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THE EAST OREGOMIAN IS THE ONLY INLAND EMPIRE NEWSPAPER GIVING ITS READERS THE BENEFIT OF DAILY TELEGRAPHIC NEWS REPORTS FROM EOTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AfJD I' MIL 3 DAILY EDITION The not pri-M run or yesterday's Dully 3,275 Thin paper la a member of find nudlted .4, & ' by thu .Audit Bureau of Circulation JiVA V ' .. k f ;,r-F0 COUNTY OFFICIAL P r . v At y. & r . v U s in1- )J o DAILY EDITION Tha Kxt Orrgnnlsn In KnxtiTB Of (on a greatest rwpir ml a soil ing fcrcs gives tn Ilia urtvert lr over twlc th guaranteed paid rir-iitsin In Pendleton and limatilia ouy of any other newspaper. VOL. 33 DAILY EAST OEEGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1021. CITY OFFICIAL PAP EH NO. 9787 EN PEOPLE ARE DEAD; SEVERAL SCORE ARE INJURED AS RESULT OF EXPLOSION LEVI AIEIIY IS DEAD STROKE FOLLOWING YESTERDA Noted Financier and Former Senator Expired at 12:30 ' Today; III Several Weeks. ENGLAND IS WILLING TO SELL CONCESSIONS IN MESOPOTAMIA OIL s American Oil Interests Do Not Want Right to Buy But Want to Conduct Explorations. G. M. RICE PAYS TRIBUTE TO ASSOCIATE OF YEARS Time for Funeral Js Not Yet . Fixed; Four Children Left; ..Senator Was 77 Years Old. PROPOSAL SUBSTITUTES ' DOLLARS FOR DIPLOMACY British Want U. S. to Recede From Position She Main tains Closed Door Policy. NOSE OF TWO YEAR OLD INDIAN BOY IS BITTEN OFF BY DOG WALLA WALLA, Wash., March 29. (Hpeclal to tha Bust OrcKonlanJ livi Ankeny, tormer senator trom Washington and noted '.jankcr of thin section, died at 1 2 : 3U today, He had been 111 for tevrml weeks and suffered a, stroke of paralysis yesterday which caused his hy triclinia to despair of his surviving the night Tha time for the funeral huu not yet bton Bet. News of nator Ankeny'.-I death caused much sorrow here today on the! part of business associates and old! time aoiualntences, At the First Na tloiuU bank G. M. Rice, vice-president rind executive head of the bank, re ceived news of the death shortly after it occurred. ' ''I have been" associated with Mr. AnVruy for-' v trr ' -Mo-l grtatly affected by hla dealh although we has been prepared for that event for a Ions time past," aald Mr. I'.io. Mr. Ankeny wan a remarkable man, extremely sound and capable In nml (era of finance. lie had few lull mm en and I believe I understood him about an well a uny other man. 1 always had a deep respect fur him and found him an Inspiration." JYur Children fcurvne . Sonator Ankeny Is survived by four children, John Ankeny, Nesmith An keny, formerly of Pendleton, Hubert Ankeny, and Mm. Harriet Pope. Mra. Ankeny la -dead, likewise one dauglr ter. jSonator Ankeny was 7J years of aire and had passed almost his entire life in the northwest. He was a vet eran banker of the Inland Empire, be ing Interested in bunks In various cities. Including . Pendleton, Walla Walla, Maker, Fpoknne and other places. He was rated as several times a mllllonulro. . NKW YOP.K, March 29. ft'. P.) "The American oil Interests dont want the 'riKlit to buy' In Mesopotamia, but want the riant to conduct explorations hero and develop that field the same as any other independent country." an official of the big- American petroleum concern declared when Informed thai the Priitrh offered to sell concessions In Mesopotamia. ; . Dli-pute Has Condition Attached. LO.VIJOX, March 39. (U. P.) Great Britain has offered to sell the American interests a substantial por tion of the disputed Meiopolamian oil fields, is learned from authoritative sources. The pfolKisHl substitutes dollars for iliptcmacy In settling the petroleum dispute and had this condi tion attached: The British want the I'nltcd Wntes to recede from the po sition lt ,'fient )riin Is .n:;,"ttini a "closed ioi.r" policy in Musopotam-i u. .:.. i A pl.itlc operation will save from total disfigurement little Jimmy Hunt, two Sear old Indian boy whose nose was bitten off lo the bone on Saturday by a vi vlous dog. The youngster Is at Anthony's hospital. Jimmy, who Is a favorite with hospital patients, Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hunt, Umatilla Indians. The boy was in' considerable pain after the accident occurred but Is how resting more easily. HARDING WILL REMOVE ,' NAVY CENSORSHIP OVER COMMERCIAL WIRELESS WASHIN 5TO.V, March 29. (IT. P.) President Harding and his cabinet decided on the removal of navy cen sorship over the commercial wireless. Tl TALE OF BOLD ROBBERY AND MURDE& ATTACK GREEK FORCES CAPTURE MUCH WAR MATERIAL Eski-Shehr, an , . Important Objective of Offensive is - Occupied by Greek Troops. WHERE COMMUNISTS IN GERMANY ARE BUSY. . TURKISH FORCES WERE RECALLED FROM ARMENIA FORGOT TO NOTIFY NEW TENANT HE HID DYNAMITE IN OVEN IN HIS CABIN Carl Nelson Crawls Nearly a Mile With Bullet in Chest; Enters Hotel Exhausted. 