East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, December 21, 1917, DAILY EVENING EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text"" ""- -t.. . r DAILY EVEIIIIIG EDITIO.'l DAILY EVENING EDITION Number copies printed nf yesterday Dally edition 2,710 Tola paper la a member of Mid audited ty th Aodlt Hurran of Circulation. WEATHER FORECAST TonUcht and gaturday rain. i t..I 2T CixY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL. 29 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1917. NO. 9311 J Cz. Us-y SZlerJ SEMI-WEEKtYAV8 J AN WOULD HIT GERMANY THRU SIBERIA Report Together With Pub lication Russ-Jap Treaty Causes Sensation. SOME DIPLOMATS ARE IN FAVOR OF MOVE Pointed Out That U. S. Con sul Advised Troops at Vladivostok. PKTHOOUAD, Deo. 21. The text of the necrot Rosso-Jap treaty, dated Marcfi third. IBIS. providing; for an offensive al- ltance of these powers aKalnst any other attempting political supremacy In China, was pub- llshed by the workmen's and soldiers paper, the Soviet, with a statement that In their belief this referred to the United States. The treaty expires In 121. A hlah office leader de- clared the peace literature the Soviet has circulated has great- ly Influenced the Germans on the Russian front. ed these "no longer desire to fight on any front." The o- viet has been revealing all the former regime's secret treaties and agreements. He declar- NO CLOTMVG READY cc :alled to DECEMBER 31 QuartermasU - al Sharpe Admits Startling Lack to ProbersK jthing Insufficient for Men in Train ing at Present; Men Sent to France Clad Lighter Than French and British by 27 per cent; Lack Over coats Due to Late Deliveries. . . WASHINGTON'. Dec. 21. In the: face of a startling; lack of clothing, thousands of men will be called to ; the colors by December 31. so Quur-, termaster Oeneral iSharpe admitted ' to probers. This Is part of the first draft unsonimoned as yet. Ho said at the present there was insufficient clothing for the men in training. American troops sent to France wore clad more lightly than the French and British by 27 per cent. He ad vised the English "purveyor gener al" system to order army ordnance, clothing and food. He said one uniform each was Is sued to a million and a half men. al though a small portion of these were cotton cloth. Bharpo said two million overcoats were completed by December IS. He said the reason the million and a half men had nol all received overcoats was due to late deliveries by contractors. Asked if there was any trouble ov er shoe supplies. Senator Wadsworth said he heard that half an Infantry detachment fctatloned at Camp Cus ter marched out to target practice and then returned, giving their shoes to the other half so t!icy could prac tice. Kharpe admitted such a con dition existed. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. Advices say Japan Is anxious to strike at Ger many by occupying Siberia. This re port, with the Russian publication of the alleged Russ-Jap treaty to at tack any nation attempting supre macy In China caused a sensation In diplomatic! quarters. - Home allied diplomats favor the Siberian move In view of the possible Teuton dom ination of HusuUt and pointed out that the American consul at Vladi vostok aald troops were needed there. . - - ENGLAND III FULL ACCORD WITH WAR AIMS OF WILSON IXINDON. Dec. 21. 'England Is In full accord with President Wilson's outline of war alms that the fight of the world democracies to victory is not toward the realization of selfish desires. liritain seeks no territorial extension but what the international peace conference agrees is necessary to future peace. Lloyd George picdKes are unanimously supported: Cotonleti Nou-Keturnablf. From high sources. It Is learned tha. Gorman colonics arc regarded as non-returnable because the peace con ference must consider the future se curity of the British union of Kouth Africa, but Britain does not desire further territory there. It demands only the elimination of the standing menace of German military outposts. Also she does not sympathise with the Imperialistic demands attributed to minor allied countries. To Guarantee- Security. Sho agrees certain territorial read justments are necessary but only for the guaranteeing of future security. 