The Oregon statesman., October 18, 1925, Page 1, Image 1

SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR
'SALEM,' OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1925
PRICE FIVE CENTS
IP BB;
SPECULATION IN MOTOR
TUG SINKS. SEVEN
WORK ON FEDERAL TAX
CUT TO BEGIN MONDAY
FAMOUS EVANGELIST TO
SPEAK MONDAY MORNING
PARRISH STUDENTS TO
MEWHIE
STOCK BRINGS SETBACK
BE VACCINATED MONDAY
10 BELIEVED LOST
is MIS
B
FRENZIED 11UYLVG ENDS IN
SAYING OF OVER THREE HUN
DRED MILLION EXPECTED
BILLY SUNDAY AND PARTY
PHYSICIANS STATE EPIDEMIC
COLLAPSE OF MARKET
DUE AT 10 O'CLOCK
THREATENS CITY
HI
mm
T DROWNED
H
Seven Men and Three Wom
v en Are Missing; Several
Persons Known Dead
MANY SERIOUSLY. HURT
Itc-liable Check of Sea Disaster Not
Yet Made; Two Ships Aid .
Heroically in Rescue
Work .
SIAYPORTFLu, Oct. 17.- (By
Associated Pres.)- Four women
and two boys are believed to have
been drowned and .four men are
miming, tbe toll of the sear de
traction by fire of tbe Clyde line
steamer Comanche, near here to
night. There are seven known in
jured, i
." MAYPORT, Fla., Oct. 17. (By
Associated Press.) -Ten persons,
seven men and three women; are
missing from the passenger list of
the Clyde liner Commancne which
was destroyed by fire off this port
jte today, according- to Informa
tion here as 1 the tanker : Reaper
.and its pilot boat reached the port.
The Comanche sailed from this
port shortly after 3 o'clock this
afternoon, bound for New York
via Charleston. . It had 'reached
Jacksonville yesterday and had
discharged .156. passengers. , ..
l MAYPORT, Fla., Oct 17. (By
Associated Press.) Several , llyes
are believed lost and a number of
the surviving passengers and mem
ters of the crew were said to hare
been seriously Injured as the re
sult of the burning of the Clyde
liner Commancne, six and a half
miles off this port late today. Tbe
vessel was a total loss.
i The survivors were taken
aboard the tanker Reaper which
headed for Mayport while physi
cians were hurried ? here from
Jacksonville: andtnelghboring eeo
tton. 'V '. -7. I .'-' 5
". The Reaper and pilot boat Mota,
with tbe rescued passengers and
crew members reached Mayport at
10;20. Captain Curry of the
Commancne is sutlenng irom a
badly sprained leg. ' , 1;
According to the description of
the fire; it started about 7:30 in
hold No. 2 forward and despite the
heroic fire fighting efforts of the
crew, the blase soon spread be
yond control. The Reaper was not
far away, answered the SOS call
and sent two life - boats to the
' scene. ' -. . . . '
The Commanche sent out two
life boats, one to the Reaper and
one to the Mota,. J. i. Gaudet, the
chief engineer of the Commancne
was the. hero of the disaster, sur
vivors say, rescuing Captam Curry
; and nine others from one of the
Comanche . life boats which had
. been swamped.- One of the life
' boats returning from the Coman
che, was crushed aa it was dashed
against the tanker. : .... )
The high flung flames from the
burning steamer illuminated the
sea and motorists driving along
, the beach declared they could see
the pillar of fire which they said
seemed to be about twenty miles
at sea. . i
The rescue work could be seen
inm t h hoaf h Thnon on the
coaet line described seeing the
Reaper pull alongside the illfated
craft and sBortly afterward the
Mota. , --i:.r. :
i nere was no panto among me
passengers of the illfated craft,
according to the survivors.
Ed Lawlor of Hartford, Conn
one of the first passengers to land.
said that the rescue work was
' handled in admirable fashion.
