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HIE ONLY SMALL DAILY IN AMERICA CARUYIXG REGULAR WIRE REPORTS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. UNITED PRESS fAND THE I N. S. DAILY EDITION DAILY EDITION The act srtss m ot yesterday Daily 3,247 Thb paper la a memoer or ana audited jr tea Audit Bureau of Circulatloaa. The Eit Oreg onlaa la Casters Ore ton's grratest aepapr aad as a sell ing (ore gives o the advertiser ever twlo the guaranteed average Md etr eulatloa In Ptadlvtoa and UmatlUa county ot aay other newspaper. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OrnCIAL PAPIB VOL 33 DAILY EAST OREGOKIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 192', NO. 10064 ' : ' . , -'jPjP . . : 1 - I. - - t .f HARDING 11 ES I FAVORS DELAY Oil BONUS BILL President Also Gave Impres sion He Might Veto Measure: if Protests Continue. PROGRESSIVE GROUPS PLAN TO "STEAL" CONGRESS FROM OLD POLITICAL PARTIES IN SPRING - If Committees' Report is Ad opted no National Organiza ' tioiv Will be Undertaken. RITTER MAN SEEKS CHANCE TO FURNISH ' PENDLETON ANIMALS; RAILWAY UNIONS ANDMINEVVORKERS PLAN 1L1CE" PACIFIC TELidONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S ORIGINAL ORDER UPHELD HOUSE MEMBERS DEMAND HE DECLARE INTENTION If Bill is Presented With Other Than Sales Tax Providing Revenue Defeat Certain. WASHINGTON", Feb. 11. (U P.) Reliable authority declares that Pres ident Harding' indicated to the repub lican senators calling at the white house that he is strongly in favor ot postponing the soldier bonus until next year. He also indicated he might veto the measure if protests continue to reach him. House members arc de manding that the president declare his Intention to veto the bill coming to him with other than a, sales tax pro viding the revenue. , , , WHITF, PEFKATS JACKSON . NEW YORK, yen.' a i. Charley White.. Chicago lightweight last night defeated Willie Jackson of New York, receiving the Judges' decision after their bout in ..Madison Square Garden. - Carl, jTreroaino, Cleveland bantamweight, )k a doked f out Harold Farese of Jersey fclliv' in the third round of choir olght-round match. In another' preliminary, Dave Rosen borg, , New ,York, -middleweight, re , ceivedi the judge's decision after eight rounds , with Vugie Iluiner, alno of MEMBERSHIP DRIVE BY PENDLETQN, GQLF CLUB : TO BEGIN IMMEDIATELY I CHICAGO, Feb. 21. (I'. P.) The progressive groups convention here is planning to "steal" congress from the old political parties at tho spring primaries campaign ,by a coa lition organization waged in every state by the organization to be form ed around the existing machines like the nonpartisan league of the united farmers' national bloc. If the organization committees re port is adopted no extended national organization will be undertaken at the present time. Arthur G. Town ley, president . of the non-partisan league,' as a result of his North Da kota experience suggests the state organization plan, built around the existing organizations, will then en dorse favorable candidates or nomi nate one of their members on either onetof the old party ticket. Does Pendleton need any wild animals to be kept in . its city parks? A resident of Ritter, Oreann, has written to Councilman Wll- 11am Dunn, chairman of tie council to ask if the mun'.ci I polity would like any bears, or dcPr, or other! wild creatures if ' add to the attractiveness of this I parks. . The councilman is not enthus- iastlc about the possibilities nf the city going Into any very ex- tensive ownership of animals now. He said this morning that he might bring It up to the council Wednesday night for further consideration. The Itit- ter man would like to provide tho municipality "With any wild animals needed. . i I I t I ! Lewis Issues .Call for Confer ence and Requests That Del- egates Draw New