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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, . THURSDAY, JUNE -26, 1919. 1 SURVIVOR OF INDIAN MASSACRE IS DEAD, charred -with the murder of Roth Crunr, a New York school girl, whe interviewed by a correspondent today said: "Seeing Cocchi's Insistence In accus ni his wife of the crime, the Jury was afraid to pass Judgment before exam ing papers relating to the trial In Ne York, so I thiak It was better to post pone Cocchl s trial until these papers come. I expect to hold the new trial next October. ROLOO.S'A. June 15. The trial of Alfred Cocchl, charged with the murder of Kuth Cruger In New York In 117, has been interrupted to enable th court to examine American court records with reference to testimony given in the Cocchl case regardin TRIP AHRnSS PI AIWS Tfll n cocchl. wife. j There was a spirited exchange be It ween Sifnior Baicnoli. president of the court, and Cocchl yesterday. Cocchl told of having sawed the body of Miss Cruder so that he mtfrht hide it- Then he broke down, cry ins in broken voire: "I took the body and tried to con ceal it In the cellar, but the door wi Mrs. Eliza Spalding Warren Passes In Idaho. Woman, Born at Lapwal Mission 183 7, Plays Part In Karly De velopment of Oregon. BROWNSTILLE. Or.. June 13. (Spe cial.) Mrs. Eliza Spalding Warren, one of the few survivors of the Whitman massacre of HIT. dird Saturday at the nome or ner tiaughtrr in Coeur d'Alene. Idaho, and her body wan brought to this city for burial In the Masonic cem etery. At the time of her death she lacked only five months of being 82 years oi age. Before her marriage to Andrew War ren In !Si Mrs. Warren was Miss Eliza fcpaldtng. daughter of Harmon Spald ing, pioneer, who came to the west in 13 In company with Marcus Whit man. The Spalding family arrived In Brownsville from the Lapwai mission. which they founded on the Clearwater river, Idaho. In the year 15. Mr. Spalding was a pioneer preacher and farmer. He located near the present site of this city, taught st-hool and was one of the first farmers of this section. Brownsville' main street is named after the Spalding family. Mrs. Warren was born at the Lapwal mission. Idaho, In 1&37. Her parents, who had been married only a short time before leaving the east. Journeyed west ward In company with the founder of the Whitman mission in 1 fills. The Spaldings were teachers of the Indians. They set up the first printing press to arrive in the northwest at the Lapwal mission. At the age of 10 years Eliza was sent to the Whitman mission to get her schooling. The long trip of more than 100 miles was made under the guidance of her old Indian nurse. Martha, through a country Infested with treach erous Indians. Other long trips Into the wilderness stae often made in com pany with her father, and of these she tells in an interesting way In her book, "Memoirs of the West." It was while Eliza was at the Whit man mission, at the age of about 10 years, that the Indians murdered the entire settlement with the exception of a few children. Among these fortunate few was Miss Spalding. She was held prisoner for a while by the redskins, but at length ransomed by the whites In a fort on the Columbia river. EXPLOSION CAUSES FIRE t t it f 1 Mr. Flixa AYeldlaar Warrea, nr. vlTor Whltaiaa aaanaacre wi. ha J oat as wed away FIaA3IES FROM GASOLINE TANK BtltV AUTOMOBILES. Two 3IontvIlla Structures Destroyed and Business District Threat ened; is $8000. not large enousrh and I sawed the body In two. The girl was dead when this was done. Then followed a discussion between Sipnor Baernoli and Cocchl as to whether the frtrl was dead before her body was dismembered. The whole courtroom was aghast at the prisoner's narration, but Cocchl rapidly proceeded with his story, being: apparently very nervous. Dispatches received Tuesday from Bologna said Alfred Cocchi had ap peared before the court and jury and had declared that his wife was guilty of the murder of Ruth Cruger, a New York girl, who was slain in Cocchi's bicycle repair shop in New York city in 1917. A New York grand jury ex onerated Mrs. Cocchl. NEW TORT. June 23. Alfred J. Tally, assistant district attorney of New York, today characterized as "ab solutely ridiculous and preposterous" the story of Alfred Cocchi on trial in Bologna, Italy, for the murder of Kuth Cruger that it was Mrs. Cocchl who killed the Cruger girl before Cocchi dismembered the body. The best evidence that we