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i r A T-1 CIRCULATION A , .Avcrig for April, IMS: j " i . Sunday only .i.-...l.IlT- i Daily and SuuU7 ..8Mi3 Aor; for cix tnontb"Ha.1iDg April 30," 1S23; vt Ronda-n only . ..,..;...!.- L...5S08 , Iaily aod Snn4y . 548 IS" THE CITY O? SALI1T , - '' and alsewhar la ' , Marion and Polk Coontir Nearly areryUody raad "' The Oregon Statesman - THE;H04iB KEWSPAPES . f lit: T SBVTYThlhbiVEAR "'J J ; 7. - ; SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY. MORNING, MAY 8, 1923 -y - p . " r ... -PRICE FIVE CENTS ' r:-r; n n1 c- f? rr ra n' - rS iah : . BMIT AT tag r;nr ,"3 1 SMETV SPACE I .' ISOESIC-iUTE III State ' and Commercial y Streets Designated 'for ' Zone Pencjintf Preparation , of Permaneni Ordinance ' CURBS TO BE MARKED FOR AUTO PARKING Bill Authorized to Prohibit Jay-Walking on Main . business Corners , . j,---- j'- - ? rq--," . ' ' Characterized, by low-flung1 and hlrh-riung retorts andj acevsations nom of ' then slzxllas r hotj the first "deflnfte steps toward-the es- " taWlfchnvent 'of-' ' safety zon for " the ; eity 'of ' Salem, experimental ,s but; neVerttelesa' conerete, -were U adopted by the codncQ last night whea ls the midst of sn apparent deadlock Aldettaan .Si meral arose and sal, "r move that- State and Cdmmercial on- bOth sldea- where street cars Btof be'tr!?dint as a safety zone, while a new and com plete ordinance- isvbetns-- prepar- , ed. The' .motion f, ws carried . nnanImoti8y.:'U '.:i'-.l-L' if ;' AntomobOeA Estriftedf '-.- Accordhe" to speclOcatlons- as MR t , embodied in Alderman-' Suters , "ftTlginat traffic or" safety aone orj -" financed strip fit feetfroni'ltbe lenter of' the street ,1 inning 'f TO ; f eet' ' back f fbm the Intersec- f lion fwlll - be ' designated ; 'as" the '' "safety kpne' In whiin" zone no 'antomobiles . will ' be "allowed to I parlt; "t ; further rprotides that I ' automobiles, oa approa'chiag the son e where fa the street carsstop. must slo-' down' to --W speed not to exceed 1 0 miles ant hour.1 The preparation of a zone; at State and Commercial, which. Is" la' the hands f of 'the street " commissioner,,' will probably be, worked ont some time -this week.. - - -r . 1' ' Thowipson i Flan -t Accepted ' ; t In addition the council; voted, to ' accept' a plarf put in the form' of motion' by Alderman Ralph S Thompson. proTldinaH for the - marking of curbs, wnerein cars ' may park on eight-foot, space on y the following "streets or zones t (- ' Cort to Perry1 on Commertial: J State to High on bota sides, in " cTujg Court4 and the"n,ortH- side of Ferry and Commercial. , Going a .step ; further the" council also voted to prohibit the jparking of automobiles in alleys, hnd .at the instance ; of - Alderma- Ralph Thompson to draw np an ordi nance to prohibit "Jay walking at the Intersections of; State and CommerciaJ, Liberty and State a and High and State. S'hls would not, include "jay-walking". In the ; ceniei' orblock but onjy at Inter- l sections.: 1 D - : ) - i They , Became Personal ' & ; Hectic was the course, of Alder ; . man ' Sitter's original- ordinance to establish, three safety. tones, Jter T I iriinatfns; In personal iaccnsations ahd defeat ot JUhb ordinance, only "'j after 1t ' had I been" 'miraculously saved by Alderman Suter himself , t r,om the hands' of a "contrary or ' ! dlnance committee. - ," -C, . , , 8 i-The fight began, when the or ; dinance committee .reported un : favorably oii Aldermai Suter's or - df nance, on the ! rronndn that" it I was not adapted to present'needs. - ' ' "One member of the ordinance committee voted unfavorably on , tHisV Alderman Suterj exclaimed, 1 f because' it' would prevent cars ; f;om stopping In front iof his place , of business. ; I try' to forget; my I bnslness when T com up here Continued" from page 2) '-- - rf ' -..