K VOL. 1,1 X NO. 18,G39 f,nter? fct Portland fOresrm) f'"tnffkP a.! S'fcon-Claw Matter PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1920 PRICE FIVE CENTS IN SIX YEARS COSTS JUMP 104.5 PER CENT WOMAN TRIES SUICIDE BY LEAP OFF BRIDGE SPEECH-MAKING TOUR BY HARDING APPROVED L WAR MUST BE ENDED, DECLARES MILLERAND E WE TOMORROW inn MAHY POINT WASH NGTONWL SWNET WOHS j IS MUTE FOR DAY WAY OF ELECTION LIVING TODAY IS COMPARED WITH PRE-WAR DAYS. MRS. KATHERIXE AIKXAX, 3 7, SAVED BY HARBOR PATROL. OMI.EE"S JAUXT IS LIKELY ' TO START IX OCTOBER. VIEW GIVEN AFTER MEETING WITH IT.fLlAN PREMIER. AMD IM GREAT PAIN Mayor Conscious Despite State of Exhaustion.. Democratic Nominee De nies Visitors Here. FEW OF CHOSEN SEE Activities of First'Day in Ore gon Featured by Candi date's Going to Church. CHAMBERLAIN IS COMPANION Salem Visit Stands and Re ports Tell of Large, En tjjusiastic Crowds. Governor James M. Cox, of Ohio, democratic candidate for president, arrived in Portland yesterday morn ing, suffering with laryngitis to such an extent that he sent for a throat specialist soon after breakfast. At noon today Governor Cox is to speak at the auditorium. At 3:30 o'clock he will address a second meeting at the auditorium, especially for women, and at 5 o'clock he is scheduled to leave for Idaho. Nevada and California. Even Party Leaders Refused. Owing to the condition of his throat, Governor Cox spent a quiet Sunday in Portland, avoiding conver sation as much as possible and de clining to make appointments. Be cause of his temporary affliction the candidate did not hold a public re ception, and even some of the party leaders who had expected to confer with him had to be content with a hope of discussing the situation with the governor today. Newspaper Interviews Barred. Interviews were barred by Gov ernor Cox while in Portland. Upon his arrival, State Chairman Smith took up with the candidate the sub ject of giving local and other news papermen an opportunity to have an interview: Governor Cox was agree able to the idea and designated 4 o'clock as the hour when he would be available for an interview. At the appointed time, when the news writers assembled in his room, Gov ernor Cox was noncommunicative, Neither an interview nor statement was forthcoming. His secretary ex plained that physicians had given the candidate instructions not to talk. Governor Cox supplemented this to the extent of saying that it was as trying on his voice to give a spoken interview as it would -be to make an address. Furthermore, "he said he was not giving interviews and whatever he had to say he gave in his public speeches. Governor Cox Attends Church. Invitations were received from sev eral churches for Governor Cox to attend and it was not until 10:30 o'clock that the candidate elected to go to the Westminster Presbyterian church, where he listened to Dr. E. H Pence deliver a sermon on "A Big Programme for Big Living." Gov ernor Cox delayed .selecting the church he was to visit until the last moment, as he did not want the fact o his attendance advertised and he Flipped into Westminster without advance notice. The candidate was accompanied by Senator George' E Chamberlain and a personal attend ant, the trio slipping out of a side door at the Multnomah and being bundled off in an automobile. In second car rode Dr. Charles Cham berlain, who is treating Governor Cox's sore throat, and Elton Wat- kins, president of the Jackson club Front Pew Seat Declined. Governor Cox declined to be seated in a front pew, and contented him self with a seat in the fifth row from the back. Following the serv ices, a number of persons in the congregation who knew Governor Cox, recognized him and he was in troduced to about 50 people. Dr. Pence 'also conversed with the nominee. Rival Factions at Station. When the Cox train pulled into the Union station, 20 minutes late, yes terday morning, there were a crod of 75 or 100 democrats to welcome the visitor, the federal office-holders being well represented. There were ACoucludeU en Page 2. Column 4. J rood Increase. 