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Newspaper Page TextC aaitaLM Jonraal CIRCULATION Dally averag nt paid circulation tor month ending July 31, 1925 6722 Average dally distribution 7090. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. FAIR AND WARMER Tonight and Wednesday. Light variable winds. ' Local: Max., 78; mln., 45: rain, none; river, -1.6; atmos., clear; wind, south west. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. 202 SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST, 25, 1925 nnrrm mrmpw ppvtO on tkains anu IT IVlVjill JL IX 111iLj STANDS FIVE) GENTS mm mo m m : ; ; uifi-'V.ft' VJW M MURDER OF NURSE VEILED IN MYSTERY Additional Portions of Human Head Found In Marshes Near Rich mond Are Identified. Oakland, CaL, Aug. 25 (AP) Positive Identification of portions of the dismembered body found In the EI Corrito swamp as those of Mrs. J. J. (Bessie) Lorcn, Oak land nurse, was made today by Mre. Loren's mother and brothers In Oakland. This announcement was mode about noon today by Under Sheriff W. M. Veale of Contra Costa coun ty after he had shown the family another section of human scalp covered with blonde hair found about 11 a. m. today In the swamp close to where a woman's severed car and tongue, another section of scalp and a lower Jaw bone previ ously were found. The attractive young Oakland nurse was last seen on the night of August 19, when she left home telling her mother and brothers she had an appointment with Slier Iff Frank Barnett of Oakland. Scalp In Sunmp Mrs. R. H. Ferguson, mother of Mrs. Loren and William and Rob ert Ferguson, brothers of the miss ing nurse, today, turned over to Contra Costa county officials strands o hair retrieved from a bathrpbe belonging to Mrs. Loren, who live j with her mother and brothers in Oakland. These will be examined by Dr. E. O. Heinrich, Berkeley criminologist who will endeavor to establish whether they tally with strand of blonde h.-iir on the portions of scalp found In the Mvanip. I'umphig Suamp Work of pumping out the swamp along the EI Cerrito river will get under way today under direction or Contra Ccsta county authorities. A powerful g.ifioline pump will be In stalled and the marsh drained suf ficiently to facilitate the work of searchers for other portions of the dismembered body. The search will continue wMle the pumping In in progress. The water ranges In depth from a few Inches to sev eral feet. The marsh Is several miles in extent. Under Sheriff W. M. Vcalo said bulkheads or dykes; might bo erected to expedite the draining. Mrs. Loren's mother said when her daughter left home she was wearing a diamond ring valued nt $1000. Two fingers of the right hand of Mrs. Lorcn had been am putated at tin Joints, Mrs. Fergu son said. Searchers todny were concentrating on finding the mut ilated hand. EUROPE TO PAY SAYS MADDEN Portland. Aug. 25 (AP) Mar tin if. Madden of Chicago, chair man of the appropriations commit tee of the house of representatives, today predicted that the nations of Europe which are Indebted to the United States will pay their debts In full. " . Mr. Madden Is in Portland to ad 1,: dress the Western States Taxpny p rs" conference In session here. IJ "Every country In Europe that 3 ewe us will pay In full they've rot to pay us," he declared, "But t as regarding Interest on that debt, there's another question. In fund ing these debt, we are allowing the debtors to pay us 8 per cent lor the first ten years and per cent after that, white our govern ment Is paying from 4 to 4 per cent on this money. "So youi ace, we will lose some $100,000,000 a year Interest. But Europe Is poor and we will have to contribute that much towards the International return to normalcy." FRENCH DEBT TO ENGLAND NOT SETTLED AS YET London. Aug. 25. (A. P.) There will be no igreement t this time of France's debt to Great Britain, Joseph Calllniix, French finance minister, ' an nounced this evening. M. Calllaux .aid ho would return to Paris Thursday with .new propositions lor hU colleagues "to look at." uuunuu u zs E SLAtR OF 2 Kansas Sheriff and Ne braska Officer Killed In Efforts To Arrest Holdup Suspects. Colby, Kan., Aug. 25 (API Authorities today had found no trace of two young men, who yes terday