Scale. ROTARY CLUB CELEBRATES 17 BIRTHDAY; WIRELESS MESSAGE TO BE RECEIVED i r MOVIF. MEN TO CO-OPERATE LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21. (I. N., S.) According to an announcement byi the American Society of Cinemato-1 grnphers. It has executed . contracts for the creation of a motion picture community centre here. - The camera j men plan to furnish building site. , oo .R. .f - n a 5-acre ract of land to Mention) pendleton hftve n the Btate de. l Abrogate Wage Agreement! See no Reason to Change.; i OHIO OPERATORS REFUSE INVITATION TO MEETING j This Was First Organization to At midnight?, tonight the Pen dleton a.'r will reverberate with the wireless message: "On this, its seventeenth birthday anni versnry, International Rotary asks: Is there any problem of government, commerce or In dustry which a practical spirit of mutual service will fail to solve " . The wireless message, which will be broadcasted from Chi cago, Pittsburgh and Los An geles, can be received in Pen dleton as Harold Brock, Richard Rice, and 'Ryron Warner, each have wireless outfits. I to community buildings, there will be a community theatre. bating contest at Eugene Is already under way and Pendleton are' planning their attacks speaker .and their PHICAGO, Feb. 31. (U. P.) Fif-' teen railway unions met here today with the mlneworkers to plait a "de- tensive alliance." j ;. Draw Vp Xcw Scale, j CHICAGO, Feb. 21. (U. r.) ' ; President Lewis Issued a 'call today for( ja conference between miners and op- j ierators and requested a committee of ; , two operators and two miners from i each state central competitive field to ! druw up a newscale. t I "Moral Support'' Given. I ewis' call for a conference follows n AS TAX IS REPEALED! defenses to be presented when they go the operators' previous rerusa) to meet f(1 in ftn ei0(iuent to tho valley city to try to bring back 'nnd a declaration that they would cut L0Ctn.00(J classes state honors. The right to - meet other district winners was accorded the local school A membership ,drtvp ;to Increase thenumbcr of members' !iu the Pen dleton Golf Club will begin Immedi ately with Charles H. . Marsh and J. V, Tallman as captains, according to a decision made lust evening at a meeting of the club, held In the Com mercial Association rooms. . Tho contest 1b to close June 1, 'and all members secured before tliat date will be admitted for ? 30 Instead of $50, and with three months dues in cluded In the fee. The losing team Is' to banquet .the winning team at the fel we of the eoniost. As uu innovation in the organiza tion of the club, n board of mana gers, consisting' of G. A. Hartman, Mr, TMarsh- and Mr. Tallman, was elected and; will have complete charge ' of the management of the club,! co-operating with the officers. The latter are Dr. W. D. McNary, president; 8. H. ' Thompson, vice- president; . John Lnmblrth, secretary and-H.f-W.j'Dickson, treasurer, all of - whom i were re-elec ted foe the en suing ; year ' As announced some time ago, 4he cuf decided definitely to secure six acres of ;land adjoining the course and' owned by Judge O. W. Phelps, in order to lengthen the course to -' ' eligible to membership in .the 'North- ., west Golf Association. Membership in this body will give local golfers additional . privileges when visiting " other : clubs which are members of the association. ' 'SOUL OF COMMUNITY IS LUNCHEON TOPIC Rev. Alfred Lockwood was the chief speaker at the Progressive Business club luncheon held at the Quelle to day, "The Soul of a Community" was the speaker a theme and It was cover- , able manner. Mr. AAnwnnnltv anlftt n u TKfS,,.T., fa , a , " accereal being a common memory, keeping In the Invitation to the conference where m,n(, among other tM the Mrylcf mutual problems will be aired. Con- ' horrtw,.' , ,h. h , recently by tirtue of the defeats certed action of these two groups ,he CQUnt fo1 handed W Hermlston and Condon. could psralyae the Industry, . but 'dnt0ns for our present civilization, witch made the local school district though the miners' representatives are ,Vhi0 r.,,n ,..,i'. . . winners. The Hermlston team was willing to "go tho Unit the Tall rep- I & FergMllon of gt. Paul. ,who t was a T defeated here Friday night, and on resenttaivos aro not inclined to go be- j of F,.ed Eurl at , Ulncheon, ATLANTA, Feb. 21. (I. X. S.) i Saturday night at Condon, the Pendle- I yond "moral support; . '. 