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THE ONLY SMALL DAILY IN AMERICA CARRYING REGULAR WIRE REPORTS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PR ESS. UNITED PRESS SND THE I K & DAILY EDITION j lypw-M . .rr by the Audit Bureau of Circulation jj . v- -f MI"EE)flYirlVl dL-Jr G COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER 1 ... . s PEM,gSr ls T" DAILY EDITION The East Oregonlan Is Eastern Or iron's greatest newspaper and aa a oiling- force gives to the advertiser over twice the aruaranted average Daid oir dilution in Pendleton and Umatilla county of any other newspaper. , COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER VOL. 34 DAILY EAST OREGONIAN. PENDLETON. OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1922. NO. 10,213 . f . ' : N . 11 ' -r . , , 1 ,,, ,. - . . . - i r . ...... . i - , .. -. -. ,, , , "i-.'.,,,': 1 1 :- rrv: . INERS EXPECT TO BE SENT TO PITS VERY SOON Hard Coal Operators -and Min ers Meeting at Philadelph ia to Make Agreement. HEAT RECORDS - OF - YEAR BROKEN V "EAST; -THREE - DEATHS WERE REPORTED SCANDA MIDDLE WEST HAS . . SMALL COAL SUPPLY Pittsburgh Operators Refuse Agreement Made at Cleve land Soft Coal Conference. CHICAGO, Aug. 17. (l P.") Heat records of the year fell today ns sweltering, multitudes suffered from the Dakotas to the Atlantic coast. Three deaths were reported, and many prostrations. The wave will last a week, according to weather forecasts. Thousands flocked to the parks, many sleeping there last night and at lake beaches here. Kid the Bern's ST. LOUIS, Aug. 17 (!'. P.) L OUT IN COURT' Funeral Services For Famous British ' Publisher Held TODAYi Several Hundred Newspaper! Men Marched to Westmin ster to Attend the Services. Veiled Hints of Jury Tamper ing Denied by Secretary of -Thirty tons of glass, cut into chunks, were deposited around the Polar bear cages in the. zoo here, the keepers hoping the renrs would be "kidded" Into bvlieving the weather was not as hot as the theremometer said it was. ' ' ! ! ; PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 17. (lT. P.) The conference of hard coal op erators and miners, with John Lewis representing the miners opened hero at two o'clock today. The conference Is expected to return 155,000 hard CALLED By SHERIFF TO MEET SEPT. 11 coal miners to the pits within a few ; mnv j tt,11 fjaop KolduB Job : mnrrym" "" nvo days. W. D. Warrincr represented Fl0va ' CaSe H01aUP JO men and women al the operators. Refuse Agreement. PITTSBURGH, Aug. 17. U. P.) Operators controlling eighty per cent of the soft coal produced in western. Pennsylvania today refused to agree to the scttlementt of the strike under the terms of the Cleve land conference. 1' reeport mica vein i the 0ff.ce today. niwmtnN in npi r ia I 'ii rxniirc n coal producers association In refusing to meet the miners leaders Friday In an effort to settle the dispute lit this district. . and Cutting Fray Some of Cases to be I.OXDO.W Aug. 17. (17. P.) Funeral .services ftr Lord Northclifie, famous English publisher, were held at Westminster Abbey today. Leading I publishers from all over England at COOperatlVe LOVerS League. . tended the service." Several hundred . newspapermen from Fleets Street " - marched to the Alftiev. He was buried OEKLER AWARDED PRIZE j " '"""'j "m"T OF-THE LOVELORN pRjZ ffiTP nrp Will Take Weeks to Dispose of Two Thousand Members; .. ... f.. .. Mav Marrv After b Montns. indiaxapolisj auS. k. a-. P. -run man )ovcM iriiiy no nrnuiu into piny to prevent the lisht. between Jack Df-nuisey ami BtlJ Brennun At Mk'hlsun City Labor Pay. The state may secure an injunction, or may semi stute troops to the nrona, as a prize fiti'ht is classed- uh riots and attend ants may he arretted. It is generally helieved that promoter Flt Simmons 'would call off the fijrht without fur ther stafe interference. IN OIL WILL BF Industry ED VICE-PRESIDENT'S PARTY UNABLE TO COME HERE TO SEE EXHIBITION, IS WORD GigantiCx' ,.opoly Three Fifth Oil Supply of is Controls World's - Claim. Vice-president Calvin Coolidge and the party which is accom- anylng him In the tour of the I AS IIS IN INDIANA The issuance of a call for the grand jury to meet September 