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CiL.GCr:bTArEU5iARY 4T VOL. LXI NO. 19,3ol Entered at Portland Oregon Postoffic g coTid-c!fl.s Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY,'' NOVEMBER 27, 1922 PRICE FIVE CENTS 11 POLITICAL, IiS ID Victory Is Galled One of Nationalities. ECONOMIC M IS DENIED Bestore Old Relations, Af fecting Common Inter im ests, Is Advice. HEW FRONTIERS SECONDARY Monetary Disequilibrium Is Declared Rampant,- With Everyone Complaining. BY GEORGES CLEMENCEAU. (rnnvrleht. 1922, United States. Great Britain. Canada and South- America, bv No'rth American IewMpuper Alli ance and New York lii-rald). Press Publishing company, all rights re served. Unlicensed reproduction in full r In Tin rt exnreSSsIV prohibited. Article II. Europe is sick. The world is sick. Everywhere is economic dis equilibrium. Each one is complain ing. Germany, in declaring a "fresh and joyous" warj decided that this should be so. First comes the labor crisis. An immense de crease in working power; 9,000,000 of dead and 30,000,000 of wounded. A crisis also of labor suppressed by the mobilization for war pur poses of 70,000,000 men. People are amazed at the universal trou ble. Yet whenever was there so decisive a cause? j Next comes the (crisis- of raw material. The war destroyed with out creating. For France alone, from steel, 14,000,000 shells were manufactured. While less was be ing produced more was being con- fcumed and nothing went to replace in human activity what the battle field absorbed. Then there follows the crisis of personal property. Productive Capital Reduced. - On the one hand, the 'devastation f war houses, factories, railways destroyed; on the other, the work neglected owing to the general mobilization. Wholesale stoppage or slackening off diminished the productive capiuu ox eacn country 1 at a time when all nations together j consecrated a sum of 240 milliards of dollars to the process of wag ing war. A crisis in the cost of living re cults from the three first crises. The law of supply and demand was now rudely ruptured, now hope lessly interfered with, by the exig encies of military manufacturing. Other crises followed fast, one upon the other th? salary crisis, both social and economic; the in dustrial crisis, the world still pro ducing useless war material after the declaration of peace instead of concentrating on articles urgently needed in peace. Deficits Faced in 1922. The budgetary crisis came to- a head everywhere in 1922, even among the richest in the land. De ficits on all sides in France four milliards, not counting pensions and reparations. In England, in the United States, even in neutral countries like Holland, there has been an increase in expenditure due principally to a formidable growth in public debts, external no less than internal. Finally, there is the chaos of the exchange, concrete ex pression of the general world dis order, due in part to the influx of gold into certain countries and to the pauperization of others; in an other case caused by the debt of one country to a second; in a large number of instances due to the in security of national and private property. Crisis Hits AH Countries. This many-sided economic crisis hits all countries, some in the form of strikes, others in the rendering worthless of their money. It as sails the mass and individuals. Finance ministers are obsessed by it and the man in the street cannot ignore it. That is why, very nat urally, this particular feature in the general chaos has preoccupied ns above all others Yet-we havet (Cvuciudeil on Page 15, Column 1.) TIGER, SPIRITS HIGH, LEAVES FOR CHICAGO CLEMEXCEAU ACQUIESCES TO CHANGES IX ADDRESSES. 81-Year-Old Statesman Visits! Tomb of Grant, Plays With Fish, Then Demands Food. NEW STORK, Nov. 26. (By the Associated Press.) Georges Clem enceau, war-tirne premier of France, tonight turned westward with re newed confidence in his success as messenger from France to America. The private car "Bethlehem," the Tiger's traveling: lair, left 'he Penn sylvania station at 6:06 tonight bound for Chicago, where it was ex pected to arrive snortly after 3 to morrow afternoon. ' The 81-year-old statesman, after conferences ' today with Colonel House, whose guest he is in Amer ica, left the east with plans for a changed technique in the accom plishment of his mission. For sev eral hours today Clemenceau and Colonel House reviewed together the effort of the speeches made so far. Just what changes in manner or material for future addresses re sulted from the conference were not made known, but it was indicated by friends that the Tiger had acquiesced to the advice in regard to important changes of one kind or another. Clemenceau began the one-day in terval in New York between his re turn from the Yale-Harvard foot ball game and the departure