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
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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 .
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