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NO. 295 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW.
ROSEBURG, OREGQN, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1927.
VOL. XVIII NO. 66 OF THE EVENING NEWS
DOUGLAS
MERCHANTS
10
FIGHT THE NEW
, STATETAX
LI
Believe Legislature Exceed
ed Rights in Passage
of Bill.
WILL GO TO COURTS
Flood of Protests Pouring
in On Organizations
at Portland Asking
Immediate Action.
The new state law requiring
merchants to make a "confidential"
. report o their finuncial affairs to
X the county assessors is creating
quite a furore, not alone In Rose
mug but all over the state. Local
' merchants are greatly aroused ov
er the matter and are planning to
Join a statewide movement to test
out the constitutionally of the act.
The merchants believe that the
legislature excoeded ' its powers
when it passed the law aim will
probably take the matter up to the
supreme court to, determine wheth
er or not the low can be constitu
tionally enforced.
The protests of merchants from
all parts of the state are center
ing at Portland; The Oregon Manu
facturers' association has received
1 thousands of telegrams, letters and
other, communications most of
them quite forceful in their con
demnation of the act. -
The Portland Chamber of' Com
merce and the Oregon State Cham
ber of Commerce have also been
Hsked to represent the merchants
' of the state in an attack upon the
uct, which it Is held is far -more
- "devastating" than the .income tax!
passed at the last-legislature.' . e
; Putting "confidential." ln'orma-?
tlon into the hands of a score. or",
more of tax officials, exposing all
of the most intimate secrets : of
-each business would be to court
financial ruiu, many business
heads believe.. While .the law pro
vides that all information given in
the returns shall be kept secret,
yet with these returns open to the
county assessor and Bis deputies
and the tax commission and its em
ployes; the . merchants visualize
"leaks" of a dangerous nature. The
merchants In ,, their protests say
that the enforcement of,, the law
would open an opportunity for n
orgy of bi!i.bery and graft in which
supposedly . confidential informa
tion would be peddled to competi
tors for a cash consideration.
Meeting Is Called,
SALEM, Ore., Max. 21. A com
mittee of county assessors and
members of the state tax commis
sion will hold a conference here
tomorrow to determine ' definitely
what information shall be demand
' ed of taxpayers uuder the new
" property, assessment law enacted
at the recent session of th"e legis
lature. .
The conference was called py
(he state tax commission, after let
. tors had been received from a num
ber of manufacturers, who com
plained that much of the informa
tion to be sought by county asses
(Contlnued on page 6.)
IN MTY.CIi BE.
(Associhffd; Press Leased Wire:)
SALEM, Ore., March 22 A hus-
. band's-right to real property held
by himself and his wife by the en-'
tlrety may be sold in this state on
execution issuing from a .judgment
against either the husband or the
wife alone, it was ruled today by
the state supreme court in -a de
cision reversing Circuit Judge
Rossman of Multnomah county in
the case of Canoe vs. Ohmart. The
question had never been ruled upon
by the Oregon state supreme
court. The . court, however, quali
fies its ruling by saying:
"This,, ruling does not destroy
the nature of the estate. The sale
on execution of the interest of the
husband would, not destroy or af
fect the right of survivorship In
the wife. The wife's interest would
not be touched. If the husband
survived the wife the purchaser
would have the entire estate. If
; the. wife survived (he husband the
purchaser's interest would termi
nate with the death of the hus
band." The opinion was written
by Justice Coshow.
Attorneys permanently admitted
i to practice law in Oregon Include
Archibald N. McDonald and B. P.
Dusenbury, Portland, and Henry
E. Perkins of Klamath Falls.
Cinderella RomancelOf Peaches
Browning Ends; Husband Is Rid
Of His Wife and Mother-in-Law
' fAasoclated Prcsj Leaned Wire.)
