I BUY AlURKEL OF FLOUIl OIIDEU YOUR BARREL NOWj ORDER PENDLETON FLOUR DAILY EDITION DAILY EDITION Number f Coploi printed of Saturday'! Dully . - 3.419 East Oregontan I Rasters Of fon's greatest newspaper and a a. selling force aires to th advertiser over twice the guaranteed paid atrnu. latio-t In Pendleton end I'maUlls. ooua ty of any ottatr newspaper. I Thli -paper t a tnomimr or una audited - auuii ourvtu or vireuiutiona. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER CITY 0TT1CIAL FAPE2 VOL. 82 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1920. NO. 9698 FLAMES SWEEP HEART OF CORK IN FIERCE HOLOCAUST ' -xmmrK Pi: E BOOSTING DEI-IDS POUR io corns After Being Beseiged For Two Years With Requests to do Something to Cut H. C. of L Pleas Are Quickly Reversed. LEADERS INCLINED TO : AVOID LEGISLATION Flood of Suggestions of Past! Week is Expected to be Doubled But Law Makers Shun Entire Responsibility, WASHINGTON, Dec. I J. (By Hr bert W. Walker, V. P. Stuff Corres pondent) After Hieing besieged fur two yearn with demand tu "do some thing to rrdui'o living costs," con gress today flipls Itself confronted with vn r lou groups demanding legislation which would chock declining prices Federal limns, an B result of which farmers could hold their products for higher prices, embargoes rn wool anil meut products, "tariff walls" so hltth that all foreign products he kept out of the country, and legislation which would prevent American . Iti i. .rt from taking advantage of the exchange Ituation to buy chiefly European marketa ore anions the demands w hlch have been made on ootigi-ess within a week. Indications are that an equal titimher of similar suggestions 'will lion r In thin week. KexHrdlcra of the merit of mine of the measure objection Is apparently growing n congress that since prices !ld not drop a a result of any legis lation, prices cannot he kept up Ij legislation. HORSE SAVES 1000 CHILDREN.' INCEfiDIARY FIRE, iKG Hi 300 PLACES, DEFIES EXHAUSTED FIGHTERS O CITY IS 111 B t ' - : - : TV- f , ! I V r. ', ' . : . . yj V t , ; t, I LEAGUE ADOPTS " TRIBUNAL PLAN I NEWSPAPER WRITERS, THREATENED BY IRISH, I PLAN CIRCULAR STORY Of ELI1 ROOT!! UKRKULEY", Cal. "Alice." a plain aorrel mare, owned Uv MIhm Mar garet Wllliums, hiui savea luou child len s lives In the last few years. Every 25 days two gallons of hlood arc tuke n from the horse and made into dip llieila serum at u laboratory here. The hi'rt is carefully fed and wjiiched at all times. ' MPLETED ON' Hcven blocks of pavInK on the north Itado have been completed by the War ren Construction Co., for the city and today hot stuff is being laid on Perkins avenue between MaVk and Italey streets. Grading of Mark streid. from Hush to Matlock Is virtually completed and will be ived when the Perkins avenue block Is completed. Matlock and Uncoin streets, between Italey and Jackson, are completed and in use. Oarflcld street has been com pleted for the three blncks between Jackson and Mnrtln. The block on Jefferson 'between Wilson and Msrtlil and Logan between Italey jinJ Mark are also completed, the last named having been finished on Sunday. Final estimates on the cost of the various blocks thus far completed are being made today try City I'.nglneer F. H. Hayes for the contractors. These figures are to be used In teaching a 1)ttls of settlement between the War ren Company und sub contractors. UMATILLA SHARE OF IS TO BE QEIViNDEDl STATE TAX FOR LEVY Washington, lv-c. is. a. f. Or. Julio ifmnrht, fitiatt'innhui in ink ier to tli Tnited Kiut. will i UMkcJ the tttute depurtment imnuunced, for ;in oxplaiiutloii vt his call yesterday o Senator Moat's of New Hampsliiro, to diflcuhJi th niMiutor's reHnlution call ins on tho department fir nforinatlon aa to the detention of former Free dom Cabrera by the present Guuto nialnn mit li'-nt u-n. The department wild that tl e inlnlMer'H act is a violu thn of diplomatic uwges. 