f ! i"w 'V" 3 : THEA$T OREGONIAN IS THE ONLY INLAND EMPIRE NEWSPAPER GIVING ITS READERS THE BENEFIT OF DAILY TELEGRAPHIC NEWS REPORTS FROM BOTH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Aul) tWSTP H " daily edition DAILY EDITION The net press run'nf reatrrday's Dally - 3,235 This paper la a mrniW of and audltoit by the. Audit Bureau . c CiwJiSttoSS The Beat Oregonlan la Or- rron'a greatest newspaper and aa a aili ng force givee to tha advertiser over twice tha guaranteed paid circulation In Psr.dleton and ttmatillS eounty ef any other aawapapar. it ; a w a e--r s M V a r- --zttt: inn Tft sZTt rW 'WT. "-ti ;.:--r .,- t COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER WOL. 33 pawn riAAIirilT I WWf I f APPEAL e for better MUNICIPAL RULE Journal Editor in Address Last Night -Told How New : Plan Has Aided Portland. COMMISSION f LAN GETS BETTER MEN TO FRONT Old Distrust and Reports : of Graft ' Eliminated Since ' ' New Plan Has Been in Use. Eight ywn of experience with the commission form of government In tha city of Portland' has proved that men of higher type are attracted to munici pal service than under the aldermanlc plan and that the added responstvencsa of the newer form has been -worth .1 thousand times the effort and trouble taken to secure tt were twu truths brought home forcefully laat night by H. y. Irvine, editor ot the Oregon Jour, nal. In a speech before a packed hull when he made the chief add rem at the monthly meeting of tho rendition 'Commercial Association, ' ' He commuted the feeling of the peo ple ot the city toward th old government-and that manifested now alnce the change has been In effect, and called attention to the lurk of ausplclnn of, the transactions of the municipal government that prevails since the al-j dermanlo system wiui slKdtshed In lll. ' , .. I ' - Vaed to Charge tiraft lit the old days It waa no uncommon thing for one cchtnoHman iX Xe Tort land government to publicly charge fellow members of the council with grafting and receiving rebates. At present thia spirit is noticeable on ac count of Its absence, the speaker de clared, and there la no shadow hover ing over the city hall. No breath of scandal circulates about the -work of tha municipality, and no responsible newspaper In the city has ever charged the municipal government with any thing even approaching shady transac. Hons. The experiment haa also been a suc cess from a financial pohit of view, ac cording to the editor, thousands of dol lars having been saved In the various departments of municipal operations Including street cleaning, paving, and In the water service. " function of Government "What a government Is routing to operate Is not In any way a true Index to. its' Value." the speaker declared. The real test Is what service la rcn dcred by the government for the money expended. Bom questions that roil should answer are, how effi ciently are your streets being cleaned. ,ls the milk fed to your babies clean, are your dralh rates rising or falling, what Is tho nature of your public con- . tracts, what ar your police doing, are your, firemen actively engaged In work to (ncvant Jlrea The answers to these questions will alwuys give an lndlcn tlon as to tho kind of city .'govern ment a community 'enjoy. "I. believe ln the comml'wion form of government necuM" of my expert rnre with that form of government. Under the old alderninnlc form mil- ' Hons of dollars of public money were being spent by weak men. One of the largest corporations in the Mate was in tho hands of men who before had novor had any real responsibilities " ,1' 1 Vwcr Candidates Now .. IJo contrasted the change In the tvpo of men called 1o publlo service In his home city during the past few .years. At the first election under tho commission form the average-number of csndldntes offered for each office as,U and one-bslf. A grsduiil de. cryso In that number has been noloc tvuil. ' " - - Reported b)' Maior Lee Moorhouae, official weather observor. Maximum, 8. ' Minimum, 8 It. Barometer, 29.60. TODAY'S FORECAST Tonight and Thursday fair: light to heavy frost In early morning. milium i . V . m THE WEATHER It a, ft! - - ' " . ..... ; .5 ir . - ' .. ..I... . v HmmmM'mm I tpi ss-wr. .