NEW YORK. March 22. Mid
night having struck in the Cinder
ella life of "Peaches," the 16-year-old
bride of Edward W. Browning
today was separated from the rich
es and splendor to which she had
become accustomed. No longer
must her wealthy husband pay her
5300 a week alimony. In fact he
need not pay a cent. i
The Cinderella of fiction retired
to her chimney corner. Peaches
went to bed where she sobbed her
disappointment over losing her
separation suit against the 52-year-old,
wealthy real estate . operator.
He won his suit for separation.
Automatically deprived by the
decision of the $300 a week ali-
S OF
Ordinance to Regulate High
Frequency Apparatus
; May Be Passed. " "
SIDEWALKS ORDERED
Residents of Laurehvood
; ' Must ,' Build Walks
Within the Next , ' '
, .Thirty Days. , !
A radio ordinance, which will re
gulate all high frequency colls and
.apparatus or any other electrical
equipment that, interferes with
radio reception, was placed he'
fore the city council last night by
the r.oseburg radio club, the or
dinance being given its first and
second reading.
The ordinance would require all
persons owning high frequency ap
paratus to secure a license and per
mit for the operation of. the de
vices; and would also proiiibit the
use of machines that radiate high
frequency oscillations during cer
tain periods, probably from 5 p.
m. until 11 p. m. The council
would be given power to regulate
all machines of an electrical na
ture, and the ordinance provides
for inspection by duly qualified
cily officers aud a penalty for vio
lations of the provisions of the
law.
The council discussed the meas
ure quite thoroughly after the or
dinance was presented by Henry
Harth, Jack Dent and Roy Hartley,
representing the radio club. A
lengthy petition, asking the pass
age of the ordinance, 'was also
presented.
Pass Vagrancy Law
A more strict vagrancy law, in
creasing also the penalty, was
passed as an emergency measure
last night. The police department
has reported that there havj been
numerous persons loitering around
the city, who have no visible
means of support and who are
gambling, remaining out ' at all
hours and are otherwise undesir
able. The council last night' re
pealed the ordinance covering va
grancy and passed a new one,
which more clearly defines va
grancy and imposes a penalty of
as high as $300 fine for violations.
An ordinance' increa.ng the fine
for gambling to $300 instead of
$50 a& at present, was also- pre
sented and was placed upon first
and second readings:
The meeting last night was
quite a lengthy one as there was
much discussion concerning tome
'of the matters presented.
R. ,V. Marsters appeared before
the council on behalf of Ralph L.
Russell, who recently offered to
buy some property held by the
(Continued on page 6.)
COUNCL HEARS
FRANCES .BROWNING
mony she had been receiving since
November, Peaches and her moth
er, Mrs. Carolyn Heenan, are with
out funds to pay for an appeal.
Henry Epstein, attorney lor
Peaches, said: "An appeal iu such
a case- Is very expensive business.
Mrs. Browning has no money, and
any money to finance the addition
al legal expenses would have to
come from Mr. Browning."
Browning already has had to pay
Epstein $8500.
Francis C. Dale, attorney for
Browning, hailed" the decisldn" as
establishing "public sentiment and
public justice" as "bulwarks
against the designing female of the
species." ' ' . -
WIDOWS OF OREGON
OFFICERS RECEIVE
COIN FROM STATE
(Afwnciuti'd Press Leased Wire.)
SALEM, Ore., ' Mar. 22.
The sum of $20,893.28 has
been naid over to the state
industrial accident .commis-
sion for the benefit-of the wld-
ow and two children 1 of
James Holman," prison guard
shot in the prison break here"4
Augitsi: 1V1926", '"to Mm widoW
of John, L.,, Sweeney, a guard.
snot in the same break, and to
the widows of Sheriffs W. A.
