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PORTLAND, OREGOX, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CRUCIAL TEST IN
AUTO RACER SLAIN;
8 HELD FOR MURDER
JOHX T. HUTCHINGS KILLED
'OX TEXAS ROADWAY".
ANTI-STRIKE WAR
STIRS ENGINEERS
HALLOWEEN PARTY' IS
TRAILED BY DEATH
HOWELL JURY FAILS
TO REACH AGREEMENT
MACHINE GUNS USED
ON RIOTERS IN EGYPT
MEN
LOOM
GATHDLIG PRIEST
FIGHTS ROBBERS
Father Cronin in Hospital
in Dazed Condition.
STRIKE
LAXTERX SETS CLOTHING OF
JUDGE COKE ORDERS DIS
CHARGE OF 12 MEN".
MANV CASUALTIES REPORTED
IX ALEXANDRIA DISORDERS.
TWO LITTLE GIRLS AFIRE.
ON TODAY
Decision as to Power of
Miners Expected.
425,000 WORKERS NOW IDLE
Operators and Men Awaiting
Day's Developments.
MANY MINERS ARE ACTIVE
Effect of Government Injunction
1'ct to Be Determined ; Compul
sory Operation. Decried.
CHICAGO, Nov. 2. A crucial test
of strength in the preat strike of soft
coal miners which already lias made
idle more than 425,000 men, according
to union leaders" claims, was awaited
tonight by both operators and miners
to develop tomorrow morning when
the mine whistles sound the call to
work.
Although the strike went Into ef
fect at midnight Friday, both sides to
the controversy have agreed that
Monday would prove the power or
lack of It on the part of the United
Mine Workers of America to stop
production of bituminous coal. In
some sections, notably western Ken
tucky, union miners have continued
at work under an agreement entered
into several weeks ago.
Test Is Expected Today.
Tomorrow also will put to the test,
in part at least, the power of the
United States government as ex
pressed through the injunction issued
Friday by Federal Judge Anderson at
Indianapolis restraining union offi
cials from Issuing further strike or
ders or encouraging the miners to
Join in the strike. Most union chiefs
"O immedtate ooemence to me gov
ernment order but their men in most
instances left the mines Kriday and
r frshied yesterday from returning to
work
Union leaders, in announcing that
more than 400,000 had quit work, de
clared the strike was virtually 100
per cent effective.
Coal operators did not wholly con
cede the union men's claims.
Non-Union Men at Work.
The operators pointed to practically
normal production in the huge non
union mine fields of West Virginia
and Pennsylvania, there being about
150,000 non-union miners in those two
states. West Virginia operators
maintained that production was about
BO per cent normal. About 50 per
cent of Kentucky's 40.000 union
miners also were at work yesterday
under contracts.
In Alabama, where the miners'
chiefs said 23,000 of the 26,000 miners
had walked out, operators, while not
denying the figures, pointed to eora?
of the larger mines of that state as
still in operation. In North Dakota
most of the 1500 lignite miners re
tnained at work.
In Utah the majority of the miners
remained at work, it was reported.
because of conflicting statements
that the strike was off and that it
bad struck, it appeared.
Colorado Largely Closed.
Colorado's mining districts
largely closed down, although the
Colorado Fuel & Iron company re
ported five mines in operation.
Yesterday's reports said only 800
of the 4300 miners in New Mexico
bad struck.
Elsewhere, especially in the great
bituminous fields of Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois, the strike apparently was
fully effective.
The effect of the government's
action in the strike, including the
rehabilitation of the fuel adminis
tration and the seizure of coal in
transit by the railroads for redistri
bution by regional committees, has
not been indicated. The war depart
ment, it became known yesterday,
had ordered the O'Gara mine, near
Springfield, 111., which supplies Camp
Grant at Rockford, 111., with coal, to
continue operation. The company
was unable to comply as the miners
remained away from the mine.
Compulsion Held Impossible.
Coal operators in many regions
have expressed themselves as ready
to operate if possible under govern
ment orders and protection. Union
leaders generally have asserted that
not even the government could com
pel the miners to work.