shot and killed Sheriff Sam Pratt, of Thomas county and then crossed the Nebraska line and kill ed Edward Clark, North Platte traffic officer, after running gun fights with posses of the two states The slayers are believed to have committed a series of holdups In western Kansas and were making their escape in a motor car when they encountered the officers. Sheriff Shot Down Sheriff Pratt, learning that the men were headed in this direction took a posse of six men and block aded the main highway north of Colby with a large motor truck. The pair traveling at a high rate of speed, stopped at the ob struction. As the sheriff started for the car, a volley of shots rang out: Pratt fell, fatally wounded. The men then made a run through the blockade amid a rain of shots. Their enr was disabled and they fled on foot to the home of Doyle Crawford, where they commandeered his small touring car. They escaped over the line into Nebraska. l'capc Second Time Across tho line, they encounter ed a squad of Nebraska officers, who had been notified to watch for the fleeing men. In a gun fight that followed, Edward Clark, traf fic officer of North Platte, was slain. Posses from the two states took up the trail of the slayers today. PRiSONPROBERS Governor Pierce today received a report from the special commit tee investigating conditions at tut state penitentiary and contribut ing cases of the recent jail break. The governor declined to comment on the contents of the report which was not made public. Jefferson Myers, chairman of the committee, delivered the re port to the governor. Adjutant General White, the other working member of the commission, left for the cast this morning, indicat ing that the inquiry is completed, at least for the present. Myers stated that the commit tee had learned some facts which they felt should be given to the governor at once, lie declared Ur.' committee wanted to sec the peni tentiary turned into a "successful institution." "There arc only about 15 suc cessful prisons in the country," he said. ''Why shouldn't we go ahead and make a sixteenth? We don't need a new prison. The prison le all right as a prison, but it ought to turn out something other than derelicts. And it ought to be made self-supporting." POSS IIS OFFICERS QFAGTS LEARNED Dairy Depot Yeggs Caught In Act Give Battle to Patrolman An attempt to burglarize the Fairmount Dlry depot at 910 South Commercial street was frus trated shortly after 1 o'clock thi morning when Night Patrolman Wlntersteen discovered three men in the act, gave pursuit when they fled and exchanged revolver fire with them bsfore tney disappeared About ten shMs were fired In ail. but as far aa Is known none of them took effect. A sledge, steel Jimmy and crow bar which the burglars Intended to use to opn the large safe in the dairy depot were found on the sidewalk where they were dropped Willos Signed Confession of Shooting Guard Deputy Sheriff Sam Burkhart, who visited the home of Charles Newman, New Era farmer, yeeter day to serve subpoenas on Newt man and Leo Wilde to appear be fore that body which opens Us ses sions here tomorrow, brought back with him the original of the now famous document in which Tom Murray told the story of their get away and the slaughter of the prison guards who met their death in the escape. To this document are added the signatures of Tom Murray, James Willos and Ells worth Kellcy, with their finger prints attached to show the au thenticity of the signatures. While James Willos is insisting IN 10 BY PRESIDENT Swampscott, Mass., Aug. 25. (A. P.) President Coolidge be lieves that there is propaganda being spread with the purpose of embarrassing his economy pro gram. One Instance of opposition, In his opinion, Is the report emanat ing from Washington that tho general staff of the army believes the military establishment is suf fering as a result of the economy policy. $ Another Instance Is the specula tion that the Leviathan might be withdrawn from trans-Atlantic service. The president, it was said, today expects constant opposition to his efforts to decrease government ex penditures but is determined that it shall not be effective. Reports that the general staff Is alarmed at the president's re trenchment policy should