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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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in Portland
will tell you
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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
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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. The ap
peal of the United States railroad
administration .from the decision . of
the United States district court of
Washington, eastern division, award
ing damages for the death of Charles
Ernest Johnson in a collision between
a train and automobile in Spokane
July 28, 1918. was denied, today by
the United States circuit court of ap
peals. The railroad administration
contended that the driver of the ma
chine and Johnson, who was riding
with him, were both negligent.
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