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12 TITE MORNING OEEGONIAN. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1(5, 1915. TWO IDENTIFIED AS ROBBERS OF GABS Conductor Testifies Suspects Inquired as to Receipts on Oregon City Line. NEW CRIME IS INDICATED Sfen Admit Attempt to Cash $175 Check Reported Stolen With $50 in Gold From Lodging-House Where They Were Staying. Two streetcar conductors yesterday noKitivelv identified Victor Manwelier, alias Harry Price, and P. W. Bigelow as the men who held up an Oregon City interurban train near Glen Echo station late Sunday night, escaping with loot now estimated at 60. Manweiler and Bigelow were arrested Monday Dy dep uty Constables Nicholson and McCul lough. P. Tve. the conductor who was forced to go through the car passing his hat among the passengers, was certain that liigelow was the man wno neia a o caliber automatic revolver at his back. He also was certain that Manweiler was the robber who stayed on the back plat form and got "cold feet" and jumped from the car before the robbery was completed. When arrested Bigelow was wearing the checked cap which Manweiler was eaid to have worn at the time of the robbery. Manweiler wore a hat similar to the one Bigelow is said to have pulled over his eyes during the daring Jioldup. Identification Is Corroborated. Tom Berland, motorman, watched the performance from the front platform, ile also is sure Bigelow is the man who Jxeld up Tye. J. Brown, who was conductor on the Oregon City car leaving Portland at 6:30 P. M, said Manweiler and Bigelow were on his train and got off at Con cord station because they did not have money enough to go further. Brown's Identification is regarded by the officers as of great importance,, for he says he conversed with the men at some length on the trip. He is positive in his iden tification. "It attracted my attention." said Mr. Brown yesterday, "because they asked me how much money we usually took in during the day. I told them I hadn't taken in a great deal of money so far. They spoke of Los Angeles, and said the conductors there always had a lot of money. "I was a little suspicious, but not of a. robbery. They had only 30 cents, and wanted to know how far they could ride on that amount. I took them to Con cord and told them they would have to get off there. I noticed both men and noted their actions particularly on this account. Also I had been in Los Angeles myself, and it attracted my attention when they spoke to me about Los Angeles." Both Stroagly Deny GnlH. Questioned by Constable Weinberger yesterday, Manweiler and Bigelow both admitted they had been in Los Angeles. Hitherto, in detailing their experiences for several years past, they had not mentioned Los Angeles. Both still strongly deny their guilt. They say they were not near the Oregon City line Sunday night. They declare they were in an East Side hotel with two girls. Following up the girl clew, Deputy Constables Nicholson and McCullough believe they have fastened another crime on the two men. The men yes- xeraay admitted they had gone to Grcshara Monday morning to attempt to cash a 175 check which these girls had given them. Simultaneously, it was learned that a check for $175 on a Gresham bank and about $50 In gold had been stolen from a man named Monroe Weiss in the same rooming house either Saturday or Sunday night. Attempt to Cash Cheek Fall. Bigelow and Manweiler were unsuc cessful in their attempt to cash the check, for Weiss had stopped payment on it shortly after he discovered his loss. Leaving Gresham the two men started to walk to Portland. Near Fairview they met Tom F. Cowing, automobile driver for the county. They hailed him and rode to Portland with him. Their suspicious actions aroused Cowing's sus picions, and he reported it to Deputy Constable Nicholson. The arrest of Bigelow and Manweiler in their room on Grand avenue and East Stark street followed. On their arrival at the Courthouse Monday afternoon Bigelow and Man weiler made a desperate attempt to es cape. Only after some difficulty and the firing of three shots were they re captured and landed in the County Jail. MAYOR FINDS OPPOSITION Proposed Appointment for Assistant Fire Chief Causes Stir. Plans of Mayor Albee to put through an ordinance creating the position of second assistant fire chief and to give the position to Fire Marshal Stevens with an increase of $20 a