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THE ONLY SMALL DAILY IN AMERICA CARRYING REGULAR TIRE REPORTS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. UNITED PRESS AND THE L N. 3. DAILY EDITION DAILY EDITION Tk art wm ma or jrXtrdir'i Daily 3,224 Tkla peser la a dm or analt4 a taa Audit Buraaa of Ctrculstloas. T East Oregoalsa to Easter Oe goa's greatest aewspsper aad a a li lac fore i-Wea to the aartltr ever twice the guaranteed averag t paid elf eulatioa la Pradtetoa aad Vmalllla county at as 7 etaer aswspapsr. COUNTY OFFICIAL PIPES C0UK1? OFFICIAL PIPES VOL. 84 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON TUESDAY EVENING. MAY16, 1922. NO.'10,1S5 111 WILL NOT RESIZE RUSSIAN SOVIET UNTIL FUNDAMENTAL REFORMS IE MADE MUST GUAhWE SAFTY OF LIFE AND PROPERTY, SANCTITY OF CONTRACTS CHICAGO POLICE ROUNDING UP MURDER GANG SINNOTT ADMITS FAULTS IN LEASING RESOLUTION; SAYS HE ACTED ON WISH OF SEC. FALL Three Occupants of Murder Car Are in Custody and Other ' is Near Arrest. BLOODY FINGERPRINTS CAUSE OF CONFESSIONS Labor Leaders Implicated in ' Fight Against Landis Wage Award; Policemen Killed. CHICAGO, May 18. f. P.) Po lice today said they would probably arrest tho fourth bomber and slayer responsible for the Chicago reign of terror before nightfall. The four men have been Identified and threo al ready are In custody. Two havo con fessed as having been occupants of tho murder car from which shots were fired killing two policemen, and dynamite was hurled. TJloody finger prints on the murder car led to con fessions, chief Fltamorrls said. Con fessions are said to implicate "Con" Shea, "Freddy"1 Sladcr, and "Big Tim" Murphy, labor leaders, as the plot Instigators In fighting the Laudls building award.. . V ..- OtMTTtloiO BY LOCAL REPUBUK Endorsement of Ben, W. Olcott, iiiMDitt pnvpvnnr nf Oretfun. . and it candidate for re-election, was given by a group of i Pendleton and Umatilla j county republicans who met iniormai ly last evening in the office of Marlon Jack, in the Judd building. ' " fc. W. McComas, chairman' of the meeting, stated today that the gather ing was very lmpomptu and that Its pu t pose was to bring republicans to the support of one candidate and to prevent division of the vole.' He men tioned Hall's candidacy and stated that one of the main objects of tho meeting was to divert republican sen timent In this county from Hall to Olcott. . ' . Congressman Sinnot, In a statement given out at Washington ami publish ed in 'the Oregon Journal yesterday admits his land leasing resolution is faulty and should be changed, lie h introduced Hie measure atithn request of .Secretary Fall of the Inter lor department. Ho makes no'cxpla-J within nations! forests. .nation nowever as to why his resolu tion in national forests of lauds val uable only for grazing, but he thought some general policy for handling and use of non-timbered public lands no: suitable for reclnmnjjion, farming 01 homestoudlng was advisable along th lines of the present regulated gruzin I introduced tile bill as requested but suggested to Secretary Fall that 11 exacted Into law at all the bill should lie amended in many particulars lit OWNERS HIRED PLANES WHAT NEXT FOR PEGGY? tion calls for Irrevocable leases or why it calls for handling the unreserved lands through the land office politi cians Instead-'of by tho forestry ser- Amongg others, that it should give !.-:, uieKejjcins mo no viuei puiius i isimers. gtocKmcn ana homesteaders on which the resolution is criticised, j a preference right to the public lands In his statement Sinnott said: ' j surrounding their holdings; that pro- I Introduced the bill as a tentative I vls'on should be made for home bill In the house In July, 1321. at thu ; steading that no charge should be reciuest of Secretary Fall. Senator , maiiv for gru7ng uy farmers and Smoot, chairman of the public lands ; homesteaders for their farm animals committee of the senate, introduced it I iu,u a limited amount of stifck. there. It Is the custom for chairmen glVe the bill when Introduced to of committees to introduce tentative j the Portland press, together with Soc bills on the request of cabinet officers, retary Fall's letter so that Its provi The bill has been sleeping quietly In slons might be made known." the committee files since its introduc- -t wa given wa. publicity In the tion without amv consideration, action I newspapers In Oregon. I Invited eritt or hearings thereon. . ! fism, suggestion and amendments and "The bill covers non-timbered pub-j wrote a number of letters to constl 11c lands outside of the national