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VOLi T,IV NO. 18.(GG Ent"f'' ' Portland (Oregon,
PORTLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
500 GIFT
FIRE ON
MOB BESIEGES NEGRO
SLAYERS OP WHITE
L
BRANCH P0ST0FFICE
IN PORTLAND ROBBED
PROPRIETOR . OF STORK IS
GAGGED BY PAIR.
-HOUR QUAKE ROCKS Q CCrM
CHRflC DAPICIP QDfYT U uLLIh
MOTHER GUARDS SON
FROM FOREST PERIL
MRS. CRAWFORD, ON PRIVATE
BEAR HUNT, IS LOST.
BODIES AND AUTO
SOUGHT IN RIVER
SOME PACIFIC SPOT
ALEUTIAN" ISLANDS THOUGHT
TO CENTER DISTURBANCE.
WILSON
RATERDJUSTMENT
F
SCENE
BLACKS TARE REFl'jE IX
CHURCH IX CHICAGO.
DRAWS
AS
RUNNING
ROM
BOMB
Five Times as Much Put
in Own Campaign.
DEMOCRATS IN LIMELIGHT
President Loudly Criticised
for Small Donation.
COX DONATES NOTHING
fionil nor
iki tc
Is Declared Able, to Do
$1,000,000 Without
Uteit li!-sins It.
ORKGON1AX SEWS BUREAU
Washington, Sept. 20. Interest- in
ctimpaitrn funds moved over today
from the republican to the democratic
camp. The reason is that the contri
bution of J500 sent to the democratic
rational committee by President Wil
t,.n terved to distract attention frcrn
what the republicans are doing.
And singularly, and perhaps unex
pectedly, Mr. Wilson has been noisily
criticised by some members of his
1 urty for giving only $500 to help
elect Cox when four years aKo ho gave
Just five times that much to help
himi.elf.
becretary Tumulty has been quoted
as explaining to someone who called
to get some light on the president's
small ante" that Mr. Wilson 'has
been compelled to consider the fact
tnat he would soon be off the payroll
with no certain employment or income
in sight, which, of course, must be
accepted as a very good answer, espe
cially in view of the broken state of
the president's health.
This excuse, however, has not served
to quiet the criticism that the presi
dent should have shown a readiness
to invest more than 20 per cent of his
contribution of four years ago in this
campaign which, by his own state
ment, turns on the delicate question
of saving the heart of the world.
Defenders (iuielc to Answer.
The president's defenders are quick
to answer that Information up to the
end of last week failed to disclose
try contribution whatsoever from
either Mr. Cox, w.ho has more deep
pers-onal interest in the outcome of
this campaign tsan Mr. Wilson could
possibly , have, or from Franklin
Kocsevelt, candidate for vice-president,
whoso interest is now less than
Air. Cox's.
Attention also is called to the dif
ference in the ability of the two can
didates to contribute as compared to
air. Wilson's resources. It is asserted
that Cox could donate $1,000,000 to
his own campaign and not miss it.
while Franklin Roosevelt, an aristo
crat by birth -with vast inherited
wealth, could give ten times as much
as the president without jeopardizing
his pin money allowance.
Critics of the president's contribu
tion appear to have overlooked the
fact that Sir. Wilson is planning to
give what money cannot buy.
That is Intellect. He has begun by
writing & statement of 20.000 words
on the league of nations, which is to
serve as a. textbook to democratic
speakers. This will go forth' to every
corner of the country in & few days
and will be followed by other contri
butions from the president's pen tell
ing why Cox should be elected.
Interest Is Only Passing;.
But all of tho discussion about cam
paign funds has failed to awaken
more than a passing interest. It is
thought probable that the public has
some recollection of the past which
i causes the individual givers of this
year, so far as reported, to look like
pikers.
Here are a few of the leading con
tn butions of four years ago to the
democratic campaign; Cleveland H.
Dodge of New York. $79,000; Edward
L. Uoheny, California oil operator,
2o.000; Thomas W. Jones, David B.
Jones pnd Roger C. Sullivan of Chi
cago, $12,500 each; Nelson Morris, Al
vin Lntermeyer, F. C. Penfield,
Charles J. Peabody. $10,000 each; W.
L. Douglas, shoe manufacturer, an
several others. $5000 each.