STRIKERS' JOBS STILL OPEX
Men Assured Welcome Back by
Operators' Committee Chief.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 2. Striking
coal miners who return to work to
morrow will be treated as If they
had never walked out, Thomas T.
Brewster, chairman of the coal op
erators' scale committee, asserted to
night. Mr. Brewster said coal operators
In the central competitive field would
not emulate New York wholesale coal
dealers in asking President Wilson
to give them representation on re
gional committees which will super
vise the distribution of coal.
After being appraised of the sug
gestion of the advisory bo--d of the
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Four Men and Four AVomen Impli
cated In Death of Pershing's
Chauffeur on Expedition.
EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 2. Four men
and four women, one of the men
dressed in the uniform of a United
States army major, were held tonight
charged with murder at Las Creces,
N. M., 45 miles north of El Paso, in
connection with the death of John T.
Hutchings of Alamogordo. N. M., who
was shot and fatally wounded at 8
A. M. today while piloting an automo
bile in the Elpaso to Phoenix cross
country race near Lanark, N. M., 16
miles west of here.
Hutchings was shot in the back,
a bullet penetrating the automobile
seat and lodging near the base of
his spine. His motor car was trav
eling 43 miles an hour.
Oliver Lee. Hutchings machinist,
says he heard six shots fired.
Lee piloted the car with its wound
ed driver to Lanark. There Lee bor
rowed a rifle and returned to the
scene of the shooting with Win
chester Cooley and District Judge W.
B. Howe, where they took Into cus
tody the eight persons held at La
Cruce3. The four men and four
women were occupants of an automo
bile. Hutchings was chauffeur for Gen
eral John J. Pershing when General
Pershing commanded the punitive
expedition into Mexico. He had won
numerous automobile races in El
Paso and Juarez, Mexico.
Warrants charging murder were is
sued at Las Cruces against Major F.
M. Scanland, Harry G. Overstreet and
Chalk" Altman of El Paso and Fred
Jackson of Alpine, Texas. Names of
women in the warrants were Billie
Bennett, Mrs. Overstreet, Mrs. P. L.
Holbrook and E. M. McPherson of E
Paso.
"It was only - an accident," said
Major Scanland. "We were target
shooting and had a target on the
same side of the road we were on."
CITATIONS TO BE SAVED
Congress Asked to Correct Law
That Slights Oregon Men.
OREGON I AN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, D. C, Nov. 2. Legisla
tion to decorate soldiers of the 146th
and 148th field artillery regiment
with the silver stars to which
are entitled for . gallantry t-.i
has. been introduced iti the hoonKk
Representative, TSTummers of
Ington.
By a peculiar phraseology in the
present law conferring these honors
the men of these two regiments are
deprived of their citations because
their brigade, the C6th, was not com
manded by a general, being instead
under the command of Colonel E. D.
Scott. The Summers bill cures the
present law by providing that these
citations shall be issued to men who
were members in appropriate com
mand of a general. The two regi
ments affected were composed mainly
of Oregon, Washington and Idaho
troops. Colonel Weyrauch of Walla
Walla, commanded the 146th.
CHURCH HITS PROFITEER
Hait it Speaker Says 'Dirty Money'
Should Xot Be Touched.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2. Baptist
churches throughout tho country
were urged to spurn money offered
by profiteers, "the meanest kind of
thieves," in a statement issued to
night by Rev. Dr. Samuel Zane Bat-
cation for the American Baptist
1 publication society.
"Every Baptist church should know
1 wnetner any or its members are
"""" 1.,, uicuueia are en-
bi,ci All kills jicidiiuua LIUSIUCBS Ol
profiteering," eaid Dr. Batten. "The
church should refuse to touch the
dirty money of these people. No
self-respecting church would tolerate
In its fellowship a person known to
be guilty of highway robbery or horse
stealing, and the sin of profiteering
is meaner, blacker and more sinful
than cither of these. The church
must make the will of Cod very plain
on this subject."
COLONEL KENLY RESIGNS
Own Testimony In Air Service
Probe Causes Retirement.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, D. c, Nov. 2. Colonel
William L. Kenly, who rose to major
general during tne war and who built
up the army air service to the point
of efficiency, has retired ffom the
service on his own application.
It is understood that Colonel Kenly
was practically forced from service.
