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........... - I 1 i : k Vt r'iv it-' 47 .!"' FfiSr. SECTION jS' Paget 1 to8 ' SEVEmY-FIRST YEAR Three Seattle Youths Held Jn Custody Officers Be f lieve No Action Will Be Taken Against Them. THIRD ARREST ON STREET YESTERDAY Hours of Grilling Necessary Before Dark Scheme is Divulged by Three f Chief, of Police Motrin in the presence of .Mayor jfalvorsen at the police station yesterday oft- tolned'Troni" Charles CT" ; Haw--thorne; alias ic. ' Ai; Hendricks, a . confession .that be and two other men' had.! formulated a plot to hold up and rob , the messenger carrying receipts of the state fair from the fair grounds down town. ' Hawthorne refused--to divulge the names of the other two. Later, However. Chief MpIfiU obtained separately from i L. Purdee, aliai IL L. AUeni and Everett Tolson - that they were parties to the plot. Several hours of quizzing preced ed' the i confessions. k of the men claim tor be from; Seattle. Hawthorne is 26 years old, Pur dee I8 22 and Tolson Is 23,; I Hawthorne and Purde are the two 5 men who were arrested on the ralr grounds late Friday night when they went to one of ithe con cessions to claim a grip, In which daring .their absence, had- .been found a! gun, black masks' and (Continued on page 2.) THEA S: A. GLOVE jOHS IERICAW it.. BYf WARD LAST NIGHT f Mrs. A. Glover of 796 Market street, . Salem, held .the stock: in'.the Forti Sedan of the American Legion wljichi was disposed of Jast. evening at the armory. ! lA - I 'Ail the stock tickets were ttxnUKe sale that thelortunate nothing, to do with thc selection, the barrel was revolVed a number of tunes. 1 -. r . f t Then to make sure that all was right, a committee consisting of Ci n. Webb. Herbert Stiff, Dr. O. A.f Olson,. S Page. and It B Duncan, vwas appointed to take note of . the proceedings, j j ! A little girl was picked from the crowd who proceeded to draw out" the stock tickets, -the an nouncement having been made that the 13th was to bo the fortu nate one. . . "-- '--.'t But It happened that this tlck- ; Taking' advantage of a heavy line to plunge i again' and again through the miich lighter line of tte Willamette, Coarcats, the UnU tersity or Oregon -lemon and yel low aggregation yesterday took Its,' game on Sweetland field by a score of 7 to 3, despite a stiff bat tle' on the part of the Bearcats in which the 'visitors, wero held . to a 0 to 0 score during the first half. No i opportunity was. given Coach "Shy Huntington to make thd game, a testing for an of his men as his intention had been an ;: YESTERDAY: BY. SCORE r ii SEaFTLE FAMOUS FIGHTER ATTFJUDS RACES Tom Sharkey, Who Met the Best of Heavyweights, Here A1I1 Week A celebrated personage who has neon attending the races at the state fair grounds during the last week, and whose presence was known to few in Salem unStil the latter part of fair week,. was Tom Sharkey,; former ..heavyweight pugilist who was known the world over and who met the best of the modern figltters. Among ien; be fought nMf 'Jalnes J. Cprbett, Robert Fitzsimmons, James J. Jeffries and others. He once re. ceived a decision over Fitzsim mons because Lanky B6b fouled him. . ; - ! - . t6harkey is still, a. very formid able appearing man and: carries the typical cauliflower ear that was, accorded him by Fltzsiniraouq. Sharkey Ja now in his 50's.and is well preserved. He is following the races 1 - . . tiif ! i ;Sharkey began his -pugilistic career while in Uncle Sam'sj navy. He said yesterday that when he left.the navy he had $12000, all of which,! he made In Honolulu. ; Sharkey was a contender f ot the heavyweight championship of the world but never quite attained that honor. He is concedldi how ever, to have been one of the most ferocious fighters of all time. LEGION CAR placed in a large barrllj and owner xi the stock reaiV had . ! 'fr et was not countersigned &aftd as the printed contract vstfp9latG3 iuai i was noi vana, unless toun terslgned. that stock ileiet was Of 4icessity discarded. 1 j .