WEATHER ALLTHENEYSTODAY BY Highest Yesterday . Lowest Last Night . .411 ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE SERVICE 35 Cloudy tenight and Saturday. DOUGLAS COUNTY An Independent Newepaper, Published for the Beet Intereeti ol the People. Consolidation el The Evening Newt and The Roseburg Review. . v VOL XXVII NO. 52 OP OSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW FRIDAY. JANUARY 16. 1925. VOL. XII. NO. 263 OP THE EVENING NEWS ItWT) L Vvcu'Oi. jells on Emerges From 12 Hours of Grilling Without Whim per and Is Nerveless. FRIENDS ARRESTED Night Life Musicians Taken Ifito Custody Father and Brother Face the Girl. (AanrlitPd Fmt Lrued Wire.) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16. Pleasure loving Dorothy Ellingson, 16 year old, confessed slayer of her mother, Mrs. Anna Ellingson, maintained today the smiling, yet Inscrutable mask of indifference that characterized her attitude Blnce her arrest early yesterday morning. The girl was charged with murder. Emerging from 12 hours of piti less questioning today the girl wbb "still the life of the party" just as she had been a short time after the murder when she danced at the apartment of a friend while her tJT. .w their home shot mother lay in - ln wrtV? ...TnT.... has admitted shooting her mother last Tuesday night after the lat ter had upbraided her for her con tinued incursions of the city's night life due to her deslro for "jazz parties" to preclusion of ev ..im,A .k.i C' . erything else. The 16 year old principal inarfhu 1 inrecerionte.l mnlrfnIH. i.k . ' unprecedented matricide was tak- en into custody at four o'clock yesterday morning in an obscure rooming house in this city while police of every city in the state were conducting a feverish search. Immf diately afte the shooting, she told the police, she had packed a few belongings, taken whatever money she had found in the house and boarding a street car, rode a few blocks and entered a rooming house. There, she said, she had engaged a room for two weeks telling the landlady she had just arrived from Los Angeles. Her apprehension was made possible when she decided to call a friend and finding him not there had left a .telephone number to be called. Hob Wusth, a musician fJ i whom the number was left notified the police on his return and trac ing back on the call, the authori ties found the girl. At first deny ing jconipliclty in the act and blaming it upon another, Dorothy suddenly confessed and in a com posed manner laid bare all of the SHE KILUMG MOTHEn X m FIBS! WEEK OF LEGISLATURE SHOWS Bifi DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POLICY OF PIERCEAfiD SDLOAIS (A(liM Prrai Ltutd Wirt ) STATE HOUSE. 'Salem, Ore. Jan. 16. A sharp line between the policies of Governor Walter M. Tierce and those of the lawmakers is the outstanding development of the first week of the session of the legislature. In his message the governor hurled himself vigorously, into the defence of Market Agent C. E. Spence and his department. Yet on the same day Senators Kit ner and Taylor, the latter a demo crat introduced a bill for the aboli tion of that department and the return of grain Inspection' to the public service commission. .Consolidation of state depart ments has befn preached by the governor "during the first two years of his administration and Is urged in his message. Yet Senator Hall, who was author of one of the out- standing consolidation bills in 1923 ; came forward on the first day of 1 the present session with a Joint i resolution that would dismiss the merger question with the appolnt- ment of a special committee of legislators and members from, the state at large to make a study of the question and report either dur- Ing this session or to the session of 1927. Itatlflcntlon of the child labor amendment proposed ror the fed- eral constitution is favored by the governor. Dm imitations are tnai the Oregon legislature will refufe to ratify It. A poll of the house In- dlrated this, and an Inquiry among the senators revealed the same sent'ment In the upper body. Governor Pierce will fare better relative to his prohibition policy than he will with any other sub ject affecting his administration that has come up this week. The resolution from the senate 1 Keceived Blows in Lien of Wedding Gifts NINA JSTE POEfco-13tnr.fr. tr.: Mrs. Nina Nedorontt, pretty Kus slan girl, married Ignata Nedero vitt, a New York furrier, to escape deportation as an alien and be cause she believed him a man of .wealth, she declared In her suit for divorce in Sun Francisco. Instead ot promised gifts she received beat' lugs, the first on her wedding day, she told a Judge. The divorce was granted. details of the slaying, how her motoer had remonstrated with her , , ., v ,, ka k. hw to of temper she "rJ the fatal shot. The body was discovered by Karl Ellingson, brother of the slayer when he returned from work Tues day night. He .had steadfastly maintained that Dorothy had fired the shot, while