8he holds if the German part of Lor raine wants to remain German it can do so, but she holds that all of Al sace and the greater part of Lorraine belong to France. She would permit 1'nland to ork out lis own destinies, but wants Courland and Lithuania to have the same rights. he believes the Balkans should be stralehtnncd by an International peace body. The full restoration of Belgium after the re linquishment is Insisted upon. There Is a general approval of the plan for a Christlun powers protectorate ovpY the Holy Land. Believe War Is Only Course For Argentine WASHINGTON, Doc. 21. Offi cials bolleve Argentine's only course Is war with Gorniany. following th ixposure of the latest Luxbmg loss. Officials anticipate "the Juvenile committee," mainly students of mili tary age. will lead new demonstra tions to force war. and swerve the nation from following pro-German president. Hoover izing On Lamb Causes Sharp Slump In Price Quotations MAltKKT HAS SIIHVNK r 1'KIl CENT KHCKNTLV, SHEEPMEN IKCIWYKE. Do you like lamb chops'? Are you "laying off" of lamb to conserve the Hheep supply Are you trying to Hooverize by leaving young mutton alone? If you are you are partly responsible for the remarkably luup in the lamb market. Sheepmen declure that the iamb market has shrunk 65 per cent re cently and that the present quotations for fed lambs would not compensate the sheepman for his expense in get ting the lamb ready for market. Or S, W. McClure, secretary of the Na tional Woolgrowers' association, de clares this big shrinkage is duo to the fact that the consuming public Is under the Impression that the l:. S. food administration has asked that the lamb be spared. This, however, is not the case, as a telegram received by a local sheep man quoting Hoover's first assistant shows. Except as affected by the general order for meatless days. there has been nothing given out by th FORMER N." Y.'OIRL AIDS WAR RELIES 46 KILLED IN COLLISION OF TWO TRAINS Seventy Others Injured When Louisville & Nash ville Passengers Crash. NINETEEN WOMEN ON THE LIST OF DEAD LADY A RTM U R. Nljjltsssaa. . PA6E.T . Entire Family is Wiped Out; Relief Rushed From Louisville. FIRST "WOMAN CAR CONDUCTOR TOOK s KliKi'HKKlKSVIU.K. Ky.. lice. 21. Forty Hix were killed and 70 In jlred as the result of the JouisvIUc and Nashville paKwnKcr colliding with un accommodation t rain near here la-st night. The injured were taken to Loulwville on special trainH. Officiate ure Investigating. All on the accommodation train were killed or injured. Nineteen women are among the kilted. The entire family of Marshal J. 1'hlllp, of Bnardstown. Kentucky, was killed. Several dead were too disfigured for identification. One Kirl lost her memory from the shock. iV - ' ".-, UMATILLA GOES OVER TOP, IS FIRST COUNTY TO COMPLETE QUOTA IN RED CROSS DRIVE NEWS SPECULATION HURTS GOVERNMENT MRS ROSAUE GOUL.DING" Mrs. Rosalie Gouldlng of Wash ington, D. C, is America's firsl woman street car conductor.' Sha wasn't heard of until New. York girls legan claiming this distinc tion. .Then Mrs. Gocl-Jing'p frlendu Eiwed that Ion? before t le Gotham girls even applied for Jobs Mrs. Goulding was conductor on a dinky trolley which rnr from Chevy Chase. Md.. to K Kington. She took the Job wl she found office work was damag ing her health. She has a sod with theCanadlans In France. , Lady Arthur Paget who befora tier marriage wbb Miss Mary Stev ens of New York, is one of the) many American women In Eng land who are leaders in war. relict work. - HUMBLE REGALARS FEEL SLIGHTED ON RIO GRANDE WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. Sec. McAdoo. i8 denying reports that the next liberty loan on March 15th, would be for eipht billion at four and a half !r cent. He said such rumors were rnischevious and hurtful. 