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CITY OFFICIAL PAPER
NO. 9075 .
DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1917.
VOL. 29
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CONGRESS IS
RUSSIAN CZAR
AND. CZARINA
ARE ARRESTED
Deprived of Liberty and Taken
to Tzarkoe-Selo Dispatches
. Say; Church Dignitaries Also
Reported Arrested.
POLITICAL ALtXESTY GRANTED
l iminWj Thane Held Have. Kef"
d to Renounce All AJJejrlauce to
Royalist Regime,
4 4 4 4 ,
PHTROORAD. March J I.
Th provisional government hu
issued a gkwt decreeing general
political amnesty. The ukase
also confirmed the previous
announcements of a constitution
for Finland and ordered an Im-
mediate convocation of the Kin-
lah diet.
LONDON. March 21. A special
dispatch from Petrograd declared the
provisional government hsd ordered
, the former cxar and csarlna deprived
v of liberty and taken to Tsarkoe-Sclo.
other dispatches said "the erar
would soon rejoin his ranilly at
Kharfcoe-rJelo."
- sjrhmesntr Arresw Begun. ' "--
Apparently the new Russian ov
. ernment began wholesale arrests of
royally Immediately after announc
ing political amnesty. Heveral high
.llrnltartos of the Russian church ere
r.' ported arrested. Ipresumsbly those
BfreatMd refused to renounce allegi
ance to the royalist re if I me. Khleff
advice stated the clergy there had
formally recognised the government.
K-Premier Is Bcssed.
Kajeff. chief of the Holy HynoV.
and Duprovln. leader of the Black
Hand" and Markgrnff, a reactionary
agitator of Kokovsoo and former
Russian premier, was arrested un
der the government's orders. The
Finland secret police formally dla
....... .4 aavmi former asents wet
arrested on the frontier endeavorins
to rsrspe Into Sweden.
AGED PIONEER DIES
AT HIS HELIX HOME
William IIiwt. one of (lie 14. tavra
aaal Among Pint Iteesdent of
limatUte County, passes Away.
(Rust Oregonlan Special.)
HEUX, Ore.. March 11. At the
ripe old axe of 5, William Piper,
one of the last of the forty-niners
end one of the first residents of Uma
tilla county, passed sway this morn
ing at 1 o'clock at his farm home
tiesr this place, death being due to
complications Incident to old age.
Mr. Piper is survived by a wife,
three sons. o. J. Piper. George Piper.
William Piper. Jr.. all of Helix, and
two daughters. Mrs. Frank Smith of
Kexburg. Idaho, and Mrs. Fred Mor
rison of Jerome. Idaho. Two of the
suns, tleorge and William. Jr.. have
Just passed the crisis In pneumonia
snd their condition Is such that they
have not been apprised of their fath
er's dth. The body will he taken
to Athena snd kept until the two men
Improve. Mrs. Smith was with her
father at the time of death and Mrs
Morrison has been sent for. .
Mr. Piper came to the const with
the gold seekers In the days hf is
and spent several years seeking hi
fortune In California- However, he
had been a farmer In this countv for
over a half century.
GERMAN REVOLUTION
RUMORS UNFOUNDED
Communication by Railway
and Telegraph is Un
interrupted. "
A M.4TKRIAM. March 21. Hu
mors of a Oeiman revolution clrca
Isted In the stock exchange todav.
aroused Intense excitement, f'nlnter
rupted communication by rsilwav
and wires snd the resnlar arrival if
Oerman papers lnrtlcnte.l the report is
unf- 'uaided.
MAYOR ADMITS
HE IS GUILTY
AND PAYS FINE
Springs a Surprise by Chang
ing Plea on the Charge of
Using Profane Language in
.Public Place.
Springing1 a aurpriiie. Mayor Joanna
A. Bent 4hia afternoon at t o'clock,
through his attorney, changed hla plea
of hoc guilty to the charge of using
profane and Indecent language In a
public place to guilty and waived
lime for passing sentence. He was
fim-d $15 and costs, which amounted
to $14.25.