119 Per Cent; Sugar 382; Potatoes 368; Clothing 166; Flour 161; Bread 113. NEW YORK, Sept. 12. Reports of a survey of the cost of living con trasted with living costs of pre-war times made public tonight by the na tional Industrial conference board show .that the increase in the six- year period ending July 1 has been 104.5 per cent. The summary shows an Increase of 19 per cent in the last year and S per cent from March to July. 1920. , The survey shows that food in creased 119 per cent in the six-year period, shelter "58 per cent, clothing 16S per 'cent, fuel, heat and light 66 per cent and sundries S5 per cent. These percentages were derived from figures obtained from retail dealers in large cities. Sugar climbed 382 per cent, potatoes 368 per cent, flour 164 per cent, corn meal 133 per cent, rice 114 per cent, bread 113 per cent, ham 112 per cent, lambs 109 p"er cent, hens 107 per cent and pork chops 101 per cent. Detroit showed an increase in food prices of 13S per cent, the highest of the 39 cities in which figures were collected, while Los Angeles was low est with 95 per cent. Figures supplied by 361 real estate boards and civic organizations in vir tually all cities of more than S000 gave a rent increase percentage of 58 per cent. A number of leading cities, including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit and Los An geles, showed increases of more than 0 per cent. Boston, St. Louis, San Francisco and a number of smaller ties showed less than 50 per cent. and in some the increase ran as low as 10 per cent. Carfares Increased in 120 cities and emalned unchanged in 33. Hard coal prices increased 81.4 to 85.5 per cent, soft coal 103.01 per cent and gas and lectricity for domestic use 15 per cent. LOOSE WIRE CAUSES DEATH Henry Kramer of Xewberg Elec trocuted on City. Street. NEWBERG, Or., Sept. 12. (Spe cial.) At 10:30 o'clock last night Henry W. Kramer was electrocuted when he came in contact with an electric wire at the corner of Fifth and Blaine streets. Ho was on his way home on foot when the accident occurred and no one saw him. When found life was extinct. He lay with the wire across his breast, clutched In one hand which was bad ly burned. A few minutes in advance of Mr. Krimer, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Stilwell passed along the -walk and saw a loose wire hanging from a pole but thought it was a telephone wire. Mr. Kramer was past 50 years of age ana leaves a wiaow dui no cnu dren. He has been a resident of this section for many years, living on a small farm adjoining Newberg. DEATH ENDS HONEYMOdN Elopers' Boat Upsets in Lake and Wife Perishes; Husband May Die. c RACINE, Wis., Sept. 12. Death to day ended the honeymoon of John A. Jones, a Chicago artist, and his wife, formerly Anna Mitchell of New Ttork, when the motorboat in which they eloped . six weeks ago overturned In lake Michigan and Mrs. Jones was drowned. Jones was rescued after clinging to the boat for more than 18 hours, but his condition was said to be critical. Jones said his wife had struggled against the heavy seas lor eigm hours and tha he finally had chained her to the centerboard of the boat, but that the waves had washed her into the water. BOY, 4, KILLS BROTHER Two-Year-Old Dies From Gunshot Wound in Leg. EUGENE, Or. Sept. 12. (Special.) Willard, the 2-year-old son of Frank Drmpier, of Oakridge, died last night from a gunshot wound in one of his Ices, inflicted when a rifle In the hands of his 4-year-old . brother James, was accidentally discharged. The bullet entered the young brother's leg above the knee. Before a physician could make the 45-mile trip from Eugene, the boy died from loss of blood ana me shock or tne wcund. 20,000 ALIENS IN WEEK Immigrant Flood Swamps Ellis Island Sheds. NEW YORK, Sept.-12. Disruption of passenger schedules was said by steamship men to be threatened by the flood of immigrants flowing Into New York so swiftly that Ellis island cannot accommodate them, making It necessary for hundreds to remain in the steerage of vessels several days. More than 20,000 aliens were brought in last week. . RIOT VICTIMS TOTAL 52 John Toner of Belfast, Shot Sat urday, Is Latest to Die. BELFAST, Sept. 12 John Toner of Belfast was shot dead while proceed ing along the Newtonards- roads after curfew Saturday, making the 32d riot victim here, or, including the July disturbances, the B2d. Armed raiders visited the Torr Head coast guard station last night and seized arms, ammunition and telescopes. v IS, REPUBLICANS ARE SANGUINE Eyes of Nation Focused Now on Pine Tree State. SUFFRAGE VOTE WATCHED Democrats Hope for; Favorable Switch on Account of League Issue. IMPORTANT FOL1 TICAL EVENTS SCHEDULED FOR THIS WEEK. - 1 Primaries In Washington to choose candidates for the suc cession to Senator Jones, re publican. Primaries in New "York for the succession to Senator Wads worth, republican. Primaries in Illinois for the succession to Senator Sherman, republican. Primaries in Vermont fo the succession to Senator Dilling ham, republican. Primaries In Colorado for the succession to Senator Thomas, democrat. Democratic state convention in Connecticut to choose a can didate to make the fight against Senator Brandegee. PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 