e i DAILY EVENING EDITION Ktuubrr wifiliw printed of yesterday's IWIIy ImIIUou. 2,877 This Mr I niviiincr arm audited lijf Ilia Audit Uun-au of Circulation. DAILY EYtfillili ti3IIi:;i Th t"t MrMMMa la "Ci t)r iron's grr . wxhii ami a olllnc force 1vi las fUam out twice the otr,nlum lit imdloi Ion and I iirsllll vmntf uf any wiltr? rwiaprr. . , COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OFFICIAL PAPER -......... sr 1 NKF - I . VCrMI V IX. -m.mmm.m. mm .1 n n I . i VOL.31 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1919. NO. 9802 CENTURY'S PRECEDENTS SHATTERED: ERATIOli I0F PEACE TREATY mniv in noni cooi& iuuhi in um. , oLodj&$f r a. PERMITS MX' EFFECTIVE T0H0M0W African Coif Contest Has Onlooker; Bones ' Brinsr City $50 Today Deliberations for 100 Years Have Been Surrounded by Deepest Secrecy. CUSTOM ABANDONED TO PREVENT "LEAKS" Believe Open Door Policy . Will Combat Danger ol Distortion of Views. WASHINGTON. July II. Shutter lug a century ot precedents, the en ate forerun relation committee be- (an actual consideration of the ponce treaty In a. public senslun. The real significance of today' meeting of the . committee, In tho view of many sena tor", la that It swoops aside the sen ate's traditional ),dlcy of deep we- ' crecy In consideration uf treaties, fur a hundred year treaty delibera t'ous, truth In a committee and be fore a full senate, have been jealous ly guarded. No European chancellor took greuter pain to keep It state ecrets tliun did the stAiato. Now. without a deb-ite, without a dissent lug vote, simply by common consent, this cuMtum has been abandoned. j Member of the committee said the reason for the opening session la based on the knowledge that secrecy cre ates "leuke" and that the way te In sure both opponents and advocate ot the treaty against distortion of their views, us expressed In the committee: or senate, la to open the doors and al low he public to get th view ot both aide at first huud. The permit lvatein devised by' the rallroud administration und the grain corporation for controlling the ship ment of this yrar'a record grain crop will be put Into effect tomorrow. as previously Indicated, Instead of me individual permit system In force lust year, a blanket system will be put Into operation at the outset. Un res it aevelop that this plan does no a- ompl'sh the desired purpose of rcRii:iituiK ins- flow of sruln to the ciiacify or elevator and the abllltv oi ocean . pims to move It. the indi. virtual permit system will not be ub. Mitpted. A quiet little game of African olf at t o'clock this morning rudely Interrupted by Night e Charley Meyers Just , us rfeeney and Ham danger rolling them wickedly for a liar a iolnt. . Kweeney und JunKer. H ere nursing the bones us after meal pastime; having entered a locul restaurant for a bite to cut at that early hour of the day. Meyers entered by the rear door and escorted the pair of gamesters, to the city Jail where each waa'obllged to put up 125 bil for gambling. Neither ap peared this morning in police court, the city being enriched $5u us a result. , ' SENATE MEASURE FOR INTERPRETING PACT SUGGESTED ft C. I. KNOT MAY BE LAID BEFORE CABINET OiuhwciI to I'. H. sliara. WASHINGTON. July II. Presi dent Wilson I opposed to having th. 1 nlted States shure In any Indemni ties Cermany pays, Bernard Baruch. member of the economla commission of the peace conference, told the nn. ate foreign relation committee to day. Putting into operation the WASHINGTON. July 31 "Deep' and careful coiiEidenitlon "Is being given by President Wilson to tho rn. guest of the liroiherUood of locomo tive Engineers I hat he fake immedi ate action toward reducing- the con or living. It "is stated authorlutively " "ie noose today mat on or tne first -wept, to be taken by th rresioent win proltibly be to lay the whole matter before the cabinet for consideration. Tho scope of tfce Investigation was Broadened today by the introduotion of two resolution by Representative Igoe directing the federal trade com mission Investigation of an alleged scheme to-increase the price of shoes immediately, also directing ways and RABBITS