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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-31
GRAFT CASES WILL Be
|. TRIED SOON SAYS COURT

WASHINGTON. Alay sr-H'. P3
Chief Justice Mccos Of the supreme
court district Or Columbia. today over
ruled all motions 70 quash indictments
against Charles W. Morse and others
in connection with graft in dealing
with the United states shipping board
The cases will Re brought 10 trial AZ
soon - possible.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-31
PREPARATION crisis
IS SAFELY PASSED

LONDON, May 31.-tr. P) The
most recent PREPARATION crisis has
passed without 4 disagreement be-.
tween France and Great Britan
Lloyd George announced in the house
of commons this afternoon The pre-
mier declared that Americas abb
sence upset the Balance Of the league
of nations reparations eonmtttee and
lessened the effect Of the Versailles
treaty.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-31
.FIREMEN STRIKE WHEN
SALARIES ARE REDUCED

PELVIDERE. ILL.,, MAY Sl.-several
Of Helvidere's fire fighting force. in
cludlng the assistant chief; are out on
"a strike The walkout Of the fire sa-
viors occurred when their pay checks
We're handed thtm with 10 per cent
trimming. The vacancies were imme-
diately filled temporarily
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-31
Interest Rate to
Farmers Reduced
BY Loan Board

WASH NGTON, May 31.--(A. PR
The farm loan board announced the
reduction of the interest rate charged
farmers by the federal land bank from
six to five and one half percent eff
fective tomorrow.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-31
JAP LAND PROBLEM
BEFORE REALTY BODY

SAN FRANCISCO, May s1.--CC.
P.)-Three thousand real estate deal
ers. representing practically every
state in the union. opened their ma
tional conventions here today. Home
and farm financing will occupy the
most important place in the topical
discussions. Governor William D.
stephens Of California. made the wei.
coming address. The governor alst
touched on california's "Japanest
land problem" insisting upon its seri
business. but scouting the idea of it
being the germ Of war with Japan
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-31
TRIPLE TRAGEDY FOLLOWS
JEALOUSY OF LOVE of
= + I : + II
MOTHER FOR HER SON

= NEW YORK. May S1.-U. y. :
= S).-Crazed by the jealousy OF Z
+ the love of his vile ana. son for I
: each other, George Crumpet. As. :
= beheaded his seven year old son :
+ and killed his wife by slashing I
her throat. lie then severed his +
+ own jugular vein and will die. +
= Z = = . = = = = = =
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-31
MOVIE ACTOR WILL
APPEAR IN COURT

I.oi sANGEL3s. May Sf.-vRudolph
Valentino, screen lover" will appear
IN court tomorrow 20 plead before
Justice Handy TO charges OF bigamy.
II that he married winifred Hndnut.
wealthy perfumer's daughter. while
not fully divorced from Jean Acker,
actress, his first wife. The defense
will attack the ge;idsty of the statute
under which Valentine Is accused Of
| the bigamy charge. Yf
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-31
FOREST fires ARE SWEEPING f SECTIONS IN NORTHWEST TOWNS THREATENED
BONUS BILL WAS FAORAbbY REPORTED BY SENATE Finance COMMITTEE TO-DAY
FRECKLE CHAMPIONSHIP
80 =
AWARDED GEORGE WlDMAN
- = = = = - =
IN GOTHAM COMPETITION

NEW YORK, May sl.--U. PJ--
George Widman. Is, won the freckle
championship in competition with
5000 BOYS. Judges could not count
the number he had. SO numerous We're
they.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-31
MAY GRAIN CONTINUES
TO DECLINE IN PRICE

May grain closed at sl.16 today
July at $1.1S 3-S and September at
S1.17A. in the Chicago grain market.
The closing prices Monday were May
$1.lSN, July $1.1S 5-S and Septem-
Der s1,16%
Following are the quotations re-
ceived by Overlook & Cooke, local
brokers:
open High Low Close
May s1.17 s1.19s $1.I6 S1.16
July 1.17M 1.1s% III i.1S3s
Sept. 1.16A LIE LIE LII Z
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-31
cLoTURE REFERRED.

