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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1925)
BID lESTIHS II frnEOHECON STATESMAN. SAICT:ORKfll; , DECLARED Union -.Workers Place . Argo and Home Eating Places on Banned Roll Following negotiations between organized labor and proprietors of the Argo and Home restaurants for several weeks,; In which It is declared Ian understanding was impossible, the Salem Trades and Labor council yesterday announced that the; two places had been placed on the unfair list. John Loper, owner of the Argo restaurant, declares that his wait resses only work from six to six and one-half, hours a day, from 11:30 o'clock until 5:30 aVIa wwwnt 7:45 o'clock week, while 'nd from 5:30 snntU and receive $12 a waitresses at the nlaces recoraizert by the tialon employ the girls for eight straight hours and pay them $ 1 6 a week, the anion scale. B. J; O'lary,! owner of the Home res tanrant. is out of town and cannot be reached. It Is said he pays the girls at his' place $11 a week. All honorable means bare been exhausted to get the proprietors to pay the wage scale of the Cul inary Alliance, and the action of the Hotel and Restaurant Employ ees' International alliance in plac ing them, on the unfair list has , received i the endorsement , of the . Salem .Trades and Labor council, according to S. B. Davidson, busi ness agent "The waitresses In the Argo res laurant receive $12 i a week and tnose at jthe Home restaurant $11 a weejc, wniie restaurants where waitresses of the Culinary alliance t are employed pay $lfc a week,' Mr.; Davidson aald. 'This is nn fair competition to the other res . taurant owners .who pay the scale "crioua aarasmp on girls employed at the lower wage. MA committee from the central rouncll Called upon the owners and in the early negotiations it seemed as If they would meet the conditions advocated by Jthe culin ary workers, but later stated they fionld not meet the wagerequire- V i "These places are clean and pice meal is served. Every cour tesy is shown patrons" who eat there. The owners are likeable fellows and it is hard to believe that these two men would ask girls to work for less wages than their competitors. '""When girls receive leas than a living wage they must sponge off their parents or often use other means to; live. We, therefore, ask me j wen meaning eiuaens of Sa em io wunnoid patronage uutil a union card has been placed In tie Argo and the Home. i Silverton . : 'V !' : y-i.'? : SILVErtTON, Aug. 18-( Spe cial to The Statesman.) Mrs. George Wincheli died at Silverton Thursday! night. Funeral arrange ments have not been made. CMS IS TOO BIG I FOR STBEEt PARADE Elimination Said - to Make ton More Brilliant Arenic . Performances C. C. Amos fell 20 feet from the apex of an A-shaped ladder, tear ing the cartilage in the 'elbow of his right arm, besides receiving a number of bruises across the chest. Miss Florence Gambell, who has been with the Silverton Lumber company for several years,, has re signed her position in the 'office to return to her ranch near Mol alla. Miss Gambell Intends to spe cialize In flower and bulb. raising. A - MeCormlck-Deering .'tractor demonstration will be given by the O, I, Barr Implement company on Friday at the G. D. Bowenjranch on the Silverton-Salem highway. Tho elimination I of. the street parade is no longer an experiment with the Ringling Bros, and Bai num & Bailey circus. This is the "big show's fifth year ; without a preliminary procession, and . the innovation, the management de clares,' has proved ia popular and successful one from every' point Of View. ; "'; ; -y- ' - j A representative ; of the- ehow, In speaking of the matter recent ly said' "The Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus Is literal ly too; big to give a parade, even if it were considered desirable or necessary. As a matter of fact, there lis no general demand for the circus parade, and every dis cus management ! in. America wonidi cut It out It . It was nt 4 necessary - means of advertising their show and arousing interest in the performances. "There are, of j course, other reasons for eliminating the paradi pesiaes the belief that processions are nq longer" necessary for advert ising purposes. If we could be absolutely sure of arriving ia town by daybreak, day after day! it might be possible to give th parad4 simply as a free offering to the- public; but with our four - i . ; ' 