for Chicago tonight, with an achieve ment of the remarkable. The pri vate car in which he spent the night pulled into the Pennsylvania station shortly after 2 o'clock this morning, and despite the unavoidable clamor of the big station, the Tiger slept extremely late for him. It was nearly 6 o'clock before he awoke and demanded onion soup and boiled eggs. Early callers at the private car were Miss Anne Morgan, chairman of the American committee for de vastated France, and Mrs. Norman Dike. Late in the afternoon, Clemen ceau, unheralded, stepped from an automobile at the tomb of Grant on Riverside Drive. Almost unnoticed, the party entered the edifice and the former premier of France stood un covered while a wreath wasplaced upon the sarcoppagus. As pleased as any boy, Clemen ceau later wandered around the aquarium at the Battery for,an hour He insisted upon seeing every va riety of fish on display, and had a humorous word or two to say about nearly all of them. The tour of the city, his visit of Grant's tomb and the entertainment offered by the "fish theater" left the Tiger in high spirits. He returned with his party to the private car shortly before the hour scheduled for departure and demanded food. Friends who had accompanied him through his stay declared that he was in better health today than at any time since his arrival in this country. BENEFACTOR IS BEATEN Autoist, Who Took In Strangers, Robbed; Machine Taken. saN FRANCISCO. Nov. 26. Charles C. Foreman, San Francisco contractor, met two men and a wom an in a bootlegging establishment early today. They asked for a ride in his machine. He consented and one of the strangers took the wheel. At South San Francisco the driver said: "Something's wrong with the car. Get out and look." Foreman got out. Something hard hit him on the head. When he awoke later near the highway his car and companions were gone. Likewise his watch, chain and $7. TEN ARE KILLED IN FIRE Score of Students HuVt in Blaze at St. Boniface College. WINNIPEG, Man., Nov. 26. (By the Canadian Press.) Ten lives are believed lost, a score of students in jured and damage approximating $1, 000,000 resulted from the destruc tion by fire early Saturday of St. Boniface college, the institution con ducted by the Jesuit fathers in the city of St. Boniface. Only one body has been recovered so far. How the fire originated was still a mystery. The injuries received by students and members of the faculty in jumping from upper window consist of bruises, cuts and some mi nor fractures. EPIDEMIC HITS STEAMER Outbreak of Influenza Is Report ed on President Roosevelt.'" PLYMOUTH. England, Nov. 26. (By the Associated Press.) An epi demic of influenza has broken out among the officers and crew of the American steamer President Roose velt. The President Roosevelt left New York November 18 for Plymouth, Cherbourg and Bremen. REDS DEMAND PROVINCE Note Addressed to Roumania by Russian Soviet. (Chicago Tribune Foreign Nw Service.) (Coiyright. 102:1. by the Chicago Tribune ) CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 26. A Sofia dispatch says Russia has just f)HHreKH-a' now' nntA n.l1nian:. The return of Bessarabia- is d- J inanded, declared Uje report. TIFMIM BFTIIRM'MiroLE WEST SHAKEN ml........ ..l.umiiu TO HIS FIRST WIFE Reconciliation Is Little More Than Joke. NEW SEPARATION PLANNED Professor to Sell Home and Practice Law. PAIR TO LIVE APART Returning Husband Declares He Was Tricked by Woman He Married Saturday. BY GENEVIEVE FORBES. (By Chicago Tribune Leaned Wire.) SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 26. Pro. feasor John P. Tiernan and his wife, Augusta H.- Tiernan, are reconciled legally. Mr. Tiernan, whose marriage Sat urday in Crown Point to Mrs. j Blanche Brimmer of Aredale, la., was declared illegal . nine hours later, returned . home to his legal wife early today. Judge Chester Montgomery, who Saturday vacated the divorce granted by him, Thurs day to Tiernan, will be asked to set aside the, rehearing, set for December 11. George Sands, attor ney for the South Bend professor, will appear in court tomorrow and request that Mr. Tiernan's cross suit for divorce be dismissed. Judge Han Aotblng to Say, Judge Montgomery refused to dis cuss his probable course of action, but intimated that the cross suit will be dismissed and the rehearing automatically dropped. But the plan to' "start all over again," as. outlined today by the ex-Notre Dame university professor and the woman whose sensational charges that Harry Poulin is the father of her self-confessed illegiti mate child, Billy, were defeated it the recent Tiernan-Poulin paternity suit, is more practical than ideal istic. . . . '' ' .