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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTE3IBER 15, 1918. 5 COLORADO STARTS BANDIT ROUNDU P Eastern Half of State Field for Chase of Alleged Train Robbers. SEVEN TAKEN IN DENVER City and Slate Authorities Join In Pursuit Following Five Gnu rights, In Which Two Officers Fell. DENVER. Sept. 14. The Denver po lice prepared tonight to deal with fur - ther possible activities of the automo bile bandits who engaged the police of Colorado Springs and Denver in five gun. fights yesterday afternoon and last night,- killing two officers and wounding four. Simultaneously Superintendent Frank Adams of the State Constabulary ar ranged a dragnet to cover the Eastern half of the state and prevent the es cape of the bandits, who are sought in connection with the robbery on July 10 of a Missouri, Kansas and Texas train at Koch, Kan. - In Denver a guard of detectives was Ynaintained about the house on Capitol Hill believed to be the rendezvous of the bandits and special details were scattered throughout the city. Constabulary la Action. Superintendent Adams ordered two companies of constabulary, one sta tioned on the Colorado-Wyoming bor der and the other on the New Mexico Colorado border, to begin an encircling movement- of Denver so as to prevent the alleged train robbers from escap ing. even persons, four men and three women, are in custody as a result of last night's clashes with the police. They are: Frank Lewis, arrested early today while speeding toward Colorado Spring in a taxi cab Roy PherrHI. caotured early today after a cun firiiuunh a poane south of Denver. Kva Da Morris, sister of Lewis, arrested with Sherrlll. Lloyd Dale, arrested today at Sedalla. 'John TJabb, step-father of Lewis, arrested last night in a xaid of a house on Capitol Hill. Denver. Mrs. Babb, mother of Lewis, arrested with Bsbb. Mrs. Frank Lewis, arrested with the Babbs. Prison Reeord Alleged. Dale, according to the police, was re leased this summer from the Missouri penitentiary, where he was known un der the name of Erdway. PEORIA, 111., Sept. 14. Police and sheriffs' posses of Peoria and Tazewell Counties tonight were scouring the sur rounding country in a search for three automobile bandits who late this after noon attempted to rob mine officials of the $26,000 payroll of the Groveland Mining Company, and who shot and seriously wounded Detective E. J. Gus tine of Peoria, and Walter Off, man ager of the company. After the shooting the robbers fled. making no attempt to secure the satchel of money left unguarded in the automobile. bearers: P. E. Hsney, Hall S. Lusk, James L. Conley, Clarence H. Gilbert, Merwin Rankin and R. Citron. Honorary pallbearers were Judge T. A.' McBride, Judge J. P. Kavanaugh, Judge Wallace McCamant, Judge Henry E. McGinn, Judge C, H. Carey and C M. Idleman. Mrs. Kathryn Crysler Street sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and One Sweetly Solemn Thought." Mr. Webster was 63 years old. He was born in New Tork City. He came to Oregon in 1878 and had been a rest dent of Portland since 1893. He prac tlced law in Southern Oregon and for four years was Circuit Judge In Jack son. and Klamath counties. He Joined the firm of Carey, Idleman, Mays & Webster in 1895. The firm dissolved two years later. Mr. Webster con tinued in partnership with Mr. Idle man for five years. For two terms, beginning in 1902, he was County Judge until he resigned and was succeeded by Judge Cleeton in 1910. Mr. Web ster was an active good roads advo cate and was much interested in the Juvenile Court- Mr. Webster was a widower. He lived at the Mallory Hotel. The body was cremated. - . STRIKERS MAY YIELD 8 COUPLES DIVORCED CRl'ELTY AND DESERTIOV CACSES FOR LEGAL SEPARATION. Cecilia Gallagher, After Waiting 20 Years for Return of Husband Files Snlt for Divorce. Eight more marital ties were severed yesterday in decrees signed by. Presid- ng Judge Tucker granting divorces to he following unhappily married cou ples: Gertrude Emery from Allen I Emery. cruelty; Violet A. Love from Joseph Love, cruelty; Cora E. Rogers from Williams A. Rogers, desertion: May A. Plaster from George W. Plaster, cruel ty; S. 3t Groom from Gladys F. Groom, cruelty; Grayce W. Randolph from Pey ton Randolph, cruelty; M. O. McGee from Addie E. McGee. desertion: Ida Rlchter from August Rlchter, cruelty. Cecilia Gallagher, in a suit filed yes- erday, says she has waited 20 years for the. return of William Gallagher, who deserted her in 1898. They were married in 1882. She wants a divorce nd the restoration of her