'I " i long trains of cars, ;this is too; much I to' expect oil the railroad companies. In many instances it Is eight or nine o'clock 'before the last section arrives, and 10 o'clock beforelit ia unloaded and the par-f aphernalia . transferred to the, show grounds. This leaves Just sufficient time to erect the big: tents a.nd prepare kor the after noon performances. To take sev eral hundred men away from the' show grounds at thd most critical! time Jn the morning, in order to! give a j parade, would mean delay! m opening, and consequent di3-l comfort t6 the public. To compel! thousands of people to stand out! in front of the entrance, in the not sun or rain, because the giv ing of the parade has delayed the opening for an hour br more. positively cruel; but there "is fre r,uently;; no help for, it when pa ihdes are given. By eliminatine me parade the public Is also saV ed a -Jong and often nncomfort able wait on the streets pending me always more or less delayed procession, which at best has r-othing new to offer, to sav noth-i Ing off the interference With pub lic traffic and the bualness of the city s merchants. Manv munici pal governments have recognized the latter fact by either refusine io give licenses for parades, or by making the tax so hlsrh as to be proniDitive. ; . The r elimination of the street psra-ae; means a very much better performance in every way. The homsj and elephants, instead of being worn out by Several hours marching through the streets, are reeled,: fresh and full of life and gingerj the performers, not being overworked, give their acts with a dash, and go' that is refreshine. ana even tne animals in the me nagerie, instead of being sleepy aa roaoient from their tout mruuga me streets, -ars wide awake; and for this reason, doub- u attractive." The: Ringling Bros, and Bar num st vauey Combined Show traveling on ; 100 epecially con swncted railroad' cars will exhibit here fcaturday, August 29. Five Governors Meet io'Bbost Stone Mountain Work WEDNESDAY-MORNINO. AUflUST 1 9. 1925 - I I v "' ' iV-J ' , , - . ; - v.- , . . ... i i y ' 4 - - j - - i " T ' ' 1 : " s ; - -' i i''iiii m n ii m i in ftm inni " . il.., . ..... . t t'-i half do5..e ?E3i JtXSZlVt0" "1C f St0ne JN Manorial fund, for continuation of 'the IZ& Z JS.rt emento. for one dollar each to ralTe Borglum d being mplctll Jy AnLrt LuW S MoanUln h GuUoa lord Walker, of cforgiaf Gon ThomaTo u?oT't S 'c? fcft,H re: Go OUTLAWS GIVE DETAILS OF FATAL PRISON BREAK (ContioaM from ptt 1.) son and. the turnkey. I knocked Slaughterhouse down with my fist and left him lying on the floor, begging for mercy. He was .squealing like a pig, and I backed the turnkey over to the gun case with an open, long-bladed paring knife. Then Jones came in." Jones did not bother Slaughterhouse and Slaughterhouse did not kick Jones. Jones seemed to lose his head for a minute, and Instead of letting the turnkey go ahead and open the case, knocked him down with a blow of his fist. 1 "Jones was unarmed as yet. and . the guncase was locked. Jones ran over to a desk in the corner of the turnkeys office and looked for a sixshooter in the drawer. ! . I the answer was: . i , ."Because Peter White did not want to see a man shot down in cold blood. He (Pete) came over voluntarily, He was unarmed, When Jones and I ran out of the turnkey's office the guards that had Kelley and Willos covered ran for cover. Willos and Kelley were still unarmed. With their hands in the air." (Xewman asked Were you shooting -when yoU came from the turnkey's office?") Murray answered: No, 1 was not; but I would not swear about Jones, but he did not hit anybody. I threw Willos a .38 Colts. The guards had run for cover, scat tered towards the trees and the garage. j "The warden, deputy warden or turnkey did not know where they were. There wasn't any shooting going on right here, owing to the fact that the guards were seeking (over. an? nil ran Valla. TT'il In the meantime the guard in, ins and I. across the laWh i to 1 tower began shoo tine blind I ERTiSING BOOSTED TOHTlXE 18 MADE ox GUI SALES THROUGH PAPERS : ;;v'' - Wrlgleythe chewing gum man. has explained how he built up a business; ojmillions of packages a day... r ,-:s.:Viv:, .11 has done it by! sticking to his one line and advertising . it. He spends over a million dollars a year in buying newspaper space to tell the world I about 5-cent chewing gum. He has ed"ucated people to chew gum and to