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CITY OFFICIAL PAPER
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER
VOL. 28
DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY
t, 1916.
NO. 8822
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GERMAN ATTACK
DRIVES FRENCH
FROM
POSITION
Powerful Assault Delivered Against
Defenses Routs Troops But Gain
Said to be Small.
French Take Offensive at Verdun
TEUTON LOSS IS VERY HEAVY
Attempt to Squeeze French front
Whole Region Between Deduian s
111 and the Meuse Is Reported to
Hate Palled; Entire New Division
Used by tiermans.
BERLIN, May SO. Fresh
unrninn vlclortcM on lioth sides of
sbo Mouse were officially an
nounced. The tiunlercM and
Ourbcaux iiosWons were nelzed
aaad litis prisoners taken. Gains
tm the Thlaiiinont forest wen' an-aauced.
PAULS, Muy 30.- -Assaulting power-
PENDLETON PAYS
HONOR TO THOS
E
WHO HAV
E
DIED
All Business Houses Close For Part
of Day During Memorial Exercises
at Grave-Sides.
PARADE HELD AT 10 O'CLOCK
A Terror to Greasers
The accompanying map uf the Im
mediate neighborhood of Verdun
shows the region in which Borne of
the most furious fighting Of the war
has been going on for the pant few
days. The arrows show the direc
tion of the attacks, both French and
German. Uy a counter offensive
lull, the Hermans drove the French j which aiwumed the proportions of a
iurow the Uethlticourt-Cumierea high.
way into the defenses to the south!
last night, it was officially announc-i
ed The gains however, were not morel
than 120 yards. The attacks were de-!
Uvered between Deudman's Hill and!
I'umicres Elsewhere, said the com-!
munique, till charges were defeated,!
The Germans are striking southward
against the Cumleres-Esne highway,!
wnerc iney capiureu .tuu arus 01 ii
rain yesterday, attempting to squeeze
the French from the whole region be-
tween Deudman's Hill and the Meuse,
'has forcing a retirement upon Char,
nay ridge, the French main defense'
position, where the fate of Verdun'
will hang upon decisive action. The
Teutons hurled an entire new division I
into the fray lust night A withering
fire from the French caused the col
lapse uf many charges In the region
of Headman's Hill.
Around Caurette woods the Ger
mans lost heavily Despite the san
guinary losses they cnarged repeated
Iv until the incessant pounding forced
th French to retire behind the Beth-1
incourt road. Without rest the Ger-;
mans emerged from the scunty shel-
tor of the wood and ruins of Cumleresj
and repeatedly charged, attempting to j
fore the French further southward j
ilon? the ChattanCOtiM highway. The
attacks met with lleree resistance and
finally ceased.
est of the Meuse violent cannonad-1
nig shook the ground all night It
was especially severe west of Iiuau
mast.
general drive the French forced their
way into Fort Douaumont, long held
by the (Iermans.
On the west bank of the Meuse the
French attacked west of Le Mort
Homme and recaptured part of the
ground recently lost there. The Ger
mans endeavored to retake the Hau
dromont querrles northwest of Fort
Douaumont but failed.
Veteran of the (rand Army of the
Republic Arc Taken to Cemetery in
Automobiles Where the Graves Are
Decorated; Rev. High Delivers the
Address.
Sheriff Taylor to be King Joy
Will Reign With Queen Muriel
Accepts Honor of Rose Show
Woman Candidate
to be in the
Field for Board
Likely
WUI. MAKE ATTEMPT TO I.ET ON
NOHOOL BOARD AT COMING
BZiBcmoiir.
sb '
Pendleton is today paying tribute
to her dead.
Practically all business, official and
commercial, suspended either for the
whole or a part of the day, flags are
flying at half mast and this morning
a parade led the way to the cemetery
where under the direction of the p.
A. R. memorial exercises were held
The parade formed at 10 o'clock at
the court house. Led by the band
playing dirge music, it proceeded
slowly down Court to Main, south on
Main to Webb and tnence down Webb
to the cemetery.
In automobiles decorated with Am
erican flags and bunting, the veterans
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
rode Just behind the band. In an au
to truck rode the Women of Wood-
i alt "no many automorjues ionowea
j oenind with citizens, all Dearing flow
ers with which to decorate the graves.
Owing to the late spring the supply
of flowers available was shorter than
usual though many shipped in flow-
era from other places.
