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THE ONLY SMALL DAILY IN AMERICA CVRRYING REGULAR WIRE REPORTS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. UNITED PRESS AND THE L N. S. DAILY EDITION DAILY EDITION Tae Bt DrM ru of yesterdays Dally The East Oregoslaa la Eartarm Ore gon's greatest newspaper and as a salt ing fore (lirt ta the drertljr T(f tie th guaranteed avenge paid nr. culatloa In Pendleton and Umatilla county of aay other ewsior. 358 This paper ta awmMr or ana so4.lt y tee Audit Baron of cu-culalloi C ' COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPEK COUNTY OFFICIAL PIPES VOL. 33 HO. 10067 THREE ENGINES A(;j ONE MAIL CAR PLUNGE OVER TH! FOOT EfWIlJT J i I 'leans The; d thej trado Inca aur-fl hwayll t for if J acVJ r fori fard-1 1.3t I i Olrt f VOJiG LEE NAMED MURDERER OF WILLIAM TAYLOR Nationally Known Drug Dealer and Tong Man Was Instigat or and Executor in Murder. JENNIE MOORE AND JOHNNY LEE ACCOMPANIED FIELDS Taylor is Reported to Have Tried to Save Film .Actress From Clutches of Dope Gang LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24. (U. P.) The police are searching China town today, questioning the Chinese regard ing the Identity of the dope chief now believed to be the instigator of the murder of William Taylor. Harry Fields, convicted forger in Detroit has "confessed' that the dope chief plan ned the murder. According to Harry Fields In his "confession the dope ring wanted to get aid of Taylor because he was pre venting a famous film actress from (retting Into the rings clutches. The revolver which was used In the Taylor murder Is now Inirled near the Taylor home, according to Fields. It was an old fashioned weapon with a pearl handle, and was selected by Wong (Sammie) Lee, who was named by Fields as Taylors actual slayer. Fields oonfessed that he heard the dope men plating and--' --"' SVtos, w-to drive tm' to the Taylor home bs oon nented.' He tsald that he drovo Lee, Jennie Moore and Johnny Clark to the Taylor home the night of the murder, Lee leaving the car near the Taylor home and disappearing. He heard a B shot after a short time and the China li man reappeared. He Walked to a If nearby court and buried the revolver. Fields said that he got a thousand J dollar hill for his part In the crime. I Wong Lee Is a nationally known drug f dealer and tong fighter, according to f Field a and was instigator as wel las ( executor In the Taylor murder, and j that Wong fled with him as far "as Chicago the day following the murder. There disappearing. Police here found this Chinaman actually to. have (disappeared following the murdor, i'lending credence to Fields story. PARIS, Feb. 24. (I. N. S.) Three million French war veterans have claimed life pensions from Franso, ac. cording to figures given. to the press ly Minister Maginot, who has com bined the department of pensions wl .h tho war department under the Poln- care administration. . "Of the three million cases 2.200,000 have already been settled,", announces the minister. "We hope to finish the remainder at the rate of 150,000 a month." ' 4 ' '. ' : 28 TEAMS TO COMPETE URBANA, 111., Feb. 24. (A. P.) The 6th annual Illinois relay carnival, to be held here March 4, boasts an en try list of twenty-eight teams. ( Tho. team, that will represent the University of Kansas looms to be one of the best In the west, being compos ed of such brilliant cinder athletes as Bradley, the' all-round expert; Sande- fur. the weight specialist; Paul O'Leary winner of the quarter mile in the Missouri Valley Conference meet last year; Kearney, sophomore hurdler . aAo sprinter of much promise: Woes- tchieycr, a ten second man in the cen tury and Griffin, running mate to JVLcary In the 440. Reported by Major I.ee Moorhouae, weather observer. Maximum, 28. ' ' ' Minimum. Iff. ' ' Banometer, 80.10.- TODAY'S FORECAST Tonight and Saturday fair. THE WEATHER L jij li ..--i:::,. t:..t , .