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MEDFORD, "ORKflOy, FRIDAY. PlX'KMnER 11. 1923
NO. 225
8 ESCAPE F
MEBF01B 'MAMj'
prisoner
COUNTY
JAIL
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Harry McElroy, Sentenced to
10 Years and Don Hill,
Caught at Albany, Escape
From County Jail, but Are
Caught at Gold Hill in Early
Morning By Sheriff.
Harry McElroy, HC, unilor sentence
of tun ycui'B to Btnte prison upon con
viction liy a Jury, and u plea, or malty
lo robbery, in which In was chnrgod
with playing the role of Fagln to
Richard Dunn Jr., 13, of Oakland, Cal.,
and Don llillchargcd with anto then
anil recently arrested at Albany, Ore.,
escuped from the county jail about.
7 o'clock Thursday evening and were
recaptured at Ciold Hill this morning
by Sherltf Jennings about 4 o'clock,
us the pair were enterln-j a rooming
house. .: . .
McElroy was' sentenced yesterday
morning by Circuit Judge C. M.
Thomas, and Hall was bound over
yesterday afternoon to await the ac
tion of the grand jury.
The men affected their escape by
sawing a Uar from the upper tier of j
windows bending the bar to one side
and reaching the ground, -with a
braided from a blanket. .
ri'?h. h.r' " v ""f "h,
concealed the hacksaw in the padding
of hiB coat and the Iron bar offered
little resistance.
The .fugitives offered .no, resistance
' when 'raptured.' They told the sheriff
the escape plans were made Yester
day afternoon, nud "with what we had
before us, you'd .make a run for it
too.'1 McElroy, Whd wss first arrested
in (iold Hill after his boy assistant
bad. rifled the till or the Kelt garage,
made the added comment:
"This town Is a Jlnxi for me!"
The break was discovered by the
sheriff nud Jnllcr Collins 10 minutes
nftei wards, and three posses were at
once organized to ;uard the highways.
According to Sheriff. Jennings, the
break was not entirely unexpected,
but the officials thought "they would
try and go through the front door."
It Is also believed that the eB ape
plans were all made before McElroy
entered a plea of guilty.
The 'men are now confined In the
Pauley section of the Jail, under guard.
McElroy will be taken to Salem in tho
morning. It bins' not been decided yet
whether the serious charge of jnll
bieakliig will he filed against tho pair.
McElroy told Jailer Collins this morn
ing: "I'm willing to go now. There
Is nothing else to do."
None of the 12 prisoners In the
county Jail gave any hint of the break,
before or after.
The window through which the pair
sawed their way has no protection ex
cept Bars, and several grand Jury re
ports In the last three years have
urged that the county court Install
s eel wire nctfinRs over the windows
as a precautionary measure. It has
never been done.
The Inst escape from the county
jail was made by Milam Jones in June,
' 1023, a brother of Uert (Oregon)
Jones, notorious bandit, who was
jiiuiio uuiimi. " ....
killed In a state nrlson break August,
12. With Jemis Gonzales, a Mexican,
he slugged the Jailer and unlocked Ihe
iloni-s ni.n.nle wns cantiired a half,"
biiiir Inter, .tones Is still at large,
under indictment In this comity for
I. .11 1.. l.l I l.t..llH.n nttttnrV
".""' '..
C7"f ias lZ,Rl.h 9o,ratrheJ,iCs
an orphan, and a mechanic by occupa -
tlnu. His last employment was In San
Jose. Cal.. where he worked In a
"'ThLurpolloe force of Jackson
... ..,.,! in ih. i,,int tnr
the escjtpes last night, with guards on
the highway north and south. It wns
ST. PETEn8nurtO, rla., Dec. 11
(A. P.) Pinellas county offlcinlB
were continuing Inqujry todny to dc
termlno who Is responsible for the
,,r.nr of n nuarts of whiskey
and three gallons of tine rum In
a Serctio hotel room yesterday. Tho
wrlskey was ell by Chief Deputy
Sheriff Htrlrklnud In a raid on tt
room ued as n lounge'or reception
room i,v ilelemitra attenillng the con
ventlon of the Investment UankeiK. of
CI
(Continued on'poge Six.) (Continued on I-ngo Six.)