INJURING : ECHO SHEEP RANGE President Known- to Have Brought up Means of Compromise on Treaty. WOULD AVOlf) NEED 0 RECONSIDERATION senators loday . Declare r ft ft II mn r I Ml IV in League .Document - Will jrUUU TUH fflifllLI 10 noi rass in rresent rorm Man Who Puts Employes and Employers Together Thinks Office Hours Pay J K. Herkeley believes that office j hours - pay, eepeclully since j closing his employment office, j He arrived on the Job at - o'clock . In the morning and spent most of ' the time until dark helping put ' employers and .employes togeth- j er. Hut yeMierduy, with no of- i rice hours to hinder, he was called out ut t o'clock to send a couple of xleep herder to' lfeppner and this morning about 5:!lu to rustle some farm hands for Kcho. . . "I'm In favor of office hour when things happen that way," ' , he (aid today. THIRTY DEAD, 500 IN HOSPITALS, . HUNDREDS OF INJORED AT HOMES ON 4TH DAY OF CHICAGO RIOTS ! TRAIN TIE CHANGES ! EFFECTIVE SUNDAY i JlfibMtH are drHtruyliiK tho nheep rantre south of Kcho to such un extent that the Klieopinon are intercHtod in the potftun.nf? (f the pexts and have offered to eo-opera.e with the furni eii!, Hccordiiimf to Fred Bennion, county iiffent, and 1. 1. JamiHon, of the IT. H. "Biological Surey, who re turned today from a survey of the wet end of the county. The Hiirvey. which waa made for the iuriffM of Inveatijratii.K ctintliti- ona. before the winter poison in k cam paign, revealed alao ttiut the rahoHa J are eapecially thick on the alfulfa farms on Butter Creek. Another serious phae of the situ ation, eaya Mr, Henri ton, toward which the energies of the coming ex termination campaign will be directed. the great number of rabWta in the ( WASHINGTON', July 3 !. President Wilson has brought up for discussion with Republican aenators the poaai- : biltty uf the svnate'a paaing a rcan- i lutton expreaalng In a general way i this government's 'interpretation. of ceit:iiii proviniona of the league of na tions covenant. It la learned today. It is hfrti-d that tuch a resolution woiili not requjre le-anhmisalon o. the) document to either signatory nations. Coiniroiiiiii Not IVrfuin. . The irewi0.ent did not say no if willing to c:.ptoutie but dis-msi nn of a -'jMibte icnoluiion, couciiel n i general terms is regarded significant. I StnuliT New taid he told VM-n it i is impossitle "or the league to p.uf the senate lit ita present form. PUT ABOVE DIVORCE , Changes In tra!a schedules of th O..W-. It, tk N. will go into effect Sunday and will cttue slight cnaugefc : In the time of arrival and departure , vt traina hre, according to informa tion from the I'ortland office. Train No. IH .vill leave Portland at J o'clock inatead of 9:80 a. m. T. V. i Brien, local atat ion agent, received word today that It would be here at 5 p. m, instead of of 4 50. He la un certain, however, as to whether this r.ieuna that it will arrive here at that hour or leave at that hour, but ax receive time cards lorn or Keys MiiTer "111111 Kver WASHINGTON, July 31. Senator Keys left a conference with President Wilson today declaring "hts back Is atiffer than ever" for reservations to ti.e league covenant. Keyes said his conversation with the uresident was Inside territory, which if covered with i10Hly about reservations and that sage brush and which while iot Wilson desires unreserved acceptance Tarminff territory, rorms a nreemng Cf the covenant by the senate. place for tne rabbits, tjucn Territory Ouy X. Wilson, defendant in a complaint for divorce recently filed by hi wife, Mrs. Gertrude Wilson, Hiipporta himself, his wife, their two children and a daughter of Mrs. Wil son's by a former marriage, on fluOipecta month, he sets forth in an a ' ( r w. v!t filed today with County Clerk Ft. Train No. 19, westbound, which ar. 1 Brown. Wilmn says he considers rives here at 6;4 a. m., will operate it more important that his children n a ttlightly latr schedule from ata should have a home and enough to t"na between Measner and eat than that bis wife should be gtv--il, hut will arrive in Portland en $75 attorneys fees, $50 a month ,n same hour us heretofore. Troops