Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, August 17, 1925, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTARRETT RESIGNS AS PAROLE OFFICER CIRCULATION Dally average net oala circulation for month ending July 31, 1925 FAIR WEATHER Foggy near coast tonight and Tuesday; mild temperature, light westerly winds. Local: Max., 78; mln., 48; rain, none, river, -1.9; atmos., clear; wind, north west. mal 6722 Average dally distribution 7090. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 195 SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1925 DPTrn? TIIDI'E, PTMTQ TRAINS AND NEWS ritlLlli IntvEj-Ej liJlllNlO STANDS FIVE CENTS WW i. Prison Official Under Fire As Responsible For Es cape of Convicts Goes Out Today. J. V. Starrett, parole, of ficer at the state penitentiary, has resigned, it was an nounced . at the office of Governor Pierce today. The governor had no comment to make regarding the resigna tion. Reports that the resigna tion had been asked for by the governor since the prison break of last week could not be confirmed. J. V. Starrett, parole officer at the prison, former ku klux klan klcnglo In Roseburg and lobby lieutenant of the governor during the past yesslon of the legislature, and not Warden Dairy tuple Is the one most likely to lose his official head as a result of the prison de livery and killings of last Wednes day evening, according to those close to the administration. The escape. In the opinion of these sources, brings to a head the open break ana friction that ha existed between Starrett and the warden since almost the first day the former went out to tho insti tution as the successor of tho late George I. Smith. Dalrymple has bo far refused to com men t on these reports except to admit that he and Starrett have had their dif ferences, but others have gone so far tw to accuHO the parole officer of being directly responsible for the latest escapes. Starrett, they declare, has been much too chummy with certain of the cons, playing favorites, and has even alleged to have gone so far as to promise to several of them pa roles that he could not deliver, thereby forstering discontent among tho prisoners. For weeks comment has been general over tho alleged claims of (Continued on Page Four) OF INFORMERS Muncle, Ind., Aug. 17. (A. P.) George (Dutch) Anderson, mall robber, jailbreaker and pal of Ger ald Chapman, today still was be ing hunted for his latest crime the slaying of Ben Hance and his wife, who informed on Chapman. Last night police received a "hot tip" that Anderson was bid ing In a farm house between Mun cle and Hartford City, Ind. Armed with riot g ui)6, several squads of police closed In on the place but after a complete search of the place, Anderson, as usual, was missing. Hance, police say, has paid with his life bscause he vio lated the unwritten code of the underworld In "squealing" on Chapman. A coroner Inoiiest scheduled (or today, officers say, will be indefi nitely postponed to give police and federal operatives, who are assist ing In the search more time to hunt the slayer and to gather evi dence. Anderson and Charles (One Arm) Wolfe, are named as the slayers by Hance in a dying state ment. Hance told Marshal Boozer of Mtddletown, near where they were slain, that "Dutch" Anderson and Charles Wolfe "got me." Wolfe, former Hartford City, Ind., peace officer, who several yearn ago was acquitted of having lain his first wire, was held In the county jail under bond of 1100.000. REQUESTFOFj NOT VERIFIED The Three Musketeers As Might Have Been If T,'..QutrrnoT 0wM Witt would repeat bin Jris JIiH rplsode whrn he. gnitmor, tailed Uiftt fufftliT Into th wiMi of tba Crt Tii.ie ami brought litm ',n tir.de tianilrd. ht will hare to i It tlcrii-. Ill conltnl Imitation txteiidtd Saturday through Uio non,n'rri to Coventor l'irrcf tnA W'wAcn Dnlrrmple to ratet him on tit t'.t; of ll.e I'm turn lino 1 lion sc at (1 . m. MoRaliT. runs 'nfirrjtltine, lo litint th-j Mmy-EIliKortli-Willca ccinHntin to tba fool It Ob of tlie t.'atcidn Lia tirm decliiKil by ihusto o file tali. AnvOitt picture pesMblliii tpoilrd. By RALPH Half an inch, half an inch, Half an inch, onward 1 Into the convicts' lair Crawled the three gunners. "Forward the Oil Can !" "Shoot at where they ran !" Into the convicts' lair Crawled the three gunners. "Forward the White Faced Calf!" Was there a man afraid? Not e'en tho' Oswald knew Someone had blundered. Their's not to alibi Their's not to tell him why, Their's but to do or diet KILLED TRYING 10 Roseburg, "Aug. 17 Attempting flight to evade arrest on a charge of obtaining money and goods un der false pretenses, W. D. Goforth aged about 25, of Reedflport, was shot and fatally wounded early Sunday morning by Deputy Sheriff Ed Grubbe, of Klkton, on the coun ty highway about a half mile west of that town. Goforth waa put In to an automobile Immediately after the shooting and rushed to Rose burg for medical aid, but he was dead when the car arrived here. The body was removed to the Rose burg undertaking company' es tablishment, where Coroner M. K. Rltter and District Attorney Guy Cordon are today conducting an In