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6 tite aroRxixa onEcoxiAS. Thursday, siarch 15. 1917. BILLINGSLEY SEEN BRIBING POLICEMEN Transfer Man Tells of $600 in . Bills Passed to Chief Dou ble Dealing Is Charged. ARRESTS SUDDENLY STOP Protection of Own Consignments Bd Seizure of Those of Rival Importer, ex-Policemen, De- ecrlbed by Witness. SEATTLE, Wash., March U. Will iam H. Plelow. aged 27, a transfer man, formerly associated with the Btlllnga ley brothers In the Handling- of liquor shipments, testified today In th bo called whisky-graft trial that he saw Kred Billingsley pay $600 to Charles L Beckingham, Chief of Police, for 60 cases of liquor seized by the police. The liquor was on a truck In a carriage shop in South Seattle and belonged to a rival importer named Edward Mar gett, a former policeman. Besides Chief of Police Beckingrham. the defendants In this case are Mayor Gill, ex-Sheriff Robert T. Hodge and City Detectives Peyser, Poolman, Doom and McLennan, all being charged with conspiracy to violate the United States statutes by importation of liquor into the state of Washington. Rival'. Whisky Discovered. Plelow was on the witness stand all afternoon, and his cross-examination had not been concluded when court ad journed. Plelow testified that while on a trip to the O.-W. K. & N. freight yards one afternoon last September he potted a car of whisky which was Just being unloaded, and trailed a truck hearing part of this liquor to the Star Carriage Works. He then got Kred Billingsley on the telephone and told him of his discovery. Fred Billlngsley, the witness testi fied, arrived at the carriage works by automobile in a few minutes, and promptly telephoned to Chief Becking ham to come at once. The witness tes tified that the chief arrived, went Into the carriage works and counted the cases on the truck, Fred Billlngsley and Plelow meanwhile pjeping through a crack In the rear wall of the wooden building. Six Bills Handed Chief. The chief Joined them, the witness testified, in the alley, and after some ' conversation relative to the whisky suggested that they go to a little more secluded place. They walked up the sUley and went between' two barns. The witness continued: "Fred pulled out his roll and. peeled off six bills and handed them to the chief. The chief asked, as he crum pled the bills in his hand and put them In his pocket, 'How much is It?" Fred replied, 'Six hundred dollars.' " Counsel for the defense asked what witness would say if he were told that Billlngsley did not get the trnckload cf whisky, but that It was destroyed. "I should say the chief double crossed him." Protection Quiets Fean. Over strenuous protest of the defense witness was permitted to tell of a. con versation he had with Fred Billlngsley as to the arrangement with the Mayor. Plelow said: "I asked Fred what the arrangement was. He saldw 'Do you think that I ought to tell you T I said. "Look here, Fred, I ought to know where I get off In this. I am going to haul the liquor.' Fred finally told me that Vanderveer suggested a $7500 bribe, but that Logan only gave Gill $4000." Counsel for the defense asked wit ness why he associated himself with the Billlngsleys and witness replied:. "They were so well protected I thought It safe to go in with them. "I heard Logan Billlngsley at least twice telephone to Mayor Gill and tell him that a carload of liquor was com lng and ask him to get Daddy Longlegs (Sergeant Putnam, of the dry squad) out of the way." SJ50 Stops Detective, He Bays. Pielow testified that on the first trip rie made to the railroad station the boys around the office told him to be careful as there was an officer around. The witness continued: "I telephoned this information to Lo ran Billlngsley, who told me the of ficer was all right and I need not worry. The officer was Poolman. When the train with the whisky pulled In Poolman told me the permits were not right and he would have to take me to the police station. "I telephoned to Logan again. He told me Fred would be right down. Fred arrived and went over and argued with the officer. Fred told the officer: "We have got to get this whisky in. This Is Saturday and we must have the liquor for our Sunday trade.' "Fred then took something from his pocket and handed it to the officer, saying: 'Here, Jack, is a brand-new $50 bill.' The officer took the bill and hurried away. "Fred told me to go ahead and meet the whisky and I did so. Officers Doom and McLennann then arrested me and took me to police headquarters, where I was obliged to wait until 10 at night for Chief Beckingham. He ordered the liquor seized." The witness was tried for nauHhg IN FIVE MINUTES NDIGESTiON, GAS "Pape's Diapepsin" Is the Quick est and Surest Stomach Relief. Tou don't know what upset your stomach which portion of the food did the damage do you? Well, don t both er. If your stomach Is In a revolt; if sick, gassy and upset, and what you Just ate has fermented and .turned sour; head dizzy and aches; belch gases and aUds and eructate undigested