not be taken seriously, Mr. Coolidge be lieves, as the general staff should be able to provide a fair degree of defense on present appropriations, and it would be a reflection on the general stnff to make It appear otherwise. The army at present is spending close to $300,000,000 more than twice annual expenditures before tho war, according to the presi dent's calculations, and this amount should be sufficient, he believes, for all legitimate activity. iNOT LOCATE ICE London, Aug. 25. With the whole world following through newc dispatches the peregrination! of the Prince of Wales on his South AmcricRL trip, the llritish postotfice is unaware of his where abouts, according to a squib in the Daily Express. The paper Kays a company of school cadets encamped in the country recently received a mes sage from the prince to which they filed a reply e:prc-sing loyal and dutiful greetings, the message be ing Addressed to "II. It. II. Prince of Wales, H. M. S. Repulse." The postofflce returned the mes sago with the endorsement "ad drops unknown." by the men In their flight. Aside from theee no further clues were found by four officers who were rushed to tho scene. The toolw had been stolen earl I or In (the evening from a tool house nt the J. Fisher h'ome at Oak and South Commercial streets, not far from tho scene of the attempted bur glary. The two Jobs last night com pleted five burglaries that have been perpetrated here since Satur day night. According to the report of Offi cer Wlntersteen he was r-alking c block and a hr.l east of the dairy (Continued on Pat Four) that he killed no one on the man hunt, this letter over hie signature and fingerprint, contains what lf considered tantamount to a con fession on the part of Willos that he shot Guard Holnian. While the letter was written in Newman's handwriting and is purported to be the statement of Murray on behalf of himself and his com panions, It is subscribed to by Willos, himself, both in his hand writing and by his fingerprint. Tho portion which contains ref erence to the killing of Guard Holman follows a statement by Murray that Murray had shot and killed a guard on tower No. 1, pre. (Continued on Page Four) HELD AT PORTER With a clinic held todav at Porter, a email town northeast of Siiverton, the Marlon county child neaitn demonstration begun its ac tive permanent program here, it was stated thiti morning by Dr. waucr lirown, head of the local demonstration. "Our work up to this point has been largely of a preliminary na ture," Dr. Brown staled. "We have now come to a place where we lay the foundations for a per manent county health unit." Thirty-eight children had been booked by the local committee for examination at tho clinic. The clinic was in charge of Dr. Stelln rord Warnec Tho clinic itself is operated largely on the came basin as earlier ones. Today's clinic wan the first that has been held for somo two wci& A number of members of the staff, sent here by the Oamraon- wealth fund to get the local demonstration established, have left within tho pant few wuks, having completed their prelimi nary work. The headquarters of the demon stration staff will be moved into ts permanent home on High street within n few weeks. The hoime next to tho high school bui.'ding has been secured through the Salem school board. As soon as the staff gets well established in Its new location a grand open ing will be held, Dr. Drown stated this morning. The general public will be invited to the opening and an idea of the work of the demon stration will be given at that time. S. LAM TO REST St. Helens, Or., Aug. 25. Fu neral services were held hero to day for Mrs. Mary K. McUrlde, wife; of Chief Justice Thomas A. Melirldo of the Oregon supreme court. The ritee were held In the Methodist church with Itev. 8, D. Johnson conducting tho services The pallbearers, all nephews of Mrs. Mcllride, wore Dr. W. Ii Morse of Salem, Fred Caples of Columbia City, Or., John Woods of Long Uaach, Wash., Lorinp Adams, Edwin C. Giltner and P. C. Patterson of Portland. Tho In terment was In Denr Inland ceme tery, near Mre. Mcllride's old home. , F BLAZES OUT AGAIN Bt. Louis. Mo., Aug. 25. (A P.) Chinese long warfare blazed forth here today when a policeman dangerously wounded