96 Pages
Eight Sections
Section One
Pages 1 to 22
VOL. XL NO.
Entered at Portland (Oregon)
PoMof.'ice & Secorxl -Ciaae Matter
PORTLAND, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1921
IMUCE FIVE CENTS
MOLALLA BANK VAULT
BLOWN OPEN BY TRIO
CITIZEXS, AROUSED BY EXPLO
SION, PREVENT ROBBERY.
BUTTLE FOR LIFE
IN WILDS THRILLS
3 TOWNS ROCKED IN MORROW COUNTY MAN;
ELECTORAL COLLEGE
TO MEET TOMORROW
SAN GABRIEL VALLEY1 WILL SUCCEED KIDDLE
BY ANTI-LEAGUERS
ADMITTED BT PAIR
SHOCKS WITH LOUD REPORTS
YV. B. BARK ATT IS APPOINTED
HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER.
HARDING XOT ELECTED OFFI
CIALLY VXTIL FEBRUARY 9.
BELIEVED EXPLOSIONS.
OREGON
SOLO S
KNOX PLAN BACKED
NIGHT OF BANDITRY
Legislature to Organize
Without Any Friction.
FlflEWORKS ARE IN RESERVE
Turmoil Over Redisricting of
State Is Threatened.
ECONOMY TO BE SLOGAN
Port Consolidation, Japanese
Question, Highways, Income
Tax Are Big Issues.
Oregon's Slst legislative assembly
convenes tomorrow morning at li
o'clock at the statehouse in Salem.
Without fuss or factional strife, Roy
W. Ritner, senator for Umatilla
eounty. will be elected president of
e senate, and Louis . Bean, repre
sentative for Lane county, will be
elected speaker of the house. All that
is cut and dried. The resolutions
committees will be appointed and
then recess will be taken for a few
hours. Tuesday morning the senate
and house will be ready to receive
bills.
Organization will proceed with dis
patch, thanks to the usual absence
of a fight over the speakership and
presidency. The staff on the desks
will be selected tomorrow, there ber
ing practically no contests. Frank
Drager will resume his usual place as
chief clerk of the fjouse. and Joseph
F. Singer as sergeant-at-arms. In
the senate, John Hunt will be chief
dark.
Firework Will Be Brilliant.
Although launched quietly, the ses
sion will have its full quota of fire
works. A number of measures are
In process of construction which will
provoke debate and cause turmoil
The two measures which will involve
more political -connubiatinfir than any
others, will be the creation of a new
congressional district and the re
aistrlctlng of the state for the legis
lature. In the latter case a battle
royal can be looked for.
Portland will- be concerned chiefly
In the port consolidation bill and In
the tax supervising and conservation
measure, either of which is designed
to affect directly the interests of this
community.
The teachers' tenure bill is likely
to be a bone of contention unless the
legislature decides to refer the sub
ject to the electorate of school dis
trict No. 1.
Bad Year for Extravagance.
Off hand, it looks like a bad year
for swollen appropriations. Any ap
propriation that gets the approval of
the ways and means committee mus'
possess unusual merit. The high taxes
Dow in sight will make members of
the committee especially cautious and
conservative. Salary Increases will
not be popular, save in a very few
instances.
The altitude of the average legis
lator is that the peak of the high cost
of living has been passed and prices
re on the decline, therefore, as the
purchasing power of the dollar in
creases a small appropriation will be
worth twice as much as the same sum
was two years ago.
On house and senate committees of
the ways and means the personnel Is
made up of very hard-headed indi
viduals. Income Tax Measure Drafted.
Aside from noiaing aown appro
priations, refusing salary increases
and enacting legislation to control
budget making and tax levies, the
legislature may find new sources of
revenue. To this end a state income
tax measure has been drafted and
will make its appearance.
Considerable dissatisfaction is ex-
Conclu.lei on l' Co.urr.ii IV 1
i i iit-.irr aa
11 I IX s.
A
Thleves, Alarmed by Commotion in
Street, Succeed in Slaking
Tlielr Escape.
