rVt ' '4 J'k"r j y -fr i I f M 1 3 ORDER YOUR BARREL NOW ORDER PENDLETON FLOUR L DAILY EDITION DAILY EDITION Number of Copien printed of Saturday1 Eaet Orefontan l Kastera Or ffon'a greateat newspaper and a a aelllng force to tha adrtl over twice the uarnt-d paid alrou latlon In Pendleton and Umatilla eoua ty of anr other aewapapar. 3,411 Thli paper t mmtir or una audited 0 the Audit iiuraau of Circulation. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OITICIAL PAPEU BUY A BARREL OF FLOUR i LZ , ,, i i r r- VOL. 83 DAILY EAST OEEGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1920. NO. 9704 MEETING VILL BE HELn "SSSitLA SOON TO DISCUSS POWER kvtlOPINT AT UMATILLA RAPIDS ASSOCIATION OF Prominent West End Men Sup port Contention That Colum bia Should be Harnessed and Used to Reclaim Lands. COULD PROVIDE ELECTRIC POWER FOR MANY USES Former Surveys by Government Indicate Plan is Practical; Would Save Costly Construc tion Work on Canals. Support of the pronomil that power b developed at Umatilla Hudlp on the Columbia, three mile uliove the town of Umatilla for tho pnr poae of pumping- water for-irrigation ami for other purposes haa struck home. Ixttera commending the move have been received from Ham Hoard man, founder of the town of Hoard man and a prominent worker for the John Day project, and from Itepresen tatlve Prank Hloait at fwnnfleld. Mr. Boardman atated by long dlHtnnre phone thl morning that a meeting will shortly be held at Umatilla for the purpoaa of discussing the subject. Mr. Sloan't letter la a follow: , Stanfleld. Or Dec. ). 1920. ' Mr. E. B. Aldrlch, Kdltor Kuat Ore- gontan, Pendleton. Dear 8ir: . Referring to your editorial of Dec. 77, "Harness the Columbia at Uma tllla Rapids." You are on the right track In thla editorial and it should be aupported. I am taking this oppor tunity to express my sppreolaton of your stand In thla matter and to assure ymi that you will have my cooperation It It. Your, very truly, FKAXK 8LOAX. Meeting la Koliedulcd Mr. Boardman aald thla morning he had consulted Saturday with tho pres ident of the Umatilla Commercial Club nd that official will ahortly Issue- a Call fuB.-aK(iunc to be held at "Umatilla. It waa tha original purpoea to have delegates prenetn from Uma t II la. lrrlgon and llnardmnn but tbe field haa been extended to Include all tha weat end town of the county and Pendleton. The date for the meeting haa not yet been art Mr. Boardman aaya that over a year ao he wrole to aeveral engineers with a view to fretting their views on the subject. Among those consulted waa John H. Lewta, former atate engineer who la now engineer for the John Day project. Mr. Lewie la to make a report on the project nbout the firm of tha year and will refer to the Umn tllla rapida project In hla report. Ilea Been Surveyed ! Enthusiasm for use of the Columbia ai Umatilla rapida results from sur-vej-a made aome yeara ago by the gov-1 ernment and which reporta are now on file with the reclamation service and wth the atate engineer. The survey indicate the proposition to be entirely feasible from an engineering stand point. A minimum of lJO.non horse power may be developed and the flow of the river during the Irrigation xca eoit la sufficient to provide 320,000 horse power at that time. The coat of the power development Including the dam waa estimated s,t 120,500,000. A favorable feature about the pro ject la that the river la high during the period when Irrigation la needed. Aalde from providing for Irrigation vaat electrical power h c"' able for manufacturing-, UlurrrlnaHpn, cooking and heating purpw.es. u considered certain that both tbe n. Ti ll. & N. and the North Bank road will eventually be electrified no the devel opment of power at Umatilla rapdx would serve the needs of the railroads. IJImlnaloa Cosily Canal Power developed at the rapids could be used to pump water from the Columbia for the reclamation of many thousanda of acres of land on both aides of the Columbia. On the Oregon aide 150,000 acres could be wntered, and tho Horxe Heaven project In Washington could be cared for. The pumping project would eliminate the of a long feed canal and reser- i-rrfra n tha .inhn rmv project. When