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Us717 Let business just WEATHER .SI5BBSG run along and you Highest Ytsterday . Lowest Last Night . let it run down Rain tonight and Thursday. DOUGLAS COUNTY An Indspsndsnl Nswspapsr, Published fr th Bsat Intarssta at the People. Cor atlon of Tha Evsnlng Nswi and Ths Rotsburg Rsvlsw. :! ROSEBURG NEWSREV1EW WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1 925. VOL. XII. NO. 396 OF THE EVENING NEWS K VOL. XXVII NO 85 OP ?0f REVIEW BILL IS GIVEN! T ON LIST Cooperative Marketing Plan Will Be Studied By Senate During Week. BORAH OPPOSES BILL Says Measure "Make-Shift" and Does Not Meet Re quirements Others . " Have Priority. (AMnrtatMl Pr Lwd Wire.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. The House today substituted for the Hnugen co-operative marketing bill a measure drafted by Repre sentative Dickinson, republican, Iowa. The action by a vote of 138 to 78, places the Dickinson measure which provide for federal assist ance to co-operative organizations without federal control before the house as an order, of business, another vote on it being necessary for final action. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. Un der a re-arrangement of the senate legislative program for the remain ing week of the session, legisla tion embodying the principal rec ommendation of the president's ag riculture conference the Capper Haugen, co-operative marketing bill has been given preferred studies on a priority list of less than a dozen measures. Decision to place the co-operative bill behind the general omni bus pension, measure, which has right of way after disposal of the pending banking legislation, was reached after Senator Borah, re publican, Idaho, characterized the S Capper-Haugen bill as a 'make-'from shift" had again demanded an ex- tra session of congress to consider program or rarm am. The farm hill was nlaced on the i list where action on the legislation nv tne nnnsp mirm np nwairpn. longer, enlalnerl. wllh tti- (ilea nf I hh fi.,,,1 ..iinn hv cih.ii. 1 tutin the house measure for that ! ,ni., tn ih ..n.t. Th Wan. , .,,, i k ,., , today for action under rule adopted last week. When the rivers and harbors authorization bill, fourth on the senate list, is taken up. proponents of the Cape Cod canal purchase i bill and the Gooding long and short haul measure will attempt to use it as a vehicle for putting these bills through as riders. Other measures in the priority list of the senate include the de-1 ficlency appropriation bill now tin- j palmer and the other two conspir- tie was found dead here today in der consideration In the house, the j ators, and they scampered over the'hla apartment at the Hamilton bill for re-organizing the prohlbl-, wan to freedom. i Hotel. tion enforcement agency, and the 1 He was again recaptured In New Physicians who were summoned naval omnibus bill. York and once more a guard was after the locked door of the apart B. F. Yokum, chairman of the ; sent alter him, but Palmer slipped ment had been taketa down, issued fanners to consumers league, filed (off the chains and irons some- a--certificate of death by natural with the senate agricultural com-1 where in Wyoming and le;ined causes, resulting from Internal niittee today, at protest against the i from the speeding train toi free- hemorrhage and probable hemor ( Continued' on page eight) dom. I (Continued on pHge 8 ) 31 TTt ' t I -' .' . n Endeavoring to Identify dead taken from the explosion In the City Coal Mines at Sullivan, Ind., j where 120 mintre were trapepd by an explosion. This picture was made In Rail back's morgue at Sullivan. i hM LmiMI WHO A. sRAGE. Alaska. Feb. 25. heavy earth shock be- Can here at 8:51 this morning and continued ten seconds. Little or no damBge was done. A lighter sjock had occurred at 8:26. CHINESE LEADER lEli DEATH PEKING, Feb. 25. Dr. Sun Yat Sen. South China leader, is be coming weaker daily as the result of an operation he underwent tor cancer on January 26. Ho contin ued to lose strength today after spending a sleepless night, mind was clear, however. Ills T (AMotUttd Vrrm Lnwd Wire.) BERLIN. Feb. 25. An official bulletin this morning announces that President Ebert is progressing normally following his operation yesterday for appendicitis. The president had a good night, the bulletin says and his tempera ture, pulse and general condition are satisfactory ESCAPED CONVICT IS CAUGHT IN N. Y. (Aunriatcil IwJ Wti.) ALBANY. N. Y.. Feb. 25. A man believed to be Richard Palmer, death had resulted