- ' The ' reconciliation reopens in stead of concludes the twisted story of simple, primitive emotions and complex, uncomprehensible actions Separation to Be Repeated. For the Tiernans have reunited only to separate. Professor Tier nan, as soon as he has sold the family home on Diamond avenue, will go to Chicago to establish him self in a law firm. "I have never met Ralph Oben chain," Tiernan said tonight, "but I understand he is a fine fellow. I think we ought to get together and talk things over." With a curious detachment, Pro fessor Tiernan is able to regard his family affairs as a "case," and plans to specialize in "family law. Mrs. Tiernan and Baby Billy, who will be a year old tomorrow, will follow Tiernan. "But we will go to a different place for a while until (Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.) donation .1 Gooo WANING J I VAOftNIHG BY mm TREMORS CHIMNEYS OX ILLINOIS RESI DENCES WRECKED. Chile Also Is Roekcd and Walls Shaken Down, But Xo Xcw Loss of Life Is Reported. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 26. (By the Associated Press.) Earth tremors strong enough to break windows, shake buildings and homes and rat tle dishes were felt in St. Louis, southern Illinois, eastern Indiana and western Kentucky about 9:30 o'clock tonight, according to re ports received here. At St. Louis university seismo graphical observatory, where the tremors were recorded, attendants described them of moderate inten sity between 9:31 and 9:39. They said seismographic . indications pointed to the tremors occurring in a southerly direction.. A shook which experts said was "sudden" and of sufficient intensity to. cause slight damage in homes was record ed at 9:32. sNo actual damage other than the breaking of windows was reported up to a late hour. A dispatch from Eldorado, 111., said chimneys on several residences were toppled to the ground by the tremors although no serious damage was re ported there. Many residents of the towns were said to fear more trem ors and were remaining awake dur ing the night. SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 26. (By the Associated Press.) Another series of earth tremors has shaken a very considerable area along the Chilean coast, covering largely the zone which suffered most from the earthquake of two weeks ago. A strong shock was felt here at S:50 this morning; it lasted about a minute but did no damage. National telegraph advices report a shock at 8:50 at Vallenar, which assumed the intensity of a quake, the walls of several houses falling. The resi dents were panic-stricken, but so far as known there were no casual ties. Advices from -Huascom, timed 9:45 A. M-, reported the sea coming in over the lowlands slowly, but later advices reported that it had subsided to normal level. At Copiapo, which suffered se verely in the previous earthquake, two strong shocks were felt today between 9 and 10 o'clock, the seis mograph at the Lyceum registering an earthquake of seyenth degree In tensity. A few walls fell. La Serena, Canela, Vicuna, Mincha, Ovalle and Patria were all in the line ' of the tremors but no great damage was done. MISS MACSWINEY FIRM. Hunger Strike Is Continued on Cot Outside Prison. DUBLIN, Nov. 26. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Annie MacSwiney still Is fasting outside the Mount Joy prison. Since she was ejected from a. position at the inner gate of the prison last Thursday night by the military she has occupied a po sition on a public platform. A constant stream of sympathizers I passed her cot today. Miss Mac" Swiney has addressed a letter to every member of parliament pro testing against the action of the provisional government in detaining her sister, Mary MacSwiney, who is on a hunger strike inside the prison. GET THAT SATISFIED FEELING! NNHY TttE. SMILE rA0rtttR-lt4 You o - FIVE KILLED WITH AX AND HOME SET AFIRE HUSBAND QF ONE VICTIM IS ARRESTED. Shirt and Trousers Are Reported . Covered With Blood When Man Is Taken. BRISTOL, Va., Nov. 26. James W. Smith. 50, a grocer, his wife, their 2-year-old daughter Ruby and their niece, Mrs. Delline Burchfield, and her son, Charles, ID, were mur dered, here early this morning and the house where they lived burned over their heads, Ben Burchfield, 41, husband of the murdered woman, was arrested at Johnson City this afternoon and held in connection with the crime He protested his innocence, but of ficers said his shirt and trousers were covered with blood when he was taken. The crime was discovered about 4 o'clock this morning when the fire department was called to the combination residence and grocery store of Smith on State street. The charred bodies of the five were found in the ruins of ' the structure. They evidently had been beaten to death wHh an ajc and the house set afire to hide traces of the crime. Burchfield and his wife liad been separated and he is said to nave made threats against her. Authoi ities announced that Burch- , field will have a