- ... ' " . .1 ITALY IS INFL. W.AT KILLING OF HER SOLDIERS BY POLISH INSURGENTS Press Demands Premier to Ignore Supreme Council by Going Direct io Warsaw J KOMI:, May 11. (Harvey Wood, V. P. Staff Correspondent.) Another ul- ned crisl loomed today. Inflamed bv the killing nt Italian soldiers bv 1'olish insurgents In upper Hllesla, the Human press voiced a growing demand that Italy require Immediate satiHfactiun from tho Polish government. Ad dressing Premier Uiollttl, the news Papers 'demanded he Ignore the am bassadors' council and the allied su preme council, by going direct to War saw, 1 NEGOTIATIONS HAVE BEEN REACHED BETWEEN INTER-ALLIED COMiMISSION AND POLISH INSURGENT LEADER 23 Firms Have Already Made Reservations Without Any Solicitation Whatever. ' t Tticr. 11m Itlf.'lv li ti uni 1n,lt. ton merchants and manufacturers left ( out of the mammoth cturnlval to lulu-Id here May 26 and 27 unless they gel In and nuke their wants known on booth apace In Happy canyon, devel opments today brought out. Witii room for forty displays to be made. ; firms have ulreudy made reserva tions without the committee doing any solli'ltiiilon whatever. Definite work was begun today on getting Happy "Canyon ready for tin carnival. A number of carpenters gut busy this afternoon laying out the floor for the booths, and construction ' lll be pushed as rapidly as possible. firms who want to be represented In j the carnival should telephone their wants to the offices of the Commercial itotiatlon, or to the special commit tee In charge, because present Indica tions are that some firms won't be able to get space. The expense of the affair la to bo pro-rated to the firms participating . Arrangements for tfie carnival as a "Vholo will be In charge of the mer chants' committee of the association. Tho sub-committees have boen chosen end Iheyilnclmlc tho following: "il.isk and entertainment Pbllo Rounds, chairman: George C. Itaer. J. A. Murphy, Bert JerarU and J. K. Kin. cald. iuK-oratione Carl E. Hopf. chair man' Fred Adams, Chris Stadfelt, L. Dingtedine and Archie Uoddurd. Pnotlis Carl Cooley, chairman; It. T. Buries and Charles Bond, Advei Using and publicity W, E. P.ruck, chairman; Harry. Kuck and Leslie Glbbs. .'ie.'Ctvatlv'is have already been made for booths by the following mer chants or firms: . : Peoples Warehouse, Alexanders, CTurlos Co., Hamley & Co., Bond I'rr.s., Thomas Shop, Hopf's Upstairs (shop, fawtelles, Worklngmen's Cloth lug Co., Smythe-Ioncrgan Co., Cres cent Golden West Creamer)', Taylor Hardware Co., W. I. Gadwu, Gray Hick, Cruikshank & Hampton, Mc Cllntock and Simpson, Crawford Fur niture Co., Sturgis and Storle, Gecrge C. Paer & Co., Economy Drug, nud tl'j I't-udletou Drug Co. DECLARES MURDER WAS TACOMA, May 11. (IT. P.) "II was all done on the spur of the mo nient. I swear 1 didn't plan It, I hit the man on the back of his head with a rock at the suggestion from fellows In the buck scat." .Eighteen year old Private Edward Flllon of Camp Iwls, the first of the four youthful soldiers to confess part In the murder of K. Timbs, a Ta voma taxi driver, protested at the county Jail that the murder Was not promedltated. COXVKNTIOX OPKXS CLEVELAND. May II. .-V. P.) The triennial eonvenUon ot the Broth erhood of Locomotive Engineers open ed today. Warren Stone, the grand chief, presided at the meeting. DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1921. GERMANY ANNOUNCES NAMES OF MEMBERS . OF HER NEW CABINET nEHU.V, May 11. (IT. I'.) Members of the new Ucrman ca blunt are liaucr for vice than- ccilor, UraUns for economics, Bchlffer for Justice, Schmidt for labor, Creener for transport.-!