0F1920!SM33,085 International Program Framed by American With Represen tatives of Other Nations Un- , animously voted in Geneva,. GERMANY REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE SETTLEMENT Award to Belgium of Eupen and Malmedy, Areas Taken Under Treaty, is Protested in Letter Sent to Assembly. GF.XKVA. Dec. 13. (By Henry Wood, V. V. Ktaff Correspondent.) The League of Nations assembly today unanimously adopted a plan for an In ternational tribune drafted by Klihur Hoot of the I'nited States and repre sentatives of other natives. The assembly voted on the question after .the plan had been presented b Leon Hourxeols. French delegate. Al! plans for operation of the tribunal were explained by Bourgeois, after which the delegates debated on the various proposals. It was expiaired that the I'nited States, which played such a prominent part In drafting the Wall, would be admitted to the court on equality with members of the league. ('I'riiiany IteTiiM) Sotl'eiiMiil. GK.VLVA. Dee. is. (Py Henry Wood V. P. Siaff Correspondent.! Germany today presented a new note to the assembly of the League of Na tions refusing to recognize the deci sion of the council of the League of Vutlons regarding the award to Bel thim of Eupen and Jlalmekly. districts Uiken away from Oernjany under the treat of Ve rail I lies." DrtJLIN, Dec. 13. Ninety American. English and Irish njwspaper correspondents here today, declared they have been intimidated by the military and police in their efforts to report i vents In 1 eland, and the cor respondents have decided to put the r charges in a circular letter to be addressed to all govern ment:) as well us press associa tions In America and Europe. The writers charged they are prevented from witnessing many j of the disturbances und that they I are hampered in many ways i : i ... j Damage Estimated Between 15 Million and 20 Million is Result ; j of Simultaneous Blaze and Bombings and Life Toll is Un known While Vast Areas Are Smouldering. w . . ., ; PATROLMAN FALLS IN I COAL HOLE, LANDING ON ! LONG SOUGHT CHARACTER: CLEVELAND. Dec. 13. (C. P.) An accident today accredit-' ed to Patrolman Kennedy the arrest of a burglar. Kennedy fell Into a'' coal hole, landed on and knocked the breath out of "Jig ger" Johnson, well known police character. , LOXDO.V. JX-c. IS. (By Wet Mil. ki V. P. Staff tm-v"i(lciii) l-'l-rt (-4 futltliiw MissT 4.IuMt rc iwitioiSt ISIS, Is raging; In many parts of Ire. land. Attacks on British soldiers Ur. gun while tlie heart of Cork was still r i i i i i v. (iohlliTs aiMl potce, swcortlirur to dlspatt'lwff received, are mora than noiiiroT tiK-tr own. Itarracks Are Auackcd. DCULIN, Dec. 13. illlltary bar racks at Pallinale were attacked by Sinn Felners today. One policeman was killed and three severely wounded WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. (C. P.) William Denman, first chairman of the United States shipping board, to day told the Walsh Investigating com mittee he opposed appointing K. W. Lolling, President Wilson's brother-in-law 'tn n nosition on thi hrnrr1 in 1M7. Boiling Is now treasurer of the in a five hour rl1,L during which one wall of a building was blown In. Pn- WAR ESPIONAGE LAWS bcr of the )re8id,-nt 8 family on the,llce occeeded in holding the struc , iboard might give us embarra;jsment." iture' WASHINGTON Dec 13 (I P , i"mn. nc uLuuieu mai Aiiiei- uunn si t-aiuougn were States cart enact espionage laws, the supreme court today t-ecided. It