Th. WEATHER
Highest ttmp. yesterday S3
Lowest temp, last night 45
Unsettled, probably occasional
rain. tonight and Sunsay, mod
erate temperature.
TODAY'S CIRCULATION OVER
4,2 0 0
AND STILL CROWING
Consolidation of The Evening Newt and The Roseburg Review
An Independent Newspaper, Published for the Best Interest of the People
ROSEBURG. OREGON. SATURDAY. APRIL 4. 1925. '
VOL, XXVII NO. HOF ROSEB
VOL. XIII NO. 18 OP THE EVENING NEWS
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SPELLING BEE
Miss Carmel Newland, of
8th Grade Wins Match
Offered by Kiwanis.
ELEVEN RECEIVE $5.00
Prizes of Gold Pieces Given
to Best Spellers in Each
of Four Grades of
Respective Schools.
To Carmel Newland, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley Newland,
of Went Roseburg. goes the honor
of being the champion speller of
the city, and as a prise she has
been presented with a beautiful
gold wrist watch and $5 In gold.
Miss Newland, a student at the
Rose school, won after a gruelling
contest In which thirty-three con
testants from all of the grade
schools of the city were entered.
Her strongest opponent was Gladys
Hargls. of the Benson school, who
went down only after she became
so exhausted and tired that she
made her fatal mistake upon one
of the easy words of the list.
"I am confident that neither of
these young spellers would ever
have gone down upon any of the
words contained In the spelling
book or the supplemental list If it'
had not been that they became soi
tired that victory was merely a I
matter of physical and mental en-j
durance," declared L. L. Crocker j
the pronouncer, following the com-'
pletlon of the contest I
The spelling bee was opened with
a 15-minute concert and program ,
provided by the 8th grade of the
penson school. Miss Ellow May
Wilson gave a whistling solo, the
members of the 8th grade sang the
"Anvil Chorus" and Stewart Step-1
bens played a cornet solo. j
The spelling contest was conduct
ed as an elimination match, the
contestants first being spelled
down by grades, the winner In each
grnde then being entitled to com
pete in the finals. To each of the
grade winners In each school prizes I
of $5 in gold were awarded. These
eleven winners were as follows:
Fifth grade Fullerton. Irene Clark ;
Rose, Warner Eugene Brown; Ben-
son. Kathryn Crocker. Sixth grade ;
Fullerton. Ruth Sargent; Rose, i
Mildred Koenig; Benson, Eugene
Covert. Seventh grade Fullerton,
Margaret Myers; Roe. Euleta Lnn
genberg; Benson, Merle Branch.
Eighth grade Rose. Carmel New
land; Ren son Gladys Hargis.
These eleven winners were then
matched In the final contest. Ex
citement and nervousness took sev
eral of them, and the sympathy of
the crowd went out to several of
the disappointed youngsters who
took their seats In a flood of tears.
The two eighth grade contestants
were the last on their feet, and Tor
nrnrlu half an hnnp Iho -nrrl a wAnf
back and forth.
The two spellers were In direct'
contrast. Miss Newland was slow,
deliberate and cool. Studying each
word carefully, stopping to be sure
of each letter as she spelled evenly
and steadily. Miss Hargis was
quick and snappy,
r.nnn.iin k I
fore the word had hardly left the
lips of the pronouncer. But at last '
tired and mentally exhausted byi"'" cou.ery at narnan,
the long strain she went down, the nfar 1K8",en'J when 'nllng en
word "ovary" being the stumbling fnebroke down Details of the
"e" Instead of an "a", thus ending
the contest ,
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T h ;
packed to caDacltv br the Inier-t
ested special
president of the Klwanls clu5 i
which sponsored the event, prd-l
ed -er the program, and the
judges were Dexter nice B. W. I
Dates and Foster Butner. to whom
were refered all questions arising
In the conduct of the match, and
whose authority was final. There
was little question, however, as the
contest was conducted In a man
ner which left no room for ques
tion. The prize awarded Miss Newland
was beautiful white gold wrist
waten. hand engraved.
