THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXTAX, TUESDAY, APKIIi 1922 a EETliB BY IRISH SOLDIERS Details of Castlebar Turbu lence Disclosed. COLLINS PARTY IS ARMED Speaker Frequently Interrupted and Finally, When Weapons Are Drawn, Storm Breaks. DUBLIN. April 3. (By the Asso dated Press.) The meeting addressed by Michael Collins at Castlebar County JIayo, last night, was stopped by members of the 4th western divi eion of the Irish republican army after stormy scenes in which a woman was wounded by a bullet, according to accounts reaching Dublin this morning. The chief of the provisional gov ernment .and his party returned to their hotel and the officer who had proclaimed the meeting at an end fol lowed, declaring that none would be allowed to leave until Mr. Collins and his friends had surrendered their arms. , The accounts received here do not State whether the Collins party was disarmed, merely saying- that "some people who left the hotel were searched. " The telegraph wires around Castle bar were cut and when the news paper correspondents there boarded a train for Athlone they were ordered iy two officers to go to the barrack SloCabe First to Draw. The newspaper men were conveyed o the barracks in automobiles, where : they found A. M. McCabe, a member of the Dail Bireann, with Commandant Xilroy and his staff. The comman iant stated that McCabe had admitted ho was the first to draw a. revolver at the meeting. Mr. McCabe then the presence of the correspondents, raid he believed he was the first to draw, the dispatches say. A Dublin man, said to foe Charles Bryne, a member of the Collins party. was arrested and accused of the shooting. Mr. Collins subsequently told, the representative of the Irish Independent, Dublin newspaper, that he had visited Bryne In the barracks ana found him in a cell with only a plank for a bed and no bedding. He cald he had asked Commandant Kil . roy to parole Mr. Bryne, Mr. Collins to he responsible, but that the re luest was refused. Mrs. Fogarty, proprietress of the Commercial hotel, Castlebar, was wounded in the shoulder, presum ably by the bullet fired at the meet All Roads Are Blocked. The correspondent of the London Evening News says all the roads to Castlebar were blocked by trees and that automobiles moving toward the town were stopped by armed men, "who even ripped up the railway track to prevent the arrival of the special trains from surrounding towns. The meeting was consequently de layed until 7 P. M. The crowd numbered 2000 persons, among them many hostile to Collins. Collins was frequently interrupted and then a supporter drew a revolver. Others produced revolvers also, upon which the crowd stampeded, women fainting, and several persons were trampled upon. A young man was pursued into a side street and a number of shots were fired. At this point, adds the correspond ent, an officer jumped upon the plat form and declared the meeting ad journed in the interest of peace. OUSTED OFFICIALS ON CALL (Continued From Fir5t Page.) number ot investigations of the bu reau, as did other treasury officials, while Director of the Budget Dawes brought A. R. Barnes on from Chi cago to Jook into the efficiency of the output of the plant. Mr. Barnes, he declared, was the proprietor of tn engraving establishment somewhat approaching the magnitude of the government plant and was considered an expert on the subject. These various investigations made from time to time, Mr. Mellon con tinued, disclosed conditions in the bureau warranting the changes. Waste was found, he said, losses to the government running into large turns because of sheets of paper being spoiled in the new presses, lack of modern methods for keeping plates find other unsatisfactory conditions. ' Ka Irregularity Charged. Reports of these investigations were made, he added, and it was thought that Lewis A. Hill, the new director, was the appropriate man to lie put in charge of the bureau. Assignment of justice department agents to the bureau by Attorney General Daugherty, Mr. Mellon de clared, was merely a matter of pre caution in going over the stock in the plant, as there were no specific charges of irregularity or defalca tion against any of the dismissed em ployes. Nothing is pending in the bureau, Sir. Mellon eaid, involving the hon esty of any group of ex-employes and there was nothing pointing to any individual. He said that while the politics of the ex-officials were known in a general way, in reality most of the employes of the bureau could be said to have no politics, as they had no vote. Amplifying their formal statement to newspaper men at the White House, members of the delegation of dis missed bureau officials declared they had no idea of the charges upon which they were dismissed, stating that they knew of "no clique" in the bureau "except discharged employes who have been fomenting discontent and are now back in places of au- thority." They were unanimous in their statement that they could not believe politics was at the bottom of the matter, however, declaring that of the number discharged 18 were republicans, eight democrats and the political affiliations of the others were unknown. Bond Duplication Denied. There has been no duplication of bonds in the last 18 months, they added, and there had been only a few petty thefts which had been de tected and accounted for. Reports of bond duplication were dismissed by Secretary Mellon today with the remark that such charges "had been thoroughly ventilated by Secretary Houston," and completely dispelled. The delegation of employes charged that the installation of a new elec trolytic process and of improved methods of machinery had met with bitter opposition from the transferers' union and that during the war these transferers had obstructed the use of this new process in every possible way. Installation of modern machin ery, they said, brougnt opposition be cause it meant a reduction in the force, citing as an example the mak- ng of postage stamps, which they said was reduced by half through im proved methods, which meant a cut also in that force. r; WOMEN JURORS ASKED LEX SMALL SPKIXGS SURPRISE AS TRIAL OPENS. Attorneys for State Are Taken VTn' aw arcs and Ask 48 Hours' De lay to Prepare Reply. W AUK EG AN, 111., April 3. (By the Associated Press.) Governor Len Small wants women to sit on the jury which will try him here on charges of having conspired with Fred E. Sterling, lieutenant-governor, and Vernon Curtis, banker, to em bezzle state funds. 