i, I. eonaldered thnt the J"hn Pny canal 1 estimated to cost $9,noo,nn0 It will be seen that it I tmportnnt If possible to aave tho construction and maintenance of such a canal. It la the view of various men whi have studied tha subject and tho re ports on file that the. great revenuo i. he derived from the sale of power for other than Irrigation needs mnle the I'ma DROPS SOCIETY FOR BUSINESS. NATIONS PLAN IS POT III OUTLINE INDIAN P0W-W0WS CONTEMPLATE NEW MISSION TO CAPITAL Scrapping of League, Adoption of Resolution Declaring peace With Germany and Calling Conference Planned. INTERNATIONAL COURT IS HARDING PROGRAM "1 .J -; i : . t aiopt!on Tiu.il peac r 1 of a wor 3ody Would be Made Strictly j Judicial in Nature and Fre- quent Assembly Meetings WnnlH TjiLa nthor Prnhlo Indiana on tho Umatilla reser vation are holding their annual "pow-wowa" wth the Intention of aenuing unother delegation to vt ashlngton to ask for certain changes In the allotment ay-atcm from the Bureau on Indian Af fairs. The personnel of the dele gation has not yet been an nounced, Major K. I SwarU !under, Indian agent, anid today. Kach year tho Indians send delegates t the cupltal. They are Interested especially In get tlng the allotment privilege con fined to full blooded Indians. Home deire that the government order further sales of Indian lands stopped. The Bmarter red men declare that when their number Is allowed to sell their land, they noon find themselves "broke." The delegations which went east last year both came to grief. Yumaumkin, one of the leaders of the Cayuse, waa asphyxiated . MAItlOX, Dec. 20. fl!y Itaymoml Chipper, I'. P. Staff Correspondent.) Scrapping of the league of Xalions.' adoption of a resolution declnring for- ice with Dermany and calling rid conference to organize a now BHHOcinlloii of nations. Is the ten tative program of President-elect Harding, it is understood here today. HIh plan for an association f nations includes two basic features, an Inter national court of a (strictly Judicial na. ture, to administer tne revised code of international law, and frequent meetings of the-association for confer ence over International problems not within Jurisdiction of the court the delegates not being bound In advance. j in a Chicago hotel when he blew out the gas. Another deloga- lion, consisting of four men, ran out ut funds at Pittsburgh and was stranded far from home. Funds were advanced by the In- Idan bftreau from a tribal fund to assist them. COMMISSION STUDYING WHEAT: ddippo DrnnoTo tdamhp nuuLo nuuaio iimmau in FUTURES SHOULD BE HALTED President is Held Without Power Under Existing Law to Shut Out Imports as Demanded by Farmers But Special Reply Urges Creation of Selling Machinrey to Meet Foreign Pres sure. . - . ta MRS. cms ' D l. CELPJCH3 NEEDY WILL NOT BE 1 NiBW VOrtK, Dec, 20. Mra. Charles do Ixi sey Oeirichs. l.-jder of (he smart nut. nak ac.-pped out of soelolv life anil into the business world. Hereafter. inwe.'iq. oi ntrtam.ng In tit drawing num-tat lll iliM.ense erfunirv for the Trading Company," 3S Wist 4 7th street definite to do day by dny led hi into the u ndent of the Trading Company. Fhe wiy her desire for something commercial world. Sha is superin- J. H. DOBBIN, OF ENTERPRISE RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT OF OREGON W00LGR0WERSiliS,E NEW YORK. Dec. 20. (V. P.) William O. McAdoo, in response to a j 1 request for his views- regarding the present economic situation today de clared: "A more liberal policy about domestic credits ought now to be pur sue. Our foreign trade should be stim ulated and enlarged. The war finance corporation shoul be revised to assist it. The German indemnity should be defined aa quickly aa possible, ao that the Central European marke's may be ! opened to our farmers, manufacturers land business men. Trade relations -. - ,with Russia should be resumed as . '.promptly as possible; A large part of Salvation Army and KnightS Of j'he floating debt of the treasury -ri.!. rr:n i n . shfttlld bT-fllrtdwI. - Vamtimt mrtrht- to ing Tree as Churches Plan of congress.