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VOL. 33
DAILY EAST OEEGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1022.
NO. 10033
POPE BENEDICT 1 5TH, HEC OF ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
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AM
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OPMDUS START
HPACAI1 Oil
FORD'S OFFER
Majority of Congress Expect
Manufacturer's Offer to be
Accepted by Both Houses.
FERTILIZER ASSOCIATION
DECLARES PRICE TOO LOW
Merchants' Association Says
Further Development of Pro
ject is 'Vicious Enterprise.'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. (t P.)
Although admitting Ford's offer for
the Muscle Shoals nitrate plant would
be tho center of one of the moBt Severn
political battle of recent years, the
majority of congress declared toduy It
believed the offer 'would eventually be
accepted toy both house.
. Opponent to Ford's offer have
started propaganda against congress
accepting the automobile manufacture
era Old. Those opposing are; the Na
tional Fertlller Association, character
izing Ford's offer as paternalism and
charging Ford t3 not offering to pay
enough for the project; Electric power
Interests, with four larje southern as
sociations adopting resolutions against
it, and Wall Street "financial reviews''
of several of New York banking hous
es have-attacked ilt. The Merchants
Association 1: XWJffork 'attacked
$30,000,000 MERGER F
CONTROL OF ' ERNMENT
OWNED SHlt NEARS REALITY
.
One Representative of Each! SECRET IS OUT AS TO
pnt Pitv i nn nnmmittoi.:' WHY MEN LEAVE HOME;
WVUWl Vllj I V Vi WW W7
I
Conference Endorses Merger)
WANT EYES PLEASED
1 ii- P CHICAGO, Jan, 21. (I. f.)
SAN FltANClSCO. Jan.
With the
leading coast cities backing a com
mittee appointed yesterday to nego
tiate directly with the United States
Shipping board for control of govern
ment owned ships on the Faciftc, the
formation of the 130,000,000 merger
neared reality today. Or.e represent
ative of each coast port is on the
committee. The conference endorsed
the merger In principle.
V0ULD8UBMIT
AIL TREATIES
III ONE BU
May wheat closed at t'.l toduy.
wo cents higher than yesterday's
losing, and July wheat closed at
1.03, one and one eighth cents high
er than yesterday's closing . price,
$1.01 7-8. "
Following are the quotations re
ceived by Overbeck & Cooke, local
brokers:
Wheat. -Open
High Low Close
11.14 il.HK il.13 11.11
1.01 1.03 .1.01V4 103
leave home. They want their
ayes pleased. No man ever went
to the dogs for a woman with a
greasy skillet In her hand, de-
clured Franclno Larrlmorc, a
Chicago Rialto star, toaay, dt-
lng her long stage career and ex-
pcrience with "stage door
Johnnies." mostly husbands, she
says. "A wife can make her
husband live on doughnuts and
coffee and mako him like it If
only she herself Is nlftlly dress-
ed and giving, him that daily
uesthetto thrill men must have,"
according to Franclno.
BOARD TO EXAMINE
i
Plan in
Arms
Carry
View Would
Limitations'
Far Eask
"Make
Plan
Issue.
MISSISSIPPI STATES
CE
0
PUBLICITY PROPOSAL
ADOPTED WITH CHANGES
Japan Succeeds in Cutting
- Out Cases Where Individual
Concerns Make Contracts.
Enter 'Gentleman's Agreement'
to Buy no More Road Ma
terial Until Prices Reduced.
CHICAGO, Jan. 21. (U. P.I
Eight states In the Mississippi valley
opened a price war on the cement
manufacturers. They will buy no
more road material until the price Is
reduced.' This will tie up the con
struction program of over 220.000,
000 In the valley, holding up other
contracts to be let valued t 1100,000,.
000. , v
- representatives of thoso eight
states met here yesterday and entered
a ''gentlemen's agrement" to this ef
fect. This amounts to a boycott of
the cement manufacturers In this and
i other sections, by these states until
the alleged cement combine agrees to
market material at lower figures.