His testimony in the air service in
vestigation obtained for him the bit
ter hatred of Secretary Baker and
members of the general staff, which
was first exhibited when Kenly was
reduced from major-general to colonel
and transferred from the air service,
In which he had made a marvelous
record, to the field artillery. Colonel
Kenly is 54 years old and made a
brilliant record as a flyer after he
was 51. He was stationed at Van
couver Barracks, Washington, for six
years.
POLICE TO KEEP CHARTER
KnoxvlIIc Vnion 6 to 1 Against
Surrendering Labor Rights.
KNOXVILLE. Tenn.. Nov. 2. Knox
ville union -police, affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, today
ing their charter in that organization.
This announcement was made to-
jiittlU. .
Brotherhood Mildly Re
proves Uncle Sam.
INJUNCTION POLICY DECRIED
"Course Will Defer, If Not De
feat Settlement."
NEW COMMISSION URGED
Advisory Board Pleads for Assem
bly to Deal Broadly With
Turbulent Conditions.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. Immediate
steps for assembling at Washington
of an industrial commission to deal
broadly with present turbulent condi
tions was suggested today by the ad
visory board of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers.
Deploring the "attempt at govern
ment by injunction" as "a means of
settling the coal strike," the board,
speaking for 83,000 members, declared
injunction - proceedings would make
conditions worse "and defer. If not de
feat a peaceful settlement."
The board stood out for an indus
trial commission that would "recog
nize the rights of all citizens and not
be pledged to oppose collective bar
gaining." Its statement, the only
formal one bearing on the strike is
sued here during the day, was consid
ered a direct outgrowth of the min
ers' walkout, and was prepared after
full and careful consideration of all
questions leading up to the break be
tween operators and mine workers.
Attorney-General Hopeful.
The government's next move in the
effort to keep the country supplied
with fuel will depend upon what hap
pens In the coal fields tomorrow
Attorney-General Palmer and hiw
associates were c heered today by
(Vlrnl A repo- '! were 4
v -
11 oir t.;e
wera asserted to
oe making efforts
to this end. In other places, however,
the miners were reported apparently
determined to stay out until their
demands were granted.
In a general way the confidential
reports were along the same lines as
press dispatches, showing that the
union miners almost to a man had
quit, while In the non-union mines
work went on without apparent In
terruption.
Attorney-General Palmer's Instruc
tions to district attorneys to watch
sharply for the first evidence of con-
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j THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN HAS OPENED AT THE CORNER GROCERY CLUB.
Wmml 1 tma-vo n gov ;t
I'sirr enough Kitf lP8sl5r fel TftK ANwOMAtj t'couk-:
Boy Companion Valiantly Attempts
to Smother Flames; Other Vic
tim In Serious Condition.
Flames from a lighted Jack o" lan
tern catching upon a gauzy fairy cos
tume worn by 11-year-old Mary Er
wln Haynes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs:
John E. Haynes, of S3 West Nine
teenth street, at a halloween party
Friday night, were responsible for the
child's death Saturday. Her play
mate and constant companion, Ger
aldine Dye, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Clarke Dye. of the Bellecourt apart
ments, who was seriously burned
about the body at the same time, is
in a precarious condition and fear is
felt for her recovery.
Mary was the guest of honor Fri
day night at a partyat the home of
Mrs. Booth, a neighbor living in the
same block, who had asked a number
of tots In for a frolic Mary and Ger
aldine, who is 10 years of age, and
six other little girls, wore fairy cos
tumes they had used In a-n entertain
ment last spring.
About 8:15, the children, each with
a jack o' lantern, were marching
about the room when Mary apparent
ly stepped before an open door. A
diaft sucked her light niallne dress
into the flame and the child was afire
immediately. Geraldine, who was
next in line, could not avoid the blaze
and tho Inflammable material in
which they were clothed burned as
torches. Their hair and every bit of
clothing the girls wore, with the ex
ception of stackings and slippers, was
burned.
Child Rushes Into Yard.
Geraldine, in 'right, rushed into the
yard.- The flames were apparently
blown behind her and she suffered
less serious burns. Mary, on the other
bund, was taken in charge by guests.
