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Newspaper Page TextVOL. L.X XO. 19.017 Entered at Portland (Oreiran) Postofflce Second -CI m Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1921 PRICE FIVE CENTS CONSUL PUSHES BOMB BEER IN BREWERIES IS TO BE RELEASED YOUTH DEAD RESULT OF HALLOWEEN PLAY U.S. FOR E LEAP OF 26,000 FEET Til TUT D IN PARACHUTE RECORD r n 1 11 Ll1 WITH FOOT; ESCAPES COALMINE STRIKE S PARLEY I-YFEKXAL MACHINE PROTEST USE FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES LAD CARRYING JACK-O'-LANTERN FATALLY BCRXED. ARMT MAN PERFORMS STCNT AT LEGION MEET. IN SACCO-VANZETTI CASE. TO BE ALLOWED. ALL NATION FACES 000 VETERANS S NAMED SS REVIEW MM YOUTH HELD Injunction Issued to Op erators Is Cause. CHECK OFF OF DUES FACTOR Action to Be Regarded as Breaking Agreement. TELEGRAMS SENT OUT Workers' Headquarters Points to , Pact Put In Writing "at Or ' der of President. IXDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. I. (By the Associated Press.) A nation-wide strike of coal miners seemed inevit able tonight If operators heed the in junction issued by Federal Judge An trson, which prescribed the check-off . of union dues. , A telegram sent late today from headquarters of the United Mine Workers after it had been definitely learned that the injunction was not yet In effect, advised union officials to regard discontinuance of the check off as breaking the existing wage agreement. Aurrrmtnt Held V iolated. The telegram, signed by John I Lewis, president; Phillip Murray, vice president, and William Green, secre tary, said: "Any abrogation or setting aside of any part or section of this agreement. Including the section providing for the checklng-off of dues and assess ments, cannot be regarded as other than a violation of the agreement and should be treated accordingly by the district officers and local union," It was said authoritatively that the International officers regarded the strike as the union's only weapon to enforce a contract. A telegram sent to officials In 1 states, where the check-off provision obtains and where 350,000 of the 650.000 union miners are employed, said: Plsagreemeat la Cites. iAt a result of the disagreement be reen the United Mine Workers of merica and the coal operators In the fall of 191S. K was suggested by ths government of the United States that the miners and operators submit all their differences to a commission ap pointed by tha president, said com mission to have full authority to ren der an award. -The United Mine Workers agreed to this programme and the commis sion In duo time rendered an award which they decided must be written Into the form of an agreement by and between the coal operators and the United Mine Workers to be in effect until March (1, 1923. Following ren dition of this award by the United States bituminous coal commission, functioning under governmental au thority, the president in a letter ad dressed to the coal operators and the United Mine Workers commanded both sides to meet in joint conference and duly execute such agreement as di rected by the bituminous coal com mission. Directions Arc Followed. This was done, snd the agreement was duly signed in New York March II, 1920. It is, therefore, obvious that aid Joint agreement cannot be modi fied or changed in any of Its pro visions until its expiration, March 11, 1922. Any abrogation or setting aside of any part or section of this agree ment. Including the section providing for the checking off of union dues and assessments, cannot be regarded as other than a violation of the agree ment and should be treated accord ingly by the district officers and local unions within your Jurisdiction." States Into which the message was 84t were Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, vnMirkv. Mlchla-an. lowt. Kansas. Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Wyom- j ing, Montana and Washington. Court Derlaloa Appealed. The principal legal questions at is sue in the Indianapolis case are in volved in an appeal brought by the United Mine Workers from a decision of the federal courts In Arkansas in A proceeding originally instituted by the Coronado and other coal mining companies In that state involved in the 1M strike of the ur.ion. Jn the Arkansas case the lower federal courts found the miners' un'on a conspiracy In restraint of Interstate I trade and in violation of the Sherman j anti-trust law, in that by strike and vlclence it closed "open" or non-! union mines under an agreement with tue operators of union talnes to re lieve them of such competition. The union contended it was sot respon sible for the acts of destruction in c'tfent to the strike wb'ch resulted 'n the closing of the mines, alleging the destruction was caused by an out- burst of local sentiment beyond the , control of the union or Its local branches. Actios Follows CosuTrreaec. Dispatch of the message followed coherences between union chiefs and counsel. However, there was no indi. cation that any action would be taken at union headquarters to precipitate a strike until after Judge Anderson had declared bid order was not yet effective. He amended the order to provide that It m as not la force until ' iCoacluacd oa l'f a 2, Columa 4.) i Missile Explodes on Staircase) at American Consulate, bat No Damage Is Done. LISBON'. Nov. 1. (By the Asso ciated Press.) A bomb exploded this morning on the staircase at th"e Amer ican consulate here. No damage was done, however. The police attribute the outrage te agitation in connec tion with the cases of Saceo and Van xetti. Italian under conviction of murder In Massachusetts. The bomb bad been placed before the door of the quarters of the Amer ican consulate. It exploded after the consul, in leaving the quarters, bad given It a push with his foot, but the Interval intervening was suffi cient to give him time to escape. Officials reported that a note found nearby said the bomb was meant as a protest in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 (By the Associated Press.) A dispatch from Consul General Hollis at Lisbon to day reported the bomb explosion in the consulate there. The consul gen eral said the Portuguese government was Investigating energetically and would make' efforts to apprehend those responsible for the affair. Only trifling damage to the building was reported. LIMA, Peru, Oct. SI. The Ameri can Embassy has received a communi cation supposed to have been written by local sympathizers with the Sacco Vanzetti movement, which says: 'If these two innocent beings are put to death, you will pay with your lives." RAILROADS TO ACT SOON Plans Relative to Further Wage Cut Well In Hand. CHICAGO, Nov. 1. The matter of proceeding to procure further reduc tions in railroad employes' wages with the object of reducing rates is "well in hand" with the various roads and necessary moves to bring the question before the Interstate com morcs commission and the railroad labor board will be taken at once, T. Dewitt Cuyler, chairman of the rail way executives' association, said in a telegram tonight to W. H. Chandler, president of the Industrial Traffic league. Mr. Chandler telegraphed Mr. Cuy ler in New York to ask when rate re ductions might be expected. Mr. Cuy ler replied that the roads were await ing word front the interstate com merce commission as to the date for a hearing on rates and the roads wers about ready to proceed in ac cordance with the transportation act in seeking authorization by the labor board for the wage reduction; OREGON - RAILROAD AIDED Valley SUetz Line Authorized to Increase Capital Stock. WASHINGTON, D. C, Not. 1. Per mission was given ths Valley & SlleU railroad company by the interstate commerce commission to Issue $700, 000 In capital stock against its lines In Oregon for the purpose of paying off funded debts. The issuance of 1700,000 in capital stock of tho Valley & Siletx railroad company was for the purpose of In creasing the capitalisation from (300, 000 to 11,000.000. It covers the trans fer of non-negotiable promissory notes, covering cost of completing the railway, held by the trustee for an equivalent in the company's capital stock. The line extends from Inde pendence to Siletx, 39 miles. It is do in. business chiefly in the develoD- ment of the timber holdings of Cobbal ft Mitchell, who have offices in Port land. No extension of the railway is contemplated. , LEGION HAS BIG WEDDING Fifteen Couples Married Before Great National Convention. KANSAS CITT. Mo.; Nov. 1. (Spe cial.) Rev. John W. Inxer, chaplain of the American Legion, came all the way from Chattanooga, Tenn, for the purpose of marrying any