-. ' ' THE WEATHER i ' rv-i..' OREGON Tuesday, f alrj LOCAI WEATHER ? ; - (Monday.) . Maximum temperature, , Mlnimum.,temperature,j 7. .R'iver: 3.lf eet, Tislng. ,; Rainfall -Honev: , Atuiospherei Clear. ;:: I TWihdr-West. ' . : WALL A WALLA WHISKERS f6 BE WORN LONG Citizens Will AlJow Beards to Grow As Feature- of Wirt vr ning West Palsreant WALLA WALLA, Wash., May 7.- pern aps the most striking In cldent of the future plans of the big pageant. jThe Winning of the West r to 1 be I held ; In this city June 6 and 7 is the j growing of beards for the occasion. Many of the local bnisiness men arid others ' taking part in the big pageant hare already : started' to grow r them. . K. v' r !' j j " In a few weeks this city will be changed from- a' smooth, shaven locality to a bearded polony. ESfflOE Mrs. O'Neill Says Husband - Mistreated Her ;and She i , Wants Divorce : -(Sensationar cnarges of unfaith fulness, ; whippings j j and' affairs with'' other women) ; are made against Paul Q'NeUl in a divorce complaint filed in the circuit court yesterday by ; his '- wife, Grace O'- Neiii,::--v, ; fi ; 1 . According; to her . accusations her husband admitted to her at ont j time that a certain' woman whom he ' described as "peppy." offered him t money If he would, run jawaf wit her iAt that timej she stateaj he Invited ' her virtu ally j to leave ' home, the better : to carry' out his plans.! ' '' " . 'i She asserts that' he twisted her wrists ' and" ; arms '; until 'she ; lay writhing on - the floor In pain. ' ' "Often she claims he partook too deeply of intoxicating- beverages at which times be forgot to come home; At one' time, rafter their baby was born he 'remained away from home for 10 or 12 f days, she claims: -'I- j V. ' ' k In April. '1923, when she went fi : Silverton' to obtain employ merit,' In ' order toj 'su pport '( her self J and the baby.) it Is cla'im6d he followed her, making aTBcene during the course j of which he tore her clothing to shreds. O'Xeill by profession Is- a movie operator,' the "complaint states, and " earns froni '325 - to , $69 a week.' Because" of his lucrative profession,' It Is stated, he waa able to purchase' a car but- never permftted Me wife ' to ride in It. ' ' 'Ai divorce and-' custody of the minor child Is asked, and whatr ever1 "other- relief the" court5 may deem Justifiable.5 , j ' - PTUIBD ''U iviachine u a r ry.ia g 500 Pounds Cargo Rises Al most au,uuu heet LEBOURG ET, France. May 7 Sergeant Bary today broke the world's, airplane altitude record for a machine carrying 550 pounds cargo. He reached an altitude of -8250 meters. 1 ''.' i Aviator : Gontard last week at Lebourget,' with a machine carry ing a load of 550; pounds reached a height of .8,000 meters, (Approx imately 28.250 feet) ? State Prison Team Wins ; s l Frpmpovey MotopjTeam The .state penitentiary baseball teant" n" Sunday defeated : the Covey Motor- Carry company team from Portland by, a score of 12 to 4t i The game was witnessed by the Elks band -of Portland follow- lag a band concert.' given for the benefit of the prisoners. !: KT-UXEHS 5IARCH - ! ' T ' . I , ; POCATELLOJ Idaho, May 7. Approximately .150 men, in the regalia' of the Ku Klux Klan, marched silently down the -princi pal-thoroughfare here tonight and held a ceremonial on a hillside at e i DY BUHY the outsklrta of th : city; -.; mmw SillliLE PLOT Unscrupulous. Traders Are Blamed By Wall Street With ; Attempt to ' Perpe trate Immense' fraud" ' T SCHEME IS DETECTED v BE0H CHECKS CASHED All Letters and Checks Qe claned. to Have jTome troni . Common Source NEW' YORK. May T. Postof fiee inspectors, police-" and 'private detectives joined 'hands 'today' to run fd'owsn the' authoraof k" widespread-; plotr to .upset the ; stock market 1 by du mptingr on f It ' n'un dreds.of orders to bWy,,5 backed by worthless checks running ' into the millions XT??