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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-12
NATIONWIDE
BRITISH MINE STRIKE

LONDON. Feb. 12.-Vernou Harts-
horn. miners leader. today predicted
"a nationwide strike of British coal
miners within six weeks. Replying tC
LLOYD Georges statement that the
the naturalization of mines move
neut. Hartshorn declared THE issues
are now outside OF parliament" He
said the miners are determined to no
longer work for private owners.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-12
WILSON WILL I/%IET RAILWA YAlEN TOMORROW
rs PROGRAM SHOWS
PRESIDENTS PROGRESS
IN RETURN TO HEALTH

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Presi-
lent Wilson today showed how far
he had gone toward recovering by:
Taking complete charge OF the
railroad wage controversy
Deciding to preside at the next
cabinet meeting.
Appointing John Barton Payne
secretary of the Interior
Approving the sale OF ex-German
liners.
Deciding to accept an offer TO
become honorary president Of the
american Olympic Association.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-12
CHANGE IN VERSAILLES
TREATY IS LOOKED FOR

PARIS. Feb. 12.-France will prob
ably agree to modification OF the treaty
of Versailles, as it is reported to be
favored by the British provided she is
given other conpenSations, it is semi
officially learned today. 1t is general
~ believed LLOYD Georges home policy
has forced him t. consider early re-
sumption of trade relations with GER
many and Russia which will necessi-
tate notifications in the Versailles
treaty.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-12

out the hazards that attend an open
market.
Expressions from local farmers to-
day indicate they would like to see the
price fixing continued If the legislation
needed can he secured.
Gronna Bill Hit
The latest reports regarding the
Gronna bill is that 1t is probably dead
as "A result of protests made against the
measure. The Commercial Association
Yesterday received "A wire from Sena =
tor McNary stating he would oppose
the bill. As n member of the COM
mittee on agriculture the senator is
In a position TO be of Influence on tho
subject.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-12
"HERALDfD COMPROMISE SEEKS
MORE ABJECT SURRENDER Than
ORIGINAL PROPOSAL, HITCHCOCK
New Difficulties That Must be Overcome Before Senate Can
Reach Agreement on Arc 10 of League Covenant Loom
as Democratic Leader De cines Lodges Latest offer.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Indica'
tlons of difficulties that must be over
come before the senate can reach a
compromise on Article 10 OF the
league OF nations covenant are seen
In Senator Hitchcock's rejection OF
the widely heralded compromise
submitted by the mild reservationists.
Hitchcock declared that acceptance by
the democrats would involve even
more abject surrender than accept
ance OF the original Lodge reserva-
ton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-12
HOLIDAY INTERRUPTS
MONTESANO TESTIMONY

MoNTESANo. Feb. 12.-No session
Of court was held here today, due to
the holiday.
The state expects to complete its
testimony in the Centralia murder case
by the end of the week. Better pro-
gress has been made than was expect
ed because the defense admitted many
facts the state thought il would have
to prove,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-12
WILHELM FORBIDS SON
TO SURRENDER, ASKING
ASSISTANCE OF dutch
Ex- kaiser Would Stay Former
Crown Prince From Offering
Self to Tribunal and Seeks
Aid in Restraining Him.

kaiser has forbidden his son, the for
mer crown prince, TO surrender him
self to the allies, and has requested
the Dutch government to prevent such
a procedure, the newspaper Krause
Zeitung said today.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-12
Putting Question Up to Presi-
dent Will Not Cause Cancel
lation of Strike Order Al
ready Sent to 100000 Men.
EXECUTIVE WILL NOT
ASK CABINET ADVICE
Leaders Are Not Optimistic But
Government Officials Believe
Controversy viii Find Set
tIement.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 12.-President
Wilson will meet delegation of three
railroad union officials at 1890
o'clock tomorrow, it was announced
at the white house today. President
Lee, of the brotherhood of railroad
trainmen telephoned to Rail Director
Hines early today and asked a confer
ence.
Lee has given Hines formal notice
that his union wishes to terminate its
present contract February 23- Putting
the wage question up to the president.
will not cause cancellation of the strike
order already sent to 100000. brother
hood of maintenance and way en-
ployes, Vice President Mallery said.
adding the "onIy thing to avert the
strike is the granting of our demands"
Tumulty conferred with Hines early
today, obtaining Hines statement Of
the wage controversy to lay before
President Wilson.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-12
HIGHWAY PROGRAM IN
EASTERN OREGON is
SHAPING FOR SEASON
Pendleton- Echo Section Will be
Graveled and Paving Will be
Laid Between Athena and
Weston by End of Summer.