To the republican campaign, Harry
Fayne Whitney, of New York made
the largest contribution of $30,000; A
C. James, G. V. Baker. D. J. Re'id, W.
II. Moore, H. C. Frick. and R. T.
Crane Jr., $25,000 each. There were
five republican gifts of $20,000 each
and five of $15,000 each.
Fund Issue May Be Dropped.
The campaign fund Issue, It is hint
ed, will soon be abandoned and Gov
ernor Cox is expected to take up
something that will make a stronger
appeal to the voter's of the oig eastern
dates.
They have failed to be impressed
with his slush fund charges, and to
them, it has about been determined,
he must go to get the support neces
sary to win. The west now looks
hopeless to democratic leaders, and it
is intimated that the next three weeks
, will see the Cox efforts centered on
the three big states of New York,
Ohio and Indiana.
These three states have 84 electoral
votes, which, addd to the 135 sure
southern votes, makes 219. It Is cal
culated to pick up the balance of the
necessary 266 votes in such states a
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Police Armed AVith Rifles Disperse
Crowd; Man Slain In Rescu
ing Olrl When Insulted.
CHICAGO, Sept. 20. Three negroes
were besieged for more than an hour
in St. Gabriel's Catholic church on the
sou,h side tonight by a mob of a
thousand persons after the negroes
had killed a white man. Charles Bar
ret, who Is said to have gone to the
rescue of a white girl insulted by the
negroes.
They were rescued and placed In
jail when squat'.s of policemen were
sent to avert a possible race riot.
Chief of Police Garrity ordered the
entire police force mobilized and
placed several hundred extra police-,
men around the scene at the south
east corner of the stockyards, where
several thousand negroes are em
ployed. t
Shortly after Barret had been killed,
three negroes were dragged from a
street car two blocks away and se
verely beaten.
The negroes who killed Barret,
cutting his throat with a razor, were
chased several blocks by a continually
increasing crowd and finally dashed
into the church. Two hid In the con
fessional and one back of the altar.
Sticks and stones were thrown at
the church and frequent yells of
"lynch them" came from the crowd.
Father Burke, pastor, pleaded with
the crowd to disperse, but without
avail. Only when policemen armed
with rifles appeared did the mob
break up.
The south side "black belt," the
scene of disastrous race riots a year
ago. was placed under heavy guard,
as was the stockyards quarter.
WOMAN IN AUTO INJURED
Mrs
H. Klinger Is Caught Under
Overturned Machine.
Mrs. H. Klinger, 646 Williams ave-
ue, was injured seriously last night
by being caught under an automobile
which was overturned in a collision
at East Fifteenth street and East
Broadway. T. M. Peterson, an em
ploye at the Broadway garage. East
Twenty-fourth street and East
Broadway, was arrested by Patrol
man Forken and held pending inves-
igation of the case.
Mrs. Klinger was riding in an auto
mobile driven by her brother-in-law,
O. E. Franze, 646 Williams avenue.
The car was going south on East Fif-
eenth street and Peterson, headed
west on East Broadway, struck the
rear end of the Franze. car. The lat
ter machine was turned bottom side
up. Doctors said Mrs. Klinger might
be injured internally.
REMIER'S ELECTION SURE
MlUcrand's Elevation to Presidency
Is Held Certain.
PARIS, Sept. 20. (By the Associ
ated Press.) Premier Alexandre Mil-
lerand agreed today to be a candidate
tor the presidency of the republic, to
succeed President Deschanel, who has
tendered his resignation.
M. Millerand's acceptance as a can
didate for the presidency has virtu
ally averted the presidential crisis,
as it is conceded by all sides in the
chamber of deputies and senate that
his election is certain. He would
receive "more than 700 votes, no other
candidate officially entering the field.
0. A. C. REGISTRATION ON
1645 Students Enrolled at College
on Opening Day.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE, Corvallis, Sept. 20. (Special.)
Registration on opening day at Ore
gon Agricultural college was 1645,
which exceeded last year's opening
day mark by 200. Applications for
rooms indicate that the attendance at
the college this year will be 3600.
The school of home economics led
the list today with 459, while the
school of agriculture was second with
374 and the school of engineering
third with 339.
