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SectionOne Pages 1 to 24 102 Pages Eight Sections VOL,. XXXVIII NO. 47. Kntered at Portland (Oregon) FoMor'f'te; a S"?onrt -Class Matter. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS BHD II MESSED Three Men Captured in East Side Home EX CDNV1CT BARES KILLING Murder of J. N. Burgess and George Peringer Charged Against Two. PART OF LOOT IS RECOVERED Sheriff Taylor and Policemen Nab Trio in Bedroom; No Resistance Is Made. Three men alleged to be the high waymen who murdered Jasper New ton Burgess, state highway commis sioner, and George E. Peringer, both at Pendleton, Or., during the holdup of Claremont tavern, on the Linnton road, Friday night, were captured yesterday afternoon at 163 West Emerson street, in a house said to be the headquarters of a gang of ex convicts. One of the prisoners has confessed that he and the other two were the bandits. Three rifles and six re volvers were found in the house, and the police say they recovered a large portion of .the jewelry and money taken from the holdup victims at the tavern. The men also are believed to be the ones who robbed the Idle Hour poolhall, Third and Alder streets, on November 15, and obtained more than $4000 worth of diamonds and cash. Two Charged With Murder. The prisoners accused of the murder are: James Ogle, an ex convict from Deer Lodge, Mont., penitentiary; Walter Banaster, alias "Dutch" Herman, a cook, 23 years old, and David Smith, a machinist, 23 years old. Several other residents of the same house are held in jail pending investigation. Ogle made a confession to Deputy District Attorney Deich, in which he said he had, while intoxicated, agreed to the holdup, and had been held practically a prisoner by the other two from that moment until the ar rest. Charges of murder have been filed against Smith and Banaster. Robbers Steal Rowboat. The police last night filed a charge of assault and robbery, being armed with a dangerous weapon, against Ogle. Mr. Deich says the charge will be changed to murder. According to the confession, the bandits planned the robbery the night before it was committed. Fri day night they took an automobile from their headquarters at 163 West Emerson street to the east side of the St. Johns ferry and crossed the .river on the last ferry which made the passage that night. Before en tering the tavern, they stole a row boat to insure their passage back. They deserted the boat after reach ing the east side early yesterday, and went home in their automobile. The arrest yesterday was the re sult of a clew obtained by Inspectors (Concluded on Paer Column 1.) A (" A rr . aw',, UhVw I MMW' oregon A vi4' WMs-L s&IHfi 0Wmm$m , smiri , pmmk mm liS 19 KILLED IN PANIC ' AT DANCE HALL FIRE STAIKS GIVE WAYIXDER RUSH OF STRUGGLING CROWD. Many Other Bodies Thought to Be in Ruins of Structure at Ville Platte, La. VILLK PLATTE, La.. Nov. 22. Nineteen persons are known to have perished tonight when fire- in a build ing here, where a dance was in prog ress, caused a panic. Many other bod ies are believed to be still in the struc ture. Most of those kiJled were wouien and children. The dance was on the second floor of the building and the fire started on the ground floor. A struggle to escape followed. Some estimates placed the total casualties at 50. The identified dead: Miss Anna Roberio, Mrs. Octave Barre, Miss Ktta Barre, Miss Lena Guillory, Mr. and Mrs. Hariey Soiieu and daughter, Andre "Vidrene. Mrs. Zelma Johnson, Culver West, Berna dat Fotenot and Miss O. Bullion. Other bodies recovered have not been identi fied. A narrow stairway leading from the dancehall became a death trap when it collapsed before half of the crowd had escaped. Several of those who were cut off perished when the building collapsed, although some were rescued. Explosion of an oil heater in a dry goods store on the first floor of the building started the fire. The dancers, many of whom had come from the rural districts of Evangeline parish, were upstairs in the building, but did not heed the alarm until the dance floor was in danger. "When the dancers realized the-dan-ger a mad rush for safety jammed the stairway. Men, women and chil dren screamed and fought as the stairway crumpled beneath them. Many were hurled into the flames. Most of the bodies had not been removed from the ruins tonight. Fathers and mothers, many of them able to speak only French, from the parish countryside, famed because of Evangeline's romance, wandered