East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, February 28, 1916, DAILY EVENING EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textri dSliiil DAILY EVENING EDITION TO ADVERTISE! IS. The Kut Orcgunlan has the largest paid circulation of any paiier In (h-rgun. east of Portland and over twice the circulation In I'eodleton of any other newspaper. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL. 27. DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1916. X7.3 EG Mtr " ' V DAILY EVENING EDITION T" , COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER Cr " WW vn NEW THEATER IS BEING PLANNED FOR PENDLETON Suitable Site is Now ?ing Sought and Within Short Time Definite Announcement Will be Made. HEILIG IS BEHIND THE PLAN: "liiiuvi. u iut Dp Half Uio Am mi of Mom v Smwarj for Erec tMm of a First t'luH Play HonsO Welch Brother An; lookliig vrtt'r I'-Hl MlMl of I'IKll A new, modern theater, with facil ities to attract and accommodate the largest j nd best of road show Ik projected for l'endleton. While It cannot be announced aa a delimit) certainty aa yet, the consideration has reached a point where the pro motoM art- looking for a aultable nltu. and they expect within a very ahorl time to announce that the building ll i.saur.-d No leas a peraon thnn Calvin Hei llg. owner ol the Helllg- theater In I ortlaud and a prominent figure In the northwest theatrical world, la bark ol the propoaed undertaking. So Hell does he think of Pendleton at ,i ."how town thut he haa volunteered to put up half tile amount of money necessary for the erection of a rtrsl class theater. The otner half la to be ralaed locally and. so favorable la the proposition regarded that already .-"Mo- half dozen or more people have, without solicitation, volunteered to tU hacrlbe. f, K Welch, manager of the Ore- I gon theater, und hla brother, Jamea Webb, who recentlr came buck to l'endleton from Portland, are looking after the Pendleton end of the STOP' otltlon and will probably have eharge oi the new houae. It ... planned to build the theater in the rear of some Main street business mildings, and have a Main street hallway entrance to It Thla would CUI down the cost or the slructuri . Mr Helllf, estimates that a thorniigh- y up-to-date theater, rurnlahed and equipped could be built for 120,000 of lew. Such a theater, he believes, would be a paying investment from Ihe first. The tentative pluna are for keeping ihe theater open every night by pit ting on high class picture program on the nights when there la no roaii attraction Mr COM through Ills con nection with the theatric world, would be In a position to book many ilg thowfl for Pendleton. Several sites are now being CO held i ll and those back of the move ex pect to get an option for the purchase lease of a site within the von iuture or ORATORICAL CONTEST TO BE Nation Must Guide by Principle, Not Expediency, Says President Wilson (From President Wilson's speech at the Gridiron banquet Saturday.) "Your talk, Mr. Toastmaster, has been a g. . ai deal about candidacy for the presidency. It is not a new feel ing on my part, but one which I entertain with a greater intensity than formerly, that a man who seeks the presi dency of the United States for anything that it will bring to him is an audacious fool. The responsibilities of the office ought to sober a man even before he approaches it. One of the difficulties of the office seldom appreciated, I dare say, is that it is difficult to think while so many peo ple are talking, and particularly while so many people are talking in a way that obscures counsel and is entirely off the point. "The point in national affairs, gentlemen, never lies along the lines of expediency. It always rests in the field of principle. The United States was not founded upon any principle of expediency; it was founded upon a profound principle of human liberty and of justice, and whenever it bases ita policy upon any other foundation than those, it builds on the sand and not upon the solid rock. "America ought to keep out of this war. She ought to keep out of this war at the sacrifice of every thing except the single thing upon which her character and history are founded, her sense of humanity and justice. If she sacri fices that, she has ceased to be America; she has ceased id entertain and to love the traditions which have made us proud to be Americans, and when we go about seeking safety at the expense of humanity then I, for one, will be lieve that I have always been mistaken in what I have con ceived to be the spirit of American history. "You never can tell your direction except by long