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e .-?-?4-a Vis. .;..! .' :-i " n f " ? i4! s t.' r TUB WEATHER. Fait, moderate and northwest erly winds. ; SEVENTY-FIRST YEAR l i li 'i ' Samuel (Thurston Richard sonj Widely Known As Constitutional : . Attorney, Drops Dead in Portland. IMPORTANT, OFFICES . HELD DURING CAREER founder of Oregoiu Law School Long Practiced ; Profession in Salem I Samuel iThurston' t nfchardsori, iprominent! meailer of the Salem Bar association, and -4 known throughout th Kate as a consti tutional lawyer, died suddenly in Portland, early reerday whila working in his new ..lay otflcea fwhlch h was soon to opn in the Chamter of Commerce building in 'that city. Heart ta.il ure is con sidered the cause ot his deatn (Continued on page 6.) 1 1 ( CfeMiM M). uvl Hi ratty :IJ B OFFICE i BfJ.lSKllllI riuu 'i.'jj j 'Jjl j fO Arthur Lewis, special othcer, with i. oanaeur, state oKRUon,enforcement man, is in the Willamette Valley sanitarium, near decth, and J. Ms Brown,. 42, and Forrest Brown, 27, father and sonare Held in the county aiTj tjie result brV a -dash Mtvottn alleged t booze runrietf and officers near Salem at 12,45, otclock this pioming J.jM. Brown wMshbl Lewis, is suffering a gunshot wound, a i TA W4fAJ?,canrre nfhe Riverside drive, about one mile south of Sdem,w&enandefers party iaft tempted' to intercept a 20-gallon delivery of booze, uiuli i ujici uivwn uus uummea auempiing io maize ! to unknown carries: v A lafgi i touring car with two, unknown occupants appeared on the scene ot the expected liquor transfer a tew moments prtorjo thi shooting, made a gel-away ifrp tofficersdespite snots fired in an effort to haft the' powerful machine, 5 'H f At the time of the escape of the big car with its unknown . occupants. Officer Sandefer and Deputy; Leslie Drew, had ?ns Brown away, from ;the car. in which Deputies . Mike Moore." Fay Harnid. and Twis wom sittin &. i i v J.; M'Brown, according to .ute, uHuexurusn ,ana approaencu tne officers' machine evi dently thinking that his 'son was trading with booze fcur .chasers. 'r.',: ,:i':"l-. -i-u i-v ' - s s -l ft;Wlffe-: is the stuff,',', Brown is said to haVc inquired. At the same moment . n Ad rtvrf ' 'alarm and to have fared, at Lewis, opening at fusilade withfi '..id.caiiore aoiis army. model ; pistol and lodging a bullet in th officer's left thiffh- Twia'foll anA totnnrAl A rr'i L.ti panionvBrbwn fired'again at ithe pirOstxate man the bul let entering the lower; abdominal" region. :AThi .wound; it first thought ' seriou V was later reported by surgeons to be ' Continued' TTT CIDEk USED tf m .i m BY. FIREMEN, CITY SAVED Famed Liquid Is Utilized as Flame ' Quencher, When Water Is Gone L'ORIENT. France. Sept. 6. Hogsheads and tanks of cider pumped by firemen on burning building ; today saved the village ot Moustoir-Remungol from .de struction. The fire had destroyed eight houses and was communicating to others when the water supply bei came exhausted and the firemen requistloned the cider. All Fires Extinguished ? In Oregon National Forest . IinOD RIVER, Or., Sept. 6 ; While smoke from a forest fire northeast i of White Salmon, Wash., could be seen here last night, all fires In the Oregon na- tional forest are out, and Stanley C. Walters, chief fire warden of the district, docs not expect any further; difficulties tjnleis there In a long period of drouth this fall,r j Recent light i showers -have in sured against any Immediate fires, Walters said. ' Tht ilpod River district has had but one serious fire this sum mer. This, resulting from the carelessness, of campers, burned over halt a section of land In the upper valley and for a time men aced many ranch homes .the of f icers, appeared out of otr-pag6r) a". - - : ... . ' -- -' - - T I rn rrrr. : : : rr . . . , , ... , . . ,. , ,L. , , 3 nmnn nnnonn nnnnnnnnnnn UJ o I n uinJ o Ay i A r n n j (w o 1 1 1 1 QrM 'v JLjuWU Utt UuUwuyUuUuLJljLjL mm mtkm mm mg De Valera Demands That Camouflage and Hypocri sy Be Put Aside STATEMENT IS ISSUED Imposition of England's Pro posals, He Avers, Would Bring War DUBLIN, Sept, 6. On the ev of a meeting ot.the British cabinet at Inverness to act on the Irish problem, Eamonn , De Valera Irish Republican leader, today is sued a statement In. which, arter reiterating Ireland's I earnest, de sire for peaces declared peace could never be ; founded on make believe. : "Let us lay aside the camou flage and put away the