12. (Spe cial.) A political campaign ended is a very different thing from one lust begun and whicn still has nearly two months of struggling, hustling activ ity before it. Throughout the coun try the national contest may be said to be only tairly under way and a great many primaries are yet toxbe held, and the work of electing candi datesremalns as a task still to be per formed by party workers. But here In Maine the state contest comes to an end tonight. Tomorrow the voters both men and women are to decide'matters at the polls. Later this year the people of. plains will vote again will be going to the polls o cast their ballots for presidential electors only on the same date in November that others vote for such electors and also vote for state county and local candidates. Maine May Point Way. Monday's contest here is nothing more or les3 than a state and local contest, but Us advent some seven weeks "before the presidential elec tion is always watched far and wide. It constitutes the first and only state election, the result of which indicates (Concluded on Page 4. Column 4.) Prime Political Test Expected Today. r .ff -iw ii r-n---T-- f f -urin- rViT mrf -n,T-nTi-,l -i- r-imrr -tirfai mi iT&irijiT;r ffnVmi iirirTfrii"fcii)r,titm'Viiin-1h i-twwPHiiw'wft-ffi.-i'i ,, t J -i- ir, 1 tfii,,., fi-in' -n-m,,, i.v,n-.- , , mv- f .4 J.V i ijmi....l. i. ttrf?Wtff--.g.'v-: v.y:A' , ..i .-.-:. :...w.. ysysg .-:- .. . j j " ' , , ; m.r - .u . . j b -f-M . J M 3 j k- C 1 -T - K ?v4 I t ? - 1 I I I I - V tf r-:-?- a Cl H I I fr) l ' ; r '? V- - . . ' U - I F4 I , I y t x -4"f -- n v- - m h f i$ t - t ' Is 5 - , ? 4 ' $1? N M . i - . ! 1 i . U h t - - . ' ' V n M v '.-:5 - 1 I " 'r- " I - r - 4 v m ' - - v- . ' ' , v f i- t ?&i H 1 liFT TO RIGHT DR. J. W. MORROW. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMM tOii CAl'TAlHf WAtTtB B. MotlT Ascribed to "Worry Over Financial Matters Resident of Portland tor 4 Years. Mrs. Katherine Aiknan, 37, a resi dent of the Portland hotel, leaped from the Morrison street bridge at 12:15 o'clock thie morning in an at tempt to end her life. She was res cued by Engineer Voderberg of the harbor patrol boat, who speeded to where she was floating in the water, in response to a telephone call for aid sent by the ' tender of the Morrison street bridge. Following her rescue. Mrs. Aiknan waa removed to the matron's quar ters in the city jail, where she re ceived first aid treatment. Mrs. Aik nan swallowed a good deal of water but it was said she would recover. When first questioned, the woman gave the name of Mary Smith. She refused to give a reason for her act. The bridge tender said that he did not see the woman jump from the bridge, but his attention was attracted by three youths who said they had followed her from Third and Morrison streets. They said they were at tracted to follow her by her demeanor. as she was walking with her head bowed. Mrs. Aiknan was kept afloat for 15 minutes by her skirts. Had it not been for this fact she undoubtedly would have drowned before help reached her. It. W. Childs of the Portland hotel when informed of Mrs. Aiknan's act. made an investigation and found that she had left several notes addressed to friends. In one note addressed to Mrs. Childs Mrs. Aiknan told of her intention to commit Buicide. The po lice said that Mrs. Aiknan had been separated from her husband for about nine years. Mr. Childs said that he believed that Mrs. Aiknan's act was caused by-worry over financial matters. She has resided at the Portland hotel for the last four years, he said. Mrs. Aiknan s rescue was accom plished by Engineer Voderberg with great difficulty he was alone in the boat at the time and when he was forced to leave the tiller to reach for the woman, the boat would float away. It was only after several at tempts that he succeeded in pulling Mrs. Aiknan into the boat. ALASKANS HUNT IN AUTO Motorists Drive Vo to Caribou Herd and Bag Winter's Meat. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 12. (Spe cial.) Times have changed in Alaska from the days when trappers mushed over the snow fields to hunt for game, Citizens of Fairbanks are hunting caribou by automobile, so say recent arrivals. Automobiles are coming into their own in the territory and the bu reau is advised that "the days of real sport" around the northern Alaska town are featured by motoring out to the herd where thous-ands of carl bou are leisurely grazing, bagging a few animals, dumping the carcasses into the tonneau of the car and driv ing back with the winter's meat supply. The caribou are so numerous and tame that it is no feat to go out and get what' meat Is desired in a few