1 spoke optimistically of business condl Since the removal of war taxes on soft ton negative team haned a defeat to Fifteen of tfia 18 railroad Unions found ln thB we(,'t. Mr. Whaley drinks, confections and other, com mo- the Morrow county team. 1 " 1 1ncluding the four biff brotherhoods, ' unmigtni(able signs of dltles about the only use Atlantans The members ot the rendleton or- Accepted the miners' Invitation to n improvempnt a1)A tnnt 1h(g n0 time can find for pennies is In paying At- . flreiuitlve team were Ilex Kramer and meeting here today. Coalition of the or pgim!,.,,, though it Is a time for lanta'B f per cent , wartime carfare, ! Mark Kvans.- Tho negutlva lnm was two ivnupa will im the subjont ot tHfi,.Cftre w . . . with the result that the ' banks here composed of Phillip . Fordyca and conference. - . s ; 41 pj' Tl: ' Aldrlch snnke bi-Ieflv of tha ! are being swamped with pennies turn-i George Rlgby The coaching has been Itefuso Invllntlon. : . ... 'meeting between the Tendleton dele. cd in by retail storekeepers. 'Deposits tlono by hiss Amanoa wioei oi. m j colvmbub; Fee. xi.-.iu. f.i-wi. uallon M forwrtry officials In Port- of pennies In, Atlanta banks have in- j high school faculty. flclals of the southern uoai txenange ,ull(, fcver the BUbje(.t of (uus for tne creased 50 per cent since January 1, j The subject of the debate for state my the Ohio operator will refuse the qrant county road.. honors is, "ltesoivea, inat a gra-; Lewis conferenco invitation. nis was i Among new memuers n attendance atcd income tax should be a feature tne frst organization to abrogate tne at tho club today were Dan P. Kmythe, of the taxation system for the state of . wnge agreement and officials saw no MftrM Bn(i R1in- nnrton Increased Rates Allowed; Pub lic Service Commission Scor ing Petitioners Asking" for SAI.F..M," Feb. J 1. (A. I'.) Af firming the original order granting increased rates to the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company, and scoring the petitioners who asked tor a rehearing, the public, service commission today hunded down their flnul decision on the company's ap plication for higher rates. The in creases wore ordered February !B last year, effective last March first. They ranged from 12 to 200 percent for different rlusses of service. The rehearing was asked for the city of Portland, the. Oregon Telephone Fed eration and other organisations and municipalities, Th hearings occu pied several weeks of last summer. The petitioners for the telephone rehearing were flayed by the com mission for- burdening the state with unnecessary expense and wasting state officials time, ' "The . evidence procured ut the rehearing was Insuf ficient to Justify the change of the original order granting tjte increase,' said the commission. They declared no evidence was worthy ot the name offered, to support the 'assertion of error. j , 0?E MAN KILLED; POLICE USE RIOT GUNS OIICROWD It was revealed by inquiry at the vari ous banking institutions. It is estimated by men In position to know that two million pennies pass ed over the soda and confectionery counters of Atlanta each month before the removal of the luxury tax. 1 0 FOOT Oregon." -, v ' - That the state highway commission will not oblect to a 10 foot roadbed on the proposed new