-1 -T-y: ! Waif street generally attribut ed the fchemer' to nnscrupulotts traders,' seeking, to ; tfnlunee prices, for tH fir -own "endp,. af though the possibility was not lost sight of 1 that a fanatic1 of some disgruntled person might ' have thrown the. monkey wrench into th'geara of the NWVork .ex change, ; v, ,Xo. Check Cashed : It was obvious," however, that those, 'Who worked, out the plot had , a. ! wide knowledge, ; of Wall, street a,hd its ways.'- Although not a' single one' 6i. the! checks" was cashed, their! dumping: on" brokers had a marked" effect on ; today's market: Several brokers rushin g fnto the exheahge with- what they thought were bonafide buying or. ders "at the market" for New York Central, Corxi Products ano; Chilo Copper, shares, U with a sijrlnkHnr Xl other ' stocka, sent prices sharply up. - ' - Hi' 1 ,- ' ' - in the' meantime, however, New York correspondents' f ' tor banks oh which the forged checks were drawrf, began to turn ' down the' worthless paper. The brokers who had bought, promptly began to unload and the market siump' ed ; I Whole rast on isuae ; i Already uneaiy : under the" re cent attacks of bear traders, and further depressed by acute reakr nePs that developed In; the and cotton" marXeta, the; entire fist took the': toboggan and most of the shares listed by the bbard made new lov; records if or the year before they quit sliding. The decline did not end' until a few minutes before the; losirg,, when a covering movement " by . bear traders checked the drotf. Some shares- reacted ine ! to ?10i polnu but pracWcally ,thfe entire - Wat t- ltoirtr snturdav's- hiah the losses ranging from: points. . - ' tO lOr l-Z r The operators of the; swindle. V they took fuH aS vantage ol their" oppbrtunltyj mad a kiUlng both on the rise and fall, aelltng short on ' thej brief peak-teached before the forgeries were disclos ed and thnlcovering and buying or the rise. - Schema Cleverly. Worked ; The scheme; In, which Si sought to Involve brokers In Phil adelphia,! Boston and Chicago as well ts In New York, was, wonted out 'with metic-ildus1 detail, al though, the to ed names attached to tbje .checks were crude." Ap parency; all had been1' written by the same hand.r but the conspir ators evidently 4 f lgnred on s a quick "turn, bore the- forgeries were- dlscorered,".'"- H"4 ! I ?". ?; ; 'T The letters ' coming from ; a score -of -t cities? In (Pennsylvania Massachusetts' andNew York and even as - far west as Kansas- ICty and Louisville were dropped n the mails Saturday , and were on hand la the varlona brokerage f ices at the . opening of business today . '.'.'.' ' 1; YJctlms Carefully ricked Typeed on the same '' water marked brand of paper, apparent ly with one tfpewriter all the let ters purported to come from bank officials In the' various cities, and asked - that ordert he placed tot customers of the banks. Each letter gave tie name of that par (Continued on Pace 8 ) GRAND JURY . SXARTS;pROBE qf Class row Officials taken Steps to Run jDowii Mystery oif Lei-rhtonV-. ? Mount's Death". I CHICAGO. May 7. -A grand Jury, today began investigation" of the mystery surrounding the death of Loighton "Mount. Northwestern university student, "who disap peared following, a class rush in September, 1921, and whose skele ton was found under a' pier at Evanston a week, ago. 1 With State's Attorney Robert Crowe and nearly all his assist ants working on khe case, much Importance was attached ! to the finding: at Akron,; Ohio, of J. Al len Mills, a former Northwestern student-who was said to j have been in the class rush' the j night Mount disappeared and who.