DAILY EVENIN6 EDITION
DAILY EVENING EDITION
WEATHER
Fair tonight with heavy front Fri
day fair.
YESTERDAY'S WEATHF.R DATA.
Maximum temperature, (0; mini
mum temperature, 28: rainfall, ;
wind. northeast, gentle; weather,
clear.
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CITY OFFICIAL PAPER
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER
VOL. 28
DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 30. )
NO. 8770
TEUTONS THROW
MASSES OF MEN
AGIST FRENCH
Supreme Effort is Being Made to
Wrest Malancourt From Enemy
and Seize the Two Highways.
FRENCH POSITION IN PERIL
Are Hurting Thousand of
Ae froro Three Sides, Followed
by attack by Infantry; French
Heavy Gun are Replying
Radge of Dead man's BUI.
PARIS, March 30. German
forces have been checked In tlietr. .
drive on Malancourt, tt waa stat
ed. Several attempt to recap
ture tho positions taken by the
French In the Avucourt region
were' repulsed with heavy losses
to the Germans.
The Germans, after a deafen
ing bombardment, hurled a series
of attacks south of the Some, so
miles from parts. The charge
carried theni through the French
lines west of Vernandovtlllcr. Be.
fore they could establish them-solve-
however, tho French af
fected a counter-attack which
forced the Teutons to flee.
BERLIN, March 30 Although tha
Germans are making every effort to
smash Malancourt, the war office
failed to claim any Important gains
there, a statement asserted the
French hud been uniformly repulsed
In their ullacks on the Avocourt
Wood Terrific artillery duela raged
during the night atong the river
Meuee
LONDON. March 10 Hurling
shell upon the French fortifications
from three sides, the Germans sent
thousands of men charging upon
Malancourt in a supreme effort to
capture and sehte the two highways
Intersecting there. The French po
sition were admitted to be In ex
treme peril.
From the wooded heights north
and northeast, and the newly taken
footholds near 'Malancourt. the Ger
mans are sending shell after shell
Into the French defenses. Replying
to this bombardment the French
guns on the ridge of Deadman's Hill
are sweeping the highways, tearing
them to dust with heavy explosives,
so that an attempt to advance over
them would be practically suicide.
The French victory In the Avocourt
wood- Is considered almost an offset
of the German gains.
The state of Washington consumes
annually over 2. ,300, 000 cords of fuel
wood Reduced to Hoard measure
this amounts to approximately 1.672.
000. 000 board feet.
MILTON ATTORNEY FAVORS
HUGHES FOR PRESIDENCY
s. D. PETERSON ANNOUNCES
SELF CANDIDATE TO RE
PI 1IIJCAN CONVENTION.
Announcing himself as favoring
Hughes for the republican nomina
tion for president but pledging his
support for the choice of the Ore
ton electorate of his party, 8. D. Pe
terson, well known Milton attorney,
todaj sent his formal declaration of
candidacy for the position of one of
the Tour delegates at lurge to the re
publican national convention to the
secretary of state.
There will be eight or ten candi
dates of tha four positions, three of
Whom, ex-Senator C. Wi Fulton,
Judge Carey and A, C. Spencer, all
Portland attorneys, have already fil
ed. In his declaration, Mr. Peterson
ray In part aa follows:
"1 believe that the restoration to
power of the republican party Is ab
solutely essential to permanent pros
perity, and to restore the nation to Its
once honorable place among the na
tions of the world.
"There must be nominated for
president a man who holds the un
ahaken confidence of the American
people. 1 believe that Justice Hughes
flUs this requirement.
"In order that the candidate nom
inated may go before the country
with the united support of the party,
it is essential that the convention per
form Its work In absolute harmony
If elected a delegate I pledge all rea
sonable efforts to that end.
"Print after my name on the offi
cial ballot:
"National Honor, Restoration of
Permanent Prosperity, Party Har
mony.' "
About 2.0(10,000 natives of 81am are
enmred In the cultivation of rice, but
the large increase In the production
of American rice Is having the effect
of reducing the Slam crop.