I left the vessel on the second
; or third boat," Mr. Lawlor said,
"but in that time I saw; two 'boys
jump overboard and drown. The
deck was practically a; mass of
flames toward the forward bold
and" was rapidly spreading. As our
boat laid by, I saw one1 boat low
ered Improperly and. four women
thrown into the sea. I never saw
them recovered and feel sure they
.- were 'lost., - ?. 4 -sn
Cantata Ed Singleton of the
pilot ship was lauded by the sur
vivors tor his efficient handling of
his.' boat during the rescue work.
7. " ifanv nassenxers were frank in
their statements that bad he been
less of a seaman there would hare
been a larger casualty list. --. .. -.
- HUNTER FATALLY SHOT
CARTER X DAVIDSON. JR., IS
MISTAKEN FOR DEER '
' GRANTS PASS. Or.,
Oct.' 17.-,
( By Associated Press. ) Carter J.
Davidson, Jr., was fatally shot last
evening near Provolt when he was
mistaken- for va dtV by WV T.
Hartford of Portland, i ? Davidson
tiled three hours later,'
Pandemonium Reigns on Stock
Exchange Floor as Hundreds
'tf?. Try to Sell
NEW YORK, Oct. 17. (By As
sociated Press.) Wall Street'
gigantic bubble of speculation in
the" motor shares burst with dra
matic suddenness today ; in the
most active half-holiday session
of the New York stock exchange
in. nearly 20 years- , . -
..Quoted values which had been
marked up 1 to 7 points in the
frenzied initial outburst of buy
ing, collapsed 2 to 10 points from
their earlier high levels under the
weight of a tremendous volume of
profit-taking sales, forced liquida
tion and bear selling. Total sales
for the two-hour session were cal
culated at 1,482,000 by Associated
Press tabulators, as against the
record Saturday high of 1,600.000
shares established August 18.
1906, but some other private esti
mates -placed today's business as
high as 1,730,000 shares. No of
ficial figures are available.
The break, which came like
lightning out of a clear sky, was
not associated with anything in
the day's news but was regarded
by experienced stock market ob
servers as a natural sequel to the
speculative excesses of the - past
week. Yesterday's sensational
advance in the motor issues had
resulted in a list of good buying
orders, many of them at the mar
ket, ran prices up briskly at the
opening.
Floor traders, usually quick to
detect tarns In the market, dis
covered around the end of the first
hour that the buying power was
showing signs of exhaustion. Out
of the bedlam of noises on the
stock exchange floor came such
orders as ''sell a hundred Hud
son," "sell two thousand General
Motors." "sell 2500 Yellow
Truck", i at whatever prices were
offered. , r
Bids were, quickly lowered, but
the flood of selling could not be
stayed, as traders hammered one
stock after another.
Word .was quickly flashed fron
the floor to the brokerage houses
thatX the market waaamUing
but . this: only added to tibe.s conr.
fusion because the ticker tape was
at least 20 minutes behind the
market. : f " ,r :
STANDS FALL; 62 HURT
. ' ' . "
PANIC RESULTS WHEN LARGE
BLEACHERS COLLAPSE
WASHINGTON. Penn , Oct. 1 7.
(By Associated Press.) Sixty-
two spectators were . injured, sev
eral, seriously, . when, the east
bleachers at College Field col
lapsed today during the Washing
ton ! & Jefferson-Carnegie Tech
football game. Fifteen . hundred
spectators," enthused by the score
less tie -at the halfway mark,
stamped their feet as the third
period opened. The vibration was
too much for the bleachers. With
a rending crash it collapsed, pre
cipitating men, women and child
ren into Catfish creek, over which
the stands had been erected. Im
mediately a panic ensued. Foot
ball was forgotten as ' frenzied
spectators from the other stands
rushed to the scene, intent upon
rescuing some relative or friend.
Several hundred of the bleacher
occupants were thrown into the
water under the mass of debris.