0 m TT7. March 29. (IT. P.) One hundred and fifty pieces of stove iron were lemoved from the body of John MniknXul while he lay on an operating table for three houis Manned, a prospector, yesterday kindled a fire tn the stove of a. cabin he had Just rent ed from James McLeod on the Wise river, 75 miles w est of here. McLeod ufler ibo evploslon, remembered he had hidden two Ptlcks of dynamite taps In the oven a week ago. . "I forgot all about telling Mannful," he explained. Mannful will recover. Mel, tod's c;ibiu is gone. lYHlMKIt tfMPKKOR VISITS VIKNNA, March !. (A. P.) For. mer Kmperoor Charles of Austria Hungary met a group of monarchists here Sunday. He went from here to Huriapent but left there at the request of the IHIungnriun government. C'HICAOO. Match 29. P.) "Hands up," a man yelled at Kobcrt Jliirnett. a mall truck driver, who was collecting mail on the west side. 'Throw out the registered mull sacks." the bandit continued, titiinett Uirew out two sucks and the bandit took them, thou escaped In a light car. "Hut I was only fooling," llurnelt ex plained later, "instead of money and bonds In the sacks I gave him, he will find a flock of newspapers and cata logues." , ' (x)i) siioitTHii. is rKAiu:i INDIANAPOLIS, March 29. (U. P.) There will be a coal shortage next fall and enrly winter as "sure as fate" unless prlvuto and public con sumers start placing orders now. Kills Henries, editor of the I'nltod Mine Workers Journal, warned, PKI Mll lt WII-Ij VISIT JAPAN ATHKNS, March 29. (A. P.) For mer Premier Ventxelos is going to Japan to be the guest of the Mikado, who has asked him to arbitrate the difficulties between Japan and the I'nlted States, says a London dispatch, I Til THE WEATHER j L : ' ;-' i TACOMA, March 28. (IT. P. Patrick Plurza Is believed to be dy ing tn a hospital today. Frank Kelia may be fatally wounded and ltuphael Mllclll Is suffering Vrom ' bullet wounds received In a mysterious at tack by an unknow n . gunman who tired upon the three Ituliuns and fourth man. who was not hit, neur St. I.eo's church on Yakima avenue last night. THE DALLES, Or.,, March 29. Exhausted from crawling nearly a mile with a bullet In his chest, Carl Nelson, Misso ila, Mont., contractor, ea-ly thu morning stumbled Into the lobby of a local waterfront hotel and told a tale of robbery and attempted murdei equally In daring anything ever at tempted In The Dalles. According to Nelson's story, he hud leen walking within a few yards of The Dalles passenger depot, about 9:80 o'clock unday evening, when two men suddenly stepped beside htm, pointing a revolver at his heart, or dering him to do as they directed upon penalty of death. The robbers, keeping Nelson covered with a revol ver, then ordered him lo walk down the track,, away from the depot and BcrSss a small fixit brldee leading t" the hank of the i'olumbia river. A down persons standing In front of tho depot witnessed the entire proceeding without knowing that anything out of the ordinary was taking place. Upon reaching the river bunk with their victim, the robbers then ordered him to hold up his hands' while they searched his clothing, taking $300 in currency and a gold watch. After making sure- that nothing o' value had been overlooked, one of the holdup men then pulled the Hiytcer of a revolver pointed at tho Montana contractor, the bullet striking directly over the heart. Eellevlng their victim to bo dead, the robbers then picked up the body and thew It Into tho waters of the Co lumbia, making off with their loot. Kevlved by the cold water, Nelson was able to swim to shore, whore he rested until he gained strength. Stumbling and crawling, fainting sev eral times from the loss of blood, he traveled the entire distance from the river bunk to the nearest hotel, arriv ing shortly after midnight. A police cordon was iinuedUUcl thrown about tho