DRY RAID ON FASHIONABLE FLORIDA
HOTEL INVOLVES VISITING BANKERS
America. ' I
No nrresH were made "tip to-
Requests Lifting of
Immigration Ban to
Let in Housemaids
WASHIXOTO.V. Dec. 11. (A.
P.) rungrew was asked today
$ by n'ire.sentative Illuom, ilejno- fr
fi-at. New York, to solve the
3 domestic nervunt problem. Io 4
intrndiKed today u bill to lift
immigration reNtrlclioriK oi
Kuroppun women, established
beyond question in the careers
of cook or housemaid.
ARE ARRESTED,
FlVe SUSpeCtS ROUnded UP,
After TWO Of Them Try tO
Sell BondS StOlen FrOm
Shedd Bank Three Of the
Men Ex-Convicts.
PORTLAND , Ore.. Dec. 11. (A.
P.) Five men were held In the coun
ty Jail here today for Investigation in
i ............. l .. t,n i-nhldvu nt llie
Kned(, Q Tuesnny. 0ffi-
wel.e also trying to determine
whether the suspects -had any con-
'""i' ' .me .Trout-
dnie bank yesterday.
The men were urrested . last- night
at n home in Portlund where six years
uga. three men-were caught folloKlt)g
Ihe-lmldup of the Claremont tnvern.
The sheriff's office gavo out the
names of the men held in Jail as
Wallace Witzel. an ex-convict out of
Oregon penitentiary; Mike Welch, an
ex-convlct out of Walla Walla peni
tentiary:' Columbus Jimmy Murray,
an ex-convict out ot vwuiu ana;
Charles 1. CJriffin
a former Inmate
it( Monroe. Wash., reformatory
and
Vincent Murphy.
They were arrested ns the result of
a report to the district attorney's of
fice that Murphy and Murray had
tried to sell ?5,"0o of the bonds taken i
from the Shedd hank.
WHzel, Welch dnd Murray ore the
direct suspects, according to deputy
sheriffs. Griffin was arrested, they
say, because he was In the house with
the others.
Sheriff Frank Richards of Albany
expected to come to compare
fingerprints taken at -Shedd with
those of the suspects.
The name of the person to whom
the bonds were offered, according to
the district attorney's office Is being
kept secret. It was stnted. however,
that the man made a list of the offer
ings and found all except one bond lo
he fine securities easily negotiable.
About $10,000 was stolen from the
Shedd bank and these securities were
listed among the losses, the local
authorities said.
Janu-H Ogle, Walter ("Dutch")
Hanaster and David Smith were ar
rested at Murphy's place November
22, 11H9, und sentenced to life on
their plea of guilty that they killed
George K. JVrlnger and J. Newt Bur
gess In the robbery nt Ctaremont tnv-
. , ,,
'
"''nt(nc,"' "-lp hrts h'e" shot
1 l-'1""" Awlne
hull !on riot
KtlicHdgc filves T!p
The report that led to the arrests
w:ls mnde by John L,. Iltherlilge, Dona
!...I nwun anl.l nrcrilinir to
.h. dislr.ct M-.
, "omeone giving the name of Murray
called him on 'he telepho ne U o days
rt 8nld he w"med 10 "ej' "ome
I' ''K.nerl,lgc said that he
ious of some kind of plant nimed
against 1.1m and, took n witness with
Mm when, that evening, he drove to
late hour last night In connection
im. th. mlrl nnil selxure of the
llauor. Strickland declared he would
BANK ROBBERS
PORTLAND HUM
teek a warrant for James K. Coad.'lf h" wb on trial.
anting vice-president of the 8t. "That' what I want to know,
. . .. . I...... nhamW nt Mimmprce. Knr. . . '
t... r .h invention. Sir. Coad
last night denied knowledge of the
-m
w,y-e. r"""" "
it r,o . nrres,e u,ry Uu.u
a million dollar bonu. hnd'dued hy Mr. Haines to testify. e-
ltuldlng - officer. they had Portland Natlowl. They
'.locumenmry evidence" ''" ' Btlf?ed (hat they had been, advlwn
EIIUW .11" ,, .- ....
had placed It In the room.