Numbering 6200 Dis tributed Throughout Ne--gro District at Midnight. HUNDRED SHOTS OPEN QUICK FIRE BAPTISM , .. t h Black Belt" Now , Calm; Pitched Battle Occurred by School Last Night. CHICAGO. July si. The death llt In Chicago's fourth day race rtotlntf slamlx at J 1J nesroe and It ahites. following the death of Thomas Coppelun. is year old neru. till morniriK. The "tilack belt," where most of the ars.?n and rlutlns occur, red, la now calm arid Is being patroll ed by 6200 mil.tiamen. guardsmen and troopers sent to the necre d la in, t at midnight. The troop were distributed throughout five 4one aoi given their Bridal I Du-,'i-rn OK Ilr n m rH,n more isia . . ...I mo shots a soon a thev mad their I apirearance. They returned the fir newspapermen und the public; FARM LABORER DRAWS KNIFE ON EMPLOYER principle of "open covenants of peace means committee in ascertaining openly arrived ut," . the committee j whether or not the corporations are emaahed precedents and considered niaklng money enough to pay their the treaty at a scuwion wide open to es unuer tne war revenue bill. I'rortteerlug Is responsible for the high costs, according to the brother hood of locomotive engineers arvlsnry board which called fi Wilson late yeUday-...reM . ,.;. t I'awl lNw Cnrtsldcml. In n letter to Kurleaon, Assistant Secretary of War Crowe! I asked that a, post office department representa tive be appointed to confer with Assistant- IX rector of Sales K morse of the war department regarding ar- rnmremnnt if data I In "In AMHArt iA "w '"'y mpecwi 10 ine;Wth the distribution of food supplies Kast Uregonlan.) After demanding .to the public through the channels of tiliU he be paid In cash for services nareol nnat' Hirirtii .ih h i as a farm laborer, Ed .Stanford yester day drew a knife on his employer, Jess Correa, prominent Bcho farmer, when Mr. Correa attempted to pay the wages by check. Frank Correal ( a brother of the farmer intervened before damage was done by the la borer. j Htunford, It Is alleged, struck Mr. Correa soon- after the dispute as to the mode of payment began, after be glad to cooperate In the "direct to the table" sale of millions pf dollars worth of food. Action Fftrx-ctcd Soon. It Is known that the president. Is tremendously Interested In reports of the federal trade commission on Its Investigation of the packers. Friends of the Ken yon bill to regulate the packers will have Wilson's support. tne measures advocates say. A reso is located tm a strip of land between the Columbia and the Hermtston pro ject, with another strip between the r ma I II la. and the Cold Spring reser voir, and a third between Stanfield and Hermiston. Kxterminatlon of rabbits In this territory, in the opin ion of Mr. Bennion, is the most Im portant work of all as it will stop the spreading of the animals to cultivated land. Sentiment In the west end Is ptrong ty In favor of the poisoning, accord ing to Mr. Bennion, and the farmers anm sugr tn rv,-nrtfrjit e. Kstf mates of the poison necessary for the work! ' NBSLKt. tlToCjngr Mai'k vilt h nwMlAHinil -h-e -OfiinriaiaTn .sf gnnlxed for the winter work. J. P. I McNaught of Hermiston will be an j Opponents of the league are juM- I.iit at the announced results of Wil son's conferences, with Republicans, declaring the president Is making no inroads on the opposition. League supporters believe Republican sena tors are giving out statements with the express purpose of belitling .the effects of the president's amend ments. . First Dry Month Finds San Francisco Conies maintenance money and $'5 for court costs, as she requested in her com-' Plaint. ; Wilson, the affidavit setsorth, is employed by I'enland Bros, at a sal ary of $loo a month. Since coming here he has purchased a small home and, he alleges, has endeavored to give hi family the bet that his sal- ary will furnish. He asserts that he. ! neither drinks, e mokes, gambles nor ! fljaninutaa hie, -i.nnuir a n.t (V.1 V. is borne out by affidavit of Claude I'enland, one of his employers. Pen-, land declares the man to be sober and industrious. Wilson is represent ed by James A. Fee. Local tiatns Xos. 1 and 2 will oper