A small boy, one of her playmates,
endeavored to stifle the burning gar
ments by throwing a grass rug about
the child, but this increased the
blaze and the youngster's hands were
badly burned. Others said a coat was
thrown about Mary, but this. too. failed
of effect. Mrs. Haynes was sent for
immediately and arrived in time to
tee Geraldine still tearing off her
burning garments. Both children
vfere taken to the Haynes home and
medical aid was sent for. As soon aa
possible Geraldine was moved to the
Bellecourt.
Mary di i" saiuruay- nvn. o "-r ;
-"'"
n1tir.n th tT-rJ,
Shj was tonKcio'is until 40: o'clock"
in tuo lnornaij anu conpianiiy in
quired for tho welfare of her play
mate. In spite of her agony, she
showed remarkablo coolness, spoke
cheerfully to her parents, and showed
much concern abbut Geraldine, who
was hysterical from pain.
The funeral will be held Friday at
2 P. M. from the home. The body is
being held at the Miller & Tracey
undertaking parlors until the child's
aunt, Mrs. A. H. Nichenf elder, arrives
from St. Louis.
Geraldlne's condition was reported
Concluded on Page 4. Column l.
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Jury, Trying Boy Charged 'With
Murder of Lillian Leutliold,
Deliberates 2 9 Hours.
MARSH FIELD. Or., Nov. 2. (Spe
cial.) Judge John S. Coke discharged
the Jury In the Harold Howell case
when the jury reported, at 3 o'clock
this afternoon, that it could not reach
an agreement. The Jury had deliber
ated since Saturday mornirg at 10
o'clock, 29 hours.
Hcrold Ho wall was tried on a
charge of murdering Lillian'Ltuthold
of Bitidon. The boy was 15 and the
girl 15.
No Information was oLtalncd as to
what portion of the Jury favored con
viction, although it was reported last
night eight were for conviction. The
trial op3iied October 27 aud continued
six days.
MRS. IDA HAWLEY SUICIDE
Despondency Caused by Illness Is
Held Responsible.
Despondency as the result of ill
ness is believed to have actuated Mrs.
Ida May Hawley, 1170 Clinton street,
who committed suicide yeserday' by
taking poison. She died about 10
o'clock.
Mrs. Hawluft- had been in the Moun
tain View sanitarium. East Seventy
sixth and Division streets, for several
months on account of Illness. About
a month ago she returned to her
home, but she still suffered from Ill
ness and despondency.
She was the wife of N. M. Hawley
and had a daughter and son.
The body was turned over to Dep
uty Coroner Leo Goctsch.
IRISH C0URTDISFIGURED
Malcontents Paint Sinn Fein Flag
on Wall; Royal Arms Chunged.
BELFAST, Nov. 2. The magis
trates of the police Cuurt at Beltur
bet. County Cavan, on entering court
yesterday found the royal arms over
the bench disfigured and with the
outline of a skull drawn over them,
together with the inscription "R. I.
P." (requiscat in pace). A large Sinn
Feinn flag was painted on the wall
with the flag of the Irish republic
beneath
T
lican flag i.i al fieri i
HEALTH CRUSADE COMING
Country-Wide Drive for Boys to
Start Tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. A country
wide drive to Improve the health of
the 6,000.000 boya In the United
States between the ages of 13 and
20, will be launched here tomorrow
and Wednesday by the public health
service.
State boards of health. Red Cross,
Y. M. C. A., rotary clubs and other' or
ganizations will participate.
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WHITE HOUSE RACE
Wood and Lowden Lead
for Republicans.
HOOYER MAY BE "DARK HORSE'
Palmer Towers Above Mc
Adoo; Taft Mentioned.
WILSON POPULARLY GONE
Sentiment in 2 0 States Grows in
Favor of Republican Ad
ministration in 102 0.
BY CARL W. ACKERMA.V.
(Copyright by the New York World. Pub
lished by ArranEftnent.)
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2. Thirty
eight men stand upon the political
stage today as potential condldates
for the presidency of the United
States. Sixteen of these are demo
crats, 21 are republicans and one is
neutral.