chew -Wrigley'a.. He did not stop shout ing as soon as he attracted atten tion. . i He says you must keep at up or the; buyers will forget you. Whether yours is a. 5-cent or a $50,000 business, keep- telling about it. . i , On. account 'of the German ref ugees coming into the country from Poland the Nationalists are preparing an assault on the gov ernment in the ) Reichstag. Wouldn't Jt bemore effective to send the refugees some food? TELEGRAPH RATE MADE i , NEW ARRAXGErEXT EFFECTS MESSAGES TO I MEXICO cnqciive jast Saturday, the Western Union Telegraph com4 pany has arranged a new money transfer: service to and from MexJ ico. Heretofore It has been pos sible to telegraph money ta Mex ico only at a considerably higher rate. Under the hew arrangement: money cna be sent to or from Mexico jin amounts Varying from 15.00 1 to $500 at a cost of the ion- ot me i actual number, of woras-in the transfer message at regular , through commercial rates; pins aitransrer charge of 2 percent of the? principal, with a .minimum or &u cents per transfer. The; new arrangement is In ef- ieci ior transfers to and from Canada.; the same as the United sutes; .;; t i if . -. ima entirely new service is made possible by arrangement be tween! the Mexican government and the Western Union Telegraph company- nad marks another ;proi gressiye ana important steo In the process of world-wide, exten sion of Western Union services. Pa SALEM'S LEADING Residence and store 1610 nJ Summer Street No. into the turnkey's office. The turnkey ran out at this time, hold ing his jaw. I grabbed a heavy spitoon and crashed the lock on the guncase. handed a 30-30 rifle fully loaded to Jones. Jones was excited and begun emptying the gun at tower No. 1 through the window. ... "When he emptied the first gun he picked up another one and did the same thing, but did ; not register a hit. Jones was running wild. He expected to be killed, and was ' apparently making' his last stand. He was shooting wild. "Nobody, was hurt up to ' this time, Jones and tower 1 were the only ones that fired, except one shot I fired at tower 1, but I saw no one to shoot at, just fired at random. I took two six-shooters, a 38-special Colts and a 32-20 Smith & Wesson, Jones took his shotgun, loaded With sawedoff- uucKsnoi, ana ran DacK out on the lawn. When we got out on the lawn elley and Willos 'were standing with their hands in the air under the cover of five guards armed with guns, just outside the iron fence, and also covered by the guard in the bullpen, tower No. 7. No shots were, fired from tower No. 7. "The only thing which kept the guards from shooting them was that guard Pete White was stand ing between Willos and Kelley. His being there was the only thing wnicn kept Willos .and Kellev from being shot' down fn nu blood, as a deputy warden told White to get away from them and also told the euard tn them." '( Newman interrupted to ask wnv was Pete White between them and tower No 1, ".'No. 1 tower was not shooting, and I got behind an oak tree, and I told him to come out and throw his gun down or we would smoke him out of there. Instead of do ing so he kept himself covered as well as he could behind the walls of his tower and tried to get a shot at us with his rifle. Asit was his life or ours, I shot him in the head with the .32-20. He fell dead and I made a run for the steps leading up to the toweri Willos was right behind ine. Neither Willos nor , Kelley hid fired a shot up to this time. Just as I went up the first two steps of the tower stairs Guard Holman, who was concealed behind the iron fence, shot me through the left arm. Just as he shot me Willos shot him. with a pistol. (Story pros interrupted here while there was an argument as to who killed him.) ' l "Kelley didn't have any gun un til we got inside of tower No. 1. We had to go through tower No. 1 and drop from the way to gain our liberty. By the time we went through this tower the bullets were coming fast from the out- Side of the iron fence and In the garage, five or six shooting at us on the way through. , I picked un Guard Sweeney's (of tower No. 1) rifle. We all dronnprf tn ts ground outside. Jones, Willos and I were on the ground, and I called to Lute savage, who was standing in the garage, to come over to where we were, as we wanted him for protection, from the bullets from the ether guards. He wouldn't come, so I took one shot at him with.my pistol. Wheth er I hit him or not I don't know About this time Jones was shot In the side somewhere. (There was a little argument about where i . . . ne was snou) About that tjme wiiios and I started for No. tower, along the side wall, as this was the best route for our get away, jeiiey stopped to shake hands with Jones. Jones said it?u me ooys to play careful and not. make It more than one. Jones then took the gun and fired a load of buckshot through Hoi mans neaa, who was sitting up against the wall. Made him un conscious of what was eoine on around him.