from Myocard wbo escaped from San Quentimias and acute cardiac dilation. He penitentiary in 1922, was arrested . declared that blood about the here today charged with robbing , mouth came from a cut on the sleeping Pullman passenger.! on jchln which he Bald probably had the Twentieth Century limited, 'been reogened by a fall just before The prisoner said he was Harry A. the senator suffered a heart at' Hillman of New York. jtack. I Dr. N. P. Barnes, who had made SAN QUENT1N, Cal., Feb. 25. Ithe preliminary examination, had Richard Palmer, known in police I given the cause of death as gas parlance as a "high class bur- trie hemorrhage, glar," is credited with four escapes. The cut on the senator's chin, two from ban yuentm and two prison guards who were sentWhue shaving, was plastered over j after him. jwith tape when his colleagues last Palmer Was sentenced to rvejsajw. nIm ave at yesterday's sen- nve yfr in p. mini uum ou ri..- Fran clsco In April, 1919. after having perpetrateu a numner or ciever,take ,he D0(ljr tns afternoon uuiKmura. jip w .- gUSt 31, 1919, While employed in the administration hiilldln.z of the te prison here. He was captur ed in New York and a gnarn was sent after him. The guard return- eu ttimic rauin-r Having; icn 'in from the speedinftrain somewhere He was recaptured and returned to San Quentin, hut on the night of February 23, 1923, with two other prisoners he escaped. He. worked this escape through a clever ruse. A rourtn conspirator disguised as a clergyman attempt- ed to walk out of the prison gates, Ho harl little hone nf earane. hut this attemnt drew attention from Z K.! "'' . IS. JBkk I 1 SUDDENLY T Death of Medill McCormick Discovered at Ten o'Clock This Morning. HAD HEMORRHAGE Doctor Who Had Been At tending Him Discovered Death Mrs. McCor mick Prostrated. - WASHINGTON. Feb. 25. Sen ator Medill McCormick of Illinois was found dead in his hotel apart' ment here today under circuit stances which led physicians to jdlsagree as to the cause of dea(h. The doctor who made the first examination of the body Issued a certificate giving internal hemor rhage as the cause of death but the coroner later held that the (senator had been a victim of heart sjdlseaae. Both agreed that the death was due to natural causes and thnt the snator had passed away almost without warning while he was alone in his apartment. The coroner'B verdict was that apparently the result of a mlshan ate Besfljon- Arrangements were made to to the home here of the Countess Eleanor Glzycka, formerly Miss Eleanor Patterson of Chicago, i whose family has long been asso- i elated with the McCormick family In management of the Chicago Trl , bune. The countess was one of :ihe first to call at the hotel. An- "f"" ys Representative Long- worth, the republican house lead- er. ' - 7 ' . ,', , alor Medill McCormick of Illinois, member of one of the country most celebrated families and for years a force In republican poll- IS1G I1"' IIOVSK ADOPTS REPORT OX POSTAL PAY HILL. f AMortoted fr Uturd Wrrc) WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. The conference report on the postal pay and rate increase bill was adopted today by the house. Senate concurrence Is ne- cessary before the measure can go to the president. ' As res tamped by the con- feree, the bill Is estimated to .raise about $f0,000.000 In revenue annually to offset in part an outgo of $86,000.- 000 increased salaries. Representative Hell, demo- crat, Georgia, one of the house conferees sought to have the proposal recommit ted to conference with in structions to the house man agers to reduce the two cei.t service charge on parcel pot packages to one cent. His motion was rejected 55 to 28. s The house then adopted the conference report by the- overwhelming vote of 370 to 8. As approved the bill Ident ical with the one passed several weeks ago by the house, except that the three ent rate on second c4as malls and periodicals In the first and second zones was scaled down to two cents. CHIEFS' PARTY TOMORROW NIGHT The Umpqua Chiefs and Squaws are preparing for a good time to morrow night at the second of the Informal "get togethere" at the Knights of Pythias Hall. The Chiefs are sponsoring the party, and have invited as their guests, the Umpqua Squaws, the members of the Legion drum corps and wives, and the Douglas County Concert band and wives. The party will start at 8:30. and snappy program of cards, dancing. music, and supper has been ranged. All members of these three organizations are urged to attend, and enioy the evening with the Chiefs who have planned a real entertainment. County Judge George Qulne, and Attorney George Neuner, left last evening for Portland to meet' with the state highway commission and the Bureau of Public roads.