for-, tuenls. giving them Secretary Fall's ests which are fit only for grazing and views and saying that I would not now under the Jurisdiction of the sec-,! usk for cons' deration or hearing on retary of the interior. It provides for the 1,111 until I could get home and grilling areas, talilng Into conslderu -consult w'th stockmen, fanners and tion existing grazing use now helm? others Interested, made by citizens of tho United Status. "Tin. bill has been uppfoved by tire "Secretary B'all requested introduc- ! Cuttle anil Horse Kaisers' association tion of this bill, which the secretary f orewu by resolution adored Jitnu termcd a tentative measure, because.: uury 7, , , as he wrote, a great many bills have j " , , been introduced to add s'ich non-tint-1 - - 1 bered nubile lands to national forests1 DlKtJOIU.F" PACKING PLANT under the jurisdiction of the seen- WASHINGTON, May 16. (U. P.) tary of agriculture In order to secure Federal tivicle coininlss on today or regulated grazing. Heeretary Fall! de-red the Armour and Company, Chi Wrote that the laws authorizing the cago meat packers, to "disgorge" the creation and maintenance of national j K. H. Stanton company, meat packing forests dp not contemplate the Incly v plant at Spokane, Washington. TO DO BOMBING Aviators Were Hired by Coal Operators to Attack Miners Army at Blair Mountain. Local Men Form Radio Company to Make Phones ftradng Infractor Here, Walter Dutton grazing Inspector, employed by the forest service, is In the city today. H.'s headquarters are in Baker. The Bluo Mountain region is his territory and he will inspect the Umatilla forest while here. OF Articles of Incorporation with County Clerk It. T. Brown have been filed by' the Eastern Oregon Radio Co. The concern has capital stock of $3,000, and the Incorporators are William E. Snodgrass, W. F. Snodgrass and I, M. Scliannep. The principal place of business will be Pendleton and the ar ticles contain a declaration to the effect that the company shall have the rlghtvto engago in the manufacture of radio phmtes and accessories and to act as agents for others. 01 TO AVIATOR TESTIFIED AT TREASON TRIAL TODAY Gas and . Explosive Bombs J Dropped From Plane , Op- j erated by Horace Haines. C1IAULKSTON.' W. Vn.'. May 18 (U. P.) Tho aviators who dropped gas and explosive bombs on the mi ners army at Blair mountain were employed by the Logan County Coal Operators' Association, Horace Halntis. CoUuubim, .Ohio, aviator, testified at the Bl'zzanl treason trial today. Halms declared he dropped several explosive bombs loaded with slugs, while acting as observer and bomber for the state forces. He dropped bombs after the miners had "fired at Ills machine, he said." "1 received four hundred for three days work from the Logan county coal operators association." Haines declar ed on cruMH examination. .; ; . -. Movie Hero May Find Self Married To Two Women i,ii;ciiviili;oi DPOUIICL " f - 1 ''Men are the breath of life to me." Jack Dempsvy was reoently rushed from lieiiln to l'rls to comfort the romantic Peggy Joyce, because of whom u Chilian diplomat committed suicide, , , EASTERN OREGON ROM Pendleton, Ore., May 11, 1922. Because wo beliove thut the selec tion of a treasurer for Umatilla coun ts miirh t, h made for reasons of honestv ' efficiency aud . experience, thn undersigned banks of Umatilla countv. endorse the candidacy of Sir. r it rtiminn for that: office and recommend, to the voters of the coun ty. his nomination at the approaching orimary arid election at the general election, next November. The First National Bank of Pendle , ton. Oregon, by G. M. JMce, presi dent. . ; The Iuland Empire Bank, of Pendle 1 ton, Oregon, by J. W. Maloney, .' president. The American National Bank, Fen dlcton, Oregon, J. B. McCook, vice president. The First Bank of Pilot Book, (jy L. C. Scharpf, president. The Bank of Echo, by R. IB. Stan- field, cashier. Bank of Helix, Helix, Oregon. F. H. Sloes, Cash'er. First National Bank, Herinlston. F. B. Swayze, president. Bank of Stanfield. by Julia Hagg man, assistant cashier. The Farmers Bank of Weston, E. M. Smith, cashier. Farmers' Security Bank, Milton, Ore gon, W. C. MoKlnney, cashier. ." First National Bank, Milton, Oregon, T. C. Frailer, cashier. The First National Bank. Freewater. E. J. Davis, assistant cashier. The bans? of Freewater, R. A. Plum- mer, cashier. ' The First National Bank of Athena. Beginning Friday morning a branch office Of the Oregon Tourists' and Information bureau for Eastern Ore gon will be established here. The of fice will be on the first floor of the Elks building and will be in