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THE ONLY SMALL DAILY IN AMERICA CARRYING REGULAR WIRE REPORTS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, UNITED PRESS AND THE L N. & DAILY EDITION 1 DAILY EDITION The Cut Oregonlan li Eastern Ore gon'! greatest newspaper and a a sell ing; force (Ives to the advertiser over twice the guaranteed paid circulation In Pendleton and Umatilla eouetj of any other newspaper. Th net press r - ' Vurdsjr'o dally 3,319 f Tsls PP It ......., or aafl aodHsd the Audit BiUMi of Circulations. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPEB COUNTY OFFICIAL PAfEB DAILY EAST OEEGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1921. NO. 9958 VOL S3 YANK BASEBALL DEFY IE mm JUDC LAilS Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, Tom Sheehan and Bill Piercey are :0uf on Barn Storming Trip. f JUDGE INSISTS BASEBALL . LAW MUST BE ENFORCED Ruth Declares Ruling is Unfair, '. Unjust and Un-American and .'Says Tour -Will Continue. KU KLUX HEAD IN WASHINGTON. MRS UM IELD " BUFFALOi N. T., Oft. 17 (U. P) -jDefylng Judge Landis" ruling that members of the Tanks and Oiants teams could-"1 noi ' play post-season baseball. Babe Ruth, Bob Meusol. Tom Sbeehan, ,03111 Piercey. Yank players, are out on a barnstorming trip. Ruth said It the post -season work Is against organized baseball, the ruling Is "un fair, unjust and un-American." He laid the tour would continue. 1 ;. . Are Playing In Buffalo .'CHICAGO, Oct. 17. (U. P.) Judge Landis, supreme baseball ar biter,. many outlaw Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel and Bill Piercey, forever from organised baseball, or may suspend them fof a period of time, he Intimat ed today and took under advisement the trio's violation of the baseball rule that" no member of a pennant winning team can play post-season baseball. Th"'Yank -trio are playing In Buffalo Or a-barnstorming trip and openly de fied LandlS to enforce the rule. Lan dla Insists that the "oaseball law must be enforced." - , MPERIAL WIZARD AND " VVft lit) - - - .ft. hiir-XA .,i.'i,...rs William J. Simmons, of Atlanta, Ga., Imperial Wizard of the Kti Klan, snapped In the congressional committee room nt Washington during the consideration of resolutions for an investigation of the Klan. F TAKES STAND IN mm TRIAL 'Dr. Brumfield Became Mental ly Unbalanced by Working too Hard' Declares His Wife. CUSTOM I ANNUAL OF STAGING HUNTING. TRIP obserVed tms .YEAR .s CAMPBELL HAVE WORDS ! - V' 1 . ' - . - .; ,.,-v, fv'; .- i WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. (U. P.) Th,e Ku Klux Klan hearing before the house rules committee faved abrupt termination for a moment today when Colonel Simmons, the Imperial Wiz ard, charged that chairman Campbell had rtdlculed the wizard's breakdown last Thursday as a "cheap theatrical performance." The words had hard ly left -Simmons' mouth when Camp bell leaped to his feet and branded the statement as "grossly untrue," de claring "this hearing stop Immediately if., that Is ybur defense,'" ' IRISH PEACE PATtl-EY ADJOURNS LONDON, Oct. 17. (U. P.) The Irish peace conference adjourned "sine ' die" , this afternoon. No break is threatened. The adjournment came because of Prethler; Lloyd George's parliamentary duties. - SOLDIER SI'MMIT, Utah, Oct. 17. (I. N. S.) This little village, on the edge of the tTnita National Forest, Im revelling In a war romance that arons ed the citizens to an enthusiastic ser enade of Harry Fox, World War vet eran, and h.'B pretty French bride, upon their arrival here. Fox was a private in the Fortieth American Division and met Suzunii' Cantang in the little French village of Lormont during the hectic days short ly before the armistice. Later, when Fox boarded a trans port at Bordeaux for his return to the Hta'leq, Suzanne promised to Join him Ih this country and become his bride. After a lapse of two years Suzanne made the 6,000 mile trip from her home in France and was met In Den. ver, Colo., by Fox, where the couple were married by City Chaplain Jim Goodheart, a widely-known war worker. Fox has a pretty new bungalow ah completed on his ranch here, where the couple will live, and they were accorded a welcome by the entire pop ulation of the