Scanning the country In conjunc
tion with some of the political lead
ers of the east, 1 find there are at
least 100 others who are favorite sons
of sovereign states or ambitious offi
cials of great municipalities, but
those whose aspirations are still
within the confines of one communi
ty have been deliberately eliminated.
To print the names of all tho self
determined presidents would require
the Issuance of a national political
directory. Therefore, the 38 names
which follow constitute the leading
candidates before the public, east
and west, north and south, the year
before the national election of 1920.
Among them there may be one who
will be the successor of Woodrow
Wilson.
.Names Listed.
The thirty-eight possible candidates
appear to be:
wiiiiam li. Hearst. Vle.Pr.uM...
Thomas R. Marshall, former Secretary
W. G. McAdoo, Attorney-General A.
Mitchel Palmer, Senator James A.
Reed, Senator Oscar Underwood, Sec
retary of Labor William Wilson,' Am
bassador Brand Whitlock.
Republicans Former ' President
William Howard Taft. Senator W. E.
Borah, President Nicholas Murray
Butler of Columbia university. Sen
ator Arthur Capper, Senator Albert
B. Cummins, H. P. Davidson. Govern
or Goodrich of Indiana, former Mayor
Ole Hanson of Seattle, Charles E.
Hughes, Senator Warren Harding.
Senator Hiram W. Johnson, Senator
P. C. Knox. Senator H. C. Lodge,
Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois.
Senator R. G. LaFollette. General
John J. Pershing. Senator Miles Foin
dexter, William H. Thompr jn.. Major
General Leonard Wood, Senator J. E.
Watson, Frank A. Vanderlip.
Neutral Herbert Hoover.
Four In Hrpubllran Rare.
wnno mere are 38 men with the
greatest national prominence as pres
l ldentlal candidates, of the f- io.i
ing poimcai parties, it is no secret
among the men whose business It i;
to watch and report on political de
velopments that the leading repub
lean candidates today are General
Wood, Governor Lowden, William IL
Taft and Hiram Johnson, with the
possibility of Herbert Hoover as a re
publican "dark horse." The most
prominent democratic candidates are 1
former Secretary of the Treasury Mc- j
Adoo, Attorney-General Palmer -and'
the equal possibility of Mr. Hoover
as the democratic "dark horse."
As the political situation stood to
night, eight months before the nom
inating conventions. Wood Is the
strongest republican candidate, while
Palmer leads the democrats. If the
candidates were to be selected today
by the political leaders of the two
parties, the republican ticket would
probably be "Wood and Lowden," the
democratic ticket "Palmer and Cox "
with a third party headed by Johnson
and supported by Reed, Hearst, Clark
and Borah.
Sentiment la Reflected.
This Is not to be interpreted as a
political forecast, because during the
present changeable period of politics
any prophecy would be nothing more
than a "wild guess." The above state
ment is nothing more or less than
a reflection of the political party
sentiment as I found it upon my tour
of the country, which took me into
20 states, coupled with the specula
tion and observations of & score or
more possible candidates and political
leaders In this city. Personally, I am
inclined to think that there will be
such a shifting of political scenery
between now and next June that some
of the men who today are considered
the strongest candidates may find
their "booms" eclipsed by the rising
tide of sentiment in favor of a "new
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Re.-. 1
Clark, Governor V.' M .o 'ohl'o f "Vl r,":i"aR Wly
Secretary f the Navy Ja.hWta. bPlicveJ t'at 1"y W to
iels. Ambassador John W LaWifor K on to ,I,ufur' U w " not unUI
mer Ambassador James ' W trl l" n'Rht that mter 8ur"
out mat wnat sen.iment there is to
day in favor of almost one man. with
the possible exception of Hoover and
Taft, if not Wilson, too, is due direct
ly or Indirectly, to the expressions of
political interest by friends of certain
candidates or to the use of a political
o-jrmlratlon to crystallize pnriy or
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Mob Plunders Homes and Escapes
With Loot; Procession of Strik
'ers Ends in Rioting.
LONDON. Nov. 3. A dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph from Cairo
says the rioters at Alexandria were
dispersed by the use of machine guns,
and that there were many casualties.
CAIRO. Egypt,. Oct. 31. (By the
Associated Press.) There was fur
ther rioting and looting in Alexandria
today.
