The evening news. (Roseburg, Douglas County, Or.) 1909-1920, December 19, 1917, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextOi-egon Historical Socle! Public Auditorium. - i ntu tfEATHER The only paper in Roseburg1 ( carrying The Associated ,f Press dispatches. v. Tonight and Thursday Fair. Highest temp, yesterday ......64 'Lowest temp, last night 50 vol. vni. ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS , COUNTY, O BEGOX. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1817 No. 801 EVENING NEWS TROTZKY WANTS TO KNOW THE DETAILS Fear Annexations and Indem nities Looms Up In the Russian Situation. SEARCH FOR WEAR SPOT AuKtro-Gwmiuis Trying to Break Tlnxtugli Italian Lines, Without Avail London Raided by Airships Again liOst Night. (By Associated Press. 1 ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR LEAD Dec. 19. Leon Trotzky, head of the Bolsbevlki, has ordered the Russian representatives at the 'peace confer- enqe to demand of the central powers whether or not they will agree to make peace without annexations or Indemnities and on the principle of tne self-definition of nations. On (he Italian front the Germans and Austrlans are persisting in an attempt to And a weaK spot in the defense through whicn they will be enabled to rush southward. Monte bolarolo Is the center of the fighting. There is no change in the situation in France. Field Marshal Haig is making important changes in his headquarters staff. Germans Capture 2000. BERLIN, Doc. 19. Austro-Ger-mans stormed the positions of the Italians at Monte Asalone, adjoining the heights, and over 2000 prisoners were captured. Airship Raid Over London. LONDON, Dec. 19. During last night's air raid over London ten persons were killed by German bombs and probably 70 more Injured'. At points outside of London five others were hurt.. One German airplane was disabled and brought down, and another one is believed to have been destroyed. The raiding fleet was composed of from sixteen to twenty aircraft divided into six groups,' all oi them endeavoring to reach Lon don. Only five were able to reach London, however, as the others were driven back by British"-airmen "arid coast idiefenses. v Old French Oniser Sunk. PARIS, Dec. 19. The old French cruiser Chateau Renault, employed as a transport, was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean sea on Decem ber 14. The submarine which sank the ship was later destroyed, it is alleged. All of the passengers and sailors aboard the transport were rescued with the exception of ten members of the crew, who perished. (By Associated Press. PORTLA- -j, Dec. 19. A fleet of three river steamers and a Port of Portland tug have been sent to Woodland, Washington, to res cue residents there whose lives are endangered by the flooding of the town. The Columbia river has risen to a ipoint where six feet of water stands in the streets -of Woodland. A sheriff's posse from Portland) res cued a company of four negroes who were marooned on nn island in the Willamette near Lents, two of the party were women. The Columbia highway is said to be threatened with damage at several 'points by floods from waterfalls. WINTER WHEAT NOT UP (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. The wluter wheat acreage is placed by the department of agriculture at 42,- 170,000. Conditions of the grain for this season is 79 and 3-10 per cent The 'Winter wheat acreage in the United States is the. largest evr known, 'but shows the lowest condi tion on record for Dec. 1. On a basis of the existing condition a crop of (40.000,000 bushels is forecasted for 1918. The condition of winter rye is eighty four and 1-10 per cent of normal, according to the depart ment of agriculture. NO FRICTION BETWEEN (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. Dec. 1 9. Secre tary of the Navy Daniels was the first witness today before the house naval sub-committee Investigating navy activities. He told how the de partment is building 424 ships, and said that the was proud of the fact that the navy has met the test. A tilt was precipitated between , the secretary and Representative Brit ten when the latter asked what com plaints had been -made to the navy (Department by Vice Admiral Simms Daniels said that Admiral Slmms had ibeen -given everything, the navy department could give. He charac terized the rumor as a "mess of gos sip" which Should not be "bandied about." Secretary Daniels also stat ed that there was a perfect under standing between Admiral Simms and the navy department. DISPOSES OF HALF William Kisner, of the well known blacksmithing firm of Kis ner & Marsh, yesterday disposed of his half Interest in the business, which is located on Rose Btreet, to his partner, and will leave soon for California to remain permanently. Mi Kisner has been engaged in business pursuits in this city for the past eight years, and has been most successful. Ill health Is given as a cause for his departure from business in this city, and feeling mat a ohange of climate will be beneficial, he will leave for some California .point. Mr. Kisner is yet undecided just where he will locate and his family will in all probability .remain here until a suit able locaton has -been found. Mr. -Marsh -will continue the busi ness, and solicits the liberal patron age received in the past. Mr. Kis ner has made many friends during his residence here who regret his de parture. ULED CHRISTMAS EVE! The Roseburg fire department has announced tnat they are to "put out" their annual ball on Christmas eve Monday, December 24. Desiring at all times to do just a little more for the dancing public special attrac tions will feature the -program. Ex perienced! terpslchorian artists have gone .over the musical' repetolre of utt and his jazz band, who are to furnish music for the occasion, and have carefully selected the ibest dance scores therein. An exceptionally good time, lull of Christmas icheer is assured. NIECE OF LOCAL MAN R. L. Russell received a long dis tance telephone message from his brother, F. -R. Russell. Jr., at Eu gene, to the effect that his oldest daughter, a young lady sixteen years of age, was seriously ill and ex pected to pass away at any time. Mr. Russell Is foreman of the S. P. car department at Eugene, and is well known among rallroadi men. SAFE ON FRENCH SOIL A cablegram was received this morning from Lt.-Col. Carl Abrams, brother of Miss Letitia Abrams, of this city, from France, saying that the 162nd Infantry, formerly known as the Third Oregon, had ar- rived safely across the water and were now awaiting orders to move to the trenches pre- llmlnary to engaging in active fighting. In the 162nd infan- try are several prominent Rose- burg men including Major Geo. E. Houck, a former iprominent physician of this city, Quarter- master F. W. Poorman, former- ly adjutant at the soldiers' home; Privates Julius Riddle, son of "itr. and Mrs. 1. B. Rid- die; CltVCord Jope, son of Rev. and 'Mrs. R. E. Jope; Harold Bellows, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Bellows; Donald ilcClal- len, son of Mrs. Maude Mc- Clallen, a former resident of this city; Louis Himes, Jr., son of L. W. Himes, formerly pro- prietor of the Grand hotel, and .also Includes the company I boys who were stationed in Roseburg and vicinity several weeks during the summer on guard duty. The 162nd) Infan- try has been stationed at Camp Mills for some time and the fact that they had sailed was not generally known. However, the cablegram from CoJ. Abrams verifies the fact that the local boys are now facing the battle line somewhere in France and further news of their ac- tlvitles will be eagerly awaited. MR. TAXPAYER, YOUR ATTENTION The News Presents For Your Consideration Facts Re garding Court House. ISSUE MISREPRESENTED Too Bad Such a Great Organization as the Taxpayers League Should lie Led Astray By s The Opposition. Chapter 234, Session Laws of 1913 commonly known as the "Budget L;.ws, provides that "It shall be unlawful for any tax to be levied, proposed or adopted, for any county, unless an estimate shall have first been made of the amount of money proposed to be rais ed by taxation tor the ensuing year and such,- estimate published'. The estimates are required to be fully itemized, showing under separate heaos the amount required for each departemnt of the county government ana shall contain a full and com plete disclosure of the contemplat ed expenditures from the money or moneys proposed to be raised by taxation, showing the amount of each public expense. The estimate shall aiso contain a statement of the probable receipts of the county pro- poseing such tax from sources other man direct taxation upon the real and personal property in Its juris diction during the period for which the tax is to be levied, and the amount of all balances, if any, on hand! in the funds of said county, at the time such levy will be made." Therefore, the clause In the bud get, "construction of jail and repairs on court house, $50,000," while technically It appears under the head of "gross amount to be raised," it is not an amount to be raised by taxation, but merely a matter of form in setting the sum out In the budget. For example, under the head of "General county