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DAILY EVEHIHB EDITION DAILY EVENING EDiTlOll The) Eaa Oreontaa I Kmmti Ore gon' greatest newspaper Mid oa ft selling form glvea to ll advertise ovrr iwk-e the rln-ulatm la sVadHt. ion and I'nwilllU amulf nt aaf oUm nrwapaprr. Number oopleg printed of yesterday's: Daily Edition, 2,835 bf the Audit Burrau of Circulation!, COUNTY OFFICIAL PAP7 ' CUT OFFICIAL PAPER J ft f milium ii 11 111 ..... J,. JPT " " ' ' w r ' S r tij -y ; wxj. ox 1 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, AUGU.ST 27, 1919. NO. 9822 WILSON TOUR OF TO START SPEAKING in 10 onnu p nrrjiiin JI no OUUli fld UCIMILO OF TRIP CAN BE ARRANGED e : THERE'LL BE SCENES LIKE THIS IN PENDLETON . WHEN THE GOVERNMENT FOOD ORDERS ARRIVE Developments of Past Few ; Days Such as to Convince ; President it Will be Possible to Leave in Short Time. MAY REVIEW FLEET AT SAN FRANCISCO SEPT. 15 Campaign to Reduce Living Costs Showing- Results in Gratifying Way- Treaty Work Also Satisfactory. WASHIXQTO.V. Aug. 27. Presi dent Wilson will mart a speaking tour m noon OS arrangements eon be made. It la stated at the while House. WA8HI.VGTON. Aug. 2TDeveIop ments of the past few days have con vinced President Wilson It -will be pos sible for him to begin his speaking tour In behalf-of the peace treaty In a nort time., it was learned. The Mexl n situation has cleared, with the witnarawul of American soldiers, fol lowing the punishment of the hnndit. The campaign to reduce living costs " snowing results In a way gratifying to the president. The threatened atrlke of railroad shopmen has been averted, at least for the present Ad ministration leaders expressed them selves well satisfied with the treaty situation In the senate. These facts have again forced consideration of the speaking trip to the front. Advisers are urging the president the time is oportune. PRINCE WANTS PUBLIC INVITED TO AFFAIRS GIVEN IN HIS HONOR WI.VXIPEO. Aug. IT. Thera will be no exclusive society func tions here for the Prince of Wales. He himself put a stop to plans for a reception where only invited guests were to be admit ted. Telegraphing from Toronto the prince asked that, the pub lic be Invited to all function in his honor here. Private social events already scheduled there fore hnve been cancelled. SEATTLE SHIPMAKERS i wiiii m.j IHHMSMWM SJWSill y.nni-'-uf -tvw W' lnauasiHit- -: :;r.vj f .-':q ', -. . . . 1 CA row NEVADA ARIZONA PRACTICALLY ISOLATED RESULT OF RAILROAD AS TIEUP RAIL BROTHERHOODS OFFICIALS MAY FILL PL A CES OF STRIKERS Belt Line Completely Paralyz ed; Transcontinental Trains Arrive at Bay City but None are Leaving for the East. SPECIAL TRAIN FROM HEPPNER IS ASSURED FOR THE ROUND-UP n boii iicKeta already sold to inree communities, the regular seat sala for the tenth annual Round-Up will beopened to the publio next Tues day. Hundreds of orders by mail , advance ana these, with orders from have been filed for nearly a year in local people, will be exchanged for seat tickets Tuesday.. The Oregon Journal, which will again operate a special train to the Hound-Up, has been sent 200 re served grandstand tickets and six whole boxes. Them tickets are sola with the railroad ticket and are for the last two days of the big show, Fri day and Saturday. The Bpecial train from the Heppner branch, proposed last week, la a cer tainty, according to Round-Up head nuarters. Two hundred tickets have been ordered for the persons coming from Heppner, lone, Lexington anil other points on the branch. They, too, will come for the final two days. Astoria is coming with Its special train of 160 live wires, their order for ISO tickets having just reached the headquarters. They will likely be here for all three days and will have a block of the best seats in the grandstand. Congressional Shipyards Probe Develops Adverse Reports on Work of Certain Grays Harbor Builders. SEATTLE, Aug. 27.Certaln ship nuiiders in this district are facing criminal prosecution as a result of their lax methods during the war, it ueveiopea at a hearing before the con. grcsslonal shipyards probe committee. milium luiHiua, or tne emergency fleets acting assistant In charge of' wood ship construction in this district la the chief witness. He testified he had to make adverse reports to the fleet corporation about the construc tion of certain shins built In nmv-m naroor. one or these ships, he' said, had to be docked twice for repairs norny arter completion. PROGRAM FOR PEOPLES HELD DAY ARRANGED An address by Colonel Emmelt Cal lahan, Boardman's