city. A number of suspects In The Dulles and Hood Capture of City United Greek Armies and Opened Way for Their Advance on Angora. LONDON. March 29. (A. I'.) reek forces occupied Enkl-Shehr, capturing many prisoners and much war material, says an Athens dis patch. Eski-shehr was an- important objective of the Greek offensive. It s a junction point on the Bagdad railway. The capture of the city uni ted tho Oreck armies operating east of Bmyrna and ISrutsa and opens the way for an advance on Angora, HO miles east. Turks OpiMwe Offensive. CONSTANTINOPLE. March 2. (A. P.) The Turkish nationalist forces were recalled from Armenia to oppos the Greek offensive. Martial law is declared In Angora, the nalion- iltsis i .lpHul. A general r.R.foilization I J'4ffc t? i-r tt-r-z I Kirsn-ri i W . ""J2Lnm (WYlZ SEA m HAMBURC 1 r VPOLAND a HALLE P UIPZIO JDUSSEL0ORF r reibbwo N " S n CZECH O- FRANKFORT SOVAKIA r VIENNA 5W1TZER- LAND U5TRIA" V) y in nn-'i ITALY .SLAVIA . "BLOODY I9TH" DISTRICT SCQ,'E OF EXPLOSIi Six Were Killed in Today's Explosion; Ambulances and Reserves Rushed to Scene. Map shows the towns where serious communist uprisings have resulted in the loss of many lives and much property detraction in Germany. Meantime the allies, in possession of Dusscldorf region are reported preparing to occupy 1-rankfurt also. ,, , . hTIJIKK HAS SO K.Ul l-'AIIifTI). KSSKN. March 29. (A. I'.) Fif teen rioters were killed and forty wounded in a clash with the security police. The attempted general strike has so far failed. CANINE LEADS FAMILY TO DEADMAN'S BODY SEATTLE, March 29. (V. P.) Led by a whining dog which had Fought for hours to attract their atten tion, the family of Melbourne J. Eal coni, afced 22, a cripple, found the young mailt, body In the bushes, dead, near their ranch east of Allentown. Ualcom was said to have been despon dent over his crippled condition. A rifle was found hy his side. Heporls by Major Lee Moorhouae, weather observer. Maxlmu-n, ' Minimum, 80. I j""3T . barometer, 3U. !" 1 t ; , PENDLETON CITIZENS THINK FARMER'S GRAIN MARKETING PLAN WOULD BE FEASIBLE JULY UP, BUT SAGGED in the Chicago pit March wheat went above the $1.6(1 mark today and at the close of the market bids were Jl.fiS. one cent abuve the closing price yesterday. July wheat opened at Ji.2S today but .at the close was down to 11.26. May opened at and dropped a cent at the dose. Following are the prices received today by Overbeck & Cook Co.,' over their special leased wire to Pendleton Wheat. Ope", tlih. Low. Close. March ,'1.58 'i 1.60 '4 1.57 i.5S FAMOUS NATURALIST J. R. RALEY WANTS TO GIVE UP DIRECTING OLD HAPPY CANYON ENTIRE CITY BLOCK WAS COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED Efforts to Communicate With District Was Futile; Phone Wires Had Been Destroyed. ,. Was Enroute to His Eastern Home After Spending Winter in Southern California. May July, May July May July 1.4 I 1.2S 42M, .6TVi .40 4 TODAY'S FORECAST Tonight and Wednesday generally fnlr, cooler tonight heavy frost la early morning. The grain maiKetlug plat: of the Farmers drain Marketing committee of seventeen looks feasible to S. U. Thompson, president of the I'mntilla eountv farm bjneuu and S. J. Culley, ImurNetini project leader, who return ed yesterday after attending the see t.onal convent on In Kpokanc. At the ""v-errithin, Mr Thoi wn was choeii with Victor Smith of Moro, Phermun coouty. to represent uregon at the na tional convention to be held in Chica go April . Both , r mat ilia county delegates! werj Impressed with the magnitude of j the plan and this feature will be. brought out at a meeting of count j wheat grovers to be held Friday nieht In the Commercial association rooms, when Mr. Thompson and Mr. Culley will discuss the convention and their conference with J. H. Howard, preai dert of the National Farm Hurciiu Federation and with W. G. F.ckhardt, of the marketing committee. Would Adopt S hcn;i. Should Oregon l favorable to th' plan, the Oregon Wheat Growers' Co cpeiiitivo nssoiiutlon would work through the grain marketing phut ua (Continued on page 5.) 