THE EAST OREGONIAN IS THE ONLY NEWSPAPER IN THE INLAND EMPIRE GIVING ITS READERS BOTH ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS WW"" """"."""iC" fm mmmmmTTmHmmVmm DAILY EDITION H r daily A mw1 VAVI "r- cr.x&r.Vd'r.j.'it' DAILY EDITION Number of Copies prlated of Saturday's 3,109 j""1 Paper a member or and audited by tba Audit Bureau of Circulations. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL. 32 OUTLAW AND LONGSHOREMEN'S , STRIKES WITH CAR SHORTAGE THREATEN Fuel, Raw Materials and Food;L,Jl!5c.SMT Supplies Run Low With 1000 Loads Standing Idle in Yards at New York LACK OF TRANSPORTATION COSTS CHICAGO MILLIONS Middle West Factories Daily Forced to Shut Down and Commerce Commission Plans Drastic Measures. (Jay I'tillcd Press) NfiW YORK. May 12. The full force of the tleup of freight move ment due (o the "outlaw" strike of railroad men and the strike of coast -wise longshoremen la felt In New York. One thousand loaded ran ure standing Idle at ternilnurynrila. In dustries are suffering from shortage of fuel and raw material. Food sup plies are running low. The United Stales eriitn corporation relieved the acute flour shortage by offering- sup plies front reserve' atocks held for ex port. Railroad official reported today that their men arc returning to work and the freight movement is gradually Increasing, but report from concerns stated tint their shipments ure not being handled. Car Shortage Acute (By 1'nlted Press) CHICAGO. May 1 2. Industries or the middle west are being forced m shut down dally due to shortage of cars for transportation of material, according to reports received here to .da,y. ' Chicago Is losing 1 2,000.011" dallv due to car shortage, according to President Olenn of the Illinois Manu facturers Association. Olenn esti mated that Chicago's Industries are running 75 per cent normal. Comml.-hm to Act. ...yv .! United Press) WAHlNOTO!iMay j;.- Th- In. terstatc commerce commission is plan nine to act to relieve the car liortuitc j dalayrd movtmenU of coinmoditlea, J aocqnllng to Information whtrh mem- br of the house Interstate commerce committee received today. An order diverting equipment from parts of tho i country whrre needs are not so pi-ens- Ing and en embargo on non-essentials from sutnr section is under consider ation. It Is learned. MONUMENT WILL HONOR HEROES IN "BAYONET TRENCH" PARtflt May 12 Hugh C. Wallace the American ambassador, today an nounced thft formation of a commit tee to supcrvtec tho erection of a monument to commemorate the bu rial of a battalion of Frcncn soldiers who Were overwhelmed In "bayonet trench" at Verdlrh. (leorec F. Iand of Buffalo, New York, who was killed In an airplane accident In Kngland in December last, had pledged lOo.OUOr francs for the monument and his son has assumed the obligation. President Deschanel will lay the cor nerstone, of the monument, probably in June. DEPARTMENT SAYS ONE IT WASHINGTON, May 1 8.- Tcle-ft-nium were sent by the department of Justice today to all United Htates at tortieys reiterating the department's policy of holding the margin of profit on sugar sales to one cent for whole salers and two cents for retailers. SOCIALISTS LAY PI.ANK. NBW YOltK, May 12.- The public administration o( tho country's wealth for the equal benefit of all was adopted as tho first of Its declaration of principles by the national conven tion of the socialist party of America horA frday. HITCHCOCK POKES EON AT REPUBLICAN EFFORTS TO WIN PEACE BY RES0L0TI0N (By United Press. ) WASHINGTON. May II. Senator Htlt'hcocK today opened the debate for tho democrats on the Knox peace resolution In a speech In which he poked fun at republican efforts to end the war by legislation. "A mountain has labored nnd brought forth a mouse." said Hitch cock. He then proceeded to describe measures which he aald republican leaders at various times have spon sored as a means of makfns; epace. "flupportera of the Knox novel plan have staggered from wide to side over a slgcag course for nearly six months Authority 'Instead of declaring peace, the ' NATION'S WMfSTRY PRINCES WILL TAKE CARNIVAL JOURNEY "lley, Rklnnay, c'mon oyer, (lei' we're going to the carnival tonight, lions, monkeys, cruzy houses, Happy Hooligan, n'ever' thing, tin ii like ever'thlng and meet the bunch at the E. o. of fice at 0:30 tonight an' we'll fol low the band to the 'lot.' " Tonight Is newsboy's night ut Ine tlreatcr Alamo shows. The treat was arranged by Ifarry Wuugh, manager of the carnival company and the committee of the Round-l.'p ban, so the lit tle merchant princes of the city could have one big night at the carnival wimout cost to them. All boys selling or delivering the Knst Ort'Konlan are urged to meet at the office ut S:30, so that badges can be secured. When tne band starts for tho show ground the boys will fol- low and become guests of tho management for a trip through tho muteries of curnival-land. TR( STATE AUTO CLUB June 4 is Date Set by Directors at Walla Walla Meeting for Big Gathering of AH Mem bers of Organization. Members of the Trl-Htuto Auto club from u wlston. Waitsburg. Walla Walla and Pendleton, will picnic ut I lUugham .Springs oit June (, II was de cided last night tit a meeting of Hie directors of the club at Walla Walla. 1 nc ndleion membera will bo ho"t. although the commltteo on ar-j angement in not composed solely, j of Pendleton men. A big program of stunts Is to be ar- ranged for and one of the biggest af- j fuirs of iu kind ever staged in the In- j land Kmpirc arranged. TJterc will be I sports, dancing a.id other novel en tertainments, tho committee announc ed today. Those tn charge of the pic nic will lie: Keg Ellis, J. B. Knight an Robert Simpson, of Pendleton; E. ISvaiu itii'i 1. S. Crooker. of Walla Walla and K. Jonas; of Waitsburg. Ttie directors', meeting at Walla Walla Isst night was the first one at which the local directors have been present. Those who attended from here were: Clyde McKay. Hex Kills. John Vnughan and J. B. Knight. PRESIDENT'S WIRE TAKES SLAP AI CHAMBERLAIN.; (By Culted Press.) POUTI-ANP. May ,12. That (he Wiis-tn administration will throw its luflncner wherever possible against j re-election of democratic senators who wiwi ut i lie pen ee ireaty wnn me Lodge reservations is Indicated here in a reply U . j. Smith, chairman of thr- democratic stato central commit tee, received from Tumulty, the preis i'lrni's secretary today. Smith wired Tumulty asking if Wllsonr telegram to Gilbert Hamaker. lOoal ilemocratie county t halrinan stating that tho lea gue of nations should he adopted as written at Versailles, should be "con trned a an attack on Chamberlain or merely a .statement of the party policy." Tumulty's reply mas brief and to the point. He aald the president's tele gram should be taken "as exactly what it Is an answer to the question.' The reply ni taken here as a direct slap at Chamberlain and other demo cratic nc its tors who voted for the Lodge reservations and Indicates that Wthion will oppose their rc-electibn. Knox resolution now before us de clares Ihr war 1h at nil end. Thus wr have raised an Interesting distinction between declaring peace and the war at an end. Congress has no power to declare peace--has It then the power to declare the war at an end. What's the difference" flays Measure Futile. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 1!. A demo cratic attack upon the republican peace resolution was launched today by Senator Hltrhcock of Nebraska, ad ministration spokesman, who declared In addreslsng the senate that measure was futile. Inconsistent the and inimical to the treaty of Versailles. to jlJ BAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, ."...v.0 . ,$1MANDERS OF ALL MEXICAN WAR 9 CRAFT WIRE ALLEGIANCE TO REBELS " ' w WELL HONOIAj'-U -There was a ami.: in -.SSSSSSSBSSBSEBBBs! - loUM 2 j flown and stay so. Hut his royal bghness, th Prnce of Wales, tred no such I moiikiyshincs Willi the waves of Waikiki. Jfe took what they gave him and laughed. During his brief slay hero the prince spent several hours surf board ing and sahfho was "Jolly well Housed. " NO ADDED BURDEN IS PLACED ON TAXPA YER BY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FUND TWO-MILL TAX What the higher educational tax ami the elenicntu ry school tnx really mean to the taxpayer was explained by .