VOL. LIX NO. 18,071
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
Potofflre as Second-C!as Matter
PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1920
PRICE FIVE CENTS
LEADERS OF BOTH
PARTIES ANXiDUS
Holding Advantage Prob
lem of Republicans.
BITUMINOUS COAL
PRODUCTION NORMAL
IS
TOTAL OUTPUT HIT, HOWEVER, j
THREE CHILDREN' HURT IX
PORTLAND ACCIDENT. .
BY
ANTHRACITE STRIKE.
5 IN AUTO INJURED
IN CRASH WITH CAR
REPRISAL FIGHTING
FIERCE If BELFAST
Outbreak Trails Murder
of Night Before:
3 NURSES HURT WHEN
AUTO DROPS 200 FEET
WOMEN FROM THE DALLES
HOSPITAL INJURED.
BARNEY BARUCH GIVES
DEMOCRATS $110,000
ITEMIZED LIST OF CONTRIBU
TIONS MADE PUBLIC. '
STUDENT, Oil BET,
EXILED TEN YEARS
Island in Chesapeake Bay
Used by Recluse.
DUB C
DRAWN
GAINS DEMOCRATIC CONCERN
Harding's Position at Present
Declared Secure.
COX MANAGERS HOPEFUL
Repetition oT Coup of 1916, When
Wilson Won in Eleventh-Hour
Drive, Unlikely Sow.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
Copvright hv the New York Evening Post,
Inc. Published by Arrangement.)
I Jk, NEV YORK. Sept. 26. (Special.)
, rT era are just five weeks for effec
fm . J tive campaigning before the election.
f w-
At this moment the leaders and offi
cials of both parties and independent
observers as well, can see the situa
tion, as it exists today, almost as
clearly and definitely as if it were
mathematical. ,
If the election were held next Tues
day the republicans would win by a
decidedly marked majority.
As I say, the republican leaders
knov this and the democratic leaders
now this. -But the attitude of the
two groups toward this fact is dif
ferent. Republicans see their ad -rantage,
but are uneasy about It:
ihe democrats see their disadvantage,
but are not incurably discouraged
About It.
Republicans nit TJnenay.
The republicans are fearful that the
.limai of their strength has come too
arly. They are fearful that some
thing may happen during the- remain
ing five weeks. They cannot foresee
r.y specific thing that is likely to
happen, and they feel that . all they
seed to do is to avoid mistakes. But
the risk of mistakes must be run.
The organization cannot stop func
tioning and lock the doors and simply
wait for the fruit to fall. The presi
dential candidato cannot stop talking
and remain silent until election day.
And in both the functioning of the or
sanitation as well as in the speech
making of the candidate there is al
ways the chance of the mistake of
the sort that might lead to disaster
With the democratic managers the
feeling is that from now on thinss
will Improve, Not or.Iy will they be
the certain beneficiary of any mis
takes the republicans make, but the
probable beneficiary of any accidents
that happen. In addition to that there
arc definite, constructive things which
the democrats feel they are now in a
position to bring about.
Democratic Hope, Wane.
It would not be an accurate state
ment or ract today to say that the
democrats have any confident hope of
winning. Their attitude of mind
varies, of course, with tho tempera
ment ot Individual leaders. There Is
hardly a leader among the democrats
hut will admit that, as things stand
loaay, tney are the losers. But there
are plenty of democratic leaders who
Driver Held Fending Investigation;
Machine Declared to Have Been
on Wrong Side of Street.
Five persons, three of tliem children,
were injured in a collision between
an automobile and a street car at East
Twenty-fourth and Knott streets at
11:30 o'clock last night. The driver
of tho automobile was arrested and
held In the city jail pending investi
gation of the accident.
The injured were: M. D. Dukich, 71
Kast Ninth street, face badly cut and
possibly internal injuries: Mrs. Duk
ich, cut and bruised; Lisa Memick, 9,
daughter of Mrs. Dukich, head cut;
Olga Dukich, 4, teeth knocked out,
and John Gulan, 901 Going street, cut
about the head.
Gulan. who was alleged to have
been driving the automobile, was ar
rested despite his denial tbat be was
anything but a passenger in the ma
chine. J. Clausan. motorman of the
street car, said Gulan was the driver
and Dukich confirmed the carman's
statement.
