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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1922
BLACKMAIL PLOTS
BARED BY SUICIDE
Woman Who Shot Herself to
Death Once Convicted.
$15,000 ACTION PENDING
Mrs. Emily Brittain Said to Have
Forced Oil Operator to Sign
Marriage Agreement.
I-OS ANGELES. Cal., March 24.
Widespread blackmailing activities
were declared bared here today by
J. D. Armstrong, private detective,
co-operating with local police detect
ives in. investigation of the suicide
late yesterday of Mrs. Emily Brittain
ir. the apartments of Arthur Bowen,
oil operator of Bethel, Okla., and El
I'aso, Tex., according to an announce
ment by Armstrong. .
In addition to charges that the
woman who shot herself had sought
to blackmail a prominent local busi
ness man. Mr. Armstrong said inves
tigation disclosed that she had pend
ing in Fresno, Cal., a. $15,000 suit
against William Hanke of Sanger,
growing out of her arrest and. a trial
for embezzlement at Fresno under the
name of Emily Smith.
Woman Convicted in 1919.
Under the name of Emma Sembollo,
ccording- to Mr. Armstrong;, Mrs.
Brittain was convicted in San Fran- !
Cisco, March 28, 1919 (superior court
ease 10268), on a charg of embez
zling a $65 dress from Mrs. Stella Lip
jitt. She 'was- married in Martinez.
CaL, June 29, 1918, under the name of
Emma Kaltmah to John Sambrailo.
ccordlng to papers recovered by Mr
Armstrong.
Mrs. Brittain, as she was known
Itere, jumped down the light well of
an apartment and, finding herself
IrappecK. nhot and killed herself late
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yesterday when detectives apprehend
ed her in Bowen's apartment. She
v. as sought on a charge of robbery.
Bowen turned over to the police an
agreement pledging marriage to Em
iiy Brittain immediately upon obtain
ing divorce from his wife. This agree
ment was Bigned "Emily Brittain,"
and Bowen told the police that she
had used the pistol with which she
Inter killed herself in threatening his
l'fe in seeking to force his signature
to the agreement.
Blackmail Plot 'Suspected.
From another' detective agency it
was learned that the woman had ap
peared there on - the morning before
het suicide and intimated that Bowen
was wanted by the police elsewhere
This implication by the woman
against Bowen wM.s declared by his
friends here to be without basis, as
he had conducted business here in a
downtown brokerage office in con
nection with Oklahoma oil holdings.
TMs was suggested by friends
merely being a part of an alleged
b'ackmail plot by the woman against
Bowen.
BOWEN INNOCENT, SAYS WIFE
Telegram From Husband Gives No
Hint of Trouble.
El, PASO. Tex., March 22. "I'm sure
Arthur didn't do anything wrong. I
don't understand the affair at all
Perhaps there's been a mistake. Only
yesterday I had a night letter from
him and !t gave no hint of impending
trouble."
Mrs. Arthur Bowen, wife of an El
Paso oil man held in Los Angeles
penaing an lnvesrigation into- tne sui
cide of Mrs. Emily Brittain, thus as
serted her belief here today in her
husband s innocence.
The Bowens came to El Paso in
February, 1921, from Albuquerque,
N. M. He was in the oil business there.
YEGGS FLEE WITH $22,000
Sequira, Wash., State Bank Robbed
of Cash and Bonds.
PORT ANGELES, Wash., March 24.
The vault ana safe of the Sequim
State bank at Sequim, near here, was
blown early today by rbbbera who ob
tained $22,000 in cash and bonds and
escaped, taking to ' the hills to the
south.
Posses were organized to search for
the men.
Also a Two
COMPLETE TIE-UP
OF MINES PLANNED
General Policy Committee
Adopts Programme.
200,000 MORE MAY JOIN
Resolution for Immediate Call to
Non-Union Men Also to Walk
- Out Is Adopted.
CLEVELAND, March 24. A com
plete tie-up of the nation's entire coal
industry by 200.000 non-union miners
joining the solid ranks of a half mil
lion union workers, was the pro
gramme adopted tonight by the gen
eral policy committee of the United
Mine Workers of America for the nation-wide
strike set for April 1.
By a unanimous vote of its 116
members, the committee affirmed the
policy of a general suspension of
union workers, which prohibited the
consummation of single-state agree
ments, and followed this by directing
district union officials to ask all non
union men to join the strike. The
unanimity of action late in the day
permitted a final adjournment to
night, although the committee had
planned to continue sessions tomor
row. Non-Union Strike Urged.
The resolution for an immediate call
to the non-union men also provided
that the "International and district
unions exert all their powers and in
fluence to bring about a strike in
the non-union coal fields of, America."
