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oaBar state VOL. LXI NO. 19.1T1 Entered at Portland (Oregon Postoffice as Second-class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, 3IAY 1, 1923 PRICE FIVE CENTS CHINA TERRIFIED SIX AIDS PROPOSED WAR THREAT AGAIN SWERVE OF SPEEDER COSTS WOMAN'S LIFE rSS" OF STRIKERS PERCY GRAINGER'S MOTHER IS KILLED FOR FARM CREDITS AS ARMIES CLASH!" E E BEATS 2 WORKERS AND LEFT IN MUD MANAGER OI WAK FINANCE MKS. HARRY CAMARAS DIKS OF IN JFK EES. SERMON AM) MUSIC SENT OVT TO MANY HOMES. 13-STORY KILL IS BV SUICIDE JIMP. CORPORATION KF.PORTS. MINISTER BOUND HEARD IN City of Pekin Is Placed Under Martial Law. U, S. WARSHIP IS REQUESTED American Legation Asks for Another at Tientsin. 3 PROCLAMATIONS ISSUED President Hsu Sliili Chans Points to Serious Consequences if For eign Interests Are Hurt. LONTON", May L An airplane used by the Clli I forces flying; from Pao tingfu to Fengtai. dropped a bomb, but withoirt much damage, near a train enrrying a detachment of Amer ican marines to Pekin, says a dispatch to the London Times-irom Pekin. PEKIN, April 30. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Martial law was de clared in Pekin today. The armies of General Chang Tso Lin and General Wu Pei-Fu fought con'inuously throughout the day. The fighting centered around Changsin tien. 12 miles distant. A government communique sa'd Chang Tso-Lin was victorious In the fighting at Machang. The American legation has re quested Washington to send another warship to Tientsin. Buttle Viewed By American. Commander Charles T. Hutchins, American naval attache at the lega tion here, returned today from tho battlefield. The automobile he usea flew the American flag. He reported that' firing had not ceased during the last 36 hours. From a hillside ovelooking the Hun river he witnessed the operations of both armies, with Chang Tso-Lin's troops holding the village of Changsintien and the Wu Pei-Fu forces two miles southward fighting desperately to ad ' vance. Smoke from the cannon enveloped the hillside; shells were bursting in the trenches; camels were to be seen transporting guns to various puuno and refugees were observed running from their homes. A vivid picture of the seriousness of the struggle was obtained. lOOO Dead or Wounded. About 1000 dead or wounded were observed by Commander Hutchins. Botll sides appeared to be shelling wide areas. The relative position of the contending forces did not seem to have changed materially Bince the battle began. The opinion expressed by Com- Blander Hutchins was "Fu's object was to pus canturc Pekin, with a Lt Wu Pei rward and bw to con trolling affairs from the capita.. Chans Tso-Lin asserted that Wu Pei-Fu was ambitious to become a Chinese Napoleon. He declared that peace would not be possible until Wu Pei-Fu was captured and ban ished like Napoleon. When Wu -Pei-Ku was captured, Chang Tso-Lin said he was willing to resign and assist in abolishing the Chinese sys tem of military dictators. Three Proclamations Issued. President Hsu Shift Chang, in con sequence of the hostilities, today issued three proclamations, calling attention to the serious consequences to China which might result from the jeopardizing of foreign interests. The first proclamation said the Chinese people were terrified, that merchants were suffering losses and the industry of tho nation was de moralized. Therefore. was de- I Banded that Chang Tso-I.in and Wu j Fti-Ku immediately withdraw their j armies. . The second proclamation declared ! that as I'ekin was the capital of tho nation, peace and order must prevail, Foreign Treaties Are Cited. , Emphasis was laid in the third proc- lamation on the necessity t protect the lives and property of foreigners . and for compliance with treaties with j the powers. It was added that the I Chinese railroad administration had ! gent a protest to the government as- S that the try face bankruptcy in consequence of the suspension of traffic, am- this fact involves ioreign ounga none. The fighting Sunday was sporadic throughout the war area. There were no signal gains by either .ide The most persistent conflict appeared to ' be centered around Changsintien southwest of the Pekin wall, where Wu Pei-Fu is concent rat ing for a drive in an attempt to turn Chang Tso-JLin'a western front toward Tien tsin. Changsintieu lm Occupied. Chang Tso-Iin's forces occupy the i village of Changsintien, where wounded have