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Newspaper Page TextFull Associated , Press Leased Wire Service DOUGLAS COUNTY 'The End of the j j I . Homeseekes Trail') TODAY S NEWS TODAY Consolidation of The Evening Newt nd The Roteburg Review B-DOUG1.AS COUNTY An Independent NewipiD1 it Newipn , rt0 the Beit VOL. XXVIII NO. 69 OF ROSEBURQ REVIEW ROSEBURG. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1927, .,M" , , . ', . "v , Vj- -- " " ! VOL XVIII NO. 134 OF THE EVENING. NEW8 . " D.fl 0 BYRD AND COMPANIONSflOP OliFOR PARIS BAD WEATHER DEFIED AFTER USELESS WAIT Covers Nova Scotia in Faster ;Time Than J 'That Made by Lindbergh. Plan to Return to America Kv All Annn&M f tL-nK. - . i From Advance Gas : Order at Paris.' : i: HALIFAX,: N. S., J une 29. . (By the Canadian Press.) Commander Richard E- Byrd, in , his monoplane America, covered the length of , Nova Scotia today on : his non-stop flight to Pons in three hours and 30 minutes, bettering Col onel Chnrles Lindbergh's time of a month earlier by one hour ; nnd five minutes. ,.' ; The America arrived off the toast of Nova Scotia at' 10 a, m., Eastern daylight timer and left the northeastern' tip of the province at 1 :30. ; 1 Chamberlm's time in the Co-, lumbia was much slower than that of either the Spirit of St. Louis or the America. '. , i Improving weather condi-. lions favored the fliers as they headed for Newfoundland in brilliant sunshine and with no fog in sight. They flew very low over Louisburg, apparently making certain of their point of departure over the gulf of St. , Lawrence to Newfoundland. . Round Trip Indicated. PARIS, June 29. Instruc tions from Commander Rich? ard E. Byrd have been receiv ed by the Air Union chief of . the French commercial airline I. to' have 4,400 litres' (about 960 gallons) gallons of gaso line waiting for him at Le Bour get, leading to the belief here that he intends to return to the United States by air. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., June 29 Commander Richard E. Byrd and Ills three-man crew took off on their long delayed scienti fic nir expedition to France in the monoplane America at dawn to day. The three-motored Fokker took the air at 5:24 o'clock Eastern day light time, just 48 seconds arter being released from the top of the runway where it had been tied for the past six days while unfavorable weather forbade a flight. The storms that have blocked a flight during the more than a month and half that the Byrd plane has been waiting at the field seemed last night to be as great nn obstacle as ever. But in the early hours of the morning Com mander Byrd suddenly announced , that despite the weather man's un- favorable report he had decided to leave. Byrd's companions on the flight are Bert Acosta, George Noville and Bert Balchcn. The motors were started by T. Harold Kin kade, Wright motor expert, whose presence on the plane strengthen ed a rumor thar. he Intended to make the trip as a stowaway. Stowaway Plan Fails Yesterday afternoon Byrd had told him that he would like to have the moior expert along and Kin kade replied: "Well, you may find me there after you get away." Later Kinkade confided to report ers that ho Intended to attempt to stow away and when he was not seen to descend from the plana af ter tuning up the motors it was believed that he had actually gone. Arriving back at the hangar, about an hour after the America left the ground, Kinkade said a five pound tin of tea belonging to Commanded Byrd made him decide to remain, behind. Byrd and his j Europe-Bound sa - Here's the largest party ever his companions was taken while for -her ocean jaunt, with Europe E. Byrd, Lieutenant George Noville Personnel: Commander commanded first plane to fly navy for present flight; Bert i i mw, i, ....m.in ' , ir,,.n - , ...-flfl. , Salient Facts of Byrd's Flight: 1 1 DEATH WINNER IN Clarence Chamberlin of the world record for endurance flying; ueorge iNoville, flight engineer, army wartime pilot and former head, of the air mail; Bernt Balchen. passenger and relief man. associated with Roald Amundsen in preparation for Norge flight over North Pole. , , - "" ' Route: Long Island sound and southern NeW Eneland coast across Nova Scotia to Newfoundland, then slightly south of Great circle cours e across thence to Paris. 'Distance roughly. 