- m 1 c HEIRESS TO WED HORSEMAN J ' iff " H . The engagement of Mathilde McCormtck, 16, daughter of Harold Mc-Cor-micU (shown above), president of the International Harvester Co., and grand daughter of John D. Rockefeller, to Max Oscr, 48 owner of a livery stable ut Zurich, Switzerland, has been formally announced. t SEVENTEEN YEAR SHOTWNDMLtXD'MAN-AT : TRIAL IN T HELD HERE MAR 1 0-1 1 At Least 3 Teams Expected to Compete for Honor of Championship at Salem. Pendleton will be hosts this year to the basketball teams in this district who are to meet to compete for tho honor of representing the district in the state tournament which is to be played In Salem March 17 and IS. The district tournament will be held here on Friday and Saturday. March 10 and 11. ' . From present indications there 'are just three teams which have an undis puted right to compete in the district tourney. They are Heppner, Athena and Pendleton. The district comprla- Umattlla, i Morrow. Gilliam and Wheeler counjies, and the Invitation to the district to determine its winner on the local floor was sent to the committee by Principal Austin Land ret h of the Pendleton high school. The committee designated by the state board of control of the state high school association to determine the representative of this district consists of Principal Elmer Goodwin of the Milton High school; Supt. Howard James of the Heppner schools, and Supt. H. B. Inlow of the Pendleton schools. The tournament idea was put forward b.v this committee as the most satisfactory way to determine which team should go to Salem when the 12 districts have their teams there In competition for state championship honors. Coach "Xlg" Borleske, director of athletics at Whitman, has been secur-1 ed to officiate in the district games (here, and the appearance of the Whit man man on the floor Indicates that that part of the work will be capably discharged. ' ;, : WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. IV. P.) The police declared that they have icluesi regarding the Identity of two 'men suspected of having written black : mail letters to Washington society j elite and threatening death and de- ! struct ion to magnificent homes unless they paid over thousands Ip cash. I WASHINGTON, Feo. 14. (U. I.) George Long, aged forty three, of the insular affairs division of the war de partment has been arrested in connec- tion wlih the Washington blackmail ins Plot. - . ; . OLD GIRL COURT IN TEXAS WACO, Tex., Feb. 24. (A. P.) Miss Marcine Matthews, seventeen, phot and instantly killed J. S. CrosHlIn today In court during the second trial of Crosslin for criminally attacking a girl of 12 years of age. ' Crosslin had obtained a new trial after being con victed and sentenced to nine!1 years in the penitentiary.. Miss Matthews had been called to the stand when she fir ed. "He disgraced me, ruined my .. health and deprived me ; of school privileges," she stated "after ' killing him; "Hut ho will never ruin another gin.- , : .- , Crosslin was on trial charged with a criminal assault on Miss Matthews. The jury had been selected and the girl was called as the first witness. As she took the stand she: turned and fired at the defendant who was sitting across the table from her. Crosslin crumpled to the floor and died almost instantly. A deputy sher iff snatched the pistol from tho glrl'.i hand and carried her rrom the court room to the sheriff's office.- Cross lin had been tried once before on tho same charge, but the rase was re manded to the court of appeals be cause a woman wus on the grand Jury which Indicted him.. Then the jury reindicted him. , The offense was alleged to have been committed at Miss Matthews home in Waco a year ago.' Her father and brother were here attending the trial. Crosslin was married, has several children, und Wfls prominent here. E' ILL LONDON, Feb. $i (U. I'.K-Snme-whr-re on the! English channel coast Premier Ll(-d George and polncare will consult tomorrow concerning the Genoa conference. Utmost secrecy Is being preserved, even the meeting place Is unknown. ' Correspondents will be barred and the customary retinue of experts nhd secretaries will be left behind by both premiers. ..The fate of the prcposed Genoa conference hands upon two premiers agreement. , BANDITS OCT $8,000 KANSAS -Cirr. Fen. 24. (U P.) Four masked bandits robbed Wal ter Estes of the Estes Mercantile company of S8.000 cash. They es caped In a motor fcar. TOKIO, Feb. 24. (U. P.) Count Tanaka sailed today for Manila to re turn the visit of Major General Wood, as a representative of the Japanese government. General Wood, now - 1 Philippine governor.. viS'ted Japan belderiiirtlnh will nmnnnt to about three- J fore acceding to the Philippine office, ARMAMFNT TRFATV fllU Willi I InLHII AND RESERVATIONS TO BE VOTED ON A Compromise is Impossible in View of Opposition by Re . publican Mrreconcilables.' HARDING IS LOSING PATIENCE AT DELAY Brandegee Reservation States That the U. S. Will Not be! Compelled to Join Defense. WASHINGTON', Feb. 24. (I. X. 8.) President Harding is represented by) administration senators, who hnve re- J cenlly conferred with him, as '"fast losing patlenco" with the increasing delay the