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I 8 THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 19, 1928 t. SCOUTS GET HONORS EXECUTIVE AXD LEADERS ALr BO REWARDED AT COURT The largest court of honor ever held fn this eltr toV nlirg at the sepreme court building Tuesday ignt, juage Harry Belt presid ed at the meeting, assisted by Charles Wiper, chairman of the Cascade council. Vernon Bush- Bell recelTed the the highest pro motion, when he was awarded the agie scoot insignia. Merit badg es were awarded the rarlous scoatmastera and Scout Execu tlTe It. A. Payne. Officers of the court were: L. P. Campbell, court commissioner: Milton Taylor, bugler; Maxey Laagford, herald; Pat Campbell ana una risner, color bearers; Paal Lafferty, and Kenneth Mor ris, color guards; Bill Trlndle, aide; and Scout Executive Payne, court clerk. Boys promoted were as follows: Second class. Junior Ritter. Raymond Wagner, troop two; Wendell Huskey. Waldo Mills. Wayne Daughton. troop four; Howard Pugh. George Gray, troop six; Harold Croxdale. Albert Parks, Lester Perry. Henry Amos. Herbert Amos, troop seven : Ben T-rusaki. troop 10; Robert French, troop 13. First class. Robert Long, troop oner Luman Key, troop six. Second class merit badges. Frederick Wolfe. Robert Long. Kendall Orover. troop one; Wil liam Lindstrom. troop four; Ed mund Welsner. troop fire: WI1 Hsa Iloman. Luman Ney. Walter Tine. GeoJ-ge Self. Clifford Glea . Jack Meyers, troop six; Earl troon 10; MiHa MM)Tf Cheater Lanktree, troop 13. First class merit badres. Fred Edmundson, troop one; Stanley King, Milton Taylor, Vernon Bushnell, Billy Dyer, Roland Hardman, Phillip Errls, troop two; Robert Marsh, troop four; Vernon MeQuald, William Camp bell. Edgar Lunn, Lewis Camp bell, Edward Burton, Jack Col lins, Gerald Day, Willys Pearcy. Lewis Melson. Paul Hauser. By ron-Peyton, troop six; Parker Oles, troop nine; Ray Rhoten. troop 18. Life' scout, Fred Edmundson, troop one; Jack Collins, Vernon MeQuald, troop six. Three new troops will be chart ered In Salem some time this month. One will be In the neigh borhood of Washington arhool. another in the Garfield school dis trict, and the third centering around 13th and Chemeketa streets. Fred Duncan has been chosen scout master for the troop In East Salem, but the other two masters have not yet been selected. Le eDow Becomes Partner In Delano Realty Business Fred C. Delano who onened a real estate office in this Htv last January announces that he has taken a partner, Lee Dow, well known in this city, and that here after the business will be In charge of both men. Dow has lived In Salem for a number of vears. own ins- much nronertv on the Silrerton road, a short dis tance out of the city limits. He was born in South Dakota, hut has pent 19 years in Canada, where he engaged in the real estate and mercantile business. He is fa- rnilltr with T,-rtv Tilnpo nd Mr. Delano considers him a valu aba addition to his growing bus! ness. Delano formerly owned the Sa lem Antomlbile company and was engaged In the automobile busi ness here for a number of years before selling It to its present owners. He reports that the real estate business Is good here and he expects to do his share of the business this spring. Former Councilman Dies Following Long Illness After an Illness of nearly four years. William L. Cummings died in his home at 525 North 14tn street yesterday afternoon at the age of 79 years. He has made his home In Salem for the past 35 years, serving several terms on the city council. At one time he had charge of a real estate busi ness here. Mr. jCummings was born In New York but spent the greater part of his early life In Wisconsin later locating In Ore gon. He was a member or tne First Methodist church of this city. He is survived by his wife. Mrs. Addie B. Cummings, two sons and three daughters, one brother, one sister, and 17 grandchildren. These are W. A. Cummings. man ager of the Senator hotel. Salem; A. E. Cummings, Salem; Mrs. Sounie Bates, Lebanon: Mrs. L. Hall. Ventura, Calif.; Mrs. C. W. Laugblin, Astoria; and G. L. Cummings, a. brother, Salem. Fu neral arrangements -have not yet been completed. V. W. C. A. ELECTS SACRAMENTO, Cal.. April 18. (AP). Mrs. John M. Hanna of Dallas. Texas, today went Into the election of officers for the nation al Young Women's Christian as sociation convention unopposed for tbe presidency. Mrs. Hanna, tbe Incumbent, has served one term as the bead of the national organization. APPROVE POSTAL CUT WASHINGTON. April 18. (AP). Amendment of the house postal bill to cut tbe rates on sec ond class matter to the scale In effect In 1920 wa approved today by the. senate postofflce commit tee In reporting out tne measure CLEMENCY WILL NOT BE EXTENDED TO CONVICTS (Continued from pag 1) executions, which will occur early Friday morning. The governors statement fol lows: The case of James Willos and Ellsworth Kelley haa been before me during my entire term In of fice," read the - governor's state ment "It has had my exhaustive and earnest consideration over a period of more than a year, and I have been unable to find any valid reason either In law or In justice hy I should Interfere with the action of tbe courts. Because of the great number of communica tions which have come to me, for and against clemency, I wish to lay before those who are Interest ed my findings in the case. This statement will constitute a reply to the many letters and telegrams I have received to which I am un able to make individual response. Four Arguments Made Appeals for commutation have come to me from four sources: those who oppose capital punish ment under any circumstances; tho3e who believe that the life sentences Imposed on the De Au tremont brothers should exempt Willos and Kelley from paying the extreme penalty provided by sta