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Consolidation of The Evening Newt and
The Roseburg Review
DOUGLCOUNTY
An Independent Newspaper, Published toj
the Best Interests of tht Psoplt.
VOL. XXVIII NO. 112 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 31. 1927.
VOL. XVIII NO. 180 OF THE EVENING NEWS
BASIN
PROJECT
IN
CONSIDER
HELP ASSURED
Coolidge's Interest Gives
Encouragement to Move
for Federal Money.
$250,000 NEED NOW
Reclaiming of Oregon Area
Regarded as Necessary
Part of Ten-Year
National Plan.
t (Associated Press LpaBcd Wire)
PORTLAND, Ore., Auk. 31.
President Coolidge's interest in the
Columbia Basin - project and liis
expressed desire tor further inl'or
mation on the feasibility .of ,the
plan, virtually assures the appro
priation of. $25U,000 by the next
congress for further investigations.
Addison T. Smith, chatrman of the
house irrigation and reclamation
committee, told the Telegram. .
"The friendly attitude President
Coolidge has evinced, and his sug
gostion that further data should be
, obtained on this gigantic and un
. precedonted undertaking, will ' go
far toward obtaining favorable' con
sideration from congress on our
request for a $250,000 appropria
tion for further engineering work,"
said Smith.
Campaign Mapped
Smith said that measures' pro
viding for this appropriation would
, be introduced in the house by Rep
resentative Summers of Walla
Walla and In the senate by Sena
tor Wesley LI. Jones of Washing
ton. . '
Smith expressed the conviction
that congress would 'pass tha ;ap
propriation by1 early' spring. He be"
Moved 'that the $250,000 appropria
tion would be sufficient 'to' corn
plete the investigation and' to pre
pare tentative plans. At the' con
clusion of this investigation the
matter will have to go before con
gress again for authority to pro
ceed with construction and for the
initial appropriation. ' 1
Smith has lost none of his en-:
thusiasm for the "proposal to re
claim some 100,000 acres of laml;
near Madras in central Oregon, j
' "'This project is so obviously)
feasible from every point of view
that the 'government ' should not
wait until the , expiration of its
present ten-year program to give)
'. it consideration. I
"In my judgment it should be!
adopted at once as a part of that
ten year program, and Representa
tive Siii,nott and myself will 1 do
everything we can to have It Iil-
cluded, ' Smith promised.
Benham Dam Big Item
Tlifi est f inn ted iter nrre Post, nl
f reclaiming the Deschutes lands
ranges from $t5 to $97. It is pro
posed , to build a dam .at Renham
Falls, ten miles south of Bend, for
the purpose of creating a large
storage reservoir.
Great Northern railway officials
are known to have had this con
tingency in mind when they
(Continued on page 0.)
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Francis Marlon Conn, pioneer ot
Douglas county nnd former real
dent of Melrose, died In Portland
Annual 30 of paralysis. He wus
7S years of age. The remains wlli
lie brought to Roseburg toniorrow
v morning, and in the afternoon at
" 2 o'clock the funeral will be held
at. the Methodiat church, with serv
ices conducted by Rev. Joseph
ICnotts. interment' will follow in
Masonic cemetery beside the grave
of Mr. Conn's wife, who died In
1917.
Mr. Conn was born in Indiana
on May 24. 1849, the son of the
late .Mr. and Mrs. Henry Conn, who
settled at Melrose, Douglns coun
ty. In lSr,3. His wife,. to whom he
was wedded in 1880 on 'August
30, exactly 47 years before his
deoth--wa8 Miss Orvllla Camp.
They are survived by a son, Hen
II. Conn, of Portland, and a daugh
ter, Mrs. Arthur Strader, of Cor
vallis, both of whom will arrive
here with the body. Three broth
ers of the deceased also survive:
Virgil Conn, or Roseburg; Narclsse
Conn, of Melrose, and L. F. Conn,
of Lakevlew.
Mr. Conn moved from Melrose
to Portland about fifteen years
aeo. For seven months immediate
ly preceding his death he had been
t an Invalid from a second stroke ot
paralysis, the first one having oc
curred about ten years before.
