Roseburg news-review., March 21, 1927, Page 1, Image 1

&fQ Weather
Highest temperature yeterday.68
Lowest temperature last night.. ..43
Forecast for southwest Oregon:
Generally fair tonight and Tues
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ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 21,' 1927
VOL. XXVII ' NO. 294 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
V5ove vOL. XVIII NO. 55 OF THE EVErlINQ NEWS w
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MAHGOLA
HRE
DESTROYS
OFSTRUCTUHES
Two Garages and I. O. O. F.
Building Burned; Loss
Several Thousand.
WHOLE TOWN FIGHTS
Eugene Fite Dept. Aids in
Checking Blaze; Blast
Badly Injures Boy. .
300 Feet Away.
(Associated I'ri'as loosed Wire.) .
EUGENE, Ore., March 21 Fire
which endangered the whole town
of Marcola, V? miles northeast of
Eugene on the Mohawk River, thlsi
morning destroyed two garages
and the I. O. O. F. building which
housed the largest general store
! at that place. A blast of dynamite,
used to keep the blaze from spread
ing, seriously injured 13-year-old
Billy Estes, whose skull was frac
tured and right shoulder broken
when he was struck by a flying
piece of pipe, and also injured Lu
clne Miles, mill employe, whose
foot was cut by flying glass. Both
the injure if-were rushed to the Pa
cific .Christina Hospital at Eu
gene, i
Discovery of the fire, which is
believed to have started in the
, back; of the J. P. Churchill garage
about 5:80 o'clock this morning,
was made by a Mr. Robinett, who
saw the flames from, across the
Mohawk. He had to make a trip
across the river to arouse the
town. ' The entfra population or
Ihe town and the Eugene fire de-
. partment turned out to fight the
blaze. . , ,,
f Lois Into Thousands
Flames quickly spread to the J.
0. O. F. building, thV Walter
Price, "Ihc.; store,1 grocery ; dry
goodR, feed and general merchan
dise business being on the lower
floor, and then to the service gar
age owned by Riley L. Garrison.
The loss, Vhich will tun' Into thou
sands of 'dollars, includes several
automobiles in the. Churchill gap
age, as well as equipment, a large
amount of stock in the general
store, nnd dishes," silverware and'
other property of the Rebekah and
1. O. O. K. lodges in the hall over
the Price ,stgre, much stock and
practically all the fixtures of the
Price store, and the service garage
equipment and building.
When it was seen that the whole
town was endangered by the fire
sweeping through the three frame
buildings', the service garage was
dynamited, to prevent a spread of
the blaze to the remaining build
ings. It was then that Billy Estes,
son of W. E. EBtes, barber at Mar
cola, and Luclne Miles were injur
ed. The Estes boy regained con
(Continued on page 3.)
TALK AFTER VISIT
IT
(Associated Press Leased Wire.)
SAN FRANCISCO, March 21
Will de Autremont's mother get
him to talk or will he follow his
father's Instructions and-remain si
lent? Federal postal authorities who
have questioned Hugh de Autre
mont dally from the time he was
first Incarcerated in the army's
disciplinary barracks, on. Aicatraz
Island last week were today look
ing forward to the arrival here of
Mrs. Belle de Autremont from
Lakewood, New Mexico.
Young de Autremont has repeat
edly asked for his mother and the
government if willing that she be
brought here to talk with her son.
Interest of the federal authorities
is not the same as that held by
the prisoner. The authorities hope
that the mother will dissuade her
son from longer maintaining his
silence on his alleged part in the
Siskiyou train holdup in 1923 and
on the probable whereabouts of his
two brothers, Roy and Ray, who
are sought as partners with Hugh
in the murderous banditry.