Goodman of Harney county,
and William A. ., Dunlap ... of
Sinn 'county,, who were 'fatally
injured on August 27, 1921 and
on May 21, 1923.- -Announce-
ment to this effect was made
by -.jthej industrial, accident
commission here this morn-
Ingi "-..' V. I i '
Mrs. Dunlap will , receive
$3,000' in 'n lump'.BUin.'The
other beneficiaries. wll be
paid in installments. '
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RANGOON FIRE SWEPT
' LONDON,' Maij'ch" 22 An Ex
change Tolegniph dispatch from
Rangoon, Burma, says the native
quarter of that city ha&i been de
stroyed by . fire. Six "hundred
houses were burned and three
thousand speople are ' homeles.
There was no loss' of life. ' 1 '
The Entertainment Committees Get Under Way
JOHN HOPKINS
STUDEKTSWAGE
BLOODY BATTLE
Several Sent to Hospital,
One With Hurts That
May Prove Fatal.
NINE FACE CHARGES
Assault of Sophomores on
Freshmen Halted When
Firemen Employ 8
Water Streams.
(Aiiaoclsttoil Tresa Loused Wire.) -
ANNAPOLIS, Md.,' March 22
Ten Johns Hopkins students! to
day paid fines of $23.50 apiece for
participation in a Freshman-Sophomore
riot here last night which
caused appeals for aid from the
state militia. Nine of the fined
students spent the night In jail,
and Bernard Brack, serious) in
jured by a pollcman's club plead
ed guilty from his hospital bed.
Physicians said Brack would re
cover. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 22.
Maryland's, istaid arid ancient capi
tal was recovering, jts . composure
today afttjr : witnessing, unprece
dented transformation of the usual
ly austere state house circle into
a volcano of exuberant truculence
by half a thousand battle-jiungry,
Johns Hopkins university; under
ojass men. '
The rreshman class dinner an
inualiy eaten against vehement ex
pressed sophomore wishes, , but in
a building sanit window panes and
door .panels, off . much bvoleu
crockery and under' protection of
eight lines of high pressure fire
hose, was the cause.' l ,
One' student seriously '.injured,
four others known to : have rceeiv-.
ed hospital' or medical treatment
mid a score musing swollen heads,
biack eyes, sprains,- bruised- nine
in jail, and a national guard arm
ory badly battered, is the officially
tabulated result,' , ,
-'.' Several Seriously Hurt. t
Bernurd Brack, of Baltimore, suf
fered n possibly ' fractured ; skull
from a blow from a, policeman's
night stick. At Annapolis Emer:
gency hospital he remained uncon
scious for Heveral hours after the
battle had waned, and physicians
feared that If complications arose
his. injury might prove fatal.
John Grayson Turn bull of Tow
son, Md., and Gladstone Beadenkoff
of Baltimore also went to the -ios-pitfid
with heads battered from con
tact with police billies. Turnhutl
was released at his own request
but police took him in custody on
the hospital steps. Edwin K. 'Gor
don of Baltimore suffered head and
neck injuries when' he was filing
(Continued on page 8.)
NOT GUILT! IS
PLEA OF
AND
Confession, : of - Murdeir Is
Repudiated by Gray bikL
; Mrs. Ruth Snyder.
HELD WITHOUT BAIL
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Story , o Former Exemplary
Citizen and Worker in
. Church Incriminates i
; Victim's Wife.
(Ansotilntril 1'ross Lcusfld Wire.)
NEW 1 YORK, Mar. ' 22. Mrs.
Ruth Synder und Henry Judd Gray,
wlsigned confessions that they
had murdered Mrs. Snyder's art
editor husband, Albert Snyder, in a
love and insurance plot,1 pleaded
not guilty In Jamaica magistrate's
court today aud were held without
bail for the grand jury. They re
pudiated their confession.
Gray, manacled to two detec
tives, was brought to police head
quarters in New York this morn
ing. Mrq. Snyder was brought to
police headquarters later through a
rear door. She fainted' as she was
beiiiff taken upstairs in an ; eleva
tor,' but was soon revived.
