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THE ONLY SMALL DAILY LN AMERICA CARRYING REGULAR WIRE REPORTS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. UNITED PRESS AND THE I. N.S. II DAILY EDITION DAILY EDITION The East Orcgonies) la Enters Or ffou a greatest aewaMjf and as a sell ing force aiTs to the advertiser oer twice the guaranteed averts paid cir culation la Pendletoa and Umatilla county ot any other aewipaper. The act presa run of yesterday's Dally ! " 3,200 Thla Mprr ta a number or snd audit 4 by the Audit Bureau of. CircnlaUena. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPES COUNTY OmCIAL PAPES VOL. 34 ' .y EAST OEEGON1AN. PENDLETON. OKEGON. FRIDAY EVENINQ. APRIL 21, 1922. NO. 10,119 SENA TORS AiE ADVOCATING CASH BONUS- TARIFF GIVES WAY TO COHi OF BOaUS I Lenroot Favors issue of Trea sury Indebtedness Certifi- cates to I Raise . Money. SENATE CERTAIN TO . ' PASS BILL IS REPORT Issue Should be Met Squarely According to Strong Sen timent Manifested Today. WASHINGTON', April 21. (U. P-1 'The tariff bill will bo Bhoved aside to clear the way for the soldier bonus, Senator McCumber announced today. The' finance" committee , expected to start work on the bill today, v SAb the committee , begun work on the measure, republican senators man ifested strong feeling that the senate should meet squarely the Issue of puy Ink a .cash bonus. Senator Lenroot and others hare been advocating 'simplification- of the. whole problem by the issue ot treasury certificate of In debtedness on which the money to pay the bonus would be . borrowed, "loavlnff for later determination the tuelb-tif- mUsto dwun-ta-aj -off 4 the certificates when they' come due. According to McCumber, there will be no more delay or discussion, with the senate certain to pass tho bill If given an opportunity. 1 CLERGYMEN MAKE MOST DESIRABLE HUSBANDSLrlairbreath Escapes and ThrU-. LONDON, April 21. "Clergymen are the most desirable husbands, judg ed by marriage statistics compiled by social reformers.' " . f , .- ' This was a statement made by the Rev. W. Major Scott, of Dundee, dur ' ing the course of an address to his congregation on tho subject of mar riage. ' ! 't .." ' Business nion and men on the Stock Mnrl'.ei wore regarded. as less satisfac tory husbands, h added. .. After clergymen camo "navy and army officers, professors and teachers. Authors and journalists- were re garded as unsatisfactory, and artists were quite hopeless. , FRUSTRATED LAST NIGHT - LAC ENTER, Wash., April 21. (V. PdH A ; determined attempt ' to rob the Lacenter stale bank early this morning was frustrated when band its set off the burglar alarm and ar oused citizens who routed them with a hot fire. Which the bandits return ed. Nine were injured. The band ,'lta escaped In their car, which had been stolen, later being found "rld . died 'with bullets. .. ' RUNNERS BY RADIO DENVER, April , 21. The first "prohibition radio station" ' In the United States,, it la believed, will be erected! here atop the Federal cus toms buHding. Purchase and instal - tut ion tit lh rilunt r-l11 hntrln n urtntl - f -"V . , as formal approval ot the project is received from Washington. E. H. McClenahan, probitlon direct tor and enforcement officer for the district of. Colorado, announced that the radio system is to be employed j - principally for the detection and cap- ture of "boose runners.' " , ' "We are anticipating ' some boia .attempts to bring bonded liquor into : Denver this Summer,' McClenahan said. "There Is practically no bonded liquor in the city at this time. Boose running In winter from Canada ts al most Impossible aecutiso of the heavy - snows in Wyoming. When spring be gins to open up the Northern trails, however, there probably will be' a rush of boose from Canada. "The radio will enable us to get many -tips' or impending excursions into the t'nited ' Ftates 'and Into Colo - rado over the Wyoming, line from ; Canada." ' . Numerous prohibition agents scat ; tered throughout Colorado will be . equopped with small, portable "radio - stations" to keep In touch with Den ver head'juartors. WILL CHASE BOOZE MOTHER-IN-LAW SHOT Digs up Rocks in Garden and Finds Indian Skeleton ,To bring to light the skeleton ot an Indian who entered the Happy Hunting Grounds many moons ago was an experience "enjoyed" by A. Peckavet re- cently. Mr. Peckavet lives near McKay and the other day while digging In his garden he struck a rock which he decided should be removed. It was whilo at- tempting to remove the obstruc- ton tn good gardening that the skeleton was discovered. The skull of the departed bravo was flat and sloped back abruptly from th eyes. The man evidently was very large and strong, according to the bones. A thorough search of the burial place was made by Mr. Pecka- vet to bring to light any relics, but in this search he was unsuc- cessful. ; . While Mr. Peckavet was here today he promised the skull to Lou Scharpf, who. In addition to the business of banking, be-- ing president of the Commer- clal association . and being a good fisher and hunter, Is col- lecttng Indian bones. Mr. Scharpf now has in his posses- slon a complete skeleton ot an Indian which was discovered not long since on the Alfred Smith ranch. He has promises, to show his trophies to friends on the first moonlight night when the atmosphere will . be Just about right for ghosts to walk abroad. , V Tl OF LAND INUNDATED .... . IE- ling Rescues of Marooned Families Told Red Cross. I; CHICAGO, April 21. (U. P.) Flooded rivers, crumbled dikes and In undated farms and portions of towns tn Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, accord ing to reports to Red Cross headquart ers here. The swollen Wabash spread over thousands of acres of crops aft er forcing three levees In Illinois und Indiana. Flood conditions are worst in years. iWater rushed over 40,000 acres of farm land near McClure. reports of hairbreadth escapes and thrilling rescues of marooned famil ies coming from all quarters. No.no are dead so fa ras checks have been made. The breaking of the Hartwell levee along a 23 mlleNfront of the Illi nois river near Carrollton flooded 80,000 acres ot reclaimed farm land! The rising Mississippi flooded the lower portions of Clinton.- Railwway service, at several points have 'been abandoned. , . , T.CONTI . ... Wheat shows an -Increase toduy, Ma'v cm 111 clostnif at tt.4K 1.2. Julv . at $1.27 1-8 and September at $1.18 ! 8-4. The closing prices yesterday were May $1.43 1-8. July $1.25 3-4 and September, $1.18 1-3. Following are the quotations 1 re ceived by1 Overbeck & Cooke, local brokers: " ' -' , VIu-at ., High Low $1.47 $1.44 1.2S 1.26 H 1.20 1.18 Open $1.44 1.2GV4 1.19 Close $1.45 , May- .'July, ' P1 I PROFESSOR HASN'T RIGHT TO KISS HIS PUPILS LONDON. April 21. (I. - N. 8.) The osculatory rights of a university professor have "been determined in the London courts. - , George Joseph Jones, a Junior pro fessor of chemistry at the University of London, was , dismissed by the board of trustees after It was charged that he had taken Miss Margaret Hughes Brown, one of his pupils, Into a dark room at a university dance and kissed her. doneesued, charging wrongful dismissal. Jones lost. POR.TLANO MARKET. PORTLAND, April 21. (A P.V Livestock steady, 'firm. eggs weak. butter The MoCaleb hatchery 1 ,n Mon-1 mouth is turning out an average of, 2800 chick's a week to meet a strong ; demand from persons entering- the! poultry business. Thirty Incnbntor' are iu use, . RUSSIA PLACES . CONDITION ON PRE-WAR DEBTS Lloyd George Declared That! Germany Must Annul Treaty or Accept , Expulsion. RESTORE NATIONALIZED . FOREIGN PROPERTY . v Soviets Will Satisfy Claims of Foreigners Where Pro perty Can Not be Restored. GENOA,.' April' 21. A. P.) If tho Russians are granted recognition by De Jure and are given adequate fi nancial