STATES CAN ENACT j paid Denman. He declared that Amer 'ica will lose her fight for maritime supremacy unless at least a million fiercely attacked last night, and K la reported several were killed. All wires held constitutional the Minnesota!11"' "f mt'rcnant shipping are con- law, enacted to prevent interference . , " , " g"'uu Vllitary forces of the I'nited States. ner r",.'1 . ,he MHa' The law was attacked by Joseph "J"""" 7"" J ' ' " ' v l uiu t. lie tviiu I 'It-rvil t-II- V v rttV. I t'C. 13. are cut so there la no confirmation of the word. A detachment of soldiers, en route to the rescue and fired upon. killing one Sinn , ' .11 , ...t,. A..n ..., a. 1 4. i v.iii. n i . nu n at iuii.ii.lcu uiiu.i i,' . ... ,. l Ull,.wri anl-war sneeeh H.iIM 0Urn One-thirC Of the Oil Of Oth- , continues was fintd $aOU and sentenced to one yeur's Imprisonment. er ship steam engines and permit a 12 per cent Increase in cargo capacity. AUTOMOBILE CLUB, TO ; MEN WHO DROVE OUT S . , I - '..". " ,'uin.i i hi uir I Notice Received Today ShOWS recommended to the council of, A ht t..u,- i,he I'iKue of Nations in a report from ! nwuuut la juui c iusd uuuoiil lij,e niili'ary Sum Paid Last Year, and is Due to Educational Relief. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. ( L". P.) I The federal government cannot prose itute 25 men who "Deported" 231 I. W. rtr i j I W. from Bisbee, Ariz., In July 191 r. WOUia ;,h, .. .1 .. .,..;.i...i T-i, . j . ' . ...I ....... v ... .1.11.... i POIITLAND. Dec. 13. (A. P.) Jack Tevis, switchman, was urrestod last night and held for Investigation in connection with Iho death of his wife, Mrs. Nellie Ti vis, who was found dead under circumstances In dicating she had been choked to death, uccoidlns to the coroner to day. . DOWN HILL, SIX KILLED KANSAS CITr, Mo., Dec. 13. (A. p.) six persons were killed, five In jured seriously and u number of oth ers less seriously hurt here early last r.lght when a motormun lost control ... klu ImM.i- nu. an.) It run tvllil down a steep grade and turned over. The accident oceured at Twenty i Seventh street and grand avenue. where there Is a sharp turn at tin-1 fctreet Intersection. The seventh death as n result of thO' wreck .oceured when Elmer Cramer j of Wclda, Kansas, died al a hospital, i Cramer,. according to tho police, is the' only one of the dead to be Identified. Ills neck wus broken. Wil l. CONSl I T ON CABLES WASHINGTON, Iee. 13. (IT. P.I Foreign delegates may leturn home to consult their governments before con tinuing Communications in the confer ence which has been vainly trying to agree on disposition of former German cables seised during the war, it is learned In official uliaiiers today. Temporary adjournment would -not mean breaking up of the conference it was state,!. . I'mnlil'a county's share of the stale jtax on the l!20 levy Is $433,085, wc j cording to notice received by county jofriclals today from tho state tax I commissioner. This is more than ! double the amount paid last year, '.when the tax was placed at " $19(1,- 717.30. j The big Increase In the state tax 'is due in chief to the several educa tional relief measure's voted by the people at the -primary election in May. The Increase In state taxes, however, does not mean that the tax In the county paid by the various districts will be proportionately as great. . . In Pendkljon the tax levy will be 4 2.(1 mills, according to figures given out today by assessor tV P.- Strain. This Includes an 11-nilll city ;ax levy. lf-lnlll levy by school district No. Hi and n county levy of 1 is. I! mills.