East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, December 23, 1916, DAILY EVENING EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text9 DAILY EVEIIiG EDITION DAILY EVENING EDITIO'I TO ADVERTISERS T niifht and H; "ijain ,,r oi fresh southerly, g.'j, 'nds. Th Kaat Oregonlan haa the largest bon fide and guaranteed paid circulation of an; paper In Oregon, east of fortland and or tar the lart)t circulation in I'eadletoa of any Dewapapr. 1. . ' li.i . 27; rain- Maximum 41; fall. nought: wind, weather, cloudy. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFIC? PAFO VOL. 28 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1916. NO. 9000 0 BlU PRESS GROWS CALMER NOTE DIGESTED Inclined to Believe Wilson Has Secret Knowledge of Ger many's Terms and Based Message on Them. GERMAN PAPERS EAGER 10 LEARN OUTCOME OF MOVE Some lliliU'hea Indicate Susplciou of Ajncricat Motive, Declarlni; That If Sincere President Bliould Merely Mako AlUo A'Went tW En tente's Offers. BERLIN, Dec. 23. President 4) Wilson's note haa aroused tha keenest Interest. Papers subor. dlnated the war news and com- 4) pared the note with Lloyd- 4) George a speech. Editorially 4) 4 they said peace whs distant on 0 account of Lloyd Georges 4) stand. 0 (ED L. KEEN.) LONDON. Dec. 23. Newspapers have ctilmed down after attacking President Wilson's note. They are In dined to believe Wilson has a knowl edge of Germany's terms and based the note on . them. Lansing's two statements are considered bewilder ing. Editorials called them a side Is sue. All newspapers expressed the hope that Wilson's hint of peace may b based or secret German Informa tion, ,. , AMSTERDAM, Dec. 23. Dispatch es said the Cologne Volkesxeltun views president Wilson's note with suspicion They said; "From our knowledge of President Wilson we can easily pin ure the kind of peace h wants. If sincere, Wilson should merij. ly make the allies assent to the Ger man proposals and state the terms at a conference." Other German newspapers express ed eagerness to learn the outcome of Wilson's move. The Berlin Allge melne Zeitung said: "In view of the entente's abatement and the recent de claration that natural Interference would be regarded as unfriendly, we eagerly uwitlt the entente's uttllude on the president's note." WOMEN FIGHT FOR FOOD Ifi DRESDEN SKIllOl S RIOTS TAKK PLACE O.N KCMMY, MONDAY AXI) TlK8DAY; POLICE VLLKI). IONDON, Ikx; 2.1. ltottcrdam dl-, pntclios ropum-d scrKHM Dresden fMl rlota on Sunday, Monday and Toe--; da). Police and military force fought n hundred women. Three no- licemen were seriously wounded otl Tumttay. The mobs attneked how and paraded WNt the palace, de manding food. The sharpest ftirtit Ins; took place Tuesday. HAMLEY & CO. PLAY SANTA TO INDIANS Hamley & Co. played Santa Clans to the Indians of the I'matllla' reserva tion this afternoon following their an. nual custom. A big tree In the cen ter of their salesroom was laden with gifts such as appeal to the eyes of the red people and banked about It was a large pile of sacked candies, nuts, apples and other Christmas delicacies. Dollar bills were sprinkled about over the tree and were quite as attractive as the gay shawls, blankets and ker chiefs. The room was packed with Indian men, women and children and each received candy, nuts and fruit. The more costly gifts were secured by those lucky enough to draw the desig nated numbers. Wants special rood oonimlseJon. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. Repre sentative London offered a resolution for a special food commission con sisting of the secretaries of agricul ture, commerce and labor to ascer tain whether the United States food supply is sufficient. If Insufficient he would declare an export embargo. The xennte postofflee .committee fa vorably reported the bill barring 11 uuor advertisements from dry states malls. CARRANZA FORCES GATHER FOR DEFENSE OF JUAREZ I . . . .. "V: - v,wiu !.' ' i i' u -M,AWre V f wvl-f" v VI r EL PASO, Tex.. Dec. 23. Despite the fact that officials of Carranza pro. feRK to believe that "Pancho" Villa, the Mexican bandit, will not dare at SANTA TO APPEAR IN PERSON AT CHRISTMAS TREE TONIGHT Everything is in readiness for Pen dleton's annual municipal Christmas celebration, which will be held to night. Tha festivities will commence at I to p. m, when a well trained chorus of forty children will sing gay Christ mas carols as they are borne through the streets on a beautiful