'Today the governor attacked the legality of the Jury panel because the Lake county board of supervisors had failed to include the names of wom en voters in it. Taken by surprise, attorneys for the state obtained 48 hours' delay to prepare their answer. Attorneys for the governor read an affidavit signed by him asserting that the board of supervisors had failed to comply with the legal re quirement that names of 10 per cent of the qualified voters be placed in the jury box and had, in fact, listed only 10 per cent of the male voters, ignoring the women. Werner Schroeder of the defense counsel declared that even though it should be held that women may not sit on the jury, the supervisors should havi prepared a venire based on the total number of votes cast by both men and women. He cited a long list of court decisions in other states in support of the contention that women may serve on the juries. Should the governor's contention be upheld by Judge Edwards and women seated, the Lake county court house may have to be remodeled be fore the trial can be held. The court house has one large dormitory with 12 single beds for jurors, and as Illinois law forbids separation of jurymen, some arrangement would have to be made to furnish privacy for the women jurors. Judge Edwards has already an nounced that the jury will be con fined throughout the trial, which is expected to last anywhere from three to five months. Store Closed Until 12 o'Clbck Noon Today Out of Respect for Mr. George G. Wolfe Whose Funeral Will Take Place This Morning KlniafttAKaUQ www BrhtnUHtif?1! HUNT FOR GHOST FAILS (Continued From Flrat Page.) More Signs of Better Business "Hi, there. Al. How are you any way? Haven't seen you in a coon's sge. How's business?" "Well. well. Jim. I surely am glad to see you. Business hasn't been any thing to get elated over for quits some time, but I have a hunch it's picking up a bit lately and all signs saf it is going to get better right along. Gosh, I hope so. I have been watching the pennies pretty close now for a long time. I have gone without new clothes just about as long as I can." If business keeps on getting better I hope to take enough out of the firm by June or July to get that new suit I've been suffering for. for a year or so." "Well, now, Al, if you need a suit that bad it might be dangerous to wait till June or later. Say, thcugh seriously, I'll tell you a fine place to get a suit by paying such a small amount evely month that you will hardly notice it. Cherry's at 349 Mor rison street on the second floor. You can practically make your own ar rangements on what to pay down and then the monthly payments are dead easy." Adv. : frighten the family and disturb the neighbors. It is a tiny house, much too small for a ghost who is honored by such a large importance, and the price set on it when Wellcome rented was $400 for the building and the lot. There are four tiny rooms in the house, all the same size and all scantily fur nished. If all the rappings reported were made by actual pounding on the oors and walls, the necessary force to have produced such noise would have knocked the joists and sills loose before this. The sheriffs expressed hopes that there would be a bit of rapping while they were there. The neighbors ex pressed hopes that the sheriffs would wait for nightfall but the mystery about the mode of "procedure to be followed by these officers in catching he ghost is as complete as the mys tery of the noises. Naturally a real deputy sheriff with a gun and a star and much matter-of-fact experience could not be ex pected to believe in ghosts and the four on the scene were not loathe to admjt that they suspected skulldug gery and knavery. H. E. Stout, who lives next door to the south, was just as scornful of the ghost theory, but upheld it by relating the happenings of the neighborhood since the rap ping began. He said the noises were frequently loud enough to awaken I him in his own house and that they had also occurred when the Wellcome house was being watched, both in side and out, and no one was seen to make the noise. There are two distinct kinds ol rapping. One is a heavy slow thud, repeated twice or thrice on the doors and with such force that it .would break the door if it were really'struck so hard. It is the kind of a noise v. hich a man could make with his fist against a door, yet when the door was struck by a real fist it made an entirely different sound. The other noise is a faster and lighter rapping, which has been counted up as high as 14 raps. To imitate it the weather boards were tapped, but they didn't imitate. Some of these were torn off and the space between them and the plastering explored, but it was just space and contained no noise-making instruments. underneath the house was just the same and the space be tween the ceiling and the roof of the c-ne-story structure was just as empty. .. Theories flew back and forth as fast as the retold tales of occult visi tation. One man was within six feet ot tha house when the door was pounded and he ran across the street to friends and said he "felt a breath of air on his face. This story brought weak laughs from visitors. Mr. Well come, who is a badly scared man, told of being knocked down by the force of the rapping. Neighbors living two blocks away have also heard it on occasions when the rapping was un usually loud. The belief that there was a cache of moonshine whisky under the house, recovery of which was the cause of noises made maliciously to frighten away the householders, was shattered by a fruitless search and the Stout home next door contained no still when it was searched. The' haunted house was not occupied for j a period of four years before the Wellcomes moved into it two weeks ago, and Stout said he had never seen or heard anything to alarm him while it was vacant. On Sunday night after the sheriffs had been notified of the noises and threats of neighbors no noise occurred J at the Wellcome home, but three dis tinct raps were heard as from the small house 30 feet to the nortn. This building stands vacant. Residents of the vicinity maintain there are unusual electrical phenom ena at times above and around the pine trees which stand in the yard, and little threads of blue flame can be seen passing through the air. The popularity of radio work brought forth conjecture but there were no scientists present to solve the mys tery or no electrical appliances on the premises to cause the noise, al though Wellcome is an electrician by trade. The sheriffs concealed any theories they might have about the spooks. That they had one or two is certain. It is not likely that the cause of the ghostly noises will be solved by night watchmen, for such attempts have been unsuccessful. There probably will be several' interviews with per sons suspected of remote malice, but who they are is not known. S. & H. green stamps for cash. Hol man Fuel Co., coal and wood. Broad way 6353. 560-21. Adv. WALTER JENKINS SINGS (Continued From First Page.) memory list, are as follows: , "Mala- guena," by Moskowski; "Old Dog Tray," by Foster; "Le Cygne" (The Swan), by Saint-Saens; "Barcarolle" ("Tales of Hoffman"), by Offenbach, and "Overture, 1812," by Tschaikow- sky. 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