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About The evening news. (Roseburg, Douglas County, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1919)
EENING N The Only Paper in Roseburg Carrying Associated Press Dispatches Pull for a bigger, better and more prosperous Roseburg and Douglas County. THE WEATHER Tonight and Thursday, Ralnj Cooler Tonight. Highest teniD. yesterday. ' RO J Lowest temp, last night 44 ' 1 1 ii- mi . mrii-ii ifwyuoium. VOL. X. ROSEBURO, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1010 NO. 81 THE PRO-GERMAN, GUILTY Head of Big Milling Concern At Portland Convicted On Two Counts. JURY OUT SHORT TIME The Plea of Drunkenness Carried No Weight. Much TEiidence Pres ented to Show Albers was Enemy of America. (The Associated Press.) PORTLAND, Feb. 5. The jury in the case of J. Henry Albers today found -the defendant guilty on two of the seven counts in the indictments charging him with violation of the espionage law. Sentence has not yet been pronounced by the court. The jury was closeted only about three hours after the case was closed, and during that time went out to dinner, indicating that they had little diffi culty in arriving at a verdict of guilty. The maximum penalty for sedition on each count under which Albers was found guilty, is a fine of $10,000 and twenty years in prison. The jury brought in a sealed verdict, which was read in court today shortly after ten o'clock, and the federal judge granted a thirty days stay. A new trial will be asked, and pending de velopments of the case Albers was re leased on ten thousand dollars bond, the same as he was under while awaiting trial. Albers was convicted on evidence secured against him by Deputy U. S. marshall Frank TIchenor while en route north from a visit to California, several months ago. Albers, tho was president of the big flour milling concern of Albers Brothers, was ex tremely noxious, it was shown by the evidence, in his utterances toward the United States, and took no c;'.re to conceal his pent up hatred of the land where he is alleged to have amassed a vast fortune. Although under the influence of liquor, which he evidently secured on. the Califor nia side of the line, he was not help lessly drunk, as he attempted to prove, but is believed to have been just sufficiently intoxicated to care little about discretion and merely, ex? pressed his real -convictions. The News published the facts of his con versation at the time, and the verdict was found in accordance with the testimony of several reputable wit nesses who heard the man. Other evidence introduced showed that Al bers had shown himself pro-German on several occasions, even visiting a German war vessel as guest of the offlcerB, before this, country entered the war. Albers is a native of Ger many, and has lived in the United States a quarter of a century, and in association with his brothers has built up an immense business on the coast. ONE FLU CASE FOR EACH DAY OF MONTH One case of influenza a day, has been the record since the first of the month. Yesterday was no exception and today and quarantine notice is posted on the home of Linn Pearson. The cases at present seem to be very light and no serious results are an ticipated. There are now nine cases under quarantine in the city, five of these having been reported since the first of the month. Dr. Shoemaker, City Health Officer, is well pleased with the situation and believes that the epidemic is about done. No pre caution, however, is being neglected and the ban is still in force Insofar as It pertains to the trict quarantine of patients and certain public gath erings. BELONGINGS ARE LOST Late Saturday evening Are broke out in the bunk car of the S. P. Com pany bridge and oulldlng gang, stand ing on a crude siding at Rice Hill, and before the flames were controll ed, destroyed' two cars and burned away one end of the cook's car. There were only three men in the camp at the time, and tney were In the cook's car. The fire, when discovered, was well under way, and although heroic efforts were made to save the per sonal belongings of the men belong ing to the crew, the work was In vain. One of the men was quiet pain fully burned about the hands while attempting to rescue clothing and bedding from the bunk car. The flames rapidly spread to the next car, and from there to the cook's car. A car of oil standing at the north end of the spur was threatened, and a section gang coming along just In the nick of time, asslBted in laying a few rails ana the combustible .pro duct was pushed out of the danger zone on this improvised track. Sever al of the workmen