month in salary, has caused a stir in the fire bureau. While no formal complaints have been made it is declared that Battalion Chief Young is up in arms, contending, owing to the fact that he has been In the service longer than Mr. Stevens that he is entitled, under the civil service rules, to the position, if it is created. Battalion Chief Toung has been in the- service 28 years. Fire Marshal Stevens has been in the service about 11 years. PERS0NAL MENTION. R. R. Graves, of CorvalHs, Is at the Seward. J. B. E. Bourne, of Rainier, is at the Seward. R. T. Bishop, of Pendleton, is at the Oregon. P. C. Smith, of Yamhill. Is at the Seward. M. Fitzgerald, of Prineville, is at the Perkins. C W. Keene. of Silverton, Is at the Imperial. J. R. N. Bell, of Corvallls, is at the Imperial. E. R. Putnam, of Denver, is at the Cornelius. E. J. Jones, of Seaside, is at the Cornelius. B. M. Warner, of Ean Diego, is at the Multnomah. R. C. Wagner, of Omaha, is at the Multnomah. K. C. Eldrldge, of Independence, is at the Seward. C. O. Blagg. of Grass "Valley, is at the Perkins. W. C. Ravenelli, of Roseburg, is at the nortonia. E. J. Breuemmer, of Tacoma, is at the Nortonia. Mrs. Georgo F. Stranahan, Mrs. J. Otten and Mrs. R. D. Gould, of Hood River, are registered at the Eaton. r. M. Watt, of Butte, Is registered at the Nortonia. Dr. D. W. .Ward, of Forest Grove, is at the Perkins. Dr. L. A. Bollman, of Dallas, is at the Multnomah. John Giever, of Woodstock, Minn., Is at the Cornelius. G. S. Anderson, of Wallace, Idaho, is at the Portland. Mrs. Thomas Utter, of Minneapolis, is at the Nortonia. Dan Johnston, of Albany, is regis tered at the Oregon. J. T. Sullivan, of Medford, is regis tered at the Portland. Frank Sloan, of Stanfleld, is regis tered at the Imperial. L. D. Summerfleld, of Tacoma, is reg istered at the Oregon. P. U. Simonton, of Salem, Is regis tered at the Cornelius. E. W. Conyers, of Clatskanie, is reg istered at the Imperial. Dr. and Mrs. E. X Stewart, of Coz vallis, is at the Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Early, of Hood River, are at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Rice, of Cleve land, O., are at the Portland. Miss Azellia Conyers, of Clatskanie, Or., is registered at the Eaton. T. F. Collins and son. of Cascade Locks, are registered at the Eaton. S. A. Hutchison, of Chicago, manager of the department of tours for the Union Pacific, is at the Multnomah. Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes, Miss MEN IDENTIFIED BY STREETCAR CONDUCTORS AS THOSE WHO HELD UP OREGON CITY TRAIN SUNDAY NIGHT. If WS A" ' 5 - v J " f ' P. w. BIGELOW AND VICTOR NANWEILEIt, WHO WERE ARRESTED DEPUTY CONSTABLES. Helen Phelps Stokes and Miss Mary N. Sanford, of New York, are at the Mult nomah. Professor A. J. Graves, of Knoxvllle University, Tennessee, en route for San Francisco, is at the Perkins. ie is in charge of a tour party of 25. Dr. E. A. Pierce, president of the Ore gon State Board of Health, left Mon day night for Seattle to attend the con vention of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tubercu losis. OLD JOKE OVERWORKED TROUBLES OF" PHOTOGRAPHER ARE TOLD TO ROTARIANS. qre Come to Break Camera," Say Sub jects Usually Dressed TJnaatiiral ly, Avers Mr. De Fries. Five hundred and twenty-five thou sand people have made the remark "I have come to break your camera," as they entered the Davles Studio, within the past 35 years, according to statis tics that may be derived from the ad dress of C. A. De Fries before the Portland Rotary Club at the Benson Hotel yesterday. "The photographer is expected to enjoy the joke just as much as ever each time it is sprung," he added. Three people out of every four who visit a photographer's gallery, he de clared, introduce themselves with this venerable joke, and there isn't one per son in a hundred who comes to the studio to sit for a portrait dressed naturally. "Men will come," he said, "in a high collar and white tie that they probably haven't had on since their wedding day, and women will come with their hair dressed in a style that is entirely dif ferent from their usual style. These are partly the reasons why it is so difficult to get a portrait that is really a characteristic portrait." Joe Sandvall spoke on the artistic side of commercial engraving, and being in a pessimistic mood, declared that art and commercial engraving don t mix at all. "A man