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- ' M T. . . t ' ,r" IT'.. LIGIIfSffflMl. MIMIH More Sportsmen Than Fish Caught1 Is Report of Local - Fishermen A fi salmon are running ft Oregoi City although the run Is by no means at Its height ac cording tO local fishermen who were visiting the locality Sunday. - A?-' number of fish were taken during the day although there were- a' great many. more, sports men on the river than there were fish caught. The difficulty seems to bo that the ffsh have simply not reached the locality in suffi cient numbers to make the sport profitable. : - - The few that are running seem to be fairly large fish, and in good condition hut the main run is not expected till next week at the earliest and according to a num ber of the Oregon City fishermen the run will in all probability Kbe a great deal' later due to the con dition of the rirer which is con siderably lower this year than last. What few fish that were taken seem to be about equally divided between the boats that lay at an chor in the swift water and work with a wabbler and the more am bitious trollers who work' the riv er lower down. Bal&'jwabblers of fairly large sizdQ3t$o be the most popular lureVfpr jfe swift water fishermen whiles ttxiiias and .spiqners of eith er coptri iOP .brass are, the choice ofthetro r "tUff . '" " ' GREAT AUTO CONTEST TO EUQ f OH SATURDAY (ContinfoC.ira page 1) . even one mlnuteYaftcr midnight under any circumstances. 2- No money Wilt e accepted under any circumstances, unless accompanied" by subscriptions to The Statesman of suchIength as conforms to the rules -of the con test.,. ' - " 1 . ' ;3. Be ,aare that, yom-.have all your jrotea In the ballot-box by midnight, Saturday nlghO', 4. The last count made by .the con test editor was last nlgh and the result -published this morn- log. The ballot box s locked anit sealed. The judges will break the seal as soon after midnight as pos sible and proceed to count all the votes four! in the ballot box, and add thefr?4ttlt of their count to the total vote 'list as published tn The Statesmaaion Tuesday. The re sult of each count will be the basis on which they will award the prizes. 5. If there is any error in your mind in the count as appears in the paper, you must notify the contest editor csf such error, not later than Friday noon, April 9 Failure to ap notify the contest editor will be-considered absolute acknowledgement that the count made by the contest editor is cor rect. - . . ' w . . 6. Everything to count on this contest must be in the mail or Statesman office promptly at the stroke of midnight on the evening Of, April 10, 1926. 7. Do not ask any inside infor mation in regard to the standing of any contestant, for none will be given under any circumstances. No one knows anything about the standing of any contestant but the contestant themselves. All will receive the same fair and impar tial treatment that has been a fea ture of this contest. I'All prizes will be aw ardedf strictly on the rules of the Contest. 8. The last day of the contest very candidate .ranst jiare his or her subscriptions written out in his or her receipt book.'Tfte con test department will m be 4 snowed, 'under with work for the last day. consequently will not have time to help do the contestant's work. All subscriptions not properly fill ed out will be rejected, -so. If you haven't enough; be -sure to get some. Only have them j properly listed when you eome to turn them in. ;9. However, you must at mid Bight have your subscriptions all ready for there-, will be a big rush. When you are "being checked up for the last time, be sure not to misplace any subscriptions or for get them, for yotf cannot come back again after pace being check ed up. after the 'final cheek -a midnight. Of course y oor ; ibould get all possible awbserfttlons In art early in the day, as you can so as to avoid a long wait. This ruling only bears on those subscriptions that you secure the last few hours Of the-contest. Everyone -will be working right p to the very last closing hoar, for so close. 4s, the f race that thia Is the only way hat winners ca.JP be decided,- jnAItBCkU BILL. APPROVED . ..... f'D!vl . : ..... - 'WASHINGTON. aW 3.CAPT r-JSxpetfditure of 135,000,000 for river and harbor development pro jects was approved, tonight by the bouse rivers and barbCra commit tee. '- - , " ' ' Pays Death Penalty ? - w-.. ' 'hj-', i ', a - r -r, I ' - lj j t - it.. J :i III. 1 -t.