y WASHINGTON, May 3i.--tu. 70
senators in caucus today referred to
the y6ecial committee the question of
a cfoture on revenue and appropria-
ton bills in the senate
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-31
THE WEATHER

Reported BY Major Lee Moorhouse.
weather observer.
y Maximum, 81.
Minimum, A.. !.
Barometer. 2s.7o.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-31

The East OreEonian Il Eastszu Ore
CONS greatssf newspaper and as q SELL
Ing force gives 10 the advertiser over
twice the guaranteed average paid cir
euiatlon IN Pendleton ana Um1tilla
county OF any other newspaper.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-05-31
DAILY EDITION

THIS paper . \ melnper or ana audit Cd
oy the Audit Bureau OF Cirenlations.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-08
A JAIL DELIVERY TO LAND MARINES
Three Men Gain Freedom From
Shawnee County Jail.
Disappearance Not Discovered
for Twenty-FOur Hours.

With the trail twenty-four hours
old, Sheriff Robert Miller this morn
ing instituted a search for three men
who Thursday morning escaped from
the county jail by unlocking the door
of the big cage on the second floor
with a wire taken from the springs
of a bed. The Jail delivery was not
discovered until this morning. as the
trio carefully locked the door of the
cage behind them.
The escaped prisoners are Thomas
J. Fallon, who was awaiting trans
portation to the state reformatory at
Hutchinson to serve q sentence on a
burglary charge; Lorin Seiber, who
was serving six months sentence on a
misdemeanor charge and was await
ing trial on a felony warrant, and
Dick Terry, who was also serving six
months on a misd emeanor charge,
and who was among the six men who
participated in the jail delivery Au
gust 6.
On the outside of the cell wall just
at the left of the door to the big cage
is an iron box, into which bar slides
from the door. Inside the box a u
shaped piece fits into the bar, and
this is locked with a huge paddock.
The door of the box itself is fastened
with a paddock. BY means of the wire,
the prisoners slipped the U-shaped
piece from the bar, upon which the
said. BY reaching thru the bars from
the inside. the bar on the door was
then slipped back and the door swung
open.
Worked a Clever Trick.
1t is believed the men, after escap-
ing from the big cage, hid themselves
in the corridor. and when the jailer
unlocked the outer door, his attention
was called by someone in the rear of
the big cage, and that he went around
to the other side, as is sometimes the
case. While he was thus out of sight
the three prisoners passed thru the
unlocked outer door, into the office,
and thence into the street, it is be-
neved.
Fallon was recently sentenced to
Hutchinson for stealing some clothes
from the Topeka Laundry company.
among which was a pair of trousers
belonging to Judge George H. Whit
comb, of the district court. Seiber was
serving time on a misdemeanor, and
also awaiting trial on a charge of
stealing a Buick automobile in To-
peka, in completely with Russell Wass7
weller, 445 Green street, and driving
it to Kansas City, where they at
to sell it. Tcrr- was serving
time for stealing a car for joy-riding
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-08

opened up thru improved waterways
and highways.
The president recommended two
new constitutional amendments, Cd a
child labor amendment, and CD, an
amendment prohibiting the issuance
of tax free securities by the states and
municipalities, which has resulted in
the tying up of S1S,000,0O0.000 on
which the government is getting no
tax.
The president dealt only perfume
torily with foreign relations. He de-
clared the nation was threate led with
no wars and he defended vigorously
the part America has played in the in
ternational conferences abroad, saying
America has been influential in those
councils.
America is willing, he said, to help
other countries with their chaotic cur
rency and commercial onditions. but
not at the expense of dragging
America down to their level.
Contrary to expectations held in
some quarters, the president made no
recommendation for letting down the
immigration bars to allow an influx of
common labor"
Before enlarging the Immigration
quotas, the president said, "it would
be better to register and educate those
aliens already il the United States"
clared that the nation has not escaped
the red" menace that became preva-
lent during and after the war
Abusing the hospitality of our
Shores" he said, ARE the advocates
of revolution, finding their deluded
followers among those who take on
the habiliments of an American with
out knowing the American soil. There
is recrudescence of hyphenated
Americanism.''
While the president dealt with a
variety of subjects in this, his annual
report on the "state of the Union,'' it
was to the pr .ssing problems of agri-
cultural relief, transportation better
ment and stricter enforcement of the
prohibition law that he dealt with
most extensively
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-08
PRESIDENT HARDLNG,S MESSAGE
HIGH LIGHTS of Innrtant Rennrt Before Congress- Today

