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THE StnVDAX" OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 24, 1923 DARING BOBBERIES 5 SUE Outlaws Invade Minneapolis Downtown District. $25,000 LOOT OBTAINED Hundreds of Pedestrians Throng Sidewalks While Cash, Dia monds, Jewelry Taken. ROBBERS DIP LAVISHLY INTO CHRISTMAS TREASURES. Minneapolis jewelry store robbed of $25,000 In cash, dia monds and Jewelry while pedestrians pass by. Thieves at Pittsburg kill' paymaster of coal mine and get satchel with $20,000 in currency. Guards held at bay. New York bandits in throng of holiday shoppers smash jewelry store window with brick and set rings worth 110,000. Yeggs break into bank at Granite Falls, Wash., looting vault and safety deposit boxes. Mondovl, Wis., bank robbed of $7000. Cashier locked in vault. Minneapolis grocer killed by who takes small change and flees. FIRST EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPH OF EX-KAISER AND BRIDE ) AT HOME. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 23. Robbers today invaded the Minne apolis downtown district, staged two daring jewelry store robberies within a halt block of each other and fled with about $25,000 in cash, diamonds and jewelry. The first robbery was at the I. R. Weismann Jewelry company store, where the robbers got $12,000 in jewelry and $150 in cash after binding a clerk, and the second was at the Harry Rush jewelry store, where they scooped up between $11,000 and $13,000 in diamonds. . Hundreds of pedestrians thronged the sidewalks in front of the two raided stores while the robberies were being carried out, ignorant of what was happening. Orville P. Walby, grocer, was shot and instantly killed tonight by a robber who paused to take about $95 in small change before he fled. Walby was standing behind a counter, his hands raised In the air, when the gunma i fired. The bullet struck the grocer in the heart and he died instantly". BARING KOBBERY IS STAGED Bandits Hurl Brick Through Win dow; Escape With Jewelry. NEW YORK, Dec. 23. After de scending from an automobile into the midst of the throng of holiday shoppers on Upper Broadway, three men tonight smashed the window of a jewelry store with a brick wrapped in towels and escaped with 71 diamond rings which they snatched from trays 'in the display windows. The rings were valued at $10,000. The robbery was carried out with the utmost daring. Parking their expensive-looking car in the line of automobiles which stood at the curb, two of the bandits, fashion ably attired, strolled nonchalantly toward the jeweler's display win dow, leaving a third companion at the wheel. A dozen persons were inspecting the Jewels behind the glass, when one of the new arrivals quietly drew from under his arm what ap peared to be a parcel the brick wrapped in towels. Before any of the pedestrians realized what was happening the parcel was hurled at the window, shattering the thick plate glass and making the gems readily accessible. Gathering up two trays contain ing the 71 valuable rings the bandit pair quietly withdrew to the curb, climbed into their car and disap peared into the streams of traffic along the brilliantly lighted thoroughfare. Two customers and eight clerks were in the store when the robbery occurred. Too late, however, to frustrate the robbery or enable the police to prevent their escape, the clerks gave the alarm. 7 DENVER SUSPECTS HELD Men Jn Touring Car Investigated in Bank Robbery Case. SANTA FE, N. M., Dec. 23. Seven men who arrived in Santa Fe driv ing a large touring car wore taken into custody here today for investi gation. Officers at Las Vegas tele graphed local officials to arrest them, believing they might be the bandit fugitives who held up and robbed United States federal re serve bank employes of $200,000 at Denver last Monday. It appears however, that suspicions are based almost entirely on the fact that one of them cashed a brand-new $5 bill at a restaurant at Las Vegas last night. The men carried heavy suit cases containing clothes and the usual personal effects, but nothing of an incriminating nature. All gave Denver residential addresses and In some cases bustnesaaddresses, which advices from Denver Btated are be ing checked up. The men will not be released until a full investigation has convinced officers that they were in no way implicated with the Denver robbery. DAYLIGHT HOLDUPS STAGED ' ik Mil Pacific-Atlantic Photo Copyright. WILLIAM AND RERMINE OUT FOR STROLL. A story of amazing patience and tenacity lies behind the publication of the first pictures of the ex-kaiser and his bride, the Princess Hermine, at home. The