The spel!ig contest has done
more. It Is believed, to stlrsjlfte, four men ai reported to have mnln event bote last night, but
on the part of the student of fhe been Injured. the Jurtgi declared the match a
grade schools of the city, an In-1 I draw. The decision was ve. r un-
terest In the subleet than aiT? other Mr. and M. J- C. Doyle were popular with the fans, who ap
fei" thing, and for weeks the stu- among the ltore In HoseburiB peered lo figure De Laney had
d-nts of the respective schfsols have
been devoting all of
thTr spire
(Continued on page
Indian Chief is
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tip
EES
oJO'E S'EjCAlOjfCUV
Clifford Hendricks, wealthy New York sportsman, haa tiled snlt
for divorce against "bis wife, Mrs. Ida May Hendricks, who now Uvea
In Los Angeles, naming Joe Secakuku. a Grand Canyon guide, a (
tespondent. Sccnkuku Is a chief of the Hopl Indian tribe, a Carlisle
Indian School graduate and a noted athlete. ilia tribal name la Chief
Yellow Feet, and he Is rich.
FALLING CAGE
IN II SHAFT
KILLS SEVERAL!
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r i
Gear Breaks
Allowing 4-t
Story Cage to Plunge !
Down Mine Shaft. ;
MANY ARE INJURED'
"
m
Seventy Miners in Elevator
When Accident Occurs
and Over 20 Be-
lieved Dead.
(AMocUtrd tTMm La1 Wln.)
BERLIN, Aprll '4. A serious
accident. In w hich It is reported
!n!" ,nJ.an', Vr killed or
!?)"r'1,' """"'"'I hl morning at
'ag.t5!!Ia'?,n't..l0 I?"""" ""J1
uu iuv mmu wmi win uiphr- i
.Zijghi ?c ,he ,,re pa,ro1 emci-
The township, ar, scattered
. T h 6 b en rPCOVfirert from ; throughout forest reservations In
" 11 are 15 .t.f... including Montana 30;
- UU ml"in- New Mexico 30; Idaho 22; Ari-
EMENt rTy. April 4. - I r "hk.0
At noon tonay 63 Jt ih mf.n who ,an IB "JlnKton i 18. CaU
were thm ca(?ft wh)cn f(,n rly i,I, ' 'NeVad 6 W 0m
h,v n h t
here, were reportvd badly hurt,
4 J were slightly Injured, while
15 suffered no harm. St-ven to
nine of the men are still missing
and It U assumed they atv dead-
I LONDON, April 4. A Ilerlln
dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph says that 18 men were kll-
led at the Rtlnnes mines near Ks-.a
- yen by the fall of a race. Flftklns. Omaha. In the ten round
yesterday and last nlgik from
southern points Injlv
iJhe s
alls.
tate. They;
I are from Klamath
Co-respondent
It
BILL HART WILL
JOIN BIG CONCERN
(AMOciatrd ProM liml Wire.)
HOLLYWOOD, Cal.. April 4
With the definite announcement
yesterday that William S. Hart
wouia mane nis second return 10
the screen under the banner of
nlfed Artint, that organization
pas preparing today for a series
conferences. neKinning next
onday, at which still further
enlargement of the group will be
considered.
Since Its organization about
five years ago under the leader
ship of Douglas Fairbanks. Mary
Pirkford. and Charles Chaplin,
I nited Artists has grown to in
clude Norma and Constance Tal
madge. Rudolph Valentino and
now William S. Mart. In the face
of this groth, however, accord
ing to Joseph Schenck, chairman
of the hoard of directors, the or
ganization finds itself unabhe to
I maintain a regular schedule of re-
J leases, and ts faced with the
- necessity of enlarging its mem-
ocrsnip in orner to ouua up us
aggregate production
Hart who twice has withdrawn
f rnm net ivp wnrlf int he film will
m.e.b".:!t.u'hi8. '.'..TS J." .a.'?.r5: !
i uitj umuiiimiiu mini runii ui in .
early nineties, according to ten- ,
tatlve plans.
SUB-DIVISION OF
TOWNSHIPS STARTS
(AMttUtM Ptms Ld Wlrt.)