village. AMERICAN GENERAL IS GIVEN GREAT RECEPTION BY PEOPLE OF LONDON LONDON", Oct. 17. (IT. V.) Gen eral 1'ershinK met with a great re- eptiou in London when he arrived to THOUGHT CASE WILL GO TO JURY ON TUESDAY Dentist Was Expected to Take Stand and Recount Doing on Fatal Night of July 13. ROSEBURt. Oct. 17. (U. P.) Dr. Brumfield, test fying In behalf of her husband, accused of murdering Dennis Hussell, toid the court. The defendant's wife said Erumfleld usu ally arose before daylight, worked Klux i several hottrs, and then worked all day at the office. He frequently worked until after dark on the farm, following supper. This brought on sleeplessness, sleep walking, violent headaches and partial blindness, ac cording to Mrs. Brumfield, As tho court proceeded today, it became al moMt certain the cane would go to the Jury Wednesday. The defense expect ed to complete testimony early Tues day. , Mrs. Brumfield said they had been married slnco 1908. They have been lay the congressional medal upon the ;ln R(,Heburg nearly 12 years. They jrave of an unknown British soldier hU(j known each other three years n Westminster Abbey. King fieorge when they were married. She said sent his own carriage for tho general s-ne nad frequently remonstrated with iti'l practically every li.'gh British and ,ner husband, asking him not to do so Xmcrican official who could, uttond. 1 mucri. Her entreaties availed noth- was in tho Abbey. . Military bunds lnK. Brumfield sat watch.'ng his wife played the Ktur Spangled Banner pre- intently during the testimony. The ceding the ceremony, when General dentist himself was expecled to take Pershing and the - huge assemblage trie stand urid recount his doings on stood motionless during tho playing. !the fatal night when the state claims "May God of our fathers guide and ne murdered Dennis Russell, insofar direct, our. faltering footsteps in the. 1 ftB his amnesia plea will permit his path of permanent peace," General doing so, rsh ng said s mply us he pinned tho I Brumfield, himself, took the stand bronze congressional medal, with the Bnol.tly before noon today, ed white1 and blue ribbon, 'on the ' cushion. The ceremony was brief but miresslve. Ambassador Hnrvev ma''p n she-- talk, paying tribute to tho British and American soldiers. Premier Lloyd George responded, . expressing his 'iotintry's gratitude at America's hom age to Britain's valiant dead. "This pledge will be interpreted as a solemn reminder that these two peoples, com rades in the great war, are resolved to i remain comrades to guarantee great peace." Once every years since 1886 J. J. Hamley and George W. Coutts have taken time off for a hunting trip together. No dif- ference what kind of times or where they were located, acting on agreement, the two boyhood chums have observed this cus- torn, and for 1921, they set aside yesterday for their hunt. They were on some of the lakes In the west end of the county after ducks yesterday. They started early and stayed until late, but their luck wasn't the best In the world. They had a lot of fun and got bIx ducks and maintained a record which was established 35 years ago. The two families formerly llv- ed in South Dakota. Then they moved to Northern Idaho nt about the same time. Ijiter, they heard the call of Pendleton, and they came here In 1906, Hamley's in March Rnd the Coutts family later in the sea-. son iilSiio 1922S. S.C0NVE! FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL KEEP RAILROADS OPERATING SO GENERAL PUBLIC WILL NOT SUFFER SEVERELY t Members of Fraternal - Ell' WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE Rev. J. M. Cornelison, of the Pres byterian mission at the Umatilla In dian reservation, was chosen president of the Umatilla County Sunday School Association at the closing meeting of the convention last night at the Chris tian Church. Mrs. 8. A. Lowell was mnde vice-president, and Miss Xlracc Gilliam secretary-treasurer. The nom inating committee consisted of Mrs. W. H. Albee, A. Sechris, Mrs. E. E. Geist und Rev. B. Hi. Harper. Helix was chosen as the meeting place for the convention in October, 1922. Rev. Alfred Lockwood, pastor or of the Church of the Redeemer, also invited the association to return to Pendleton next