armament conferenco trea ty's have encountered In the senate foreign relations committee due to op position to the four power Pacific treaty. ' . , The committee has before it again the substitute for the Brandogee res ervatlon to the Pacific pact agreed up on by President Hurdlng and Senator Lodge, but there appeared little chunce of a compromise being reached In view of the continued refusal of re publican ."Irreconcllables" and demo cratic members to accept one, WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. A, P.) The modified blanket reservation to the four. power Pacific treaty which Is Cutinrti'A wfils'f'actory to the president and a majority ' of the rnembers of the senate foreign relations committee wn debntd hy the committee today and an. agreement reached to vote on the treaty and the proposed reservations tomorrow. The new reservation oN fered by Brandegee after a conference with President Harding reads; "The United States understands that under the statement in the preamblcr un der the terms of this treaty, there Is no committment to an armed Torce, no alliance and no obligations to Jolu In nny defense." Senators Johnson and Borah It Is understood are oppos ed to this reservation. - '. OFFICIALS ARE TOLD Apology From Tax Commission for Incorrect Figures is Reeciped by County Clerk. A deduction of S12.000 from the present tax roll must he rmido In order that the county shall not exceed the six per cent limitation set hy the re cent state law, according to iniorma Hon that has been receaved from the! state tax commission. ' ' , ' The work of making the alterations on the. roll will bo performed by the assessor's office. A decision to this effect was reached this morning at a conference o county officials In which the members of the county court and representatives from the offices of the district attorney, county clerk; county assessor and sheriff participated. An apology from the state tax com mission on account- of. erroneous figures given by that body as to the amount that might bo levied by the county has been received by' R. T. Brown, county clerk. It was this mis calculation made hy the commission Which has been responsible for the lnnnvoi,ivi pnnsed on the roll so I far, It was stated this morning .. by Jtidva Schanncp. plstrlct Attorney R. L Keator has secured an opinion from the attorney general of the state to the effect that the excess of S l-.OOO to the. roll does not Invalidate the whole roll but will nnnlv onlv to the excess amount. Members of the county court said this morning that the ,sum of 1J."1 which must be withdrawn from the (oil will ho taken out of the general rond fund. Mrs. Nona MeFanl, deputy sheriff In charge of tax collections, declared nt th" conference of county officials tbat.HPProximately S1.000 have been received in payment of current taxes since February 13. rtefunrts'wlll have to be made to those who have already made pavments. but this task will not be great a task as the change on the r"ll. , - ' Th t several counties besides Uma- tllh have found themselves In the pos'tion of exceeding the six percent llm'ti'tlon was rated tv Mr. Kentor by th a'torney-general In a long-dlstnnce telfphnnA conversation yesterday. The tenths of a mill, It is thought. humorous shafts directed . AT FAITHFUL FOURTEEN AND LOCAL POSITION BY PIPER Today's wheat market is practically the same as yesterday's. May grain closing at 1.44 B-S and July a $1.24 5-8 and. July at $1.24 1-3. Yester day's closing prices were Jay T1.4 1 1-S and July.Sl.t4 3-4 Following are the quot.itior.3 I l i. " Whoa. May S144 Sl.44 S1.44t July' -.25 1.25 1.22 Sterling, S4.40 3-8. Sl.44 J. mi E BE SOLD BY U. S.-S. B. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. (A. P.) The shipping board announced that the Bteamshlp Columbia, former pas senger vessel Gtvat Northern which has been the flagship of the Atlantic fleet, will be sold. Bids will close March 3. President Alexander of the Admiral line Is ready to submit a bid and Is Intending to put the vessel on the Seattle-Los Angeles run, . , ; UNION AO.UXST IVJfNCTIOX , WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (IT. P.) The executive Council of the American Federation Dt Labor today adopted a resolution declaring against abiding by court Injunctions. , EEE :.-. ..." x WASHINGTON. Feb, 24. (A. P.) The proposal to finance the bonus by a sales tax is understood to have, been rejected by, a special sub-committee of republican members of t he house ways and means committee. Tho proposition is Bald to have been sup. ported by only three members. The proposal 1b ,to be submitted again late today at a .meeting of all majority members of the ways and means com mittee. . ,.' .'