-:;r-, (; i r 'n ; - L j jv " f ' t ' ? ' N: If , I iV If i L ; b Gerald Cliapman, one of -America's most remarkable criminals paid tbe death penalty for his crimes on the gallows of Weathersfield prison at midnight, after exliaustlng every cpncefvRblefrort tn which he booed for clemency. , This' picture was' taken In Weathers field prison where dhapmanf died. v, v4 , ' absolutely silent. n Chapman, then paused -for a. moment. , (l . v "I realize, Tm not speaking.-, or derly because, m mind Is npf in an orderly, state; you. can .prob ably understand why, ft" is not," be said. glancing at the huge clock on' the side of the wall which tick ed off the minutes of his third and last reprieve. Zr?l9' . ' , V-' V,-nietat?i evidence, two I. heard i of the confession frLprfr Khrttonf.at1 fn 9K aah guilt of another in the Mlinye crinie. If ever there was a con fession which lay bare a man's mind; that was it. That should settle the M uncle murderJi j'The warden will tell, , you S bow i?s?eij I was able to communicate wlUl the outside. I was IB-this cell here," indicating the directionftf the SUPER-BANDrT PAYS PEPiALTY FOR CRIME ' (Continued from pfe 1) cond jek carried Chapman straight upward, several feet. -After a very fcrief interval the body waa lowered so tbat the feet were a few inches from Jhe floorl The prison physician and medical examiner- rose from , their, seats and .opening the eoat and shirt of the dead man applied their steth oscopes. WJien Chapman bad been pronounced" ;dead the ' chamber door opened again. Months of i unceasing' effort for clemency or 'for the privilege of a new trial with hope of escaping the noose, ended today -when 'the state board 'of -pardons flatly re fused to interfere, .despite a dra matic plea front the prisoner and his eounseLN l . . Chapman's fight for life has em bodied every recourse known to jurisprudence, ' froni the police court to the United States supreme court bench". ', ; . With the spectre, of death retch- death cell 4 by jerking his thumb oyer bhr shduTdeT4--Iwas kept so clone; that I, was not even- both ered by mosquitoes." V 1 A ghost of a grin softened bis face fdr a moment. ' ' "Here I am charged with moral guilt tor that crime by Mr. Alcorn. I have never done anything in my life I'd be so ashamed of as that. Yet f suppose that's legal. "Al the argument against me has been built up on passion and prejudice, and a such, is un answerable. I cannot grasp any thing which is non-existent. I cannot grasp the phantoms of Mr. Alcorn's rich imagination. I am not constructed so that I would argue passion for passion. "There are things that are even too rotten for me" , Here, the assistant state's attor ney, interposed an ..objection "against this abuse,".- It was. sus- necttcHt: botottie fJ governor. , sneafe iestinW askine mewhetlii t 1 nave en called a murderer f'lr-.L ikd.toW simflar'thinKs so many Ihg out for him he, seemingly. sounded his own deatlineH-Is.rferaMceSv ., Mr.Aleorii has his er tw'duld" rather goto Corihe'ctlr but than stay at; Atlanta.- Well t told lliem thar-it S'perfeetiyjtl right to go to Connecticut provide ed that-1 received a commatation fronii Atlanta first. I had nothing to fear in Connectlcau - 'tbire has ein'tpo many otlier accusatiobs j before, that I had killed policemen, and none of the Others amounted to anything. I put this in the same category as the others. "They had a prison sense of humor. I don't. think you know what that is. It's inconceivable that you should, t w$s rnshed to Connecticut. I was given no word of it. I was told to make - ready, and 15 minutes later was" on my way to Connecticut ' , "You appreciate the reason. that I. have not dwelled on. my inno cences. My voice cannot e heard outside the celJAlI received no papers and mail .Tvere, except from Judge Groehl. ... "Why, if I was half tbeactor Mr. "Alcorn is, I might address you with7, abuse and reference to past ?Medford Offices and personnel 61 the California & Oregon Power eompanyVecently merged with: II. M. Byllesby.conjpafiy, yrlll remain here end power service wU be ex rani 23- -- - -"""" -' afternoon when, to the board of nardons he was ask in e tor clelBM eASfli exclaimed : ' "I have ac quired a sense of futility -of the whole proceedings." v The board unanimously, as