10
DEMAND
1VM
BRAmWELL
Portland Bankers Accuse State
Bank Examiner of Unfair
Discrimination and Request
for Removal Is Expected-
Bramwell Denies Charges
and Asks for a Hearing.
SALEM, Ore.,- Dec H. Statements
relative to tho administration of
Frank C. Dramwell, state 'superinten
dent of banks, were made to the state
banking board today by representa
I !.r..o r tl.n !) In nt VotlAnnl liatilr
formerly the nnwaway hank. The
I hunk accuses Hruinwoll of arbitrarily
'refusing to grunt it n charter as a
I reserve deiiosltory for state banks and
thereby discriminating against It. in
an uuimi iiiaujic;..
Members of the board pressed the
bank representatives to say .plainly
whether they were demanding Bram
well's removal. To this, In reply to a
point-blank question by Secretary or
State Kozer, Will Bx Haines, president
or tne nana, repiieu:
"If you will be patient you will
soon know what we want. If you
give us time weVwill prove every
thing we have said aud more, too.
before we get out of this room.
There are other matters that t .
could bring up' In the same con
nection, but I cannot betray the
confidences ; of . thosewho have. ,
-talked with. jif(!'tiir';lne subject;" --
John ft. Duvls, cashier of the Port
land bank,' wgB asked by a newspaper
man after the noon adjournment, it
.the bank wns going to demand Bram-
ell's removal.
"I can't talk now," he said. k "You
will Bee this i afternoon."
1 Rramwell has not made bis reply.
but indicated that ne wouin ne auie
to answer the taccimations ot ins
assailants.
Mr. Haines told of an examination
of his bank that was made bv the
state deuortment soon after the failure
of the State bank of Portland, which
had cauBed a small run on the Broad
way bank, and said the examination
was objectionable in a number of
ways. .
"Even if our anplication to bcome
a reserve depository Is granted.- said
Haines, ;'we feel that banks who de
noslt their rrfserros with us are going
to be penalized and we demand s
change in the nttltude of the state
department.
Demand o unow.
In reply to a question bv State
Trensurer Kay. J. N. Hart, attorney
for the bank, repl ed that the purnose
of the hearing was- to find out 'why
the .Portland National Dank lias not
been made a depository for state
funds; why slate banks hdve been re
fused nermlsslon to deposit their re
serves with lis nrt why we' are being
discriminated against."
Hart read a series of letters thut
passed between Bramwell In which he
insisted on knowing why permission
to serve as a reserve depository had
been refused the bank. He accused
Urn m well of having evaded a direct
reulv. and said: "We demand to
know now."
Secretary Kozer1 brought tip the
rjuestlon whether the banking law
hnnt-ii tinii itiriso etion ana usKinic 11 n
were not exclusively in the hands of
the superintendent of banks. Han
replied that In his opinion the creature
was not greater than tne creator ann
that ha helleved the board nan att
vianrv cnntitil of the superintendent.
State Treasurer Kay reterren 10 me
new hank ns code saving that it took
from the board Sbout all tne power u
had except that of appointing a hank
superintendent, granting bank chart
ers and aimroving charters.
Bramwat Explains,
Superintendent Dramwell explained
that the new code does not change the
authority, of the board but that the
granting of charters as reserve de
positories has always oeen ntscreiion
rv with the aiinerlntendent.
"It has always been a poor law,"
said Governor Pierce. "A very poor
inw in this day and age.
"Have roil any other evidence to
present?" asked Kay. "in support of
statements that you have made that
would tend to show that Bramwell has
heen unfair, arbitrary or Incompetent
an(i .na might cause the board to
rnnslrter his removal?"
I At this Bramwell wrfnted to know
said
I "I think they have a right to
ahead and Present
added Dramwell. "T
all they have,'
Then the fceard caa
.nd helir , ,te.-
-- i.r hati,ers were tar
-j, ,
' (Continued on Page Six!