quest. J. H. Goforth, a younger brother of the dead man, waa charged Joint ly In the complaint that led to the tragedy, and was with him when It occurred. He took to hla heels at the same time but when his brother fell wounded he stopped and nurrendered. He accompanied the wounded man In the ntitomo- lle that brought him to Hoseburg, but upon arriving in tnla city ha WATSON Into the convicts' lair Crawled the three gunners. Half an inch, half an inch, Half an inch, onward I Into the jaws of death, Crawled the three gunners, Cons to the right of them, Cons to the left of them, Hollered like thunder. "Forward the musketeers I" . Did they show their fears? Not by a keg of beers I Not the three gunners. . Their's just to crawl and sweat Their's just the cons to get. They had the guts, you bet I Noble three gunners! Courtesy Portland Journal Immediately disappeared when in formed that his brother had ex pired. The two brothers and a third man known as Brown, have been working for - several months past gathering chlttim bark on Arthur Walker's ranch on Schofleld creek, near Rcedsport. They had some sort of partnership agreement with Walker, It is said, to pay him a percentage from tho market pro fits of the bark. They failed to keep this agreement, It Is reported, and. In addition contracted bills In and about Reedsport that ran their obligations up to en aggre gate total of nearly $2000. Several days ago, so the report runs, the partner known as Brown myster iously disappeared. Creditors Of the trio became suspicious of some thing Irregular and Inquired of hi, whereabout?. They were inform ed by the Goforth brothers that he was still at the Walker ranch but a search of the neighborhood failed to reveal his presence there. Scenting a plot to swlnflle them out of tho money due them, cred itors of the trio then preferred charges aglanst the Goforth broth ers. Chines Potmen Strike. Shanghai, China, Ang. 17. (A. P.) Twenty-two hundred out of 4000 postal employes walked out today demanding Increases In pay and ehortnr working hours. Th? strikers attacked tnc Chinese con stable guarding the postoffice and administered a beating. The con 3tf.ble fired vpon the men wound ing one. Deliveries have been suspended. ISSUE SETTLED BY Plymouth, Vt., Aug. 17 (AP) President Coolldge expects an agreement to bo reached probably tomorrow, on torms for refunding Belgium's debt to the United Stales An official statement issued af ter the president had discussed tho situation for two hours today with Secretary Mellon and Senator Smoot of Utah, said "final agree ment" was In sight and that no deadlock had developed. The following statement In the president's handwriting was given to newspapermen at noon: "Secretory Mellon and Senator Smoot have, reported to the presl dent the details of the Washington conference. The progress Lit satis factory. No deadlock has develop ed. The secretary and avnator came to Inform the president of the proposals before making the Jtlnal agreement. Tho conference will convene at I p. m. Tuesday, when It la expected a final agree ment may be reached, after which a. full and complete statement will be given to the press by the Arotrl oui commission,' (AiU uuuiyJuvJU COW MILKED OR! LATEST Farmer Two Miles North of Silverton Reports Cow Milked; May Have Doubled Back. The theory that the three fugi tive convicts who escaped from tho penitentiary Wednesday even ing' may have doubled back on their trail and followed down the Pud ding river, Instead of penetrating eastward further into the wilds, was strengthened when It waa re ported that a cow belonging to John Dichl, a farmer living two miles north of Silverton on the Ab'qua river, was found milked dry Saturday morning. Deputy Warden Lilley advanced the theory last night after thor ough search of the Drift creek canyon had failed to reveal any truce of the convicts ever having been In there. According to Lil ley It would have been an eafly matter for tho fugitives to have followed dowiifltream through the brutdi along Pudding river the night they took to the brush, as no posse was sent Into the coun try until daylight. Lilley went to the Dichl farm (Continued on Page Klve) E National guardsmen will be kent nil ihi I. V an Innir im them nt any hope that tho three eseapea are Hiding out, it was announced yesterday by Governor Pierce. If any difficulty Is found in keeping citizen volunteers in the posses after their enthusiasm has lagged, militia will be called to take their places, he declared. The announce ment was made louowfng a seven hour tour which ho made and which began shortly after 10 o'clock in the morning taking him through the entire district under guard. "I believe that the men are still hiding somewhere in the region that Is being watched, but I do not believe we will get them un til they come out of hiding for food," the governor declared aP.cr his return to the prison. "That I hcllevo will he Aumctimo within the next two days for the men will get sick eallng only berries and raw fruits and vegetables and will have to have more substantial food." The situation this morning was nubfitantially the same as It has remainder