Although taking action which the
union leaders said they hoped would
stop the mining of a pound of coal
after April 1, the committee declared
itself as not Intending to cause any
public suffering: In -line with this
stand, the committee authorized the
district union officials to permit any
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mine to be operated whenever neces
sary to meet an emergency. Under
this programme, the offiicals said it
would be possible to supply fuel for
public utilities and institutions when
ever tie big stocks now on hand run
low. The aim of the strike, it was
explained in this connection, was to
prevent the mining of commercial
coal as a means of forcing operators
to concede the union's wage demands.
Mine Protection Favored.
In addition, the committee also af
firmed the provision of the strike call
providing for all necessary protection
being given to the mines during the
strike. The only condition added by
the committee was that pumpmen, en
gineers, firemen and others who will
remain at work shall receive the
present scale of wages. Ten thou
sand men, It was estimated, would
remain at the mines under this pro
vision. The rift in union forces threatened
before the meeting by the exoected
fight .of Frank Farrington, the Illi
nois district union leader, and op
ponent of International President
John L. Lewis, disappeared almost be
fore the opening of the meeting when
Mr. Farrington , announced that he
would not make a contract wfth Illi
nois operators without the sanction
of the policy committee.
GUNMAN FACES CHARGE
Albert Swanson Is Held for First-
Degree Assault.
ABERDEEN, Wash., March , 24.
(Special.) A charge of first-degree
assault was filed against Albert Swan- ',
son today as a result of the shooting'
affray Thursday afternoon in a
Heron-street cigar store, when Swan
son fired six bullets into the store In
an attempt, according to his own
story, to kill John Rogers. He said
he had carried a -grudge since Rogers
surreptitiously, according to Swanson,
relieved him of $100 five years ago.
One of the shots grazed Rogers, one
struck Joe Curtis-, logger, in the back,
and another pierced both legs of Phil
Davis, 80 years old.'Nvho was sitting
in a chair in the card room. Davis,
due to his advanced age, is in a criti
cal condition, but Rogers and Curtis
are out of danger. "
Swanson. apprised when taken to
the county jail of the fact that Rogers
was not injured badly, said that "he
was sorry the shots did not kill, him"
and that "it was too bad the others
were hit."
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CRAIG AND COLLINS
CALLED TO LONDON
Discussion of Irish Situation
Is Proposed.
EVENTS ARE HELD GRAVE
Formal Request Is Made to Ulster
Premier and to Head of Pro
visional Government.
LONDON, March 24. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The colonial office an
nounced tonight that, owing to the
gravity of events in Ireland, the gov
ernment had formally requested Pre
mier Craig oi Ulster and Michael
Collins, head of the Irish provisional
government, to come to London, with
any colleagues they might choose, in
order that the government might dis
cuss with them every aspect of the
situation. -
SEVEN KILLED IN BELFAST
Father and Four Sons Are Shot to
Death in Home.
BELFAST, March 24. (By the As
sociated Press.) Seven deaths from
violence occurred In Belfast today.
The victims were:
Owen MacMahon and four of his
sons,, shot to death in their home.
Two other sons were wounded.
Joseph Campbell, city official, shot
by a sniper.
John Murdock, shot and mortally
wounded, died this afternoon. ,
A youth who was shot in the abdomen-today
was in a critical con
dition. Three murders were reported from
the Fermanagh-Tyrone" border. The
victims were Frank Kelley, Edward
McLoughlin and William Cassidy. AlF
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were shot to death. It is believed the
murders were in reprisal for the re
cent terrorism at Trillick, County
Tyrone, in which Samuel Laird, an
Ulster special constable, was shot and
killed and numerous unionist houses
were burned.
A freight train was held up near the
city today by 13 armed men, who
opened the registered mail it was
carrying and scattered the freight
along the tracks.
The Y. M. C. A. hall here was com
mandeered today by a British regi
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At a unionist meeting last evening,
Lady Craig, wife of the premier, an
nounced that she had received a let
ter from a friend in London stating
that in Greater London there were
already 15,000 men waiting to take
up arms in defense of Ulster.
At a meeting of representative
Catholics here today a resolution was
adopted protesting against ''the cam
paign of murder against the Catholic
community." The resolution alleged
that no attempt had been made by the
authorities to check the atrocities and
asserted that the legislation proposed
by the Ulster government would
merely result in legalizing the work
'of the assassins.
"The position of the Catholics in
Belfast is daily becoming more des
perate," the resolution continued,
"and can only be paralleled by the
treatment meted out to the Armenians
by the Turks. Just as the civilized
governments felt compelled to take
action then, so now, we believe, they
would take similar action if the facts
of the present situation were known."
FISH CONFERENCE CALLED
Fishermen's League Secretary
Sends Letters to Packers,
ASTORIA, Orv March 24. (Special.)
Secretary Somppi of the Columbia
River Fishermen's league, today sent
letters to the various packers on th
river asking them to meet in confer
ence with the directors of the league
at the chamber of commerce rooms on
the afternoon of Monday, April 3, to
discuss the pricps to be paid for
salmon during the season that opens
May 1.
This will be the second conference.
At the former one the packers said it
was too early to fix prices, as none
had received any orders.
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