MINERS RETURN TO WORK
General Resumption Reported by
Operators' Scale Committee.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20. Reports
received here today by S. D. Warriner,
head of the anthracite coal operators'
'jvage scale committee, showed, it was
announced, a general return to work
of hard coal diggers.
The men quit the mines because of
dissatisfaction with the recent award
of the anthracite coal commission.
STEAMSHIP
CHIEF DIES
Michael
P. Grace of New York
Passes Away In London.
NEW YORK, Sept. SO. Michael P.
Grace of New York, aged 78 years,
chairman of the board of directors of
William R. Grace & Co., steamship or
ganization, died at 11 A. M. today in
London.
His death, a cable to his office here
stated, took place while he was asleep.
EX-KAISER WRITES WILL
Document Said to Be Last En
trusted to Dutch Notary.
LONDON, Sept. 20. William of Ho
henzoliern, former German emperor,
has written a new will, which is de
clared to be his last testament.
He has entrusted it to the keeping
of Notary Schroot at Amerongen, says
a. Doom dispatch, to the Daily Mail.
Four Railroad Chiefs
Conference Here.
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INDUSTRY FADES RUIN, PLEA
No Decision Reached After
, Afternoon Joint Session.
VERDICT IS DUE TONIGHT
Turin Boost Makes It Impossible
for Mills to Compete In East
Is Complaint.
With vice-presidents of four trans
continental railroads, a representative
number of traffic officials and 12
leading lumbermen of Oregon and
Washington present, a conference to
consider railroad freight rates on
lumber opened in Portland yesterday
and will be continued today.
Through the conference the lum
bermen hope to bring about some
change in the rates which went into
effect August 26, and which If con
tinued unchanged they declare would
mean the death of Pacific northwest
lumber business in the east and
middle west. '
Following a meeting or the board
of directors of the West Coast Lum
bermen's association at 10 o'clock yes
terday morning at the Portland hotel
the lumbermen -adjourned to the
Arlington club, where they met the
representatives of the railroad and
remained ip session until after 6
o'clock in the evening. The conference
was behind closed doors.
Conferees Reach IN o Decision.
After the meeting it was announced
by both railroad men and lumbermen
that no decision had been reached,
but that the entire afternoon had
been spent going over data and
making a study of the situation.
The conference will be resumed at
noon today at the Arlington club and
by this evening the lumbermen expect
to know It the railroad men can grant
them any relief in the way of a new
freight rate, which will permit west
coast mills to compete with southern
pine mills in the Chicago and eastern
markets.
The move to hold the conference
between railroad officials and lum
bermen was begun by the West Coast
Lumbermen's association shortly af
ter the new freight rates went into
effect on August 26. These rates,
which boosted freight charges 33 1-3
per cent on lumber, have been a se
vere hardship on western mills, the
lumbermen contend, practically mak
ing it impossible for the Oregon and
Washington mills to compete in the
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One Robber Enters, by Front Door
and Other by Back Victim
Bound to Chair.
Two armed robbers held up a
branch postoffice in a store at 350
West Lombard street late last night,
and robbed J. P. Brothers, proprietor
of tho store, of $15 or $20. The men
tied Mr. Brothers to a chair in a
back room, and gagged him with a
towel.
Mr. Brothers told the police that
one of the robbers entered by the
front door and forced him into the
back room at the point of a rovolver.
The other had entered the back door
and was waiting in the rear room to
stand guard over the prisoner while
his partner ransacked the premises.
Lieutenant Moloney and Inspectors
Anderson and Hall, and Patrolmen
Hatt, Pierre, and Belieu, of the St.
Johns substation, searched the vicin
ity for suspicious characters. Mr.
Brothers got only a glimpse of the
man who entered by the front door.
and saw nothing of the other man, as
the room where the robbers tied him
was in darkness. Mr. Brothers de
scribed the first robber as five feet
five inches tall, and weighing about
155 pounds. He wore a gray coat. He
said that the robbers wore caps and
carried large blue revolvers.
The robbers ransacked tho whole
store, taking a quantity of jewelry,
and throwing other articles about the
floor. The gag was pulled so tight
around the victim's mouth that the
flesh was cut.
DRY AGENT IS KILLED
California Director Is Fatally
Injured In Auto Wreck.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Sept. 21.
