H I-
. COMING SOON
.Salem's tint contract
bridge toorney: a great
place to 1m prove your game,
have tarn, win worthwhile
prizes. Starts next Tuesday,
Marion hotel, 8 p. m. '-
THE WEATHER . . -:
Unsettled with occasional
showers today and Thors- '
day; Max. Temp. Tuesday
02, Mia. 54, rirer foot,
rain .04 inch, SV wind, i
EIGHTY-THIRD. YEAR
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morninsr, September 27, 1933
n r : : . 4
ARRAIGN KELLY.
'iliii
Unusual Precautions Taken
Against - Delivery of
' Kidnap Suspect .
Plan to Rush r Gangster to
Oklahoma City Vetoed
By Authorities ?
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 11.
AP) George ! ''Machine Gun"
Kelly, captsred at a bnagalow
hideout here - this morninc, was
held at tbe county Jail under a
heavy guard tonight after a hur
ried arraignment In his all-steel
cell. :
John M. Keith, special agent
of the department ot Justice, took
charge ot the proceedings and
announced he had issued orders
for officers not to discuss the
case. ! 1 i
"Not long back, we had a mas
sacre of officers in Kansas' City
in broad daylight," he said.
"That was the result of too much
talking.
"We don't intend to let any
thing like that i happen in Mem
phis." !
Kelly's bond and that I ot his
rife, Kathryn, was set at $100,
000 yy United States Commis
sioner Lester Brenner. They were
charged with kidnaping Charles
P. Urschel and taking him to
Paradise, Texas, pending payment
of $200,000 ransom.
Similar bonds were fixed for
John C. Ticheaor, a crippled au
tomobile mechanic, and his brother-in-law,
S. E. T r a t 1 s, at
whose home the capture was ef
fected. ! f
The Commercial Appeal quot
ed Tichenor as saying a Memphis
lawyer exchanged telegrams with
Kelly while the lawyer was at
Gainesville, Texas. Tichenor said
the lawyer left here Sunday
night with a little girl believ
ed to have been Geraldino Ar
nold, who tipped department of
justice operatives oft to the
whereabouts of the Kellys.:
At one time tonight, officers
debated rushing the Kellys to
Oklahoma City by plane before
morning but Oklahoma authori
ties advised waiting until the
conclusion of trials of a number
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FI FIGHTERS OF
"PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 26.
(API The matter of federal aid
for fire departments held the
attention of firemen, from an
nnrt of the Pacific 'coast who
met here today fjr the 40th an
nual convention of the pacific
Coast Association of Fire Chiefs.
The convention will close Thurs
day night.
In a discussion that followed
the readine by Chief E. F. Coop
of Pasadena, Calif., of a paper
on "Can we get federal aid for
fire departments?" delegates told
of instances where applications
had been made to the govern
ment and returned with the
statement that federal aid would
be impossible. Others, however,
said applications had been placed
on file for further consideration.
Seeking information toward
betterment of the Salem fire de
partment Dr. O. A. Olson, chair
man of the council fire commit
tee and special civil service ex
aminer, will go to Portland to
day to attend ' meetings of the
annual convention of the Paci
fic Coast Fire Chiefs' associa
tion being held through Thurg-
'i'day at the Multnomah hotel. Dr.
- Olson is interested primarily in
fire fighting and prevention reg
ulations ot other cities and in
equipment demonstrations. Fire
Chief Harry Hutton went to
Portland yesterday to remain tor
all three days of the convention.
OAKLAND. CaL, Sept. 2$.
(AP) A husband who was mad
dened, police said, by failure to
effect a reconciliation with his
wife, caused an hour's reign of
terror and bloodshed In the streets
ot Oakland tonight before he was
shot and wounded with his own
pistol. .- -;-.:;'. -
; Officers said the husband laid
siege to his wife's barricaded
home,'Critlcally wounded a taxi
cab driver, raked the streets with
gunfire and commandeered two
automobiles. One ot the machines
was occupied by lames K. Moffltt,
Rati Francisco banker and indus
trialist, and the other by Dr. For
est C Kracaw, oauana pnysician,
his wife and a woman friend.