State troopers, who were pres
ent ! at the time, took charge of
the: rescue - work. . Fashionably
dressed men and women worked
frantically with the officers, as
sisting In dragging the Injured
from the creek. Ambulances were
summoned'' and within a short
time practically all those who had
suffered hurts were en route to
the Washington hospital. .
SIX BANDITS JV1AKE HAUL
45,000 IS OBTAINED IN DAR
ING DOWNTOWN HAID
CHICAGO, Oct. 17.-(By the
Associated Press.) Six 'heavily
armed men today robbed the West
Pullman works of - thei -International
Harvester company of a
$45,000 payroH'snd escaped In a
rain of bullets.
The robbers surprised a 'score
of employes in the offices, includ
ing F, H. Harris, superintendent,
at 9-o'clock just after, an express
messenger had brought the money
from the company's downtown of
fices. Each - possible, exit was
blocked bx the holdup men,; who
put the payroll into a large can
vas bag and smashed a window
through which --they- escaped to
their car.V'A last man went
through the window, an auditor
on the second floor seized a rifle
and fired, but without effect. It Is
believed.: Rewards totaling $4.-
000 were offered by the company
officials, tor, arrest and conviction
of the men,, r -
. Police expressed the opinion
that, the holdup was an Inside Job.
Ah employe afyd two .former em
ployes were axjrcatei. :
Forty-Two Men Thrown Into
Water When Vessel Cap- !
sizes and Sinks
LITTLE HOPE HELD OUT
Search for Missing Members of
Crew Continued in Darkness;
Identity of Lost Men
Not Known
VICTORIA, B. C, Oct. 17.-
(By Associated Press.) At lj
o'clock tonight, eeven men of the
42 aboard the salvage tug, Hope,
which capsized and sank near the
Dutch freighter Eemdyk were still
missing and believed drowned,
"he remainder had been picked up
and were being brought here on
the tug Burrard Chief. (.
Tfca accident occurred as the
Hope, a Victoria tug, was arriving
at the wreck with the night shift
of Balvage workers in the employ
of the Pacific Salvage company. J
As the tug reached the Eemdyk,
which is on the rocks, she was
swung under the stern of the big
freighter; supposedly by the cur
rent and capsized immediately. '
Some of the men aboard the
Hope grabbed ropes from the
Eemdyk and clambored to safety.
Others were rescued within a few
moments by the salvage steamer
Salvage Queen standing by the
wreck at the time. Tugs and other
small craft picked up others.
- Search for the seven missing,
whose identity tonight was un
known, is being carried on along
neighboring beaches. .
The scene of the disaster Is ten
miles from Victoria, in the vicin
ity of Race Rocks light house,
where the Eemdyk was wrecked
three days ago. j
RIFLE COMES TO COAST
Ht'GE'COAST DEFENSE GUNTO
, v BE USED ON PACIFIC
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. (By
Associated Press.) Uncle Sam's
biggest and newest mobile shoot
ing iron, a 14-inch rifle on a rail
way mount, will start westward
tomorrow from the Aberdeen, Md.,
army proving ground bound for
California over the trail blazed by
the pioneers of '49i . j
Within' two months it will be
pointing out over the Pacific from
Fort McArttiur, 25 miles south of
Los Angeles.
The great gun and its mount
treasures 95 feet in length and
weighs 730,000 pounds, exceeding
the weight of any locdmotive yet
built. The gun will travel mount--ed
on" four trucks. The railroad
route westward had to be sur
veyed carefully to insure safe passage.
No Definite Program Outlined for
Discussion by House and
; Senate
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. (By
Associated Press. )--A. saving of
between 1300,000,000 and $500,
000,000 in the tax payers federal
bill of next year Is in prospect In
the revenue measure on which
work, will be started Monday. A
clear track has been promised to
be held in both the house and sen
ate and enactment - by March 1.
15 days before, first payments of
the new year are due, is predicted
by Chairman Green of the house
ways and means committee. Un
like tho situation two years ago
when Secretary Mellon advanced
a definite program, no complete
bill has been put forward. Gen
eral agreement is perceptible, how
ever, among both republicans and
democrats on these main provis
ions: . ,
Reduction of both the normal
and surtax income rates.