Loren Handley, prohibition director
of California, was killed in an auto
mobile accident near Lodi, Cal., ac
cording to a report received here early
this morning.
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 21. Loren
A. Handley was en route from San
Francisco to Sacramento, where he
was to preside over the democratic
state convention tomorrow.
Handley was fatally injured ten
miles from Lodi when his automobile
went over an embankment in attempt
ing to get but of the way of another
car. Handley died a few hours later
in a Lodi hospital.
PORTLAND ORPHAN FOUND
Violet Neil, 13, Walks 200 Miles
Reaching Woodland, Cal.
WOODLAND, Cal., Sept. 20. Violet
Neil, a 13-year-old orphan, arrived
hero today three weeks out from
Portland. Or., afoot, on wagons and
in automobiles of tourists, she said.
"I was going to San Francisco or
Los Angeles, where I heard there was
lots of work," she said.
Violet had about $2 she had earned
en route. She told of starting without
money.
The girl was given a home here by
Miss Sarah Savage until another
could be found for her. She said she
had walked 200 miles of her journey.
Instrument Records Long Surface
Waves, Indicating Violent
Shook, Say Observers.
VICTORIA, B. C, Sept. 20. Seismic
disturbances which began at -6:49
o'clock this morning and continued
for more than two hours, were record
ed on the seismograph of Gonzales ob
servatory here today.
Superintendent Napier Denison, of
the observatory, placed the distance
at 1600 miles from Victoria, probably
in tho Aleutian islands or Northern
Mexico. Long surface waves were
recorded on the instrument, indicat
ing a pronounced earthquake, accord
ing to Superintendent Denison.
SEATTLE. Wash.. Sept. 20. An
earthquake, blieved to have centered
approximately 2500 miles northwest
or southeast of Seattle, was regis
tered at the seismograph at the Uni
versity of Washington today. The
temblor, which lasted for more than
two hours, was said by university
authorities tohave been one of the
most severe ever recorded here.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. A very
severe earthquake was recorded to
day on the seismograph at George
town university. The disturbance be
gan at 9:58 A. M. and continued until
12:30 P. M.. with the greatest inten
sity at 1:40 A. M. It was estimated
that the disturbance occurred 3300
miles from Washington.
OKLAHOMA TOWN BOOMS
Censu Gives Okmulgee Increase of
317.4 Per Cent.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. Census
announcements today were: .
Cheyenne. Wyo.. 13,829; increase
2509 or 22.22 per cent.
Grafton, W. Va., S517; increase 954
or 12.6 per cent.
Okmulgee, Okla., 17.430; increase
13.254 or 317.4 per cent.
Dallas county, Texas, containing
Dallas, 210,551; increase 74,803 or 55.1
per cent.
ADMIRAL T0BE DETACHED
Joseph L. Jaync to Command
Training of Pacific Fleet.
SAN FRANCISCO. 'Sept. 20. Rear
Admlral Joseph L. Jaync. command
ing the 12th naval district, was noti
fied today that he will be detached
October 1 and will command the
training of the Pacific fleet.
The U. S. ship Minneapolis wi be
his flagship.
7 BOARD VESSELS SOLD
4 Steel Cargo Carriers and 3 Tugs
Bring $7,041,730.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. Sale of
seven government merchant vessels
for $7,041,730 last week was an
nounced today by the shipping board.
Four steel cargo vessels, aggregat
ing 37,598 deaweight tons, were sold
for a total of $6,811,730 and three tugs
brought $240,000.
.Eyewitness Gives Clew in
New York Disaster. -
ACTIONS AROUSE SUSPICION
'Beat It" Call Seedy-Looking
Men Just Before Explosion.
JOURNA'UST IS RELEASED
Federal Agents Find Cache of Ex
plosives Reported on Island
Off Shcepshcad Bay.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. Statements
by two men, one of whom claims to
have seen the "death wagon" which
carted the explosive standing near
the assay office at 10:30 A. M., Thurs
day, one and one-half hours before
the explosion in Wall street occurred,
and the other, who claims to have
seen three men runninjr awav from
the scene just before the blast, fur
nished the most important develop
ments today in the investigations of
the disaster.