measurements. You cannot establish a line by two posts; you have got to have three at least to know whether they are straight with anything, and the longer your line, the more certain your measurement. There is only one way in which to determine how the future of the United States is going to be projected and that is by looking back and see ing which way the lines ran which led up to the present moment of power and of opportunity. There is no doubt about that. "There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consist of the names of men who have squai ed their conduct by ideals of duty. There is no one else upon the roster; there is no one else whose name we t are to remember when we measure things upon a na tional scale. "Ami I wish that whenever an impulse of impatience comes upon us, whenever an impulse to settle a thing some short way tempts us, we might close the door and take down some old stories of what American idealists and statesmen did in the past and not let any counsel in that does not sound in the authentic voice of American tradition. Then we shall be certain what the lines of the future are, because we know we shall be steering by the lines of the past. We shall know that no temporary con venience, no temporary expediency, will lead us either to lie rash or to be cowardly. I would be just as much ashamed to be rash as I would to be a coward. Valor is self-respecting. Valor is circumspect. Valor strikes only when it is right to strike. Valor withholds itself from ail small implications and entanglements and waits for the great opportunity, when the sword will flash as if it car ried the light of Heaven upon its blade." y t hermistonjthis springQq WOOL SALE BY R. N, STANFIELD OPENS SEASON; BUYERS OFFER MORE THAN WAS PAID FOR CLIPS LAST YEAR Tiie count) declamatory ami ora-i-.neal content will be held n Dermis- ion this print, probably ihe last Pri- ,a in April. The annual counts spellln gcontest will ntso be held III prll ami the time, ptni'e and details of the Count)' track meet will be de- ided later b a committee consisting of pr nclpal t. Park of Hermlaton, Principal C. A. ilucrno of Athena and Principal L P. Gem bee of Pendleton. ll of these matters were detedmined Saturday afternoon at the meeting ol ! rlnclpalfl and superintendents. M the meeting Saturday the school not; endorsed the state publication of leg) I ks, the retirement of teach- eri ami a minimum eiKht monthi terms, all of which propotit'ona werl recommended by County Superintend ent Young, The proposition to or al, e a schoolmasters' club was nl mi endoratd and a committee, con IMtai of Principal Drew of Helix Principal Veterer of Perndale, Prin- . ip.il White of Freewatcr and Misses Hush and Gilliam of Pendleton ap oluled to draw up it constitution and to -laws, i Three quarters of a million pounds; committee, .sends some valuable in of wool, said to be the largest ollplf rmation which may guide the wool owned by a single sheepman In the men. In part he savs as follows advice is that around 6.000. M . YOUNG LAD PASSES AWAY FOLLOWING AN OPERATION (East Oregonlan Special.) PILOT BOCK, Ore, Feb. 28. A ad death occurred here Haturdav night when timer Jensen, 13 year old son of Mr. and Mm. Carl Je'rsen died lollowlng commplicattons resulting 1 cents per pound from an operation. The boy wns the only on and much sympathy Is he. lug expressed for the bereaved par ents Mr. Jensen la a prosperous tarmer near here and formerly lived in Pendleton. The funeral la to he held at 2 o' clock Tuesday afternoon from the ChrMiafl church In Pendleton. I'lllrcd States, was contracted for s:ilc In this city lute Saturday evening. The teller was it N Htanfteld, promin nl woolgmwer. nnd the buyer K. J. Burke, representative of the u o, Judd & Hoot Co, of Hartford. Conn. The exact price t which the con tract was made has not been made public. However, the fine wool sold within one cent of 10 cents per pound nnd the coarse wool within one .'ont i compnn i f J6. according to Mr. Hurke. About out third of the clip will be fine wool and two-thirds coarse, tonkin the transactii n Involve about llGO.Ollo. The wool Is now on the sheen's aack and will be delivered In the spring. Aside from this clip there 'mis been little other wool contrnctet Mr. Burfce recently purchased the clip of Pedro Bros and yenterdny bought a small dtp in Biker. price rc Higher According to le'iable Information, the buyers now In tne riebl here are offering growers approximately two ind a half cent more than waa pal I for fine wool here last year while reflfet wool Is ranging IMM flirt above last year's prlcea In the tight