help, ,they state In a reply submitted to entente today, they are willing to admit Russia's war and pre war debts, waive counterclaims and feature nationalized property of., for eigners to the former owners or satisfy the claims of foreigners Jn cases where the property cannot be restored. ' As Justifying their contention that the al lies could Jvot as a matter of right de mand compensation for the property, Russians cito the abolition o? slaver.; In . the ITnlted states, where neither I the Americans nor foreigners were I CvD.peiwated. They , also , eite tho adoption of prohibition lit' Aftfi'tiort at u rase where no compensuHim was of nl'eoHulle given the .'producers drinlvs. '; .-V, .',, .. i . : : (iennans Make Ittply ' GKNOA, . April 21. tl. N. ''.) Germany, In her reply1 to the allied note censoring her for making the pact with the Russians, accepted 'ex pulsion for the future Russian discus sions pertaining to tho agreement with tho Russians. - - ' .' PEKlN.April 21. (I. Railway communication ueinecii rr- kin and Shanghai was severed and It is reliably reported here that armed conflict between the rival war lords Chane Tso Lin, Wu Pel Fu for con trol of Northern China Is under way. AH freight traffic In Northern China has toeen stopped for a week by troop movements. , ; v y "THE MOST MO MATTER HOW Black things mav Look at "Sed-. HE'3 AlA-Vs REAcry To Take up Thb BuRoeM, AoAiM WHEM NATURE BEGINS TqAWAKEM k WELL-Tiecre's no A y'Lfe?- ;, v , ' v . ewe elss To CAEftV - V -i' ':'-'"''"' Jv; Tso might. as 'lyy J'rzl, --g ',- r LopaLMen go to Pasco to Join in ; Irrigation Talk To represent Pendleton and' Vina - i tlllu -county at the- . conference ot ! friends and boosters of the Columbia Basin Irrigation project a delegation of seven Pendleton men left early this j mnmlntf furlPnuM whi.ru ' itAkiini) ' Washington cities we represented in! vttuiu una, nennewicK ami otner. ... nil .1 . Those Included In the Pendleton j delegation are Judge S. A.' Lowell,' Mayor O. A. Hurtman, Roy A. Itlt-j ner, C.-I.' liarr, E. B. Aldrlch, Pat l.onerirnn'aiid Jim Sturgia. Lonergan and Sturgls picked up Wall$' Wullans ; on their way over, and th other five j men made the trip In Ritner s car. j Vi T Case of Mai) Charged" With Jepson Killing Promises to be One of Keen Interest. 'V . ' '" -v ' ' . One of the most interesting criminal cases to be tried in Umatilla cotipty during the past few year swill occupy the attention of the circuit court be ginning Monday, April ... 24, when Charles .Voiuierahe will face the court on p chnrge of murder In the first de- ler" kllmi ".Matt J.T . .J?l ' . L .' . ' . i Especial Interest has developed In ! "7 " , " . r i IJias tMen one of the deepest mysteries. tho ""'""'s. f Unatilla cotihwv -crime, and it was only recently that the arrest of Vonderahe was effected. Jepson, who Is said to have given information to officers on ' the loca tion of stills In his neighborhood, was killed and his body thrown Into an old open well on his ranch in the Govern ment mountain district beyond Milton. The discovery was made In August. ' Fred Patterson was arrested ,and held In Jail for a, while but he . .was given his freedom after the state hud exhausted all information Which had at first caused him to be suspected, as being implicated in the crime.. Later, after the public had appar ently forgotten abont the killing, the grand, Jury ... authorized : a further search to bo conducted- . Special de tectives were the ncmployed. on the case, and on a ruse, Vonderahe" Was enticed across the line from Wash ington where he had been living. On his arrival In Oregon ho was arrested and charged with, tho crime. , The grand Jury Indicted him." ' . ' ! That a real legal battle will result 'ontlnn4 on xtnxm . DEPENDABLE MAN IN. THE 1 ' : V'iH- , ; v. ... . sVyl. v BRITISH WIRELESS STATION SEIZED BY IRISH REBELS English Naval Men Operating .Station Were Ejected From Radio Plant at Bunbeg. . ' v ' ' . UPI I IMftTflN RARRAPIf C I Ul DHnnHwrxi V STORMED BY REBELS Gunmeen Participated in Worst Night' of Terror Belfast Has Known for Months. DCIUJ.V. April S1.