The greater part of the presidents
long message before a joint session of
congress this afternoon dealt with
this trio of national troubles and chief
among his recommendations were the
following:
RAILROADS:
He suggested the advisability of
abolishing the railway labor board as
at present constituted and the transfer
merce commission thru the addition of
four new members who would consti-
tute "a labor division"
He dismissed the idea of govern
ment operation as already having
failed and as impracticable.
He suggested and endorsed the
theory that ra .lroad strikes should be
prohibited by law.
He endorsed the living wage for
railway workers.
PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT:
He characterized the present en-
forcement as nationwide scandal
and the ''most demoralizing factor of
our national life"
He announced his intention of
summon.ng to Washington at AN early
date a conference of the governors of
all the states for a discussion of the
hope that out of closer cooperation
between state and federal officers
may come stricter observance of the
law.
He warned those who evade the
prohibition law they are undermining
the moral fiber of the republic.
He expressed the belief that the
eighteenth amendment is in the con-
stitution to stay.
AGRICULTURAL RELIEF:
He urgently recommended the need
of greater credit facilities for the
farmer. extended thru the nations
great financial system.
He declared the farmers should
have lower freight rates for moving
their crops to market and also that
new channels Ito markets must be
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-08
Accuse Mrs. May B. Ford, De-
trOit, of Murder Plot.
''Bad Kansas City Gunman"
Proved To Be a Detective.
RECENTLY SUED FOR DIVORCE
"Assassin" Was to Receive
$4,000 From the Estate.
Officers Say Several Plans for
Murder Were Devised.

Detroit. Dec. S.-Mrs. May B. Ford,
estranged wife of Ney J. Ford, wealthy
second cousin of Henry Ford, motor
car manufacturer, was to be taken
to Prosecutor Paul w. VOORHEES, office
today for questioning concerning an
alleged plot to have her husband muir
dered.
Mrs. Ford was arrested last night
as she was standing at woodward and
Temple avenues waiting to meet the
"gunman' who was to kill Ford, po-
lice allege.
Detective Lieutenant Edward W.
Kunath. who posed as "'Kansas City
gunman,'' says Mrs Ford offered him
$50 900 to kill her husband and burn
the body Kunath's story, on which
a warrant charging attempted muir
der was issued by Judge Harry b
Weidan, was corroborated by Detec-
tive Straith. who with another officer,
hid in a room adjoining that in Park
boulevard apartment where Mrs. Ford
is alleged to have unfolded the murder
plot.
Mrs Ford broke down completely
when arraigned today to answer the
Mrs Ford became so hysterical she
was led out. She recovered her com
posure, returned and pleaded not
guilty in a firm voice. Judge Marshe
fixed her bail at $4,000 and ordered
her examination for December IS.
He Is Worth Half Million.
Ford is reported to be worth about
S5O0,0Oe. According to Kunath, Mrs.
Ford agreed to pay the $4,000 as soon
as the estate was settled and she had
obtained the money and property.
Informed of the charge against her.
Mrs Ford declared it was a frame
up" engineered "by those interested
in her hus bands side of the divorce
ease" which she filed last August.
She charged cruelty and asked S25.-
600 damages of her 5estranged hus-
band, for alleged assault.
Several plans for the killing we1 @
presented by Mrs. Ford, the officers
declared. One they said was that lie
be shot in his farm home west of De-
troit and others were that he be shot
or sIugged while working about the
barns. the body to be buried in a hay
stack.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-08
CAN'T LOCATE mrs. PHILLIPS
Latest Theory Is That Woman MUIR
derer Escaped I'm AirpIane.

