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THE ONLY SMALL DAILY IN AMERICA CARRYING REGULAR WIRE REPORTS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, UNITED PRESS AND THE I. N. S. 1 DAILY EDITION DAILY EDITION The net press run of rtsterdajr's Dally 3.344 Ttal paper ts a mrmier or and aodlted bf the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The East Oregonian la Eastern Ore gon's greatest nrspaper and aa a aU leg force gives to the advertiser over .wice to guaranteed paid circulation , In i'endletua and I'matilla county of any otber newspaper. COUNTY 0F C j? -PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL. 33 i DAILY EAST ORSGONIAN. PENDLETON, OREGON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1921. NO. 10,011 TO AL DEFEA T FOR PORTLAND FAIR TAX SCHEMES IN DIG A TED B Y FEELING TOD A Y l). 8. DELEGATES 111 France Wants Heavy Allotment Submarines; Britain Wants all Submarines Abolished.1 LITTLE HOPE THAT MEET WILL BE ENDED THIS YEAR British Delegates Cancel Reservations on Steamer Leaving on December 31. WASHINGTON', Dec. 21. (L. P.) The American arms conference ded ication opposes granting France a top heavy allotment of submarines or oth er auxiliary craft and will also reject Britain's plea for the abolition of sub. maries. The British and French dele gations, undaunted by this knowledge, were proceeding today with the plan" for pressing their desires on these points. Little belief that the delegates would reach an ugrcement by Christ mas was expressed, as the French and British desire promise to prove strong obstacles to the agreement. The French delegation are reported as Waatlng lctwooii 15,001) and SO, 000 tons of submarines, IU?cvnt lolls are Cancelled WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. (A. P.) The British delegatUm today cunccllod its reservations on the steamer leaving December 31, satisfied there Is little chance of finishing the arms confer ence before the middle of January. Must Have Submarines HAVHK, France, Dec. 21. (U. P.) Hpne Viviani, arriving here from tho United States, today, declared France, because of her colonial pos sessions, must have submarines. HARD Iil'f'K CHAMPION. AI.TOONA, Pa., Doc. 21. (I. N S.) Halph Marshall, thirty-seven, who has been in hospitals twenty five times and just not out again, j,nre nothing will happen till after Ohri. Unas and New Years day at least. They are so near at hand he feels that he may be able to spend the holidays at home with his fami ly. When he isn't in the hospital he's a machinist In the Altoona shops of tho Pennsylvania railroad. He has u wife and two sons. CODY, Wyo., Dec. 21. (I. N. S.1 "Old Slocum," wily moose monarch of the Wyoming forests, has been slain. "Old Slocum" was said to hnve been one of the biggest moose known in the famous "Jackson Hole" country. He fell before the gun of B.. W. F.vcrctt, n hunter from Plsguh Forest, N. C. His pelt and 55 inch spread of antlers will be mounted. Unlike deer and elk. a moose is an and "Old Slocum" fought tnionistic. fiercely to the end. With his horns lowered and bellowing loudly he charued forward as F.verett pumped a shot straight through his heart, end ing his career. The danger of blood pressure lies In the weakening of the arteries due usually to uge. Reported by Major I.eo Moorhouse, local weather observer. Maximum, 20. Minimum; 1L Barometer, 29.51. TODAY'S FORECAST Tonight and Thursday rain or .snow. OPPOSE BRITISH FRENCH REQUESTS . ri THE WEATHER INI THE 'REPUBLICAN SENATORS 10 APPROVE mmm's iu mm WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. U". P.) President Harding will be urged by the republican senators to approve the reservation to the quadruple Pacific treaty malting clear the I'nited States unwillingness to safeguard the terri torial integrity of Japan. He will make clear the pact does not bind her to do so. Indications were that Hard ing himself might suggest that reser vation when he presents the treaty to the senate, thereby smoothing out the difficulty caused by his difference of ! opinion iwin tne mci.cai. un,-su,,, .1 , iv... I WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. (U. P.) President Harding's