$350,000 Spent in 7- Year
Struggle With Courts to
Save Sacco andVanzetti
(Associated l'rcss LeaBed Wir)
NEW YORK, Aug. HI More
than 1150,000 was spent in the vain
seven year U-gal haul to save
Sacco and Vanzetti from execu
tion but of this amount less than
85,000 was contributed by com
munists thruout the country, a
computation of Aldina Fellcani,
treasurer and founder of the Bos
ton defense committee, showed to
day. He said $147,000 was paid for.
investigation expenses and fees to
Fred It. Moore, California labor
attorney, who was chief defense
counsel up to three years ago and
37,000 was paid William G. Thomp
son of Dos ton who later was ap
pointed chief defense counsel. -
Announcing marked discrepan
cies between reported contributions
by communists and the money act
ually received, Fellcani accused all
radical groups except the Socialist
of using the Sacco-Vanzetti de
fense movement as propaganda to
further their own causes.
He said that $500,000 reported by
Wm, Filchner... Germany,
and Missioners Said
Victims of Tibet
Tribesmen. '
(Assocfiitpd Press Leased Wire)
NEW YORK, Aug. 31. The
New York World today . says' a
message telling of the massacre of
a party of white - men led Into
Szechwan province, China, by Dr.
Wilhe.m Filchner, -noted .German,
explorer, has ''been' 'Intercepted by.
its wireless station;1' 1 1 ' f " ;
-The report of a British' resUlenl
of Sikhlin, Iiidia', that- Filchner and
his party which included' V. G.
Plymire'o'f the 'American 'Embassy
of'God Mission,1 and!W.: Watkinson.
an Englishman of the China Island
Mission were slain1 by-hostile n ac
tives was relayed 'by the German!
trans-ocean wireless press. The ex
pedition. was crossing the' wiSilj
and mountainous region1 of 'central,
China, headed lor India, and was,
approaching Tibet from the east.!
It was in Tibet that Dr. Filchner
first 'won renown1 by penetrating
forbidden territory and visiting the
"Devil Worshippers"' at ' the - risk
of his life. His wife, disguised as
a man, because of tribal prejudices
among the Tibetians; accompanied
him on early expeditions. ' Dr. Fil
chner was -also 'famous for his
leaderships of South Polar explor
ations, backed- by the' German.
Kaiser, prior to the world war; He
was later a German staff officer.
Dispatches from Peking yester
day said that the British legation
had asked the Chinese foreign of
fice to Investigate the fate of the
white man, following receipt of an
official message saying that "three
Europeans" were slain near the
Tibetan border by tribesmen.
The party Is said to have chosen
the shorter route thru interior
China, deeming the coastwise trip
too dangerous, although there were
warnings of anti-foreign sentiment
In central China.
ASTORIA GRAVEL
CONCERNS AGREE
TO BOOKS AUDIT
f AwoptatMl' PreM Lenswl Wire)
SALEM, Ore., Aug. 31. An
agreement entered into last Friday
by the stnte land board and attor
neys for sand and gravel concerns
operating in the Columbia river,
whereby the state will make in
audit of the books of the compan
ies to get a basis for back com
pensation to -be paid the stale for
sand, is satisfactory to the Astoria
concerns, according to Information
received by the board from A. W.
Norblad, their attorney. The board
expects to hear today from the
companies operating farther up the
river. It was arranged that, the
board should be informed today
whether the agreement was satis
factory to the operators.
RODEO QUEEN TO
ENTER RELAY RACE
SPOKANE, Aug. 31. Miss Mnbel
Strickland, queen of the 1927 Pen
dleton roundup and Miss Donna
Card, her riding partner, will com
pete in the womens' relay race at
the interstate fair here next week
with Miss Helen Johnson of this
city, sister of Alfred Johnson, na
tionally famous derby jockey, it
was announced today. A fourth wo
man rider also will compete In the
$1,000 event, it was stated.
Miss Johnnon is to ride hhrses
from the stable of George Drum
heller. Missen Strickland and Card are
riding the McCarty horses and the
fourth entrant will represent the
Cantrell racing Btable.
the International Press correspon.
deuce, organization of the . Third
Internationale us having been
raised by communists never reach
ed the defense committees; that
the international labor defense, a
communist organization with head
quarters In Chicago, contributed
approximately $4,000 to the fund,
thousands of dollars less than what
was collected; that three hundred
dollars was received from the New
York Sacco-Vanzetti emergency
committee (communist) from total
collections of $7,000: that $1,000
said to have been contributed by
the Third Internationale at Mos
cow was never received.
