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VOL XXVII. NO. 92 OF
ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW FRIDAY. MARCH 6. 1 925.
VOL. XII. NO. SOS OF THE EVENING NEWS
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COL. FECHET lb
TAKE PLACE DF
Nomination Will Be Sent
to Senate by Coolidge
in Near -Future.
FECHET WELL KNOWN
Has Brilliant Career and
Fine Military Record
Will Be Valuable Man
as Assistant Chief.
(Aaocbtrt fnm Lcued WlrO
WASHINGTON. Mar. 6. Selee-
tlon of Colonel James E. Fechet to
GEN
MITCHELL
ut assistant cmer of the army air
service,- to succeed Brigadier
general William Mitchell was an
nounced today by Secretory
Weeks.
General Mitchell's tnrm as as
sistant chief will expire April 27
when Colonel Fechet will -assume
the duties and rank of Brigadier
General, General Mitchell revert
In to his own rank of Colonel.
Colonel Fechet's nomination is
expected to be sent to the senate
soon by President Coolidge, Secre
tary Weeks having Recommended
him for the post after examination
of the records of all officers of
sutable rank.
Colonel Fecbet was born Jn Tex-
as August 21, 1877 and enlisted as
a private In the sixth cavalry dur
ing the war with Spain, April 18,
1898. He became a second lieuten
ant in 1900 and has passed through
the other grades to his present
, rank in the regular army.
H- tprtieipated In the Santiago
campaign and was wounded at the
battle of San Juan In 1898. He al-
to saw active service during the
pipe insurrection and served with
the punitive expedition In Mexico
in 1916.
Colonel Fechet is a qualified" pi
lot, having served continuously in
the aviation . service since Sep
tember 1917. He was' appointed
temporary Lieutenant Colonel av
laton at the out break of the World
War, promoted to temporary col
onel In 1918, his temporary com
'mission terminating in 1920. when
he was permanently transferred to
the air service. Ho stands third
in relative rank among the lieu
tenant colonels of the army .air
service.
The nomination of Colonel
Feahet, carrying the rank of Brigadier-General,
was sent to the
' senate . by President Coolidge a
short time after he had received
the recommendation from Secre
tary Weeks.
General Mtchell, as chief expon
ent of the independent air forces
theory of national defense, as dis
closed by himself during the re
cent congressional Investigation to
be out of harmony with war de
partment and administration policy
' on nearly all matters affecting the
air service.
v During his testimony he sharply
criticized both the war and navy
- departments with relation to air
service matters and Secretary
Weeks and his advisers have tak
en the position that he could hard
ly be useful In his present position
where he would be required to op
erate under policies which he bad
openly and emphatically challeng
ed. General Mitchell was at Langley
Firld.xVa., to witness the anti-air
craft run demonstratlona when the
announcement of his
successor
(Continued on page S.)
Black Fleet Making Plans to
Strike While Blue Fleet Scouts
in An Effort to Locate Enemy
. AHiW fwi Wh.i leach battleship crew distributes
ABOARD V. 8. 8. SEATTLE. I (a water supply and electricity for
Mar. 6. The great- black battle ! power and light All crafts are
fleet, the attacking force ot the .represented on ships housing,
"Black Nation" which for the pur- j clothing and feeding,
pose of the maneuvers problem All men are 4uslly estlng aboard,
has declared war on the- United Suddenly this routine halts as
States is driving steadily eastward the fleet tesU Its readiness to en
toward the Pacific coast aa blue gage tn attacks with the sclroutlng
fleet scouting forces, "America's" : blue fleet Gunnery quarters
defenze of SR. united States Naval isound for all-offlcrrs and men to
war craft sped northward from the drop their tasks and go to battle
canal in the great game of war at I stations. Then as In battle, only
sea .oft the' coast of Mexico. four major functions cany on.
This black fleet of fifty-one war These are: (1) engineering and
venaels Is a fortified city ot more I navigation, (2) communication on
han 200.000 men moving under board and throughout-, fleet, (8)
one master through trackless service of ammunition supply .and
wastes of blue waters. It is a fort I-1 (4). actual gunnery. ,
fled city of tremendous power ot I The great rifles of the dread
detructlon. naughts' sixteen Inch guns, are
Nine great dreadnaughts", having worked in the manner in which
the heaviest striking eolts ot the they hurl one ton missiles twenty
navv form Ita bulk of pewer. These miles averaging one every 5 sec-dreadn-ushta
move on In triple onds with amazing accuracy. Hun
column formation. idreds of such projectiles may be
With a crew of 1200 men practlc- firm from each battleship, one
ally every trade represented In a such shell of high explosive type
fair sized city Is to be found in op- would destroy a steel building
cratlon la these dreadnaughts, j twenty miles away.
aNES CRASH;
. PILOTS ARE SAVED
laodaM Trtm Immi Win.)