farmer-lawyer who was asked by the late Colonel Roose velt to stump New York state for him, a speaking program by farm experts from O. A ,C, a picnic lunch, music by the Juvenile band and several vocal numbers, are some of the head-liners on the program for the Field Day pro gram to be held at Hermiston Kxperi- ment Station, September 27. This Is aside from the general program which Includes inspection of the work at the station and practical farm demonstrations. Arrangements for the field day were made last night at a meeting In Blermlston at which were present a committee from the Commercial club, consisting of E. J. Klngsley, Postmast er Young and W. W. Illsley; a comlt tee of farmers consisting of K. L. Jack son, George Cressey, Pat Sullivan, S. S. Paler, Frank Waugeman, A. W. Cobb, Hugh Graham and Q. 1 Dun fling, and a women's committee, made up of Mrs. George Strohm, Mrs. L D. ljuy and Mrs. Freeman P. Thlpps. The two committees conferred with Fred Bennion, county agent, and Miss Ella May Harmon, county demonstra tion agent. Mr. Bennion will have charge of the work for the men, while Miss Harmon will be In charge of demonstrations which are designed to Interest the women who will attend the Field Day exercises. E INCREASES FOR POST OFFiCEEMPLOyES WASHINGTOX, Aug. 27. Wage In creases for postal emnlovo. tntniln forty millions -was agreed upon by the house postofflce committee over the postofflce department's protest. The bill as ordered reported bv the committee provides flnt increases of $150 a year for all employes with the exception of fourth class Dontninni.ni wno snan not receive more than $1000 and third class more than 12000. All increases are retroactive July 1. BIG PEACH CROP RIPE BUT CARS ARE SHORT 1.. - 9 tk,. ft CLEVELAN'D, Aug. 27.Rall road brotherhood offlc'als moy seek to fill the places ieft vacant by railroad strikers on the Pacific coast, president Stone of the bro therhood of locomotive engineers intimated today. Stone was asked whether lh. brotherhood chiefs, support of ;the saying: ' out there as specified by our contracts." Rail road shopmen and non-brotherhood chiefs should answer President Wil- son's offer of four cents an hour wage increase, said stone. "Personally I SPREAD TO EASTWARD ON SANTA FE LINE IMMINENT we win insist that our men i T0ns 0f Decaying Fruits Being perform their duties in full T. . . ' . i iii own in niver ur uiven 10 Poor at Los Angeles; . Mail Blockade Reported Broken. YAKIMA, Aug. 27. With 2000 r. loads of peaches ready to pick in this I A" , . 4 ' : i . , ' , " f' 7 - -51 ; t t it v' , I v. I -t tkj - : " - . , d . J Jt . 1 t,. 1 ; . r T(.kJ , s fl ' 1 V 3 4 sS Old "H. C. L." Is still very much alive but he got a good wallop re cently in New York when surplus army rations were sold in fifty-eight public school buildings. Gach school house looked like a corner grocery store on bargain day. Some buyers brought carts some baby carriages and some even went in automobiles. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27. California strikes are without most part chases. carried home their pur- CONFERENCE OF M. E. uromernooa officials are in a position j nave no comment to make. The to tuirm their contracts by filling the shopmen can and will answer him.' K.nucs uittue vacant Dy tne strikers, nowever, ne. said Increased wares He replied: "We have carried out I wont solve the economic question. He ' California. Nevada and ArizO our contracts for a good many years, j advised Immediate steps to lower the ' 1 . and will continue to do so now." cost of living as a means of solving i" re nO)t entirely isolated Stone took a positive stand that the the problem of strikes . for hleher ; frnm the rrmmmA. th the wages in all branches of Industry. - ., - tion as the result of the railroad tieup. Southern Pacific offi cials admitted they are not moving trains in any of the three states. The tieup of the Salt Lake road -extends as far East as San Bernardino. , The Santa Fe is cut off west of Nee dles. The spread of the strike eastward on the Santa Fe and Ixstgua Seat Xot Changed. CrEXBVA. Aug. 27. It has been learned on good authority that the re but Mr. and Mrs. New Work for the originating in raris mat tne seat transferred from Geneva to Brussels is unfounded and that Geneva, which was chosen by President Wilson and Premier Lloyd-George, will remain the headquarters of the league. RIOTING AT COAL MINE BRACKEXRIDGE, Pa.. An. 27. An allied commission s expected to j Additional deputy sheriffs are guard uik uro nuraa 01 me Aiicgtsanjr coal arrive