MOLALLA, Or.. Jan. 8. (Special.)
Yeggraen blew open two doors on the
vault of the First National bank of
Molalla in an attempt to rob the safe
at 3 A. M. today. The noise of the
explosions attracted neighbors, and
the robbers were frightened away be
fore they had obtained anything. The
damage to the vault was about 9250.
The robbers opened the outer d,001"
of the bank with a skeleton key, and
pried open the inner bank door with
a crowbar. Reaching the vault, they
blew a hole in the outer vault door
with a charge of nitro-glycerine, and
repeated the process on the inner
door. Three explosions were heard,
and Sheriff Wilson of Oregon City,
who investigated the case, believes
that one of the charges failed to open
a door, and was repeated. The vault
doors were not torn off, but were so
broken that the robbers were able
to reach inside and operate the com-
Dinatlon.
Opening of the second vault door
admitted the robbers to the chamber
where the burglar-proof safe stands.
but evidently the yeggmen heard the
commotion which the explosions had
caused, and fled. About 920 in change
in the bank office was not disturbed
G. J. Taylor, editor of the Pioneer.
was in his office near the bank build
ing, and heard the explosions. He
paid no attention to the first, but
after the second explosion he noti
fied W. W. Eberhart, cashier of the
bank. Several other men in the vicin
ity had been aroused, but before they
reached the bank the robbers escaped.
The tools used in forcing the bank
door had been stolen from a shed
owned by the Willamette Valley
Southern railroad. Three well-dressed
young men arrived in the city on the
6:10 P. M. train yesterday, and were
seen standing around near the sta
tion. Sheriff Wilson believes that they
were the robbers. None of them has
been seen today. Several persons
caught glimpses of the robbers as
they fled, but were unable to give a
description of them except they were
well-dressed men". One man saw two
of them and another man one. It is
believed that there were three rob
bers. P0ST0FFICE BUYS BONDS
Savings Deposit Bank Earns 5 to. li
Per Cent on Investment.
WASHINGTON. Jan. . Detail of
the government's bargain counter
business in Liberty bonds popped out
today during debate in the house
touching, the postofflce appropriation
bill. The postal savings bank, it ap
peared, was a large holder of bonds,
havinc purchased in open market
for $106,000,000 of deposits bonds hav
ing a face value of 1111,000,000.
By the deal, it was said, the post
office bank earned 5 to 6 per cent
on its investment as against the 24
to 24 per cent which it has paid for
the use of the deposits.
PORKER TREES FAMILY
Animal Puts to Flight Men Who
Attempt Slaughter.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. Jan. . A
500-pound porker slated to be slaugh
tered on the farm of Dr. William
Raith at ' Farjnlngton today turned
"rogue" and compelled the doctor, his
father-in-law and 1 other members of
the family to take to trees.
Tfce family, unarmed, remained
aloft half an hour. Finally neighbors
shot the maddened animal.
HOUSE INCREASE COSTLY
Outlay for Added Members Fixed
at SI. 000, 000 Annually.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. A minority
report opposing the Siegel bill, un
der which the house membership
would be increased to 483. based upon
the last census, was riled today by
six members of the house census com
mittee. Addition of 48 members of the
house, as proposed in the Siegel bill,
wcuid cost the government more than
$1,000,000 annually, the report said.
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Hit
Aeronaut Offers Body to
Ward Off Starvation.
LOST TRIO FINALLY SAVED
Letters Reveal Adventures of
Naval Balloonists.
CRAFT TOSSED BY STORM
Companion Forced to Travel in
Snow Wilderness in Underwear
to Keep Him From Giving Up.
Out of the silent, froxen wilderness of
Canada there has come the first authentic
narrative of the adventures, the sufferings
and the rescue, almoet dead, of Che thre
United States navy balloonists whose frag
ile air vessel, storm-buffeted beyond con
trol, landed near James bay, Ontario, on
Tuesday, December 14.
That narrative is presented herewith.
