East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, January 21, 1918, DAILY EVENING EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text1 DAILY EVENING EDITION WEATHER FORECAST Tonight and Tuesday Fair. DAILY EVENING EDITION Miuubcs copies printed Saturday 2,740 TUia paier Is a mcmbei1 of anit audited 0 Uie Audit Bureau of Circulations. i CITY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER NO. 9337 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1918. VOL. 29 o S Mil A ID GERMANY MAKE SEPARATE PEACE Teutons Jubilant Over Pact; Decision of , (Mania to Act Apart Seven Blow to Bolsheviki Hopes; Agreement Conclud- ed Sunday; Negotiations Adjourned but Will be Resumed Immediately Ger mans Declare. . AM8TKUUAM. Jan. 81. Berlin re Hirta that Ukralnla has agreed with liormany oo a separate peace basis. Tho auroemcnt between Germany and t'lrrainla wan concluded Sunday. All that la now necessary was for each Bide to consult responsible authorities at home. Berlin aald the Ukrainians had adjourned, but would return Im mediately, conclude all negotiations and alsrn the treaty. DccInIoii Ih Kiiniiriraiit. The fuel that the Ukrainians would lie willing; to conclude a German agree ment, when part of their territory Ih Included In the lands whose future Is u,mjcr dispute, is slanlflcunt. Tho Itusslan delegate refused to accept tho German offer to let the Inhabi tants of Courland, Poland and Lithu ania decide their determination the future, whllo German forces are occupying- Oils territory. Germany is Jubilant. I . Germany la jubilant over the t'kral- Ulan pact. The Ukrainian decision to 1 apart Is a severe blow to tho bol- f shsvlkl hopes, Leon Trotsky prevl- ously had stated he could not allow j the Ukrainian delegates to treat In- j dependency tho question of occupied territory. They did so anyway. i PIS. GIRLS DEFEAT WALLOWA DY 42 TO 7 Another Championship Girls ; Basketball Team Appears j in Prospect. ' That Pidleton high t'hool has an- ; other' championship girls' basketball team aa ll.e general verdict after , tlio WMllopl.ik- handed the vlHitlng I Wallowa hlKli seliuol five lust .-al'i' -day night. The final seore as t -' to 7. willed, represents liusket .tuss- . cd nearly every minute of the game. Too much Vtfvn fuok. the fast for- ! ward on Miss Hailey's t ., and loo i.iueh Helen' Nelson, the husky Kard. . 14 the' main explanation of the big MCoto which tho local girls ran i. TIipcs baakets and a foul wero the only points which tho invading team eeuhl annex. Most of these weir lliadn In the half, when Uallcy tiuule subslltulions. All of tin J't mill-ton li-iuil played fast bull, and sacueoded In keeping the score down by their aggressiveness, i.dith Ijilng outplayed her taller opponent nt cen ter while Alice Flnnell was il good mu'to for Miss Cook. Helen Thoinp' son played well for her first year, mid tho suds. Madeline Purges and Jliuulo Iartnett outplaced their op ponents. ' Tho Wallowa gil ls hud been defeat -ed the night before by Im Ciranue. ti to 7. , ., Friday evening of this week there will he a double header nt the high llerinlston boys tanglo with C'nptoin Fltz O-rald's five which was defeated at Walla Walla Lvi.i..v nlohl. 42 to 16. The Dalles Virls' team will play tn fpndleton girls again the same evening NINETEEN GET BY IN EXAMINATIONS itnly four of tho 3 who took the lesehors examinations In thl-1 city : in riecomlier failed lo make a grade . -..mumr lliiini to rertlflfi grades arrived from Salem yesterday and tho names of the successful can didates wero announced in. Ing by County Superintendent as follows: . Alice Ferguson. Helix; 11. C. Weston: Mrs India lienedlil. I.,... kli.rv I). t.ansdalc. Flora Olbby, Milton. Ilertba Moon, Frcowater: Mabel Montgomery, Wes ton; Itoliort. . Spencer. Ifcrinlston. lols M. rortor. Weston; tilndys Simp son 1-endlcton: Mildred Berkeley. Hav Ocek: A. I'- Yoder. Adiuna: An na liuerrant. Iloldman; U'ls Mayber ry Milton: IXirolhy H. Minn for.. To'ucliel. Wash.: Minnie Hlpley. Wes tin; Kdythe lOngllsh. I'cinlleton; Lo cla Wagner. I'ondlelou. Thousands of German Drought Into Belgium PAMIS. Jan. Sl.Slx hundred thou. Muid GcmuuiH have bi-en hminclit Into HclKlum In the past few weeks, llel gliim l crowded with men and mu nitions it Is reported.. Amsterdam says Austrian troops are filling one Mel uian province. -, DESPERATE STRAUS CAUSED TURKEY TO SEND OUT CRUISERS 1.1.'IM., Jan. 21. Turkey s silii at Inn in the Mar lias become so wrl oiih that she took a dcsM-rutc chance in sc-fulliiir out tlic ;ochcn ana IJnti lau to fiaiit tile British itrol in (lie faint lioH- of retumiuic after sinking: a couple of British ships to buoy tin- cIcclllliliK Turkish inoralc. Tills Is tlio liilerprolnllon nluurd on the n- '(raeciiionl at the entrance of the Iar I danelles in which the Jlresluu s sunk and tlic Gwhcn Ix-uchctl. SOUTHWEST SWEPT BY COLD AND SNOW . FiftV Deill'ee Temperature t r. .. JJrop LflUSeS Iliree UealllS , Miw.li TVmi-irri. ailU iVllUU ailiat- EL. PASO, Jan. SI. A blliniuip snowstorm is sweeping the south west, accompanied by a fifty de gree temperature drop, causing three deaths and Intense damage to livestock. KL.PA.S.. Jan i'l. CauEht in an avalanche In the mountains south of Chihuahua City, fifteen Mexican miners froze to death. The. bodies were recovered. A large number of peons In iioitb crn Mexican slates are reported Head ss the result of snow storms, blizzards and famine. The storms are ths worst In twenty years. It. is feared tbe le;tth late v III be appalling LANDING JAPANESE TROOPS PROTESTED 'KTl:";ilAI. -1 The pn- ides cMinnsHuries Kent .lai'an firm nl protect .-iKitinxt the landing oC J;t nnee troopn tit Vladivo-stnlt. So far Tokyo Insists no troopH have been Linded althmiKh battleships are there lo protect the allied citizens. ij" THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME : y: 1 I J I LET BE THE W MOW.OIOVOU c3AV ) llioril- FiAra wff a.jm X- "tV-VJCL ' jv x. .w AV' A 0K!lt & Fanned by wiison. S1,EECII SIEEDS up PEACE IDEA THERE Industrial Chaos of More Than Local Nature is Reported. .VMSTFUD.VM. Juu.'tfl. 'Mm; Aus trian ministry lias resigned, mccoi-ii-liu; to iciina tli-palclics to llio Ber liner MorKcnpo-1. It is rrisirU'tl I'liunl Von ToKuciibnrir. minister of Interior, is attempting; to 'reform (lie! a biiiet. (JOHX. HiAH,L,Y.) ' lit M R J.in. 21. Tlio pujml nuii cJo at Vienna reports to the Vatican that Austriu-lIunBiLry, mitred by ProfiidrMit WUhh's outline of war aims. Is smouldering with opjjcsitiun to militarist tiorinany. It is untJer- stood he described the situation !isi;ln, j..uirccll.v to the German people. most crlticiil for the Tciilonie mil ti.ry combine." lie asserted Wilson'.-, speech had given remarkable impulse tti democratic peace Ideas there. In dustrial chaos of more than a local nature Is reported. (Jrave difference have developed between Kinpenir ICurl ami the pan-Herman leaders, it Im reported the kaism- Is t.-li.g t.' M.KH'tli the dlfferenee by supporting Foreign Minister Von K.ueliln.ano avalnst Von fbielow, wlioni An;itiia hales IlilUT pKiMtloii Hinenl. Evidences of Austria-'Jiunsary n bluer opposition to the Junker annex- atloiiist plans are a wumulatlng scores and the reports ore seeping scrots tl.. Swiss bolder. Austria!, newspapera iiiilietitatlngly attack General Hoffman and Pilnoe ion Mrs K. J Fominerville. who has or Buelow for their linperlaJii:tlc plans I ganiied the IAj to houc-t work. ias and' Uielr acquiescence to junker j re-enforced her committee as prevl schemes. Strikes are spreading ; ously givnn out by the following addi'- throughout the dual monarchy, dut not only to the demand for food bui to the people's opposition to a con tinuation of the war purely to satisfy the militarist and Junker cliques. HALF MILLION IDLE NOW IN FOUR