- j It was decided by those in charge that the next sttocjt ticket withdrawn from th'e bafre? was to be regarded as tlie on hat was entitled to ownership oi te kedan and this happened to fet'Mts. A. Glover of 79S Market tfet, Sa- lem. ' s nouhced, for ho was forced to hold his ffrst lineup With bnt slight afci teralion Id the light, the outcome of :.whlch until the latter part of I ' i in tho first half was In dOubtA i Nrat Goal Kirird T ' Willamette won its scoretlin'tu'o last I quarter when "Tuf fyf i Irvino dropped a neat drop kick squarely jotween the goal postsr, rronif 20-yard lliiei AVillamtstte 1 aluedithe4Jall8hortlyftcr the opening Of Jtho - quartet and had (Continued on page 2) MAN ACGU DIE ilURY I Definite Move is Made to Relieve Present Condition Of Unemployment WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. Capi tal and labor joined forces herd tonight to Rive impetus' to carry ing out through community or ganization of the emergency pro gram' for the immediate relief of the nation's idle wage earners adopted by the national confer ence on employment; jln an appeal to the business men and chamhftrg-af. wamerce of the country to actively support the program, Joseph I H. Defrees, pije3ident of the Charnberof Com mjerce of the United States;, de clared that "business has a great responsibility in the situation, it must furnish employment,"; Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of La bour, in a formal statement, ex pressed his confidence that "the trade union movement In each cokamunity will join energetically in; the effort to assist in the task ofj 'providing work for the thou sands who are idle' iljsoth Mr. Defrees and Mr. Gom peirs are members of the confer enee and assisted in drafting the emergency program, f Utah Feels 'Jar of Many Earthquake Shocks ALT LAKE CITY, Oct, 1. Earthquake, shocks' have contin ued, at intervals during the last 24 hours at Elisnor and Monroe, 120 miles south of Salt Lake. Five distinct shocks were felt : last night and this morning a severe tremor completed tho work of dis aster; in wrecking ! of buildings damaged Thursday. 'it is estimat ed that 20 buildings at Elsinor and Monroe will have to be rebuilt At Richfield, a near panic en sued when the shock struck there. People ran from j their house, stores and offiees. Chimneys were thrown down, windows were broken and cracks appeared in several buildings. One man; was injured by falling brick. At Elsi nor two chimneys iat the sugar factory were toppled over. " At Monroe the hot springs: scut forth water of almost blood red. The mountains to the east were shaken up and great rocks rolled down their sides. Reports from Monroe Canyon are to the effect that bbuldjpfs weighing maany tons bounded down the steep sides causing a land slide. Varnell Will Referee Oregon-Idaho Contest EUGENE, Ore., Oct. 1. George Varnell of Spokane has been chosen to referee the Oregon Idaho football game In PoUland. October 15, and Plowden Sfott of Portland will umplN. according t' Jack ! Benefiel, graduate manager at the University of (Oregon. -. George Cave, a former -Washington State college; man, now in San Francisco, will, referee the game with Oregon ! . Agricultural college In jEdgene on November 13 and Sam Dolan Will referee the game with! Washington State col lego at Pullman November 15. .- - -: .. ? CHE5IAWA LOSES CORVALLIS, Ore., OctHl. , Football: Chemawa ' Indians 0; Oreson Agricultural college 68. :wisA THER Sunday fair; , heavy; frdst eafit portion gentle northerly winds.; ' SE lili SALEM,'. OREGON, SUNDAY ECLARES :ng wife SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 1 James E Mahoney, charged with killing his elderly bride for her money, was found guilty of murder in the first degree, his penalty fixed at death, by a jury in superior court here tonight. Mahoney is 38. He former ly was a railroad brakeman, and at the time of his arrest, May 3, was on parole from the Washington state penitentiary where he had been sentenced for robbery. He and Mrs. Kate Mooers were married here February 10. She jvas 67 years old, and owned prop erty reputed to be worth $200,000. ; i Sister Collapses When the verdict was read Ma honey gripped hisl eha'r, find seemed about to risej, but settled back in his seat. His sister, Mrs. Dolores Johnson, collapsed and was carried from the court room. The Jurors, four J women and eight men, were poUed. and each answered firmly that he or sne had signed the verdict of guilty and the special finding specifying the death penally . Mahoney Stolral The verdict was .reached 