- j mmiki sai tnat ir these steps are .taken promptly he believed the "preB - ent distressing situation" ould be greaieit " EARS7 NO, MARCELLE WAVES TO HIDE ALL SIDE INTELLIGENCERS Kara? .Vn, the girls won't show them In 1921, says Mrs. Ignore Chamberlain, of a local beauty shop, who returned yesterday from Portland where she studied all the new modes into which Mi lady will twist her crown of glory this season. There will be no hint that the ladies can hear so much aa one word of the topics of the day, for tho organs of hearing will he carefully seclinled beneath mar-, celle waves. The newest conceit is to part the hair on the aide side tleft or right will do) and then begin the waving process, finishing with two marcelled puffs at the back and topped by the ever present and indispensable hair-net. Henna tints are still high In fa vor with the fair ones who vAiuld Improve on Xature"s work, and the shades' range from a subdued carrot to a rich mahogany. j VICT IS ML NEW SET OF TOOLS Frank Wagner, Astoria Safe Blowert is Killed by Posse WASHINGTON' Dec. 20. (A. P.) The president la without power under the existing law "to shut out wheat imports," but he "apparently haa cer tain powers under the Lever act to stop future trading In wheat," - tha federal trade commission said In a. special r:Prt tothe lirealdent-Joitoy, It says That """'while evidence la not available that future trading la re sponsible for the decline in wheat prices. It doe not appear that future trading la wheat aa at present opera ting, is of Indisputable service to tha grain trade.- It suggests that if regu latory action la employed the question be considered by congress and legisla tion "not connected with war powers be enacted.'' (Titizftl aa Gamble WASHINGTON. Dec. 20. IV. P. The "large volume" of future tradina- wheat is "mere gambling." Involv-- mg great economic wastes which I should be stopped by congressional legislation, the federal commission wrote President Wilson today. The communication waa a reply to the president's request for study in the cauws of falling wheat prices. The commission reported that the president haa not the power to prevent importa. tlon of foroign wheat aa demanded by farmers hit by falling prices. Thn mmmMnn Alan !artmnnn4a that government selling machinery be established to deal with centralixed wheat buying agencies now maintain ed In tho United States by foreign gov ernment, to protect the farmer against (possible price manipulation by then agencies. Seven factors have combined to re duce wheat prices hi the United States, the commission reported? A world wheat crort bigger than In MI. ' " " - for Special Programs. Chrirtnias, primarily the Christian festival of the year, is to be observed by the various churches of Pendleton during the Yuletide Season. J. H. Dobbin, woolimm of -inter- his wages for caring for and attend priao, was re-elecied president of t lie? I ing to sheep for a period not to ex Htate Wool Growers Association at its I coed one your from the coniinenec closlng session hero Saturday. Mr. I mcnt of such si rvicennd ih..t ni.t Dobbin has thrice been president ol (he association during the p;ist -3 years since Its formation. , t I", lk-rkelcy, of liny I'reek, wji: re-elected vlce-prcaident "and Mat Hoke was re-elected secretary-trvas-i-rer. President Dobbin will appoint (he executive committee, also a newly authorized Purest Advisory hunnS cf five members to confer with the forest service officials of the liluo Mountain forest In the Interest of wooliuen who have sheep on the reserve. A resolution asking an embargo on further Importation of foreign wools and meats and goods manufactured from such foreign (products, until a tariff law , can he passed. , I'nbrii- Kill Supported. The "truth In fabric hill" now- pend ing In congress was supported by the convention In a resolution urging the state's represenlalives in congnva to use their influence in Its passage. The convention also went on record as opposing a raise In telephone rules ;it this time and authorized James A. Fee, city attorney of -this city, to rep resent tho Wool growers In the hear ing before the tmbiie service commis sion. Reason for the stand Was de scribed In the reVolution as the fact that this is a period of reconstruc tion and reduction Invoices. The res olution