WASHINGTON, April 4. In
, terior department surveyors, in
1 tend to begin soon the snb-dlvlston
: of 223 townships within the na-
uojihi Mirems, wi purpun iwiiir
DELANEY DEFEATS
OMAHA PUGILIST
MMnrl.tM PnM I... Wlr..
PORTLAND. Ore.. April 4.
Jimmy De Lsney, lltht heavy
eight of St. Paul, administered
-a.... v. ,A ti... i '
sou'rt
wen by a wide margin. Perkins
proved that Ire Is an exceedingly
' touch man to beat.
WARDEN
DENIES
CONVICTS
inr
Hn
STEALING FISH
.
Fishing
Dalrymplo Says
Laws of State Not Vio
lated by Prisoners.
MAKES EXPLANATION
Says Stranded Salmon Were
Taken by Convicts
When Flume Was
Left Dry.
(AMOcUted Ptmi Ltued Wire.)
SALEM, Ore., April 4 Warden
Dalrymple of the state penitenti
ary toduy denied an accusation
that is being placed before the
state fish commission to the ef
fect that the- fishing laws of the
Btate are being violated by the.,
prisoners of the penitentiary.
Frank N. Waters of Salem has
written the commission making
the charge and also complaining
that the state does not maintain
a fish ladder over the water wheel
in the mill race at the prison.
According to Dalrymple. a fish
ladder would be impossible. The
other matter in Water's letter ha ,
denies. He says th trusties
under his adminbtf ation, have
never been allowed to fish out.
side the prison grounds nor to go,
filing dressed in citizens clothes. ,
lie also denies that fish wardens
have not been allowed to come ou
the prison premises.
Another statement In the Wa
ters letter, ts that an eye witness
claimed to have seen 70 salmon
tnken out of the race at the
I prison in one day. Relative to
this Dalrymple says that ever so
j often, oqce a year, the corpora
tion controlling the flow of wa
ter from the Santiam river into
the mill race shuts off the water
for ho nre purpose, which leaves
the flume dry. About a year ago.
'says Dalrymple, this was dune
'and 25 or 30 live salmon were
stranded In the prison grounds
while many others were dead. It
! was Impossible to save the lives
of the tish, so the convicts took
them and some of them were
cooked and eaten.
ROBIN REED IS
VICTOR IN MATCH
ALBANY, Ore., April 4 Ilobln
Reed, Olympic star, now Oregon
Agricultural College wrestllni;
Instructor, won two out of three
falls from Jimmy Maurus of Oak-
land, Cat., claimant of the Paci
fic Coa.,t lightweight wrestling
championship here last night.
Heed took the first fall In .14
minutes, Maurus the next In the
same length of time, and Reed
took the final fall In 31 minutes.
BUCKET BRIGADE
HALTS BIG FIRE
ST. MAINRAD. Ind.. Anrll 4.-
a i , , , . , . , .
A f!r? "l f?r a time threat-
ened the entire town was brought
under control here early today
nuc 1 1 iiuiiiiicun ui cuit trim iwiJMfiJ
a bucket brigade and fought the
flams- Ti,a fit-A .-h.K ..an i..
business house, spread quickly
to residences, but the brigade sue
ceeded In keeping the flames un-
der control
Damag-es ire estimated at about
trti nn. i
The town Is without fire fight-
ing apparatus.
Lady Aster Engages in Battle of
Word3 With A. Hayday, Nottingham
Laborite, Over
LONDON, April 4. Consider
able dust appears to have been
raised In parliamentary circles by
the wordy combat between Lady
Astor and tire Nottingham labor
ite, A. Maylay In the House of
Commons yesterday. The woman
member speaking on the children
Mil, said she hated "the asstimp-
tlon that the working mother Is
-nv .1 1 ''..-. . . v. .. -K . i. ..
tner." w tren Hayday Interrupted
with the remark, that she could
read "about society women, nurs
ing puppy dogs when they ought
to be paying more attontior to
h'lttiM beings." Lady Astor said
that IT she fr,id the House all she
kne4t aboi.T Hayday, It would
have something to think about
O
NUXTKNCK Mi:il('INh: MAN
(AawliUd Pna Lmal Wlr..)
COHTEZ. Colo., April 4.
-Vlormon Joe. aged Via In.