comes in and says he wants something exceptionally prety and artistic devised for an advertising card, and when he gets you all enthusiastic about getting him out a work of art, he tells you perhaps that it is to ad vertise some kind of lice eradicator or chicken feed." Other speakers of the day were N. G. Pike. E. E. O'Neill and Harry Kleiser. J. L. Wright was chairman of the day. DR. LEE FRANKEL COMING Noted Social Worker Is to Speak Here Thursday Night. Dr. Lee Frankel, of New York, one of the foremost social workers -of the country, will be In Portland Thursday en route to San Francisco. He will pass a day In this city, and will make at least one address, at Temple Beth Israel, Thursday night at 8 o'clock. His sub ject will be "A Social Problem." While in the city Dr. Frankel will be the guest of Rabbi Jonah B. Wise. Dr. Frankel is in charge of the Industrial policy-holders' department of the Met ropolitan Insurance Company of New York, and as such comes in contact with many phases of social service work. His department also works In conjunction with the Visiting Nurse As sociation in the various centers of the country. For many years Dr. Frankel was at the hea'd of the United Hebrew Chari ties of New York. He was a member of the commission sent out by the East to San Francisco at the time of the earthquake and fire there to aid in the relief work. Dr. Frankel will arrive from Seattle, probably on an early train tomorrow. He is accompanied on his Western tour of inspection by Mrs. Frankel and their daughter. 117 Pass Coos Examinations. MARSH FIELD, Or, June 15. (Spe cial.) Of 174 applicants for eighth grade diplomas, 117 passed the exam ination in Coos County. Twenty-two rural schools were represented. j E IS Farmers Are Much Alarmed by Situation With Big Cereal Yield in Sight. PRICES ARE SOARING HIGH Heavy Demands by Warring Nations for Sacks for Barricades and Inability to Charter Steam ers Contributing Causes. There are indications of a gralnbag shortage this year, and farmers in some sections are much alarmed, as they fear they will face a loss. The BY annual supply has not come forward as promptly as expected, and it is a question whether there will be enough on hand by harvest time to sack the big crop of wheat and other cereals that is in sight Wheatgrowers are in a quandary as to what steps to take, whether to delay their harvest operations or pile the grain in bulk until sacks can be obtained. The earliness of the season makes the postponing of harvest a difficult problem, but unless the situ ation Is relieved, one course or the other probably will- be followed. Pricea Are Soarlag. As a consequence of the prospective scarcity, grainbag prices are soaring. Dealers in bags acknowledge that the situation is serious, but they have not given up hope yet that a sufficient stock will be accumulated. It is almost certain, however, that the bags, even if enough come, will arrive late and cause much inconvenience to farmers. The supply of grain bags, and the burlap from which they are made, is brought from Calcutta. The dealers on this Coast ordered enough to meet all needs, taken in connection with the supply already held by manufac turers and at the "Washington peni tentiary, but the trouble has been in getting them from India. The Euro pean war and the consequent demands on tonnage upset all their calculations. Time of Arrival in Doubt, The bags are bought and supposed to be on their way, but when they will be here is the question. July and August are the months when the farmers of the Northwest require their sacks. They know that the Coast markets are lightly supplied, and, therefore, there have been in sistent demands from the country for Immediate shipment. As the bag mer chants have but a limited stock to work upon, the market has naturally strengthened and prices have advanced. Yesterdays local quotations were 8 to 8 ,?ents',.and some of. the grain men who sell bags were holding for 9 cents. The price of bags is almost double what it formerly was, and aa long as the strong demand continues, the price is likely to advance. It Is known there has been some de lay in getting bags and burlap out of Calcutta, but the principal delay, so far as the Pacific Coast is concerned, appears to be at Hongkong. There a great number of shipments for Ore gon, Washington and California porta is tied up by the lack of steamers. Emden Partly Responsible. The