11, authorized by Judge G. W. Phelps before he left a week ago on his summer vacation, I will be made tomorrow by the sher iff; according to a statement made at Midwest Needs Coal. WASHINGTON, Aug. .17. (tT. P.) Public utilities In the middle west will be kept in ten to twenty days' supply of coal if possible, Coal Ad- i ministratqr Spencer announced to day. The midwest is suffering grave shortage. All ofher utilities stocks will be. replenished iii-en as pos sible, Spencer announced. ; , HALL WILL NOT SUPPORT OLCOTT IN ELECTION There are no cases of interest to be examined into by the probing body at this session so far, j though there are a number of affa rs , which are known to be up for an in- i vestigation. Of chief public interest,1 ; perhaps, will be the case of Floyd ! Hull who Is charged with attrrnpted i murder for the alleged shooting of his wife, Elsie Hall, in a Pendleton res-, lauraiU. Airs. Hall recovered aller I she had been fired upon by her h is band. The shooting followed the fil HAMMOXTON, X. J., Aug. 17. d". P.) Scandal broke out in "Cupid's Court' 'here today. Veiled bints of jury tampering were hotly denied by Thomas Delder, secretary of the Co operative Loveis' Union, wh'ch Is marrying off two thousand lovelorn over the country, who mailed In their matrimonial in- i tentiiins. nekler. who runs the show. Investigated. as accused ..by some of cupidity be I cause be -was awarded the prize of the list .Mary Doe, an lS-year-old K.en ! tucky lass. -Mrs. Helen Kodgers, judge ' of the court at the opening today ' ruled there would be no retrial in . Dekler's case. Dekler represented j the' niuseiillne loveis, Iewis Conley. I who started the league -hh a joke, rep- J outstanding if'nted the women. It will be weeks ! oeiore lue iwo iiiousanu . ai e i. sjixisi't of. Special, delivery letters telling each entrant to whom he or she lias : been betrothed, are forwarded when Mm .ntli't t-oiwloru lis flPi'l-jifin At'lPr nmnnnHon, of six months those I1"1 announcement Issued Wednesday paired off may marry. ARBITRARY PRICES SET FOR LIQUID FUEL Senate Sub-committee Inves tigating High Gasoline Prices in United States. WASIIIXOTOX, Aug.. 17. (?. P.) The senate sub-committee Investi gating the high gasoline prices will probe thff suspejeted giguntlc oil mon opoly extending throughout the world Senator Smith, ranking democrat, de clared today. The monopoly It Ir said controls three fifths of the worldshll supply-,' nnd by interlocking arrange ments is able to set arbitrary prices lor li(Uid fuel. v.. Northwest will not he able to come to Pendleton to see a min iature presentation of the Round-TTp, The invitation ex tended him by the management has been declined by the vice president on account of other r iMic HELD TODAY Oil RAILROAD STR HE arrangements which have al- t ready been made for the trip. News of the inability of the distinguished party of people to come to Pendleton has been re- ceived by H. W. Collins, both from Air. Coolidge and from Col, Charles W. Furlong, who at present Is In Portland. The vice-president expresses his keen regrets at not being able to ae- cept the invitation. "'Plans hud been made to give an exhibition of riding, rope work and other features seen In j the Round-ITp If It could he ar- ranged for the party to stop in Pendleton. " TO ADOPT FUEL OIL POUTLvAND, Ore.. Atiff. 17. Tiis senjyer locomotives of the O-W. U. & X. company are being: converted to use oil Instead of coal as fuel in the future as & mentis of economy, said it the offices of J. V. O'Brien, general manager bf the railway. STl'DKNT HVmi:i AUVTC O K ASS VAIXKY, Cal., Aug. 17. ! (I. J'.) S. r.r'inKleson, twenty three. ! stiirlcnl ii "i he Pnk-ersitv nf Cillffiir- Ins by Mrs. Hall of a suit for divoive. nm was insianuy ;inen, wnen u nne- i Aa rupHliy as the oil burners are beinp: in tuM-M-u linn "i i"v i m ni,t-n (Miiwu in mi- iii-hhmivc iu-y Mir urr- liundred foot lovM :of tlie renim. lvania lusr put In spi-vico timl the entire pu- t niino hi're. ( Uhers on the: same ; senser etfiiijMiient is expected to he DECIDES GUN IN AUTO IS 'CONCEALED WEAPON' I Conversion -work started nt the Al j hUia shops Saturday nnd the general j