' i Gray Gives Version '
Supporting in the main a , con
fession given by Mrs. Snyder, Gray
explained lu detail In his confes
sion how ho nnd the woman exe
cuted the murder from plans ar
ranged by mail while he was trav
eling. j
Gray, arrested li Syracuse, N. Y.,
on information supplied by the wo
man maintained during the long
trip down state that he wns JUino-,
cent, but he ; confessed when he
reached the office, of District At
torney iNowcombe in Long Island
.City early today. . ,
Snyder was killed, Gray said, by
a window sash weight which Gray
purchased three weeks ago and
gave to Mrs. Snyder, who hid-It in
her home. ; -
Picture Avire that' was found
about the neck of the victim and
chloroform found in ills brain were
purchased in Syracuse before Gray
came to 'New York Saturday night
for the crime. 1
Says Woman Aided
Snyder was siain shortly after
he went to bed on 'returning with
his wife and child from a card
party at the home of a friend..
Gray told police he hid in one of
the rooms of the house after enter
ing through a door purposely left
open by Mrs. Snyder.
Gray said he aud Mrs. Snyder
clubbed the victim, applied chloroform-saturated
cotton to his face
and then tied his hands and feet.
.Gray insisted he did not tlo the
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PARAMOUR
nniniio!
Near Death
W IF
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ASSOCtATB.0 PrtEiS (UMOBRWOOO)
EQVARD.PAY30MJWESTON
NEW YORK, March 22 Edward
Payson Weston, aged pedestrian
recently rescued from pqverty by
sympathetic admirers of the once
famous truns-contlhental walker
was close to death In a hospital
today after being run down In the
street by a taxlcau.
When struck down Weston was
on his way to church to render
thanksgiving In prayer for his res
cue from poverty by his friends.
He Is 88 years of age.
COURTDRDERS
Basic Allegations Should
.'of Judge Raymond. '
EDITOR TAKES STAND
Ford Not ' Responsible for
Anti-Jew Editorials
He Says; Two Read. : I
'in Evidence.
- (Awoclntcd J'rpss IjI'uhccI Wire.)
DETROIT, Mich., March 22.'
The plaintiff's declaration In Auron
Saplro's tl.000,000 libel BUit
against Henry Ford was pronounc
ed faulty ami in need of several
amendments today by Federal
Judge Fred M. Raymond ot Grand
RnpIdH, Mich.
"The declaration as It stnnds Is
Insufficient, in many of Its allega
tions," said the Judge. "I suggest
to counsel that) before .the case
can go to the jury It needs to bo
amended In several particulars to
clarify the Issues so that the trial
can bring about an equitable re
sult." The declaration -consists ot 21
counts Including .341 points and
makes 669 paragraphs. 1 ;
Tho first count, contains 20 nlle.
gntlons of libel, and 11 was one. of
the 20 under discussion. ''
Saplro's counsel said they prob
ably would file the amended dec
laration tomorrow, -
The paragraph to -which the
Judge took exception and which re
sulted In hlrf criticism of tho dec
laration, reads: -
"Cattlemen of tho west last year
reorganized their association, par
tially on tho Sanlrn plan with. Jew
ish agents hovering around tho
new project, seeking to get control
of It, The Haplro plan will get 'em
if they don't watch out."
Editor Assumes Burden.
Today, W. J. Cameron, .editor of
the Dearborn Independent, assum
ed full responsibility for everything
published in the weekly and denied
it devolved upon tho motor car
manufacturer.
Haplro, Chicago attorney, who
became widely known for organiz
ing farmers' cooperative agencies,
alleged that he was damaged by
anti-Jewish articles printed In the
Independent. .
"You're tho editor; be Hiiro you
are right," became a formula for
Mr. Ford's remarks to him, Camer
on testified, when ho nought to go
Into matters of the editorial policy
of the publication, ot which, as
president, Mr. Ford was titular
head. . -
Kvcn after the Independent re
ceived a demand for retraction af
ter It had printed articles naming
Saplro In connection with an "In
ternational band of Jews seeking
to dominate American agriculture,"
Cameron said that. Mr. Ford's for
mula still was applied.
