish purpose. It la known to have In It no thought of taking ui- Southern Oregon Co. Loses Claim to 96,000 Acres of Land Mostly in Coos County PORTLAND ire, Dec. 7. The res of limber disposing of 96,000 li.nd, largely In C placed in the hand count was rongress in a dtcrce filed toduy in the federal court it. the government's case against the Southern Orewm companv. it am- mints to the forfeiture of all the company's claim except an equity of I NEWS SUMMARY (enrrsj. Prealdent Wilson rends message on preparedness to congrem. Iocnl. I vantage of any government In this hemisphere or playing Its political I fortunes for our own benefit. All the governments of America stand, sc far as we are concerned, upon a foot ing of genuine equality and unques tioned independence ne Stood tile We have been put t ii- tin- east stood the Mexico st Wl Own choosing Uberty Is fierce and Intractable thin, no bounds can be set, and no bound of a few men's often a to which lo which choosing tains of principle and tradition must subscribe without reservation to the high doctrine of the Virginia Bill of (rights, which in the great days In j which our government was set UP va- everywhere amongst us accepted 1 as the i-ri 1 of free men. That doc- trine is, "T ut government le, or in.-tituted for the com- prolec'ion, and security nation, or community;" the various modes and i light lo be moll benefit of the peopl that "of all forms of government, that is the best which Is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness anu safety, and Is most effectually secui ed against the danger of maladmln uirutton- ami that when anv govern ment shall be found Inadequate or contrary to these purposes a major - of the community hath an Into- Inalienable, and Jn(? a to reform, alter or abolUh it in such manner as shall be Judgqed most conducive lo the public weal ' we hv niihesitatinglv applied that he- nfai iirlnciule to the case of Mexico. .. hooefuiu await the relakih of the troubled republic, which had much of which to pur Utile sympathy from e itself and iny outsldo WMUtW process the radical but necessary We will aid and befrler.d Mexico but we will not coerce her, , . , .,,. ,..,lh r,.,,r,i , her ought to be sufficient proof to all America that we seek no political su zerainty or selfish control The moral is, that the states ot America are not hostile rivals but cooperating friends, and that thir growing sense of community of ln - terest. alike In matters political and in matters economic, is likely to give them a new significance as factors In international-affairs and in the po- litu al history of the world. It pre- SUIUf III, o n.-, ill a ,1 1 u.v sense a unit in world affairs, splrituU. oattners. standing together because' thinking together, quick with com mon sympathies and common ideals. Separata! they are subject to all th? cross currents of the confused poll tics of a world of hostile rivalries; united in spirit and purpose thev cannot be disappointed of their peaceful destiny This is Pan-Americanism It has none of the spirit Ot empire In It, It is the embodiment, the effectual em bodiment, of the spirit of law and in dependence and liberty and mutual service. A very notable body of men re cently met In the City of Washing ton, at the invitation and as '.he guests of t hie government, whose de liberations are likely to be looked back to as marking a memorable turning point In the history of Am erica. They were representative spokesmen of the several Independ ent states of this hemisphere and were assembled to discuss the finan cial and commercial relations of the republics of the two continents which nature and political fortune have so Intimately linked together. I earn estly recommend to your perusal the (Contlnued on Page I.) 2.5o per acre It follows generally the supreme court s decision against Ihe s.. P. in the Oregon-California land grant case. The comiianv's t- (orneys are preparing an appeal to ttu supreme court. It is understood the appeal will contend that the general rule that the "Innocent purchaser" he protected, applies here. ELECTION OF OFFICERS AT ECHO BEING HELD TODAY ECHO, Ore, Dec. 7.