. further develwmtwJ the PrJcct a
BOWLER EASES AWAY
FROM COMMISSION I
May
July
BIG TIM MURPHY STILL
CONTROLUNG POWER IN
CHICAGO TRADE CIRCLES
Jim Bowler has edged away from
the duty that formerly was his as a
, member of the boxing commission in
Pendleton, and In his place, James H.
Estes has been appointed., William
Shcchan and Dr. F. A. Lleuallcn,
members of the former commission
have been reappointed by Mayor G. A.
Hartmnn. They have agreed to serve.
One nuestion which has evoked mild
Interest from the fans concerns the
Identity of the next matchmaker. Un
der the law the matchmaker ip the
city Is named by the boxing commis
sion. x The Pendleton post of the Am-
Strike on AH Building Employ.!
ing Non-union Labor First
More Taken by . New Pres.
CHICAGO, Jan. 21. (U. P.) Big
Tim Murphy, under sentence in the
ederal prison following his conviction
for robbing mails, is still a controlling
" ower In the Chicago trade circle
William Curran was elected to suc
ceed Murphy as head of the building
trades council, A strike on all build
lngs'employlng non-union labor Is the
first move to be taken.
PREMIERS 1UBACH AGREEMENT
LONDON, Jan. 21. (U. P.) Sir
James Craig and Michael Collins, pre-
' WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. (U. P.)
Tho four power. Pacific and five
power naval limitation and the ' nine
power fur eastern treaties with other
agreements o( tha' arms conference
will be bound together Into a single
protocol for submission to the senate
and other world ratifying bodies. It
is believed thus would the enemies of
the far eastern settlement be check
, ' . Jed through fear of wrecking the naval
... . 1 . limitation. , ,'! ' ,
Vinier, Rioe, Landreth andj Thl(i ,orm ot ,ttbm,tt,n(. the treaty
McKenzie Are Men Who Will Question to ,' congress follows that
- , t, 'j tm..!. 'used at the Hague and In other great
compose ooaj in JJ-B"---- International hearings,- and does not
preclude the opportunity of releeilng
.'That the government Is Interested one portion without Vitiating tho re
in securing officers for the officers' n Hinder. Leaders believe the psychol
reserve corn is Jhe inference given In ogical effect of Introducing the trea
inir,.Mi,u uhli-h hsrn bii reeellvcd tics as one .Imposing unit will be good:
here by local officers who are to serve The disposal of Article 19 and tho Pa
on examining board No. 6. "Organlxa--'clflc fortifications clause still -aWall
sk r .v, ..imt.,Mli-iit rwMlimtlv-Janrtrt'-aerti)-pneor 1-MoctlAm
tkkln form, end further work Is fore- WASHINGTON, Jan. .81. (It P.)
shadowed in the orders which have The American proposal to make public
been received. .' ', the International committments reiat-
According to the orders from head. ng to China was adopted in much
quarters of the 6th Division, organ- amended form by tho fur eastern com
ised reserves, the board for the exam- nittee of the arms conference.. Am
inlng of oandidatea for commissions In i ang- the numerous changes was one
this districts consists of the following 'eliminating the proposal objected to
officers, , all local men: , Captain by jnpan for publicity of engagements
Charles Collins Vlnter, Infantry, O. R. jn China made by private individuals,
C.j Captain Lyman Gonzales Rice, but t0 whlch foreign governments are
ALL NATIONS WITHOUT
DISTINCTION TO BE
TO
E FOR PONTIFFS RECOVERY :
ABAtiDOiiED EARLY TODAY; DEATH
FOLLOWED FIVE DAYS Of HUE
DAMAGES FROM FROST
SAX FRANCISCO, Jan. 31. (A. V.)
No relief from tho damaging cold
snap la held out for southern Califor
nia citrus growers, Killing frost Is
predicted for tomorrow morning In
the Sacramento, Santa Clara and San
Juan valleys and the. southern part
of the state, -.
IN FIRE YESTERDAY
PB IEILL, Wash., Jan. 21. (U. P.)
Andrew Kasnlak. found the charred
body of Ills three year old daughter,
His Holiness Was Delirious To
ward End and Insisted Upon
i r .
Resuming Work of Office.