been ta! , u Into the houses of natives. The dead were left on the battlefield. Reliable de- i tails as to the casual w ere not ( obtainable. The military situation t fathered from legation attac was as follows: Chang Tso-Lin and Wu Pel ay, as s here, j 'u each I had 50,698 men un . r f r or in posi non. Wu Pei-Fu was bringing up ' more than a year beginning in May. reinforcements from the Yang - Tse f HHS, as successor to Major-General provinces. Chang Tse-Lia was send- ; Harbord, died at Walter Reed hos ing forces from Mukden which soon . pitai tonight. uM increase the tota' effectives to He had been ill more than two tCvcciuded uii Pa.sc tf. Column l years. Rediscount Organization for Live stock Paper Is Advised by Eugene Meyer Jr. WASHINGTON, D. C, April 30. Legislation to provide six permanent remedies for defects in the agricul tural credit system of the country was recommended to President Hard ing today by Lugene Meyer Jr., man aging director of the war finance corporation, in a reoort based upon his recent survey of conditions in the west. Pending enactment of the proposed legislation and the erection of re quired machinery for its adminis tration, Mr. Meyer recommended that the period during which the corpora tion might make loans be extended to January 1, 1923. Mr. Meyer reported that on his western trip, undertaken at the sug gestion of the president, he found marked improvement and that "every where hope and confidence are tak ing the place of the despair which six months ago was so wid-ely pre valent." As remedial measures he recom mended: "Enactment of legislation specific ally authorized the organization of institutions to rediscount the paper of livestock loan companies, and the establishment of. a system for the more adequate supervision and inspection of the livestock which furnishes security for the paper. "Frank recognition of the need for the orderly marketing of agricultural products in a more gradual way and over a longer period, and the adjust ment of existing banking laws and regulations with this end in view. ".Establishment of a rediscount fa cility to make it possible at all times for co-operative marketing organiza tions to obtain adequate funds for their operations. 'Kxtension of powers of the fed eral reserve banks to include the purchase in the open market of eligible paper secured by non-perish able agricultural commodities, prop erly warehoused. "Encouragement of state non-member banks to enter the federal re serve system and reduction of the minimum capital required for ad mission to the system admission in such cases to be conditioned upon an undertaking to increase the capital to the present minimum of $25,000 within a definite time. "Amendment of the national bank ing act to permit a limited amount of branch banking within a limited radius of the parent institution." Pending the provision of these im provements to the national credit ma chinery, Mr. Meyer suggested exten sion until January 1, 1923, of the period during which the war finance corporation may make loans to (1) co-operative marketing organizations and livestock loan companies, where it appears that they are unable to obtain adequate financing at reason able rates through other channels; and (2) to banking institutions on agricultural and livestock papers in exceptional cases and where it ap pears that the public interest will be served by such action. In certain parts of the west, Mr. Meyer reported, the need for land mortgage money was not being ade quately met by the federal farm loan system, of the limitation preventing a land bank from lending more than $10,000 to any one borrower. He had already suggested, he said, the forma tion of a joint stock land bank au thorized to make loans up to a min imum of from $37,500 to $50,000 in Montana. Idaho, Colorado and other states, to meet this situation. G. 0. P. FOUNDER IS DEAD E. A. Yc;-t Succumbs at Chicago at Age of 9 Years. CHICAGO, April 30. Kdmund Ab bott West, one of the founders nf the republican party, who ceU brated his 99th birthday Kriday, died here today of pneumonia. Mr. West was born in Elyria. O., April US. 1$?3, from Ohio he went to Wisconsin, served in the state legislature and was one of the group that held the celebrated meeting in Ripon, Wis., at whieli it is claimed by some, the republican party was born. He came to this city in 1S65 and practiced jaw for man years. .,..,.. ROBBERS KIDNAP WOMAN ;Ci1. stolen ami