Phoenix, Dec. S.-The man and
woman who arrived in Phoenix in an
airpIane late yesterday and who were
investigated under the belief that the
woman was Clara Phillips have salts
fled the local sheriff's office of their
identity as tourists who have been
travelling thru the southwest by air
plane, it was announced today.
Phoenix. Dec. S.--Reports that Mrs
Clara Phillips escaped hammer muir
deress of Los Angeles, had used an
airplane in her flight prompted police
here early today to investigate further
the disappearance last night of a man
and woman who alighted from an air
plane at the state fair grounds late yes
terday
Lester Selman. superintendent of the
grounds, who saw the couple, de-
scribed the woman as being about five
feet five inches tall and said he
her hair was light colored
Los Angeles, Dec. S.-Officials were
quoted today as admitting they hardly
knew in what direction to look for Mrs.
Clara Phillips. hammer murderess.
who sawed her way to freedom from.
the Los Angeles Jail last Tuesday
morning.
So far the search has resulted only
in scores of tips which proved
worthless and an annoyance to women
as far east as Chicago who were be-
lieved to bear some resemblance to
the missing murderess and who were
passengers on trains on which she was
reported to be travelling eastward.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-08
EXECUTION OF
four REBELS
Anglers IRISH
ReprisaI for Yesterdays As
sassination a Sensation.
Insurgents Tried Last Night,
Shot This Morning.
C0NSPIRACIES ARE FEARED
Free State Officials Taking Des-
perate Measures.
"A War to Last Man in Ireland"
Say Republicans.
COUNTER VIOLENCES ON NOW
Republicans Shoot Free State
Soldier in Hospital.
CHASTITY Scene as Four Leaders
Were Executed.
COUNTER VIOLENCES ON NOW
Republicans Shoot Free State
Soldier in Hospital.
CHASTITY Scene as Four Leaders
Were Executed.

Dublin, Dec. S.-Rory O'Copnor and
Liam Me.Iowes, together with two
other Irish rebels. Joseph McKelvey
and Richard Barratt, were executed in
Mount Joy prison this morning, it was
officially announced
Roderick (Rory) O'Connor and
Liam Mellowes were leaders OF the
band of Irish insurgents that held the
Four Courts building in Dublin in its
last June. Each was taken prisoner
when the building was captured after
a three day siege.
An Official army report states that
the four men were executed as a re-
prisal for assassination of Sean
Hales. the deputy shot yesterday and
as a solemn warning to those asso-
ciated with them ''in the conspiracy
of ssassination against the represen-
tatives of the Irish people,"
Tried During Night.
The prisoners were tried by MILL
tary courtmartial during the night,
found guilty and sentenced to death.
The death sentence was carried out
at 9:2O o'clock this morning Three
priests were present. The prisoners,
blindfolded, were marched to the place
of execution. O'Connor had to be as
sisted to the scaffold.
"a War To Death"
The Irish republicans. says dis
patch to the Evening Standard from
Dublin. have issued a manifesto de-
scribing Timothy Healy the governor
general, as a life long enemy of the
nation. The manifesto adds:
The fight will go on as long as
there is a man in Ireland. 1t is war
to the death"
Execution Causes Sensation.
1t was understood that the men
were put to death by a Free State fir
ing SQUAD after having been secretly
condemned to death by a court mar
tial on the charge of being in rebel
lion against the Irish government.
News of the execution created a sem
sation in both Dublin and London.
The Free State has been in official
exist ence less than fifty hours
Both O'Connor and Mellowes Joined
Eamonn de Valera when the latter
broke away from the Sim Fein group
last spring and declared war in favor
known as DE Valera's right hand
man. Both O'Connor and Mellowes
were with the irregular troops that
held Four Courts building in Dublin
in the terrific battle that ragged in
that city the last week in June.
When the building was surrendered.
after Michael Collins's free state
troops had battered it with artillery
and set it aflame, both .O'Connor and
Mellowes surrendered on June 80.
They had been confined in Mount Joy
prison ever since.
O'Connor and Mellowes were given
credit for active leadership in the So
called -Four Courts" rebellion. De
Valera took part but he was not in
Fourt Courts building and escaped
during the fighting with the Countess
Markiewicz and a few others.
McKelvey and Barratt were charged
with implication in an attempted jail
Continued on Page Eighty
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-08
shippers Forecast