maiden name, Cecilia Berrlgan. Cruelty is charged in the complaint which Millie Ellis filed against Edward Ellis, whom she married at Vancouver n 1907. The wife asks for the custody of their two small children and $75 a month for their support. A charge of cruelty is -contained In the suit filed by Edith Wallace against Robert C. Wallace. They were married at Oregon City in 1911 and have no children. She asks that her former name of Edith Harris be restored to her. Wilson's Letter Seems to Have Won at Bridgeport. - DECISION DUE TOMORROW Bethlehem Steel Corporation Prom ises to Put War Labor Board's Award Into Effect With- out-Delay.. . TROPHIES TO BE SHOWN WAR RELICS BROUGHT OVER FOB EXHIBITION. Northwestern Liberty Loan Special With Rare Display Aboard, Soon to Tour State. ARCADIA. Kan, Sept. 14 One ban dit was killed and another -wounded and taken prisoner in a fight with cit izens following a raid by three men upon, the Home State Bank here to day. CHICAGO, Sept 14. The four crim inals, who cut their way from the County Jail Thursday night were re ported today to be fleeing toward the Iillnois-lowa line by way of Rock Island. The four are expected to put up a hard battle if surrounded. James I Mooney, chief of detectives, -tonight prepared to send a squad of picked riflemen to Rock Island to take vp the chase in case the- men aban doned their automobile and took to the -woods adjoining: the Mississippi bot tom lands. ENGINEER LOSES LIFE A TDK JOHXSOX i LOCOMOTIVE CRUSHED WHEN . OVERTURNS. fjrakemaa la Serlonsly Injured . Wreck: en North Bank Road Due B ' to Landslide. In Engineer Ayde Johnson was crushed to death and Brakeraan J. B. Khue was severely injured in a wreck on the Uorth ' Bank road near Lyle, Wash., Sate Friday. Locai passenger train No. . operating between ' Portland and 'Fallbridge, Wash, struck a landslide four miles beyond Lyle. The engine turned completely over, but none of the passenger coaches left the track. The mail car turned crosswise on the track. Large quantities of rock and mud were loosened from the mountainside overlooking the Columbia by the heavy rain Friday afternoon. The train came upon the slidealmost without warning and Engineer Johnson was unable to Blow down in time. " Traffic was routed on the O.-W. R. A X. tracks on 'the Oregon side of the river until 10 o'clock yesterday morn ing, when the wreckage and slide were cleared away. ": Engineer Johnson is survived by his wife, living in Vancouver, Wash. The funeral will be held there under direc tion of the Masonic Order. Mr. Rhue lives at 1006 H Haight avenue. Portland. He received serious scalp wounds. Fireman Leabo, in the cab at the time of the accident, escaped Injury. Loaded with war trophies captured recently by American soldiers nea Solssons, . the Northwestern Liberty Loan Special, will reach Oregon about September 20 for a tour of the state. Such was the information received yesterday by Milton R. Klepper, man ager of the speakers' bureau for the fourth Liberty Loan Committee of Ore gon. The Liberty Loan Special is a new feature made possible by the capture of many war'trophies by the American forces. These have been sent to the United States by General Pershing, and one special train has been assigned to each district. Liberty loan speakers will accom pany the special and Manager Klepper hopes to arrange a schedule so that the train will visit practically all Ore gon cities and towns. Exact dates are not yet available. The train will be assembled at Spo kane on Tuesday and will spend a num ber of days in -Idaho.-, From there it will come to Oregon and remain here until October 1. The train probably will carry a band. The special will be made up of two large flat cars, loaded with trophies. one Pullman sleeper and a baggage car. GRAM TO ATTEND MEETING State) Labor Federal Agencies Hold Conference In Washington, to SALEM. Or., Sept. -"14. (Special.) State Labor Commissioner Hoff today wrote to Governor Wlthbycombe assert ing that he has appointed C. H. Gram as Deputy Labor Commissioner to rep resent his office at a conference of atatae and Federal labor agencies to be held in Washington September 30 and October m for the purpose of outlining war labor 4ollctes to be pursued during the duration of the conflict. The Gov ernor has suggested that Mr. Hoff at tend the conference on request of Felix Frankfurter, of the War Labor Board. "The purpose of such co-operation, as see it." Mr. Hoff said, "shoald be to derive the greatest benefit from this conference for both the Labor Bureau and the state. In order to realize this end I