'I wish I could make patriotic news- i paper men reali-e how such specula tion is hurtful to the interests of the 'country. When a decision is reached 'about tho next loan, it will be an nounced. In the meantime disregard rumors." Concerning the rumored Geerman peace feeler.", Jansinjf announced the American jt-ittion is unchanged, There will bo no peace neRotiationa while JlohenzoIIernism exists. CITY WILL SURPASS QUOTA ON ARMENIAN AND SERIAN RELIEF MA URE Y BIGGS GIVEN RELEASE ON PAROLE That the Ited Cross and V. M. r A. are overlooking I he regulars, giv lug all altfiition t men in Inn nu tlonul nrmv Is coin I iluincd hv Lieut. Frank Berth. .let in a letter to hiK,"" Wils released on parole al father, (ins Hertholet. conductor on ! McNeills Island today after eight the .Northern Pacific. Lieutenant j months incarceration, one third of his .Hertholet is with Troop M . Kight h i ,er"i- 1,0 wi" resume architectural Cavalry, at Kuldosa. Texas. nc j work in Oakland, writes that his hoys are In the saddle J 24 hours in the day, with a night In i ! IS Ml RKrriEI. camp only now ami then and with j PAltlS. Itn: 21. A bisr ticrnian chances of lieing shot while riding ; raid, rartahiog or ttie nature or a the river Kio tlrande. it is no lit 1 1c highly lK-allMtl attack was repelled h nH,v,lnlslr.ilIon asking that I game thev are ulaying there and he i cast of l'a.vett near St. Qiicntiil. Ar- SAN KRANCISCO, Iee. 31. Maurey f-tlggs, -onvieted with Irew Cuminnet- ti for violating tlie Maun act four the public refrain from ordering rejrrets that the resumr are noi n- ( imnTsiiiK i. m uu- nn- nm omuk lhmD ! lnjf remembered by civilian organ-j"f t Mrnw. at I Icnry, Thaiui and As a mutter of fact lamb Is the izatfons. As all the regulars are vol- llarlinaiiiisweilcrkopr. Apparently IIm rhnmiest meat on the market today, untoers. not drafted, they feel enemy in toting the- whole lYem-h sheepmen declare. .-IlKlueu. H. K. I5oM-. Helix treasurer of the A mio iii jiii -e- riait I ieli of mini t tee, today wnt in A2), whlli Ih S20 more than Helix quota,. He also went In wort I Uiat the oxmunliloe expected to fend hi $100 more. Pendleton will pass her quota of the Armenian and Syrian relief fund today. So ready has been the re sponse that Treasurer J. S. Johns will have Pendleton's J-fiOO and more In hand when the campaign closes this evening. This morning; over $240 had been turned in and several com mittees had not yet reported. In quite a ji umber of the jcoin n tunities over the county, the cam paign has not yet started. having been deferred until the Red Cross membership campaign is finished. G. A. Price of Milton has sent word thai the campaign wil Ibe taken up there right after Christmas. Pilot flock has already subscribed her quota. The local Elk.s last night voted $25 to the fund. The Wenaha Club contributed $ Hio and several other large subscriptions have been received. CANINE CAUSES OLD FASHIONED STAMPEDE PKVDI.ETOX, MEAT 0. MJA't'S 12 HEAD AS RKSLIT; 300 ANIMALS IN MAD ItOUT In tho days of the old west when cattle ranged by the thousands on the plains, a stampede was a fre quent thing, but In these days of small herds and fenced lands, such a thing Is seldom heard of. Neverthe less, the Pendleton Meat Co. Is shy ome good beef and Bert Whitman id minus a lot of sleep as the result of a stampede of cattle which occur red one night last week on Butter Creek where the company Is winter ing 200 head of stock. The stampede is not laid at the door of a German agent. It was a dog that caused It, The canine got among the sleeping cattle and so frightened them that they raised their tails and fled in a body. Out upon the sagebrush sweeps beyond the Western Land & Irrigation Co. lands they fled. When they were rounded up, there were 61 missing. Ever since then Whitman and his helpers have been riding almost day and night over the west end of the county picking up the lost animals pnd all but twelve have been found. Those twelve, however, seem to have disappeared as completely as though swallowed up by the earth. Seven Thousand Eight Hun dred and Fifty Two Mem bers at Last Report. COWBOY ROPES CAR AND PULLS IT OVER MOUNTAINOUS ROAD front. 