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Show EX-SERVICE MAN BRANDEDI.W.W. I Acid Used to Put Letters Across His Abdomen: Investigation on ASTORIA, Ore.. Sept IS. The American Legion here started an investigation in-vestigation yesterday of the case of I George H GostS, who was kldnajied by throf men Monday n I g i : T ;md ln-.i n i I with the letters I W . W" across his Sbdomon, :md other w.hi i.ki Itf-.i ted ,.-111.1 robbed Goet7.. who Is an ex-ser- I i-r- man and ly trad.' ,n expert pipefitter pipe-fitter and furnace worker. Is cm-ployed cm-ployed by the Associated Engineering I oomps n of Portland While- seeking help to install rurn- ' aces here for the company, Goeta was walking neur the- tornei of Sixth land Puanc streets about 0 30 Monday i niRht. when an auldmoblle drew In to tin sidewalk and three men leapt d I out One of them struck him a blow o sr the head, knocked him uncon- i sclous. Goetz recovered consciousness while ' th- machine was speeding through tho mpht, and his captors told him to i be quiet. "You'll not work again here,1' one of the men said. He also heard one of them nay: ' There'll soon be hell to pay in Chehalia." Then he lost consciousness again When he recovered himself the second sec-ond time he was lying in Ihe old COnn -terj ai the head ol French street A hlng and daed. he made his way , to the hotel where he had been Btay-! Btay-! Ing and sent for s doctor .'et day he reported to Chief Po- I lice Carlson Local police, after having surgeons examine his hurts say that th branding brand-ing was evidently done with acid Its location, thej say, precludes the use of a branding Iron, and, besides, tlio irregularity of the letters Indicates that each was traced with a stick or iron ! rod held In a nervous hand. Police are following every available clue, and believe that th- outrage ts the signal of a recurrent outbreak of I. W W. activities here, such aa o- 'ciirred last year. |