"Did he ask how far you had
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SAPIRD'S SUIT
' SHANGHAI INTO SHAMBLES
Shantungeise, In Flight From the Cantonese,
Murder and Pillage and Attempt to .
Enter International District '
BRITISH SOLDIERS
Two Attempts to Break Through Barrier Result in Death,
) of 24 Chinese and Wounding of 40 Others Mobs, of !
i i Troops and Criminals Burn and Loot and Sweep ' !
: v Streets With Machine Guns to Get Away. .1
. (Associated Press Leased Wire.)
SHANGHAI, China, Mar. 22. British troops shot and
killed al: least I 2 and wounded about a score of Shantungese
fleeing from the Cantonese when they made a fresh attempt to
break through the barriers of the international settlement here
late today. :'': ' ' . . ;
Twelvti Chinese were killed and eighteen wounded in an
other bordeif fight between British and Shantungese troops a half
mile to the west of the first fight. , r .."-,
Prior, to the second incident,! 200 Shantungese,: disarmed,
had entered the settlement peacefulJySeven hundred r.-, re at
tempted to enr and fired pn'the British) Two of the'Sritish
were wounded, after jwhiih' they returned fire., i , j i
j j Sniping,; firesiind llooting continue in the Chapfci .quarter
just 'outside; the international settlement, where mobs composed
parity pf Shantungese'soldiers",: partly -of ordinary criminals and
pprtlv of nKtionalist gunrndn;; hold sway. ' ' j i , 1
. j,,' ' Lootlnfl Is) Raippant ; V,' t i
;T,ho Ibtreotsat'G. strewn-" frith
dead. In numerous' cased the rob
bers have cut off women's fingers
(n order to obtain their rlngB. ;
t Bvdry ple,c:e holdlngVthe promise
of loot has ' been' cleaned iout, but
the problem of . the 'criminals.. Is
how to, getaway ylth their; booty.
Asi; th(jy ::ltoo. the -city .they are,
met by iiwarms of ohtormg ghouls,
aud. bloods; fighpecur, , . .
Numeroila innocent people aWfe;
ported to J.mvo been killed In these
affairs. The scenes in Chapel are
Indescribable. Blocked thorough
faros trcfvnt the) escapp.,, pi; the
victims from tho robbers,
Nothing "lB-tft1 bo':;heard.' there
but shots, nnd itho screams of wo
men and 'Children, running hysteri
cally to and fro. Many ot the wo
men have been stripped nf their
clothing by the sojdlprj
in, their
wlld 'huiit; for- loot;
Native City shambles
Sometimes, loot-laden soldiers
are protected by comrades with
(inaohlno (guns, whp think, pothlng
of clearing the way down a crowd
ed street by opening fire and kil
ling Bcoros ot people. , .
Dut despite all this. It is declar
ed that Chapel Is merely under-;
going the experiences that Bcores
ot other Chinese towns havo had
In the past during tho present civ
il warfare. , ,
A prominent missionary author
ity says tens of thousands of villagers-Ill
the provlncos ot ShenBl,
Yunnn, Kowlchow, Honan and oth
er pnrts of the country, havo been
murdorcd In tho last year. '
Tonight the sky was lighted by
tho fires spreading In the district.
A throe pound shell struck tho
Pi'OHbytorlnn mission premises in
tho International settlement tills
afternoon and exploded. It caused
much damage, but there were lib
casualties.
Cantonese Morale Good
Tho Cantonese troops aco very
unprepossessing. A large propor
tion ot them are boys In their
teens. They are ragged nnd dirty.
But all wear the red and bluo Kuo
mintang necktie. A group of offi
cers seen by the Associated Press
correspondent, however, were com
paratively dapper, 111 tho Russian
military style.