At the cemetery a large crowd was
assembled for decoration of the graves
and the program. The band opened
the exercises with a patriotic selec
tion. Captain I.hn Gurdane served as
presiding officer and the chief address
was given by Rev. G W. Rigby, now
blind. A prayer was given by Rev.
C. A. Hodshire and a vocal solo was
rendered by Mrs. Mae Hager. At the
conclusion a solo was given by Mr.
Thayer, a veteran.
Though there is a scarcity of flow
era here this year the graves are well
decorated and there are many re
marks as to the improved appearance
of the cemetery. Local fraternal or
ders decorated the praves of departed
members during the day.
I ivl: :'-:w
1
ITALIANS Wll L BE
FORCED TO YIELD
ASIAGO TO ENEMY
3 PERSONS DEAD
AND 53 INJURED
IN WIND STORM
TORXADO SWEEPS THROliII
MEMPHIS; STOCK AND PROP.
ERTY ARE LOST
mkmi'IIIS, May 30 -Three were
I reported killed and 53 injured today
when a tornado swept over a hundred
miles of territory around Memphis.
Thousands of dollars of property was
destroyed.
Many Memphis homes were un
roofed and damaged by falling trees
The towboat Finley was blown from
one side of the river to the other, six
teen coal barges were crushed and
sunk.
other cities reported heavy damage
to houses, stock and crops. The wind's
greatest velocity was 125 miles an
hour. It ravaged the city for 20 minutes.
MILLIONAIRE MINING MAN
DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS
LIEUT GEO S PAJTOM
PORTLAND, ore.. Mav 30 Charles
) Sweeney, millionaire miner, died this
morning after a lingering illness. He
j was 67- He Wal a pioneer coast min
ing man and was associated with the
COBlStock mines in Nevada. Later he
fortune in the Couer d'Alene
He has a son fighting in the
foreign legion.
Lieutenant George S. Patton while
on a foraging trip near the San An
tonia camp visited the San Miguel
rnch. about 60 miles southeast of
Namlquipa and with a scout and nine
enlisted men in three automobiles
encountered and killed three Villistas
one of whom was Captain Julio Car
denas, a well known lieutenant of
Villa s. Patton and his men left the
camp in their three autos and fought
the bandits from the autos. that is to
say, they spranc directly from their
cars into the fight putting the en
counter in a class by itself.
Lieutenant Patton is thirty years of
age. He is from California, and a
graduate of West Point.
Carranza Asserts
Politics Caused
Riots on Border STRIKE AT SEATTLE MAY
LATEST NOTE FROM MEXICAN
DE FACTO HEAD REACHES
WASHINGTON.
MEXICO CITY, May 30. -Carranza
a latest Mexican note has been sent
to Washington. It continued to assert
the point blank charge that American
politicians inspired the riot among
border forces to get material for a
presidential campaign, It was reliably
asserted today, it was rumored that
the note will not be presented for sev
eral days. It also was reported that
the Mexican embassy would deliver
the note only if Intervention was
threatened. It was unofficially re
ported that Carranza desired to alter
the communication after it was dis
patched, the delivery therefore being
postponed.
VIENNA, May 10. The Italian!
ate preparing to evacuate Aslago, th
largest Italian town threatened since
the Austrian offensive began. The
Austrlans have crossed the Aiwa vaU
ley near Roana and threaten to sur
round the Italians.
The Italians near Canova vainly at
tempted to stem the advance An Aus
trian statement claimed the posses
sion of Montecablo, Sieglarell and CO
rono Blanco. It asserted that the
.Austrian forced the Italians from po
sitions west and southwest of Balen
HIS
NOT IN PUN
FOR THIS YEAR
WASHINGTON, May 30 The
house refused today to authorise
any dreadnaughts for this year's
naval construction program. The
Butler amendment providing two
dreadnaughts was defeated by a
small majority.
TIE UP WATER TRAFFIC
SEATTLE, May 30 Pickets Da-
trolled the waterfront today, support
ing a strike of the United Dockworkers
organization. The workers demanded
a recognition of the organization anl
higher wages. The employers refused
to answer the communications. Ship
pers fear a complete tieup of water
traffic. Longshoremen will strike
June 1 unless their demands for high
er wages are granted.
Lulu Thorpe of Athena was a visit
or last evening.
H. F. Getvln of Pilot Rock, was a
Pendleton visitor yesterday
R. R. Lewis, prominent Echo busi
ness man. was in the city last evening.
m;itle a
district.
