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VOL XXVII NO. 52 OP OSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW FRIDAY. JANUARY 16. 1925.
VOL. XII. NO. 263 OP THE EVENING NEWS
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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
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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.
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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
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MS53srE swETiivr.
Mrs. Elsie Sweetln, of Ina, HU
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serve ner iuiriy.iiywjr
S521 by Mrs. C. Elinore Rulien,
ot the prison.
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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
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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
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inot be confined to the Reichstag,
hut will be carried Into every field
0f German life.
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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.
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ROUBLES
GORE TO QUIT
ON MARCH 4
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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.
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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.
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