in the fall to choose one of sev eral sites on the lake for the future peace palace. This commission's de cision will be made known at the first meeting- of the league of nations In Washington. Sixth Enffmcers Return. Bishop Horace) M. DuBose Pre- Sixth engineers; who built bridges ov- siHinfl- With MorA Then 1 fin er virtually every waterway the allied 0 armlM nprp nnmnelled to rosff In fol- DeegateS in Attendance Rep- J lowing the German retreat, arrived to resenting 4000 Members. (East Oregonian Special.) MILTON, Aug. 27. With Bishop Horace M. DuBose of Berkeley, Calif,, iresiatng, tne annual sessions of the Northwest Conference of the M. E. t.'hurch. South, with more than 100 delegates in attendance representing between 3000 and 4000 members or gon, Washington, Idiho and Montana, this church in th four states of Ore will open In the Methodist church here this evening. day on the transport Manchuria. This noted unit of 24 99 men had lit tle or no rest from early in April, 1918, until the armistice was signed. The regiment suffered nearly 1000 casualties before It marched Into Germany last October. & Ooko company here to prevent a c,l. -,vJ :; M. renewal of last nichfa rioting In which j roads IS imminent NO two wme killed and five wounded, trains are leaving or entering The ftliootiiu started when Mrs. Fan-'i- a ---l-- ny Setlaircl organizer for tne I'nlted , Mge7 . ' . Mine Workers, led a mass attack of I Tons of decaying fruits are S'nitI dJS"tLTP" ther bein thrown in the river Iffs guardinfr the mines. Tbe woman t or turned over urtne city's poor as a result of the freight tieup in the Southern Pacific yards. The use of auto trucks by postal authorities is said to hare brok en the mail blockade in south ern California. Merchants ad mit a general business depres sed one of her companions were kill ed. The strike haa been in progress five weckSL BLACK CAT BRINGER OF BAD LUCK TO MAN WITH RIFLE AND BOY rates in attendance during the week, there will be present prominent churchmen from a number of eastern- and southern points. Dr. W. I. Nelson, editor -of the Pacific Metho dist Advocate.of San Francisco, ana one of the best known church leader on the coast will be a prominent speaker on the program. ' j The sessions of the conference win Two complete houses hiv. .i.j be held twice daily throughout the been offered to the Rnund-Up ac-;WPe1 closing with the reading of np commodntions committee for use of pointments for the ensuing year. Sun- I ETE HOUSES OFFERED TO ROUND-UPi ST. LOUIS. Aug. !7. Edward U. ticketts. 24 veara old. an electrician Resides the duly elected delegates employed at 2439 North grand avenue, from the 40-odd charges and pasto-!tod D0licemen that he had never felt supersltious, but that after his ex- dlatrlct the railroads are short more Kuesta during the three days of the 'day night. man iuu cars dally. Growers face an enormous loss. Railroad officials confess inability to secure cars. The growers are Irate over what they term "inconceivable Inefficiency." The blame for the car famine Is generally' cnargea against the big packers who control the car supply, a conspiracy to bent down prices is alleged. PHONE OPERATORS VOTE TO REJECT AGREEMENT SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27. Paci fic coast telephone operators voted to reject the agreement which ended the recent coastwlde strike, it became known after a complete count of the referendum votes Had been made. The be given out to those applying for them and will be mailed to any ad dress In the county by Mr. Brown up on a request to that official. WEALTHY WOMAN FEARS INSANITY; KILLS SELF LOS ANGELES. Aug 27. Mrs. Ger trude Hchuhardt, wife of William Schuhardt a Milwaukee. Wis., million aire, killed herself at the Hotel Alex andria today. Fear she was losing her mind was the reason given. BITTER VERBAL FIGHT WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 Showinir evidenccs of the cfroct of the strain of the treaty fUrtil, the wnuto engaged today in one, of the bitterest and most personal drlmu-s yet heard lit the Ions; struggle. Senator I'll II criticized the Repub lican colleagues supporting tlio treaty. The debate between Senators VtM and Medimhrr nearly led to a fight -be tween the two. oig exhibition, which opens three weeks from tomorrow. The commit tee is desirous of having two more complete houses, h.i additional parties have asked for accommodations' on the wholesale scale. Calls from persons offering rooms for. the Round-Up have been numer ous during the present week and the