lost1 all of their personal belongings, including quite a lot of war savings stamps held by some of them. Fourteen men were bunking In the car, each having his personal locker, where extra clothing and valuables were kept. Every vestige of the two cars was burned excepting the iron and steel In the trucks. A delegation of local sportmen left thiB afternoon for Salem, where they will "fight to a finish" against House Bill 120, which 1b being promoted by the lower river fishermen. There is strong delegation at the present time, lobbying for the cannery in terests and it wsb deemed imperative that local sportsmen get into the ring. if they desire to see the measure de feated. This bill ff passed, it is al leged, will give the canneries a com plete monopoly on all Umpqua River salmon and none would be allowed to reach the upper waters for the pur- ipose of propagation and in a few years they would be extinct. Those leaving this afternoon were D. R. Bu- bar, Chester Fisher, Frank Dunn, Earl Pickens and John Alexander. TAKES 01 LIFE Fear of Slow Death in Woods Caused Wounded Man To End Life. NO INQUEST IS HELD tall Over Small- Bluff Caused Acci dental Discharge of Rifle, the Bullot Sliatterlng the Should er Bhule of Deceased. After shooting himself accidentally Frank Acusta, whose body was found 1 miles above Tiller Monday after noon, shot himself through the head with a revolver, In order to put an end to his sufferings. Before end ing Jiis life he left a note saying, "I have shot myself and cannot live," then crawled to a nearby log, pulled his revolver and put a bullet through his brain. Coroner M. E. Ritter returned this afternoon from the scene of the ac cident and said that the evidence was very plain that death was self- inflicted and that It resulted more from fear than any other reason. Acusta was out visiting his traps and had established his camp about 16 miles from Tiller and had evidently started out early In the morning to hunt. He fell over a bluff about six feet in height, located a quarter mile from' his cabin and in doing so his rifle was discharged, the bullet en tering the left armpit, coming out between the shoulder blade and' the spine. The bullet had split and tore a large hole, shattering the shoulder blade quite badly. There was little danger of deat'i from Buch a wound, it is believed, but the injured man evidently became frightened and fearing a slow death in the woods decided to end his life He crawled about 70 feet, wrotr the note given above, and then mak ing his way about 30 feet further rested himself against a log, took out his revolver from Its holster and put a bullet In his right temple. The body was found by a party or searchers who had become alarmed at his absence and had gone to look for him. The note was identified by a number of peoiple as being his own writing and the evidence was perfectly clear so that an inquest was not necessary. The dead man was 47 years of ago and had spent the last 21 years in the Tiller district. So far as is known he has no relatives and had never been married. The body was brought out to Tiller where the funeral was held this afternoon. ' COLORED GRL IN jALEM LOBBY SALEM, Ore., Feb. 6. A new lob byist has appeared at the state legis lature, in the person of an attractive colored girl, editor of the Portland Advocate. She came to Salem in the Interests of Representative Coffey's bill forbidding discrimination against negroes In theatres, restaurants, places of amusement and public gath- erings. SPORTSMEN WILL FIGHI HOUSE BILL Contracts Are Let Including Expenditures In Southern Oregon Counties. DOUGLAS IS BEIMEFITTEp Soldiers nnd Sailors Be Given Prefer ence Over All Comers Gloom Settles Down In Seattle Strike Occurs Tomorrow. (By Associated Press.) PORTLAND, Feb. 6. Contracts have been awarded by the highway commission for eight road building projects which will cost over a mil lion dollars. Included In the plan of highway improvement are extensive expenditures In Douglas county, as well as in Benton and Jackson. An experiment in construction will be made with camps for discharged sold iers only, and the first of these, where returned fighting men will be given preference over all others, will be established in Morrow county. Work will be provided for thousands of men, and it is expected that this great undertaking will put practi cally all of the Idle men in the state at work within a short time. GUMXM IN SEATTLE. SEATTLE, Feb. 5. The central labor council will meet tonight for the purpose of approving the general strike date. It is rumored here that the council may order the strike con fined to a 