COMMUNION AND EXTREME
UNCTION ADMINISTERED
Aged Pope Said if it Was God's
"Will He Recover Well and
Good,' if Reverse, Satisfied,1
ROME, Jan. 21.A.
(Reuters) Pope Benedict IV,
died late today. -.
' Receives Official Notice.
. LONDON. .Tan. 2t.-f A. P.l
Edith, In tho blackened ruins of hls -"n-j;--! nA..w. -'-'
bungalow following It. destruction fcy ,ln.DUrne' "C"to ?
fire late yesterday. ' The father was
nway and the mother looked the
child In tho bedroom while she went
Premier Says Arms Conference
Has Done More Than Any
thing to Restore Peace.
LONDON, Jun. 21. (A. P.) Pre
mier Lloyd George, addressing the
national liberal conference today de
clared all the tmtlons of Europe,
without distinction, will be invited ta
)ho ..Giytoa. coitfunlo conference "be.
cause we want to put an end to con.
stant wars and rumors of wars." Dls
cussing the Washington conference.
he said. . 'The peace of the world
largely depends upon the good under
standing between the United States
and ourselves. The conference has
done more than anything else to re
store that understanding."
to the barn to do some work. . The
house was In flames before she no
ticed It and she .was unable ' to save
the child.
erlean Lezlon has had this Job for miers oi norm ana soma ireiunu
several years, but experiences In which spectlvely, met today and reached an
the organlation lost a nice wad of agreement regarding the commission
money have cured the legion of any to establish Ulster's boundaries. The
desire to keep the match making Job. boycott on Belfast was also removed.
.Kay Mcuarrou is menuonea in mis
Field Artillery, O. R. C; Captain Aus
tin Rice, Infantry, O. R. C; 1st. Lt.
Hugh Samuel McKennle, Medical, O.
H. C. Caut. Vlnler. by reason of
senlorty Is president of the board... '
The board has Instructions as to its
duties. It will have bb Its chief tusk
the examining of prospective candi
dates for commissions, and it will also
be the examining body In the "case of
officers 'Who arc seeking promotion.
Three methods are Indicated for de
termining the qualifications oi an
applicant for appointment, according
to the orders under which the beard
will operate. These methods are;
ot parties.
(OontinnM nn ne R.
LAWYERS WltAXGIiK AT TRIAL
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21. (U. P.)
Lawyer's wrangling marked the Ar
Imckle triu! today. Mrs. Kate Horde
6ek, "aunt" of Virginia Rappe, testifi
ed to tho girl's good health preceding
her death. Lawyers arguments cen
tered around the states attempt to lm
peuch the testimony of Zey Pyvron,
one of tho state's star witnesses.
i ":
PORTLAND WHEAT MARKET
PORTLAND, Jun. 21. (A. P.)
Wheat pikes are 11,07 to $1.18.
CROPS ARE DAMAGED. !
SAN FKANC18CO. : Jan. 1 21. (A.
P.) Estimates of frost damage to
oranges and lemons In southern Cal
ifornia range from 3o to TS percent
In some sections. In other sections
very little damage is reported. Irge
distributors are reported to have
withdrawn prices. Garden truck was
also damaged.
POLfTIC-ECONOMlC ;
COMBINATION MAY
FOLLOW CONFERENCE
Co-operative Marketing Plan
Knitting Nation's Farmers
Into Co-operative Vnit.
WASHINGTON. Jon. 21. (li. P.)
Out of the national agricultural con
ference here next week may emerge a
framework of the most powerful politic-economic
combination In the na
tion's history, If cooperative marketing
plan, knitting the nation's (,000,009
farmers Into a vast cooperative unit
materializes. ,
LOS ANGIXIM HAS COLD KNAP
1-OS ANGELES, Jan, 21. (A. P.)
Frozon water pipes, caps with fur
earlaps and frozen automobile . radi
ators, featured the' cold snap here.
connection. He has . been staging
events here of late, and his offerings
have ibeen well received by members
of tho commission. ' i ;
F.VT;LIN TRKK KILLS LOOGEU!
EUGENE, Jan. 21 (U. P.) Lawr
ence ToUng, IS years of ago, a logger,
was killed at Mabel by a falling treo.