-students have claimed, knew: most of Xhe circumstances in connection with the rush'. An assistant state's attorney left tonight for Akron to question Mills. j - Robert Jamar, a student - who was on beach patrol at-Kranstoi) n.the- summer of 1922, told as sistant state's attorneys today that there was no hole in the pier under which Mount's body- was ,ioundr)whent he was on duty. The pier is pi solid, masonry., on- the lake side and. there was a. ; hole nearly two feet square in the floor planking" nearly- above the place where Jho. hody, was discovered last ilonday., ...-' One theory, has been that Mount was accidentally, killed by students during the class rush and bis body secreted under the pier by lower ing It through, the hole , In, the1 flooring. : Jamar's story, lndicatec to the authorities, that If the. bod were put under thepier.fey loweril .Ing It throqgh the hole,', it mutt have ben long after the. night of ine, rnsn.. - AKRON, Onoi May 7. Intima tioa that be might have informa tion which -would throw- some light on the disappearance p. Leightbn Mount , was given here todays Joseph A. Mills, president of the 1921 freshman class! at : North western,: jwho is held by police pending- the arrival of Illinois officials.-;- i i "; :' ; r "Things, look pretty dark for me I know, but I may have something to ! ' tell later w;bich may '. ' aid in clearing up : Mount's disappea- ance, ! Mills" said today. ''Until me rijni time com.es, I have nor thing more to say on that." " f j ( v Mills1 said that - he' was one of the-organizers of. the Class rush which - took " pi ace on the date of a - "... .Mounts disappearance, r- Mrs. Blanche' Coe Tells f Council of Scope, Q,f Work T. , Since January 1 f The first; report of the , new police matron, Mrs. Blanche Coe, was read and . adopted at, the meeting of the city council last night.' . v - i ' According to Mrs. Coe's report she ha? investigated 30 casef of delinquencyt since she took office which, was on- January l; Thliy teen ' bail cases have been cared for and- 2 a calls have been- &fade on parents. waile' 4y orfice con gtiltationa were held: N c ; f , ' 4 ThlrtyHBit Investigations on complaints received , were - made and V 15 phblto f dances ' at tend. e'd.' . -Three case were referred to . ' the-f 'Associated ! Char ities, two were returned to their husbands; one1 ' to' ' brothers t and four to 'parents living' out of the city l Three cases of men contribut ing toHhe'delinquiney of .minors were investigated and our casea were referred ' to health: officers. I Trusty Escape Followed i By Walla' Va(Ia Hound$ .WALLA, .'WALLA; Wash., May 7-.-r One-ql ,the.- trusty .prisoners at the- state penitentiary escaped yesterday - afternoon and "njp.,, tof a late hour tonight .ha4 hot been located by officials who; took np the bunt : shortly "after the - man aa reiwrted iaisslAg.;--! . '; POLICE Hi ' j H5 BEPOlfl 20 filllGAOS Chinese v Bandits Maltreat Women! and Drive Men Into Hills Where They are ' Held for Ransom BRITISH ARE AMONG I i VICTIMS OF ATTACK Monftoliari: Government At tempts Rescue, But Over- tures Are Difficult i i PEKING. May (By The As sociated -s. Press.) Approxim ateiy 20. foreigners, many of them Am ericans, including t a prominent newspaper publisher and two Am erican 1 army majors tonight are in the hands of a daring, gang" of Chinese brigands, wjio .raided the Peking1 kxpfess early ;' Sunday morning- at!,Suchow Province of Kiangsu,! .shot dead ope English passenger" named Rotbman.' and drove, scores of others, white ana native,' off 'like' a herd of cattle In their midst. 1 Women Maltreated! ' Advices' receited ' here T from several sources indicate that the Women ' amon g t he ; white J passen gers later were released,, but only fter they had been- beaten ahd spat upon by .their brntal captors in an effort: ; to. make them keep up r with' the i fast K moving caval cade as : it traveled through' the darkness away" from , the : scene ojt the holdnp. s , - . . ; ' Several of the women) are said to have dropped from '- exhaustion and -the bandits left them where they fell, refusing to. permit their husbands to stop and render - any assistance: V ' " . ... V Miss Aldrich Safe ! One of 'the women was Miss Lucy C.f Aldrich, sister-in-law or John D. ! Rockefeller, Jr., of New York. J Late today it was dgf in itely established that she had been released and" was unharmed in a email village. 