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THE MORNING OltEGONIAN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER - 7, 1920
LYNCHING BLOCKED
BY SHERIFF'
JailrStormers Are Asked to
Comply With Law.
WOMAN'S STAND IS FIRM
Uoyd, Suspected Member of Gang
AttaclAng Girl, Confesses
' Shooting 3 Officers.
SANTA ROSA, Cal.. Ie5. . The
widow of Sheriff James Petray last
night alone prevented a crowd of his
friends from attempting, to . lynch
Georgre Boyd, confessed slayer of Sher
iff Petray of Sonoma county and
Miles M. Jackson and Lester M. Dor
man, detectives of San Francisco, and
to lynch also Boyd's companions, Ter
rence Fitts and Charles Valento, U
became known tonight.
The three officers were shot and
killed yesterday when they attempted
to arrest Boyd, alias George Barron,
Fitts and Valento in connection with
outrages a set of gangsters is accused
of perpetrating on young women In
a. small shack in Howard street, San
Francisco.
Following the arrest of the three
men a crowd surrounded the county
Jail here and threatened violence.
Two attempts to brealt Into the jail
were frustrated.
Vengeance Is promised.
During the excitement a. gathering
of neighbors of Sheriff Petray from
Jle'aldsburg went to the home of the
family. The friends said they would
break. Into the jail and get the
three accused men If the Petray fam
ily desired quick vengeance, accord
ing to officials who learned of the
Occurrence tonight.
Mrs. Petray stood firm against the
proposal. It was declared. Her hus
band was an officer of the law and
law-abiding; it would have been his
wish that the law take its course, she
was credited with saying.
"Two wrongs would not make a
right," she declared.
According to county officials, the
withdrawal of these friends of the
sheriff was all that prevented an or
ganized and successful assault on the
jail.
The agencies of the law moved
quickly today. District Attorney
Hoyle. acting with Grand Jury Fore
man Bosenberg, sent out calls for the
grand jury to convene tomorrow and
act on the accusations of murder
against Boyd, Fitts and Valento.
"I want justice to be sure, swift
and certain," said Hoyle.
Developments In the shooting today
Included a confession by Boyd he
had shot all three officers; identifi
cation of Boyd and Valento by three
young women as members of the San
Francisco gang that had assaulted
the girls in the gangsters' shack, and
the vanishing of the crowds from the
jail because of rain.
Girl Flees, Screaming.
One of the girls in identifying Boyd
as he lay on an ambulance cot in a
cell today, ran screaming from the
place.
"He choked me; he choked me," ehe
cried.
Duyu, ine gins saia, was Known as
the 'lumberjack" to die gangsters.
To the police he was known as a
"two-termer" convict sentenced both
times from Sacramento. Boyd's home
was said to be in Twenty-third ave
nue, Seattle.
Boyd confessed, Hoyle said, that he
was one of the men concerned) in the
Howart-street outrage, "n which Jes
sie Montgomery and Jean Stanley
were attacked. After that affair had
been reported to the police. Pearl
Hanley informed the police ehe had
been the victim of a similar assault.
All of the Howard-street gang, with
one possible exception, has been
rounded up, Captain of Detectives
Alatheson of San Francisco announced.
The exception was the person who.
Boyd said last night, was "the little
black fellow" and to whom he" first
laid the blame for the shooting of
the officers. This man's name was
believed by Matheson to be Lazarus.
TRIBUTE PAID TO VICTIMS
Work of San Francisco Detectives
Eulogized by Mayor.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dee. 6. The city's
final tribute to Miles M. Jackson, de
tective sergeant, and Lester H. Dor
xnan, detective of the San Francisco
police department, who, with Jamas
H. Petray, sheriff of Sonoma county
were shot and killed while attempt
ing to arrest alleged members of a
San Francisco criminal gang. In Santa
Eosa yesterday, was arranged at the
weekly meeting of the board of su
pervisors here today. Mayor RolDh
eulogized the work of the officers
and the meeting adjourned in respect
to their memory.
Some time tomorrow the bodies of
the two detectives will be brought to
the ciy hall, according to the super
visors' plans and will lie in state there
until the funeral services.
A number of the criminaland civil
courts adjourned today out of respect
to the dead detectives.