fund'' there appears the following:. "Bal ance on hand November 3, 1917, O., & C. tax, penalty and interest, $110, 772.69." If you offset the $50,000 against this item you would still have over $60.00o as a balance on hand; consequently, the amount wouiu not be within the sum to be raised by taxation. Much publicity has been given thts item in the budget being raised by taxation, when as a matter of fact, every man, woman and! child with the least spark of intelligence can readily see that a levy of 12.4 mills for state and county purposes, as es timated unuer the budget. Is less than 13 mills Kfor the same pur poses for the last year. And the Item 1l $50,000.00 is included in the 12.4 mills levy for this year which is still one mill and one-tenth lower than last year; consequently the item. of $50,000 is offset against the balance, as intended and contemplated when the O. & C. tax was received. It perhaps would have been better for the satisfaction of the technical taxpayer who seldom has the Inter ests of the people at heart, but gen erally preaches false economy, If this item had not been placed within the budget, but had been appended thereto and offset against the bal ance. Then perhaps these technical gentlemen would not have pulled the wool over the eyes of the people. Less than two months ago the Re view advocated emphatically that all of the taxes derived from the O. & C. land grant, due from the govern ment, should he placed in the county road and bridge fund, to be expended upon .the county roads. This not only exposed! a dense ignorance of the law, but was an invitation for the members of the county court to dis regard the law, violate their oaths of office, and deprive every road dis trict, school district and port dis trict throughout the county of Its just and honest proportion of said tax. This was advocated In no un equivocal terms. Editorials in large sized type set forth the dire neces sity for such action,. The officials, however, did not heed the cry of the self-constituted guardian of the peo ple's rights, but proceeded to carry out the letter and spirit of the law and disburse this money according to the law, so that every section of the county received its just propor tion of the same. The road districts received 70 per cent of the road fund; the school children of the county received their per capita, and the districts their tax as levied, and after all the disbursements of the fund, there remained in the general fund the amount set out in the bud get, anicll out of this antount a court house improvement is contemplated. only after an urgent necessity for the same. . Since the above editorial, the Re view has had a change of heart, and now advocates that this item set out in the budget be subtracted from the amount of funds contemplated to be raised, and thereby reduce the tax which would without idloubt reduce the tax nearly two mills, but it would necessitate ithe calling of a special election in the future to raise a suf ficient amount of revenue to main tain the county and its various de partments, as the six' per cent limi tation would prevent them from get ting back to the normal basis, and not only an election for next year, but an election for each and every year thereafter until the constitu tional amendment has been changed. Tlio constitutional provision In that respect is as follows: Section 11, article XI. "Unless specifically authorized by a majority of the legal voters voting upon the question, neither the state nor any county, municipality, district or body to which the power to levy a tax shall have been delegated shall in any. year so exercise that power as to raise a greater amount of revenue ior purposes other than the payment of bonded indebtedness or interest thereon than the total amount levied by it in the year immediately pre ceding for purposes otner than the payment of bonded indebtedness or interest thereon .plus six per centum thereof - - - provided further, that the amount of any increase in levy specifically authorized by the legal voters of the state, or of a county, municipality, or other dis trict, shall be excluded in determin ing the amount of taxes which may be levied in any subsequent year." Therefore, ' the . false economists woulu have you call an election ev ery year and subject the 'people to the expense thereof, to raise our an nual revenue for the maintenance of the county and state, ; It is too baidi that a great organi zation, such as the Taxpayers' Lea gue can be led astray by a few who have always been a drawback to the development of our great county, but they will distort the facts, and nat urally when one sounds the keynote of economy, intermingled with pa triotism, it will always attract good, substantial citizens to take the side of economy and development, but when analyzed always find that they are used for eell'ish Interests and misled by the manipulator. Only two years ago some of the same gentlemen who started this propaganda, made ' a vicious attack upon the secret service fund of this county, and, when the matter was traced! down it was found that one or two of these particular individuals were vitally interested It' was stat ed at that time that this fund would be. hr.