East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, May 03, 1916, DAILY EVENING EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextDAILY EVENING EDITION DAILY EVENING EDITION TO ADVERTISERS. The East Oregonian hu the largest bona lid' and guaranteed paid circulation of any paper In Oregon, eaat of Portland and by tar ttie largeat circulation In Pendleton ol My other newspaper. WEATHER Tonight fair with light front. Tuea day fair. YESTERDAYS WEATHER DATA. Maximum temperature, M: mini mum. 42; rainfall, 9; wind, went, light, weather, clear. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL. 28 DAILY EAST OREGON! AN, PENDLETON, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1916. A. A. NO. 8799 THREE OF IRISH LEADERS PUT TO DEATH FOR PLOT James Connolly and P. H. Pearce Among Men Who Pay Penalty for Treason, Asquith Announces. OTHER NAME IS KEPT SECRET Men Arc ( ourfmartlalcd and Found ;ntH : All Other Primnm Have Devil Hemmed From Dublin; 4U1I for Compulsory Military Service la Introduced. atfj LONDON, May J Three leaden of the Irlah rebellion were ahot to death thin morning. Asquith announc ed in the house of common. Augustine Blrrell. chief secretary for Ireland, resigned from the Hrltlsh cabinet. It was announced upon his return from Dublin today. Janie Connolly, leader of the reb. Is. P. H. Pearce. declared president of lh Irish republic, and another prisoner whose name wag withheld, were coiirtmartialed, convicted of treason and executed. These are the first rebel whose execution has been I ublicnlly announced. All Irish prisoners have been re moved from Dublin. Three hundred. Including eeveral lenders were brought to England today. The re mainder were taken to Belfast under a heav guard. After making the announcement of the executions, Asquith Introduced In commons the government! bill pro viding for general compulsory mili tary service. Asquith stated that the three men 'shot had signed a proclamation an nouncing the establishment of an Irish republic Thta statement eliminated the possibility of sir Roger Casement being the third man a hi name was not attached to the proclamation. The swiftness of the government' action was i surprise. There had been no previous announcement of a court mart l.t I Itebel are Being tried with great rapidity. It Is believed the reb el who fought In the rank will be le lenlently treated. Change of Venue Denied by Court in the Best Case ATTORNS! Poll MAYOR 8AY8 AP PEAL wild, BE TAKEN FROM THE HI I. INC. Justice of the Peace Joe H. Parkes this morning denied the motion of Mayor lames A. Hest for a change of I venue and. while Judge Fee, attorney for Ihe defendant, stated that ha would appeal from the ruling. It la probable the case will first come to trial in the local Justice court. The time for trial will be set later. The demurrer filed by Mayor Best to the complaint charging him wllh the use of abusive and obacene lan guage was overruled yesterday after noon after a brief argument. The defendant appeared In court this morning at 10 o'clock and entered a pleu of not guilty to the charge. Immediately his attorney filed a motion for a change of venue, basing It upon an affidavit, signed by Dr. Best, stating his belief that he could pot secure an Impartial trial before Justice of the Peace Parkes because of the prejudice of the latter toward him. His counael cited the court to a de cision of the supreme court and, con. tended under It. that the court could hardly do otherwise than grant the motion. District Attorney Htelwer held that the decision in question was given In a case not parellel. His con tentlon waa that the matter was dis cretionary with the court and that an Appeal ctnild be taken only from an a base of this descretion. As to v bethel or not Judge Parkea held prejudice toward the defendant, he stated, he would leave to the court. Judge Parkes stated that the affi davit waa too general and requested that some showing of prejudice be made. A recess waa taken while th" mayor and his attorney made nn ad dition to the affidavit. The addition consisted substantially of the state ment that Judge Parkes was preju diced against the mayor because he yea a candidate for city recorder at the laat city election and did not re. reive the appointment after the de fendant had been elected mayor. Neither Judge Fee or the district attorney made any argument and Mayor Best waa not preaent when tha amended affidavit was