food breath foul, tongue coated just take a little Pape's Diapepsin to neutralize acidity, and In five minutes you won der what became of the indigestion and distress. Millions of men and women today know that it is needless to have dys pepsia. A little Diapepsin occasionally keeps the stomach sweetened, and they eat their favorite foods without fear. If your stomach doesn't take care of your liberal limit without rebellion; if your food is a damage Instead of a help, remember the quickest, surest, most harmless antacid Is Pape s Diapepsin, which costs only fifty cents for a large cae at drug stores. It s truly wonder ful It stops food souring and sets things straight, so gently and easily that it Is'really astonishing. Tout stom ach will digest your meals if you keep . acids neutralized. Adv, SICK STOMACH KING COUNTY EX-SHERIFF, WHO IS ACCUSED OF BRIBERY. r ROBERT liqTior through the streets without a permit. One of the officers testified that the witness had not removed the liquor from the railroad yard and the case was dismissed. McLennan after ward said, the witness testified, "Pool man had double-crossed me." The Federal Court was thrown into an uproar, quelled with difficulty by Judge Neterer, when Plelow clashed with his former attorney. Walter S. Fulton, now representing Chief Beck lnsham. In the course of Mr. Fulton's cross- examination of Plelow he asked the witness about a certain conversation in Mr. Fulton's office when the relation of lawyer and client existed. Advice to Confess Recalled. "And what did I advise you to do?" demanded Mr. Fulton, heatedly. 'Tou told me," replied Pielow. crisp ly, "if I knew anything about grafting officials to be sure to tell the grand Jury." The courtroom was thrown into a literal din. Judge Neterer pounded vigorously. "The bailiffs must keep order." said the court. In a few minutes quiet had been re stored and after that bailiffs and dep uty marshals watched vigilantly and restrained laughter and talk in the audience. The lncid -nt cme as the peak of a cross-examination heated equally on the part of counsel and witness. Pielow regaled the crowd further with parts of his testimony. For one thinr, ne related, one time a Tim Vogel shipment was seized by the Sheriff, eventually turned over to the Pielow Transfer Company, and Anally mysteri ously disappeared. Plelow appeared be fore Juetlce of the Peace Brinker and related with a proper show of indig- ncy that his warehouse had been robbed. 'Was the defendant Hodge present at this conference before the Justice of the "jr'eace?" Pielow was asked. "He was." "And what did you say to him?" "I said, 'Now look here, I want to search the County Jail for this liquor.' " Plelow also related a conversation with the Chief of Police at the conclu sion of which, Plelow asserted, that official pulled from the desk drawer and tendered a quart of whisky. The little gift was accepted, added the wit ness. Official records of the Seattle police department showed that the four Bil lingsley brothers, confessed liquor sell ers, were arrested frequently from Feb ruary 1, 1916, to August 9, 1918, but after that date none of the brothers was ever arrested by the police. Logan Billlngsley testified last week that about August 7 negotiations were well under way between Billlngsley' s attorney and Mayor Gill for a "com promise," under the terms of which seized documents were to be returned to Billlngsley, prosecutions were to be dropped and the police were to be more lenient with the Billlngsleys. Billings ley also swore that on August 30 he gave $4000 to Gill and sot back the seized papers. Assistant Fire Chief Weds. GRESHAM, Or., March 14. (Special.) Announcement has Just been made of the marriage of James Jennings, of this city, and Miss Jennie L. Mitchell, of Portland, at Hillsboro, on October 6, 1916. The wedding has been kept secret. Mrs. Jennings has been living in Port land, but will soon come to live in the new residence which has Just been built for them. Mr. Jennings Is As sistant Chief of the Gresham Volun teer Fire Department. Thrift to Be Banker's Topic. "Teaching a Nation Thrift" will be the subject of a talk to be given to morrow noon at the City Club luncheon In the orange room of the Oregon Hotel by T. H. West, of Ladd & Tilton s bank. A short business session will be held. Alaska Senate Breaks Deadlock. JUNEAU, Alaska, March 14. After a prolonged deadlock over the organiza tion of the Territorial Senate, O. P. Hubbard, of Valdez, was elected Presi dent today: William Eddy, of Nome, secretary, and Joseph Baxter, sergeant-at-arros. Toronto to Transfer Loan. TORONTO, Ont, March 14. It Is an nounced today that the city of To ronto will redeem $32,000,000 worth of debentures held in the British market and issue new loans to that amount in New York. Read To Oregonlan classified adj. , . -. ' ,! .1: 1 I r -' -' ! t.. . . .n y,.'y : j.