BaUxnce of Power"
May Rest
, 773..
The results of four contests
C rip- :
('SB
5WH -' Jt.miiiiro.ini i- JM t l t
termine the' socalled "balance of power" in that body. "Upon the
outcome of these contests will depend whether or not the odminlstra-'
tion lias a voting majority or whether the independent have the
whip hand in close bnllotting. The four senators whose, eleethjni
lire contested Mr some reason' are SmiJji Brookhart Independent!
llcpublicari of Iowa, Thomas Scliull administration Republican of
' .Minnesota Samuel Bratton, Democrat, of New Mexico and Ceroid
Nye, non-Prtison Icuguer f North Dakota. .
11
THREATEN
x - Am
Theatre Owners Of America
Won't ShOW Granqe PlC-
WUI1 I. Oliuw uianuc
: ' AOAn rff PriAAl
TUreS II OVJU,UW Viict-r.
Proves to Be Bunk Publicity
Red ReCOVenng Rapidly.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11. (A. P.)
Troubles nre -.piling up Mr ilea
(irnnge in his dash toward R million
or something near that. ,
The football flash from Wheamn,
III,, lusted but one period when nis
team.-the Chicago Hears, played tne
Pittsburg Alt-Stars In Pittsburg yes
terday. Then a doctor found that
he had burst a blood vessel and . a
ligament, had been torn In. one linn.,
At the same time the motion pic
ture theatre owners of America an-
nouncea n iew . t ... 1...
ball star's ' proposed picture would'
not be allowed In nny of their thea
ters If the J.100.000 check advanced
to he placed in escrow by tho Arrow
Picture ( corporation Monday snoum
prove to be "bunk" publicity.
PITTSnUltO, Dec. 11. (A. P.)
Refreshed by a night's rest Harold
(Red) orange, who was injured In
yesterday's football- game hero was
feeling fine" today nnd will accom
pany the Chicago Bears to Detroit.
George Halas, manager, said . this
morning. -v
Whether Orange will piny Satur
day, Halas said, will depend on ad
vice of a physician.
The IlearB manager announced
lhat tin X-rny photograph of Orange's
Injured arm disclosed there had beon
no bone fracture. .
Daily Report on
the Crime Wave
I.OS ANGELEH, Dec. ill. (A. P.)
Two men early today bound and
gagged the night watchman of
government bonded warehouse, load
ed too cases ft liquor valued at (no,
000 on s truck and escaped. The
watchman told police he allowed the
men to ent'gr the promises with
their triji'k when ' they represented
Aiemaelvee to h. , deputy sheriffs
bringing ,a load ot confiscated liquor
to tfie warehouse.
PSlce. sheriff', deputies and gov,
owners
BAN
ON REO GRANGE
Srtment agents were p'sied on "II .fast as It fell. Al 1 P. M. the show
roads leaving the county in nn effort rail continued, .hut the weather was
tp capture tlje holdups. I warm. , 1 -.'
in Senate
on Contested Seats
over scats in the senate may del
lnhrt h 'm Grandson ' ' ". '(lo'tsned statistic to show an Increas-
"'" , ' r-y .llng-rexodus from the. national banking
" Ic Wnvhina Hl9 WOV '
" " v- -o - - ,
. Thru Yale CollegerL.
1 '
NEu HAVEN, Conn., Dec! 11.
(A. P.) How a grandson of John
D. Rockefeller, one of the world's
richest men. is working his way
through Yale university, winning
a scholarship intended for stud-,
,0U8 80118 o( tne poor, came to
light here today with announco-
ment from the university of the
j. Hogan
b uohnlttrahln which thlu Vnr WRtlt
; jjj----"S p-Oee; soplio-
me p"' and
daughter of John p. Rockefeller.