hypoc- ( Continued on page 6.) - Four Masked Robbers Re move All Valuables and Esca"pe,oundTw6' ' ' G. Four masked men tonight held Cp' the" Kansagf1 City Southern pas benger train -No. 2, between Bloombarg and Texarkana and looted' the mart car of all val uables. . Neitber-ithe ejeprcjs. car nor the passenger coach ss was en. tered.V i F. Wopdson. engineer, ot Shxeveport, was struck over tho head with the butt end of a gun. Woodson's scalp was cut In pev- eral pla? ds but his injuries are not serious. KJ Moss, a4 negro por ter ot Sbreveport, -was - shot in both legs. PoFtal authorities de clined ta make any' estimate of the loot, - merely"" ftatlng that every thing ol Taluo in the car was taken. ''" " '-' -''" " " About1 ft. mite'. north of Ttloom burg the .b'andiW entered1 the cab of the engine, and commanded the enclneer to stop the train. Two mair clerks resisted a ieoni mand to open, the car., whereupon a . small gas' bomb was thrown through the transom, the gas com pelling the " clerks to open the door. V "' - . , . . .. - .Meanwhile . Engineer, Woodson had been btrock senseless, and the porter shot. : . ;.v:.-., ' ' Fireman B.:T. Kyan of Shreve- port t was made to . uncouple , the mail car after1 which the bandits took one pf the clerks, to the en gine ab, two , bandits remaining In the car MtaTtner other, clerks. A-ran then-was made to the. out skirts ot Teiarkana, the- car be ing looted en route, if I i ? -SALEM, OREGON"," WEDNESDAY ON VENUE AT 10 A. ; ROSEBRG, Or., Sept. 6. Judge G. C. Bingham at 10 a. m. , tomorrow will give his decision as to whether Dr. Richard M. Brumfield, alleged slayer of Dennis Russell, is to be tried in the circuit court of an adjoining county or in Roseburg, where he has resided and was engaged in busi ness for more than 12 years prior to the filing of the murder charge against him. This was the anriouncementlmade by the court late to dayj following arguments for and against a motion asking for a change of venue. The motion was filed by Attorneys Rice and Orcutt, representing, the defense, while a counter motion Was presented by th0 district attorney. BE S1LVERT S1LVERTON, Oro., Sept. 6. (Special to the Statesman.) A rumor has arrived at Silverton to tho effect that-the two unidenti fied bodies of men fonnd drowned at Pcmeroy, Wash., on Aug. 29 may be two of five boys who had been camping at the Silverton camp grounds for about two months while working in the sawmills. Two of thesp boys left August 13 and nothing more was heard V. 1 r i Mrs. Alma Iuise Wurt7."ergar. con fepspd murderess of her hus band. Andrew Wurtxbergar. whom she killed at Chomawa, while he was sleeping early Sunday morn ings yesterday waived preliminary hearing when arraigned before Just!.co of the Peace Blaine Mc Cord of Woodburn and was bound over to the Marion county grand Jury which convenes here Septem ber 14 on the first denree murder charge preferre I against her hv District Attorn-jy John 11. Carson. In the meantim" she is being held in jail wlthont bail and Eliza Miles. t her nephew, who is said to have been in the adjoining room at the' time the murder was com mitted is to ba avid under . 100 bail which he has so far been un able to furnish. The case was tak en to Wloodburu because of tho Wylie Hubbard Victim of Gun of Neighbor With Whom He iQuarreled COTTAGE. GROVE, Ore.. Sept. 6. Wylie Hubbard was shot and kilc-d. on the highway ai Dorena. Ore., near here today, and Frod ThOHias, wsi arrested, charged' with having committed Ch; deeJ. Th two men were neighbors and had loarreled. . accord ins t' a statement by the siheriff foiiowin:; n investigation of! the case They met in' front of the Dorena po&l oflco today and the. quarrel was renewed, culminating in the shoot Ing of Hubbard. In jail at Eu gene, where he was lodge! by the sheriff,; Thomas was calro. but de clined to discuss the case . ' KB mm lit COM W.. SIT KILLED MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1921 TO RULE MOTIONS from them. On the body of one of the drowned boys a charge slip of .Syrings & Banks was found bearing the name of Lloyd Dickenson. Mr. Dickenson, who is one of the five boys, is still employed at the Silverton saw? mill. The .authorities are worfc in? on the supposition that one of the boys who left had a slip belonging to Mr. Dickenson as the five lived together and it is be lieved that the two unindentified bodies are two of the five boys. absence from Salem of Justice