- l.rtsi year the total levy In Pendleton, Was 41.2 mills. On a higher valuation, the levy In J'endleton will raise $2S1.!I31. Mr. Stralji said, ljist year the city raised a total in taxes of $21)9,1 Sti. commission. I'nited States Senator Medill Mc Ciuick watched woceedings of the as embly today from the press gallery. - V. S. Soiiuuir al ;-iiovti. GENEVA, Dec. 13. (A. P. I Mill-f tary control of Danzig by Poland h i PrOPOSed Organization Have Membership in Amer- J action affirms the judgment of the . . ,. . , . I .ni izoiia uisu ici coun inai leuerai sia- ican Association But be FreejlUftJ are Kot aJp,,rabie to those who Of Outside Local Control. Crove out the I. W. W. from Bisbee i to New Mexico in such a sensational -nay that It attracted the attention of Organization of an automobile club jlIhe entre country. .hat will have membership In the Am- j ,. erican Automobile Association, or tne Three A" but be Independent of ou.- ' side, local control Is to be discussed and probably effected at a meeting of ! the local Tri State Auto Club on Wed nesday evening, Dec 13. In tne rooms of the Pendleton Commercial Association. HOLLWI). .11 GO-S,.Vl. LIll.AK THE HAGI'l:. Dec. 13. (A. P.l Holland and Jugo-Slavia have broker ' .. o.ocnatic relations, WHEAT STARTS WEEK WITH BOUND TO $1.68 3:4 TODAY ATFER OPENING UP AT $1.63 Between $55(K) and $iH'0 will be ("riiutUla county's total for the Fourth lied 1'rosM U oil ("all, (". K. Cranston, county chairman, today predicted. Iteturns . from all but fuur communi ties have now come in, showing a to tal to date of $5099.1 ii. Milton, Wes ton. I'hiapine arid Kerndule, all good sized districts, are yet to be, heard frum. Adams fell $ short of Its quota of $240, according to tlie complete re port Inought In to the .secrejary late Saturdny. The ne gliboring commu nity collected $11 wliirh was turned over by L. L. I.ictialleii, local chair man. . l-"reewater this morning sent in a report that $2(11 had been raised in the appeal there. Whether this is a final and complete report was not In dicated, Mr. (Yanston (aid. Erecwa- f. P.) Cork today to burn. Spread over a quarter of a mile of the main business section of the city. Incendiary fires, started Saturday night swali.vv ed up more property last nigrL Eslt J mated lot sen reush JSO.iOO.OOI. Tifty ibuiidings have been burned, ::'Uiii. jtlc city hall. At least JiiiMO po. -s mm tare out of work. . I Dis-igreement exists as to whether or not the fire was sUirted b- Mrttlth po lice In reprisal for am:tph Dy !'.:h Sinn Eelners. It Is helievd. there must have been casualties in the con flagration but the smoking r'mn hu.' pertiUI'ed tio search for bohsi. Police Are Blanv-ft. Sinn Fiin Naders charg'd h ;et struct-, r. to the black and tan pol ie. At tl'i-iv Satuiday, two lomes of sol diers, i nterii: this territo , fe"" forceinent of inartial law, x.mt- !ed a; l illons :iearby. Tw-j aouM latei- disturhences began on .li2 j refUs.' Simult neoiiKlc flumes brof: fit lit a numie. r of bc'ldlngs Citizens' are in panic. Thousand fled Saturday night and those who re mained are sleepless. Thousands more took bedding and valuables with them to the country today. Uefn;.-e-3 cities sprang up In surroundbur d'sr riots. Fir fighters arrived from Dub. lin and Limerick to relieve the wnir ied Cork brigade In their attempt 0 conquer the last smouldering fbins.-.f. Since the Pendleton branch of the Tri State Auto Club was placed here a year ago, the officers and directors have worked In conjunction with Wal la Walla, Lewiston and other towns of the three Inland Empire states. Head quarters of the club have been In Walla Walla, with separate director ates in the other' cities. Cork Heuomes Quieter. LONDpNDec., lJj-f A. P.) -Brit- , ish regular troops" grde J'!oW"'Bit! twisted and blackened ruins left In i WASHINGTON. Dec. 13. (C. P.) I Continuation of the present maxi- mum tax rates on big incomes will j "break the back" of the treasury de partment. Professor Thomas Adams. 