photographs were brought in after a tireless vigil of four weeks by II. C. Bin-man, correspondent at Doom, rionana, ror racinc ana Atlantic photos. Burman, secreting himself in the trees near the famous exile's sanctuary, stalked his imperial game day after day. Failure fol lowed upon failure; the experience of a horde of journalists and camera operators in November had proved the ex-kaiser the most camera-sny of all celebrities. Then one day as a photographer lay screened in his damn retreat he' saw the kaiser and his bride emrge from the servants entrance of the house at Doom. Burman dropped his field glasses with which he had noted the approach of his royal quarry, stalked his game and got his pictures. guns were rushed to Mount Lebanon from the sheriff s office here. Dennis was riding a motorcycle in advance of an automobile in which William Young, superintend ent of the Reading mine, and three other employes were guardnig the pay satchel. The robbers shot Den nis without warning. He fell from the motorcycle. Before the driver of the pay car could stop his ma chine, the bandits were upon it. They covered the superintendent and the guards, obtained the satchel and escaped. Bank in Wisconsin Robbed. MONDOVL Wis., Dec. 23. The State bank of Mondovl was robbed late today by two men who escaped with approximately $7000. The rob bery was committed at 4:30 P. M., but no knowledge of It was had until the cashier, who was locked in the vault, was released after be ing located at 8 P. M. Grocery Manager Robbed; Pedes trian Loses Life's Savings. LOS ANGELES. Cal., Dec 23. two aayngnt roDDerles netted ban dits $4510 here today. C. W. Rltchlow. manager of i branch grocery store,' was held up on his way to the bank and robbed of $2500 by three armed men, as sisted by a fourth who whisked them away in an automobile: and Pablo Hernandez, said to have been in the habit of carrying his life's savings on his person, was robbed by highwaymen, who took the eav ings, amounting to $2010. ROBBERS KILL PAYMASTER Four Thieves Get Satchel With $2 0,000 of Mine Payroll. , PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec. 23. Four robbers shot and killed Fobs Dea nis, paymaster of the Pittsburg Coal company, today and escaped witn a satcnei containing about $20,000 In currency. The holdup was staged in the hills behind Mount Leb anon, near here, while a party of company officials were taking the Christmas pay to miners at Bead- POLICE FORCE BAFFLED (Continued From Flrat Papp.) site was allowed to leave, she said. While crossing the bridge to the west side, she said yesterday, she saw the two Weirs in a launch proceeding north on the river. The changes in the woman's story were corroborated by Earl Weir, up to thepiont of the presence of the dead body and the mysterious trip down the river to dispose of it. The Weir case, like every other crime mystery which receives con siderable publicity, has brought to the tore the usual corps of amateur criminologists and publicity seekers. A hundred varied and ludicrous theories have been offered. A spirit ualistic medium has volunteered her services In pointing out the location of the dead body. Some have at tacked the woman's story, others have called the police on the tele phone or visited detective headquar ters in person and offered suDoosed evidence of the guilt of the two men. Death Threats Charged. As the case now stands, the woman's story is corroborated to the point of the existence of the dead body. She says there was a dead girl in the cabin of the scow, killed by Cash Weir during the course of a criminal attack. The two Weirs. she asserts.'took the body down the river and "buried it under a ton of stone." Ean Weir, she claims, later took her for an automobile ride and showed her the spot where the body was sunk. Cash Weir, she says. forced her to return t the scow under threats of death, moved the murder scow to an Isolated spot along Ross island and there forced her to remain in exile. The woman says these things; the two men deny them. The -woman's reputation is held as questionable as that of Cash Weir. The younger man, it Is said, bears a fairly good reputation. . There is no corroborat ing evidence, no facts that could be used to substantiate the woman's story. Detectives overheard conversa tlons between young Weir and the woman Friday night which lead them to believe that there is some thing which the two men wish to conceal, but such conversation and such suspicion, it is said, could not be used as evidence in a murder trial. Woman'i Story Believed. "We have done everything that we could to unravel this mystery, said Detective Captain