The automobile was speeding toward
the downtown district on Kast Twen-v-fourth
street, and the car was out
bound on the same street. According
to J. C. Evans, conductor on the street
car, the automobile was on the wrong
side of the street. The auto was
alleged to have been going 35 miles
an hour.
The automobile was thrown on the
curbing. The whole front end of the
machine was wrecked.
GUNSHOT TAKES FIVE VICTIMS
Many Other Injuries Are Re
ported From Hospitals.
Fourth tilrl and Driver, cx-Patient,
Escape Accident Blamed ou
Bad Condition of Road.
Secretary Miller of Republican
National Committee Declares
Slush Charges Reboirnd.
DISTRICT IS SEETHING
Three Civilians Slain In Vengeance
for Death or Policeman ; Arm
ored Cars on Patrol.
BELFAST. Sept. 16. Fierce fighting
broke out tonight in North Belfast,
the scene of clashes and assassinations
a few hours earlier. First reports
from the hospitals were that five
gunshot cases and many other Injuries
were being treated.
The Falls district of Belfast was
seething with excitement as a result
of the murder last night ot a police
man t h. wnnnri TIP rT T Wrt fl! nPTS ana
ALASKA FARMING THRIVESlthe "swift vengeance enacted in the
killing of three civilians, -who were
Homesteaders Again Flocking to
Matanuska District.
SEATTLE. Wash., Sept 26. (Spe
clal.) Homesteaders are flockiug
again to the Matanuska district, at
tracted by the excellent returns from
the lards, even in a season which has
been somewhat unfavorable through
excess of moisture, eaid a report re
ceived by the Alaska bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce today.
Many who had abandoned their
holdings are returning and prospec
tors are turning from the pursuit of
gold to take up land.-) that are giving
yields of SO bushels in wheat and
barley and 75 bushels in oats this
year. The clearings are being en-
rged and stock tuftsin? is being
tiken up on a considerable scale.
25 RIOTERS ARE KILLED
Corcan Students In Mob Demon
stration; Arrests Continuing.
GESAN, Corea, Sept. 25. (By the
Associated .press.) Twenty-five per
sons were killed in rioting Thursday
night when Corean students attacked
and destroyed or damaged branches
of the Corean Industrial bank and the
Oriehtal Development company and
seven Japanese houses. Friday night
there was further shooting, with ad
ditional casualties. Arrests are con
tinuing and troops and armed civilians
are searching the country for sus
pects. Reports presented in Japanese news
papers alleged the mob was led by
students from the Canadian Presby
terian mission.
shot down in rapid succession by
bands of men who visited their homes.
The affair had its beginning at 11
o'clock Saturday night as Constables
Leonard and Carroll were patrolling
the Falls road. When passing a pub
lic house they heard footsteps. Swing
ing around, they were confronted by
two men armed with revolvers who
ordered "hands up."
Officer la Shot Dead.
Simultaneously fire was opened
upon the officers and Leonard fell dead
with a bullet in his breast. Four shots
were directed at his companion. Three
of tliem missed, the fourth lodging in
the thigh. Apparently thinking both
men dead, the assassins left.
At about "the same time Constables
Farrell and Kearin were fired upon
about a mile from the scene of - the
other attack. The assailants sprang
upon the policemen unexpectedly.
Farrell was shot in the arm, Kearin
was knocked down and several shots
were fired at him while he was evil
the ground. Some of the bullets
passed through his cape without
touching his body and he was not
wounded.
Reprisals Come Swiftly.
The reprisals came swiftly. Shortly
after 3 A. M. three civilians Edward
Trodson, John McFadden and John
Gainor, who lived near the scene of
the attacks were slain in their
homes.
Four men .took part in the shooting
of Trodson, who was a barber. After
THE DALLES, Or., Sept. 26. (Spe
cial.) Three nurses of The Dalles
hospital were injured when an auto
mobile In which they were riding
went over a 200-foot embankment
near the Seufert's cannery late this
afternoon-
A fourth girl, and the driver, an ex
patient, escaped injury.
The accident is said to have been
caused by the condition of the road
which was being repaired prior to
the rains of last week.
Miss C race Gibson received frac
tures of several ribs. Three ribs of
Miss Irma Smith also were fractured.