It is In the form of two letters written
by Lieutenant Walter Hinton, one of the
three daring officers who made up the bal
loon's ere-.
This is the first time any of the men
themselves have spoken. Hitherto only
disjointed, fragmentary messages have
reached the outer world. And coming from
Hinton the narrative has all the greater
authority because he was the actual though
not the nominaJ leader.
One letter is to HInton's wife, who Is
rejoicing beyond words in their cottage
near the Rockaway air station. The other
is to his frie-nd Peter Talbot, a feikw avia
tor, who with Mrs. Talbot shares the Hin
ton home.
To his wife. In the missive written the
very moment he and his companions. Lieu
tenant Louis A. Kloor and Lieutenant Ste
phen Farrell. reached the haven of Moose
Factory, after four days of wanderlnr, Hin
ton gave the stirring account of the great
adventure, hi which all three proved them
selves heroes, ar.d in which one was ready,
to offer himself up as a sacrifice so that
the others might live.
To his chum Tal," because the air is
"Ta;s" element, too. Hinton. who was on
of the pilots of the United State XC-4.
which m It made the rirst trans-Atlantic
flight, set forth more of the technical de
tails of the balloon voyage, although he re
vealed to Talbot as well as to his wife
some of the hardships he and his fellow of
ficers underwent.
Here is Lieutenant Hindoo's letter to his
wife:
(Copyright by the New fork World. Pub
lished by Arrangement.)
MOOSE FACTORY, Hudson Bay. Dec.
21. Dear Addie I cwi imagine how
pleased you will be to get this and
how you must have suffered thinking
we might be lost. We were lost for
a time and these are the circum
stances: We were in a terrific storm that
night and could not see the ground
and figured our safest place was in
the air until we could locate our
selves. We were in the air more than 25
hours and averaged about 33 miles
an hour.
At about 2 P. M. Tuesday, while
at an altitude of 6500 feet and with
all our ballast expended, w'hich in
cluded thermos bottles, carpet, lining
of the basket and drag rope and
everything we could throw out to
stay up, we heard a dog bark.
Descent Is Bcgua at Oner.
We immediately started valving be
cause we figured where there are
dogs there must be life.
We couldn't see the ground until
we were almost on top of it and found
ourselves landing in a dense forest.
We started to walk and arrived
here four days later. We had to eat
during that time two carrier pigeons
and moss from the ground.
I lost my flying suit and could not
sleep nights for fear I would freeze
and never wake up.
I didn't fear death, but felt so sorry
for you and my only hope was that
you would some day find out what
had really happened and how much
I really thought and felt for you.
One Falls From Kxhaustion.
Mr. Faxrell fell from exhaustion
several times. Wanted us to cut his
throat and take his body for food and
asked us to go on and let him die.
but we decided to stick and die to
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PICTORIAL COMMENTS
0VNG A LOT O-tr
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Tremblings Resemble Eanhquakes
Otherwise Shakeups Come
at Regular Interval-.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8. The towns
of Covlna, Glendora and Azusa in the
San Gabriel valley, 20 to 25 miles east
of here, were rocked tonight by what
was declared by Inhabitants to be a
series of explosions, according to re
ports received here.
Every house in the towns was
shaken and window glasses were
broken in some, it was stated.
The first shock was felt about 9:31,
it was stated, and was followed by
two more within half an hour. Each
was accompanied by a loud report.
Otherwise the tremblings resembled
earthquakes, it was said.
At nearby oil fields it was said no
explosion had occurred there.
Efforts were made to communicate
with camps in the mountains north
of the towns, where large Quantities
of dynamite were known to have
been stored for quarrying purposes.
Two hours after the shakings the
cause remained a mystery. A survey
of the quarry camps nearest the
towns disclosed no explosions tiad
taken place there and no blasting
work was In progress.
Los Angeles county road officials,
who have several quarries in the
mountains, said they knew of no sup
plies of dynamite stored anywhere in
sufficient quantities to shake the
towns.