The correspondent witnessed the
passage of a train bearing a thou
sand or more of these troops this
afternoon through tho Jess Field
Second Gold Strike Sends Weepah
Into Another Spasm of Excitement
(AwMwiitlfil I'ri'iw l.''i.M..I Wlrn.)
TONOPAH, Nevada, Mar. 22.
Another flurry of excllemcnt
news of a second gold strike per
vaded Wcepah today. Owners ot
four claims a milo and a quarter
from tho camp wero flashing assay
certificates showing their new
rind running as high us ?50 a ton
and cropplngs running to $128.
Several hours before rumors ot
the new strike were confirmed,
late arrivals began packing up and
sneaking out Into the hills on un
derground formation that an
other strike had been niade. Until
last night the location was kept
secret.
M. Humes, foreman of the Tono
pah Mining company, mado the lo
cation across a fourteen foot ledgo
on his claim and then merged with
three adjoining .claims to avoid
conflict, when he found he overlap
ped. The assay showed both gold
and silver. W
The lure of gold is continuing to
REPULSE, THEM
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DEFENDER OFi . SHANGHAI
SURRENDERS SWORD i
SHANGHAI, Mar. 22.--It is (it
tlclnlly announced that .'General
PI Shu-Chen, commander, of the
northern dotense forceB at
3hanghal, haB. agreed to sur
render.. Ills capitulation was
arranged' -yoBtordny- in: negotia
tions with Chang Kai-Shek, na
tionalist goneralissimo. . ;
Tho Kuomlntniig i or national
ist, flag has'beeiii hoisted over
General PI Shu-Chen's headquar
ters, but many .thousands .of
Shantungese soldiers iu certain
sections this evening -were I still
unaware ot the surrender.
station, wh'ore there are .British...
pickets on both sides of the rail
way. Thore were no signs of hos
tility, the Tommies and the Can
tonese eyeing each 'other curious
iy at a range of a few feet, and
commenting Jocosely. : "
., Chaoa On Outside1 '
" As an cxamplo of the chaos out
side ' tho-'" foreign' settlements,
northern forces are 'still' running
an armored train 1 and firing on
anything In sight between the
north and northeastern ; stations.
The white Russians in' charge ot
the train apparently are either un
aware that the Shautungbso forcea
aro pot supposed to be fighting, or
aro afraid' to leave the train.
Yesterday Cantonese beheaded
two white Russians' within sight of
the Iliitlsh guards nt one of the
barllors and stuck the' heads on
their bayonets, holding then) : aloft
amid tho smiles of Chinese specta
tors. , '
' Reds Are Dominant
The general strike is still spread
ing, nnd red intimidation is grow
ing bolder. A party of men visited
a railway foreman's homo in thn
northwest district nnd superintend
ed I ho removal . of tho rails.
Tho ;boatnwa!n of a British ship
received a note directing him' to
report at. labor headquarters to
night to be flogged bocause he per
mitted wharf hands to scrub the
dock of the vessel yecterdny at th
hour rixed for. the strike. Should
he fall to comply, he was warned,'
he and all his family would be shot.
Foreign Council Film .. , .
Tho municipal council ot .Jho
(Continued on page 3.)
draw tho seekers from far distant
points. Among the lutost arrivals
is II, Semaria, coffee planter from
San Salvador, who announces hlg
Intention to buy claims if he can
find something . with reasonable
promise of development.
And there aro other arrival!)
who apparently couldn't buy any-
thing regardless ot development
possibilities. One stampeder drove
In yesterday from Orvin vith,
three cases of eggs In Ills flivver
after Belling one case to raise
monoy to buy gasoline to complete
the journey.
High tension was felt In Tono
pah. awaiting the result ot a series
ot conferences between Frank Hor
ton, the directors of tho Klectrio
Gold Mines company and George
Wlngfleld, . banke and foremost
financial man ot the state. It
Wlngfleld becomes linked with.
Electric Gold Mines, It is felt tha
activities will increase many fold.
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