1 tax expert of the department, today the path of fires which Saturday told the house ways and means com-night and Sunday swept virtually un- mittee. He said that the present max- checked through the city of Cork, jimum, tax of 73 percent, 65 percent j reland. Charges are made that po i surtax and 8 percent normal tax. on , it,.,, auxiliaries, maddened by the kill- The feeling, has d veloped here that j '"'Be Incomes' is Impracticable in.jng and wounding of comrades m Pendlcton ia'sufficictly, important as j times of peace and cannot be success- bushed by Sinn Feiners Saturday, a highway automobile center to be the j full" enforced. ( j loosed the fire demon on the city. headquarters of Its own automobile i j Estimates place the loss as high as club. No disssatlsfuetion has aren Pfin TIIDlrv TOinc i$15.00(l,tui0. St. Patrick's street, the with the uresent arrancemeiit but bo-: POOL FOR TUKKhT IKAUC shopping center, and city hall and. lief lias grown that greater effective- j ness and concentration on projects df , rectly affecting Pendleton Vmalillu ! county and J.tregon will be possible. j Carnegie library, on the bank of the IS HELD GREAT SAVING ,''iv?r "rned. The corn ex change Is partly destroyed. Dispatches say Cork U quiet. Or ders have been given soldiers to shoot lei was asked to raise JSlMt. .! Expansion of the local club to In-; ItOSEEt liG. Dee. 13. County ; looters on sight. , . 1'nofflc'al reports from Milton have j elude all the motorists of I'matilla 'Agent Haslet today announced a move-1 Heart of City lH-Mmved. been that sihuut $.MUi has been "raised county Is one Idea suggested. All per-' ment has been launched for forming i The central Dortion of the city of there. Weston. Cmupine and Fern-1 sons wlio hold membership at present another pool to control the price of (Vork had been burned to the ground dale are expected to add enough to j have been sent letters urging their at-i turkeys for holiday trade. He said'i,v last nieiit. ' .well the total to nearly $(HHMI. This 'figure would give Vmatllla county 75 percent of the amount asked for the ear. PLANT FATAL TO FIVE I Dec. March DOVER. X. l-c- 13. (A. 1' ) ! Five persons are reported killed and ',l'c several Injured In nn explosion in the tic u...,iai (Vttttiiniiv nlsnl at Luke July AlilLn ir.uci v . , llopatcong today. , !,,,, Wheat started tho week with an ap preciable Increase In price today, De cember wheat closing at $1.68 3-4 after opening at $1.(13. .March he.it opened at $1.58 1-2 and closed at SI. 62. December wheat cluscd at $1.65 Saturday while March dosed at fl.oi 1-4. Followiiur n'e the (-notations from Overbeck & Cooke, local brokers: Wheat. Open.1 High. Low. Close l.SS 1. Villi 1.63 l.tn-Ji 1.5SV4 1.H3 1.06 Vi 1.63 Corn. .70S .6Sli .72 .71 .73 'a .72 Oats. .47 .46 .fid's .4Ts .4!l'. .4S-S, l!v. 1.54 'i 1. 1.42 1. (From Overbeck Cooke Co.) (Wheat The early decline' met buy. Ing orders In sufficient volume, to ab sorb the surplus offerings und fifteen minutes after the opening rebounded to the high point of the day. BILL WOULD PROHiBIT tend mce at the meeting which w ill be held at 7:30. V ednesday the Tl anksglving pool saved growers : The conflagration followed an um- over $3000. .- ' . bush of the military at Plllomt Cross ' i Saturday night In which four per- sons were killed and many wounded, j Three clvil'ans were taken from Itheir houses and shot dead after the y ambush of tho military. Then the : fires started. There were bomb ex j plosions and Hiring also' was heard. The populace was panic stricken. A dispatch from Cork said that the fire SCOTCH HIGHLANDERS ENTER CORK AND ENGAGE IN FIERCE nimmtnrv r- rrnr r-t twt nrnrvnnrpn fl I t .Hr.lJ A I I l.r. V 1 Hf.f. I -M (A. .) WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.