considered. Judge Parkes denied the statements In the affidavit, declaring he hud not lieen a candidate for recorder. He stated that Dr. Hest had come to him (Continued on page five.) In Argument for Road Bonds J. T. Hinkle Scores Waste of Money Under Present Plans Note For the purpose of Inform iiur voter- as to Uw facts at wuc the iJ'Nt Orcironlait V using arguments both for and against the road bond Issue. The following la the speech made at pilot Hock yesterday by J. T. Hinkle. uho favors the bond Issue. Tomorrow the Eaat OrctronJun will publish the sieoch by C. P. Strain In opposition to bonds. Talk of high taxes: la there any greater waste of tax money or any higher taxes than we have at present? tine hundred thousand dollars and more every year spent In doing work upon our roada which same work must be done over the next year and the next year and still the next year This yeur the peopte of Umatilla county are paying $128,000 In road taxes. Seventy-five per cent of this amount, or practically a hundred thousand dollars, la being spent on the very roads which it la proposed to improve under the bond Issue. Practically this same amount was spent on these same roads last year and the year before and then the year before that and for the laat quar ter of a century the same proportion of the road tax money lias been spent on these same roads and what have we today? We can go on for ever and ever spending more money and more money each year on these same roads right up to the end or the world and when the last trumpet Is sounded these roads would be requiring more tax money to put them In passable condi tion for the last grand march. The present tax levy In Umatilla county for road purposes Is about twu and one-third mills and under the preaent system this rate must increase each year as more roads come Into service and demand repairs and up keep. Under the bond Issue the tax for the first four years is nine-tenths of one mill, or 90 cents on each liotm of assessed valuullorr. This is for the reason that only the Interest Is provided tor during the first four years. The average tax. figured on Income Tax Frauds Said to Amount to Several Million Dollars; Accounting Wanted WASHINGTON. Hay S Represen tative Keating of Colorado, introduced a resolution today directing McAdoo to furnish congress with a statement showlnr whether three hundred and twent -million dollars Is annually withheld from the treasury by income tax frauds and evasions. He was ask- Indiana Girl Won by Austrian Nobleman tlISS BARBARA ROURHIll,. HAMMOND, Ond., May S How war broke down social barriers la told by Max Lovengcr, wno haa Just ar rived Home from Austria, where his ! tepdaughter. Miss Lillian Goldman, haa married Baron Otto Hlrach, a wealthy and distinguished Hungarian nobleman. Lovenger, hla wife, and her daugh ter, Miss Goldman, left Budapest eight years ago when Mrs. Lovenger was socially ostracized because of her divorce from het first husband. Pro feaaor Goldman. At the beginning of the war, the three returned to Austria, where Lo venger w is wounded tn the service of his country and hla daughter became Maroncss Hlrach. Mra. Lovenger has been reinstated to her former social position. ii 'i a ' n , miMiM-rni i a x- ..j the present valuation of $4 9,000,000 is only $2.04 per $1000 assessed val uation, actually less than the present road tax we are now paying. Aa the valuation Increases thiB rate will de crease; and it Is easy to see that the average tax required to pay off this bond Issue will not be two mills on the dollar, will not be $2 00 on each $10t'0 of assessed vuluatlon. What do you get for It? Tou get permanent hard surfaced roads which require practi cally no taxea for upkeep and main tenance where today you people are paying $100,000 annnaily in an effort to keep these roads In a passable con dition and then falling, for these roads are not serviceable the year around. Yuu know that from nere to Pendle ton there are mans- and many days In the year when you cannot hardly get through with an empty wagon. Then take It during tile dry summer months when this road Is cut up and worn down to the gravel In the mid dle and out to the fence lines on each side, do you call that a good road? That Is the kind of a road you are paying a hundred thousand dollars year for For the same money you can get that road hard surfaced so that It will be open to traffic of all kinds every day m the year and the upkeep