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Wednesday, February ,17, 1932 LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. Page Five Slater Dies Mrs. Earl Klein, of La Grande, who left several days ago for Everett, Wash., to be with her sister who was gravely ill. Is expected home within a few days. Mrs. Klein's sister died Friday about midnight of double , pneumonia. Mrs. Klein's home is at M avenue and Oak street. 'Return Home ' The coach and nine basketball players of Columbia university . of Portland were en route home today after a two-day series in La Granie with the Eastern Oregon Normal school. ' The two teams broke even, each winning one and losing one. ' ; ' .- ; Slilp Horses ; E. W. Canniff, of' Gresham, Ore., who has been in this district for sev eral days on a business mission, ship ped a carload of horses from La Grande to Western Oregon last night. He is expected back here in about three weeks when he expects to mako arrangements for another carload, consigned to the Willamette valley for sale among small fruit and 'vegetable growers. There are approximately 22 horses per carload. from the local High school with the class of 1931. To Meet The W. C. T. TJ. today announced a meeting will be held Feb. 23 at 2:30 p. m. at the home of Mrs. T. E. Fierson, at 1205 N avenue. Called to Lake Miss Norma' ' Gibbons, of North Powder, a student at ft the Eastern Oregon Normal' school' was called to Hot Lake Monday evening by the serious condition of her father who is In the sanatorium, , DEFENSE ! IS CHARGING NO DEATH PLOT (Continued from Page One) Concludes Visit v I'--:- Miss Ilia Couch, who has been mak ing a ten days visit at . the home of her friend. Mrs. Fred Johnson, 1302 Eighth street, returned Monday morning to her home in Wallowa. : Commission Meeting The city commission will hold its weekly executive session in the city hall at 7:30 o'clock tonight. ttccovers " Mrs. J. L. Waller, who was ill last week- of the flu, has recovered, ac cording to reports. Interest Keen In Trial Interest is very keen here this week in the murder trial of John Owen, accused of slaying Amos Helms, state policeman. Yesterday, the sec ond day of the trial, the court room was crowded to capacity with lines of people standing at each of the three entrances to the room. Every available bit of space Inside the room was utilized and in fact. In some cases, two persons would be occupy ing one chair. This morning several people arrived at the court house more than on hour before opening time in order to be sure of getting seats. The crowd is the largest Blnce the hearings held here last year pre ceding the trial of Mrs. Emma Fowler, former treasurer of toe city. Benefit Dinner For the purpose of raising funds to help pay for the cabin at Five Points, the Boy Scouts will give a benefit! dinner at the Christian church base-! ment from 5 to' 7:30 o'clock Friday! evening. The public is invited. There will be plenty of time after the din ner to attend tha band concert. The boys and their mothers are in Charge of the ticket sale, and the women of the Christian- church are to prepare and serve the meal, donating their services. Ill Eugene Palmer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Palmer, is ill at his horns today. He is reported to be better this morning. Guest Miss Frances McKcnnbn, of Imbler, is a guest today at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Avery on N avenue. Omit Prayer Meeting Tho regular weekly prayer meeting at the Baptist church will be omitted this week on account of the evange- 1 listlc services which are being held In ' the chapel car of the American Bap- j tist Publication Society, which Is lo- cated at the railroad crossing on Fir j street. Tho chapel car services begin tonight at 7:C0 o'clock sharp, with I Rev. C. W. Cutler preaching on the subject, "What the Holy Spirit It." Son Is Born Mr. and Mrs. Otis Veal are the parents of a son, born last night at the Grande Ronde hospital. Improves "' Mr. and Mr3. E. A. Sayre are re ceiving encouraging word from their daughter, Miss Ethel, Who underwent a major operation at Pendleton last week and her condition and im provement are even better than had been previously expected. She has hod no temperature since Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Sayre returned from Pendleton Sunday evening, but will go over again next Sunday. Gives Talk Dr. J. F. Ingle spoke Monday at an 11 o'clock social science assembly at the High school. He showed that ' wtth-'heolth nothing,.is really impos sible while without health nothing Is scarcely worthwhile. The average person, especially young people need 0 or 10 hours sleep, he said. The speaker said that pain was man's greatest friend. He classed pain, pulse, blood pressure and temperature as the '.four cardinal symptoms of the bcdyi showing that the body condi tion was upset. Three diseases that are almost painless until almost hopeless are tuberculosis, cancer and Bright's disease, he said, oddlng that pneumonia is man's greatest killer. Dr. Ingle advised young people to meet their problems as soon as pos sible and get them behind them so they could get ready to face new ones. Club to Meet The Stitch and Chatter club of the American Legion auxiliary will meet at the home of Mrs. Frank Eames, 1900 Second street on Friday after neon, according to an announcement made today. 