tute for murder; those who feel that tbe prisoners are not legally guilty of murder in the first de gree, and those who find In the personal history and character of the-prlaoners or me circumstances surrounding the crime extenuat ing factors which exercise a claim for clemency. T.w Xot at Issue "A discussion of capital punish ment has no piace in connection with tbls case. The law stands In nnr atatntes nlaced there bv a ma jority of voters who believe that a sentence or lire imprisonment, which In this atate has meant an average of lees than eight years. does not aiiora society adequate protection against first degree murderers. As governor, I must uphold that law. Death Deserved Tf T were to accent th en- tences Imposed on the De Autre monts as grounds for. clemency in this case. It would mean, that cap ital punishment would be set aside during my term in office. It is hardly possible that a crime more heinous than that of the De Autre- monts will be committed to Justify . . A. - ' -1 i tne juagmeoi oi ueam. "If inequality of sentence or the escape of guilty persons from just penalties were a valid excuse for clemency, the whole process of law would be overthrown. This case must be considered on its own merits. , "The power of pardon or com mutation was not nlaced in the hands of the governor for the pur- pcoe of equalizing sentences. Were that tbe case it would become in cumbent on horn to review the ev idence, to examine the accused and in substance to re-try every case passed upon by the courts. "The pardoning power was del egated to the chief executive for exercise in those rare Instances where evidence might develop sub sequent to the Imposing of sen tence which would Indicate that conviction was had without full knowledge of facts surrounding the case. No substantial evidence has been presented to me which was not before the jury when their decision was reached. Fully Guilty, Belief "To the argument that the pri soners are not legally guilty of murder in the first degree I have given my most earnest attention. The state based Its prosecution upon three contentions: "First that James Willos and Ellsworth Kelley, with Tom Mur ray and Bert (Oregon) Jones, en tered Into a conspiracy, homicidal In Its nature, during the course of which murder was committed, which renders all four equally guilty. "Second Robbery was commit ted in the taking of arms from the possession of guards at the state penitentiary and murder was committed during the process of this robbery, which, under the law, also constitutes murder in the first degree. "Third A deliberate homicide, premeditated and with malice aforethought was committed by Murray, in which Willos and Kel ley aided and abetted him. "The law provides that 'every person convicted of murder in the first degree shall be punished with death, except when the trial Jury shall, in its verdict recommend life Imprisonment.' "The state established all three of its contention with ample and conclusive evidence. The Jury which heard that evidence was convinced of the guilt of the pri soners, and was not willing to rec ommend life Imprisonment. "The ablest of counsel for the prisoners have been unable to find any irregularity in the conduct of the case which the courts of either the state or nation will sustain. After examining the record in full and considering every point the defendants have brought forth, I have found no valid legal reason why the extreme penalty should not be Inflicted. Those who find justification for clemency in the history and character of the prisoners or their crime must be uninformed or must have forgotten the facts surround ing this case. "The defense of mental incom petence has been wiped out by the verdict of the jury and by two sanity commissions, one appoint ed by Judge Percy R. Kelly and one by me. "Both of the prisoners had criminal records not for one crime but for repeated offenses prior to the commitment they were serv ing at the time of the prison break. "Youth can not be cited in their favor. One is 30 years of age and the other 32. "The crime which they helped to plan and carry out wa an atrocious one, in which two good men were shot down in the dis charge of their duty. "Following the prison break the fugitives participated in robbery armed with dangerous weapons; they kidnaped unarmed citizens: they held an entire family under threat of death while they boast ed of their brutal deeds and of their readinese for more bloodshed to secure their liberty. "Further loss of life was avert ed only because those with whoni they came in contact were too cowed bjr show of arms and threats of death to offer any re sistance. "If clemency wera exercised in this case, desperate convicts serv ing sentences longer than the a- erara life sentence In Oregon. would be justified in feeling that If thev attemnted to shoot then- way out of the penitentiary the only danger the would encounter would be from possible loss of life during the attempt. "I have not forgotten the wove of indignation that swept the state following this crime: I have not forgotten the widows of the two guards and their children who were left fatherless. Foremost in my thoughts is the possibility that Intervention in this case may in the future mean loss of life of other officers at our state peniten tiary. "The responsibility for life or death is a grave one. The OreRon law recognized this when it placed that responsibility in the hands i f the trial jury, rather than in the hands of any one man. "Without valid and urgent rea- . son. I do not feel Justified in in- -terfering with the decision of the 12 men and women who heard tbe evidence, who observed the pri soners, and who had opportunity ; to have tbe fullest information concerning this case. 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