- Th man was said by Mrs.
Susan . Wallace to have been her
estranged husband, William Wal
lace, 2$, unemployed 7 steamship
steward of Los Angeles,
COAST 110 MEET
OMl REIGN OF
TERfjOTVIS STAGED
Chain Used to
' Btrid Urschel
tit ' J it
Si iil
Herbert K. Hyde, chief prosecutor
in the trial of Harvey Bailey at
Oklahoma City, for the kidnap
ing of Charles Urschel, oil mag
nate, exhibits the chain with
which Urschel was tied up dar
ing his period of captivity. It
was found at the Shannon farm
in Texas, where Bailey was cap
tured. TO BEJEpOESTEO
Federal Funds for Adults'
Classes Will be Asked
By Salem District
Salem school district may re
quest a $1000 allotment from the
$15,000 federal . grant set aside
for relief of unemployed teachers
in Oregon, Superintendent George
Hug told the school directors last
night. The money would be used
in employing teachers to conduct
classes in adult education. The
state board for vocational educa
tion will administer the Oregon
allotment.
Transportation of elementary
pupils from, the Riverside, Port
land road and Silverton road sec
tions of the district by the McLean
Transportation company at $18
per pupil per year was agreed to
by the board. The board has made
this provision for the past two
years, since no schools are clos'e
to these areas. The directors also
accepted McLean's bond for per
formance of the contract signed
by Paul B. Wallace instead of by
a surety company as in the past.
The planning and zoning com-
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Truck Driver is
Bitten by Dogs;
Injuries Severe
An unidentified truck driver
last night was attacked and badly
bitten by three dogs belonging to
Frank Dayj who lives at Court and
Front streets, city police said they
were notified. The dogs were said
to have bitten the man on one arm
and about both legs.
-Police said they had warned
Day that his dogs would be shot
it he did not keep them tied up.
OWN RIFLE BLAMED
ALBANY, Ore., Sept. 28.
(AP) J. R. Wyatt, Albany attor
ney was seriously wounded in the
left shoulder today when his. rifle
was accidentally discharged while
he was crawling through a fence
five miles west of Alsea, police
said.
Wyatt was hunting deer,
stunned by the shot, he lay for
more than an hour before he
cculd call for help. He was
brought to a hospital here tonight
where attendants said he has a
chance to recover.
OWNER NOT FOUND
s KLAMATH FALLS, Sept. 1$.-
(AP) Austin Hyatt drove his
truck down a grade on the Klamath-Ashland
highway near Keno
today, and suddenly, as he round
ed a curve, he came upon a herd
ot sheep strolling nonchalantly
down the road. Before he could
stop he killed 25 of the animals,
police said. The owner ot the
herd has not been found.
TISITS ALTj STATES
LA GRANDE, Ore.T Sejtf. 29.
CAP) A hitch hiking- princess,
age 70, dropped into La Grande
recently for a lew hours' visit.
She la "Princess" Naturich Saun-
FJ
IlllrJ
I
COUNTIES ILL
Word Comes From McNary
To That Effect; Ruling
Of Interest Here
Most of Claims Handled at
Washington; Only Sale
Receipts Available
CORVALLI3, Sept. 26. (AP)
A payment of 50 per ' cent of
their claims will be received with
in the next few days by Oregon
counties in which Oregon and
California grant lands are located,
Senator Charles McNary in Wash
ington, D. C, notified Victor P.
Moses, Benton county judge, by
wire today. Judge Moses is head
of the organization of counties
seeking full payment of land grant
fund claims.
In response to a message Judge
Moses yesterday wired to McNary,
asking that all speed possible be
given the movement for obtaining
payment, the senator wired:
"Have received Information
from assistant secretary of inter
ior that interior department has
nearly completed work in connec
tion with payment to counties
wherein O. & C. lands are located.
