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PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
i1M" !DEKTH DRINK RING
IT FIANCE IS
JAZZ MUSIC IS USED PRESIDENT OBSERVES
IN EASTERN SURGERY! SIXTY-THIRD BIRTHDAY
PRICE GUARANTEE
SENTIMENT ASKED
FREIGHT CARGO LOST IIDICU
IN SOUND COLLISION UUM
BAND KILLS
IlilO LL.L.IO lOLniKf
CLAIMED By WIFE
"KING PIN" CAUGHT
T'S GUARD
THOUSANDS CLAMOR AT NEW"
YORK'S GATES.
PHILADELPHIA SPECIALISTS
REPORT PROMPT CURES.
DAY SPENT QUIETLY: HEALTH
MUCH IMPROVED.
STEAMER QUEEN STRIKES LIL
LICO BARGE IN FOG.
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Dr. Vermilye Silent as to
Wedding Tangle.
DESERTED 'BRIDE' SPURNED
Hospital Patient Refuses to
See Girl Left at Altar.
NO EXPLANATION GIVEN
'I Have Nothing to Say," Is Jotted
on Back, of Card Requesting
Statement to Reporters.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28. Dr. William
Grey Vermilye, who failed to appear
Christmas day to marry Miss Ruth
M. Keeney at Monson. Mass.. and is
a patient in the Cumberland-street
. hospltul, refused to make any com
ment tonight when informed that his
wife had been located in Harrisburg,
Pa., where she is living: with a
daughter.
Information that Dr. Vermilye had
a wife with whom he had been liv
ing up to the time he gave up pri
vate practice to take a position with
the United 'States shipping board in
the south, was given by Mrs. P. E.
Zindell of Brooklyn, wife of a son of
Mrs. Vermilye by a previous mar
riage. She said that Dr. Vermilye and his
wife had lived in Brooklyn, but Mrs.
Vermilye had gone to Harrisburg six
months ago to visit her daughter and
was still there.
MImh Kreney l.rjnct Hospital.
Miss Keeney. who has also been a
patient in the hospital since last night
when she fainted and became hyster
ical because the doctor refused to
see her or explain his failure to ap
pear for the wedding, left the insti
tution today. She and her father
again attempted to interview Dr. Ver
milye, but he refused to see them.
When hospital officials, who say
the physician Is there to undorgo a
alight operation. Informed newspaper
men that he would see no one except
relatives, they sent Dr. Vermilye the
following note:
"Tour wife, said to be located in
Harrisburg. Pa., has made charges
which perhaps you would be glad to
clear up. Will you please make a
definite statement and clear up the
whole matter?"
Doctor "Has Nothing to Say."
Dr. Vermilye's reply, which was
written on the back of the note, said:
"I have nothing to say."
When Mrs. Zindell. who lives at
the Vermilye home in Pacific street,
was asked if it was true that the
physician had a wife, she said:
"It is. Her name Is Mrs. William
Grey Vermilye and she is at present
staying with a daughter at Harris
burg. Pa."
"Had Dr. Vermilye and his wife
lived here with you?"
"Yes," she responded. "Mrs. Ver
milye left this house about five
months ago because her husband was
In the service."
Vermilye Divorce Is I nlrd.
"Have you ever heard of Dr. Ver
milye or his wife getting a divorce?"
"No: so far as I know they are
till married."
Mrs. Zindell said she did not know
Miss Keeney: but had "heard she was
a well educated girl."
When questioned further as to
whether there was any doubt as to
the woman In Harrisburg being Dr.
.Vermilye's wife, Mrs. Zindell replied:
"I have no doubt at all but that
he is his wife."
Mrs. Vermilye, it was learned to-
night, is the second wife of the phy
sician, his first wife having died.
MRS. VERMILYE IS SILENT
Comment on Husband's Plan to
Wed Another Withheld.
HARRISBURG. Pa.. Dec. 28. Mrs.
William Gray Vermilye, who says she
is the wife of the Brooklyn physician
who disappeared Christmas eve, when
supposedly on his way to wed Miss
Ruth M. Keeney of Monson, Mass..
and was subsequently found in a
Brooklyn hospital, declined tonight
to make any statement in regard to
Dr, Vermilye's affairs.