- v -i 9 : 7. HODGES, HOSPITAL IN FEAR Sister Superior Says Olson Slayer Terrorizes. PRIEST ALSO IS AFRAID Lawyer, However, Quiets Prisoner, Who "Will Be Put on Stand To day to Present Ilia Case. Liister's Enemy Silent. OLTMPIA, Wash., March 14. (Spe cial.) Apprehension that has gripped the Thurston County Superior Court for the past two days in the trial of John Vandell for the assassination of Chair man E. W. Olson, of the Industrial In surance Commission, tightened sudden ly today, when Vandell arose and de manded permission to address the court. Sister Martini, superior of St. Peter's Hospital, was on the witness stand at the time and had Just confessed her fear of Vandell when he was a patient at the hospital. Vandell, whose eyes are bloodshot and savage when he Is aroused, had been glaring steadily at the Sister as she sat, garbed in the robe of her order, from the moment she took the standi According to reports from the hospital, he had accused the Sisters of conspiracy with the doctors and the state officials to swindle him out of the pension he contended was due him for the Inju ries sustained in a logging camp, re sorting to accusations, whch the sister superior obviously did not want to re peat verbatim. , She had Just said that Vandell had threatened to make her trouble, when the latter arose to his feet with a de mand to be heard. Deputy sheriffs sat within a few feet of him at the time, but no one in the courtroom stirred until Attorney Milroy, of the defense, motioned the prisoner to sit down. Vandell slunk sullenly Into his chair. He has Insisted since the beginning of the trial upon addressing the court and Jury and declares to his attorney that the trial cannot go on except in a fashion satisfactory to him. In stat ure he la two Inches over six feet and powerfully built. Tomorrow morning he will be placed on the witness stand in his own behalf, and whatever demonstration he may contemplate Is expected to develop. Father Malley, parish priest assigned to the hospital, testified that, while Vandell talked intelligently, he had a look In his eye that filled the priest with apprehension he couldn't over come. It is expected that the trial will be finished tomorrow with Vandell's tes timony and that of three local physi cians the defense will call to testify as to insanity symptoms. The verdict will be a determination of whether Vandell goes to the criminal insane ward until he can prove restoration of sanity or to the State Penitentiary for life, if found to be guilty and sane. Meanwhile. Olympla's other violent Visitor, Charles Lorenz Wagner, as he now gives his name, is resting com fortably in jail after terrorizing the Governor's office yesterday with a drawn revolver. He will not be ar raigned for examination until the Van dell trial is completed. The Sheriffs office has discovered nothing more as to his Identity than he has revealed, further than an as sertion of having worked in a logging camp on Grays Harbor. Donkey Engineer Killed. TACOMA. Wash.. March 14. (SDe- cial.) Joseph Wortzky, age 26, fireman on a donkey engine at the St. Paul & Tacoma Mill, was killed today when load of logs being released by the breaking of a sling, rolled towards the engine. One of the logs struck a crow bar and hurled It with great force striking Wortzky. Funds for Wagon-Road Grant Asked OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, March 14. Representative Hawley has requested Secretary Lane to recommend the incorporation In the sundry civil appropriation bill of an appropriation of 2o00 for protection of the Coo Bay wagon roa4 grant. STRIKE TO CAUSE 110 SUFFERING HERE Inconvenience Will Be Great, However, if Railroads i Are Crippled. FOOD CAN COME BY WATER Industries Using Raw Material From East and Business Would Be Affected Badly Operat ing Heads Confident. I Inconvenience? Yes. Buffering? No. This is the way the threatened rail road strike will afreet Portland. Any way, that's what the authorities who are supposed to know about Uch things say about it. "Suffering" Is' a relative and some what elastic term. But as it Is used here it simply means that no one Is going to starve to death or freeze or go without clothing. If the strike becomes general, as Is predicted by the heads of the railroad brotherhoods, railroad traffic In and out of Portland will be seriously crip pled. Portland, however, is not wholly de pendent on distant parts of the coun try to provide it with the necessities of life. Most of Its fruit and vege tables at this season of the year come from California by water, and would not be affected by a railroad strike. Water Transportation Available. Livestock, If it comes to a pinch, can be driven Into the city on foot and slaughtered. Grain can be floated down the Columbia. Oil for fuel comes from California in tank steamers. Most of the other actual necessities of life can be transported by water either from California or from the Interior. Industries and business would suffer severely. The shipbuilding plants that are depending on the railroads to carry their steel from the Bast might be forced to close down temporarily. Near ly all other Industries that get raw ma terial from the