Fellcani asserted, however, that
the international labor defense had
offered to permit examination of
Its books in Chicago, -and the emer
gency committee : had offered to
prove i Is expenses exceeded its
collections. ,
. Felicunt was unprepared to say
whether these offers would be ncr
t-epted.
E,
1EPEKKIP
15 .S
Attentions to 26-Year-Old
Wife of 57-Year-Old '
Slayer Cause of
: the Crime.
(Associated Press Leased Wire)
INDEPENDENCE, Ore., Aug. 31.
, Jealous of attentions showered
upon his pretty 26-yearold wife,
Irving JJ. Priest,- 57. transient hop
picker, shot and fatally wounded
Lreorge.' aiif wenine, m anout ?;.
wealthy, a nc ,promnpn.t hpp grow
er of Independence, at;,tliQ Wef
llne hop ranch seven( miles south-'
east, of here about ; ;30 o.'qldck
Tuesday itfternoom -.Verline ,;was
hit lu the left breast, the 38 cali
bre bullet cqmlng o,ut of the, body'
high iitp near the .right , shoulder
and he died htff an hour later. The
slayett offered' no resistance , to ar
rest by Deputy Sheriff j jtobprt
Brown, who was within a few feet
of the. shooting, and was lodged in
the Polk county jail : at, Dallas un
der special guard., ',. ,
Though, the shooting occurred al
most in. the midstof a: group of
hop pickers none of .them were
aware that death . hovered near
though they knew - that an argu
ment was in progress between the
two men. After Priest had charged
Werline with intimacy with his
wife, he made the. offer that "If
things were made right with him!'
he would be reasonable and leave
Mrs.; Priestat the hop yard., The
proposition .war. ignored by Wer
line and as he turned ,to etui, the
conversatlou Priest pulled the re
volver and shot, the hop man. Ho
meant to wound Werline and not
kill him, he later told officers.
Following an inquest lasc night'
the coroners jury returned a .ver
dict in about-fout1 minutes; holding
that George Mi Werline' met his
death by being shot with a 38 cali
bre revolver in the hands of Irv
ing B. Priest. The case will be giv
en to the Polk county grand jury
in Qctober.
DETROIT SHIP AT
CONSTANTINOPLE
f'AMoeiated Press Leased Wire)'
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 31.
The American ibimd the world
monoplane Pide of Detroit, piloted
by William S. Brock and Edward
F. Rchlee, arrived here from Bel
grade, Jugo Slavia, atll : 45 o'clock
this morning.
The Pride . of Detroit will re
main here tonight. The fllerH hope
to resume their round-the-world
trip tomorrow morning.
CHICAGO THEATRE
STRIKE UNBROKEN
f Associated Press Leased Wire)
CHICAGO, Aug. 31. America's
largest city remained virtually
without movies today with theatre
owners and union operators dead
locked in their dispute over two of
the operntors.
No settlement was In sight as
the shut-down of the theatres mov
ed Into the third day, with $75,000,
000 in theatre property and 25,000
movie employes Idle.
BRITISH SAILOR IS
WOUNDED BY CHINESE
LONDON, Aug. 31. A member
of the British gunboat Cockchafer
was slightly wounded, says a Hong
kong dispatch to the Exehanne
Telegraph, when the warship and a
vessel she was convoying were
heavily fired upon from shore by
Chinese. The Urtttnh relumed the
fire.
ALASKAN LINER
STRIKES ROCK;
Princess Charlotte Afloat
in Wrangell Narrows, .!
With Prow Torn.
TOURISTS IN PLIGHT
Over 350 Passengers Put
Ashore. 20 Miles From .
Village, Shiver on
' Open Beach. ; j
(AsBOeinted Press Leased WiroV ,'
VANCOUVER, B. C, Aug. 31.
Radio reports reaching here this
afternoon 6aid that the passengers
of the Princess Charlotte were be-
ng picked up by the coast guard
and geodetic survey boat Explorer
and tugs and would be taken to
Wrangell. - - , iV
' The Charlotte, crippTed by the
leakage of water into its fuel oil,
was said to have; been taken In
tow for Wrangell under convoy of
United States coast guard cutters.