float. The exercises at the Christmas tree the corn(,r 0r Man .ni Alta streets j wil. tart at 7;U wlth , drllI hy the high school cadet corps and folk dancing by the high school girls. Th crowning event of the night will be the arrival of Santa CI a us from tho north. Old Bant a will be mounted In RAISING OF GENERAL COUNTY SCHOOL TAX WILL MEET STRONG OPPOSITION IS BELIEF OF SUPERINTENDENT YOUNG That the plan proposed by Princi pal John Washburn of Milton to lower the district school tax of the more populous districts by raising the gen- oral county scnool tax rrom one and a half to four mills will encounter e verul formidable obstacles when the puliject Is Investigated Is the belief of County Superintendent I. E. Younir. He declared this morning that the law forbidding the Increase of any tax more than six per cent will prevent either the legislature of the count? court from making the proposed In- crease unless the people at a special election first authorize the Increase, He points out that the convention of directors ield In this city some months ogo favored doubling the county per capita school tax but that the county court ran tip against this same ob stacle. Moreover, Supt. Young states that the proposed plan, while it would re duce the district taxes in most all of the incorporated towns, would work PENDLETON TEAMS SCORE DOUBLE VICTORY IN GAMES WITH ATHENA Itoih the boys and girls' basketball teams were victorious last night In a double header with Athena In that city. The girls won easily, their ; score being 39 to 7, but the boys had ; I much hnrder time, only winnlna !8 to 27. The girls' game, which was played first, proved to be a walkover for Pendla'on. The whole Pendleton team showed a great amount of fight, nev er giving Athena a chance to gain the advantage. The entire second team was sent Into the game in the seconl half and continued to hold the lead acquired In the first half. Alta Mentzer and Helen Nelson proved the stars of the local team, much of the credit of the large score being due to them. However, the en tire Pendleton team played up to top notch form nnd showed Itself to be a scrappy organization. The boys' gimie proved to lie a tempt an attack upon Juares. across the border from this city, the Carran 2lstas are concentrating large forces there. Rumors persist that Villa con- a sleigh behind two real deer. HU float la said to be one of the moat at tractive and original ever seen here Many busy hands have been tying up 1600 bags of candy and nuts and pre. paring a like number of pop corn balls tor distribution by Santa to the children of the city. To get a present each child must have a ticket Parents of children under school age can procure tickets by calling at Alexander's store. Tick ets have been given to the school chil dren at the schools. Main street beitween Alta and Court streets will be roped off from traffic from 6 o'clock until after the festivl 'ties. to the financial disadvantage of the taxpayers of fully two-thirds of the districts. A four mill general school tax would produce $25 per capita for each pupil of school age in the coun ty and this would give such districts an Cayuse, Riverside and 113 on the reservation seeral times the amount of money required to, run their schools. SupL Young states that there Is a feeling in school circles that the pres ent plan of distributing school funds Is wrong. He states that the state de partment is now working on a plan to apportion the funds on the basis of number of teachers employed and the aerage dally attendance rather than upon the number of children of school age In a district. Such a measure was drafted at the last legislature but was htld over until 1917. As an evidence of the Inequitable way the present sys tem works, he points out that at pres ent the Cayuse district draws money for 76 children whereas there are .put seven attending school. rough, hard fought game In which Pendleton hud the advantage In weight, a great advantage in a rough game. On tthe other hand, Athena clearly had the Pendleton team out- conditioned and throughout the last half had the locals guessing as to the "nai outcome. Pendleton ilook the lead from the first whistle and was never headed. Throughout the first half the local boys clearly had the advantage, they leading at the end by the score of H to I, The hard pace began to tell on the poorly conditioned Pendleton team and the Athena team came within ar. ace of winning. The