; dill n medicine mini, pleaded
' gullly to second dvgree muiv a
der and was sentenced today
by District Judge Searcy to
I
-0 to 25 years in the state.
penitentiary for beating to
death a Mexican prisoner,
his cell mate In the county
Jail hvre.
Sheriff Cowlln of Monte-
:w lurni county, left immedi-
ately for the penitentiary at
lunnn uny wim mormun joe. w
I'nlted States Marxhal
Sehaffer of Durango left to.
day for Pueblo with Plat Ney,
Mormon Joe's son-in-law, who
Is charged with the murder
of his 18 day old baliy girl.
Nay will appvar before the
federal grand Jury on next
Tuesday.
Mormon Joe, held In the
Montesuma county Jail for
federal authorities following
w the alleged burial alive of
the papoose, killed his cell
4 mure because he taunted hhn
for the barbaric practices
w which led to his arrest. The
v Mexican was beaten to death
with a table leg by the en-
raged Indian.
LEGAL BATTLE
L
T
SALE OF SHIPS.HUM RUNNERS
Hfrr) ' Cnnrrovprav Mair
"wea L.onrroversy may
Be Carried to Supreme
Court for Ruling.
PACIFIC
MAIL MAD
Steamship Company Starts
Injunction Against the
Ship Sales Policy of
Shipping Board.
(AvoHatM Prim L.mf! Wire.)
WASHINGTON, April 4. Pros
pects of a legal battle that may be
carried to the supreme court of
the I. nited States and subject the
entire government ship sales pol-
Icy' under the merchant marine act
to court review and construction
for the first time has been raised !
In the injunction proceedings i
brought by the Pacific Mall Steam- j
ship company, against a ship
sales
board,
decision of the shipping
The heated
controversy which"'""11 ,en OI neienuania in
has arisen over the bonrds deel
sinn to sell Its five ships in the
California-Orient line now operat
ed by the Pacific Mall to the Dol
lar Interests, rested today In the
hands of Justice O. f litz of the
District of Columbia supreme
court who Issued an Injunction
yesterday, temporarily blocking
the sale. Hearings on making
p(flTOanf.nt
the temporary injunc
tion against the boajd have been
Bet for April 13
Tl . .... . .1 4
. n ou of thp oiitco?n of that
hearing, however, the case Is ex-
pec ted eventually to bring b'fre
the United States the whole pur-
!" involved In the ship sales
clauses of the merchant marine
act; signed to LuiM up a sinbil-
izwl American merchant marinp
tundvT Private operation by trans-
n.onnnuen on paK- o i
the Booze Question
and that If she spoke of the com
pany he kept. It would not re
dound to the credit of Mr. Hayday
or the lubor party.
Later she explained that she
Intended no sinister Implication
In her reference lo Mr. Heyday's
personal alfairs; that all she had
In mind was his attitude toward
the drink question.
m "My altitude on the drink qucs
non. Is that I sin an antl-pruhl-blt'onint,"
Mr. Mayday said.
"Lady Astor mav object to this,
but she ha no right to make in
nuendos of any kind "
There the matter rests for the
moment, awal th meeting of
the commons on Monlay. llavday
having given not ire that he uld
i raise the question at that time.
Accuses Bandit
JiySS5
C ' '
Miss Catherine Bourne, a nook
keeper of a Bteoibensville, Ohio,
automobile company, testified In
the Hartford. Conn., trial of Gerald
Chapman, notorious bandit, for the
alleged murder of Policeman James
Skelly, that she saw Chapman in
her employer'a store on April 5,
1924, the day before a sedan mys
teriously disappeared. The missing
car was traced to within five hun
dred feet of the spot where Patrol
man Skelly met his death In New
Britain, Conn. The car was regis
tered under the name of Waldo W,
Miller, which, according to State's
Attorney Alcorn, la a Chapman
alias.
ARE SENTENCED
Members of Quadra Crew
Get Sentence Immediately
After Verdict.
32 FOUND INNOCENT
Ship Was Seized Off the
Golden Gate Last Oc
tober With Large
Cargo of Liquor.
(AOTrUtil rrna lAnrtl Wlr..)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 4.
