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'S I : : t . ' ! " ' ' " - ? I''.'-' fie LwZ-A "J SEVENTY-Fimi YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1925 " PRICE FIYE" CENTS TWO NAVY PLANES WILL' irrrnu. U mi UHLLUI TRY TO'SPAN PACIFIC ROCKED BY BLAST AIRMRX WILL LKAVF. SFXDAT OX HAWAIIAN FLIGHT nn i t.ni i iv ii uun 1W IM r v Header . 'of ! j CENTRALIA; Wash., Aug. 22 (Br The Associated 'i " . I I .--!" i;i . - i . I Press) Tom Murray, one of from the Oregon State penitentiary on the afternoon of Wed nesday, "August 12, is under lock and key, in the local jail. He was caught as he was about to attempt a holdup of some local store where he hoped to get sufficient money to enable him to travel east as he had agreed to do when separating frorti James Willos and Ellsworth Kelly woods near White Salmon, Wash. The story of the capture who lives at the Eden Helm streets, Portland. ', ' - - I. - . !:..!' - ..- . 1 i 'I had been arrested in Portland," said .Carson, and was charged with vagrancy in police court. They gave me sixty t - - . i . -. I '- ' n j; " . v - - j days but suspended sentence in order that I might get out Jf town and stay out. I went! jcouver, Wash. "There I met Tom Murray. where Murray was about to board the 6 :45 p. m. fast I for Centralia. Murray told me who he was and asked me to I - . ; ; ! -j , ;hi" i -ii . help him get away. We planned to go to Tacoma and stage a stickup. i -:- '-. ' . ! 1 j . i "WTiile we were on the way here Murray told me that af- J '' ! - i -. ' .. i Mi ' ' j ' . f 1 ter he, Willos and Kelly arrived in Portland shortly before 10 o'clock Monday night, they immediately drove in an automo- : If- - I ! bile to The Dalles and then crossed over to White Salmon where they have been hiding in i ' i ' ----- it f At about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon (Friday) Mur ray and Willos had a fight. There was an old baggage car near the station there and' Willos wanted to get intc it and get isome clothes. ! Murray objected but Willos was an' old railroad man, got in just the Murray demanded to know 'why in hell did you goin there for; and Willos replied 'to hell . - I ! -V . ).. , There was some more words and then the three agreed to split. Murray was to go to stay at White Salmon for a selves with Willos as leader. -11 - f "Instead of going east, soni came down the river and met him. ." '- "! "I veant to say right here i feet gentleman as Murray. I j would not have turned him in but for the fact that he declared I was a menace to! society and; a lot of such stuff as that, I made up my mind that I would turn him over to the ' i . i - : - - - here I took him to the Savoy ve 'planned to do a stick-up here. I left him in the hotel and called upon Charles Pilling, member of the 'night police force and hired him to aid in the bluff, but a part of my game.' nert mayor of this city, and My. next move was to return, to the hotel, go to our room, tell Murray that every-; thing was all right and to come ahead. We go -down stairs and I introduce him to Pilling and Barner and then S tell them they are to assist us 4Jhe stick-up and everything Captured r three desperadoes who escaped yesterday in the is told by Phillip Carion, 26, apartments,! Fifth and Main I ' j - ' ' ill . I I across the. Columbia o Van- j I . ' I was in the railroad yards freight Lll the woods and brush. is- : ' .1 - saine and when he left the car, With you'. east and. W illos and Kelly were time and then hit out by them I i ' ':'..- Murray for some unknown rea ;went to Vancouver where I - ;i 1 that I never , met such a per i: - i - mn authorities so , when we arnveq I i hotel and we got a room. Then stickup. Of course, thisi was all . Then I called on Geotge Bar hired him to be taxi-driver. is all right, hot to fear. . i - "Just at that point. Pilling and Earner J stick their guns in Murray's ribs and, (quick as a 1 flash" he i tumbles and ex - i I claims: 'Pretty clever! "That was all he said. He went silent from then on and did not say another word, bu f ! i Escaped GonvictKillers In Hotel Slever Ruse I could tell he was doing some i. mighty tall thinking. Because of this I will try to get him out of here on the 3 o'clock train this morning to Port- land where he - can be kept in safety." Murray was taken to the lo cal jail and locked up, under heavy guard. He ate a hearty supper, but refused to talk or make any comment on what had happened. : George Earner, mayor of Centralia, gained nation 