year. PrpHlilcntM Chosen District presidents chosen are as fol lows: Northeast district, composed of Milton, Frcewater and Umapine, Rev. Colo; Wheat Belt district, composed of Athena, Weston, Hellxmd Adams, LeRoy I'enland; Houtheasc (list Orders Meet at Homestead of Jake Stock and Erect Dwelling. (East Oregonian Special.) HKRMISTON, Or.. Oct. 17 More than a score of members of the Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellow lodges met nt the homestead of Juke Stork between here and Stanfield Sun day morning to rebuild hla home which was destroyed by fire the first of last week. Tbn Hiork fanillv consists of the being dead. The fire destroyed the house and all the furnishings. The loss was a heavy one to Mr. Stork as he carried no Insurance. II lodge brothers volunteered to help him and yesterday's party was the result The expense of the new building was borne by the K. of P. and the furnish ing by the Odd Fellows. Mr. Stork belongs to the Knights of Pythias at Hermiston and the Odd Fellows at Stanfield. Postmaster General Hays Con sidering Calling for Volun teer Aviators to Carry Mail. ATTORNEY GENERAL IS STUDYING LEGAL ASPECT Small Unions Affiliated With Big Brotherhoods Prepare to Solidly Back Strike'. SEATTLE, Oct. 17. (U. P.) Ma jor General Adelbert Oronkhltc, fath er of Major Alexander Cronkhlte, slain ut Camp Lewis three years sgo, announced his son was murdered in I'lOOld l.loou. Crunkhlte says this cmi- I ici, , KID'S' MONEY STARTS TAKE: MIF IS OTHERWISE '. GAINESVILLE, Ga., Oct. 17. (I. N. 8.) Mr. Zcke Bird Is an unlucky bird, or at least on that point he will rfvcione his word. He was walking alone .on a desolate way, on a road near SenaUnee, at the closing of day. when he waved down a car for a lift and a ride, and the car being roomy took-Zcke Inside. He exchanged liow-dp-dos wltl the car's occupants, ex 4" cepting the sheriff, whom he hadn't tflmpsed. But then . Sheriff Crow turned partly about and Zeke made a move) as if to get out. - VHald on'-Batd the sheriff, -stay In ana ride." - , , . , , " "I was fixing the door," the trav. cler replied. ' . fArn't. you Zeke Blrd7" the sheriff then iqueiidd. .: "Vou said It," ; the ' other replies sort -of wear ic. . ' -Trve" a warrant for' you," the sheriff advised, , an! Zcke, settled back not llttDe surprised. Dawson county, hej said, was' his living place, and he has a forgery charge to face. A continued decline in wheat is ap parent In today's quotations, December wheat closing at $1.10 and May a' $1.14. Saturday's closing prices were May $1.15 7-8 and December, $1.20. Following are the quotations receiv ed by Overbeck & Cooko, local brok ers: . ' Wheat Open High Low Dec' $1.14 $1.15 $1.09 May 1.19 1.19 . 1.13 ' Corn Dec' .47 K .47 .45 May .53 .54 .51 . Oats Dec. .33 .34 .32 May .38 '4 .38 Vi .36 JAP DiaKGATI'iS SAIL TODAY. LOKOHAMA, Japan, Oct. 17. (tr P i Prince Tokugawa, with the f nal contingent of Japanese entatives to the Washington arma ment limltat'on conference Bailed to day en route to Washington. They will land at Seattle. . Close $1.10 1.14 .46 .51 .32 Vi .37 DURANGO, Colo., Oct. 17. With a veritable "Captain Kldd" treasure as trie their objective, two old-time residents ut the "Sun Juan country' navn started operations near Treasuro Peak, in the Han Juan mountain I range, thirty-five miles northeust of this city, in an effort to locate a ; I hoard of gold and silver estimated to I De vaiuea at upwara oi sau.uuu.uuu. William Burker and Charles Lee, both of Lake City, Colo., believe they have discovered a long-lost mine shaft that will lead to the unearthing of an enormous treasure hidden by a band of Spaniards several centuries ago. According to tho romantic story handed down from generation to gen eration In this region, Spanish fortune hunters, harrassed by savage Indians, after the former had secured large quantities of gold and silver by placer mining operations In the mountain composed of Pilot Rock and Tklah, Miss Pearl Fletcher; Central district, composed of Pendleton and Uleth, Guy Johnson; West district, composed of Echo, Stanfield, Hermiston and Uma tilla, W. T. Reeves. Hold Big Meeting Tho climax of the convention was reached lust night when Pendleton and out-of-town people packed the