Major K. R. Baines, her son-in-law.
aid that Mrs. vermilye had never
heard of Miss Keeney before learning
of her intended marriage.
Major Baines said that Dr. and Mrs
Vermilye were married in 1895.
COST PROTEST IS FATAL
Havana Police and Crowd Clash;
One Killed, Six Hurt.
HAVANA. Dec. 28. One man was
killed and one woman and five men,
including two policemen, were In
jured today during a clash between
the police ana a crowd engaged In a
demonstration against the high cost
of living and excessive house rents.
The wounded policemen asserted
that the crowd attacked them when
they demanded to see the permit for
the parade. Witnesses say, however,
that the police fired on the people
without warning.
Police and Coast Guards Are on
Duty to Relieve Unprecedented
Condition Now Existing.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2S. More than
3000 Immigrants are clamoring at the
sates of New York for admission into
the United States. Ellis Island is
congested and many hundreds of the
incoming passengers will be detained
on board steamships for examination.
Immigration inspectors and special
boards of inquiry have found it neces
sary to work day and night to relieve
unprecedented conditions.
In the meantime hundreds of
friends and relatives of the detained
passengers from all over the coun
try have assembled here impatiently
awaiting the release of the immi
grants. Police and coast guards are on duty
at the piers and the Ellis Island fer
ry entrance to hold in check the
crowds which gather at the gates
dally. Several attempts have been
made by friends and relatives of the
detained passengers to storm the piers
in an effort to reach the ships.
Immigration officials claim that
their work is delayed to a large ex
tent on Ellis Island because of the
congestion there due to the detention
of, a large number of radicals and un
desirables, held for deportation.
The greater number of the Immi
grants detained are Italians, it was
stated. Several hundred Greek pas
sengers also are held.
DRY MEASURE IS DEFIED
Ken Jersey Provides Bill for Own
Enforcement.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Dec. 28.
The preamble of the bill author
izing the sale of beer and light wines
In New Jersey was made public to
night by State Senator Thomas Brown,
who will introduce the measure at
the next session of the legislature.
The preamble set forth that the
state qf New Jersey has not ratified
the eighteenth amendment, doubts
that It was passed in a constitutional
manner and intends to disregard the
Volstead act and pass an enforcement
bill which will be supreme within the
limits of the state.
Senator Brown said the theory up
on w-hich Governor-elect Edwards and
his supporters are working is that
the eighteenth amendment gives equal
power to congress and the states in
the enforcement of prohibition and
that the congressional enactment ap
plies only where there is no state law
In effect.
D'ANNUNZIO IS OBSTINATE
Resistance Demanded to Insure
Guarantees to Annex Plume.
F1UME, Dec. 28. Armed resistance
"to the last morsel of bread and last
drop of blood" is Gabrlele d'Annun-
xlo's lateBt decision in demanding
further guarantees from the Italian
government to tnsure the annexation
of Fiume to Italy. The situation is at
a stronger deadlock than ever by rea
son of the soldier-poet's unshaken ob
stlnacy to remain in Flume until his
demands are met.
The national council has reversed
its decision to accept the govern
ment's proposal and has voted to sup
port D'Annumlo, who with a large
following of legionnaires, still re
mains master of the situation inside
the city.
RUSSIANS PLOT TO KILL
Plans to Assassinate American Oil
Company Officials Bared.
LAREDO. Tex.. Dec. 28. Agents of
the Russian bolshevik! at Tampico
"proposed the assassination of man
agers of oil companies, superintend
ents of all oil companies and other
high personages, with the object of
bringing about international difficul
ties," according to Friday's issue of
El Universal, a Mexico City news
paper.
The newspaper published a Tampico
dispatch saying Mexican special po
lice there arrested two Russians, con
fessed agents of soviet government
who are suspected of being accom
plices of the person directing the dis
tribution of propaganda proposing the
assassinations.
COSTS UP82 PER CENT
Wage Earners Living Comparison
Made With July, 1914.
BOSTON. Dec. 28. An Increase of
82.2 per cent in the cost of living for
American wage-earners between July
1914 and November 1919 was shown
In a statement Issued by the national
industrial conference board today.
This represented an advance of 10.4
per cent since November. 1918, 18.5
per cent since March, 1919. when
prices dropped temporarily, and 5.8
per cent since last July.