ot the Peach 1'nruh. Woman Talks Utile Mrs. Wurtznergar was taken from her cell in the Salem c ty jail about 1 o'clock yesterday and taken to the office of the pherifl where she was taken to the auto which took her cud party of local officers to the Woodburn court She remained uncommunicative during her freedom from the Jailj Ralph Derrick, her Bon-in-law went with her into the court room and remained with frer dur ing the proceedings. Her first re- auest was that the reporters he barred from the 1 earing. The re quest was denied by Judge Mc- Cord. The report made by the coro- ( Continued on pare SI OLDEST PIONEER D Mrs. Phoebe Burch,' Who Crossed Plains in 1847, Dies at Amity AMITY. Or.. Sept. 5. (Special to The Statesman) The oldest pioneer of Yamhill county, Mrs. Phoebe Burch, died at her home here early Monday morning. Mrs. Burch, commonly known as ".Grandma' IJurch has a wide circle of friends here and. many relatives. She crossed the plains in 1847 with her parents by ox team and settled near Amity and made ber home In this community ever since. She -was 86 years of age Funeral services were con d acted by Rev. C. M. Rees of this place and she was laid to rest be side. Iter -husband in the Amity cemetery, v ". M. TODAY PonoY PASSES ' m- : 13 DRAWN FIRST Application of Vernon, Ross Is Plucked from Pile By Governor THREE ARE SALEM MEN Joe McAllister, Jack Elliott and George Cherrington Are Lucky Ones The application of Vernon E Ross, 592 Williams avenue. Port land, will be the first to be con sidered by the World war veterans bonus and loan commission, as a result ot a drawing at the commis sion's 'office yesterday in which Governor Olcott, Secretary of -ate Kozer and others participat ed. Rosa was with the medical department of the spruce produc tion division. . He enlisted in Port land December 11, 1917, and was discharged from the spruce divi sion January 28, 1919. in his ap plication he asks for a loan of The first 13 applications te be considered were drawn from an enormous pile that had been shuf fled on a broad table in the com mission's offices. Governor Ol cott drew Ross' application. The governor closed his eyes, circled his hands over the table several times and made tho selection blind and at random. Portland Also Second Secretary of State Kozer was asked to pull out the second appli cation. It fell to Edmund Vanee noo, 126 North Sixth street, Port lard. Lieutenant E. C. Kiel, army aviator now on forest patrol .w ork in Oregon, had just brought Gov ernor Olcott from Eugene by air plane. Kiel was asked to pull the third application. It proved to he that of Harry W. Doolittle of Homeriale. Ida., who was a lieu tenant of Oregon cavalry during th war Don N. Upjohn, the governor's secretary, several newspapermen. Captain Harry Brumbaugh, sec retary or the commission, and Miss Louise Nealy, one of the commission stenographers, were others who drew names. Miss Nealy drew the name of Reuben Hi-rbert Tomlinson. 3G22 Forty- ninth street. S. E., Portland. Three Are Salem Men nr the first 13 name. rfriiwTiJ1 extended to the public by the : (Continued on pare 61 HERMANS PLAY ROLE OF HOST TO VISITING CLUBS , Hospitality will be extendetl by the Cherrians to all boosting organizations that visit the state fair, either on Tuesday, special boosters' day, or on Thursday, Portland day. . A This was decided at the monthly meetimr held last night at the Commercial club, ly earned that the organization entertain at dinner Tuesday lor Thursday at the fair grounds all members of boosting or ganizations in uniiorm and i l WY M. Hamilton, Chairman of a committee that Conferred with the tate fair board reported Mr. Lea would appreciate the co-operation k the Cherlans.in making Tues day of fair week one of the bfg days. To-aid the CberiransMr. tiea promised one of the strongest programs of. the week, which will Include various races and an au tomobile polo contest. - j Indncements Offerr-d L L In t. general- disco ssien -of plans for Booster' day, Tuesday, Sep- The world DEMAND MADE OF OSBORNE FOR BIG SUM Portland Man Who v Drove Deadly Pierce-Arrow Is Asked to Pay $9900 Damages amounting to $9,900 are asked in-three tuits filed Tuesday, , in The Marion county circuit court against E. G. Os borne, driver of the Pierce Ar row car that crashed into the Ramp car near Broofcs, July 2, when Rudolph Samuelson was In stantly killed "and Mrs. . John Westley received injuries which resulted