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Mar.
. When two Kelley Field
planes collided in mid-air at
an -elevation of about 4.000
feet today, both pilots jump-
ed from the wrecked ma-
chines In parachutes, landing
safely soon after the burning
planes, locked wing In wing,
crashed.
Second Lieutenant 9. D.
McAllister and Cadet Charles
A. Linberg of the advanced
flying school' of KeUy Field
were tile pilots of the planes.
With the exception ot a few
miner scratches, neither man e
was hurt. V
This is the first time in
history that two pilots 1 have
leaped from different ships
following a collision and land- s
ed without fatal injuries.
Under- the command - of
First Lieutenant T. Black-
burn, a group of advanced
students flying in 9-shlp pur- e
4 suit formation, were practlo-
ing attack work on D. H.-48.
4 plane driven by Lieutenant R.
L. Maughan. .
. .
BEND, Ore., ' March 6.-
Mistaking a bottle of com-
merclal acid for a bottle of
liquor, George Stanley of
Bend toolc a good big swal
low before discovering his
error. While still alive tnis
morning, little hope for his
recovery Is held out by at
tending physicians.
The acid was part or it
soldering outfit consigned to
llend from Crescent and Be
ing carried on the stage ac
cording to the driver, A. K.
Davis. The accident happen
ed about 18 miles from Bend
but because of bad reside It
4 was more than an hour and
a half before the man was
brought to Bend tor medical
attention
Stanley, driving a car for
the Central Oregon stage
company, overtook Davis,
who was also driving a car
for the stage company com-
Ing toward Bend, Stanley in-4
formed Davis that his chains
were loose. While Davis
was fixing the chains, Stan-
lev spied the bottle of acid
with the soldering outfit In
a box In the Davis car.
He had taken a good big
swallow before Davis noticed
what he was doing. J. E. 4)
Freets brought Stanley back
to town arriving here about
1:30 this morning.
Stanley, whose home is In
nend has a wife and child
living here. .He is 24 years
old.
WILL APPROPRIATE
MONEY FOR PARKS
(AaviHatnl Tnm Lrunl Win.)
WASHINGTON, Mar. 6. One
appropriation of 12.600.000 for con
struction and improvement of
roads and trails in 17 national
parks was announced today by the
Interior department. It la the sec
ond appropriation In a J7.600.000
three years park' road program to
be completed In 1926.
Glacier National Park, Montana,
was allotted the largest figure,
1453.000 of which t410,QK will be
expended on - the trans-mountain
road to open the first meats of ve
hicular travel from the east to the
west side. Other allotments In
cluded Oregon, Crater Lake Park,
$183,000 for entrance roads.
A fund of S97.000 Is set aside
for the 'national monument road
road surveys.
D
THROUGH
EH IS
Paving to Be Extended
Over Sanford Hill on
Present Grade.
BIDS CALLED APRIL 2
. i-i .
county vouri to Mppro-
. priate Enough From
. Market Road Fund to
Aid Improvement. '
The county court tndav iiinnM
n order advertising nearly one-
nan mile of paving on the Eden-
bower road, bids to be received
on April 2. This paving will be
added to that already laid, and
will carry the hard surfaced road
beyond Sanford Hill. -
The new stretch or paving will
be 2,250 feet in length, starting
at the west end ot the present
pavement, and covering the new
grade which was made last year.
The pavement will be of a
new type, the one developed in
the Bates road tejts in Illinois
where nearly a half million dol
lars waa spent in. determining by
actual testa the best type of road
construction.
Heretofore roads have been
built either ot seven thicknesses
or else crowned In the center.
It has now peeu developed that
the strongest road is the thickest
on the edges, and the new road
will be built nine inches thick on
each edge. At two feet In -toward
the oenter It will taper down to
six inches, which will be the
minimum thickness.
ArnTde,ouKe available the
roaa win oe nuilt one-half at a
time. Reinforcing rods will be
,5l"S fTnJ.
" " Duiia I lie
ni iin 1 vf.C -Ti j
" wwuiui iu uiKiiway BLUUU-
ards.
The i Edenbov?r road district
for two years voted 10 mill spe
cial taxes, raising about $8,000
each ye'ar. The first year they
paved out almost to the foot of
Sanford Hill, and last year, ap
proximately ss.voo were spent in
grading. The 12 per cent Krade
over tne mil was reduced to
a 1
maximum of 6 per cent, and there
still remains approxiately 14,000 1
to be used for paving.