Hugh de Autremont has thus far
followed the counsel of his father,
Paul de Autremont, who, separ
ated from his wife, lives at Eu
gene, Ore. The father retained a
lawyer at Eugene, warned his son
while the later was enroute to San
Francisco from Manila to not talk
with any one until after he bad
seen the attorney and federal au
thorities have not been able to up-
tt these instructions, reports from
Aicatraz indicate. '
Browning Wins
In Decision On
Divorce Action
(Associated Press Leased Wire.)
CARMEL, N. Y., March 21 Ed
ward West Brownl?ig wealthy New
York real estate man, today won
Ills separation suit against his
wife, the former Frances "Peach
es" Heenan, in a decision handed
down here today by Supreme Court
Justice A. H. F. Seeger.
Justice Seeger granted the sep
aration on the ground of abandon
ment, dismissing Browning's first
cause of action of alleged cruelty.
Justice Seeger completed the nine
pages "of "his decision with words
"the defendant has failed to justify
her conduot In leaving and aban
doning the plaintiff, fler counter
claim must be dismissed and the
plaintiff is entitled to a judgment
of separation from his bed and
board forever."
Justice Seeger held that there
was no evidence to sustain Mrs.
Browning's charges' against her
husband.
Justice Seeger held that the
weight of the evidence was entire
ly against Browning being an "un
natural or abnormal husband and
that he failed to find any evidence
that he had been cruel or inhu
man." , ' .
He pointed out what he said
were- inconsistencies in Mrs.
Browning's testimony by recalling
that she had complained of be
ing tired of her elderly husband's
society.
Justice ; Seeger also criticized
Mrs. Browning "for trying to palm
oft" an expurgated diary on him.
VERBAL T1LTIN
MILLION L I BEL
SUIT. RENEWED
Sapiro's 'LawjfeV'Cohtehds
. Magazine .Items Based
, pn lford's Malice.';;
ARGUES HE'S LIABLE
Asks" Court' for Ruling on
ft. Joint Responsibility;(.'
Farmers Execute
Depositions. r-
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(Associated Press Leased Wire.) (
DETROIT, Mich., March 21 Ac
tual malice in .the heart of Henry
Ford governed publication In the
Dearborn Independent ot the ar
ticles upon which' Aaron Sapiro's
$1,000,000 libel suit was based, the
plaintiff's counsel told Judge Fred'
M. Raymond in an argument today
over the admissibility of evidence.
There also was malice in the
heart of William J. Cameron, edi
tor of the Ford-owned weekly,' and
on the part of the Dearborn Inde
pendent, said William Henry Gal
lagher, Sapiro's counsel. He charg
ed they entered into a' conspiracy
and were, equally guilty conspira
tors. The jury was sent from the court
room at the opening of court, and
the attorneys began delving into
musty tomes, brought in by the
arm load. ' , '
Legal Tilt
Counsel then reeled oft prece
dents for ruling both for and
against evidence which would bear
upon the alleged double jeopardy
of Henry Ford and tne Dearoorn
Indenendent. as set out by Gallag
her, because of his wealth while
fixing the forfeited payment oi tne
other poorer at a lesser figure.
Stewart Hanley of Ford's coun
sel, insisted that Gallagher form
erly had committed himself to the
condition that if malice on Hie part
of bo h Ford and the publication
were not proven he would expect
no verdict in the one case or ine
other of failure.
(inllairher. replying througn a
statement to the court, Insisted
that he intended not only to prove
malice on the part of both, out tne
conspiracy as well.
(Continued on page b.)
H. W. MEYERS MAY BE
STATE PRISON SUPT.
' '
(Associated Press Leased Wire.)
SALEM, Ore.. Mar. 21.
Appointment to the newly
created position of superin-
tendent of the state penlten-
tiary will be tendered to
Henry W. Meyers, retired Sa-
lem merchant and at present
general manager of the reor-
ganized Miles linen mill here,
when the state board of con-
trol holds its next meeting,
the Capitol Journal says it Is 4
reliably informed this after-
noon. 4 O
THREE DEATHS
RESULT FROM
SUICIDE PACT
Chicago Salesman and Wife
Take Poison After Son
' Is, "Sent Away."