charge of Miss Mellie Parker, assistant to Secretary C. I. Barr of the Pendleton Commercial Association. The property of the old Eastern Oregon Auto club has been taken over by the new office, and will bo used In giving service. Maps and folders will be used for the' accommodation' of tourists and local people. Informa tion on the condition of roads will be kept In as up-to-date a . manner as I possible, and this service will be: Decision Beached by" County Court at Conference-1 Held by Bodies This Afternoon. At a conrercni-c lieHl in wlikrh the delegation from t'klali. a dclcKatltm from the Pendleton Conunerclal As sociation, and the county "urt par ilci)Atcd this afternoon, the county court reached a .decision to lend Its osslKtancc in making improvement 011 the road on condition that aid lie rendered by local communities. It Is understood that this aid will be forthcoming from the eoinmuiiltlc most affected by the road. Tho road between I'kiab and the i Grant county line Is so nearly im passable that the government hac threatened to cancel the mall route from Uklah to long creek, according to. a statement made by a .delegation of prominent citizens of ' the south end of the county who were in Pen dleton today seeking to secure aid for Improving' tho road from - the county court and tho Pendleton Com mercial Association. " The delegation which wulted on the couifty court consisted of Virgil Peterson, Marion CaJdwell, L, . '. Case and Oeorge Caldwell. Later, a meeting with the roiuls committee of the commercial organization was held in which the I'klah men set forth the conditions which they want to sco improved. You can get some Idea 01 how l,bg ANGKLKH, May 18. (V. P.) .K'wn Acker, first wife of Rudolph Val entino,., movie hero, who was married to Winifred Hudnut In Mexico Satur day, was expected to confer with (he district attorney todny regarding Val entino's action. Miss Acker and Val entino were divorced through an in terlocutory decree In January. Au thorities claim t;hat Valentino Is still us much married as he ever was, and said that under the Interlocutory de cree being required to wait a year be. fore getting his final divorce papers. Miss Acker may swear to a complaint, It was intimated. TO HAVE E! REGIS!' CHANGED ELECTION DAY Picture Proves That Snyder Won . First in Century strengthened by the practice of co operation with other similar' organ izations. Miss Parker will continue her du ties as secretary to Mr. Barr. The telephone number of tho office on the lower floor will be 114, the same ns the number of the Commercial Asso ciation at present. The room has been appropriately decorated with .pictures, etc.. In prep aration for Its opening. bad the i"oad Is when yon know that nearly every day the mall carrier Is compelled to stop before he , has marie half of the distance." one of the nun said, "He must then take the locked bug and go ahead on a horse and leave the parcel po.-t mall in the car standing In the middle of the road. As tilings stand now.-Uui road is so bail that It does not seeni necessury- for the government to dis continue the route, because II Is al- I most impossible for tho carrier to. get ; through. WVi want (o see that some j work Is done. . . .. I "As it stands now, the Cram county iside of the highway will bo improved Dinner Planned to be Held by Association Friday at Elks; , Stunts and. Music. ' . ' '" ' Business and pleasure will be com bined Friday night by Ihe Pendleton Commercial Association when a din ner and bus'ness session of the mem bership of the organization will, be held at the Rlks dining room. Final plans for the event are now . under way, and It Is expected that one of4he best affairs of Its kind ever given by the organization will, be th; result. Following the dinner which will be given at 7 o'clock, the bus'ness meet- lnir Hilt 1 hold At tills tllllll U round1 table discussion will be held In !uch cardB to the county clerk of tlv Ruling of 1918 Holds, Accord ing to Word Received by Keator From State Officer. Whether electors havo the right to change their registration on election day Js a question which has been asked constantly with the approach of the primary. Friday 'of this week. The following opinion on the subject, handed down bv tho office of thn at. tornev-trteneral of the slate Mav ' 9.1 1918, has been given It. I. Keator, d's trlct attorney, by the attprney-goncr al's office. Tho nuotutbin Is frraii section five, chapter 225, Jaws of 191B, . us follows: "If the elector removes .to another preclnet or to another county In this state, or If ho deHlrcs to change from 0110 