3600 miles. Time about 40 hours. i. Purpose: Study bf winds to chart general rules which may . Mane: Ihe America is a plane similar to the Miss Josephine Ford in which Byrd flew over the North Pole, but has greater wing spread. Thirteen hundred gallons of gasoline and 54 gallons of oil are carried. the engines are air cooled Wright whirlwinds, the same as those used in the Ryan and Bellanca monoplanes that pre ceded Byrd to Europe. Instruments : All the instruments carried bv thn Rvan nnrl Dellanca planes and more besides. Commander Byrd w able to take accurate reckonings such as are used on shins will have the magnetic compass -and earth inductor compass such, as the other planes had and will also be equipped with a sun compass, a recent invention which he used on his polar flight. ... Food: Two roast chickens, 10 cheese and 10 turkey Ba8 City at an average of npproxi sandwiches., Emergency rations of hard tack and pemmican to !.ately 65 miles an hour " 1, 3D J. : t iu Turning westward on he Santa last 30 days m case of emergency. ,:- . Fe trail enroute to Santa Fe. N. M (communication : Whereas the Ryan and Bellanca planes they maintained an average of carried no radio set, the America has two- The large set will about 45 miles an hour. Ab they send continuous "all's well" signals and in case of a forced ni'I'roanho-J. Husliong, 10 miles west InnJJnT r ..t : .u. ..:i i ....j f- i- M hf. the road narrowed at a m ..... o-. iii Mtc winy uc u9cu lor uisiress ; calls. 'i Sponsors: The flight is backed bv the American Trnnn- Oceanic company, which was formed for the purpose. Its head is Rodman Wanamaker. department store owner. crew, he sold, crecked over varl - ous supplies to see if rooni could be made for Klnk-de. They dls- carded first the Inud guards on! the landlnir near, then i nnlr .of mocassins and two cans of oil. j "Then," said Kinkade, "they Zcon?,? rdera, thhr,fHh' they could In order to buck the head winds that are awaiting them ! ,- ,1. ki ,"""cu'"le" ""7U wa" nm inmc importance ?w ,n'Pff fHHPP, Ml"0', r,ng 1 be'U any rM0rd', "Cheer up,' sold a friend to hlm, "Lindbergh was an entrant for "may be you'll fly back from Paris i the Orteig prize," he -said, "and" to this country." Chamberlin and Levlne were try- man wimi , m guing 10 uo. no ; answered. He aaoen tnai ne would 1 San ior r ranee loaay anoara me President Harding, taking with Airplane and Its 1 1 ''WWiliiej i Ini'iii. ii1 .i"iii Wx-..-:v; . - - .v.-.v.-ff.y to attempt the Atlantic crossing by airplane. The picture of Byrd and they were preparing the big triple.motored monoplane, America (above) the goal. Left to right the men are and Bernt Bal-chen. "rjassenners." Richard E. Byrd, U. S. N., who over North Pole, on leave from Acosta. flight pilot, holder with Atlantic ocean to Ireland and at various altitudes in an effort aid future trans-Atlantic fliers. three-motored Fokker mono Commander Byrd will be He i ililm spare parts for the America's j motors. . Wivee Dry-Eyed Left behind on the field were lh ln. f lu-,l a., ., v. ville. Balchen is not married. The wives all expressed sunreme con- "a' Byrd stressed repeatedly thru out the long wait to -start that ing ior a nisiance record. Hut this flight Is for purely scientific condi- ; tlona and It would be foolish to . (Continued on page .) Intrepid Crew j I Bert Acosta, Commander' Richard i ' i i: - : Chicago - to - Los Angeles Auto Crashes, Killing '.'' Samuel Klein and Injuring Father. (Aiuocialoil Press Lciisetl Wlru) COUNCIL GROVE, Kansas, Juno 29. Tho attempt of Samuel Klein and his father, Morris Klein, of Chlaago, to beat tho fastest rail time between their home city and Los Angeles in an automobile, end ed In disaster near here yestorday when their machine left the road killing the son and seriously In juring the father. 1 nnt-.n. rl.lnnnA n, O ..'..1nr.tr .yesterday morning, they piloted their roadster to St. J,ouls without Incident and roared through Kaa sas City at 2:11 p. in., four minutes ahead of the schedule announced for the 2,4 40. mile route. They bad covered tho C51 miles to Kair was parked. The roadster missed Ihe bridge and hurdled a small si ream. It landed on the ban1.: the creek nnd fell back into llio water. When farmers ami motorists reached the machine Samuel- was cjeod.