Long C hoo ey, member of the Hip Sing tong and former king of Chinatown. Ronton. Aug. 25. (A. P.) Boston's Chinatown w"ns outward ly caljn today, under the eyes of a neon of patrolmen sent Into the district as a result of the shooting last night In which three Chinese and one whit man wr wounded. BANDITS LOOT CARSON FLEES f PARENTS TO EXPRESS CAR lEil TO CALIFORNIA AID CONVICT M SANTA FEiJfl FORJAFETY DURING TRIAL Messenger Wounded, Reg istered Mail and Other Loot Taken ; Make Good Escape, Santa Ana, Col., Aug. 25. (A. P.) Robbers who looted the com bination mail and express car of Santa F train No. 75 between here and Sun Diego lust night after shooting and probably fatally wounding Elmer Campbell, U2- ycar-old oxproas messenger, today appeared to have made a clean getaway , with three pouches of man ana other loot of undeter mined value. Campbell was found lying in a pool of blood on the floor of the looted car when me train arrived here -at 8:47 p. in. and Conductor David I. (J il in ore noticed the mes senger did not open hie door as usua to receive more mail and, express. At first it was believed , he had been beaten as well as shot, but later examination revealed that a bullet aparcntly fired down at him through a ventilator on the roof of the car, had lodged in the. base of his bruin. Mail Sacks Binned Onen. A rupe ladder hanging down from the roof on the outside of the car showed hoy an entrance was effected nUer the shooting. A pane of gluus hud been broken out of the side door near the ladder and the dour thus unlocked from with in. Inside all was confusion, "it looked as Miotic-, we had been through a wreck," Conductor Oil more said. Of the nine mail pouches car ried by the tra'n when It left San Diego, only six could be found in the car and these had been ripped open. Letters were scattered all about. The express strongbox had been opened and looted. A check by postal and express company officials and in Los An gele3 and San Diego failed to re veal any sizeable loss but it wan admitted that inasmuch as one of the missing pouches contained air mail the loot mny yet prove to 'have been considerable. Carefullv Planned. All avaitaUo evidence indicate ! the robbery had been carefully planned in detail by men familiar with trains and particularly with express and mull shipment rout ings. They apparently knew that dur ing the 40-milt run from Ocean -side to Santa Ana no one woul.l be near the express and mail car but an elderly messenger, and thai they had just about 45 minutes in which to work unhampered. County, fedcal and private In vestigators working on the case believe two or mure men boarded the train when It 8 topped at Oceanslde, that they climbed to tho rof and waited until the train was well under way and that then one of them took aim at Campbell th rough a ven 1 1 tutor while his companion or companions clamb ered down the rnps ladder ready to break In as soon as the shot was fired that put Camphnll out of the way. Mnde Good Escape. After the robbery the men are believed to have jumped from the train when It flowed down to four miles an hour nt San Juan, 30 miles from hirre. Basing their theory upon th i nre with which (Continued on Pane Seven) Rumor Dalrymple May Be Superceded By Jefferson Myers Persons close to the administra tion and familiar with the policies of Governor Pierce as regards the stato penitentiary and Its conduct, saw In the comment of Jefferson Myera regarding the report of the special committee named to Inves tigate conditions at the priflnn, a stronn Intimation that Warden A. M. Dnlrymple would be superseded as head of tho Institution. 