JANEAU, Alar' a, Aug. ; 31
More than SfiO'Ho' rists, refugees
from the leakin 'and disabled
coastwise liner . Wncesa Charlotte
Shivered early' this morning on
a bleak and windswept Alaska
beach while a score of. vessels
steamed under forced draught to.
their aid.
Kadio advices received here said
that the stranded tourists, among
them 'many wealthy residents of
the United States and '. : Canada,
were landed from the Princess
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MCILA
Three , Men Held, Up Late
Last , Night ' by Pair
' , 'Travelling ; in ' '
Light' Car.:
Officers are today seeking two
men who last night held up G. A.
Taylor, .proprietor, of a service sta-.
tion at Yoncalla, and the occu
pants of. a truck which (drove up
to the station while, the , robbery
was In progress. , , ,
Mr. Taylor had closed, up the sta
tion and , had removed the . cash
from the .till, putting a large. roll
of bills in his hip pocket. It was
about 11:40 at night and he had
just reached his home, across the
road, when a car drew up to the
station. Thinking that the ma
chine was occupied by patrons Mr.
Taylor returned to t the station
but as he reached the place a re
volver was shoved against him and
he was ordered to put up his
hands.
One of the robbers remained in
the car, while the other, who ap
peared to be an Italian held Mi.
Taylor at the point of the pistol
and shoved his hand into the ser
vice station keeper's pocket. He
neglected, however, to search the
hip pocket where the money had
been placed, and so found only
$1.50 in loose change which Mr.
Taylor had in his pocket.
"Is this all the money you have?"
ho asked Taylor,
The latter declared that it was
the extent of the money carried
upon his persori, and no further
search was made.
Just at that time two other men
drove up in a Ford truck and stop
ped at the station. The man who
had been sitting In the car then
jumped out and hold up the two
new arrivals, securing $S.G0 from
them.
"If you follows want to live you
stand here," the robbers ordered
and then jumped into their car
and drove away.
Mr. Taylor Immediately report
ed the occurrence to Ed Newby,
marshal at Yoncalla, and they came
soulh to Roseburg at a high rate
of speed but were unable to lo
cate the car in which the robber
made their escape and It is be-1
lleved that the fugitives slipped In
to a side road and possibly doubled
back.
One was described as being
about 5 fret 8 inches tall, about
35 years old, dark complexioned,
weighing around 160 pounds and
appearing to be an Italian. Ho
carried an automatic pistol.
The other was about 28 or SO
years of age, weight about 130
pounds, 5 feet 7 in height and light
complexinned. He wore a gray cap
and macklnaw.
Balloon Made
Of Intestines
Is Successful
(Associated Press Leased Wire)
SARANAC LAKE, N. Y., Aug. HI.
With his balloon under his arm,
Leo Stevens was returning today
after a 3r0-mlte flight from Eugle-
wood, N. J., to this Adirondack re
sort. He made the flight to prove
that his tiny balloon was capable
of carryiug a passenger over long
distance.
His balloon consists of a twenty-
foot bag of 4,000 cubic foot capa
city and a car so small as to force
the occupant to stand; The bag, he
explained, is made of , the intes
tines or goats and oxen and m ten
times lighter than any other bat-
loon' materiul. - , . . !
Stevens i left , Englewood late
Monday afternoon. A southwest
wind carried him over Massachu
setts and he passed above Pitts
field, where he had planned to
laud, at an altitude of 10,000 feet.
Diz;ry and occasionally near uncon
sclousness from being tossed about
by storms, he drifted from the
Massachusetts position northwest
ward over .the. New. York state
line, Thru the rainy night he float
ed over' the 'eastern : Adirondack
mountains until a few hours after
dawn when ; lie lauded at Lake
Clear, about 20 mites from here.
Carrying his deflated balloon, be
took a train to this village and
later started for home. , i
German Natator Finds Lake
Mild Task Compared to
English Channel. ,
000
IPRIZE
CjeoVge XoUng, r'avbnte in
Marathon, Forced Out by
j C'ramps After Going A
..'-j Si; iFour 'Miles.