in the streets searching for their sons and daughters. It was estimated that more t'.ian 100 young people wer? at the dance and that less than half escaped. Red Cross aid has arrived from several points. Many of the victims were of the most prominent families here. Among the known injured is Mayor Vigrine. TROUSERS, $500 GONE Kobber Gets Away With Profit From Ileal Estate Deal. ROSEBURG, Or., Nov. 22. (Special.) Charles Ache, a resident of Glen dale, was robbed of 5G0, the profit from a real estate deal, Thursday night, when a robber entered his home and appropriated the trousers containing the money. Mr. Ache had been in Roseburg concluding the sale and upon receiv ing the money had returned to his home. In the night some unknown person entered the room and departed with the trousers and the roils of bills. . GENERAL ANGELES KILLED , i Villa Chief Jleported Executed Without Court-Martial. SAX ANTONIO, Tex., Nov. 22. Gen eral Felipe Angeles, reported cap tured several days ago, when a strong force of Mexican federal troops sur rounded him and his' Villa followers near Olmistos, in the Conchos valley, was executed without courtmartial, according to information received here today by Martias Garcia, secre tary to Pancho Villa, who is residing in San Antonio. The same report was generally cir culated here today in all Mexican cir cles. Victory Lizard Caught. HOOD RIVER, Or.. Nov. 22. (Spe cial.) Echoes of a "victory lizard," found here last spring by George Chamberlain, east side orchardist, con tinue to be heard. J. H. Fredricy, local O.-W. R. & N, agent, first reported sighting a red, white .and blue lizard while on fishing trip. His friends professed disbelief in his story and plied him with queries as to where he located bis beverage. EX-CONVICT TELLS PART l HOLD-UP Banaster Is Slayer, Says Ogle in Confession. WITNESS TO SHOOTING DENIED Me," Officers Informed. GUN SEIZED BY COMRADES Many Revolvers and Large Qom lily of Amunition Found by Of ficers in Murphy Home.' "Dutch' Herman, alias Walter Ban aster, one of the four men under ar rest, is the slayer of one of the men who were killed at Claremont tavern according to the signed confession made by James Ogle, who admits that he took part in the robbery. When asked who did the actual shooting. Ogle first said that he did not know, but later said that he heard "Dutch" say, "I had to kill one of those fellows because he tried to pull a gun on us."' According to the confession made by James Ogle to Deputy District At torney Richard Deich and Captain of Inspectors Circle, the other two prin cipals in the hold-up were strangers to him until Thursday night, when, he says, he met them on Burnside street. Trio Plan Robbery. Ogle says he came to Portland from Tacoma a few days ago and that he left Tacoma at the time of the "wob bly trouble" about October 25 or 26. After meeting "Dutch" Herman, also known as Walter Banaster, and David Smith, the trio went to a boarding house, where the robbery of the Clare mont tavern was planned. Ogle asserted that the reason Clare mont was selected f or- the robbery was because both Herman and Smith said there was sure to be a large party out there with plenty of peo ple in attendance who had money and valuables. The confession shows that . the bandits rode in an automobile to the ferry landing in St. Johns, where they parked the machine and took the last ferry to Linnton. Before going to the tavern. Smith is said to have located a rowboat which was cached to be used in making the get-away following the robbery. Ogle Covers Gnetti. Ogle says that he was stationed in the ballroom where he covered the guests while his two companions searched and robbed them. He said that he did not witness the shooting of Burgess and Peringer, bue heard the shots, although he says he was so excited that he did not know the exact number of shots fired. 