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a -V f 'i f r T ?' T"- 1 , t t m f r f ff 1 1 f i T T 1 1 , ( joi ORDER PENDLETON FLOUIi BUY A BARREL OF FLOUR ORDER YOUR BARREL NOW DAILY EDITION DAILY EDITION V? East Oronln I Etr Ore gon's greatest newspaper anl ee ft a.illng force (Ires to the lrti over twice' the guaranteed 914 etree- Number of opiMrint4 of ytitardar't This paper i memiier of aid audited by the Audit Bureau of Ciroulatlona. tloi In Pendleton and I matilla coua- ty of any ottoar newspaper. " i.it COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER DAILY EAST OEEGONIAN, PENDLETON, OEEGON. THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBEE 16, 1920. NU. 8701 VOL. 82 -r-JZ'7- rTO ' 'Fv- 11 ""I I." .. ,--"Lr Jbs r r"W v5- m '1 at....,. . JT III I B mm. 'Tl -W kj ....... L-I . . CITY0FF1CIALPAPO CALLING HEW PEACE Cflfflll? 10 MEET 111 HIED M BEING COHIEl sf HARDING Rigid Economy in Appropriations Urged as Path to Billion Dollar Reduction in Estimate suomiuea oy oecreiary ui i reasury, and Government Revenue Figure is Attacked. . BACHELORS STILL GOOD CUSTOMERS BUT FAMILY WASHING IS DWINDLING MARION, Deo. 1. (lly Kaymond Clapper, U. P. Staff Correspondent) Calling of a new peace conference to meet In the United StateH to revise the league of nations covenant or orga nise a new aseoclatlon of nutlons Ik one of the project considered U President-elect Hastllng. The president-elect ha not made hi final do rlalon on the proposal, hot ho Ik it ii -derstood to lie seriously consldcrlng It. Buch a conference, IIuiiIIiikh ad visors Buy, could fither reMtump the existing league framework or create an entirely new structure. Intlmallona from noma of Harding's Viaitora are that the prosldent-elect Ik leaning toward an entirely nt.w pro gram of International relations. Many of hi advlnor are convinced that Die Versatile treaty miiKt tin rewritten, holding that many of tlx provision, mich a those relating to repatriations boundaries, the Kuhr basin and Kilc ala ara not workable. In thl re drafting, the league of nation cove nant could be omitted, they nay. per mitting the work of organizing a world ainoclation of nation to he car. rled out Independent of the treaty settlement. While leaving to Rurope the work of redrafting the treaty, the United State could properly assume the leadership In formulating a new scheme of International relation. It wa explained. SAYS TIRED BUSINESS ' MAN WOULD PREFER MELODY TO MEALS DFNVEI1, Dec. 1.(U. P.) The tired husness man would la ther hear friend wife play Beet hoven's Moonlight Sonata on the piano or vlulln than all down to a well-cooked d. finer, according In William Whit", MiiperviHor of mimic in the 'Denver school. "Knownlng how to play the pl uno or violin I more I nan cook. In it bean or trimming a hut," White told member of the mo ther' Congress here yesterday. Bachelors cither do rot or can-, not feel the pinch of curtailed fl- nances ao fur a their laundry 1 concerned, but mllndy of the hoUKehold is keeping a weather eye on the family wash that goejs out. local laundrjmen say. H.Ik ahlrt, collars, aox und linen from the men unencumbered come along In the same i na rult IV h a of old, but not so from the home of the man of wife and children. Whether economy or other motive are responsible are mat- j ter of sarylng opinion. Milady 1 not skinning her knuckle ( these day dexpile the fact that the odor of soapaudH Ih aifa'n a 1 Mcnday morning familiarity. The Kulo of KimhiiiK mnchlne ! and Hinillitr labor-Having laundry 4 equipment ha recently had an Impetus and 1 believed in n measure rexpomdblp. , Home welichl i given lo Hie belief Hint thrift i behind the change und that folk are gelling back into Ihe habit of the good old days with a vim In many of their household activities. STOCKYARDS TO BE REMOVED IN DAIITII tr AITlf tn,'ir adaptation to autom VI II I I II III I V 1 Arrow heads, a per.ect in lllfllllf III lilll and balance a those ued WW I II fl VII I forefather In warfare ai ARROW HEAD MAKING NOT LOST ART WITH UMATILLA INDIANS OFFENSIVE FOR PEACE Wool men from all over the state will gather In Pendleton tomorrow for the twenly-tliirtt tnmnu rnnven tlon of the Oregon Woolgrower As sociation. The session will' be held In the auditorium of the; county li brary and will begin at 10 a. m. to. morrow, continuing for two days. All meetings are open lo the public. A new name was added to the pro gram today when J. K. Jardlne. di rector of Oregon