- lion, Uieberts for posts ami telegraphs, Hermes for food con- troller, Urndncur for interior, GcbbIit for defonse. Sllber- schmldt for reconstruction and Wlrth for finance. Insurgents Will Occupy Line Agreed Upon Pending Settle ment of Silesian Question. UiXDOS, May 11. (A. P.) A Warsaw dispatch says negotiations be tween the intrr-allled commission In I ppcr Hllesia and Adab. lt Korfanty, I the Vol Inn Insurgent leader, resulted In the suspension of hostilities Usl night. The report said the insurgents would occupy the line of demarcation agreed upon and remain in stipulated positions pending the settlement of tiie t'pper Silesian question. The In dustrial territory, largely overrun by Poles, would therefore remain under Polish occupant). . lYcmli and Poire Clash. OPPKLN, t'pper Silesia, May 11. (A. P.) French troops engaged In an artillery duel with the insurgent Poles near Groschouitz, about six miles south of this city, yesterday. The Poles replied with small field pieces. A number of slightly wounded French soldiers were brought hero. 15XOW IS BTIIX I't-KP OX CKATKIl LAKE KIM MEDFOKD, -May 11. Tne nepth of snow on May 1 at the Crater lake rim was nine feel six Inches, according to reports Just received hero by Superin tendent Sparrow, and at five miles this way from thO rim was eight feet six inches, which Indicates that the fii'Ml autos cannot reach the hotel at the rim before July 1, the day the Cra ter b.ke season opens, whereas last year the first cars reached the rim on June H. Much shovelling of snow from the road hud to bo done to bring this 1. bout. HE 1 be Bergdoll's Statement Will Investigated by House Bergdoll Committe. EEKHACH, Germany, .May 11. (U. I'.) Giover Cleveland Dergdoll. the dintl dodger, defied the United States government. When Informed by (he United Press of a statement of Chief of Staff March that the war depart depart-I mcnt is determined to get 1 iergdoll from Germany "at any price," the slacker said: "You can tell the world I won't be raptured In Germany." He asserted that American representatives signed an agreement when the two l ulled States soldiers were released after nn attempt to kidnap him. not to molest him or his chauffeur Kugene Steelier, and that the United States Is In honor to.ind to leave him alone. Will Ho Investigated. WASHINGTON. Muy 11. The claim of Horgdull In a statement to the United Press at Kberbaeh, that Amer ican representatives agreed not to mo lest him In the future, will be inves tigated by -the special house Pcrgdoll committee, Chairman Peters said. j Peters and other members of the com mittee, nianiiesieu great interest in the United Press dispatch, which will be placed on record. At both the state and w.ir departments It was officially denied tha'. any agreement not to mo lest Uergdoll had been signed by Am erican representatives. E THE EKEIICY TARIFF QUESTION Indications-Are That Measure Will Pass; Already Passed by House: Will Go to Conference - BERGDOLL COMMITTEE CONTINUES HEARINGS Education Committees Are in Session on Bill Creating De partment of Public Welfare. WASHINGTON, May 11. (A. P.) The senate passed the emergency tariff bill. VASHUXGTOX, May 11. (T. P.) The' Senate voted on the emergency tariff bill. Julius Krutschnitt testi fied before the interstate commerce committees of railroad Inquiry. Sena tor Kenyon began hearings on the public welfare bill. In the house the education commit tees are in joint session on a bill creat ing a department of public welfare, proposed by President Harding. The Bej-gdoll committee continued its hear ing. ' ' ' Vote Will lie Taken WASHINGTON, May 11. (U C Martin, U. P. Staff Correspondent.) 7h' c"T 'W.Sl- emerenc!r tariff bill today. Under an agreement reached last, week, the voting begins at 5 p. m. indication's are that the mea sure will pass. It has already passed the house and will go to conference as soon as the senate disposes of it. Onifrrce Agree WASHINGTON. May 11. (I. P.) Conferees agreed on , the emergency Immigration bill. The bill limits Im migration for the next ten months to three percent of the nationals of any country resident In the United States under the 1910 census. The house conferees agreed to the elimination of n exemption in favor of religious re fugees. Taxation i lls-"issod WASHINGTON. May 11 (Ralph F. "ouch, U. P. Staff Correspondent.) The present taxation plans call for the average contribution rf $40 dollars a year from each of tha 10.1.0011,000 per sons In the United Slates, is estimated by the house -ways and means commit tee. As outlined to the United Press, the proposed tariff bill will raise 1600, 000,(100. The revenue bill, to be con sidered Inter, will, levy a total of at least ja.r.oo, ouo.ooo. BE Ik State Convention Opens in This City Tonight With Re ception to Delegates. Mrs. W. It. Myriok, of this city, is being prominently mentioned as can didate for the office of president of the State Parent Teacher Association. j which opens Its state convention here lion's"' a"d which will elect officers SENAT PASSED . ,on l-Tldny. .Mrs. yrick is possessed Special. 