Joseph Ellingson, the father, separated from his fam- ( (,-. of th irl.. ni !ly .Decse or tne girl s pleasu loving habits, Was firm In his con viction that "his daughter would not have the heart to kill any body." Both father and brother con fronted the girl in the city prison, the former sorrowful and pleading, the latter stern and unforgiving. The brother, stricken by the enor mlty of the crime, repudiated the advances of his sister when she sought to embrace him in the cell. With the cry "don't touch me you killed our mother " the young man swept her from him. The police today had rounded up i three ow seventeen young men for whom warrants have been Issued for contribution to the delinquency nf minnr Thaw l,.nl,,.1..i it.,....! steln. in whose apartment Dorothy is sam to nave attended a party a few hours after the death of her mother; Keith Lord, arrested in Venice, Cat-, where he was playing In an orchestra; and Harry Lesser alias Chenltz, taken into custody here. All of the .men are musl (Contlntied on page six) committee on alcoholic traffic call ing for an Investigation of the state prohibition department pass ed unanimously in the senate and with a single dissent in the house. Hut both the governor and Pro hibition Agent Cleaver Invited the probe. Otherwise there doubtless would have been some dissenting votes. The prohibition Investigation committee will hold a' meeting i Monday night at which Governor rieree, prohibition Agent Cleaver, W. J. Herwlg, head of the Oregon anti-saloon league, and the presi dents of the sheriffs and the ril trlct attorney's associations of the state will appear. After that the committee will operate much the same as a court with various wit nesses appearing and a court re- Por'er to take down the testimony. Some meetings will be In execu- t"ve session; others will be open Anumber of other bills and res olutions have reached the senate already that are exneeted to start (fights. One of these Is the Hall .resolutlop for a Joint house and senate committee to confer with ! representatives of the California .and Washington legislatures on the i question of uniform speed, light- Ing and other questions relating to automobiles. Recommendation was ,made to pass this resolution be- fore it was printed but It was tabl- ed. Later In the day. after It had been primed. Senator Hall brought It up acaln but it was referred to the roads and highways commit tee. It may cause a spirited fight. ;Some senators object to it on grounds that the committee would j spend a lot of money and that the ; resolution authorizes an extended junket. 1 Xk ! FIGHTER QUITS RING FOR LOVE OF HIS MOTHER Benny Leonard Makes State ment Today Saying He ; Will Box No More. WISH OF HIS MOTHER runner i nan iause Mis Mother Worry He Has Decided to Retire -Is Fixed Financially (Awctattd Prcl Leued Win.) NEW YORK, Jan. 16. Love for his mother caused Denny Leonard, lightweight champion, to retire from the ring, he said in a signed statement today. For some time his mother pleaded with hiril to give up boxing because she feared he would be hurt. She became so insistent that finally Billy Gibson, Leonard's manager, advised him to retire, saying "the shock of anoth er fight will be too much for her." "The newspapers were full of stories about my training my fighting." said Leonard in his statement, "they told how I got my eye split open. They told bow I got my teeth knocked out. They told how my bands were broken. And my mother read every line of It, and then saw me as I came home. Mother would sit crying BENNY :L0TATE. and trembling, saying: 'my poor Benny.' 'My brothers and I made light of the injuries but right there and then mother Siid she would not let Benny fight again My fight with Tendler in 1923 was to have been my last. My mother has been very 111. All of us are greatly worried over her condition. One day she called our family together. . She made trie promise her I would nev er fight again. My fighting has come down to a question of my mother's health. have to choose between that and the love of hearing the cheers of the newsboys on tiir street." Leonard Is retiring from the ring in good financial circumstances and with a foundation for a stage career laid by months of prepara tion, thus he is following in the I footsteps of another noted pugilist, James J. Corbett. ljconard, who has not been ac tive In the ring since 1923, has held his present title for nearly seven years. After fighting his I way mrougn me ranKS ior live vears following nis first appear- iance, he took the title from Fred- Idy Welsh of Great Britain, May 28, 1917. E. Harney was a business visitor In itoseburg Thursday arriving from northern points. Mr. Harney is from Eugene) and left today for the north. GAS NEARLY FATAL CROTON. Neb., Jan. 16 Thirtv adults children and five narrowly escaped death from the effects of car- bon monoxide gas In the Star Theatre here last evening when the exhaust Dine l..illne from the gasoline engine 4 which was being used tn light the theatre becsme clogged The performance terminated 4 Just In time to save the au- dlence. mS. SWEETIN BEGINS LONG SENTENCE . ty v i WK M I s.i. J tHA ', ! ":!' "?i MS53srE swETiivr. Mrs. Elsie Sweetln, of Ina, HU -. . . . . i , . 