&wn a way,- and would ' Socket ed by the officials whose dutyvit was to use it, but notwithstanding that cry, the item was left in the budget. The amount since that time has been used in the enforcement of the pro hibition law in this county. The greater portion of the amount has 'jeen 'paid back Into the general fund, but today It has a surplus of over $2800, and no item has been Included In the budget since that time. This is stated merely for the purpose of showing the good!, sound business foresight of some of these so-called capitalists who are appar ently appealing to the prejudices of the people in order to help them selves, and thus stay the develop ment of our county and state. If ihis amount of $50,000 in the bud get were appropriated for paving the street which Immediately adjoins the property of these people, there would be 'no question about the expendi ture. Personally, we do not care what the voters decide to do with this item in the budget, but we are loath to stand Idly by and allow per sons to deliberately andi wilfully dis tort the facts and lead good sub stantial citizens astray, who, if ac quainted with the facts and figures would not give time nor heed to this cry of false economy. PAPER COMPANY IS E (By Associated Press.) PORTLAND, Dec. 10. The report f the president's labor commission, headed .by Secretary of Labor Wil son, says that all efforts to settle the Oregon City paper mills strike failed because officials of the crown-Willamette Paper Co., whose headquarters are at San Francisco, refused point blank to arbitrate the dispute. The report severely criti cizes the paper company officials, and exonerates the strikers by stat ing that they offered to agree to any sort of settlement of the controversy. THE RED CROSS MOVES ITS HEADQUARTERS The Redi Cross headquarters which has been located in the Salz man building on Jackson street is being moved today to the Hoover building where the chapter will carry on Us usual activities in the fu ture. The new location is situated conveniently adjacent to the office of the secretary of the Red Cross. CROSS Ml BERS POURING Committees Doing Rushing Business and Roseburg Steadily Climbing. EVERYBODY DOING IT Sara Evans Donates $10 to Cause Today ladies ; in Charge of Booths Declare Members to lie Enrolling Each Minute. Subscriptions to the Red Cross continue to pour in today and the ef forts of the various enterprising com mittees are fairly astounding In' the splendid! results. While authentic re turns are slow because of the fact that the workers are entirely too busy to report, it' is safe to estimate that Roseburg and indeed the entire county will be among the 100 per cent districts. , Red Cross booths in the Umpqua hotel, Perkins building, Fisher's de partment store and S. P. depot are playing an Important part in today's campaign and' according to the ladies in charge they are meeting with suc cess far beyond the expectations of the committees. Through the almost superhuman efforts of two promin ent Roseburg ladles, Mrs. A. E. Kent and) Mrs. H. C. Waddell,' of the C. S. Heinline team, 'the Jackson street business houses from the Roseburg National Bank to the Umpqua hotel are in the 100 per cent column, the entire forces of employers and em ployes being enrolled under the ban ner of the Red Cross. Four minute talks are being fea tured at the theatres each evening, Rev. J. C. Spencer speaking at the Antlers and Rev. Barr G. Lee at the Majestic last night. Tonight John Parker will appear at the Antlers and R. W. Marsters at the Majestic and Thursday, Rev. Warrington will be at the Antlers and J. E. McClin tock at the Majestic. The speakers are .doing, a greatdeal towards rous ing the 'patriotism of the citizens and as a result are causing many to enlist who would not otherwise do so. - Sam. Evans, a prominent capi talist of this city today donated $10 to the cause to Je used: for any poor families who would care to join the Red Cross, but who could not af ford to do