13. O. X. Assembly Paul Knautz sang a group of soles at tho Eastern Oregon Normal school assembly this morning, his numbers being vigorously encored. In addi tion to this the associated students held a business meeting. Comm.unity singing was led by Miss Jennie Peterson. Human Sacrifice To Crater God Blamed ! . B ATA VI A, Java, Feb. 17 CD Vol I untary human sacrifice, to tho "cra . ter .god" is generally accepted here I as the explanation for the disappear j anco of five Javanese who left three months ago for the top of Merapl volcano. Today a searching party found five j bundles of clothing at the rim of j tho crator. A rope dangled over the edge. AMES SOPH OUSTS CHAMP I KOM BERTH ON MAT TEAM From Baker . Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Noyes and baby, of Baker, were La Grande visitors last evening, attending the birthday din ner party given at. the Ballard home on Second street. Buys Shop W. M. Fitzgerald has purchosed the Rex barber snop from Ross Perry. Stores to Stay Open . Stores of La Grande will not close on Washington's birthday anniver sary, next Monday, in keeping with the usual practice here. Stores in Pendleton, Baker and other Eastern Oregon towns also will remain open. The city building, the court house, the poBt office and banks expect to observe the day as a holiday. In Baker Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Nelson, of La Grande, were visitors in Baker on a business trip yesterday. Visiting Here Jack Kincaid, of San Francisco, Is In La Grande visiting friends and ;elatives for a few days. He is a former La Grander, having graduated v "ELIMINATE DRUDGERY Wet Wash 4c pound. Damp' Wash, flat ironed 5c pound. Economy Wash 7c, flat ironed garments dried. . Try these services and preserve your health. MODERN LAUNDRY PHONE MAIN 77 AMES, la W) Three pin-falls in less than ten minutes In his first three varsity matches explains why Roland LIUle, a sophomore at Iowa State, has edged out a champion teammate for the 118-pound varsity wrestling assignment. Llllle, a former state high school tltllst from Carroll, la., pinned his foemen from Iowa State Teachers, Kansas State and Missouri, each In less than five minutes and the -trio in a total period of , less, than ten minutes of grappling. So Gibson, Big Six conference cham pion at 118 pounds last year, remains on the bench while, the sophomore provides thrills and spills. BOOTH LEAVES SANATORIUM . NEW HAVEN, ConnjJ Feb. 17 (P) Albert J. Booth, dimihutlve captain of the Yale football squad, returned today from a Walllngford sanatorium, the lung ailment that terminated his football career greatly improved. Physicians said he - might attend classes but he will be forbidden to engage in any athletic activity. Baker county, met ,it with vehement contradictions. That Officer Helms and Captain Lee Noe had no authority to arrest the young men, was pointed out by Cochran, since no warrant had been issued In the state of Idaho for the robbery of a service station, and since the officers had no other informa tion except that they were asked to I watch out for the sedan with a Mis souri license. Owen and Crosswhlte were acting in their right to resist unlawful arrest, he added, citing sev eral cases In legal records in which the same occasion had arisen. District Attorney Helm replied that in the state of Oregon unless the slay er knew at the time of the arrest that it was Illegal, the law did not apply. The youhg men had their guns ready to shoot and made a "run for it" and shot on the run, and they repeatedly told Orleon Wood house and Merilyn Collett, their girl com panions, that they were ready to shoot it out if any body attempted to ar rest them, the prosecution maintain ed. Mr. Finch pointed 6Ut that ol though there was no evidence of pre meditation so far as Amos Helms was concerned, they had not only told the girls that they would shoot it out with all comers, but had also made statements voluntarily in which they confessed to holding up a service sta tion in Idaho and that they didn't intend to be taken, The law of Ore gon states, he added, that threats against an entire family or a class of persons, in which category the state police falls, shows malice and crlm? lnal Intent when one becomes a vic tim even if no special member of the group Is named. Cochran Replies Mr. Cochran replied that Mr. Finch's text read only "malice and criminal "Intent" but said nothing of premeditation or deliberation. The attorney for the defense stated that premeditation cannot be shown by inference or suspicion, but by fact Introduced by the state and that the state has revealed no facts to prove that the act was deliberate. Tho attorneys for the defense cited the Instances of the testimony of Miss Collett, the confessions of the young men and the evidence brought fur ward by Fred Tillman, Idaho Falls deputy sheriff, all of whom agreed on the robbery of the station and which, the state believes, would dis prove the statement made by Mr. Cochran that no evidence had been given proving the felony in Idaho in spite of the fact that no eye