Bast would be hard pressed. Some of the furniture fac tories would be able to run for a while. Most of their raw material comes from points near at home. Retail business would suffer, of course, partly on account of the inabil ity to get new stocks, but more so be cause the paralysis of other business would make people hesitant about buy ing. Merchants have received most of their Spring stocks, so vcould continue doing business on a normal basis for quite a while. Trouble Not Feared. Despite all the impending difficul ties a great many people here refuse to take the strike situation seriously. They feel that a way out will be found and that the trouble will be averted. Meanwhile, however, the operating heads of the railroads are preparing for the extreme emergency of a gen eral strike. They are determined to operate their trains if possible. They are hopeful that a considerable portion of the men will refuse to obey the strike orders and continue regularly at work. Every general manager and general superintendent in Portland Is working hard to get in touch with, ex-employes and with other persons qualified to take the places of the striking train men if the big tieup finally occurs. But the managers do not propose to trust their valuable locomotives and equipment in the hands of inexperi enced men, to say nothing of the lives of passengers and the worth of freight cargoes. It requires skill and experi ence to run an engine, and unless men with these qualifications are found the engines simply will not be run. Operating Heads Confident. However, the operating heads are fully confident that they will have plenty of able men to run their trains especially their mail and passenger trains. Members of the four brotherhoods In Portland said yesterday that they have not been officially informed of the strike orders, but that they are pre pared to act when the orders come. It Is apparent that beads of the or ganizations in this territory are pre pared to carry out whatever orders are received regarding tne strike. Accord ing to the reports from tne East, the Pacific Coast territory will be the last affected under the strike plan. J. B. Rhodes, chairman of the strike committee of conductors on the O.-W. R. A N. Company, has gone Cast to con fer with his associates on the strike question. George Barnhart is acting in the same capacity for the engineers. TRAINMEN STAND FIRM (Continued From First Page.) lng the service. But. under the cir cumstances, the threat of a Nation wide strike was indefensible. W e left every door open for a fair determina tion of the merits of the controversy and very door is still open. The Adamson railroad wage law. hastily enacted last Summer to avert the threatened strike, is now before the highest court for a determination as to its constitutionality and meaning. The railroads entered into an agreement with the Government to keep the pay roll records of these 300,000 employes from January 1 in such manner as to assure prompt payment to the em ployes of whatever amounts may be due under the construction placed upon the act by the court. The brotherhoods, on their part, publicly stated that they would take no radical action pending the decision of the court. "Congress has made no provision, as so earnestly urged by the President, for Insurance against the interruption of railway traffic by strike, and the STOPS BACKACHE IN FEW Rub Lumbago, Pain, Soreness, Stiffness Right Out With "St. Jacobs Oil." When your back is sore and - lame or lumbago, sciatica or neuritis has you stiffened up, don't suffer! Get small trial bottle of old, honest "St. Jacobs Oil" at any drug store, pour a little In your hand and rub it right Into the pain or ache, and by the time you count fifty the soreness and lameness is gone. Don't stay crippled! This soothing. penetrating oil takes the ache and pain right out and ends the misery. It is magical, yet absolutely harmless and doesn't burn or discolor the skin. Nothing else stops lumbago, sciatica ana lame nacK misery so promptly ana surely., It sever disappoints! Adv. MINUTES country is apparently in the same posi tion now that it was in the crisis of last August. "The serious international situation causes every good citizen to put every thought of personal right or desire second to his duty to his country. Sure ly this Is no time for internal indus trial warfare. The reported shortage of food and the generally congested traffic of the country bring forcefully to all our minds what would happen in the event of a stoppage of the rail roads of the country. "With this situation before us. we feel confident that the patriotism and loyalty of our men will not countenance any rash movement which may serious ly embarrass the Government and give the impression outside of our borders that this country Is torn by industrial strife and therefore an easy prey to any foreign foe." Brotherhood Chiefs Reply After they had seen this statement the brotherhood chiefs Issued the fol lowing: "The nearly 200 chairmen of the transportation