in her death a few days later. The first suit brought against Osborne is that of Robert Mal comb Ramp, 3 years old, by his father M. S. Ramp as guardian. It Is alleged that Osborne was operating his Pierce Arrow In a carelea and reckless manner, fail ing to keep a proper lookout. Ramp car, the boy received in and that in running into the ternal injuries, bruises and lac erations on his body. Damages are asked for 13,000. . In another suit filed against Osborne, M. S. Ramp. alleges the same careless driving, caused damage to his Ford car, and in juries to himself that caused hfm to incur a hospital bill of 1105. a doctor bill of $250, and a loss of one month's.' time, J valued at ? J 00. Mr. Ram p asks for $ 3 0 00 damages and $900 more to cover his personal expenses and dam ages to the car. " . . ., cNllie Ramp filed suit against Osborne for $3,000. alleging that In the accident of July 2, she re ceived a cut in that back and shoulders, bruising her body until it was black and blue and caus ing her great pain and nervous chock. " In addition io this civil action, Osborne- will be obliged to an- Bwer a charge filed by John Car son, prosecuting attorney. for reckless driving. This case has as yet not been brought to trial. Former Vice Consul to Japan -Speaks Tonight Dr. E. R. Fulkerson, vice consul lo Japan during the Roosevelt administration, is scheduled to speak at the Jason Lee Memorial Church, north Winter and Jeffer son street tonight at 8 o'clock. Dr. Fulkerson. has spent 20 years of his life in the far. east, Japan, China. Korea, Philippine Islands and India, -and is thoroughly familiar with life In all its as pects in those countries. He is n rorcenu speaker and has a vitally interesting message for tho man who is thinking on the great world issues of the day. r The lecture is free and an invitation church to take advantage of hear- ling Dr. Fulkerson. . VOTE TO when a motion was unanimous also wives of members. tember,i 27. It was reported that the state fair board rather favored a plan by which the Cherrians en tertain visitors Tuesday morning. and then again In the evening. ' As an inducement for Boosting clubs to come to the fair on Booster day. it was suggested that prises be offered by the state fair board, one lor .the best entertain: ers of the morning, the second for the best entertainment put on .by (Continued on page 6.) Statesman recelres th leased wirs rcwTtf or.' ui Aiwaa Press. Ura greatest and most r- uanie press association u . vm ' PRICE : FIVE CENTS Witnesses Report That Pcr- sons on-Mysterious Beat Exchanged Signals .With Convict. OFFICERS THRESH ABOUT ISLAND IN VAIN SEARCH Women Testify That Gard ner Was Hit by Prison Guards' Fusilade SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 6. -Indications that Roy Gard ner. California mail robber, was- rnet by,, a launch and spirited away- from McNeil'. Island, following his ; sensa tional break from the peniten tiary at that 'place Monday morning was strengthened tyeserday by evidence secured by, federal officers engaged In investigating the escape. . , Just a few moments before Gardriermade : his dash a launch is reported to have passed the island in view of the prison grounds. Witness es assert that someone in the launch.. waved, and that Gard ner waved in return. While this new phase is be- Thomas Maloney and other of ficials are confident that the bandit has not been able to get away from the island. Statements of two women residing near the prison res ervation who said they saw 3ardrier fall during the fusil lade "jof bullets from "the guards' rif dies are regarded by Warden iThomas Maloney as confirmation of his theory that the bandit did not escape unscather, and probably is in hiding on the island. The seven hundred settlers on thfc island have been warn ed to be on the watch-out for edibles, as Gardner is expect ed to; attempt to obtain food within a short time. . Gardner wore the regula tion gray prison garm when he escaped. TACOMA. WacnJ Sept. ; , 6 . Tht Roy Gardner, California mail robber, who yesterday afternoon mane . a sensational break f rofn the federal penitentiary on Mc Neil island near, here, is seriously wounded and lying in hiding be neath the deme undergrowth of a IGO-acre wooded' tract on' the island is the theory, upon which Warden Thomas Maloney ; based final Instructions to his rmy of (Continued on page C.) 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