Beautiful Floats
Maids of Honor Elected from Ore
gon will ride In attractive floats dur
ing the Portland Rose Festival, June
. I and 9. The design adopted by
the Queen Contest Department of
the festival provides an attractive
turnout for the young ladies who are
fortunate enough to carry away the
honors.
If It so happens that the Queen or
3 Young Women
are Candidates for
Queen of Festival
CKMMiKTON MAIDS ENTER CON
TEHTj VOTING ENDS ON
SATURDAY.
Three young ladles of Pendleton
iMcame candidates for the honor of
being Umatilla county's candidates
for Ruse Festival queen or maid to-
day when friends deposited ballots
bearing their names In the boxes in
tne various stores. The young ladies
wnose names are thus presented are
-miss Muriel Haling. Miss Gaynell
Halilwln and Miss Mabel Hampton.
naunia win oe continued through The council some time ago desig
the Friday iaaues of the papers afld nated Friday, March 31 and Saturday
must be voted by Saturday noon. The April l as annual clean-up days and
name oi tne successful candtuate Will
be announced Saturday afternoon.
MILLIONS WILL BE SPENT
IN IMPROVING 0-W ROAD
$3,650,000 IS SET ASIDE; PROJECTS
Wild. BE STARTED AT
ONCE.
PORTLAND, Ore., March 30. Ex
penditures authorised by the O.-W. R.
ft N. Company, In addition to the
normal Improvements for the present
ear aggregate $3,660,000. i
The budget carrying these appro
priations was approved at a confer
ence In California last week between
J. D. Farrell, president of the com
pany, and Robert S. Lovett, chairman
of the Union Pacific system.
When Mr, Farrell returned to Port-
land early this week, he ordered work 0,1 Friday of this week the school
on the various Improvements author- hours of the high school will be
lied In the budget to proceed. Some changed. The change was put to a
of the work. In fact already had beenlV(,,e of tne students last week and
under way pending formal
approval
of the budget.
Vale Extension Provided For,
The detailed expenditures as con
templated In Mr. Farretl's budget are
ns follows:
Rail renewals, 112 miles.. $
Shop Improvements and
tools, Albina
260,000
76,000
Concrete lining North Port
land tunnel 310,000
Elimination grade crossings 600,000
(Continued on Page Four.)
W.W. Harrah Makes Argument
Regarding Road Question
Pendleton, Ore., March 80. , mile, total cost 3c per bushel for 6
Editor Eust Oregonian. I miles $160,00d; barley, M0. 000: hay,
Ninety per cent of the products of $20,000; fruit $10,000; stock and wool
1'matllta county go to market In their $10,000; other things hauled to
raw unmanufactured form, thus
malting tne gross tonuge mucn larger
than If concentrated or made Into
flour, bread, lard, bacon, hams, but
ter, cheese, cream, dried and canned
rruit and vegetables, clothing, blunk-1
ets, harness, shoes and many other I
things that should be made at home
This Is a lurge county sparsely settl
ed. Mont of the people living In -the
towns along the railroads. The prin
cipal product of this county is wheat,
being over 6.000,000 bushels, hauled
by teams and wagons an average dis
tance of say I miles at 1 cent per sack
per mile or 1-1 cent per bushel per
for Maids of Honor
Maids of Honor come from Oregon
cities where there are marching bod
lea and bands, these organizations
will act as the escort for the
float Motion pictures of the queen
and maids of honor will be seen all
over the United States, arrangements
to photograph the various parades
having already been made by the
Rose Festival publicity department
Clean-up Days are
Near at Hand; all
Urged to do Work
TOMORROW AND SATURDAY
WILL BE DEVOTED TO PIT
TING YARDS IN SHAI'K.
Tomorrow and Saturday are Clean -
up Days in Pendleton,
(Hean up your backyard, and your
iront yard, and your siderards, and
the street In front of you and behind
you and any vacant lots In your vi-
cinlty. Sack up the rubbish and put I
i; jn the street next to the curbing.
By so doing you can have it hauled
away free of charge.
now asks the citlsena to take advan
tage of the opportunity to have their
rubbish hauled away without cost
Wagons will be sent around the
city on Monday to haul away the
rubbish collected.
