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Newspaper Page TextCOROSMER TO PRO OUT-BREAK Si i.Ul I 1 y s 1 CIRCUlATION Dally average net pala circulation for month ending July 81, 1325 6722 Average dally distribution 7090. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 193 PROBE OF Coroner To Investigate Convict Riot and Es cape P robe To Be Thorough. A complete and searching In vestigation of the cause and re eponsihility for the prleon break and killings at the penitentiary Here" Wcilneeday evening ' will open this evening before a cor oner's jury, it was announced thle afternoon by John Carson, district attorney, and Lloyd Rig don, coroner, who will conduct the probe. The Investigation will be In the form of an open hearing and will embrace everything bearing on the "who, what, where, when and how" of the affair, it was an nounced. The hearing will 6tart at 7 o'clock, with the routine proceed ure of establishing the means and cause if the death of Guards Gweeney and Holman and "Ore gon" Jones, the fourth convict Implicated in the break. While tho aithoritlcs made no specific announcement of what would be included in tho scope of the inquiry, there are several points to be cleared up that have been brotlfThi out by the investiga tions of the small army of news papermen covering the story. 70 Holes Bored. How the four convicts succeeded In breaking from the line march ing into the mere room for dinner. If they ever were In the line, and got on top of the cell tiers with out being seen Is one of the ques tions most frequently asked. In Ylew of the announcement of pris on officials that the four and three (Continued on Page Seven! FATHER NOW San Francisco, Aug. 14. (AP) Joseph Ellingeon, fnther of Dorothy Ellingson, the 17 year old girl who Is charged with the murder of her mother, resumed the witness stand at the second trial of the young. matricide to day. He testified that Dorothy's mother had been mentally un'jni anced for several months before the child's birth and also that Dorothy herself had not been normal mentally for several years past. On cross examination, Assist ant District Attorney Harmon Bkillen read from the records the statement made by Ellingeou at the Inquest. At that tlmo Doro thy's father declared she was normal, as far as be was able to Judge. Ellingson broke down once during his time on the stand when he told of the queer ac tions of his wife prior to Doro thy's birth. For several minutes he was able to answer questions only haltingly. Dorothy herself has no: suf fered any of the hysteria or faint log spells which characterized her first trial. MISSING BEND WOMEN FOUND NEAR HATCHERY Bend, Or., Aug. 14. Mrs. Mary Divls, wife cf P. E. Davis, employ ed by the Central Oregon Farmers creamery, who disappeared from her home Wednesday evening, was today found by friends, about aix ill os from nend near tho govern i Bent fish hatchery. The woman PRISON! i kail traveled about IS miles 111 a jj, circle and to numb with th cold and weak from hunger when dis covered by a searching party hand ed by Fire Chief -Tom Carl at 7:45 "clock this morning. C atiita i 4 , mm Prince L. Campbell, Presi dent of State University Dies At Eugene This Morning:. Eugene. Or., Aug. 14. Prince Luc in n Campbell, for 23 years president of tho University of Ore gon, died at his home on the cam pus this morning at 9:45 o'clock. Tho president had been failing slowly for the past week, follow ing a rally in which he had eo Improved as to be uble to ride about the city in the university invalid cur. Mrs. Campbell was nearly pros- trated with grief. For many months she has Kept to a faith that her husband would recover. Dr. Campbell's Illness started In the winter of 1923, as a case of intestinal flu. Two years ago the president arose from his sick bed Lo address the student body of the university during a student union drive, and following this some time later serious complications set in, and he failed steadily. Funeral arrangements have not been made. Stoi-v ot Career. The story of the life of Dr. Prince L. Crmpbell is almost a history of higher education in Oregon f r the past 35 years. He was president ot the state normal school at Monmouth from 1890 to 1902, the institution from which ho took his degree before entering Harvard, a.:d for the past 23 years he has been the chief executive of the University of Oregon. ' President Campbell came of a long lino of teachers and minis ters. He was born at Newmarket. Mo., October 6, 1861. the son of the Rev. Thomas Franklin Camp