TITE SUNDAY OT1EGOXIAN. PORTLAND. DECEMBER 14, 1919. mm RANCHER Now Playing MUKTAGH'S CONCERT ON OUR GIANT $50,000 WURLITZER ORGAN HELD FOR RANSOM Villa Himself Leads Men in Raid on Muz quiz. SUNDAY CONCERT: Dance of the Demons.. Hoist The Dying Poet Gottschalk Arabesque (G Minor) Chaminade Melodies of Yesterday: Sweet Adeline The Message of the Violets You're Just My Style Moonlight Bay Pilgrims' Chorus.... Wagner $10,000 IS DEMANDED Eight of Richest Mexicans Also Arc Captured, Town Looted and Railroads Cut. EAGLE PASS, Tex., Dec. 13. Frank Hugo, an American citizen, manager of the J. M. Dovies' ranch near Mua quiz, state of Coahuila, is being- held for $10,000 ransom by the Villistas who raided Muzquiz last Tuesday. No other American was taken by the bandits and an Englishman seized by them was later released, according to word received here today. William P. Blocker, American con sular agent, reported early this after noon that the town of Muzquiz was completely looted by the bandits. Railroad communication with the town has been restored. First reports that two Americans had been seized by bandis resulted from confusion of names in wire transmission. . Advices received here today said cierht Mexicans also were held for $5000 ransom each. One of the Mexicans held is Don Miguel Muzquiz Pena. one of the wealthiest ranchmen in Mexico, it is said. His wife escaped by running to Kosita. several miles distant, where she telegraphed her son to send the ransom money to Pino Solo, 120 miles from Mnzquiz, the point designated by the bandits. The Villistas, who were reported to be led by Pancho .Villa himself, left Muzquiz Friday at i P. M., taking the same direction over the hills to ward Chihuahua state, from whence they came, according to G. M. Sequin, Mexican consul of Eagle Pass. PLANET FEAR SCOUTED HARVARD ASTRONOMER SAYS TALK IS "HOT AIR." Peculiar Configuration to Take Place Wednesday Is Explained. Oklahoma Indians Excited. NEW YORK. Dec. 13. The world need fear no calamitous effects from the peculiar configuration of the planets that will take place next Wednesday, according to a statement by Dr. Harlan T. Stetson of the Har vard astronomical laboratory, issued here today. ' Predictions of floods, electrical storms, riots and other disturbances of far effect, credited recently to a popular meteorological scientist, are based on nothing mora substantial than "hot air," Dr. Stetson said. On December 17, according to the Harvard scientist, all the planets, with the exception of the earth, will lie in an approximated line with the sun, arid all of them except Uranus will be on the same side of the sun. They will be strung along In approxi mately the same plane and approxi mately the same line, like so many points on one spoke of a wheel. Meanwhile Uranus will be on the same line, but on the other side of the sun. like the point of the spoke directly opposite. TORONTO, Ont., Dec 13. Collision with the head of a large comet would cause such a calamity such as has been predicted for the world Decem ber 17, according to officials of the Toronto observatory, but they add that if such collision were imminent, 'we would have had some warning." "There is no comet of the size vis ible which would be apt to cause such a calamity," said one official. LAWTOV, Okla., Dec. 13. Great ex citement has been caused among the less educated and older members .of Indian tribes in southwestern Okla homa as a result of predictions of the world's end December 17. Along the creek banks and in the wilds of the Wichita mountains the muffled beating of the tom-tom can be heard right after night as the red men dance and sing their weird songs, fearful of events to come in the next week. Older Indians are greatly de pressed, declaring it is to be "heap cold and that none will survive. TRADE ALLIANCE FEARED MITTEIi EURO PA" DREAM TO BE REALIZED, IS VIEW. Member of V. S. Mis-sion Expects Russia, Hungary, Austria to form Economic Combine. SAN" FRANCISCO, Dec. 13. The Teutonic dream of "mittel Europa' is likely to be realized eventually in an economic alliance just as power ful as the military combination the Herman Junkers hoped for, according to T. T. C. Gregory, who returned to his home yesterday after a year's bcrvice in central Europe as repre tentative there of the United States lood administration and American member of the inter-allicd mission. 'l expect to see European Russia, Hungary, Austria and the new states of Jugo-Slavia and Czecho-Slovakia swallowed up in one gigantic eco nomic alliance. Gregory declared. As head of the American food ad ministration in central Europe Cap tain Gregory was credited with be ing largely responsible for the over throw of Beta Kun. the bolshevik die tator In Budapest. "Labor itself in Hungary cast out the curse of bolshevism," Captain Gregory said. "Labor was deceived into the movement by propaganda; the people were overawed by the troops of Beli Kun. Labor in the Kreat manufacturing center of Buda pest tried bolshevism. It failed. They learned it by their own experience ana cast it iortn. Captain Gregory said the American committee simply showed the labor leaders that bolshevism was wrong end showed Bela Kun that the food situation was in tb! hands of the Americans. Paintings Jiot to Re Exported. BERLIN. Dec 12. Exportation ot wor kb or art. the loss of which would be detrimental to Germany, is forbid den in a law which became operative today. 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