audi torium and Sunday school room of the Christian Church. Musical numbers were given by the united choirs, and strong addresses were made by Dr. I Boudlnot Seeley, of Portland, and Rev. John If. Secor, pastor of the Metho dist church of this city. Rev Secor spoke on "Conservation of the Sunday School," nd Dr. Seeley on "Evan gelism In the Sunday School." Votes of thanks were given the speukers, s'ngers and those who help ed in making plans for the convention, Much enthusiasm was expres-ed bv delegates. fesslon Is backed by u sworn confes sion to be published later. Young Cronkhlte's death was given a nation wide Invest'gatlon. It was doclared accidental. Two urrests were made, but those charged' were acquitted for lack of evidence. Cronkhlte claims the Investigation Into his son's death was suppressed,' KTORM WARNING KKNT. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17. (A. p.) A warning of a storm from the north Pacific has boen given Oregon and Washington. Tl GUNNISON, Colo., Oct. 17.- -A nine year old hunting (U. P.) mystery WICHITA, Kan., Oct. 17. (U. P.) 'streams, concealed their riches In the loxers, officials 'and all promoters, .hr " "- "4 W onnected with the scheduled Ollibons-1 Numerous Unsuccessful attempts ii-rwri fiirht for Tuesday night, were ha.e ublii mauo lo locate the niuiieii arrested today charged with violating fortune, but Lee and Barker now be-i property of Howard Carpenter, a the homing law, which prohibits lleve that the mine-shaft leading to j clubman, who disappeared In 1912 matches where boxers receive a com- tho cache used by tho Span'ards has when he become separated ftom his BY EARL C. REEVES ( International News Service Slnff Correspondent. ) LONDON, Oct. 17. "The American drinking suloon is dead, prohibition has killed It. Nothing can revive lt. In this Irlolngy of staccato remarks Dr. H. J. Campbell, of Christ Church Westminster, who Is back In London after a long lourney through the United States, gave his opinion of pro hlbltlon In America. "I have tested the opinion of lead- was cleared today when h'inters found ers of thought In the States," suld tho the skeleton of a man with a rlflo and Rev. Doctor, "and I find almost u watch beside It and Identified as tne i unanimous belief, from Maine io ,aii- PENDLETON LAUNDRIES WILL OBSERVE LAUNDRY WEEK OCTOBER 24 TO 29 ' Pendleton laundries will be 4 "at home" to their friends dur-. 4 ing the week of October 24 to 211, Joining with 6000 laundries' of the " United States in the celebration of National Laundry 4 week. , , Visitors will be given an op- portunty to see clothing from. the moment it enters the suds to the time when, after being carefally washed, starched, ' ironed and folded,' it is placed In the laundry bundles. Kvery operation used will be shown and the week will give an op-' 4 portunity for visitors to seet Just how laundry is' done. ' 4 Wheat Overnight news was bear- Ifh and the market had a weak tone until shortly after midday when thr government report was erroneously re Ported as showing only inn,nno,0fi bushels on the farms as exclusive of feed and seed requirements, when the full report came In It was found that Ihe 100,000,000 bushels was In real it the feed and seed requirements and (hit the total exclusive of th's figure excregated 318.000,000 bushels, plu 152,000,000 bushels In mills and eleva tors, and 5 29,000,000 bushels com mercial visible or a total of 529.000,000 bushels exclusive of farm seed and seed requirements. Those figures were mainly in excess of expectations, and precipitated heavy selling, and a sharp decline when the trade realized their significance. Other news was com pletely overlooked, but was generally bearish. All cash markets being low er, with the demand much less active than last "week, The head of a lead ing Oermsn Importing concern made h. utatemnnt that Germany ha enough wheat and rye on hand to last for at least six months, and said that nn t,iir tmvlnir can be expected from that country. fiats Without particular feature aside from some buying of pecemner against sales of May at a difference of ( J-8 cents by the leading elevator in terestn. Receipts of 181 cars found the demand sluggish and cash prices were about half cent lower. pensat