STATES i'LEVELANK. .Ian. J! t. The state ft'H administrators under Kuel Art ministrat(r ;arfield-3 orcrrs, elanij rd (he lid tipht on Industry In Indi ana. Ohio. West Yirnhiiii and Ken tucky. At (he Jat inini"f the IocmI administrators look matters Into their ; ow n hands and exr-inpted all facto ile. working on j;ovinment orders. More than half u million nro bile in ll.cso .st,af'S. Tho kiIimhis am all closed and th" only t lilnss obi a In able, were readinc material, medicine, laundry, food, amusement and room t sleep In. Dnisr storefl are open ,1'or tho sule of medicine TO TELL EUROPEANS AMERICA'S WAR AIMS lb v U trry 1 if, i-?P .Viav' ' ' 1' J r i f: M i n. . or in 11 I.r 11. W iiitelionse, wno mt:ircisi'tiiiy i(J in fint fori wumau HUffrtiKi; in .New )ork stale li!-:t frfll, lias hoen chosen by Cioorge Creel of the Committee on Public In formation, to go to Switzerland to pre sent A nieiieii'a war aims to the Swiss, It is believed jhe will be able to get much information into (jeniiiiny, and fhuu show the people there what Am erica's cut ran cm inUi tlic war means. $2000 IN TWO DAYS SLOGAN K. OF C. DRIVE Two thousand dollars in two days. j With the slcean the workers in the ,i,,vo f,. unds for the Knights of Icolumbus war work beEan their cam- ipH1g intlay mid expert to conclude by j tomuri uw nielit or Wednesday tnsrn- , lnf. itional appointments: Mrs. W. J. Clark. Mrs. Ida Fowler. Mis. C. S. Jerard and Mrs. tj. J. Lynch. This committee will make a systematic campaign of the residence districts. The executive committee is very much gratified by the willing response (manifested in the willingness of citi- to asi-i.st regardless of creed. In asmuch as the K. of C war fund ex- tends benefit to all soldiers whether j Catholic. Protestant or Jew. the work is not t all sectarian. In Portland clpi-py and lawmen of all faiths last . ,wpek united in the drive theio and I went over I he top Saturday night f 'with Jti.innt more than the $fiVjU'. t , LA (.KANDU BOY IS j LISTED AS MISSING, OTTAWA. .In. L'l, The I'anadi iii i ;ixii;i!i lift nives 1. KilzKerald tf l.ji (Iiiiinti- wounded and missing; .mil I. .IViTi-iv-iou of Seville mounded. 4 BILLION IS NECESSARY TO PUT ROADS ON AN EFFECTIVE WAR BASIS McAdoo Declares That Am ount Must be Put Into Railway Improvements. PREDICTS CONTINUING OF FEDERAL CONTROL Does Not Believe in Govern ment Ownership But More Control. WASHINGTON. Jan. 21. Secre tary McAdoo told the senate Inter state- commerce commission a billion miiiiiiiioniii dollHr.4 must be advanced for railroad; , v e 4 , ... Improvements before they are on an effective war l.as.s He A-recaat t . cc-ntmuatlon of federal cJi,trol hen . lie sai.i consress snouion t i. t,k s ern.ne.it control to any definite PC-, riod. aylnS flna.Kial chaos was l.Ke- 1 to result. He said he Jiu not oe- 11. vc In government ownership but I believes in a ereater measure of feo-i jeral control hereafter. !c said Fue aminiKiraior oan.c.u oroer """' probably bo discontinued after thirty u"- He said the fact the government was Buaraineeing compensation makes It unwise to leave the right to determine to any degree what the roads earn to state commissions. He said harbor conditions and trans portation situations wero improving j and will continue to Improve unless tho weather aaln Interferes. WORK OF DR. KERR AND O.A C. MAKES GREAT SHOWING ! i PERCY A. CITPER. - ' SALEM. Jan. 21. It Is with reluc- tance that I add anything to the too much that has already been said with reference to the recent action of the 1 Board of Regents of Oregon Agrlcul-! tural College, and the offer that ' President Kerr received from the ! Kansas College. However, tho con - tioversy has lead the Pomona Grange of this county to attack tha college 'itself and the work It Is doing, and I this seems to call for a statement of 'what the college Is really doing. The j members of the board of regent3 I need no defense from m. compris ing as they do the chief officers of the state of Oregon and leading busi ness men of the state. The reputa tions these men have made for them I selves and their standing In their rc ! spective communities, which entitles tnctll to tne positions tht-y nold Is the best defence of their action. It la ai,su,d to think that these men have . . (Continued on age 4.) 