. , . "BLUEBEARD" TO BE EXECUTED .'PARIS, Feb. ,24. (A. P.) Henri Landru, "Bluebeard of Gambais," will be executed on the culllltone at Ver sailles tomorrow at daybreak, . Presi dent MUlerand today refused a peti tion to commute the sentence of death for the murder of ten women and a youth. "' ,.:'""..';' ; sirooTiXfj occrns tv tiiaiv FAHMINGHAM, Muss.,, Feb. 24. I (I J. P.) After shooting and killing Percy C. Russell, 4 prominent busi nessman, In a crowded commuters train lust night and wounding Ruusells pretty daughter, nineteen, Kingston Jeffers Is dying in a Farm high um hos pital from self Inflicted wounds.. Jef fers attentions were discouraged by Russell and his daughter and the shotlng followed. ' TO HOME WITH FLU LOS ANGELES, Feb, 24. (U. P.) Mubel Normand Is critically ill with a serious and aggravated form of Influ enza, "rihe has now reached the crisis and we hope to save her life," was to day's report from her physicians. The actress Is In a secluded house In Alta dana, wfth several physicians In con stant attendance. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 24. (tj. P.) "Mabel Normand Is greatly Improved, There is no danger of death,' the physicians' bulletin said late today. lU'SSIANS BUT LOCOMOTIVES ' STOCKHOLM, Feb. 24. (A. ' !'.)- The Swedish locomotive industry con tinues to profit from the Russian de- I mand for transport material, Fifty large locomotives were de livered to Russia last year. Contracts have been made for the delivery of 200 during this year and 250 per year! during 1923. 1924 and 1925. t; MINERS STRIKE VOTE INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 24. IV. P.) Ballots for the strike among a half million Coal miners are held ready for the meeting today from United Mine Workers headquarters here. Thev are awaiting President Lewis' official or der to strut strike vote, HS , : The "Fitful Fourteen" and the Pen dleton spirit, known of old and also manifested in slightly different form towards Portland on certain recent Is sues were discussed both seriously and in Jocular mood by Edgar B. Piper, editor of the Orogonlan, at the forum luncheon by the Commercial associa tion today. The speaker paid his com pliments to Benator Rltner, who pre sided, and culled attention to the fact that the number fourteen has at times been found unfortunate. He praised (he local senator's work as a legislator, however, and declared Umatilla coun- nbont ; his leeieotion. During his address Mr. Piper refer red to the fact Portland and Eastern Oregon have been historical allies in the past and Intimated that should this ancient friendship be permanently disturbed the results might be un pleasant for Eastern Oregon. Other speakers at the luncheon to day included Phil Metschan, proprie tor of the imperial hotel, L. R. Wheel er, owner of the Portland Telegram, and Donald Sterling, managing editor of the Oregon Journal. All the visit, ors are returning to Portland from Baker where they attended Cham ber of Commerce gathering. , ' N ; FOLLOW! ' (East Oregonlan Special.) WALLA WALLA, Feb. 14. Clydo W. DeOraw of Weston, died today fol lowing a serious operation at the hos pital here. He was 42 years : of age and Is survived by his father and motherv.Mr. and Mrs. G, Degrnw of Weston and threo sisterB, Mrs. I W. Bajnos of Chelan, Wn Mrs, Andrew Larsen of Walla Walla and 'Sir Slftt J, Culley of Weston. The funeral will be held flunday afternoon at Weston. Mrs. Hitt Survived by Husband and 2 Children; Death Due to Operation on Monday, (East Oregonlnii Special.) ' HRRMIHTON, Ore., Feb. 24. Mrs. Henry Hltt, wife of Henry Mitt, local ! confectioner, died Inst night at Hot Lake, according to word received here this morning. Her death was due to complications which arose following an operation at the sanltorlum on Monday. Mrs. Hltt, who was In her. early thirties, Is survived, besides her hus band, by two small children, Dorothy and Richard; . a sister, Mrs. . Earl Phelps, of Her mist on, and other rela tives residing at Jefferson, Oregon. Mrs. Hltt was well known here and her death Is much regretted. Funeral arrangements have not been made. WO CONTRACT LET LONDON, Feb. 24. (A, P.) A, contract valued at between 760,000 and 1,000,000 pounds, for material needed In the electrification of South African railways has been obtained by Manchester firm, according, to tho Times. The order Is said to be the largest concerned with main line rail vay electrification that has ever been entrusted to a British establishment, and was obtained In the face of stren uous European and Amorlcan compe tition. , - , ' : It Involved tho supply of at least 70 electric locomotives destined for the 1 2". mile railway line hetween Oleneoi and Pictormarltburg. RAWSON SWORN IN WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (U. P.)