4 Upon leaving the tavern Ogle says that they forced the taxicab driver Inside of the hall tnd then made their escapta by going to the rowboat, row ing across the river, taking the au tomobile and driving to within three or four blocks of Murphy's house. Kern Weakens Ogle. The entry into Murphy's home is said to have befen made by the ban dits through the basement window, Ogle stated that he weakened when he learned that two men had been killed and that the other two bandits took, his two small guns from him, in order that he might not escape. He says they discovered that he had weakened and warned him that 25 friends of Herman would be on h&nd In the afternoon to whisk him away out of danger. Before the officers arrived at Mur phy's home Ocle says that a division of the money taken in the robbery was made, and that he got about 9130 as his share. He said that he did not know how much money was taken, as he was not present in the .room where the division was made. The bandits, according to the con- (Concluded on Page 23, Column 3.) CARTOONIST PERRY GIVES 11111- I . K MILL EXPLOSION AT TAFT KILLS THREE MRS. G. S. PARML.EE, WIFE OF OWXER, A.D SON VICTIM. Workman Also Loses Life When Building Is Razed Defective Boiler Believed Cause. NEWPORT, Or., Nov. 22. (Special.) The pdwmill boiler of the mill owned by G. S. Parmlee & Son at Taft, Or., on Siletz bay, exploded at P. M yesterday, killing three and injuring two. The dead are Mrs. NannL Parmlee, her son, Hoyt Parmlee, and Jesse G. Farrin. A. Arlinger and J. Arlinger were badly injured. A person who brought the news to this city says that the cause of the explosion had not been ascertained when he left there this morning. The mill waa a total wreck. It is reported that the boiler was condemned two years ago. When the explosion occurred. G. S. Parmlee and his son, Hoyt, were lac ing a belt and were standing within two feet of each other. The son was killed and the father escaped without a ecratch. Farrier was blown 100 feet and his face was badly crushed by a flying piece of metal Mrs. Parmlee had just stepped into the room when the boiler burst. She waa thrown against a wall with every bone in her body broken and the flesh was scalded off her left side. Death was instantaneous in all three cases. . The injured men were badly bruised about their heads, but with proper care will recover. The mill had not been running for several month? and the boiler had been fired up but a few hours when the explosion occurred. Owing to the bad condition of the roads at this time of the year it will be a hard matter to transport caskets to Taft and -may, In fact, prove impossible. The local undertaker left for that place this evening by auto, but it is doubtful if he car. get through with out walking a good part of the way. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. utf degrees; minimum. 08 degrees. TODAY'S Fair; gentle winds. mostly easterly. National. Coal operators reject, miners accept Secre tary Wilton a new wage proposal, sec tion 1, page 4. Senator McN'ary is en route home. Section page A. New crisis looms before country. Section I. page 1. Domestic Many reds arrested but few deported, ac cording to commlHsioner oi immigration. Section 1, page 2. Wilson lets treaty issue stand for new congress. Section l, page Nineteen killed in punlc at dance hall fire. Section 1, page l- S ports. O. A. C. defeats Pullman football team. 6 to 0. Section l, page a. California wins from Stanford,. 14 to lO- Section 2, page l. Errors upset Yale, Harvard winning, 10-3. Section '2, page 1 Illinois wins middle west conference loot- i ball title. Section a, page z. - i Washington state cancels game with Syra- cuse. Section -. page -. Portland become fight fans xnecca. Sec tion 2. page a. Big turkey shoot la billed for today. Sec tion 2, page o. Multnomah not abashed by defeat. Section 2, page 4. Any style good if it wins swim. Section 2, page 4. Hunt's men priming for turkey clash. Sec tion 2, page Prep elevens may decide state title. Sec tion 2, page 3. Pacific North went. Three killed In mill explosion. Section 1, page 1. Mandamus to determine governor's status expected to be ii lea wnn supreme court soon. Section 1.' page 11. Governor pledges state aid in effort to run down murderers. Section 1, page 20. L W. W. deft draws big posse to woods. Section 1, page 2. Shri tiers' army captures Grants Pass. Sec tion 1, page 8. Portland and Vicinity. Ninety planes asked for fire patrol for entire nortnwest. section a. page a. Tavern murder confessed; three men cap tured. Section 1, page 1. Oregon will not be first state to vote this time. North uaaota leading, section 1, page IS. "Taps" sounds over Calvin Gantenbein. Section 1, page 17. Jay M. Dobbin, of Joseph, elected presi dent of Oregon Woolgrowers associa tion. Section 1. page 19. Sale of war savings certificates is pushed. Section 1. page it. Mayor Baker moves to restore capital pun ishment, bection i, page Jo. Ex-convict admits part in road ho use hold up. Section 1. page 1. Holdup at first is taken as Joke. Section 1, page 23. Golden wedding anniversaries) of five Grand Army