10 MORE DRAFTED MEN CLASSIFIED Ten more I'matilla county draft rt gist rants were classified Saturdav by ibe district exemption board at l-i Giiuidc and the aiinouuceniput of 1 lie i'-eision roiiched hero toiluy aro as follows: William I. Keniicdy, l-K doe Uaiungardi.cr, 4-C. iHirae V. Bnmrr, 1-1'.. ltalph M. Taylor, ,2-C. Victor 11. Martin. 1-1. Otto J. llelbcrg. 2-C. Harry J. Allen, !-.!:. Clarence Sears. 1-E-' Paul C. I., llein, 1-1'. ilmties llawroili, 1-F. They BIDS WANTED FOR GRADING AND GRAVELLING ECHO ROAD Pids for the grading and graveling or tbe highway from Pendleton to ICi-lio anil for the grading and gravel- ing or the road between Echo and the Morrow county line. via. stanfiild. llerinlston and fmntilla are advertised for today by the county court and tho stato highway commission, iicting in SCHOOL TEACHERS ARE ASKED 10 VOLUNTEER FOR URGENT WORK IN ASSISTING LOCAL DRAFT HOARDS PORTLAND. Or. Jn. L'l Evrv ?( hoot teacher In Oregon Is ai-ked by th po erunient to volunteer imiitedl Htely fir urgent and Important work hi the execution of the select ie ser vice law in thin tate. I he same call It letnT mado of teachers in every state. So urgent w the need of their asodbtame that President Wilson hhnseT has ad dicted a. letter to all teacners akin t hem to .uive their scn'irt J fur the vc Important work repi iied ; to help local dratt This virk i 6- WILD HORSE PAVING COMPLETED SATURDAY Ten Mile Stretch From Pen dleton to Blakely Station is Now Finished. The Warren Construction Co. com pleted the paving of the ten mile stretch from Pendleton to Blakely sta tion Saturday at noon. The building of the shouldel-s' on each side of the pavement is now under way and this -..rlii 1& ,,A.t,taia,l in ot.mif t.-rt , . . . , ' , weeks, finishing the contract. ' b worf the M th9 (ir8t to , or. Qf Uio ,)on(Js ear,y agt summer and expect- q o u (lurinK thJ fa Howeve lnany dolav!) e encoun. M. r .hnrt. ca and . traffjo difficuties. Ajc, BjorUi forc,nan of the quarry crew and nls crew ,cft yesterday for Portiand. just where the paving plant jwi b(J (Jent js not yct announced but ,it is reported that it will go to Fresno, jc'alif. JURY IS CHOSEN IN COLWELL CASE The Jury. t: B. Hartle. A. W. Prann. Joe Bailey. Clarence A. Brown. William Fogelsong. W. A. Leathers Arthur Hascall. George L. Ward. Pearl McBrlde. '. A. Norman. D. A. Ptnkerton. V H'Babcock. 4 4 4 4 4k 4 Altogether eight peremptory chal lenges were used and one Juror was excused for cause, the task of se lecting the Jury to try the Colwell murder case waa completed this morning In two hours, and at 11 o' clock the taking of testimony was be gun. The first witnesses for the state were W. K. and John Short, sons of the aged man w ho was shot and kill ed by Lawrence Colwell. ne 14 year old boy defendant. Their testimony iiad to do with the transaction over horse which led lip. to the shooting :,.,rt ti.e .-inamixtaiices ntlendiinr the fi,,rti of tbe bodv of their father. The defense In its preliminary statement to the jury Indicated that llira -omi det'entlnt would lllead self) (-;,e lie "has sdhenert to the tnt-- HimI Hie elder Short raised hotsitn to lire at him and did dis-! gun. His mother. Mrs. 1 charge his r,-a Colwell. who is charged Jointly with him. is accused of having Insplr- ed the boy to do the Orel. LMstrirt Attorney Keator is being: assisted by James A. Fee while Co.. .1 IT. l;;ilcy Is counsel for the dc . fendants. A RT1I.I.KHV FXCIIAXGKS I'AKIS. Jan. 21. Artillery rxcltang es is nil the official communique re ports. cooperation. The advertisement ap- pears on page 4 of this paper. Hids on the work are to be received at the orfice or the state highway commission in Portland Feb. .'