give Cocchi's story no credence is that we are not looking for Mrs, Cocchi." Mr. Tally said. Fire, caused by the explosion of gas- IRISH REJECT PARIS PACT onne in an auiomooue I British Delegates Cannot Bind Public," De Valcra Asserts. NEW YORK. June 25. Eamonn llo- Valera. "president of the Irish repub lie," reiterated tonight a statement i to Premier Clemen- erV barn of C. L. Idleman owned by the Ruby Stock Katu-h company, at r.ignt ieth and Stark streets, Montavilla. at 1:30 o'clock last night, burned to the ground and destroyed the rear end of a furniture store operated by George wia The loss Is estimated between isuou fo.ard.d bv hi i m . rr-w In ca lima I - r:. " ii, ,. h.,in- district eau of France warning the peace in the suburb, but upon the arrival of conference that Ireland, would not be the fire department was promptly bound by a peace treaty signed on her brought under control and extinguished, behalf by English peace commissioners. Several engine and truck companies j,e aeciared -tne jrisn people will responded to the fire alarm. .cri.m.lon.lv .hr anv lrr.lv ohli- ture store is owned by George Howell, lion i wn'cn tney are legitimately Several automobiles and supplies, as committed, but the British delegates well as hay and other material, were cannot bind Ireland. The only signa consumed by the flames. A small 1 1 urea by which Ireland will be bound . Welcome! 148th Field Gallant Artillery . You have come back home. Fought your Country's fight and won. Deep in the heart of every Portlander deeper than love of family, beyond even love of Country there will live forever, heartfelt tribute to you for your achieve ment. It seems but a little while since we saw you march away stalwart and fearless. We see you come home with war lines in your faces. Some there are who come not with you. They sleep in yonder forest. Our sorrow for them shall not be marred by words. You who are here want no hero worship you want to enter your field of work. Home needs you as the flag needed you. There are struggles battles not fought with bullets and bayonets, but battle of the workaday world before you. You are as anxious to enter the thick of them as you were to get in "over there." And to make your homecoming real to extend to you the true spirit of Portland we consider it a privilege to offer those of you who formerly worked with us the "old place" or a better one if possible. This is the welcome from The United States National Bank PORTLAND, OREGON SALARY RISE UP TD PIER EW COMMISSIONER'S VOTE TO DECIDE PliAX. building in the rear of the livery stable was burned to the ground. The explosion from the gasoline scat tered flames ovrr the barn and the building was soon a mass of flames. It gathered such headway that for a time It appeared as inoutrn tne ousi- ness district was threatened. A dense crowd packed the street, attracted by the blaze, and a cordon of police was thrown about the corners to keep the crowd back. are those of Its own delegates, delib erately chosen." FRANK F. TOEVS IS DEAD WEM.-KXOWX XKWM'APKK MAN PASSES AWAY AT HOME. HELEN BOYLE IS RELEASED Woman Sent to Prison In 1909 for Kidnaping Is Paroled. riTTSBL'RO. June 25. Helen Boyle. sentenced to serve 25 years in the Western prniitentiary here in 1909 for her part in the kidnaping of Billy Whitla. 7-year-old Sharon. Pa., boy, was released today on parole. Mrs. Boyle will go to Chicago, where she will meet relatives. 'Jimmy" Boyle, husband of Helen, sentenced to life imprisonment in con nection with the kidnaping, is a pris oner in the penitentiary here. Coast Editor f Portland Telegram Lived for 13 Years in Salem Before Coining Here. Frank F. Toevs. 56 ypars old. for tNa last eight years coast editor of the Portland Telegram, died yester day afternoon at his home. 6S9 Irving street, following a jshort illness. The funeral will be in charge of the Odd fellows' lodge, of which Mr. Toevs was a member, and funeral announcement will be made later. Mr. Toevs was a native of BerdJansK, Russia, where he was born in 1SH3. When 13 years of age he came to the United States ami In 1S30 came to Ore gon. He lived in Salem IS years. In Albany three years, and for the last 13 years had been a resident of Port land. Besides the Oddfellows, he is a mem ber of the Modern Woodmen of Aim-r-ira. the Woodmen of the World and the Elks. Mr. Toevs was married in flalsteil. Kan., in 16. to Christine Lettwei!er, and besides his widow, he leaves three eons: Captain Monfcue