That of IS counties submitting
claims of O. & C. payment, 15
decisions have been sent secre
tary of treasury. We expect that
by Thursday all decisions will
have been completed, then pay
ment will be made according to
agreement of decision of control
ler of the currency
The controller of the currency
has ruled that O. & C. payments
must be made from receipts of the
sale of timber on O. & C lands,
Judge Moses explained. The con
troller has said there are o n 1 y
enough funds on hand at Wash
ington to pay 50 per cent ot the
counties' claims.
MnHnn rnnntv wfll waIva n.
proximately 3500. as. Jesuit, of
the distribution of O. & C. land
grant, funds to the extent of 50
per cent of the claims. Although
some of the counties' claims run
to large figures, Marion's was only
$7000 this year. The decision is of
considerably more importance to
some neighboring counties.
flffl MAY GET
SERVICE INCREASE
The city council fire committee
will disregard instructions of the
citizens' budget committee rela
tive to submitting a 1934 budget
estimate for employing more fire
men rather than giving present
firemen their four-year service
salary Increases, Dr. O. A. Olson,
chairman, declared yesterday. jThe
committee had been advised to
submit a substitute estimate by
today based on the re-employment
idea.
The fire department salary es
timate submitted by the commit
tee at the budget conference last
Friday called for an increase of
$2106 to raise salaries of seven
firemen from $112.50 to $121 per
month, or a total budget of $57,
780 for 1934.
"The committee believes the
present budget estimate will be ac
cepted," Dr. Olson said. "We feel
that these men have become en
titled to the extra pay due to
their four-years' service. The
other firemen have already re
ceived this increase."
Albany Lawyer Wounded
Princess, 70, Visitor
Track Kills 25 Sheep
Rescue Lone Fisherman
ders, full-blooded Cherokee Indian
For the past four years she has
been hitch hiking, she said, and
has been In every state in the
union, besides visiting Canada,
Cuba and Mexico. She left here
for Butte, Mont., stating that from
there she expects to go' into the
Dakota, then back to San Fran
cisco nd finally to Miami.
SEVEN DARS IN STORM
ASTORIA, Sept. 26. (AP)
Exhausted by his long and lonely
vigil In the trolling boat Grant H.
of Seattle, Francis Huntsueker of
Hoquiam, Wash., was rescued last
night when his boat was towed
into the Columbia river by life
boats from the Point Adams and
Cape Disappointment coast guard
stations.
The small vessel had 'been bat
tered about by the stormy Pacific
winds tor the past seven days. It
was almost ont ot fuel and Hunt
sucker brought It Into a precar
ious refuge late yesterday in the
lee of the Tillamook Rock light.
The lightkeeper- telephoned the
coast guard of the boat's plight.
: Huntsueker, who was treated
here for exposure, said he planned
, to obtain fuel and leave immedi-
ately lor Grays Harbor,
Convicts Riot After
Seizing Warden and
Slashing
Inmates Enraged at Removal of Privileges as
Result of Attempted Break; Mattresses
Are Ignited; Outbreak Quelled
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 26. (AP) The entire convict
population of the Eastern penitentiary 1492 "long:
term" felons revolted tonight and threw the old stone pri
son into the worst riot of its 103 years.
With smoke and flames shooting1 along the radiating
corridors and yells that could be heard for four blocks in
' i iothe thickly populated neighbor
PERSONHELOn DRUM
CORPS WIS TOLD
4-1 men Listed to Journey to
Chicago; Public Program
To be Given Tonight
Forty-one men will comprise
the personnel of the Salem drum
corps on its scheduled trip to Chi
cago to compete at the American
Legion national convention, Man
ager Tom Hill announced last
night. This represents an increase
of six men "in the playing mem
bership of the corps, an addition
of four regular buglers and two
regular snare drummers. -
A varied program featuring the
corps but including the Legion
Auxiliary national champion trio,
the auxiliary Quartet and the Le
gion cadet band will be given as
a farewell gesture at Sweetland
field at 7:45 o'clock; tonight. A
small admission fee will be
charged.
Hill said the corps would en
train at Liberty and Trade streets
at 7:30 o'clock Thursday night
for Portland where it will board
the Portland Rose. A large send
off crowd is anticipated.