bell and Jane Eliza Campbell. Hi parents too!: him to Montana when he was four years old and in the fall of 18G9 he came to Ore gon, his father having accepted (Continued on Page Seven) HITS LA GRANDE La Grande, Or.. Auk. 14. La Grande and northeastern part of Union county were hit by the worst rain and hail storm In 12 veare yesterday. Some crop dam age has been reported near La Grande. Alicel. between Hot Lake and La Grande, al,d near Summerville. Imblcr, Cove and Union received showers. Ilonorto say one Inch fell at Cove and about two Inches near Allcol. The mountains above Union were drenched severely, putting nit all forest fires. Basements were flooded In La Grande in the downtown district and hailstones the size of marbles fell during the storm. The crop damage was reported to be confined to ripened unhar vested grain and garden truck. Lone Woman Making Still Hunt for Cons Without Weapons Somewhere out In the wilderness around the Wlllard school, where posses aro searching for the con victs who escaped from tho state penltentlnry Wednesday evening a lone woman Is making a still hunt for tho fugitives, claiming that If she can find them film can bring them out alive and without any a hots being fired. She U a Mta Bruce, of Portland, who appeared at the prison this morning and advise a Warden Dnl rymple that she had been sent here by Chief of Police Jenkins. She told the warden that (the want oil to go out and join the Daren, and Informed him tli' If she could find them she could ruin them all nut safely and without bloodshed if Daliymple would promise them Mis. Pierpont Morgan Dead At Her Home Now York, Aug. 14 (By Asso ciated Press) Mrs. John Pierpont Morgan died at noon today at her home at Glen Cove, L. I. Death was the result of a "car diac collapse" the physicians eaid, which cam after two months ill ness from sleeping sickness. ran 10 Plymouth, Vt., Aug. 14. (A. P.) President Coolidge arrived here late today for an over-Sunday visit with his father. En Route to Plymouth, with President Coolidge, Fitcnburg, Mass., Aug. 14. (A. P.) Travel ing part of the way by motor through a blinding rainstorm, President and Mrs. Coolidge on their way from Swampscott to Plymouth, Vt., stopped at Aycr today to exchange greetings with their son, Corporal John Coolidge who is In tho citizens military training camp near there. Two hours driving brought the nresident and Mrs. Coolidge from White Court to the edge of Ayer where they found their son in uniform awaiting them. Both left their limousine, kissed the lad and talked with him several minutes before proceeding on their way. Shortly after leaving Ayer the Dresidcntfal automobile caravan ran Into downpour which made travel on the congested Mohawk trail extremely hazardous. Un daunted by the storm, the pres ident continued on his way a 30 mile an hour clip, passing through hero shortly before noon. As tho storm broke,' It became so dark that headlights were necessary. A number of cars fol lowing the president and carrying newspapermen were forced out of Ine by the downpour and ire fluently, trucks swerved around corners toward the presidential procession over the slippery road way at a rate which have brought on a mishap. It was President Coolidge 's In tention to reach Plymouth before dark and on leaving Fltchhurg he faced the prospect of more pleas ant travel as tho sun was shining. Immunity. "If they are captured they will hang," the warden told her, add ing that only tho governor had the authority to grant immunity. lit refused to allow her to Join the poiwcw, and she replied thnt Ithe would go anyway. The warden al so refused to hold for safe-keeping a huge diamond ring the woman wore. Miss Bruce was next heard from In Sllverton, where she was again refused permission to Join the posses. She then started out for the woods of her own accord. Warden Dolrymple denies a re port circulated earlier In the day that Miss Bruce had told him she would Induce the fugitive to aur render by prayer. SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1925 HUNT IS SHIFTED TO DR I FT CREEK Search Concentrated In New District; Reward of $3000 Offered For Capture of Trio. While efforts In the man-hunt for Tom Murray, Ellsworth Kelly and James WilloB, escaped des peradoes from tne state peniten tiary, was centering along Drift creek, far east of Salem today, in terest in the city was centering the coroner's inquest, to be called some time today, and develop ments towards an official investi gation of the prison delivery that will be oraerea