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i . ' v I- .;!; I:." THE OREGON STATMAN.SALEM," 6REGONrSuTTOAY"M A 1527 RECOVEBY DUB1 S Farmer's Solaces Charges j of Attempting To r'll Sweetheart - ?4tjt , , u ! -K JDTTAWA; I1L, Dec 3. (AP) C On the love of the '-girl school - teacher he sought to kill with dyn- T nainite, largely hangs the' fate of w young Hiram Reed, son of a pros perous Dana, 111.,- farmer, Sitting in his cell the county tail here today, he placidly dis cussed his prospects, while i the sweetheart he ' confessed attempt ing to put out of the wayby plac ing explosive in the school house stove, fought for her life at the home of her sister,-nearby. Physicians said 23-year-old Iola Bradford might ; recover If infec tion did not begin In- some of the countless small wounds about her body made by tiny pieces of the iron stove when it burst.' But the iron was rusty and the chances of infection great. . - WouAa Itcmatns Xgoorant Miss Bradford, about to become a. mother, does not- connect tne -young garmer, with"' the explosion that mangled her. In her mo ments of delirium he , calls for .bim.. " . , :..;.-,ii.w.l T Heed was told by SUto't Attor ney Hanson that if the girl for gave him he would not be prose cuted on . the charge of injuring her. It waa this promise- that re sulted In his cool confession and story of how he broke into the building, placed the. dynamite In the flue, attached the taps and ran the fuse to the, firewood so "it would be touched ' off when the girl lit the fire in the morning. Charge to be Pushed ; h Even 1 though she decided to marry him, there still remains the bombing charge which lncensedj farmers insist will be pushed. J Only one child accompanied Miss Bradford Into the building as she prepared to. light the stove, a little girl, and she "escaped in Jury. . The fact that the teacher was kneeling probably t. saved her from being decapitated by"" the top of the stove aa it was blown off. "Didn't you have a thought for the fifty innocent children in the school?" the state's attorney ask ed young Reed who said' the girl Insisted on a wedding but-that be was not ready to take on the le- epoaslbilities.of , matrimony; Indifference Voiced "WelL no. what's -the a differ ence, none of the kids were hurt," he replied. "As for Iola when "fae get well she will feel all right about it. She is crasy about me and will be willing to marry me -"till.- - C ; He told the state's attorney the girl became insistent on marriage about ttfo - weeks ' ago! "So "I agreed." he said, ' we would be married Sunday. . "I told her I. bought a ring In Peoria. I had bought something in Peoria dynamite. - I .had been planning some means of getting rid of her for two months. I'm a young fellow and didn't want to be tied down by marriage.! He Is 2 1 years old. ' -- ; I i celved a chary. of buckshot In the shoulder. She scrambled to her feet and ran a mile to the-home of V. E. Cnshman. av - farmer. where sher gasped out the details of the attack, t; . . T When the farmer and bis house hold hurried to the r field , to seee what could be : done for ; Mtea Richmond, they found her dead. No trace of the attacker could be found. His car had disappeared. The sheriff and coroner ..were notified at once- and soon a posse was on the trail of the mad slayer. Tonight " the , searchers . were scouring tb,e canyon of the river. The terrains Is one of many ra vines and others natural hldng places. - Some of those in the man liunt ventured the opinion' that the- killer might have taken his own life by arownlng. 1 Others de manded that: the : hunt be con- tinned relentlessly until .be was iouna, aeaa or anve. 'No Wine, No Song' Say . Members of Famed Choir LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3 (AP) Fifty members of the Florentine choir of Florence. Italy, now "in Los Angeles, last night wired their impresario, Frank W. Healy of San Francisco, what in effect was "no wine, no song." r - Members of ;thechoir said that unless they were supplied with wine of good f d.ualltythey prob ably would abandon the remaining schedule of their' transcontinental tour and return to Italy. - The telegram to Healy read: i - "America is a most' wonderful country and you countrymen have been most kind and courteous to us and the members of the choir acknowledge with ; deepest gratl tude the compliments which -have been paid to their art, - r "But we must have our wine as we have Suffered long and what little we have had has been decidedly inferior." j ram It LEAGUE YET OPPOSES WETS Action : Taken Despite Per sonal Appeal By State - . Governor Smith ; . ALBANY N. Y. Dec. (AP) Despite the personal ' appeal of Governor Smith at the annual con vention dinner: for a more liberal interpretation of the rights of cit izens to 'organize in opposition to statutes with which, they disagree The New York State League of meeting today after going on rec ord in favor of strict prohibition and continued law enforcement. Soon after the league acted fa vorably -on. the prohibition mea sures, which developed ,' consider able opposition for the first time In the history of the organiza tion, the delegates ; heard former Governor Gilford Plnchot of Penn sylvania suggest that Governor Smith be named to press the cause of government regulation of elec tric : power, because of bis state water power development policies. : The former Pennsylvania I exe cutive, "speaking at ; a luncheon meeting which brought the con vention to a close, declared that he believed Governor Smith to have wide state and national In fluence. He also praised the New York executive for his favorable attitude toward state development of hydro-electric resources. 