'lt the report contained the recommendation Jhat Myers Inti mates, that the committee desires to ace the penitentiary turned Into a 'nurcftiwfi.l Institution,' It Is logi cally to be Inferred that they do not consider Dalrymple a success- , J, '""-''j Informer On Tom Murray 7 " Enroute South Via Box "''Xhlrti H Car Express Files No '; 'kt Claims For Reward. f 1 X fit , i'STA Lillian Gifih, of screen fame, whose third romance seems to have faded out. Jt was thought she and George Jean Nathan, tho critic, wero to wed. Now conies the news she has gone to Holly wood, while Mr. Nathan, who was to write her scenarios, takes a position In New York. CATTLE RUSTLERS E fiend, Or., Aug. 25. What mny result In the uncovering of a cattle rustlers clique according fo officers, was started yesterday when sheriff's deputies visited the John Ilclfrich ranch, onr- mlle southwest of llrothere to nr reel Vnrny (Punk) Robinson am1 Ralph Whaley charged with steal Ing a calf. The complaint a signed by Kenneth Thompson. Crook county cattleman. . While seeking the men nt 'b' Helfrich ranch (ieorge Riokoe and L. A. W. Nixon, sheriffs dep uties uncovered what seemed !o indicate nn nltempt to conre.il evidence of slaughter of cattle Stokon returned to Rend for search warrants nnd while in town picked up the t wo men, Robinson and Whaley, who are said to have hn.uht In a load of meat from the hig: desert ranch. Having arretted the men nnd lodged them In the county Jail. Stokoc returned to the ranch where he had left Nixon. Search of the ranch which had been rented by Helfrich to Mrs. M. M. McKinlcy, Recording to of fice!, revealed a number of hideM on which the bramta had been mutilated and two on which brands while faint Bad not been flcst royed. These two wer.! brought to Rend and the cattle men to whom they belong wen; notified. They live In Crook coun ty but until they Indicate wheth er they will sign complaints agnlnftt the two men, Robinson and Whaley, their names are be ing withheld by officlata. full warden, nnd It Is likely that they have recommended his re moval," said ono stato official who Is generally credited with being In the governor's confidence, Ilo pointed out that tho govern or had publicly announced that he would abide by tho decision and recommendation of the committee. In some quarters tho name of Tom Word, former sheriff of Mult nomah county and Inter a federal secret service operative, was fre quently mentioned as a logical suc cessor to Dalrymple., Word Is a demncrnt and his entire life has been given to work with criminals. (Continued on Para Baven) Medford, Aug. 25 rhillip Car son, the young man who trapped Tom Murray, escaped convict, at Ccntralla, Waah., last Friday and who entered a claim for tho $1000 reward offered by Governor Pierce, left Ashland this morning on his way to the south, according to local police. Travel stained and weary, Carson dropped off a freight train In Ash land last night and called on Roy Parr, deputy game warden, asking for food and perm lesion from Southern Pacific officials to con tinue his trip by freight. Curson was given a meal, and while no official permission was given him to continue his journey, the police declare he left for the south on a freight train early this morning. To the officers Carson Intimated that he was going to remain near the Mexican border for a time. In a statement to Roy parr. previous to his departure, Car son said he was not fleeing from tho state through fear of trouble but was called to California on business. Ho branded as false re' ports that Murray's capture was due not to him but to the activl tins of the authorities at Centra I in. No atlonipt to bring Phillip C.iv .son, Informer on Tom Murray back hero for tho trial of Mur ray and hts partners, EIImvoi th (Continued on Pngo I''our UNCLE SAM 10 Hwunipscolt, Mass., Aug. 25 (A I') Further indications that tho federal government will make no move to prevent suspension of anthracite operations next Tues day wero given today at tho sum mer White House, President Cool idge has been assured that (here will be sufficient fuel to meet all needs of tho public even If the mines should close down and It waa Indicated that the govern ment would confine its activities to assisting in the provision of an adequate Kitj-ply. The president Is receiving no new official Information regarding the anthraclto situation, although he In keeping tabs on developments through tho press. Ilo followed with particular inteit'st tho recent conference of New Knglaiid gov ernors and rejoiced it the slatC' ment made by John Hays Ham mond former chairman of tho coal commission that there Is no danger of a fuel shortage. Kver since that It became ap parent that anthraclto miners and operators would bo unahlo to ngrec on a new wage scale, Indications havo boon given that tho ndmlnls tnition would tnko to hand the