Miss Crompton was slightly injured.
Miss Delma Smith, who has been a
patient at the hospital, was not hurt.
ELIHU ROOT AGAIN HOME
Aid tilven in Establishing Court of
Justice at The Hague.
NEW YORK. Sept. 26. Elihu Root.
who has been aiding in the establish
ment of a permanent court of justice
at The Hague conference, returned to
America today, accompanied by Mrs.
Root.
"The nature of my mission abroad,"
Mr. Root said, "prohibited me from
making any speeches or giving any
interviews in Europe and that rule
still applies."
The steamship Rotterdam was com
pelled to remain near Sandy Hook the
better part of two days because of
fog. Mr. Root was asked if he felt
nervous. He laughed and replied:
"We apparently ran into the out
skirts of the present political situa
tion."
TWO CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE
Infant Burned Probably Fatally In
Home Near Machias, Wash.
EVERETT, Wash., Sept. 26. Two
children of Joseph Cully, living on the
Lake Roesseger road, near Machias,
were burned to death this morning,
when trapped in their home by fire
during the absence of their parents,
and a third child, an infant of 3
months, was severely injured and
may. die.
Tho dead are Naomi Cully, 3 years
old, and Ruth Cully, 2 years old.
RICHES AWAIT EXPLORER
WATKINS DENIES OFFERS
Prohibition Candidate Declares
Withdrawal Not Considered.
(Concluded on Paga o. Column 3.)
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Fortune of $3,000,000 Left to
James Sydney Norton.
SACRAMENTO, Sept. 26. James
Sydney Norton, 52 years of age and a
member of Sir Francis Younghus
band's famous expedition into Thibet
several years ago, has a fortune' of
$3,000,000 awaiting him in eastern
banks, according to a letter received
by the police today from a New York
law firm.
Norton is said to have been seen
here recently.
NEW YORK, Sept. 26. Clarence B.
Miller, secretary of the republican
national committee, in a statement to
day declared investigation by the
senate committee investigating cam
paign funds has "failed to disclose
any evidence of a $3,uuu,uuu siusu
fund, a $15,000,000 slush fund, a $10,
000,000 slush fund or a slush fund
of any kind to be used for the pur
pose of electing Senator Harding to
the presidency of the United States."
He declared "the charge of illegal
campaign contributions rebounded in
the direction of Governor Cox."
"The week's investigation," he said,
"also disclosed that Barney Baruch
has made an actual contribution of
$97,500 to. the democratic campaign
and its sideshow, the Wilson league
of nations, and that he has a lia
bility of an additional $12,500. mak
ing a contribution of $110,000. He
gave $5000 cash to the campaign fund,
$25,000 for the manufacture of the
Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge' film,
$12,500 for the circulation of the
story in 'boilerplate' matter, $7000
to the- .Stars and Stripes and $47,000
to the propaganda for the Wilson
league of nations.
"Evidence of these contributions
came out from the testimony of half
a dozen witnesses. Thus it will take
the maximum contribution from more
than 100 republicans to equal the
plutocratic gifts of one democrat."
The statement declared the in
vestigation "has destroyed the buga
boo of the William Barnes book and
has established that the democrats
have been doing precisely the thing
which they so vociferously pro
claimed was a republican crime."
"All in all." the statement con
cluded, "the week was a Waterloo for
those who charged the republican
party was trying to 'slush' Its candi
dates into' office. The testimony did
more than disprove the charges of
Governor Cox. It showed that the
cry of "stop, thief was an attempt
to divert attention from the activ
ities being pursued by the political
party which has the Ohio executive
as its candidate."
George Yhite, chairman of the dem
ocratic national committee, in a state
ment made tonight, denied that Baruch
has any connection with the demo
cratic national committee or that he
Is the "angel of the democratic com
mittee."
It said:
"Statements in the newspapers to
day that B. M. Baruch is the principal
angel of the democratic national com
mittee do an injustice to the fact. The
committee has no part, and never had,
in Mr. Baruch's support of the league
to enforce peace. That was a non
partisan organization dominated by
eminent republicans. It had a legiti
mate patriotic interest in the ratifica
tion of the league's covenant and, be
ing non-partisan and intended to be
dissolved before the campaign began,
it was a natural object to support by
any friend of the league tn any party.