Modification or abolishment of
most of the remaining miscellan
eous taxes, including those on
theatre tickets, club dues, automo
biles and the like. j
Repeal or modification of the
publicity of taxes provision.
Increasing of exemptions os as
to relieve those of small incomes
of all taxes.
Revision of the estate tax to
prevent duplication in levies by
states and the federal government.
Preliminary to the opening of
public hearings Monday by the
committee, Secretary Mellon today
renamed representatives to work
with the committee. Democratic
members of the committee met In
formally today to discusse th leg
islation, most of. them appearing
in accord with the program ad
vanced yesterday by Representa
tive Garner, ranking democrat on
the committee. Chairman Green
has called an executive session of
the full committee for Monday
morning and hearings will be open
ed in the- afternoon. .
INDIAN -FIGHTER SITS
J. D. GIDDINGS TO RETURN TO
HOME IN IOWA
J. D. Glddings, recently from
Mapleton, Iowa, after a visit of
30 days with friends in Salem, is
returning to his old home. Since
his stay in Salem he' has suffered
a severe heart attack, but has ral
lied sufficient to attempt a 3,000
mile trip to the east. His folks
in Mapleton became alarmed over
his condition and telegraphed him
to come at once.
Mr. Glddings is an old Indian
fighter and Civil war veteran and
a real Salem booster. He stated
he could not die happy until he
came back, after an absence of
five years. He i3 making a trip
of 6,000 miles at a cost of $1,000,
and possibly his life, just to see
Oregon and friends once more. A
finer complement to Oregon and
Salem could not be expected.
HISTORY FAILS TO REPEAT!
Capacity of First M. E. Church
Will be Taxed; Luncheon
Is Planned
Billy Sunday, world renowned
evangelist, is to speak at the First
Methodist church Monday morn
ing at 10:15. He will have Just
completed a six weeks' evangelis
tic campaign in Portland where
he gave "the devil hell" every
night without exception. It was
at first planned that a delegate
should go to Portland from Salem
and escort Billy Sunday to this
city by auto, but that plan has
been abandoned.
-If present arrangements are
carried out, the evangelist will
arrive from Portland Monday at
about 10:15 via the Southern Pa
cific. He will be accompanied by
his associates- Rev. Ernest Shanks
of the First Baptist ohurch, who
has been particularly Instrumental
in bringing Mr. Sunday here, will
meet him at the train and bring
him to the Methodist church,
where he will commence his ad
dress immediately.
According to indications given
ministers of Salem by members of
their congregations, the church
should be completely filled a full
half hour before Mr. Sunday ar
rives. His faros has spread to
such an extent that wherever he
makes his appearance he draws
capacity crowds. In order that
those who come early will not
have to simply wait for the evan
gelist, Dr. H. C. Epley has organ
ized a large choir, which will ren
der several songs before the ar
rival of Mr. Sunday. ,
Governor Walter M. Pierce Is to
preside at the meeting, which, it
is believed, is the second that
Billy Sunday has held in Salem
since his advent ' into evangelism
more than 30 years ago. Mr. Sun
day has not yet announced the
subject he will dwell upon in his
Salem meeting. ( -
Aftef the meeting Mr. Sunday
and hli party will be escorted to
the Chamber of Commerce, where
they will be received as guests at
the weekly luncheon of that or
ganization, v.; v 1 --
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WATER APPEAL IS MADE
DEATH OF GAME BIRDS LAID
TO STAGNATE LAKE
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Oct. 17.
An urgent appeal was being made
tonight to the United States re
clamation service to divert water
from Lost, river to the stagnant
marshes of Tule lake where thou
sands of ducks and other wild fowl
are dying from some strange epi
demic' Sportsmen believe - that
the flooding of fresh water into
that section will halt the ravages
of the mysterious malady.
Conservative estimates of health
authorities and game officials
place the loss of ducks at 25,000
since the epidemic started two
weeks ago.