the law requires, declined to commute the man's sentence to life-imprisonment. It listened for 32 min utes to Chapman's appeal, which was dramatic. His low, but pene trating voice broken at times by a coughi sounded throughout . the room which otherwise was so still, that the murmur of the gentle" spring breeze outside was audible. As the supplicant for mercy stood and made his plea be showed no signs of nervousness or worry. It was as if a teacher was lecturing a class of boys. For the first time in nearly two years, on the eve of his execution he was able to exchange opinions with his enemy, States Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn. With rapier-like thrusts of sar casm, which were sometimes sub tle and passed almost unnoticed, he Impaled the state's attorney so effectively tbat his assistant, R. L. Gideon once jumped to his feet, "If. your excellency please," he said, if Mr. 1 Alcorn will not oh-' ject 1 mus do so. This fs no place to exchange personalities." ( "Objection sustained,? snapped Governor John M. Trumbull, who: presided- y, -..' Chapman continued in bis even ! voices , -v' , - v ' ' I did not come prepared this morning to say anything that Mr. Groehl has not already told you. It was only at Judge Groehl 'a re quest that I came before you; be cause, - - -" he drawled, look ing straight at the chief executive - - - "i have acquired a sense of futility of the whole proceed ings." . i "If you have ever been confront ed by a lie, so monstrous that you have imt the. sensibility to protest; you know that it has .the effect often of stupefying. ". 1 "I know nothing 9f the legal as pect ; I can only express the human side. ,1 thought that I would g6 over what baa transpired since the day of my arrest at Muilcle; I also might reiterate, some of the mar velous side-stepping of - the su preme court but I don't have to use -any - of . those . hypocritical phrases in speaking of , the' court." ?Some of Mr. Alcorn s state- Ulclltl ClUlUUt : mo uieuuvmu, Chapman said. "I have been ask ed why I did not protest my inno cence before.' Well,. I don't think my . voice., was probably' loud enough under solitary confinement to be .beard any great distance,., v "When I was brought jto Atlanta t wa immediately put into soli tary: confinement, I was" allowed no newspapers, no mail, absolutely no communication whatsoever. -; I was ; put on bread and water . for five days, but my health 'became so endangered that I was taken to the bospitaL - i ; ' V"I was brought back. later Into f'olitary confinement, arid never word was spoien-to-Eia of Cca- prophesieis of the future. Well, I suppcye consTdQXs;tlieW-et"HicM They may be legal but humanly they're pretty lights. ' "During the trial, one of the business men in the court room was that fellow back there," Chapman turned to point at John J. Kelleher, now federal prohibi tion agent, but at that time attach ed to Alcorn's office. "He sat one day with one! witness and the next' day, with another. He sat with the lady from Steubenville, and talked to her first. Shean (Walter E. Shean ) then got between the two and both talked to her, while she kept gaping and gaping and taking it all in. That was kept up, first on one witness, and then on another. "This fellow," he said, pointing at Kelleher, "is employed by some one. It is strange that a man can walk upright and speak splendidly of things governmental and patri otic, yet be working well, there is no such a thing as conscience less existence so, anything to gain ends. ?l don't think that Mr. Alcorn thought me uilty when he first heard of the murder. But when the Lincoln car was discovered as belonging to me, here was an op portunity. "Well, here is something you might call aa opportunity distort ed, or something distorted into an opportunity to advance one's self. Well, t don't need to go into de tails. " "There was a clamor. Here's a notorious character that deserves to be killed, anyhow. The most contemptible thing I know of is this case of chance being pinned on to me. The charge left me speechless." . -The board of pardons room was times that, perhaps it doesn't mat ter, appeared here because ChbughXhat you might perhaps go 'down deeper into the issues and leave aside all passion and preju dice. 