24 hour period, but labor leaders 'are absolutely silent on the subject. Little, if any hope; exists that the strike set for tomorrow will be avert ed, and at 10 o'clock tomorrow some where between forty and fifty thous and unionized men and women will walk out, paralysing the Industrial activities of he city. There Ib no es timate of how many thousands of unorganized workers wil be thrown out of work by the strike. The ques tion of whether or not Seattle will be deprived of electrical lights dur ing the strike is agitating the public mind.. Mayor Hansen stated yester day that the city would be lighted, but electrical workers union leaders allege that the town will be In dark ness, as the lighting plants will be closed down for the want of men to operate them. Even the hospitals will be without lights. Labor leaders lay all the blame on Mr. Plez, of the emergency fleet cor poration, who they claim can stop the walkout by promisiing the in creased pay demand. Plez has not indicated what his action will be. AFTER CAVING TKUST. SALEM, Feb. 6. Representative Sheldon's bill, aimed at the alleged paving trust, pased the house by a unanimous vote yesterday. It has to do with the highway commission exacting maintenance guarantees from paving concerns In order to Keep up the standard of the hard surfacing laid on the public roads. WILL VISIT (iKAVE. NEW YORK, Feb. 5. ulrs. Theo dore Roosevelt, widow of the former president, sailed for France today where she goes most exipressly to visit the spot where her son, Quen tln, lost his life when his airplane was shot down by a German machine. FISH BILL IS UP FOR HEARING TODAY Houe bill No. 120, published in full 1 elsewhere In. today's News, is sche , duled to come up for a hearing this ! evening at Salem, at which time it is , expected the bill will be fully aired. I Local sportsmen are strongly urging I the defeat of this measure and a de i legation left this city last evening for Salem- to be present at t lie Hear ing which will be held late today, among them being ex-County Com missioner B. F. Nichols, A. C. Mar sters, S. C. Crouch, Chas. A. Stark, of Sutherlin, and a number of other citizens of the county, who have the best interests of the upper Umpqua in mind. It Is also thought, a repres i entative from Oakland accompanied the delegation. SCHOOL CLUB WORK The Unvpqua National Bank has offered to furnish to Industrious school children, money with which to purchase a pig or brood sow for the pig club, if they desire to take up that project of the Industrial Club work. The club work Ib divided' into three sections, the raising of a brood sow, fattening, and raising pigs for breeding purposes. According to tho ''. PLAN BIG CKLEUKATION. ' Harry Fearce today started In circulating a petition which is meeting with a hearty response and which is raising funds for the purpose of a big celebration for the Roseburg boys of the Sixty-fifth, and all other sold iers and ex-soldiers of the com munity. It is planned to have a holiday declared, call out the band, have speeches by promt- nent men dhd wind up the fes- tivitlea by a dance free to all men In uniform. It 1b planned to make the home coming of the boys an event long to be romem- bered. , County Club Worker, Wilfred Brown, there is a great deal of Interest being displayed and many would like to go into the pig club, but lack the fundB with which to start. The Bank now agrees to relieve the situation by ad vancing the money to the (pupil de siring to enter. An examination will be made to ascertain whether or not the work can be done successfully and if so and proper guarantee can be obtained, the money will be loaned. GREAT TREAT COMING FOR DANCE LOVERS An articltc combination that is bound to be received with delight by lovers of arttctic dancing and the best In concert and dance music has been affeceted by Theodore and Lil lian Newman, dance Instructors, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Little, directors of the Roseburg Conservatory, of Music. They have taken over the hall owned bv S. K. Svkes. who is thoroughly renovating the room and also treat- lng the maple hardwood floor so that 'sing. Friday is "School Day". Many it promises to be one of the best in1 schools have sent out Invitations to the city. A dressing room for ladles will be Installed' and in addition to the dancing the following features will be offered: The Newmans will give a free lesson In advanced steps from 8:30 until 9:00 p. m. before each dance and during the dance they will answer all questions regarding position, proper holds, etc. At lu p. m. each evening they will give an exhibition