witness has iestlfled and would be sufficient fact to corroborate ' the confession which the laws of Oregon declare cannot be used against the defen dant unless there are facts sufficient to prove it. MIhs Wood house Excluded A new development -was introduced Into the case., yesterday afternoon -when one. of the state's most valuable witnesses, Orleon Woodhouss, 19, of Lincoln, Ida., was disbarred from tes tifying since she Is Owen's common law wife under the statutes of Idaho, in spite of the fact that their mar riage has not been legally solemnized. The laws make it Impossible for a woman to testify against her husband unless she has her husband's con sent. Miss Wood house, when she took the stand, said that John Owen told her that he would marry her if she would agree to the marriage, af ter they lived together as man and wife. Mr. Cochran pointed out that two persons above the age of consent, IB years, both of whom are favorable to the agreement, are married under the Idaho law if both assume marital relations. They lived together and hod no Intention of separating until they were separated at La Grande at the time of their arrests, he said. Yesterday was the first time that Miss Woodhouse announced that she and Owen hod agreed to marry, and she told Mr. Helm in previous Inter views with him that she was 17 years Woodhouse replied that she had as certained her correct age recently through correspondence. j Miss Collett, Crosswhlte's compan- j ion, was recalled by the defense dur ing the afternoon. She and Keith Crosswhlte occupied the same sleep-' lng quarters at Ruper and Boise, ; where they stopped to spend the two nights which elapsed after they left Idaho Falls on Oct. 16, until they ar- ! rived In La Grande on Oct. 18. Miss Collett took money from Crosswhlte she testified, and when questioned by the attorney for the defense, she answered that she had taken the money because she wanted to get away. "Didn't you want to go?' Mr. Cochran asked. "Isn't it a fact that when you were taking your clothes out of Orleon's suitcase, that you cried and begged to be allowed to come on and that Keith sold that you wanted to stop so you had to stop.' Miss Collett replied that she didn't remember that she had wanted r rpnmnTiv t.Vm firt.hr n nrt tuna jfimnhntlfi In hir rloninl t.hnt. fthn cried and begged to drive on with her three companions. Captain Noe was called .to the wit ness stand yesterday afternoon and described the shooting. After he and Mr. Helms crossed the street. Captain Noe testified, he saw Crosswhlte en iter the cor, and Immediately after- wards the car started out across the .street. They traveled 40 or 50 feet I toward the officers and then started shooting, pap tain Noe saw Owen and i Crosswhlte in the car and saw Mr. Helms sink to the ground after he had been hit, although he states that neither he nor Mr. Helms had their hands on their guns until after they saw tho long barrel of the Luger, which was carried by the occupants of the car, thrust up over the side door by Owen. Crosswhlte was driv ing. Helms dropped at the first shots, and Captain Noe emptied his gun In to the left side of the car. In questioning Jesse Breshears, At torney Cochran attempted to prove that the confession which his client and his companion signed following their capture was taken under duress, but both Mr. Breshears and Walter A. Bean, national guard captain who was asked to be a member of the posse, stated that the two young men wero told that any statement they made might bo used as evidence against them. Crosswhlte and Owen gave the confession voluntarily and under no threats or promises from the district attorney or any members of the state police who wero present in the office of Sheriff Breshears at the time, they testified. I Motion Denied . Mr. Cochran asked that tho confes sion be stricken from tho testimony, since he believed that it was made under stress, and the motion was de nied. Several parts of the confession were suggested to be stricken out by Mr. Cochran and the matter was turned over to Judge Knowles for a decision, but the bulk of the confes sion was entered as evidence. Mr. Breshears described the man hunt and the final capture by Frank Osmond, Mr. Carpenter and himself near Kamela. The young men wero covered and handcuffed and brought to La Grande. Three guns and car tridges were found on their persons at the time of their arrest, including an unloaded Luger which is unsafe- when loaded because of a broken safety spring, and entered aa evidence in the case. No threats were made against Owen and "Crosswhlte at the time of their capture by either the officers of Un ion county or by tho state police, al though It was stated that the Bherlff of Umatilla county, along with other possemen, uttered threats of hang ing following the arrest. When arrested, Crosswhlte and Owen stated that "If the officer hod done what we told him to do he wouldn't have been shot," Sheriff Breshears stated, and added that they confessed to having told Mr. Helms to hold up his hands, The sheriff re plied that an officer who was about to arrest a man didn't hold up his hands. Mr. Breshears also described tho at tempt to escape by sawing their way out of the door with flies