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yf I "i"IU Y FAIR TONIGHT AND FRIDAY Consolidation of Th Evening Ntwi and Th Roseburg Review DOUGLAS Mew; : s COUNTY p An Independent Nswspapar, Published lor the But Interests of th Pooplo. ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED W!2 SERVICE WORLD'S NEWS TODAY VOL. XXVI NO. 244 O" ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG. OREGON. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 3. 1925. UJ 1 0 Ty-( (I ,i VOL. XIII NO. .143 OF THE EVENING NKWf, KJ ilu? n 1 T U Uu Lu U I 1 1 1 L J SSI MM If in nmrn r HJUHtU NO TRACE OF NAVY PLANE AND CREW THAT DROPPED I THREE E N- TV E NTO OCEAN NEAR HAWAII STARTS BAD EIRE! j i I The Mammoth Dirigible Shenandoah Which! Crashed Early This Morning Believed Buoyancy Empty Gasoline Tank Keeping Craft Afloat Secretary Wilbur Cancels Remaining Scheduled Flights to Center All Efforts on Hunt (hMnctsttd PrMf LMMd Wirt.) ' SAN FRANCISCO. Spd. 3. ' earch for the missing naval -Sea- gasoline were landed at Lahalna, the (aland base from1 which the air hinnA pic.n Kn 1 nn.i ppmw whifh forces under orders to conduct the ilisapDoared In mld-Paclflc Tuesday (Search of the area In which the big afternoon after rldlnn along on the seaplane disappeared. hlRh hope of reaching Honolulu on I Empty gasoline tanks which pro a record making flight, continued bab'y caused the plane crew to todav after overnight reports to despair of reaching Honolulu, be naval headquarters from searching cme thelr hope of rescue when the surface and aircraft brought only craft forced down. It was es routlne messages of the continuing timated by the plane builder that search buoyancy of the empty gasoline Without word upon which to al- tari,s would 00 sufficient to float lay' f.-ar that the missing plane and 10.855 pounds on the water the Its crew might not be found, naval wliht of the plane without fuel officers today had explored the I The missing PN-9, No. 1. was in field of conjecture In surmising tne alr abut 23 hours when it what happrned after the plane was dropped from sight, forced down by lack of fuel. The skill of Commander John . ,.. ,. . Rodgers In charge of the craft, T h .w .hf v'A'' caused navy officials here to re- n?".f .L,,h," .a.e. h.tl main hopeful that the missing Man and Woman Trapped on Upper Floor of House Have to Jump. MRS. STEELE BURNED Neighborhood Threatened by Fire Which Completely Destroys Residence on Germond Street. ocean leas than 300 miles off the Hawaiian coast at 1:45 p. m.. Tues day, drifted out of the search area and was beached on ome Inland point. The navy withdrew from further attempts to make a non Mop fllpht to Honolulu from San Francisco when announcement was made here yesterday abandoning the projected takff of the huge PB-1 which was scheduled to start for Honolulu today. One hundred and fifty drums of EXTRA EDITION commander and crew were still alive. Wilbur Haiti Program WASHINGTON. Sept. 3. Secre tary Wilbur today ordered the pro posed San Francisco-Hawaiian flight of the naval plane I'M, post- I poned indefinitely, j The secretary's order was Issued to permit continued concentration of efforts on the search for the I missing PN-9. No. 1, which disap . peared near Hawaii Tuesday. The j step superseded a plan by naval I officials at San Francisco to start : the PB-1 tomorrow. Officers Miss Guess SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 3. Early today before receipt of the word from Washington that Sec retary Wilbur had ordered the postponement Indefinitely of the Hawaiian flight of the PB-1. the flight commander's office here sent a telegram to Secretary Wilbur recommending that the flight be permitted oday. If weather condl- I Hons were favorable. The belief The News-Review scored WM confidently expressed that un- again today In furnishing the ,lPr Mmt weather conditions, the Important news of the day. hot 4. night woud be eaay (or tne pB.i off the wire, to the people of . Tne meagn requested that no Itoseburg. ; statement be Issued to the press At 7 o'clock this morning ! Hoarding postponement of the the huge V. S. airship Shen- scheduled attempt until the flight andoah crashed In Ohio. News I ,r,,j,.ct commander was able to of the disaster was