-'resident 1'. U Campbell, of thP Uni ursity of Oregon, at a meeting of prominent business men at Hotel Pen. dlcton yesterday noon, and at it iiipo' - ing of local clubwomen and teaclil-ris' at the county library In the afternoon. PYesldent Campbell explained that a tux of 1.26 mills for higher educa- tlon, S1.2C on each $1000 valuation, is nil the taxpayers arc asked to raise. ii amounts io an average or xj.tS per capita- anil with it the future of edu- cation in Oregon will he assured. Without it, 600 school houses will be vacant next year, vacunt because of lack of teachers. "Two and one-half times the num ber of students now attend the Cni versly of Oregon, Normal School, and Oregon Agriculture College as did scv- en 'ears uko." said President Camp belt "Incomes of these Institution have Increased a meagre four per cent Mnd to cap the climiix, the earning capacity of the dollar has dwindled to that prominent Pendleton people form one-ha If. Imagine Mr. Average Man u committee for an intensive cam trying to support a family of ten upon palgn for .the passage of both tax an income -of $1000, when seven yenrs bills. He suggested that a house-to-u!o ho had 12000 a year for the sud- house canvass be made, to give in- ! I ort of four." Uefiilew IlinnnllllSI resident Campbell refuted the as- mption thut the higher educational Idea is going to seed, that too many vou.ug people are gpJltC to college and MORNING DAILY TO BE Tho Pel according. id let on Murnimr Tribune, to announcement made to day, will he sold on Friday, May 21, to satisfy the Otorhjcasi Aga'tOSt it. H.irrjr L. Kuck, who recently .became mortg agee, has taken possession of the plant and publication and will OKI in the ; today after an all-night session. The mortgage at the sale. He came here jury. however, gave the dead engineer, recently to purchase the paper. j Silas Willett. the benefit of the doubt Following the sale, Mr. .Kin k plans j wi,en it expressed the belief that Jusf to become sole owner of the Tribune, t prior to the wreck ho had been reu tho announcement sas. The paper dered mentally or physically incaplla frtU remain u morning dally. During j ted. the coming week, he -will direct the) 1 ; publication iiinl handle the business affairs of the company. Mr, Kuck is a newspaperman of several years' eifperlence in Oregon. He was a stmicnt In journalism at the PnlversUy of Oregon before taking Up the work on Various state papers, fib home In Is The Dalles. RELIEF FROM SHORTAGE OF CARS IS SUGGESTED (Hy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 1. IMala- non uesiKitea to ain raui'uwis lino , uhout n..tling- Oarrnnsa accordiiiR shippers In thu car shortage situation 1, information reachins; here vU ra hy exlcndini; Hie nac or a three hnn- from Mpx().0 city., died niilllon dollar revolving fiiml ' from five to 15 years, was agreed up- ( on by . the senate interstate commerce j ssssMnwes NOVIKTS STKIKi: HACK (Hy Culted Press.) IX.NU .N. May 12. Russian ,oiet,,0 armies today started a violent counter attack In the Kieff district, according u Warsaw dispatch. u i.,y t unt who told the waves to lie university. He pointed out that but lie-half of one per tent of the youth of Oregon attends these seats of learn ing. He ontrasted this with the 10, 0e0 strong student body in California und the SXKVu m Washington and con cluded hy 'Staling that Oregon was first In buying liberty bonds, first In Ited Cross work, first In enlistments und qunlty of sutlers but that Oregon trails far in the rear in the matter of support for education. Tax I - Trait sf erred, In making a plea for the elementary school law. President Campbell said : "No added burden is placed upon the taxpayer by the State JSlementary Schoc Fund Tax of two mills. This tax Is merely transferred. from the sev eral districts to a central distributing and collecting unit of the state. What Increase the iudndual pays In state taxes Ive is relieved from, closer to home.' hf Pre Concerted Effort Vrged. ident Campbell urged yesterday formation to thP voter. Alumni of 1 uivet si ( y of Omjou, o. A. C, and the State Normal School, urT others n ho are Interested, uro planning to meet soon tn carry out the idea favor- e6 by President Campbell . ENTIRE CREW BLAMED FOR PORTLAND WRECK tl Associated Press) P( HiTJ jA N 1 , May 1 2. Responsi bility for the collision here Sunday with the consequent loss of nine lives and injm- t 4 was placed on all members ol the crew of the inboun 1 pase n ge r 1 n a v rd let ret u r ti ed ca r t y TORNADO VIS1TSTE)(AS; ONE DEAD, FIVE HORT PAKIS, Tex.. May 1 2.