Toe district bas received no
tt.oniinueq on page 3.1 I
FIRST PHOTO
T
EDEfM
TO BE SURFACED
rremclent Coolidge taking the oath of office administered by Chief Justi ce William Howard Taft. By a miracle of science this picture waa trans
mitted across the continent and was received on the Pacific coast just SI min utes after the inaugural ceremonies in Washington. The microphone which
carried the president' speech to millions of listeners in all parts of the countr y are shown in the fore of the picture. Transmission was by the American
Telephone and Telegraph company and the Pacific Telephone and Telegrap h company.
Senate Republicans Organize
and Select Their New Leader
(AoeUUd Tnm lMd wit.) '
WASHINGTON, Mar. . With
the support ot the senators they
have read out of the party coun
cils, the republicans proceeded to
day to the reorganltallon ot the
new senate. . -
Senator Mosea ot New Hamp
shire was elected presldent-pro-tempore,
36 to 60 over Senator
Plttman. democrat. Nevada, the
choice ot the democ ratio confer
ence. v
Call Conference.
WASHINGTON, March 6. '
Prior to the convening of the
senate today, with organisation ot
the new body in -order, confer-4
encea were called for both repub
lican and democratic members to
complete their slate of nominees
and committee assignments in
meeting yesterday and making
selections for party and senate
offices the republicans put over
until today the matter ot passing
upon the report ot the committee
and committee's carrying the re-
tcommendation to displacing sena
tors La Follette, Wisconsin; Laaa
and Frailer, North Dakota; and
Brookhart, Iowa; from their
present ranking on the standing
committee. The senators would
thus be assigned as though not
elected on the republican ticket.
The democratic conference whs
called for the purpose of select
ing nominees for president pro
tein and the other senate oficers
and re-electing Senator Robinson
of Arkansas as floor leader, and
other party officers.
While the La Follette support
ers have Indicated they v would
right tne majority program wun
reference to their committee as
signments democratic leaders
made It plain that they will Inter-
OORVALLW TEAM
DEFEATS EUGENE.
(AxKlatrd rna Leased Win.)
SALEM. Ore., March S. The
Corvallia high school basketball
quintet defeated University high
of Eugene in a closely contested
game played on the Willamette
University floor here last -night,
the final count being 19 to 16.
University high took a short lead
at the start of each half, but both
times was successfully neaoed ny
I fMi SME2S5
-- -- ---- nrougn error ot me nouse enrou
the tilt. Corvalifs will play En- -h hin. mmii.. th. n,i.tinn
gene high -early next week for the
r"M to represent It, district
In
the state tournament to be held
,n Salem tearcn 12
13 and 14.
BUCCANEERS WORK HARD
(AMoclrteil Vnm Leued Wire.)
PITTSBURGH. Pa., Mar. 6.
Biting winds failed to slow up ac
tion in the Pirates training camp
at Paso Robles, Cal., yesterday
and the Buccaneers went through
the first workout that gave oppor-.
tunity for a study of the rookies
who are bidding for regular berths,
Klki Cuyler hammered the ball
over the left field fence, a dis-
tance of 400 feet.
OF INAUGURATION SENT BY WIRE ACROSS THE CONTINENT
ii v W'f '.,ka r '
kJ Vt4J W v M- j,..:.. H!f 4
. po no obsta()es of organization
by the senate majority forces,
The senate committee on ways
and means meanwhile took, the
first step yesterday to withhold
Important committee assignments
to the La Follette group In that
iKxly by deciding not to recom
mend the re-appointment ot Re
presentative Frear ot Wisconsin
to the powerful ways and means
committee, the committee prev
iously adopted a resolution by
which only members wio support
ed the Coolldge-Dawes ticket hi
November were recognized aa re
publicans In making up the com
mittee slates. ,
Senator Robinson told the de
mocratic conference that demo
cratic senators should let the re
publican party, tight out the Issue
without Interference over com
mittee assignments.
"The minority," he satd.Ws un
der no obligation to settle dis
putes of this nature. We should
recognize the right ot the admini
stration to organize the senate
and unless Its efforts prove futile,
stand by and refrain from partici
pation in clashes among renubll-
cans concerning committee assign
ments.;-
lie advocated non-oartlsan con
sideration of foreign relations 'in
order that the moral strength of
our nation in Us dealings with
other people may be undiminish
ed." He admonished (he democratic
senators against attempting to
commit the party organization on
political Issues without thorough
consideration in conference.
Senator Robinson was re-elected
party floor leader and all the
officers of the conference were
re-elected.