- His chest was crushed. Ills fallier wa unconscious and was re- """"" u'lconscioui n,ov a hospital h ere. He sus tained a fractured skull, his left arm and right hip were broken and his right foot was crushed. W. - ently was blinded by the sun. A clock on the instrument hoard of the car stopped at 5:37 o'clock. Thpy covered approximately 6SG it""""1 time- " "vcrago of about 47 n,lles an hour 0 '. Victor In Town Mrs. PI O Rtrnmnnlaf nf I onk. inir f!loa. spent several hours Tnesdav in lioseburg transacting business and shopping. I '" " I i ! . I I ' t'! J : I.I;.!, ..!:! . !jfl jf V D XERStGDUIMXY TURN DOWN ALL REVENUE BILLS Income Tax, Increased Levy r.Base, Legislators' Pay i ,,l " Receive The Ax. 4 ' MEASURES i SURVIVE Inconsistency Presented in ; County Officials' Wage Raise; Nestucca Net !' i ' Fishing to End. (Asnnclnlfld l'lt'M Leuscd -Vt'Wv) ' , l'Oni'LANU, ! Ore., . June 29. Uoturns' from yesterday's state special election showed a substan tial majority uguinst the proposed state Income tux. With 1336 pre cincts out. of 1847 in tho statu, In cluding Multnomah couuty com-' plete, tubulated at noon, the toll on the income tan stood: Yes 37, (108, No 67,474, Iv, majority against -the -tux of 20,406' v-'''. Tba,T0leraded8lMlj,rJiild a measure to tlx the state bnslo tux levy . at ' f3.500.000, The figures wero; Yes 14,487, 'No 65,640. Tlio measure to give tha stato tax commission supervision pver county assessors also was snowed under, 23.468 Yes, 541440 No. ' . A proposal' tc authorize financ ing a veterans' momorial. armory at Portland lost, 18,731 Yes, 62,421 NO. .. . : , ! (,-. , Voters blue : ponclledi a; proposal to lucroiise legislator's I pay from $3 to $10 a day.' The figures .we're:. Yes 21,331, No 61,552. , . - A nieasure that involved no sal ary 'increase, -but which seemed to draw the opposition of the voters that which would prohibit In creasing salaries of nubile officers I during their terms; of offlco--also apparently failed of passage, tho' vole being Yes 35,607, No 48,098. Two measures affecting .Multno mah county, one providing for In crease In school taxes, and one for consolidation of city and county governments were lost, the school tax vote being Yes 36,752,. No 44, 304; nnd the vote on consolidation being Yob 34,222, No 42,860. Four Measures Survive Four measures apparently sur vived tho onslaught of negntlvo voteB, theso boing tho repeal of on obsolete provision or tho stato con stitution denying negroes right to vote; a law doing nwuy with Bweni lng In voters nt the polls: a law to permit' speedy pleas of guilty In criminal cases, and a moasure closing Nestucca bay to commer cial fishing. Tho flguces on these measures were: Negro suffrage, Yes 63,194; No 32,164. Registration, Yes 43,798; No 37, 550. Criminal amendment, Yes 48, 595; No 30,532. Nestucca closing, Yes 42,718; No 35,625. Portland Charter Beaten Portland voters killed a new charter, which would hove Increas ed salaries of officials and estab lished a pension fund for city em ployes. The completn vote was for eherter revision, 7,415, against 38, 344. A J4.000.000 bond Issuo for a new Morrison street bridge was de feated more than three to one. For bridge 11,377, against 39,226. The H'.irnsldo street widening bond Issue was defeated: 13,720 for bondB, 31,160 against bonds. Union County Says No ' LA OHANDH, Ore., Juno 29. For the first time In history the Income tax bill Is being defeated In Union county, returns from 30 of the 37 precincts In the county showing a total of 999 for tho road Improvement .n the. county. Is losing. This morning's total j showed 1213 favoring tho Issue and 151,0 against. A city charier amendment chang ing the form of city government 10 a five commissioner plan. Instead of the. present three, was defeated by a vote of 320 to 679. all pre cincts within the city being corn- plete. A bond Issue for $45,000 for a new water main In the city car- irieu py owt 10 v)d. GIVES LESS THAN 25 PER CENT VOTE Turnout for Special Elec : tion Believed Smallest I ; u j ; in History. ' i INCOME TAX CLOSE Opposition Has Slight Mar- ; gin in Early, Returns State Tax Limita tion Walloped. Loss llinn twouly-flva per cont of tha voters of Douglng county vot ed In the special state olecUou yes terday, according to cstlmutes Unti ed upon returns from preclude so fur reported, Rotmns have como In .veryi slowly, and many of the prettlnct rostiltB will not be known until thc-llnal count us tho alec . tion boards In. numerous . products lulled to return a statement' out. side tho ballot box as required', by law. -' 1 f pi Jf 't ' Tho,. returns,, however, ; nro 'suffi cient, it is helloynd, to Intllcato tho general , trotid.v -;.The -Incoroo tax measuro In "Douglas county is still In doubt, although tho load has shifted to. tho1 opposition. Early returns from, the county gave slight count lu favor of, the tax, but as later 'reports came In, the margin was against the bill, The-negro suffrage amendment Is given a wldeUeadi.Ju .early 11 turns, ami ts believed to navo'uoen carried. The Portland school tax mensure Is also close, although tho bill Btlll has a slight lead ' oVoi'i tho opposition- . i 1 1 . . 