veterans and wives celebrated. Section 1. page 15. SOME SKETCHY 3 WHITE BODYGUARDS OF NEGRO ARE KILLED RADICAL ESCAPES DURING AT TEMPT TO ARREST HIM. Alabama Deputies and Labor Cu ion Leaders Clash Stand ls Made in Garage. BOOALUSA, La., Nov. 22. Three white men were killed and two wounded in a clasn at a garage today in which a small band of men at tempted to prevent special police deputies from arresting a negro labor leader, suspected of inciting negroes, and two white men who had carried bhotguns to protect him while parad ing him down the main street. The dead are L. 13. Williams, presi dent of the allied trades council of Bogalusa and owner of the garage; J. P. Bouchillon and Thomas Gaines, carpenters. They were shot by offi cers. Saul Dechus. negro, who is presi dent of the negro union, escaped from the garage. James Williams, brother of the slain leader, was arrested, charged with assault with intent to kilL The special officers, who are mem bers of the Self-Freservation and Loyal league, and who advanced on the barricaded garage despite the fire from shotguns and pistols, are main taining order. The officers began their search for Dechus last night, when they boarded a passenger train entering the city but failed to find him. Today, officers said. Bouchillon and S. J. O'Rourke, armed with shotguns. marched Dechus, for whom a warrant had been sworn, down the street to Williams garage. The chief of police had swofn in 45 special officers and they formed to make the arrest. Two started toward the garage. As they entered a gate the labor leader stepped into the door way. Officers said he refused to give up the men and made an attempt to carry his shotgun to his shoulder. He was shot dead. The garage was then searched by the officers. The last few days the league, which includes several mem bers of the American Legion, has been active in attempting? to stamp out radicalism. Wednesday 13 members, all of whom were of the American Legion, escorted out of town a white man reported to have expressed radi cal sentiments. They warned Dechus yesterday to leave the town. AFFRONT TOUS. CHARGED Carranza's Action in Jerrkins Case Held "Deliberate. EL PASO, Tex.. Nov. 22. The posi tive assertion that information is i the hands of the foreign relations committee of the United States senate to the effect that the Carranza gov. eminent is deliberately seeking to af front the United States In connection with the kidnaping and subsequent arrest of William O. Jenkins, Ameri can consular agent at Puebla, Mexico, nd the simultaneous promulgation of the oil properties nationalization decree was made tonight. A member of the sub-corr.mlttee who has arrived here to investigate international conditions is authority for the statement. STRIKE LEADERS HELD Officials of Steel Unions Arrested on Syndicalism Charge. TOUNGSTOWN. O., Nov. 22. Charged with criminal syndicalism, J. E. McCadden, secretary-treasurer of the st.el strike committee for the Youngstown district; John Klinskl, Washington county, Pennsylvania, and Frank Koraski. Scranton, Pa., coal organizers, were arrested tonight in East Youngstown as they returned from a strikers' meeting at Coltsville. All were released for bearing Mon day under $3000 bonds each. FAIR WEATHER FORECAST Occasional Rain West of Cascade Mountains Expected. WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. Weather predictions for the week beginning Monday. Issued by the weather bureau today, are: Pacific states Generally fair, al though occasional rains are probable west of the Cascades. Nearly norma temperatures. IMPRESSIONS OF A FEW RECENT NEWS EVENTS NEW CRSES LOOM BEFORE CDUNTRY Serious Sugar and Coal Famine Imminent. PEACE TREATY OUTLOOK DARK Military Intervention in Mex ico Declared Near. CARRANZA'S ACT ANGERS Washington Resents Attempts to Involve Consular Agent In Collusion With Bandits. ORKGONIAN NEWS BUREAU Washington. Nov. 22. With President Wilson ill and at loggerheads with congress, which has adjourned and gone home, and his cabinet split and wobbling over a solution of tl-c indus trial situation,, one crisis is rapidly piling upon another in the course of national events. A coal famine confronts the country which will become icute by December 20 at the latest, unless something is done to send the striking miners back to work. Actual military intervention in Mex ico. It is now admitted in government circles, is near at hand unless the Carranza government yields to the de mands of Secretary Lansing