BILL NOT IN FORM
AS FIRST INTENDED
(AHoeUtcd fnm Lued WtiO
SALEM, Ore., Mar. 6. House
bill 401, representative Herbert
Gordon's mutual sailings bank, bill
as signed by the governor is not
In the amended form that the leg
islature Intended to pass. Two im
portant amendments made by the
senate and which were agreed up
on by a conference committee of
th i.n h.i... ... irf nr
'' - b! .
is whether since the measure has
been signed by the governor, any
one 'has authority to have It re
enrolled In amended form. '
150O llESmENTH ARE
DEPRIVED OF HOMES.
(AMOflatnJ Pnm l.eurd; W!i.)
CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 6.
The 1500 residents of the town
of Lavoye, Wyo., were deprived
o( their homes by a ruling of Fed
eral Judge T. Illake Kennedy here
today, who ordered that the town
site must be vacated In favor of
the Ohio OH company which holds
a government lease on the land.
It is In the Salt Creek oil field.-
IS
STOKES 111
HOUSE ! ILL
E
FAME
CHARG
i i r r i ,iw me oigami
Aged Defendant on Stand ; complaining
T I n c I wife was "n
Aimed Against Wife.
MADE INVESTIGATION
Millionaire. Hotel Owner
Gives Testimony At
tempting to Prove Her
Inmate of Club.
(Aaocbted Ftm Ltuti Win.)
CHICAGO, Mar. 6. The prose
cution waa warned by Judge Gem
mi U this afternoon that If It did
not quit trying to get smut before
the jury, the verdict would be set
aside if against W. E. D. Stokes,
aged New York millionaire on
trial charged with eonsnirjirv tn
defame his wife Helen Ellwood
Stocks of Denver. Colo.
Mi- Qiv.uk v.j a i. .i
replies from Mr. Stokes whom he
had asked If he had not written
postal cards to Mrs. Stokes, their
children and other members of
Mrs. Stokes' family accusing her
of Immoral relations with negroes.
The next questioning halted bv
Judge Gemmlll as "smutty" dealt
With Whether Mrs Stnkna harf nn
moved from iha Amnnii Untai in
New York because Stokes persist-1
ed in taking notorious women to
their home
"You already have gotten much !
"..L""''7."?""
r., K..rr.r.. ..... -
sure but what that instance has
(destroyed your case and here you
are going ahead with this matter,
Judge Gemmlll said to Milton D.
Smith, assistant state's attorney,
who was cross-examining the aged
defendant.
Mr. Stokes denied that Mrs.
Stokes left their home because of
his relations with questionable
women.
The jury heard Judge Gemmlll
arraign Mr. Smith and threaten to
set aside its verdict If Smith per
sisted in his undesirable question
ing. CHICAGO, Mar. . Three days
of direct examination of W. E. D.
Stokes on trial with Robert Lee,
Chicago negro, for conspiring to
defame Mrs. Stokes were ended
this afternoon and tn the ten min-
8ALEM FARMER IS
4 . HELD FOR BIGAMY 4
4 .
4 , (AaocUtRl mm l4 Win.)
SALEM, Ore., Mar. .
William Hind, living here un-
der the name ot William John
4 son, was arrested by Sheriff
Bower late last night charg-
ed with bigamy. The arrest
was made on telegraph war-
rant from Fort Scott, Kan-
Baa, where It is claimed he
has a wife living.
Hind, officers say, admits
the bigamous relationship
that me first w
mean to me and
wouldn't let me get a - at-
vorce." '
a inmnlliiv in their Rtnrv. 4
! the second wife, with her sis-
ter and cniia, arove nere oy w
automobile with Hind from
Kansas last fall. Both his
second wife and her sister
disclaim any knowledge of
4 Hind's previous marriage and
he bears out their assertion.
utes that remained before the
luncheon recess, Milton D. Smith,
assistant states attorney, asked
questions that had the aged de
fendant chaktng with rage and
shouting replies over his counsel's
objection.
"Did you not at the time your
wife was In a delicate condition at
your Lexington, Ky.. farm, accuse
her of sleeping tn Edgar T. Wal
lace's apartment In New .York!"
demanded the prosecutor.
Repeated "I did nots." from Mr.
S'kes were neara
shouting of defense
above the
and prose-
! cuting attorneys as iivia oi race.
! !?e .New York.
mg 1 nger at Bm
His last statement on direct ex
amination had been that he never
has accused his wife of any per
sonal wrong-doing during the per
iod of their life together.