grade between ers. man MRS. SANGER MAY VISIT JAPAN BUT WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO LECTURE . TOKIO, Feb. 21. (UV P.) Re spondlng to protests of the liberals the government will allow Mrs. Mar garet Banger to visit Japan, but will not permit her birth control lectures. THE WEATHER FX FORCE XEITKAUTY LAWS EL PASO, Feb. .21. (U. P.) Fed eral authorities intend to drastically enforce neutrality laws nloug the bor der. General Juan Merlgo today Is held under $10,000 bond and four members of his band are held In lesser amounts following an expedition alleg ed to have crossed from the'American side with the Intent'on of holding up the Mexican national train, south of Juarez. " " " The next weekly luncheon is to be ItASKENGl Jt KATES REIH'CED. TOKIO, Feb. 21.---(A. P.) A re dnetton of i)as8enger rates to .Vlo Uklah and Dale on the Grant coun- R n amJ sHttlc ot approxi- ty road was made clear, yesiernay m m.ltev jo percent was announced by conference in Fortlnna Deiween jthe Nippon Yliscn Kaislia. cal men and tne siaie cuiuiui"- . -. - . It was agreed By ootn i nnir- Uooth and Commissioner liar- , . , -, ratt that, the suggestion by George ..i foot road be built, is accepiaui. However, no formal action has been taken by the state commission tow ard favoring the road and tne nnai altitude of that body is. in douot. From facts ascertained it appears to he the intention oi me uisirm i (m.ir tn recommend $50,000 of I fnrest money for use on the road. The county has asked for $100,000 and if this cannot' be obtained every , effort will be, made to secure ai least $65,000 so as to have the coun ty bbnd money matched by, roreM mnnev.. if nnlv 150.000 of ioresi money is marloi available for the project It will h. nnestinnable whether the total oi i tits.OOO would be sufficient to nuuu the new road between I'klah and the Grant county line. However, wrtn u rnnit narrowed to 10 feet and construction costs coming (town me money may be found amp! ror me purpose. ' Of thelocal aeiegaiion i Senator Kltner ana ti. n. returned home this morning, ii is nH,inii County Judge Hcnanncp .. Pnmmlssioner llean will reiurn i tonight. K. G. Warner and James Johns, Sr., also Berved asmembers of the delegation. , , reason ui uhhukv jiwoiuuh. . Mill Mori u.p.-ewni..v.s , ncld Ht the Elkg. club, ' wn.WMPAHTlA.. Pa..Fob..21. (tl.l . P.) Anthracite coal operators today I ' EVERY EFFORT UREt. ' oficially announced their willingness WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. (U. P.) to meet the union miner's representa- jij,ne departnlenll! of labor ad corn. tlves and dlsciiFs the worker s do-!merca we VHmK every effort t(J aV(,n mands. The operators meet Friday ntjthB threatenea 8trlko, according Atlantic City for an Intensive prcpa-; to ft whUo house ftnnouncement. oft,. r,ltlon f?r negotiations. , , .. . jcta)g are atm hopeful of bringing . . , about an agreement. ' . , RFj-SFRVATIOX oftored. AVASH IN'GTON", Feb. 21. (U. P.) Senator Bandegoe orfered a reserva tion to the Pacific treaty preventing the United States being bound, to pre serve other nation's rights without tho sanction of congress. The discussion ind'eated the resolution will be adopted. AI.fi FORCES WORKING. JACKSON VILLR, Flo., Feb., 21. (II. P.) Prohibition Commissioner Hnynes' forces on land, sea and air are In action today. The first capture by 11 aii'Plunes was Jhe British schooner Annabelle, alleged to have 11,000 cases of liquor aboard. WILL IT COME TO THIS? 8AJ? FllAXCISCO, Feb. 2-l(A. P.V r Mrs. Alice Hills, of Is Angeles, a passenger, sn" Harold Holloway, oi' San Franclsctf.'tt waiter, Jumped from the liner Huckeye State yesterday and drowned while ' the' vessel ,. was $00 miles sniith ot Los Angeles, aocordlng to radio massage, No oausd for their at was. given. ',.' ' RY CHA8. iloCANX 1 ' (United Press Staff Correspondent.) DUPLIN, Feb. 21. Oalwtiy will be come the principal Irish' port If plans of Free State leaders are successful. Revival of the ancleilt port, Whoso deterioration began ' three "hundred years ago'after over .four : hundred years of commercial Importance would cut a day off the. trans-Atlantic mall service If airplanes were used between It and'England. ' ' ' ' ' Under direct Rritlsh rule. Irish ports Reported by Major Lee Monrhouse, local weather observer, V ' . Maximum, 42.