Harms. "Un less one of the two men breaks down and confesses I am afraid we can go no further.. We believe the worn an's story is true and accordingly have filed a murder charge. The rest is up to the courts. We will continue to work on the case, though at present the outlook is rather dark." Petition for a writ of habeas corpus, filed early yesterday in the hope of obtaining freedom for Cash Weir, was made useless when an in formation charging first-degree murder was issued against him from the district attorney's office. Prior ling, I'a. I to the filing of this information, in County detectives armed with riot j effect a warrant, the prisoner was POPE IS WORRIED 'S WOES BY WORLD Calling Ecumenical Council in 1925 Considered. HOPE FOR PEACE HELD Encyclical Expresses Regret That Strife and Violence Have Rent Italy Recently. ROME, Dec. 23. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Pope Pius is con sidering the possibility of calling an ecumenical council in Rome during 1925. the next jubilee year of the church, it was announced In the papal encyclical issued today. wise or just to separate what is1 honest from what is useful." The encyclical denounces atheism as the deepest cause of the evils afflicting the world, as It separates men from Christ, who said: "Without me, ye can do nothing." The document continues: "The atheists proclaim the neces sity to have laws and governments without God and family without God, lowering the great sacrament of marriage to the level of a mere civil contract, thereby undermining not only the domestic but also the social foundations. "The atheists want God banished from the schools, which therefore would become Incapable of prepar ing the elements of peace and or der for families and for society." ' ! Remedies Are Suggested. .-. Going on to enumerate the reme dies, the pontiff says the most urgent is pacification of the spirit, so as to have more apparent peace and true and cordial peace which can only be the peace of Christ, who said: "We are all brethren," and also "This is my commandment, that ye love one another as I have loved you." After which St Paul wrote to the Galatiana: "Bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ." In the peace of Christ, continues the papal document, respect for order and authority will return, but only the Catholic church, the united and infallible holder and interpreter of this doctrine of Christ, has the A general meeting of the whole episcopacy in this center of Cathol- I capacity efficaciously to fight that icism, says the encyclical, wouia De most suitable to the Jubilee year, merely being held for investigation by the police. Petition Is Dismissed. Had the district attorney's office not acted the habeas corpus action might have brought temporary lib erty for the senior Weir. Instead, when the matter came up before Presiding Judge Stapleton for hear ing at 2 P. M. the Judge promptly dismissed the petition for the writ. This quashed the habeas corpus pro- ceedings. There was no alternative since Weir, then duly charged with murder, could not be admitted to bail. J. T. Moore, captain of detectives, represented Chief of Police Jenkins in the brief hearing in circuit court. Weir was present, as required by law, and was represented by W. C. Campbell and James W. Crawford as attorneys. These attorneys com plained to Judge Stapleton that the police authorities had refused them the right of conferring with Earl Weir. Captain Moore said this had been done upon instructions from District Attorney Myers. Younger Alan Accused. It was announced by Deputy Di trict Atorney Mowry, appearing for the state, that an information against young 'W'elr charging that he was an accessory after the fact had been filed. Mowry assured the attorneys that since this had been done there would be no objection to their conferring with either or both the accused men. Judge Stapleton pointed out that the filing of charges changed the status of af fairs and eaid he was sure there would be no further effort to keep the attorneys from seeing and con ferring with the two prisoners. Young Weir s part in the sup posed crime, Mr. Mowry said, con sisted of helping to dispose of the body of the unidentified girl said to have been murdered. New Clew Discovered. Detectives Tackaberry and Phil lips, who hav had charge of the in vestigation, started out on a new clew late Saturday when they learned through Patrolman Howard of the uniformed force that Cash Weir was surprised while hunting about the docks for a piece of iron two months ago. He said that he wanted the metal to use as an an chor for his boat. It has been learned that he