-The city elec tion la being held here today. The candidates are: William Oliver, Joe Bailey, Tom Delveese, John Todhunt er, Jerome Oulllford and J. R. Jol dan. The present encumbent in the mayor's office will hold over another year. POLICE HAVE TO HOLD THE CROWD BACK WITH GUNS Local Officers are Forced to Draw Revolvers as Result of Street Demonstration Last Night. SEVERAL ARRESTS .ARE MADE PMiirMnce tome of Poll Troiih,. IviiHiiuin Hotel Where Strong I oiiotviiig doting Starts In l Yout of I 'oil Hi- BlNilll1 Itasentaaeai Wa Shown IgalMI vans, The nearest thing to a riot that I WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. Before a Pendleton has seen in many a day joint session. President Wilson dellv was the aftermath or the election in ered his message, regarded as the the city last night. A crowd surged 'most important In recent years. The through the street until past mid- crowded galleries and floor listened night, and, before the excitement was ' intently. There was a tense silence over, several head:, were cracked, several arrests made and the officers had twice been forced to hold the crowd at hay with drawn guns. The first demonstration consisted of a parade by young men through ihe street with Dr. Be-t at the head mm n after the mayoralty contest was de cided. This, however, was not at tended by any disorder. The ground in Iront of the Bowman hotel polling 1 Place was the plai e where the trou - Jj0 - ! rwei nursed all dav and "hreats d ' Jhr" ! violence were made. Evans did not eiurig,- num iue i.oioog pam law 'he ballots were all counted and by ! that time some of the feeling hal died down. Dr. Best had advised against violence and the officers hal given warnings against It. However, there was quite a crowd there when Evans came out. most o! the people being tin re out of curios ity. Evans walked through the crowd which fell in behind and col a suggestion of violence was made. i inly a few loud remarks were made i as he walked down Main street and ! turned up Alta to the city hall. At Alta street Ur. E. J Sommerviilc I w ho had been a prominent supporter jof Best, joined the crowd and made demonstrations toward Evans. The 'police tried to pacify him and Evans dropped a little behind, A, tlle cty hall Evans walked up j tne step9 and slooj facing the crowd. (Continued on Page Eight.) ho,e Saved I Below Serbian Wonwn lti'"gss Four thousand two hundred Armo- nlans were recently saved from the Turks by the French, who took them . , . . . to a camp In Por, Snld. The Turkish authorities told th Armenians living , In suedla to sell their possessions and ' be ready In seven days' time to be ! Refugees From the Balkans i nrW Jf."!-.-.:'- m J tifti ' i i lie: Hss- iCOLJS HEARS WILSON OUTLINE DEFENSIVE PLAN Before Joint Session of the House and Sera!e, President of United States Reads His Message. GERMAN ACTIVITIES SCORED tt ork of Hyphenated Americans Koundli ondenuii-d h.v the I bil l Executive The American for Ani-eri-an Is Keynote of Address ( DUBtrj Mum Is- Protected. during the president's castigation of hyphenated Americans No German diplomatic representatives were in the gallery though those of the other bel ligerent nations were numerous. Blind Chaplain C'ouden prayed that "congress act calmly, discreetly and wisely in serving the people's best interests." There was tremendous applause aa the president entered. His voice was j faint as he began but grew strong as ' I noticeab,le thal when ,he Uta Pke of the a rmv and navy , ,e(.a8 there was gtnerany no ap- plause. American.- First. "The American for Americans." This is the new doctrine for the I'nited States, for all the Amerlcani and for the world, enunciated by the president. "National adequacy and security" were the keynotes of his opening message. Pan-Americanrstn. a partnership of the Americans against European ag gression, in common causes of inde pendence, political liberty, economic development and adjustments of ihe world war. is the president's concep tion of the modern development of the Monroe Doctrine. I'pon this broad foundation the president bases his plea for pre paredness, a preparedness applying not only ;o the army and navy, but to all national functions, industrial. (Continued on pass fire.) Tom the Hanoi Anm-nisn (,lrl- I Pavdng a lYench Aviation camp In moved to a distant part of tbe coun- trv During their week of grace thev clmA the nearest mountain, which dominates the -syrlan coast and there th,y (ouht off m for Mve weeks. They