1. . J ....... 1 serve ner iuiriy.iiywjr S521 by Mrs. C. Elinore Rulien, ot the prison. ,,lL B MIKE QUARRY ROBBERY OVER COURT RECOMMENDATION ; Statements of Court and District Attorney Ignored by Governor, and Desperate Criminal, Given a Life Term,. Turned Loose Court Nof Even V A3 vised Man Had lieen Liberated. Sentenced to a life term for the desperate robbery of an Austrian Ihborer at the Scottsburg rock quarry, Eli Wutnovich, alias Mike Zealock, known to 'court officers as "Big Mike," is at liberty, pardoned by Governor Pierce.' When "Big Mike" was turned loose from the penitentiary by executive order is not known by court officials, who were not even informed that the man had been released. He was re leased in spite of the recommendations of the judge and dis trict attorney, given ot the time of his sentence, that he be kept confined for the rest of his natural life. The governor did not ask for a statement of the case, court officers nor anv advice desperado at liberty. The fact came only when his list of pardons was submitted to the legis lature. - Big Mike" was the leader of the gang, which on June 1 6, 1919 robbed the Scottsburg rock quarry, down the river a few miles from Scottsburg, taking $1,800 from an Austrian who kept his savings of years upon his person. The details of the crime had been carefully worked out, but in cutting the tele phone lines the gang got the wrong wires, and when they return ed to Scottsburg word had been telephoned ahead, and they were met by a quickly orgnnized but determined and armed posse, which opened gunfire and captured the trio. Wumovich was wounded and for several the local hospital. He entered assault and robbery, armed with ;. kf. u.. !..! ii I,,,; .dm uy juugq nmmuon. ne was imer orouKin uatr. as a witness acainst his confined ill the county jail mnd Aosouueiy no recommendation was made from this court for the release of this man." Judge Hamil- George Neuner. who was the dls ton stated Ihls morning. "He was trlr.t attorney who convicted the sent to the penitentiary for life, a rang, stated this morning that he sentence well deserved, because of know nothing of the pardon grant his premeditated and cold blooded d Wulnovieh until he saw the robbery of fellow countrymen nt the Seottshnrg quarry. Ho should have been kept In confinement and it was the recommendation of tin court, when he was sent to Salem, that he should be required to re. main in the penitentiary fqr the rest of his natural lire. "It is a farce nothing but a farce to have such a dangerous man re- leased from confinement after the seriousness of his crime has beer, so well established. "I was never asked to make a recommendation regarding Wuino- vlch. and knew nothing of his lease until It was brought to my at tention after Governor lierce had submitted his list of pardons to the legislature. Any recommendation would have advised the continua tion of his sentence f6r the rest of his life. ' "That man shotrld never have boen turned loose. He Is a danger- ous criminal and should have been kept confined." Zealock had two companions In his crime, John Karl a anil Joe Ju vlteh. The latter was merely a tool In the hands of the other two. and his parole was granted wl.tliln a short time after his confinement up on recommendation of rials. court offl- Strong pressure was brought to bear to secure the release of KnrlV. but the court refused to grant a recommendation for lenh-n- cy In his behalf, but in spite of this ract he served only a short time on his K-year sentence and was turned at liberty. Now "Big Mike" the leader of the -j urea. c.is.-KijL-iEN-. j convicted with the Rev. Lawrence 1 tT n an .haw mlcrSt hm tram tn " c- euperintendent of the women's quarters ' IS for the recommendations of the whatsoever before turning th that theTnan had been released weeks was kept under guard at a nlen nf cruiltv tn n rhnrf-e of EADER SCOTTSBURG ED a dangerous weapon, and was ''''1 " dj" n. 'ln? i ' l , JCoqnlllo river near Mrtle Point comramons in crime, and while desperate effort to escape. cang Is also at large. name In the list. "I was not consult ed nor aKked to make a statement iibnut the crime for which he was sentenced to serve the rest of his natural life. "I can say this, however, that If 1 had been consulted or asked to Mibo rfxwmmorrliiKnni thnt theV Ould have been absolutely against ny executive clemency of any kind for the reason that this criminal was notorious and the crime he i rommllteed was deliberate and pre-, rieditated, carefully planned and was one of 'the most aggravated, hat has ever been rommllteed In' ... the history of this state. "He plantn-d the crime In Port- lind and drove all the way to Scottsburg, a distance of over 