ate via the Coyote cutoff instead of via I'malflla, and So. 1 will leave here at 11:10 a. m. instead of 8 50 m., while o. 2 will arr.ve here at :15 p. m. instead of 4:30 p. m. On lheBc-nd branch trains will leave The Da Ilea slightly earlier and maintain the. present schedule, and returning- wili arrive at The Dalles a few minutes earlier. Minor chang ed on the various' branches make the strvice connect with main line trains where changes have been made in existing schedules. BILLS ASK UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING Italian Demands Would Have Equaled Ultimatum Declares Latin Professor and assistant of Mr. Bennlon's. Mr. Bennion and Mr. Jamison will visit Pilot Hock end Nolln to continue Investigations. ' ' which the employer picked up a board1 lutlnn Is pending- In the house nsklnt to defend himself, Mtunford then pro duced the knlfj. Stanford, who wa employed only ' rt nhort time aao, and who Is not well known In Kcho. waa hound over to the grand Jury on a charge of aa s.tult und ws sent to I'endleton today. It Is said that when he was released from employment on the Correa. ranch' office .August 9. Wilson whnt additional authority he needs to lower prices. Action Is ex pected soon. Flotir Put on jrnrkef. The war department placed on the market an additional 1SA.000 pounds of flour substitutes. Bids will he opened In the Kt; Touis sone supply he threutened place.' to "burn down the Astoria and Portland Senators Urge Special Ratification Session RAI.KM, July l. Senuturs A. W. Nnrblad of Astoria and A. W. Orton. ut rorlland hv signified their will Representative iKoe conferred with house leaders in an- effort to tret Im hiedinfn action on his resolution to have the federal trade commission In vestigate the prices of shoes, clothlnsr. sugar and coffe, have the ways and means committee Investigate high rents. He said: "My Idea Is that the effective way to stop profiteering- is to tax extortions of the profiteer into the treasury. This business of prosecut ing violations of nnti-trupt laws Is tiiKness to attend a special ratlflca. good but it Is a slow and tedious pro- t Inn session of the state legislature at their own expense and. In letters received by Oovernor Ulcott today, tirge that he call such a session im mediately. Representative George W. Week and K. A. Hughes or .Marlon county are both favorable to tho special ses sion, but Hughes does not think it reasonable to ask the legislators who must come from dlr.tunt parts of the Mute, to pay their cwn traveling ex penses. John W. Cnchrun. chfet clerk of the senate for th past four sossl" has signified . his willingness to do- nate his services in tho event of a spe- : clal session. Cochran is now in Sa lem. Indexing the bouse and senate Journula for the last session. ' I tig Ciame ricnlihil. v JUKKA IT, Alaska. July It. (Tnit ed Tress) Big game In Alaska is re ' ported to be very plentiful this year. Iealers aid other are making prepa ration to receive more big game hunters in August and September of this year than ever before. Ilurdwara Co. Iteaclies Out. POItTI.ANT, Ore.,,' July Si. An nouncement has been made here that the Marshall-Wells Hardware Com pany will reach out over the South Meas for business. l II. Keers, rep resenting the company, will leave Kan Francisco Monday for Sydney to open a foreign trade department U;r cess' Denlrs Cruiiiiimiioaiioii. WASHINGTON", July 31. The fed eral trade commission officially de nied it ha been in communication with officials of the British govern ment regarding prosecution of Amer ican meat packers In FAtgland. The denial" was In the form of a commu nication to the senate responding tn Senator Khermnn's resolution direct ing the commission make known what correspondence It had with the Brit ish government regarding export meat (rndn. The report, incidentally, dis closed nitegeit details of the opera tions of great American packers in foreign countries, e.specljttly in Frit aln. . MTTI.B HOI'K BKKOHK RAT- rnDAv. CHICAGO.' ill., July 31. The street car and elevated railway strike! cannot end before Saturday In the I view of officials of the strikers