of this stnte tnent the prices annexed with refer ence to the StnnfleM sale appenr low. The National Woolgrowers' asso ciation refuses to advise the sheep men whether or not to sell at this tlnime, but Dr. S. W. McClure, the secretary. In a letter to J. N. Burgess of this city, member of the executive (Continued BERLIN ADMITS FRr YCH CHECK THE OFFENSIVE IN THE VERDUN REGION REVISED LISTS SHOW 171 PERSONS LOSE LIVES WREN BRITISH LINER E R.E.Chloupek to Attacks Spread to Accept Position Champagnewhere in Walla Walla Advance Is Made MAMA STRIKES MIN AND SINKS HEAD or M i ix 1 1: ui(. r HIGH s BOOL TO GO To t. utui n rrv. Vessel Goes Down Within Sight of Dover-Ship on Way to Rescue Also Strikes Mine and is Sunk-Russian Liner Destroyed Marks the Seventh Victim of Mines in Two Days. Desperate Fighting is Now in Pro gress and Teutons Claim to Have Gained Several Yards of Trenches London Awaits News sf Gigan tic Movement German Fleet is Expected to Make Dash to Meet the British. LONDON, Feb. 25. Revised re port today stated that 171 persons perished when the liner Majola, a ais ter ship of the Persia, was mined off Dover yesterday. Forty-seven dead have been Identified at the Dover morgue. The llus-Ian liner Petshenga was sunk today, the seventh victim Of Fifteen Comparatively good order was main iained aboard. The total number nav. .ed was 260. She carried 429 persona including 119 passenger The com pany expressed the hope of further rescues. Previous figures indicated iii had perished. The Majola left Tilbury Saturday for Bombay with malls. US Dajen- of the j gets-- of all classes aboard, and a crew numbering about 200, most of them Lascars. Other passensers were to Join the ship at Marseilles. The steamer had Just passed A l tr.iraly pie.- at Dover and was oppo site Shakespeare Cliff when an ex plosion shook her from end to end. High seas were runnlnit and the aptain. reallilng that preat damage had been done to the after part of h! vessel, tried to run her aground, but the engine-room wns swamped and the ship became unmanageable. The plight of the vessel was on Ftrved and dozens of craft went at full speed to her rescue. It was on of theae, the Emmpress of Fort Wil liam, of 2H1 tons, that sank. mine in 'wo davs crew were landed Other vessel de.-enyed were: Th" P.rltlsh liner Empress of Fort Wil liam, mined while going to the Majo la's rescue; the British vessels Blr git and Suevir; the French vessel TTlgnnc; the Dutch "learner Meiklen Lurg. An investigation to determine how the Majola was mined is proceeding It sank within view of Dover. A baby girl, wrapped in blanket and unharmed wn picked up 'an hour after the tfajola sank The bodies of the captain and eish. sailors of the liner Dido, sunk on Saturday, were wr.hed MhOfe at Lincolnshire today. It is possible the Majola stru'k one or tne mineshe Oermans sowed TOPEKA, Kansas. Feb 24 I'.aloli ofr the Thame BMMiel with ships Foster, en route to Egypt with Brit operating neutral flags. A heaTy ex lah forces, telegraphed his father here plosion turned the vessel keel up. today he escaped without injury h and she sank within short time. the destruction of the Majola. K. E. I'hloupek. head at the manu al training department of the Pendle ton schools, will next year occupy a similar position In the Walla Walla schools. He ha been made an at. tractive offer and Just recently sign ed a contract. Mr. Chloupek is now spending his fourth year in the Pendleton schools, having come here In the fall of 1912 from Baker. Under his direction thej manual training department in the local schools has been built up from I nothing until now It is second onlyi to that In the Portland schools. His' success has won him recognition in! the school world and the offer from I Walla Walla Is only one of the many ' he has received. Walla Walla recently voted bonds for the construction of a new 1140.000 h gh school building and a (60,000 1 junior high school building. Though, manual training has been taught in i the schools there for the nat seven Fears, the work has never been com- plete. The present plan, however. i LONDON, Feb 28 French rein to have complete new euipment for j forcemenU have checked the Oer the offering of courses in printing, j man drive on Verdun. The offensive engines, elementary automobile j has spread to the Champagne 4 HKKIJN, Mo. 3R. Military 'Title predicted tin- fall of Ver dun within a fortnight. The) de clared no fonrot mIbcc the war h wlth-ood e (Msrmaa attack oner- a breach wax made In thei outer il. - Thr I Zeitung aaJd today: "IXrfuunnont was In ruin Thursday, the day Iwforo, the RrandnDurg force stormed it. Four hemv) snots bit the bullM-ye and explotaont In the Interior rmoltrd. , fort nearby blew up. (German ntees are active and enemy aeroplane have been unable Mi hImtii' imu extensive preparations." engines, forge work, woodwork crete wprk and carpentry. SHUMWAY NOW HEAD OF UMATILLA FARMERS UNION Bond Issue Will be Discussed at Meeting Tomorrow NEWS SUMMARY INDICATIONS POINT TO 1114. TENDANCE To DISCTSS GOOD ROADS PLAN. AT. Indications are that the meeting tomorrow in this city t- discuss the proposed $980. 