'My only purpose, my only hope was that I might achieve jus tice. I think that is all I have to say." And the slender little outlaw slouched back into his seat, as sumed the characteristic pose so familiar to those who atteifde his trial a kind of slouching forward and resting his chin in- his pajfrn, two fingers spread over hisj.ch&flcs Governor Trumbull proiBUEJi adjourned the board of pardon)! meeting. Chapman spoke for 32 njinutejRA Gferald Chapman led a var criminal life for nineteen years, starting . when he was a mere youth of sixteen. He became known to the .police of the nation as a "super bandit." His earlier crimes. hoev were mostly petty larcenies :,nS it was rjot until .19 21 wheu he gineered--,tbo-, daring "million dol lar'7 man TODberym the heart ot New York City, that be staged his biggest ''job." Hfs arrest fol lowed a few months - later and then 'came two sensational escapes from the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, where he had, been sen tenced for tweny-five yearai After his final escape, Htefeljid ed a nation-wide hunt until 1SI2 when he was captured after shooting and killing a New Bri tain, Conn., policeman. Possessed of an intelligence higher than that of the criminal of his type, and fairly well read. he aided his counsel in carrying his appeal from conviction through the high courts. He was born George Chartres, the son of Irish parents who died when he was a boy. Under that name in 1907, he was first con victed of petty thievery and waa sent to Elmira reformatory. From that time he spent more than one third ot his life behind - prison walls. Released from Elmira in 1908, he was sentenced the following year to Auburn prison for two years for theft. In 1902 he went to" Sing Sing prison to serve ten years for grand larceny, but ob tained a parole in 1919. He left prison with George ("Dutch") Anderson, of Rochester, N. Y., who became his partner In crime. After illicit liquor ventures in the . west, the two, together with Charles Loerber, held up a New York post office truck laden with a rich shipment of registered mail while it was euroute from a downtown substation - to - the gentral post office uptown. It was one of his boldest. -as Veil as one of the richest .mail robberies in- theaaaal - ot -the- post office. The loot "totaled . ,r.S4.Jt29r;;lri cash and securities. - .Chapman and Anderson were arrested on July 3 1 922, in Chapman's- stadia-apartment in fashionable Gramercy Park, in New.' York On the testimony of JUoevner, waovwas arrested,; and rere sentenced to 2,5 years each iSAtlanta. v ' j 3 :- , V During the trial Chapman made one break for liberty, bu.t was captured on 1 a narrow ledge Of a building high above -Broad-Way. He made two different es capes from' Atlanta, and tit was 1925. by Federal Judge Thomas while at liberty ; after the latter of Hartford. The United States Jail break that he was charged j circuit court at New York upheld Chapman's twenty-five year sen-tepce-jn aa eerutive order; fsaued November 23," 1925, but three days, later Chapman in his cell in Wethersfield- prteoa refused to ac cept the order... So that Chapman might have time to. carry -the commutation Order; into the courts. Governor Trumbull- ifepYieved him on No vember -27, postponing thefexecu tlonruhtil March 3. " Chapman's next move was to seek', a writ of habeas corpus which would have transferred him back into federal custody. That was denied on December 14, with having killed Patrolman James Skelly, during a store rob bery in New Britain. His first escape from Atlanta was on March 27, 1923, when he and Frank Gray, a forger, eluded the guards. Two days later they were surrounded about fifty miles away. In the gun battle which followed Chapman was shot three times. He was taken to St. Mary's hospital at Athens, Ga., but escaped within a month. He was reported in various parts of the country at different times but nothing definite became known until October lQ,t 1924, when the New Britain policeman was killed. The policeman had surprised two sate blowers at work. One of them, who proved to be Chapman, shot his way to liberty, killing Skelly, and the other Walter E." Shean, son .oltfii Springfield, Mass., hotel man, wab unapman was nis accomplice. -Chapman was arrested in Muncie, Ind., and returned to Atlanta. The state of Connecti cut, however, extradited him to stand trial for Skelly's murder. He was sentenced to die on June 25, 1925. His attorneys obtained a stay p execution