German cruiser Emden was partly responsible for this situation, as she sank some 46 ships-engaged In the Oriental carrying trade. The Jap anese government has called oft many steamers heretofore engaged in trans Pacific commerce, and the British gov ernment also has requisitioned a large number of vessels for transport serv ice. The fleet now in operation is not sufficient to handle the big volume of business usually crossing the ocean, and great quantities of goods for America have accumulated at Asiatic ports. Including the grainbags so ur gently needed in the Northwest. It is known definitely that 46,000,000 bags were bought at Calcutta for use on the Pacific Coast. The requirements of Oregon, Washington and IdPho are, roughly, 30,000,000 bags annually, but this year more may be needed. Up to the present time something between 8,000.000 and 10,000,000 bags have reached the Northwest. The carryover stock is estimated at 4.000.000 bag's, manufacturers have about 6,000.000 bags and the penitentiary stock at Walla Walla is 2.600.000 bags. Quantity Afloat Unknown. As to the quantity afloat, dealers seem to be entirely in the dark. It is reported that the shipments from Cal cutta amount to 28,000,000 bags. The Japanese steamer Hudson Maru is on her way across, due at Seattle about July 1, and Is believed to have 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 bags aboard. Two other Japanese steamers, due at Tacoma In July, may have bags or burlap in their cargoes, and the last Pacific Mail steam ers from Hongkong, It is thought, will also bring bags. Bag merchants and brokers believe the situation will work out satisfac torily and that enough sacks will be obtained, one way or another, to handle the coming crop, but there is no doubt there will be a nerve-racking delay. They advise farmers to have patience and not get excited. There have been bag shortages predicted in previous years, but never a year when the entire crop was not finally sacked. 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Send your name and address, for a set of Free Tire Record Blanks, to Portland Branch, United States Tire Co., 24-26 Fifth St., North "Chain Tread 9 9 Tires are sold hy Leading Reliable Dealers, Do not accept substitutes Made certain that prices will rule high throughout the season. It is a high priced year for burlap the world over, and Pacific Coast farmers are not the only ones that are suffering. In the Bast the shortage is about as acute as it Is here, as there are many new uses for burlap this year. The British and French governments are using great numbers of bags in trench and barricade work. Eastern dealers find it difficult to get enough bags from India by the Suez route to fill their orders, owing to the scarcity of steamers, and In addition freights are abnormally high, which is ' mate rially adding to the cost of burlap in the Eastern markets. RAILWAY HEARING IS SET Relationship of Great North-west to Steamship Line Questioned. Examiner Mackly, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, will conduct a hearing in Portland on Tuesday, June 22, to determine the relationship be tween the Oreat Northern and Northern Pacific railways and the Great Northern Steamship Company, . operating the steamers Great Northern and Northern Pacific between the mouth of the Co lumbia Kiver and San Francisco. The Government is seeking to estab lish whether the railroads' ownership of these vessels is in violation of the interstate commerce code, which pro hibits rail carriers from owing vessels competing with themselves. Whether the steamship company vio lated the interstate commerce law re cently In sending the vessels on a com mercial voyage through the Panama Canal also will be sought at this hear ing. The Government suggests that by carrying passengers through the Canal the rail companies probably were com peting with their rail lines. COUCH GRADUATES TO MEET Reunion Tomorrow Will Be for Iiast ' Visit to Old School. Graduates of Couch Public School will hold an informal reunion in the old building tomorrow from 2 to 4 o'clock, to pay a last visit to the old school before it is abandoned for the new Couch building. There are about 1158 graduates of Couch school, of whom 400 are now living in Portland, and among them are included many of the prominent men and women of the city. Mrs. Jennie Burnham, Mrs. Emily Daniels and Hopkin