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CITY OFFICIAL PAPER
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER
NO. 9337
DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1918.
VOL. 29
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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.
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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
!
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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
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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.