East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, October 27, 1916, DAILY EVENING EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextDAILY EVEMG EDITIOil DAILY EVEfil'iG EDITIO. TO ADVERTISERS The Katt Oregunlao has the latest buna fide anil Kuarauteed puld circulation of an paper In Oregon, east of Portland and bjr far Hit laigiMt circulation Id I'endlrtoo of any ntwipapnr. WFATITFR Tonight iiml J.n iirija fair CITY OFFICIAL PArER - .. . .,, BOUNTY OFFICIAL PAFEB A. VOL. 28 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1916. NO. 8951 zz a vfltrsr-Effli K -y KJptJ NAVAL RATTLE IS FOUGHT OFF en coast English and German Destroy ers Meet in English Channel -2 German Ships Sunk One British Transport Lost, Destroyer Missing and One Disabled. IS FIRST SERIOUS CLASH SINCE THE JUTLAND FI6HT LOW DON, Oct. 27. Tile ad. sasraily announced Uiut British aaMl Gennan destroyers hauled In the toaxliidi channel but night. Taw siauiuiuiit said:. 'Tun eneiuy destroyers attempted to raid Uie rotct-iiuuincil triutsoirt scrvlme sad sak Uie empty tmnMut fjneaa. Tbo crew was saved. Two enemy destroyers were sunk aal the n-jnalnder find. The Bnatsh destroyer Flirt b midline ami U. Is feared It I lost. Tim destroyer Nubian was disabled um4 forood aground.' ! fight In Uie first naval en tUMtiH Vn Uio 1'iiglWli channel excepting submarining and 1m Ue Bra serving cltth since Jutland. Or in destroyers and fa cruUt m kad previously a)inmilict air eo4. coast but never entered aha channel. " Was destroyer flirt wan anmnx sha elder Brttxh warships and traa kallt In 187. The Nubian was bait la 1009. Several UHt Mi steamers are named Queen aaaf aho admiralty statement may aaaa the 4000 ton oiocn or the ill smaller Honth Hampton aaaaawa of the same name. FIRST RAIN IN 50 DAYS IS FALLING nearly fifty days of dryneiai, n mid Umatilla county U to day awaked" again. A heavy rain falling at 8:30 this morning u continued with but few In- all day. The storm be gan aa a downpour, making the gut ter rea full, but this afternoon It ha kaocome hardly more than a drlanle. At 2 o'clock the total pre cipitation for the day wax .CI of an loch. The rain has brought smiles to ev eryone The farmers have been praying for It to help them out In needing. Tlioso who use the roads ne in It the beginning of the end of tho had road for the season. The house wife view the rain aa a benefactor fur It has cleared the atmosphere and settled the dust which has been mak ing her lot a aorry one. There la a considerable deficiency la tha rainfall. The total precipita tion far August, September and Oc tober P to today was .35 of an Inch. On October 4 there waa a .04 of an Inch rainfall and the last rain before that waa on September 7 when .11 ot an Inch fell. HOIJjWKU OFF TO IMPERIAIi rUaUDyi AKTIOim; SPKEC1I OFF CAKI, ACKERMAN.) 15BRL1N, Oct 7. Hollweg has un expectedly left for Imperial headquar. tera, postponing hl Reichstag speech. The Reichstag continued discussing the resolution authorizing tho chief committee to meet during adjourn ment and dlscusa foreign affaire. Gov ernment does not object to the mea sure and experts It to pass. Vice Chancellor Helfferlch declar ed the government only favors the resolution ft a war measure. Parlia mentary observers do not doubt It Is beginning wedge to give the peoples representatives a real voice In the government's foreign policies. Soci alists cauenssed and voted fifty seven to fifteen to support the new three billion dollar government war loan. as News Summary -a Local Senator Mre confident of Wilson victory. INwdli-ton Is snaked by rain. Wow grain elevator progressing rapidly. , t:vm on wll-mn Is nntakea General. (ferrania any situation Improve. British a ud tiormnn Destroyers nattlo. liner Chicago with 800 aboard In flames. j rrr."-- r-Tr . rrrr L-ig SCHOOL ON WHEELS FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN Sr ' , zzrJi tevwyxJHr II 'a 4 .' " . I i I r . 