0f great executive ability and is one of the state vice-president', a member of the convention committee, presi dent of the Pendleton Parent Teacher Council and president of" t lie Parent Teacher Association of Hawthorne school. She Is well known in Parent Teacher work throughout the state. (.Hie hundred delegates are expected for the convention and many will ar i-ivp be.rc tonight. Among those who havo already arrived are Mrs. C. W. Hayhurst. slutc president; Mrs. Dora H. Schllkc, of La Grande, a mcriiber of the convention committee and a past stnKr president: Mrs. K. II. Pal mer, of Portland, also a member of the comniVttee; Mrs. MoQnire. of Ij) Grande, representing tho Central School association; Mrs. Charles Gra inier, of Progan, Oregon, delegate from the Ilrogen Parent Teacher As sociation. Mrs. Hayhurst, Mi's. Palmer, Mrs. R. M. Walker, of liclinke-W'alker Ituslness College, and-Mrs. J. I- Hill, president of the Portland council, are guests at the home of Mrs. Wyrlck. All trains are to be met by automo- bllcs.unrt the delegates arc to be guests, in Pendleton homes. WYOMING ttMKS WKT V.U.LEJO. Calif.. May 11. (A. P.) Word was received today that the battleship Wyoming, one of the latest type ships, attached to the Pacific fleet has been ordered to come to Mare Island here for repair work. N HALTS IN HIGHWAY COMPLETION URGED ON COMMISSION WILL NOT HALT REFORM UNTIL NEW VICEROY CAN STUDY SITUATION ALLAHABAD, India, May 11. (A. '.' Mohandas Karamachand Gand - hi. Indian nationalist leader, has ( lined to suspend his program of non coopeiation until the Earl of Reading ,he X""K vicery. h hau" tin,e to study I the Indian situation. J The request for suspension of the nationalits program waa made by M. Kuza, a member of the council of state. All blame for any disorder that may arise Is cast on the government by ,l. Gandhi who asks M. Raza to a (Id rem his appeal "to the officials who are provoking the people and creating alarm in the country." Gandhi says that "what disturbance there is, is either fomented by the authorities or tiie situation is so mishandled as to give rise to bloodshed." EASTERN OREGON SHOWS 188 TOURIST CARS PASSED THROUGH PENDLETON DURING APRIL Estimated Number of People ( Carried in Autos 584; Aver age Length of Visit 3 Days. The desirability of Pendleton and Umatilla county doing everything pos. sible to improve the old Oregon Trail tit ncnurHifA tourist travel on this route was presented last night by Ern- est Crockatt, secretary of the Eastern Oregon Auto Club, In a report , issued by him before the membership of the Pendleton Commercial Association. During April, the report showed, 18S cars carrying tourists visited Pendle ton. Of this number 131 availed themselves of the use of the city tour ist camp grounds as a place to stay during their visits. The estimated number of people carried in the cars was 584, and ,the average length of visits in the city Was three days. Fig ures complied indicate tnat a total oi 2.oo was spent in the city by tourists. The tourists came from all over the West, from the Middle West and from as far east as New York. The Dako tas, Minnisota, Michigan,- Wyoming, Montana, and adjoining states were in IncluC.ed in the home states of the travelers. Mr. Crockatt sought the cooperation of the Commercial Association to se cure action from the state highway commission in improving the condition of the Oregon Trail so that traffic now being routed south from Salt Lake may be secured to come through Pen dleton and connect with the Columbia Itiver road. Many letters of thanks are being re ceived from tourists who were hero and received Information from tho club, the speaker said. MAItKKrs AIM POHTLAXD, May Markets are steady. ; STKADY 11. (A. P ) POLITICAL BOSS OF CHICAGO'S' OT WARD IS SHOT Attack on Chieftain Came as Climax of Months of Assassi nations in 'Little Italy.' CHICAGO, May 11. (U. P.i Tony D'Andrca, a democratic political boss of the "bloody nineteenth ward, was riddled with bullets in rront of his home early today. Assassins who were concealed in a vacant apartment on the first floor of the building occupied bv D'Andren and family, fired eight shots as Little Italy's chieftain alight ed from a taxi. Seven bullets cnt-.