Passing of the Early
r. ,ri-.
rioneer
SEATTLE. Dec. ll.(A. P.) Mrs;
Jnmes H. Phagan, 87, pioneer school
teacher of Oregon, died In her1 home"
here yesterday. She crossed the
plnins from Indiana by ox team In
m3 8ett,nB mr Saiem,
Wall Street Report
NEW YORK, Dec. 11. (Bv A. I',)
Responding to a series of constructive
business developments,' stock prices
idvanced briskly today with over a
(core Jssues mounting to new high
levels for the year. Secretary Mel
on's optimistic report of husintss
conditions helped to create bullish
enthusiasm. The rapid advance In
mm; of the rail Issues suggested a
limited flowing supply of those stocks
Aliunde Const line moving up nearly
seven points and being followed Into
now high ground by Chesapeake and
Ohio, Hi. Louis Southwestern, Louis
ville and Nashville and Great Nor
thern preferred. Foundation company
led the advance In the specialties by
Jumping seven points while American
Waterworks, Consolidated Cfgnr, Con
tinental Can. Electric Power, Oenoial
Asphalt common and preferred and
Ludlum Steel nil eclipsed their previ
ous. 1 !i 2 5 high prices.
The closing was firm. Among the
Issues particularly favored were
Atchison, New . York Central, Chesa
peake und Ohio', Norfolk and Western
Illinois Central and Nickel PlaU, all
of which nioved up smartly. Atlantic
Const line extended Its rise nine
points to 263 1-8. Total sales approx
imated l.kOO.OOO shares.
Saew Falls at Baker.
DAK EH,. r8 Dec. 11. (A. P.)
The first snowfall of tho season heao
esrlv todav - but the snow-melted as
Makes 500 Per Cent
Profit By . Buying
S. P. Ferry Tickets
4
SAN KRANtMSfO, Dec. 11.
A. P.) E. H. Logan, a salesman
of Alameda near here "Invested
JS60 In Southern Pacific auto-
mobile ferry rebate tickets on
the chance that the company
would he ordered to make a re-
fund on the tickets. Logun re-
celved a check yesterduy from
the company amounting to
(4.044.47. He paid ten cents
4 euch for the tickets u ml the
company refunded 45; cents
4 each. -
MORE FREEDOM
FOR NATL BANKS
E
Comptroller of Currency Urges
Passage of McFadden Bill
. i
10 StOP EXOdUS PrOm Na-
.
tiOnal Bank SVSteiH Red
Tape Too Irksome.
DEEM
D URGENT
. ' . no authority to 'execute hlnV for the
WASHINGTON, Dec.,11. (A. P.) -murder" of Guard Sweeney' until he,
National banks throughout the country - has completed service 6n- the twenty
are feeling more and more the re- year jerm he In serving in the penl
atrictlons laid around thetn by federal teritlary far bank robbery fhfct'Mur
utatntei and greater freedom for them Pfty was tried -on the murder charxe
was described na lmnerattve In the 'without being removed from the atnte
annual report of J. V. Mcintosh, I nriROj4 by a writ of habeas corous;
comptroller of the currency, - made '
, public .today. The comptroller. .oltexU
system ana ne preuiuiea 11 wouia con-
rinue until tne national oanaing law.
To accomplish the needed relief.
Mr. Mcintosh strongly urged enact
ment of the McFadden bill, a measure
which was passed by the house lust
congress but which never was reached
by the senate. '
"It Is a well known fact," the report
added, "that many national banks are
aUB1' "V u . .. j . T .
' "I I ."' whlt:h '' d at tne at
"n ' congress, it tney cannot at
this time obtain some such amend-
" " "" V .k 1 n . ,,1
therein proposed there will be a still
lreator exodus from the national sy.-
IBIU.