Protect all thirty-six hour shipments
north against a temperature of 10 de-
grees; west and east, 15; south, 20.
The kiddies will have to be disap-
pointed again, as no shedding weather
is in sight says Meteoro.ogist Flora.
The scheduled snow for Kansas early
this morning failed to materialiZe as
the snow in Nebraska, went north.
The drab weather will return to To-
peka tomorrow, says the weather man.
1t will be partly cloudy the remainder
of today and there will be increasing
cloudiness tomorrow. The sky was
cloudy today to north, east and south.
The clouds in western Kansas are
working this way.
Topeka is getting a modified form of
the extreme cold weather in the north
west, the weather prophet says. Tenn
peratures in the northwest are gem
orally below freezing and that terri
tory is covered with a heavy coat of
snow.
Saturday will be slightly warmer.
The temperature will drop to about
(Continued on Page Two.)
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-08
BIG MEET TO TOPEKA IN 1924
Realtors Assure State Convention Here
in Two Years.

The 1924 state convention of Kansas
real estate dealers, members of the
real estate boards of the state. has
been promised to Topeka, George l..
Tuer, president of the Topeka Real
Estate Board. who attended the state
convention at Hutchinson this week.
reported today.
1--WE yielded to Salina for the 1928
convention with the assurance that
we should have it in 1924" Tuer saiG.
There is really considerable advan-
tage in the change because the mem
bership of the boards is growing rap
idly larger. and while there were $50
realtors at the Hutchinson convention,
there will be more nearly 1000 at the
1924 convention in Topeka"
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-08
Statement by Morris Company
Brings Unexpected Turn.
Officials Say Move on Part of
Armour Is News TO Them.
WON'T QUIT THE BUSINESS
Morris Would Re-enter Should
Their Holdings Be Sold.
Observers See War Looming
Ahead in Packer Industry.

Chicago. Dec S.-An unexpected
turn in the discussed merger of the
two large packing firms. Morris &
Company and Armour & Company.
became known today when a signed
statement issued by the former firm
was made public. 1t was over the sig
natures of Nelson Morris. chairman
of the board of directors. and Edward
Norris, president of the company.
The statement indicated that j. Og-
den Armour, of Armour & Company.
in visits to Washington and confer
enceS with officials of the government
on the proposed merger. has not taken
officials of Morris & Company into his
confidence. At least part of Morris
C Company officials had no knowi-
edge of his actions. as indicated by
the statement. which was obtained
from newspaper reports.
The Statement.
The Morris & Company statement
read:
I'VE note by Thursday morning
papers that Mr.. Armour has advised
President Harding that we are anxious
to be- out of the packing business.
This is news to US. While we
realized Armour is very anxious to ae-
quire our business and our organsza-
ton but up to the present time we
have not put any price on same, and
he has not made us an offer.
Even If Mr.. Armour should pur-
chase our business it would not mean
that we would long remain out of the
packing business"
CuIminate fin War.
1t was said in some quarters, fol-
lowing the issuance of the statement
that it indicated, altho the Morris and
company holdings might be acquired
by Armour and company, the former
firm would not forsake the packing
business for any length of time. This
the observers pointed out, might cul-
inmate in a packers war.
While no definite information has
bee me available on Mr.. Armour's
to the merger. it has beer
rumored that he asserted overhead
charges would be reduced resulting in
a saving to the public. On this argu-
ment, the statement issued by Morris
and company observers said, has a
direct bearing as they declared they
saw in it's lines an intention of the
two Morris brothers to re-enter the
packing business in event their hold
ings were sold.
Await Wallace Decision.
Meanwhile the packing group awaits
an announcement from Secretary OF
Agriculture Wallace to whom Attor-
ney General Daugherty yesterday was
reported to have submitted an opiu-
ion on the legality of the proposed
merger. Mr.. Armour, who planned TO
depart for the east early today. last
night refused to discuss the merger
but it was understood that additional
conferences with public officials in
were planned for the near
future.