political ' party to another, or If the name of the elector is changed by iparrlage, lis may rcg'sler again at his request. ... . . - On the back of the card containing such registration he shaU'cause hiM former registration to be cancoled In slibstanllnlly the fol. lowing form: , (Blank "B"): ..', ' "If the re-regiMtrittlon Is In a -county other than tho one In which the for mer registration Is mnjo and- filed, then the registration blank "II" or re quest for cancellation of registration shall be executed on a separate card and mailed by thn county clerk of the county In w hich tho 'elector Is re-regr istering to the county clerk of the county-whero the elector formerly rglstered. and It shall be tho duty of ftll official reglsl rrirs and election boards beforo v liotn such re-regls- trat.ons .Ire IrAde to moid both of A picture taken of the 100 yard dash at the Eastern Ore- i gon. truck anil fle.ld meet last Saturday, show's Hnyder of Pen-' dleton In' the lead by nearly two feet at the tape.: The picture was taken Just as the Pendleton sprinter breasted the tape and proves beyond a doubt that he . was first In the face. The plc- tare also shows Cook of Union,, second ; Stonelireaker 6f X'endle- ton, third; and Sandborg of La Grande, fourth. Snyder will be given a .medal for winning first In the 100 yard dash as. a result nf the picture, : ,: Eai'nhart won t' permanent ownership of the oup of fereo. by u former La Grande runner o the contestant that won the half 111 lie for two consecutive years or broke t hu record, - Earn hurt has won the race for,tWo years which gives him tho cup.' . 4 t AM imp United States is Ready to Put Views IffiTeshby-JoiiK ing Investigation . Body. NEW NOTE PLANNED BY . ALLIES TO UNITED STATES. x - ' r '."s,v i- Soviet Must Give Guarantees! or All Negotiations Arc Futile, is li..1 S.' View. . WA8HINOTON, May l.tU P.) ... The administration stood put today 011 . Its determination not to recognize th llusslan Soviet.,, Allied dealings wlllii the Russians at Genoa and. attempts, n forcn reeogiiitloq on congress, fall- ed to change the American attitude.': This w ' indicated today Whfh." Hughes' -note, refusing the invltatlod to the Hague conference went forward , today, containing a statement ttyat America desires' no negotiations with, 'ovlut, until the fundamental Kusslan ; reforms are instituted. , ' .. : -The United States, however; la ready to put Us views to test by Joining we -illhd commission to Investigate what ' la wrong with Ilussia an4 what rr.ma- . dies iift, : it is confident that such a comiullon would-flttd-tliat the basl "1 for ecooTn recoii8trtlfltlon"of 'Rus stun and the resumption-of interna tional - relations Ilea only- in soviet ' uarantees of safety of lite and prop. . erty.and scanotity of eontraats and rights of free labor. Until the, Soviet , clearly gives these guarantees, Bus, sliin negotiations are futile. 4 . r , 1 'r Now Planned . GENOA, May 1.t(U. V, Am .rlcH refusal to .approve the Hague . oonference tnay cause the Deposed conference to appoint a Russian com mission to be called off. Th l allies ' are planning a nev' note, to Washing . ' i.oii;.:, .,.,.;.. I-. :.. J;, (J'w:--,,-' .'-,..4 . ' , 1'enol" May Attend ' PAlilS, May 10. (U. P.)-JTlio French cabinet to'day decided to retuso" to send delegates to the ftaguo to, con sider the Russian question, If the pro ijosed Conference Is at all politics.!, If the conference June 15th la. limited , strictly to economic questions, the French will attend, howsver. . , ,; Genoa, May. 14. (A. P.) Lloyd George does not feel, ItVos Indicated . today, that American refusal to par tlolpote In the Hague meeting oh Hus slaii affaire, announced last night at ' Washington, Is the final word, as the . American note Indicated great Ameri can Interest in Ilussla's, economic, rc- . ftotfSfructlor. and the reply Is regnrded as formln ga basis for further corres pondence, The opinion Is generally expressed that American absenca- ' might kill that meeting. ' ; which suggestions from member as to future activities of the organisation will be In order. A member of the board of managers In succeed Will II. Bennett, recently resigned, will be elected. ' " The entertu'nment will take the form; of music and stunts, and plans have 'also been made to securf the election returns from 'both couny and slate. It Is expected that a radio re ceiving apparatus will be working preeent . may iiounty in whlctv the electors re-regls-ters." At the meeting -o.f .