-rcd his body. D'Andrea Is in the hospital mortally wounded. O'Andrca's wife, Lena, always fearful of her husband's life, rushed into the street in her night garments. "I-iona. I nm dying, dear, gasped the politician. "They got nic." The attack on the chief ia-.n came .as a climax of months of. assassinations and sluggings in Little Italy, which cave the name "bloody nineteenth" to the ward. Itomlilngs nnd shooting were every night occurrences a few mouths ago during the campaign of John Powers . hnd IV Andrea, who were running for ,ne aidermunle Job of the "bloody nineteenth. Powers won. C1RIS ARF. CAPTt UFI BEDFORD, N. Y.. May 11. (A. P.) Nine of the ten girls who escaped from the Bedford reformatory for women Monday night were captured In the woods yesterday and returned, tired and hungry but still defiant. VASION OF RUHR VALLEY - Urging action towards the comple tion of highway work in this county, particularly the Old Oregon trail, the Cold Bprlngs road and a road to Grant county local businessmen this after noon met with Messrs Teon and Bar rett of the state highway commission . i -,. ,. , r-,,mtm.fril Asso- I . 1 . nIIn,tur r irwoi mn Including officers of the Commercial Association, the roads committee and members of the county court are In at tendance at the meeting. The highway commissioners drove over from La Grande this morning reaching Pendleton about 12:30. They announced they would meet for an "hour, with local people after which they were to leave for Heppner. MOI'XT KAIXIEK REMAINS WASHINGTON. May 11. (U. P.) The national geographical board de cided unanimously against changing the name of Mount Rainier. It had been proposed to chr.nge it to Tacoma or Lincoln. AUTO CLUB REPORT El 'Merchants', Manufacturers' Carnival Was Discussed at Commercial Club Meting. Pendleton people will enjoy band concerts this summer by the Pendle ton band, action taken by the Com mercial Association at its monthly meeting held last night indicates. Four appearances of the musical organiza tion are provided for according to the motion that was unanimously adopted following the report of Harry L. Kuck. chairman of the civic committee of the association which had the matter un der consideration. The concerts "will be he'd in May, June, July and Au gust. The possibilities of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Carnival which will be held May 2 and 27 were dis cussed by C. P. A. Lonergan, who de clared that the carnival will show the public what the local merchants have to sell and what the local manufactur ers make In Pendleton. On motion of Mr. Lonergan the association as a body went on record as endorsing the car nival as it is being planned by the mer chants' committee. "This carnival will assist in getting the public to realise the necessity for patronizing home business. If we all did all our trading away from home, all we would have any need of in Pen dleton would be a postoffice and an ex press office."' Xcod Fire Prrvcnt'on. r W. E. Ringold, chief of the Pendle-J ton fire department, presented to the members the necessity for keeping the city clean of rubbish and inflamable trash which adds to the risk of the property owner from fire and mars the beauty of the city. The chief also called attention to the coming visit of members of the bureau of fire rating who will inspect the city's water supply and system on the application of the city to determine whether the fire insurance rates shall be lowered. 