experiment stations, announce!) that he would be here for the convention, tie will speak to morrow, . Other speakers during the conven l tlon will be Frederick W. Green wood, of Portland, manager of the Federal Reserve Hank; K. K. .Mar shall, secretary of the National Wool growers Association; Mayor-elert George Hartman; W. P. Harrett. of lleppner; Senator-elect Itobert N. Btanfteld; Jay H. Dobbin, of Knter prise. president of the state associa tion; Mac Hoke, of Pendleton, secre tary, who will give his report; Itobert Wlthycombe, superintendent of the xoerlment station at Vnlon; Stanley Jewett. nredatory animal Inspector for Oregon and Washington; Pr. W. H. Lytle, state veterinarian; K. N. Kavanaugh, assistant slate forester; Paul V. Marls, O. A. extension di rector and E. F. Henson, N. P. rail road official. For the entertainment of .the visit aril, a wool growers banquet will be k.M tomorrow evening in the Klks ninh. followed by a Commercial As- -,.(.,tinn smoker to which all mem bers of the aaiMiciation have been ask-1 d to come. FKKKCii MiNisrrrn lt.lIC.VS I PAH1H, Dec. 16. (A. P.) Andre Jiefevre, war minister, reslgne,! today because of hi opposition to the new military service bill. BRITAIN' CKNHOIW CABI.K8. WASHINGTON. Dec. 1. Americnn cable messages leaving Oreat mitnln are being censored, presumably t.i throw light on Irish conditions or bol- shevlm, Newcomb Carleton, president of the Western Union, today told the special senate committee Investikiitlng cable. XTRA WASinXGTOX, Dec, 16. (A. f,)Tiie scvcrant eartliqnnko In tw-o years was recorded at the Georgetown splwiiograpli today. Seattle Instrument. Put Out. SKATT1-H. Isw. 18. (A. P.) All earthquake so severe that It temporarily put two Instruments out of commlsHou. was recorded mm the I nlvcrsty of Washington seismognilHi tmtay. Tlio mavlmniii IntenMliy was at A suit of clothes worn by Earl Allen was identified this morning by George Ferguson, manager of the men's cloth ing department of The Peoples Ware house, as among the articles atolen from that store hen robbed last Sep tember by Allen, H. M. McGee and a third man not yet In custody. Allen had failed to remove from the clothing the label designating its brand. Allen was brought here Inst evening In charge of Chief 6f Police Al Iloberts who was en route home from Portland. Allen was arrested there Tuesday aft ernoon by Chief Special Agent K. II. Wood, of the O. W. It. A X. Co., and A. W. Hendricks, a special agent. He was about to leave for Seattle on hi run as a flunky in the t). . lining tar service. . The sheriffs office hero ha becsf at work on his case for severnl weeks and Itarned that he was In the dining car service about two weeks ago. He pass ed through Pendleton on Sunday but kept out of sight and was not arrested. He would have been picked up at Seat tle had be got out of Portland safely, It la believed here, for Seattle police were notified to arrest him If possible. Allen Is a local colored youth who has had a long record of crime. He served In the penitentiary at Salem irom January to June for complicity in a restaurant holdup. He is charged with having taken part In the robbery of the Warehouse store and in the holdup of the Miles' colored men's re- sort. He Is being kept In the city Jal! until taken before the grand Jury be cause of the fact that his pals are in the county jail and officials want them to have their own stories to tell. KTOt 'KM !;'.' OPF.N MK-AT MAKKV7T SIOLX CITY, la., Dec. Is. l I' ) Claiming there Is no wide margin between wholesale and retail prices on dressed meats, stockmen at Sioux City yards announced their intention of opening a meat market, financed on the stock subscription plan, to sell meat at 10 percent above whole sale price. i : ! Cause of Many Complaints From Thompson Street Vici-, I nity Soon to be Memory Ac-r cording to 0-W. R.