The personnel making the trip,
Hill said, will be as follows:
"Udy SCBUltZ. mUSIC instructor;
lcvh rf 8 ,Whltt?m"e- n.a"onA1
uuaiuiiiuu urum major; weuu
Moorman, drillmaster; J. T. De-
laney, finance officer; James
Madley, equipment master; Henry
Ahrens, R. D. Barton, Percy Black
stone, Cecil Blakely, Fred Hubler,
Tom Hill, Frank Jlrak, Leo Kleck
er, D. W. W. L o o n e y, William
McRae, 'Russell Mudd, Harry
Riches, H. E. Shade, Roy Smith,
Arthur Vonless and Frank Whitte-
more; Byron Lieuallen, supernu
merary bugler.
Ralph Baldwin, Hadden Bond,
George Cherrington, Dr. C. W.
Davis, Ray DeGuire, Harry Gus-
tafson, Curtis Johnson, Lloyd Lee,
S. B. McDonald, M.,E. Reeves,
Dorsey Reeves and Frank Straus-
gaugh, snare drummers; Renus
Verhagen and A. Rondau, snare
supernumeraries; G e n e Diets,
George Edwards, L. A. Hamilton,
James Flood and M. 1 Clifford
Moynihan, cymbals and bass
drums.
L
Although an extension of time
is being sought, to date limita
tions have not been removed and
farmers in this district applying
for federal seed loans will have
to do so between Thursday and
Saturday of this week in the of
fice of P. H. Bell on tbe second
floor of the Oregon building. This
was the announcement made here
last night by Ira Hyde of the crop
production office of the Farm
Credit administration.
Hyde spent yesterday after
noon conferring with D. W. Eyre,
Roy Melson and S. H. Van Trump,
members of the local seed loan
committee. Although the period
for making application for the
loans does not open until Thurs
day, farmers Interested may make
Inquiry today, Hyde said.
Loans may range from a min
imum of $25 to a maximum of
$300; with a maximum of $1.25
per planted acre allowed. Last
spring Marion county farmers,
600 m number, received more
money through the seed loan than
any other Oregon county, obtain
ing in all approximately $50,000.
Loans this fall : are limited to
wheat and application must be
made by Saturday night.
Helen Milburn
Dies; 33 Years
With Oregdnian
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. Jf.
( AP) Mrs. Helen Kehoe un
burn, 52, for SS years an employe
ot the Oregonlan, for which she
served as cashier, died at her
horn here today after an illness
of 13 months.
Mrs. Milburn entered the serv
ice ot the Oregonlan under the
late II. L. Plttock. publisher. She
was named assistant to- Pittock
after the death ot Leigh Burton,
who had served In that capacity.
Besides her Interest In her pre
fessional duties, Urs.' Milburn was
an "accomplished niansi t
LOIS
1
T T
Him
Badly
hood, the rioters grabbed tbe
warden, . Herbert J. "Hard-Boil
ed" Smith, and heat and slashed
him severely before guards came
to the rescue.
The convicts, enraged at the
loss of the special privileges af
ter an earlier attempted prison
break, started the bedlam about
an hour after they were locked
in their cells for the night and
the lights extinguished.
Igniting their mattresses, they
shoved them through the bars of
their cells into the corridors, set
ting up a flaming barrier that
prevented the guards from en
tering the long tiers that radiate
from a center hall like tbe
spokes of a wheel.
The riot was put down short
ly after midnight after firemen
directed streams of water on the
convicts, and state troopers ar
rived with machine guns and riot
sticks to augment city police who
until that time were satisfied
with keeping the screaming con
victs at bay.
A number of the convicts were
beaten and overcome by smoke.
Warden Smith was struck over
the head and on the cheek by a
piece of bed wielded by a convict
who attacked him as he walked
past a cell during the riot.
TOOL DIE WORKERS
OF DETROIT
E
8000" Respond to Order is
Claim of Spokesmen;
Others to Join
DETROIT. Sept. 26. (AP)
Mechanics' Educational society
spokesmen claimed tonight that
8000 tool and die makers had
responded to a strike order is
sued this afternoon and that 2.-
000 more are expected to walk
out within 24 hours.