, The case was t for trial at 2
o'clock tomorrow atfernoon. How
ever. Col. J. H. Raiey appeared in the
justice court this morning with the
announcement that he hud been re
tained as attorney for the mayor
along with Fee fc Fee. who repre
sented him in taking the case up to
und back from the supreme court.
This afternoon Col. Kaley appeared
for his client and formally concluded
the case by entering the change of
rla.
Mayor Beat. In d iscu ssl n g h is
change of front, declared that he
never had intended denying "cussing
certain men at the Oregon theater
at the time of the Hagan-Mct'arroll
oxing bout. His only objection, he
said, was to bring the cuse under the
state vagrancy statue. He hu since
learned, he said, that that was the
only statute under which It could be
brought. i
The mayor declared he hud had
lots of fun .out of the ease and would
a whole lot rather pay the fine money
than withdraw the "cues"' words.
ARKANSAS TORNADO
IS FATAL TO SEVEN
IJTTI.R HOOK. March SI
Keren wife killed and eight In
jured In a tornado nrmr Isslmnrk
this morning, prmrtlw)y every
building In iMtmark was wreck
eal. UFPVKM C7.lt .VMM A
WKK.K AS "MOVIK" STAR
NKW YORK. March 11.
Uiuia Helznirk. movie producer
and millionaire. formerly a
nennllHSS Russian exile, cabled
Nicholas Romanoff. former
csar. today offering him a five
thousand weekly salary to come
to America snd appear In a film
entitled "Hehlnd The Throne."
4
V. S. AEROPLANE CAMP AT
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riBCT U S. AtBO acjUADKOrf-
Camp or the Flrrt Aero Aiuadrcn I
..f the tolled ftti at North Island. I
S.n Ini'H'i. Cal The pl. ns which at
CALLED TO
IMMEDIATE CO-OPERATION BETWEEN
PRIVATE MUNITIONS FIRMS AND
GOVERNMENT IS
$80,000 NECKLACE
STOLEN FROM HEIR
Police of Los Angeles Aid in
Hunt for Jewel of Mrs.
Frank Sullivan Smith.
08 ANCrELEH, March 21. Po
lice were asked today to aid In the
recovery of a pearl necklace, valued
at 180.000, which was reported stol
en from Mrs. Frank Sullivan Smith
of New Tor.
The necklace consisted .of sixty
seven pearls said to be perfectly
matched, given to Mrs. Smith by her
father. The necklace was missed bv
Mrs. Kmith Wednesday.
Private detective were called Into
the case to avoid publicity, but to
day the matter was presented to the
police. A reward of IIO00 was of
fered today for Information leading
to recovery ot the necklace.
MRS. PHOEBE JAY IS
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Well Known Pendleton woman Pass-
ex Away at 4:45 O'clock This
Morntug from Pneumonia.
An attack of pneumonia, which
developed from a long Illness from
asthma; proved fatal this morning to
Mrs. Phoebe Jay. well known resi
dent of Pendleton. She died at her
home. 1400 West Railroad street,
this morning at 4:46. The funeral Is
to be held tomorrow afternoon at 1
o'clock at the family residence. Rev.
H. H Hubbell of the Christian
church will conduct the services. .
Deceased was US years old and
had been a resident of this city for
the past It yeara Rw Is survived by
one son, Isaac Jay of this city, and by
six grandchildren, as follows: Mrs.
Qeorge Olllette and Ray Jay of Her
miston, Ora Jay of Pendleton, Harry
Chambers of Pendleton. Dean Cham
bers of Baker, and Mrs. Gertie Hay
worth of Nebraska. Her husband's
death occurred two years ago.
WIIMtWS' AXO OHPIIANS' ITXD
HAL.TIMOUK. March SI. The bulk
.f the fortune of nearly Il.000.no0
left by the late Oscar J. Murray, for
mer president and chairman of the
board of directors of the Baltimore
Ohio railroad, is to be used to found
a home for widows and orphans of
employi-s of that road.
.i:f-v.- far
speedy snd p
chines. hse l
'he first time.
erful fighting m.- . Ing made with them by army aviators
'ho are fast developing the profi
en uxmMH there for ; cnrv ,noKn bv n Ih, E,.
