TITE SUNDAY OT1EGOXIAN. PORTLAND. DECEMBER 14, 1919.
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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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EXVTER PASHA CROWNED BY
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Ottoman ex-Minlster Escapes After
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CONSTANTINOPLE. Dec. 12. (By
the Associated Press.) Enver Pasha,
the former Turkish minister of war,
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Mesopotamia and Persia, according to
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Kurds number more than 2,000,000,
for the most part Mohammedans.
PROFESSOR FACES TRIAL
Forgery J.aid to e.x-Official of
Manitoba Reformatory.
CHICAGO. Dec. 13. Professor
Harry Gardiner of "Winnipeg, grad
uate of the University of Glasgow,
Scotland, and a former official in the
Manitoba state reformatory, was re
turned to Canada tonight by Chicago
police.
He was charged with forging a
check for $500 on a Toronto social
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