fashioned from the mainspring of an alarm clock with a whetrock. Tho prisoners had talked about escaping, Sheriff Breshears added, and Owen was said to have admitted that if he' found out he was to be "Hanged he would run out 'bcause he felt it more hon orable to be shot than to be hanged. Crosswhlte and Owen had no at torney because they asked for no at torney, and they never consulted a lawyer until Mr. Cochran was ap pointed by the court, but any lawyer could have seen them, Mr. Breshears replied In cross-examination to ques tions of Mr. Cochran. Mr. Osmond, of the state police, this morning corroborated Sheriff Breshears testimony on the witness stand, and George Alexander, deputy superintendent of the state police, of Salem, and Captain Noe, of Baker, both confirmed the sheriff's descrip tion of the period following the ar rest. All agreed that no threats were made against the defondant at the time of tho arrest, with the exception of a statement made by Sheriff Tom Gurdane, of Pendleton, who. In the young men's presence asked "If any one had a rope." The testimony of Mr. Alexander showed that both Owen and Crosswhlte said that they had shot at the officer about tho same time but neither knew which had shot first. Captain Noe, when asked regarding the statements of. the young men concerning the guns, said that Cross- white told the officers that Owen had stolen the Luger from his brother-in-law, and thot Crosswhlto had bought tho .38 from a boy In Spring Held. They also said they had the guns "because they didn't intend to be taken." Mr. Osmond said that the young men asked if the officer they had Bhot was dead, and they wero told "no." Whereupon they replied that "if ho had done what they told him New "Cabinet Daughter" iiiiiiiia A; ,' Wmm&mmm 3r ' ' W mm A'JA Washington Iiurcait One of the prettiest members of Washington's younger society set Is Dorothy Fell, above, daughter of Mrs. Ogden L. Mills, wlfo of tho newly appofnted secretary of the treasury In President Hoover's cabinet. Miss Fell made her debut last winter. to he wouldn't have been hurt." They had told him to stick up his hands, Mr. Osmond testified they said. Attorney Cochran asked the officer If the. boys had not been taken into the tax department where the crowds were allowed to parade by them. Mr. Osmond stated that such had not been the case when he was present, but Captain Noe testified that they had been taken from the sheriffs pri vate office for a few minutes and were taken into the tax department, although he added that he didn't fol low them there and was unable to say what happened during their ab sence. V The paraphernalia which the youhg men used to attempt to saw their way out of the Jail was admitted as evidence. W. E. Beckwlth, who operates a service station on Greenwood street, testified, when called as a witness by the state, yesterday afternoon, that he saw the sedan, In which Owen and Crosswhlte are said to have been rid ing, drive out of the Playle station and saw one of the occupants start shooting at a man in uniform. The uniformed man, whom Mr. Beckwlth found to be Amos Helms, fell in the driveway at the Beckwlth station. H(s description of the shooting, as well as those furnished by Bert Higglns, Playle station operator, and Cfiarles B, Miller, architect, who was at the station at the time of the shooting, corroborated the description furnish ed by Captain Lee Noe, of the state police yesterday morning. SIK EDGAR SPEYElt DIES I '' ' BERLIN, Feb. 17 (A1) Sir Edgar Speyer, fi9, former privy councillor of Great Britain who resigned his post at the beginning of the World war in 1014 after he was charged with disloyalty, died last night at a cllnlo here. British newspapers ac cused him of being pro-German In 1916 and ho resigned, afterward going to the United States to live. Ho was a prominent figure in Bri tish financial circles and was chair man of tho London underground Electric Railway company, which operates the equivalent of New York's subway system. tern on which the welfare of our state depends is to be carried on with energy In order to obtain the best realization of the heavy sums already expended. j "It the people of this state believe that there has been waste In ad 1 ministration, construction, and dup lication of roads, it is the problem of this commission to apply remedies with a minimum of words. We shall avoid wrangles and politics, and at once get down to business. "Every successful business nowa days Is forced to cut salaries and projects or face ruin. As a business proposition, the highway comlmisslon should follow the mode. The dol lar costs more than, formerly and buys more. The dollar Is more dif ficult for our people to pay. The people are fairly entitled to the com pensations of economy. They are suffering the pinch In their private affairs and In trade life. Everybody faces more or less of a struggle for existence in the world's rivalry and feels more fhan ever tho burden of taxes and licenses of government. "Tho time has come for retrench ment of the commission's affairs along Unef of fewer projects and less overhead. 