hearing tomorrow afternoon. Ho was brought here this afternoon to view the bodies in a local undertaking establishment. The man showed no concern while looking at the charred remains of his wife. He calmly chewed gum through tho ordeal. Funeral serv ices for the five victims will be held to inorrow afternoon from local undertaking chapel. RED TAPE FORCES TRIP Stowaway to Be, Deported, But Can Re-enter as Seaman. SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 26. Ed ward Richard Skog, "the man with out a country," yesterday was de nied a writ of habeas corpus by Judge Neterer In federal court here and is to be sent back to China by Immigration authorities. . Skog, who was born in Sweden and lived in Seattle seven years without being naturalized, was left in China by a vessel, on which he was to ship as a seaman. ' He got to Portland, Or., as a stowaway. He was told today that he cound enter this country by getting seaman's papers from an American consul in China. PLANE CRASH HURTS TWO Knoxville Editor and Pilot Are Injured in Fall. BRISTOL, Va.-Tenn., Nov. 26. H. I. Leyshon, city editor of he Knox ville Journal and Tribune, and James Ray, pilot, were injured here tonight when an airplane, in which they came from Knoxville fell on the golf course at the local country club. The machine was wrecked. The newspaper man was hastening here to write for his paper the story of the Smith-Burchfield killing and the machine was believed to have struck a telephone wire. JN16PE.-0.VST CONTRIBUTION TfV THE COMMUNITY TUATS GO IMG "TO SONtE KID OR SICK PtoHX- Ho- but am - G-olNG Y! I 1 IGKAiMD APPEAL TO CHEST Unfortunates Daily Be seech Headquarters. CONTRIBUTORS, TOO, POUR IN Hundreds Call Voluntarily to Help Charity. $366,879 . TO BE RAISED ' Campaign Reopens Today With ' Canvass of . Industrial and Residential Districts. - C'OXTIXl INfi COMMUNITY CHEST ADVANCE." The Community Chest drive enters its second week this morning, with $281,450 sub scribed to date. Additional volunteer work ers are asked to rep at headquarters, old Horn, nan building, Fourth and lder streets, for credentials and instructions. Belief prevails that week of Thanksgiving will materially assist the cause through the prevailing spirit of the great American holiday. Homeless beg aid at chest headquarters, after fruitless search of city for employ ment and food. . Campaigners are resolved to remain with the colors L until the full quota of $648,329 Is subscribed by generous city. BY BEN HUR LAM.PMAN. Are you good at figures? Very well, then. What is the difference between' $648,329 and $281,450? The difference, you will say, is precisely $36,879. While you are right, you are wrong. For the actual differ ence is that existing between happi ness and heartache, between con tent and hunger, between citizen ship and vagabondage. Indeed, the sum is one that has worried statis ticians for many years, and which seems not reducible to simpla nu merals. Just now, in Portland, it is the difference between the re corded subscription to the Commun ity Chest and the distant quota that must somehow be attained if the problem is answered. Quota Not Half Raised. One week of crusading for the chest, which is to finance many benevolent and philanthropic insti tutions and projects for the coming year, brought the knights of the cause less than half way toward their goal. With the reopening of the campaign today a vista of redou bld effort stretches before them a vista in which there loom very few prospects of large subscriptions and which demands of them the most searching endeavor in th in dustrial and residential districts. And thjs means, plainly enough, that the drive is at length before the average wage earner and house holder of the city, and that by the response of these it will stand or fall. "It- is the week of Thanksgiving," said General E. C. Sammons, speak ing of the" second assault of the cam paign, "and by virtue of this would seem to have a special significance. I think that the spirit of the week would be most fittingly exemplified if as each Vitizen sat down to the Thanksgiving table he would do so with the consciousness of having discharged his duty toward the Com munity Chest. And though we who are serving the chest campaign, as representatives of the city itself, do not permit the hope that the quota will have been subscribed by Thanksgiving day, we do feel that the generosity of Portland will be marked within the next few days and that by that time the quota will be a great deal nearer to realiza tion." . Co-Operation la Counseled. When the officials of the cam paign bespeak public co-operation, they ask merely for a common un derstanding of the project, and com mon courtesy toward those who are giving their time and toil to the ad vancement of the chest. They ask that those who can give be ready