1 1 . ; ' - The criminal information amend. meat Is given a wide margin lu the early reports. This nieasure ap pealed to the voters ' of the coun ty, apparently, as being an economical measure, as undoubtedly It will oe. If passed, saving the expense of keeping prisoners confined for a long period of time without giving them an opportunity to plead guil ty If they bo desire. This pbaBO of the Issue apparently met the ap proval of tho voters who proceed ed to pile up a long lond In favor of the bill. ' ' ' The proposition of giving moro pay to legislators, howover, railed to hit any popular chord but In stead hit a snag. The early In dications are that tho DouglaB county voters have swamped tho bill three to one. , The standing on the voters' re gistration amendment Is quite cjoso and the outcome Is a question. Tho stale andt county officers' salary measuro Is also close In tho county. The county and city con solidation hill, a Portland measure, has been defeated in tho county, report! Indicate. The veterans' memorial, also a Portland hill, lias been swamped In the first returns. , The worst wallop, however, of all of the measures has been hand ed to the tax limitation act, which would Increase the base for figur ing tho stato tJx. The vote was nearly 6 to 1 against tho Increase. The assessment or "blue blank" bill, also suffered defeat In the county ,,y a wido margin. The Nestucca river closing Is given a substantial lead. ' The county report Is given on a basis of slightly moro than one third of the voto represented. While numerous precincts are yet to be heard from, it Is believed that the showing so far secured Is suf ficient to Indicate the general trend and that the resultB will fol low about tho same percentage. Only tho ballot hovos from pre cincts near ItoBcbtirg had been turned In at an early hour this af ternoon, but It Is expected that all will be on hand hy tomorrow morn, ing and the final count will prob ably take place Friday. The returns from 20 complete precincts of Uougtas county this aff.ernoon were totalled as lows: YKH Negro suffrage 661 School tax ..51S Criminal amendment ....699 (Continued from page 8.) l'n. NO 351 412 299 2400-Mile Hop ! Their Record Lieut. ' LeBter.! Maltland,. above, pilot, and '. Lieut. Albert Hagen- t)erger, , navigator,,' of the army mane m ine Trans-Kacirio ' nop. ., ENGINES COLLIDE 1 , '' . .Twovluconiotlvog-, collided Inst night 111. tho south part 4 of tho railroad yards, tortun- atoly, 'howover doing little diimago,. A light engine 'vnM 4 returning ; to . Hoseburg from Gloudalo In a crippled condl tion and ..was, .entering, . the yards, whllo at the sumo time , -the. awltuh engine, was pn the way 'south' to tfilofl' the switch for nn incoming freight, The two " locomotives mot on tho curve, but fortunately wero going slowi Tho plIotB of both: :otiglnes were broken, that on, tho switch engine be- ing demolished but olhorwlsq thoro was little damage. - . - jt. Electors' Rejection of Measures to Raise Revenue Brings Comment , ; From Gov. Patterson and T. B. Kay I .(Aminrtnld. PrpM IreftM Wlrn). SALEM, Ore., Juno 29 Except to drop a general hint as to what his policy will 1)0 as a result of the defeat of the state Income tax Qox ernor Pattorson. would today mako no commont on the outcome of the election. He said he might nmkd a more extended, statement litter In tho day. , ; , . ( "Maybe the people of Oregon aro willing to do without some of the things that they heretofore have demanded,". said Ihe governor, ,w Tho exoculivo obviously had lnj mind tho eastern Oregon normal school and tho eastern Oregon tu berculosis hospltnl which wero ap proved by tho peoplo ill tho elec tion of Inst November, -and which the board of ! rogentB of normal schools and the slate hoard of . con trol have voted to Iocatn at La Ornndo and The Dalles