minutes, it Is said. DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE ARRIVING IN PORTLAND. ULLASU.V, SfcCHETAil V tOlHTV Plan Must Be -Passed On Finally by Headquarters In Chicago an(TXew York. COLUMBUS, Ohio. Sept. 12. Ap proval. of a speaking tour,- likely to start early in October, was given to day by Senator Harding, it was an nounced by Harry M. Daugherty. the. senator's pre-convention manager. Daugherty gave no -dates, saying that the plan must be passed upon finally by New York and Chicago headquarters, but that he might make definite announcement here Tuesday. The Japanese question, railway labor, naturalization of aliens and constitutionalism beaded the list of subjects to be discussed by Senator Harding in front porch speeches this week. The nominee's views on the Japa nese problem as it is presented in conditions on the Pacific coast are to be set forth Tuesday In an address to a delegation from California. He .has conferred with a number of re publican leaders from the coast states and has collected considerable data. Railway affairs are to be dealt with by the senator tomorrow at a gather ing of the Harding and Coolldge rail way employes' club of Marlon, and on Friday the nominee will make an address on constitutionalist govern ment to several Ohio delegations. many prominent citizens of foreign birth will be in Saturday'sdelegation wnicn will hear an address on the Americanizing of Immigrants. Today was spent by Senator Hard ng resting and in the afternoon ha motored to Columbus for dinner with friends. CITY PRAYS FOR DEAD Klamath Falls Fire Victims Buried In Cemetery as "Unknown." KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Sept. 12. Special.) Local churches joined this afternoon in memorial service for victims of last Monday's hotel fire. Father H. J. Marshall preached the sermon. The text "Am I My Brother's Keeper" was the basis for ' indicting all citizens who.se failure to use their vote or voice in public affairs allowed nre traps and other evil conditions to exist. The Reverend E. P. Lawrence, & J. Chaney, C. F. Trimble and S. E. Milan took part. scores or rioral tributes covered the altar. With the exception or Margaret Hanley, whose body was claimed by relatives at Placerville, Cal., and Robert Blodgett, whose parents live at Dallas, Or., the bodies of all victims were burled as "un known" in the local cemetery today. TWO SISTERS ARE SLAIN cVazed Man in Army Uniform Cap tured ATtcr Fight With Posse. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Sept. 12. Two sisters, the" Misses Sadie and Susie Selter, were shot to death In an automobile here early today by a crazed man In an army uniform. Soon afterward, a military posse captured Mike Marakovitch, 26 years old, after he had been shot and badly wounded by one of the posse. A single bullet killed both sisters, thepolice say. 1TTKKM A IS SENATOR GKORliK K. CH COM3IITTEE CORRESl'O.MJMr THAVELIMU WITH TUt: PARTY. Political Fortunes in Bal ; ance of Ballot. THREE TICKETS TO BE NAMED Farmer-Labor Candidates to Be Chosen at Convention. FIGHT FOR GOVERNOR HOT Judd Seems to Be Favorite of Dem ocrats; Hartley and Hart Lead Among Republicans. OLYMPIA. Wash, Sept. 12. (Spe cial.) With such combinations of political fortunes as are possible un der the state-wide primary system already arranged, and their individual appeals for preferment presented to the voters by personal and printed argument, candidates entered in Tues day's primary practically have fin ished thelf work. Although most of the contestants will formally close their compalgns tomorrow night, the meetings will be lareely devoted to a summing up of the seneral situation from the candidates- own viewpoints and intended principally to stimulate workers already committed to the support of the speakers. Three complete state and congres sional tickets will be named tomor row. The republicans and democrats will select ineir canaiaiii maiy cittuu.i, ......, -- at a state convention to be held on I the same day at Seattle. 1 Three Judges to Be Named. I Three judges of the supreme court seiectea in nun-pun ....- u.. ...... which registered voters of all parties are eligible. Tfris also will be held Tuesday. Interest in the democratic primary hinges upon the governorship, there being no contest for any other office o " VV". i candidates have filed for all offices xccpt state auditor. For the governorship, four demo crats have filed, with the race ap parently narrowing to Judge Black of Everett and Senator Judd of Che halis. Dr. E. T. Mathes of Bclllngham has made an active canvass and has 'developed some support. 