'IT'S A LONG ROAD TO TIPPERARY.'
El
DENVER, Colo., Jan. 21. (U. P.)
Judge Ben Llndsey, of the Juvenile
court, today, favored race production
with a view to quality rather than un
restricted quantity, in a statement is
sued following the case of Mr. and
Mrs. Clyde Cossldente, Italians. :
; Sterlliation had 'been recommended
for Mrs. Cossldente because the fam
ily already had more children than
THE WEATHER
i . Reported by Major Lee Moorhouee,
; local weather observer. .
Maximum, 42. : .
Minimum,. 29.
Barometer 30. -
wot
is
TODAY'S
FORECAST
they could raise properly. They fin
ally agreed not to perform the opera
tion, but Undscy voiced approval of
some means of regulating births.N This
would reduce the number of feeble
minded children, he declared.
"Hardly ft state In the Union If
properly caring for its feeble minded
children," Llndsey said. "This places
the question . squarely up to society,
whether, they will continue the policy
of unrestricted quantity of race pro
ductions without regard to quality ord
whether it will undertake to regulate
It I favor the latter alternative. Sta
tistics show the mortality among chll-
drert proportionate to the economic
MnJItliin nf tha .ffltTltlV. The?H 1 Is
CI 1 111 I , CAVUBQ .V, WJ. V.J.V.W..
control unless better opportunities are
offered for children and mothers."
B 0 X I N R0M0TER IS '
ARRESTED ON CHARGE
OF CRIMINAL ASSAULT
I NEW YORK. Jan. 21. (A. P.)
Tex Rlckard, boxing promoter, was
arrested today on a charge of crim
inal assault made by the children's
society on the complaint of a 15-year-old
girl. Two other girls are being
held aa witnesses.
Tonight a-i
Sunday snow
t. OF W. DEFEATS V. OF O.
! EUGENE. Jan. 21. (V. P.-The
University of Washington won the
first of a two game basketball series
nith the University of Oregon laxt
1 night, it to 19. ;
' Ht ' - w hsr 1 hope MeveR.', . '
ot Westminster, at&tea v :s
evening he had been el:'
notified by telegr rh L .a
Rome that the pope was d. J.
Is According to Cctrra t
LONDON, Jan. 21. (A. P.)
The, , official annour.ce-;r.t
by Cardinal Bourne v.zt he
was notified 1 the , pc; j's
death, ia apparently in cor-'
formity with the cutjtom ' by
which cardinals compn:'- tie -
sacred college ata fL.:
ed of the death of a no, j I j-
Tore the information is maie ,
known to tho general public
. Falsa lienor Olvun .
LONDON. . Jan. 21. (A. P.) An
exchaqge teteeraph . dispatch from
Rome says (here was a consultation' -of
physicians this morning. Owing to
the fact that the Pope appeared to be
sleeping caused the report . that tha
Pope was dead but this was officially "
denied,'; ' ' -End
Is Imn'- .
ROME, Jon, 21. n,. 1-.) "Tha
end la imminent," Cardinal Caspaxrl,
emerging from the bedcbni"r wher '
Pope Benedict the lttk.-,.,,. wild
this afternoon. Casparrt was weeping.
He aiinounecd that his holiness won.
jellrlous and Insisted upon resuming
a Is work. Hope for his recovery has ,
jeen abandoned. j . t ,. pv ,a ,
The Pope's serenity pave way this
morning. Ha was unatle to rocognite .
his physicians and murmured unin
telligible phrases. It was announced
early In the day that the "end la only
a matter of minutes,' and was later
withdrawn. Nourishment traa glvwn
him during the . morning and v
communion and the extreme uaettoa i
wura admlnlsturcd-r Oxygen, eiven his
holJneua yesterday. WM given him
again today. .. '
Crowds gathored around ih Vatican
praylni for . the Banedlct's recovery,1.
i The aged pope himself, apparently has .
not entirely abandoned hope for his 1
own recovery and in a rational mo
ment, declared If lt were God' will
ho should recover, well and good, If
the reverse, he was satisfied. - -t .
Ikicanio Weaker at Noon .. .