Coincident with the formation of
the funeral plans, a criminal court
heard the plea of five alleged mem
bers of the gang who "were arrested
here following an attack on two young
women. The men, Edward Kruvosky,
Edmond Murphy, Allen McDonnell,
Thomas Brady and James Carey, were
led to the court through corridors
. that were lined by police, with their
clubs drawn, and that had been
cleared of virtually all of the hun
dreds of spectators who attempted to
reach the courtroom. The five sus
pects pleaded not guilty. The trial
was set for December 16.
T. B. HANKINS IS DEAD
Prominent Clackamas .Resident
Succumbs to Heart Disease.
OREGON CITY, Or., Dec 6. (Spe
cial. Thomas B. Hankins. a proml-
Pre-War Prices
Rates $1.00 Up
6pecial Weekly and Monthly Rates
New Perkins Hotel
Portland, Orcffoa
S W DOW
nent ' resident of Clackamas county,
died suddenly from heart disease at
his "home at Gladstone Sunday.
Mr. Hankins was born in Rich
mond, Mo., in May, 1849, where he
resided until manhood. He arrived
in Oregon City about 40 years ago
and resided for a brief time at Al
bany. While making his home in
this city Mr. H-nkins was connected
with the Oregon City Herald. The
paper was later sold. He alscf en
gaged in farming on a small scale
near Maple Lane. Mr. Hankins has
resided at Gladstone for about five
years.
Mr. Hankins is survived by his
widow, of Gladstone, and the follow
ing children: Mrs. A. H. E. Straight
of Oregon City, Mrs. A. S. NIcol of
Coronado, Cal.; Mrs. 7. Vanschoiack
of Klamath Falls. William Hankins
of Portland, George and Glenn Han
kins of this city. -
BUILDER ACCUSES LABOR
MILIilOXAIRE ON TKIAIi FOR
PERJURY RESTS CASE.
George Backer Testifies He Pro
tested 3Iisuse of vorkers'
Leader's Power.
NEW YORK, Dec. 6. The defense
In the trial of -George Backer, mil
lionaire builder, charged witr per
jury in testimony before the joint
legislative committee investigating
the "building trust," rested its case
at the close of today's session.
In his testimony today Mr. Backer
declared that tho Building Trades
Employers' association and Robert P.
Brindell, labor leader, worked "hand
in hand," and that the organization
could have stopped alleged improper
practices "if it so chose."
Mr. Backer denied portions of
testimony given at the trial last
week by Ephraim B. Levy, regard
ing alleged deals with Brindell and
said that in talks with Brindell he
had prosted "against misuse of the
labor leader's power." The witness
said that he "had suspected right
along" that mohey given him by Levy
to prevent a strike and In turn paid
out t6 "two strangers,"., reached
Brindell's hands.
He replied in the negative to the
court's question whether he knew he
had violated a state law by paying
bribe money.
LETTERS ALLEGED FAKE
DIVORCE PLEA SAYS WIFE
SIGXED IXITIAIiS OF DEAD.
Mrs. Alice Spencer Accuses Spouse
of Throwing Thinjrs at Her
and Calling Names.
Letters signed with the initials of
his first wife, long since dead, failed
to alarm James T. Durand, who al-'
leges in a divorce complaint that they
were faked by his present spouse, .
Hattie Durand. He maintains that !
Mrs. Durand is in the habit of writ
ing these notes which state that the
first wife is still alive and wishes to
meet her husband at a designated
place. He also said the defendant
continually threatens to commit sui
cide when he visits his father, whom
she dislikes. The couple were mar
ried in October, 1919.
Alice W. Spencer is plaintiff in a
suit against Ralph R. Spencer, whom
she charges has thrown bags, buckets
and other things at her and frequent
ly has referred to her as a "fat cow."
Mrs. Spencer says she has been left
destitute, her husband having refused
support since July.
Other divorce suits begun yester
day were by Joseph Dabruzzi against
Alisa Dabruzzi and Annie R. Asquith
against Jeremiah Asquith, both
charging desertion.
TRADE DIPLOMATIC TASK
Colby Says Political Questions Ko
Xonjrer Are Main Isue.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. Diplomacy
no longer can be mainly concerned
with political questions, but must de
vote greater attention to far-reaching
economic issues," Secretary Colby de
clares in a memorandum accompany
ing his estimates of appropriations
for the state department for 1922, ad
dressed to the secretary of the treas
ury and made public today.
Secretary Colby estimates that
$11,983,848.94 will be necessary for
the maintenance of foreign relations,
an increase over the previous year of
nearly $3,000,000.