A mob, unhindered, plundered va
rious houses for an hour and escaped
with the booty.
A number of the leading citizens of
Alexandria had prevailed on the gov
ernor to withdraw the police and
troops, undertaking that there would
be neitherdemonstration nor di.-order.
Nevertheless a procession of striking
cartmen, accompanied by several
thousand natives, marched at noon to
the European quarter, uttering 11a
tiotialist cries.
There was no disorder until sud
denly an army ambulance dashed into
the procession, killing one person and
injuring five. Thereupon the demon
strators broke loose and plundered
unhindered for an hour. Eventually
order was restored by the citizens
who had guaranteed peace appealing
to the mob. The police and troops
did not interfere.
There were disorders in other parts
of the town which were accompanied
by shooting.
MISSING BOY IS FOUND
Lad Searching for Parents While
They Arc Looking for Him.
While Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Bissinger
of the Warrington apartments have
been frantically searching for their
14-year-old son Theodore, whom they
believed lost, the boy has been seek
ing his parents s-ince Thursday morn
ing. He found them last night and a
misunderstanding arising from the
incorrect " ;terpretatIon of a long-distance
telephone, call was explained.
The bov'nmc to Portland from
Tonakaset, Wash., where he had been
passing three months. His parents
expected him at 7 P. M. Thursday, but
the lad arrived In town in the morn-inn-
ami 1 . "-.ohonc ; : i'V titer and
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PETROGRAD NOW HUNGRY
City Without Bread and Thousands
Are Dying Dally.
HELSINGFORS, Finland. Nov. 2.
Petrograd has been without bread for
two weeks and thousands of persons
are dying daily, according to Infor
mation brought to Helsingfors by a
Finn who escaped from a prison camp
at Moscow.
The population of Petrograd has
fallen below 400,000, he said. Con
ditions in Moscow, the Finn reported,
were much better.
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 2. A dispatch
to the Tidenden from Helsingfors says
the famine In Petrograd is assuming
terrible proportions. Forty thousand
persons have died within a month. It
is declared.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The WeaiS-r.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
51 decrees: minimum. 47 degrees.
TODAY'S Rin; moderate easterly winds.
Fomjcn.
Tudenltch advances on Fetrosrad. Pace 4.
Marhlne guns turned on rioters In Egypt.
Pate 1.
D'Annuntlo demands new frontier for
Italy, rage 4.
National.
En(rlners oppose U. S. policy in fighting
strlKe. 1'age 1.
Attorney-general rebukes New York coal
trader. Page S.
New merchant marine policy outlined.
Page 0.
Thirty-eight men potential candidates for
president. Page 1.
Senate to discuss date for final vote oa
treaty. Page 4.
Domestic.
Crucial test In miners' strike expected to
day, rage 1.
DeVaiera, Pays U. S. sailors attacked Irish
girls. 2'age 5,
Troops patrol coal fields; others held In
reserve. Page 2.
John T. Hutchings. auto racer, fatally shot
In Texas. Page 1.
Strike said to be climax of labor revolu
tion. Page 3.
Two Rhodes scholars named from Heed
college. Page 3.
l"ncifle Northwest.
Jury In Ho"ell case fails to reach agree
ment, .rage 1.
Seattle mother tells of fhootlnp children
while playing blind man s buff, rage 9.
Captured Oregon 'IT' drum recorered by
Eugene students only to be lost to
Washington again. Page 10.
Seattle policeman kills brother officer,
page o.
Sports.
University of Oregon eleven wear heroes'
scars. Page lu.
Swimming rules are contradicted. Page 11.
Mike Collins to bring Johnny Noye and
Miko Ertle to coast. Page 11.
Portland andVlrlnity.
Catholic priest Injured In fight with rob
bers. Page 1.
Divorces average 27 a week la Portland
fn riir months. Pace 12.
1 Band to represent city Is organized,
! Page 1.
Portland clearing house banks gain 189.-
S0.0O0 posters are distributed to advertise
livestock show. Page 8.
Dream of era of perfect peace following
war held delusion. Page 8.
35 Oregon firms make exhibits at food
show. Page 9.
New labor council fight is brewing.
Page 8.