urged "raillcaily cm-tailed" appropriations on tho part of the state legislature, county and city govern ments on new, additional or not im-1 mediately required expenditures." A resolution was passed resolving that the association is "unalterably opposed to any and ull attempts to Increase grazing charges at the pres ent time," us the "woolgrowers of the stale will he seriously embarrassed In raising money to pay present fees." llini au Work Appreciated. Kfforts of the national farm bu- lllla rapids project the logical reau in behalf o t be woo, growers .len be given preference over all en-1 ciiiubrances on i;hoep. Thanks li.xprcsMil, Resolutions were passed expressing the thanks of tho Mute wool men for the assistance given them by the for estry service, tendering President Di-bhin and Secretary iioke appreci ation an. I thanks for their, "unselfish ii nice" and expressing the' apprecl it on of the welcome wid aisistance extended to the convention by the press, the city of Pendleton, Its com mercial club and I !"b people n gener al, and to the club in particular for "their kindness In extending to us the privilege of their club rooms." The place for the liil'l meeting was not decided but it is probable that the wool growers will return to Pendleton next year. laden with chicken, -flour, tea. coffee, fruit, vegetables, butter, milk, nuts and mndy wiil be distributed on Christmas Eve. and with each basket will go a sack bf potatoes.' The church will join the KniBhts of Pythias lodge Monday evening for a Christmas tree, when all Palvatlon Army Sunday s "hool children will receive a toy, while children cf the poor will receive candy, toys and clothing from the led sc. Santa to Aiear A Christmas tree and program, with a visit from no less a personage than thnt white bearded saint. Fanta Claus, will form the entertainment at the Paptist church and also at the Chrisa ii n church. Kach will have its ob servance of Christmas on the eve of the day and Sunday .school pupils will WASHINGTON", Dec. 20. (A. P.) iien of Scottsburg, Oregon, stolen from The Anti-Saloon league will ask Attor-ja store following Wagner's escape, rye General Palmer to reconsider hisj Five Astoria persons are accused to i una oi oearcn xsegun Jment buying In one commission which With Escape in September. ! bou1fht heavilr in the pring, but later Unprecedented importations from Canada this fall, coupled with a dis count rate of exchange. A record-breaking yield of corn, and cats, which helped to depress wheat prices. Slackening of the domestic demand for flour this fall. A general decline In all commodity . Changes- in credit conditions "with the resulting disposition of dis tributors to refrain from accumulating or maintaining usual stocks" until con ditions are stabilized. ASTORIA. Dec. 20. (A. P.) Frank Wagner, known as "Dutch Frank," escaped convict from the Oregon peni tentiary, was killed in a duel yester day with Warden Compton and nine other officers. Wagner was found In a blacksmith shop where he was forg ing a new set of safe robber's tools. In a cache of Wagner's belongings firjCes was totind a package of bS50 in lioer- ty bond, the property of John M. Red ruling that the use of cider In the home by its manufacturere, even after it has become Intoxicating by fermen tation, is lawful, Wayne 15. Wheeler, I general counsel for the league has an I nounced. Neither the letter nor the implied purpose of the prohibition act i justified such a ruling, Mr, asserted. harboring the criminal. . Puilding Is Surrounded The officers surrounded the build ing and then called for Wagner to conv3 out. Wagner answered the chal lenge by stepping to tho door and fir ing !wo shots in the direction of the Wheeler i prsse. Instantly the officers replied with a EARTH SHOCKS SUNDAY PROVE LESS-SERIOUS V : present the program. J One of the old Knglish miracle plays I will he presented at midnight, Christ inas F.ve, at the Church of the Ke deemer. The east cf the play itself corisists-'of tvKu'ai people, wno win appear on the staite while music will be provided by an invisible choir of nrxed voices. The play Is in panto mime, with carols, solos and choruses, and scripture reading by Rev. Alfred 