1 1 IS ' 1 nfAy-pf' ' - n 't y 1 I ta. "WLJ lLtL-a Wwca SCHOOL A achool on wheels is operated on the rulto of the Southern Pacific com pany where comrtruatlon work la un der way In the well. A the ronmnit tiiin gang moves from place to place, so does the school car with the workmen' children who never mine a day'i attendance. CHILDREN TO THANK WILSON CHILD LABOR LAW BRINGS JOY 4 MENACE OF SWEAT SHOP GONE NHW YORK, Oct. 87. KMIt mothers of New York's east side, with their children who have been eman cipated from sweat shops by the en actment of the child labor law, are going to Shadow Lawn Saturday In person to thank President Wilson. A "kind lady." who prefers thus to conceal her identity, has donated a special c.ir to b atMcheJ to one of the tra oh bearing pilgrims from New York to Shadow Lawn tu hear the president's address on Wilson lay. The children will carry ormsful of ar tificial flowers which they used to make In the factories before their emancipation. The hostess of tho unique party suggested today to the democratic na tional committee that Saturday should be celebrated not only aa "Wilson LARGE GRAIN ELEVATOR IS BEING RAPIDLY COMPLETED Work Is now progressing rapidly on the $36,000 grain elevator for the Formers' Union Grain Agency on Kast Webb street Already the big concrete tubular tanks ore thirty feet In the air and are rising about four feet a day. When the structure reaches Its full height of 108 1-! feet it will be a sight to attract attention to Pendleton's Industrial center. In connection with Its building a new device In the construction of re Infored concrete Is being used In these parts for the first time. It Is a screw form which slowly creeps upward, traveling on the steel rods that rein force the concrete. It Is elevated by Jnckscrews, one man moving con stantly from one screw to another. The upward trend of the form Is at the rate of four feet a day. Tho form Is only four feet high. Tho walls of the tanks are only six Inches thick hut they are reinforced with steel both lenuthwlse and cross wise. Concrete floors are being poured now and when completed there will be 12 bins with a total ca pacity of 100,000 bushels. The grain will be dumped from wagons Into a tunnel through whlh It will be drag ged to be elevated to the Wits. A wagon' can be unloaded In a minute and a car can he loaded from the ele vator In seven. IT n ttnreell. western manssrer of the Burrell Engineering Construction Co., of Chicago, which Is constructing J Ident Wilson Is en route to Shadow elevator, believes the time Is not far twn for tho final campaign fire distant when the bulk handling of-works. He addresses a Wilson Daj grnln will be the common method In crowd tomorrow. Next week tha the northwest. The fact that his com-1 president campaigns In New York, pany has constructed 32 elevators In leaving Shadow Lawn Tuesday. Wll the northwest this year and hag . son was pleasantly surprised at hi dosen mors ln prospect would seem Cincinnati reception. nay" but by children all over the United States as "Child Emancipation Day." Children of the tenement have been wildly excited since tickets for the excursion were distributed yesterday. No such pretentious pil grimage of the children of the poor has been attempted since tho one when Theodore Roosevelt was presi dent of the I'nited States and a car load of children from the Pennsyl vania coal mines Journeyed to the summer capital at oyster Bay to pe tition for a national child labor law." "Mother JoneV who conducted that excursion told recently ln public of the refusal 'of the guards at Oyster Ray to allow the children to pns through the outer gate and of their returning home to malt fourteen years for a Woodrow Wilson to set them free. to bear out his prediction. Mr. Bur rell believes that a big municipal ele vator will be built In Portland before long. Among the elevators construct ed bytho Rurrells this yenr are those locnted nt Condon, Ore., Burleigh Weiser, Twin Falls, American Falls. Rlrle, Downey, Arimo, Rankroft Raunock, Hanson, Cottonwood, Fer dinand. Nei l'erce, Harris, Oreer and Reubens, Idaho and John'on. Cooley City. Mansfield, Wash., and Salt Lake, Wash. Tho elevator here will be complet ed In December. Mr. Burrell thinks. At present work is going on 14 hours j a day, the company having wired the building so that there Is no difficulty In pouring the concrete at night, o Clauson Is superintendent In charge here. LAST CAMPAIGN TRIP I eaves for Shadow liawn Where lie Will Address a Wilson Day Crowd Tomorrow. GRAFTON, W. Vs.. Oct. 7.