Other developments include:
Announcement by the district at
torney's office that Edwin P. Fisher,
lawyer and former employe of the
French high commission, who sent
postcard warnings from Toronto, had
virtually eliminated himself from any
direct knowledge or complicity in the
case after eight hours' questioning.
V. S. Collector Warned.
Receipt of a warning by William
H. Edwards, collector of Internal
revenue, that an attempt would b6
made to destroy the custom-house at
2 P. M. tomorrow. This was regarded
by the police as a hoax.
Identification of the -hitherto un
identified body, previously believed
as probably that of the driver of the
explosive laden wagon as that of
Elmer W. Kehrer, a chauffeur, and
lack of any evidence connecting him
with the crime.
Release of Alexander Brailovsky, a
Russian Journalist, arrestee! on a
technical charge of being an unde
sirable alien after he admitted hav
ing been seen near Broad and Wall
streets shortly after the explosion.
Explosive Cache Sought.
Search by federal agents for a. re-
porieu cacne or explosives on Plumb
BeacU Island, a government reser
vation off Sheepshead bay. where i
quantity of trinitrotuluol was found
in an abandoned vessel several
months ago.
joeepn. jueaa, an agent for the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, is the man who claims
to have seen the "death wagon."
He said he had been sent to Man
hattan from a Brooklyn court to
servo summons and that while walk
ing up Broad street noticed an old
red delivery wagon in front of the
assay office around the corner. The
horse appeared broken down, he said,
and he made an examination of it,
finding a bad core under the collar.
Death Wagon. Described.
He looked at his watch and no
ticed it was 10:30 o'clock, he told the
police, and waited beside the wagon
until 11:30 o'clock with the intention
of serving a summons on the driver,
when he was forced to leave in order
to serve his Brooklyn summons. He
did not examine closely the contents
of the wagon, but described it as an
"ordinary dilapidated express wagon."
He also told the police the collar
worn by the horse was of the "K."
type and this is the kind of , collar
found in the street after the ex
plosion. He also noticed that all the
ornamental knobs and other mark
ings had been stripped from the har
ness and in this, too, his description
tallies with that of the material
found. He also stated that the horse
had been but recently clipped and that
the wagon bore no name but had some
numerals on the side. .
Police attach considerable impor
tance to Mead s statement. ,
Trio Suspicious Looking.
Information that three suspicious
looking men were seen running away
from the scene was furnished by Sam
uel B. Wellington, president of the
West Indies Trading company. He de
clared he left a lawyer's office in
Wall street a. few minutes before j
noon Thursday and as he did he heard
voices calling:
"Hurry."
"Beat it."
"Get out of this."
He looked across the street and saw
two middle-aged men, who looked to
him like "east side peddlers," beckon
ing and calling to a third man on the
other side of the street nearer the
assay office and across the street
from the Morgan bank. The third
man, believed to be about 60 years
old and described as "greasy looking,"
was then peering into the ramshackle
wagon at the curb. In response to
the call of the others, the third man,
Mr. Wellington said, started to run
after them toward William street.
He took them for bond thieves, he
added, and expected to see them
chased by a policeman. When he
reached the corner of Nassau street
he was knocked unconscious by the
explosion.
At the conclusron of Fischer's ex
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Portland Woman Spends Night in
Woods, While Husband and
Friends Are Searching.
Armed only ivith a rlx-shooter. Mrs.
Klizabeth Crawford of 92 Vi Grand ave
nue and her 11-year-old son George
left her camp near Rocky point Sun
day morning to search for a bear she
thought she heard crashing through
the underbrush. Shortly before noon
yesterday the pair stumbled into a
Grant-Smith logging camp eight miles
from the spot they hud left and asked
for food.
Twenty minutes later. Deputy
Sheriffs Wilson, Rcxford and Lamont
arrived at the lumber camp, after fol
lowing the trali of tho mother and
son through the woods since early
morntng.
Sirs. Crawford could not find the
camp she had left and wandered
about until dusk, when, picking a
fairly dry spot beneath a big pine, she
and tho boy bivouacked for the night.
The boy slept but she kept watch,
often hearing the disturbing tread of
animals In tho brush close by. Tak
ing up the search again in the morn-in-j
through heavy underbrush, drip
ping with moisture, Mrs. Crawford
finally heard the labored puffing of a
donkey engine and made her way to
the lumber camp.