entire local iteam showed up well, there being no player outclass ing his teammate. For Athena, Booker, the right (Continued on Page 10.) .4 'if templates a dashlrig attack upon Ju arer, even though e be compelled to give It ud after capture, as was the case when he captured Chihuahua City, recently. CHIHUAHUA ATTACK IS nGJUH DENT V illa Seeks to Eliminate Murgta After Having Gained Twrreon In Short fight Yeuterdaj. Q , " EL PASO, Dee. 23. Americans con nected with foreign enterprises escap ed to Aguas Calientea before Villa cap tured Chihuahua. It Is learned Villa took the city easily. Government for ces prepared to evacuate when the bandits appeared. Following one clash the Villlstas waited until the evacua tion was completed and then entered unopposed. General Salazar, Villa's chief lieutenant. Is occupying a stra tegic position south of Chihuahua. There is continnous fighting between Salazar and Murgla. Another attack on Chihuahua is Imminent. Military experts are watching Villa's latest moves with keenest intere'-t. Villa is strongest since Pershing enter ed Mexico. He is smashing at Murgia's force of twele thousand men, the strongest Carranzista unit In north ern Mexico. If Murgla is eliminated Villa will hold undisputed control of the north. The occupation of Torreon paralyzes all railroads and severs communicati on with Mexico City. Torreon is the center of a rich, populous district. United States department agents learned that Villa personally com manded the Torreon troops. Other reports said Villa remained at Jiml nez directing he operations and com manding the reserves. Villa controls two hundred miles ef Mexican nation al railway lines between Ortiz and Chihuahua. He occupies Santa Ro salia, Mapimi, Parral and Jimmlnex. NFERNAL MACHINE SENT TO ALBANY IN ALBANY, Ore., Dee. 23. .lames R. Mlsner received an Infernal machine through the mall yes terday, wrapped In Seattle and Tjioonta papers. Mlsner oeiied the outer lid and saw the second lid was glued beneath and be came afraid. He tied the box to tree, attached fifty feet of wire and ofiened it by IHilllug a cord. The explosion blew a hole in the street. IDAHO LEGISLATURE WILL BE DEMOCRATIC BOISB, Dec. 23. For the first time In 16 years the Idaho state leg islature will be democratic In both Its branches when lit convenes here Jan uary 8. Governor Alexander and democrat ic party leaders plan a brief session, terminating before the end of the CO day period allowed by the constitu tion. Enactment of Initiative and refer, endum laws will be attempted at the outset. A complete revision of ths election laws- la also planned. Liberal appropriations will be asked for good road building. KB IS I GREATEST 1R HAILED Postoffices Over Country afe .Flooded With Traffic That Breaks Previous Record by 25 PerCent. ROAOS USE FAST FREIGHTS Pontiiiajiter General Issue's Orders to All Mail Superintendents to Put on Extra Mall Handlers and Send Bills to Railways. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. Millions of pounds of mail are Inundating the post offices. It is by twenty per cent the biggest Christmas rush ever handl ed. Every post office is affected. Headquarters are receiving hundreds of telegrams dally detailing record traffic and severe obstacles impeding deliveries. Postmaster General Burleson order ed all railroads to use fast freights in an effort to catch up. He authorized all mall superintendents to employ ex. tra mall handlers and send the bills to the railroads. The contracts force the railroads to handle the malla promptly and employ extra labor if necessary. Post office officials refused to esti mate the mail volume. Chicago handled over twenty one hundred tons In three days. One Chicago mall order house used sixteen thousand mail sacks and paid twenty thousand dol lars postage In one day. Trains west of Buffalo were delayed from twelve to twenty four houra Many were forty eight hours late at St. Louis. WESTERN ROADS FACE ENFORCED LAY OFF DALLAS, Dee. 23. All rail roads west or (iiicago face the possibility of stopping or curtail ing operations in event the coal miners take their annual layoff during the holiday season, accord lng to a high Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad official. PORTION OF DEMANDS Federal Arbitration Board Gives Five ! Cents an Hour Increase to Conduc tors and Ilclers From Today Un til December 2. 