Mr. Mcintosh said that although the
resources of the national banks had
steadily increased from year to year
and the condition of the Individual
banks remained strong,-the relative
Increase nevertheless in the total re
sources of the national Institutions
had been slowly falling OfC as com
pared with the resources of- state
hanks and trust companies. He men
tloned that during the 40-year period to' have been definitely determined, (
ending with July 1, 1924, the total resouo workers were making efforts
resourcos of national banks had fallen! today to remove three bodies remain
from 75 per cent of the total banking Ing In Overton mine No. 2, whloh was
resources of the country to about .47 partly wrecked by a gas, explosion
per cent. The last 18 months, be said, yesterday. The bodies remaining In
had witnessed a farther shrinkage In . the mine are thos of twd white men '
the proportion of tho total resources and one negro.' Of h bodies alreudy,
held by the national banks. ' I removed 43 are negro and seven,
. The facts present a serious altua .white. ''
Hon for the consideration of the con-1
.run Ihn cnmntrnllnr snld. "and 1
am directing attention thereto at this
I.IUH C.l.Oliy IUI 1IIC u
(no- thni adverse conditions of national '
bank operations are becoming dally
accentuated. The national banking,
system is a time-honored federal In-'
strumentnlltr. The charter powers of
the individual national banks are de-
rivetl sorely nun. u.w uiii'iibm, 1 "i j
In the history of the United States, I
namely, Immediately after the civil
wnr and Immediately preceding the
world war, the federal government
was able to enforce a banking policy
nt a time of great financial stress .
(Continued on Page Six.)
MISS HELEN WILLS TO STUDY ART AS
SHE PLAYS TENNIS IN EUROPE
"BERKELEY, Cal., Dec. 11. (A.
j P.-Aetlon on th. tennis
court and
In other sports has served as an In
apliatlon to Miss Helen Wills, na
tional and Olympic woman tennis
flh.mnlnn and this action Of the
human 'figure she plsns to put on!
canvas. 1 the middle of January and win .pena .
.While travel I. ' tho chief object the winter month. In southern j
of Miss wilts' announced trip to tYance. , She .will then go to Paris. 1
Franc, early In January. . she will. As fer tennis she plan, to play:
devote considerable time to contlnu-1 tlfrough tournaments fct Nlc.'Cunnoa ,
Ing her art studies, .Irawlug and and on the Ulverla. then go to Eng-
painting and also will participate land for the -Wimbledon champion
In tennis tournaments. e .bins,, She hope, .he will meet 8u t
"I'm merely going to continue the iiinne Lenglen. the French thnm-
art work I've taken up at the CM- plan, during the tournament. ... 1 . .....
Mt I
EXECUTION
OF
I
Condemned Convict Sentenced
to Hang Next Friday,' Is
Granted Time for Appeal By
State Supreme Court De
fense Claims Prison Term
Must Be Served Out.
RALEr. Ore., Dec. 11. Tho stnte
suiireme court, Junt after noun todny
granted a writ of probable cause' to
Tom Murray, convict convicted of the
murder of. Guard John Sweeney In
.the prison break of August- 12 and
sentenced to hang December IS. after
-UVi":..
tfTLKxm-John Cun
I Tho writ, Plpned by Justice Rand.
automatically Htaya (he execution of
Murray until the supreme court
pans am upon the appeal which will he
few dayH. . t s'1 '".
I The chler points argued 1ii" Mur
ray's dbunBPl were that the state hna
tnat fn the killing of Ounrd Sweeney
,-., tmrtntf in iir den-hse. ' which
pieaVas ruled out by the lower court,
and 'that part' at th. te.illhiony Iritrd
'duced by th state in Murray's trial
was a statement made' to' the district
attorney by Murray In 'the prison, and
that said statement was taken with
out Informing the. defendant ot his
rights or telling him thut he was ad
dressing the district attorney.
Judge King also took exception to
remarks made by the district attorney
during the trial in the , lower court,
arguing thut they were Irregulnr and
Inadrnissable us evidence, und that
they, ttmded to Influence., the , Jury
nguinst the defendant. ....','
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BIRMINGHAM. Aln. Dee, II. (A.
P.) With a death- list', f (3 believed
l
'HUSKIES' AGREE
,
TO PLAY ALABAMA
8EATTLE, Dee. 11 (special,
3:30 P. M.) University of Wash
ington late today accepted the
Invitation to play the University
of Alabama at football at Pasa
dena. .January 1.
veralty of California,'1 said the ten- 1
nls champion. "I am particularly In- 1
terested In,, sketching and . painting ;
the human figure In action In the
various sports and there Is plenty .
ot It In tennis."
Accompanied by her mother, Miss .
will, plana to land at Havre about ,
MURRAY
PUD
I