BOOKS ARE ONLY COMPANIONS
Leisure Time Given to Fish
ing and Crabbing.
FOOD OBTAINED BY SIGNAL
Charles H. Hardenburg, Princeton
Man, Arranges With Light
house Keeper for Aid.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column
.)
CINCINNATI, Sept. 26. Rev. Aaron
S. Watklns. prohibition candidate for
do believe that their fortunes will president, tonight denied the report
tend to Increase measurably from that offers had been made by the
now on. A few democratic leaders prohibition party to the republican
believe it is possible to turn the tide and democratic presidential nominees
completely. They point out that of his withdrawal if cither Governor
lm"S" toaay are no worse with the' Cox or Senator Hardin? would n-
democrats than they -were, relatively,!
lour years ago.
It is a fact that Wilson's victory
four years ago was won during the
last five weeks of the campaign. It
might even be said that Wilson's vic
tory in 1916 was won during the last
tnree weeks of the campaign. In thei
democratic headquarters at that time
there was a gallant and dashing group
Of workers and leaders who threw
Into the last few weeks of the cam
paign enough of plunging energy to
turn the tide. Just as one detail, illus
trative of what they did, they tele
graphed advertisements to newspapers
throughout the western states to the
extent of more than $700,000. They
did it without a cent in the treasury
and ended tho campaign with an ap
palling deficit, but they won the elec-
llon.
Battle Now in East.
Of course, there is almost no
analogy between conditions this year
and conditions in 1916. No one would
venture to predict that what was
done then can as readily be done now.
But It is true that from this time on
there will not be a day when tho re
publicans will not be apprehensive
about maintaining the advantage they j
now nave. i
There are two conditions which
ought to operate at least slightly in
favor of the democrats from now on.
One is that the democrats presum
ably will achieve some sort of effec
tive organization. Up to the present
they have had practically none. The
other is that from now on Cox will be
doing his campaigning n the crowded
centers of population, where more
people can hear him and where more
effectiveness ought to attend what
ever capacity he has as a spellbinder.
The strategy of the Cox campaign
o far has not been impressive. He
has spent the last four weeks cam
paigning in the sparsely settled states
of the west, where he cannot possibly
make his voice reach many people.
Even if Cox should carry half of the
states he has been campaigning In,
the actual number of electoral votes
nounce they would enforce and not
seek to weaken the Volstead act.
"I am going to run for president,"
he said, "regardless of the stand of
the republicans or democrats."
RACING FLIER IS . INJURED
Roland RohJfs F'alls While In Prac
tice Flight in France.
KTAMPES, France, Sept. 26. (By
the Associated Press.) Roland
Rohlfs, entrant for the James Gordon
Bonnett international aviation cup, to
be raced for here Tuesday, crashed
to the ground while flying his Texas
Wildcast airplane in practice tonight.
He was seriously injured.
Rohlfs was landing at .a speed of
almost two miles a minute when the
wheels struck a rough spot and col
lapsed. The machine turned turtle.
THANK GOODNESS WE'LL BE BACK ON THE GOOD OLD HIGHWAY AFTER AWHILE.
TOWN MUST DRINK LIQUOR
Glacier Pocket Bursts, Sweeping
Away Martigny Waterworks.
GENEVA, Sept. 26. The. inhabit
ants of Martingy face the prospect
of being able to drink, only wine and
beer for some time, .the result of
the town waterworks being washed
away yesterday by the flood caused
by the bursting of a glacier pocket.
The damage totals millions of
francs but no lives were lost.
(Concluded on fg 2, Column 1.)
TWO ROBBERS ARE KILLED
Other Two of .Four Captured After
Holding Up Workmen.
REG1NA. Sask., Sept. 26. Two of
the four robbers who held up and
robbed employes of the Red Deer
Lumber company at Barrows Junc
tion September 18 were shot to death
in a haystack near Prince Albert dur
ing a battle with a posse, according
to information received today.
The other two were captured Friday.
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NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 26. (Special.)
After spending ten years on Watts
Island, in Chesapeake bay. with only
the sands and his books for company,
Charles H. Hardenburg of Trenton,
N. J., a former law student of Prince
ton university, is returning to civili
zation this week. Hardenburg Is a
brother of Dr. Daniel S. Hardenburg
of Jersey City, a wealthy and promi
nent physician.