-(IT. I'.) The Irish republican rebels have captured the British wireless station at Bun bet,',' in Donegal, North, Ireland,-according to a report from Londonderry today. . British naval men iiperating the station aro reported ejected. Worst Nltfht of Terror ' BELFAST, April 21 (U. P.J-r-HUn-dreds ol gunmen participated In street battles during the worst night ot tor ror Belfast has known in month?. Seventeen were wounded. Gangsters boldly exchanged shots from streets wlthf snipers on roof s ; -, !. ; -.V, Unritit'ka Kuirmed V)Cl)i:iXvpwl 21. (U. ! )-VVell. InStOn bariaoks wua, stormed Ry'rebel troops durinai the night, with' Urwal Free State forces beuting the attack off with heavy casualties on : both sides. ; Machluegun and rifle fire poured: hotly lnt, barracks from the attacking forces. The delay- In peace negotiations between Collins and Do Valera Is believed to have encouraged the rebels, . " , ., . ' t , PUZZLES COPS 'y' is' --.- - 1 .'' ' Nl5V YORK, April 2l. (U. .P.) -The police todas; aro Without a tang ible clue In the second fiendish mur der of a woman to occur in New York within two weeks. , Mrs. Elliiabotb. Drbdowllsskl was found slain, hor body mangled almost beyond recognition last night In an apartment coal bin. Nellie was slain a few days ago by, a "Jack the Ripper" and ier nude body oust Into a tenement hallway. ' - WORLD !! ip sovuioNe voesn'r Take 5om op Tm eace.55 weight (.j i'm GoiNa To opcr ,i GOTHAM Flapper is Girl With Big Engine and ' Flivver Body NEW YORK. April I. A flapper, according - to 1 Cosmo Hamilton," famous author, is -a girl with a twelve-cylinder en gine and a "jitney" body, ' "She was caught In- the un rest that followed the return of the boys from France," Hamil ton states, "und Is bursting with enthusiasm and .vitality that she doesn't know what to do with." Origin of SptWH-g BUTTE CITY, Cal.. April il. The term "flapper" originated In Scotland, declares Eugene H. Grubb, noted livestock and agri cultural authority, and applied to yjiiing girls whose long braids of lintr flapped against their backs as they skipped along the streets. Orapplers Discover Hop Sack, . Mile Below The Highway Bridge. AI.6AXT, Ore., April J J. (I. !". &) The' body of Frank Rowkor, port land musician, was found' a mile below tho bridge over the Calapola river, fullbwlng a search of mora than"two days.1 Finding the body confirms the confession of Russel Hecker, 'hoJs in Jail at Porilund. " Whlie" Hecker d mlued' the prjhie,' he refused to, dls cuss details, or give p. mWlve,. The fact that the body was not 'quickly found near tho bridge from-whlch Hecker said he shoved lt W Heavily weighted caused the cuafsilon.to be doubted,.. ,),'. ' ! .V : j.,'-:-' ' Howker arrunged to buy ;$1400 worth of bonded liquor froni Hecker and the Ijwo went to a bowo, cache Sunday night.; Hecker was arrested afteV hereetu'rned ,to Portland without-Bowker In a bloodstained automo bile. Ha later confessed. , f . Hci-kcT infomul v ALBANY, April'' '.ft (A. P.V Hecker was Informed of the body be ing found by his father, II. J. Heck er,. and his attornoy. Thomas Ryan, No comment of Hecker reached the police ears.1 Discovery of the possime scene of the murder near Eighty Seo- ond und Division Btreets here, with a description of Hccker'a actions en- route down the Pacific highway, caus ed the police to consider possibility ot fiowker's attempt to "double cross" in the Honor dual, with the fight and j killing following. , ' : . ' ; UH TANKS EXnXIDK DOWNEY, Cal., April H.'IA. P.) Tho explosion ' of underground (ranks of oil at a station hero today followed by the explosion of an oil (truck, seriously Injured twelve per sons, and a core slightly, , ' . WASMllNGTON, April 21 (l. V.) The immediate appropriation