promptly . present data and information avall- bulletined in front of the ,!,, , how the possibilities of News-Review office, and as 1 ,ccess and the plans for holding the leased wire opened more t without prejudice to the search detailed news of the tragedy , (or tne m8aing PN-9 plane and Its filtered In. By 9:30 a. m. the crew :d"S..pruwhss:i was able to furnish the names I WASHINGTON. Sep. 3. The of the dead. Injured and miss- proposed night of the naval plane Ing. and this news was sup- rnl ,rom N"n Francisco to Hawaii plied over the leased wire. "''d off entirely, Secre- Without loss of time the ary Wilbur announced late today, News-Review force oritanlied "om TPr definite reasons In for the publication of'a street .the future show It Is desirable. eoltion, and at 9:35 the first ! Th secreiery'a statement follow copies were off the press. The announcement that the flight extra street edition carried a had been Indefinitely postponed. full account of the crash, the The practical abandonment of the names of the dead and Injured "''hi was attributed to belief on members of the crew, and a h part of the secretary and the very correct account of the dls-w "" ranking naval officers thai aster, as was shown by the nothing of real ralue was to be later and more complete stor- gained from It and that the navy tes received later in the day. had 'had enough trouble for a This extra service was sup- while." piled without cost to the city "We don't want to haiard the by the News-Review, eight lives of other men," Mr. WJIbur hours ahead of Its regular edl- said, referring to the Shenandoah tlon. and twenty-four hours and PN-. No. 1. accidents, "fntll ahead of. any Portland or other we have some definite reasons." state paper. The suggestion that led to hla decision, he asserted did- not come wj (Continued on page Mrs. Bessie Steele, of Germond Street and Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Iverson. recent arrivals from Portland, were all injured yester day evening, when Mrs. Steele's home was destroyed by fire. Mr. and Mrs. Iverson, trapped on the upper floor, were forced to Jump from the second story window, a dlstattce of almost 30 feet, the woman sustaining a bruised shoulder, while Mr. Iverson's back was badly wrenched. Mrs. Stee le's fare and hands were burned when she tried to enter the build ing after It was afire in an effort to save some of her personal effects. The fire was started by the explosion of an oil stove. Mrs. Steele had been called to the door by Mrs. B. 1.. Kddy a neighbor, and was -jrfanding In the front room, wlfcen the explosion occur red. olhWwise she doubtless would have been burned to death. She warned Mr. and Mrs. Iver?on who dashed upstairs after aome of their goods. The man and woman were trapped there and were forced to Jump from the high sine of the hotm, whirh was situ ated on a hillside. Three out buildings were burned and the entire neighborhood threatened liy the fire. The fire started Just after Mrs. Steele lit one of the burners on the oil stove In her kitchen. As she started the stove, Mrs. Kddy rapped at the front door and Mrs. Steele turned away. Almost imme diately the stove threw fire over the entire kitchen and when Mrs. Steele turned bark Into the room she saw that It was all ablaie. She seised several comforts from the bed with the Intention of smother ing the fire, but was unable to en ter the kitchen. Mr. and Mrs. Iverson, who came from Portland a short time ago were occupying apartments In the building, having two rooms down stairs and two rooms on the upper floor. Mrs. Steele found them in their rooms downstairs and warned them that the house waa afire and to leave quickly. Mr. amis Mrs. Iverson had some valuable articles upatalra and attempted to save them, but by the time that they reached their rooms the entire house was biasing, so quirkly did the fire spread, and they were forc ed to Jump for their lives. Thy were unable to reach the low side of the building, and had to Jump from the high windows, a distance of fully thirty feet to the ground. In the fall the woman Injured her shoulder quite badly, and Mr. Iverson's back waa wrenched In such a manner that he probably will be Incapacitated for some time. Mrs. Steele, who Is an elderly lady, endeavored to force her way bark Into the burning house to se cure valuable papers and currency, (Continued on page I.) 1 lad? T - v.