The Increase In the cost of five
major Items In the family budget
since July. 1914. was:
Food 92 per cent, shelter 38. cloth
ing 135 per cent, fuel, heat and light
48 per cent and sundries 75 per cent.
ESTHONIA T0GET RUBLES
Agreement Reported Reached at
Dorpat Conference.
STOCKHOLM, Dee. 28. A Reval
dispatch says an agreement has been
reached at the Dorpat conference un
der which Esthonla will obtain J0,
000,000 rubles.
This is one-hundreth part of the
Russian gold reserve.
Source of Poison Liquor
Traced to New York.
FIVE IN BAND ARE ARRESTED
Undertaker Taken in Net; Re
ports of Deaths Grow.
WOOD ALCOHOL IS USED
Makers Said to Have Received
$1050 Barrel for Compound
Sent to Chicopee.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28. Federal
agents late tonight arrested five men
who they claimed were the heads of
an organized bapd which has been
responsible for the recent widespread
sale of wood alcohol concoctions
through five states. One of the men
arrested was described by the gov
ernment agents as "the kingpin of
the ring." Two of the men in cus
tody were described as New York
business men.
For ten days, since the first fatali
ties were reported irom wooa aim-
hol poisoning, Colonel D. L,. Porter,
supervising revenue agent for New
York, and H. B. Dobbs. special federal
agent, have been worKing on me
theory that the poison which has
caused scores of deaths throughout
New England and New York, origi
nated in this city.
Arrests Widely Separated.
The arrests tonight were made In
widely separated parts of the city.
Three of the prisoners arrested are
Adolph Panarelll, a wine and liquor
dealer; John Romanelll, an unaer
taker. and Samuel K. Saleeby. a drug
gist. .
Panarelll said: "I am glad you got
me. I will tell all I know."
Panarelll, according to Dobbs. said
he had a friend named Salsberg In
Hartford. Conn., who asked him to
get some liquor for Christmas. He
then got In touch with Saleeby, the
druggist.
"King Pin" Is Accused.
When the druggist was taken into
custody, according to Dobbs. he ac
cused Romanelll of being the "king
Din" of the wood alcohol traffic.
Dobbs claims he traced Romanelli to
a store In Brooklyn where 50 men
were found playing cards.
According to Dobbs, Panarelll,
after his arrest said:
"For God's sake don't send me to
Connecticut. I don't want to be
lynched. I am an innocent man. My
name has been published in all the
papers and it would mean certain
death."
AUGUSTA, Ga., Dec. 28. Beverages
containing wood alcohol or other pois
onous ingredients have caused the
death of approximately 20 persons in
Augusta and Richmond counties dur
ing the past four months, the coro-
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Patient Suffering With Paralysis
Jumps to Feet When Phono
graph Record Is Played.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa.. Dec. 28.
(Special.) Musical surgery Is the
very latest thing in cures with Phila
delphia's leading specialists.
Music, especially the "Jaxz" variety,
is being used in many clinics, and
physicians say that It Is working
effective cures through its psychic
effect.
One of the latest cases is that of
Morris Hayes, who came here from
Connellsvllle, paralyzed in both lees
as a result of a motor accident. He
was wheeled in a room in which there
was a phonograph and a Jaxx rec
ord was put on the machine. Hayes
jumped to his feet, entirely cured.
Music also has been used to arouse
people from long sleep, one of the
most serious being that of Mrs. Fred
Tracy, a former Philadelphia woman
now resident In Oxford, N. Y.. where
her 80-day slumber finally was end
ed by a phonograph.
Leading nerve specialists agTee In
praising the potency of music. Dr.
Charles K. Mills said: "It is espe
cially effective in cases of hysterical
paralysis, which is similar to shell
shock. The music arouses, certain
cells of the brain which act on the
parts of the body affected."
Dr. S. E. W. Ludlam compares the
effect of "violent" music to that pro
duced by an electric battery. He said
the emotional area that naturally
would be affected by the combination
of "music and noise" would act like
a battery under the proper contact
and discharge, along the nervous sys
tem, a force as powerful as electricity.
CANADIAN WHEAT RISES
Price of Manitoba Grain to MJlls
Lifted From $2.30 to 92.80.