and operating companies today. J WAN FRANCISCO, Calif.. July 31. After a ?nonth of prohibi tion rTan' Francisco finds her fam ilies more congenial, her male . population less inclined to fight, and her automobilista more care ful, but with much liuuor still comparatively easy of access. During the month preceding July there, were "362 arrests, 928 of these bejngiue to drunkenness. In the first 30 days of prohibi tion there were 2043 arrests, in cluding 157 fjr drunkenness. Indians Held for Irrony. . ! Jesse Pierce and Walter Willams. j Indians, are held by the police today' on complaint of a third Indian, who' laid he had been robbed of 20. Thai Files Counter Chances. rORTLAXl), July 31. Despite the Omer C. Harris, defendant In an action started for divorce by his witp, Lorena May Harris, Saturday, declar- polioo allege they found most of the,ed in an answer filed today in circuit stolen goods on the two suspect. court that the reason he was unable I to work was that he Was 111 and had TemMratnro Is iW Today. ' ! to be operated on for appendicitis. Toduy'a temperature Is 80, with a He admits that he took the ts from slight breeze and the weather partly ne oaoy s Dank, as alleged, but did so , ance of J2.5U0.0OO in bonds tor the cloudy. The temperature last night . because that was all the money there I building of the Roosevelt highwav. was &. I w as in the house ami that h0 spent it j the outlook for the highway is all but I t't the family und not on himself. He hopeless. NoKrnes Wrnr War Cross. . filed counter charges jiaainst his wife. A delegation returning from Wash- jharging that she went to dances in ; ington announced it was informed the CHICAGO. July SI. Several pno- 1 Pendleton with other men auainsi hl : federal sovemment nniini wiih.oif while he was in the KIXUSNE, Ore., July 51. "If the wishes (if the Italians had been grant- . ' ed in all respects, their demands . . , I would have amounted to a second W AhHINUTOV. July 31- Univer-: Austrian ultimatum." a,ordin to sal military and naval training is pro. , Pro(, fYeuei-ick. a. Dunn, rormerly of P!4e(Jiu. bills which fenator Cham-.th. j-tia department of the Cntver- berlain and Representative Kahn ln-s(ty 0( Oregon. uuuucea loaay. 1 ne Dili proviae; Dunn. who was with the Y, M. C. that every male citizen between the A. service attached to the Italian army, ages of IS and 20 must take six has returned after an absence of a months' training either in the army : year. . - or navy unless they have been In er. The Italian people were very bit vice six months or are physically un-jter against-President Wilson when be fit thwarted them regarding Fiume, said The bills also create a reserve of.uunn. He praised the Italian soldi- army composed of all men who aerv-.'er's courage. ea during the war, for a period oil Italv. he said, is dependent five years end all those under uni-j America for food and supplies, versa! training for 10 years after their' ' . discharge. . A similar naval "reserve is estab lished. Both reserves are subject to immediate call in event the presi dent declares an emergency exists. The bills also create machinery of a draft system for determination of exemptions. no casualties were reported. Jlwpltabi Crowded. Hospitals throughout the south side, where the relro settlements are located, are filled to overflowing; with wounded of both races. .More thAJt 500 who have t,een shot and injured by beatings are in hospitals and sev eral hundred other are receiving treatment at the'r homes. Arriving in pitch dark streets In army truck, the soldiers, who hat been held in armories here two days. took their place on street corners, returning lead for lead whenever th snipers fired 011 them. , Rainfall. shia-ily after their arrivals routed most of the disturbers, both butch and white. - Negroes, armed with what are be lieved to be stolen arms and ammu nition, fought a pitched battle with soldiers and a white mob early last night. Fortified behind a walled fence around a school yard, the- ne groes fired many shots at telr op ponents,. . many . receiving; . wounds. Th negroes were finally dispersed. upon PERSHIVG