, Conviction and immediate sent-
ienrfng In federal court late last
the Quadra rum runn-vi case was
regarded by federal prohibition
enforcement officials here today
i as establishing their precedent In
fixing guilt on International of
j fenders and exonerating crew
j members.
Officers of the Quadra, which
1 was seized off the (.olden (late
lttnt October 12. with liquor from
Vancouver, M. C, with an eBtim
j utt d value close to a quarter of
u million dollars, uvre sentenced
: wilh In ten minutes of the rend
ering of the verdict to payment
of fines and Imprisonment In the
federal prison at Leavenworth.
Thirty-two members of the
crew were found not guilty of the
charce of conspiracy to violate the
prohibition laws.
Federal officers today called
att),n,,nn to tho rhaw to the Jury
by Judge John 8. Partridge, In
which he said If you find that the
crew of this vestiel shlpiwd aboard
It without knowledge that It was
carrying contraband cargo, they
should be acquitted. If the
I"
captain Is found to have knowl-
iltf that liquor was being un
loaded from his vessel and deliv
ered on the shores of the United
Stales, hn should be convicted.
Vincent Quartraro. Kan Fran
cisco agent, and Charles If. lie.
langer, of Han Francisco and Van
couver, H..C. d'rertor of Consoli
dated Fxporfer. the Catiad'an
corporation which cleared the
Qnudra for Vancouver, for Cen
tral American ports, were sent
enred to two years each In Lea
venworth prison and to payment
of ftnes of 110,000 each.
fleorge Ford, captain of the
ship, was sentenced to two years
at Leavenworth and to payment
or a fine nr$ I.Ono. First Mate
Oenree Harris must serve 1 .1
months at Leavenworth; otid
Mate Jay Fvelyn must serve 10
months In the Kan Frunolsco
(Contlnuejkon page 9.
CONVICTED AND,
SUPER-BANDIT FOUND GUILTY OF
MURDER AND ILL PAY PENALTY
FOR HIS DEED ON THE GALLOWS
Faces Judge Who Inflicts Sentence in Stoical Manner
and Says He "Expected It" His Attorney
Will Make Another Effort
' to Save His Life.
(AaocUKd Frra Lrued Wire.)
HA KT FORD, Conn.. April 4.
Gerald Chapman, spectacular mall
bandit. Jail breaker and criminal
extraordinary today was sentenc
ed to hang In the Connecticut
state prison, June 26, in payment
for the lite of a New Britain pa
trolman of whose murder last Oc
tober 12, a Jury had convicted
him less than an hour before.
Through (iroehl, the aeemingly
unperturbed man now face to
face with the gallows, announced
that "I really did not think that
i hHd a chance." He added:
"The prejudice In the minds of
the Jurors was so great they didn't
convict the man that committed
the murder, but tliwy convicted
Gerald Chapman, the super-bandit
and arch-crlmlnal, solely on
his past record."
Chapman, the stole criminal,
whose flaming misdeeds have
made him an international figure,
did not flinch or falter us Ills
doom ascended upon him. Willi
his arm folded across hie breast
and his trail body hold stiffly
erect, he listened to the Judge's
sepulchral words spell out hU
doom with only a flushed face to
mark Ma emotion.' -
Frederick J. Oroehl, Chapman's
chief counsel, filed notice vlth
Judge Jennings that he will appeal
the conviction. Charles Murphy,
alBO of defense counsel, previous
ly had made a motion that the
Jury's verdict be set aside. It
was denied.
"I think I have an excellent
chance to win an uppeal on the
grounds of obvious prejudice
throughout the trial and numerous
errors of omission," Groehl said.
It developed that the Jurors took
only one ballot.
(AatoclatKl Pttm LMed Wiiv.)
HAKTFORD, Conn.. April 4.
Gerald Chapman today was found
gullly of murder In the firt de
gree for the slaying of a New
Britain policeman last October 12.
The Jury hud been out a little
over 11 hours, when It announced
it had arrived at a verdict.
Chapman, standing in the bleak
prisoner's dock in the .court room,
gave no evidence of emotion as
the court clerk read the verdict
handed him by the jury foreman.