Charles Hardenburg wagered with
a friend that he could spend ten years
on an island without the companion
ship of man or woman. He was broken
in health, too, and had been advised
to go away.
"Solitude is the greatest medicine
a man can take," said Charles Hard
enburg several days ago. "A man is
never without company when he has
things to read and nature and tho
wonderful work of providence to
think about. I have enjoyed myself.
I have learned much and now I axn
going back to my people."
Exile Begum When Si.
Mr. Hardenburg was 24 years of age
when he first became the sole occu
pant of Watts island, 17 miles from
the mainland, the nearest towns being
Crisfield, Md., and Onancock, Va. The
island contains four acres and lies be
tween Tangier island and Fox island.
There are no means of transportation
except by using rowboats and
launches.
For a city-bred man who was ac
customed to all the comforts of a good
home to have remained on this lonely
spot for a period of ten years with no
one to converse with and nothing in
sight but the uncultivated soil and
the wide waters of Chesapeake bay.
with an occasional ship passing that
way, through the cold winters with
the northeast gales and storms beat
ing against the banks of the island,
seems almost unbelievable, but this
hardship was endured by Charles Har
denburg. who entered this life of his
own volition.
Tumulty In Close Friend.
While at Princeton Mr. Hardenburg
was a close friend of Joseph Tumulty,
who was then secretary to Woodrow
Wilson, president ot that institution.
He was an ardent student, and
through years of constant study his
health necame impaired. He was ad
vised by relatives and friends to take
a long-needed rest with the hope that
his health might be restored.
It was then that he wagered with
his college chum that ho would go
away from the noise and clamor of
city life for ten years to some quiet
place where he could bo left alono
with bis books to study. His friends
scoffed at the idea.
Accompanied by his brother, Dr.
Hardenburg, he came to the soils of
the southern shore of Virginia in
quest of a quiet spot where he could
begin his ten years of solitary life,
and after observing the land in the
vicinity decided that Watts island
was the most suitable.
Library In Provided.
When he first took up his abode
on the island he was furnisbed with a
well-stocked library, modern .arming
Implements and several horses to till
the soil, and as an assurance that
he would not be molested or removed
from the island until . the ten years
had expired, the island was purchased
by ht3 brother, Dr. Hardenburg, from
a man named John Dreamis.
During his ten years of hermit-like
existence, young Hardenburg studied
hard, his books affording him much
pleasure. He ventured from the
island once rear, when he would
visit either Onancock. Va., or Cris
field, Md., to replenish his stock of
food and obtain clothing for the win
ter months. The horses which were
placed on the island soon died, and
Hardenburg soon tired of agricultural
life and devoted most of hi.- leisure
tims to fishing and crabbing.
Food Supply Exhanated.
Iuring some or .he most severe
winter months, when he found his
food supply exhausted and was pre
vented from leaving the island by
prolonged storms, he was compelled
to put up signals of distress. Once
during a northeast sale, which swept
the coast for more than- a week.
Hardenburg found his food chest
empty, and was unable to leave the
island owing to the rough seas. He
tried in many ways to signal the
lighthouse keeper at Watts island a
few miles distant, but his signals of
distress were obscured by the terrific
storm. He was beginning to feel the
pangs of hunger and was about to
give up in despair .when an unex
plained Impulse directed his attention
toward the Bhore. When he strolled
Average for Both Soft and Hard
Fuel Declared F'alling Behind.
Week's Record Is Set.
WASHINGTON", Sept. 26. (Special.)
Bituminous coal mining is another
ndustry affected by the war and un
favorable labor conditions that has
again attained normal in the matter
ot production. Reports made public
today by the geological survey
showed that production during the
week ending September IS was the
highest in any week since January,
the previous high level since the war.
While the bituminous industry is at
normal, coal production of the coun
try is falling behind because of the
strike of approximately 70 per cent
of the anthracite miners during the
first three weeks of this month, and
as a result the combined output for
hard and soft coal was below the
average for August.
The output of soft coal for the
week was 11.614.000 tons which is
within about 400,000 tons of the pro
duction rate sought by operators in
order to eliminate any possibility of
famine during the coming winter.
Every erfort. according to a state
ment today by the operators, will be
made to keep the production up to
about 12,000,000 tons a week from
now until December.
Total production to date of soft
coal during the present year is 3S0,
S32.000 tons, which is more than 51,
000,000 tons ahead of the output dur
ing the same period of 1910, but is
about 43,250,000 tons- behind 1918.
While but comparatively few hard
coal miners returned to work during
the week of September IS, the pro
duction increased over the previous
week by about 150.000 tons.
INTO BULL PRDBE
Ex-Tiger Pitcher Is Men
tioned in Gambling.
NEW EVIDENCE IS GATHERED
Investigation Stopped for
Lack of Interest in 1919.
BIG 1920 WAGERS RUMOR
WIFE STARVES TO DEATH
Man Preparing Xew Home Finely
Mate Dead in lied.
SEATTLE. Wash.. Sept. 26. On re
turning early today from Bremerton
where he had been for a month pre
paring a new home, John A. Holmes
discovered his wife. Mrs. Annie
Holmes, 64 years old, dead in a bed
room In their home in North Seattle.
There were no marks of violence and
no Indications that the house had
been robbed.
Ieput y Coroner Corson announced
after a post-mortem examination that
Mrs. Holmes had died of starvation.
Neighbors said they had not seen the
woman for nearly three weeks.
There was no food in the house and
a sum of money Holmes said he left
with his wife was missing'.
HART TO ATTEND TRIAL
Condemned Murderer to Be Taken
to Pendleton Today.
SALEM, Or., Sept. 26. (Special.)
Penitentiary officials will leave to
morrow with Emmett Bancroft, alias
Neil Hart, for Pendleton, where the
condemned murderer will testify in
the trial of Floyd Stoop and W. Li.
Henderson, under indictment for the
killing of Til Taylor, sheriff of Uma
tilla county.
Attorney-General Brown left today
for Fendleton to take charge of the
prosecution. He was commissioned
by Governor Olcott upon request of
Pendleton officials.
In a statement today Hart declared
he would tell tho truth when placed
on the witness stand.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
.(Concluded, on Paga Column 2.).
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature.
t3.6 degrees; minimum. G0.2 degrees.
TODAY'S Occasional rain; southerly
winds.
Politics.
Leaders of both parties antious aa end of
campaign draws ntar. Pago 1.
Cox and Harding to speak from same piat-
. form. Page 4.
Harding described as brewer by Cox.
Pago 4.
Harding's abilities impress fair sex. Page a.
Foreign.
First crisis reveals firmness of Millcrand.
Page 3.
Rolphs, United States entrant, injured in
Krance during practice for international
cup. Fag 1
Japan-U. S. secret diplomacy attacked.
Page 5.
Two Irish hunger strikers reported worse.
Page a.
Reprisal fighting in north Belfast is
tierce. Page 1.
National.
Bituminous coal production restored lo
normal. Page 1.
Domestic.
Spiritualist sues medium to recover 160.000
given her for memorial to Clara Bartun.
Page
Kerby S. Miller, of Eugene, wins Rhodes
scholarship. Page J.
Nation-wide cut of -S per cent in lum
ber prices announced. Page o.
Colleges to inaugurate businc manage
ment courses. Page 8.
Student, on bet, exiled ten years, rage I.
Pacific Northwest.
Three nurses hurt when auto drops i.'00
tcet near The Dalles. Page 1.
Medford as county seat Is petitioned.
Pago S.
State fair gates swing open today. Page S.
Sports.
Coast League results: Portland 3-t. bait
Lake S-o; I. os Angeles 3, San Kranclseo
J lu innings); Oakland --6. Vernon 7-1;
Seattle 0-0, Sacramento 4-1. Page to.
Dubuc. ex-Tiger pitcher, is latest ball
player mentioned In gambling probe.
Page 1.
Cleveland and Chicago continue race for
American pennant. Page 10.
Thorp gives railbirds real flash of fighting
speed. Page 10.
Portland and Vicinity.
Hugh Wiley, noted short story writer, vis
its Portland- for day. Page IS.
North Portland club plans extensive dis
. trict campaign. Page 17.
Value of reclamation proved by small tract
ti. Klamath county. Page lti.