on und admission Is charged. Jess Willard, retained to referee, was one of those arrested. T 'AD-VANCE, Mo., Oct. 17 arlne church has failed in "At the bottom of this shaft," Lce( salu, "we found a stone tablet which gave a complete description of the lo oat'on of the treasure. The descrip tion Is In Spanish lind stntes that i throe tunnels and two walls must bo pierced before tho treasure ts found. It gives the distance of each of the tunnels and the tlilckneiiH of the walls. In addition It assorts that a bottle containing further discrlpttons of the location, w'll be found nt the base of one of the walls. companions. T T HT. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 17. (T. S.) It's a matter of legality and N. not sentiment that caused Frank L. Rand Cash Markets Seattle Hard White $l.0, Soft White $1.'00, White Club $1.01. Hard Club tl.-Ol, Hard Winter. $1.01. North ern Spring $1.01, Red Walla $0.98. No Portland Cash. -The Na its efforts -The tablet places the prnoinit of , .., a ,, ,PV ,lf (tie MIhsoi.H to organise a branch here.- ,rolks ths treasure secreted is 3516 bars. It ir01t 0f Con.-i'v..i on and Wi rt l..'e didn't like the doctr ties preached u,,s nt Kay whether they are gold or rotecton. Wbe.i sevt t nu ckl'ig when a circuit organizer- of t'he new Bnver, but we believe they represent Uf)l hatched in rests at Fjiest ark, faith visited here. both of these valuable metals. I nc caged in l.'ie 'iiinHu.il P.n k, Here arc the rules to which Ad- 8ize nf the bars alen Is given. liund quit. It'.t sitalnsl il.e law to vance citizens reuisen io uanif. nnraose oi a rocK-sinn;, ''""- ,,1Ke mocking 'i.rds he lcc'rvi. Members must not attend moving tinned, "the treasure, according to the i ,n ll('n .ri',-o fix (anaiies aie picture shows, theatres, circuses, fairs directions given in tho tablet, will be Un not a Vioi:ilicn of (lie law or dances. They must nut use liquor two hundred feet below the original (( cilgF aim),-iu..,, ,e ii.ts, or tobacco in any way, shape. or form; looat'on which was given as many, they must wear no jewelry excepi feet under ground. simple finger rings; they must not be-1 "The tablet nlco mentions some long to any secret organization. death traps in tho shun, ana we are using every precaution in digging lor the tresi-.ure. We have already found j one of the tunnels, but nothing wai. revealed that would Indicate the exact! location of the treasure. However, I t the bottle mentioned In the deserlp- tion on the tablet is not supposed to 'J be at the base of the wall at the end !of the frst tunnel, but Is bel cved to be st the end of the second tunnel. "We are progressing ' rapidly and CHICAGO, Oct. 17. (U. P.) Cash-expect t0 BI)en(i tw0 montbs reaching ier Kolland of the Hannover Union tne location mentioned in the tablet. State Bank of Hanover, 111., has been, We are confident that one of the .....ho-viinu- greatest hidden treasures in the TV0 LOSE LIVES IN fornla. that no community will ever consent to reiieal prohibition, never theless, I have dined at many a table whore wlnfi and liquor were on the table. My hosts Invariable aaid that It was pre-prohibltion stuff und, of course 1 lay low and said nothing." Dr. Campbell admits the prevalence of the view among Important Ameri cans be met that through prohibition the country was getting more and bet ter results out of Its workers than ever before. "Altogether," he said, "It seems to me ihnt prohibition In the IT. S. A. has made for gain and not at all for loss, Touching on the subject of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, the doctor said that he feels convinced that the United Stales will never consent to be. a third party In an alliance with uny other power. " 'We do not fear Japan for our selves' represents the beat American iv;ew." said Dr. Campbell. ' We look, I however, on the intentions of the Japs In China. Western civilisation should clvil.zp China. Japan, with its i'rus- sian Ideas, could only raise up a con glomerate military power In the Far East which must eventually settle the fate of all the East from the Pacific, to trie gates of Kurope perhaps even settle the destinies of the Russian peo ple, part Asiatic as they w largely are, w,th Japan exercising all