'Two proposals favoring prohibi tion were, adopted. The - first,' a brief declaration in favor of a delegates on tbs convention floor. but the second, measure oceaslon- edano.uro Rested debate and was passed Xy a role' of 74 to 21. Several amendments . proposing elimination of reference to. the 18 amendment and " other changes were defeated by overwhelming mejoritles. The opposition to the inclusion of prohibition in the league's plat form and -declaration of princi ples was the first ever to hare ar isen at a convention of the organ ization. '"'s.:;: ; i'.'-U, WALL STREET HIT the tape was quoting transactions of 17 ulnutes before, but because of huge orders Just before the close it was zS.. minutes before the final transaction "appeared on the tape,. -- - Bull traders based their opera tions on investment demand aris ing out of December 1 disburse ments - to investors,- renewed cir culation of merger rumors and ex pectations that the introduction of the new - Ford would stimulate business in generaL These factors,. rhflllr Line Marked On iaPected of drivings automoin R. : , -; - I while uncer me inuueace o POllCe UltlCe In taSt Uquor wUl be made to walk th line. it. was announced. however, were confronted by cau tionary advices Issued by many of the conservative firms.' '- ' Mtnj Industrial, shares were bought -at new ' high ; pricear:In- cludlng American Agricultural Chemical, pfd., Nash Motors, Ne vada Copper. Coty, and several others.4 Greene Cananea Copper, reached ft new high record of $115 a share but In the last tew min utes the price broke to $106. ' SUMMIT, N. J.. Dec 3 (A) A 15 foot white line, three Inch-j es wide has' been painted on the floor of Police Justice Robert B. Williams office.- Those who are Cotton consumption is - belo that, of 1928 which may be be,;' cause they are wearing fewer all ' the tlme-. . ' - r"-" : .:. t ' 1 Prices Forced Up As Host of ) Buying Orders Deluge -Stock Market , NEW YORK, Dec S. (AP) The bulls ; of Wall street, charg ing InVo the stock, market today with a host of buying orders, forc ed np prices of many issues SI to nearly $9 a share, and set a new Saturday record tor total sales,' ap proximating 1,499,800 shares.' ' Although there was some heavy selling toward, the end of theses- slon, it did not bceome general. i The . enormouB volume of trad ing proved a powerful handicap to an experiment which was exchange officials had. hoped would speed up the ticker quotations 16 to 20 per cent. When 11 o'clock sales were printed on the tape with on- tt - f . - - r . F. -1 7 THE ELSINORE STARTS TUESDAY t t fly the last figures and fractions of state enforcement act, elicited on- quotations, the ticker, was 22 mln- ly about' fen "noes" out of 12 5 utes behind the market. At noon You Wouldn't Race the "Limited" To a Crossing Eyes once strained cannot help themselves. They never mend alone. They "keep going" by overdrawing on your . nervous energy. Right "glasses will lift .that "pinned down" feeling that actually holds you back-makes you irritable unable to concentrate worried because you know-you're not getting results you know you're capable of. ' ' , , Pomeroy & Keerie Jewelers and Optometrists Salem, Oregon AT: HARDING INSIDE STORY GIVEN BY MR. FORBES (Coutinaed from pf 1) cd from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, and either Ned or Albert Lasker exclaimed: ' j 'Why, his old mother used to work for me, and he has a; fine of $1,000 hanging over him; and can't pay it." t Ned McLean said: "Albert, 111 gfve($S00 and you give $500 and we will pay his flno." The president' spoke up:. "Don't let that worry you I'll remit the fine," and the game went on. - As to the late president him self, Forbes declares be is "sat isfied" that Harding received none of spoils of alleged administration graft and was honest in perform ance of his duties. "Warren G. Harding.',? Forbes writes, Vwas - a much' misunder stood man. If he erred' in the ad ministration of his high office, it was solely out of an excess of loy alty to f riend3 whom? the.' world now knows to have been faithless. 1 am confident that before he d parted to Alaska, he had begun to suspect what these men had done to him and to the country, and that this suspicion5 contributed to his untimely death, " 1 T ? " i. POSSES SCOUR LARGE ' TERRITORY FOR KILLER (Cootinurd frtB 1) . car was found the shotgun with which the clay er. killed the girl and wounded the other. . llotives Not Known r Little was known here today of the shooting or of the motive be hind the attack. Dr. O. O. Gaunt, called to treat Miss v Raimey's wounds, declared that, from bis observations, and from all that he was able to learn from the yound- rd girl, it was a fit of jealous in sanity that led. to' Ferguson's at tack. ' The farst hand was taking the girls to Miss Richmond's - home when the shooting occurred. Dr. Gaunt said. Soon Ferguson stop ped the car with the excuse that it had a flat tire. - He went to the rear of the machine and obtained a hammer. Then, according to the storr told br Miss Ralmey. he returned and struck her and Miss Richmond over the r head. Tbe frightened girls fled from the car and into a nearby field.- The mad dened man grabbed the run from the. rear seat, and pursued" his sweetheart. He tired twice." The first charge almost -.-' decapitated Miss Richmond! First Victim Collapses . The wounded girl fell to the ground. A Miss Ralmey stooped over her friend who died at oaca. pM as eho tried to help her, re- Mew Royal rim NOW BEING MADE READY FOR OCCUPANCY 1 f !': -. : . ' ' .-V ' - 'v.ic-c---"-- ::-" . - : -r- 7-:" ill .'. 'fci ; ;-v U-- - I ew modelse greater values now offered in1 . Pianos v GuLBRANSEN now offers the famous Registering Piano in attractive new styles at surprisingly low jprices. 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