. and the advertisement sets forth a manner whereby complete detailed informa- lion as to tbe work may bo secured. . biMidi com pile humedifMely 4 com plet card Index showing the special mmht'iciithms (f every man thy hav. class it ted under t he draft law. This information must be made by , heHVlly pUarileCt BH IMC TC Mm utrrmnent at once r.ectti, chIIb Sut 0f rUm0IaS that CientiaHS for men specially qualifUHl for ct - , . . r ... . , . , tain d.ito ,. m-. received from the ar HIUl ailtl-BnthSh J)IaiUiea to my every day 1ch1 brrts irp too hirm ppiiTM lif IplTnr flflfl work. The persons best fitted of all Continued on 1'aice 8. DANIELS ASKS MEASURES TO DOUBLE NAVY Congress Urged to Pass Leg islation Greatly Enlarging1 Present enlistment. ; ' WOULD INCREASE ITS AVIATORS TO 10,000 Number at Present Time i3 Only Three Hundred and Fifty. ASin.NGTO.V, Jan. SI. Secretary Daniels lias asked congress for legis lation to more than double tbe present navy enlistment and Increase navy ai ator from 35W to ten thousarwi. lie demanded a navy strength of IKO.OOO instead or the 80,000 author ized in May. exclusive of . apprentice seamen, and flyers, wliom he'd ha Increased from six to twenty-four thousand. ' FALSE STATEMENTS ? DUE TO IGNORANCE George Karcaviches So Pleads in Answer to Charge of Perjury. Charged with perjury in connection with making answers In his question naire, George , Karcavichos, known more familiarly as George Vlchea, a Greek hotelman- at Rieth was arrett ed this morning end. upon waiving preliminary hearing, was bound over to the grand Jury under )S0U0 bonds. The Greek Is accused of making false statements In his questionnaire but he maintains that any misstate ments he made were through, Ignor ance and mlsitnderstandinr rather than through desire to evade the draft. - . . . Ill a district attorney claims that In his questionnaire Karcavichos statea that he U not a citizen, whereas the records In the clerk's office show that he had taken out his first papers. In those papers he gave his birth as 1887 but In bis questlonialre he gave" It as lit. r He declares that he knows but lit tle of the language or laws of this, country and did not know that he had taken out his first citizenship paj pcrs. He states that he applied two' years ago for a hunting license hut was told that, beln an alien, bo securo a license wunour. f,,st signing some papers. He signed I the papers, he says, to get the 11 ! cense and did not realize they were ! citizenship papers- Asked relative' to I the discrepancy between his state- Ith8 Papers, he says, to ge me,,, as to hls a8e- he declares the j young lady who mado out his fira. o. m.n .m pu. I '"e year down " 18,7 '"tea(1 ot regisiereu last spring, ! 'f'1 " C'B'",S to bo 33' S'atln "- ... him to do so and that ho was riotfa- i miliar with the draft requirements. ' He is not trying to evade tho draft. he declares. 'MRS. SOPHIA KOLB - CUIED BY DEATH Mfs. Sophia Kolb. for 30 year a resident of Pendleton, died yeatardav morning at 1:30 at her home, 207 West Court stueet, death being Uu t' ' ailments incident to her advanced ast Tli- funeral win be held tomor row afternoon at 2 o clock at ' the family resident's. Kev. Ickwood of the Chureh of the Kedeemer will h;ive charge. ' Mrs. Kolh was born in Cierman" Ma li. lSlty. and thus nearly yea-rs old at her death. She 1.? eur vived by due son, Churle? Kolb it Modesto.' California, and two dj.uh teis. Mrs. Anton St'rensen of V,tl!are Idaho and Mrs. Tillut W altrri of kane. Her hnyb-ind died 13 It eart ago. NEW YORK FEARS RULE OF TERROR NEW YORK, Jan. 21. New York's shoreline us jarson tomorrow nipht. hhij- nth-:yarcSt (Jocks and WarellOUbPH Ul'O carefully watched.