Today Is clean-up day at the Olney
cemetery and many people have gone
out to do some necessary work In
cleaning off the dead grass and fixing
up the gravea The cemetery com
mittee of the council is directing the
work.
LOCAL HI6H SCHOOL WILL
CHAN6E ITS STUDY HOURS
STUDENTS VOTE ON QUESTION
OF HAVING A CONTINUOUS
SESSION.
the vote carried for eight continuous
sessions, beginning at eight o'clock
and lasting until 1:20 without the
noon hour This plan met with dis
approval when put before the school
board so the second choice of the
students will be put into effect. This
plan is to have the school take up at
7:60, running six sessions before noon
and two In the afternoon, but have
the noon hour. The students In this
way hope to avoid study in the hot
afternoons. School will be dismissed
hereafter at 2:20 Instead of 3:40.
farms as lumber, fuel, post supplies
and mnchlnery $20,000; making a to-
tul of $260,000. for wagon hauls only.
If properly loaded on good wagons
one horse will haul as much as he
weighs over a dusty, hilly road. A
good dirt road with no erodes exceed.
Ing 4 per cent one horse pulls twice
his weight; macadam 3 per cent. 3
times his weight; concrete or hard
surface, 2 per cent, 4 times his weight.
1 per cent, 8 times his weight: level
16 times his weight But a macadam,
concrete or other fogs of hard sur-
( Continued on page fire.)
l
I
U-BOATS NOT TO
LET ANY VESSEL
ESCAPE TORPEDO
New Campaign of Terrorism on the
High Seas Reported to Have Been
Launched by Germany.
ATTACKS MADE AT NIGHT
Admiralty official- In London Claim
to Have Evidence That Submarine
Are Attacking Without Discrimina
tion and without Warning; Many
Vessels sunk.
WASHINGTON, March SO.
Any expectation that the admin
istration would recede from its
determination to sever diploma
tic relations with Germany if It
Is proved a Teuton submarine tor
pedoed the Sussex has been re
moved, It was understood today,
by the attack on the Britisher
Eagle Point, sunk without warn
ing and endangering American
live. A prompt and complete
settlement of the whole subma.
line issue Is the only development
that can present the threatened
rupture, officials stated. Some
believe that such a settlement
would be more probable after a
break of relations than before.
LONDON, March 50. Teuton U.
boats have embarked upon a new
campaign of high sea terrorism de
spite Berlin assurances to the con
trary, in the view of officials here. It
Is pointed out that during the first
fortnight of this month, submarines
acted with caution, supposedly upon
orders from Berlin. But during the
past fortnight, the sinkings have av
eraged several daily Admiralty offi
dais are said to i.avs proor that sub
marines worked without discrlmina
lion, hurled torpedoes without warn
Ing and frequently at night
Affidavits in regard to the sinking
of the Ragle Point, the Englishman,
the Manchester Engineer and the at-
tack on the Sussex
have been for
warded to Washington. All these ves
sels carried Americans. The British
embassy at Paris has forwarded state
ments of the Sussex commanders in
which he claimed he saw a torpedo
and tried to dodge It He blames
most of the fatalities to the panic
following the explosion. Many vic
tims were not identified because their
bodies were mangled by the blast
COLORED TIGERS TO PLAY
SUNDAY WITH THE BUCKS
As a preliminary game for the
Pendleton Bucks of the Blue Moun.
tain League, the Cqlored Tigers of
this city will take them on for nine
innings next Sunday afternoon at
Round-up Park, commencing at 2:30.
The colored boys are In fine fettle,
having been organised and playing
for several weeks. The Bucks, too,
have been practicing for some tim
and seem .to have a wealth of material
from which to draw. A general prac
tice will be called Sunday morning at
9 o'clock for the purpose of picklns
a team to play during the afternoon.
The picture shows American soldiers
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Columbus, N. M., lust before the American troops crossed the border and began the march to capture Villa.
360,0(k road
Employes demand
an Eight Hour Day
MEN ALSO WANT TIME AND A
HALF FOR ALL OVERTIME
WORK.