since Wednesday night. It ; port 6 and rumors came In at periodical Intervals during Satur day night end Sunday hut Investi gation failed to substantiate the value of any one of them. Seven hours of careful nearrh through Mystery ravine where tlm eonvicta were first thought to lie hiding entalilifihed fairly defi- fContinued on Page Two.) PIERCE TO DELAY Governor Pierce will not begin his Investigation Into the cireum fltuncea Involved in tho brcuk at the Oregon state prison here last Wednesday when two guards and one convict were, killed until the Inquiry by District Attorney John II. (?an;on and Coroner Wnyd lug don la complete, the governor an nounced this morning. The coro ner's Inquest which will go Into full details of the sensational break Ib expected to consume at Icat three or four da ye". "I am undecided whether I will mnfce the entity Investigation my self or appoint n committee to work with'Tne," the governor de CLUE 10 COM clared tbis morning. Probe of Prison Battle and Escape To Place Blame Attention of the coroner's jury hearing the evidence relative to the prison delivery at the peni tentiary last Wednesday evening, which resulted In the killing of two guards and one convict and set three other armed prisoners free, while being focused upon the causes contributing and making possible the break when its delib erations are resumed this after noon, according to District Attor ney John Carson. The witnesses to be summoned to summoned to testify this after noon aro Robert Crawford, super intendent of the (lax plant at the prison; Pete White, a guard who says that he held Kelly and WIUos at bay for n few moments when they dropped to the ground al BY 1101 Ui E Tokyo, Auk. 17 (AP) A vio lent rtilnntorm flooded vnriou parts oC Japnn todny. Several per sons were drowned. PnninKC Is estimated lit between ,15, 000. 000 anil 120.000,000. The coasts of Japan nre partleu larly liable to daninee by typboonn at this season when storms of this type, great circular winds, have their lncepllon in the equatorial Pacific, sweep up the shoro of Asia, leaving millions of dollars In their wake. The most destructive of recent far eastern typhoons was thnt of AububI 1919 which raviiK ed Hong Konp; nntl Rhamihal. Tokyo was visited by destructive typhoons In September 1917 nnd October 1920. The low lylns wards of the city, nlong Tokyo bay and the Sumlda river, mostly reclaim ed ground, suffer most, ns the wat ers of tho liny back up In tho num erous canals of theso districts, flooding thousands of homes. Osaka nlso because of the large number of Its canals, usually suf fors heavily from typhoons, which combine heavy winds with severe rains. Ocean waters driving Into tho canals, cause the Inundation of large areas. Kobe, more sheltered suffers less. Kyoto, being Inland, Is not subject to flooding from the ocean but Us lower districts arc nsllv Inundated from the numer ous mountain rivers which flow through It. Earthquakes are the most des tructlve of Japan's natural scour- ages and selsmlcvlsltallons have been frequent since the great noio caust of September 1. 1923, hun dreds having been killed In the Tyo-Oka quake In Japan last May But typhoons and their accom panying floods aro a good second in the loss of life and properly they cause. August. September nnd Oc tober ore typhoon months. Hood River, Aug. 17 Mrs. Nell Pence, daughter of a Hood lllver minister and widow of tho son of a Portland ministerial family, was arrested at her country plane at Odell yesterday afternoon with five men, and nil face charges of Ille gal possession of liquor. The men arrested were: W. tjasrnan. manager of a Kalcm packing com pany; F. W. Wogon, Portland au to dealer; O. C. Ulackwell, sales man of Tho Dalles; II. M. Fnldel, Portland auto man and J. W. Castle, The Dalles, salesman. The arrests were made by coun ty and city officials accompnnled by District Attorney linker. All of the men except Oasinnn were ar raigned todny and cntorcd pleas of not guilty to liquor charges. Gas man will plead later. Mrs. penco wan to be a"raigned this after noon. Lvnchinp in Missouri. Liberty. Mo., Aug. 17. (A. P.) A special grand Jury was Impan elled here today to invrwltgata the lynchlng at Kxcelslur Springs re cently of waltor Mitchell, negro, who attakd a young whiu girt though he was unarmed; John Davison, the guurd who shot "Ore gon" Jones; James R. Carey, chapel guard at tho time of the escape, and J. S. Murray, book keeper at the prison. All of the charges of lack of disciplino at the prison, inef ficiency, cowardice and failure to cope with the situation will be gone Into thoroughly, and oppor tunity given everyone Interested to offer their testimony, Carson stated. Among the witnesses summoned will be Charles Charlton, recently deposed aa principal keeper at the prison by the warden, who alleges that lack of discipline and. control Continued on Page Klve) RECALL OF I F George While, adjutant general of the OiTKon national guard, de clared here toduy that he did not recall making the statement which he is quoted to have mad at Med ford. A few national guardsmen, said White, "aro being used mere ly the same as