- A Joint meeting of the state commis sion and federal board will be held and It Is the desire of the county to secure help for the Umpqua highway and the Tiller cutoff road. Trial of W. E. D. Stokes, Charged With Conspiring to Defame His KcffaniTioH Wlfo I iotil IMpur ImrpflK (AmocUIkI Pre-Lmwi win-.) rttiCAGO. Peh 25 The t-.lal nf W. E. D. Stokes, New York hotol and three co-defendants charged with conspiring to defame his estranged wife. Mrs. Helen El wood Stokes of Denver, received Increased attention today on the unexpected arrival from New York of W. E. D. "Weddle" Stokes, Jr. No announcement was forth coming from prosecution or de- dense as to the probable part of the young man who was mention ed In the defense's opening state ment in the present trial and who was sued by his stepmother In 1923 after a letter alleged to have been written by him In revelation of Intimacies with Mrs. Stokes was read in the first Stokes divorce 'suit In New York. Mrs. Stokes suit for $1,000,000 alleging charact er defamation. I Stokes Junior has been quoted but the Chicago Tribune today said that he had a heated inter view with his father upon arrival yesterday and "there Is every indi cation he will take an active If not sudden part in the trial, presum ably to clear his own name of any alleged misconduct with his aiep mothj'r. Mrs. Stokes today declined to Woman Who Hurled Acid in Face of Husband Say3 "Mother-in-Laws Shouldn't Live With Young Folks" HOLLYWOOD. Cal.. Feb. 25 Though Mrs. Tlernlce L. Day still , hovered between life and death ,her today as a result of what . : police say was an attempt to kill ' j herself with poison after hurling acid Into the face of her husband. Darby Day, Jr., of Chl"agf her 1 alleged explanation nf the affair was In the hands of Investigators ; In the shape of a farewell note , addressed to young Darby. This note according to Miss ; Carlyn Lundstrom. Mr. Day s : plater, was written by the young Chlcugoan's bride shortly aftr the acid throwing Monday night and Just before the attempted poisoning. Mln Lundstrom pro duced the note and her explana tion of the clr umstanrps. under which it .was written when she was brought Into a Beverly Hills police court yesterday, charged with aiding and aliening the al leged Pint to disfigure Day. She was released after promising to assist In further police lnvestlga- j IS LUG IN A FOOL'S PARADISE ) (Aaaorlatml irrm IimnI Wire.) CHICAGO. Feb. 25. The e American public is living In a "fools paradise", and needs to step aside and take stock nt Itself, the Right lteverend Jnmes Wise, bishop of Kiin- sas, declared at the Lenten services of the church club of Chicago here today. Lent offers the individual self us others see him". Ill fhnp Wine asserted. "Ach Wednesday, the first day of Lent, emphasizes a need In human experience, that the world will never outgrow repentance from Aln," he said, "this need Is as old as humanity itself. By it has come all of man's spiritual development and progress. " AltKKSTi:i OX UyiOlt CHAIK-K 'Dick Carpenter was arrested this morning by Sheriff Sam Star mer, charged with giving liquor to a girl. He was arraigned In the local justice court, but took time in which to enter his plea to the charge. He was released with out ball, and was ordered to ap pear Saturday to answer to the churgo. GOWAN IMPROVING George M. Gowan, of Yoncalla, who was taken to the hospital yes- terday after he had been struck by an automobile, was reported ty bo i Improving this morning by his phy sician, Ir. Stewft'-t. 'i he Internal In- juries are not Believed to be ,eil- ous and he is expected to recovo. V.. It. Kpniiv Hnmn E. R. Kenny, of tne Douglas Creditor's Afnoclallon, returned fftine last night from Klamath Falls, where he has been spend ing a few days attending to busi matters. The rond from nd to Klamath Falls Is in ness Ashland to Kiamatn tans is in good shape, he reports, except ror the fact that at places the snow on each side Is higher than the top of the vehicle confirm rumors that "Weddle" I might testify in her behalf. She said she knew nothing about her stepson's Intentions and had not I ,Rpn him for a long time. Charles Itnrnlsh.