200- idles, then obtained a boat and lowed down the river, a distance of . icht miles, and that night robbed ihe quarrv and relieved the Aus- Man of $1.M which he carried on Ids person. There Is no question but that If he hart met with resls- tanco he would have taken human life. After he had entered his plea f guilty he was suhpoened as a linens In the trial of bis co-erlm-lal John Karls, then perjured hlm "lf and tried to repudiate his for- nier sworn testimony, given before tie grand Jury "Tleslde that he wns an alien, al- ihourh a resident of this country a fiifflelent length of time to have ap- piled for cltlzen-hlp. which h rever did. and In my recommenda- turn to the parole board as district attornex and prosecutor of the i-aie t that time, I opposed any exeru- (Continued on pace fix) BILL HURT H IT T Wife Tries to Break Separa tion Agreement on Ac count of Her Baby. WANTS MUCH MONEY Movie Star Looks on Stoic ally While Wife Sob's on Witness Stand and Tells of Cruelty. (Ameltttd Prt l.iwd Win.) LOS ANGELES, Cal. Jan. 16. Winifred Westover Hart took tho sepani' tion agreement with her husband, William S. (Hill) Hart, film star, and told for the first time the In side story ot their domestic troubles. Between fits of crying, while her husband looked on stoically and her baby boy frolicked In his nurse's lap nearby, the former' screen actress told of Hart's fre quent demands that she get a di vorce from him and her repeated refusals on her baby's account. They were married. In Decem ber, 1921, and all went well until May Day, 1922. whc- following a disagreement between her and Hart Bolster, Mary, he told her: "If That's the kind of stuff you are going to pull, I don't want you In the house. . Her husband added, she testified that he had 1400.000 and that he would create a trust fund ot $103, 0(0 to provide an income for her self and another W0.On0 to take care of the expected child. - - Mrs. Hart retorted that she did not believe In divorce, she said, and that she would not handicnp her child by starting him In life with divorced parents. ' Then, Ihe testified, Bill dramat ically declared: "I owe nothing to posterity." Several times, she continued, her husband urged her to go to Reno and obtain a divorce but she refused and their relations became strained that at times he denied her their home. On Buch oc casions, she said, she went to her mother s. Mrs. Hart Is attempting to break j ,h",1 Provision of the trust fund settlement which bars her from re turning to tho screen. (AanUlpl lma Iutil Wire.) MAHSHKIKLP. Ore., Jan. 16. 'Oliver Train, aged 10, fell off a , late yesterday. SOCIALISTS WILL IT MnwwtatM rrrm W!r. BERLIN, Jan. 16 The socialists attitude toward the new cabinet formed with l)r Hans Luther chancellor, Is summed dp by a l.iafllnir Hlt, trial In liA nuwRn.nnr Vorwaerls today whlrh declares the workers "regard the fact that a government has been offered them consisting of open and secret enemies of tho republic us a slap n tho face." The workers, It adds, sre pre- paring to fight,' and the fight "will r ..... inot be confined to the Reichstag, hut will be carried Into every field 0f German life. - . FATAL TO SIX mnr,tf Prna iMlnl Wirt.) PROVIDENCE, Ky., Jan. 16. , 16 Twenty seven children wer made fatherless yester- day when an explosion In the Diamond Coal company's ' mine No. 1. killed six mln- ers who composed the pow der gang. Eighty five miners left the mine an hour before the ex- plosion. IE HEIR 01 ROUBLES GORE TO QUIT ON MARCH 4 1 Assistant Secretary of Agrlcni tore Howard M. Gore, recentl elected Governor of West Virginia, will remain In active chatge of the Department f Agriculture until January L when he assumes thi Governorship. He will assume all the duties of the lata Secretary Wallace nntU that time. . Uatxrlitrd mm Uud WtrO LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16. The district attorney's Investigators to day seized a collection of unset rubles and diamonds valued at $260,000 which were said to have been placed in a safe deposit vault under an assumed name prior to his death by Harry I. Kali, dia mond broker, who was shot Novem ber 10-last The seljure of the gems reopens the Investigation of the mysterious shooting of Kats as he stood in the-1 doorway ot nis apartment, tne uis- trlet attorney announced. More than two score persons have been questioned concerning the activities of Kats before his death. This led to the discovery of the vault laden with jewels. The district attorney said that itho death was formerly accredited to a revenge motive, now, however he believes that some one who knew of the Kntz jewel wealth killed the diamond broker Intend ing robbery. PORT REPRESENTATIVES MEET $ IN PORTLAND TODAY ID WILL (AMncUtM Prim Lad Wtr. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 16 Rep resentatives of 13 port districts In Oregon met here today at the call of Governor Pierce, together with representatives of Washing ton and California to draft resolu tions asking congress to' attend $20,000,000 In port developiyrnt on the Pacific Coast. George Ithndes of Ran Francisco and W. IX. Peters of Gray? Harbor were appointed by their governors- Governor Pierce's own commit- tee consists of I. N. Day. Portland, L. E. Dean of Eugene and Russell ""nnarn m in on iqua port dis trict. Dean Is presiding officer. In addition to asking the legis latures of coast states to memorial ize congress for $20,000,000 to Im prove coast harbors to a depth of 30 feet, the conference delegates "ought to start a movement for fnnauri'al nti nnllnv wnlr-h Un conservation policy which would provide for cutting of the western forests at once under a system of adequate reforestation Instead of holding rlne timber until It deter- lorates to a complete loss. Another movement discussed was to demand that the federal government be requested to pay iE xes upon timber In the national i ts on the same basis as taxes required on privately owned limber, so as to relieve the burden of taxation In counties in which i the bulk of the taxable property Is locked up In government reserves. Governor Pierce said that har bors could be made by building Jet ties st Nihalem, Tillamook, Vaqu Ina. Sluslaw ar.d Pnipqiia. W. H. Peters of Grays Harbor, representing Wa'hlngton, declared that money spent In Improving Grays Harbor would eliminate loss ; of $2nn,nii0 annually now caused by vessels being harboutid. In tee lime that It takes to gi t out the 45,0OO,Qu0,0UO fi-ct of timber trlbu-J GOOLIDGE ASKS HOOVER TO TAKF SECREMSHII Declines Post as Head of . Agriculture Department of United States. STAY WITH COMMERCE Howard M. Gore Retires on March 4th to Become Governor of West Virginia. - (Aaoclitod Pa tested WtrO WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. Presi dent Coolidge has tendered tho post of secretary of agriculture to Secretary Hoover, but Mr. -Hoover Veplled that he decided to remain at the commerce department. Mr. Hoover, however, two years ago declined a transfer o the in terior department when President Harding was seeking a man wHo would place that department 'on a on a business basis. With the president's approval Mr. Hoover; today Issued this state-, ment: ' "In view of the press reports. It seems to me desirable to state that the president did me the honor to suggest that I consider transfer to the post as secretary of agricul ture. . "He expressed his belief that present need of that department was an administration In which emphasis should be given to the solution of the farmer's marketing problem. "To this I fully agree. Neverthe less, 1 feel that In the future as In' the past the . great . eontributlon that I could make to the improve ment of hhe farmers position lay In the advancement of measures that make for the reduction of costs in our whole distribution' system and tn helping to bring about improve ment and stability In the goner- a industrial and commercial sltua- tion both at home nud abroad. Tho farmer's problem to a problem of the nation as a whole, , "I deeply appreciate the confi dence which the president has shown In me but I have told him that I believe it would be to the -beat Interest for me to decide atralnflt the suggestion, which,.' have done." WASHINGTON Jan. 10. AJ thotigh transfer of Secretary Hoot er from the commerce depnrtmeit' I (Continued on pare six) E'u jtary to Grays Harbor the saving In having adequate hnrbor facilities would amount to $22,000,000 a sum sufficlent-to Improve all the small er harbors of the coast, he said. George H. Rhodes, representing the governor of California pledged his services In br half of the movi. ment and predicted that Ihe legisla ture of California would memorial ize congress In line with the rec- ommendatlon of tl He pointed on- onferenee. Del Norte 'County. Calif., Is ' . rcent nation- 1 forests, that pfy no taxes, and jthe full burden of taxation falls upon the remaining 22 percent. State Senator John Masrlndry amplified the rnncervatlon Idea that othrra had touched upon. The way to realize on our forests and actually conserve thm, he de clared. "Is to cut them now as fast as vou can and rpfor'st "The d eterioration of our for-, ests In the past 20 years Is Incon ceivable. Notwithstanding the prnpRfranda of th paeudo-ronserv- latlonlst we will lose the bulk of lour timber resources through their 'rotting in the forests if we do not cut them nt once and use It. "This is the case In the Cas- cades even more than on the coast. "There Is not a cruise that wis made in our old forests SO years ago that will stand up today so great has been their deterlora Hon." COMMITTEE TO MEET The school site rommlttee will meet In regular session tonight. Tho committees which have been work- ling during Ihe week Inspecting var- lous proposed locations, will have Its repo, i ready to submit, and It Is desired that a full att"ndance nf tho membership be obtained In order that the plans may be thoroughly considered. .' '! i - ; i V