The society bas a membership
ot 11,000 here, most of the men
being employed la automobile
factories. Should the strike reach
the proportions claimed, another
25,000 automotive employes prob
ably would be left without work.
Jay J. Griffin, chairman of
the strike committee, said the
strike was called in sympathy
with the walk-out of several hun
dred society members in Flint
automobile plants last week, and
also to force recognition of their
organization.
Tbe strikers said they were
drafting other demands, includ
ing wages ranging from $1 to
$1.50 an hour and a 30-hour
week. The present scale, they
said, is from 75 cents to $1.15
an hour.
Chester M. Culver, general
manager of the Employers asso
ciation of Detroit, discussed the
strike late today with the local
NRA compliance board. He said
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Strayer Decides
To go, Interim
Committee Meet
While Senator Strayer ot Ba
ker would prefer to have Gover
nor Mefer's recent appointments
to the hoard of education held up
for confirmation or rejection : at
the special session of the legisla
ture this fall, he will attend the
meeting of the senate interim com.
mittee at Portland on next Sat
urday, it was learned here yes
terday. This committee, named by
the senate at Its last meeting, will
act upon the appointments. The
governor wished the committee to
meet and act so the hoard ot high
er education could hold a meet
ing before the legislative session
was called. 1
Prune Pool at
. Eugene Closed
EUGENE.- Sept. 21. (AP)
J. Or Holt, manager of . the Eu
gene Fruit Growers' association.
announced today thai the 1S32
prune pool ot the association has
been closed. The price received by
the rrowers in tho .nool waa 11
per cent better fban that paid by
the average - Independent , buyer,
w -1. " 1 '
nan siaiea. t - : f
' NEWSPAPER CHEEP DIES '
CLEVELAND, Sep U XI. (AP)
Elbert H. Baker, 7 9, -chairman
of the hoard of the Plain Dealer
Publishing company, died tonight
at Lakeside hospital. He had been
ill only about a week and under
went an abdomenal operation last
Friday, r ' .
1
HOURS TOLD
Ben Jones, 34, Arrested in
Los Angeles After 10
Years of Freedom
Dangling at end of Rope is
One Form of Torture;.
Claim in Story,
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1.
(AP) A story of torture, days
without food, of hours spent dan
gling on ropes' ends with his toes
Just touching the floor, of flog
gings and threats to kill him was
told tonight -by Ben Jones, 34,
Jailed by sheriffs deputies on sus
picion of being a convicted mur
derer and a fugitive from a South
Carolina prison camp.
Jones, business agent for a mo
tion picture projectionists' union
under the name of C. D. Cooper,
was siezed by authorities on the
threshold of his home where he
was kissing his young wife, Mrs.
Irene Jones hefore leaving the
city for a fewdays.
The arrest was made, Charles
Ellison and Mary Zahn, sheriff's
deputies said, on a tip received
from Mrs. Isidore Gore, wife of a
theater operator, who said she
recognized a picture of Jones in a
detective story magazine as that
of Cooper, who worked for "her
husband.
Jones at first denied he was
Cooper, the deputies said, but
when they pointed to a scar on
his face where the Suoth Carolina
description showed a mole4 Jones
admitted his identity and told his
story to deputies Ellison and
Zahn.
"A guard tipped me off that I
was to be killed tor testifying at
a legislative investigation of the
prison, so I built a rope and went
over the wall," the deputies quot
ed Jones as saying. "That was ten
years ago. I came straight to Cal
ifornia and have lived here as an
nonorame man ever since. I was
married three years ago and my
wife has no knowledge of the
shadow of my past."
REPORT ON RELIEF
NEEDS TO BE IDE
LA GRANDE, Sept. 26. (AP)
Governor Meier's relief com
mittee of 32. created to study
means of raising revenue with
which to match federal funds for
unemployment relief in Oregon,
will meet Thursday morning at
Portland. Fred E. Kiddle of Is
land City, president of the state
senate and chairman of the relief
committee, issued the call for the
meeting.
Kiddle said it would be the
final session of the general com
mittee, which is expected to act
on reports of sub-committees pre
liminary to presenting its report
to the governor.