find that the proper person to send would be my successor." FINAL TRIBUTE IS PAID ri XEIUL SERVICES HELD HOR EX. JUDGE WEBSTER. Member f Bar Association Act as Pallbearerat Paster of Unlta ; run Chareh Officiates. . Funeral services for Lionel R. Web ster, ex-Judge of Multnomah County 'Court, and one of Oregon's prominent attemts, were held yesterday in Fin ley'B chapel at 1 P. M. Rev. W. G. Eliot, .Jr.. pastor of the First Unitarian Church, officiated. Mr. Webster was killed last Wednes day night by falling four stories down the elevator shaft of the Columbia building. A Coroner's inquest resulted 1n a verdict criticising the elevator operator, J. C. Sumner, and the man agement of the building, who was held remiss for employing an alleged inex perienced operator. . The following members of the Oregon ptat Bar Association, acted as pall- COURSES OPEN TO WOMEN University of , Oregon Shapes Plans to Meet Federal Xeeds. EUGENE, Or., s"ept. 14. (Special.) The University of Oregon has an nounced courses of study for women which will qualify them as physicians, nurses, bacteriologists, stenographers, typewriters, bookkeepers, teachers of hygiene and physical education, labora tory systems, pathologists and in many other positions. Nursing is to be em phasised and courses prescribed and in dorsed by the War Department have been adopted. The courses for women, to be given by the school of commerce at the uni versity, havo been outlined by the Gov ernment and the record made by the student will be her civil service mark. In other words, the student will be ready for appointment upon the com pletion of the college course. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Sept. 14. The strike of the Bridgeport machinists will be ended on Monday, according tq every Indication here tonight. It was said authoritatively that the Machinists' Union District No. 55 Lodge would make a recommendation to the strikers at their mass meeting Monday afternoon to return to work. Members of the strike committee and union officials mere said to be making every effort tonieht to- eee all the strikers and urge them to report at tire plants Monday morning. . After the arrival today of President Wilson's letter ordering the machinists to return to work, the strike commit tee held a meeting. -A member of the committee said that after the strikers have returned to their places the local nnion will make application to the Na tional War Labor Board for"a" rehear ing in the Bridgeport wage dispute as suggested In the President's letter. WASHINGTON. Sept. 14. Threatened labor difficulties at the Bethlehem. Pa., steel works have been, averted by a promise from the company to obey an order from the War Labor Board to put into effect immediately the board's award in the wage controversy. Eugene C. Grace, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, had pro tested to the board that application of the award would cost the corporation $2,500,000 tt'month and asked for pro vision for additional compensation. The board deolined to pass any reso lution on the subject, but . individual members said they would not oppose efforts on the part of the corporation to obtain additional cmpenBation from the ttar and ravy departments on the con tracts already held. . " Investigation of working conditions. ana wages paid. Dy tnei teiepnone in dustry, now under Government control was ordered today by Postmaster-Gen eral Burleson. MONTREAL. Sept. 14. Substantial wage increases, an eight-hour day and time and a half pay for overtime labor were today granted the operators of the Canadian Pacific Telegraph Com pany by the labor committee of the Federation- Railway War Board. LONDON, Sept. 14. The spinners in the Yorkshire and Lancashire cotton mills quit work at noon today in ac cordance with the decision reached i week ago by the Amalgamated Associa tion of Cotton Spinners to strike lor the abolition of the rota system. CINCINNATI, O.TSept. . Although over 24' hours have "passed since the strike of the Cincinnati policemen for higher wages was inaugurated, only about 100 of the blue-coated officers reported for duty today, and the pro tection of the city is being maintained through the efforts of the Home Guard and the Boy Scouts. DESTROYERS FOUND READY (Continued From First Page.) G. W. Anderson Dies.. . E. E. Covey, commandant of the local Grand .Army of the Republic Post, re ceived a telegram yesterday notifying him that G. W. Anderson, an inmate of the Old Soldiers Home at Roseburg, Or., had died, and that the body was be ing sent to Portland. Mr. Anderson had a