misinterpreta tion nf the. Pacific tre.itv as regards the Japanese territorial integrity. I ,i ., k m ti, ire0,.n,,oilfihl senate group opposing its passage ! tin ouch the senate. Senator Noruh ! made capital of the apparent disagree- Charles Albert Cole, aged 55, a resi dent of Pendleton for the past 40 years, died at 5:30 p. m. yesterday at his home, 712 Aura street, utter a me , ,ea s I " . ' .Mr. t oie was oorn in jiarsnauowu. ' i Iowa, coming to Oregon at the age of , seven, r oi mini; ifiun iht the contracting business In Pendleton and Vus at one tiif.e a mftribcr of the firm of Oibsnn & Cole. He was a well known local citizen and several years cltv ' ago served as a member of the council. He was a member of the Masonic order, Knights Templar and Woodmen of the World. His widow survives him, also a dau- j ghter, Mrs. Joseph Snyder: a son, i Cecil Cole; two grandchildren: his j mother, who resides in Spokane, nnd three sisters, one of whom is Mrs. i Frank Qtiinlan, of Pendleton. I Funeral services will he held to-! morrow at 2 p. m. from the Presbyter. , Ian church, with Uev. George L. Clark, pastor, officiating. The I'nited School Band of Pendle- I ton has been organized a little more I than one year, nnd to give an account j of its efforts dur ng the more than 12 ; jminnths which Its members have spent ; I in working: together, the bund Is now planning to present a concert some time in January. Practices are being j held now by the membership under i the direction of A. W. I.undell to get j the program in readiness. I The band consists of about 5ft pieces, ine players have been taken; irom all or tne scnools of the city, and ' tne organization is now playing a me-1 dlum grade of music, according to Di rector I.undell. Some of the boys are also practicing with the Itonnd-Pp band. There Is some slight indebtedness to be mot by the boys' organization, and thev have chosen the concert j method as a good way to ra so the , funds they need to pay the amiount i they are now owing. Some special I numbers, which consist of quartets. solos and other numbers are being ar- , ranged POItTLAND. Dec. 21. (P. P. I The Portland grain exchange will close j Friday. December 23, in respect to K. W. Hastings, who died last night. Mr. ' Hastings represented the Collins Grain Company of Pendleton in Portland, : and was for many years head of the cash grain department of the Balfour ; 1 1 Guthrie company. He will be buried i Friday. I j Mr. Hastings, who was in Pendleton : many times on business, was one of lithe best known grain men in the Northwest. He was about 't years of age and had been ill since last July. f ASK f.OKS TO Jl'IIV PORTLAND. Dec. 21. i A. I . The case of Joe Heil charged with lb" murder of Jerry Powers a poolbvl ooor'eor went to the jury at noon fo- ( day after a trial breaking the speed i iciord. The trial started yesteiik.j afteriKx.n. , BE E PACIFIC mem between President Harding and Secretary Hughes, insisting there is no proper reason why the treaty's language should remain ambiguous. Secretary Hughes and other confer ence delegates agreed the treaty in cludes Japan proper in the territory which the four signatory powers agree to safeguard. President Harding flat ly disagrees with this view, holding that only island possessions of the four powers are meant. Harding is ! willing, however, to allow the Hughes conHtrllction , 8,Hnd for official pur poses. The treaty opponents predict ed failure for the pact as a result of this controversy in the president's town official family. The chef result of the embarrass- lug situation Is President Harding s apparent decision to take no active, I' i campaign to force the pact I througbjhe enate. ARMY COLONEL SAYS HE HAD SLACKER REGIMENT IN FRANCE DURING WAR I SAN FIIAN'CISCO, Dec. 21. (P, P.l i "1 had a slacker regiment In France. niii.i.. ui of eowalds and those who ; ! would not work." paid Colonel Hoi- i brook of the I'nited States of America I today in admitting that he "probaWy" 1 ..; 'ih rlnnel Holhrook whom Bob- m mitmn charged with mistreating j ,he soldieis in. France. Harrison was ....;r..i.,.. ixc.tiwa Hi., unnrite rnminittee .,",, S(.mitor Watson's charR- es Colonel Holhrnnk