MYSTERY CLEARED UP
Letter to Relative Shows
Premeditated Deed and
Leads Searchers to
Apartment.
(Associated Press Lcal Wire )
CHICAGO, ' Mar. 21. Mystery
surrounding the finding of . the
body of a boy on an Improvised
luueral pyre, nearDes Plalnes riv
er, in Forest Park, "was" believed
cleared up by-' discovery of i the
boy's mpther' and foster- father,
dead apparently in. a suicide pact
In their Chicago apartment.
Polico-aiid relatives found the
bodies of Arthur. Jack) MacEwen,
35, a' salesman, and his wife, Mrs.
Helen MaeKenzie MacEweu, 32,
when they forced entrance to their
flat. This led to the identification
of the boy, whose body had , been
lying '-'since - Saturday uigh un
claimed in an undertaking es!,b.
llshment, as Robert MaeKenzie,'
11, son of Mrs. MacEwen, by a
former marriage;' The boy's skull
hadbeen-crushed., J1- v .
!', Letter Causes Search
l ;The two 'tragedies were connect
ed whetv-pqllce learned; of a- Jqtte.r
which MacEwen had' written td his
sister, Miss Cora MacEwen. The
letter intimated that' little "Bob"
and been "sent awny" because he
had stolen $20 from his -mother's
pocketbook,, and added: ' "Helen
told me she was tired of 'living and
some of these days she would end
it ull for herself and Bob and .me."
, The missive- closed 'with a re
quest that if he and his. wife were
fouud dead the bodies be cremated.
Worried, Miss MacEweu and .her
father visited the MacEwen flat to
find the two bodies side by side up
on couches. . . . ; ; i
J Death Pact Shown .
A coroner's physician said death
had- occurred 36 hours previously,
and after a post mortem gave his
opinion that a swift ' poison had
been the fatal agent. -Testimony of
.a death pact was seen by detec
tives in the fact that all letters,
pictures and personal documents
apparently had been removed from
the flat. (
Absence - of -the boy,- Robovt,
One of Those
SeNTWlA AWCrt MCWEY IS ,:
Tfie MOST ?d?om pERsofi i
DiTT
LELAND STEIWER,
BANKER, DROWNED
WHEN AUTO LEAPS
(Asvociateil Press Leased Wire.) t'..
CONDON, Ore., Mar. 21.
Leland Steiwer, resident ot
the Steiwer und Carpenter t
Bank of Fossil, , Ore., : was
drowned in the John Day.rlv-
er near Spiny, Ore., last night
when an automobile in .which
he was riding with "Herbert
Barnard plunged off the high-
way into the river, swollen by
flood.
They were traveling in . a
light car which left the road
at a sharp turn. Barnard tried
to rescue Steiwer but lost his
hold and Steiwer was carried
away In the current. His body
had not been found, this
morning.
Steiwer, who was a gradu-
ate of the University of Ore-
gon, was a son of Mrs. Anna
Steiwer of Fossil. His father,
the late W. W. Steiwer, for-
merly was president of the
bank. He is survived by two
children, a brother -and two
sisters. .
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TIBER M SOLD
BY LAWD OFFICE
Three Tracts, Two in Doug
las and One in Linn, j
Offered for Sale ;
But No Bids. !