Little girl dies from Halloween party fire;
other seriously burned. Psge 1.
toi'i.a:kl will fight to it-tttin u-tt: UruiatUr
UcyuU Ptt IS.
CALL OF SICK ANSWERED
Battle Starts on Lawn While
Waiting for Taxicab.
THUGS INVADE RESIDENCE
Pastor Loses Watch, Money and
One Tooth; Rooms of Dwell
ing Are Ransacked.
Two robbers, one of whom waa
armed with a club, made a bold at
tack on Rev. Father Cronin, pastor of
All Saints Catholic church in Laurel
hurst, as he was standing in front of
his home. East Thirty-ninth and
Hoyt streets, waiting for a taxicab
early yesterday morning. After one
of the assailants knocked the priest
down because of his refusal to throw
up his hands, they pursued hint In
side the house, continuinng their at
tack until they had left him stunned
and almost unconscious.
Dazed as he was and with some
bad wounds and cuts about the face
ar.d head. Rev. Mr. Cronin, following
the departure of the thugs, responded
to a call received previous to the at
tack, to the bedside of Mrs. Walter
Gruder, a parishioner living at East
Thirty-ninth and Knott streets and
who was thought to be dying.
Valuable Watrk Takes.
Following his arrival there Re waa
taken to St. Vincent's hospital by
Dr. W. H. Skene, who was attending
the woman.
The two robbers took a valuable
watch belonging to Father Cronin
and what money he had on his per
son and also ransacked the house,
ppait-.t; !. search f . r money and
Mid the t.'luu-1 lastori foe 20 rr-
minutes and was carried from tha
hall to the stairway and finally to
the chamber of the priest, where the
men attempted to bind and gag him
with sheets. Apparently despairing
of this, however, they finally subdued
him with blows over the head.
It was about 2 o'clock yesterday
morning that Father Cronin received
a telephone call asking him to go to
the bedside of Mrs. Gruder. He has
tily dressed and called for a taxi.
When he walked out in front of tha
house to wait for the taxi he saw a
man approach and mistook him for
the taxi driver.
Robber Vea Force.
'Is that youT" ho called.
"Yes." was the reply, and the man
approached.
"Where is your machine?" asked
Father Cronin.
About this time the man had coma
quite near and he suddenly command
ed the priest to hold up his hands.
When Rev. Cronin failed to comply,
he received a blow on the head which
knocked him down.
The first man was then joined by
a second and the two pursued Father
Cronin. who Jumped to his feet and
ran to the hall of the house and at
tempted to telephone the police. Lat
er the fight was carried to the stair
way through Father Cronln's efforts
to fight off his assailants. One of
the thugs continued to use a club
with telling effect and after an ef
fort to bind the priest had been un
successful, the robbers beat him un
til he was almost unconscious.
They then took his watch and
money, a few dollars, and afterward
looked through the various bureaus
and cabinets and similar places in the
house where valuables might be kept.
They did not touch the family silver
and failed to take various other trin
kets about the house.
Tooth Kserkra Oat.
Dr. Skene said yesterday that the
Rev. Mr. Cronin had received a bad
bruise on the side of the head and
one tooth had been knocked out. Ha
also received a badly blackened eye
and a severe cut on the lower Hp. He
was not wholly unconscious at any
time, although still daxed at a late
hour last night, and it is believed his
injuries will not prove of a serious
character.
The maid at tho priest's residence,
Mrs. M. Foran. was in her chamber
at tho rear of the house at the time
of the attack. She said yesterday she
heard the noise, but was so frightened
that she feared to offer assistance.
She said it sounded a number of times
as though the combatants had fallen
downstairs.
Mrs. Foran reported that when she
made an Investigation this morning
there were huge pools of blood on the
floor, presumably coming from cuts
in Father Cronln's face. The bed
sheets and his night clothing alo
were tied In knots.
Acting Captain of Detectives John
Moloney was notified of the hcld-up
early yesterday morning and Imme
diately dispatched Inspectors Pat
Moloney and LaSalle to work on tha
case. The officers expressed the be
lief last night that arrests would be
made within a day as a result of their
efforts.
Another hold-up was reported to
the police bureau yesterday morning,
milking four for the preceding night.
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