legionnaires who wanted it done at the convention free of charge. He announced Mon day that four couples had requested him to marry them. "I'll wait until I get some more," said Rev. Mr. Inzer. So tonight in the presence of 13.000 members of the Legion, Rev. Mr. Inzer married 15 couples. The'cere mony took place on the platform of the convention ball. Following the marriages the bank struck up "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight," while the newlyweds paraded arm-in-arm around the hall 5-CENT FARE CONSIDERED Seattle Mayor Calls Meeting on Subject for Today. SEATTLE. Wash., Nov. 1. Mayor Caldwell today summoned the city advisory committee to meet tomor row to discuss the feasibility of re ducing fares on the municipal street railway to S cents. The present fare is s 1-3 cents. The mayor explained that he wanted to know whether a 5-cent fare would endanger the city's general fund should railway revenues prove Insufficient to meet operating expenses and bond obligations. A 5-cent fare ordinance is pending before the city council, the council having decided to defer action until it hears the report of Peter Witt, Cleve land traction expert, who Is aurvey iBs the system. Allied and American War Leaders Take Part. PARADE IS IMPRESSIVE ONE Old Discipline Is Noted in Snappy Salutes. SOME IN 0. D. SOME NOT Motor Cars Bear 35 Congressional Medal ot Honor Men March Viewed bjr Huge Throngs. KANSAS CITT, Mo.. Nov. 1. Under a brilliant autumn sky and through dense crowds the American Legion passed In review'before military and r.sval leaders of France, Great Brit ain, Italy and Belgium and ranking American military officials. Marshal Foch of France, Admiral Beatty of Great Britain, General Dies of Italy, Lieutenant-General Jacques of Belgium, and General Pershing, Admiral Hugh Rodman, U. S. N., and Major-General John A. Lejeune. com manding the marine corps, raarcned with their "budoies" of the legion ficm Convention hall, where the pa rade was formed, to the reviswing stand, where they stood while the lefion thousands patsed by. Vice-President Coolidge aiso was in the reviewing stano. War Leaders Meet Avals. Veterans from every state marched in the great pageant, bringinc to gether again the leader of the wai and a stream of marching legion naires. Approximately 40,000 vetcr ans were in the line that streamed past several hundred thousand spec tators. Men in civilian clothes marched shoulder to shoulder with those who had again donned their uniforms. The old spirit of discipline and train ing was evident as the veterans strode along in platoon formation and snapped salutes to the reviewing officers. Preceded by the military band which President Obregon of Mexico sent as a mark of courtesy, the allied leaders rode at the head of the pro cession until the reviewing stand was reached. Marshal Foch and General Pershing arrived first. Captaim Rlrkrnbacker There. In their party was Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, American flying ace. They were followed by General Dlas and General Jacques, with Admiral Earl Beatty and Admiral Rodman not far behind. Then came motor cars bearing the 35 congressional medal of honor men, (Concluded on Page 3. Column 1.) t ........ t ! DON'T WAIT FOR THE OTHER FELLOW JUMP TOGETHER! j r ' j I - ' i a. ....... ..... ............ . . .........,... .. Letters to Be Sent to Manufacture I ers by Internal Revenue . Commissioner. WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. L Let ters are to be sent brewers advising them that beer already manufactured and "held in stock may bs sold for medical purposes nnder the new treasury regulations. Internal Rev enue Commissioner Blair announced tonight. Sals of this beer for the sick could begin at ones under the proper per mits, hs declared, adding that there would be no delay in the Issuance of permits to brewers whose applica tions were without flaw. The bu reau, bs said, would not allow any red tape to Interfere with immediate distribution of beer for medical pur poses. All questions of law and regulation involving the immediate distribution of beer for the sick, under the new treasury rules, were said today to have been finally settled by Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair and Pro hibition Commissioner Haynea. The prohibition unit's