1 ' wide reknown during the - r ' -it' . - 'noted Armistice day riot at Centralia on November 11, 1919, when four Legion men were shot down in the streets by members of the I. W. W.'s. SPECIAL ELECTION City Council to Give Definite Decision" at Meeting on September 1 Appropriation Measure Worry Of ficials; Crowding of Itallot May Caumc Iefet of Bills A motion to restrict the number i of measures to go on the ballot at the special city election in October was allowed to carry over and the council adjourned without action of any kind at the informal ses sion last' eight to consider the spe cial election measures. Indications were that the meas ure to call a special election will pass without difficulty but that a hot fight will be waged at the next regular meeting ot the council September 1 when the question again comes up of what measures will be chosen for submission to the people. The problem, it was indicated, is that appropriations are badly needed for street improvement. the construction of new bridges. and the purchase, of additional fire equipment, but itVJs feared that if all three measures go before the people at once with appropriations asked in each case, all of the rev enue bills will be killed. - Whether the question ot an ap propriation to initiate an investi gation looking toward municipal ownership . of the city water sys tem would be submitted to the voters was left ;open for further consideration. Its backing, how ever, was much less secure In the council than are the other rev enue measures.' '. "Personally. I am satisfied that if we " load down the ballot we will lose all along the line," Mayor Geisy declared, in his f opening- statement In which he urged co operation among council mem bers -in the selection of measures i ' . u , . .... ., 'j 1 . ' . By i It was Barner who captured Frank Everts, when the band it was running amuck. Bar ner had fired every shell in his gun but attacked the bandit and - disarmed him. Everts was later lynched by a mob of citizens. Mayor Barner is an over seas veteran. It will aiso be remembered that Centralia was the scene of the, capture of Roy 'Gard ner, nationally notorious train robber, prison escaper and highwayman. In this case the capture was made by Louis Sonney, marshal of that city. A large reward was offered for Gardner's capture and Sonney, on re ceiving this, turned it over to A. C. ROSS IS REMOVED FROM FISH COMMISSION HAYES AXD VEATCH VOTE TO REMOVE MASTER WARDEN' Veatch Declares Move Waa Made Solely in the Interest of Harmony PORTLAND, Aug. 21. (By the Associated Press.)' Albert C. Ross,' master fish warden since July 1, 1924, was removed by a 2 to 1 vote of the fish commission in session here today, and Edison I. Ballaugh of St.-Helens,1 Or., ex state representative, was by a sim ilar vote appointed to fill the va cancy. Commissioner J. S. Hayes of Bay City moved the dismissal ot Mr. Ross and John C. Veatch, Portland, chairman, added hls-vote to that of Mr. Hayes for removal. W. T. Eakin of Astoria voted against the removal of the master fish warden and also against the appointment of Mr. Ballaugh. Little discussion preceded. the vot ing. Charges were placed against Mr. Ross and no grounds - were stated for his removal, Mr. Veatch declaring the action to be solely for harmony and the good ot the commission. "Mr. Ross has known the situa tion for some time," the chairman sand, "and has preferred to be re moved rather than resign while in charge. Is not that right, Mr. Ross?" The warden answered In the af firmative, v ' "The fish trust has won," was the only comment that Mr. Ross would make, other than - to say that during his tenure pf office he had never been asked by the gov ernor to perform any , act that could be Interpreted as of a' politi cal nature. Expenditure of .$100 to make a fishway through the falls of the Siuslaw river was authorized. The game commission will also spend $100 for this purpose. WRECK VICTIM DIES BAKER, Ore., 2 1 ( By the Associated Press.) C. C Gin grich, of Lane, Kansas, who was injured when his automobile, over turned on, the Old Oregon Trailj Wednesday, died at a Baker 'hos pital today. X... is the bandit's wife in an offer in an effort to aid her. Son ney and Mrs. Gardner formed tne baroner rilm company whirh wns aitnpri in make Gardnr'a frPenm Th.. film company never actually oper ated. Sonney and the bandit's ! wife later started on a vaude- viHe circuit, but this too failed sT? a Wtff M AW ta CASlttw K 4 1 fM A I Ua,UU" 