-aged Itinerant tinker, fomerly a porter in a re sort, was allowed to leave the wit ness stand, and walk about the court room to see If he could iden tify persons who asked him "to sign a paper. The defendants are accused of paying for fraudulently j damaging affidavit about Mrs. Stokes. The witness had said he could not soe clearly enough to Identify anyone from the stand. Cane in hand, and peering about him. llurnlsh started upon a stroll among the spectators until admon ished to limit his scrutiny to the persons at the tables near the bench. He identified no one, re membered no names and there was no cross-examination. Burnish said he signed a paper in a taxicab. that the persons who gave him the paper gave him money, but "not for signing the paper. John Moore, negro, said he could not read but "touched the pen" when an affidavit was read to him. "Sure they read It, but I didn't know what it meant" nald- Moore on cross-examination. tion. The contents of the note Indi cated that Mrs. Day believed her ) mothT-tr-law's attitude was re sensible for her estrangement from her young husband, and con cluded with the words: "Mother-ln-luws shouldn't live with younp. married people." Mrs. Day's chances of recovery were said to be slightly better arly today than- they were yester day, though her condition re mained critical. Physicians at tending her hushand said they ' liciped to save his eyesight, though his face was badly seared by the arid. ' HOLLYWOOD. Cal.. Feb. 25 A hospital announcement here early today declared the condi tion of Mrs. Darby Day, Jr., who 'llce say attempted to end her I life with poison after hurling acid I Into the face nf her husband, to be 'somewhat Improved." She Is conscious at intervals. PLANS OR E n SCHOOL! ARE SUBMITTED'! First Architects Present Draft of Plans for Pro posed Building. ! PLEASING' STYLE IS Economy of Construction Obtained by Combining Gymnasium and Auditorium. The school board met last nlcht In a special session to consider the preliminary plans prepared by Arch itects Hnndzlker and Oerow for the new high school building. Mr. Oe row "was present and offered plans for the first and second floors and the front elevation for Ihe consld- eratlon of the board. These plans are being carefully scrutinized, and will probably be altered consider ably before the final adoption. The front elevation is very attrac tive, although foltnwlng a conserva tive style of architecture. The building will be two stories in height, with a basement ot.ly large I enough for the heating plnnt, and a smnll amount of storage, The board Is Investlcating a svs- tem of heating by electricity, aslng electrlcallv operated rad ators. a svstemwhich issaidto.be used with much success In California., and if this Is adopted, the base.;"'"". mKn w" 8 TeI7; '"'"J1"" ment may be done away with en - urely Several new feature. . lnol,I. ? !" ,,ne P1?1"1; onR nplng the con stmction of the auditorium and gymnasium together. Instead of h' ,n . , ' " ' ' " w f" " I'"' ate tliey are combined, giving, ;a "n,mCily '' c 2.? of l"""'10- ,, . ThlB room would be 85 feet square. Across one aide would be a tier of seats, occupying about 23 feet of the space, while an over- hanging balcony would give amount of seating capacity. The gymnasium floor would bj Sf feet long by 40 feet wide, and on' the onoosfte side from .the "blench-1 era would be a stage 19 feet iieen v t 50 or 0 feet long, with storage and dressing rooms nt each uini. neaui ciiuhi De piacea on lllfl gymnasium floor for assemblies, making room for a very large au dlence. There has been some objection to this arrangement, although no fault has been found with the M in general. It is maintained that under Ihe present plan the gymnasium floor Is too narrow. A full-sized basketball court is 50 feet wide, which with room four out-of-bounds lines would require a width of BR feet The plans as offered would allow a court only 32 feet wide, wlilcn !( connldered altogether too small. The confusion resulting from put-j ting up and taking down several hundred chairs was also considered. ! It Is felt, however, that by roniblii-j lng the two It will be possible to1 avoid the expense of providing twoj large rooms. It has been suggested that the I (Conttnnen on page 6 FIRST PHOTO OF MINE EXPLOSION i Gtneral vlsw of th, top works of tht City Coal Mln. at Sullivan, waiting at ths mln, for d.ad to b, brought up. SISKIYOU SUSPECTS .. HELD IN MEXICO I , I 4 (AOTcUtx) Frm Uued win.) SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25. Southern Pacific railway officials were today awaiting A fn.tha. wnni fn.m Kne&les. I Arl. mncrnlnir two men ar- rested at Esperanza, Sonora, Mex., supected of being Roy