Alfalfa feeding process helped by use of
silage. Page 1U.
Public can reduce auto mishaps. Is view
of secretary of stale. Page IS.
Calculations upset uj grain decline.
Page 17.
"Why docs clod permit oinr castor akuj
congregation. Pat 8,
550,000 Hot on Cub-Philly Game
Recently Is Not Vet Thor
oughly Proved.
CHICAGO. Sept. 26. President John
A. Heydlcr of the National league to
night made public evidence he has
gathered in a private investigation of
alleged baseball gambling- and "same
throwing." and at the same time de
clared that President Comiskey of the
Chicago Americans and Manager
Gleason were convinced after the first
world's game last year that the series
had boeu "fixed" and sought his aid
in making an investigation. The
matter was brought to the attention
of President Johnson of the American
league, but Johnson did not seem very
enthusiastic over starting an investi
gation, Heydler said.
Heydler brought the name of Jean
Dubuc. former Detroit American pitch- "
cr. Into the scandal for the first time,
and also gave hitherto unrecorded de
tails of the Hal Chase and Lee Magee
cases.
Heydler said all of bis evidence
had been placed at the. disposal of
President Johnson, but that he did not
know whether tho latter was making
use of it.
0'hane Seen Placing; Bet.
Mr. Heydler quoted J. C. "Rube"
Licnton. New York National pitcher,
as saying Dubuo was the man who
received telegrams from, Bill Burns
former major league pitcher, tipping
him that the world's series had been
fixed and that Benton had received
his information from this telegram.
Benton told Heydler he had seen
Hal CliHSO make one bet of $100 on
the series, Heydlcr said.
Discussing the Magee case, Mr.
Heydler said he and William Veeck,
president of the Chicago National
League club, had obtained- Magec's
confession that he had attempted to
throw a game and that Magee had
shown them a check sent him by Hal
Chase, but Mr. Heydler refused to
say for what amount.
SuNpensInn KalNcn Doubt.
Heinie Zimmerman also has been
accused of throwing games, said Mr.
Heydler. but he would neither con
firm nor deny reports that Zimmer
man was released by the New York
Nationals for this reason. Reports
that Zimmerman was suspended a
year ago for trying to throw a game
and not for breaking training, as was
announced, were not denied by Mr. m
Heydler.
"Tiu C'Ncill. former Western league
president, came to mo after the first
world's scries gams last fall," said
Mr. Heydler, "and told me Comiskey
and Gieason felt that something was
vrong, but thjc they did not want to
go to Ban Johnson because of the bad
feeling between him and Comiskey.
I considered the matter preposterous
at first, but after Gleason and I had
analyzed the games. I went to John
son and told him about it.
"He, dismissed mc with a curt re
mark. I continued to confer with
Comiskey and Gleason and finally
gave Johnson what 1 considered good
leads. I then felt that it was up to
him to act and not my affair. The
players accused were American league
men and I did not feel that I should
meddle.
"Gleason told me in conferences be
tween games hat there was no doubt
in his mind that something was
wrong and that someone bad 'reached'
thu White box players."
JS.'.O.OOO nagrr I Humor.
Concerning the Chicago-Philadelphia
National game of August Zl.
which is said to have been fixed for
Philadelphia to win. Mr. Heydler said
his investigation convinced him a de
liberate attempt had been made to
injure the Chicago club.
"President Navin sent a letter to
Ban Johnson saying that J&0.000 was
bet and $10,000 o this was in De
troit," he said.
"This letter was turned over to me,
but I have been able to learn of only
$3000 bet in Cleveland and $1300 In
Cincinnati. I have not finished in
vestigation of this game."
Mr. Heydler said that the New York
National league club had done more
for baseball than any club in either
league.
"McGraw deliberately v, recked his
pennant chances by getting rid of
Chase and Zimmerman because of
their alleged gambling and game
throwing," he said.
Denton's Offer Baffles.
Discussing Benton's testimony be
fore the Cook county grand jury,
Heydler said Benton had been quoted
as saying Herzog offered Iiim $S00 to
throw the game between. Chicago and
New York September iO.
"But when I called Benton and Her
asog before me," he continued. "Benton
said Hal Chase had offered him the
money and not Herzrg.
"Benton nl.so told me that before
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