Eastern Oregon's highway program
for the coming spring and summer is
being perfected in the local offices Of
the highway commission and on
March 23. when the next meeting is
held i'm Portland, bids viii be opened
on contracts for several important
units in the district over which Engi-
heer NJ. o. Bennett has charge.
Bids for tho graveling of the Pen
dleton to Echo section of the Old ore
gon Trail Will be opened at the March
meeting and work will probably be
started early in April. Grading of this
road from Rieth to Echo has been
under way all winter with little inter
ruption and it is well on the way to
completion.
The Arlington Blalock section of
the Columbia River highway is also
to be let to graveling in March. This
in a portion of the Gillian county
copntX road and is~also nearing com
pletion as regards the grading.
John Day Highway Work.
From Mayville to Thirty Mile creek.
near Condor. bids for both grading
and graveling of the John Day high
way will be opened. Mr. Bennett said
today that resident engineer and
party will be sent at once too Unit 3
of the John Day highway TO begin first
operations. Parties have been at work
since last summer on Units 1, and 4.
The four units comprise so miles of
highway in southern Gillian and
counties.
In conference with C. p. A. Loner-
Co. today, Mr.. Bennett
learned that the 13 miles of paving |
Athena and Milton will he |
aid by the end of the summer. Two
plants will be kept busy as soon as
are ready for work, and. in (
addition, extra quarries will be open /
ID to supply rock for the base on the .
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-12
Weather, Ws
---ES'

From the report of Major Lee
Moorhouse. weather observer
Maximum. So.
Minimum. 81.
Barometer 29.T0. ~ WTT J
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-12
Answer Is Expected.

1t is expected the president will give
the railroad workers tomorrow his
answer to their demands for immedi-
ate wage increases which they have
been pressing in negotiations with
Hines.
Following announcement that the
president will meet the railroad men
personally, Secretary Lansing admit
ted he had cancelled all cabinet meet
ings until further notice.
1t was recalled that the cabinet
handled the coal strike, and SO can
collation. of bi-weekly meetings is re-
garded as showing the presidents de-
cision to handle the railway contro-
versy alone.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-12
Union Not Optimistic.

These negotiations have been in
progress since February 3 before a
meeting of railroad men and the pres
dent to study the whole wage contro-
versy which was postponed last sum-
mer when he requested the railroad
men to give the governments fight
FOR lower cost of living a chance to
how results.
Union leaders are not optimistic
over the possibility of getting from
the president complete demands.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-12
Strike Being Organized.

DETROIT. Feb. 12.-Strike head
quarters were opened today by the
brotherhood of maintenance of way
md railway shopmen in widely scat
tered cities. it was announced at the
national headquarters here.
Attorney General Palmer called on
Secretary Tumulty but denied that the
-ailroad situation was discussed or
that there was any talk of enjoining
railroad employees from striking. This
was made very emphatic.
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Continued on page 81
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-02-12

This paper IL member ana audited
by the Audit Bureau OF CircuIationn
The Washington herald., 1920-06-26
LOAN POLICY
OF U. FIXED
America Has No Choice in
War Settlement, OFF,
cials Assert.

The United States has no choice
in the making of financial settle
ments growing out of the war II
was announced yesterday officially
and intimations of any other char
acter thrown out from the Euro
pean councils must be classed either
as propaganda or feelers.
The question. as far as this coun.
try is concerned, was settled abso-
lutely by the passage of the liberty
loan lows. which proposed that no
loans should be made to any OF
our allies with a maturity later
than the liberty loan from which
the money was advanced or at a
greater rate of interest,"
The only negotiations which the
United States is now carrying on
with the allies over a financial set.
tlement is to arrange the question
of converting the demand loans
that were made into time loans and
the matters involved are still under
discussion.
(nublic Ledger Service
The Washington herald., 1920-06-26
SEES SHIP WAR
ENGLAND
Needed to Rouse u. S. tc
Menace of Alien Domin-
alton, Says Jones.