managers' office reported that two of the engines are be'nr completed .daily. CINCINNATI, Auff. 17. A revolver in a man's automobile Is bh much a concealed weupon as the same gun In the man's pocket nnd just as much a ineiiHce to the public. In the opinion of Judffe Meredith Yeatmun, Cincinnati Police Court juris-. Two policemen testified they found a. revolver in the car of John H. Hutssner as It stood In front of his saloon. Rutzner was fined $TTtO and costs. . LET TO WARREN CO. Union Leaders Suggest That Strikers be Placed Midway on the Seniority ' Scale. HARDING POSTPONES SPEECH TO CONGRESS Optimism Expressed as Meet ing Opened in Rail Execu tives Office in New York. POnTLAN'D, Aus. 17. l'. P.) Charles Hall, of Marshlleld, defeated republiean primary candidate for nomination for jiovernor, Issued a Htatemcnt today doelarinR that ho would not support Oleott In tSt' fo .tl.iioiuine eleetion. .Nothing was said in the statement indicating Hall's intention to run independent. The statement refers to Oleott as the "alleged nominee" and advises Hall's friends that any obligation Hall may have at one time assumed to support Oleott has been dissipated. The Multnomah county grand jury today opened Its Investigation here of the alleged fraud In precinct wo hun dred one where tne count for Oleott showed considerable discrepancy in the recent probe. . K. l.tnday Js now being held in in.- county Jail on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. He Is ihouKht j to be one of a niyuber of colored I men who fought back when tra'nmcn n.ttm..ti.l tn nitft them from a freilillt I train in tho west nd of the county ' j several weeks since. The other col- j ored men got away, but Lindsay has; I been here since shortly after the af I fair in which two train men were so-1 riouslv slashed and beaten. ! j Another criminal case that is likely 10 lie IllVfSUgUlKU i llic ictriiv iiu.'i- 11 p at Jleacham for which James Ky- I ail is held. The officials claim they level escaped injury. clumged to oil burning Lber 1. , .After the pa.ssenger eciu'pment: is converted It Is probable that the com f pany likewise will, chanse their ! freight motive power tt the same type. , Xew (11 tanlcs are being constructed i nnd old tanks are being rebuilt for the j new operating method, i Oil was used as fuel by the O-W. H. i & X. up to 1913., when steadily liicreas- litxis AM) sih:ki STKAnV. 1'OltTI.AM'). Aug. 17. (A. I'.) Calves. 1 fi s.r(l. Hogs and sheep, steady . Kgs?s firm with stronger un- bv yeptem- ' flertone, butter steady. ' . iTRALIA TOOK L IN DAVIS CUP PLAY OErtMAN'TOWS, Cricket Club, Philadelphia, Anir. 17. (P. P.) Australia took the lead In the final preliminary Davis cup tourney hero today when Gerald Patterson defeated Count De Oomar of Spain In three straight sets in the first m.Kch. lie Oomar was outtelassed. Patterson played a much harder brand of" ten nis than did the Spanish opponent. Oomar's returns were generally easy for Patterson whili- the hitter's smash es -were too fast fur the Spaniard to handle. itur nriees.in this fuel forced the line Aug. 1". (P.. P. to chanae to coal as n fuel. have a confession from ltyan in which j Mmlibn' I'hii Douglas, i.iants siai offcers of the O-W. reported that he admits his part in the job recent- pitchi r, has been placed on tho per- j ,ney w,,,,e ln no rtlt,1Rpr of a coal ly done there when more than $:J0 mnnent ineligibility list, according to Uhortnga th's winter because mines was secured. '" official national !e:isne announce- from which they received lhir sup- John Carlson nnd C. W. Estes are inent here today. Douglas is rnnrgcu i iy iUHi ,cen 1n cunstunt operation. Tf held for passing bad check.' there are a niwnber of other which will bo investigated. and cases CHICAGO WHEAT PIES Tl with of fe; ins; members of., another ..but said that increased cost of coal team to "go sishing- and thus deprive I and lower prices of ,oil made the tho Oiants of his support. Invesiigu- change to be desired fronf an eennom t on revealed that no other rdayers la standpoint. Kliniination of cinders were Involved such as were in the and soot by the use of oil made the 1M 'I scumbils use of o 1 doubly desirable. T'KKfXO, Aug. 