for the release of William O. Jenkins, con sular agent at Puebla, under arres for the second time after having been kidnaped for ransom. Sugar Famine Imminent. Delegates to the international con ference called under the treaty ot Versailles, with the United States un able to participate and Canada un willing to be bound by its covenants. are packing up to go home with noth A sugar famine which would affect more homes than the coal shortage !s imminent with the solution in the hands of Attorney-General Palmer. An unratified peace- treaty with Germany lies dormant on the desk of the secretary of the senate, with its future unlikely to be settled until the voters have an opportunity to pass upon it in the elections of 1920, such a challenge having been put up to President Wilson by Henry Cabot Lodge, majority leader of the senate. It is beginning to dawn on govern ment officials that the injunction is sued by Judge Anderson at Indian apolis two weeks ago and served upon the officials of the United Minework ers is not ending the strike because it did not go far enough. That in junction served only to call off the leaders of the strike, but did not put the miners back to work because an other power stepped in and assumed command in the place of the mne workers' officers rendered helpless by the court's order. Labor la Defiant. For several days the government has fully comprehended the situation, but for political reasons some mem bers of the cabinet are understood to be holding out against drastic ac tion in the hope the strike will be settled by saddling an additional $200,000,000 to $400,000,000 on the con sumers of coal. Somebody is helping the miners to defy the law and the secret of their attitude is seen in the defiant manifesto issued by the Amen lean Federation of Labor in this city on November 9. the day after Judge Anderson issued his restraining or der. That manifesto, which was given out by President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, read: "We pledge to the miners the full support of the American Federation of Labor and appeal to the workers and citizenship to give like indorse ment and aid to the men engaged in this momentous struggle." An extension of the Indianapolis (Concluded on Pace 4. Column 1.) 1 T! T 2 MINERS, ENTOMBED WEEK, FOUND ALIVE OOD IS GOTTEX TO PAIR AFTER 3 DAA'S WITHOUT. Rescue Work Continues Fresh Cave-in Buries Two Rescuers, Who Are Saved by Party. WALLACE, Idaho. Nov. 22. (Spe cial.) From the despair that Friday's fresh cave-in, imprisoning two rescu ing miners, threw over the rescue workers in the Gold Hunter mine at Mullan. came today the returning pen dulum bringing joy; for the two min ers caught in yesterday's slide, James Collins and Jacob Dei mark, a re above ground again, unhurt and happy. Through 60 feet of solid rock the voices of Pete Grant and Emit Sayko, strong and unfaltering, although buried a week, have come up to the rescuing crews through the l1i-inch aperture made by the diamond drill These men have come again into touch with their families, who had already begun to mourn them as dead. Through a sterilized galvanized iron tube, under the direction of Dr. F. W Rolf of Mullan, milk and stimulants are trickling down to the prisoners in the mine; an electric light has been lowered to lift the gloom that has en shrouded them for seven long days, and 20 yards of winding silk, tonight will be lowered that they may sleep warm of body, us well as cheered in heart at the certainty of rescue. The expectation of the mine offi cials in charge of the rescue work is that from four or five days to possi bly two weeks may yet elapse before the men can hope to see the light of day above ground. Gtrant and Sayko say they conserved the lunch carried into the mine and ! had been only three days without' food when reached. The men are in a large chamber on the 27th floor of what is known as the west extension of the old Ryan stope. the scene of a harrowing dis aster six years ago, when two men were crushed and 13 escaped It is believed to be rich in high-grade sil ver, now at an unprecedented market value, and Grant had just undertaken a contract for work in this part of the mine when the accident happened a week ago. At 11 o'clock this morning, the dia mond drill, operated by r. special crew of experts from Coeur U'Alene, pene trated the chamber where the im prisoned men are. A careful study of tho maps of -.he mine and a knowledge of where Grant was likely to have been at the time