Opposition of British shipping in
terests to the provisions of the
shipping act discriminating against
foreign carriers probably will lead
to the employment of extensive CO.
ercive methods, according to Sena-
tor Wesley L. Jones, of Washing
ton, chairman of the Senate Com
mercs Committee. in an effort to
bring about an alteration or repeal
of these provisions in the measure.
The announcement from London
that a majority of British under
writers had decided that no Amer
lean business was to be done until
matters were cleared up" because
of the insurance clauses of the ship
ping act was welcomed BY Jones.
II hope they will stick to it," he
said. TT is just what we need to
awaken our people to the menace
of alien domination Of important
lines of business.
IF we cannot have an American
merchant marine. IL we can't have
American marine insurance. except
with the consent of. and upon the
terms imposed by our English COM
petitors, the sooner we know it the
better"
public Ledger service.)
The Washington herald., 1920-06-26
Actress Shoots
.ComedianDoDn
During Matinee
Kitty Gordon's Revolver Is
Loaded With Lead In
stead of Blank.

Chicago, June 25.-Kitty Gordon.
musical comedy star, at the Palace
Musical Hall matinee this afternoon.
pulled her usual stage revolver and
fred as she said her lines:
you can't insult my daughter
that wayr
Instead of a blank the gun con-
tained a loaded cartridge. Joseph
H. Hack, comedian, fell gasping to
the stage with a bullet in his chest.
The curtain was rung down amid
excitement while the comedian was
rushed to a hospital where his
wound is said to be serious. Hack
declared the shooting was acci-
dental.
Miss Gordon's act, a headliner,
was the seventh on the bill. Her
partner had just ended a line when
1t was Miss Gordon's cue to make
her climax remark and shoot the
william"
Hack, a member of the trio,
Page. Hack and Mack, was stand
ing in the wings. Their act was
to come next. The bullet from Miss
Gordon's revolver pierced his arm
and ploughed into his chest.
A capacity audience packed the
theater, but panic was prevented.
Miss Gordon later was questioned
by Chief of Police Garrity.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-26
CANADA SELLS
RUSS SUPPLIES
Martens Contracts for Mil.
lions in Foodstufs and
Machinery.

New York, June 25.-Ludwig C. A.
K Martens. unrecognized Soviet am
bassador" to the United States today
signed a contract with a firm of
Canadian manufacturers for ship
ment of several million dollars worth
of foodstuffs. agricultural machin-
cry, and railroad equipment to Rus
sia, according to reliable informa-
tion here. The firm is said to be
Boyer. Sloan G Co., of Montreal.
Martens announced early this week
that s5.O0o,O0 deal with Canadian
interests were on the point OF COM
aetion. He also stated that Soviet
agents who had visited Canada had
conferred with Dominion officials.
The Canadian government is said
to have approved the contract for
which special banking arrangements
have already been made both in
Canada and in England.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-26
Reed Fauored
By Committee
ProcedureP'an
Disputes Over Delegations
Taken from Chairman
Cummings.
BY RICHARD LEE.

(stsr Correspondent Of Universal service.) }
San Francisco. June 25.-Adminis-
tration forces. suspected of being
under cover with third term nomi-
nation plans. took the first fall to-
day before the Democratic national
committee when the anti-adminis-
tration men. on a roll call, took de-
cisions on contests from National
Chairman Homer S. Cummings
hands.
The national committeeman voted
26 to 20 against allowing Cummings
subcommittees to decide the Georgia
case involving twenty-eight dele
gates. and the Missouri case, in
volving the convention seat of the
Administrations foremost foe, Sena-
tor James NJ. Reed. The full COM
mittee will hear the contests at 10
o'clock in the morning.
Edward Moore, Ohio national
and campaign man
ager for Gov. James NJ. Cox. in the
fight for the nomination, led the
anti administration forces. At one
point-on the occasion of an ad-
verse ruling from the national
chairman the Ohioan clearly
Threatened a fight to the convention
floor.
Caution Deemed Necessary.
Upon what pretext can the mem
bers of this committee vote to send
these contests to a subcommittee
and risk giving the general public
the impression that full and COM
plete hearings are not sought by
the Democratic party?" asked
Moore.
This constitutes a situation so
fraught with delicacy that this COM
mittee may well deliberate carefully
before ii decides to shut off in any
way the hearings on these contests.
warned Norman L. Mack, commit
teeman from New York. The well
fare of the party is at stake"
The Washington herald., 1920-06-26
HARDING PUTS
FOOT DOWN ON
BIG DONATIONS
ST 900 Limit for Campaign
Agreed at Meeting With
Finance Head.
T. R. SEEKS HARMONY
Tells Nominee He Will Sup
port Move to Reunite
Republican Party.
T. R. SEEKS HARMONY