policy, under the new rules, will be made known, officials said, in the form of a letter to brewers, being drafted. PICK-UP PROVES VALUABLE 3)60,000 Picture Found in Estate Left by Trainman. KAMLOOPS, B. C Not. L Exam ination of the estate of George Good win, one of the trainmen who lost their lives In the Pallister tunnel wreck recently, today revealed that he owned a painting pronounced the work of an old master and valued at (60,000. Goodwin, when a sold'er in France, had "bought the picture from a Ger man prisoner. The name of the old master was not announced by the art critic who appraised it. The trainman is survived by a widow and two chil dren. AMERICANS ARE LET GO Mexican Bandits Reduce Ransom to 5000 Pesos. WASHINGTON, D. C Nov. 1. State department advices from Chihuahua, Mexico, today reported the cap ture, yesterday of fiur Americans by Mexican bandits. Payment of 25,000 pesos was de manded for their release, which was finally brought about by payment of only 6000 pesos- PRUSSIAN MINISTRY OUT Resignation Follows Failure of At tempt at Reconstruction. -BERLIN, Nov. 1. The Prussian ministry has resigned. Its decision was taken after the failure of attempts by Premier Stegerwald to reconstruct the min- stry. Sheet Worn by William Lloyd Bald- win, Aged 7, in Night Sport Suddenly Catches Fire. At a resultiof burns sustained Mon day night, when tbe sheet which cov ered him while he was playing with a Jack-o'-lantern caught fire, William Lloyd Baldwin, 7-year-old son of Mel vin Baldwin. 6811 Forty-first avenue Southeast, died last night. The boy had been at tbe home of a neighbor, where a Halloween party was being held. Es was returning to bis own boms about 7 o'clock, when neighbors heard him scream. They rushed out and found the sheet that he was wearing a mass of flames. An overcoat was thrown over the burning sheet, but before the fire could bs smothered, fatal burns bad been sustained. The police were not informed of the injury to the boy until the cor oner's office was notified of bis death last nighty GRAIN DROPS IN CHICAGO Slump Due to Big Crop Reports and Slack Demand. CHICAGO, Nov. 1. Grain prices underwent a severe tumble today, carrying wheat and oats down to the lowest level reached for 19!1. About cents a bushel was cut from the value of wheat for future delivery, May touching 1.08V6, as compared with S1.1SH to 31.12 at yesterday's finish. Lack of buying was a feature Estimates that the world crop of wheat totaled 88,000,000 bushels more than last year had a tendency to dis courage holders and to deter buying. Some export business, however, de veloped as a result of the break. NEPHEWS CONTEST WILL Bequest of $2,000,000 to Cornell ' University Involved. SOUTH NORWALK, Conn, Nov. 1. Frank and James McMullen of Oak land, Cal., today started action to break the will of their uncle, the late John McMullen, head of the Atlantic Pacific Dredging company, holding that the deceased was mentally in capacitated when he drew his will. By the terms of the will, the estate, valued at approximately 32,000,000, goes to Cornell university, except s few small bequest to relatives. LADY LAURIER IS DEAD Widow of ex-Prime Minister of Canada Succumbs at Ottawa. ' OTTAWA. Ont Nov. 1- Lady Lau rie r, widow of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. ex-prime minister of Canada, died at her home today after a short illness. She was In her 80th year. She was married to Sir Wilfrid in 1868. He died February IT, 1919. Lady Laurier was vice-president of St. Johns Ambulance association, the National Council of Women and the local council of women. 21 on Advisory Board; 34 on Technical Staff. ARMY AND NAVY GET. VOICE Pershing Heads 8 Officers; Coontz Leads Sea Force. DATA TO BE PROVIDED General Counsel and Information Are to Be Given to Four Principal Delegates. WASHINGTON, D. C Nov. 1. President Harding completed selec tion of the American delegation to the armament conference today by the appointment of an advisory com mittee of 21 to act with the four principal delegates, and a technical staff of 34 to provide data and ex pert opinion on military, naval and far eastern questions. George Sutherland, ex-senator from Utah, was designated chairman of the advisory committee, which will also number among its members Secretary Hoover, General Pershing, Rear- Admiral