French
Medicine River. Fort Sill reservation
Oklahoma, has the most unusual
ciossintr in the United States A con
crete roadway consitrutes the fori
across the river and water flows over
it continuously.
Indications point very strongly to I
woman candidate for the position o(
cool director being placed in the
field before the election, June 1
For some time past various women s
organizations have been discussing
the matter of supporting a woman as
tfUCOCMor to J. V. Tallman and several
names are bein prominently mention
ed. Among the ladles being considered
ire Mrs. C F. I'olesworthy, Mrs,
Stephen A. Lowell, Mrs. c. s. Terpen
irur, Mrs. Roy Haley and Mrs. Mary
Harvey. The matter has been taken
up with several of tnese ladies but no
definite answer has been received
from any one of them It Is consid
ered unlikely that more than one will
became a candidate.
Dr. I. U. Temple has already an
nounced his candidacy for the posi
tion which Chairman Tallman will va
cate and other men, too, are being
mentioned.
Sheriff
Festival
Tillman D. Taylor who will lie lvi
at the Portland Rose
FIVE TRY TO ESCAPE BY
MELTING BARS OF PRISON
HOOD RIVER, or., May 30. - l ive
Hood River county prisoners, await
ing trial on charges of stealing copper
wire from the Pacific Telephone &
Telegraph company and demolishing
machinery of the Mount Hood Railway
Company and the Pacific Power &
Light Company, made an attempt to
escape from the Wasco county prison
at The Dalles. This Information was
given to City Marshal Carson by Sher
iff Crisman, of Wasco county.
The prisoners tried to melt the Jail
Sheriff Tillman 1). Taylor, president
of the Round-1'p will lie King Joy of
the Portland Rose Festival.
This afternoon he accepted the
honor from the publicity committee
of the Commercial MMQtetlon Which
W'as empowered by the Rose Festival
association to select the man to shar-'
with Queen Muriel the throne o.
Rosarla.
Because of his position as head of
the Hound-Up, because of his popu
larity at home and over the state and
because of other Qualities which made
him peculiarly fitted for the position
of honor. Sheriff Taylor has from tie1
first been the choice of the commit
tee. However, Considerable difficul
ty was encountered In gaining
consent to act, his natural mod
making him hesitant about acrep
a position that would make him
his
sty
once life representative of Pendleton
Umatilla County and the Uound-Up
and one of the chief figure! of Port
land's annual festival, However, the
committee, alive to the advertising to
lie secured by having the president ol
the Round-Tip as the festival king,
insisted and was backed by Commun
ity sentiment so strongly that this
afternoon he finally yielded to the
Urgent request.
As King Joy, Sheriff Taylor will,
with Queen Muriel, preside over all
ceremonies at the festival and will
appear in all parades. In the frater
nal, civil1 and military parade, in
which the special Round-Up float
will le featured, he will w a typi
cal cowboy costume and, mounted or
a fine horse, will ride just ahead ol
the Pendleton float. He will also as
sist in the dedication of the Columbia
VISIT 10 EXPERIMENT STATION
i WOULD REPAY FARMERS OF THIS
COHHf DECLARES N.R. MOORE
I
Platform of Principles is
Declared by Roosevelt in
His Memorial Day Address
Present Administration is Assailed; We May be
Attacked After European War is Over, He
Declares; Pacifists are Severely Criticised.
"i
Pendleton Young
Folks to Appear
at Weston Picnic
eptc
WILL BE ON THE PltOGIIAM
pioneer CELEBRATION
FRIDAY NIGHT.
At
nd yesterday the
1
The class will consist o
Monies, Alice May, Elsie
er, Mary Douglas Ch
BeUeu and Luelle Pell.
ken part in previous contests and have
been awarded silver medals The win.
ner Friday will be presented with a
handsome gold medal.
anltttion
f Alberta Mo-
Wattenherg
sholm. Vera
All have ta-
Prewlt! Cox, Mrs. J, H. Cox and
Ethel Casey of Heppner, were at the
Pendleton last evening
Ah a part of the program for the
Pioneer's Picnic nt Weston this week
i a class of six young Pendleton people,
winners of silver medals in the decla.
; matory contests conducted by the local
bars with electricity, smuggling wires, W. C T. U., will appear In the Fri-
lnto the prison ana connecting tnem day evening program in a gold medal with covered metal tanks. Thus 10.
to a light socket. Explosion of a fuse contest The Weston committee invit- j 000 pounds of live nsh can be neeon
plag caused detection. ed the W. C. T. V to put on this fta modated In one car.