committee $ well satisfied with the number' already 'listed. The. com mittee can use rooms either close in or in the outskirts, of tho city this year and w.111 .fill whatever Is offered. Two autos will be on hand at an times during the Round-Up to show persons to rooms far removed from the accoiiimodationss headquarters. The Round-l"V board has asked the city to close to traffic for the three days the three cross streets between Court and Alta east from the park. These are to be used by local persons for parking purposes during the Bhow, leaving the grounds west of the Blewett Harvester Co., to the out-op- town persons with cars. PENDLETON WILL HAVE A SHARE IN BIG DRIVE Irlvm fur Into l.nkf, BRAINKHD. Minn.. Aug-. 27. Just hocausp there In no fire tipnrtm'nt t Plum J-.ake, nar hf-ro. was no r en gon why Kurl Siemens car whoulil He drove it into the lake. Komi Law I look Hore. A supply of pnmphletfl containing tho laws of Oregon relntlng to roads, highways and bridges has been re ceived from the secretary of state by County Clerk Brown. The books will lay 1 p" CnmpnlKn I'lwnneil. 8T. PAUL,, Minn., Auk. 27. A nation-wide "pay up" campaign, to he staged next January, was decided up on yesterday at the convention of t he mobilization of tho vast Ret All Credit Men s National Associa tion. Thrift will be the chief slogan used in the effort to releas of tied-tup capital. Hankers. Pendleton and other Umatilla county towns will be asked to controbute a share of , the . one million volunteer workers to participate In the . Third Red Cross Roll Call, which wljl be held November 2 to November 11, Armistice Day. In this campaign, by which It' is ex pected to begin the big peace-time ac tivities of the organization with as nearly ttniversal membership as pos sible and to raise yiR.O00.O00 with which to fulfill the relief obligations of the American Red Cross at home and abroad, every effort will be made to organize Pendleton and other Uma tilla county towns so that every per son will be approached by some other persons and asked to renew member ship or join the organization as a new member. Kvery town and community In the United States will make a slmt- bnrn. j lar effort. To aid In securing the local workers, j the lor.nl, post office, telegraph office and public library will soon have on display a preliminary campaign text poster, sent from Seattle headquarters which will supply all posters for its jurisdiction. Upon the display the Red Ctoss workers army will begin. Volunteers will he a.ked to enroll with the local Big German Officers Accused by French, Murder Charges Made LILLE, France. Aug. 27. Evidence : adduced before the French military I innilrt Inniifrln. In,- .. I ... I . v ......... ..-p, iiiiu . 1 1 1 it: a willlllll- jted by the Germans during the occu jpation Indicates that a charge of mur- vtKtr iimy ua urougni against v on iein rich, a former military governor of Lille. Mme. Jacques and Mmo. Martens, widows of men shot by the Germans, testified today that after death sen tence had been passed on their hus bands, Von Heinrich authorized their lawyers to appeal to the German em peror. While the appeal was being made Von Heinrich, it was declared, ordered that the men be executed and they were shot twenty-four hours lat- perlence of yesterday he would swear off shooting at black pats in back-vards. Charles Hughes, 13 years old, or er. 2488 Fall avenue, was seated In the. Accused of Deporting Girls, kitchen of his home yesterday after- The court also has heard evidence noon when a rifle bullet struck him against Von Zoelne, former quarter in the right leg. His father. Edward master-general at Charleville. It has Hughes, Investigated, and the arrest j been testified that he was responsible of Ricketts on a charge of discharg- f0r the deportation of girls from Lille ing firearms resulted. ' i in 1918. Gen. von Gravents, governor Ricketts told policemen that he had j 0f LMo at the time, it was declared, been bothered much of late by a stray jheld him responsible for the order of black cat which spent most of its time m tho vrd behind his employer's plant and had a habit of getting into the way of tne wommen. i hrmieht a rifle from home, he said. and determined to get rid of the cat. deportation. Dr. van Henverhny, a resident of Fives, near Lille, told the court that this 19 year old son was killed with a bayonet by a Qerman soldier on or der of Capt. Himmen le ueiarre. ine He said that he Just missed the cat lrtoctor testified, further, that the cap- and vaB .orrr wn hc .tain, me wiwn" s" " hit the boy. and the German governor or itouoaix i were responsiDie tor ine toriurins ui In ...... : a man -nrlr m n rreucn juuuia m ...... BEES IN LOUIS V ILLfc j Charged With Stabbing Priest. CUT COST OF LlVlINU,ca- eV"von GmnTu Of t Ithe 8th chasseurs of Treves, who is barged with the attemptea muroer lJMIiaVIL.CE. Ky., Aug. S.. uia n. i . ,...,,,,, i-r-pi.Rrmul. , . ....ta O. J l" 111. 