The United States, Mr. Colby said,
finds Itself in keen commercial com
petition with other nations which are
reviving and Intensifying their efforts
to gain foreign markets; to occupy
the markets formerly controlled by
enemy powers and to attain a high
degree of economic production.
JOLT IN CIDER CHARGED
Brotners Arrested and Released
on $3 50 Bonds.
Morris and William Freeman, broth
ers, the former proprietor of a furni
ture store at 200 First street, and the
latter the manager of a bottling works
at 480 Albina avenue, were arrested
by federal prohibition agents yes
terday on a charge of sgjling cider
with too great an alcoholic content.
It is understood that Morri3 Freeman,
in addition to his furniture business,
is the backer of his brother in the
bottling works.
The Freeman brothers were brought
before Kenneth Fraser, United States
commissioner, and released under J250
bonds each. They will have their pre
liminary hearing December 21. ,
Mrs. Swanton Goes to Funeral.
Mrs. F. W. Swanton of the Oregon
Humane society, left Portland last
night to attend the funeral of her
brother-in-law, R. S. Day of Victoria,
B. C, who died Sunday. t Mr. Day was
president of the boards of the British
Columbia hospital and the Rehabili
tation hospital. He was well known
in Portland. One of his daughters,
Miss Leota Day, has many friends in
Oregon. Mrs. -Swanton will be gone
about a week.-
7 of IS Brides Married Berore.
VANCOUVER. ,Wash.. Dec 6.
(Special.) Of the 13 couples mar
ried here today, at least seven of
the brides had been brides before,
and admitted it. There seems to be
an increasing number of women who
have been divorced and widowed,
among the brides. Quite a number
are older than their prospective
husbands.
2 0 0-Foot Water Strip Sold.
TILLAMOOK. Or., Dec. 6. (Special.)
A 200-foot strip $f water front at
Garibaldi cove was oougnt today by
Merrill Smith of Tillamook from Mrs.
Therelda Peterson. Mr. Smith con
templates building a business block on
the site. .
Braiding, embroidery hemstitching.
Booth's, Morgan bids. Adv.
GOVEIiItlT WINS
LEHIGH VALLEY CUBE
Railroad-Coal Combination
Ordered Dissolved.
SUPREME COURT DECIDES
Seven Justices Unanimous In Opin
ion That Anti-Trust Law
Is BelBg Violated.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 6. The Le
Kigh Valley rarttroad case, the second
and last of the great anthracite coal
anti-trust cases, was won today by
the government.
The supreme court In the unani
mous opinion of the seren members'
participating, held that the existing
combination , of the railroad and its
principal subsidiary companies was in
violation of the Sherman anti-trust
act, and reversing the lower court,
ordered entering of a decree dissolv
ing the combination and redistribut
ing its stocks, bonds and properties
so as to make each component part
in fact independent and competitive.
Companies Named Specifically.
Specifically named in the order of
dissolution were the Le-high Valley
Railroad company, the Lehigh Valley
Coal company, the Lehigh Valley
Coal Sales company, Coxe Brothers
ySc. Co., and the Delaware, Susque
hanna and Schuylkill Railroad com
pany. The court dismissed the bill so far
as it 'named the New York and Middle
Coal Field Railroad and Coal company,
the G. B. Merkle company, the Girar
Trust company and the individual de
fendants, including the late George F.
Baer, Daniel G. Reid, Kden B. Thomas,
Lyman D. Smith, E. T. Stotesbury, G.
F. Baker and other officers and di
rectors of the defendant companies
prominent in the financial and rail
road world.
Government Is Sustained.
Justices McReynolds and Brandeis
took no part in the consideration of
the case, it was announced.
The opinion of the court, as read
by Justice Clarke, sustained in un
equivocal language practically every
contention raised by the government
in .its brief. lt was held that the
Lehigh Valley railroad through the
coal company of the same name and
other subsidiaries, monopolized the
production, transportation and sale
of anthracite coal from mines located
along its lines: that this monopoly
was sustained, through illegal pay
ment to the subsidiaries and that the
organization of the coal sales com
pany was in fact a mere device to
circumvent the so-called commodity
clause of the interstate commerce act
which forbids a common carrier to
transport coal in which it has any in
terest Coal Land Is Controlled.
