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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1939)
i- f .... - 1 ' i 1: I .- - T--v- ... - ; Oafflaie'iiziiicjcii II- jr. I .. . Mi . .. . ! i . : i -"'4 . - k iaiiii on kate 1 Tit . . f: - . . ' m ' i "oi notttied iMil liope la Gone Until HeV I! in Death Cell (Contlased from pas . hanglngg, will be put oyer bis ye. Cyanide Pellets Drop' Into Crock Fifteen eranlde oellets. the size of bird's eggs, will be In a metal receptacle under the enalr when McCarthy enters. After be nas : been securely fastened, a guard will bring in tbe10-gallon crock, filled with sulphuric acid and distilled - water. . All guards will I then withdraw from , the chamber, the door will be. locked and screwed shut and at a signal from the warden, the lever out- e j the chamber, releasing the anlde pellets, will be pressed Immediate formation of the le- thai gas will follow, the fumes ris ing through the perforations in the chair. Captain L. W. Gentry of the Colorado state prison, said late ! yesterday that the prisoner woud probably 'lose consciousness at the first breath of the gas. The second breath almost inTaiiably brings total - unconsciousness. While the prisoner's heart may continue beating for a few min utes, no pain is thought possible to the condemned man. "- ' i When attending physicians, 11s- 4 tenlng through a stethoscope lead ing into the execution chamber, bar declared McCarthy dead, am monia will be forced .through four Separate ' valves ' into" the Cham- ber.t mixed : with the gas, and' the entire chamber then ventilated tor 1 15 minutes by f a fan which Willi force the gas in the chamber through an exhaust le adin g through the penitentiary root. I After IS minutes of ventilation, guards will go into the chamber to rem ore the body but no guard will be admitted without a gas m&ak and spectators wur d Kept veral paces from the open door. SANTA FE, KJu. lHffh The New Mexico state penitentiary needs a few good life-tenners who can tootle a saxophone. X El Boletln, the prison newspa per, reported today it had become necessary to merge the Inmates' string orchestra with - the band "because of the lack of band mem bers caused by most of the, fel lows going, home." ' ' , JACKSON, MJss Jan. 10 (ffVTalk aboat yoar long ahote there are 10,000 lleeaeed ao tontobile la Hinds county, yet when hitch-hiker L. C. Pierce wagged bis thamb today at one of them, and the car stepped, It was the one machine Pierce preferred sot- to boards 3 ij'ie driver was Deputy Sher iff Thorntoa Hale, who carried; ta his pocket a warrant for the arrest of Pierce on a grand lar ceny charge. Hale had been banting Pierce for several days. .Tonight la the coaaty Jafl Pierce reflected over the lack of a 0909 to 1 shot that delivered for the sheriff. LOS ANGELES, Jan. lMffy Jack Haley, film comedian,' sent a $10 check today to Judge By ron Walters, asking him to accept it as a Toluntarily-imposed fine for "almost striking another auto' recently when he was in a hurry to get to his studio. ri am the father of three chil dren," Haley wrote, "and I am interested in traffic safety. I find. however! that I suffer the com mon falling of violating the traf fic laws when in a hurry." r Judge -Walters said "he was ac cepting the - conscience payment and would use it to send a' worthy child to a summer vacation camp. Colorado Pleased I ACIethod Adopted , enamner . m, ... ' A. captain uentry,?wno spent au day Thursday . checking the new apparatus at the prison, said in his I Judgment the installation Job at the prison had been a good one. He said he thought Colorado. , which has executed condemned men by lethal gas for the last five years, was reasonably well satis fied with the -. method - adopted. Eight men have thus met their The - death chamber there is square and contains three chairs. On one occasion two men have been executed at the same time in Colorado. The death house is in the prison yard and spectators must stand outside to witness the j l execution. J&any.tnis mourn, wnen an -execution was scneauiea, a slight delay was caused when cold weather caused the crock contain ing the sulphuric acid, to break. Gentry said that the men he had seen executed seldom' made any outcry and never resisted going into the death chamber. As a pre- 1 i caution, the acid Is never taken x 1 Into the chamber, until the prison ? Her Js securely strapped to the -TO 90-Cents-a-Month i service Planned I (Continued from nage lt inquiry regarding the society, in eluding Silverton, Albany, Cor vallls, McMinnville, Portland and Lebanon. i Members will be provided with a card that entitles them' to care upon need in any hospital recog nized by the American Medical as sociation in Canada or the United States. "Their bills, up to the 21 day, $276 maximum in a single year will be paid in full at the general public rate.