Isll flishts are br-,p.jn l.ittlv fnmts
I
BEING ARRANGED
Standardization of Output De
sired Quickly; Bids for 200
Submarine Chasers Opened
SPEED-UP PRCGRAU RUSHED
WASHINGTON; sIArcfa 21.
Serretary Danteis advanced 'the
' date of openina; bMa. for. tlar fif
teen new destroyers from April
fourth to March tweMy-fourth,
WASHINGTON, March 21.
The Munitions - standardization
committee of the council for na
tional defense met with Sec. Ba
ker behind closed doors this aft
ernoon to plan Immediate coop
eration with, private munitions
concerns.
The council has been consult
ing with the largest manufactur
ers of powder, explosives and
rifles toward a" standardisation
of the output quickly. The state
department Indicated this after
noon that it believes the war in
evitable when it announced that
In the war operations there must .
be cooperation between the al
lies and America.
Bids Opened at Troon.
Bids for two hundred subma
rine chasers were opened at the
navy department at noon. Near
ly a hundred additional ship
builders were requested to ln
for in the goverhmevff or their '
capacity for 1uildini chasers.
Keels for sixty are now laid In
New Tork and four In New Or
leans. Speed-up measures. In
cluding the suspension of the 8
hour day were enforced. It Is
expected that munitions firms
which continue to demand -exorbitant
prices wilt be speedily
commsndeered. Naval archi
tects are rushing to completion
'plans for three new 4 2 thou
sand ton superdreadnaughta, fif
teen destroyers and thirty-eight
small submarines. Xt la prob
able the government will soon as
sume control of all wireles ap
paratus.' Chamberlain this aft
ernoon conferred with Baker
over the universal service plan-
lAHAXK MAX SKKRS TO
TALK WITH I.MIVIM,1(III(,K
liOXDOX, March 21. A ninn, be
lieved Insane, gained entrance to
l-loyd-'JeorKe's home this afternoon.
11.. was overpowered with difficulty
snd arrested, when he demanded to
see the premier.
9
SAN DIEGO
I? I
MEET
PROCLAMATION
OF PRESIDENT
The president's proclamation
Is as follows:
"Whereas, public interest re
quires that congress should be
convened In extra session at 13
o'ciof-k. noon, on Ue second
day of April, to consider grave
questions of national policy,
now, therefore. I, Woodrow
Wilson, president of the I'nltcd
States, proclaim that an extra
ordinary occasion requires that
congress convene In extra aes
sion the second day of April, .or
'which all persons entitled to act
as nemlm thereof are hereby
required to take notice."
RUSSIAN TROOPS
LIKE NEW REGIME
Receive News of Overthrow of Auto
cracy With 43ret Acclaim: rr'.
Abdication Read.
PBTROOARD. March tl. Russian
troops at the front received news of
the overthrow of the autocracy with
acclaim, according to dispatches
from field headquarters. The troops
were mustered in the public square,
where they marched, carrying red
flags and singing the Marseillaise. A:
the reoueet of Orand Duke Nicholas,
Oeneral Alexelff, chief of staff, read
the czar's declaration of abdication,
and exhorted the soldiers to be loyal
to the new government.
COUNCIL SESSION
MAY BE EXCITING
Controversy Between Mayor Beat
and Councilmen May Owe to a
Head.
Tonight is the night that things are
scheduled to happen in city adminis
tration circles. At least the public
is In a very expectant state of mind,
and. from all Indications, the conflict
between Mayor Best and certain
members of the coucll is very likely
to become an open matter this even
ing. Whether or not the mayor will be
asked to resign as head of the police
committee Is uncertain. It Is pretty
certain, however, that Councilman
Penland will tender his resignation as
a member of that committee in the
event that the mayor does not re
sign. His reasons, which are mors
or less public property and have to
do with alleged misconduct on the
part of the mayor, may be openly giv
en by him this evening and they may
not. It seems to depend largely upon
whether any other member of the
council requests them. In the event
that he resigns, the eouncil may re
fuse to accept his resignation or his
action may precipitate a more thor
ough investigation of the charge
made against the mayor by former
Chief of Police CSurdane and Council
man Penland.