17. (A. P.) The attempt to revive popular government in Phlnn 1m on the vertre of collalise. according to information from foreign whereby the Company Underbids Anderson of Portland on 2 Jobs; Total Amount Work, $22,178.50 Hids for paving work on South Main street and on Aura and Cosble streets In the Happy Cunyon district were let by the city council last night to the Warren Construction Co., this company having the low figures on both jobs of work. The other bid der was the W. 1. Anderson Con struction Co. of Portland. The total amount of the bids of tho Warren Construction Co. on both jobs was $22,178.1)0, while the other com pany askeil f 24,laS.3!). On the 200 feet of paving to be done on South Main street the Anderson bid was 3,m.63, and the Warren bid :!,- 371!. US. On thu other district affect ed, Anderson's ' bid was and tho Warren bid 1S,801.R2. . Or- dlnauces authorizing the street com mittee to enter lntocontraers for do ing the work were pussed after the opening of the bids. James H. Johns, president of Happy Cunyon, appeared before the .council and asked that the night show of the Kound-l'p be protected if possible so that the streets leading to the build ing bo not torn up during tho time the show will be In progress. He asked that an understanding be se cured with the contractor if possible paving around , the ST. PAUU Aug, 17. (U. P.) Word reached here today from Big Four officials at Havre, Wont., that a brakeman on the the Oreat Northern named Stambaugh had been killed by a strike guard. The report said Havre union offi-, t cials hud wired national head- quarters of the Big Four Broth- erhoods requesting that a strike be called on the entire Great Northern system. legations. Military leaders are open ly defying the government, cabinet ni'n(HrcrH refnsin gto assume respon sibilities. The treascury Is empty, nnd unpaid civil employe have null. President l.iyanhung has renewed his ideas for cooperation of Hunyatsen to prevent, miillnrlsts control. Wheat prices show an advance to-1 day In the Chicago market, the cls Ings being September J1.U3, I'.eci'in ber fl.04 3-8 and -May J1.09 3-8. Yesterday's closings wrere Jl.aO 7-8, J1.02 1-3 and 1.ii7 3-8. Following are the quotations re ceived by .Overheck & Cooke, local brokers: Wheat. High Low Close $1.03 . Il.a'n $l.3 1.04 hi . l.l ',i !(! l.94 1.08 ' 1.0S, Kxcliangcs. Sterling. 448; Marks, 9 3-8; France 790 1-2; Italy. 461. Sept. Dec. May . Open . $1.00 1.02 1.07 SEA PLANE ONliP TO SOUTH AMERICA THE WEATHER Ttorte. by M.ijor Ie Moorhnn, weather obrvrr. Maximum. M. Minimum. 61. barometer r.7V XF.W YORK. Aug. IT. t. P.) i The Sampalo Correia, mammoth wa- plnne. hopped off from the Kockaway naval utation In its 85'i mile flight to Uio IV Jam-fro th: morninp. It wiU stop at ChHrlsttn. P. C as the comiktion of the fiis't leg of the journey. TODAYS FORECAST Tonlrhi and Pridnr f r. j r ; and .irmr. j! I: SAN pmDAnDIXO. Cal., Auff. 17. 41". i. vuon Wonir. Chinese with whom in known to have had a di-atr-ment dnrine the day waa aires-t-1 h tlTy ai a miift in the miT lr ft Urn. Mii Hansen, ffiiiil ht t d;iTh l-t nipt in hrr M rown hr1 i V;e, f 'rnit nrr -thomeJ th-it rr f Mri'fV ha.l tjk-n place. Wonc protested bis innocence. ii " " . ' 1 jJUyj! COME ON, IT'S YOUR TURN NOW. yMAPi M WARREN. AWKiMiJfr J i w; just I building either be rushed to comple tion before the show, or else held up until after the show. "It would be ruinous to have the streets torn up during the progress of the show," he stated. ' Put I.onergan utated after the con tract was awarded' to him that It would be impossible to have the work nil dono by Kound-1'p week, but he said he could have the sldewnlks down and the streets In Hiieh con dition that the Inconvenience would be minimized. ' Mr. Johns also a-sked that the council follow Its tisuul practlco of other years by permitting the Happy Canyon management to pass on ap plication for cnncesMons. The coun cil Indicated Its willingness to do this. A petition was read from residents on Pine street asking for the exten slon of a sewer to the north end of the street. The extension of Aura street up over the south bill was re ferred to the street committee. The