-The service will Include bed and board, gen eral nursing care, regular operat ing room service, anaesthesia giv en by hospital employes, labora tory and pathological service. routine x-ray service, ordinary drugs and dressings. Care of ob stetrical cases will be included only after 12 months from the effective date of membership. ', A single member of each group will be responsible for -the pay ment of his group's dues. The society will not collect payments, which amount will be specifically determined by the trustees from time to time. Any member in de fault o( Pyment over 20 days will automatically forfeit ; his mem- bershlo. . "r I Service will not Include 4iag- No Injustice ' Involve J. Governor Declares in "Denying Qemency (Continued from page 1) .. er seen and for whom X hold no I brief other than that he is a ha- man being .. . Taking eognixanee of the usual objection that murderers do not serve out life terms, but are par doned by soft-hearted, governors uicKson saia ne would introduce a second . proposed constitutional amendment, providing that par-1 dons of murderers or men twice convicted "of felony be granted only with the approval ef both the governor and a majority ot the su preme court. This would be an I adaptation ot a present California law. Opposition Claims Move Is Improper - . 'Senator Harry M. Kenln added his voice to Dickson's, saying cap ital punishment r was degrading and debasing to the public and tended to cheapen human life. He said McCarthy had been "sick from the time he was born." Sen ator Staples said not the death penalty, but the removal ot influ ences which cause criminality in youth, would solve the crime prob lem. He added that the death pen alty was restored in 1920, after having been abolished in 1114, in a wave 01 hysteria. Speakers opposing the resolu tion based their: arcument princi pally on the alleged impropriety of I legislative - intervention to the course of justice, although Sen ator-Tom Mahoney described Mc Carthy as a youth who had com mitted repeated , crimes, w 0 a 1 a have shot a policeman as well as Fnelner if .his gun : had 'not jammed, and "cut off the noses of his bullets so they would make a I bigger hole." -..'-- Other opposition speakers were Senators Walker Ellis, Wheeler. Burke and Ross. Condemnation Is Laid on Hopkins (Continued from page 1) - own defense, contended he was -unfit" for the post of secretary of commerce. - Only Senator Berkley of Ken tucky, v the ' democratic leader, came- to Hopkins' defense and to his own ' as well, in connection with, charges of political irregu larities in the Kentucky democrat ic primary last summer. He said both he and Hopkins had been cleared by the senate campaign expenditures committee of a n y kaowledge of the incidents Mb question, - r , 4 4 hostlc, x-ray or laboratory ; exam- I inatlton, or treatment of venereal, mental, alcoholic drug or tuber cular cases.: No application of any person over 6S years of age will be received. , The society expects to be in readiness to receive: memberships by February 1. ' ' ... " - ' ' 1 WVr- V: HOs vfcnl Kan iuuuu uau 11x1 By Log Truckmen Logging, , SaKmill -Protests Prompt Further Stndy of Elkhorn Road - Pranoced ' closure of - the Ell- horn road to heavy winter hauling brought logging ana sawmui oper ators protesting to the e o a n t y court yesterday and resulted in a decision by the court to hear their story further Saturday before tak ing final action. . ', (The protests arose when County Engineer N." C. Hubbs, reporting on an inspection of the road, rec ommended the closure because, he said, heavy damage had already been done to, two miles oMhe route and more than six miles was badly cut up. "He pointed out that the road su rf ace had remained soft this year because ot the open winter. Tracker Loses Permit m court determined to aenv a fnse to one hauler who recently lied for permission to truck piulg over the road; and proceeded to operate his trucks before the permit" was Issued. His and sev eral other applications naa seen held up pending' examination of fthe road.:. !.? f 1 1 j Court w "membert declared r-the ciouhty $! ImproTttf 'the Toad in 1020, ontlnttedfI l27 and t last year alone "spent fie.eev m I addition ' to securing a 1 a ? f rnnnnt fit WPA labor. : - ' . 1 ("That money and tnat roaa ne ijong to ther county not just the eourt," Commissioner Roy S. Mel son declared, "and it's not right for these private operators to de stroy lt, - ' r 4. Four mill owners told the court they had heavy winter lumber or ders on file and closure of the road would injure some, of them financially and throw a large num ber ot men out of employment. Piirther Advances Continued from page' 1) v- by shouted demands in the cham ber of deputies for him t to relax hU "no-arms-to-Spain" policy and permit help to-move across the frontier for tte "Barcelona govern ment. ''"" Frank Chamberlain, only son of the British prime minister, es caped anlnjured from fa bomb blast apparently aunea at mm n Ireland as Britain used thousands of police reserves to combat ter rorism laid to the outlawed Irish republican army. "r- rrKk TJMMsalaa MvaMt wi sin f fW : ilia iniuuiau fjvi v MuMf r parently -dissatisfied with herl re lations with Germany, transferred her Berlin miniate to Athens as ambassador to Greece. . Dr. Otto Dietrich, German gov ernment press chieftain, issued a cbigorlcal denial in uerun mai .... .iti(nt-,)iiTirt wr, eon- : in our . lEII'S acd COYS' j r Department ?T 'aasauBSP' M - Report (i 1 X Men9 Cotton m r Special! Special! S lor V7 7 X Men's Chambray UofkShiifc --Koine, to 1195 r If Ml m svaV . .... , Regular 5; Men - - emtx --epei fcwfc Polo Shirts .Sizes 6 to 16 av m a r- Boy9 WaUt , to 79c XUJ n A Bof or GiriY . Ndton't 'Itoetfard? n Sizes . 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