Warren G. Harding. the Repub-
iican Presidential nominee, yester-
day declared himself as emphatic
ally against extravasant expendi-
lures in the coming campaign. ac-
cording to William Boyce Thomp-
son. of New York. AS head of the
ways and means committee of the
Republican national committee, Mr..
Thompson conferred with the Re-
publican candidate Cn rlans for f.
.nancing the campaign.
In a previous conference. Hard
ing discussed with Theodore
Roosevelt, jr., his policies for the
campaign. Roosevelt later expressed
great satisfaction with the meeting,
characterizing Mr.. Harding's ideas
as to the policies of this country
when he is elected President.
such as every young, forward
looking man will indorse in toto"
Mr.. Thompson's call followed con-
ferences in New York in which
Harry NJ. Daugherty, a member of
the executive committee of the cam
paign, and Will H. Hays. the Re-
publican National Chairman. partici-
pated. They laid plans, it is under
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-26
HOOVER HOLDS
TREATY URGENT
For Earliest Possible Rati6
cation With Article Ten
Eliminated.
Ne1p York, Jame s5.-The New

Ne1o York, Jane e5.-The NeU
= York Evening Post today printed
the foiioucing:
Earliest possible ratification, after
the elimination of the much-discuss-
ed Article X of the Treaty of Peace
with Germany. and steadfast adher-
ence to the league of nations are
urged by Herbert Hoover as the
platform upon which the Republican
Party should stand in the Presiden-
tial campaign. This view is ex-
pressed in an authorized statement
to the Evening Post today.
In a league of nations which is "a
product of the liberal ideas of the
world" Mr.. Hoover finds no place
for any threat of military force such
as is implied in the present Article
Y; he would rely only upon such
moral and economic pressure as may
be necessary to accomplish interna-
tional peace and good order, and be-
lieves that by such means and such
means only, international disarma-
ment can be brought about.
Mr.. Hoover urges the Republicans
forthwith to advocate ratification
without Article X in order to force
the Democratic party into the posi-
ton of defending "a practical mill
tary alliance-upon which their
safety devices only further en-
danger the real value of the
league"
ANY one reading Article X" says
Mr.. Hoover. will realize that there
is nothing in the phraseology that
NTINIIEn ON PACE sIy
The Washington herald., 1920-06-26
USE PARIS STRANGLE"
IN NEWARK MURDER

Newark, N. J., June 25.-The
Paris strangle" was used in mur-
dering Preston Rockrock here. po-
lice were convinced today. The
man stumbled into a saloon, stag
gered and fell to the floor dead.
DR.. George l.. Warren, county
physician, examined the body and
said that there were no marks on
the body. He said the man was a
victim of the Paris strangle"-a
method of murder which he said
was frequently used in Europe but
was seldom seen in this country.
: The method. he said, was to tie
a silk handkerchief around the neck
Of the victim, drawing it tightly,
causing the large arteries of the
brain to tighten and close. No
marks are left.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-26
.R.:R. AWARDS
DUE JULY 20
Labor Boards Promise Of
Decision Slaves Off
Strike, Is Belief.

A general railroad tie-up has been
STAYED off. for the present at least,
by announcement of the Railroad
Labor Board in Chicago that its
wage, award will be made public
July 20.
This was the belief generally
voiced in Official circles here last
night. Railroad Administration and
other officials were inclined to be-
lieve that the workers would be
disposed to heed the appeal of the
brotherhood heads that the men
stay at work until the award OF the
board has been announced: ...
At the same time, however, there
was an inclination to believe that
the menace of a general strike has
not been entirely removed. While
the boards announcement. is likely
to clear the atmosphere for the
present, it was pointed out that. an
award unsatisfactory to the work.
ers, who have demanded increases
averaging 80. per. cent, would pre-
cfpitate a return to the grave sit
uation which has existed for the
past two weeks. Brotherhood heads
have laid emphasis upon the state
ment that the workers are sick of
promises and delay" and 1t is gem
orally believed they, could not be
held in check in the event that the
board renders an unpopular. decf-
sion.
Announceme by the Labor
Board followed consultation In Chi
.cago> with Warren s. Stone, grand
chief of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers; w. N. Doak, vice
president of the Brotherhood Of
Railroad Trainmen; w. s. Carter.
president of the Brotherhood of Lo-
connective Firemen and Engineers:
L. E. Sheppard, president of the Or
der of Railway Conductors, and b.
M. Jewell, chairman of the en-
ployes committee.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-26
50 BAPTISTS INJURED
ASGRANDSTAND FALLS