so. Mr. Evans' contribu tion was tremendously appreciated and shows that the contributors' heart is in the right place., The Roseburg Cafeteria generous ly donated 10 per cent of their Mon day's receipts to the local 'chapter of the Red Cross, and also personal ly paid a full membership for every employe. Mrs. Mark Tisdale, of Sutherlln, chairman of the Red Cross drive for that city, arrived In Rose burg this morning for additional sup plies. According to iMrs. TISsdale nearly the entire population of Suth erlln are enlisting in the Red Cross and the committees are continuing to procure new members, the city naving already reached the 10 o per cent column. Miss Katherine Ver non, of Sutherlin, a popular member of the viirls' National Honor Guard of that city, who Is among the ac tive workers from that community, declared to a News representative iuis afternoon that Oakland was co operating' splendidly in the great drive and that the entire city was joining the forces. Miss Vernon states that booths are constructed in the theatre and various business houses and the committees working steadily enrolling members. It was estimated that Oakland would be 100 per cent Red Cross by the last of the week at the latest. The Christmas spirit of giving is showing itself nobly in this worthy task and only a realization of the immense work of the committees by the individual isnecessary to bring Douglas county's quota up to the line. As the drive gains momentum subscriptions continue to come in more rapid and from all Indications Douglas county will again head the list for patriotism and loyalty. . CASTLES FILED BOND TO KEEP THE PEACE Olive F. Castle and her son, I. H. Castle, today furnished bonds to keep the peace in the sum of $50.0. T. G. Haven appears as surety. It will be remembered that the Castles became involved in an action filedi by Williams Austin, a neighbor, who alleged that the Castles had threatened him with bodily harm. They were summoned before Justice of the Peace I. B. Riddle for a pre liminary hearing ana were placed under bonds to keep the peace.' The trouble arose over a road of easement that cuts through the Cas tle property, terminating near the ranch of Mr. Austin. The plaintiff attempted to gravel the roadway and was prevented from doing so by the defendants. - . MACCABEES ELECT OFFICERS. The Women's Benefit Association of Review No, 11, Order of Mac cabees held their regular business meeting last week and progressive patriotic service work was taken up for future accomplishments. Several new members have been taken into the organization during the past year and the society has become one of the most important in the city, Officers for 1918 were elected and In clude Clara Granins, L. C; Vinnle Bailey, P. L. C: Mary Patrick, T. O; Jessie Rapp, R. K.; Libble Rose, T. A.; D. M. Wlllitms, chaplain; Ber tha Bellows, L. A.; Mrs, Hidlnger, S.; Minnie Wallace, sentinel, .and Ella Jennie, picket. , . L The Royal Arch Masons hela their annual installation of officers In the masonic temple last evening. The of ficers Installed were R. H. C. Wood, Hight Priest; H. H. Stapleton, King; L. B. Sandblast, Scribe; R. L. Gile, Captain of Host; A. A. Wilder, Chief Sojourner; Simon Caro, Royal Arch Captain; M. Lehrbach, (Master of the Third Vale; John Runyan, Master of the Second Vale; Benja min Caro, Master of the Third Vale; W. F. Harris, Secretary; W. A. Sprague, Sentinel. A large number of memebers were present at the In stallation at the close of which re freshments were served. EXPECTS TO PURIFY SEATTLE BE DEC. 25 (By Associated Press.) " SEATTLE, Dec. 19.The new chief of -police, Joe Warren, who made an enviable' reputation In Spo kane in the early period of the city as head of the police department, and later served with credit, as U. S. marshal for Alaska, told ' General Irons, that he was trying to clean up the city. ' Warren stated to the mili tary officer that he hoped Seattle would be given a Christmas present In the form of a revocation of the order barring soldiers from the city. PROMINENT COUPLE ARE MARRIED TODAY Miss Elsie Kisner and Elva Hunter, son of D. Hunter, of South Deer creek, were united In marriage this afternoon at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Kisner, Rev. J. C. Spencer ornciat- ing. The happy couple will leave this evening for Corvallis, where Mr. Hunter is engaged in the grocery business. Mrs. Hunter was promin ent in social circles in this city hav ing attended school here for a num ber of years. NEED TO SPEED UP PORTLAND, Dec. 19. The Red Cross membership drive continues throughout the state with unabated