is now using this piece. The detectives are acting on the supposition that the old man used the original anchor on his boat to weigh down the body of the dead girl. The fact that Cash Weir was searching for scrap iron when sur prised by a policeman is not taken as very conclusive evidence of guilt. Weir has a reputation for taking things he admits tt himself and so do the police. During the past 10 years he has gained the reputation of being the most notorious "taker" on Portland's waterfront. Another theory advanced by the sleuths late, last night was the fact that the girl was not dead at the time she was dumped Into the river. It has been pointed out that In juries received in the course of a brutal attack might send a young woman into unconsciousness but net instant death. whence immense advantage might accrue to the cause of peace after so long and so profound an up heaval. But the assembling or me ecumenical council at the Vatican would be such a grave event that it is necessary to -wait and pray as did the pious leader of God's elect people, "until God gives a 'Clearer sign of his wishes." Violence Is Regretted. The encyclical begins with ex pressions of regret for tho strife and violence which until recently have rent Italy, the pontiff's own country and 'the seat of the chair of St. Peter. This situation, con tinues the document, seamed to threaten the very life of the coun try despite the efforts of the Vati can to abate it. Proceeding to enumerate the evils of the present, the pope says that mankind, the social classes and the various peoples have not attained a true peaee after the terrors of war. He alludes to the publiclife of peo ples as still surrounded by a deep fog of hatred and mutual differences and offenses, and "mutual harm. "In the sweet sanctuary of the family," the document goes on, "the Mr of dissolution has also pene trated, fostered by the war and the increased immorality, whence this germ is propagated to all indi viduals. We deplore the spread of morbid restlessness among the peo ple of all ages and conditions, of insubordination and of unwilling ness to labor. Immodesty Is Deplored. "We deplore that modesty in women and girls is trampled under foot by looseness in dressing, in talking, in danefng unseemly dances, with open insult to the misery of others, often rendered more pro voking by the all too frequent osten tations and impudence of those whom sudden gains have enriched but not Improved." The pontiff declares that in con sequence of. the war the churches have not all been yet returned to religious services, while the ranks of the clergy are still decimated and missionaries are obliged to abandon the fields of their apostolic en deavors 1 I U-; "These great spiritual evils," he continues, "had some precious com pensation when they refuted oft repeated calumnies, it being clearly apparent how high the pure and generous flame of love of country burns in hearts consecrated to uoa. Evil Causes Enumerated. Enumerating the causes of the present evils, the pontiff says their chief origin was in the "right to do violence which reigned among men, almost annihilating sentiments. "If the vanquished nations are suffering gravely from this," the encyclical continues, "the victorious nations are equally afflicted. Small nations complain of being outdone, victimized and exploited by larger ones, while the latter complain of being disliked and platted against by small ones. This situation, the encyclical points out, increases "the anxiety of the peoples at the threat of new wars." Social Ties Loosened. Another most deplorable evil is declared to be the loosening of social ties, chiefly through "the class struggles which have become the plague of society, of which they attack all the vital forces, namely, work, industry, art, commerce and agriculture, all of which contribute to the public and private welfare and prosperity. The struggles ap pear to be forever Irreconcilable, being influenced on the one side by the insatiable avidity of obtaining and on the other by the tenacious selfishness of keeping material things." Between the lower and directing classes, the pontiff notes, there is mutual competition to dominate and therefore frequent strikes, with both sides contributing to the cause, to gether with revolutions and riots, reaction and repression have reigned among men, almost annihilated sentiments of mercy, charity and compassion, while the fictitious peace written on paper has not yet reawakened those noble sentiments, Indeed has embittered and almost legitimatized the opposite senti ments of rancor and revenge, mak ing men lose the sense of personal