7-' 1 , , THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME . Examination Of Files Refused Bq Packers YMTH HM - MIlDRep. do No l) HEAR- ME? I'lt 1 TO V0U, VHEM H- SoeS Come oiJ,iohe in...'- w.. . - fc "KCN WWiHb if WILLIAMS SC0IM NoW- 6OOPNI6HV TO MR., SMAwe HAMDS AMD .V ..ii. i . . ' ... lMll.uiMa OHAKE HANDS S00D NIGHT - WKST FltONT Vl51 LONDON, Dec. 21. Hal ulU thcr. was nothing special to report. There were evornl mloor lornl engagement. L, -JxxTTT . H f H I I tilOA Orlt , . -J - , AFI?As of mV ll s .agww. r WASH1 XG T( .V, Dec. 2 J . Pac kers mriHii tlin flr-ct IIHH'P til Klnfk Dm ffH. J ' prnl trsitlrv r ommissinn's food nrohp when the Swift company refused to permit the federal agents to examine the files, according to Heney, who is endeavoring to show that stockhold ers in the old Chicago stockyards were fleece.) of three million by the packers, lie will appeal to the courts if the refusal continues. The treasur er of the old company admitted its president secretly agreed with Armour to f.irrn a main holding corporation, thereby freezing out tho stockyards stockholders. Heney attempted to show the stockyards management's collusion with the packers. The treas urer admitted the old company's di-j rectors were dummies. j (East Oregonian Special.) L'KIAH.( Dec 21. Mlsa Frankie Sturdivant, who went to Pendleton with the drafted boys last week, had. some experience on returning. While she was In Pendleton a heavy rain fell which made traveling In a car very hard. But Miss Hturdivant not being easily discouraged, started for home, and all went well until she reached the summit ot the Yellow jacket mountain, where she found a foot of snow. Here the car refused to go further and, while debating what course to pursue, a lone horse man rode up and she asked him If he could assist her. He kindly said yes. and having a long lariat on his saddle, he soon had the rope fastened to the car and around the saddle horn and he pulled the car up two or three steep places, and she came on to towwn long after dark, with every thing covered with mud and head lights gleaming, and laughingly said, "Tis good to be here.' FAR SURPASSES ALL OTHERS IN OREGON Record is Being Held Up as Inspiration to Other, Communities. .jj IS Banner Count jr. PORTLAND, Dec. t l.-Uml- tllla county was the first In tho state to complete her quota. She reported .7660 members last night or 102 per cent. Umatilla county is the banner county of . the state, having; headed th - Liberty Loan and the previous Red Cross drives. Portland to day reports 22,193 members. Outside counties report 68,18, a total of 82,182. . BOLSHEVIKI ULTIMATUM IS REJECTED SlOt KIIOl-31, lire. 21. It Is lea riK-d 1 1 ip Rolsl ip vi kJ a re prepar ing a "rump" i-onvention, to reiHace I he Toiistitmiit assembly where they are In the minority. It is said tltcy milit iMrt vci ajpear at the a&scm bly, owing to their minority. Tlie XerumouL is rexrted to foe discussing- anew the question of dissolv ing the whole asni'inW). PLTROG RAD. Iec. 2 1. The t'krane province has formally reject ed the Bolshevik! ultimatum not to aid the Cossacks and has demanded j Umaplne A USTRO-1 1 UN G A RI A N DELEGATION LEAVES FOR RUSS MEETING full SecoKnition of Ukraine's inde pendence. Both sides are masking for battle. Proposals for the cessa tion of civil war but emphatically da rt. andlng Iho Bolshevik! do not inter fere in the affairs of the Don refcion and that a new national Kovernment be immediately formed were made in communications from Kaledines. ! tile Cossack leader. It Is authortta Itively stated that Nicholas and fam i ily will be permitted to seek a haven , outside Russia in a decree to he Is- Umatllla county went over the top last nig-ht. ' ot only was her quota of tha Red Cross Christmas members reached but it was passed, and once acain Umatilla county was first.