by uovernor Pierce. The man-hunterc have incentive today to redouble their efforts, for yesterday Governor Pierce posted a reward of $3000, or $1000 a head, to be paid the person or per sons instrumental In the return of the fugitives dead or aire. It will be necessary to ask th&ucxt legis lature to appropriate the money. New Anerle Tried. The hunt Is expected to center along Drift creek as a result of advice brought to Salem from the hunt area by Portland police offi cials. It was their judgment that the convicts, if they know any thing about tho woods, will pro ceed eastward Into the mountains by following the Drift creek woods because f the cover afforded, and f Continue.) on Page Six) ROBBER TAKES PIECE OF CAKE Although some of the posae leaders who are hunting for Kel ly, Wllios and Murray, the es caped convicts, scout the Idea that there is anything of Im portance in the burglary of the B. E. McElhaney home between Pratum and Sublimity last night. there are others who believe this is significant. It Is certain thot the house was entered between 1 1 o'clock and midnight, for the movements of the man or men were distinctly heard by Mr. and Mrs. McElha ney, who remained quietly in bed. Two pieces of cake that were on a plate were miming. Some of the trailers scout the idea that any one at all was In the house be cause a cooked pork roast was left, and they eay this was the very thing the fugitives would take. Mrs. McElhaney, a young woman, is not of the excitable sort, and is positive the houne wos entered. Mr. McElhaney', who has been at work with a thread ing crow, was thrown into n nervous state by the incident and Is today In bed. The Incident has given rise to the theory that the three fugitives have separated and that one of them was In the McElhaney house, for it Is not a district Infested b- tramps or other wanderers. One shot at least has been fir ed during the hunt. This was by national guardsmen near the John Small home two miles west of the McElhaney homo whe.ro a man suspected to be one: of the convicts was seen yesterday. The only other thrill was early today when several men Includ ing J. V. Starrett, state parole of ficer, saw two bareheaded men in shirt sleeves running madly across a field. They stepped n the gas and hact?ned toward them, when topping a rtao tlwy discovered a threshing maeliln?. The men were two harvest hands running to breakfpst. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kind and their daughter In the Union hill neighborhood claim they saw a man In short sleeves running across a field. They think his movements were auspicious. A trip from Salem to Pratum and eastward to Sublimity, then down to Aumavllle revealed only iOonlinutd ea face leven) Victims of Escaped Convicts Left u M. Holman; right by e.-tenped convicts. SOU 10 CANCEL OF Portland, Aug. 14 Suit to con- cel as Invalid nil the extra $500, 000 or -more 'bonds reported to have been printed for the city of Orenco at the same time as the Issue of $50,000 bonds authorized for water works extension, waa filed today by John S. Shute. bond dealer In Forest Grove. The samo suit asks for a per manent restraining order against the defendant officials of Orenco. to prevent them from placing on the market any of the bonds print ed In excess of the $50,000, which were authorized Issued nnd finally placed in the hands of Shute to be marketed. He asks for an order ot the court declaring this Issue of -bombs valid. Shute has publicly offered to re purchase any of the Orenco bonds which he has sold. He declared that these bonds had been certified to him aa valid by responsible firm of Boston bond attorneys anu by the officials of Orenco. Investigators who have ben look Ing into the Orenco bond situa tion" have -reported that they have found that about $.100,000 bonds were printed for the city. An earlier report given out by one of District Attornev Myers' Investigators that the bonds printed totalled $090,000 has not been verified. mellonId smoot to visit president WnoV.lnulon. Auk. 14. Secre tary Mellon w!!l lve Washington tonight nnd Senator Smnot tomor row and they vlll meet In New York. Sunday, to proceed to I'ly mouth, where the president will lie be vlr.ltlnrs his father. Tho American eommlpsloners de sire to lay the v.