11:10 o'clock, five hours and 40 minutes after the Jury retired to deliberate. Crowd3 waited about the corridors all evening, and the :ourt room was full when the ver dict was announced. I Mahoney. beyond a preliminary start, re ceive! tha news sto cally. Forgeries Found In April the couple had an nounced to friends a contemplated trip to St. Pau.l a "deferred hon eymoon." Mrs. Mahoney was last seen April 16C according to state's witnesses. Mahoney's relatives testilied they talked to her on the telephone April 17. The investigation that resulted in Mahoney's arrest was started by Mrs. Kate Stewart, of Vancouver, B. C, who told the police she had received several letters from point3 in Idaho and Montana pur ported to have been written by her aunt. Mrs. Stewart proiiunced the letters forgeries. After Mahoney's arrest, the po lice uncovered evidence that Ma honey had hired an expressman ta deliver a trunk to the shore of Lake Union the night of April 16. There was further evidence that Mahoney had placed the trunk on a skiff, and rowed out. The au thorities then began dragging the lake, and ' employing1 divers, but with n.o 'result unill August 8 when a trunk containing the body of a woman was found floating on the surface, a torn ropo indicating that It had cast leose from an an chor, i The woman's face had been dis- (Continued on page i) LARLEE n CT i i i " " ' - 1 i MID GET L ! Larry Hofer's Larlee won the 10-mile event and the pig end of ; the $250 purse in the automobile races at the state fair grounds yesterday on Lorie Oak track. The Eyerly Midget built and entered by Lee Eyerly, driver of the Hof er car, proved itself by far the fastest on the track in the 20 mile event, but the decision was given the Elgin, entered by J. A Johnson of Portland, for the reason that Rhodes, driver of the Midget, in passing' an opponent passed to his left. Ey erly will protest th decision of the judges, it is said. The Larlee and the Eyerly Mid get k-d most o the way it; tiic fir.it race and ran a : close race witJi1 each, othfsr. In this event': taa Washington Park Spial, drUcn by Clankenshlp wnt through the fence In one ot the early laps and the urlve,- was eomewhat. injur-riv' but not seriously. Two othec cars ci ilided in ihis rac-i and were put MORNING, OCTOBER 2, 1921 Six-Days' Attendance Esti mated at 125,000, Splen- ; did Showings Are Made in All Departments . NIGHT'S PROGRAM ENDS WITH FIREWORKS SHOW Special Feature Wins Much Applause, Whitney Boy Chorus Sings Today Establishing a wonderful new record of approximately 125,000 admissions during fait- week, and with an attendance ypterday far ahead of that of any past Satur day m Ita history, Ahe Oregon state fair officially closed its Kates last night. The next best total attendance was 90,000. Features Excel. . Fair attendants of many years assert that the Oregon show of 1921 excelled all former shows hi quality and size of exhibitions, daily programs and special feat ures such as the horse show and the mid-way. "This year's fair is undoubted ly a credit to the state of Oregon, end especially to those exhibitors and boosters from .all over the state who have labored tirelessly to make the undertaking a suc cess." said Secretary A. 11. Lea list night. Workers Praised, Exhibitors and attendants have voiced appreciation of the splen did work accomplished by all de partment heads iu making this, tho COlh annual state fair an epoch marker. Last night's program attracted a large crowd to the grandstands and much enthusiasm in the auto races, horse rac.es and auto polo games was manifested. An elab orate display of fireworks con cluded the night's card, lasting until nearly 11 o'clock. Inlofr IVogrnm Staged. In the auditorium of the agri cultural building a program of music was given at 8 p. m. The day was featured by an unusually large attendance of Shriners, these pilgrims flocking cto Salem from several cities. The red phes was the marker of merriment throughout thei day, and wa3 found throughout the largo crowd. i' Whltnov Ohorti! Today. ; Today at 3 o'clock the Whitney Boys' chorus, a musical organiza tion comprised of 1000 boyish voics from Portland and Willam ette valley points, will be present ed. While a large portion of the (Continued on page 2). S TEN-MILE EADS, BUT cu.of rommissioa. An