- (Murray interrnnt. ed here to tell Newman that they were leuing nim the God's truth. l Murray said: "I want my mother io reaa it." "Kelley then .picked un th shotgun, which wa3 emntv. and followed Willos and I past No. 2 tower toward the insane asylum. (Newman asked him what No! 2 tower had been doing all this time.) ! "No. 2 tower was deserted, and someone wearing a dark suit was running toward the insane asylum ahead of ns. We thought itwas the guard from No. 2 post, al though we would not swear to it, as we were not sure. :We never did notice any shot coming from No. 2 tower, and he could have shot at us when I shot at T.i. Savage. We rushed toward the insane asylum, commandeered an automobile and from then on the public knows Just as much as we want, them to know. We haven't harmed no one and Intend to harm no one as long as they don't stand oeiween ourselves and (Signed.) "TOM MURRAY, "ELLSWORTH KELLEY, "JAMES WILLOS.", . "P- S. The last, we saw of Jones he was sitting on the ground, fully conscious, and un able to walk, and if Slaughter house Davidson shot him he must nave walked up on him and shot mm like a dog, giving him no chance."' Newman asked them if they could make any individual state ment and Murray said: "No, this goes for all of us. . We all vouch for it." Newman asked Murray: "What do you think of Dalrymple as a warden?" "He's as good a man as could be in the position. -He's had a hard time during his administra tion, and he has made the best of a bad job." j Willos was asked: VWhat do liberty. you think of Dalrymple as a war den?" i -According from what I, have learned from other prisoners who have asked for a change to make good, he was all right." - Newman asked: "Is he a good disciplinarian?" , j Willos said: "Yes, sir. absolute ly." Kelley was asked the same qnes tion, "I think he is. very level headed, and I think he uses more common sense. than some of his subordinates." j "What do you think of his ac tions in the last showdown?? "No other course to follow." said Willos. Newman asked Mur ray: "Was the break executed as planned?" j "No, we planned to silda rinm the rope, go into the turnkey's of- ce,-pni ue turnkey nd I n other civilians who mirht h thr. in front of us. march them straight loarM Jo. 1 tower, using them i as a protection, as Insurance against being shot at against the wan, disarm the guard in No. tO War tatrln. VI i .. ' .......ug una wun us ii neces sary, go to the orison nrim t.b. vu o! me fast prison cars, and u mat lor.our getaway." i man aswed: "You didn't x. Pert any shooting?" i 11 lltT. ... -"urray; -o. at least we didn't "Ptrti any guards waiting for us oui m front. We had no inten- Qn oi Killing anyone." xsewman: "Do you figure some one miormed on you?" .'mrray: "We don't Vnntr . . . . . . 7 J minx, but we believe some one had the wronr iin The escaped convicts put! their iiiiKerprtnls in Ink almnrM ti.. "ifciiamres. t MIDWEST AGAIN SIZZLES II .miami I.MIISCRIMIXATfxY niLAUO. Aue. 1 ft tn. v. 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" At Topeka the sixzling populace ate eggs fried on street car rails by the sun's heat. Murphysboro, 111, scene of last spring's death dealing tornado, was struck by a violent wind and rainstorm which did damage es timated at $20,000. and Paris. 111., reported heavy damage from wind, rain and' lightning early today. fta r- Office Supplies We carry a complete line of furniture and susnlies for unite inciuaing desks filin nyfierns, ledgers, etc. them at Commercial Book Store If It's for the orOre w have If 4 .. Buying shoes is foolish! If you care about your feet, if you-ant to be active and enjoy thing?, then buy ' "Foot Comfort' instead of "just shoes." In the Arch Preserver Shoe you get per fect comfort for your, feet combined with . mart style. You'll be delighted with this shoe. 'unTMireoTcu. 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