the pow er that Prussia once hoped to wield In her Insane dream of world-empire." WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. (U. P.) Tho federal government has not yet made definite plans for combatting the Btrlke. It will keep the railroads oporatlng, either by preventing a strike, or by making preparations-so that the general public will suffer as, little as possible. Postmaster Hayes Is considering calling for volunteer aviators to carry mails, Attorney General Daugherty ii studying the legal aspects of the sit- nation, while Senator Cummins, one '. of the authors of the Esch-CUmmlne railroad law, is preparing a suggestion to place the railroad labor board powers under the Interstate commerce commission. At the Cleveland union headquarters it was learned that ths , union leaders characterized as "not ; feasible" the suggestion by the public luroup of the labor board to reflect : tho July first wage cuts In an Immc- ; dlule freight rate reduction and post mining the other cuts Indefinitely In Chicago, the smuller unions affiliated.; with the big brotherhoods, prepare to nrlltliy back the strike. t Heads of the smaller unions nro meeting In Chicago to consider mak ing the wulkout 100 per cent railroad wet-kern. A canss of these union th: wed the membership did M the big " Iroiherhoods did and voted over- , vhelmlngly for'a strike Throwing their weight with the bigger unions v.i.uld be a mere formality, It - was said. Vice President Plerson sa'a thn railroad telegraphers, 81,0011 strong, would stand behind the hroth-f ei hoods. President Film Gerald WM' , preparing a notice to the brotherhood ,, of railway clerks, freight handlers and express and stution employes, to strike on a moment's notice One of-. flctttl, tho head of one of the smaller ; unions, was tho only hcnl not favor Ing a strike. He sa'd lie would fight B walkout ' tooth and toeua'l,'' De- cifcise the big brotherhoods hud double-crossed" the smaller ' unions by deciding to strike, then quitting, when their ow,n demands wern mot. October 30 Is Day Choeon. , . The cause of the strike crisis Is thei : pay of rullroad workers was cut ap proximately 12 per cent July first by' the United States railroad labor hnaM after the roads petitioned for a 20 per cent cut. All the rail unions voted to strike in protest. Strike ballots were, being counted when the American as sociation of railway executives an nounced they would ask the railroad board for a further cut of ten percent. October thirtieth has been set for the general walkout. Action Is Dcf 'wit. BALTIMORE, Oct. 17. (U. P.) ' president Willard of the Baltimore and Ohio, declared if two million rail road employes struck lt would do soj. In defiance of the ra'lroad labor.- hoard's order. Willard suld the wage; cut ruling was Issued after both sides" presented their cases In accordance with the new transportation act. ASKS FOR KI-U'AitATE THIAIjS ' DOS ANGELES, Oct. 17. (U. P.) Ralph Obenrhaln appeared in the court In behalf of motion for sepa rate trials for Madalynn Obenchain and Arthur Burch, accused Jointly for the murder of Belton Kennedy. Judge Reeve continued the hearing on Oben chuln's motion until Saturday. THE WEATHER Reported by Major Lee Moorhouse, weather observer. Maximum, 70. Mln'mum, 48. Barometer, 29.50. Rainfall, .07 of an Inch. DALLAS, Tev. Oct. 17. (U. P.) Two persons burned to death and seven Injured, was the toll of a rooming house fire early today. ..J At...nJ ullh wuriu l IM-UIVieu 111 licrtnuic I din, $75,000 of the banks funds. He has f ndlng of the tahiet ln the been cashier for nine months. Au- Bnaft convinces us that we are on the thorltics charge he "kited" checks, .right track," IH'TTKIl MAKKKT I XSI.TTLKI) PORTLAND, Oct. 17 (A. Heifers are 25 cents higher. cattle are steady. Hogs aro 25 cents higher, prime tight $10 to $10.25. Sheep are steady. Eggs are steady and butler unsettled. Jl A I.LItV STORE HOBKD. DErt MOINES. Oil. 17. (C P.) Two bandits, one 17 years of age, robbed a Jewelry store of $30,000 In Jewels and escaped Just after the store P.) lopened this mortvng. Other WHEAT TAKES DROP CHICAGO. Oh. 17. (A. P.) Wheat dropped seven cents as the re suit of strike reports. in r s Yyf-T '' Tonight and I f Tuesday rain. II ""