A timber sale which brought the
government $27,028.96 was conduct
ed this morning by' the Roscburg
laud office, seven traets -in Lane;
Coos and Linn counties being sold
tq as many buyers. In addition to
the seven tracts sold there - were
three other pieces, two in Doug
las county and one in Lane county,
offered for sale but no bids were'
received. The sales made .this
morning were as follows: -
R. J. Bemls, Cottage Grove,' 1,
535,000 feet of : timber on 79.13
ncres O. and C. ' grant lands in
Lane county,' $2,297.09. -
M B. Chrlstensen, Eugene; 1,
090,000 feet of timber on 120 ncres
O. anil C. grant' lands in Lnno
county, $2963.42. '
C. D. Rozer, Eugene, 2,600,000
- (Continued on page 3.)
about the premises caused Miss
MacEwen to connect the suicide
with the mysterious slaying of a
lad in Forest Park. Later, at an
undertaking establishment identi
ty was established. Vital organs
of the youth will be. examined for
poison. -
Mrs: Clara MacEwen, aged moth
er of the dead man, was nVtr
death today ns a result of shock of
learning of the tragedy.
Things That's Hard
,
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STATE
TS TO
FILE i RETURNS
Statement of Business Must
.' Be Given to County ' '-'
i v i Assessor.
BLANKS ARE SENT OUT
Tax Commission Now Has
Authority Over Assess
.! merits and Property ;
;- . Adjustments,
Merchants of the county are re
ceiving from the county assessor's
office a form of tax return blank
upon which certain ; information
must be set down for tile guidance
ot the-county assessor and state
tax commission in .making an
equalization of taxes. : : . ,
The law requiring the making of
this return was passed by the re
cent legislature, which practically
took all authority for tax - control
out of the hands of the county as
sessors and placed it within . the
hands of the Btate tax commission,
so that at present the tax asses
sors of the counties are in all real
ity merely agents of the tax com
mission in which the powers of the
office are vested.
L Control Equalizations ,
' The now law not only glvos the
TtiH 'power of : control : over i- the
county . assessor, to the tax ., com
mission but it also provides that
the commission, may. direct , the
board of equalisation to, raise or
lower. the valuation of any taxable
property' and add it, to the assess
ment lists. If the commission is
not satisfied with .the work of an
ussessor a commissioner may be
placed in the office nnd prepare a
supplemental assessment roll, ex
cluding the original assessments
by the assessor.- The law giving
these powers to the commission
rends ns follows: .:
"Section 1. The stale tax com
mission of the stale of Oregon is
hereby authorized to exercise gen
eral supervision and control over
the administration of the assess
ment and tax laws of the state,
over county assessors, and county
boards of equalization, in the per
formance of their duties relating to
taxat'.' i and to do and perforin any
act o-- give any order or ' direction
to any county board of equalization
or to any county assessor as to the
valuatiou of any property, or class
or classes of property,, in any coun
ty, which, in the commission's
(Continued on page 6.)
to Understand
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. life
fo)
Heavy Storms
Mark Spring's
Advent In East,
4 ! (Associated Press Leused Wire.) '
CHICAGO, Mar.- 21. More . rain
nnd snow was the offering ot the
first day of spring for the central
west where many river) and creeks
already were running flood high1 as
a result of heavy week-end pre
cipitation. Indiana probably was the hard
est hit by the high . water, hun
dreds of acres of fiu-m 'lands along
tne waoasn river and along both
forks of the White River being in
undated. The southern part ; of
Terre Haute was under water from
overflowing creeks while the CThlo
river at Evansville had passed the
flood stage of 35 feet. In some
areas transportation was hindered
and wire communication was ham
pered by sleot.
Sleet also naftl a costly visita
tion In Iowa nnd Nebraska. The
damage to telephone, 'lines around
lowa city alone was placed at
$100,000. Telegraph companies and
press association had difficulty for
a time in opening communication
through the affected areas.
G
ENTER WEEPAH
Geo. Wingf ield, Roy Moore,
I, P. Carpenter to Join ;
in Development, '
INFLUX, STILL HEAVY
Promoters arid Brokers , on
Hand With Los Angeles
Money'; Tonapah Gets
Human Surplus.
(Associated Tress Leased Wt-e.)