dance. There will be num erous contests with many prizes and surprises at the dances which will operate twice each week. Refresh ments and eats have been arranged for through the Roseburg Cafeteria service, Mr. and Mrs. Warner to be in charge. There will be IntrodycerB on the floor' and the (parents ! and older folks, as well as the young peo ple, are to be Invited.' E GRANGE HOLDS MEETING A very Interesting meeting of the Melrose Orange was held at the hall Saturday night, Fob. 1st.' It was the regular business meeting and In stallation of officers; the following executives taking their seat for the term. Master, E. R. Fenn;. Overseer, H. P. Conn; Lecturer, R. A. Busen bark; Steward, Albert Slatt: Treas urer, G. M. Green; Secretary, D. N. Busenbark; Assistant Steward, Frank Hurslk; Gate keeper, Howard Wil son; Ceres, Mrs. Katie Conn; Pomo na, Mrs. Ethel Busenbark; Flo-a, Mrs. Grace Fenn; Lady Assistant Steward, Miss Clara Anderson. The Grange will follow the!'.- usual custom and give a valentine social on Friday evening, Feb. 14th, with the usual valentine box and entertainment. Re freshments will be served during !he evening and everyone Ib Invited to be present and have a good time. CLAUD CITY SHOULD HAVE ' That there is considerable money in the county treasury which shoiild be paid to the city or Roseburg, Is tho contention or several city offi cials and otherB versed In city af fairs. Some time ago a law was passed making each municipality a road district and providing that 70 per cent of all funds raised by road tax be Bpent within the district. For some time, It Is claimed, the county has used none of this money and the city has received no benefit from it. An effort will probably be made with in a few days to secure these funds from the county court, or at least secure assurance of their being used for necessary improvement. It is very .probable that If such funds exlBt they are being held by the county for the purpose of a proposed im provement of the roads leading into the city aa thiB project was under consideration several years ago and nothing has been accomplished. If such Is the case an assurance Ib de sired that the money Is to be used at an early date. PROMOTE FATHER , AND SON WEEK Governor Withycombe Issues Proclamation Indorsing Y. M. C. A. Project. WILL HONOR LINCOLN Day Will Bo Devoted to Study of the . Famous. Emancipator ami Ap propriate Program Will Bo Given In the Evening. (Continued on paie 4.) PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 6. Tho promotion of Father and Son Week, Feb. 11 to 18, has been undertaken this year by the Y. M. C. A., on a national Bcale. There will be pro grams In cHurcheB, schools and var ious community organizations. The mnin Idea i3 to get fathers and sons together and help 'them get ac quainted, according to Paul L. New myer, Boys' Secretary of tho local Y. M. C. A., who has charge of the plans. Lincoln's birthday will be ''ban quet nighfunnd many hundreds of 'boys and dads will sit down that night to big feeds, it is indicated. Programs are being prepared, toasts by boys "To Dad" and by fathorB "To son", and stories of Lincoln, will play nn important .part in the affairs. Sunday is "Oo to Church Day" and it is planned to make it a great rally ing day in the churches for construct ive, progressive citizenship. There will be Bpecial sermons. Thursday will be "Home Day", when fnthers and boys will stay home In the even lng and visit, reao, play games and fathers of the community to visit the buildings on this day and see the wheels go round. Conferences In the evening for fathors and teachers on mutual problems and interests will be hold. Saturday will bo observed as "Re creation Day". Hikes, hunting trips and other outdoor pastimes, with dads and sons as palB will bo the order. . The (proclamation wued by Gover nor Withycombe is as follows: "To the citizens of Orogon: It Ib a pleasure for me to lndorso the na tional movement of the Young Men's Christian Asoclation for the observ ance of Father and Son week, dur ing tne period or February 11 to 18, when fathers will ho nsketf to meet in a spirit of mutual fellowshin with their boys and with the young men of other families for a heart to heart discussion of the responsibilities which face manhood In this nation. "Undoubtedly the fnthers of this country are now closer to their sons than ever before and It is altogether appreciated that a week be set aside for rehearsal in home circles of the nerole Bervice rendered bv the vouth of America during the world war, so that the young men of today may carry forward to posterity the true spirit of American patriotism "In uiphohjlng the example sot by me American Doys who gladly offered ineir uvea, mat tneir country might retain 'its honor and liberty, It If iMuper io impress upon all young men uie ina mat tne ruturo destiny of this country in spiritual, com mercial and political acspects, aB well as In the military Benso. rests with them as the future fathors and citi zens. "In view of the wholesome rosults that may be obtained through frank association botween fathers nnd sons, I earnestly appeal to the men of Ore gon for wholehearted co-operation wim tne young Men s Christian Asso ciation officials In the observance planned for the week of Lincoln'.