13 IUU5 in Jjeavenswortn prison toli'ciency to tne neid enforcement i. j I 75 years after having successf ul in a break from j McNeil's island. He is one of I .. ram M from the Washington federal penitentiary. BYSTANDER SHOT WHEN EDITOR FIRES AT JUDGE' CARL C. MAGEE IS HELD FOL LOWING FATAL SHOT Fistic Engagement With Judge Ieahy, OKI Enemy, Termin ates in Death EAST LAS VEGAS, N. M.. Aug. 21. (By Associated Press.) Carl C. Magee, Albuquerque editor and storm center of New Mexico politics, shot and killed John B. Lassatter, a state employe, I in a hotel here tonight, when In I a fight with former District Judge D. J. Leahy, his political enemy, he drew a revolrer and fired sud-1 denly. i Lassatter was a bystander. Maeee fired two" shots after he had been knocked to the floor by Leahr. the first shot striking Las- satter and the second wounding Leahy In the arm. Leahy was the district iude who . tried Mageel'riy ionignu- xne otter deatns In two cases, both of which gained national rmblicitT. Leahy walked into the hotel, witnesses of the shooting said, and immediately approached Ma - gee and began pommeling him. tare are several, who are noy be Magee was taken into custody byl"l U medical skill, so horribly Sheriff Lorenzo Delgado of San Miguel county but no charge had been filed against1 him early to- night. ; rrh- iiM,ai r.nri uio.n frtr. mer Judge 'Leahy and Magee reached its cm In Jnir. 1923. when a Jury In Leahy's court con- victed the Albuquerque editor of criminal libel In connection with publication of editorials attacking former Chief Justice J. W. Parker of the state supreme court. Magee was sentences to prison ny ieany but was pardoned by ' the then Governor James F. Hinkle. before o coiniwnceunuprwuKi Because he criticized fn otheT editorials Leahy's court while the ' .rXT-.. uTl VS .. . ivld today -in common pleas court. other charges in connection with! . Judge Leahy haUed Magee Into lita court on rfcarres of eontemnt in Jnlr.l9?4 and sentenced him to three months Imprisonment and the Albuoueroue editor served day and a night in Jail before-Gov- ernor Hinkle again granted mm a. pardon, s t . , In the contempt case the enmity between Leahy 'and Magee reach - - - -1 New Commanders of Prohi bition Force to Take Of- j fice September 1 j- SIX NEW MEN APPOINTED Eleven Former State Director! are Promoted to Higher Pouts; New System jla i I Praise! WASHINGTON. Anjr.iM. (Dy Associated Presa.) Tbe field I commanders of the nation's reor ganlzed prohibition army were named today and given; ten days in which to begin formation r of their staffs in preparation for an intensive campaign to dry up the United States and its possessions. The new command made up of 54 federal prohibition administrators who will assume full charge Sep tember 1, and one chief prohlbi tion investigator was i organized chiefly from among the old. dry officers, only six new men being appointed. Eleven of the former state directors, five divisional chiefs, the chief of general agents, one assistant divisional! chief and one general agent were promoted. This came as a surprise since Assistant Secretary Andrews of the treasury, the prohibition field marshal, had declared iq announc ing his plans for reorganization I that the dry regime jwould be made up principally of! big bust- ne88 or military men In an effort to put fresh life into the enforce ment organization. i Explaining the retention of so many of the former officials. Mr. Andrews said today hat he bad nclof d r en;thn to give most ot them the chance t f nnArita nnfa efai ' T feel wI1j more power and ef, I nf trAYitYfvfAT 1 v secretary had mad some progress wun nis original pian beiore de- elding to keep many of the form I er nff lror a flua nf i nw n.n appointed were former) army of c" nJ railroad. of flcUl, I Seven of the executives were named only as acting administra- I tors because sir. Andrews said he had not yet determined on the men who "may meet the requirements': In those districts. He j expectedi however, that after the new ma chinery begins working!. 'some of those given temporary' assign ments "mar demonstrate their abI1Itr to render the BerTice ! ' Outstanding in the announce-; (Conttaa4 from if S) i I i BLAST TOLL IS NOW 46 , ; EXPLOSION .OS SHH ONE OF MOST FATAL IX HISTORY NEWPORT, R. I., Aug. Jl.