daughter in Portland, but Mr. Covey does not know her name or address. He is anxious to have her friends notify her of her father's death, so that she can communicate with him. Shipyard Rigger Is "Hurt. Ed Hansen, SO, a rigger in the Foun dation Company's shipyard, sustained a fractured skull yesterday by falling from a beam while working. He was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital. got it down so fine that they can hit a ship before they even see her." , "Well, I don't like to brag, but. it looks to me as if those German sub marines were out of luck." U. S. Destroyer Mystery There was eagerness everywhere to learn what the destroyers were doing in the war zone and the few bits of in formation that filtered through the Navy censorship held a singular fas cination. Taking it by and large, the destroyer was a mystery, a name to conjure with, even in time of peace. It seemed to typify, more than anything else, and swift intensity and dashing sacrifice of modern naval warfare in the spirit of Kipling's splendid chant to 'The Destroyers": "The stripped hulls, slinking through the gloom. At gaze and gone again The Brides . of Death that wait the groom The Choosers of the Slain!" The exacting tests of war demolish a fallacy and prove that the utterly im possible may be achieved. The lncredi. ble becomes a matter of daily routine. In the most tempestouous waters of this North Atlantic war zone the de stroyer fleet was ordered to cruise the whole year round, to hold the sea in all weathers, to be fit for duty at an hour's notice, to reel off six and seven thousand miles a month per ship, or twice around the watery globe in a year and the destroyer fleet went out and did it. Men and ships were racked and weary, but they wefe always ready to carry on. , Now, the answer is that they were ready before ever the call came to cross the sea and find a haven in a port of the Irish Coast. It is amusing, in a way. but not altogether happy, to recall how much idle, ignorant talk one used to hear about the gilded young loafer of a naval officer and the low-browed bluejacket who was. unfit for admit tance to a restaurant or theater. And all the while the most intelligent and most highly educated naval personnel, in the world was working its very soul out to be prepared, both ships and men, for the emergencies of war. Job la No Soft One. ' A destroyer commander, after six months of battering service in the war zone, confided - to me during a brief respite ashore: "Hard? Of course, this Is, no soft job. but don't spill any sympathy, if you please. Man, it's easier than it was for months and months before we left home, in some respects. We were on patrol duty in Southern waters long before Lncle Sam butted into the war. And it was drill, you tarriers, drill." "Tou were fairly busy, even before that," I suggested. "Yes, that's a conservative state ment. Admiral Sims is an old de stroyer man. He had the flotilla and you might ask him what he did to it." "Then you felt fairly sure of stand ing up under this war game." -, "Not a bit cocky. Don't think that." was the Jngenuous reply. "We knew we had a lot to learn from the British destroyers because they had " been up against the real thing dor three years. Their officers were too polite to say so, but they had heard a- lot about Yankee conceit and know-it-all." "They found none of it in you de stroyer men,"-1 assured him, "and they can't say enough aboutyour fine spirit. There wasn't much to teach you, at that. They think you know your job." "A man who doesn't learn something new every day he sails in a destroyer is a bone-head," was the commander's professional verdict. Other Meeting- Recalled. I remembered a meeting at sea with these same American destroyers a year before the war. It was off the- Vir ginia coast and I was the guest of the skipper of a- huge, five-masted schooner bound out of Hampton Roads with 5000 tons of coal for a down-east port. In the twilight, while the vessel moved slowly under full sail, they came foaming in from off-shore, one gray destroyer after another, going 25 knots, with precisely ordered intervals between them, . until more than 30 of these phantom shapes were counted as they fled.' , Then they wheeled like hawks and black, smoke screens- hid them from sight. Later in .the night they appeared and the stately schooner floated in the midst of them, the "skip per slightly perturbed as he ' ambled between the binnacle and the rail and remarked: Not a Mght showing on a cussed one of 'em! Every destroyer as dark as the inside of a nigger's pocket. If