K. Toevs of the Vnited States army;- Uuland O. Toevs and Arthur J. Toevs. all of whom were in Portland when their father died. Me leawes also three brothers and two sisters who live in the east. STREET CARS WRECKED Toledo Shipbuilders Object to In crease In Fare. TOLEDO, O.. June 25. More than 2000 employes of the! Toledo Shipbuild ing company, refusing to submit to an increase in street car fares, late this afternoon ditched two cars and smashed windows In two other cars. The prevailing rate of fare has been five cents with one cent for a transfer. TJie new rate required six cents fare and two cents for transfers. COCCHI TELLS OF CRIME ITALIAN COCKT PROCEED!.' RE IS STOPPED lO KIXQl'IRY. POINCARE TO TAKE TRIP French President to Honor Bel gium's Xational Fete Day. BRUSSELS. June 25. President Polncare of France will visit Brussels July 21. Belgium's national fete day. lie will be accompanied by Marshals Joffre. Foch and Petain at a review of the Belgian army July 22. President Polncare will confer upon Liege the ribbon of the legion of honor for Its heroic defense against the Ger mans in 1914. lie also will visit Cardinal Mercier at Malines. Mayor Baker to File Objections to Present Scheme and File Xew Ordinance In July. The employes' wage controversy in the city council remains unchanged. Mayor Baker having delayed the pres entation of his ordinance providing for a uniform salary Increase, with the an nouncement that t would be Introduced at the first meeting in July. At this meeting a new face, that of Commissioner-elect Pier, will be seen in the council, replacing Commissioner Perkins, who has stood by Commission ers Barbur and Mann in their fight for salary increases according to schedules prepared by the commissioners in charge of the various bureaus. The outcome of the salary increase question will depend entirely on the at titude of Commissioner-elect Pier, for whatever side he decides to join will be the winner. At any event the city employes are confident that out of al the controversy will come some sort of Increase in salary. Mayor Baker will utilize his privilege of filing objections to the ordinances passed by the vote of Commissioners Barbur, Mann and Perkins at a special meeting of the city council last Friday. These objections will reach the counci at its next meeting, together with the ordinance which Mayor Baker has drawn providing for uni-form increases, These Increases will give all day labor ers and employes 50 and 75 cents a day additional, according to the work which they are engaged; all employes paid by the month, 315 additional per month, and heads of departments an increase of 325 per month. I will be willing to acept the rule or the majority of the council," said Com missioner Mann, "regardless of the out come. I believe that my plan Is right. Just and equitable and will continue to stand for it until a majority of the council refuses to sustain me. CALLED Manager Plummer to be shown locally with lectures on liveetock development. Mr. Siple and J. Fred Gormley, still life specialist, are just completing a sweep of all the Important breeding farms of the Pacific coast, and have photographed the herds of W. B. Aver tnd Ed Carey at Carlton, C. C. Dickson at Shedd, those at the Ladd and Frank J wocd farms and many other leading jElkg Swear 0ut Warrant for q. L. ureeuins centers 01 me nunuweeu I Hearing Set for Today SALVATION ARMY GRAFTERS, IS CHARGE Cross. CHINESE FACE- STARVATION in Municipal Court. PRICE OF RICE TREBLED AXD POVERTY' IS EXTREME. COAST CATTLE PRAISED 3IOVIXG PICTURE MAX TOURS XORTHWEST FOR VIEW'S. Alleged Murderer Blames Wife for Crime Xew York Officers Saj Charge Is False. BT BEATRICE BASKERVILLE. (.Copyright by the New York World. Pub. lulled by Arrangement.) BOLOC.VE. Italy. June ti. (Special cable.) Judge. Bagnoii. who yesterday suspended the trial of Alfredo Cocchi, Boy's Body Is Fonnd. EUGENE. Or., June 25. (Special.) The body of Douglas Reid. s-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Reid of Eu gene, who was drowned in the Willam ette river at Lowell yesterday, was discovered in a deep hole at noon to day by two boys two miles below where the drowning occurred. Sugar Route May Change. NEW TORK. June 25. The board of managers of the New Tork coffee and sugar exchange met today to receive a report from Its sugar committee. While no official statement was issued, it Is understood the committee sug gested a new contract providing for delivery