"This history of almost 25 years,"
the opinion read, after reviewing the
life of the railroad from its inception,
"casts an illuminating light upon the
intent and purpose with which the
combination here assailed was formed
and continued."
Evidence submitted by the govern
ment was accepted as proving that
the railroad controlled 60,000 acres
of anthracite lands along its lines "in
the limited area of anthracite produc
ing territory," and that 95 per cent
of the coal tonnage moved by the
railroad in 1908 was controlled by it
through its complete dominance of
the parent coal company which pro
duced the tonnage.
U. S.-BRITISH TRADE DFP
OCTOBER IMPORTS AKD EX
PORTS SHOW DECLINE.
Japan Only Other Nation Taking
Less Goods From This Coun-
try Than Year Ago.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. Great Britain
and Japan were the only ones of th
larger countries that took less goods
from the United - States in October
than during the same month a year
ago.
Germany, Canada, Mexico, Chile and
the Dutch EasJ Indies were the only
countries from which the United
States received more goods than dur
ing the corresponding period of 1919.
Exports to Germany in October to
taled $32,449,265, an increase of $12.
000,000 over those of October avyear
ago. while imports from that country
were valued at ?S, 021,701, an increase
of $6,000,000.
Goods shipped to Great Britain
were valued at $160,973,621, a decrease
of $4,000,000, while shipments from
that country to the United States
were valued at $33,617,163, a decrease
of $8,000,000. . .
France received $79,092,926 worth of
shipments from the United States, an
increase of $13,000,000, while it
shipped to the United States $11.79,
406 worth of commodities, a decrease
of $3,500,000.
Japan received $7,000,000 less goods
from this country, the total being
$12,067,012. and shipped to the United
States $22,000,000 less, the total from
Japan being $21,223,735. .
Exports to Canada of $86,643,891
showed an increase of $19,000,000,
while Imports from Canada were $71,
541.276, a decrease of $16,000,000.
To China the United States shipped
$12,841,799 worth of goods, . an in
crease of' $5,000,000, while imports
from China fell off $10,000,000, total
ing only $9,613,252. ,
TGBAGGO AT LOW MARK
PRICE OF $5 HUNDRED IS
LOWEST IN YEARS.
Two-Thirds of Growers Reject Sale
at Opening Market at
Owensboro, Ky.
OWENSBORO,
prices in years
opening of the
tobacco market
pounds of dark
less than $5 a
Two-thirds of
the sale. Last
prices averaged
Ky., Dec, 6. Lowest
were quoted at the
Green River district
today when 100,000
leaf sold for slightly
hundred pounds,
the growers reieced
year's opening day
$22.15 a hundred.
SALT LAKE CITY. Dec. 6. A.
Mitchell Palmer, attorney - general,
was denounced for his alleged failure
to prosecute meat profiteers among
the retailers at the opening session
of the Conference of Officers of the
Cattlemen's associations of 12 western
states today.
The . denunciation was made - by
George H. Russell, president of the
Crook county, Oregon, livestock.
Feeding and Marketing association.
"It is th'e prices charged by the
retailer that is the curse alike of
the consumer and producer," declared
Mr. Russell. "The solution of the
whole question confronting the meat
situation in this country lies with
Mr. Palmer and he refuses to make
a move toward solving it by prose
cuting the profiteering butchers."
WASHINGTON, Dec. . Represen
tative Summers, Washington, intro
duced a bill today proposing' duties
of 25 cents a bi'shel on wheat, $1.12
a barrel of 196 pounds, on wheat
flour, and on other wheat products
a straight 25 per cent ad valorem
rate.
CLEVELAND. Dec. 6. The second
cut in the price of bread in two
weeks was announced today. Pound
loaves retailed at 12 cents, while 16
cents was asked for. pound and a half
loaves, a reduction of one cent.
TRIBUTE PAID PILGRIMS
MINISTERS OBSERVE TERCEN
TENARY ANNIVERSARY.
Portland Association Presents Spe
cial Programme of Exercises at
Y. M. C. A. Auditorium.
A special programme of exercises in
observance of the tercentenary an
niversary of the landing of the
Pilgrims was the feature of. the
regular monthly meeting of the Port
land Ministerial association in the
Y. M. C. A. auditorium yesterday
morning.