-the Progressive Business Club today letters from Sen itor Ktanflold, Senator AlcNary, ena- tors Jones and Poindexter of Wash ington and Representative McArthur acknowledging rcelpt of protests from Hie club agulnst the Inclusion of diamond lake In the Central iJiko na tional forest. In each etise the mem ber of congress agreed "to give careful consideration of the mutter and Hena tor Mc-Xuiy assured no action will be taken until the interests of the people, are fully considered. The club by motion iinanlmousty adopted today favored the Improve ment of the Nye-Grant county road FORO MAY LEASE : -" SEATTLE PKOJECT: The following Is an execrpt from j so as to make It passable the oiilulou of George JI. Brown, u1 Among - the visitors today were that time attorney general of the I Messrs furtoii Caldwell, Georee Cald stato: , ( . " J well, Virgil Peterson and Lou Case, all "An examination of theso provl-1 "f I'klah. here on road business, slons iiuote.l from section 10 shows I Charles If. Adler of Portland, J. U thut there Is 110 distinction made be. Cass of I41 Grande and Walter Dutton, us soon as crops are In, but that will sliat evening so tnose not do us much good, because soon as the Umatilla county part oftdlo a a public fathering In Pendle- the road Is reached, traffic will be Impossible, or practically Impossible Just to make my point plain, a Fop! car was , driven over the road the other djy a distance of 10 miles und the whole day was required, for the WASHINGTON, May 1,6. (I. X. 3.) Denouncing the American valu ation plane as a scheme threatening to plunge the country Into economic demoralization. Senator Capper, itrlp.' chairman of the agricultural bloc, do- ,A bridge this tide of L'klah has' re fended the foreign valuation plun'eently gone out, too, according to the written Into the McCumber tariff 'men. - It gave way Saturday ' when bill. i a rig was crossing It. ' A small boy Cupper warned against the Amer- swas injured and the team whh'h was lean valuation ohm kh "fraught with I hitched to the liu ran awarT fkiah Oregon, by Max B. Hopper, assist- untold dangers to the American far-, people are anxious to have this bridge ant Cashier. . - mer and the American consumer." - restored so that It will bear traffic. ton. 'Whether or not the radio part of thn pi-ogrrm is carried out will be determined by experiments now being carried on. ' - Ow'ng to the demand that peeled to be made for tickets, Secre tary C. I. Parr has requested that members, make their reservations as early as 'pmslule. - , ' At a meetlnir of the board of man agers beld .Monday t evening Fred Earl.' vice-president of the organiza tion, was appointed as the delegate to represent the Iocs! organization on the county fvderutlra. ( tween the various en uses for rc-regls-t rut Ion or facts wli'ch authorize an elector to ounce! his former registra tion and register again. 'It seems to be clearly the Inlen-, tion ,f the legislature thut the elec tor shull have the same privilege of cancellation of Ms formei' reglstrn tion and re-rmrlnterlng before u Judge of eleelloti as lie has Ih fore the conn- Is ex-l'V 'clerk or .registrar white the regis tration books are open." ' "MAJ IKI'IO" OX MAIOICV VOVAGK XF.VV 1'OUK. Mav 1. (If. P.) The White Slur liner Majestic, th worlds largest ocean steamer reachbd Xew York today on her maiden voy age from Houthampton . und Cher bourg. ;' :' .-.. (... ., , ' .. .. grazing exumliper of Baker. The I'klah man talked In favoring of improving the road to Grant coun tv so as to make Is passable. Rex Kills, member of the club spoke along the same line ami ulso urged Pendle Inn patronage at tho cowboy conven tion to be held at Uklah July i. c, SEATTLE. May Xi.-r(V. P.V-N- gotlatlons will bo opened by Seattle . with Honry Ford for the leasing of tho 'Ruby creek Unit of tl6 tiltaglt power project, according to terms of a resolution Introduced In the. council. City Engineer Dimmock has been in structed to prepare the necessary en gineering data covering a proper pro posal to Ford.', 1 " 'j .' 1 THE WEATHER , Heportod by Major te Moorhoose, official -cuther observer. - Maximum, SO. Minimum, 44. Barometer, S9.80, Illout Is Troublesome Cows put on clover, pasture . now should l well filled with hay first In order lo avert bloating. They should never be put In while tho clover 1 wet, ,'. In ' vsuhi bloating does , occur stund the cow with her head up hill and get her to chew something In or der to induce belching, A trocar for letting out the gas Is sometimes neces sary in alfalfa districts where bloat ing Is more or less common. O. A. C. Experiment station. ; 1 - ' ' ' t: "": ' ' ,', ' Barometer, a 9.80, 5 "b TODAY'S Jl rosaw '7 j ( Tonight add ' 1 r ', Wed. fair.