and Ray De Autremont, two of the three brothers wanted on Indictments charging them ! with the holdup of a Southern ! Taclflc train in the Siskiyou ': mountains in Southern Ore- gon. in UCIUUfr, IU 1-0 m -w which four persons were kill- ed. Three Southern Pacific agents were reported to have left Nogales to make an lnves- ligation following the report ,hat ,ne ,wo m,'n had "n w arresieu oy ine cmei ui imnva -w of Hermosillc. LLOYD GEORGE IS GREATLY IMPROVED (Aaorlalrd ITral Uurd Wire.) BIRMINGHAM, Eng., Feb. 25. Former Prime-Minister Lloyd . George who was taken III sore throat after reaching with here Saturday to make a Bpeech, had i recovered sufficiently today to travel. ' He left London, accompan ied by his wife and secretary. GOOD ATTENDANCE AT CONFERENCE Attendance at the district confer ence now on at the Methodist ' ""'"; ' . , . j ,:ir ,v "tr'c',y, o"ie with the f h ul"- The young people's l' L I'.i," ,!. . attended by ...... ... ... ,nB cl,v " as those associated with the Epworth League, . ,y V . I Z 1 't"nt en irely to church problems, particularly relating to the de- tiaftnuantiil urnrlr An Ininruolln., ' rt wa. n'ha tutl aft'' 1 by Rer. T. O. Patterson of Myrtle JCreek. Tonight's sermon will be given by Rev. T. S. Wheeler of Portland, and tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock kV.Hv. M. P. Hill of Coqullle will I it peak, ftI DC IVlIw, SAM HEINKEN DIES AS RESULT OF SUICIDE ATTEMPT Mrs. Sam Heinken, who yes- terday drank Lysol with sulcld- 1 SL !",.e?t.iuri.7Pri. f despondency, died this morn- ! Ing nt 6 o'clock. The poison ous liquid consumed by her resulted In serious stomach hemorrhages which finally re- suited In her death this morn- 4 4 lng. Mrs. Heinken was 66 years of age, a native of Mln- nesnta. She and her husband had resided In Douglas county lO about two years. Besides the husband she leaves one grown daughter, Mrs. Cleorge Ber- rle, who was called to Rose- burg yesterday . The funeral services will bo held on Thurs- day afternoon at the Koseburg Undertaking Chapel with Inter- ment In the I. O. O. F. ceme- tery. nn-niiARnifliM nr UU U UI II IU II III UI 1ICLINTO REMAINS SILENT Refuses to Testify at In quest Into Death of the ' Young Man. CHAUFFEUR TESTIFIES Says Mrs. Shepherd Refused to Give Young Man Any Medical Treatment; ' Barred Fiancee. (AawUM Prni IMcd Win.) CHICAGO, Feb. 25. Mrs. Wil liam I). Shepherd, who was a co guardian of the "millionaire or phan" William N. McCllntock to day refused to testify at the in quest Into the death of the young; man last December. Her husband, fostor father and chief beneficiary of the orphan's will, which was drawn less than a year ago after he became 21 years old, at a pre vious session had refused to tentl- fy. She was called to the stand Bf ter her former chauffeur, Louis Klesse, had testified that she and her husband had for a time bar red Miss Isabel Pope, McCllntock'a fiancee, from their home after she 1 n' , I"amea n """" ,"" '"u,,s ' ' . chief Justice Harry Olson, of the municipal court friend of the ' McCllntock family who Instlgatea i the investigation of the death of the orphan who left a $1,500,000 estate, asked Mrs. Shepherd, after she announced her refusal to testi fy If she would say anything re garding the death of his brother. Dr. Oscar Olson, three years ago. . She said she would refuse to testi ? Judge Olson some time ago ask ed for the exhumation of the body of his brother, Dr. Olson, who had been physician and adviser to young McCllntock. Klesse testified that while Mc Cllntock was 111 he was often sent on minor errands and to make small purchases, such ss castor oil and other remedies but never to have prescriptions filled. Mrs. Shepherd would usually say when prescriptions were to be obtained, that "Mr. Shepherd will get the prescriptions filled," Klesse said. Kle,e asseried Mrs. Shepherd When McCllntock was taken ill. i.i . nrw. ii. A.tH . will j Ur nil riKllb lla ( ion uojsi. -II I-U l AW A,.m The next time he saw McClln tock, Klease testified, the youth was weak and said he waa shaky all over. "I begged Mrs. Shepherd to call a conference," he continued, "but she told me 'he only has a cough, that was the last time I Baw hint alive. "Later when they got a tip that Miss Pope had obtained a mar rlage license Mrs. Shepherd In atructed me to lock the doors and not let anyone In. She said Mlns Pope was trying to marry him. Mr. 8hepherd said that he would have Miss Pope arrested and then, Mrs. Shepherd got very excited (Continued on page . Ind. Picture shows crowd. 4 M ft