-t-Charles Rawson of, Des Moines, was sworn In today as the Junior Iowa senator to succeed Vice Senator Ken yon, who resigned. - ' v ! PRESIDENT ASKS FOR WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. (A. P,)r Declarfng that congress tied the ad' ministration's hands to dealing with the reparation commission. President Harding in a letter to Senator Frelln aetlon be taken to permit the United States to get its duotu of the German reparation dyes, ; , . , MTTXIOAX HANGED. BAN QUENTIN, Calif., Fob. UA (A. 1'.) Luis Guillen. Mexican was hanged at the state prison today for tho murder of two deputy sheriffs In Riverside county last November. 811 IS 25 FEET 0,1 TRACKS MY PLACES Officials Are Making Effort to Move Mails; Death Toll Has Reached - Fourteen. ' MANY AUTOMOBILES ARE ; ABANDONED IN STREETS Telephone and Telegraph Offi cials' Said it Will Jake '. "' ' - :'V.. "' ' .4 - Days to Repair Damaca. ST. PAUU Minn.. Feb. 24-tU, P.) Five trainmen were killed when the Winnipeg flyer No. 10 crashed into a snowplow near Waverly, Minn., on the Great Northern Railway. Nine irere Injured when three suglnes and one mall car plunged over to foot em-, bankmcnt.., MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. t4. (I. N. R) The death toll from the storm that burled half a. doien states of the northwest and which completely Isolated some sections for the past Tt hours is known to be at least nine. It is feared that when wire communica tion Is restored the reports from other towns will Increase the death list. . Improvement In conditions la ex pected shortly. Railroads are making a determined effort to move the malls. In some places, however, now Is pllod on 'tracks 85 feet high. Telephone and telegraph offioll said- tt will fee maftjr days before normal tra,,cf eonv dtttons ran be resumed.' ' The twirl cities are digging thomsejves. out from under heavy snowdrifts and traffic I badly hampered. Thousands of auto mobiles have been abandoned In the streets. : ' LEGION OPPOSED TO aOr-DAIA WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. (U. P.) The award of a medal to the men de. ollnlrig to take the soldiers bonus has been suggested among- the the house members, but will not be pushed due to the American Lefflnn opposition.. . TRIAL M RESUMED LOS ANGELES, Feb, 24. (A. P.) The Obenchaln trial was resumed aft. er a week recesses Cue to Illness of the jurors, attorneys and witnesses. LOCAL ELKS TO SEND M'M'iES TO ATlIA F. jr. McMonles, exalted ruler of the Pendleton lodge of Elks, was,. at a meeting last night chosen to represent the lodge at tho national convention, which will be held at Atlanta Georgia, this summer. R. Alexander, post ex alted ruler, was chosen alternate-. , Nominations for various offices for the ensuing year were made as fol- . lows: Roger Kay. exalted ruler; Har old Warner, esteemed leading knight: ' George ' Ferguson, esteemed loyal , . knight; Leslie E. Glbbs, esteemed leo-i turing knight; Mark Barthel, treasur-' er; Roy' Raley, trustee, secretary, Frank: Quintan and Mr. McMonles, The meeting was a most successful one end was "Past Exalted Rulers'. Night1." Mr. Alexander occupied ' the exalted ruler's chair; Thomas Flti- gernld was esteemed leading? knight; S. V. Tallman, esteemed loyal knight; Hoy Rltner, esteemed lecturing knight; Charles Vlnler, esquire, and James Estes, chaplain, IL J. Taylor, ' another exalted ruler, wns prwt. Judge J, II. Bolt of McMinnvllle, wa a guest. t About, 100 Elks were dpresent ta after tht meeting; enjoyed a supper. , Old Diary Shows - Winter of 1890 Had This Faded I II This is not the first time Urn a- tllla county has had wintry 'weather at this period of the year., An old record kept by T. H. Boyle n gives data rogardimr a heavy winter J2 years ago. In 1890 snow beigan falling on Feb ruary 21 and remained on the ground until March IS. At that time as now Mr, Boylon was In the sheep business ond he haul- ed baled hay from Pendleton to . Pilot Rock, through It Inches of snow. : The hsy cost $20) a ton and it cost J10 a ton to haul It to Pilot Rock. Tho diary re- ports that 89 per cent of the sheep of the county perished during the cold spell. ' v V.'V.