will eost you nothing where today this road is taking Us share of the hundred thousand dollars for its upkeep. Let me tell you something right here In this connection, and this is something you want to take home with you and consider. The macadam road from Pendleton to the State IJne ha cost approximately $240 000. you who have traveled over It know what Its preaent condition Is. It is almost impassable. It will cost $1000 a mile to maintain that road as a macadam road. The heavy pres. cut day traffic cuts macadam all it pieces. It will not stand up under I he wear and tear And right here ii (Continued on Page Three ) ed why he has not recommended to the president that all income tax re turns be made public so as to enable the checking of frauds. Keating said he based his resolution on charges made by Basil Manly, rrilef investiga tor of the Industrial relations commis sion. Manly declared that more than i four hundred millions of dollars Is due annually Instead of the eighty millions; actually collected. In Introducing the resolution Keal-j ing said: "We may discount Manly's! charges 50 per cent and still have a sum which makes other frauds Ins'g-j r.lficant. Three hundred and twenty i million dollars represents the income; of 600. Out) workingmen laboring ev-j ery day In the year. The nation's! pension rolls are enormous, but the ! sum which Manly says millionaires' steal annually would pay It twice over Prediction Made That Germany is Evading Demands BSTLir WUJj NOT COMPLY WITH AMEHKTAN NOTE, ACCORD -1NG TO FORECAST. BERLIN, May 3. It was expected that the German reply to the Ameri can demands will be delivered to Ge rard tomorrow. LONDON, May 3 Dispatches from English correspondents In Holland agreed that Germanys reply will not meet the American submarine de mands. It was forecasted that the note will make concessions for the purpose of getting a delay and throw ing upon Wilson the responsibility for a break It was predicted that He reply will be argumentative and ln!e- delve. BERLIN, May 3. Chancellor Holl- weg, whose return to the kaiser's headquarters is expected shortlv. will say the final word in the German re ply to the American demand for a change in Germany's submarine methods. It wa learned today. The note will be put In diplomatic form today. Von Jagow told the Reichstag commltte that the communication Is not completed. Indicating that furth er alteration are possible llrondels Nomination Postponed. WASHINGTON, May 3. The sen ate Judiciary committee today post, poned nctlon on the nomination of Bran data. Major Alexander L. Dade, 7th Cavalry ay $ ' Major Franc R Beach. 3d Cavalry Majors Francis H Beach of the 3d Cavalry and Alexander L. Dade of the 7th are among the American officers who have stood great hardships in .Mexico In the pursuit of Villa, 5000 Extra Votes for Queen to be Given During May EACH DOLLAR THEREFORE W il l. PURCHASE 6000 IN FESTI VAL CONTEST. Aa a special conceasion to the can didates for queen or the Portland Rose Festival, it la announced by R P. Richardson, contest manager, that beginning today and continuing through May 13. 5000 extra votes nil! he given with every dollar This means that during the next ten days one dollar will purcnase 6000 votes and this concession is expected to make the balloting very heavy. The publicity committee of the Commercial association will make its beat effort during this time to land Miss Muriel Sallng at the top of the list. At present she is In 11th posi tion with 6 7 nil votes to her credit Miss Rose I'ptegrove of Oregon City, is leading with 125,420 with Miss Mil Mildred Pegg of Vancouver, second. Miss Edel Fraaach or Eugene third and the McMinnville candidate fourth. There are seven candidates now over the 100.00(1 mark Pendleton has suf flclent votes on hand to bring Miss Sallng up with the leaders. Delta Nets Over $30. The benefit given Tor Miss Salmg last evening by The Delta netted her campaign fund 120,80. which, at 6000 votes for n dollar, will give her over 120,000 additional votes. The Saw yer orchestra contributed music dur-1 ing the evening and tne place waa crowded until a late hour. Dancing was enjoyed in the Pullman tea room. So successful was the affair that Qeorge C, Hill, the proprietor, has offered to give another benefit be fore the contest closes General. Prediction made tliut Germany will evade Issue in submarine demands. Ik-rnstorff. however, confident that reply will I' satisfactory. No truth lit minors that Turkey and Bulgaria will conclude peace terms. Three Irish leaders, are put to death for part In rebellion. Local, Mayor Best denied change of venue, fan man perjure himself by swear ing without hand upraised? 