---nc person is dead, five injbred and several thousand d oils rs wort h of property damaged Is the toll oT a tornado which brushed here late yesterday, FLM-iS ACROSS IMIEII m i WASlllNCTuN, May IS. Luis Ca brera, finance minister of Csrransa's cabinet, has reached the Culted States after leaving Mexico City secret I v. t 1 -- ' Mil AtiFNT VIMTS. ! J. .Miner, new district freight. land passenirer airent for the t'nion Pacific, is a Pendleton visitor today. Mr Miller, who has been with the ! railroad for : yesrs. was appointed ' .k,. ...u.i.,,,,, Miiv 1 Itelore mini! into rellroadinr Mr. Millar was In newspaper work and worked for a time on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ' WEDNESDAY EVEWIHU, fOAX r- TOWN SURRENDERS; NO SHOT IS FIRED Loyal Troops at Matamoro;. Await in Entrenchments for Expected Attack by Army 21 Miles Away. DOt;OI,A8. May 12. Fighting be tween Carraiizlstas and revolut ionar; forces at Malamoras, on the Texaj border. Is raging, according to ines sages received here today. The out come has not yet been stated. An army under General Flores. whlcl captured Mazatlan, is still there. No advices clearing up confllctinc reports regarding the fate of Carran za has been received. (By I'nftcd Press) NOGAI.KH, May 12. Commanden- of all Mexican gunboats in the Gulf of Mexico wired General Obregon art nouncing allegiance to the new revo lutionary government, according tc reports to revolutionary headquarter here today. General Meztas, commander of th' garrison at Santa Rosalia, Ixwe California, reported to Governor D IA Huerta that all troops in the lowet hiJf of that state are loycl to the new government. (By United press.) WASHINGTON, May 12. Fearful of the disfavor of the United State government, Mexican rebel leaders will take all precautions to safeguard the life of Carranza, it was stated at the revolutionary mission here today Carranza may be escorted to some port and "invited to leave," but It Is not thought he will be brought to trial. Attack Expected (By Associated Press.) miOWNSVILLE, May 12 Troop: loyal to President Carranza, in Mata moros, awaited in entrenchments earl- today for an expected attack by a force of approximately &00 men, reported last night to be 25 miles west of th city. Gorrl-on Town Turns KAGXaH PASS, May j 2. Piedrar Niegras. a Mexican garrison, town op posite here, was surrendered last mid night to the revolutionists. No shot were fired. R. ALEXANDER, THREE SCORE AND TEN YEARS OF AGE ON THURSDAY R. Alexander. 43 years a Pen dletonian. will celebrate his seventieth birthday anniversary tomorrow. It will be his second observance of the occasion, how ever, for on Sunday he was honor guest at a' family reunion and din neY at his home here. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Todd of Her miston, and their two children; Mrs. If. W. Collins and "small daughter, and Koy Alexander, of Pendleton, joined Mr. and Mrs. Alexander at the dinner on Sun day. The celebration had to be held on Sunday, the veteran mer chant said today, because his grand children from Hcrmlston would not reconcile missing a day of school even to help celebrate such an occasion. BIBLE, SAYS SPEAKET Three hand red persons, many o them from nciKhbnrinR towns, attend ed the lecture last evening in Eagle Woodmen hall slven by John Sidney Draithwaltc. M. A., C s. Ii.. of London England, member of The Board o Lectureship of The Mother Church The First Church of Christ Scientist of Itoston, Mass. The lecture was th spring semi-annual number of tht lecture course. Dean K. Tatom Intro duced the speaker. In part Mr. Bralth walte said in his addrcyp: Perhaps the most important thlnr that Christian Science does for th real truth-seeker Is that It gives hln back his Wide. So many peopl haV let their W ides go in exchange for the more speculative and tin Inspire" writings of would-be leaders of thought. They have wandered far Intf theories about health, fcovernment human nature, death and the hereafter.