ROME, . Jan. .21. (A. P.) The
Pope became . appreciably weaker
about midday and hopes . which had
arisen after hi slumber In the morn
ing disappeared. His general condi
tion became worse and ' be seemed
slowly expiring.' ; At noon he became
delirious and unconscious. '
Condition Extremely Grave ' f
"WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. (U. P.)
An apoutollc delegation, at 11 o'f!clc
this morning received a w fm
Oardtiiul' Gasparri v at . - tho . oallcau,
which stated that Pope Benedict
condition continued "extremely
grave." '. .. ' ', V-y; ;
r,rTW Worse Dnrtug Day
ROME, Jan. 21. (U. P.) An offl
clul bulletin Issued by physicians at
&:M thls'evenlng saldl ' "Pope Bene
dict is now in a comatose condition.
He grew worse , during the day. - Ills
heart Is growing weaker and he Is
breathing with the greatest difficulty."
- No Official Word lteoohcd.
WASHINGTON. Jan. SI. (U. P.)
Forrest Baker. L, G. Frazcr, Jack Ai-- lved 0flolal confirmation of the
len, 8. Ltvormore, Ixiuls Vinson, C. O. pope., death at :4f this aftornoon,
Robinson, Jim King, Elber Bashor. : U-nghton time, :40 hlght, Rome
H. M. Hanavan, Captain, Bol Bauni, t, and lia.40 p m coast tlmft)
iuh 1'erei. Jim Vjtnm, lxv ..mnuvn.
A meeting of hunters who Intend to
pnrtlclHite In tho second annual Pen-
dleton Rod and Gun ' Club's rabbit
shoot was hold last night In the office
of James H. Estes. A half hundred
enthusiastic sportsmen were present.
Tomorrow Is the big day. , The follow
lng rules governing the shoot were
adopted; Shotguns only shall be used.
Shooters will meet at the Quelle res
taurant Sunday morning at 8 o'clock
whore shooters will he allotted cars to
ride in. Shooting of rabbits to start
as soon as cither side, can arrive at
their allotted shooting grounds. Fred
Mcnnion. county agent, Is today choose
lng the locations, Shooting of rabbits
Is to stop at S o'clock Sunday after
noon and teams are to arrive bock In
Pendleton somotlme between or 7 1
i . . . . . .
o'clock Sunday evening. . ' : !
The winning team will be determln-j
ed by the greatest number of rabbits
killed by the different teams. Each
shooter will clip the cars from the
rabbits he kills. A prize of $5.00
cash has been offered by Sol Beum to
the shooter killing the most rabbits on
cither team.; The losing side will pay
one dollar towards the annual dues of
the.wlnulng side. Captains of the an
forenf teams with participants
low;
fol-
O. B, Wyrlck, CaPtuIn, Earl CoutU,
Guy Muttock, J. J. Hamley, Goivi
Blunchott, Frank L. Ingram, William
Snodgruss, Jim Caroll, Louis Bchurpf,
Geo. C. liaer. F. W. Lamkptn, Chus.
Moore Fred Bennlon. 3. u. cooiey, 'jf0 papal delegations here had M'
Uy Spangle, G. Gertson, Bob Marly,
Ed Gairis, John Vaughn, Earl Sawyer,
L. A. Smith, J. A. Peterson. B. Peter
son, Tom Ncwsome. Jake Welch, BUI
Lutng, Elmer Crow, Dale Phillips, J.
Cafferty, Roy Alexander, John Bain,
Grant Enhart. " . ' .' '
: t " "
V.UQ PIUCfl ADtANCKD
PORTLAND, t Jan. 21. (A. P.)
The livestock market la steady.. Eggs
are one cent higher, buying prices 33
to S cents. Butter is steady. ;
Pope Benedict XV, the 259th suc
cessor of St. Peter as supremo head
of the Roman Catholic church, bS"n
his pontificate on September I, 191 .
soon after Europe entered npon Its
four years of war. Upon many oc
casions during the war be endeavor
ed to bring the belligerent nanus
to ft. peace agreement and V i to
maintain the title which hoi been
affectionately bestowed upoa him t".
a high dignitary of ma oon-wji m
(Continued on r'. 5 )
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