controversy. If suspension should develop, It Is probable that Mr. Coolidge will keep In touch with tho situation through Secretaries Hoover and Davis and other offi cials in close contact with the In dustry, but Is not likely to call representatives of either the op orators or miners hero for a con for en ce. Postal Clerk Suicide Honolulu. Aug. 25. John R Nichols, a postal employ at Schofieid barracks, shot and Kill ed himself with an army revolver yesterday In tho sub-pontorilc while officials wero checking up Nichols nccounU, tho Insured malls. His homo was in -Lorain. Ohio. Vesuvius Eruntint?. Naplcn, Italy, Aug. 2fi. (A. P.) Alt. Vesuvius has resumed ex Iraordlnary activity, the volcano erupting great quantities of ashes and lighting up tho whole country side at night. Authorities at the volcanic observr.tory, however, ex pressed the rpinlon thnt no great danger it imminent. Murray's Father, Mother And Sister Promise To Stay With Him To End; Grand Jury Acts. Heavily guarded by offi cers from the penitentiary Kllsworlli Kelloy. ono of the three convicts who shot their way out of tho prison here recently, was taken by auto mobile from the prison to the point In the brush near I'rat uin, eight miles cast of lieie, this afternoon in an erfort to locate the shotgun which (he convlctH say they threw nway there on the night of the es caite. The authorities are working on ilie theory that thin min ing gun Is the one with which Guard Jlolmaii was killed. While condemning him for his career of crime that culminated In the killing of two prison guards when he nnd two other convicts shot their way out of the Oregon penitentiary on the evening oC August 12, the family of Tom Mur ray, who leu the break from the prison, will stick to him to the end. Mr. and Mrs. James Murray and their daughter, father, mother and sister respectively of the des perado, gave him this assurance when they visited him this morn ing In the death cell of the prison to which he Is confined, according to Deputy Warden LI I ley, who ac companied them to tho ceil. They remained with the youth ful bandit for 20 or 2i minute. Murray, the deputy warden said, seemed principally concerned with comforting his mother, and smil ed and laughed and told them not '"to worry," und "to forget all about It." I'pon their arrival from their home at Fort lilakely. Wash., near Sc.it tie, tho members oC the family first went to Interview Governor Piereo, and when Inform ed that lie was out of town wont directly to the prison. When Mr. nnd Mrs. Murray left the penitentiary they asked per mission to visit Tom Murray again this afternoon for a short time and were advised that they could do so. They had not regis tered at any local hotel, and at tempts to locate them were un availing. ;i-and .Jury To Act While Murray was visiting with (Continued on Page Seven) SINCLAIR GUIS GASOLINE PICES New York, Ai'.g. 25. (A. P.) i lU'dui'dons in thu urlco of gnsoltne rmiKi:K from two cents a gulton lo a linlf cent huve been an nounced by the SliK-Wiir Oil & lto fining company nnd Standard Oil compitniea. The two-cent cut waa innile by the Sinclair company lu middle western states to meet a similar announcement by tlio standard Oil of I ml hum last night. The Sinclair company also postid a cut of a cent In the price oC kerotiene tn the same territory. The Standard Oil company of New Jersey dropped Its price hnlt a cent a gallon on gasollno throughout Itn entire territory. Tills was the fourth reduction an nounced this mouth by this com pany. The new prico will bo 16 cents a gullon In Now Jersey, Bal tloro and Washington, D. C, and, 17 cents in other pnrta ot tho ter ritory Including Maryland. Vir ginia, West Virginia and North ad South Carolina. The Tidewater company, tha (lulf company nnd others cut gaso line a halt cent In their territory. GET $.1,000 W ROBBERY Danville. III.. Aug. 25. -Floyd Itee.l, vice-president, nnd Earl Jlyrant, cashier of the American nto bank of St. Hcrnico, Ind.. 40 les fouthenst o: lioro, wero ncin early todny enroute irom ,.. ln,1 with IhA ill. 00 lyroll of the Chicago, Milwaukee ot Pmii rriifnnil. Kive masked men In A motorcar held up the hnnl: officials taking them into cornfield. The robbers shot the tha bankers' car full lot hole.