- in many cases only to return by the same door they went' In saying as "Id Omar said: "There was the door to which 1 fount' no key: There was the veil through which 1 might not see.'' Bsiok to the BMh And Just as we may hear nowadays the call of "hack to the land." remind- insT nien of the essentials of existence. (Continued oq page 4) WOIX.D K POSTAL KATKS WA8HINOTOX', May IS. Existing second class mail rates would be ran. tinned until July I, 1J1. under a bill reported avorat.lv todav bv the hnnu postofflce committee iz, imu. - LURE SINS ON WALKER D. HINES TO LEAVE FOR EUROPE ON CONFIDENTIAL MISSION (By Associated Press.) WAKHINOTOX, May . Walker I). Hlnes. who retires ftiturduy it director general of the railroad administration. Is to Icavo soon for Kurope on a con- ridentlal mission for President Wil.son. 2000 ARE TOLD OF TREMENDOUS LEAP OF U. S. IN TRADE Steel Corporation . President Opens National Convention at San Francisco Which Lasts Throughout Week. (By United Press.) SAX FRANCISCO, May 12. It re mained for tho European war to bring Ihe United States swiftly and almost unconsciously to the point of being a real foreign trading nation, James A. Parrell, president of the united States iteel corporation, said in the opening tddress of the national foreign trade -onventlon here today.' He said' that in a period of five years or iess the Jnltes States has achieved an Indus rial and financial position such as Britain needed more than 100 years of carefully fostered and wisely directed levelopment to attain. Farrell, chairman of the national 'orelgn trade council, is presiding ver the great gathering of worlds usinessmcn and bankers here. 2O0O Attend. SAN FRANCISCO, May 1. With :000 or more delegates present from ill over the world, the seventh Nation al foreign trade convention opened tero today. Speakers of national prominence are o talk at four general sessions, dis cussing various subjects dealing with Vmerica's foreign trade problem. In addition there will be thirteen group esslons at which Important phases of tho general foreign trade question will e discussed. The convention closes lay 16. Kminent Men Speak. Elaborate entertainment features ave been arranged for the visitors by . committee of 100 business men. Among the speakers will be James V- Farrell, chairman of the board o Urectors of the United States Steel orporation of New York; Robert H. 'atcbin, export manager for W. R. Mace & Co.. of New York; Or. Henry 'uzzalo. president of the University of Vashington, Seattle, Wash.; Freder ck J, Koster. president of the Koster ompany of San Francisco and chair nan of the Pacific coast committee in harge of the convention; George E. toberts, vice-president of the Nation- .1 City Bank of-New York; William proule. head of the Southern Pacific f railway, and other eminent men. . I SUIT STRIKES SNAG j- ing. for Pendleton Day,, June 4, at the annual Weston Pioneer Picnic. At the WAI-LaA WALLA. May 13. The weekly Rotarian ltiucheon today, the mi r.:. Hult of Oeorge 11. Barber : organ izat Ion decided to arransi for igainst Nesniith Ankeny. son of ex- transportation of local pioneers t-. Senator Levi Ankeny struck a snag In j Weston from Pendleton. jperlor court Monday when Attorney I T. I. Taylor. J. H. Est es and C. P. A. Everett Sirtlth. for Ankeny, asked for j Lonergan were appointed as a com dismissal of tho case on the ground mittee to make arrangements. Kvsry hat Barber's wife had already obtain- Rotarian who owns a machine will d a divorce from him and therefore j take a load of pioneers, and other car barber had no case. Barber Is suing j owners in the city will bo asked to aid inkeny for $25,000 for alleged aliena-j