W. L. Rod g ers. President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation ' of Labor, and President Charles S. Barrett of the Farmers' union. Four members are women. State Department Mea Kuei In the group of selected technical advisers Major-General J. G. Harbord, deputy chief of staff under General Pershing, beads the eight army offi cers while Admiral Robert E. Coontx. chief of operations, leads that of the navy. Associated with them will be 12 officials of the state department, headed by John Van A. Macmurray, chief of the far eastern division, and a half dozen men selected from other executive departments and from out side the government service. It was Indicated that the technical staff was Intended to function large ly as an informative body while the advisory committee was designed to give the four principal delegates the benefit of general counsel on policy as well as a reflection of various schools of public sentiment. Sutherland HiHIsr. Friend. Officials familiar with far eastern problems and officers in charge of divisions devoted to specialised forms of warfare predominate in the former body, and public figures in touch with the life and thought of the nation sit on the latter. Ex-Senator Sutherland, chosen chair man of the advisory committee, is a close personal friend of President Harding. He has traveled widely and has been a close student of national and International politics. Ip addi tion to their general qualifications. Secretary Hoover, General Pershing and Admiral Rodgers all have lived in the far east. Mr. Gompers and Mr. Barrett ' are considered qualified to present, respectively, the viewpoints of labor and agriculture. Other Members Identified. Other members of the advisory com mittee are: Representative S. G. Porter of Pennsylvania, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. John M. Parker, Democratic 'gover nor of Louisiana, and candidate for the vice-presidency with Roosevelt on the progressive ticket in 1912. Henry P. Fletcher, of Pennsylvania, under-secretary of state, former am bassador to Mexico. J. M. Walnwright, of New Tork, as sistant secretary of war, a veteran ot the Spanish-American and world wars. Theodore Roosevelt, of New Tork, assistant secretary of the navy. William Boyce Thompson, of New Tork, financier, head of the American Re Cross mission to Russia in 1917. Willard Saulsbury, of Delaware, business man, ex-democratlc senator and president pro tern, of the senate. John L. Lewla im One, John L. Lewis, of Illinois, president of the United Mine Workers. Walter George Smith of Pennsyl vania, lawyer, ex-presldent of the American Bar, association and former president of the Federation of Catho lic Societies in Pennsylvania. Carmi Thompson of Ohio, formerly treasurer of the United States. Harold M. Sewall of Maine, lawyer, formerly in consular service at Samoa, Hawaii snd Liverpool, interested for many years in shipbuilding. Mrs. Thomas G. Winter of Minne sota, president of the National Feder ation of Women's clubs. Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird' of Massa chusetts, wife of an ex-progressive candidate for governor of Massachu setts. Mrs. Eleanor Franklin Egan of New Tork, a writer on Asiatic problems. Mrs. Katherine Phillips Edson of California, prominent clubwoman. Army Mea Are Appointed. Other members of the technical staff appointed from the army are: Major-General George O. Squler, chief of tbe signal corps; Major-General C. C. Williams, Brigadier-General William Mitchell of the air serv ice, and Brigadier-General Amos A. Fries of the chemical warfare serv iCoaclu4ed oa face . Co.umo & Dive Made ITead First Into Space and Cigarette Smoked Dur. ing Half of Descent. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Nov. 1. Incll Chambers of Post field. Fort Sill, Oklahoma, today broke what officials say is the record for high altitude parachute Jumping, when he leaped approximately 26,000 feet from an army plane. The stunt was per formed in connection with the Ameri can Legion flying meet. Sergeant Chambers' descent took 18 minutes. Hs landed about five miles from the field. Sergeant Chambers' former record was 22,002 feet. This was later broken by Lieutenant Hamilton of Rantoul, III., last summer, who Jumped 23,007 feet. Representatives of the Aero Club of America will send the sealed barograph to. Washington to have It calibrated and the official altitude veri fled. Both Chambers and his pilot. Lieu tenant Wendell Brooksley, United States army, were equipped with oxy gen tanks and special fur-lined cloth ing. The ascent, according to Lieu tenant Brooksley, required an hour and a half. Intense cold was encountered snd Chambers and Brooksley commenced smoking the "air" oxygen when they leached 2J.0O0 feet. "I didn't go to sleep." said Sergeant Chambers "but Just sat and watched the cloudless sky during the ascent. The horizon was nothing but mist." When the flyers had reached the "ceiling" Brooksley gave the signal and Chambers climbed out on the fuselage. Then he dived head first Into space. Chambers said he dropped fully 600 feet before his parachute opened. Chambers said he suffered intense ly from the cold during the early minutes of his five-mile descent. Then, he declared, he lighted a cigar ette and smoked it during half of the downward "Journey A hjge all-metal plane of the mon oplane type, carrying ten passengers, today ascended 14.000 feet. Officials of the meot declared this was a rec ord for a one-motor plane of this type. Fred Lemon of Oklahoma City at tempted for the fifth time a para chute Jump from a height of only 100 feet. His parachute, opening with the wind and Jerking him suddenly from the plane, descended rapidly. Lemon suffered a slightly wrenched ankln. ,' MRS. W. F. CODY IS BURIED Body With That of Her Husband on Lookout Mountain. L DENVER. Colo., Nov. 1. The body cf Mrs. William F. Cody lies tonight in the grave with her husband, "Buf falo Bill." famous scout and Indian fighter, at the top of Lookout moun tain, near Golden, Colo. More than 100 persons attended the brle-f Epis copal ceremony at the mountain top overlooking the plains of Colorado. . In carrying out the wishes of the widow to be burled with her hsband, It was necessary to place her casket directly over that of her husband in a crypt blasted, from the solid moun tain rock. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 61 degrees; minimum, 41 degrees. TODAY'S Increasing cloudiness. Foreign. American consul escapes bomb explosion. Page 1. Hungarian cabinet decides upon disposition of HapsBurs dynasty, i'age i. Natlnnal. House approves federal aid rosds bill carrying 87S.OOO.OOO appropriation. Page 4. Aides named for United States conferees on arms. Page 1. Beer In breweries to be released for medi cal use. Page 1. Opinion of world backing arms cut. Pages. Summary hangings or xank.ee soldiers charged. Page 2. Jersey politicians Jarred by Wilson. Page 2- Sales tax proponents claim senate ma jority. Page 4. , Domestic. Gold stampede starts In New Hampshire. Page 16. All nation faces strike of coal miners. Page 1. Legion asks' congress to act on land rec lamation In eenair or ex-service men. Page S. Cordell Hull of Tennessee now chairman of democratic national commutes. Page 8. British delegates to do all possible to dis arm. Page 9. Indianapolis says business Is good. Page 22. Leap of 2 OOO' feet In parachute sets record. Psge 1. China falls to repay 15.800.000 loan on time. Page 15. Forty thousand veterans pass in review. Pace 1. Girls from college find world is oold. Pace 6. Pacific Northwest. Mrs. R. M. Brumfleld visits doomed den tist at Oregon penitentiary. Page 6. One autoist killed, another hurt in race against time. Page 8. Father and son murdered; farm hand held. Pa(a 1. Rporto. New golfing club will be organised. Pase 14. Smith on sick list and main avent at Mll- waukie changed. Page 14. Coyle to spy on Besdek'a eleven for Ban dodgers. Page 15. Commercial and Marine. All local wheat bids fall below dollar mark. Pase 23. Chicago wheat slumps with heavy selling and no support. Page 23. Twelve Suzuki A Co. vessels listed to Portland. Pag 22. Portland and Vicinity. Potatoes unfit to ue sent county Jail from county farm. Page 7. Future of Dairymen's League Is lo doubt. Page 7. Fair tax indorsed by Trades Council. Page IS. Mayor supports plan to bring arms dele gates here. Page 6. Portland boy fatally burned as result of halioween party sport. Page 1. Protection of small investor urged. Pagt 28, Farm Employe Accused of Murdering Pair. PRISONER IS. UNMOVED Crime Revealed by Discovery of Grave Near Home. MEN MISSING SOME TIME Suspect, 2 5 or 2 8 and Sightless Greater Part of Llfo, Ap pears Mentally Defective ALBAN'T, Or., Nov. 1. (Special.)