of a million dollars to fight the floods along the Mississippi will be asked In a Joint resolution in the house louay, . ' CATHOLIC TKEATY MADK. RO.MK, April 21. (IT. 11.) What Itus been Interpreted ea the first move to bring the orthodox Russian church into the t Roniun Catholic church was made here today when soviet representatives signed a trea- t.'wlth !, i.Hrtiin MAfrnHMni, .TH11- jits, Franciscans ana t.:ninoiio sister i hoods to enter Russia to cdrry, on educational work, i ' v ' i DESTROYER WITH WINGS 1$ NEW DEVICE OF WAR lONDON, April 21'. Th "destroy er with wings" is the description ap plied to a- sea and aircraft machine which-a British aircrufwfli'm is now Completing, under the direction of the1 Air Ministry. ; ' .' .. ' 1 . j This machine Is to be full of the. most Ingenious secret devices for "two-element" navigation on the sea or In. the air. ' '' k-.-tv. Calculations have tihown that a tor-1 pedo-boat destroyer has power enough in her engine-room, If this were ap plied in tho right wayund she were fitted with wings, to life her from sea to air. ' - :.;.V"i' ' ' On the .winged ship now complet ing the small crew will take aboard water and food supplies and will live for days without leaving their craft, BODY OF PORTLAND v 1UU FOUND IN ' ' CALAPOOIA RIVER ''''''' ' ' ' 'M Body in HOUSE TO APPROPRIATE EX-SERVICE D SHOT SELF fJl vou;;d:;;g tq Mp r.atP is 'Mfitrier flf Man's , Wife,. Who, RecentlytXeft:' Him, Was Living at Ho.8. ' SHATTERED POST'S ; p HAND VV ITH SHOT Chamness Fired Through V.'h- cow at Mrs. Cave and u.:.i , Shot , Self ; to ; DeO, PORTLAND, April tl. (A. j P.)- Mrs. J. L. Cava is In a serious coadl tlon at the hospital with o, bullet wound In her head; inflicted late Jr , night at her home by J, R. Chamne,"' -ex-service man, who shot, himself to death after wounding Mrs. Cava and1 Harry Post, guest, at Mrs.' OaVe'a horned Mrs, Cavq 1b th , mother , 'of; Chamness' wife, who. recently separ-J atod from her husband.' Chttmnt l sent threatening letters and Mt B t appeared at th Cave pome where L J. wile was living, firing at Post when ne went t6 the door, 'shattering Post's : right nana, and flrad througit the window at Mrs. Cave, Ha thru shot '. himself to death, ' , ' ' " -" " a i' ' -'-i 5 by sTAjmj tj;::.;! ' WOOSTEll, Ohiq, April Jl. l. N. 8.) That the' slow prooess ot tarva lion Is being hastened by Illness caus ed by persons eating powdered stons . in tiimlnc-strlekivn sections of China tat the Information fcontalned lna. letter J received by 0, H. Compton. nVoos'ler , College registrar, from' Miss Graoa , Walborn, , a mission field .workar, . whose., headquarters , ani . Wianghol, ; China' :-1 ' ' : - v. v ' "' ; I'Tpinlne condftluna In our, district ' are very ; severe,; wrote, Mis Wal-, , born, who graduated from Wootef : College last year. "At presont , fo s extreme cold Is, perhaps, thinning the numbers who would be open 10 pmgua -If hot summer cornea before condition , can be bettered.' ;s WASHINGTON. , April 21. (U. P.) President Hardlrtg toduy signed a bill authorizing the appropriation of $17,()UV-,000 for .building additional hospitals (o care for disabled veterans of the world wan " ., CONFI-fchKD TO MlRDUt ' ' tl! C.HIOOO, . April 21.-t-(U. PO v i . ..... ... j nomas itoach, 27, touay coniessea to brutal - murder of an unidentified blonde whoso nude body Was found lu a moving van on tho south side here. uucuruinff iu yuiiue ,iuut,viiuiii. jvimmu v'Connor. : . ' . i , -Mrs. Bum Cox of Orgun City wu badly injured Saturday . night , .-near Can by when the machine In whloh the . was riding was crowded off the high way by on unidentified -women ; and dropped down a 16-foot mbanttment. ; 1 THE WEATHER Reported by Major Lee Molrhouiie, loral. weather obsarVtr. . : . - Maximum 81.i -, Silnlmum J. - t , Barometer tt.DO.'- ' Probable rain predicted. 'it auU V1 f: '. lie si ciL - ' , TO BUILD ffliS : Ten I ' 1 'fiittir, rr. i