1917. NEW YORK. Dec. 23. The feder al arbitration board has filed an award in the federal court partially ! granting the switchmen's union of North America's demands. The sw itchmen asked thirteen eastern and middle western railroads to pay time and half overtime. The board grant ed a five cents an hour increase to conductors and helpers from today un til December 23. 1917, with an eight hour day and prorata overtime. ENTENIE TO ANSWER GERMANY IN 10 DAYS 1.MJV'.. L't-v. n. o"u.v-. -i to the foreign office divulged that the; Wal emploves of the o-W Ft & en'ente answer to Germany's peace (tovPnlI1K,m officials Say Secretary ; N. Co. are happy tod-iv over the Chrisi proposals will probably not be deliv-1 mas o h Pu,fc ered before ten days. President Wit-1 ,. ,,. .v.t.h ih.v ,,.,.l, ah son's nenc note undoubtedly Is Par- s'reet FUktatlons Following His lem ,'" nltn tney " ""ar'" All sons peace note unaoitDteoi is par I employes getting less than llsnn a tially responsible for the delay. Th?y ; Two Interpretation. paf m a bm, p,1,IiVjl(.nt stated the delay was chiefly due o ' :o a month's salary, tn giving these the fact that all allies must exchange; W ASHINGTON. Dec. ;3.-Adinlnu-, i,,,,,,, , rnihmuX ,,.,,, ,,, views before framing the answer. tration otttciaU said Secretary Lan-tha, ,nev hav, rn)ltytii m lmlaiW The Globe suggested that mayba -lng would welcome representative ; ,rsl,erous vear vet realize that the Hlison wro(e mo noie uremia w. many threatened rut n less irigntrui-1 ne-ss unles the United States made i a supretrie peace effort. It declared , tions following Lansing's two state such an event would form a complete i ments interpreting Wilson's note. explanation pf Wilson's note and "Lansing's Indiscreet comment." PARIS, Dec. 23. The French edl-1 tnrial comment almost unanimously urged the allies to answer President Wilson's not wh the same words Lincoln used in rejecting European Interference In the middle of the civ il war. The Petit Parlslenne declared the entente reply to Germany's pro posals was nearly completed. It Is Ipnfhv document listing the allies grievances and citing the 'h'esvy" r1 ! sponsihilltle of German powers " ' FINAL PLANS ARE MADE FOR ERECTION OF NEW $30,000 THEATRE HERE t ALRM WATCH IS LATKST. ST. PAUL. Minn., Dec 23. 4) The forget me not alarm watch. wrtet or otherwise, is on the lo- 4) 4 cal market today. The watches 4 may be lipped into the pocket or on the wrist, and are design- ed to help folks tha don't get 4) 4 there on time. II KILLED. 2 111I8I IN AUTO ACCIDENT Jitnejr Driver Attempts to paws Port land Strleet Oar at Comer "of 15U and Washington. PORTLAND, Dec. 23. Two per sons lost their lives and two others were Injured late today as the result of a nlckef-fare automobile being crushed beween two trolley cars In the uptown business district. The casualties: Rev. Father Alexander Costelli, chaplain of St. Vincent's hospital, skull fracrtured, both legs broken, died in hospital. Mrs. J. J. Chambreau. hip broken. Internal Injuries, died in hospital. E. H. Savage, manager of an ice rink, fractured skull, condition seri ous. R. V. Holder, Pacific coast agent Chicago and Northwestern railroad, San Francisco, cuts and bruises. Norman Myers, driver of the auto mobile, was the only occupant of tha automobile who escaped unhurt Myers had been following a trolley car, which halted at an Intersection. Myers attempted to pass around to the left, bat met another trolley car coming from the opposite direction He then attempted to stop and back and his light automobile was caught and crushed like an eggshell between 4he two trolley care. ARABIC ORDINARY PASSENGER SHIP BRITISH GOVERXMEXT INFORMS UNITED STATES VESSEL WAS NOT IX ADMIRALTY SEIt VICE WASHINGTOV Iec. 23. The British government Uiforme.i theiater completed and ready to open by- state department the steamer Arabii was not a transport and not In tlie admiralty service., it was an ordinary miiim Urn- .k -; i uh0ut wflrning K g admHted sh, earried a few gr.ivcronient passenger-i. cevllle and moving picture attractions The state department announced i in between. Preliminary plans and after the British note was received: I specifications have been made and "The Rrith contend the Arabia wa ever'thing Is In readiness for the be never in the admiralty service and ! sinninfr of work as 8o0n 88 tn 10--never in the service of anv allied fln(' uonds are sold. These bonds will power. A number of government I be "''eured by a first mortgage on the passengers who were, aboard will