could not have held out much longer, when a French warshln noticed a large Red Cross fla on the DR. BEST ELECTED MAYOR OF CITY BY MAJORITY OF 232 John E. Montgomery Loses Every Ward Except the Second Where he is Given a Majority of 206-Best Rolls up Majority of 250 in Second Precinct of the Fourth Ward-Early Returns Indicate Victory for Best Total VoteCast is2180,the Heaviest Ever Polled in City. ELECTION RESULTS For Mayor Best, 1197; Montgomery, 965. For Treasurer Moorhouse, 1434; Horton, 201. For Councilman First Ward Friedley, 177; Kirkpat rick, 183. For Councilman Second Ward Cox, 111; fedmisten, 28; Oliver, 78; Taylor, 192. For Councilman Third Ward Folsom, 228 ; Owen 160. For Councilman Fourth Ward Cole, 162; McAtee, 254 ; Penland, 503. For Water Commissioners Strain, 1605; McCorm mach, 1382; Stroble, 1329. Dr. James A. Best will he the next Mayor of Pendleton. By a majority of 232 votes over John E. Montgom ery he was chosen as head of the next city administration yesterday at the biennial election. Dr. Best's to tal vote was 1197 to 965 polled by hl opponent. Dr. Best carried every ward except the second where Montgomery rolled up a majority of 20S. It was the sec ond precinct of the fourth ward, however, which gave him his victory. There his majority was an even 251 Outside of this precinct Montgomery was the winner by is votes. R. F. Kirkpatrick was elected councilman from the first ward, de feating Manuel Friedley by a scan, six votes. In the second ward Henry J. Taylor was chosen to the council, his majority over A. K. Cox, the runner-up, being 81 In the third ward Ralph Folsom was elected over A. J. Htvad Line. SoiuImtii HI has. top of the mountain A boat wan sent ashore and. the situation haviiw been explained, other boats were brought and tne entire parte of refu- gf u(( J poor people are now being taken care of by the Armenians and English of Cairo Owen by 6j votes and in the fourth ward Claude Penland made the greatest race of the day. polling al most a hundred votes more than Councilman Cole and Lee McAtee combined. Major Lee Moorhouse was re-elected treasurer, but Mrs. Nellie Horton, the first woman ta enter a municipal contest m Pendleton, received 201 complimentary votes. Her name waa not on the ballot but many of her friends passed her name around dur ing the last two days of the cam paign. C. P. Strain, W H. McCormmach and V. stroble were returned to the water commission without opposition. Strain was e.'ected for four years, McCormmach for six yeara and Stro ble for a full term, strain received more votes than any one candidate, his total being 1S05. The heaviest vote ever polled in Pendleton was cast yesterday, a total or 21S0 votes having been dropped into the five ballot boxes. More than 500 voters were sworn In dur ing the day. Not in years has there been more Interest evidenced in a municipal campaign. Xot even the memnrabln j jiariocK-Kaiey race foil? years ago equalled the contest of yesterday. ' i . . .. v.iu,uB weic on me streets an even ing and. when the results were defi nitely known, many of Dr. Best'4 supporters gave expression to their exultation in various ways. The early returns Indicated a vlc torv for Dr Hest. From the Inn,.. h ! pulled far ahead In the two precincts of the fourth ward. Montgomery took a big lead on the north side but not enough to overcome the lead of his opponent In the west end At 'he j city hall the count waa a pretty race. I Neck and neck the two mayoralty ' candidates went down the column. first one a few votes ahead and then the other They were tied at 13.' but latter that Best drew a little ahead i and ended with a margin of 22. In (the east end Dr. Best kept a sm..ll j distance ahead of Montgomery fmsfl the start In the third ward the r u e between Kirkpatrick and Kn. ' for councilman was of chief interest (Continued on page five. I Wheat Still Strong in Chicago Market the bid. Ill M bid. Mer Club, hauls ) bid. tialav I.ivcrpal. LIVKi:1'' L, hi Spot No. i. M.inl! d. No :!. Its Id new. ll id. N" 12s M aba. Us Mdh I2 No. J hard a tnt-'f hard winter old. in Allien, an t-rins the hlaheat prl cea In Uverpod are J .er MskH s si, NEW fORI the nuhllcalloii and one eighth within three ii j0p ftin for , e TaLe- Jump He. : Foil. . ing ot WUnnn , o,iM.4sr, teel lumped from one points to tlghty eight.