Frederick J. Groehl, chief de
fense counsel, previously had an
nounced that he would fire an
I appeal If Chapman was convicted.
! .The verdict means death on the
gallows for the colorful bandit,
the man who had the police of a
dozen countries searching for htm
when the state of Connecticut
sought him on the murder charge
which ended In his conviction to
day. The Connecticut law pro
vides that a person decreed guilty
or first degree murder must be
hanged.
Alter dlsmfssllng the Jury and
congratulating the Jurors "on
reaching this verdict, which I l
I. eve Is a Just verdict," Judge
JeiinluKS recessed court for half
un hour at which time he set for
hearing defense counsel motion
to set aside the verdict.
State prosecutor Hugh M. Al
corn, who prepared atid presented
tho stale's case against the mail
looter, asked Judge Jennings to
Immediately pronounce sentence
on Chapman, but the Jurist said he
first would d spose of the defence
motion to set aside the verdict.
"Chappie. I'm sorry," Oroehl
said to the prisoner after the Jury
had oven dismissed and Chapman
had been returned to the court
house basement to await further
developments. The attorney,
tears In his eyes, reached out for
th-e condemned mans hand. With
out a break of the voice or a
wavering of the cold blue eyes.
Chapman squeered his lawyer's
hand and replied;
"Oh. that all right.
1 Chapman's frail body was erect,
his striking head held high, the
eyvs looking straight ahead and
the lipH cotupres-ted as his guards
manacled him. lie took a chair
in his hasem-ent cell, asked a cig
arette of one of his guards,
lighted It and went Into a whls
peilng consultation with firoehl.
Ch;imun was convicted of the
murder of Patrolman James
.skeiiVof New Britain on Octo
ber 1J, 1924. in shooting h i way
t'wfreedoin after three policemen
I trapped him In thiear of the
d-Airtment store nfQ'iavldson
and l.ewnthal, where ho had just
"blow, two safes.
NEW YORK. April 4. Gerald
Chapman remains a man of mys
tery, his real name, his antece
dents, his birthplace and his fam
ily history unknown.
He has revealed with frankness
some details of his career of crime,
but much of his life story remains
hidden.
He has used many names dur
ing his criminal career of 1
years of which only five have
been spent outside of prison walls.
But Gerald Chapman is not his
name nor is his name apparently
any of the others he has adopted
as aliases.
He Is aald to have been born In
New York about 37 years ago of a
respected family, where he Is be
lieved to bo the onlv member who
.has swerved from proper paths.
it has been said that he has a
brother who is a business man of
high position and repute. Chap
man has verified none of these
things. He has protected his
family.
Chapman as It is Indicated he
will continue to be called has
given evideooa ef considerable
culture, although his education la
supposed to have been confined to
high school. Much of this is at
tributed to his reading and study
while In prison and also to the in
fluence of George "Dutch" Ander
son, college graduate and super
crook who was his fellow prison
er and pal and later his associate
in the great $2,400,000 mall truck
robbery in New York City, one of
the biggest "Jobs" modern crook
jdom has known.
NEW YORK, April 4. Gerald
Chapman, often called a modern
Jesse James, first' gained notor
iety In his daring leadership of the
'sensational $2,400,000 holdup of a
! government mall truck on lower
I Broadway in 1921.
I Chapman and his band had
' watched the down town post office
for weeks. Learning of a rich
shipment of registered mail, they
followed the selected mail truck in
an automobile when It started to
the general post office uptown
Just before daybreak. Drawing
alongside, they crowded the truck
to the curb. With both vehicles
still moving, Chapman boarded the
government van and covered the
driver with a pistol. Then the
robbers turned the truck Into
; Leonard Street and removed Its
wealth of cash and securities at
their leisure.
1 Chapman was traced and caught
a few months later in fashionable
C.ramercy Park where he was
found living In a luxurious apart-
' ment.
I During his subsequent grilling
on an upper floor of the Federal
Building, he suddenly disappeared
through an open window while his
captor's backs were turned. He
was cornered after crawling along
a narrow ledge, high above Broad
j way and opposite the Wool worth
I (Continued on page 3.)
Must Pay Penalty
1
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