any other cltiz'ns They nre wearing their uniforms merely Tor the sake of Identifica tion, to prevent the possibility of their being confused with the e caped criminals. And from all I hear they arc doing very good work." Medford. Aug. 17 That nation al guard troops may be called off from the convlet hunt waj Intlmnt ed by llrlgn tiled General White Saturday when he left for Salem ifter spending two weeks vacation at Diamond lake reenporntlng from a recent Illness, nnd catching the limit In trout. "The national guard," said Gen eral White, "are not state militia and according to the law afl I un derstand it. can not be used to hunt down criminals. I will In vestigate the matter thoroughly upon my return to Salem." LOSE IN PARIS Paris, Aug. 17. (A. P.) A wild leopard, hidden In tho UoU Ou llolne, kept relays of police and animal keepers yesterday fev erishly beating the 2000-acre park in the hope of capturing the beast before he got hungry enough to attack humans. Thousands of por no no picnicked today In the park. The animal had not been captured lout night. The leopard, recently arrived from AbysHlnia, (Unplaced tho bar over the feeding slot of Its cage In the zoological garden last night and jumped through a window. People were warned to keep mi' of dark spots as the habit of the leopard r. to lay away In the day time ami hunt fo,d at night. TWO KILLED IN AUTO . ACCIDENTS, PUGET SOUND Seattle, Wash., Aug. 17 Auto mobllo accidents In tho I'uget Round country killed two persons yesterday. Charles Kdwartl Kuwler 21 of Heattlo met death near Ta coma when a roadster In which he was riding with four others skid ded on a curve and left the road Miss Ignore Dunrgan, Seattle who was sitting on his lap, was slight ly hurt. Mary Healy, 10, Kvrrtt, died when her father turned their car Into the ditch to avoid a collision. Mrs. Moi-pAn Buried. Lorustvnlley, N. Y., Aug. 17 (A. P.) Tho secluded cemetery here todoy will recolvo the body of Mrs. J. P, Morgan, wife of the fi nancier, who died Friday of mid den henrt attack, the outcome nf a protracted Ulncsa ot sleeping sick nest, i 4 MEN IAKE MONITOR GAR EARLYTODAY Think Murray Forced Three Boys To; Accom pany Him In Stolen Auto. A Mitchell touring car, license number 173-732, was stolen from the streets of Monitor, 7 miles north of Silverton. between 1 and 2:30 o'clock this morning, accord ing to word received shortly after noon at the prison. The report said that the car had been taken by four men, but no evidence was given to explain how this information was secured. The car was a 1918 model and was owned by Lawrence Jneobsen, a farmer living two miles from Monitor. This clue bears out the theory of prison authorities that the fugi tives would lie In hiding until they had n gooa opportunity and then steal an automobile and make a dash to get out of tho country be ing scoured by the powses. It also lends weight to the re port of John Dlehl, the farmer who reported lie found one of hla cows milked dry Saturday morn ing, as the Dlehl farm Is in the logical path the convicts would tako to get from tho point where they were last seen to Monitor. The report that tho car waa stolen by four men gives rise to tho belief thot Tom Kelly, cousin or Ellsworth Kelly, who left his employment ns n taxi drivor In Portland after drawing $25 of his wages and telling his cmployera that he was going to Turner, where IiIb mother was very sick, may havo succeeded In Joining forces with the fugitives. Kelly later wroto to his em ployers asking that the remainder of tho pay dne him, together with, his keys, bo forwarded to The Dalles. Ho left Portland Thursday (Continued on Paso Klve) E 'Portland, Or., Aug. 17. LeRoy A. llnnucn, formerly a special po llco ofCicei here, today was chained with murder, following the (alal nhajtlug lust nlnht of James O May. llauseu told police he shot O'Day because O'Day was paying too much attention to Mra. Hansen. The shooting occurred in O'Day apartment. The story told, to officers today related that dur ing the evcnlug Hansen told hla wile h0 was going downlown, but Instead loitered about tho outside of t ic house, which was occupied by both O'Day and the Hansen family. Shortly afterward, Mm. Hansen said, O'Day called to bor row her electric iron and returned to his room, returning a few min utes Idler to hnrc ncr show him how It worked. She said she re turned with him to his room and told him bow to operato the iron, then went lo her own room. -Mrs. Hansen said O liny Invited her to accompany him to a show but that sho refused. James El liott, a friend ot O'Day, Mrs. Han sen related, shortly afterward re turned the I on. Hansen then entered and fired at lCllloll, who fled to O'Day'e room uninjured. Elliott dodurd out a doorway. A single shot wns then heard 14 O'Dny's room, Mrs, Hansen said and she heard O'Day groaning. He died afur being rushed to the emergency hospital, O'Day wlfd Is visiting In Mend. Canadian Train Wreck Calgary, Alhcrta, Aug. in (AP) The Kootcnay-Lothbrldgo local passenger train on the Canndlan 1'aclflo railway was wrecked today at Cowley, Alherta. Klrst report stated three wore dead and several Injured.