Jenkins will be on the committee in charge of the recep tion. During the afternoon, some of the little girls who participated in the children's parade during the Rose Fes tival will sing school songs. The building will be thrown open and the returning graduates will roam about it as they may fancy. Nurses to Graduate Tonight. Commencement exercises for gradu ate nurses of the training school at St. Vincent's Hospital will take place tonight at the St. Vincent Nurses' H'ome. Irea Miriam gS3 CN SKI Vv "'v by the Largest Rubber Company in the (Operating 46 Factories) CHURCH SESSIONS ON LATTER-DAY SAIXTS MISSION SO CIETY HEARS REPORTS. Assistant Editor of Women's Paper Reviews Organisation and Prog ma at Conference. Conference of the Relief Society of the Northwestern States Mission, of British Columbia, Alaska, Washington. Oregon, Idaho and Montana, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, convened Monday at the Port land Church, East Madison and East Twenty-fifth streets, with Mrs. Mattie J. Ballard, president, in the chair. Reports were received from the presidents of Seattle, Tacoma, Portland. Spokane, Lents, Dillon (Montana). Butte (Mon tana) and Anaconda (Montana) socie ties showing substantial growth. Presi dent Joseph F. Smith and Bishop C. W. Nibley urged the women to con tinue to assist all In need. Mrs. Agnes Nibley gave a report of the work done by the society for the Baby Home. Mrs. Emma B. Carroll read a paper on "Women and Educa tion." Mrs. Jeanette Hyde, assistant editor and manager of the Women's Relief Society Magazine, of Salt Lake, gave Make it Easier For Baby in Summer Many of the Hot-Weather Troubles Can Easily Be Avoided. If the mother will see to it that the bowels are kept regular, much of the illness to which children are most sus ceptible during hot weather can be prevented. jSl mild laxative, administered at regular intervals, will prove an excel lent preventive of summer complaints that are caused by inactive bowels. The combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin, sold in drug stores under the name of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, is excellent for chil dren, being pleasant to the taste, gen tle yet positive in action, and free from opiate or narcotic drug of any description. It acts naturally, with out griping or other discomfort, and is altogether dependable. The cleansing of the bowels will most effectively check an attack of diarrhea by expelling the foreign matter and poisons that irritate and inflame the tissues. on a Powerful Tires flFk a iflBV SB ii n rT5t! a review of the organization of the Relief Society, which was organized March 17, 1842, in Nauvoo, 111., and now has a membership of 45,000 women. It expended for charity in 1914. J58.000, and, has stored in elevators throughout the different states $200,000 to be drawn in case of need at any time. Mrs. Hyde said the society sent to the Belgians and the Dayton, O., sufferers large supplies of flour and food stuff. Mrs. Emma Empey, of Salt Lake City, general treasurer of the relief societies, spoke of the advantage of the relief work to the home and mother. Mrs. Rebecca Nibley. of Salt Lake City, spoke of the relief society and its help to the home. In the evening the following programme was rendered: Violin solo. Louis Shurtliff; "Good-bye" (F. 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Friday, June 18, at 3 o'clock, at which some of the officers of the National association will speak. Among the speakers will be Dr. Hatfield, executive secretary, and Mr. De Forest, field secretary, of the organization. Many Oregon citizens have enlisted In the work of the association and a number of them are at the conven tion. Mrs. Sadie Orr-Dunbar, executive secretary for Oregon, announces that it is the plan of the association to reach out gradually until it shall in clude every organized body in the state. WOMAN COULD HARDLY STAND Because of Terrible Back ache. Relieved by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound. Philadelphia, -Pa. "I suffered from displacement and inflammation, and had I such pains in my sides, and terrible backache so that I could hardly stand. I took six bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, and now I can do any amount of work, sleep good, eat good, and don't have a bit of trouble. I recommend Lydia E. 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