In Cuba. Instead of In New York as under the present contract. Pure-Blood Stock of Section to Be Shown Throughout Xation in Film Houses. J. Law Siple, manager of the Robert F. Hildebr&nd company of Chicago, motion picture and still life photog raphers of purebred livestock, dropped in upon General Manager Plummer of the Pacific International Livestock ex position yesterday cfternoon and paid high compliment to the northwest. The northwest is the great coming livestock country of the entire world, said Mr. Siple, "and -dn the very near future many foreign countries, as well as the east, and ail other sections of the United States, will be looking to the northwest and Canada for the production of livestock. I have seen the great breeding and stock farms in the east shrinking away because of other demands on the land, and the crisis i rapidly being reached. It will be the great open spaces here in the northwest and In Canada that will take care of the livestock needs of the greater portion of the entire world in a few years." Mr. Siple says that scientific com parisons show that the animals raised in the northwest are healthier and more easily conditioned than in any other known section. He was enthu siastic over the famous Oregon dairy cow, "Vice la France." which he had just seen and photographed at the Ptckard farm in Marion county. Films of this cow will be circulated through a weekly service all over the country. A. duplicate film will be presented to Dr. John Wood, Mission Board Sec retary, Addresses Oregon Sum mer School for Clergy. En route from the orient to New Tork, Dr. John Wood, foreign secre tary of the general board of missions. addressed the Oregon summer school for clergy yesterday morning. Dr. Wood spent three months in China, making a detailed survey of conditions there. "I came away from China with a feeling of depression," said Dr. Wood. "because of the abject poverty oi so many of the people. Millions face star vation from day to day. The high cost of living is much in evidence, the cost of rice having trebled. It was pitiful to see the women and girls going to their work with their little rice pails so meaeeriv supplied. "Official graft is also terrible. For instance, money was borrowed from Japan, ostensibly to maintain the army, but 60 per cent of the amount found its way into the pockets of Pekin of ficials. And while the opium habit has been extensively checked, morphine is imported in immense quantities, with frightful results." Dr. Wood will address tne scnooi a train on Thursday. Dean yuainton lecturea weanesaay evening before an open meeting, on The Church s Contribution to Social Reconstruction." His final lecture will be given Thursday evening on "Recoil struction of Christendom." Bishop Faber and Dean Christian will also de liver lectures Thursday morning. CHICAGO STRIKE KEPT UP Street Employes Call Off Walkout; Others Repudiate Action. CHICAGO. June 25. After a business agent representing about 3800 striking employes of the street department had called off a strike today, other repre sentatives of the men repudiated the action and tonight the men were said to be still on strike. They declared they would not return to work until more definite assurance that their demands for increased pay would be granted. BEND-BURNS ROAD PUSHED Commercial Club Backs Flan for t New Railway Line. BENT, Or., June 25. (Special.) East and west communication across the state was favored today by the Bend commercial club when resolutions were adopted indorsing' the movement, which it is hoped to make statewide, for a railroad connecting Bend and Burns. Similar action will be asked of the Burns commercial club, and it is planned to refer the question to the state chamber of commerce. Dallas Boy Leaves Xavy. DALLAS, Or., June 25. (Special.) Floyd Ellis, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Ellis of this city, returned last week from the Bremerton navy yard, where he had been stationed for the past several months, having been dis charged from the service. Ellis was assigned to the hospital branch of the service and was for some time at the Mare Island yard at San Francisco. A warrant was issued yesterday against O. L, Cross, proprietor of restaurant at 73 North Sixth street, at the instigation of several prominent Elks, leaders la the Elks-Salvation Army drive charging him with abusive language and disorderly conduct. According to the Elks, Mrs. Green field, a. Salvation Army