Covina residents said the shocks
came at fairly regular intervals, and
each was followed by a loud roar. In
this place, as well as in Azusa and
(Concluded on Page IS, Column 3.)
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather!
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 43
degrees; minimum, 41 degrees.
TODAY'S Rain; westerly winds.
Departments.
Editorial. Section 3, page 10.
Dramatic. Section 4. pagre 4.
Moving- picture ne.vs. Section 4, page f.
Real estate and building news. Section 4.
page 8.
Music. Section 4, page 6.
Churches. Section 5, page ".
Books. Section 0. page 3.
Schools. Section 5, page 8.
Special annual auto show news and auto
mobiles. Section 6.
Womrn'i Features.
Society. Section 3. page 2.
Women's activity. Section 3, page 8.
Fashions. Section 5, page 4.
Miss Tingle's domestic science column.
. Section 3. page 4.
Madame Rlchet'n dressmaking column.
Section 5. page 5.
Auction bridge. Section 5, page 5.
Mrs. Hargreave's article on care of
in- i
fants. Section 5. page 6.
Special Featured.
Censors guard against fake advertising.
Magazine section, page 1.
The home port of Man o' War. Magazine
section, page 2.
The girl with the' "charity" face. Mag
azine section, page 3.
News of the world as seen by the camera.
Magazine section, page 4.
The fairy romance of Europe's most beau
tiful princess. Magazine section, page 6.
Having fun with the fashions. Magazine
section, page 6.
Chess declared to be less like life than
bridge. Magazine section, page 6.
Court of last appeal In basebal 1 talks of
plans. Magazine section, page 7.
Hill's cartoons "Among Us Mortals."
Magazine section, page 8.
Beautiful homes from tumble-down
houses? Section 5, page 6.
Darling's cartoons on topics of the day.
Section 5, page 7.
Foreign.
Fourth Internationale may be organized
to break power of Lenlne. Section 2,
page 18.
Three balloonists' battle for life In Cana
dian wilderness is thrilling. Section 1,
page 1.
National.
Electoral college to meet tomorrow. Sec
tion 1, page 1.
Knox plan backed by anti-leaguers. Sec
tion 1, page 1.
Japanese imitate and undersell American
toys, says manufacturer. Section 1,
' page L
Large quantities of food reported still held
unsold in country. Section 1, page 4..-
Higher exemption for small incomes
favored. Section 1, page 4.
President may yet defeat purpose of war
v finance law. Section 1, page 4.
Harding inauguration promises to be big
gest show of kind ever held. Section
1. page 18.
Revival of historic inaugural ball seems
assured. Section 2. page 18.
Domestic.
Wild oast shows staged daily In terrified
New York. Section 1. page 7.
Big navy favored by Senator Harding.
Section 1, page 2.
German-Sinn Fein plot is revealed. Sec-
1. page 17. I
BY CARTOONIST PERRY ON SOME TOPICS IN
Heppner Farmer and Sheep-Grower
Selected by Governor Olcott
After Jay H. Dobbins Declines.
SALEM. Or.. Jan. 8. (Special.)
W. B. Barralt, prominent farmer and
?heep grower of Heppner, Morrow
county, late today was appointed by
Governor Oicott to serve as a member
of the stite highway commission. He
will succeed E. E. Kiddle, who died
recently at Island City
"Mr. Barratt .a widely known
throughout Oregon," said Governor
Olcott in announcing the appoint
ment. "He is one of the leading
farmers and aheep growers of his
lecLion, is past president of theOre
gon "Wool Growers' association, was
prevlcus.y mayor of Heppner and at
the present time is a member of the
sate livestock sanitary board.
"Mr. Barratt always has oeen an
advocate of good roads and has taken
an active interest in all matters re
lating to the development of Oregon."
Governor Olcott "said that he had
rceived assurances that Mr. Barratt
would accept the office, and that his
appointment would be agreeable to
the people of the district which he
represents. As a business man and
sheepgrower, Mr. Barratt is said to
have made a success.