- No othe county in the state had approached her quota last evening, according to advices from the state headquarter, and the record of this county Is be ing held up as an Inspiration to the others. '. Umatilla, county's quota--was 1500 members and' last evening- -when Campaign Manager Bishop made hi report to Portland the total reported In was 7860 or 102, per cent of tht quota- That total has today been increased to 785Z . and Is steadily mounting upward. "Ten- thousand for Umatilla county" la now the cam paign slosan. -' '. ...; --1 Nine out of 15 communities In th county have reached or passed their quota, but none of these nine has yet quit campaigning.. Helix leads, th list, having attained 260 per cent of her quota, with yet more to come. Pendleton has passed her quota based upon 30 per cent of her popu lntlon but is yet a tittle below th 3000 mark which was the goaL-ee? lected by the committee. However, a number of commltteea haye not. yet many any reports an Campaign Manager McXary anticipates that th 3000 mark will be reached by morn ing. Hermiston made her first repcrt last night and It was to the effect that her quota, had been reached. The Echo-Xolin committee likewise reported in that the quota was reached but the work not finished-' In setting the new mark of 10,000 the committee wants to show the state that it is not only in subscrib ing money that Umatilla county leads. Umatilla county's record In giving money has-been ascribed by some to the fact that this 1s a weal" thy county, but In this campaign It la members and not dollars that count and the committee Intends to show the state that It Is " patriot lo punch" that counts for the leader- ship. The following are the figures com. piled by Campaign Manager Bishop this morning: Town. Quota Adams . . .( 300 Vi'eston 150 Athena 450 Milton 900 Freewatcr . . .1. . . 00 260 I'matilla 150 Helix 200 Echo-Xolin " 450 Stanfield 210 Hermiston 450 Pendleton ..... . ,.i3O00 Pilot Bock 700 Frultvale 150 Total rteported - 260 450 300 . (100 800 259 171 450 450 250 450 2S0 0 17 752 A M.Ti;i: I A M. IVc. :l.-An Alls tria-Huneaiian delegation. repre s",u"k tonus ' d Thursday granting the imperial ficial. has left for J'etroKtad to ar utiiKr further arn Uussian commissio stiee with tile i. Vienna reports. NAMMIKS IN I'ltWCK M XV IIW1-: M Tl'KKKY WITH AMERH'AX AltMV. IVc. JI. It looks like the Sammies in France will have no turkey dinner. Thus far the Christmas rations have not been received and there is small hope of (tettini? them in time for dis- tribution. It is learned an unsuccessful attempt to submarine a ship laden with Christmas food caus- ed tho delay in tho Sammies dinner. It is stated the vessel turned back Americanward. family's request to jjto abroad. This Bolshevik! action Is due to the Insist ence of the (lernians in the armistice j negotiations. i Newspapers assert that (Jermany demanded the release of the czar and family from banishment. One report 1; that the imperial fandly has been actually released. , !il.J"l.7ll APPI.IKD FOK AT FA KM IA1AX HANKS GERMANS REPORTED TO HAVE REFUSED RUSS PEACE TERMS l,ONDON. tc. 21. An Kxchanf F'etrograd dispatch say It Is unof ficially reported the Orman hav refused the Kustian peace terina nd the Bolshevikl delegation hus been recalled to Petrocrad. Th toppae of fighting for a month Is still effec tlve. If the report Is true. It I be lieved the Germans refused to acre in the consciousness of thetr strength to exhort enormous concessions from the Russians. "AVASHINtiTOX, IVt 21. The total loan application reeeUed by the twelve I""-1""" ,nn,,hrr T " ITALIANS RECAPTURE JI.IP.IUIM I1. ' ' I ' 'f IWIH rtwiii bureaus hae (tern oruanlxett to bor- j row. Ttie Wlchlfa district leads In the number of Uan asMK'Intions formed. GROUND AT BRENTA UOJfE. Dec. 21. A cnnaldmbl The SiNikaiie diMrict Is HixxmdL with i portion of Uerminy'i Tuday gain bureaus, hut leads In the total num-east uf Brenta has been recaptur4. Nt of applications. In that dlMrtet The Italians are renewing the offen $S3..H,05; was applitNt f"r and. $IS,-,s.ve at the iratwny of th Venetian 2:19,120 approved. plan-. . "" - 1 ii il , ,. n , m - ,li- - , aV.f. - - 1 f mm a e i - . j -n- -Tr Ti--tA"fili.aififfi m rnr Tf T iTi1 'lift - iii nm r 1 1 m ' .t.h,. nu m -r it m ' -i Nit m i. ' " - t.r - . - i . - - : If