Some poisonous substance in
the Tule grass is believed to be
responsible for the epidemic.
Oil From Huge Pile of Debris
round Menace to Uondi
tion of Gridiron
PLAN LIVELY WEEK-END
Alumni Breakfast to Start Pro
ceedings; 'Whitman Foot
ball Team Will Meet
Bearcat Warriors
Plans for the Willamette Home
coming, to take place October 30
and 31, are no wji taking definite
shape, according jto Charles Nunn.
local man who is managing the af
fair. One drastic departure from
the usual run of things will be the
doing away j with the freshman
bonfire. j J
Heretofore' It has been the cus
tom of the freshman class to gath
er wood and i inflammable junk of
all descriptions and to pile this
stuff into an enofmous pile on the
athletic field. Barrels of oil
would then pe poured on debris,
and at the rally the first night
of the homecoming, the pile would
be set afire; But the oil would
leak down from the pile and flood
over part of! the
field, making it
decidedly unpleasant for the play
ers the next day,
Then, too, stu
dents on the campus have ex
pressed it as their opinion that
the continual repetition of this
rite is becoming monotonous, and
Manager Nunn thought it best that
the ceremony be; abolished. The
action has been j greeted enthusi
astically by the students.
In place of the bonfire, Mr.
Nunn is endeavoring to obtain a
large amount ofl fireworks to be
et off at the rally to be held on
the athletic-' field Friday night.
The purpose io'f the rally will bfr to
instill an. Insurmountable enthusi-
Hm in the j students and In the
Willamette team for the irame
Satnrdiy with "hitman, which Is
to be the bte event of the home
mlpjc. WhHan $iics,1wts
ben one of Willamette's most ar
dent rivals.! and the astounding
fact is broueht j out that so far
Willamette has never been able to
vanquish Whitman on the grid
Iron. Because of the fight shown
by this year's tam, and the po
tential power reVealed, the stud
ents on thecampus are confident
thatxthis i8thejyear Whitman -is
to face its first football defeat
against the Bearcats
In order 'to start Saturday off
with gusto. : and to keep up the
enthusiasm prioif to the clash with
the Missionaries,' an alumni break
fast will be served in the society
halls Saturday: morning. The
game will start at 2 o'clock.
Another big j feature of the
homecoming week-end will be the
play, ''You and J," presented Sat
urday night in Waller hall by the
Willamette chapter of the Theta
Alpha Phi. national dramatic fra
ternity. Although members of
the cast will have had less than
a month in which to prepare for
the play, Prof- Horace Rahskopf,
who is directing! it, is entertaining
hopes that the fraternity will
show a finished product. The
iplay was written by Phillip Barry
and is one of. the latest products
of the Harvard workshop. The
proceeds of the play will be used
to purchase new scenery for the
dramatic organisation.
Letters have been coming in al
ready from alumni,- although the
formal invitations have not yet
been sent oat, and if present indi
cations count for anything, the at
tendance at this year's homecom
ing will be greater than that of
any previous homecoming.
WEALTHY MATRON DEAD
SUSPICIONS AROUSED; POLICE
INVESTIGATION MADE
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17. (By
Associated Press.) Mrs. Laura
Biddle, prominent Philadelphia
society matron and wife of Craig
Biddle, millionaire sportsman was
found dead in her room here late
today under circumstances which
have resulted lnj a police Investiga
tion.'" ' ' j. ' . .. ' '
A doctor who was -called after
the body had been found by two
maids, pronounced death due ' to
heart disease, but an undertaker
to whose establishment the body
was .taken questioned the diagno
sis and notified the coroner, who
in turn notified the police.