Is at the Presl dlo ,h.) re,... ."We made that, .regiment work. I do not reiii'-ra'cr Harrison. He is probably a sorehead," Holbrook declared. I ! , Wheat made a considerable gain ini ; price today, December grain closing i at $1.11 1-2. May t $1.16 3-S and '. July at $1.05 3-S. Yesterday the elos- ing prices were December $1.0H 7-i, j May $1.14 1-S i.nd July, $1.03. Following are the riuota'lpns re ! ceived by Overbeck &. Cooke, local i ru'okers: Open H'gh Low Close Dee. tl.iiSVi $1.11 '.a $1.0s'i $l.ll'i ! May 1.14 I.1BV4 1.1. Tii !.luly 1.03's 1.05 U- l.nil U i Sterling, 421. l.Ki:!a 1.05 -1, Marks, 59. TRAIL OF KIDNAPPERS SHANGHAI, Dec. 21. (C IM r.HV, ,.., u.nops are repoited on (h(1 trail (l! tUl ,andits who captured ,,..,.. Sim y.,t p,., wife of the pr s- irlent of South China. According to dispatches, the bandits were making their way toward Kwci Lin. the capi tal of the province ol Kvvaf; m, mitt north of Canton. WHAT DO I. I.U What e.in yiei tell about these men by the r s giriiures? pajie':! of the four-power treaty aigntd at Washington. BY SIGNERS OF IRISH djpt RFPflMMfNn , - . 1 reaty OlOnCrS bay Oinn rein Delegation Were Forced by Lloyd George to Sign Pact DUGGAN WARNS DAIL OF REJECTION CONSEQUENCES Thsoe Who Denounced Treaty; and Those Who Declared it Perfect, Were Denounced. P.) The forced by monstrous nnil.IX, Dec. 21. (F Sinn Fein delegation were Premier Lloyd Oeorge's iuiu,uity" to sign the Anglo-Irish trea ty, George Duffy, a delegate who sign- j ed the pact, charged 111 the Irish par liament today. According to Duffy's story, Uoyd George threatened Ireland with an im mediate war unless the Irish pli nlpo emiaries signed the treaty. Eiinion, Duggan, who also signed the treaty. recommended the Dail Kireann to ru!'- Ify the pact, but denied Lloyd Oeors coerced the plenipotentiaries. ' ; were sent to negotiate an agreement. j not a republic. Tne alternative was war. of course." Duggan said. i lie.-piie the fact the delegates 'wore compelled to sfon ' the :1feuty, Duff -'agreed with Dugean that the Dull F.ir (aiin shiiiild ratify the treaty. "1 solemnly warn you of the tonseipien ces of rejection," Duffy sa d. "The treaty gives us real power, military, I economic and governmental the pow- i rr to resist further aggression," Duffy declared, conileinning those who de nounced the tiealy and tho.fe who de- ; clarcd it perfect as well. STORES WILL CLOSE MONDAYS FOLLOWING XMAS' AND NEW YEAR'S DAY HERE: Christmas Day and New Year's Day this year fall on Sundays, but that won't prevent clerks and office employes In Pendle- 1 ton frroii receiving a week-day j off for vacations to celebrate. ! the two days. Sunday may he J the real Christmas and the real New Year's Day, but both days j will he celebrated on the Mon- day following. Action taken several weeks j since by the merchants' com- j in it t to of the Pendleton Coin- mercial Association to this effect has met with the approval of the business men of the city. Beginning Thursday night, stores , will keep open longer than their usual hours in order for the Christmas shoppers to have ex tra time In which tir'make pur chases. The late closing hour will apply only to Thursday. Fri day and Saturday nights, mer chants have decided. IIS RATIFICATION YOU MAKE OF THEIR SIGNATURES. m M A nf 4 ShM. II. i mw. rd iMm. IM. J ' 11 Laeh sera w ii IN THE LEGISLATURE SAI.KM. Dec. 21. i A. I'.) The first bill "passed In the senate was a measure providing money received I'ndcr the bonus net shall not be ap I lied to payment of debts contracted before receipt of the bonus. I The senate sustained the governor's veto of six measures passed at the last regular sesion. hot wok DN i:xrn AM.r.h. i Hot words were exchanged at a hearing last night of the house roads committee between Arthur Spencer, I'nion Pacific attorney, and John K. Logan representing the motor bus association, over provisions which Spencer .haul would make posibl? the granting vito is o SAI.lv.M, Dec. 21. 1 1'. 'p. ) Senator Ktiayer's Irrigation bill S. 11. 