of the accident, led the mine officials to start drilling to reach thU cham ber. AGUINALDO IS SICK MAN Former Filipino Leader Has Ap pendicitis in Manila Hospital. MANILA. Oct. 11. (B; Mail.) General Emilio Aguinaldo, head of the main bodies of Filipino troops in the field against the Americans during the days of the insurrection and president of the short-lived Filipino republic, is seriously ill at the Philip pines General hospital, suffering from an acute attack or appendicitis. General Aguinaldo last year became affiliated with the Carl W. Hamilton oil interests in Manila and is at pres ent vice-president of the Kizal & Philippine Refining companies. Hie daughter. Miss Carmen Aguinaldo, left for the United States several months ago as a government student, and is at the University of Illinois. HARDING'S HAT IN RING Friends of Ohio Senator Boost Him for Presidency. WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. Friends of Senator W. G. Harding of Ohio, after several days of conference with him and with other republicans of promi nence here, formally announced to night that an active effort would be made to secure for him the republican nomination for president- In a statement declaring Ohio re publicans would line up solidly for Mr. Harding, Harry M. Daugherty, a member of the state executive com mittee, declared the Ohio senator had "practically been forced into the contest." AGGIES' COURAGE CRUSHES COUGARS Lodell's Field Goals Net 6-to-0 Victory. BEAVER LINE STONE WALL Repeated Stands Near Goal Thrill Spectators. PULLMAN FUMBLES COST Crimson and Uray Heavy Gains Are Nullified by Stout Cor vallis Defense. BY HARRY M. GRAYSON. Carl Lodell's educated right toe pumped two beautiful place kicks squarely between the posts on Mult nomah field yesterday afternoon and Oregon State Agricultural college whipped Washington State college 6 to 0. While Lodell's mighty right hoof was piling up enough points for the surprise victory, his Aggie team mates were putting up one of the most stubborn defensive games ever seen in Portland. 1 With the loss Washington State college's chances for the Pacific coast intercollegiate championship vanished like a vision and their fond hopes for the Pasadena trip faded away like moonlight gently switching into darkness. It marked the Corvallis crowd's eighth victory in the 11 games played since the two schools established athletic relations, and was the first conference win for the bat tling Beavers in two years, or since the day that Kansas Bill Hargiss took hold of the Benton county institu tion's steering wheel. Lodell Gets Busy. Lodell s rirst goat from field cam , In the first period and was negoti ated from the 38-yard line. The pig I skin oval soared high above the cen ter of the parallel bar and would have registered just as easily' from a distance of 60 yards. The former Jefferson High school lad's second place kick was registered from the 28-yard line late in the third quarter Approximately 7500 persons turned out to see Portland's final intercol legiate game or the season. Perfect football weather greeted the warriors and the field favored the crimson and gray, who greatly excelled on the offensive. Between halves about 500 Aggie students serpentined about the field led by their band, with the Washington State college band, un accompanied by a rooting section, putting on its own little rooting j stunt. The Oregon Aggies line held like a store wall in the pinches. When pres.sed its power seemed even much greater than did the Cougar line against Oregon two weeks ago. Both teams fought with desperation and the battle bordered on the rough at times, the men tackling hard and asking nor giving no quarter. Aggies Hold Klvc Time. Five times did Washington State college seriously threaten to score and five times did the herculean ef forts of Bill Hargiss men repel the terrific onslaughts of the Cougar backfield. The first -quarter ended with the ball on O. A. C's 13-yard line and to start the second period . the Washington men worked the pig skin to the two-yard line, where the Aggies held. Late in the second period the ball was placed on the Aggies" six-yard line, where the Cougars would have scored had not "Butch" Durrwachter drooped a forward pass over the goal line after having it safely In his hands. The third period ended with the ball in Washington State's pos session on the Aggies' 20-yard line, nd right oft the bat in the fourth (Concluded on Page 15, Column I.) Tttt AJOU10 fVaUaNJJ