An autopsy to take place tomor
row has been ordered by the cor
oner. It was indicated at the of
ficial's office tjhat; the ' woman
might have died from the effects
of poison.' . J ' '5? r':
Tbe police Investigation of the
case has been detailedMo the hom
icide squad. At headquarters it
was announced) that a check is be
ing conducted tjo determine wheth
er death was due to suicide, homi
cide or natural cause,
Unless Parents Give Consent
Pupils Will Be. Requested
to Stay at Home
Aa .a preventative . against an
outbreak of small - pox In the
school, there will be a vaccination
of students at the Parrish junior
high school Monday, according to
word received from school author
ities Saturday. It is said that sev
eral physicians believe an epidem
ic of the disease Is threatening
the 'city.
, The. children will not be forced
to submit to tbe vaccination, but
are urged to consult their parents
before taking action. Those that
refuse to submit,, however, will be
asked to remain away from school
for a period of three weeks, unless
they have been vaccinated for the
disease in the reasonably recent
past, or have had the small pox.
Parrish is the fourth school in
the city to undergo a, general vac
cination for small pox since the
opening of school this fall.
.The students at McKinley jun
ior high school, at Lincoln gram
mar school and at the Salem high
school have already either submit
ted to vaccination for the disease
or are staying out the prescribed
time.
I Reason for the large amount of
""ccination taking place is given
by local physicians as being that
right now Salem is more serious
ly in danger of experiencing an
epidemic of small pox than it has
been-for several years.
AIR PROGRAM DEBATED
LENGTHY CONGRESSIONAL
DISCUSSION IS EXPECTED
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.- (By
Associated Press.) The airplane,
junior weapon m the armament of
nations, promises to overshadow
in the debate in the next congress
its - grizzled contemporaries, the
infantry and the battleship. Twice
in, the last; nine months, its ac
tivities and y potentialities have
been passed Upon by investigating
bodies and the reports of these
two inquiries will furnish the basis
of discussion.
One by the president's air board
was closed yesterday, will be given
directly to President Coolidge, but
the other by house aircraft com
mittee will be turned over to con
gress itself. .
' The "president's air board met
in executive session today to go
over preliminary plans for draft
ing of its report which probably
will be given to tbe president
about November 20.
. Throughout its inquiry, the
board held to a policy adopted at
Its first meeting to seek facts and
information only and, as far as
possible, . remain aloof from per
sonalities; ,
In its four weeks of work it ex
amined practically government of
ficials charged with ' the conduct
of aviation, many a lators, repre
sentatives of the aircraft manufac
taring industry and others con
nected with the commercial uses
of the airplane.
GUARD WRITES LETTER
NO GAMBLING SEEN AT PE3f,
SATS BEND MAN
In view of the recent knocks
and criticisms directed at the
state prison by discharged em
ployes, . a . tetter addressed to
"Whom it may concern," has been
received, unsolicited, from L. H.
Oliver of Bend. Mr. Oliver Is an
ex-service man with a splendid
war . record and was a guard at
the penitentiary for several
months. He left of his "own ac
cord. The letter is as follows:
. "J was one of the Inside guards
last winter for a while at the state
prison, and as long as I was there
I did not see as much as a pack
(book) of cigarette papers wag
ered on a card game or any other
way. ; " -
"I beg to add this: If there were
a few more- men like A. M. Dal
rymple and a few less busy-bodies
the world would be better off." ;
LOGGER CRUSHED TO DEATH
- KLAMATH FALLS, Or.; Oct
17. George Broessle, 18. a loader
employed at the Pelican Bay Lum
ber company logging camp, was
almost Instantly killed today on
the loading platform when he was
crushed . between logs. He came
here about a month ago from In
ternational Falls, Minn.' - ; .
25 PLANES ORDERED;
SEATTLE, Oct. 17 (AP) Con
tract for the construction of '25
army pursuit airplanes has been
received by" the Boeing - airplane
company of Seattle,- the- company
announced today. The majority
of the planes are of the standard
P-W type and are to be ready by
August 19, '
Trial of Keiiey and Wiilos
Will uet under -way tany
Monday Morning
CONSPIRACY IS CLAIMED
State Does Not Contend That Con
Ylcte Fired Fatal Shot; Mar- .
ray Will Learn Data
of Death '
At 3:30 o'clock Saturday aft
ernoon, the jary whose verdict
means life or death to James
Wiilos and Ellsworth Kelley, on
trial for murder, was sworn In by
Circuit Judge Percy - R. Kelly.