000 bond issue in this county for good roads will be well at. tended by representatives of varinus sections of the county. County Judge Marsh stated today hi1 had received responses from a number of out-of-town men to his invitations The meeting tomorrow will be be tween members of the court, commit, tees from the l'matiUa Count! Good Koads association and Pendleton Coin mercial association, representatives of every section of the county and newspaper men of the county. Some definite program of improvement is to he worked out so that voters may have a knowledge of what the are voting for or against. Meaawh'le the petition- for piac- Ing the initiative measure on the bal- General, French haJt (.erman offensive at Verdun. l"l die In -inkina of British liner. Local. Stanfield dip of 750,004 poanda eontraett'd for -ale. New theater M-ojevtcd for Pendle ton. Schoolmen la plan- for annual In terscholastic meets. Ielersn to resign as di-mmratic chairman. It. B, Chloupek to take manual training department in Walla Walla. STRONG AGITATION" ON To II N- IM.F GRAIN IN BI LK SO s TO SAVE SACK COSTS, A. R. Shumway of Milton is now president of the Farmers Union of I'matilla county, having been chosen to that position at the county meet ing here Saturday. Barney Anderson I is the new vice president and Miss lallou of Milton is secretary-treas. j urer. The subject of hnndling grain ir. bulk was a live subject of discussion i Saturday, the subject being made j pressing by the extraordinary price of -:ruin bags. The I'matilla county grain growers association is also oiking on the subject and there may b a widespread tendency this year to handle grain in hulk. Some promi nent farmers have a!read staitrd pi cparatlons to erect storage elec tors on tbdr ranches so as to handle their grain cithout the use of sacks. i miles west of the Verdun woods. A I Berlin statement today virtually -on-I firmed the French claim that the j Verdun offensive has been halted temporarily. The Germans reported the capture I of 1600 yards of trenches at Navarln : Farm, the scene of desperate con j flict in the Septemoer offensive. A . thousand prisoners were taken. Pans admitted the Champagne low. attrib uting it to a surprise attack . Berlin did not claim important gains in the Verdun region. The Meuse peninsula, a strip of land five miles from Verdun, has been cleared of the French troous .ihe:.i.,.i ... attacking Douaumont and Hardau mont The Germans have progressed fur ther in the direction of Vacherau ville and Bras, four miles north at Verdun and have gained a foothold at Cortelorraine and Woevre. Th Teutons must storm Pepper Heights before they can take Bras PARIS. Feb. 28 The German of fensive at Verdun is crumbling into a series of local actions, dispatches to. day declared LONTX IN. lot preset' fused irculation. dilating th Alfred Fit? petitions at Pendleton Defeat- Baker "en nouiHls 1 1 1 nter-inoiiiit:iiM vaaI h ue now been contracted. Fine wooi Is selling at from two to three cents above last year's, with cross breeds j at from two to five cent above last "On Monday several crossbred cMM sold at Dillon, Mont., at .11 cents, n id I It is reported that the Wool Livestock! i up mis Fora at in cents. nad also that 30 cents has been of fered for some quarter-blood clips in western Wyoming. I hope you will give this Information to your sheep men. but this association refuses re, advise any one whether to sell or no: lo sell. He must use hts own in, la ment entirely in this matter" Montana Wool at SI. BOSTON. Feb. 26. The trend ol wool prices continues strongly up ward nnd the expansion of contractlns for wools in the west has .been the feature of the week The new do mestlc clips are being purchased ,n Ihe highest prices tha have ever pre vailed, with the prospect of still high er figures, as Interest In foreign mar kets Is waning with the close of the selling season and embargo. Aa high as .11 cents has been pa'd for new Montana wools romparcil with 24c to !6c at the beginning of the season a year ago and that '..r medium wools Montana clips are selling generally at 2Nc to Me. which