vigor, and up to noon 31,250 had been enrolled and officially reported to head- quarters. Portland claims 8,- 110 of the total, while 23,189 are from the state . at' large. These figures do not represent the total number enrolled, as it believed many lists have been withheld by working committees, as one Portland district alone reports 2000 names. In the state at large Umatilla county heads the list with a total of 4000, being 63 per cent of Its quota. Coos county stands second with 3800, or 51 per cent of Its quo- ta. The quota of membership. for both these counties is 7500. So far in the drive 12 per cent of the state's total has been ob- talned. Sixteen counties aver- ages 27 per cent of thetr quotas. Outsldo of Portland the state average is 16 er cent of the quota, and from today on the campaign will be forced in this city. Several counties have not sent in results, and reports to- morrow will doubtless material- ly Increase the totals given. HUMANITY CALLS; WHAT'STHEANSWER A Stirring Appeal to Those Whose Patriotism is Only Luke Warm. . FOR GOD'S SAKE HURRY "Hell Is Paved With, Good Inten tlons" But It's the "Filthy Lucre Tluit Does Business on the Battle Front. Men and women of Douglas coun ty, 1 ask you to heed the last public words to the American people ever uttered by our late jurist-statesman, Rufus Choate, "For God's sake hurry." He knew what he was talk ing about, and at this late date some thing of 'his understanding is begin ning to sift through into our cou sclenciousness. Those people over there are starv ing right now. Did you ever see a starving child? Its poor little fam ished body racked with hunger and pain. Did! you ever listen to its wail ing' cries of misery? Did you ever see the mother of such a child in her heartbreaking anguish and despair? You know, and I know, there are thousands, yes millions, of such peo ple in this so-called Christian world right now. . While you In your warm' homes, comfortable, happy, sur rounded with every creative comfort are enjoying a full meal of what you call necessaries, those God forsaken wretches over thore in their rags and poverty and hunger are trying to keep their grief stricken souls and disease cursed bodies together with a hunk of black bread that your 'owls and swine would turn -from in disdain. An overdrawn picture, say you. Not a bit of it! You reading men and women know it's true, every wwd of it, and the half not told at that. " Those people must have our help; yours and mine. Now, this very day,-- What do we propose to- do - about it? Shall we let them keep on starving for all wo care?-. Shall we allow them to remain cola and ill clad while we have enough and to spare? Will we willfully invite tho brand and curse of Cain upon our selves that just as BUre as there Is a God above will be our portion if we keep on setting at naught the com mand to rescue the' heavy laden of the world. JSIot much! We are not built that way. "We will help thorn because we are the people we are." We will help them because we love humanity, because, we love our own (Continued on page 6.) ',' CIRCULATING PETITION Armed with his trusty petition, Al Creason, the jwell known local capitalist, and father of the opposi tion against the remodeling of the course house and for the $10,000 ap propriation for la partial cruise of Douglas county timber, was again active today. " . While many are signing the peti tion against Che cruise they refuse to put their names down against tho court house Improvements and one well known professional and. another widely known business man, were heard to Temark that they were strongly in favor of remodeling the court house and jail but did not fa vor a partial timber cruiBe and sign ed the petition against the latter' only. Tomorrow is the day set for receiv ing the remonstrances against the proposed improvements, which were entered In the county budget for the coming year and many lively debates are anticipated. - 15 REGISTRANTS. GET ISTANCE According to Judge I. B. Riddle, chairman of the legal advisory board, who was on duty at headquarters all day yesterday, abi ut 15 registrants appeared there for assistance In fill ing out their questionnaires. Many of these claimed deferred classifi cation for various ' reasons. One young fellow, who was unable to read or write waived all exemption claims. Others had for their reason for claiming deferred classification, agricultural grounds. It will be neces sary for the latter registrants to pro duce two witnesses to give affidavits that their Claim la tunt nnri thnl Oinlr services' on farms, etc., are indis penslble. j ', .