Holdup Staged Before Victim Released. A OKA M E X TO, Cal.. April 30. A squad of police officers, armed with sawed - off hot guns were scouring the country east of here today trying to capture two men who held up a carl driven by John l.aureun, early today, forced his companion, Mrs. Alma Trtmioureaux, to accompany them with the car and after staging series ot noidups, msuittd the woman I and released her. r- pijCC f)C QTAPP IliCC A. t. r. UM I tr Ur Olrtrr Ul Co Major - General McAndrew i n nibs at Y nh i nu'toii . S no- W A SH I NU TUN. D. C April 30. wno served as chief of staff of the i American expeditionary forces for New Talk Is Held Not Ir , responsible Gossip. SITUATION CALLED DELICATE Clash Expected if France Ad vances Into Germany. HUMAN PATIENCE EBBS ''How Long Wift It Be?-' Is Ques tion That Is Asked Every where, Says William Bird. BY WILLIAM BIRD. (Copyright, 1922, by The Oregonlan.) PARIS, April 30. (Special Cable.) War and rumors of war fill the air. From the Danube, where the writer was a few days ago, to the Seine, where he is today, hard practical men, the kind known as safe and sane, talk nhnut ni.i only a matter of time. They declare i that Rurnnp in Ita i-h-..yi ,-t,.(.. in untenable and that there is doubt as to how long human patience, which notably is long suffering, will hold out. How long will it be? Some say a few years, others a few months. It will not be localized, they say, but will be a general European free-for-all, since every region in Em-ope will eagerly seize anything resembling the opportunity to repair what they consider the injustice of the various treaties of peace. French Invasion Expected. One man, who is called the best in formed man in Hungary, declared to the correspondent that it would not surprise him were war to break out this summer. He believes that France will be compelled to invade Germany to get reparation satisfaction and that this time Germany will not submit meekly to fresh seizures of territory. Though anti-German himself, he be lieves that Germany would "smear France in short order" through sheer weight of numbers and superior ma chine equipment were England to re main neutral. This would be the sig nal for Hungary to take the field in the hepe of regaining the provinces lost to Czecho-Slovakia, Rumanian and Serbia, which are called Hung ary's thiee Alsace-Lorraines in posters prominently displayed in Hungarian government offices. Moreover Hung ary, although intensely anti-Russian, is far from sympathetic toward the allies, holding that they betrayed her by handing her richest mining and manufacturing districts to neighbor ing states. Many Facts Are UfKcovered. It must be confessed that this yarn sound. d fantastic in Budapest but re turning westward one found many facts to dovetail with it. France is not bellicose, but officially she con siders that the occupation of further German territory, even thoygh un authorized specifically by the treaty, (Concluded on Page 3, Column 1. ) ITS 1 OF Vt .CANDlDrYrrLS m tf- miarK frA (' f 7r Automanlae. to Avoid Collision, Crowds Another Machine Into Ditch, Striking Pedestrian. A speed maniac was directly re sponsible for an automobile accident late yesterday afternoon which cost Mrs. Harry Camaras of Multnomah her life, according to a report made to the police by F. L. Benedict, 353 Hall street, who was also in the acci dent. She died at 7:15 P. M. Mr. and Mrs. Camaras were walk ing together along the Capital high way between west Portland and Mult nomah. Mr. and Mrs. Benedict, a daughter and Mrs. Elizabeth Dickey, 353 Hall street, were traveling in the Benedict car away from Portland and the speeder came up behind them. It was estimated that he was traveling about 35 miles an hour. Just as he tried to pass Mr. Benedict he met a car coming in the opposite direction and to avoid a collision with It he swung Mr. Benedict s machine over into the ditch, striking Mrs. Camaras and knock ing her down. Mrs. Camaras was brought to Port land in another machine and taken to the Good Samaritan hospital. DR. EARL G00DE IS DEAD Gassing Wliile Serving at Front Fatal to Portland Man. As a result of being gassed at the front while fighting against the Ger mans in 1918, Dr.. Earle Goode, 27, died at the home of his parents, the Rev. and Mrs. John A. Goode, 7412 Fifty-fifth avenue Southeast, yester day afternoon. Dr. Goode was a mem ber of the state legislature from Multnomah county in 1917, being one of the youngest men ever elected to such a position in Oregon. When the war broke out, he en listed and was soon at the front. Since his injury he had been a victim of the lingering illness. Dr. Goode is survived by his par ents, a brother, Hubert A. Goode, secretary to Commissioner Mann, and a sister, Mrs. Herbert R. Tyler. Ar rangements for the funeral have not been announced. 