6000 viXch for a dollar in queen oaateat this week. IVndlcton will get behind baseball team. V. of O. athlete may coach P. IL & teams. HEWS SUMMARY ITT Til ii dUII IU LET rsrw Settlement is Reached at Conference Which Lasts Until Midnight; Both Sides Pleased. CAW HOT TO INTERFERE I iin-ton Eliminated from Meetings; iVrmission Reported to Have Been (ranted to Let Americans I'm.- the Railroads; COrranzlptas Will Co operate in Villa cnasc. EL PASO, May 3. American troopa will remain in Mexico without the Carranzlstas interfering, Scott and Obregon agreed after a 12-hour con ference The agreement was reach ed at midnight. Both emerged smil- ng from the room but refused to In dicate the outcome or trie meeting un til today. Funston was eliminated from the meeting and stolled aoout the lobbby. It was reported that he calshed with obregon at the first conference. It was reliably stated that Obregon had granted permission to the expedition to use the Mexican Northwestern rail way and promised. to cooperate as ful ly as possible with Pershing It was unofficially reported that Scott had aet a 60-day limit for the presence of troopa In Chihuahua. The conclusions or the conference are not final until tne Mexican and American governments ratify them. After the conference Scott dispatch ed a long telegraphic report to Wash ington. It Is unknown whether there will be additional conferences. Scott and Obregon are expected to remain on the border Indefinitely. It was indicated that the attitude of Wash ington will decide whether another meeting is necessary. COLUMBUS, Ore.. May 3. Tha American camp here was active today pieparing shelter for new shipments of shrapnel and heavy consignments of rifle and machine gun ammunition. Soldiers are erecting a huge tent. Five hundred fresh horses arrived. They will lie forwarded to the front to re place the animals killed ANNUAL DAIRY SHOW AI BE SOON UNDER WAY COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO AR RANGE FOR EVENT; OTHER NOTES or DISTRICT. (East Oregonian Special.) HERM1STON. Ore.. May 3 An enthusiastic meeting or the Commer-: cial club washeld Monday evening at the Civic Club rooms A light lunch watf served About 45 members were present, and many topics of interest Q the community were brought up and discussed before the meeting. It was decided to hold the Annual Dairy Show again this fall and C. S. Mc- i Naught, H. M. Straw, Paul Jones, ( Oeorge Cressy and James Ralph were I named as a committee to have charge of the affair. It was also voted to is sue new booklets advertising the Uma tilla project. Master Irvln Shotwell was a Jolly host at a merry party recently at the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs J K Shotwell. on Main street. Gam'.-s and a box party at The Movie were the attarctlons of the evening, and his guests included the members ot the fifth and sixth grades Frank W. Kehrli. government dairy expert, formerly of this city, but now located at La Grande, was here Frl day and Saturday on business con nected with his office. Robert C. Walber and Harold K Dean were Pendleton visitors Sunday. Mrs Mabel Wolfe, republican can-1 dldate for nomination for county treasurer, was here Saturday. R. T. Brown, candidate for county clerk, was here Tuesday. The Cafeteria supper given by the j Ladles' Aid of the Methodist church Saturday evening was a decided suc cess In every way and nearly fit) was realised for the current expenses of I the church. This society undertakes the raising of 1150 each year towards support of their minister and takes this means of serving excellent din-, ners to raise the sum pledged. Miss Grace Gilliam, republican can didate for county treasurer, waa here Tuesday campaigning ror nomination. E. J. Roberts, of Spokane, was I Sunday visitor at the home of hl son. W. T Roberts of Ttr Glwya Ranch. Nearly a million and a half men are now employed In the munition factories of Germany. HUNDREDS OF MILKMEN ARE BED 10 SCENE OF RIOTING REPUBLICAN "KEYNOTffl" 1 Senator Warren G. Harding. Thia is the very latest photograph of Senator Warren G. Harding, select ed as the temporary chairman of the republican national convention. He will deliver the keynote speech for his party. May Options Higher in Chicago Market CHICAGO, May 3. (Special to the East Oregonian) Today'a range of prices; Open High Close May . ...tl.14 $1.16 $1.15 July . ...