'Every citizen knows what he should do," the chief declared. "We want to have Pendleton spick and span. We don't know what day these inspectors will arrive, but their re port will establish what our fire rate shall be." E. H. Aldricb, chairman of the con vention committee, reported that the arrangements committee of the state convention of Parent-Teacher associa tion and the G. A. R. needed some fl nanc'al assistance, which was voted. Dr. M. S. Kern thanked the associa tion for the use of tho rooms for the Eastern Oregon Dental society's meet ing held here Sunday and Monday. A. W. Lundell. leader and director of the Pendleton hand, thanked the associa tion for the moral, as well as the fi nancial support accorded to the organ isation. H!l CO-DiSCOVERER NEW YORK. May 11. (A. P.) Madame Curie, the eminent scientist and co-discoverer of Tadlum. waa a passenger on the steamship Olympic which arrived here today. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER NO. 0824 ALLIED TERMS ARE ACCEPTED OIICOITIOMV German Chancellor Sent Note to Allied Nations Agreeing to Meet Reparations. Demands. PARIS PRESS LAYS FINAL SETTLEMENT TO AMERICA Hughes' Last Note Bidding Ger mans Make Acceptable Offer Credited as Deciding Factor. BERLIN, Slay 11-Carl D. Croat, U. P. Staff-.Cosrespondent.) Germany has finally yielded to the allies. With a cabinet chosen on purpose to accept the allied ultimatum. Chancellor W'irth today sent to London, Pari and Home, a note agreeing uncondttloanlly to all the demands. A note waa band ed to the allied ambassaora here also. IJoytl-Goorge Kve Note. LONDON. May 11. (A. P.) Ger many's uncondiUonal acceptance of the entente reparations waa delivered to Premier Lloyd-George by Dr. Sthamer, the German minister, today, Formal Xote is Prepared. BERLIN, May 11. (A. P.) -Germany's new -cabinet began prepara tions of a formal note to the entente accepting the allied reparations terms. The allied demands In brief were: . Payment by June, of 1.000,000,000 gold marks due May 1; trial of Ger man officers and soldiers accused war crimes; complete disarmament; and ultimate payment of 133.750,000,- 000 reparations. France Is Disappointed. - PARIS. May 11. (Webb Miller, V. P. Staff Correspondent.) Disappoint ed by loss of a chance to seise -Ruhr valley, France awaited Germany's fi nal note of surrender.. Officials at Qua! D'Orsay admitted the invasion will be held up if the German note ac- , cepting the allied ultimatum Is as sweeping as it is reported. The French, however, made no move to cancel troop orders or other prepara tions. They regard the invasion more as postponed than abandoned. Paris . newspapers laid the final settlement to the American pressure on Berlin. Secretary Hughes' latest note bidding the Germans make acceptable offers to the allies is credited with being tha deciding factor In Berlin's decision. MYSTERY SURROUNDS Young Husband: Leaves Wife and Babies, Gives no Infor mation as to His Destination Considerable mystery surrounds the disappnrance Sunday of Dallas Du Puis. young man of Nolin who has loft his home and esve no Information as to bis detimttio;i. Two letters, cne to his father. Ed Du"uis. ami another to his young wife, evidently mailed after he boarded a train here, gl.'e the information that "I nm nj good to you and am going away." DuPuis Is about 27 years old. He has been engaged in building a house on land owned ty his father at Nolln. Satur.lay he drove a team to Pendleton to get some lumN?r, put the team In a bjvrn and left. He was last seen Sun lay morning on the streets here. It Is thoognl that he boarded a passenger ttain aa the letters received by his father and his wife bear Impressions of the Baker-Portland mail division. Financial embarrassment and poor be'jlth are considered probable causes of the disappearance of the young imui. He recently returned from Mon-t-ii- where he lost u considerable sum of money in some land deals. Bron chial trouble has bothered him this winter, and he has been unable to work a great deal of the time. lie has been melancholy much of the time, and his wife and relatives fear that he may attempt his life. Two babies, the older one about three years old, sail the younger one Jest past one year old are also left. Mrs. Dupuls Is In Pendleton at the home of her father. O. F. Hteele. tine la very anxioua to recelvs any Infor mation possible as to tha wheraabouti of her husband.