belwhole Property and a guarantee ot communicated with tater. It Is un-slx per cent l'v1dends will be given derst iOd no Arties were aboard ex-1 The 30 0,10 valuation will include cent an Indian native crew.. It wis!!he si,e- Gilding proper, arcade and off the regular trade route on account ' furnishings. These furnishings will of submarine danger." ! l" strictly modern. All of the down- Germany adm'lted sinkW tlieita,r -eats win be upholstered in lea- Arabia without warning, site claim. ed Asiatic workmen and soldiers were aboard. She aid the submarine mm. munder believed the ship a transport. N WELCOME TO LANSING - " - ... , . lu m im wneiro-r government ductals! profiled by the Wall street fluctua- It Is stated officials will exercise unusual care hereafter to prevent pre- mature Information causing price up- sets. The government officials ad mittedly are worried over the fact that knowledge of Wilson's note reached Wall street before I's publi cation. An Eight Pound Boy. Early this afternoon an eish uiid son was norn at tt Anthom s hospital t ton. Mr and Mrs. Arthur H.it- Proposed Building to be Locat ed Just Back of Present Temple Theatre, With Main Street Entrance. $10,000 BONDS TO SELL oiiHiummation of Plans Depends Up on Sale of Guaranteed Per Oral Stock Promises are Virtually Made rr All of It. Coming as a Christmas contribu tion to Pendleton is the announcement today of a new 139,000 theater which is to be built soon for the accommo dation of road shows and vaudeville. The proposed theater is to be built just tack of the present Temple theater and will have an entrance from Mala street through the Temple building. The consummation of the plans an nounced is contingent npon the said o: 110,000 worth of guaranteed six per cent bonds. While promises have virtually been made for the piscina; o( all of the stock by local people who ate Interested in seeing a modern theater built here, the work will not be commenced until the bonds are all sold. Immediately after Christmas the actual placing of these bonds will be undertaken. The undertaking is backed by Dr. I. IT. Temple who has secured from George Darveau a contract to buy the lot back of the Temple building. The plans call for a theater (8 feet by 110 in dimensions with a seating; ca pacity of approximately 1000. Tha stage will be 40 by 5- which will make it large enough to accommodate all of the large road shows. The fly gallery will be 52 feet high. The the ater will consist of a lower floor and a balcony. The lower floor will be oa the street level with an incline pro vided by excavation. A full basement will be built and the dressing rooms and steam- heating plant will be undat the stage. The building will be of concrete ex cept the west wall which will be the present brick back wall of the Tem ple building. It is the Intention ts build an operating room for moving picture machines and this. too. will be of concrete, making the fire risk very small. A wide arcade, illuminated and at tractive, will lead to the theater through the Temple building, and the room now occupied by the Temple Theater wil lbe used for a mercan tile house. The south wall between the arcade and the store room will be largely of plateglass permitting the rtore to exhibit displays of merchan dise to theater-goers. The other wall will be of tile. It Is the intention to have the the- Ma' 1917- Welch & Mead, the i Present proprietors of the Temple Theater, will be the proprietors of the new theater and thev nlan to book first class road shows and to run vau- thar anl th draperies and stage set tings will match. Pendleton's location makes It an ideal place for big shows to stop in making the trip from Salt Lake to Portland. Being on the main line. ! the city offers a much better Induce ment than does Walla Walla, an 1 the one big obstacle to shows stopping here has been the lack of an up-to. date theater. l:llr.u.H llm ll.,. cost of liUim has mounted also. llad lighting Jag. Officer Billy Scheer lust night ar rvsted a man who gave the name of Webb who had acquired a "fighting Jag." The man put up a scrap and It took four men to land him In jail. 1I was still bellicose In court this morn ing and drew a li) day sentence. Partition Suit Filed. Lula Schwari hits brought suit asalnst Magdalene Louis Htahl Hi hi kora. and other heirs of Catherine K. Stahl to secure a partition of th property left In tha nut Kvuns and Waison of Wnlla Walls. r attorney for the plaintiff