- ' ' Minimum, 3S. . ' 1 ." .': . iarometer, 29. so. Storm predicted." ' :.. . -' ' TODAY'S ' FORECAST Tonight and Wed. cloudy. II IGIIWAY CLEAR IX HOOP . . . . n'l.. n rf lToh. 21. Gen . auuu ui i civ, .. - ..... .-n...HiiH tnAiw) eral satistactum was when the Columbia .River highway wis cicarea in mis cuuinj,.." . ting the last ice blockade near Camp. ,. wn .f n.ntnrtt tOUr-l nnnsnn. A nuiiiyr-i w. , est west as far as Cascade Locks. Jubilation featured the meeting of the Commercial club Inst night, when Senntor Xickelsen was commended, foe the dispatch, with which he hasj pushed the work. The road had been uahtrjov Vnt'pmtier 19. I Motor traffic, until the Multnomah end of the highway Is opened, will be diverted bv ferry to the North Bank hiirhwnv nt Rtpvenson. Wash. t REMOVEP FROM OFFICK BOSTON, Feb. 21. (U. P.) Dis trict Attorney Joseph C. Pelletlcr was rnoved from,offlce by the1 Massa chusetts supreme Judicial court deci sion today; - , ' ' "'. . '" ' - , ..fctr-J . .... -,iryJ& m V -T YZW r . f4 ' '7A Tfcr-J.iti'Uv' WWW L. v:-- ' i II I -.L r a. n , ti. ' r . i'IW" iifciV I . A A La 1 I . I I I were at n disadvantage, British' ports wore favored, and because of dis criminatory taxes, it was often cheap er for a ship from the United Btates bearing cargo for Ireland to discharge Its cargo at an English port for re shlpmertt back to Dublin of Queens town. Ufcder the Free State! It will be pos slble' nnd advantageous for shlppln to ply direct between' Ireland ' and po of the world. . ' Irish leader hope to revive Galway as one the pr itelpal 'r of ri'.r rw.' Its Jiarbor Is one of tho best- thirty miles long- and ton wide, shel. ti'leu by tne Aiian islands, lis prin cipal disadvantages at' present are docks"thnt will not accommodate large vowels and lack ot wllways. Both of these are to be remedied. 7 . With prospect of both English and American capital coming Into .the country, leaders hope It will be possl-; ble to make Oalway the prlncfpal Irish port. It Is situated at the middle of th west const, and Is the nearest port .to those of northern North America. Sir John Alcock "Jumped off" for . hut trans-Atlantlo flight from a town near It '.-'.' The railway problem Cln hft solved easily. There Is a direct llnffto Dub tin, with a Junction for Belfast, two thirds of the way east, The principal necessity Is for speeding ip the ser vice. ".';-.'. ! Gahvay's Inst revlvaf as a port was between 1K5 and 184, when n line of etonmers traded between it and the United States. It was best known cen turies ago.. Its oldest surviving church dates from the fourteenth century. I was considered Important enough to be captured in the thirteenth century, and it dates back centuries before that. - . "; "'.. ' V Its survival would permit a logical stop-off for vesHoln both tn English and principally Scots ports, Textile Strikers Refuse to Dis ; perse in Front of Mill; Kenyon Reads - Riot Act. CROWDS GREET MAYOR V WITH LAUGHS AND JEERS Volley of. Fire Poured Into Helpless Strikers; Laughter! -: Changes to Terror Shrieks. -' i '.' ''- fi ' ' PAWTUCKET. R. I., Feb. II. (TI., ; P.) Ons person was killed and sV-' era! wounded today when the ; pollco'.