until Decem ber 3, wbeM.they appealed the case, but Connecticut supreme court affirmed the death sentence. The po!nrjras then-2 raised that Chapman 'aa a fedejaj prisoner andUuhl 'bt be executed until hJeTba,fptl mail robbery was co'ttreted.", "1 -v-".i" kfaflnwhilA liA I,, icon' ri.n mari'sr pal, Anderson, had killed Ifen ikjoce andT5$ wife, on whose near muncie,-. unapman ana He was soon led back to thedeaj&t housed never to return. ll i n,i. Tl.U k,- because jthey testified against Chapman in his mtirder trial. An derson himself was killed -a few weeks later by a Muskegon, Mich., policeman. Lv President Coolidgo commuted HiLDREN Cry for MOTHER:- Fletcher's Castoria " ii , especially pre pared , to 'relieve Infants in arxns'-and' Children all ages of. Constipation; Flatulency, -Wind Colic and Diarrhea; allaying. Feverishness arising there from,4 and, by regulating the Stomaclf'afld Bowels, 'aids th assimilation of Food; givngvhealthy atid naturat sleep. To avoid imitationr, always look'fof the sisnatur pf &!a-4t& llu, his ruling on February 15, 1926. Attorneys for Chapman then petitioned the United States su preme court for a writ of certior ari and Governor Trumbull on February 25 granted Chapman his third reprieve to expire at 12:01 midnight, April 6. When the United States su preme court refused to intervene. Chapman's attorneys next tried to get a writ of habeas corpus from the United States district court at New Haven on March 29 which would have removed Chapman from the custody of the state- of Connecticut and prevent him from being hanged by placing his fede ral sentence in operation. Judge Thomas ruled his attorneys had shown "nothing new." Attorneys claimed they.!sCttId.,4nojt set- a. fair trial Jn thetetaTe. THREE ISSUES PLACED ON MAY PRIMARY VOTE (Cojitinled from page 1) hose to go with the outfits. Besides these measures, Mayor Giesy would like to see placed on the ballot a measure declaring the office of city recorder appointive rather than elective. lie intro duced such an ordinance last night and it was sent through first and second reading. Whether or not it will live to make the ballot is a matter of conjecture, however, as it has yet to pass through its third reading and the vote of the wincil. Ontario Luchrs orchard of 16 acres produced 16,000 boxes of apples last year. c 0RETHR0AT Gargle with warm salt water then apply over throat Ovr 17 MilHon JartUtJ Ymartr Harrington Can Vault. But r 4 iHei)ces Writing Better SoUTir BEND,' Ind.Loomtrig overnight' as the, outstanding, com petitor of 'Charles HotTy Norse star, for. a -werJd pole Vault, record, has not jswayed Piur J..: Harrington, tfbto Darner track captain,-from his earlier desire to make his mark in literature,and engineering. v - Harrington,)' Indianapolis youth and? a senior-Jn chemical engi neering at Notre ;; tame, cleared the bar at 13 feet, 1 J inches, set ting; a world intercollegiate record. At once the cynosure of Ameri can hopes for,, turning . back ,'the Norwegian, starr Harrington found himBelf deluged , with Invitations tp compete with Hoif. He turned; all the invitations over to the Notre Dame aUixetic departnent. Harrington regards as his" literary masterpiece a ' one act ; play, "Light," recently published! tnl a national poetry magazine; He also is the author ot several ' articles': and. novelettes. . As an engineering student , he founded and has built 1,000 circulation The Catalyzer, a monthly magazine for Notre Dame chemical students and alumni. He Is ft. editor. ; v OREGON1-- Bebe Daniels and PNentlamltea Io. "Tbe Sglendid Crime,'.' by WUKam Da Jlflfe. - I'lfavocv . pATla; T1iEfiTr.ZS t r- f - - noGii - 'Pay Day -George ; O'Brien la Charlie Chaplin in Danc Condemnatiori is. . : Secret; of Sirccess Lee . . V. ."C'-U , 4 ' ...... ' HKW YORK. Sammy. '. Lee, wfcowas ctrlredrrom Broadway to put ' Jaa into - the 4 Metropolitan Opera ballet- when it "was decided to present. Carpenter's 'Skyscrap ers," has gjvenmuch thought to the mystery of why certain dances become bits. . -. , l ' .- Hts conclusion, is tha generous helpings .of .condemnation,.; which may, be xpected from; all sections of the country, provide definite assifraiice of popularity for, a new, dance:- " - ' Prineville Ont of .145 lOeboco, national forest fires last year, only 11 were man' caused." 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