CLEVELAND, March 30. Three
hundred and sixty thousand railroad
employes today submitted to the rail
roads their demands for an eight
hour day and time and a half pay for
overtime work. Representatives of
the Brotherhoods notified the general
managers that a written answer will
be expected before April 29th. Lead
ers Haiti that strike rennrfs eirenlntori
in New York were merely calculated
to affect the stock market Should
the railroads refuse the demands, ar
bitration would be the next logical
step.
Daniels Tells
Plan to Board
UK; NAVY MEN TRY TO HECKLE
BUT THEIR EFFORTS ARE
FOILED.
j WASHINGTON, Mar, 30 Attempts
' of "Big Navy" members to heckle
Secretary of the Navy Daniels, while
he addressed the house naval com
mittee were foiled by Chairman Pad
gett. Daniels said he favored bring
ing the personnel of enlisted men up
to 68,000, amid repeated efforts to In
terrupt his speech. Padgett finally
filenced those who sought to annoy
the secretary by announcing that each
would have a chance to question the
secretary after he had finished. Dan
iels warned the committee against
paving attention to individual offi
cers who failed to agree with the na
val board.
Daniels asserted that the officers
who testified gave only their person
al views. He opposed a large in
crease in enlistments until the ves
sels were in active use so that train
ing could be continued rather than
have a large number of men with
few duties. He cited facts and fig
ures to show how hard it is to keep
the navy up to its full enlistment
strength.
EASTERN OREGON ROAST
PIG LIKED AT COLLEGE
The following story, clipped from
the University of Oregon' Emerald, in
dicates that eastern Oregon roast pig
lb considered something of a delicacy
among the students:
Pork three times a day Is the order
of eating at the Kappa Slg house
these days. And the fellows around
the fire place are saying they are not
one bit sorry that Tommy Boylen ia
not with them this year.
Last June the industrious "crimson
rambler." removed his cap and gown
and hied himself to sheep and hog
raising In eastern Oregon. Three days
ago. his erstwhile mates at the Kappa
Sig house heard from him. It was
not a letter. It was not a post card,
either. It was a pig. a hundred and
two pound porker, dead, of course,
and ready for the eating. The favor
ed ones say that it is the kind of eat
ing that makes one want to forget
manners and ask for more and
more.
After each meal there
dlsertutlon on roast pig. The fresh
men got their heads together and
reasoned it out that if Tom Boylen. Jr.
had come to Oregon one year later,
he would be here now ; and eating
l.ash with the rest of them.
and Carransista troops fraternlxlns
A Hero of Science
Bay
fi " 1 1 rria eajiiinwi
Dr. Carlos E Husk.
Dr. Carlos E. Husk of El Paso was
one of the physicians sent by the
Guggenheim interests into Mexico to
establish hospitals for the cure of the
typhus which rages over the north
ern part of the country. He broke a
vial of typhus germs and caught the
disease. Though he was hurried to
Laredo he died there.
Martial Law In China.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cat, March 30.
Martial law has been proclaimed in
Canton, China, as a result of bomb
throwing by rebel sympathizers, ac
cording to a cabby from Shanghai re
ceived by the ChiturWorld.
Men Lost hi Mine.
JOHNSTOWN, Penn. March 10
Hope of saving eight men entombed
In the Robin Dale coal mine
abandoned this afternoon. Rescuers
entered the lower reaches but were
unable to find the victims. It Is
feared the entombed men will not be
found for several days.
Many injured in Accident.
CHICAGO, March 10. Twenty
persons were reported injured, sever
al seriously, when two street cars
met in a head-on collision.
Closing Prices Today
are Higher at Chicago
CHICAGO. March JO. (Special)
May, opening, 11.12 3-4, closing $1.11
6-8; July, opening, (1.10 1-8, closing
11.12 3-8.
Portland.
PORTLAND. Ore., March 30.
( Special ) Club, bid 90, asked, 95;
Bluestem. bid. 99.
Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL March 29. Wheat
Spot No. 1 Manitoba, 13s sd; No. 2
hard winter gulf. lis 4d; No. 2 hard
follows alv.lnter. choice, 13s Id; No. 1 Durum
13s 3d; No. I hard Duluth. 13s lid;
Northern Chicago, 13s 8d; No. 2 red
western winter, lis 8d.
Tn American terms the highest Liv-
erpool prices, for No. 1
$2.0:: per bushel.
Duluth, Is
on the International i----- .
ADVANCE FORCES
OF CAVALRY ARE
CLOSE ON VILLA
Bandit Has Reached Guerrero Moun
tains, Having Divided His Com
mand Into Three Divisions.
NOW HAS 20 MEN WITH HIM
Several Carloads or Supplies Are
Ready to Go Forward to Pershing's
Men Oveer Mexican Railroad ; Oar
ranxMas Begin to titamp ol VII
a)stas Around Torreoa
EL PASO, March 30 With a fores
of picked American soldiers already
300 miles inside Mexico and fully
10,000 troops chasing Villa, the army
supply transportation problem today
was the sole topic. The Mexico North
western railroad announced it was un
able to ship munitions before Satur
day on account of lack of equipment
villa has been located, according to
unofficial advices, 60 miles southeast
of Madera, close to the Mexican
Northwestern. Pursuit by rail is Im
possible on account of 40 bridges hav
ing been destroyed since January.
As the report probably was delay
ed, It Is believed Villa has escaped
Into the heart of the Guerrero moun
tains where it will be possible for
him to hide indefinitely. The condi
tions under which the railroad eon
cession was granted make it necessary
to secure invoices from' Consul Garcia
for all exportations sent from El
Paso to Juarez. Garcia said he had
no other instructions.
SAN ANTONIO, March 30 Fran
cisco Villa has reached the Guerrero
mountains and Colonel Dodd's ad
vance guard has crossed the railroad
southwest of Chihuahua City, accord
ing to unofficial reports. Villa Is
said to have spilt his command Into
three divisions after leaving HI Valle
and has taken personal command of
20 picked men.
EL PASO, March 30. Several car
loads of supplies for Pershing's men
are ready for shipment today to
Casas Grandes over the Mexican
Northwestern railroad. Officers ad
mitted their disappointment at the
outcome of negotiations for permis
sion to get the use of the railroad. Tha
uncertainty of the road's operation,
due to the fact that the road la
known to be In poor condition, may
force a continuance of motor track
trains over the Chihuahua desert.
Wires southward from Juarex are
working, so the absence of news on
the Carranrlsta movements are con
sidered pusling. The American forc
es were last reported chasing Villa,
through the San Maria Valley, trying
to head off his escape via Madera.
Mexican troops are being sent to
stamp out a band of 1500 Villlstas
around Torreon. Three Carransista
generals are In the field against
Reyes.
SAX RAFAEL Cat. March $
Villa is paying the expenses of six
Mexican youths in Hitchcock mili
tary academy. It was learned here.
Nearly three years ago when Villa
was In his glory, he sent an agent to
the school lads and gave him f 16,000
In gold to pay their tuition advance.
Four of the boys are sons of Chihua
hua land owners. One Is an orphan
and one Is a relative of Villa
EL PASO. March 30 General Ca
vira informed Generul Bell he would
not permit army munitions to be ship
ped through Junrex until Instructions
had been received from Obregon.
Registered Ma I stolen.
SHREVEPORT, March 30. Two
pouches of registered mall were taken
from a TexasPactfic train here when
robbers boarded the cars aa they
were pulling out. overpowered the
clerk and helped themselves. They
escaped after riding two miles.
French soldiers at the rront are al
lowed one pint of wine a day.
NEWS SUMMARY
General.
America IU uot IMS) from po.
sltlon or deinuiuliiu: that mbmarlne
ot'tragr
Teutons are halted in attack
a .a'n-t I'rvn.-h III Verdun lector.
Villa said to hae csrird safely lo
mountain-.
IXMWi.
rontons, ami Saturday ilean-up
Days.
Three young hullo nominated for
Rose Queen rand Hale.
First ball game of season nest ua-day.