exceeVi'r g lr dusty track, mafc:r.; it impossi ble for the spectators to' see the racer except when they passed the stand was mainly responsible tor the accidents,. Eyerly's time was 11 minutes and 3.3;seepnds. ( In the 2 0-mile race, Rhodes and tho Eyerly Midget suffered a mi nor accident early in the race and ' -J: r--.. nnn n in-iCL Uu U AUXILIARY OF FOVR-L PLAN AT SILVERTON Organizer of Women's Branch Lists Members High Cost of Living is Target SILVERTON, Ore., Oct. I., f (Special to The Statesman) i Mrs. J. E. Owen Phillips, commun ity organizer for'the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, is at Silverton for the purpose of or ganizing a chapter of the woman's auxiliary to the 4-L association. She is registered at the Anderson hotel. ill Mrs. Phillips called ai small preliminary meeting yesterday afternoon at the hotel to discuss the organization of the new aux iliary. An open meeting will be held at the 4-L hall Tuesday eve ning. At this meeting the oftu cers will be elected , and plans of the future meetings will be made. Although it is customary to; choose the officers for this association from the wives of the 4-Ls any women interested in community affairs will be eligible to become a member of? the auxiliary. The purpose of the auxiliary is to co-operate with the 4-Ls for community and Bocial'-work. The members also carry out a system atic plan of hospital service. I The auxiliary will also try to ; formu late some plans whereby the high cost of living can be reduced to a miniiSum. LEAGUE PEIli Carl Mays Pitches 27th Win ning Game of Season for; Circuit Leaders !M 1 NKW YORK, Oct. 1 New Yotk won its first American league championship todny. defeating the Philadelphia Athletics In 'a double header o to 3 and 7 to The second game went 11 innings. It was only necessary for! New York to win one game to capture the pennant. t j I Carl Mays won the first game for New York, his 27th victory of the seasoiv. Sullivan.! a ThreO-1 league graduate, pitched against Mays and inade a good showing Wild throws beh;nd him handi capped his efforts. f ; ) Ths second game was a bur lesque, in which Huggins used all of his extra players. iRuth shift ed from left field to first base, then to pitcher. Philadelphia tied the score by making six runs on Ruth in the eighth, but New York won In th 11th on Rogers dauble . and Mitchell's single. Ruth made only ono single in the double header. : SIX KILLED PORTLAND Ore.. Oct. 1. Six persons were killed in automobile accidents and one in a street car accident during September.; ac cording toithe monthly report pf Dr. Earl Smith, county coroner. EVENT, ; ; PENALIZED got nearly a lap behind. Rhodes made it upi passing all other cars on the course and' Winning, by a wide margin. as far as speed is concerned, i but losing the decis ion because he mssed an opponent oh the wrong fidc His timo was 23 minutes. 4 seconds. ! The purse was 7500. . I The Elgin, -which was accorded first place in, he 20-mile event, dropped out oT the first race on accoount of the dust The Elgin was the Only? car entered which was an absolutely stock car.' It was a touring car with the body removed and racing ! seats instal led in its placeJ While no records were broken incount of i the dusty condition of the track ! the second race .was a f good well start fought sporting event from to finish. H 01 en TEXAS 1 SHERIFF AND 9;0THERSHiUNlP BY ROBED ! " 4- WACO, Tex, Oct ri been tsoanded and others injuries iahen a posse, headed by Sheriff Boh, fjhenz attempted to disperse a parade of Ku Klux Klanszien cl Lorena hear heri tonight : .. ? Until midnight no deaths had been repotted, al though due to the crowds wluch thronged iht section where jthi engagement took place, it has been impossi ble to determine the exact number of injured or the ex tent of their wounds. ' "'V," s j'-ljf j ' Those hnewn to be suffering from knife to bullet wounds are: j . - v-t-:--'f-i4t 1 1 Sheriff Buchanan, Waco, Lewis Crow, Waco. Carl West, Lorena. Will Lawson Lorena. " "1 Ed. Johnson; Waco. Mien Minier, Waco, Will Austin, Lorena. Charles Westbrook, Lorena. S. Dumas, f - - CI ESDELEGA1ES Salem! Contingent Leaves j Today for State Conven tion at Portland i Members: of the Salera Central Labor Conncil j reprjcEenting the federated labor ! unions of Salem held an enthusiastic meeting last night preparatory ! to sending of delegates to the state labor con vention at Portland, starting Monday and concluding October 6. Salem delegates will make an aggressive fight for placing of the 1922 convention at : Salem. All delegates have pledged themselves to work toward this end and del egates from otner cities have ex pressed themselves as favorable to the Idea, j ' i - -: Decked ' with booster badges and banners, the Salem men will jeave tor? i Portland tomorrow. Those attending the meet are L J. bimeral.i Harry Hill, C. R. Bar bour, Tom Newberry, Fred A. Thompson and several others. H Oklahoma! Bearcat Unable to Beat Youngster Who , Accepted Challenge i - 1 1 Ellis iv hite, champion .wrestler of. the alem high school, last night threw "Oklahoma Bearcat" in 11 1.2 minutes on k side ahov mat at the state fair grounds. A large crowd of local fans wit nessed the contest and cheered the Salem champion. j Ina battle ! Friday night. White held his own with the professional for ! a 25-mInute go for which he was given a dollar a minute. The match Friday was staged in re sponse to a challenge j to all local champions... to enter against, the professionals. s White? handled his opponent with much more ease than intni flrstv contest. Several 4ime'lie brought him almost ' to the mat but was notj entirely successful He received a purse of $25 for his scrap yesterday. " - SALEM WRESTLER Ml S SHOWMAN PRICE -i FIVE CENT3 I it MARHEK Nine men are know o hsvs are thoasht to have received . - ......... , - a r shot twice in the right srM l y:' : ' ; ; I? 1 1' It U V ;1: v. ; 4 If ; Ti , .P.. Free For-All faoda The fight took place M the In tersection of the main business streets -where several iithousand persons, had gathered to witness the parade, when Sheriff bob Bu chanan,; of McLennan; fcountr. leader of the posse, Stepped In front of the approaching; column' and attempted to wrest ?the Amer ican flag from the leading white clad figures. .- -' n JyS Iri- : In the free-for-all wh&h' enannit: Sheriff Buchanan was ahdt twice,, onco' ln the neck and ofico In the ouy ana iewis tjrow, a. spectator, was severely cut. ; i li J . 'Paradera JSot nirt aThe tiheriff was the only mem r of the posse known ?ito hare been wonnded. None ofltlie parti cipants In the parade was hurt, r Sheriff Buchanan, with Depu- ties Bur tch and' Wood!! left here early tonight for Lorbna after having declared he would either atop the parade or kno who was Ieading.lt,. About an hour before the parade was schedule to start the sheriff went to thatrmnce where the paraders were being Bent, having been toidfj be could (Continued on page 2) T UUAb I ts AS to ALU AKOEM 13. POBTUtfcl AVD S TOKTLAND. (Jrt. 1. liAtlM Am. featd wPartUnt totr IS to H. i Tk Aa H md 20 hit off Pilloli, tinrlndinff home mn by Orifpr Witts lb 1 filled. 8tt mt. i fir hiti; la firm time up. Tb Bsstt Uee4 rail? in the. ninth, ncormc five ram bnd driT-, ing Crandall from ths noaaii. j : -i- ilf in. n. e.! hot Aocelea 3 8 2Q Portland j B IT a ' Bitt-rii Craodalt, Sorialj and Stall age; PilktU and Rawer. I FBISCO to, SXATTTS f " A!f FKANCI8CO, IM. tT-iBf win-tiinr- todar'a gaina from 8ealtli 10 t 7, Kan ancieo made it potkil to ti l-o Anter tomorrow for fiit plac in tow peasant rae, provided th feeata win two Kainea tomorrow: while lhe AnceU ke two, according to unofficial compi lation here. - : jj. t , 2 ft b..zJ San Franrlaoo 4 in is, j: Seattle , S j T H 4 fiattorieo Coneh, Keefe, nft Yell; Bentos VmOtr,' 3laek"d OAKZJUTD 1, 8AXT Likx 0 .SAN FBAN-CI8CO, Oct. i.-M)ak!and fehoiout Salt lke Jodar 1 iiol O. in itct, hattio between Kaai and Broinler. The latter Joat tho Igame in tho aixth inning by ewalklnr Pinelli, who atoie second and waa briught in hi ' aerifir.' 8t Laka filled th baka with " one down in the ninth, but; could not bring in score. , " '.i, ,--r ! Falf take o 4 O (k land . . . . a 16 O . Battertea Bram ler. Iteiger tand Ljrna; Kratwe and Send. I.OS ANGELTS.. Cat A n.- -Sac wet ranient-Ternoa game postponed, growndsv Double header Jw(xew. STAKDISa OF THE cittBS Ase1a:.-. lot :7 Rarrantento-- loft !7 . San Praneisro ., , inS: IH1 Heattlo , 10$. t Oakland 10 5 Rait Lake . 7l lf9 Portland 6& 133 Prt. B75 .bft-t .5fi4 .677 .540 .401 .273 JU:' r 1.