Rev. William T. McElveen spoke on
"The Pilgrim," and Rev. Edward Con
stant delivered an address on "The
Log Of the Mayflower." "The Pilgrim
in Pictures" was the subject of a
lecture with eterieoptlcon v'ews by
Rev. O. P. Avery. 'A replica of the
Mayflower, loaned by the local navy
recruiting office and appropriate ex
hibits belonging to Dr. Constant were
displayed at the meeting.
Following the programme a busi
ness meeting was held. The associa
tion voted that a message of sympathy
be sent to the family of Rev. Her
bert T. Cash, associate pastor of East
Side Baptist church, who died last
Sunday.
By a majority vote of the asso
ciation, it was decided to make
December 26 the date for Christmas
services in as .many churches as pos
sible in the city, instead of Decem
ber 19.
About 100 ministers were present.
Rev. Byron J. Clark, president of the
association, presided.
AUTOMOBILES STOP TRAIN
Motorists Recklessly Cross Track
Ahead of Moving; Freight.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 6. (Spe
cial.) A long freight train, coming
down the North Bank road from Pas
co, Wash., recently, was compelled to
stop twice on account of automobiles.
About 50 miles east of here the
driver of an automobile saw the train
and tried to beat it across. The engi
neer saw what the man was going to
do and put on the emergency air
brakes a short " distance from the
crossing. He managed to stop the
train just in time to let the machine
go by.
On a crossing this side of Camas
the incident was repeated, except
that the locomotive hit the auto and
turned it around, but no one was in
jured. The names of the driveys
were taken in both instances.
Both 'machines were loaded, one
carrying five and the other seven
passengers.
GAME LAWS NET FINES
Anglers and Nimrods Assessed for
Violating Statutes.
A total of $100 in fines, for viola
tion of state game, laws, was turned
over to the state game warden yes
terday. J. T. Fisher of Portland, arrested
at Troutdale and charged with hunt
ing on inclosed lands, was fined $25
by Judge Bell here.
O. Harper of Gales Creek, Or.,
charged with hunting without a
license on Nehalem river, paid $25 at
Vernohla, Or.
B. A. York, accused of killing gulls
on Nehalem bay, paid a $25 fine and
Roy Makineter of Tillamook paid $25
for using a motor boat to hunt
water fowl.
Judge Bell continued for sentence
the cases of James Osborne and C.
Rapp, charged with fishing with two
lines. They were not fined.
Compensation Award Appealed.
TILLAMOOK, Or., Dec. 6. (Spe
cial.) An appeal 'in the circuit court
from the order of the state industrial
accident commission, by which the
commission sought to stop compensa
tion for an injury was brought today
by P. A. Butts. Mr. Butts received
a broken leg last May while working
for the Coats Driving & Boom com
pany of Tillamook. He received $97
a month to September 21. He alleges
the commission erred in not allowing
him compensation to November 1.
Men to Prepare Church Supper.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 6. (Spe
cial.) The men of the Heights Pres
byterian church have enjoyed the
chicken dinners that the women have
served for so long a time that they
have consented, even proposed, to
give a chicken supper in the church
Friday. The men are to kill, dress,
cook and serve the chicken and all
that goes with It. The public is in
vited to attend the novel supper.
$6650 Spent on Port Measure.
SALEM, Or., Dec. 6. (Special.)
N. W. Hagood, treasurer of the Ore
gon Port Development league, ex
pended $6650 in the interest of the
Port of Portland consolidation bill,
prior to the general election Novem-
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with the secretary of state here today.
The measure was defeated.
Columbia Dairy Firm Elects.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. Dec. 6. (Spe
cial.) O. R. Lee was elected presi
dent of the Colombia Dairy Products
company at a meeting of the trustees
held last night. Philip Christ was
elected vice-president; Ira Harper,
secretary; J. S. G. Langsdorf, treas
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tion. Safety Code Is Received.
SALEM, Or., Dec. 6. (Special.)
Uniform safety standards through
out the entire United States is the
purpose of a code prepared by a com
mittee of the federal bureau of
standards, received by C. H. Gram,
state labor commissioner, here to
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day. Mr. Gram sent the code to
Portland where it will be examined
by the officers of the Oregon branch
of the National Safety council.
Cupid Slumbers 2 Weeks.
TILLAMOOK, Or., Dec. 6. (Special.)
A two weeks' dearth of marriages
in Tillamook county was broken to
day when a marriage license was is
sued to Thomas W. Armstrong, 36,
and Janette Seymour, 35.
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