also. ton of his wife's affections. c. H. Marsh, county Judge, gave a Tho jury was excused until this talk on good roads at today's lunch- norning nnd Smiths contentions ar- rued before Judge Miller of Dayton, vho is hearipg the ease. Judge Mll er announced that he would look up authorities deciding the matter. Barber charged that Ankeny made he acquaintance of his wife In 1919 md conspired to "estrange her from tie plaintiff to gratify his evil de rires. this being dqnf, wrongfully, ma iclously and corruptly.' The com plaint charged that Ankeny took Mrs. Barber auto riding, gave her presents and fluttered her and also that he called oa her while the' plaintiff was U work and encouraged her to get a Jlvorco. At -the trial Momlaj Attorney Smith iotight to Introduce in evidence a eorty of the divorce decree granted las week, but this was opopsed by Bar ber. Smith then asked for the non-; suit. Barber ha filed exceptions to the I divorce decree, declaring that he sup-' ported his wife and that he did not' make her life burdensome, as she I charged. U Willi i;- vrillKK FOR TEA. (By 1'ntted Press.l NORTH HUDSON, N. J May 12. j Barbers here struck today for "a half hour for tea" every afternoon. HO. 9534 U S. TO RELY MM ASSURANCE NOT TOLL" SAYS DANELS "Strictly Confidential" Cable gram Sent by President to Rear Admiral Urges Report on Own Judgment Alone. ASSERTS ADMIRALTY HELPLESS IN CRISIS Reply Shows American Officer "Hypnotized by Their Influ ence" Secretary Tells Prob ing Committee. (By United I'ress.) WASHINGTON. May 12. Britain was helpleaa to the point of panic. In the submarine crista, according to President Wilson in a cablegram crlt Izing the British admiralty, emit to Admiral 81ms July 4. ItlT. and rd to the senate naval affair cummltteo by Secretary Daniels today. This co ble, "strictly confidential.'" declared the British admiralty was failmic to use its great naval superiority effec tively and urged 8ims to send a com plete report of what tho admiralty was doing, together with his own rec ommendation "without regard to the judgments of anyone on that side of the water." Daniels said Sims' reply was a "long telegram oftgeneralltUs or what the British admiralty was do ing," and "that his mind was closed" to plans for bottling up tint subma rines. ARSiirra BrilMi Support. Rims also cabled, according rif Dan lels, "Regardless of any developments we can always count upon tho support of the British navy. I have been as sured this by important government officials." This statement. Daniels declared. showed Sims was hypnotised by their Influence." and willing to lure the president to rely on assurances "not worth paying the tolls to transmit" and which a "school boy" would know could not be binding in a democratic form of government. If SloiS could get a signed pledge to this effect It ought to be filed in the archives of "sops for the simple," Daniels toM the committee. IIcjencd Etery Plan. ( By Associated Press. WASHINGTON. May 11". A confi dential telegram from Preadent Wlson to Rear Admral Sims in London, sent during the war, was read to the sen ate naval Investigating committee by Secretary Daniels today. It express ed surprise that the British admiralty had failed to "use Britain's naval su periority" effectively against subma rines and called on Sims for com ments and suggestions based on inde pendent thought and without regard "to the judgments of anyone on that side of the water." Tne admiralty was "nelpless to the point of panic" In the face of the sub marine situation, the message said. 'Every plan we suggest they reject for some reason of prudence." the president added. "In my view this is not a time for prudence but for bold- ness even at the cost of great losses," CITY'S DAY AT PICNIC The Pendleton KotarlaiiH are boost - eon and told of tho progress f rood ork in Umatilla county. In the ab sence of S. It. Thompson. Carl Coolcy at ted as secretary. r The Weal In r Reported by Major Ieo Mi weather observer. Maximum, 72. Minimum, 33. , Barometer. 211.3ft M WEATHER FORECAST Tonight and Thursday fair; light to heavy frost in morning. WeatlUjr m