- used riot guns on a crowd ot textlls . workers and the riot act was read. ? -. i The strikers refused to disperse lr k front ot tha Janckes mill. Mayor. -Kenyon read the riot act which was ' greeted with laughs and jeers. The po- ; Hoe were ordered to aim tha riot runs . and the strikers stood firm. .A volley i poured Into the . helpless strikers. Laughter changed to shrieks of terror 'and within tt minute the, street was de- ' serted.. ' ;.':..; :: , ."i',y ' ' CavnlrvnnHji Patrol ValU'r ; . ' ; - PROVIDENCE, R. I., Feb. II. ,(0. v P. ) Following au attack on th . Knight mill at Pontlac by the itrlkrr,' -state ciivnlrymen , "'i1,"wtuxkot j; valley today, Tho .t strikers. . Including many wo j cedon : the mill and smasht - Indows A and doors. The cav rdcred and cleared the stfeeis nf strikers i armed with clubs and stones. Governor ( Ban Snucl has called out all tho avail nbto state militia to restore order In the Hluckstwe and Pawtuxket vaUeyK, . Hnt B I03d Field rttHrTjr of atm ed with machine guns '" rtudlness. " Two are dead and 50 are injured In. a ' pitched battle .botweeit . striken" and . the police at Tawtucket. - - ',- "Hhoot If Jircessarv." Hyw Mayor , -The strikers gathed Jsooo after sunrise near Jancke's'awil.. Tho polc ordered them to ,dlsjrsfr but rthe . or ders ware dlsregarwd. Th crowd Inoressed and became threatenlhg and It soon was apparent that It was be- . yond the control of the small number -of police. Mayor Kenyon jvnd A sqttfid ! of reserves answered the. call for-reln foroeme.nls. . After pleading for order,, he read tho riot act- : ,"Th '.atroets must be cleared, shoot If neoesstiry," Kenyon shouted to the police, when he pcl-sonally led.: The police wielded nightstick and the strikers retaliated with elubs nnd .Hones. Kuddenly an order was given to. fire and volley poured Into the crowd leaving many lying In the street. .'' ' , . ' The coast artillery called out, '80 machine gunners and despatched them to Nattck. 'Artillery units were rush ed to'Pawtucket. The governor Issued sj proclamation asking the people to stop rloilng.... R Is rumored that J. W:. W. niltntors from the mine districts are fomenting the disorders. CHINAMEN CAN'E KROM - PORTLAND FOR VII Under the protecting care of .two ; I deputy sheriffs from Multnomah county, 29 mem oeri oi tne mp nms , tonjt. arrived In Pendleton yesterday afternoon and marched to quarters In tho Chinese quarters . in Pendleton whore they expect to remain tintlf t,he tong war which Is raging on the coast has ceased, ; i.,i.-Vfcu. ('. ,-r.: :.;. This action on the (tart ot tne Port land officials Is beng taken as a means of combatting the tong "AM. local Hiip Sings will bear the expense of the visit of their brothers while the 'st runner are here, It Is said. The tU, tie hs b.-en going on for several weeks, 'and more murders lire expected by the Portland authorities before peace and quiet reign again. ' 'V rouxdixg iMUitna made ' HOQL'IAM, Wash., Feb. 21 (A. P.) Nearly all the sounding boards used a merlin n'nno matiufocturers are mode in IIoquLim, according to local lumber men. The boards are made from the finest spruce logs and only,, enough to bo used. . Hoqulam . also hips many sounding boards to foi'elgn manufacturers. .. ' . X TM 8AI.EM. Feb. St. (A. P.)-Th 1 supreme court sustained the hianda mus writ issued in the case .of,"tbe State ex 'rel Zoeth Houser. as sherjff of Umatilla County, against : I. SI. Rchannep, county Judge and board ot county commissioners. The case was the original proceedings In the ,rnan- Idamus to compel the defendant to audit certain expenses relating to criminal proceedings . of (. Justice. Judge McBride wrote th , opinion Bohemia proposes to coin a small ill xnLh becojie v. & crrizE.v. . ZUniCIT, Swltxertand, Feb. "SI. (U. P.) Max Oser plans to . sojl bis eurrency of glass. The new coin will livery stable and become a resiftent ot le niich cheaper to muniifacture tho.n ! America after his mnrrlage to Ala the present metal currency- jthllde MeOormmlck. ".'. . ' "',,- ," ' . r .-''...'