-Pres ly7t: wf dtteyrcF. MEN-WARD CO. WILL SUCCEED liLJW New company Capitalized a $10,000 Owners Are Well Known Young lustiness Men. Articles of Incorporation were filed Yesterday at Salem for the Allen. Ward Company, successors to a. I. i-a wiw, me cumpany is capiiaiiseu at 110,000. ,1116 officers and stock, holders are J. B. Allen and Fred Ward, both well known Pendleton business men. The new proprietors have already taken control of the store. Mr. Ward has been employed In the store for the past year and Mr. Allen for the past year has been proprietor of the St. George Grille. They Intend to specialize in automobile supplies and acce-vories and they will carry a complete line. They will also be county distributors for United Slates tires. They will continue to handle fishing tackle and ammunition but will d'spoae of all the light hardware that Mr. La Dow had In stock. Mr Allen has sold the St. George Grille to MKs Lottie Brlley and Miss Nora Mlllican. two young ladies who had been In his employ, and they will continue to conduct It along the first class lines which has charater. ixed It in the past. If the English language were not so difficult many of the lesser Latin American nations might have sought closer relations with this country tore now. fHYAMFDRS0S1 By Mrs. Antoinette Funk Progrtniv Ltader of Chicago. The Issues between tha parties were draw where we least ex pected then, and they were drr wa by Mr. Wilson when he forced the Eight-hour Law through Congress, on of the most far reaching arts of any President a t any time. The method, the haste and all of the details are of minor importance, even the im mediate effect of settling the strike pales in to Insignificance beside the fact of the recognition of the short work ins; day. That is the ultimate tri umph, and industrial justice has iron forward a quarter of a century. k -v P g, i t -aw. 3 - Slip Ih 300U Is Burning NEW iOltK. Oct. 27. The Maritime Exchange received a re port that the French Liner Chi cago was burning. Jt is speed ing toward the Azores. The Chi cago left Iiorflcaui Sunday en route to New York. She carried 300 passengers. French line of ficials had not beard the report. WHEAT SOARS TO NEW HEIGHT IN CHICAGO MARKET PORTLAND, Oct. 27. Wheat broke all records today. It went two to six cents higher. Bluestem is a dollar sixty a bushel in the Portland market. The country reported blue stem sales at a dollar sixty four, Port land delivery'- Middle western and Kentucky demands cause the increase. CHICAGO, Oct. 27. (Special to the East Oregonlan.) Range of prices today: Open. High. Low. Close Dec. 1.62 1.86H 1 82 1.864 May 11.82 K 1.84 1 82 1.84 Portland. PORTLAND, Oct 27. (Special.) Club, $1.54; bluestem, $1.(0. Liverpool LIVERPOOL, Oct. 26. Wheal Market for spot strong No. 2 hard winter, 15s 2d; No. l northern Dii luth, 15s 3d; No. 1 Manitoba. 15s 8d ($2.28 per bu.); No. 2, 15s 7d; No. 1, 15s 4d. CHICAGO, Oc. 27. Heavy buy ing Just before the close sent Decem ber wheat up three points to one eighty five. May is up two and an eighth to one eighty three and five eighths. December closed at one eighty six and three eighths. This is the highest during the present move ment. ' BIG BRITISH LINER SUNK LONDON. Oct. 27. The John son liner Itowanmore, flying the British flatr. Is sunk. It Is among the largest liners destroyed dur ing the war. It was ten thousand ton and built In 1900. Isrter at was learned the Row. nnmore's captain wan captured and the crew landed. It is tndl cntcd the liner was submarined. MYSTERY IN SINGER'S DEATH. Rod of Japanese Girt Taken From River in Chicago. CHICAGO. Oct 27 -The mystery i of the death of Wanda Tango, a pret. tv Japanese girl who came to Chl - cago from Hawaii, where she was ed-1 ttnntaA Ih - ....... I- L.. InVMM. umicu in a -.. ..