' tAssocIfttctl Press Leased WlrJ)
i i TORONTO, .i Out., Aug. 31. A
powerful Gorman baker, Ernst
vlerkoettor, to whom the mildly
ripplied wuters of the Icy Lake On
Uirlo wore calm compared With
the turbulence of the English chan
nel he had couuuered, stroked his
way- toward a' $30,000 first prize
goal today, two miles ahead of his
nearest rival In a gruelling 21-tnlle
marathon of the lakes.
Vierkotter, who gained the lend
at the four and one half mite point,
swept by the then lead-holding
George Young, Toronto lad, as If
George had been merely paddling.
A half mile further on, Young
dropped out, victim of the crumps,
and before half the race was over
there were only (18 swimmers left
out of some 400 who had entered.
Martha Stager, Portland, Oregon,
entry, was still swimming this af
ternoon. She was in 51sf position.
Cramps Overcome Young
TORONTO, Ont.. Aug. 31.
Closing a gap which at the four
mile buoy was 200 yards, Ernst
Vierkotter, German, passed George
Young, Toronto youth, and Cata
Una champion, and took a fifty
yard lead In the $50,000 twenty. one
mile Lake Ontario marathon at
11:05 o'clock today. A few mo
ments after he was passed by the
German, the Toronto boy gave up
the race and was hauled into his
boat, suffering from cramps.
When it was clearly seen that
the Toronto swimmer had de
finitely abandoned the course,
cheers volleyed from the German
boat as Vierkoetter's handlers
cried encouragement to their kins
man. Vierkoetter calmly but strongly
pulling thru the water, shot ahead
and by 11:30 was a lone figure a
mllo and a half ahead of Summers
of California and Edward Keating
New York winner of the Lake
George marathon, who was slightly
behind the California)!.
Hcli I rid the second and third
men came Wallace Cullen of Kan
sas City fourth; Stanley Prltchard,
Buffalo swimmer fifth, and George
Michael, holder, of the English
channel swimming record, sixth
and going strong.
flic tenth person at the course
was a woman, Ethel Mettle of
New York, who at the four mile
buoy was nearly a mile ahead of
the next womsn in the race.
Young Wat Favorite
Young's withdrawal created great
excitement, ior today's race had
boen conceived essentially an a
tribute to this native son of On
tario. Of tho scores of widely
known International contenders,
he, who swam to .'nine In the Cata
lina $25,000 channel grind, wafl to
(Continued on ;uge 6.) j
IRK0ETTERI5
EASY VICTOR IN
TORONTO SWIM
BRITISH
WAY ACROSS ATLANTIC
FOR PRIZE OF $25,000
'Captain Leslie Hamilton (above),
accompanied , by .Colonel ; F, ,F.
Mlnchln, as : alternate pilot,' and
Princess Wertheim as a passenger,
took off from England in the air
plane St. Raphael., this .morning,
bound for London, Ontario, Canada,
intent on winning the $25,000 prize
offered for the first plane' to make
such a trip. ..Princess Wertheim Is
financing the venture.
LEVINE MAY GIVE
UP ! PLAN TO FLY
BACK TO AMERICA
V V (AsBoeliitcd; Prt'ss Lcnsed Wire); V .
LONDON Autf.' 31i--Charles A-.
Levlne will abandon 'his plans for
a return flight bvet" the 'Atlantic
if : the1 British nvhttorR' "Hamilton
and Mlnchln succeed In their pre
sent 'attempt, he told The' Asso
ciated Press .this morning; He ln
dicuted 'that he 'had In mind an
alternative flight, which might con
sist of an utteinpt to break the
long distance and endurance re
cords, flying toward the east.
Wishing the British filers "all
the'luck in the world," he paid tri
bute to their courage in starting
lu the face of unfavorable weather
reports and voiced the hope that
yesterday's announcement . of his
Intention .to start within a lew
days had not been responsible for
their taking to the air earlier than
would otherwise huv been the
case. ' . .
Levlne -Is ' determined to make
a record flight of some kind, he
declared. "Thero - are other long
distance flights lo be made which
will be as great endurance tests
as the Atlantic hop,", he said, "but
I had hoped to be at the head of
the first expedition to make the
round trip across the Atlantic.