-! birthday." (Signed) JAMES WITHYCOMBE, Governor. Already the returning boys from the training campB are finding tholr way to the local U. S. Employment office. Two young men dropped Into the office this morning, stating that they Were1 looking for work of any variety with a preference for farm work. One young man stated that he nas done i considerable pruning of rrtilt trees In his life, on his fathers' rami, and he would or should, bo especially desirable to some orchard 1st at this time of year. The need of finding employment for these returning hoys, Is only too apparent. During the perlou of trans ition rrom a war to a peace basis literally hundreds of thousands of munition and war workers will be out of employment. Thousands nf innn who have been called from one stato to another, will return to their homes to find new employment. At the sninn time the army Is being rapidly demo- blitzed. When it is remembered that we have more than a million men in aims In the United States and more than two million in France, most of whom are soon returning home and many of whom have no work, when they get there, the need for Imme diate action upon the part of any one who can in any manner manage to employ additional labor is obvious. The locnl employment office of the Department or Labor can not solve this problem nlone; it Ib a community prooiem; in otner words. In order to demobilize the munition plants and our arniea forces in such a manner us to avoid suffering and a falling wage scale in the face of the con tinued high cost of living, we are going to require the best thought and the best effort of every one in the community. The local office of the EmnTovmnnt Service aBks the heln of evarv nno In the community to put this program across. There is an economic appeal, as well as the .patriotic and senti mental appealB. The demobilization comes during the winter months, when under normal conditions out door work is slack. C. H. BAILEY, Examiner in Charge. IS LY SALEM, Fob. 6. Opposition to the consolidation program for . state boards and offices has come from J. Reynolds, president of tho state fair board. He declared that if tho fnir board Ib consolidated under the agricultural department, as planned, there will be a deterioration In effi ciency In the operation of the fair. T IT Decline to Report Success or Failure of Meeting With Highway Commission. CONTRACTS AWARDED Chairman It. A. Booth Now Preparing Htiitoment of tho Proponed Itoad ' Work to lie CuiTied Out In Douglas County. - Declining to make any Btatment in regard to the success or failure of their meeting with the Stato High way Commission, the county court met in regular session today, They stated that R. A. Booth, chairman of the Highway Commission, Is prepar ing a statement which will be given publicity in a few dayB, and will de tail the plans for road work during the coming summer and will settle disputes which have been 'arising for eome time. Contracts were let for the grading of the Pacific highway between Drain and Yoncalla and between Glendalc nnd the county line through what Is known ns stage coach pass. The fact that this lmlprovment Is to he mnde evidently proves that the court was successful In its efforts to keep the present route of tho highway through Glendale instead of tho de tour planned by the commission. The two stretches of roaa to be Improved will total a length of over ton miles' and when finished .will be ready for hard surfacing. Both pieces of road are among the worst portlonB In the state and during the nnd woathcr are almost impassible. The proposed work will cost several hundred thous and dollarB and will add greatly to tho value of the highway as it will make It passable under all condi tions. The court In its session today had little of interest to consider, the rou tine of allowing bills occupying most of the time. TO SAI.EM, Ore., Feb. 5. Proponent! of a big Irrigation project planned for Eastern Oregon, with, Malheur Lake