-holc situation be fore Mr. Coolidge prior to re aiimntlon of the discussions with the Belgian commissioners next riirrTi V. Meantime the visiting delega tion is consulting with Its govern ment by cabin and It Is the cxpec latinn that both sides will he hot tor equipped to go ahead with the negotiations next wees. Oregon Jones' Body to Be Shipped for Burial Grants Pass Cemetery "Oregon" Jones, who made a name for himself among the most notorious "bad men" in tho an nals of Pacific Coast criminology, will niuko his laHt departure from Salem, the sccno of desperate attempts to regain freedom, to night. His remains will be ship ped to Grants l'ass, his homo town, and burled In the family plot at Uranlte Hill cemetery. Attendants at the undertaking parlors where the body was taken estimate that a total of more than 12,000 persons visited the parlors to see the body. There had been mire than 7.000 by on o'clock yesterday afternoon. A lari por V1V tJolin W. Swei'm-y, jr until s killed SINNOTT TALKS OF WATCHFUL Bend, Or., Aug. 14. Watchful, patient waiting, not entirely de void of hope for a brighter future, about suniri up the trend of Con gressman Simiut'.'s speech deliv ered at a banquet at Madras held In entertain ins the congressional delegation in central Oregon Hi Ik week for un inspection of the North Unit Irrigation project. In referring to published ac counts of the Irrigation situation In Oregon nnd nil that has been nnUI in regard to the present status, Congressman Siniiott liken ed himrelf to the little colored boy who wiia lined up with others and asked what they would like to eat. The first boy said watermelon, the second post urn, etc. When the last boy wjih asked what he would like he replied: "Bo!8, what am there left for me, the rent jest done said It nil," In referring to possible nction as a result of the recent tour of Secretary of the Interior Work, the congressman said: "We cn do nothing but wait. I don't be lieve they know themselves what they are going to do. Secretary Work believed the stale should finance the projects and the Btate lias no appropriations for such. That to me, seems to briefly sum up the situation. As to the out come, we can but wait, watch and hope." Senator McNf.ry and Congress man Crumpackcr nlo addressed the same meeting briefly compli menting the unit settlers on their work. $50,000 IN JEWELRY SEIZED FROM DOPESTER Chicr.go, Aug. 14. (A. P. ) Fifty thonsnnd dollars worth of jowelery was seized here today by federal officers who opened a safe ty deposit box rented by Mrs. Kit ly Gilhooley, arrested recently o; head of a narcotic syndicate. Dis coveries resulting from Mrs. (ill liooley's arrest paved the way for the arrest of Colonel Will Gray Beach, former head of the govern ment'fi local narcotic squad. tion of the crowd consisted of women and children. IleglnnlnK this mornlnn, no one was admitted to view the ro mains. An Inquest will be held Into tho death of Jones, aa well as Sweeney and Holman, the two guards who wcro killed In Wednesday oven Inn's riot, bocinnlnir- this aftor noon, It waa slated today by County Coroner Illgdnn, Little more Is expected to be done today beyond establishing Idenllly of tho bodies, ho announced. The In quest Is expecUd to conttnuo over Into next week. PRICE THREE CENTS gUST0 cSI 1 1 va w 11 w 1 i 1 1 1 vi v j n . LJ - S v I V 7 lJ I r- in -rrv ars 1 - . WOMEN AID "55C0NVICI IN WALDOHIIiSprr mm Dangerous To Travel As Posse Takes Shot At Everyone Blood hound Used. With State Posse, In Waldo Hills, Ore., Aug. 14. (A. P.) Several traces of the fugitive con victs, Murray, Kelly and Wllios, were found by various posses last night and early today. As a result It is dangerous for anyone to move about in this dis trict. Officers have warned tourists especially to keep out of the dis trict bounded by Sublimity, Shaw and WtllarU church. There have been seveVal nar row escapes from shooting. Indications are that the three slayers separated at least for a part of last night. One man entered the home of Byron McKlhaney, three miles from Wlllard, another suspect wos seen by possemon to Jump a gate at 3 o'clock this morning nl the John Small place, which lies along a draw leading direct to the place where the fugitives abandoned the Salem taxi. The small place Is about one mile north of the Mc Elhaney place. Bloodhound Used The fellow dived into the brush, followed by a volley of shots. A bloodhound from Portland was taken to the McKlhaney home but was unable to pick up the scent after so many persons had trampled about the place. Deputy Warden Lflllo went to the prisun and obtained a pair nf sox worn by Murray, in tho hope: of aiding the bloodhound the next time a trial Is found. A posse of 28 men this morning closed in on Union Hill school house after an all night