11111' " . . ., c. of l.. has the upper declared that th officer, whue that men ti&ve Deen aiscnargea but there I. a '"c'". .! " J--Idrunk. twice stabbed the priest, in - r-fllairio. trt V-nHI frtrht. asts in Loulscvme wm. h n was living. After- - ward he smashed the furniture and to and from the Pacific ElectTlC: SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27. ; Director Sproiile of the rail--' road administration, admitted the tieup is almost complete. ', He claimed the suburban ser vice out of San Francisco is be ing maintained. AH transcontinental trains are arriving at San Francisco ' but none are leaving for the East. No Violence As Yet. A Union official was quoted as saying the strike was the re sult of a small percentage of operators voting would be "ri diculous." A platoon of state railroad police was thrown around the ; Ferry building, others were stationed on the Oakland ana Alameda moles, "as precau tionary measures." There has been no violence so far. General Manager Scott of the Southern Pacific issued a denial to the statement 9 millions I Red whnlesal- J tlllft Cross chapter for work in Urns- county And If they have ability In vota however represented only "very amall percentage" of the ope patera. . J era and retllcrs will be urged to Co- j public speaklrg or in writing they will era and retailer will he ured 11 vo-. be particularly acceptable. It is stated. Col. Frank lilKckstone of Pittsburg) for president and G. A. Uwe if Mem phis for vice president, were nominat ed without opposition. Formal elec tion v 1 1 1 take place today. Walter Watson is in the city from Walla . Walla. TIIAXSPORT SINKS, ItO MISSING LONDON, Aug. S7. The Japanese tiansport Shilikl Maru struck a rock and foundered on Aug. Scnegashlma, according in their him right along. How are they doing ill Bv svslematic bee culture backyards. Honey, you know may oe prouui- very cheaply, and beemen say they do not feel the sugar scarcity. Ira G. Wilson, of Wilson & Wilson, handlers of beemen's supplies, esti mate that there are between three hun dred and four hundred colonies of bees within the city limits of Louisville. "When an average of fifteen hives to a colony is considered, this makes no mean total of honey production nere," be declared. The fact that 1 sold twice the am ount of bee supplies this year that I k. rilanoaed of in previous years, in dicates that tbe business stole some money. Army Scout Car iJite. . FLACERVILLK. Cal.. Aug. 27.r The official scout car of the army transcontinental motor truck convoy arrived here this aiternoon. days late on account or aimcumes countered crossing the .-vevnna ue-ert. Leave MatT Trip. Earl Riley, representing the Good year Tire Company, and J. M. Craig, representing International Trucks, left today on w!tr tr'p which will take them to Cn 'on. M tdras. Prine ket-pinic ! vllle and Rend. They expect to be gone bees is proving profitable." said Air. 'for two weeks Wilson. "There is no doubt that It la j , . a good way to ake a wallop at the, !; im'mI lln - l:cl(cnrr. high cost of living. There ase f.-- Tbe A. E. Mcl'iiUe residence. 11J backyards too small to bouse at lrasi!in street, is being remodelled. The one hive. improvement include -the enlarge Any person with a little careful : m,,n, ot the living room of the res- study can become a successful bee- !aence, and several oM.cr changes, keeper. Practically the only Initial outlay is for the hives. Then the bees j HOXOU'U'. T. H. Aus. 17 Ad take the matter Into their own hands." I mlra, xur, M a McC.irmbk el The average annual production per Berkeley. Oil . who '. onersted on niv is iuu nuunuo, ..iuh "-.for annen.'.lcit Ic In one instance i in and about Los Angeles. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27. All train service . from San Francisco has been cancelled. The belt line was tied up when the rail strike that paralyzed (Continued on Pag I.) Mr. and Mrs. from Milton. Barry are here today 't M outlay on the gusakt despatch received by Lloyd's, ing produced 189 pounds to the hive. Jllroving today. 15 south of Wilson. However, to a Na- I known of mi mm FORECAST Tonight n4 iThurtMjay fulr. 5