&N. Plan NEW SET OF PENS ARE I Railroad Terminal Improve-It ment Will Also be Sunnle-i ' ' i . NEARLY READY AT RIETHl mented by New Bridge Across Umatilla on Branch. Pendleton's "stockyards," which have for years been the cause of fre quent complaint from residents of Thompson street and vicinity, are soon to be a memory, according to persons in close touch with O. W. It. & X. Co., plans. A now set of stock pens, .which will be Completed and ready for uscj within 10 days, has been erected at lilelh and will supplant Pendleton's j facilities. -. With the placing of terminal facili ties at ftletli Ihe local pens have been little used of late. Ilieth I the Junc tion point for the Pilot Rook branch, from whence a large stock business originates. Trains must be made over when en route from east of here to eS tO Send Deputy tO Lloyd- ' Portland and stock hereafter will be turned out oi meir cars ror loon ami water at Rieth. Arrow head making Is not a lost art among the Indians of the present generation despite tomoblle, hape by his re be ing fashioned for the curio mar ket by Jim Billy, a Columbia river Indian, who reside on the Hilly Parnhart ranch on the reservation. Three samples of Billy' work have been ent by him to Malor Lee Moorhouse, former Indian aent, collector of curio. The major declared the work to be of hlnh order. It is done in the primitive manner. Two deer bones are uped In chipping the rock and glass sub stances which are used. Some of the arrow heads are- made from obsidian or volcanic glass, which is found In the John Day cosntry. A large brown arrow head he sent hi friend was chip- ped from a beer bottle. Obsidian is almost black and 1 declared to be far harder than flint. HELL SWINGS PROSPECTIVE ME ON ARMY, NAVY M SUM CIVIL EXPEfiSES, CUTTING TAXES Entirely New Program of International Relations, and Redraft of Versailles Treaty, Omitting League Covenant and Then Creating New Association is Tentative Project. -a E PARIS. Dec. 18. (C. P.) Amer ican citizens at Smyrna have leen "molested" following the declaration of a state of siege by Greek troops, j the French foreign office declured to- WARHI.VfJTO.V, Dec. IS. (A. P.) Urging rigid economy In appropria tions during the next fiscal, year to lighten tax burdens, Representative Mondell, republican leader, today de clared In the house that the total esti mate of H,5J. 800,009 submitted by the secretary of the treasury, should le reduced by approximately 11,406. 000,000, chiefly br scaling down esti mates for the army, navy and sundry civil expenses. Long Morning Session Arrang- INGHOSE George to End War, Last of Which Brings Priest's Death. New Riidgn for lira mil x I new bridge for the Pilot Rock -LONDON. Dec. 16. (By Webb Mil-(branch crowing of the Umatilla river ler, U. P. Staff Correspondent.) Hope of Irish peace revised slightly today. With violence subsided, moderates are In hope of beginning negotiation be fore the extremists break forth again. There were some minor outbreaks to o'ay Including the shooting of Canon Magner, parish priest at Dunmanway. A policeman was said to have shot him down. The officer reported under ar rest, faring Immediate court martial. British labor today began an offen- at Rieth is goon to replace that nenv in olace. -The old bridge has served since the branch w-as built but will make way for a heavier structure. The new I ridge will be erected beside the pres ent structure and then moved Into place to supplant the old. Traffic over the present bridge is confined to the light trains of the Pilot Rock branch and freight cars "which arf switcher .there on strountof lack of yard space. Council Advocates Saving in Obtaining Spruce Corpora tion Stock and Also Backs Up Protest on Phone Rate Eise. slve, for peace In , Ireland. After a The new depot which i being built long forenoon session, an executive commission representing the labor party arranged to send a -deputy lo Lloyd-GeUnrge In the Interests o' peace. The commission heard the re port of Arthur Henderson and other labor men who recently Investigated nnditions in Ireland. IS VERDICT OF JURY Kl.AMATH KAl.l.S. Dec. -Id. (A P.) Gilbert T. lngersoll was convict ed last night of murder in the first degree for the alleged slaying of Hen ry Rtoebsler. at a dnlrv, last Julv. In the renter of the Hioth yards is nearly completed. It will stand a half mile east of the present station. En gines for passenger trains Tvil! be changed there. .Dispatching officer will also te Included in this bnilding which supplants the old box car sta tion now in use. Work Pcmii Poshed More men than have been employed at any previous time on the yard ex tensions are now on the Job at Rieth. Work is being pushed that the con tract may be compleied by January 1. trills r.ro being made from bluffs cut away on the cast extension of the yards and rails are being laid as rapid ly as the fills permit. In the west end of the yard the diagonals for the side tracks have been laid and connected up. The old ap proaches to The side tracks have been fCnntiniied on par a Bargain hunting was indulged