Not on I.' Ing team ker sent d second tea and did it regulars team won Feb. 25. The nn-t week's battling around the Verdun M Dut a Prelude to a grand laaault , along the western front, the most re. mendou,, offensive the world has ever seen The kaiser Is strlktng with all ; his resources for an immediate tad j overwhelming victory. intended t' : end the war Simultaneously with land operations, the sunmarlne cam , patta against armed ships Is due to ( start at midnight. Tuesday Pnn' s Henry has taken high naw comm. in. I i i.onnon is tense, awaiting news the German fleet is coming int, (North Sea or the Zeppelins ,r. proachlng. ' The real thing at last les said. The position at TV, United Press is Reliably Informed That Human Life Will Not be Endang- Past few days Two nil ouaumont tne French IK CARRYING PASSENGERS IE BE WARNED BEFORE IHE! ARE SENT TO BOTTniW BY IllVFRS 'h it th- ap. Time tiring the weekend but the in as well turned the trick by a bigger score than thej Saturday evening the first! ibree atraarht fames from! ered Unless Vessels Try to Fire on or Ram a Submarine-Official Note of German Intentions to Carry on Submarine Warfare Received by Lansing. i-epp, Ilelgbl- Verdiie HI the Bakerltes and won the match by BERLIN Feb. 2 Uermai more thin ISO points. Last night the not torpedo passenger liners without ! second string also, took three straight j warning even after Tuesday. h-n i and ended with a lead of 350 pins ,1 wnrfare against armed merch.inimen Haaavan had the high total In the becomes affective, the United Press ! first match and Taylor of Baker the! waa reliably Informed They will el . high single. L'tS. ltook w is huh man danger human Uvea onl when a all around last night. I Steamer attempts in escape or fire I of ram a submarine. The difference between past and future submarine warrar,- will be: armed shtps will not be considered legitimate peaceful trading veatelti commanders will not torpedo every ship encountered trusting later that they may prove to be vessels armed for defense; commanders will not vi olate previous Instructions to warn passenger liners before sinking them. tSermany will not violate previous Instructions to warn piaeeaffet before sinking them Wednesday, was handed Lans.ng i.ansing declined to comment PETERSON RESIGNS AS DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN ning toda Hernstorff was Squally uncommunk the It was learned the memonr-, dual contained reoort of snhmn. ' rine commanders on a score of eases . where alleged British merchantmen I use. I armament offensively. It gae further reference to the ai j leged British admiralty orders to de. j stroy submarines. Congress has kepi I its hands off the situation thus far oer i.uu ridge and P. Dartlne the arlvne. The tiermans are shooting plosives Into the armor. , , Pepper position, litem p tin the ridge away. Wheat Drops Four Cents More Tod.iv in Chicago Market CHICAGO, Kb j. May wheat dropped f,,ur tttl thts morning JuU a led four and three quart. on page eight.) Will H, Pelerson, democratic county chairman for I'matilla county, today announced hi. resignation as county chairman. recommending judge Maloney as his successor Two Mr Peterson resigned man but was prevailed .i- , i - ago chair- upon to England's alleged orders to merch-' Bntmen to attack submarines seemed) OHJCAOO Kel to offer the last hone of a satlsfaetorv May i u '.J t adjustment of the diplomatic dead. 1 St. at l.s lock. Proof of the actual existence I of these orders might alter the Am-1 Portl,,f rsj'ru.in position toward Herman?, PORT14ND, Fb : bxciivnteni congress has subs d- ''lob 13, bpo-stem I per la 1 1 e a serve another term. He now states he will refuse a re-election He has been chairman tot the past eight years and is now a candidate for election is dele gate to the democratic national convention. (iermany la not courting trounie'eo. wore promised not to press the with America, but If a future accl- resolution warning Americans to dent endangers Americana, tiermany ; avoid armed ships. It was reported will consider she is not responsible ; that uermaa) Is nt because she warned AmerU.ir.s off! dally. Hi d. WASH INQ TON, many's reiteration torpedo armed mc Keb if her Intent t ?n begin livaeyeat LIVKItPol r,t, Wheut . et proposing to Spot So, I red west.-m atalM las I constitutes defensive 1 "d No ; hard winter Hernstorff conferred No. : hard winter k before seeing ljtns- nominal. In American terms the l.i..M,.,i price fr N : red wmlern winter It 12 13 per bushel. discuss what ' armament. I with Zw ledln ing Tile Herman embassy dd not expect a postponement of the i",er M decree.