-p- (By the Associated Press.) The death of Edward Donovan of Paw tucket tonight brought to forty six the total of deaths resulting (from the explosion of a boiler en I the excursion steamer; Mackinac Tuesday evening. - The deaths of three others to- I day were recorded- and as the hours pass, it ia expected that others will be added to the toll. Tn l0"y "h victim to succumb to his frightful bxurns (was Peter orsay ot rawtucket. He died tdy were Bessie Mullia and Wll- I m KODlnson also of Pawtncket. loom me navai ana Newport nos- I Pt nouse a number of critical cs and physicians there' said I ere they scalded when, the boiler "on the excursion steamer exploded ne steamed through Tsarragan f ba yon the return trip to Paw tncket with almost 700 excurslon- uta aboard BIBLfc STUDENT ENJOINED I TEACHING OF BOOK IN PTB. LIC SCHOOLS DISLIKED' I EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, Aug 2l. (By Associated Press.)A temnorarr iniunction restraJnlnr the board of education, from per- I rnittinr teafhin nf th- hiM In (tlJk WIlKlu . . M r wa de P tax I PTr' " ' ' 1 I ' A uemurrer to ine action iuea br City Solicitor Harry; Brookaw,' was overruled. Hearing on mak lag the injunction permanent .will neia Deiore acnoois; open tne j middle of September. A course in I bible study recently wss added 'to 1 the study-in itbe public school.) Ihere. on-fttop Hop to IUaa! Will 1 Kerord Ureaiing Event; Planes Beady SAN DIEGO. Cal.. Aug. 21.- (By the Associated Press.) On the first lapof their hIr,f d9n planes, convoyed by two PN-" planes, will take off from 1 San Diego harbor at ft o'clock Sunday morning. 24 hours later than originally intended. Announce ment that minor final adjustments and tests of the Hawaiian flight planes will be absolutely necessary befora the PN-9's coald hop oft for San Francisco and that thel coastal flight therefore had been I postponed from daybreak tomor-1 row was made late today by Capt. I Stanford Moses, flight project com-1 mander. I Captain Moses declared that be I anticipated no delay in the de- parture of the Boeing, scheduled I to take off from' Seattle at day-1 break tomorrow for a non-stop I flight to San Francisco. . Flylng with Commander Johnance covering an accident of this Rodgers Sunday in the P.N-9. No. I 1. flagship of the Hawaiian squad-1 ron. will be Lieut. G. C. Schild-1 hauer. alternate pilot, and Henry I S. Cocklin. nary aeronautical en - gmeer, m addition to tne regular i ingnt crew a total of seren men. I In lNT-5 No. 3. piloted by Lieut Allen Snoddy and Arthur Gavin. will go Capt. Stanford E. Moses, flight project commander. Both the PX-9 planes will carry about half the amount of gasoline they will Uke on the Hawaiian night and. barring strong bead winds. should fly through : the Golden Gate about 1 p. ra. The PX-7's with a limited gaso line supply, are due to land near San Luis Obispo between 10:30 and 11 a. m. Sunday. They Im mediately will re-fuel and take off for San Francisco, arriving be - tween 1 and 2 p. m. On the San Diego-San Francisco flight the destroyers Meyer and Conry will act as patrols, the Mey er being stationed In the Santa Barbara channel and the Corry 20 miles north ot San Luis Obispo. The Boeing will bare two de- stroyers for patrols, the McCawley being stationed off Cape Blanco and the William Jones off Cape Meares. r - Nine barographs, six of which will be used on the Hawaiian ! . (CoBtinaed pat S) TRAIN CRASH IS PROBED RAILROAD AM) PUBLIC SER VICE COMMISSIONS ACT SALIDA. Colo., Aug.. 21. (By Associated Press.) With but one person out of four score of In. Jured remaining . in a hospital. three separate investigations were in -prospect tonight Into the col lislon of two fast Denver tc Rid Grande Western railroad trains near Granite late yesterday when two firemen ' were killed. It was announced late this afternoon at the Denver ft Rio Grande hospital here that Mrs. Ed Hoffman of Omaha was the 'only passenger whose condition prevented leaviajt the hospital, and her speedy reviaiAASLALUHTfc.it wuujiut is eoverr is looked for. J. W. Taughtenbaugh and Chas. E. Phelan. firemen on the two trains, were killed. Both men lived in Sallda. Taughtenbaugh'a body was not recovered until to - day,' since- it was wedged under! the piled-np locomotives. Immediately after his body was brought to Salida it was annoenc - ed by the coroner, that no inqaest into the wreck would be held be - cause oiner mvesugations wouia take the place of an, inquest. The railroad .company has started- an investigation of the collision, two Investigators of the Colorado sts te public utilities commission arrivted here this-afternoon, and the Inter state commerce commission ' Ji sending an investigator. Failure of one train to receive orders to . stop at Granite was blamed by officials of the. Denver 4b Rio Grande Western for the dis aster, i YOUNG. STRIBLING WINS GEORGIA1 BOXER TAKES B0CT ON TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT PHOENIX. Ariz.. Aug 21. (By. Associated Press.) Young Stribbling of Georgia won a techr nlchal knockout over Jack Lynch, Prescott. light heavyweight : to the ninth .round of .a scheduled 10 round bout here tonight. Strib bling weighed 1C3 ' and .Lyach 15. " ; : PENDLETON HEAT LOWER PENDLETON. Or., Aug.. 21.