Mayor Best has already announced
that he will not relinquish any of his
rights as mayor and will fight any
move to oust him from the chairman
ship of the police committee. He
figures the council has no power to
do so and believes the charter and
ordinances will support his stand.
It Is reported that several Infor
mal conferences have been held by
some membrrs of the council upon
the course they will follow.
NEWSPAPERMEN PEEAD
GUILTY TO CHARGES
Will He Sentenced Tomorrow for
Lanm-liirar a -Military rMer)Ttr I
Against Itritaln. j
NEW VHKK, March II. Albert j
Sander and Carl Wunnenberg. for- I
nier newspapermen, charged with j
launching a military enterprise j
against ;reat Krltnln. withdrew their I
pleas of not guilty and pleaded guilty, j
Juilire Vanfleet announced he would j
sentence them tomorrow. Oerge
Vsux Haon. a newspaperman who
went to Knslund as alleged spy. tes
tifltMl agaln.-t the men lefore the
grand Jury.
HlStVPM, Cl.K.ltCJY It
I1KIHY FOU Alt ll TV j
HPIllNilFIKlJI. Mass. Msrch rv
The Episcopal clergy of the West
ern Msssschusettes Ilocese have
passed .res.tluti.tns offering their ser
vices to the go..rn..r for sny er--ice
he mat a.-k f 'r st ite or nation.
..n.l prrtielii l'r.-si.l.MH ils..n f..r his
nrm s!;n.l in Ihe itiler'i .t:.nal crisis.
ON APRIL 2
w-w
WILL BE ASKED
AGGRESSIVE
GERMANY; WAR
MAY BE FIRST ACTION TAKEN
All Possibility of Averting Hostilities Apparently Killed; Presi
dent's Decision Based on Tremendous Appeal From AH
Parts of Country for Revenge; Last Vestige of Patience and
Hope Destroyed.
WASHINGTON, March 21. The president has called an ex
tra session of congress for April second. He has decided to
meet Germany's high seas affronts with a sweeping 'action.
War seems just ahead. Congress will be asked to consider
aggressive steps toward Germany. With a state of war admit
tedly existing as a result of submarine attacks on American
merchantmen, a declaration of war may be congress' first ac
tion. .
The possibility of averting hostilities is apparently killed.
The president's decision is based on a tremendous appeal from .
the country for revenge for Germany's killing of American citi
zens and destruction of American property. It is recalled that
a year ago the president told his advisers he believed if America
entered the war actively the struggle would terminate within
a few months.
, ap -
PROHIBITION BRINGS
BREWER COMPENSATION
"Bran New," Popular "Dry"
Drink Pro-res aa Popu-.
Iar as Beer. .
. Prohibition Is Just.' Though It up
roots business and destroys industry
which it regards as evil, it seeks to
reimburse the losers by building up
something better. William Koesch.
manager of the Roeech orewery phil
osophies thufly these days.
. In the years when Oregon was wet.
the orewery turned out beer on a
wholesale basis. When prohibition
made such brewing unlawful. Mr.
Roesch faced the proposition of shut
ting down his plant or adjusting it to
the new conditions. He secured a
formula for a non-intoxicating bever
age of malt and hops. So good a
substitute did It prove for beer that
he found a ready market for it.
That market has been growing stead
ily ever since and yesterday Roesch
received evidence or still greater
growth. He received a letter from
I McOill of Kenal. Alaska, order
Ing a first shipment of -'Bran New."
Mr. Mcflill states that he was in wal-
la Walla last fall and drank some of
the Pendleton beverage, finding it the
best of nil substitute ror beer. In-
aamuch as Alaska has now gone dry.
he thinks he can do a big business
with the local substitute.
FURTHER DROP IN
WHEAT IS SHOWN
OH1CAOO. March It. Tellow
corn today sold at $1.14 per bushel,
the highest in history.
