ri 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.
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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.