4 Senator O Hara oi bcattie nas conducted vigorous campaign in his home terri tory and a quiet campaign over the state. Blark'n Acquaintanceship Larice. Judge Black has the advantage of a large acquaintance, having been candidate for the nomination against the late Governor Lister In 191 2. Senator Judd is ngurea to nave the support of a large element of the old Lister organization within the party, but until the campaign started did not have a wide acquaintance In (Concluded on Page 7, Column 3.) AMBISRI.AIX, (iOVERNOR JAMES M Treaties, He Says, Must Be Ap plied With Moderation by Vic tors, Loyalty by Vanquished. AIX LES BAINS. Sept. 12. (By the Associated Press.) "We must end the war," said Premier Millerand to the Associated Press correspondent at the conclusion of his afternoon confer ence with the Italian premier, Signor Giolitti. "The war must be ended. 711,11 la w,,y siven pound me counsel lor moderation which she seems disposed to follow. "Our interviews have been most cordial and confident. Naturally we have-agreed that an accord between tal5r- Great Br,tain and France ,n .I'iinauic uvi u 1 1 1 y in 1110 iniercDL I of the three allied powers but for the maintenance of world peace. "The treaty of Versailles must be enforced, as well as that of St. Ger main and the others because they constitute an entity, and one of them cannot fall without the others being shaken. I am absolutely in accord with that point upon the formula ac cepted at Lucerne. Treaties must be applied with moderation by the vlc- I tors and with loyalty by the van I quished. "We also discussed the question of "oviets. Evidently each government consults its Internal policy before adopting a precise attitude. You know what the French policy Is. The policies of our allies do not appear to be different In principle from ours. Settlement of the Adriatic ques tion occupied some of our time. Our position Is unequivocal. Great Britain and France, at San Remo and my self before and after San Remo have stated that neither Great Britain nor France has the right to interfere between two parties when a question concerns them alone." i N J fj MAIL'SENT BY TRAIN Plane TTav Tpnnhl!. rhll. ln Mountain Region. SALT LAKE CITY. SeDt. 12. Plane No. 72. aerial mail, piloted by J. P, Murray, left Salt Lake City this morn Ins: lor chevenn. wvn Th. . v. ; n carried no mail, but will leave Chev enne for Salt Lake City tomorrow with a cargo, according to local postal authorities. The westbound mall brought Satur day by plane 71, from San Francisco, was put aboard an eastern train and reiayea to Cheyenne, for transit by air Irom there east, the officials said. Mail plane 102. from the west, wrecked at Mammouth, Utah, Satur day, is expected to be repaired to morrow. The 400 pounds of mail car riea Dy tnis machine was sent east by train. 7 DIE IN AUTO ACCIDENT Car Crashes Through Railing and Falls on Tracks. TARRYTOWN. N. Y., Sept. 12 seven perauns were Kiuea and one I seriously injured today when an auto- 1 mobile. In which they were riding, crashed through a bridge railing dur I ing a thunder storm. I The car fell 20 feet to the New York Central railroad tracks at Dobbs Ferry. 7 DIE IN TRIESTE REVOLT dreds of Persons Are Arrested, dreds of Persons Are Arested. laj.-n uu.. -&ept. 12 seven persons were killed and 60 injured in Trieste the last three days In a socialist re volt, says a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Rome. Hundreds of persons, mostly Slavs have been arrested. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. IBSTERDAT'S Maximum temperature, 65 decrees; minimum, 64 dsroes. TODAT'9 Occasional rain; southwesterly w in as. Foreljcn, MaoSwlney wors and in great pain. fist 1. The war must be ended, declares Premie Milierand. Fase 1. Folltlra. Maine election today beln watched by the cation. i'aa; l. Primary erdlct In Washing-ton will be tomorrow. Page 1. Harding to make speexrh-making tour. Pago 1. Candidacy of Senator Jones declared to be of national importance. Page 3. Washington candidates devote day to pre dictions, fage o. Cox Is honor guest at Salem dinner. Page. 2. Domentie. Suspected s-layer of Kentucky teacher is Jaiiea. fage s. Drug death may bars reanflal in li An geles moving-picture studios. Page 3. Pacific Jiorthweit Methodist conference in Oiympla, Wash., ends. Pags 7. Professor Fltts. state Wy expert, wanted to Judge came in many states and In Canada. Page 17. Branpon is pledge to filial devotion. Page 1. Sports, Coast league results: Is Angeles 5-S, Portland -: ait iKt, -e, San Fran cisco 5-3: Oakland 6-3. Seattle 2-8: Bacramento 1-4, Vernon 4-6. Page 30 Dr. Willing will play In final round for city roll liLic. j..,. Harvey Thorpe to fight Trambitas-Tlllman