1.45 V, 1.42 S 1.4.1 1.29 vj 1.251, 1,26 torn. .4 .6.1 ; .6S .67 Oats. .4 1 .4-1 N .42 .41 ( Py Ovcrherk Cooke Co.l Wheat Highest prices of the day were made during the firt few min utes of trading mid the market there after was Iniiincd to sag, due to the fact numerous damage reports from sections of the winter wheat belt were not accompanied by buying r ders. The majority of trade were In clined to Mew the reports with scepti cism us crop experts belittled the pos s'btlity of damage from freexing at ! the early date. Cash wheat wns iiii fairly good demand, especially minnenpolis, where millers were buy- f.s n . .e.t oierdums. 1'he sea hoard claimed yesterdays reported ex f - -r, vre"tl innp"1!!'. e and that demand today was flat. If , .,i tu. e se.ei.il dajs i,f warm weath- er to determine whether or not there ' has been uny Important damage to t rrowinv ci ps as tho undeney of the moment Is to accept the calamitous re ports with reserve, It is probable that the msrket will experience 'a furthet set back until some new bullish in- I ..nl lt d mii, h a k a rm-( . t nf a ri A m manj makes 'its appeurar.ee. NEW VOr.K. March 29. (U. P.) Or. Walter Gray Crump received a telr grain stating that John burroughs, the famous naturalist, died on ; the train near Buffalo. burroughs was en route home lo Poughkeepsie from his winter home in Pasadena. Or. Crump had made arrangements te meet Burroughs in Poughkeepsie at 2 p. m. Burroughs would be 84 years old in A pi 11. , John Burroughs was the venerable dean of nature-writers in the United States. Through a score of books he shared with countless readers his life long Intimacy with birds, bees, flowen and the whole out-of-loors. His high ly developed powers of observation ana the charm of his interpretations were the marvel of his critics. His flowing white beard, his kindly mein, his whole habit of life, and his literal y style were rather reminiscent of th.-U famous New Kngiand school of essasts a generation or two before him. His early writings on "Expres sion.' was at one time widely mistak en for the work of Kriierson, a close reader of whom Burroughs had been 'tiom youlh. His later works on na ture suggested something of Thoreau, but as critics said. Burroughs was the more sociable writer. He was born in 1S37. In 18S3 be went to Washington with something of an inclination to enlist in the Union army, but he decided to seek a gov ernment office. It is mated that w'th only a few of his poems as credentials he i.ilkcil Into the treasury depart ment and j.sked for a job. It . was agreed tha'. his vernal verses really smelt of the woods, and smacked of sincerity. He would be a sate man to watch Hie treasury vaults, He alined t.. take the place. At a little desk, faciiir the huge iron vault where he .kept tabs -n those who went to handle the f.'O.DOw.iiOO stored there, be liegun writing of the birds, to relieve his homesickness. The result was his first book, "Wake-Boliin." yi.me years later, after work as (Continued on p;isre K. J. R. Baley thinks he is going to resign as general isimo of Happy Canyon and authorized art announcement to that effect this afternoon. It is said several othet veteran workers for the big evening show are planning to follow Mr. Raley into retirement. On the other hand there Is a very insistant demand that Mr. Raley continue as director of Happy Canyon for his work has attracted almost world wide praise and there are many who feel h's services cannot well be dispensed "With. One proposal is that Mr. Haley be provided with i a show assistant, to be chosen by i him, to whom some of the de tailed work can be detailed. A meeting of Happy Canyon stockholders is to be called soon to consider the situation. HI.I1 HAVE BEEN RECOVERED DOWKIX, 111.. March 29. (A. P.) The bodies of the seven miners who were entombed here on February 23 v hen a fire broke out in tho 'Kath leen mine, were removed today, ftie men had been asphyxiated following the sealing of the mine. SH IS CAPTURED BY REVOLUTIONARIES LONDON, March 29. (A. T.) Minsk, an important city in western Russia was captured by the revolu tionaries, who formed a democratic ! white Russian republican sas-s Helsin jfors advices. Kight bolshevik army lare reported to have joined the revo lutionaries. Kiev is surrounded by iicbellous peasants. , CHICAGO. March 29. (V. P.) The latest tabulation is ten killed and 50 injured in the explosion here today. CHICAGO, March 29. (A. P.) Several are reported killed in a bomb explosion In the "bloody nineteenth" ward of the west side. All amuu. lances and police reserves were rushed