27T., ( vetoed by the governor following the last legislature, was passed over the I governor's veto today by a unanimous vote. I House bill 112 also passed over the veto. The first named bill gives an I irrigation district authority to proceed with construction on private prop I city after a tender of compensation has been made subject to court award, the purpose being to prevent a delay pending sett lenient. The second named gives to irrigation districts authority to fix dates for elections and entitles a district to monies collected on dellnritiencles and interest. ! Both house and senate passed S. B. 275. The house passed 11. B. 112, Willi the senators probable lavorable MOTION VOTI I) DOWN. ' SAl.F.M, Dee. 21. (A. P.) After a brisk debate the bouse at noon to day by an overwhelming majority laid on the table a motion by Bennett of Coos county to postpone Indefinitely the direct property tax hill, and ;us a result this measure along with the gasoline and Income tax bills will , e considered by the house this afternoon. The vote Indicated the house I Is practic ally a unit for the exposition, the only question btlng as to the !,est method of financing. ' , ' , - 1U S LINKS The senate passed over, the veto 1 last regular session' providing' for regulation of motor bus lines by the pub ; lie servlie commission. Senator Kddy obtained a promise from exposition ; leaders to put into the gasoline tax bill a provision that out of the three ' i :::!!!!::",:: '''"j::;,:: "lm!i..K".!::. .,h .rr' r-or,,,.nto ,h ' ,, . ' , no .h ixiiisnip ALLowiii). SAI.KM, Dec 21. -(A. P.) Tho senate sustained the veto of Governor oleott on II. )!. ,U'.l of the regular session Introduced bv the 1'nUm i.n.l Wallowa county delegations to create (ounty. There was no (Opposition, was not emergency legislation. TWO WOMEN KILLED AND THIRD MAY DIE; MAN TURNS GUN ON SELF! PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 21. (P. P.) Cornelius ('off shot dead, .Mrs. Mill-I nle Warrington, Mrs, Bella Drake and wounded another woman, then killed I himself In a rooming house here to- ' day. The wounded woman, Mrs. Agnes I I liorreu, may die. 1 Thn ii. .!!... ....1,1 I.I I li . I.. XZcZ';. Z Mrs. Borrell's niece, probably caused ""' m,m '-"' CHICAGO, Dee. 21. (P. !'.) -A gentlemap l-andlt, expensively dress- I ed, relieved the passengers of the Chi-! cago-Ncw York deluxe train of over i $1000 In cash and jewelry, last night. ! gn:;in;iH;7ro';:;;edhonir;.rn,r escaped through the rear door Jumped into an aiitoniohlle. and i ;i:iniAV noih.f i:xpi:i.i.i:i. I I'liltLIN, Dee. 21. (I. X. s.)The i Association of Herman Nobility has expelled Frelherr von Brandensleln, I the premier of the Middle. Cermnn j Federal Itepnblle of Thurlngia, who Is ia member of the majority socallst party. The reason Is that he pressed reactionary propaganda sup- I t' lls a story. Yep, the signature of exclusive franchises to bus lines. i:i;itni:. action late today. Iil'.til LAiiil). of the governor tho Moser bill of the '""T"1 "" ' n circuit Judgeship for Wallowa Senator F.berhard explaining that It POLISH POLICE CHIEF i A T A i- 1 fl m , fccompu- I CeS Who Assisted in Bomb- i ing; of Wall Street in 1920. WARSAW, Poland, Dec. 21. (II. P.) Wolfe Llmlenfnld, held here in connection with the 1920 Wall Street bomb murders, pinned six accomplices for whom the detectives are now searching, Dr. Stanislaus Onlkowskl, chief of the commissary of Polish po litical police, declared today. Oulko- Whkl gave the following highlights of lanuenieiii s nisiory: i tin 1 ...,.. .11 .. ...111. ,i,l T ,,.,.i T n the bombing, because he knew all de - talis of the plan, how the bombs were made and how to be set off; he did : z:l:rz,n m """I WOLFE LINOENFELD 8Y The accomplices names were not dl- "' ,nl" tn6 wlule matter on the ta vulged. Polish authorities are anxious bio for on adjourning until-J o'clock to deport I.liulenfeld as soon as pos- j wll(.n tne milttor viH come ngall)i sbe. LIndenfeld was born tn War-' . . saw In issii. Is married and has a wife i Mnny m,,m,"'r tho legislature and two children living In New York i had become the laughing stock of tho c111'- I state th.oiigh the scrambled condition LIndenfeld participated In the revn- , .,. . , . , , I,.,, . , ,. , , . . of the proposa s for far f wincing, lotionaty movement In Poland In moil. I . .i...... While