winner, rase iv. Wallace Bates wins California state tennis litis. Page li. Portland and Virinltr. Governor Cox will speak twice In Portland today. " Harding will be next president, says social ist vico-presiaentiai canaiaate. Pare a Portland credit men to investigate high cons, i-age ii. Twenty-five cheese factories In Tillamook county manuiacture o.um.a pounds in year. Page 16. State experiment stations round Coing work oi great value. i-ag 16. Minister decries materialist code. Pace is. STRIKERS MAY YET BE FREED Ex-Sheriff of Cork Searches for New Evidence. CONDITION OF 7 CRITICAL One Sajs He Is Aricrlcan Citizen. Aone Strong Enough to Artic ulate; One Unconscious. LONDON. Sept. 12. A bulletin is sued early tonight by the Gaello league announced that Lord Mayor MacSwiney of Cork was much worse and in very great pain. The bulletin issued at noon said Mr. MacSwiney had passed a slightly better night, during which he had a little sleep. He was described as being in a state of extreme, exhaus tion, but conscious. At 2 o'clock this afternoon it was announced he had taken a turn for the worse. Pather Dominic paid his usual visit. Mrs. MacSwiney. leavlnsr Brixton prison early tonight, said her hus- oand s condition was virtually un changed since the afternoon and that he was still suffering severe pains. memoers of the family were at the bedside all day. 10,000 In Demonstratloa. Ten thousand persons participated In a demonstration in Glasgow this afternoon in protest against Mac Swiney's imprisonment. A similar gathering was held at Bermondsey. CORK. Sept. 12 Harold Barry, for mer high sheriff of Cork, who has been striving to save the lives of the hunger strikers here, received a mes sage from the Irish office. London, late today, asking him to meet imme diately with the heads of the police In Cork to review the government's case against Sean Hennessy and Jo seph Murphy, the latter claiming American citizenship, and any others in connection with whom nw evi dence may be produced. Barry la now searching for a young friend of Hennessy, who has asserted he can prove an alibi for the dying hunger striker. Barry says he hoped to obtain the release of Hennessy and perhaps the release of several other prisoners to night if witnesses were found. Seven of the eleven hunger strikers in Cork Jail appeared to be in a criti cal condition. They are Hennessy, the 19-year-old youth; Murphy, whose status as an American is being In vestigated; Thomas Donovan, Michael Burke, Upton, Power and Kenny. Hennessy still was unconscious and the others were so weak they were hardly able to articulate. Murphy has a troublesome cough, for which he refuses treatment. Physicians today confirmed that John Hennessy. father of young Hennessy, had altered his decision to permit the nuns to endeavor to keep his son alive. Father Becomes Hysterical. Mr. Hennessy had placed the great est hopes In the efforts of Mr. Barry, former high sheriff of Cork, who Was making efforts to obtain his son's release, and last evening when a re prieve was not forthcoming, he be came hysterical. "How much longer can they last?" the Associated Press correspondent asked the physicians today. Both of them shook their heads. "What is the attitude of the pris oners?" was then asked. "They will to die," answered Dr. Battlscombe. "This is due. perhaps, to the extreme exhaustion of their physical forces. I think that they feel death would relieve them." "Suppose they were releasd?" Effct Would Be Great. "There is no douot in my mind." the doctor replied, "that the psychological effect on them of their release would be great." The doctors said they were not aware of any medical record of death through a direct hunger strike. They asserted that from the professional viewpoint these cases would be of great interest were the .doctors per mitted to make a free observation of the patients. The doctors recalled that an Irish political prisoner, Thomas Ashe, who was on a. hunger strike in Mountjoy prison, Dublin, in 1917, died several days after he was released, but that his death was attributed to the ef fects of forcible feedies- "Hope, Prsy,' Pose. Message." It was learned today that last Thursday one of the prison doctors went to the bedside of Thomas Dono van. The nun In attendance was mo mentarily absent. The doctor heard the patient feebly muttering and leanedf over and examined him. Dono van appeared to be conscious, but He was too weak to talk aloud. The doctor could just catch the woriis, "Hope, pray, pope, message." The words were Incomprehensible to the physician and worried him, greatly. He finally concluded, liow- ,1, Concluded on Fag 3, Column 1.) i