In concluding more than nine
hours ot rapid tire description ot
I bis three years information lhat
mr'- moKP" once WM an inmate
of the notorious Everlelgh Club,
known in the night life of Chica
go years ago, Mrs. stokes denied
testimony by his mother-in-law,
Mr. Arthur Scott Miller ot Den
r. Colo., he had learned much ef
her family's history through view
ing a family album with her at
his side, that he ever had threat
ened to drag Mrs. Stokes' name Jn
the mire unless she permitted a di
vorce or that he had told Mrs.
Miller that he had had her daugh
ter investigated nefore he married
her.
As he neared the end of his testimony-
Mr. Stokes also asserted
that he never had published any of
the Information. he or numerous at
torneys or Investigators had ob
tained against Mrs. Stokes.
1 "I kept quiet because I wanted
to protect the children," said the
aged defendant. He referred to
the two born of his marriage In
1911 to the then Helen Ellwood of
Denver.
As Mr. Stokes stepped from the
(Continued on page 8.)
flAUGUIlflTlfl
PHOTOS WIRED
1110
News-Review Is First Paper
in State to Show Views
of Ceremony.
FAST MAIL IS USED
Pictures Sent Over Wire to
San Francisco Rushed '"
North to Oregon by -;
Fast Trains.
The Roeeburg News-Review ls
today making the first s'jowlng. In
the state of the picture or tnw in
auguration of President Coolidge at
Washington. D. C. on Wednesday,
March 4. These pictures are the
first to be received In Oregon, ami
were relayed from San Francisco
by fast mall service, after being
flashed across tne continent over
the wires of the Americ, , Tele
phone and Telegraph company, and)
the Pacific Telephone and Tele
graph company, Ming the newly
perfected . device for transmission
ot photographs by wire.
The results shown by tne pic
tures printed in the News-Review
today, demonstrate another great
achievement in this era ot marvel
ous scientiflo irlraclea.
Within one hour from the time
President Coolidge took his oath of
office in Washington, D. C San
Francisco extras were en the
street showing pictures ot the cere
monies. Copies ot -these pictures
were sent north on fast trains,
and today the News-Review Is the
first paper In the state of Oregon
to give to the people of Douglas
county a photographlo account of
the Inauguration of the new Brest.
dent
Airplanes were used in many
places to gite fast distribution of
the pictures from the four cities
where the receiving instruments
were installed.
The perfect results demonstrate
the capabilities over traascontln
tal distances of a new system of
electrically transmitting pictures,
the system being the outgrowth ot
years of experimenting on the part
of engineers ot the Bell Telephone
system.
Four cities were connected to
gether, the arrangements being
such that the pictures were sent
from Washington, D. C, to New
York, Chicago and San Francisco
simultaneously. The length of the
telephone line between Washing
ton and San Francisco by way ot
New York was about 8,600 miles,
the greatest distance over which
pictures have ever been transmit
ted electrically and the transmis
sion time was only seven minutes.
This system of transmitting pic
tures electrically was first public
ly tested In essentially Its present
form In May, 1924. The present
demonstration' Is in anticipation of
the opening of a transcontinental
picture transmission service short
ly to be announced by the Ameri
can Telephone and Telegraph
company.
- The system Is a development of
the. engineers of the American
Telephone and Telegraph com
pany and the Bell Telephone La
boratories, Incorporated. It is the
outcome of work covering several
years and provides a simple, rapid
and accurate picture transmitting
system which will operate over a
telephone line. The apparatus
represents the association of many
recent Inventlona by telephone en
gineers together with standard
types of telephone nnd telegraph
apparatus which have been re
adapted to this new use.
The simplicity or the method Is
such that a positive transparency
film Is suitable for transmission.
The apparatus Is so designed a to
transmit a picture five Inches by
seven Inches In seven minutes. The
picture la received In such form
that, after photographlo develop
ment of the usual sort. It la practi
cally uudlstlnguisliable from an
ordinary photograph and is ready
for newspaper or other reproduc
tion. Line drawings, handwriting;
and printing can also be transmit
ted. A films can be used for
transmission while still wet, this
system eliminates the delay which
would otherwise be caused by dry
ing and by making special sending
plates.
The film upon which a plcfore has
been transferred Is Inserted In the
transniltter'slmply by rolling It up
In a cylindrical form. During opera
tion a very umall and Intense beam
of light shines through the film on
to a photoelectric cell within. The
film Is rotated at a uniform speed!
and by means of a screw mechan
ism Is caused to advance parallel
to the axis of the cylinder. The mo
tion of the light relative to the cyl
inder la therefore the same as that
ot a phonograph needle relative to
(Continued on pace three).
ACROSS