WINNIPEG, Man.. Dec. 28. Effect
ive today the Canadian wheat board
has ordered that the price of Manitoba
wheat to mills In Canada be raised
fro $2.30 per bushel to $2.80 per
bushel in store at terminal elevators
at Fort William or Port Arthur. An
other regulation Increased the maxi
mum wholesale price of government
standard spring wheat flour from
$10.90 per barrel to $13. 16 f. o. b. cars
Montreal.
James Stewart, chairman of the
board, said today that in order that
the consuming public may .have ad
vantage of the supply of cheaper
flour In the United States, permits
will be Issued for the import of the
American product.
DEBUT MADE UNDER GUARD
Secret Service Men Accompany
Governor's Daughter.
CHICAGO. Dec. 28. Two secret
service agents in formal dress at
tended the presentation to society
yesterday of Miss Harriet Lowden
second daughter of Governor and
Mrs. Frank O. Lowden, as the result
of the receipt by the governor of a
threatening letter, It was disclosed
today. Postoffice inspectors believe
the author was an anarchist.
The governor was threatened for
"mixing with the enemies of society
the plutocrats and the capitalist
class."
FOR THE PRESIDENT TO OPEN
Mr. Wilson Takes Walk and Reads
Hundreds of Greetings Sent
by Officials and Friends.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 28. President
Wilson observed his 63d birthday
quietly today much Improved In
health, surrounded by the members
of his family with the exception of
Mrs. w. G. McAdoo, who was unable
to be present. Mr. and Mrs. Francis
B. Savre arrlv.ff fmnt ramhrMw.
Mass.. last night and Miss Margaret )
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since her fathers nine... i
mo president tooK his usual walk
about the sick room and later sat out
on the south portico for more than
an hour. Part of the day was spent
by Mr. Wilson reading many of the
hundreds of birthday greetings that
came from prominent officials and
friends In the United States and
abroad.
FAMILY OF 34 INTACT
No Death Occur In Four Genera
tions; Pair Married 50 Years.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec 28. (Special.)
An unusual family Is that of Mr. and
Mrs. John Weis of Overland Park. St.
Louis county, who celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary Decem
ber 12. and among whose descendants,
to the fourth generation, there has
never been a death. Five sons, two
daughters. 21 grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren have been born.
and eery one of them Is living.
Both were born in Luxemburg. Weis
is 73 years old and his wife is 69.
Gustave and Henry, the older sons,
were born in Rhelms. France, and
christened In the historic cathedral
there. The other children were born
In St. Louis, where the couple came
It 1877. Weis Is a maker of stee'
safes, having devised tHe first one
made in Belgium, In 1867, at .Mom,
scene of one of the first engagements
of the war.
TELEGRAPHERS GET RISE
Western Union Increase Becomes
Effective January t.
NEW YORK. Dec 28. Thirty-two
thousands employes of the Western
Union Telegraph & Telephone com
pany will receive salary Increases
amounting to $5,000,000 on January 1,
It was announced tonight.
Employes who have been tn the
service more than one year will re
ceive a 15 per cent increase and those
who have been In the service more
than six months but less than a year
will receive 10 per cent Increase. Only
employes earning less than $250 a
month are affected.
CATTLE TO BE CHANGED
10,000 Head Will Be Transferred
From Wyoming Into Idaho.
OODEN, Utah. Dec. 28. Five repre
sentatives of the Jackson Cattle A
Horse Growers' association, repre
sentlng 89 per cent of the livestock
men of the Jackson Hole country, will
confer tomorrow with the United
States forest service officials regard
ing methods to be followed In trans
ferrlng 10,000 head of livestock from
the Wyoming district Into Idaho In
order that available feed may be pro
vlded for the Yellowstone park elk.
THE DOOR.
Federal Trade Commis
sion to Investigate.
HIGH COSTS HELD RESULT
Complaints S3Y Plan Pre-
m
, .
vents Decrease in Figures.
HEARING WILL BE HELD
System Is Said to orrer Protection
to Bayers in Case of De
cline Before Delivery.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 28. Business
Interests, labor unions and the public
generally are to be sounded out as to
the sentiment In regard to the guar-
an tee-agalnst -price-decline system
said to be In use by many manufac
turers and wholesalers in the sale of
goods. The federal trade commission
announced tonight that it had sent
out several thousand letters inquir
ing as to the opinion of the plan.
The guaran tee-agalnst -price-decline
system amounts to a guarantee by
manufacturers and wholesalers In
selling goods that should a decline in
price occur before delivery of the
goods the buyers shall benefit by the
decline, but If the market should rise
before delivery the manufacturer and
wholesaler would assume the loss.
C omplaints Are Received.
Complaints lodged with the com
mission assert that working out of
the plan tends to prevent a decrease
in the cost of living.
The commission, in a letter to
boards of trade, civic bodies, trade
organs and papers, labor groups and
farmers" associations, made public to
day, says:
"The question of guarantee against
decline In price has been the subject
of so many complaints before the
commission and opinion seems to be
so diverse that the commission has
determined to go into the whole mat
ter thoroughly.
"As a basis for the necessary ex
penditures attending upon such an
inquiry, such formal complaints have
been Issued presenting various phases
of the subject. To the end that every
party at interest may be fully repre
sented the commission Is Inviting,
generally, producers, manufacturers.
merchants (wholesale and retail) and
consumers to declare their Interest
so that the commission may know
what parties should be represented.
Hearing to Be Held.
"The commission is asking you.
therefore, to communicate as speedily
and as widely as possible with your
membership, advising them of the in
vitation, and to notify the commission
of the nature of their interest in the
subject.
"As soon as this list of the parties
at Interest In the matter can be com
piled It Is the purpose of the commis
sion to Invite each or any of them to
submit their observations In writing.
"A reasonable time limit for the
filing of written statements will be
given, after which they will be as
sembled and. as far as possible, clas
sified, and each correspondent will be
furnished with a copy of the docu
ment. "As aoon thereafter as possible it la
the purpose of the commission to call
a general hearing at Washington at
which parties at interest may be pres
ent in person, by representative or by
counsel, and an orderly method for
hearing the matter will be laid out."
The proposed hearing probably wll!
be held about the middle of March.
PERSHING LAUDS SCOUTS
General Tells Lincoln Boys of Re
maining Opportunities.
LINCOLN. Neb., Dec. 28. In a short
address to the Boy Scouts tonight
I General John J. Pershing commended
their efforts during the war and told
them the future held opportunities for
continued activities. He mentioned
the work of the scouts in France and
also had praise for the Y. M. C. A.,
whose efforts abroad, he said, were
worthy of highest commendation, and
the results accomplished, particularly
after the war. hard to overestimate.
General Pershing was voted a life
membership in the Lincoln Y. M. C. A.
Tomorrow he will address the G. A. R.
veterans.
: ' . ... .
During the afternoon General Per-
i.iF. "ducu a. iiaMini unu apeiu
some time at the bedside of Fred N.
Alexander, a Lincoln boy, who served
two years In France with the 137th
infantry of the 35th division. Alex-
tie of the Argonne.
General Pershing congratulated him
nn his valiant service and expressed
hope for his recovery.
KLAMATH APPROVES RISE
Teachers In Schools to Receive In
crease in Salary.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. Dec. 28.
(Special.) By a vote of 192 to 7,
taxpayers approved a special tax levy
of $4500 for teachers' salary increase
yesterday.
The vote means an increase of ap
proximately $25 a month to all
teachers in the schools, probably
retroactive to November, 1919.
.'Five Loaded Cars and Merchandise
Valued at $100,000 Go Into
Water orf Alkl Point.
SEATTLE. Wash., Dec. 28. (Spe
cial.) In the dense fog off Alkl Point
; uie steamer vjueen rammea a uhw
Transportation company barge Sun
day morning, with a loss of five of
the six cars loaded with freight val
ued at $100,000, which the barge was
transporting to Bremerton.
The barge. In a sinking condition,
with a great hole stove in her port
side forward, was beached on the
municipal bathing beach. It was kept
afloat by means of pumps, and one of
the freight cars, containing a load of
coal for the navy yard, was saved.
The barge was being towed by the
LIUIco Tug & Barge company's tug
Arab. According to her master. Cap
tain Carl Foss, the siren was being
sounded at frequent Intervals. When
about half a mile off Alkl Point he
says the steamer Queen of the Pa
cific Steamship company suddenly
rounded Alkl Point and because of
the dense fog was upon the barge,
200 feet behind the tug. before a col
lision could be avoided. The Queen
was running slow, but the impact
nearly swamped the big" barge, which
careened to such an extent that five
of the cars slid into the bay with a
series of mighty splashes.
Capfaln Inman. who was the only
man on the barge, started the pumps
and prevented, by means of brakes
and blocks, the remaining car from
leaving the barge.
M. F. Tarpey, captain of the Queen,
proceeded to Seattle when he ascer
tained that the tug Arab was able to
handle the situation.
The barge is of 1000 tons capacity
and carries three standard-gauge
railway tracks. The five cars that
were lost In the sound contained mis
cellaneous freight both for business
firms and the navy yard at Bremer
ton. The barge was making her
9fi"th voyage to Bremerton from Se
attle when the accident occurred.
FIRE ROUTS U. S. TOURISTS
American Drags Baggage From
Burning Hotel in Toklo.
TOKIO, Dec. 2S. Half the Imperial
hotel, housing 40 American tourists
uurnea mte last nignt. There were
no casualties among the Americans
many of whom were prominent and
several of whom were women or chil
dren. A considerable quantity of their
baggage was lost.
Among the Americans In the hote
were Charles Hitchcock Sherrill. for
merly American minister to Argen
tlna. and Mrs. Sherrill. Mr. Sherrill
aided In dragging baggage out o
the burning hotel.
Many of the tourists spent the nigh
sitting on trunks in the hotel grounds
or nearby streets. Considerable quan
tities of Jewelry were lost.
DANSEY THEORY DROPPED
Oklahoma Officers Decide Boy Is
Not One Sought.
TULSA. Okla., Dec. 28. A boy be
lieved by Chief of Police Robert Au
ton of Collinsvllle. Okla., to be th
missing "Billy" Dansey of Hammon
ton. X. J., is not the Dansey boy. ac
cording to statements tonight by
Chief Auton and Chief of Police Allen
of Tulsa.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Heather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 37
decrees: minimum. 32 degrees.
TODAY'S Fair; winds mostly southerly.
Forelsrn.
British Cheer up near New Year. Page 2.
Viscount Grey predicts rule of socialism
Page 5.
Irish band kills member of Viscount
French's bodyguard. Page 1.
Wilson too harsh on Flume question. Is
charge In Italy, 'age 3.
National.
Killing of James Wallace by Mexicans de
liberate. Page 2.
President Wilson's conference recommends
national Industrial tribunal. Page 4.
Domestic
President Wilson observes 3d birthday.
Page 1.
Public demand for fine wool Is blamed for
high clothing prices. Psge 3.
! Appearance of Dr. Vermilye's wife comptl
i cates case of weddlnr truant. Psge t.
1 congress to probe friction among United
States officials at Madrid. Page
Thousands of Immigrants ciamor for ad
j mission to United States. Page 1.
Rail brotherhoods plan co-operative banks
and stores to cut living costs. Page 4.
! Federal trade commission asks sentiment
1 on guarantee-against-prlce-decllne 'sys
tem. Page L
i Jazz music is used by Philadelphia spe
cialists for treatment of patients.
Pace 1.
Eastern cities report more deaths due to
woa a'T , v 1
I liwlfic Northwest
Four ,., maKe Mcape from county
; jail at Kosenurg- f-age o.
jal!
Seattle alliance withholds indorsements of
candidates. Page 6
Curbing of coming session of legislature
promises to be a difficult task. Page 4.
$100,000 freight cargo lost in sound col
lision. Page 1.
Sport'.
Gibbons unable to . box McConntck New
Year's day. Page 10.
Harvard's line Is heavy and formidable
Page I.
Harvard, behind closed gates, holds stiff
workout. Page 10.
Hugo Bczdek says Oregon eleven may
surprise Harvard suuad. Page 10.
Portland and Vicinity.
State teachers to convene in Portland to
day. Page 18.
Vaccinate and Isolate to avert smallpox,
urges Dr. Mackenzie. Page 7.
Building increases shown by federal re
serve district report. Page 15.