-; V . : . : t 1 EX-GONVIGT PUT UNDER ARREST ADMITS MURDEH Killing of Independence Jitneur Confessed at The Dalles. IS SOMEWHAT HAZY Arrested While Hiding in Railway Yards After Recovery of the Stolen Auto. (AmocUunI Uaied Wir.. ) THE DALLES, Sep. 3. W. R. Lloyd today confesssd to the slay ing of Clinton I. Baun near Inde pendence Tueaday night, according to Deputy 8heriVf George Shearer. He aald he was alone with Bsun at the time. J. H. Hlte, whe waa arrested and held for Invratlgatlon, has been released. Officers said Lloyd Is somewhat huy about details of the slavirg, saying "I can't remember every thing." He now admits ownership of the gun found in his suit case, they aald. THE DALLES, Sep. 3. W. R. Lloyd, former convict In the Ore gon penitentiary, being held her in connection with the murder Tuesday night of C I. Bsun, Inde pendence garage man, admitted t day, officer say, that he had tak en money from Bun and stolen his car. Lloyd denied any connection with Baun's death and said that he must have been out of his head t the time of the robbery question ing officer declared. Lloyd' purpo'ted confession waa a (Contirsed on rage t) Shenandoah Death List WASHINGTON. Sept. 3. The cruiser Shennn cloah's senior surviving officer reported lo the nnvy de partment today that I 3 were killed, two injured, and one remained unaccounted for in the wreck. The message was from Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, navigator. He enid Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne, the commanding offi- . cer, whose home was in Greenville, O., and second in command; Lieutenant Commander Louis Hancock, exe- ' cutive officer of Austin, Tex., were among the killed. The other dead named in the dispatch included Lieutenant J. B. Lawrence, senior watch officer, of St. Haul, Minn., and Lieutenant A. R. Houghton, watch of ficer of Allston, Mass. Lieutenant (JG.) E. W. Shepherd of Washington, D. C. Enlisted men listed as killed were: Everett P. Allen, aviation chief rigger, Omaha, Neb. Charles Brown, aviation chief machinist mate, Tom River, N. J. James W, Cullinan, aviation pilot of Binghnmton, N. Y. Ralph T. Joffray, aviation rigger, St. Louis. Selestino P. Mazzuko, aviation machinist's mate, Sav annah. Ga. Bartholomew O'Sullivan, aviation machinist' mnte, Lowell, Mass. George C. Schnitzer, chief radioman, Tuckerton, N.J. William 1 1. Spralley, aviation machinist mnte, first class, St. Louis, Mo, James A. Moore, Jr., Savannah, Ga., aviation ma chinist' mate, firstc lass. Seriously injured: Chief Gunner Raymond Cole, radio officer of Lima, O., and John F. McCarthy, aviation chief rigger of Boston. DROPS 1 3 PARTS NEM OHIO TOWN IRRESISTIBLE WIND ENCOUNTERED AT HIGH """ALTITUDE NEARLY ALL VICTIMS IN " . CONTROL CABIN, DEMOLISHED BY IMPACT WITH EARTH. 1 (Associated Press Leased Wire.) CALDWELL, O., Sept. 3. The giant dirigible Shenandoah is no more. It went down in three pieces here early today and killed its commander, Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne, and at least thirteen of the officers and men, making up her crew. The airship struck a line squall variety of stomas most feared by airmen shortly after 5 o'clock near this Noble county village, while traveling at an altitude of 3,000 feet enroute from Lakehurst, N. J., to the west.- Most of the dead were found in the tangled wreck age of the control cabin where a full crew was on duly, attempting to ride out the buffeting winds which reallfttd in the complete destruction of the giant of the air. -'. Ambulances and other conveyances which carried, physicians and others to the scene immediately followmg the accident were transporting the dead and injuretfto nearby towns. Those who met death in the unsuccessful flight against the elements were taken to Belle Valley, while the injured were scattered in the various hospitals of the community. - wmpcn wtr nm avminnie. Thp tory of th dtnanliT lit nm of hernlMiii of ihf cnw. plot. writ In thf Inlnn'-t of tht' ili'vHntimpnt of IlKhltT thnn nlr trnnrtportMl ton. It in hfxt toUt by Coloni. C. 1. Hall. I'lillt'd Stat rniy