Three women are included la the.
list. Both sides exhausted all
their preemptory challenges In
filling the box.
Those who are to decide the fate
of the two convicts, accused of
killing John Sweeney, a guard at
the prison, are: 1 Arch Jerman,
Salem, farmer; Charles L ; Par
menter, Salem, carpenter; John
W. Gamble, Salem, fruitmanj L.
W. Durant, Woodburn, street com
missioner; Alfred B- W. Hughes.
Central Howell, farmer; Thomas
C. White, Salem, laborer; James
W. Bellamy, Salem, retired farm
er; Charles Griggs, Salem.- groc
ery man; John C. McFarlane, Quln
aby, retired contractor; and Louise
M. Hager, Salem, Nellie B. Simp
son, Sydney, a!hd Helen H. Tatet
Stayton, housewives. Mrs. Tate is '
a daughter of J. T. Hunt, Marlon
county judge.
. The selection of the jury was
started at 4 o'clock Friday after
noon and was not completed until
the regular panel and two extra
venires had been exhausted. Many
of the prospective jurors were ex
cused on the grounds that they aU
ready had fixed Ideas on the out
come of the trial and could not
make these opiaions subservient
to evidence offered tn the case.
All tentative jurors were ques
tioned by- the state --as-: to "their
opinions as to the status of parties
to a felony, indicating that the
state will not claim that either
Wiilos or Kelley actually tired the
shot that killed Guard Sweeney,
but that they were parties to the
conspiracy to break prison, that
ended in the death of two guards
and the killing of Oregon Jones,
desperado. :
In the event that Wiilos and
Kelley are not convicted of killing
Sweeney, the district attorney's of
fice will also try them for the
death of J. M. Ilolman, the other
guard killed in the escape. Tom
Murray has already - been found
guilty of murder in the first de
gree as a result of Sweeney's
death, and will ; be sentenced to
death on Monday morning at 10
o'clock. ; ' . ', :
.When court convenes on Mon
day, the - jurors wilt be takes to
the state prison to view the scene
of the escape and to acquaint
themselves with the particulars of
the break. As soon a they re
turn to the courtroom, the state
will open its case. It is believed
that the trial will be concluded by
Thursday. '. '; ?.Q t ;v 6.
Few people appeared la the
courtroom yesterday and seemlng-
(Continoes ptr 9)
MAYOR BECOMES EDITOR
ST.
PAUL OFFICIAL FINDS
TASK IS "NO CINCIT' ,
ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 17.
(By Associated Press.) Mayor
Arthur E. Nelson-of St. Paul turn
ed newspaperman tonight and di
rected publication, of the Sunday
edition of the St. Paul Pioneer
Press as "guest editor."
The mayor, whose profession is
law; took off his coat, rolled up
his shirt sleeves and "sat in" as
.tews editor, makeup man, and
2hief editorial writer. .
Crime news was swept from tbe
!ront page, eight column headings
, f . m .1 M :-1 .
lisappearea ua ua euiioriai Bqy
?ort was thrown to prohibition,
jphercas the newspaper's normal
policy is for modification of the
Volstead act. J .
"It isn't a cinch as the 'other
fellow figures,? the mayor editor
admitted and in a front page edi
torial he said he wa "free to con
fess that editing a newspaper Is
about the hardest ' thing I ever
fried to do.?
Crime news and kindred sub
jects he relegated to a remote in
side . page under inconspicuous
headings and editorially he com
mented; , ' J - : '
"I do not agree with the opin
ion that publicity, h a check to
crime.' It 1 true that the pub
lic should be advised of the exist
ence: of crime, but it la not neces
sary. to present storks "wtltl 1 la
gruesome details are CZm'JLzz to
the average t?ader,,r'
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