Upon the report of the commit
tee, it is expected, will depend the
governor's decision about calling
a special session of the legislature
to deal , with the problem of un
employment relief.
Unioh of Paper
Workers Meet
Members of the newly-formed
Salem local of the papermakers
union peeked their room in
Union hall last night to witness
presentation of their charter,
State Senator Peter Zimmerman
of Yamhill county, speaker of the
evening, discussed factors leading
up to passage ot the national In
dustrial recovery act. Charles F,
unwi is ure&iueui ui iu new
union.
Bt idge Tout ney Dh ectoi .
He j e; First Event So o n
With the arrival here Tuesday
ot Miss Bette Harrnd. who with
Mrs. William H. Qnlnn and The
Oregon Statesman, will conduct a
series of contract bridge classes
and tournaments, plansWere tor-
warded for each ot these events
which ; will begin next. Tuesday,
October 3, at the Marion hoteL
ClasaL for beginners will start
promptly at 3 p. m., while ad
vanced players of contract bridge
will be Instructed in a class start
ing at 3:30 p. m.
The tournament plan will be
conducted each Tuesday night for
eight weeks, beginning; promptly
at 8 p. m. Already. number ot
Salem people hare made Inquiries
about the tournament which is ex
pected to provide sot only much
fan lor the players but also a lib
eral education in contract bridge.
In determining spon the tourna
ment. The Statesman - especially
stressed the fact that all contract
slayers. irrespective : of ' ' ability."
.'would be allowed, and urged Jo
U.S. Victim of
Cuban Disorder
' s'i i 4L
Mrs. Lucille Smjrtbe Stadlinger, a
native of Montgomery, Ala.,
whose home at Havana was en
tered by a group of Cuban loot
ers and ransacked of wearing
apparel and jewelry. This Is the
first time during tbe present
Cuban trouble that an American
home is known to have been
violated.
OF BIGJAWl GRANT
72-Foot Project is Assured,
McNary Declares as
Hearing Ended
PORTLAND, Sept 26. (AP)
-Assured by word from Wash
ington, D. C, that the construction
of a 72-foot dam across the Co-
UimDia river i nonneviiie win oe
approved by the public works ad
ministration, the chamber of com
merce tonight laid plans for a eel
ebration to be held in the state
park at Bonneville.
The celebration, in the form of
a mass meeting, will be held, it
was- said, when Senator McNary
and Congressman Martin, both of
Oregon, return from tbe national
capital. To their efforts largely
the chamber attributed the virtual
acceptance by the administration
of the high dam that will provide
power development as well as nav
igation improvement. Word had
reached heferthat the administra
tion was considering a 30-foot
dam for navigation improvement
only.
Walter W. R. May, manager of
the chamber, said several up-river
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AT TIM IS 54
BY CLARK LEE i
(Copyright, 1933, "by the
Associated Press.)!
TAMPICO, Mexico, Sept 26.
(AP) The known death toll from
Sunday's hurricane which buffeted
this oil port for several hours
was placed officially tonight as
54, with 850 known Injured and
much of the city laid waste.
It was feared, however, many
more bodies were burled in the
debris of . collapsed homes or had
not been recovered from tbe water
which swirled in from overflow
ing rivers to cover the low lying
sections.
This correspondent, arriving
from' Mexico, D. F., by airplane,
the first fo reach Tampico since
the storm, found the city suffer
ing from heavy property damage
but without the high death toll
at first feared.
Half of the eenter ot the city
proper remained intact, but entire
buildings weer twisted to pieces
by the wind. Wooden buildings
on the outskirts. Including sev
eral ehurebes and motion picture
theatres, were completely wrecked
with few exceptions.'
play. Inasmuch as play will be by
sections, players ot varying abili
ties will have opportunity to com
pete against a fairly small group
of players.
In order to answer many Ques
tions . arising about the tourna
ment. The Statesman today , pub
lishes the following questions and
answers: v
Who can register?
Any person living In Marlon,
Polk or Linn counties who Is in
terested In contract bridge.1
Where can we register?