- ... , gated by Chicago police. The girl. , whose body was taken from the rlv- A vn.forriatr y,a iSsaAn miirrlareA hv . t,o accord t the police j theory, and efforts are being made to fi. !,.,,- , lat seen find a chauffeur who was last seen w th her. K ersaouro Koyama. a,fw,nrin n'MHm ww. i, Japanese butler, k'lled himself Sat- urday and the police are seeking to learn if the two were acquainted. lernoon by U. S. Senator Thos. P Wanda Tango, who Js said by the Gore of Oklahoma in an interview police to have fallen a victim to the given shortly after his arrival on No. lure of the Chicago cabarets, first 17. attracted attention in July, when she "There is always a strong political was found in a stupor on a downtown tide starting about the middle of Oc street. She said then she had been tober of every presidential cam- a singer ln North Side cabarets She disappeared about seven weeks ago. HUGHES MONEY NOT TO BE HAD ..Thut local Hughes men lack confidence was thoroughly shown here today when for many hours a purse cf $.1000 In sold was held at the Welch cl ear store on Court street, ready for nn even bet that Wilson would be elected president. There were no takers, despite the fact several prominent re publicans of betting proclivities were personally Informed of the offer. The Wilson money consisted of $2500 in gold put up by one enthusiastic backer while $500 of the money was from other sources. At 2:30 none of the Wilson money had been covered. I Or CARRANZAl&CLARES MEXICAN SITUATION IS IMPROVING DAILY Characterizes as Absolutely False Reports That Bandit Villa is Beseiging Chihuahua orjhat Zapata Threatens Peace of Mexico City-Baker and Lansing Say Defacto Enemies are Plotting Projected Raids. NEW YORK, Oct. 27. Mexican Consul General Juan T. Bums denied the reports that Carranza Intends to leave Mexico City and made public a telegram dated Mexico City; "It Is absolutely false that the bandit Villa Is beaieglng Chihuahua city, or Zapata Is threatening the tranquility of Mexican City. Felix Dias was defeated In recent sklrmlsh lshe by our troops and is now fleeing with his few followers into Guatema la. I shall remain In Mexico City until the constitutional convention at Wuertaro. All military operations are succeessful and general conditions are Improving dally." Signed, Carranza. Burns declared the constitutional convention would convene November 21st. WASHINGTON. Oct. 27 Baker and Lansing declared that Mexican and not American, plotters were re sponsible for the projected Villista border raid. Lansing said: "I can not Imagine any American o unpat riotic, heartless and wanton as to Join any such action." 1 AV SWEEPING NATION SAYS WE Though Uule notion had been girea of the meeting and then waa bo band to attract the crowd an audience that filled Uie Aha theater gave I'nited States Senator T. P. Gore an oration when presented thia afternoon by Will M. Peterson. Opening his address Senator Gore said in part: "All the people of the country are prosperous with the exception of for mer republican officeholders) who de sire change. "Four years ago CoL Roosevelt con vinced us that the republican party Is no longer the party of Lincoln but is now devoted to the service of privi lege. What the colonel says, who can deny. "The democrats are aoensed of de ciding matters ln secret caucus. The only difference between our causus and the old republican caucus is that I we have 50 men In caucus in Uie senate whereas the reo..bII.ns luul o . . but one man. Senator Aldrich, who would go into executive session with hlmseif and tell other senators where to get off and where to get on." Continuing the senator declared . Y. .. ............ . t . . 