Governor Olcott held off making
the appointment of a successor to Mr.
Kiddle until he received a telegram
from Jay H. Dobbin of Joseph yester
day to the effect that the latter had
reconsidered his original decision to
decline the appointment, but waa un
able to accept the office because of
business matters needing his atten
tion. Since Mr. Dobbin first refused to
(Concluded on Page IS, Column 3.)
Domestic,
Kansas governor assails Townley and non
partisan campaign in state. Section 1,
page 3.
Removal of air mail service head asked.
Section 1, page 6.
Strife is followed by peace In Samoa. Sec
tion 2, page 18.
Pacific Northwest.
Governor Ol cott appoints W. B. Barre it
of Morrow county to vacancy on Oregon
state highway commission. Section 1,
page 1.
Senate committee bertha being drawn.
Section 1, ,page 10.
Molalla bank vault blown open by yeggs.
Section 1, page 1.
Three million invested in Oregon public
utilities. Section 1. page 16.
Anti-alien land bill, aiming at Japanese,
Introduced in Idaho legislature. Sec
tion 1, page 20.
Telephone employes urge early Increase in
rates. Section 1, yage 8. v
W. J. Hofmann heads new Shrine asso
ciation. Section 1, page 6.
Vote on bond Issue is asked by board.
bectton 1, page a.
Sport.
Sky is limit for Cubs In purchasing play
ers. Section 1, page 1.
High school basketball league opens on
January 18. Section 2, page 2.
Hunter relates stirring chase after cougar.
Section 2. page 2.
Radical Olympic reform expected. Section
2, page 2.
Devere has record in fighting negroes.
Section 2, page 3.
Swimming season occupies attention. Sec
tion 2, page 4.
Spokane bowlers are strong team. Section
2, page 4.
Commercial and Marine.
Export outlet necessary to save prune
market. Section 1, page 21.
Wheat firmer at Chicago, with buying for
European account. Section 1, page 21.
All classes of stocks weak at close. Sec
tion 1, page 21.
Two more vessels chartered to load grain
In Portland. Section 1. page 30.
Portland and Vicinity.
Irrigator hits state commission. Section
1, page 20.
Nose leads health officer to large still.
Section 1, page 17.
Oregon legislature convenes tomorrow
morning at state house in Salem. Sec
tion 1. page 1.
Famine kills 10,000 Chinese daily. Sec
tion 1. page 14.
Reorganization of Oregon state board of
health Into bureaus is indicated. Sec
tion 1. page 9. ,
Bench and bar unite in memorial serv
ices for Ralph R. Dunlway. Section 1.
page 12.
Christmas jaunt to Spirit lake full of ob
stacles. Section 1, page 14.
Necessity of trial commission cited. Sec
tion 1, page 13.
Tilt due in council tomorrow over revoca
tion of soda works license. Section. 1,
page 12.
Etherldge Is about ready to make state
ment. Section 1, page 12.
George M. Orton. school board member,
sued for divorce. Section 1. page 11.
State leaders of democratic party blame
direct primary law for political ruin.
Section 1, page 11.
Two soldiers confess to night of banditry.
Section 1, page 1. i
the utu v.bJs ee.ei-J
vj"&m3
Mark Sullivan Thinks It
May Win.
COERCION NOT TO BE TRIED
Harding's Idea to Be Dis
closed in Inaugural Address.
COMMISSION IS DESIRED
Xew Members Constituting Repub
lican Majority in Senate Reported
Swinging Toward Irreconcilables.
BY MARK aUlXTVAN.
(The New York Evening Post, Inc. Pub
lished by arrangement.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. (Special.)
If anybody assumes that Harding,
out of all he has heard from his re
cently ended conference with "best
minds," is going to make a distilled
essence, so to speak, and that distilled
essence is going to be Harding's pro
gramme with regard to the-league of
nations, such an assumption is very
wide of the mark.
Harding's plan will not go into de
tails. Harding does not intend that it
shall go into details. It is merely a
set of principles, so to speak, and he
intends to restrict it to that. This
plan he will disclose in his inaugural
address March 4.