1-ocUwood, pastor, forming the theme. Miss Prliv to Play Miss Fay Price, talented harpist who 's studying at the dirt's school of music hi Seattle, will play. teffce- tive scrnery and costumes are being ADDED BY M00RH0USE . .u. ..w.ki v, ..i,ri. were heartily ennorseu oy u aate th" now 7a arid tracts along the ' tlon passed and it was reoonum nded gate the now vasi u e . -hat the state woolgrowers and recre- e.l..Mhla The three great power f osslhllltlei on the Columbia are at Celllo, Bonne vllle and Umatilla rapids, these pro jects being listed In proportion to th. the amount of power that may be ae cured. Hkwever the big question al- (Continued oil page 6.) ar' of the national organization co pernio with them wherever praetl- !ntile. The railroads in Oregon were uiestrd to grind special grazing rater original shaggy Head dress, war hnnnrts, buckskin legglns and shirts and a large number of other articles of Ijlackfoot Indian finery Were received" today by Major Lee Moiirhouse, local Indian authority, to be added to his large collection of Indian curios. The articles fume from tho Rlai kfoot ' agency al Drowning, Tont., and were obtained through Mrs Charles Strauh, of this cily, who has Just returl'cd front a ti".p to the nlid dle west. lieadwork of intricate pains is rep resented In the various articles of dross, liridlea for horses, shirts, lex gins, moeeasins, head dress all are beautifully beaded. Thousands of the tiny colored beads have been strung and fashioned into attractive aborigin al garments. Declaring the I8th amendment pro- j volley and Wagner dropped in the hibits the manufacture of intoxicating i doorway. It was found that Wagner liquors for beverage purposes in the I had been struck by two of the bullets. homo or elsewhere, Mr. Wheeler said One entered the lift side of his ahdo- Muake in that city and vicinity Satur congress in "permitting the manufnc- j men, ranged upward and came out be- 'day 1 1 were killed and about 300 per ture of rider and fruit juices for home low the right arm. The other bullet jsons injure. Several small villages use fixed the alcoholic standard atlstrurk him in. the rieht cheek, passed Uvere reduced to ruins. Additional thrmgh his head and emerged just .shocks occurred yesterday but no cas nfci.ve the right ear. He was dead'uallies were reported. .. when the officers reached him The body was turned over to Coro- i ner Hughes, OfHiiT Not to WaK-h It was about, a year ago that Wag ner lobbed the safe in Walter Kallun lt:s' store in this city. He was later arrested at St. Joseph, Mo, with Al Meadors and James Cuergy, and brought back for trial. At the session of the circuit conrt on October IS, last year, Wagner made a complete con-1 one-half on one per cent. "The ruling made encourages and increases the use of intoxicating cider," Mr. Wheeler asserted. Al! gravel on the Old Oregon Trail BPRKOS AIRES, Dec. 20. (IT. P.) A message from Mendosas today stated that as a result of the earth- HALF OF CITY LAID IN RUINS BY EARTHQUAKE designed nd the ent're presentation j between Pendleton and Kcho has been iimmisei to be charmingly Interesting. . laid and the road is romuleted exeent The play w ill begin a few moments be-t for a bridge ne.fr Echo which will j 'i:ir' at Sulem fore midnight, and for this reason, i have to he built in the spring. There fit back tn pri those Who attend arc asked to arrive s now a through highway along the between 11:80 P m. and 11:45 p. m. river from Pendleton to Umatilla. I The church will have Christmas ser- j Autos have been using the road from (vices Saturday, Hot. Lock wood con-1 Kcho to Umatilla for several months 'ducing the services at 10 a. m. but only in the past fall months has I The Presbyterian church will hold j traffic between liieth and Echo bren its Christmas festival Thursday night, possible. The last gaps have been w hen a tree. San'a Claus and numbers , graveled now and tho new road is in by the Sunday school will be import-; nrst class condition for travel, ant features of the program. Dona- Some complaint is being registered tlons will be made to the fund for Ku- ov the condition of the surface be iropean relief so that children in for- twecn Yoakum