dignity and of the statute of human life, owing to the prevalence of brutal force and of overwhelming numbers. Christian, Ltif Advocated. "Love of country incites to many virtues ana even to admirable hero Ism when it is guided by Christian law, but it Incites to grave injus tices when it becomes unchecked nationalism, when it forgets that all peoples are brothers in the great family of humanity; that other nations have' the right to live and prosper-and that It is never either Peacock Rock Springs coal. Dia mond Coal Co., Bdwy. 3037. Adv. Read The Oregonlan classified ads. argam 1923 Maxwell Coupe won by Miss Alice Kraenick la the Shrine Popularity Contest is for sale at a bargain. Phone East 7958. materialism which has already ac cumulated so many ruins and to bring back to individuals, families and society the true holy Christian spirituality, as superior to the phil osophical as revelation is superior to pure reason; the capacity to teach true democracy, instilling into the masses the spirit of true fraternity. Christian Reign Urged. "Therefore, by restoring Christian reign, we have done efficaciously the work for the present and future pacification of humanity the work prepared for us with th almost di vine instinct which Benedict XV admirably developed. These two programmes melt Into one; "Christ in Christ's kingdom." Before such a vast labor, the en cyclical continued, the part of the holy father would fail without he help of his faith in God and his episcopacy. Therefore, he was con sidering the possibility of a general meeting of the episcopacy in this center of Catholicism. "The meeting," he continued, "would be almost suitable to the coming jubilee year, whence im mense advantage might come to the cause of peace after so long and so profound an upheaval. But the reassembling of ythe ecumenical council at the Vatican would be such a grave event that it is necessary- to wait and pray, as did the pious leader of Gods people, until God gives a clear sign of his wishes." Lord Ignored by Masses. Referring to "those too numerous groups and masses which, either al together or in part, are ignoring our Lord, Jesus Christ, are still outside our church," the pontiff quotes the text reading: "These also must we bring back, that there be one fold under one shepherd." A happy fact, the encyclical con tinues, encourages this hope, since almost all the states in the world have lately, contrary to human ex pectations, entered into or renewed their friendship with the apostolic see. The encyclical says the church does not interfere in purely human things, but also does not permit po litical powers to make this pretext to lessen the rights conceded by God. The pontiff adds, therefore. that he adopts the words of Bene dict XV: "We tolerate nothing con trary to the liberty and dignity of the church, the benefits of which are benefits of the highest impor tance to the progress of civiliza tion." The pope expresses pain at seeing that Italy, "our mother country, where God, who ruled the courts of history, has fixed the seat of his vicar on earth," is not among tile states represented at the Vatican. Guaranty Is Violated. He refers to the "guaranty where by divine providence, which guides human events . . . with inesti mable benefits for Italy herself fixed the sovereignty of the vicar of Christ on earth in this city," and continues: "This guaranty was and has re mained violated, thereby creating an abnormal condition of things which has caused grave sadness to the con sciences of Catholics both In Italy and the whole world. " "We are invested of a unique and competent authority in this very grave matter and are responsible before God. We protest, as our ven erated and great predecessors pro tested, against such a condition of things not for vain, earthly ambi tion, for which we would blush, but for our eense of duty, remembering that we must die, and not wishing remorse upon our death. The pontiff adds that Italy has nothing and will have nothing to fear from the holy see, as the pope will be always animated with senti ments of true peace coupled with justice, so that it may be said "jus tice and peace have kissed each ether." Pius ends his encyclical with the peroration: "May God make this hour strike and may wise men of good .will not let it strike in vain. It will be one of the most solemn and fecund hours, both for the res toration of the kingdom of .Christ and for the pacification of Italy and the entire world." WAGE VIOLATION FOUND Everett Plant Ordered to Raise Minimum and Make XJp Pay. OLTMPIA, Wash., Dec. 23. (Spe cial.) 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