Harding Plans to Negotiate.
Within a week after March 4 he
will put certain machinery in motion.
As to what this machinery is. Sena
tor Herding has made no greater dis
closure of details than he has made of
his plan for the league of nations. 1
assume this machinery wilj consist of
a commission to negotiate with the
leading nations of Europe.
That is all that Harding has in
mind. So much f jr that. Let us now
consider the forces at work outside
of Harding and to some extent antag
onistic to Harding.
The first thing to remember is that
Harding cannot make or cannot put
through any plan whatever affecting
foreign relations except "by and with
the consent of the senate," so far as
that is concerned it would be contrary
to everything we know of Harding if
he should try to combat the preroga
tive of the senate.
Conciliation Deemed Likely.
Harding is much more likely to
conciliate the senate, to find out how
far the senate is willing to go and
then adopt that as the maximum of
his own plan.
Let us then see what the new sen
ate is likely to do. The new senate
is overwhelmingly republican. What
action it is to take about foreign af
fairs is most likely to be determined
by the republican majority. The pre
vailing drift of that republican ma
jority is markedly anti-league.
The republican majority in the new
senate in all probability when the
time comes will hold a caucus on
this subject. Indeed, I suspect that
informal caucuses are already being
held by a group of senators who I
think are likely to be dominant on
this subject.
Informal Caucus Held.
I suspect, but can state it no more
strongly than s a suspicion, that the
plan which Senator Knox announced
last week as an alternative to our en
tering the league of nations was the
result of just such an informal caucus
of a group. It is fair to Senator Knox
to say that he rather evaded admit
ting this.
In the first place, most of the new
republican senators are irreconcilable
in their leanings. I know this is so
because I have been-at pa'ns to talk
with some of them and correspond
with nearly all of them. The bulk
of them say they are opposed to the
(Concluded on Page 12. Column 3.)
THE RECENT NEWS.
. VKB UP!
Congress Will Have to Count Cer
tificates From Each of 4 8 States
and Announce Kesult.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 8. While War
ren G. Harding and Calvin Ccolirige
were chosen for president and vice
president in November, they will not
be elected officially until February 9.
Two important steps remain to com
plete their election. One, the meet
ing of the electoral college, takes
place Monday, while the final step
will be taken February 9 at a joint
meeting of the senate and house, when
certificates of the vote of each state
are counted. After this ceremony
Vice-President Marshall officially will
declare them elected.
The people, as is well known, did
not vote directfy for Mr. Harding or
Mr. Cox in November, but for electors.
Th successful electors of each state
comprise the electoral college. They
are equal in number to the senators
and representatives of each state.
They are required to meet in their
state capitals on the second Monday
in January to cast their votes In ac
cordance with the wishes of the
voters who elected them.
The electoral college therefore wiK
be in session in the 48 state capitals
Monday.
If any electors have died since the
November election, the remaining
electors of the state may select some
one to fill the vacancy. After organ
ization, balloting begins, first for
president and then for vice-president
Each elector votes for the candidate
for whom he was elected to vote.
When ballots are counted, three cer
tificates are prepared and signed in
each state. One is sent to the judge
of the United States district court of
the elector's state, one is sent by mai!
and another by messenger, usually
one of the electors, to the president
of the senate. These certificates will
be opened by the vice-president act
ing as president of the senate in the
presence of congress. This ceremonv
will take place in the house Feb
ruary 9.
COUSIN OF HARDING WEDS
Ktafi Mildred K. Harding Bride of
Former Salem Man.
SALEM. Or., Jan. 8. (Special.)
Mildred K. Harding, cousin of President-elect
Harding, und Kimball B.
Palmer, until recently advertising
manager of a local store, were mar
ried here this afternoon. The cere
mony was performed by Rev. H. N.
Aldrich and was followed by a dinner
at' a I coal hotel. Mrs. Palmer has
made Salem her home for several
years and is well known here. Mr.