ns a basis, have promised to give lively oposltlon to the bill by Repres entative McFarland, of Portland, pro posing to give Malheur take to the United States government for a bird resorve. This action was recommond- ed by Governor Withycombe in his message to the legislature. That tho people are of more value than birds will be the plea of the irrl gationlsts, who claim tholr project would reclaim the Malheur lake coun try for farms for men and women and should take precedence over any game and sporting project. They de clare mat the bird reserve bill would kill the Irrigation scheme, German Fortification Explored ' By Julius Riddle and -. Friends. AMERICANS CURIOUS Germans Lock AU Gates and Doors Securely But the Yanks Manage to See Everything of Any -Important Interest. EHRENBREITSTE I N, Germany, Deo. 18. Dear Mother: The cele bration Ib lust about all over except the shouting, as the 163rd has dug in for the winter, and you know that Uncle Sam couldn't do anything with out us, bo it must be finished. Where did we finally land? Just across the Khlne river from Coblenz. and for the remainder of our Germany days we have hopes of staying right where we are, we have a real home and all that goes with it. We mil holr to a large German BarracltB, and have a whole building for our Justly famouB . company. The room I am In has 8 men In it, we each have a BED with a heavy spring mattress, a stool and a big steel locker for our. clothing. The room is wide enough to out the eight beds all along one side and have room between them. They take up less than half of the width of the room. Our lockers-are on the other . side, and in the center there are two big, long tables, add to that the large coal stove and electric lights and you can see that we have a home that Is a home: and our mess hall and kitchen. After several months of a field range and the rainy side or nothing, they are a paradise. A large coal range for cooking and an entirely separate room for meat and storage room. Then when we move in on the eats, after the tin horn soundB "soupy" there is everything on the table and all we have to do is to eat It. We owe the Dutchmen some thanks for leaving us these quarters If for nothing else. Jan. S, 1919. I had a dandy good time yeBterday. Three of us started out on a pleasure trip and we sure ly had it. Went up to one of the big forts around here and (proceeded to give It the once over. We tramped all thru it, both above and below ground. It surely strikes we Ameri cans as strange the way these people built all their fortifications and Buch underground. We roamed around in there, for about an hour and were going down one iong tunnel af ter another. Once we went and! went and the durned thing finally landed us in a German's home. We opened the door at the end, expecting more tunnel and there was a large room with a good sized washing hanging on the HnoB. We could hear tho people talking in the next room, and right there wo beat a retreat that would have outclassed: the Bosche, and they put in quite a lot of time practicing up on retreating. I'll wager that they wonder time and again just what kind of a bunch we are. They evacuate a Fort and put 1 deep moat around It, then they put onough padlocks on the gates to lock op a fair sized Uty, but the curiosity of the Americans goes over all of that and has a look Inside, and there Isn -anything Inside but tunnels. Have a hunch that may be one reason for loosing the wnr, cause If the reserves wants to stay in the reserve, well they could get into some of those tunnels and the Kaiser would have a duce of a time finding them. We had trouble In finding ourselves once In a while, much less any one else finding us. Germany Is some country and they ouim an or these tunnels to get out of it as near as I can figure. JULIUS. MUSIC CLUB HAS IGHTFUL The Rosoburg Muslclal Club last night held a most delightful program at the home of Miss Frances Par Blow, in a study In Scotch and Irish music. Proceeding the program a short business session was held and afterwards the guests enjoyed delic lou refreshments and a short social lime, ine program was as ioiiows: Characteristics, Scotch and Irish Music, Miss Klnser, ( , ; Vocal solo, Loch Lomand, Vernita Kohlhagcn. Vocal solo, Annlo Laurio, Mabel Bryan. Piano solo, Scotch Tone Picture, Dorothy Ventch. Vocal solo, My Laddie, Frances Parslow. Vocal solo, Believe Me If All Thoso Endearing Charms, Allle Black. Vocal boIo, Kathleen Mavoureen, Mattio Lee Stephenson. Vocal duet, Mother Machree, Eva Rice and Stella Krohn. Tho noxt meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Win. Bell,