organizations meeting here today, representing a number of principal lines In eastern territory, unanimously approved the compromise proposition presented to the managers' committee last December, in the hope at that time of a peaceful settlement. "The railroads, after having refused to accept a settlement of the eight-hour controversy proposed by President Wil son last August and after having re fused to obsei ve the eight-hour law enacted by Congress, must accept re sponsibility for a strike should it take place. It is too late for them now to pose as patriots, hoping thereby to de feat the just contentions of their em ployes. "We have requested renewal of ne gotiations commencing tomorrow in the hope of effecting a peaceful settle ment." Resolutions were adopted here today by the board of trustees of the Ameri can Defense Society, stating that in view of the international situation a widespread railway strike ""would In evitably result in appalling conse quences to the Nation," and would "so delay supplies and munitions as to prove in truth a direct blow at our naval and military arm." Such a re sult, it was declared, "could be char acterized only as treason to the United States." , It would also discredit organ'aed la bor, the resolution said. - LABOR FEDERATION TO AID Co-operation Promised If Strike Is Finally Called. WASHINGTON, March 14. Full co operation to make a strike effective will be given by the American Federa tion of Labor If the railroads reject the demands of the employes brother hood. No sympathetic strikes are con sidered immediately federation officials said tonight, but the brotherhood chiefs have assurances of prompt support in every other way possible. Officials of the federation's rail way department, representing more than 400,000 shop employes, switchmen, telegraphers and maintenance of way laborers not affiliated with the broth erhoods, conferred at length today. It was said the first move If the strike comes will be to admonish all union men not to offer to replace strikers. When the brotherhoods threatened a strike last Fall, railroads began en rolling other classes of workmen to act as engineers, firemen, conductors and trainmen and many of these were to have been shop employes or switch men. ' Since then, however, the four Drotherhoods. not on over-friendly terms with the Federation, have ef fected a working agreement with its leaders. Plans for a general strike of all other railroad employes have been discussed, but the belief generally expressed was that no good could be accomplished by suddenly calling out all union' men at this time. President Wilson Is ready to act promptly should the Nationwide rail road strike threatened beginning Sat urday really prove Imminent after the conferences In New York tomorrow. Any action Is expected to take the form of a demand In the public Inter est that the two sides settle their dif ferences, in view of the grave inter national situation. Through Secretary Wilson and members of the Federal Board of Medi ation and (conciliation, the President kept in close touch with the situation today. Secretary Wilson said tonight that he did not plan to go to New York personally to deal with the situation, and would not discuss the question of whether another Government repre sentative would go. When a strike was threatening last year Secretary Tumulty went to New York and asked representatives of both sides to come to Washington to dis cuss their differences with President Wilson. NORTH BANK ASKS ROAD ASSOCIATION FORMED TO WORK FOR. HARD-SURFACE HIGHWAY. Officers Are Elected and Property Owners Are to Be EnUsted la Ef fort to Get Improvement. VANCOUVER, Wash.. March 14. (Special.) To promote a hard-surfaced road on the north bank of the Colum bia River from Vancouver to Klickitat County, the North Bank Highway As sociation has been formed. If the road la paved this far it will connect with other roads leading to the eastern part of the state. George Y. Moody, of Washougal, Thk Bov who Pcqqco Shoe W.L.Douglas Pegging Shoes at Seven Years of Age. Sixty-Five yearrago W. L. 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Petitions are being circulated asking that the County Commissioners join with property owners to lay a hard surface pavement from Vancouver to Washougal, about 16 miles, outside of the city limits of Vancouver, Camas and WashougaL The plan is to have property owners pay about 60 cents an acre each year for 20 years, under the zone system, property on och side of the road for one-third of a mile paying 7-16: the second third. 6-15: and the last third. 8-16. When the sone Is less than a mile the same proportion of the cost will be assessed. Tugboat Men Protest. TACOMA. Wash.. March 14. (Spe cial.) Tacoma tugboat operators have filed a protest with the Federal steam boat Inspectors of this district relative to a recent ruling on an order making it compulsory to have -a watchman or lookout stationed on small tugboats next to the pilot. 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