and Kcho, however. eign lands may share the prosperity of orders were received from the engl America. ineers not to use dirt as a binder with i Christian Indians of the Tutu'lla the top layer of gravel and as a resu'.t i mission will have their tree Christmas js reported, tho gravel Is loose am1 BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 20. (A. P.) Earthiiuake shocks which, on Friday fession 'of the robherv. saying he act- afternoon destroyed several towns d alone, and in a few days he wars ""'".' ) Argentine slope of the Andes sentenced to 40 years in the penile,,- (mountain were the most severe - His companions were " cuuinry s'ice i. son to complete terms i ln" luv ul w" from which they had been released on "Ppo"f rom tne area r j (where the shock was heaviest Indicate "Ycter escaping from the penitentiary jJ loss of life and property up in September. Wagner eluded the offi-!"33, 0' !' h"" already A buffalo head dress is one of tho Uiiiacme ,o- in sue nini-viu.ii. i It h!irs the horns of the bison and the brown hair. ' Eagle eve, with a boundtlful community din ner at noon on Christmas day. to points outside of tho state, in a feathers make up one massive war resolution pnssed. which explained . tonnet while another, with train, is; that under the present shipping regit- trimmed in white weasel fur. j Intlons wool growers ore allowed only I A breast plate made from the shin ( three days at their destination with n , hones of huffnros is probably the most, shipment of llvcstork to secure a pass valuable piece ln the collection. These homo. Tho resolution requested the t:hln hones are said to be the rudlmen-1 railroads of tho United Stiitis to Jary fifth too of the Animal and are grant at least thirty days time foi about four Inches long and resembles1 shippers to obtnin a pass home with r Ivory, Tho breast pinto, consists of (A, P.) Troops culled here in con prlvllego of 10 days' stopover. three widths of these bones and about nectlon with a rice riot last Th irsday Asks, Herders Ui l-'nionil. 50 in a vertical row. They nro pierced night In which a w hite hoy and a ne- A resolutlonreconimended that thi and fastened with , buckskin thongs, gro were killed and others injured, cers for some time, but Warden Comp ton, thinking tho fugitive would even tuallv come to Astoria, has had an offi eer here for some weeks. A few days ago Wagner was seen by the officer and Warden Compton organized a posse led by himself. Woman Arrested The posses arrived Sunday morning and later in the day surrounded Wag ner in the blacksmith shop near War-renton. Late in the afternoon Anita Schroe- ibeen taken from the wrecks of build ings. I,d.n.r ..nii.LK- Ihriiu-n nff tliA riv-i.l , by traffic. uer. anus r-nernum. woo n The bridge which was built near the' a companion of Al Meadows, tak ,) ., .a.,... ,..ihii r v,.h mien fnto custody on suspio'on of assist- ..r ih rveri.mn e,.,.i i-iii ' not ! inif in harboring Waaner. H Is said! be moved across the railroad tracks to I to have been associating with her since Iho present route of the highway. It j his return to Astoria. Weather Reported by Major Lee Moorbouse, official weather observer. Maximum, 40. Minimum ,32. Paromoter, 29.82. Snow. inches. Precipitation, three Inches. INDEPENDENCE?, Kas., Dec. ;0.- was found not only to expensive but ;nlso impractical as the angel of thiv brldgo would be such that It would not ; : fit. With the graveling done on the road I to Echo, there Is an unbroken good I road from Pendleton to Arlington. i CATTLE MAKKKT WKAK I-oltTliAND. Dec. 20. IA. P.i i NEW yoHK, ivc. 2.: (U. P state legislature amend section lOiiit Only two such bones are found In each left Sunday for Ijrwrence. There Is Cattl" are weak, hogsire lower $9.60 Tho government today filed suit of Oleson'a Oregon laws so that r buffalo so that probably "6 animals little danger of unother outbreak, of- and $10.25. Sheep are steady, eggs agninst John D. Hoekerfeller, charging sheepherder will be gllcn a lieu for .. ... .j ...a..w , p .... ona trophy. fK u'S jaia. ure weak ami butter Is ateady. false income tax returns. ifiE mm mm Tonight and Tuesday fair. I 'a f !i I I -i a t - a t 4lefi4lia f m 9 pi f v.if