Palmer came here about IS months
ago. He was a student at the Uni
versity of Washington and a member
of Theta Chi fraternity.
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer will leave Sa
lem within the next few days for Se
attle, where they will visit friends.
Later they will go to California and
subsequently to Arizona, where Mr.
Palmer is interested in raining prop
erties. CABLE LANDING BLOCKED
Concession Granted Western Union
in Cuba Suspended.
HAVANA, Jan. 8. A presidential
decree suspending the concession that
had been granted to the Western
Union Telegraph & Cable company
to land its Barbadoes cable on the
shores of Cuba has been signed and
is in the hands of the government
secretary.
The decree has not yet been pub
lished in the Official Gazette, which
would make it effective.
WEEK WILL BE RAINY ONE
Normal Temperature ts Predicted
for North Pacific States.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 8 Weather
predictions for the week beginning
Monday are:
Northern Rocky mountain and pla
teau regions Generally fair and nor
mal temperature.
Pacific states Rains in the north
Pacific states and generally fair else
where; normal temperature.
f INCOME. J-
Two Soldiers Caught at
Vancouver Confess.
VICTIMS IDENTIFY BOTH MEN
Patrolmen Simpkins and
Skoglund Suspended.
COWARDICE IS CHARGED
Just What Became of One Police
man During Chase Has Not
Vet Been Determined.
Willi the signed confession of one
soldier, the verbal admission of the
other and both positively identified
by the victims, two ooldiers from
Vancouver barracks, whose brief, but
meteoric career In street banditry
aroused, the Portland police bureau
early Friday night were held last
night without bail at the city Jail.aj
Each reused the other of doing the
shooting which shattered the wind
shield of the police emergency ear in
which policemeii were pursuing
them.
The two soldiers are Walter Mc
Cleary. 21. and Boyd Ellis, 25. both of
Vancouver. They were arrested at
Vancouver early yesterday a'ter the
Portland police had telephoned, a de
scription of the two soldiers who held
up E. C. Larson, a for-hlre chauffeur
and then appropriated his automobile
while they robbed the Broadway Inr
garage.
Klltu Returned to Portlan.1.
Kills was returned to Portland from
Vancouver yesterday morning by
Lieutenant of Inspectors Moloney, and
McCleary, who first insisted he would
not return without extradition, was
brought back late yesterday after
noon by Lieutenant of Inspectors
Goltz. Major Dclaplane of Vancouver
barracks turned McCleary over to the
Portland police after Lieutenant Goltz
and Inspectors Tackaberry and Phil
lips had shown him the signed con
fession mad by Ellis, In which Mc
Cleary was implicated In the series
of street robberies.
The army automatic revolver which
it was said was used by McCleary In
the Pistol duel with Patrolmen Simp
kins and Skoglund was found a short
distance from where the two aol
diers were last seen near Sullivan's
gulch by J. E. Backenstos. a street
sweeper. Backenstos is the man who
struck McCleary with a broom as the
latter fled past him.
Two Patrolmen Suspended.
Because of evidence of alleged
cowardice, Patrolmen Simpkins and
Skoglund wets suspended early yes
terday by Mayor Baker after the first
investigation of the chase had been
received at police headquarters. It
developed yesterday, however, that
Simpkins had followed the two high
waymen to the edge of Sullivan's
gulch and had given up the chase only
because his brother patrolman was not
in 'sight and because he believed it
futile to make a search of Sullivan's
gulch alone. It was Backenstos who
first said the men had gone into this
gulch. 9
In his confession to the police de
tectives, however, Ellis said they did
not enter Sullivan's gulch and that
oi policeman, believed to have been
Simpkins, had followed them to a
point where they had separated. Just
what became of Skoglund during the
chase has not yet been determined,
although the soldier said that but one
policeman followed them for any dis
tance. MeCleary's Verxion Obtained,
Little by Little during the course of
the early evening Inspector Maloney
drew from Private McCleary his ver
sion of the Friday night escapade.
McCleary flatly contradicted his part-
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