respectiv ely, 1. . Making his hint a bit plainer, the governor said: . I understand Union county vot ed against the Incomo tax; May be tho people of . Union county don't want a normal school alter all."' ... If the governor adopts a policy of opposing immedlalo construc tion of the two new stato Institu tions, and should be able to carry with him a majority of tho stato hoards, it Is believed hero (hat mandamus action would follow in an effort to compel tho stnto to proceed with the construction of the normal school and the hospltnl. Million Deficit Remalne Tho tuberculosis hospital bill carried nn appropriation of $100, 000 as voted on by the people and tho leglHlalure of this year ap pealed f225,250 more, and also ap propriated $215,000 for the estab lishment of tho normal school. It must be remembered, however, some state officials point out, that the legislature appropriated nearly 12,000,000 In excess of vis ible funds, figuring on tho approv al of Ihe Income tax by the peoplo. Vetoes by Oovcrnor rattcroon cut FLIERS REACH GOAL IN LESS T HAN26H0URS . "TnTi.'V'.'"'".- 2400-Mile Journey I. Longest I Non-top; V. Over an Ocean . i i Ever Made. ' Radio Fails, to Flash Rays, I , for Guidance, But Trip ... Is Accomplished by . . Aid of Compass. (AMoelatt'd PreM Unwi Wlro) ; WHEELER FIELD, Island . Oohu, Hawaii, June 29.- First to make the 2400-mile flight between . iSan i Francisco and Honolulu,, the army fliers, ' Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert Hegenberger, ,ar rived here at 6:22 a. m. today. The army fliers who left Oakland, Cel., at 7:09 a. m., yesterday, finished their trans Pacific flight in twenty five' hours and 43 minutes. They, had expected to make , it in about 24 hours. . ,' 1 Throughout their long flight they had been -reported t seen only . oncer by the steamer Sonoma, when 780 miles from the California coast; : ' Epoch In Aeronautlos '( It toll to tlio lol,..o( tlio army to bring the Hawaiian Islands, . out- post of -America's dofenSo, within one xlayof Ihe eoantry's mainland. The fastest stoamers: traverse the broad waters of the, , Pacific, In which no .land Intervenes, in from flvo nnd oiie-half to'slx days.' " Maltland 1 and ' Hogenheiger, by their successful flight, supplement ed tho pioneoi' work beguu August ,31, 1925, by their brothers of tho navy.' On that; date three giant pianos of the navy made the first attompt to cross tho Pacific from Sun Francisco, bay to Hawaii. Ono plnuo fulled to rise, another folLlu 1 (Oontlntioil oh pugo 0.) this excess over 11.000,000, so the dot'lclency, according ', to .Stato Treasurer Kay, between the Btato tax levy and moneys appropriated hy tho legislature lu still over ?1. 000,1100. , " . , : ' "'-'I' . Should .Governor -Patterson ' op- posu construction of tho new nor mal school and the new tuber culosis hospital In order td .con servo state funds IiIh action would probably be based, It Is understood, on. the constitutional provision In hibiting the state to contract an Indebtedness In excess of 150,000. Kay 8tatee Position - State Treasurer Kay, who mado Ills position clear today, would op pose such a policy of the govor. nor. It Is probable that Secretary of State Kozcr would voto with the governor. Kay Is a member of Ihe board of control but not ot the hoard of regents. Kozer and tlio governor ore membora of both. "I take the position,", snld Kny. "that It Is the duty of the board members to go nhead as the peoplo ; or the legislature direct, and not to rnlsn questions : of legality. Therefore 1 shall voto to go abend . with tho establishment of tho tu berculosis hospital. I am aware of , tho constitutional provision that tho slate shall not. exceed an Indebtedness of 1500,000. Uut them Is also n provision that no county shall contract un Indebted- . nosa ot over 15,000, yot nearly overy county has ruled these legal Indebtednesses. - I believe the same ruling would hold for tho Btato, 1 predict that If the boards should vote not to go ahead with t he construct Inn or tho two new stale Institutions mandamus action would be hrought to compel them to go ahead, and I believe the mandamus would win." (lovernor Patterson,' In declin ing to stato what his policy would be said he wanted first to confer with the other members of tho two boBrda. ' ' "The board of normal school re gents will meet July 20," ho said, "and the question will be settled at that time."