In by the city council last evening when a resolution was passed authorizing the city recorder to advertise for bids for S00 to 1000 feet of fire hose. The hose Is stock that the spruce corpora tion purchased during the war and did not use. It being available. It is under stood, at about 50 cents a foot. New hose costs about J1.30 a foot. The city backed up Its protest of the proposed increase in telephone rates by the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co., with a resolution to send Clly At torney James A. Fee to the Public Service Commission hearing on Dec. 21. The city will send him as Its spokesman against the proposed rise. Bids for a sewer cleaning machine, an apparatus which the city does not enjoy, were ordered advertised for. This was requested by the sewer com mittee. Crosswalks Taken Xp. Bids were opened on the construc tion of crosswalks at 14 street inter sections, Frank Duprat presenting the only bid. His figure was 40 cents a square foot. Bids for lumber for the flooring of the Ie street bridge were also opened, B. L. Burroughs present ing tha only proposal, 3g per 1000 for ,x0fl feet. Plans and specifications for the pav ing of Grange street from . Lewis to Court street were presented hy the city fCnntiniied on page 5. HOW TO MAKE CHRISTMAS CHEER. Illp Federal game authorities refuse to consider the suggestion of Fasten) Oregon sportsmen that the open season for shooting migratory birds be chang ed, A. E. Herghduff, state game war den, notified local nimrods In a letter received today by Sol Banm. Senti ment here has heen sounded nnd. found In favor of the season chosen by the state, with the opening date October 1 and the closing date January IS. i The federal open season is from Sep tember 16 to December 81 and Is said to be fixed uniformly as the result of a treaty with Canada. A change In this season allowed Oregon would re sult In similar requests from other states, the federal game men told Mr. Herghduff, and ultimately In confu sion. The federal dates open the season too early for this section, tne iwin men pointed out In a request to the stnte warden for his cooperation In presenting the matter to the govern ment. ' When shooting begins to get best the federal law closes the season. This year the state withdrew all juris diction over migratory bird shooting and nllowed the government full sway; The proposal to make of the Her- mlston diversion dam a reserve was !also taken up by the state game war dnn hut n manv factors must first be (considered that It Is difficult, he said !lo tell whether such a proposition will be feasible. The local sportsmen wantj I the reservoir to be declared a reserve n which the birds, may rest without danger of being killed. Umatilla county sportsmen took a stand against extending the open sea son for deer to November JO, as In Union county and they wer compli mented for this by the warden. AttR?S yooft tACHAS PtMHOf MAik. AR.y AND MAKt JOV WR. THfc tAAlLMAN- LtVS MAW-C IT tA-sy f or wwtu Avrs ASK HH NCr TO SPtiHb "COO MUCH OH O0 CHRISTMAS. JVs SHOP ARM AHt MAK.2- Twe sales ouks -HAppy A PARty CHRISTMAS VB MOTHER MEtS OS AT W Bib PRtWRrtKX fott Tilt CMRivmAi X3 . V c mm i i jit THAT eRWlH Would Out .Afpproprlattoiui. day-. Official dispatches gave no de- rt pff CoPond- nt) Taxes can be reduced yiurtna; The Americans In Smyrna are be- )" " "l 1921 -eU,'MfV lieved to be Red Cross and other -"n"?Bt "J"! "f , "'P"b,,can lief workers who entered the region Mond" W told the houe- with allied troop and have remained ! "e aocated reducing appropriation during the Greek occupation.. ,fro"? the fonr and neJf b,11,,n k"1 ' (by the government departments to ! three and a quarter billions, and op : posed the claim of Secretary of the jTreasury Houston that the government 'revenues must be kept to four billions lannually for at least two years. He also1 opposed attempts to reduce the war debt heavily during the next two years, asserting that the nation has already paid 44 per cent of It war bill if the war loans to the alftes are net considered. Victory notes totaling about four and . a half billions maturing on Way 10. 