The couple were none the worse
for their experience, they said yes
terday. In tho meantime Claude Ellis of
5411 Seventieth street Southeast, a
cousin of Mrs. Crawford, had report
ed the disappearance to the sheriff's
office. The husband of the woman
was notified and joined the search
party. William R. McCulloch, friend
of Ellis and the Crawfords, had been
hunting in the woods where the
woman and the boy had become lost
and joined the party.
Sirs. Crawford said yesterday that
she had seen a bear from the high
way near Rocky Point last Labor day
and had. desired a bear hunt ever
since that time. Ellis was on the
trail of a deer at the time Mrs. Craw
ford started on her private bear hunt.
BLUEBEARD WEDDING VOID
Wife of James M. Watson, Serving
Life Term, Gets Annulment.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20. Mrs.
Irene Root Gordon of San Francisco
today obtained an annulment of her
marriage to James M. (Bluebeard)
Waon, confessed murderer of nine
women, who is serving a life term in
San Qucntin state penitentiary.
Mrs. 'Gordon said etie was married
to Watson at Sacramento on March
18. 1919, and he left her shortly there
after. TIRE BURSTS, KILLS
MAN
Top
of Head lilown
Ofl, liriek
Wall Is Blown In.
McALLEN. Tex.. Sept. 20.-
Peter
Rowe was instanly killed today at
San Juan when a 'motor-truck tire
exploded while he was inflating it
with air.
The top of his head was blown off
and a nearby brick wall blown in.-
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather,
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 66
degrees; minlmuju, 54 deKrees.
TODAY'S Occasional rain, southerly wind
Foreign.
Some spot .in Pacifie in rocked by two
hour quake. Pago 1.
Reds cleared out of eastern Galicfa. Pagro 3.
Italy near turning point In Industry. Page 3,
Indemnity without parleys ia desire of
French premier. Page 7.
National.
Livestock men call on rcesrve board to
prevent calling of loans held by indus
try. Page 7.
Haiti to be frca-soon, declares Secreta-ry
Colby. Page 4.
Politics.
Cox claim to Ohio fame is disputed.
Pago
Group tour by republican nominees in
Washington planned. Page 3.
$0 gift draws fire on president. Page 1
Haxding declares covenant is ambiguous.
Page 2.
Cox declares Hitchcock re;?er ation met
all republican objections. Page 2.
Doinebtic.
Trio seen running away from Jew Vork
bomb scene. Page 1.
Negroes incite mob attack in Chicago.
fage 1.
Aid given cripples by state justified by
Oregon commissioner. Page -4.
rae i f i c-No rth w es t,
Mrs. I-ena Steigcr placed on trial at
Salem. Page 5.
Clackamas county' 14th annual fair open.
Page 7.
Hood River people start movement for per
manent lair grounds and buildings.
Page 11.
Sports.
Superbas gain while American leaders ait
hold own. Page 12.
Grand jury starts baseball gambling probe
tomorrow. Page 12.
Dempsey settles referee question in fast
ume. Page 13.
Bees and "Beavers open series here today,
fage 12.
Commercial and Marine.
New Zealand butter comes to coast with
low tariff. Page 21.
Ralls and oils lead stock, market ad
vance. Page 21.
Corn decline carries down wheat at
Chicago. Page 21.
British steamer is coming for flour. Page
20.
president Wilson has notified foreign na
tions oi nw iimuuv -v.
Portland and Vicinity.
Motorist fined $250 and sentenced to 60
lays. Page lu.
Lumbermen and rail chiefs confer on rate
adjustment. Page 1.
Auto and bodies sought in Sandy river In
reported murder mystery. Page 1.
Buruslde bridge held to be safe. Page 14.
Portland mother lost in forest guards son
overnight. Page 1.
Two plans to reorganize are put up to
Legion. Page 6.
Greatest Christian work fn world during
next 25 years is faced in China, declares
Bishop Birney o-n eve of departure.
Page ti.
Branch postoffice in Portland is robbed.
Page 1.
Site near Hlllsboro purchased for giant
radio transmission station. Page 1L
Shote and Plunge
' Cliff Reported.