Life white fish and carp arc shipped
from the Great ljikes in an express
tank car. This tank car Is enuipped
presume the statement will np-
' pear extravagant, even ridiculous, to
! some, but I am convinced that if Pen
dleton would spend just one year's ap
propriation for the Round-Up In get
I ting the farmers of Umatilla to visit
the Union. Moro and Hermiston ex
periment stations, this county would
; in time reap each year treble and
1 quadruple the highest possible cash
j return from the most successful spec
i tai le ever held here. I wouldn't cut
out the Round-Up, even a year, of
! course, but I would m:ike even a big
ger round-Up through a more proa
j perous county."
This is the expression of N. R.
Moore, secretary of the O- A. C. Hoard
of Regent! while en route to Union
alter a visit to the otner stations nam
I ed. At Moro he found 320 acres di
vided into as many plats, each show
ing a different demonstration and all
designed to make It easily discernible
to the eye Just exactly what should
and should not be done to get the best
results at the least cost. By com
I paratlve tests of different varieties of
I grains, seeded and cultivated under
I different conditions the grower is able
I to get a conclusive demonstration, so
loncluslve to the Sherman county
farmers that, acting upon the advice
of the station men. they have lncreas
I ed their wheat yield and the value of
their land until the sum represented
computed in , hundreds of
i oousamis oi
must be
lollars, this latter state
ment coming from Hanker True Bar-
num of the Sherman county capital.
While Mr. Moore has not yet seen the
Union station, he has read the bulle
tins from there and Is confident that
Bob Wtthycombe has demonstrated
things there no less valuable and far-
t than those at
uld tmt supple-
reaching in their efft
Moro. If the grower c
menl his bulletin knowledge by a vis
It. to see with his eyes exact compari
sons at the station.
At Hermiston during seven yearl of
experimentation. R. W Allen has
worked out irrigation problems,
knowledge of which WOttld save every
newcomer hundreds of dollars, much
time and oftentimes great discourage
ment if they would but visit the sta
tion and go over the situation. The
lysimeter over there, soon le be en
larged so that soils from all sections
of the irrigation section can be test
ed for percolation, is alone worth a
visit to the novice as well as to the
I tower, Six feet beneath the bround
this apparatus measures the water as
It percolates through the ground, rec
ords the exact amount that escapes
each hour, and enables the station men
to get the exact facts governing the
growth of the product above. The
water that percolates away is caught
(Continued on page five)
k N s CITY
inu the parade here today a
-.mail pocket knife struck Hooe
eveR'8 car. Whether accidental
or an attempt to Injure the oil
onel is unknown. No arrests
were made. Roosevelt was Ig
norant of tin' incident until his
secretary Informed him of it
KANSAS CITY. May 30. Thirty
thousand spectators lined the street;,
when Roosevelt arrived here. The
march from the station to the bote!
was a continuous ovation. The colonel
stood in an automootle the entire dis
tance waving his famous black slouch
hat in response to tne cheering
In the lobby of the Hotel Meuhl
4 school girls confronted the colonel,
each dressed in the stars and stripes
and wearing a Columbia cap. The
buret out singing me Star Spanned
banner Roosevelt's face was suffused
with emotion. He addressed them and
shook hands witli each Then from a
second story window he auMveased
5000 children outside
He bitterly denounced "those who
put a pigtail on Uncle Sam"
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. May It. (0,
P.) In a speech, punctuated by ty
pical Rooseveltian aphorisms. Colonel
Roosevelt this afternoon laid before
a Memorial Day gathering h re Ins
platform of principles.
The address was conceitedly the
colonel's "keynote" for the llii Cam
paign. In it he had everything from
a navy "second in the list of we
armaments." and for an army
-50.00 J men regulars- with univ
KNIFE STRIKES CAR.
May 30. Dur- several hours later
His secre
tary was anjrry over soiwntionat
reports regarding the "trifial in
cident." liic knife struck the arm of
Secretary Mi-Grath, which bcinj,
froiu the colonel s car. The blade
was Open but did not -iHtratc
Hie coat.
sal service and
citizenary.
Attacks
The colonel n
tacking pacifist.'
"Merelv the t.,.,1
training am.
the Pacifists
the
iav we lommii mean or
Hons, and above all. if
otect our own lights, w
ire the good will of
shall Incur rim fonts BAM
lions; and contempt of
(Continued
on page six