a member of the German sec-1 T hpre ' seneral agreement that tho tion and the Socialist party and work-! Kubli amendment calling for a prop. Ing as a store clerk, that party decided j CTtv (ax , n ,,,, ,RmlPi Th9 ga80na to punish him for strike-breaking. I LIndenfeld tbereup sought police pro-; ,nx f"rm ,1,e han,K for fnlr flnanc tectlon and became a spy In the So- Ing, elallst ranks, It being his duly to Incite . , radicals to soiiif unlawful action audi fContlnusd nn naaa I.) then Inform on them. He Inter nniii' . ... to America, where he started a polltl-! ' cal newspaper, took part In propagan - (la work and Joined the International labor parly. After the Wall Street bomb outrage. LIndenfeld said he went to William J. Burns, head of the Burns Detective Agency, now chief of . the Pnlted States secret service, nnd offered tn go to work for him. He got $3.0(10 from Bums and then dis appeared, jfe returned to Poland nnd J was becoming active In the communist I ' political work when Detective Slvvest- Cos'rove. working for Burns, lo - i rated him here. DI'PltKSKlOV II ITS HAWAII KiVl.l ft r. T. 1' . Dee ',.(I. , 8.) Announcing substantial cuts In tho salaries of every plantation etn i -"'e from iiresfdent to office boy, the i Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association has elven Ihe first offlclel recognition of the fact that the natlon-wirie de- ! predion has at last hb Hawaii. ! The pelnrv cut, which became effee. I tlve on TX'eeuibc-r 1, follow-ed closely : the announcement hv the nssoclntion of decreases In field labor wave to Mc.ptv.stv das. effeetlve on all plan-1 tations which fire members of tho as-' jsoclatlon. Iloih wages and salaries on I th" plant at 'n have been far above J o.rma! Heritor the entire war period, s o.'ar officials sav, and now that "four rent suear" Is a fact, pay sched ules must conform, filTNER IIS NEITHER HOUS 1UPPR0VE Battle Underway in Lower House This Afternoon; Property Tax is Dead. MEMBERS ANXIOUS TO END SESSION THURSDAY Eastern Oregon Men Unite in Appeal to Commission , Against Wallula Road. In a phone message to the East Oregonian at 1:45 today Senator R. W. Ritner, president ! of the senate, said that at the time the increased gasolene tax was being foughttjt in the 1 IT. . ' ,1 i ' . . house. ne predicted twit I miirht lasr. ill . .fWm hut that in his judgment the gaso lene tax scheme would be re- jected by Doth hOUSeS. In Oth- .. o.. n , . , , I WOrUS, ine roriiana IBlr prO- ! motors will be defeated I throughout on the plan to in duce tht legislature, to propose ! any state-wide taxation plan lor financing the fair. - All Eastern Oregon mem bers of the legislature, with the single exception - of Frank Sloan, have signed a petition to the state highway commis sion opposing the Wallula road. This afternoon Mr. Sloan had not yet been asked to sign the paper but it was stated he would be invited to do so. The petition from the Eastern Ore gon delegation will be present ed to the state highway com mission before the session ends. If possible the legislature will adjourn Thursday night. Unless the session can be end ed by Friday the members pro pose to go home anyway. HALF.M, Deo. 21. (U. P.) Tha Portland fair program was shoved to ' ; lh" en1 nf lhl Precipice In the house today, and hung there by a thread. It 1 SALVATION ARMY WILL CARRY CHRISTMAS CHEER TO MANY NEEDY FAMILIES With '.nit $75 to provldo Christmas cheer for 15 needy j Pendleton families, Adjutant A. j C. Peterson, of the Salvation I Army, Is confronted with a dlf- f leu It problem as the holiday draws near. Last year funds were three times this amount, hut this year, Adjutant Peterson states, only a few coins are dropping Into the Christmas kettles. Two local lodges have given donations, but the total sum collected is hope- : b ssly Inadequate. In one family j there aro nine children and In other families among the poor ' there are several members. . ' Baskets of food, containing provisions for a Christmas din- ner will be given to the various families. Twenty pheasants, do. nated to tho Salvation Army hy the game warden, and kept in cold storage, are to he used for the meat portion of the dinner.- ;