ohwrvor. Aboard thp HI fati-il Mil p. ' We WHi-n traveling wint At an n1t1tii.1t of about 4.KM ftt whrn wt rnmiinl.TPd a nlorm." Colonel Hall aatd In 1rrlhinK the acci dent. "By chamting our cm i rue a At the tdno of the. rranh. Hall said, forjr of (he alx ennlni-s which propelled i the air nmnnler were going foil upeed. The craft atmplv mefalr ! current, which nhe could nol, u? I vlve. Craw DUplays Haroitm. Colonel Hall voiced high pralu) I for the navy crew of the dirigible. Kven Immediately after the crash he aald. the rrew'a behavlorwaa remarkable. Rach man tn4k-lh" ,nt,n or more limes, we dn.ll It I , ;, nppnTUn)r Mmmrit only . enrnnnler line -". ; (f w"ir, '. b,Umn nnA which sent us to sn altitude of fifilKI fift hfnrp we realized what had happf'tictl. nttHnipt Iiik lo brine: the craft to Krntiml in the best manner possible. In all there were elaht meirwho "We opened Ihe valves to let out ,HlU, tn,. pnrlloiis rlile on the flor Itas and lowered Ihe ship and were ,n f hP ,h,, whlch Colonel Inwerliia; away from the slnrm al a! HhII finind himself. It rtrlfted.for fifly mile per hour ran. when tbe , Din heller part of a half horn- anil slnrm enveloped us and broke lh.t i ,-,,viTe, a illnlnnre of ten mlteit or ship Into three pieces. I exelalmert ni(lrP .f0r(, ,-omlna; lo earth, lo f'nimiid.T lansdowne 'Kvwy. , ,,,rrInpn, preTIIIed-n one beat II. Whi n Ihe crah came. .'' . . ,i,J h.. h RADIO BROADCASTS MESSAGE FOR MAN KILLED HERE TUES. Itadio K; at Oakland, Califor nia, waa laat nlcht broadcantlng a meNnage endeavoring to locate Huart U. Hturglll. alias Charb-y .Moore, who waa killed here In an auto wreck, early Tuesday morn ing. The mefifaage Mated tlfat the young man'a mother and aluter were endr-avorlng to locate htm. The metiaage waa apparently the reftiilt of m letter to the Oakland chief of police a-klng for a la ta nee In locating the young man, the letter evidently having been . wrlttm iome time ago, aa Hturglll 'received a letter from hla mfifhr a few day before hta death, tirg-j I ing htm to return lo hla home. The jetatrment of the KfiO announcer! 'contained a tfoacrfpHnn of the! young man, gave both name order i wnicn ne migni oe going, a no aK I ed anyone knowing of hta where ; at nu tn to notify the police at Oak , land. The young man wan killed Tuem nay morning when hla car turned turtle on the corner of Htephenai and Moaner atreeta, and hla moth er waa located and notified of the! accident Hhe wired lo have the -, body shinned home, and It has been I Rent to Virginia by Coroner M. K. 1 Hitter. ; I waa on Ihe ladder leading from the control cabin to the rear por tion of the nhip. An I atarlcd to fall. I clutched a girder from which I bung appended, finally swinging n v body over It and crawling forty or fifty feet back Into the iihlp." rthlp fell. In an alninut unhelleve ably short time newa of the dla aster had npnad over the entire countryside and roads were black: with sittoinohtl carrying doctors, undertakers, officials and morbidly riirlnnsi tn the tmlntat whera the VA When he reached the ship proper,. rinnH pnrtnna of the ship fell. Colonel Hall said that he found) Karh portion of the ship waa com othr members of the crew pre par-1 p,.,-ly wrecked bv the impact with Ing to open the valves In order in thn Krnnru and early arriving son bring about a decent. Here h Vf.nr hiintore wore mnklnc off wltrt found Meutenant Holand tl. Mayer. h)t of thp pintera of wood leading officer, and Lieutenant J. , m other portions of the mech an il Anderson. aerobtgUt. The latter,: inm A TOnnteer gnanl finally was Colonel Hall said, had made his tnmwn Rronm the area at there way to the rear on the cat walk. , milt w)rMt colninbua fot f lUv All three descended safely. mrn an(1 ,nnM. offin, to Miaul duty. Colonel Hall said that the rataa- Irophe was In no way attributable to any defect In the uhlp. Metero- lortcal advices, warning the nav gators of the storm would Kaved the ship, he said. Tranedv fttun Vlllaaara. At Itelle Valley, where the hoaJeA of the dend men were being aitKew have! bled under direction of Lieutenant Since Commander Charles R. Hofientlahf, there were no metemlogkal sta-! grief prevailed. Villagers, the drab lions In th vicinity, however, thai (Continued on page I.)