Buffalo, June 25.-Fifty persons
were hurt, several seriously, here
today when a grandstand crowded
with people attending the thirteenth
annual convention of Northern Bap-
lists collapsed.
The injured included Rev. ]. L.
Peacock, Raleigh, N. c..
The grandstand was erected for
the taking of picture of some of
the delegates. AS far as could be
ascertained from physicians most
of the injuries were broken legs
and internal injuries. A.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-26
Harding Tries Out
Hitchcock's Vigor
With Golf Sticks

Foretaste of Q greater clash
was had by Senator Warren @.
Harding. Presidential probability.
and Senator Gilbert Hitchcock.
of Nebraska. Presidential possi-
bility. when they met in a golf
match on the Chevy Chase Club
links yesterday afternoon.
II the brassie battle is pro-
phetic of the Presidential night.
both Harding and Hitchcock will
ind 1t hard going. Both Repub-
Iican nominee and Democratic
candidate repeatedly found them
selves "stymied" and "in the
rough"
Fit foes for their "irons" were
found by the possible future
Chief Executives In Senators
Hale. of Maine, and Elkins, of
West Virginia, who were par
tieipants in the game.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-26
KING VICTIM
OF BOMB HOAX
Scotland Yard Tip Proven
False After Dinner Is
Postponed.

London. June 25.-A hoax was
worked on the royal family last
night in the form of a threat from
a mysterious source that a bomb
would be exploded in Buckingham
Palace, it was learned today.
At noon yesterday Scotland Yard
received letter, purporting to be
signed by DUNCAN. Secret Service
man in Ireland. announcing that a
bomb plot presumably hatched by
Sim Feiners would be carried out
last night.
King George, who was to dine
with Lord Farquhar, put off the en-
gagement. the guards throughout
the palace and at all approaches
were tripled. and every possible
measure of precaution was taken.
The palace grounds swarmed with
detectives and the royal family
passed a night OF dread.
Today 1t developed that Duncan
never sent the warning.
The Washington herald., 1920-06-26
MUDDY BLONDE
is NOW SOUGHT
Was Dinner Companion of
Elwell Shortly Before
Murder.

New York. June ej.-who was
the mud gutter" blont. with whom
Joseph Bovine Elwe the slain
whist king, dined On the Tuesday
before he met his death ~ samc
mysterious hand?
After a merciless lu,,r syitfou bS,
headquarters detectives. Hrs. Lar
sen, Elwelrs houseE ner, admitted
today that the woman IN gray
and the peroxide b aauty whom shs
picturesquely descrih are ore and
the same woman, .nr he Ea2 -ss
been located.
In their search tn- r.-, .res-ir.
the police are eagt F0 .arfr-axate
this woman upon aar l1e h,l:r-
dered turfman was s,oas 90 lavish
attention, much to ftr disgust Of
his sophisticated h aseEeepeS. 9th
er than the meager description FUR
nished there is n.t the sssrtlss
clue to her identi = sslS size als-
plays no intention o. giving what
Information she possesses to the po-
lice unless she is summoned ON
cialIy.
Shadowed on Night of Death.
1t seems to be definitely establish
ed to the satisfaction of the dis
trict attorneys Office that Elwell
was shadowed and followed on the
night of the murder. His move
ments from the time he dined at the
cabaret with Viola Straus and after
wards visited a midnight revue
were observed by a stranger. ana
according to Edgar Walters, a negro
chauffeur, this man trailed the whist
king to his home in his taxicab.
Much Importance is attached to
this clue, and the police are now en-
gagged in dovetailing the details of
his story in an effort to ascertain
the identity of the mysterious stran-
ger.
walters said the man. who wore q
lain business suit, engaged his taxi
in front of the New Amsterdam
Theater. The man, Walters said.
was tall, slim, clean-shaven. and a
little bit nervous" He took the
tranger to the ElwelI home at 2:3o
a. m. Walters told the police.
Police Change Theory.
Elwell wore an evening suit at
the theater. He had a morning rae
ing paper which he had evidently
purchased on the way home when
found dying. Walters said his fare
did not purchase a paper on the
way to the Elwell house and that
he hads no paper when he entered
the taxi. Authorities at first be-
lieved Walters had taken Elwell to
his home, but were convinced today
that the man who engaged Walters
taxi was following the gambler.