1 .1 K 1 . 1. ttiA iJ.,.- T. 'JZ :.r viewed in a forceful manner manv of achievements of the I, oongrta ' toull. hUnd Mor Gore I. , , B Kooa sueaKer ana entirely at llolm, m platform. His audience rpora Man Hymiaihc. i- --. -m . . . . "Zt 7o7wZ hXm7 Tave u now eweeping the country , , .. anu w 18 the confident summary of the nation. ftl Dolitlcal situation volr.d this ft. palgn," he said "and that tide has Tomorrow is Wilson Day in Pendle-1 ton as well as ln every other city. , town, hamlet and countryside of the I nation. It Is the day upon which the! legion of supporters Of the president will demonstrate their loyalty to him and to his candidacy for re-election. Here in this city the day will Ire featured by a big parade of "March ers for Wilson" early In the evenlns :ind by an address later In the Ore-, go theater by Senator George E. Chamberlain. The parade will form at I 30 at tha (now set in. Everywhere it is for 'TOMORROW IS "WILSON DAY" CHAMBERLAIN SPEAKS HERE "Baker said: "Mexican opponents of rhe defacto government would be glad to complicate relations between the United State.4 and Mexico. Our information Is that they think the time Is opportune." NEW YORK. Oct 27. Republican National Chairman Willcox challeng ed the democrats to prove that Amer. leans are engineering a border raid He said: "If the war department has fnfor. matlon that Americans are implicat ed, I demand that it Immediately proceed to prosecute them for trea son." Willcox ridiculed War Secretary Baker and attacked him in most Tic lent terms: "This Is Just another democratio political drive. It will fall aa all oth er drives have failed." He declared Baker had deliberate ly misrepresented facts. Democratic Chairman McCormick shrugged his shoulders and said: "I am running a politial campaign, not the war department." E 1 U IS Wilson and I bellere the prendent s re-election la assured. " " "I find that tha great majority 4 tha people of the nation regard peace a the chief issue. They believe Is the ability of President Wllsoa t keep this nation out of needle war. and they are not so certain about Hughea. The recent utterances of Hughes and Roosevelt have ailed the people with aprehension and un easiness. My own opinion la that Roosevelt has done Wilson's cause one of the greatest of services by taking the course he has." The blind senator has Just complet ed a tour of Colorado, Utah and Ida ho and thinks there Is no question but they will all go strongly for the pres ident In Boi.se yesterday the hettlna UUOS WAT tA trt r.n. T ,1 V. . wouM ,v- wl, . ..,.,... v. ports ... ... , .... . 1 h.ae. aUw v,sited states in the past two weeks." he said "and find the Wilson sentiment grow ing dally. Kentucky and Tennessee are of course strongly Wilson. Ohio, ; while still regarded as doubtful, will go for Wilson I am certain. The ,rend ln IIllnol to strongly for the Is the same sltua- Z, " JntTv. . 1 -no"al elections will give a democratic ma- fJllL Lthe hous wl" wlth f UJU h Senator Gore arrived alone on No. ,e hav'ns Kon' throuh t w alia w alia earlier, and wm m t the dppot Jud J' W' oney. ch' of the democratic central comlttee. Will Moore. Postmaster T. T m ... . ... , .... . '.', a aeiegauon or ladies ana thef, men' H Iunched the Hotel ' "lu'ein w in Messrs. Maioney, Moore and Tweedy and this after noon at 2 o'clock addressed a theater full of people at the Alta One thing that a conservative per son can never understand Is why peo flle will take a chance on being pols- oned by toadstools Just to eat mush rooms. postofflce comer under the direction of E. J. Murphy and a corps of men and women assatants. It promls to be the lamest and most anthuaiu. tic political parade that ban been bald In Pendleton In years Senator Chamberlain will arrive In the afternon and will noetic at tha theater at J o'clock. The senator's ability as a campulun orator la too well known here to roulr comment and the mere announcement of h s coming Is sufficient to lnur a caps'-. ity house.