to give when asked. They ask that doors be not closed to the solicitors, who are working unselfishly for the relief of poverty and the promotion of citizenshlp. They ask that every man and every woman consult his or her conscience, and give according to the'r means and the prompting of their hearts. And, as for the gift, it computed by per capita contribu tions, it is less than that of other American cities which have adopted the chest plan, yet it is enough to afford homes for the homeless and health and care for baby waifs. There is a drawback to the effi cient progress of work at Commun ity Chest headquarters a very ma terial drawback. It is the arrival, day after day, of broken men and women who ask fo.r'ald who trudge j (Concluded on Fas 5, Column 1.) SUITOR IS ATTACKED BY GANG IN AUTO BILLETS WHIZ AROCND CAR; MAN' TAKES TO WOOD. A. M. Lec of Morton, Wash., t'n der Fire After Taking Out License to Be Married. CHE1IALIS, Wash., Nov. 26. (Special.) A. M. Lec of Morton, a town in eastern Lewis county, who a few days ago obtained a license to marry Zilpha fetandifer of Ran dle, was pursued and shot at by three or four men in an automobile and forced to hide 3G hours in the woods two miles west of Handle last week, according to a report re ceived here today. It was said that one bullet passed through his hat, another burned his breast and an other passed through his coat under , Ve" nrm' , , I ifr T.ev -w-a sairi tn hp Crtnf npn to his bed as a result of exposure during his stay in the woods. The cause of the alleged attack was n-t discoAered, but local folk thought the assailants might, be either rivals for the hand of Miss Standlfer or moonshiners who suspected Mr. Lee of spying on them. The report said Mr. Lee was at tacked while on the way from Ran die to Morton, when an automobile containing several men drove out of a by-road and started after htm, the men firing at-his car. The ma chine bore tho marks of five bul lets. After vainly trying to outdistance his pursuers. It was said that Mr, Lee headed his car into the brush and abandoned it, taking refuge be hind a log. SINNER SAVES CHURCH Late Comer Discovers Blaze on Roof of Building. A tardy member of the Friends' church. East Thirty-fifth and Sal mon streets, salved his tjuilty con science by discovering that the roof was blazing. He called the fire de partment More punctual worship ers filed out of the building and watched firemen douse the flames with a bucket of water. The tardy member then slipped in with the rest for the regular morn ing serice. Practically no damage was done to the building. HOOD RIVER HAS SNOW First Fall ot Season at City Level Is Reported. HOOD RIVER, Or., Nov. 26. (Spe cial.) The first snow of the sea son fell at the city level today. Squalls of snow prevailed at inter vals throughout the day in he up p'er Hood River valley. Orchards of the Underwood Heights district just across the Co lumbia, in Skamania county. Wash ington, were blanketed with white at nightfall. 15 CONVICTS GET AWAY Four Life-Termers Escape With Crowd in Michigan. MARQUETTE, Mich.. Nov. 26. Fifteen convicts, four of them serv ing life terms, made their escape ' from the Marquette branch prison late this afternoon. Later two of them were captured. The searchers were impeded by a heavy snowstorm. -t . INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS J temperature, I degrees. 'I The Weather, YESTERDAY'S Maximum 49 decrees: minimum, 3 TODAYS Occasionally threatening; Tvinds becoming southeasterly. Foreign. Er-suitan shivers in fear of death. Pa?c 7. Lausanne parley breaks down. Page 2. National. War political, declares Ciemenceau. Page 1. Caution is advised in federal lawa. Page 6. Subsidy passage by house expected Wednesday. Page 5. Pacific Northwest. Suitor is attacked by gang ia auto. Page 1. Domestic. Five killed with ax and home set afire. Page 1. Middle west shaken by earthquakes. Page 1. Ford aids farmer repair old car. Page 4. Professor Tiernan returns to first wife. Page J. Tiger of France., spirits high, leaves for Chicago. Page 1. English mother and child appeals for permit to land. Page 5. Debs given big ovation in Chicago. Page 3. ' Pola Negri silent on report of ennage ment to Chaplin. Page 3. Sports. , Hagen and Kirkwood defeat Wilhelm and Beal. Page 14. Eastern grid sees three startling rever sals. ' Page 14. Franklin to play Washington Saturday. Page 33. Winged M eleven has star llneun. Page 13. I California and Oregon about tied for football honors. Pajsre 14. Commercial and Marine. Bears stop drive in Gotham market. Page 20. Grain craft sails for orient with heavy cargo. Page 12. Twenty million, two hundred and seventy- five thousand dollars in bonds offered in week. Page 20. November lull noted in Industry. Page 20. Europe's condition declared improved. Page 21. Portland and Ylcinity. 