2 DIE IN NEW YORK FIRE Many Others Are Injured When Frame Tenement Is Burned. XEW YORK, April 20. Trapped in a smoke-filled hallway in a fire that later destroyed a four-story tenement in Richmond hill, an aged woman and a child were burned to death tonight. Many other tenants among the 30 families in the building were injured. More than a dozen firemen were hurt as they sealed fire escapes to rescue women and children and aged men from perilous positions on window ledges. EXPLOSION KILLS 100 Bodies of 50 Victims Are Carbon ized in Mine. BUCHAREST, Roumania, April 30. (By the Associated Press.) Up ward of 100 persons were killed to day in a mine explosion in the Lupeni district of Transylvania. The bodies of 50 victims were com pletely carbonized while those of the others were blown to pieces. GOING TO BE A LONG SESSION, Rev. Thomas Jenkins Tells Throngs Church-Going Essential to Main tain High Standard of Life. "Why men should go to church was the subject of a sermon sent broad cast by radio from Th Oregonian tower last, night in connection with a complete service of choral evensong by the choir of St. David's Episcopal church. The sermon was delivered by Rev. Thomas Jenkins, rector, and the music was directed by Tom G. Taylor, organist and choirmaster. The service, which was exceed ingly beautiful and which was heard by thousands of churchgoers who re mained in their homes to listen, was opened with a hymn, "Softly Now the Light of Day" and. Versicles, by the choir of 20 voices. It was followed by an Easter psalm, "Christ Our Pass over" (Humphrey) and "Magnificat" (Beethoven). After this came the intonation of the creed with versicles and another hymn by the choir, "Christ for the World "We Sing." In his sermon, which followed the second hymn, the Rev. Mr. Jenkins said: "A man should go to church for the same reason that he goes home to his family. Fellowship in the family is created and maintained by the meeting together of the members of the family. A group of individuals related by blood, but never meeting together or speaking to each other, or cultivating each other's company and fellowship would not be a family. And. an individual who takes no in terest in the welfare and activities of the home is not under normal con ditions, a very laudable member of the family. The very idea of the family involves a participation in its Interests. Family life is a communion and fellowship among the members of the family group. "People should go to church be cause the head of the church desires his children to meet with him. He wants to know their needs and ex periences. He wants them to hold converse with him. He wants them to remember that in him they live and move and have their being. He knows too well how they fail, apart from him and from one another. "And people 3hould go to church that they may be honest. God has given men six days in which to work, and one day for worship and rest. The man who pays no attention to God's ordering of time would be shocked if his business associates paid no regard to honesty. And yet it is just as much a sin to rob God of time as it is to rob man of money or property. To give short measure in time is a sin of like character as giving short weight in trade. And when men and women come to see that they belong to God and that hia claim upon them covers all they have and are, they will see that honesty requires them to gather in the family circle and around the family board. "And then people should go to church for the sake of the good in going. Man cannot live by bread alone. This we are learning to the world's sorrow today. Faith is as essential to a man's life as bread. And faith is to be cultivated spir itual! y. We work hard to cultivate thought, and faith requires effort for its cultivation. The freedom of the .oul is attained by keeping the eye (Concluded on Page 2, Column 1.) lilli'K j I Warfare Breaks Out on Waterfront Again. SHOTGUN SQUAD IS GALLED Union Sympathizers Flock to Dock After Fight. POLICE DISPERSE CROWD Operators to Ask Injunction Today Against Ijabor