drive collector, entered the restaurant and asked Mr. Cross for a contribution. A stream of abusive language is said to have been his answer. She then appealed to "Dad" Arnold, 55 years old, a wounded re turned soldier who gained fame by his military service. Arnold went in to see Cross, and, it is said, was called vile names by the latter. The matter was taken up to the high authorities in the drive, and Harry G. Allen, Julius J. Berg, Dr. W. S. Ken nedy, E. J. Shimmers and other prom Inent Elks went to the restaurant to interview the man. At first it was said that he was not in, but "Dad" Arnold recognized him in the rear of the es tablishment Cross' language at that time is said to have been unpleasant. It is said that Cross declared that the Salvation Army workers were grafters who did no good and who lived off the money they managed to get. He also made some defamatory remarks about the Elks, it is said. He will come up for a hearing before Judge Rossman in the municipal court tomorrow morning. J I Come j J i and See for f YourseIf I j Iot a prlxe flrht r rtnir picture, bat the irreatmt Trent rm photo-pl7 la exiNtenee with a jcood vtory how Ins; Willard as the aero, performing ntuntn and free-for-all fight never attempted by any picture actor. aawaaaaakaaaBWBiaaiwa-BBiB , N1m, w-- - -,,-,- ,mn IT " ""S S p e cial messenger Zr'V -j i J bringing picture V-l 1 J" direct to Portland 'h"' ' I ,t ,.A '"5ns Saturday or ROAD BIDS ARE ALL HIGH Washington Commission Lets Two Contracts Above Estimates. OLTMPIA, Wash., June 25. (Special.) Three days of bid opening- by the state highway commission closed today with the letting of two contracts, one of which is for paving three milee of the Olympic highway west from Montesano toward Aberdeen. R. H. Traverse of Seattle took the work on a bid of $73,293. about $10 above the official estimate. Paving eight miles- of the Pacific highway in Skagit county, between Mount Vernon and the Snohomish coun ty line, was let to MacAdam & Co. of Seattle for $344,664. The official esti mate was $241,966. CITIZENSHIP IS DENIED Alien Who Claimed Army Exemp tion Is Refused. EUGENE. Or., June 25. (Special.) Arie Dirk Bulk, a native of Holland, was today denied United States citi zenship and his declaration of inten tion canceled because he claimed ex emption from army service during the war on the ground of being an alien. Bulk is a rancher at Oak Ridge. The cases of four Germans, Max Charles Arp. Otto Ernest Adrian, Henry Lau and Richard Bauer, all of Eugene, who appeared for final citizenship ex amination today, were continued for the second time. paper, who in 1916 was acting city edi tor, was the witness. On cross-examination he was questioned by Attorney William Lucking of Ford counsel, but the latter failed to solicit anything but that news items about Ford found their way into the paper in a routine manner, and not in fulfillment of instructions from the publishers. Miners' Demands Discussed. COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, June 25. Demands of miners of the Coeur d'Alene district were discussed at a conference here this afternoon between R. M. Mc Wade, federal mediator, and operators of mining properties. The employes have asked for an eight-hour day, rec ognition of their union and a wage In crease of 50 cents daily. Mrs. Prudence Scheble Dead. Funeral services for Mrs. Prudence ' Scheble, 704 East Sixty-sixth street North, will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from Grace Baptist church. Interment will be in Rose City Park cemetery. Mrs. Scheble was 76 years old and had been a resident of Oregon for the past 15 years. She is survived by-her daughter, Mrs. I. W. Perkins, with whom she made her home. i'l ' ' !!i i SHOE SALE FORD LAWYER HINTS PLOT Plaintiff Attorneys Attempt to Show "Inside" Conspiracy. MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., June 25. Counsel for Henry Ford, who Is suing the Chicago Daily Tribune for $1,000, 000 on a charge of libel, today contin ued efforts to show that the editorial of June 23. 1916. headed "Ford is an An archist," was the culmination of a well- I organized and malicious conspiracy I within the Tribune office. I Per ley Boone, city editor of the news-! We Announce Clearance of Women's Boots, Oxfords and Pumps Shoes from the best shoemakers in white, brown and black leathers. A double saving now, as shoes will cost more. Our limited space requires the room for fall stocks. i:i j .: