TIIE MORNING OI&EGOXIAX. TUESDAY. APRIL G, 1920 BANK ROBBER KILLED BY POLICE 1 DUEL Outlaw With Loot Trapped in Empty Theater. PIT USED AS BARRICADE One Dies, Four Seriously Wounded Cornering Desperado $20,000 Taken in Daring Hold-TTp. ST. LOUIS, April 5. A lone outlaw killed one police officer, seriously -wounded three others, and he himself was killed when he held up and obbed the Easton-Taylor Trust com pany here of $20,000 late today. The outlaw, carrying: a revolver in each hand, entered the bank shortly after 3 o'clock. There were 15 cus tomers in the bank and he herded them and the employes In a private room and began firing: the revolvers. A riot call was sounded and 50 policemen, heavily armed, responded. The outlaw obtained $20,000 from Louis F. Schneider, the cashier, and ought refuse in an adjoining theater, which was empty. The police surrounded the theater. The desperado used the orchestra pit from which to shoot and would rise over the top of It and fire as the patrolmen entered. The gun battle jasted nearly 20 minutes. Policeman Terence McFarland was shot through the heart and died in stantly. Patrolman Claude Adams was shot in the abdomen. The police said the man's conduct indicated he had become crazed from drugs. The money was found con cealed in his clorfting. ' Crouched in the pit, the robber had the advantage of .being hidden by darkness while the policemen stood in the light as they entered. John R. Lanagan. president of the bank, told the police the man began firing: as soon as he entered and that one of the bullets passed through his hair. Several women in the institu tion fainted. The robber was shot In the face so badly that police said it probably would be impossible to identify him. way company to 5681 acres of land fn 1 Gallatin national forest, was upheld , government sought to cancel so the acreage could be included in the Gallatin national forest was upheld by the United States court of appeals today in affirming the decision of the United States district court of Mon tana. The land was part of the original grant to the railroad by congress. In 1904 the government withdrew for mineral land the area in which It was located, and in 1905 the company ap plied to retain this particular acreage ! in lieu of other land on the ground that it was non-mineral. In 1908 the government attempted to make the whole district part of- the Gallatin national forest, but the circuit court held that compliance by the railroad with the original land contract pre cluded the government from taking such land subsequently for other pur poses of its own. if GET 25 TO 40 YEARS Vanderveer's Motion for New Trial Denied. APPEAL' TO BE MADE WEEHESS ATTACKS NURSE ATTEMPT TO TAKE AWAY CIG ARETTE IS RESENTED. E WAYS AXD MEANS SUB-COM MITTEE TO PLAN BONUS. Oregon Representative Heads Prep aration of legislation for Aid to ex-Servloe Men. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, April 5. Representative Hawley of Oregon today ' was made chairman of a sub-committee of the ways and means committee which is to consider all bills now pending be fore the house, proposing in any way to reclaim lands for the benefit of ex-service men. The Mondell-Lane bill, the Smith-Fletcher bill, the Chamberlain bill and others will be tien up by the committee. After thoroughly studying the various schemes the' sub-committee will lormuiate a bill or its own, promising some measure of help to soldiers in the acquiring of farm homes. The fact that Mr. Hawley is the only member of the committee from a public land state was an i dication that any reclamation plan reported would have to be general in character, and could be confined to irrigated lands of the west, as are some of the bills introduced this ses sion. When the Hawley committee com pletes its land legislation, it will report to the full ways and' means committee and the whole committee is expected to incorporate this land legislation in its general bill look ing to relief of ex-service men. On the sub-committee with Mr. Hawley are Representatives Mott of New Tork, Fear of Wisconsin. Hull of Tennessee and Dickinson of Missouri. legionWmtiyient D'OIilER CRITICISES OFFICERS IN OPPOSITION. Rebellious patient Finally Over come by Policemen One Struck by Another Woman In Ward. NEW YORK, April 6. (Special.) Mildred Travers, 19 years old, a nurse. received painful injuries as the result of an attempt she made today to take cigarette from Blanche Watson, a 16-year-old negro patient, who waa smoking in her bed at the Metropoli tan hospital. Black well s Island. The Watson girl - resented Miss Travers' interruption of her smoke, and when Miss Travers tried to take the cigarette away, the Watson girl attacked her. it was alleged, by sink ing her nails into the left hand of the nurse, painfully scratching her in three places. Miss Travers freed herself from the grip of the negresss and summoned two policemen, who subdued the girl. As they were leading her out. Hattie Wilson. 22 years old, of No. 114 West One Hundred and Twenty-second street, another patient. Jumped out of the bed, ran to the window, grabbed a pole and-beat one of the policemen with it on the head. The blow was only a glancing one. As Moog tried to prevent her from striking him again, she threw the pole away and grap pled with him. She, too, was finally taken Into custody. The girls were taken to padded cells and later were arraigned before Magistrate Simpson in the Yorkville court. The Watson girl was held in $1000 bail to await the action of the grand Jury and the Wilson woman was sentenced to serve 30 days in the workhouse. RED'S APPEAL MISPLACED Indian Convicted of Murder Must Go to Supreme Court. SAN FRANCISCO. April 5. The United States circuit court of appeals decided today that it had no jurisdic tion in the appeal of Eugene Sol Louie, a Coeur d Alene Indian con victed of second degree murder, for a review of the decision of the United States district court of Idaho, north ern division. The appeal should have been taken to the United States supreme court. the decision stated, since it was on the sole ground as to whether the state or federal courts had Jurisdic tion over crimes committed on former Indian reservation land which had been patented by the Indians them selves. UNIONS WIN "AT BUTTE Carpenters' Agreement Ratified and Men Return to Work. BUTTE. Mont., April 5. Union carpenters returned to work this morning, following ratification of the agreement between the union and the building contractors' group of the associated industries last night. Non union men who had been employed were called off the jobs, it was an nounced at noon. There were no conferences today between the striking cooks and wait ers and the employers, the situation remaining unchanged from last week. Rational Commander Says Veter ans' Wishes Must Govern " Actions of leaders. NEW TORK, April 5. Wade H. Hays, state commander of the Amer ican Legion, tonight made public a letter from Frank D'Oller. national commander, attacking the position of legion officers who opposed the pro posed adjustment compensation plan in opposition to the wishes of veter ans they represent. "You are absolutely right when you refer to the fact that all officers of the American Legion national, state and post must, irrespective of their personal opinions, represent the' ex pressed opinion, of the membership whom they happen to represent," read the letter. "I must confess I have not a great deal of patience - with the new, type of 'conscientious objector' who feels his responsiHility of leadership to yuch an extent that he is stating what he personally believes his mem bership ought to do and ought to think, rather than what they really do think' and do desire." RUSSIA FORCE IS PRESSED Remnant of Kolchak Army Is Re ported in Serious Condition. lhjis, Aprtl &. A dispatch to the Lon ;:i Times from Harbin, dated March 2i, .-.ays the fate of the army of General Voitzekof fsky, the ole remnant of Admiral Kolchak's forces in Trans-Baikalia, calls lor serious cos sideratlon. The dispatch adds that thousands of men and officers are anxious to- leave bolshevist territory, but that the consent of the Chinese and Japanese has to be obtained for the exodus from Siberia and that their attitude has not yet been defined. There is a gold reserve at Chita amounting to 40.000.000 gold rubles at the disposal of General Voitzek offsky, the dispatch said. ARCHDUCHESS TO WED Youngest Daughter of Frederick Is Reported Engaged. BUDAPEST, April 5. The youngest daughter of Archduke Frederick, the Archduchess Mary Alice, has become engaged to marry Baron Frederic Haldbot, who is a - scion of an old Prussian family. Frederick is employed in a commer cial bank in Budapest. He has a sal ary of 5000 kronen annually, which. under the present exchange rate, is worth about $20. FIREMEN STILL ON DUTY Efforts Being Made to Arrange Conference With Officials. CHICAGO, April 5. With the resig nations of 1250 Chicago firemen ef fective April 10, still unaccepted to night, George B. Hargan, president of the firemen's association, said he would confer tomorrow with certain city officers in a final effort to adjust differences. Mayor Thompson addressed a mass meeting of firemen today, urging them to remain on duty. IT 1 U Attqrney for I. W. W. Declares Verdict Prejudiced and Not Fixing Guilt of Any. MONTESANO. Wash.. April 5. (Special.) Judge John M. Wilson to day sentenced the seven I. W. W. con victed on Marcn 13 of second-degree murder for the Centralia Armistice day massacre, to 25 to 40 years in the state penitentiary at Walla Walla, Roberts, the eighth defendant, was imprisoned in the state hospital. Im mediately after sentence was pro nounced Vanderveer gave notice that he would appeal the case. The I. W. W. who were sentenced were: Britt Smith, O. C. Bland. Bert Bland, John Lamb, Eugene Barnett. Ray Becker and James Mqlnerny. vanaerveer gave three grounds on which he asked a new trial: First, that the verdict was "senseless"; that I it decided nothing: that it did not really determine the guilt of the men, and that the verdict, was therefore 'meaningless." Krrora In Law Chanced. Second, that there had been grave errors in law during the trial and in the court s instructions. Third, Harry Sellers, a Juror, had perjured himself in order to "sneak onto the Jury"; that he bore a preju dice against the defendants and an opinion before he was chosen for jury service. Vanderveer declared that the bring ing of federal troops to Montesano during the course of the trial was designed to Intimidate the jury and added "that the Jury was intimated was the Unanimous opinion of the public, which considered the verdict a travesty on justice." In answering Vanderveer's argu ent. C. T. Cunningham of Centralia and W. H. Abel of Montesano, for the state, said it was useless to discuss the first two grounds of Vanderveer's attack, and they confined themselves to the Sellers affidavits. Abel pointed out that Sellers denied havinc made the statements accredited to him and declared that one of the affidavits had been made by a paid investigator for the I. W. W. Iroseeiitlon Raps Verdict. Both Cunningham and Abel ex pressed dissatisfaction with the ver dict. "Everybody knows." said Cunning ham, "that Loren Roberts, who was acquitted on the ground of insanity. not insane." Abel contended that the verdict was unjust because it was too lenient. In attempted proof of his point that the verdict defeated Justice. Vander veer read from editorials of newspa pers condemning me veraict as too lenient. "Will a court of law." he asked, "respect the views of the pub lic and grant a continuance of this case' till justice can be doner Harking back to his oft-reoeated demands for a change of venue, Van derveer said the verdict .merely con firmed, his statement that no jury verdict can come out of Grays Harbor county," in this case. Court's Instructions Scored. Attacking the court's instructions as error in law, Vanderveer said the court had failed to instruct the Jury in trie right ol free speech, free as sembly and the right of such an or ganization as trie i. w. w. to own a hall and defend it in case of attack So jar as the jury was aware." he said, "these defendants had no rights except the right to be hanged." Of the five affidavits against Sellers, one said that Sellers at Elma, prior to the trial, sad said: "When they kill our soldiers they kill our best friends. Another statement attributed to Sell ers was: "I am going to be one of the jurors and I'll hang every damn one of them." The affidavit containing p SAVES FUEL AND SUGAR The problems of h ous e keeping ia these troublous times are lightened' by serving ShreddedWheat Biscuit, a real whole wheat food-readjcooked and ready-to eat. Contains the natxiral sweetness of the whole wheat berry with all the elements necessary to sustain strength at top-notch efficiencTwo of these crisp little loaves of baked whole wheat with hot milk or cream (or hot water and butter) make a satisfying, strengthening meal at a cost of a few cents. fcfc iuiiiiiniHiiMiiiiiiiiiiniiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiniiuiiMiiiii!iiiiiMiiiiiiiiMiiiiin,u,,,,," n" this statement was W. W. investigator. made by the I. MAN OUT ON BAIL TAKEN John Granbcrg, Newport, on Waj to Give Self Up, Arrested. NEWPORT, Or., April 5. tSpecial.) John Granberg of Newport was ar rested for being drunlf in Corvallis while en route .to