15 miles from the main line - of the railroad "where the holdup was staged: ' Among the prisoners still be lieved to ' be held by the brigands are Robert i Scripps, ' prominent American newspaper " publisher who imakjng a tour of the Far East in his private yacht. Other captives are Major" Roland pin'ger of the United! States army in the JPhilippines ! with his older "son, Roland, I Jr., aged. 8, and Major Robert Allen, also oft the Ameri can army In the Philippines. "With his son Robert. ; t " Idaho Man Escape ; - Lloyd ; Lehrbas, formerly of Po catello,. Idaho; and now J; of the Chicago 'Tribune, one of' the cap tives, escaped after traveling un der- guard for three hours clad only in his pajamas and "driven barefoot oyer the rough country side.." -'Tim'" : , ! "" The : bandits, heavily armed, and' outnumbering solid ers o ""the Peking government . who were guarding; the railroad. Itnei, first drove ojf the troops" in the daric hours of ! the early morning 'and then tore up the tracks s v As the : express ' train struck the Wrecked 1 right -of 'way j the - brt ganda opened a (fusillade '-' from their carbines,, shattering the car windows and rousing the1 occu pants Of 'the -sleepers. 1 ' ''',' Passengers IrSi-en Away The marauders jrent " through the train, seltlng' everything port able, and then drove off upwards of '30whltrrpa"ssetigerB and ap-r proximately; a' hundred . . native travelers.- ,. '- ''! Without- glring their captives an opportunity to dfess the Chi- nese gang-forced! them' at" high speed .over the rough ' country in their : bare. feet., " - ; When the bandits had departed the soldiers arrived and ,teok up the chased v Later,' advices were re ceived that; the troops had come up with the raiders and were fir ing" on them;i; to whish the ! tTi ganda are said to i have replied that; they would kill - their prison ers . unless " the- troope witnarew. Th: govegnment i-hijfs 'instructed military: governors of the" neigh- ( Continued on-Page 8) JOE CANNON 1SVELCOMED XQN BIRTHDAY Veteran Legislator at Home on 1 . 87th Annlversary-l-Gov- ' ernors Send Messages DANVILLE- 111 . May 7. (Ry the Associated Press.) 'Unole Joe"j Cannon the veteran legisla tor, today received ; an S official welcome home from his fellow townsmen t on the occasion of his 87th birthday.- It was his, borne cqmjng from his final session of congress. 'i"',- i "'; I i '": Fipm early morning until after noon, -when the ' celebration offi cially began, the man who made Danville;, and the black cigar fa mous, was the recipient of greet ings! and - congratulations. : Hun dreds of messages came by wire fro mthroughout the nation; near ly all the governors offering their ; best wishes, i ? t . ' "Uncle -Joe" issued the follow ing greeting and message: " "Friends, . this ' demonstration of your affection- is in". Itself com pensation for my hal century ot public service.- The extent of my gratitude cannot be weighed- or measured. To all, my heart goes out In thankfulness. ' "To ; you,!, too,- all- the people oX -America from my observance of half a 'century,- I bring this message: Have faith. Oten yon will! feel that' you ' d elect a " great uneasiness, an unrest, f a threat ening 'under-current In this goy ernmeint, Xf:-' ''i '- i "'V'-. ' This" is neither new or unusual. I have.learned that - America will rise to" meet her; problem. I have learned that- good will triumph over evil. i ' ' -- "Have faith -in the government of your fathers. ; " ? - -r : ; "Show your faith by works to support thJlt''governnlent.