Modern Christmas is criticised by pastor.
Page T.
January pales may feature Oregon-mad
products. Page 12.
Steamer West Hartland due with cargo of
crude rubber. Page 11.
State chamber of commerce to open session
here today. Page 3.
Intruder Also Is Slain in
Clash Near Dublin.
FOUR SUSPECTS ARRESTED
Firing Close to Home of Lord
French Causes Searc.
PARTY FLEES IN DARK
Lieutenant. Guest of Governor-
General. Shot During Inves
tigation of Disorders.
DUBLIN. Dec. 28. (By the Associ
ated Press ) An officer of the guard
and one member of a band of Intrud
ers were killed early this morning In
a shooting affray In Phoenix Park, a,
Dublin suburban station, and only &
short distance form the vice-iesa.1
odge.
The vice-regal lodge is the official
residence of Viscount French, lord
ieutenant and governor-general of
Ireland.
In some quarters the belief was ex
pressed that an attack had been In
preparation against the lodge. About
eight men were believed to have made
up the band. Four arrests were
made.
At 1:30 o'clock this morning shots
were heard near the vice-regal lodge.
They continued Intermittently at In
tervals for nearly an hour in that
portion of Phoenix Park between the
lodge and the magazine.
There apparently was no direct at
tack on the lodge. The inmates at f lrt
thought the shooting wa connected
with some scrt of holiday revelry.
Military Guard Starts Search.
s the firing persisted, however, a
military guard, consisting of an offi
cer and two men. turned out and
searched the grounds. Finding noth-
ng unusual there, they went through
the park near the main road.
While traversing the center of the
park they engaged in a sharp ex
change of firing with the intruders.
and Lieutenant Boast, who was lead
ing his men, fell shot through the
heart.
One of the attacking party also was
killed. He was a civilian about 40
years of age. According to some re
ports he was wearing portions of a
soldier's uniform. No weapon was
found on or near his body, and up to
the present the man's Identity has
not been ascertained. Pools of blood
were found on the scene, which is
about half a mile from the lodge.
Intruders Flee la Dark.
After the shooting the Intruders
fled in the darkness. The four men
arrested were not taken into custody
near the scene of the shooting, but
were apprehended as they were leav
ing the park about two hours later.
They denied having any connection
with the affair and It was reported
that no incriminating evidence was
found.
After the shooting the military
brought a machine gun to the scene.
This was fired in the direction It had
been supposed the men had taken
flight. Nobody was hit by the bullets.
The bodies of the two men were
taken to the George V hoapltal where
an Inquest will be held tomorrow,
t Ity Becomes Excited.
Lieutenant Boast was only 30 years
old. He was mentioned in Saturday's
court circular as having been invited
to dine with Field Marshal Viscount
French, lord lieutenant and governor
general of Ireland, on Saturday night.
On Sunday he had bid farewell to
his parents who had been paying him
a visit,
There was great excitement In the
city when the newspapers announced
the occurrence. Crowds visited the
scene during the afternoon.
The name of the civilian killed was
said to be Laurence Csrey, who re
sided at Lucan. near Phoenix park.
According to one version of the origin
of the struggle. Carey Ignored the
challenge to halt and when the sol
diers approached Carey seized Boast,
whereupon the soldiers fired their
pistols, killing Carey. This version
did not state who shot Boast. Boast
began as a drummer boy in the Lan
cashire regiment and won his com
mission for conspicuous service in the
war.
LONDON, Dec. 28. A dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph from Duhlln
says that the officer killed in the at
tack on the vice-regal lodge In
Phoenix Park was Lieutenant Boast.
The member of the attacking party
killed was dressed in an old uniform
of a private in the British army. His
body was reported to have been
riddled with bullets.
The Exchange Telegraph's corre
spondent said it understood that snip
ing at the lodge continued for only
a few minutes and the fight took
place on the main road at a distance
of nearly a quarter of a mile from the
lodge.
The fighting near vice-regal lodge
yesterday evidently was a preliminary
to a second attempt within a month
to take the life of Viscount French,
lord lieutenant and governor-general
of Ireland.
On Friday, December 19. a deter
mined but unsuccessful attempt was
made to assassinate Viscount French.
The attack evidently had been most
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