Men Interfering Vitli Longshore Work. A mob of about 20 striking long shoremen or sympathizers last night attacked two men from the steamer T. J. Totter, moored near municipal terminal Xo. 1 as a temporary home for strikebreakers, and one of them was severely beaten. The cook on the Potter made his escape from the mob and disappeared, and for a time it was believed that he had been kidnaped. I.ater he made his way to the steamer and crept aboard. He was not badly hurt. The two men had been away from the Potter and were returning when they were pounced upon by the mob about 7 o'clock. Blows were rained upon them and the cook's companion, who failed to escape, was badly beat in, although not seriously in jured. Following the fight a crowd of between 150 and 300 strikers and sympathizers gathered at municipal terminal Xo. 1. All the available po lice, innluding the "shotgun squad." were rushed to the place. The crowd was dispersed without further trou ble. Xo arrests were made. Injunction to Be Asked. Injunction proceedings, with a view to restraining striking longshoremen from interfering with non-union men hired to work vessels in the harbor, and from Int erf ering with the prog ress of loading or unloading such vessels with non-union crews, will be started today, according to announce ment by a committee representing the employers last night. It was said that the employers would also ask that the strikers be restrained from picketing in such numbers as to in timidate men working vessels. Arrangements for starting these proceedings were declared to. be in preparation and it was expected to be ready to take it up today. A tem porary restraining order will be asked for first, pending the argu ment and the decision on the grant ing of a permanent injunction. Shipboard Official Kxpected. J. C. Jenkins, director of the indus trial relations division of the ship ping board, is expected to arrive in the city today in connection with telegraphic advices received by the Longshoremen's union that were to handle cargoes on shipping board vessels. The telegram received last week wss to the effect that he WOUd ( arrive this morning. Xo further in formation relative to tho time of his arrival had been received by the union men or by J. W. Crichon, divi sion head of operations of the ship ping board, yesterday. The arrival of Mr. Jenkins is ex pected by the union men to uphold them in their contention that they be given the work on shipping board vessels. On the contrary the conten tion of the employers is that the ship ping board has no right to dictate as to the loading of vessels which are under allocation to private opera tors. Kiglit VesHelfi Worked. Kight vessels were worked yester day with crews of men sent out in busses from the employers' headquar ters at Columbia hall, supplementing the men housed at the steamer T. J. Potter, moored at Terminal No. 1 . The vessels on which work was in progress included the Columbia-Pacific steamer Minnesotan, at the Globe mills; the Luck en bach line steamer Hattie Luckenbach, at the Portland Pouring mills dock; the Johnson line niotorship Valparaiso at the Irving dock; the San Francisco & Portland steamer Rose City, at the Ainsworth dock; the Norway Pacific steamer George Washington, and the North west Shipping company's steamer Thomas P. Beal, at Terminal Xo. 4; the General Steamship corporation steamer Jcptha and the Suzuki steamer Hakushika Maru, at the Clark and Wilson mill. Some Crews Small. The employers eaid that they had no trouble in taking care of all the vessels on which it was desired to push work yesterday, although some of the crews were small. A crew of 70 men was sent to the Ainsworth dock to take care of the steamer Rose City in order that she might be able to get away on schedule time This is In line with the policy to give the passenger steamers preference in quick dispatch. It was reported at the employers headquarters yesterday that the reg istration of workmen to take the place of the striking longshoremen was going forward in good shape, and that it was expected in a few days that all the men needed would be available, especially if it is pos- (.Concluded on Page 3, Column l.J Kewfl of Death Concealed From Son Until Concert in Los An geles Is Finished. XEW YORK, April 30. Mrs. Rose Grainger of White Plains, N. Y., mother of Percy A. Grainger, the Aus tralian composer and pianist, was . killed today by a fall from an 18th- story