to the scene. The "bloody nineteenth- has been the scene of many battle-late ly opposing the political factions and several were tecently Injured when a hall was bombed in which the political candidate for the city council was making a speech. iix were killed In todays explosion, f!vwrdinr to early reports to the Max well police station and eighteen, known ; to be injured are in nearby hospitals. ma nv rteis irum ttn entire elty were rushed to the scene. It la report, cd that a whole city block was demol ished. The explosion was beard all over the city. Windows were broken vith:n a ramus of a mile. Ait enorta to get in touch with tho district by telephone were futile. Indicating that the explosion destroyed all telephone communications. The blast occurred in the factory of the Joseph Weil Paper company at 14th and Halstead Btreetn. Official of. the company said they believed it was caused by a gas leak. They claim ed they had no labor troubles or feuds. The police, however, immediately went to work on a theory that the explosion was caused by a bmb, as a part of political feud waged "in the bloody nineteenth" for years. Gruesome Sights Are ."Witnessed. A torpedo cap waa found by Chief of Detectives Mike Hughes, tvh i reached the scene soon after the dis aster. The cordon of police were 1m-' mediately thrown about the scene to keep back the frantic Italians who rushed to determine if any of their relatives were among the victims. Pleasant mannered Italian women, wild with the fear that some of their lovtwi ones were killed or injured, battled with tho police. Thousands of men, women and children, held back 7 In repeated ifiorts ;o rush the police lines, gasped and fell into silence as they saw two bodies with Keads blown 'off pulled out and put on . stretchers. ' The foot of a girl, still neat with a satin pump, was pulled out and Put ti on a white canvas stretcher," waiting for the remainder of the shattered body! The police estimated the lori j irom tne explosion win reucn tne mu- - lion maris, this inctuaea me wreexsu factory and little homes near It. A late wire from the Associated Press this afternoon estimates the dead to be five instead of ten aa waa previously reported. IBANK K()l!n;.S MAKK KSOAPF. ST. PAl'U March 29. (U. P.) The City Bank of St. Paul was held up and robed by five masked men. They escaped In a touring car. The amount of loot h-is not been announced. rmxKsi-: kxphkss R.Trrri)5 WASHINGTON, March 39. (A. P.) The gratitude of the Chinese people for President Harding's appeal for Chinese famine relief funds waa ea pressed In a cublegram received yes-' terduy from President Hsu ShlU Chan of the Chinese Republic. $132,227.88 IS AMOUNT TO, BE SPENT ON UMATILLA COUNTY ROADS FOR 1921 The sum of $132.22T.SS is lo be ex pended upon the construction of mar- jket roads in Umatilla county during the year. t ounty Judge Scha'inrp received no tice from the state highway commis sion '.Ills morning that tS6, 113.94 of (he state market road appropriation had been ailotcd to this county. This sum exactly matches the sum to be raised for the purpose by the 1.14 mill tax levy made by the county court. Work on the construction of these roads will therefore lie pushed with out tic lay. B ds are now to be called for in con nection will, the diagonal road from Hern istou to ColumbUi mIioo! and-for the l-'tanPeid-IVspaiu gulch road. Bids 'on other rim-ts will he called for soon. j The road on the tittle Walla Walii river out of .Milton w about completed and work is commencing on the Pilot Riwk road. Construction work is also in progress on the lleltx-ltuther road. Aside from the market roads Ue most important road work now under way in the county is on the Cabbage Hill sector ot the Old Oregon trail. FUNERAL OF PENDLETON SOLDIER WILL BE HELD IN THIS CITY FRIDAY. The body of the late Bholdon Uhich, Pendleton U, M. Marine who was killed In actloM, will prooably arrive here Friday and if so the funeral will lie "held Situnlav at 2:30 p. tn. from the Mutiodtst church. Word reach ed Pendleton today that the body was shipped from New fork on Sunday. The Pendletun post nt tho Am- er: an Lglon Is making plane for the. military ceremoeiea whid. will be a part of tins fu neral kci vires, and the wac here will be accorded full konors. Two Marinte from PortUnd will be here to aiuust.