'Until economic conditions Improve the policy will be to make the best use of existing highways, koep them In repair and pursue a cur tailed program of new construction. Existing projects neorlng completion will be completed. "The commission desires to main tain the standords of construction and maintenance which have been laid down at great cost In previous years. Its members aro studying the status of fluids, revenues and proj ects and will mako further announce ments after these preliminaries havo been bettor effected." Active Igaoranc Nothing 1b more terrible than ac tive Jgnornnce. Goethe. LESLIE M. SCOTT NAMED CHAIRMAN OF COMMISSION (Continued from Page One) sired In highway administration. Scott was named chairman following this conference. Tho ' commission members an nounced they had not considered the engineering . problems, nor the re ported plans to reorganize tho de partment at Salem at this tlmo. The members will meet again this after noon and later will visit the high way department, they said. The statement issued by Scott In full is as follows: "The Oregon state highway com mission realizes the serious respon sibility placed-upon it and 'the de slro of tho public for prompt meas ures. "Economy and efficiency are the objectives. This means that costs are to be reduced. The highway sys- Terrifies Hawaii Here Is Daniel Lyman, "Hawaii's most desperate criminal," whose name has flgured prominently In news from that Island since his recent escape from a territorial prison. Lyman lias been blamed for several attacks on women, both before and since the arreBt ot Lieutenant Thomas Massle, U. 8. N.,. for the killing of a native who Is said to have attacked Massle's young wife. WASHINGTON HIS LIFE STORY IN PICTURES, COMMEMORATING THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS HIKTH 8. Valley Forge Enkay ' Books opened or closed, financial statements and tax returns com piled. FHANK L. BLACK :. 1-01 stn st. Washington held his strong position at Valley Forge despite the semi-starved, ill-fed Condition of his men. By NEA service Public acclaim of General Washington In 1778 soon turned to condemnation. The year of 1777 was marked by a series of setbacks. The British captured Philadelphia: Congress fled to the Interior: enemies schemed to displace Washington, and another general took the spotlight by his victory over the British at Saratoga. Washington, falling In an attack upon Oermantown. was forced to take up winter quar ters at Valley Forge. This was probably the Carkest phase of his career. While the British were living In luxury in Philadelphia, the Americans. Ill-clothed and half-starved, were dying on the frozen hillsides of Valley Forgo. Washington's strength of character was again demonstrated when he held his men to gether throughout the. winter, despite grumbling and the meddling of Congress. Treachery of Charles Lee, who later was court martialcd, upset Washington's strategy. Arrival of the French fleet helper isolate the British at New York City. Alliance with the French In the spring of 1778 altered tho grim outlook. The British, fearing a French blockade, hastily retreated from Philadelphia to New York City. Hoping to cut off part of the enemy. Washington rushed his men forward, and the battlo of Monmouth followed. His strategy fnlled. however, due to the treachery of Charles Lee, who gave a sudden order to retreat. Arrival of the French fleet In July. 1778, Isolated tho British In New York City and sur rounding territory, and Washington distributed hlo troops In cantonments around tho city and In New Jersey. Committee Named" To Hear Protest hi h: TUMULTY LEVELS ATTACK TODAY AT, PREJUDICE APPEAL (Continued From 3age One) "With tho first .shot from tho gun of the arch-enemy of tho league, on January 21st, former devotees of the league cried, kamorad, kamorad and weakly surrenderee!. With the world on fire, with tinder lying about that might ignite Into a world conflagra tion, a real lover of peace would have refrained from attacking the league when, by the merest chance It might have checked a world conflagration in the Orient." WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (ar ¬ senate judiciary sub-committee wa appointed today to hear persons wj havo protested the appointment Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo, of Ne York, to the supreme court benqh; The hearings will begin Friday. The sub-committee named ijiuirman arris (K., rteo.j com-t prises Senators Robinson (R.,; Indi) s Schall (ft., Minn.), and Ashurst (b.I Ariz.)- . ( j Chairman Norrls said.' he 'had il-5 ready asked the persons' protestingtc be present. - . , ' i One of them Is- William H. Andr-c son, general secretary of the Ameri can Protestant Alliance and a fornter! superintendent of the New Yorkj Anti-Saloon League, r- : MacDONAI.D WEARING EYE SUA LONDON, Feb. 17 m Wear! an eye shade and a bandage over fcitf leic eye, trime Minister ttamsay m&c Donald arrived at No, 10 Downing street today to preside over on liaH portant cabinet session. t 1 Mr. MacDonald, who recently un-3 derwent an operation for glaucoma? (diminution of vision) In his lcftif eye, also had a slightly swollen fac as a result of. a tooth extraction. He planned to go later today U his country place, Chequers, fori rest prescribed by his physicians. 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