-,J'-.,' Tlave-faith that right will pre vail." " t SiLEMUSEE BIBR Federal Plant at -Hillsboro "' Said to Be of Internation i ial Importance ' F, S. ! and R. D. Barton and their families were Salem visitors to Hillsboro" Sunday to. inspect the new! radio - plant! of the. Federal Telegraph company. ). ' ' This is a grown-up plant that Is blossoming into international Im portance, for it .was built' for ra dio service to China- and other halfway-roundr-the-globe stations The j main mast Is C2G feet high. built of steel - with concrete base. and the wire:' antennae spread out over 100 acres. No ', radiogram can come, : - fllfering : anywhere within their jreaeh, without' hav ing a tralnload Tot wire ready to snare If. The electrical energy .re quired 5 for this! station Is about 100 kilowatts, or 130 horsepower i The condenser for an ordinary private radio set canl be carried in one's hand; the condensers for this mammoth outfit .are- about 1& by 18 feet in-size, and there are- 20 of. them Every other item of construction Is built on the same v gigantic scale. Structnral calculations ay that the top spire or the tail tower would stana a pull or a push of 86,000 pounds. The central telegraph station fori this trans-Pacific service Is In Portland. . The- messages "are re layed on to the, Orient and wher ever? else1 they are destined '. for, direct' from Hillsboro. They could have built thestation out on the coast and saved a few miles, but when they figured It all up. It was found cheaper and; morel satisfactory , to build inland, rath er than incur the cosf of a single wire line to the coast. 1 MAK KILLED ' LONG VIEW, Wash., , May 7,- JV G. Houston was killed today when an' automobile went over-a bank near here as he was dosing a door just after taking the wheel. S. E. Thompson; owner of the car was hurt. Both were of Vancou ver, Wash. 8XOW FALLS. -ST. PAUL, Minn.,, May. 7. Snow, began falling here tonight, melting as it touched the ground. The heavy flakes- were driven by a strong wlmL.v - laoiAicrffi-i Minister Schurman Characterizes Develcpnents z E: ious-Instructed to Klake Strong Reprcsenbti-r.3 Id ChinjesV 'GttVernmentWar c::'- J Back Any Pbn of State Department WASHINGTON, May 7. (By Associated Press.)- Ac tion of Chinese bandits of Shantung province yesterday in holding, up an express train and. capturing a number cf for eigners, including 19 Americans, has created a situation re garded as seriously affecting the continuance of friendly rela tions between the United States and China. The situation ii held by some officials as containing elements of stiirbroadcr scope, possibly involving other 'goverrrment3in a similar en tahfflenient with China. " i f f ; ) - . BEHnV GFIQWERS P.'EET SATURDAY III Points of Cooperation to Be Discussed - at Chamber 1 , : of- Commerce ' ' ; i All loganberry growers of the valley . are urged - to meet Satur day afternoon at-1:30 o'clock ut the. Chamber of ,Conmerce audi torium to 'decide; what they will do on two or? three points of co operation. '- ' One item Is that of continuing or making an " organ liatlori-' big enough to include practically all the loganberry producers of the state, bg and strong enough1 to care: f or ' the1 market : fairly but firmly, for 'the' interest1 of 'both grower and -consumer, and- avoid the - ruinous-; fluctuations : of the past.' . - - ' ' The . other big thing Is the fle cislon as! to whether the growers will vote ah appropriation of one tenth of a cent a pound for' ad vertising the, loganberry. It Is generally conceded that the only live future for the loganberry Ilea in a wider knowledge ; of this" fruit, and if the present genera tion of growers is going to get much out of It, ft will have to get Into. the advertising game