TONOPAH, March ' 21 Sour
doughs, tenderfeet, desert rats and
millionaires, drawn together by
the gold magnet of tho Weepah
hills, spent Sunday digging, gam
bling and promoting in a roaring
frontier camp of the kind Immor
talized by Bret Harte. j ,
While capital speculated and
prospeclors feverishly scratched
the- earth, nlhers nttintni,t in .
quire grubstakes with dice and
earns. :
Each hour in Weepah Is freight
ed with Intense excitement. The
word "gold" is on every tonguo.
New developments are steadily go
ing forward as representatives of
wealth gain foothold.
. Winnfleld Dominant Figure
aeorge Wlngfleld, mining mill
ionaire, who reaped a fortune or
$25,000,000 from Goldfield Consoli
dated, stands forth as one of tho
dominant factors in tho develop
ment of tho newly created Weepah
district. 1 . . :
Wlngfleld nnd Ills staff of engin
eers who arrlvod here yesterday,
init on the crest of a hill with the
operators of tho Ilorton mine nnd
held a conference which lasted a
liaif hour.
No announcement followed tho
meeting, hut It- commonly le be
lloved that Wingf Ield holds a lion
on the Horton mine center of the
Weepah area through a loan ex
tended a number of years ago.
Big Operators Active
The mysterious visit or the man
ager of one or the greatest gold
producotH In Arizona formed tho
focus or attention and tho devel
opers are wondering what it all
means. Roy W. Moore, general
manager of tho United Eastern
Mines company, operating in Oat-
man, arrived Friday night and rii
mained incommunicado, with I. P.
Carpenter .until long after mid
night. Both were up this morning
iiefore daylight, rushing to Weepah
in a high powered car.
Weepah Is Ihe daylight magnet
and Tonopah holds the center of
Ihc stage at night with its bnhel
of tongues and saturnalia of hu
manity rioting through hotel lob
bles and jamming sidcwallV.,. Gold
field, twenty-eight miles distant, is
getting ' the overflow of visitors.
Influx Growing -'
Telegraph facilities have -been
tripled to handle the crush of busi
ness and tomorrow a quadruplex
system will be opened anan all
night service maintained t5 -clear
tlja congestion,
"rokers and promoters' of the
, (Continued on page 6.)
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FIGURES
MINN
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A
Unions Quit Work to
fUl
N00
By
OPPOSITION; ENCOUNTERED
NATIONALISTS IN
WEALTH EST
Municipality to Declare An Emergency,
and Foreign Troops Are Landed. i
1500 U. S. MARINES
Soldiers of Six Other Nations Also Disembark, Uniting
'With-British Force and Bringing International
; Quarter's Defenders to 15,000 Guerilla -Fighting
and Looting Are Rampant.
j (Assoclatijd PreBS Leased Wire.) . , . ,
i; SHANGHAI, Mitr, Choas reigned in Shanghai tot
night 'after the fall of the city to the Cantonese this morning, c
i ; i ( i Rioters ran loose in the native quarter all day, and tonight .
aband of Chinese trooris, presumably attached to the retreat
ing northern army, broke through' the barrier .to the north of .
the international settlement and began looting.' ' " i j J,
A British armored car ..rushed up in response to a police
call for aid. The cart was subjected to continuous machine gun ;
fire. Lieutenant Newman, Corporal Ainsley and two soldiers
were wounded. ',:":(' -; -1 .
Another British armored car which accompanied the one
in which the four men were! Svounded towed it away . under
heavy fire, .which the British returned. The four men were not
seriously hurt., '' . ' .' : ' -. ', , .;','' ; - : ' 1 I,-
Savage guerilla fighting was going on in the native district
of Chapei tonight : between Shantungese (northerners) include
ing white' Russians .and plain clothes men of the Kuomintang
(Cantonese). ;. ,. ;..,.;v(! '' ' ' ' ' " . ""t
Several of the latter were reported killed. The fighting Was.
accompanied by the outbreak of serious fires at , three points '
in the native city... '.-.' :'-'. ;'; v. -. -i, . .