watch, following a report that a man had been seen to enter the place. No trace was found. Captain Hendricks of the Salem guards with 1G men yesterday swept both ways n three mile area near Wlllard church, but filed to pick up the trail. Bovs Shot At Two hoys hunting near Stayton late yesterdny hardy eRcaped be ing riddled with bullets when they ran as a posse approached. When one of the lads finally came out into the open, six rifles were be ing trained upon him and his companion. tram four to six men last night were stationed In every country store In tho manhunt district. In the hope that the convicts would wnlk Into tho trap. All merchants hnvc been warned to hide nil their stocks of guns and ammunition until the men are captured. POCATELLO GIRL SAVES MAN FROM DROWNING Seaside, Or., Aug. 14. Helen oux, 17-year-old Pocntello. Idaho, girl who wears n senior Hed Cross life saving emblem on her bathing uit, naved Leonard Nordstrom 22, Seattle, from drowning beyond mo oreokers it't evening. Nordstrom wan caught in a cross current In deep water and Miss ixux saw his predicament. She swam out nnd held Nordstrom up until life guards hart been called They brought the Seattle man in and Mljfl l-oux swam In by hcr- scir. RAILROAD TO OPERATE PASSENGERAUTO BUSSES Olympla, Wash Aug. 14 The ntnte department of pulille. works today Issued nn order directing that a certificate for furnishing motor vehicle Interstate passenger scr vice only between Pendleton, Ore. and Walla Walla, Wash,, bo Issu ed the. OrpRon WanhlnRton Kali road and Navigation company of Portland, Tho company already furntithea passenger eervlce between these two points by steam railway according to Its application for a motor vehicle service fmnuihe. CLOUDY TONIGHT And Saturday. Mod erate temperature, light westerly winds. Local:- Max,, 76; min., 53; rain, traces river, -1.9; atmos., cloudy; wind south. ul "mm Sick Man Hidden In Car Believed To Have Been Murray Women Suspiciously. Act Tom Murray, wounded leader and uald to be tho most dangerous of the three convicts who escaped from the state prison Wednesday evening, may have escaped through the lines of the poescmen Burround ing the district in which the men we ro last seen. Authorities aro Investigating a report turned in by two nun la a service station here that ".n au tomobile occupied by two women dressed In khaki, and a sick or wounded man lying under a blan ket In the tonneau stopped at the station for gasoline nt 10:06 o'clock this morning. Drove llupinoblle M. W. Sawyer, In charge of the station at the time said the cur, a llupinoblle touring car of 1021 or 19L'2 model, drove into tho station from the north, Tho woman drlv- (t'mtinued on Page Seven.! GET 10 YEARS A ri1 Ann- 1 1 . ( A. P.) Superior Judgo Victor Stephens nnd Claude Ilolcombo to terms of from ten years to life In San Qucutin prison following tneir conviction nero ycsieruiiy plotting to kidnap Mary Pickford. it Him mill. 't: ""u tion for probation and a new trial. The defensj gave notice of appeal. A third defendant, Adriniv.wooa, ....... nnnillllnil lint (1 t il fWll nMPflnd a warning from several Jurors who, as they left the court room yesterday after returning the ver dict told him he "did not renlieo how ckHp he came, ana 10 do "more careful about his associates in the future." Neither Mlns Pickford nor her hUKband, Douglas Fairbanks, was prcHcnt wnen ine ui'icihuuhh uuuiu Ihelr fate. iJoih nan lesuneu nur lug tho trinl that they knew noth itiir iif th. kidnnnintr nlot savo what detectives told them. The appearance of Miss Pick ford on the witness otand was the high point or the moi nnu cnoKcu f.,,,r. fl.Mtra nf till) llJlll ftf TCCOrd with a struKKling mob. Only rela tives of the accused men were on hand last night to learn what might be their late. CITY HALL SOLD TO FARMER FROM MONTANA Sioux City, Iown, Aur. 14. A flyer In hlr.h flnnnco proved dis astrous for Alio Renins, 32, I farmer llvinB nenr Butte, Mont., who ran into the pollen station without coat and hat Thursday night and deivanded the appre hension of a "friend" from whom he declared Hint ho had purchased the city hall for $15,000. payln $100 down nnd rlRiiing a conir.ct for the balance. MISS CZAR MOKO LOWERS PACING RECORD Cleveland. Ollto, Aupf. 14. (A, P ) Miss Czar Moko, driven bj Neal Edman ot Memphis, lowered tho world's paclnR record for I mile nn l nn eighth at North Man rlall today. She steppe! the dia mine In 2:18 2-5, clipping one. fifth recond off the mark ot Will I ho r.'c.it at the era nil clrcul .iiic'.lng litro July 4.