CHICAGO. March J. Special to
the Kast Oregonlan. 1 Range pf
prices today:
Open. High. ' Low. Close
May 1.HH lltTVi 1S1" 1S4V.
.Inly XI tT l.SKti 1.S34 I tSH
Portland.
PORTIaAN'T Ore.. March 21.
(Special.) 1.S; Muestem, fl .
FRENCH OCCUPY TEN
ADDITIONAL VILLAGES
Progress Further North and
Northeast of Soi axons it
is Announced.
PARIS. March 21. Ten additional
viilnizes were occupied by the French
progressing further north and north
cast of Hoissons. It was announced.
JAPANESE SAIUNGS
ARE KEPT A SECRET
Activities of German Raider
in Indian Ocean Given
a Reaaots.
T.KIO March 21 PnthibltLoi
ajcsinst the publication of arrisi
.tm! sailings of Japanese nvrchant
toen In the Indian ce.tn Is announc
ed, official announcement was r.--.ei.tl.
ma.ie that a tlermsn rsi.l..r
...ei'n.g in Japanese W:tr
TO CONSIDER
STEPS AGAINST
DECLARATION
B Americana Died on vlailancla.
WASHINGTON; March II. rive
Americana died in the sinking of the
Vltrllancia, the consul at Plymouth
reported.
1 ' The Americana . pertsnina; were:
IIIMr IllllM'l -Norrhrr Kng(nrer Adw.o
bold. Stephen Lspan.. Mueahoy; P.
Brown, passenger, and Joseph Si
beria, quartermaster. ' Besides ten
foreigners. Incladrna-' five Spaniards,
two OreeKs snd three South Ameri
cans perished.
TdnTrssM Ooonsel War.
Floods of telegrams to the pre-o-dent
almost unanimously counselled
war. The president's advisers nearly
all advised an immediate sggressive
action. Pacing overwhelming senti
ment, the president decided not to
wait until April sixteenth, when the
extra session Is scheduled to convene.
He determined on the drastic course
immediately after arising early this
morning. He immediately prepared
the proclamation advancing the date
of the session fourteen days. At nine
fifty he went for a game of golf, de
spite a damp, dreary day.
Ail patience Is Short.
Cabinet members believe the pree-
! ' u vestige or pa-
I ''ence and hope of bridging the war
ha.m. Many believed a specific
i 1-claratton of hostilities is inevitable,
The president snd Faker may confer
(with the college hesds and Senator
j Chamberlain rrsardlng the best form
r universal service fl. unra upon
j .-onsress. powerful eongradonal
I pressure will be used for the adop
tion of a land defense program.
STATE WILL BUILD
ROADS THROUGH THE
TOWNS UNDER 2500
Smc Will lie f.Hrv im Makltuc
ll(hwy Ttwxuch VUUjrrv In
In th ?V4nl that th mix milt. on
dollar bonding u a adipt4. th
tat highway commtiM(.n wtll lvj
tht Mm stuto a 1.1 m bmlJlnc haiM
mirfMcr-d ristmda thrnu.h smll town
ma It UJ b? In bulldms rwl thr.urri
the country. W. L. Ttinmion. mm-b-jr
of the rommljwion. j-tattrd fM
that th rflmmiiBion hitd irTi n
r-irrt to that rfect
At th metilnnr hH! lo nrun.n ih
l-itjurrn trKn HUfhwav AarclKtion.
Mayor ftthop f rr-ratfr akfl
the qiwatlon a t' hthfr the mt0
would huitd Hi rtad thrtutrh th
toa nm or h-thfr t h- tam arui'1
he ftrcrd to r.nilil tnr ectim with
in their limits ikmNm of ih H-r.
mN on drfrwt n a a-d t h mart i
,r-ntwn. dMlarir It rrtir
of much ItttportMni' he "mall
wna
At the time o.i.im; -nif Thon-i -n
ctull nt dfnii a"rn"
hut. iirMr th l'tt iftet-tinc , f th
wmmiiiin m a'! l r- ihi
the mtm will h-nld th r.ejt-t
thP'Unh mV tn uteii-r -.i- M-
Utn.