Approximately 10,000 northern 'troops in the Shanghai
area have gone over to the Cantonese. ' . ' 1 " '
One hundred white Russians were admitted to , the. for-'
eign settlement after being disarmed, while thousands of '
Chinese frorn the native city sought 'refuge inside the foreign
barricades. ''' ' -'l '.'. "''.,'" '
Bullets continued to fall inside the' settlements, endanger
ing the lives of- (he foreigners. The Astor house ; hotel was
struck. i ; : i '' ' ' -.-'' i , ,
i Up to 11 p. m. the forces defending the foreign settle
ments from the rioting: Chinese had suffered 12 casualties includ- ;
ing two killed and 10 wounded. i - '.' ' , ,
Two Punjabi soldiers' of the British force were killed by
snipers. The wounded comprised five Punjabis a Russian po-, -liceman
and four British soldiers. ' - -
. SHANGHAI, Mar. 21. The war has come to Shanghai. '
The vanguard of the Cantonese army entered the native city
this morning. The Shantungese fled at their approach, and the
city was taken without fighting.
' The municipal council declared a state of emergency, and
landing parties of all nationalities represented in the ' Shanghai
naval concentration, including 1500 American marines, disem
barked to defend the foreign
without or trouble from within.
Possibility of serious disorders was intensified by the call- ;
ing of a general strike of Chinese workers to celebrate the fall of
the city to Chang Kai-Shek's southern forces which, now hold
virtually all of China south of the Yarigtse river.jThe foreign de
fenders ashore here total 15,000 men, part of whom are hold
ing the 20-mile exterior defense line while others strongly patrol
the streets of the foreign settlements. ' ' ' , ' ' :' jf i j ; i ;
Troops of 8 Nations Guard
' Tho 1600 American marines aro
patrolling the northern and west
ern mill districts, where trouble is
most likely to break nut owing to
the general strike and the gather.
Dartmouth Head Asks Football Limit
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Sophomore And Junior Students Only
(AxrH.-l I'm. Uiiko'I Win...)
flANOVKK, N. Jf., March 21
Tint Dartmouth athletic council
today took slops to not i rid opinion
in Intercollegiate football cIicIch
on n revolutionary plan of reform
proposed by .President Krneat Mar
tin HopkiiiH.
lie suggested limitation of play
era on varsity tennis to members
of the sophomore and junior el list
en. JIg would kIvc each college
two .varsity teams for major
names, and would put all coaching
the hands of undergraduates.
He wrote Lemuel G. Hodgkins,
of Worcester, Mass., head of tho
council, that, tho tendency of hlf
suggestions would be "to guaran
tee that anticipation in college
sport would be more completely
restricted to college students In
cidentally playing football, than to
perpetuate a condition wherein at
every college there are at least a
few men who In Mpirlt flimply
athletes Incidentally attending col
lege." The Dartmouth head, Svho was
A
TAKING
CITY OF ORIENT
Celebrate. Causing ! the
ARE PUT ASHORE
settlements against invasion from
Ing ot crowds of idlers. 1
The marines came ashore with
full equipment, including machlno
guns and metal helmets, ready to
remain until the trouble Is over.
(Continued on page 3.) .
graduate manager of the Green'sl
athletics 25 years ago, declared II3
proposals had been gradually de
veloped by friendly associates
most of whom are former football
players. .
Admitting that no single collego
could of itself radically tram-form
the existent evils of the game.
President Hopkins suggested that)
a start might be made if, without
formal organization, a limited num
ber of colleges in the east should
accept the general specifications.
Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Prince
ton and Brown were mentioned as
possible components of the group
hesldo Dartmouth. ;
He said that although he did not
feel that the worst had been al
leged against college football was
necessarily true, "tendencies- to
ward such conditions are more
rapid than commonly recognized,
aiid t believe that intercollegiate
football is in a more hazardous
position that is generally supposed
anion gits friends." :
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