TARRETT 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
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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
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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
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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
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'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.