6round broken for Fremont Methodist Episcopal church. Page 5. Light opera Is well presented to Portland audiences. Page 22. Fire loss in union station not over $30,- 000. Page 4. Engineers solicit Commissioner Rndeen's views on bridge contracts. Page S. Sick and hungry appeal to chest. Page 1. Saw mills receive many rush orders. Fags 12. Fightsr tabbd, to death. Page 1. j Help for Willamette university endow I nienl la urged. Pas 23. j 1 KILLED, 2 HURT IN STABBING FRAY Slayer Says He Was At tacked by Trio. DEBT INVOLVED IN FIGHT Mark F. Piplic, Alleged Boot legger, Is Dead. GEORGE VELHCOK JAILED Andrew Lubin and Pete Miller, Arrested on Assault Cliarjre, Arc Found to Be Wounded. v Three men were stabbed, on fatally, in a fight of four men at the home of Pete Miller, alias Mlias, at 1829 Fowler street about 5:30 last night. Mark F. Piplic. 34. alleged boot legger and storekeeper, died as the result of two stabs in the left side of the back inflicted by George Velhcok, alias Vilfich, 29, who was arrested and charged with murder. Andrew l.iibl'n. when arrested in company with Pole Miller at Rich mond and- Jersey streets several hours after the affray, was found to be suffering from a knife wound in the abdomen. Miller was stabbed twice in the back. The latter two were lodged In the city jaii, charged with assault with intent to' kill. Lieutenant-Inspector Thatcher said that appearances Indicated that Velhcok slabbed the other three men in Felf-clefense. The killing of Piplic followed a quarrel at Hie home of Miller, in which Velhcok asserted lie was at tacked by Miliev, Piplic and Andrew Lubin and tiiat ho wielded the knife in self-defense. All four men in volved in the quarrel were Jugo slavs and spoke English with diffi culty. W idow rnd hildrru l.rf. Mrs. Piplic. 30. widow of the slain maii, was a. home at 620 Larrabea street last ni::ht with her four child ren, ageii 7 and 3 years and a 4-nionths-old baby, scarce compre hending that they were all facing life alone. Velhcok. Lubin anil Miller lived together in Miller's house at 1829 Fowler sU'ett, Lieutenant-Inspector Thatcher of detectives learned. Vel hcok. a plasterer by trade, was pre sumably in the employ of Miller. He said th.it for the last 23 days he had bpen working on the Miller house, hiusiins'. building on a porch, constructing a fence and put ting the finishing touches on the tiny cottage. In its newness it tes tified to someone's industry. Tro-ilile lies Inn Over Debt. , Trouble began when Velhcok at tempted to collect some of the wages he alleged -were due him from Miller. He said that he had worked for 23 days without receiving any pay. and that Miller and the other men who attacked him were at tempting to shoo him from their midst .so that Miller would not have to pay him. Mrs. Piplic last night told In- I spectors Westcott and Schum that 1 Miller called at the Piplic home Sunday afternoon to get the help of Piplio in lr'vinS Velhcok from the Miller premises. She objected, she j said, but the friendship between Miller and her husband was close and Piplic finally consented to go despite her wishes to the contrary. Vr-lhrok Met Bv Trio. Velhcok was away from the Miller bouse when Lubin, Piplic and Miller gathered there to watch for him. When he did return he was met on the street half a block from the house by the three. He told police they beat him over the head and carried him into the house, where they finished the job. When taken to police' headquarters he was suffering from black eyes, swollen lips and numerous bruises about the face that testified to the intensity of the fight. While in the house Velhcok. fear ing for his life, managed to break loose from his captors, he said, and seized a long butcher knife from a kitchen table with which to pro tect himself. He ran from the house, closely pursued by the three. Piplic grappled with him near the front gate. As he did so VUhcok jabbed the butcher knife twice into his back. The wounds were almost instantly fatal. Others Flee From Scene. f As Piplic fell Lubin and Miller fled from the premises and were recaptured in St. Johns several hours after the affray. Vehlcok remained with the body of the man he had slain until the arrival of the police. He offered no resistance and readily explained the cause of the fight. He said that he refused to leave the place until he had been paid in full for the work he had done on and about the house. Neighbors saw and heard the fight. Several attempts were made to quiet the quartet, but they were obstinate and continued. Charles Moxley. who lives at the intersec tion of Fowler street and Columbia boulevard, called St. Johns police. St. Johns police investigated, then a call was sent to headquarters for the emergency physician. After the physician had departed detectives (Concluded iftpase 7, Column 2.)