1923, cannot be paid without reducing; . taves and should be refunded into long term obligations, Monell said, adding that even with taxes reduced It will be possible. through strict economy to SENATE PASSES BiLL 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. (IT. P.) The senate today passed the Poindex ter bill, making strike interfering with interstate commerce a crime. The bill, which was passed without debate, makes it illegal to foment Strikes or prevent workers In interstate com merce from continuing in their em olovment. It nrovldes a maximum fine of 115,000 or 10 years Imprison- suDsiantiaiiy reduce the floating debt, ment for violations. aa represented by treasury certificates It is also provided in the bill that it and war savings stamps. be a crime for directors or managers - of railroads to enter Into combination with the Intent to hinder or prevent operations of trains to bring pressure for settlement n .uri a lie ur six inuniiiH im- . prisonment ...B mm i,nm is prooaoie. A It is believed the bill will encounter jI,"'!"! hf be" "ed difficulties when it comes up in the .it " , " ',nro''riatim; house bills, which, Monde!! said, is essential in any mi reauction. Tne largest re ductions will be made in the army, na jvy and sundry civil appropriation bills. -."People are tired of the enormous j federal expenditures." Mondell said. "They are weary of tax burdens. They jexpect relief and they are looking) to Ithis congress. We shall not disap point them. If we can and shall effect the economies I have suggested' we may substantially lighten the tax bur dens of the calendar year 121. If we BMf Reductions Agreed To. Mondell Is understood to have out Jline the general views of the renubll- of a labor d sira te This ' " lede and a stron effort frar N GETS CORVALLIS, Dec. It. ( A. P.) I Mrs. Ines Peters, who Pleaded iruiltv Monday to a charge of manslaughter ido not then th , i , shooting Frank Zeitx. of Toledo. Us a more or less nnilf.i.irv .hi vie. waa jesa-muy seniencea to live i inn. anrl mHliutBtani t years in prison. bur- i dens." Mondell said he concurred with Sec retarv Houston that ptma t.rid """i"'.'. 'c., uec. in. u . i.i and the mor HANK PRIXIDF.XT FOUND DEAD. James Addison, 35, president of the Nocona National Rank, was found in a cotton gin at Nocona yesterday with a bullet in his head. He had re turned an hour before from a trip to Dallas. The Nocona national bank was closed Monday by directors due to alleged failure on the part of bor rowers to pay their loans. ore obnoxious consumption taxes should be repealed and that sur taxes on hg inaMes"shonidr be- re duced. - i - t BFJ.GIt.VDE CAPTTAIi OUT. BELGRADE. Dec IS. (A. . The cabinet headed by Dr. Milenko K. Vesnitch, resigned today. WHEAT TAKES TUMBLE AGAIN TODAY, IVIARKET OPENING AT $1.66 AND CLOSING AT $1.64 1-2 Wheat fell In price again today. " The continent also bouirht fre.lv December wheat closing at 11.64 1-2 i the close, however, was t-S after opening at 1.6S. while March ; lower than yesterday. Proomhull in wheat closed at $1.58 1-2 after openi j a special Argentine report says: "The ing at $1.5. May wheat closed at j yield of the new wheat cron Is turn. Jl.52 3-8 after opening at $1.54. Fol-1 ing out better than exoect.d .nd I. lowing are the quotations from Over-1 above the average. Farmers are .turf ing to press sales, being anxious to realize a portion of the crop. Argen tine customs permitting the exporta tion of new wheat free of the .super tax. We do not wish to go on record us saying that export sales are not as large as .reported, but we do believe they are somewhat exaggerated and that this news Is given too much prominence In the face of more vital bearish factors." beck & Cooke, local brokers: I Chicago Grain Market, Wheat ! Open High Low Closf I Dec. JI.KU Sl.tiStj $1.63 $l.S4Vj JMar. 1.59 l.2U 1.R6 1.58 May ,1.54 l.f', 1.50 14 1.52 Corn Deo. .IISH .69 4 .117 .07 May .B9Vi .70 ",4 .!!" .S July' .70 .7 1 4 .f.STi .69 Oat.s Dec. .35 .4 .44- .45 May .47 .4S .4 6 Ti, .4 7 July .47 .47?, tiii .46 Kye Dec. 1.55 '.4 1.52 1.52 14 May 1.41 1.36H 1.37H Barley Dec. - -.69 .66 .69 May .71 .7 fc .70 I Weaifier Reported by Mayor Lee Moorhouse, Foreign 1 '.xiiiange. 1 London, S.61 H. ! Paris. .0593. . j Heiiln, 13it. ! Vienna, .0029. . : Home, .osr.m. N. V. call money, 6 percent. (From Overbeck & Cooks Co.) . Wheat Opening prices were a shade hlghor. but the market met op position at the advance, selling off to a new low. liuving orders were in evidence on !he decline on reports that the Kng lish commission bad taken everything offered overnight and that sales were placed at over 2,ooii,0ou, a good part to the gulf Italy and Spam. Maximum, 34. Minimum. 2. Uaronieter. 29.72. FORECAST Tonight and Friday fain or Snow, - S..a-VmSiXljt r. ft Bji t..4j