same action was taken when Council man Iiwrenee asked for action on paving that portion along Thomp son street where the fill recently has been made. NKVV YOItK, Aut. 17. (U. P.) Warren S. Stone, chief of the Brother hood of Engineers, nnd Iewlt Cuyler, head of the Railroad Executives Asso-. nation, headed .the respective com- mlttee of strikers and railroad heads bring about a settlement of the shop strike. The seniority question will bo the chief topic of debate. Btone.S suggestion was that the strikers be ta ken back and bo placed midway In tho seniority list, thus, old employes who failed to strike first, strikers sec ond, new men third. I . ' Tho conference opened at 2 o'clock. ' Five union chieftains, headed by War ren Btone, represent the strikers. Berb Jeweir imnTIWnrfa- chl..f ' Shm nmnnir $21,n47.7. 'those who remained within call of the conterenco. There was considerable optimism as the meeting, opened. The meeting was held at Cuyer'sw. in i ice. ; ... ' i . Postpones Speech. WASHI.VOTON. Aug, 7. (U P.) President Harding in a telephone conversation with Senator Watson of 1 Indiana, senate republican leader, an- ' nounced he would postpone his mes sage scheduled to be delivered to the ing tho settlement of the railroad -strike if possible by tho union-execu-tlves meeting In New York today. ' , Violence ill Mid-West CHICAGO, Aug. 17. (U. P.) Vie-, lence broke out In the rail strike last night. Troops at Jollet, Ills., were fired on by snipers and clashes at Clinton, 111., may result in martial law there. Four strike .breakers were as. saulted at Clinton, one beaten severely. Non union men were beaten at Cedar ftapids, Iowa, and Janesvllle, Wis. Trouble also occurred at lCvansvllle, Ind. , ' Trains Reinstated. 8A.V FltANCISCO, Aug. 17. (A. P.) All western Pacific trains an nulled on account of the strike, were reinstated today as the result of the settlement of tho strike yesterday. The . enihurgo on perishables is lifted. To Deport Strikers. iSAX BEHNAUDINO, Aug. 17. (A. P.) Moves to deport five strikers ar-. rested last night together with three others following a riot at the Santa Fe yards here in which several rail -employes were beaten, were taken by the federal officials today. After the iirrest three bombs were thrown at si Kanta Ke train, which was forced to slow down because of slippery tracks oiled by the strike sympathisers. . FARMERS' WIVES EAGER FOR SCIENTIFIC HOMES WASHOIXOTOV, Aim. T. -In li?l oxKnaion awnta of the f i-.rt ment of Aftrtciilttiro, working with farm wom en, nave 1 l.lMio rifmonKtrationa In hom manajrt-nient and arranuement. KfKUlia from theae dniinrtt ration J'mt rfMtrtd to the lHflrtment (n-r-lude homes built or remodeled arrordina; to dtminHtraf Ion ausr a ttonx; 7,m0 kitchen rearranged; 5, io hima mT-nl and 5,'a watr vmr-nia. aetlr tank and 7.ft'o lihtlna; aywt inn limtnlld. GET PRISONERS RELEASE WASHIXGTON, Aug. 17. (I". T.V The Children (Yusaders, here since April, attempting to secure the release of relatives Imprisoned during the war on espionage charges, closed their campaign today, with all hut noe prisoner having been released. The children secured the release of seven Polltt, al prisoners, the children's fath ers and brothers. PAP.l.-J. Aug 17 (A. IM Mem-t-rs ti the reintTi,,ne fommtaKion I met Informally tday to diMruss the '. r,iillitt' of rem bins a rnmpromt1 jmhith ouM M acceTll,le to hniht I rnce and !r si prilnin. Poincsre has erd.-red the Frn h 4M rmm(s I n to rtiim to priw from Wajh ; Ineton Tnm-lilty to retort the re 1 Mlt of cnrttl'ns '?H American '.fficshi r!irdir g the Fr n. h dM. OHIO MAN IS FLEECED OF HIS MORTGAGE FUND TOLEDO. O, Aur. 17. Charlee fwt-tl, Cincinnati, on his way home j from Philadelphia to pay off hM mothers mortgage, stopped In Toledo long enough to permit a stranger to (tve him a drink. When he smoke In Central Station, where he had been taken after he wum found uacensrious In an emotT bx. hi. roll f I0 had been depleted In t?:T. Vvet told nollee he had een working a waiter In Philadelphia nine month. Pepi-iving hlmi-rf of clothes and eves fiv! In order thst he niirbt t mptt rent povrlhie to rar en the irionense on hi mother hme in t'imlnnail.