-. The murder of John rainier, 65, and bis son, William Painter, Is, was re vealed today when their bodies were found in a shallow grave on the Painter farm, about seven miles northeast of Lebanon. 1'eter Beebe, who Is not sure whether he will be 26 or 2 his next birthday, was in the Linn county Jail hero tonight, and District Attorney Llewellng said that he would file a charge ot first degree murder against Beebe tomorrow. Tho three men bad been living together on Painter's 400-acre farm since last January. Beebe, after his arrest, asserted that the elder Fainter shot his son on Wednesday, October 19, and then committed suicide, and that In com pliance with the elder Painter's re quest Beebe burled the two bodies the next day in a grave whfch he said the elder Painter had dut; In the tim ber about half a mile from the house after he had killed the boy. Inquest Held Over Bodies. A post-mortem examination of the badly decomposed bodies was held to night at the Painter farm by Dr. Booth and Dr. Irvine of Lebanon, fol lowing a coroner's inquiry this after noon. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that the two men died from gunshot wounds inflicted by an un known person. His arrest caused Beebe no ap parent concern. He even stood un moved In the crowd around the grave while the bodies were being unearthed. Apparently he is much be low normal, mentally. Becoming practically blind at the age of seven, he never went to school a day in his life, he said, and cannot read nor write. He was unable to see until about two years ago, when an op eration for removal of cataracts from his eyes was successful and he can now see with the aid of glasses. The disappearance of Painter and his boy from their farm began to cause alarm among neighbors several days ago. and Sheriff Kendall was notified Friday night. Hs west to the Painter farm Saturday to Investigate. Beebe, who gave stories varying considerably in details, then told the sheriff that the father and son had quarreled on Tuesday, October 18, and on the following day, and that then the boy ran away to California. He said the elder Painter left for Pennsylvania to visit a daughter and turned over to him (Beebe) the horses, cattle and other personal property on the farm In payment of $800 wages due him. Beebe lirst said that Painter had told him he vTould write what to do about the farm, but the next day told the sheriff Painter had told him he could use the farm for paying taxes and keeping up the fences. Bloody Rifle Is Found. That afternoon Sheriff Kendall found a rifle In the house with blood on it. He continued the investiga tion on Sunday and Monday, and among other things found blood stained shoes under a staircase. When Sheriff Kendall and District Attorney Lewelllng went to the farm today they found blood on Beebe's glasses and buckles and buttons in the stove where clothing had been burned. In talking to Beebe the district at torney pointed out many Inconsis tencies in his stories and then Karl H. Carlton, a neighbor, took Beebe aside and after talking to him for some time induced Beebe to give him the location of the graves. In another story he told the offi cers that on Wednesday morning, Oc tober 19, tbe father and son had con tinued a quarrel begun the night be fore and had gone lo the house to gether while he continued work on a fence a quarter of a mile away. Two Shots are Keported. He said the quarrel lasted for about one hour, and then he heard shots. He said when he went to the house at noon tbe elder Painter sat by the fire mumbling and then told him he had shot the boy and that his body was in the strawshed. Painter told Beebe. Beebe said, that he had gone to the timber and dug a grave, and' declared he was going to shoot him self. The elder Painter told him, Buebe asserted, to bury both the bodies anil then to hide the fact that ho had shot his own son, and directed Beebe to tell neighbors that the boy bad run away and that he had gone to bis old home in Pennsylvania, Beebe added. Beebe said the elder Painter told him to take the property on the place. Beebe said that Painter then went outside the hoUH. placed a rifle to (Concluded on Pace 2, Column 2.)