Off
NIGHT SWALLOWS ONE CAR
Other Is Declared to Have
Dropped in Sandy.
MAT IS FOUND FLOATING
Sheriff's Deputies lo Continue
Search Today; Campers and
Farmer Relate Mystery.
The flash of headlights from two
automobiles, four revolver shots, the
disappearance of one machine with
the sudden plunge of a heavy object
over a 125-foot cliff and the rapid
driving of the other toward the city,
and the finding" of an automobile floor
mat tangled in driftwood floating
down the Sandy river figure in the
latest mystery which deputies from
Sheriff Hurlburt's office will attempt
to solve this morning with the aid of
a diver.
Should human bodies be found en
tangled in the w reckage of an auto
mobile at the bottom of a 30-foot
pool whore Gordon creek empties into
the Sandy river, about 25 miles from
Portland, the discovery will not sur
prise the searchers, though it may be
only the beginning of a crime mystery
more baffling than that of the disap
pearance of Harry Dubinsky, the
chauffeur who was slain by boy pas
sengers in his automobile.
Pool Sounded With Hopes.
All day yesterday, without the aid
of a d vcr, Deputy Sheriffs Christof
fcrson and Mollenhour sounded the
pool with ropes to which heavy
weights were attached. The c. rrent
was too swift and eddies too strong
to permit the use of polos. Though
they believed they could "feel" the
outlines of an automobile there, thoy
could see nothing. leading off a
precipitous cliff directly above the
pool were tho tire marks of a heavy
automobile.
L. A. Davis of Grcsham reported his
suspicions to Sheriff Hurlburt yester
day after he came upon the mat of an
automobile fouled with driftwood,
Sunday, as he was fishing on tho
Sandy. He recalled with vividness
the events of two weeks ago, which
had been dismissed from his mind
long before as of little consequence.
Davis, who is an inveterate angler.
and Samuel Bacon of Boring, who cor
roborates all of Davis assertions con
cerning the strange events of the
early morning of August 31, were
camping not more than 1,00 feet from
the cliff on the night of August 30.
Shot Heard in .N iffM.
We wore aroused about 11 o'clock
that night by three or four shots not
more than half a mile away," Davis
told Deputy Sheriff Chris tof ferscn
yesterday. "They sounded very much
like revolver shots. We thought noth
ing of it, but about 2 o'clock ia tho
morning we were awakened again by
the laboring motors of automobiles)
making the grade up to tho cliff. At
the top of the cliff the engines stopped
and we could distinguish a mumbte of
voices. They lasted for a few mo
ments only. Two pairs of headlights
could be seen. 0
"Suddenly there was a rending
noise and a heavy splash. Tho head
lights of one of the machines had
disappeared. 'Gee, there goes one
down the bank 1 exclaimed to Ba
con, and we started to put on our
boots. Tli en we heard an engine
start up. saw ights going down the
road and came to the conclusion that
nothing serious had happened and
that the noise and splash we had
heard probably was from the bump
ing oi a log or rock down the cliff."
Auto Floor Mat Found.
Davis gave no more thought to tle
occurrence until last Sunday, w hen
after fishing over the eddy where
trout are wont to run he moved sev
eral hundred yards down stream and
discovered the automobile floor mat.
Recalling the events of the morning
of August 31, he went ashore and
climbed to the summit of the cliff
There he found the tracks of auto
mobile tires leading directly off the
bluff. He notified Slier iff Hurlburt
early yesterday.
A farmer named Johnson, living
not far from the spot, recalled, when
questioned by Deputy Sheriff Chria
toffersen yesterday, that he had heard
the revolver shots on the night in
question and had puzzled over them,
but he had no knowledge of sub
sequent events in the possible tragedy.
The road in question is little
traveled, but is reached from the Co
lumbia river highway by turning to
the right at Spriuguaie on trie way
out from Portland. The eddy into
which it is thought the machine may
have piunged is one of "few spots in
the i iver where the water is deep
enough to hide such a large object.
It is more than 30 feet deep there.
Siuintrr Solution PoKsible.
foundings of the nool yesterday
were continued until the rope ijsed
broke, but before that happened
Deputies Christof f ersen and Mollen
hour had "fished" about some large
object. At times the weight used
would catch and the object holding it
apparently would "give" slightly, aa
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