at once. The matter of appropriating one- tenth of a cent .for advertising was brought up last winter and received heairty endorsement, but no provision! was made- for put ting; the plan Into action. The effort is being made to get the whole, 'growing and packing In dustry together to agree on a na tional plan for making the logan berry a household work in the American market. " ; All who are interested'in logan berries are urged to attend, or to send representation prepared to act definitely , A EflFEREiiCE Road. Policemen and Officials of Oregon und Washing- . - ton Meet Here - ! A general conference of Oregon and Washington traffic officials and members of the traffice squad of tke Portland police department yesterday . was followed last night by a conference of T. A. Raffety, phief of the .state traffic depart ment with; the men who compose his force.;:"-:-;::;-:':; -..''' The principal : speeches were made by Mr Raffety, Mayor John B. Giesy, who' welcomed the men to ' the city; Sam . A.'; Kozer, secre tary of state; -Roy A. 'Klein; state highway. engineerILib. Wagnon, secretary of "the automotive divi sion of the public service commis sion; ' Governor- Pierce; Captain West, , of the -' Portland traffic squad,- and L. V. Jenkins, Portland chief of pollcej ' : ,- Uniformity in - the : administra tion of the traffic laws In all coun ties and . between , states - was - the main theme of the meeting. ' HFIC OFFICERS . jtansom imanaea . PEKING, May 8 (By A jsodatedl Prc.ts.) Tho CM nese bandits who perpctrat- .. ed the daring holdup of t'.a Peking exprese train near Snchow Sunday, kLinapir.t the passengers, many of t ' : i Americans, have demanded a ransom : of $1,000,000 in ad dition to a pardon for all in volved, according to advices -received here : The diplo-' malic representatives of t foreign governments are cou- f erring on "what action la 'to bo" taken. i1 At 10 o'clock Monday night Pa cific time, all available reports in .connection with the CtSsera bandit raid on the Peking expre i near Suchaw, Indicated , thut 19 -foreigners principally, were ellll in the hands of the brigands. The list included one woman, Ccaora Ancira, oV Guadalajara, Tlcxico, whose release or escape had not been definitely ' confirmed, al though general statements hai beeh received from twp or tfcrej points that all women captured had been released. Those believed to be Americans named in the list are: Major Roland Ptnger, -.Manila, Roland Pinger, Jr., son of tLa above. . ' ",. . , - Major Robert Allen, Manila. Robert Allen, Jr., son of above, N. F. Milner, Los Angeles. J. A. Pinley, Shanghai. C. Jacobson. Shanghai.' v J. By Powell, Shanghai ' ' Xee C. Solbmon, Shanghai. Levy, ShanghaL Fred Ellas, Shanghai. ' Edward Elias, Shanghai. Leon Friedman, Shanghai. The remaining names, on tho list are:; i ; Senor Ancira, Guadalajara, ?.Iex ico. ; . " :- i 1 ; Senora Ancira, , wife of above. Theodore Saphiere, Shanghai. Emile Gensburger, (French) Gensburger Shanghai: O. p. Musso, (Italian) Shang- hal. '-.; i: ? V. Ilaimovltch. Shanghai. Minister Schurman at Peking, in an official report of Secretary Hughes, received today, character ized. the developments as "serious" and was instructed , Immediately by the state department to press his Inquiry, report the facta to Washington and make strong rep resentations to the 'Chinese 'gov ernment. ; . . ' A , . . , . ; , Little Light Is Shed I Still other steps were said to be In progress but' officials here de clined to throw any further light ( Con tinned on pare ft) YAOTTOSELL A CAR? Try a Statesman Want Ad The Results , Will You Surprise , . Below Is one ' of the Want Ads. appearing la . , today's Statesman t Classified Columns. One a Day; Yill itlo .'Yours TcncrroT? 19J1 FORT C0X7PB TZV.TTCT condition, whila wir m-L!s, 1343-Korth CptUU CU t.ftr , 0 p. m. Terms,