surrender himself to the United States prosecuting at torney in Portland. He was out on bonds on a charge, made last Septem ber, of having a still and liquor in his home. . " - Prominent Newport residents had interceded for Granberg, hoping to get him off. They have declared they will not aid him further. RELIEF TO BE VOTED ON (Continued From First Page.) arbitration. If submitted to arbitra tion, with decreased r fares as the re sult, competent employes of the com pany will seek employment else where. A try relief given the com pany should not include any thought of decreased wages to the carmen." IncreaMcd Fre favored. Public Service Commissioner Corey, who filed a minority report on the street railway problem, contended that any relief given by the city to the company would not defer any in creased fare. He contended that the public would not be averse to paying an increased fare if it was known that such increases were just. Attending the conference were Mayor Baker, City Commissioners Mann, Barbur, Bigelow and Pier; Chairman Buchtel and Public Service Commissioners Williams and Corey; City Attorney LaRoche and Deputy City Attorney Myers, City Engineer Laugaard. members of the engineer ing staff of the public service com mission and Franklin T. Griffith, president of the Portland Railway, Light & Power company. Bank Secures Charter. SOUTH BEND, Wash., April 5. (Special.) A charter has been grant ed to the First Guaranty bank of this place. A. S. Harrison, former banker and merchant of St. Helens, Or., will be president, with C. A. Wer ley of South Bend, timber owner and capitalist, vice-president. William F. Boyer, assistant manager of Swift & Co.. of Portland, Or., will be cashier. The bank will be opened shortly for business. 800 Women in Portland will tell you : to buy an Cupid Among Those Present. WALLA WALLA. Wash., April 5. Cupid was among those present at a style show given last week at one of the local department stores. Robert E. Lilley. formerly of Los Angeles, a stock salesman, attended the show and saw Genevieve Rauch. formerly of Portland, now of Walla Walla, who was one of the models. Saturday they were married. More Money Voted for Schools. HOQUIAM, Wash.. April 5. (Spe cial.) Despite heavy rain. 343 votes were cast today at the special school if Electric Washer Because they know that it washes faster than any other washing machine Because they know that its gleaming copper tub is self-cleaning and cannot rust Because there are no heavy, clumsy parts, to bother with. Last Week 19 More Women Chose the Apex Washer The APEX is the ORIGINAL oscillating washing machine, designed 12 years ago and never equaled. It gives years of service without upkeep expense. Investigate the Apex Before You Buy a Washing Machine The Price Is Less 'Buy Electrical Goods at an Electrical Store. J. C. ENGLISH CO. UPSTAIRS AT 148 FIFTH ST, BET. MORRISON AND ALDER PHONE: MAIN 143 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIttlUHIIIIIIIinnElllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIII' IT tax levy election, which carried by a vote of S17 to 26. The election calls for an additional levy of 10 mills to meet current expenses that include higher pay for teachers. Six wards comprised the voting precincts. Heirship Land to Be Sold. PENDLETON', Or., April 5. (Spe cial.) Eight hundred acres of heir ship land in the Umatilla Indian res ervation is to be offered for sale by Bealed bid based on appraised values Friday, May 28. It is in 12 pieces, most of which are 40-acre tracts. There is one 160-acre tract. All is good wheat land. CANADIANS ASKING BONUS Veterans Present Their Claims to Acting Premier Foster. . OTTAWA, April 5. A delegation representing six associations of war veterans today presented a petition to Acting Premier Foster for a bonus of $2000 for every man who. served in France, $1500 for service in England and $1000 for service in Canada. The petition had 100,000 names. ENVOrS DEATH DENIED Mexico City Declares Ambassador Bonillas' Not Killed. WASHINGTON, April 5. The Mex ican embassy has announced receipt of advices from Mexico City officially denying recent reports that Ambassa dor Bonillas had been ' killed or wounded during a political demonstration. RAILROAD PATENT UPHELD Government Suit to Cancel Right to Montana Land Fails. SAN FRANCISCO, April 6. The patent of the Northern Pacific Rail- Railroad Loses on Appeal. SAN FRANCISCO, April 5. 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