- The heat in' Pendleton ' wax' lasa noticeable today ,when the maxi mum record was 93. two decrees less than on Thursday. A lively breeze " that ': rams tip frnratfc west in tLe t.iorninR hours had developed Inio a real dust storm by evening. ' . . Water Tank at Barr Plumb- . ing Shop Expiodeswhen. satety vaive sucks WINDOWS' DEMOLISHED Time of Accident ForevUJls Ptw albla Loss at Life; OffW Em- ' pioye Cot" by Fallli . Glass An explosion' that shook build- Ings six blocks away demolished the rear end of the T. M.'-Barr plumbing chop. 144 South , Corn- merclal street yesterday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. The bursting of a hot water tank caused the blast which blew oat every window In the shop and totally destroyed a large lathe. Damage to placed by Mr. Barr at approximately 112.500. It is said that no lnsur- nature was carried. x0 one was Injured in the ex- nlosion although Irene Pierce, em- ployed in the office, was slightly eat by a piece ot pUte s!aM which cr8hed from the front windows. The fart that th bint occurred after 5 o'clock saved several live as a number of men were working on the lathe and in the shop a few momenta before the explo sion. About 15 workmen are em ployed In the shop. The cause of the blast Is be lieved due to the failure of a safe ty valve on the tank to operate, although according to the men la the plant, it has been functioning properly. The tank was of about ISO gallons capacity, and was used to furnish hot water to the YU GrtU'llnft door l heated by colls In a grate In the furnace and was operated nor mally at a pressure equal to that of the city water system. It wav placed lengthwise on the floor un der a large lathe. The force of the explosion com pletely demolished the lathe and rJDP 0 .ire ia the floor. Pieces of the lathe wert hurled through the roof -where a hole about three feet In diameter was torn. Some Idea of the enor mous force accompanying tat blast may be obtained from th fact that a ' piece of the lathe shot completely through a 3x14 inch Joist in the ceiling.' The Torce of the -explosion twisted all the walls of the shop, and a huge timber, nearly two feet square and about 35 feet long crashed from the roof, demolishing machinery -and supplies on the floor of. the plant. . . Serious danger of another and more disastrous explosion was arerted by the fire denartment broken gas lines were disconnect- (Coatinv4 ea pit ) INDIAN WOMAN IS GUILTY I KETLKAKIJ Dl ASSIZfca I PRINCE RUPERT, B. Aag. 121. (By the Associated Press) IDdle Loot, and Indian woman on trtal for the "witchcraft" murder of Moccasin, an Indian boy, here I March 1923, was found guilty f l manslaughter in the assize court 1 today. The Jury added a Teconi- lmendatlon ot mercy. p. Edie was the last ef five to be i cried in tne - case, tare were I acquitted and the fourth. Big Alex I was yesterday foand guilty. Sen- I fences are to be fixed at the con- I elusion of the present sitting ot f the assizes. s Moccasin was tied hand and foot and left to freexe to death on the? ice. ADJLTJANT POST FILLED K -.- '. . . . . DISABLED VCTERANSV PAI'jat HEADED nY NEW MAN CINCIKNATI, Aug. 21(By As sociated ress.) John W. Mahan. national omraander of the Dis abled American Veterans of the World War. announced -here late today tbatV. D. Corbly, Missoula. MonL,'.has beetx appointed assfk ant national adjutant In place of Joseph Loos, Cincinnati, who re signed. Corbly is editor ot the MIs.ouIa Sentinel, a daily newipaper. lie ttrrred with the marlA cofps.'rrr ond division, throagiioat the war and was ten rely Trevsti in actios. Corbly vu rehab!1'.cate 1 by the United 8latca Vcterar..' Dnreau and war graduated with honors from tho school of Journal ism tfce TnivcVsity, of Mor.tara. ."Corbly will h;re cLarre cf tho Disabled , American . Vetcrar . ' Weekly at the natlotal bead---r-ter la CtnclnnaH," Bill I'.zl , (Cvatiastd ta pr 5)