$1.16 $1.17 $1.16 Portland. PORTLAND, Ore., May 3 (Speci al) Merchants Exchange prices to day Club, 93 bid, 97 asked: Bluestem $1.04 bid, $1.07 asked. Liverpool. LIVERPOOL May 2. Wheat Spot No. 1 Manitoba, 12s 10d ($1.86 per bushel); No. 3. 12s 4d: No. II northern spring. 12s 4d: No. 2 red western winter, lis 5d ($1.66 per bushel. ENTIRE SENIOR GLASS OF HOOD RIVER ON A STRIKE HOOD RIVER. May 3. The entire senior class of the high school walk ed out this morning and refused to return until the faculty promises to allow Leonard Howard to graddate. Howard was denied the privilege be. cause he was arrested charged with stealing an automobile. The entire student body threatens to strike to support the action of the seniors. n MI'S REPLY TO DEMANDS 11 BE ACCEPTABLE TO 0. S. WASHINGTON, May 3.- Ambassa dor Bernstorft is so confident that the kaiser's reply will be aatiafactory thai he has completed plans to remain In Washington all summer. Apparently be bases bis belief on the willingness of America to negotiate further, j strong indications that Wilson kVMaraal negotiations have ended ma upset the ambassador's plana. It was authoritatively learned that no single communication from I -ins-, Ing regarding the submarine Issue or the armed merchantmen pronounce Turtle Creek Valley is Scene of Dis turbances; More Laborers in Pittsburg District Out. MARTIAL LAW IS IN EFFECT 15,000 Munition Workers striking and More May Join; Strike Leaden Make Plea for Peace; Larva Bodies of Foreigners Are on Way to Brad dock; Troop Heady. PITTSBURG. May 1 Hundreds of militiamen were ruahed to Turtle Creek valley today wnere serious la bor riots are raging The first cav alry reached tha scene of yesterday's riot at 9 o'clock this morning. Simul taneously aeveral thousand employe of the pressed ateel car plant struck. A general walkout of 11,000 before night is probable unress the manage ! ment closea the plant. Martial law has not been declared but virtually ia effective. Forty-five tnousand muni tion workers are striking. More cavalry is due before nightfall, under command of Colonel John Wood of Philadelphia. The eighth Infantry expects ordera to go to swlsevale and Braddock. The militia now available totals 2000. Strike leaders are preaching peace. They have posted a Bulletin saying. "Brothers, If you don't Intend peaceful picketing, stay at home " Large bodies of strikers, mostly for eigners, were moving toward Braddock at noon. The troops were reported to be preparing for counter moves. Turko-Bulgarian Peace Rumor Not True Says Agency DENIAL MADE THAT NEGOTIA TIONS HAVE BBGCN TO ENT WARFARE. BERLIN, May 3 (Wireless to Sayville.) Reports that Bulgaria and Turkey are negotiating for peace are untrue, the Bulgarian news agency declared. The Geneva newspaper Lasuisae circulated the report. METHOD OF TAXIN6 OATH IN AFFIDAVIT DISCUSSEO QUESTION ARISES IN ALCOHOL CASE WHETHER IT IS BINDING. Whether or not a sworn affidavit has any legal binding it the swearing was done without hand upraised is a question brought up yesterday after noon at the preliminary hearing ot Harry Bedford charged with perjury in connection with the purchase ot alcohoL The question was raised by District Attorney Stelwer himself when ha questioned the druggist as to his mode Of swearing the purchaser of alcohol. The answer was that he simply read to him the affidavit and required him to sign. It is said that this is all that any of the druggists have been doing and. while the affidavit Itself con tains the words "being first duly sworn" It is a question aa to whether or not. unaccompanied by a raising of the right hand, they have any ef fect The hearing was continued until Saturday to give an opportunity for looking up the matter Til ment, nas oeett sent iserare since oil son's note wa.i forwarded. All other messages dealt with . drier subjects. Private Berlin advices to the Oermaii embassy reiterated the reports to the I'nlted Press that dinger of a break In diplomatic relations had pawed the embassy believes that this Indi cates the fc.rmulatl.in of a rpl' which Is expected to natlsfy Ihe prl. dent. The reply apparentlv nntlclpnt ed, however mai rNiit in iniilnued conversations between Bernstorff and Lansing while the embassy staff spends the summer in New Tork.