At The Oregon Statesman office
or at the Marion hotel. '
Can ,we register as a mixed
team? ' "v'; " - - v
Yes.- Any two people may reg
ister, a man and a woman, two
women, two men.-.
Can we choose the sectlow
is which we wish to play? For
example; North and Booth, East
mad West. . - ' i'
No, that would he impractlc-
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LAN
CELEBRATION
NOWNUT
TEN PRISONERS
1
Daring Plot Carried out at
; Indiana Penitentiary
By Long-Termers
Deputy Warden is Forced to
Escort Group Through
Initial Barriers
MICHIGAN CITT, Ind., .Sept, '
6. -.(AP) Ten desperadoes ;
shot down a - guard, kidnaped a '
sheriff and a motorist, menaced -
two prison officials with death,
and escaped today from the In-.
diana state penitentiary.
Successful in what apneared to
have been a long plotted break
for liberty, the convicts speeded
away toward Chicago, 55 miles
distant, in two automobiles com
mandeered from the men they
abducted.
Two fugitives were sentenced
for murder and five for bank
robbery, all to life terms. The
other four were serving maxi
mum sentences of 25 years for
robbery or auto banditry. They
were regarded as the most dan
gerous men in the prison.
The escape started in the pri
son shirt factory. Assistant War
den Albert Evans was summoned
to tbe shoD on nretezt h cm
needed there because of a break
down in machinery.
He was greeted on arrival by
seven men with pistols and four
with clubs. The convicts disarm
ed Evans and forced him and D.
H. Stevens, plant superintendent,
to accompany them. Each
perado carried a bundle of shirts.
Each guard they encountered
was told bv the escanfnr men.
We're taking these shirts ouL"
Menaced by pistols concealed be
neath the bundles of shirts,
Evans and Stevens could not give
a warning.
Half a dozen iron doors were
opened in that manner and the
procession filed through. Finally,
they reached guard room, one
wall of which .formed part of the
main gate and the prison.
At that point two guards, Guy
Burklow and Fred Wellnitz, ques
tioned the group. Wellnftx was
slugged into unconsciousness by
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TO DIE IS SLAYER
SAN JOSE, CaL, Sept 2.
(AP) The death sentence was
pronounced today upon David A.
Lamson, young Stanford univer
sity publishing house representa
tive convicted of wife murder,
after he had professed innocence
in an address to the court.
Superior Judge R. G. Syer had
just denied a hard-fought defense
motion for a new trial ot the case
growing out of the death of Al
lene Thorpe Lamson, attractive
Stanford Y. W. C. A. secretary, in
a campus cottage May 30 and
Lamson was asked to rise.
"Have yon any legal cause or
reason why Judgment should not
be pronounced now?" asko ! Judge
Syer.
"I understand, your honor,
said Lamson calmly, "that under
the law and under this verdict you
have no alternative but to pro
nounce tbe death sentence. I
should like you and the people of
this state to know that- my con
science la clear before your Judg
ment and before the judgment of
God.
"I know in my heart that I have
been a good husband. I loved Al
lene. I have done her no harm. I
am as innocent ot her death as
you yourself. That Is all."
DEATH OF CEli
PLOTTED, CUB
CHICAGO Sept 2. (AP)
Startling testimony that the un
derworld had marked the late
Mayor Anton J. Cermak for exe
cution because of his anti-criminal
activities and ad chosen
Louis -Little New York" Cam
pagna as his executioner -.was
given today In criminal court '
The declaration was mane ny
former Police Sergeant Harry
Miller in the trial ot Harry Lang.
susnended police officer who is
charged with assault with Intent
to kill Frank NIttI, .reputed one -r
time -enforcer of Al Capone's
edicts, i . -
Under cross-examination by
Defense Attorney Abe Marovits, :
Miller said a raid last December
on a loop office where Nlttl waa
shot had been ordered by the late
mayor two days before. -
Marovits asked whether, Mayor
Cermak has received threats
from the underworld, v t
-Ha did," said Miller. "He told ,
of . a plan that had been made '
to kill him , because he had plan
ned to stop all gangster . opera '
tions during the world fair,
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