WILL LEAVE FOR AMERICA SEPT. 1 EIRE CHIEFS," EHtlASSE COMING TO ROUND-UP PARIS. July 31. General John J. fact that Oregon voters favored isu-"j Pershing will leave for the United Mates Kepiemuer 1. it is learned to day. Pershing- will leave for coblens tonight for a final inspection trip ta the Rhine district and the battle areas. The first, division begins Us departure fur home August 15. The eighth Infantry and auxiliaries, total ise were picked up today by of ficors wishes and that while he was in the! sneeial act anorourmte a like amount ! Ina- 6SU0. will be the only troops re who saw them In tho act of killitiR, hospital recovering from the appen- 1 and maintain the road. Federal funds maining on the Rhine. The prisoners. Include 11 uniformed ; dlcitis operation his wife tiTiri him i now can onlv he used for imst and for- Pershimr suid he hooea no further regiment, 'that she would refuse to live with him: est roads. Without federal aid the attempts will hb made to have A. ""E. any more. ; road cannot ko through. F. dead taken America, ex -soldiers from a colored Two wore tl'o r.roj do guerre, Fire chiefs from Tia Juana to lu mas are coming to ; th Pendleton Kound-Up on the morning- of Septem ber 19 by1 special PUllumna, accord- Ins: to assurance to the city council from H. W. Brlnghurwt, secretary of the Pacific Coaut Association of Fire Chief h. Tbe chieftains will hold their twenty-sixth a.nnual convention In Portland on Se.uejnber 15,' le. l? and It and they ar advertlsins; the fact far and wide that on the nitftit of the 18th. All are to take a side trip to visit the "famous Pendleton Round-Vp-1 -J.-- -"ST Fire Chief W. K Rlngold and as many of the civ officials as care to attend were invited to attend the t Portland meeting, In a letter receiv ed by the council last evenint". Protw ably loo or more fire department leaders will be present and the ma jority have exoressed their IntentUm of taking In Pendleton before return Ing home. It la probable that several from here will attend the Portland sessions, . VILLA ESCAPES INTO HILLS AFTER BATTLE (lAI.VKSTO.V. Tex., July 31.Fnrty A'llllstas wete klheil. n captured and many wounded In a. battle between the Carranitlst,t cavalry and Villistas un der the command of Pancho Villa near Ijrs Vegas yesterday, according to an official cablegram from Mex ico City to the Mexican consul today. Federal forces used nn airplane anu machine guns to great advantage. Villa escaped Into the mountains, with remnants of hls.forces. . ;rp-. , ., " . ' ' , , , "" ' ! DllCiun Tiir ornimi n rrT iu coini rinui i i nHiomu mc ocnniiAn tlcci in aoArA ruin , M I, - ' - .- ' . ! " ,""!2'"r "eA "sST' $ ., .sussAjKin.' fjaiil,rvJV'' ni '-' 'i T. "it t- lttlWAi -x ViiyjMrtTrrl v 3ekyaftaA, M Ct ' tx m he vtPi in .i. Ann it'pv ii trie .t i . . , . . . ... tl ... : l" rM-unHi) :n tn worm in And ihey go rifiht to work fishing lhem u R3ltJn. Tnit . oicturm Minthorn Says Wife v i Clever at Forirery I Counter charges as baais for ft di vorce were filed today by, Aaron Minthorn, wealthy Indian, recently sued for divorce by his Indian wife. Anna Minthorn. In his answer to tb original charges: Minthorn denies I "''that he squandered most of his pro perty and between $2.0 and 1 20. OiiO in the past year, as alleged in the ! plaintiff's complaint. Minthorn charges that his wife "as "clever at forgery and In 191)1, he al leges, she forged and raised several "checks on his accounts. He further alleges that his wife also became In toxicated and went to Walla Watlu 'with another Indian woman and two 'men. whereat the defendant loet f heart and took to drinking for so lace. Prior to that time. he sets forth, both were interested In church work. The counter charges and answer iwere prepared by Judse James A. Pee who has been retained by Mtiithorn to defend him. large property In terests on the reservation re involved ln the suit. 1 . SCAPA FL.Yv. Juiy si. uu Jusi run i iuphw i hone tingiisnmen." to the Idea of scuttling our ships, wj did the job for them in Srappa Flo of the salvage work being carried On at Scarpa Flow, THE WEATHER FORECAST Tim Ig lit and Friday fair.