- A fair: An embargo lor one year export demand was reported but sales -the importation of wheat, wheat flour. LONDON. Dec. 13. (C. .71 .46 .19 .4 HI .70 li .72 V4 .7514 .46 .50 .49 ',j 19 r t 71 1.51 1.42 1 .66 ,71 up to the close were placed at only 500,000. . The increase of C.2S2.OO0 oosneis in tne visible supply whs larger than expected. Cash prices .were 2 to 3c higher with the futures. It was very apparent today that the market was receiving support insplr led by the persistent export demand imd Ignoring the adverse financial -sit -!uutlon as reflected m iho New York .security market. We believe cognl izance should be taken of this condi Jtlon which, in our opinion, presages J lower commodity prices. Foreign it xcliango. 1. 1, irion. S46. Ptrls, .06SS4. Berlin, .0135. Vienna, .0033. Hi.gH HiglH-r Today. POKTLAND. Dec. 13. (A. P.) I llogs are higher at $11. 50m $12. Sheep are weak and cattle and eggs steady. Butter Is two rents lower with extra .LUvCe it CO . ie-.li. . barley, rye. oats, wool, hogs, cattle and sheep was proposed In a bill in troduced today by Heprcsciitutive Voting, republican, of North Dakota. He also introduced a bill establishing a permanent schedule of import duties upon these items after the one year embargo. WASHINGTON. Dec. 13 (A President Wilson today nppculcd to the American people to contrlhute funds for the relief of 3.500.000 chil-d'-en of'Oentral Europe who arc dc- P.) A who ventured ugainst pHohed battle between Sinn Feiners were raptured ;anu N'ouisn rtignianuers occurrea io- ournea aoring day near Cleiine after the Irish had ;ambished the tniops. the Irish office today announced. One Sinn Feiner jWus killed und several were seriously ouuded. I A cumber of 'prisoners were taken by (he Highlanders. Th? Highlanders, rushing toward (Cork, drove through the ancient town in daylight. There was no sign of op position, und only faint interest in the juppearunce of Scottish fighters in their j uniforms, strange to this section of I Ireland. Suddenly a bomb was tosst'd 'from a house. More bombs followed from surrounding houses and the Scots began fighting back. The Irish j supplemented the bomb attack 'with revolver fire from the houses. Otnj sohLor was wounded but the others isc-aned injury. r The rifle fire of the Scots was ac curate. One Irishman, rising to toss a bomb at a bo-rv was shot dead. Sev- into closer quarters Two houses were "the engagement. The Irish office didmt. say the fires were C.-.J uio.e wcie wouuUtJ. At'.ce4' bomb started in 4-eprusal but admitted dam age. "Cloyne ,15 miles from Cork Is filled with refugees from Cork. The region has tceH a, center for Sinn Fein activities. The announcement did not state how many- Sinn Feiners opposed the ; troops, but 1-lHserlbed them as "a large i fcodv.." It ji-as ev'dortt tha an at tempt wamade !o repeat he massa cre -f two weeks a-n which followed the bombing of two h.rry lunds of "Black and Tan" -Mulct,-, when 15 were killed. Dispatches said the at tack occurred in a narrow street. wnere the attackers were able to throw grenades from their posts in windows. Dmor to door fighting re-, salted, the Highlanders f nng into houses in which Sinn Feiners were concealed. The narrow street re sounded with the rattle of rifles, re- voier (lit and tho d.toiiations of (Continued on page 6.) Weaifier Reported by Major 1-ee Moorhuuse. official weather observer. Maximum, 02. Minimum, S. Barometer, 29.75. Toiugbt and Tuesday fair. ,