window in the Aeolian hall building. Word was immediately sent to the son, who is said to be In Los Angeles on a concert tour. Mrs. Grainger, who was 60 years old and wealthy, was spending the (Jay with Mrs. Antonla Sawyer in Aeolian hall. Mrs. Sawyer, who said sh was Percy Grainger's manager, told the police that Mrs. Grainger telephoned her from White Plains that she was not well and asked permission to visit her. Mrs. Sawyer motored out to White Plains after her. Shortly after their arrival at the Sawyer suite Mrs. Grainger asked for medicine and Mrs. Sawyer stepped out to obtain it. When she returned her guest was missing. She discovered her body on the roof of an adjoining building, 13 stories below. Mrs. Grainger was dead when she reached the hospital. Mrs. Grainger was the widow of John II. Grainger, an engineer and architect. Before her marriage she was a music teacher and the son re ceived his first instruction from his mother. She came to the United States about two years ago. IOS ANG ETE3, Cal., April 30. (Special.) Xews of the death in Xew York of Mrs. Rose Grainger, mother of Percy A. Grainger, reached Los Angeles this afternoon while tho Aus tralian composer and pianist was con ducting a concert of his compositions by the Los Angeles philharmonic or chestra. He was not notified of the accident wh Ich cost his mother's life until after the concert, when he said he would leave immediately for Xew York. He had only one more concert engagement before June. That was here tomorrow and It was canceled After first reporting the case a sui cide, the police recorded that Mrs. Grainger "either fell or Jumped." Henry T. Finck, music critic for the Xew York Evening Post, later issued a statement explaining that Mrs. Grainger had gone to a window for fresh air, was overcome with dizziness and had fallen. Benjamin M. Vance, assistant med ical director, later announced that his office had registered Mrs. Grain ger's death as duo to suicide. MISSING BOY IS LOCATED Mare Mart in s Mot her Overjoyed to Learn Hoy Is Alive. CHKHA LIS, Wash., April 30. (Specio I. ) Marc Martin, son of Mr, and Mrs. M. B. Martin of Chehalis, is alive and well at Prineville, Or., ac cording to word received here today by hi.? parents. For the last week a search has been made in the north west in an effort to locate the 16 year-old lad whose body, it was thought, was the one that was seen to be carried over Celilo falls last Sunday The body of a man and that of a saddled horse disappeared in a whirl pool below the falls. Mrs. Thomas Pollson of Portland sister of the mi.ssinir vouth. hurried to The Dalles and after throe or four days' inquiry learned that her brother had gone to Prineville, where it was found he was at work. Mr. Martin has gone to Portland and Mrs. Martin who has suffered untold grief the last week is rejoicing that her boy is alive. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S -Maximum temperature, GS degrees ; minimum. a agrees. TODAY'S Pair; westerly winds. Foreign. Threat of war again heard in Europe Page L All China terrified as armies clash. Pago 1 American tourists flock to England. Page 5 Mystery murders occur In Berlin. 'Page 5. Allies prepare new ultimatum for Russia. Page National. Debutantes of capital give subscription ball. Page 3. Six aids proposed for farm credits. Page L AD DOMESTIC Domestic Percy Grainger's mother Is suicide. Page L Drys ruining art, says noted illustrator. Page 3. Gompers warns against soviet recognition. Page Raiders in klan party to surrender. Page Bryan asks for L". S. representation at Genoa. Page 6. Hundreds labor to stops breaks in Missis sippi levees. Page lii. Minister, involved in church fight. Is bound, gagged and left by roadside. Page 1. Fswifie Northwest. Columbia fishing season opens today. Page Spurts. Standard is urged in golf scoring cards Page 11. Pacific coast league results: At Portland 6-n, Vernon 5-8; at Seattle 10-3. Oak land 0-5; at Los Angeles 3-. Sacra mento 11-5; at San Francisco 10-0. Salt Lake 7-4. Page 10. Charley Robertson pitches no -hit, no-run game. Page 10. Commerriul and Marinr. Genoa unsettles securities market. Page 17. Nation feels financially secure. Page 17. Portland and Vicinity. Samson is compared to modern man. Page 18. Kadio church service heard by thousands. Pagel. Rose Festival to be brilliant event. Page la Runaway lumber market forecast. Page 4. Rev. C. C. Rarick due In city Thursday. , Page3. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 17. Speed maniac causes death of woman. Page L Mob of strikers beats two workers. Page 1. Pastor Centering Church Fight Is Attacked. VICTIM THROWN INTO ROAD Intent to Kill Is Discussed by Three Captors. SEVERAL REFUSE TO AID Motor Parties Reported to llaxo Driven On After Learning Iden tity of Church Leader. LAWTOX, Okla., April 30. (By the Associated Press.) Rev. Thomas Ir win, pastor ot the First Presbyterian church here, who several days affo was ordered tried by his presbytery on charges of conduct unbecoming a minister, was found bound and gagged lying in a ditch near the Medicine park gate, 12 miles east of here, by a party of motorists early today. Tho minister was in semfconsctoun condition and said he believed he had been chloroformed by three men who attacked him while he was walking. Threat Charged hy l'sntor. Tho pastor, who became involved with one faction of tho church, which is seeking his removal, over marry Ing a couple In a bathing pool, exhibiting motion pictures In his church and preaching the funeral sermon at Ard more, over Jake I. Hamon, who was fatally wounded by Clara Smith Hamon, more than a year ago, an nounced several months ago that cer tain persons were attempting to drive him out of town. At the home of Senator J. R. Thomas, nearby where Mr. Irwin was taken for first aid, the minister said that he was on his way to the home of a member of his congregation hero last night about 8 o'clock when he was stopped by three- men whom h did not recognize. A moment later, he said, he felt a blow on the hemd and when he regained his Menses, he found himself securely tied and gagged with the three men In wn automobile which was in motion. One of the men was sitting on him, he said. Killing DfeMMMl hy Men. During the ride, he said he heard one of the men say: "Let's do away with him now,' while another member of the trio in terceded for him with the words: "DonX kill him now. (Jive him one more chance to get out of town." A few minutes later Rev. Mr. Irwin said ho wn thrown out of the car into a rnudhole at the side of the road. There he said he managed to remove the gag. There ho said ho lay for three or four hours, during which time several persons in motorcars an swered his calls for aid. but drove away without helping him when they learned his identity. He was found by his rescuers ubout 1 o'clock thli morning. V 111 Kffert Suffered. Rev. Mr. Irwin apparently suffered no ill effects from the experience. The Kl Reno prebytcry held a ses sion In Mr. Irwin's church here last Wednesday and after hearing a report of a committee which in vest i gated charges against the pan tor, ordered that he be tried May 9. Several men were appointed to conduct the trial. A feature of the presbytery session was the presence of a policeman. Four formal charges were preferred against the pastor. It whs alleged that he had outlived his usefulness as a minister by being responsible for alleged "disorder and deplorable conditions" in his church ; that he distributed a pamphlet "Low Twelve" reviewing the history of the contro versy which, it was charged, con tained material "unbecoming a min ister;" that members of his church had been suspended without trial and that he performed a marriage at a public bathing pool in which the principals were clad in bathing suits. casting "disrespect" upon the Presby terian church. hurt'h Pounded HO Yearn Ago. Mr. Irwin founded tho First Pres byterian church here 20 years ago and since that time has filled the pulpit. The bathing-pool wedding had Uh climax in Oklahoma Pity yesterday when Helen Bralnsf ield, 17, the girl bride, received a divorce. It was brought out at the hearing that sne was married to Frank I- Wells. 10. by Reverend Mr. Irwin at the Medicine Park bathing pool lant summer during a pleasure party. It was testified that the girl and Wella wore bathing suits and that they be came united in a spirit of revelry. The spirit lasted only 30 days, however. and they separated. The big storm that has split the Uwton church came after Mr. Irwin preached the Hamon funeral aermon. lake Hamon was eulogized by the pastor for many good qualities, "es. pecially'his generosity." MrAeral Member lthdrnn. Several members of the pastor' church withdrew over the Incident. About a week ago a fire was dis covered In an annex of the church which had been built by Hamon. Rev. (Concluded on Psge 4, Column -