they would kindly give me a little more ' elbow-room, I'd feel much obliged. It's creepy. Darned If I see how they manage to maneuver with out rammin' hell-bent into one an other." - - - The skipper gazed at the hovering destroyers, so dimly, discernible, and resumed, with emphasis: "Trere's mighty few folks that know what the Navy really does with itself. They'll find out some day, when we decide to take a crack at these dirty Germans that murder merchant sea cn in open boats." - Admiral Sims Understands. Vice-Admiral Wtlliam S. Sims knew what the Navy had been doing with itself and the destroyer fleet in par ticular. He was sent to England soon after the declaration of war to -offer the co-operation of the American Naval forces and to learn how they could be employed to the best advantage. The Grand Fleet was powerful enough to hold the German fighting ships in check and make safe the surface of the Seven Seas, but the hostile sub marine was busy at its infernal trade of unrestricted warfare against mer chant shipping. Aimed against hiagr land, it was a weapon which also menaced America's plans to send an Army to France. Tne war was, first and - foremost, a blue-water problem, and the destroyer was the winning card. No other means of offense and defense against the U-boat had been so successful. By bitter experience the British Admiralty had thrashed it out, although there were thousands of trawlers, drifters, yachts and motor launches engaged in hunting the Hun, besides elaborate systems of mines and nets. - Admiral Sims promptly reached the- same con clusion and urged Washington to send destroyers at once, as many, as pos si ble. There was an important conference in tho office of the Secretary of the Navj'. Many stsund traditions and doc trines have been upset by this war, one of them that destroyers must be held as units of the fleet. Secretary Daniels listened to his Admirals in council and announced: "The fighting zone of our Navy Is not in home waters. It is off the coasts cf England and France. Give Sims what he asks for, and we'll build more destroyers for him, as fast as they can be turned out. (To Be Continued.) Suns. . 15d V4Jz0 Ot'li . .-.'H, Week-Day L?7 'Zr-j ' 7Z sf Mats. . la rSy ' JpO -.- . Jb" - Arbuckle and Mabel O-C f 0 ' " f . Normandin f '' L )A ' : Sl "FATTY and MABEL L-O? . V V ; . ADRIFT" ffofA ) nC C; . V jp; i Second More Nutty lJp, - 1 - .' Charlie Chaplin in' i . H APr'' "HIS MUSICAL A . (,W CAREER" .. ljiJI crtARUe Third a Flock of Nuts hsuU rs ' J Keystone Comedians d&S I ' "A SUBMARINE f C l5 PIRATE" A rS Come in. Laugh your . buttons off. . We're making a collection of 'em. ed to bring magazines to school this week. They will be collected and dis tributed to soldiers and sailors at dif ferent camps and stations from the Public Library.' STATE CHAMBER IS PLAN ALL COMMERCIAL BODIES IN ORE- GON MAY UNITE. Portland Invites Other Cities to Co operate In Organization for De velopment of Commonwealth. A state Chamber of Commerce Is the prime object of letters sent by the Portland chamoer to all commercial bodies in Oregon. The letter suggests that immediate steps be taken to form a state body for the concentration and organization of all development work for different sections of the state. A state chamber patterned after the National Chamber of Commerce is the plan, which includes a board of direct ors with two-thirds of its membership outside of Portland. It is -suggested that the Portland Development Bureau could act as a clearing-house for infor. mation for the state organization and that the secretary of this bureau could act as secretary for the state body. Opinions of heads of the various com mercial bodies are asked in an effort to further and develop plans for the co operative organization. The plan -has been under consideration at different times by other bodies and it is expected will meet with approval from all sec tione of the state. ALLIES ON ALERT IN CHINA Japanese jat Fu Chow and British at Amoy as Rebels Approach. PEKING, Monday, September 9. (By The . Associated Press.) A Japanese destroyer has arrived off Fu-Chow and British marines have been landed , at Amoy to allay panic in those cities due to the approach of the Southern rebel forces. Call Issued 'for Magazines. Pupils of public schools are request- THE MANNING GAS MAKER Choosing the Wrist Watch Now that the watch is quite gener ally worn at the wrist by both sexes, those for men are naturally more conspicuous than formerly and should be selected with more care. 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