This has been, my dream lor many
years.
MEXICO HAS NOT
FREED U. S. FLIERS
(AwMH-iatcrt I'ri'M l-iiMod Wire)
MEXICO CJITV, AUK.
imlchcH from OJtnuKii Ktute that
Ihu iiuthorltleH 'ni'B mill fletuin
Iiib Hip United Milieu nnny avla
Ioib, Oantiiln O. II. Reynolds, and
Mauler Sergeant (3m Nnwlnnd,
UoatlnR them with utmost cour
tey. Their plane wuh RllKhtly dam
lined when Ihey landed, but can
he easily repaired.
(Iteynolila unil Newlnml were
taken Into custody hy the Mexi
cans after making a forced land
ing near Arruldosa, state of Chi
huahua. They were making a
search at the time for Alfred Me
nard, shell-shocked war veteran
lost In the Arizona desert. The
Mexico City newspaper Kxcelslor
said Tuesday that the Mexican
treasury department had Instructed
I ho customs authorities at OJluaga
to release the air men.)
FLIGHT LOG OF
DETROIT PLANE
(Hy Tho Associated Tress.)
August 27-28 lllirbor Grace,
N. V., to Croydon. England.
Distance, 2,:tri miles; flying
time 23 1-3 hours.
August 29 Croydon to Mun
ich, Oermany. Distance 60U
miles: flying lime 7 hours.
August 30 Munich to Ilel
grade, Jugo Hluvla. Distance
600 miles; flying time 5S hours.
August 31 Belgrade to Con
stantinople, instance .100 miles;
flying time 61 hours. Total dis
tance 3.950 miles, or nearly one
sixth the circumference of the
globe. Previous record 28 days
and 14 houm around tho world.
Held by Wells aud Evans who
were still on Atlantic, liner on
fifth day.
AIRPLANE ON
HAMILTON MINCHIN AND
PRINCESS WERTHEIM GET
BLESSING ON TAKE-OFF
London, . England, to London, Ontario, Trip Expected
;' to' Be Completed iin 37 Hours Trio Lost to
; f Sight ' After Leaving Ireland and Zooming
, : i Into Ocean Airway Woman Is Backer. . i '." , i
Ml
I
t j i I I c I .' (Associated Press Leased Wire.) ; i - ;
! ( j Late this afternoon eight hours niter leaving Ireland west--boiujtU
j o yer the Atlantic, the plane, St. Raphael', .was unreport-f
ed' by :anyi khe numerous' steamers which iThe i Associated
Press! asked to iwatchi At that-time, -if maintaining' its speeds
up to passing out of sight of land, the St. Raphael would be
ncaring mid-Atlantic. 1 Its expected coursei was so1 far ildrkl) of
the August: steamship Innes that chances' for any one to 'sight1
It' were not good. ' " ' : : I ' ' : i . !' ,:!','!:!
UI'HAVON, England. Aug. 31.
Aftor waiting at the army ulrdronie
lioro, lor, ten days 'tor favorublo
weather) Captain Leslie - Hamilton
nnd Lieutenant Colonel F. F. Mln
chln, with Princess Lowensteln
Werthlem as tt passenger, left here
at, 7: 32 otalock ths morning In a
-monoplane 'the Ht.- Raphael, ln.;an.
attempt to fly to Canada! , V .-. - ,
They hud fuel for a 44-hour flight
but. expected to reach (Uaw An '37
hours. After . landing at ..Ottawa,
they hope Inter. to go on. to Loudon,
Ontario, to claim , the .prize of
325,000 for, a tllgh't from London,
England; to London, Ontario.: , :
,: (They tinade a beautiful lake off
after running about three quarters
of a mile. They clrclefl over the fly
ing : field and' hcuded '.'Westward.
Rain was fulling and It was misty,
so tho plane was .lost , to sight; to
the numerous. watchers almost Im
mediately; i - . .' .. , t . , ,.
At the end of the field, the fliers
narrowly 'lnlssed hitting dhe roof
of a hangar. The airfield offlcera,
fearing u crash hud an ambulance
and fire engine ready, hut the acci
dent wus averted. . '' . : ' . '.
Mlnchln had the wheel at the
start, but 1-Iamllton expected to do
most ot tho piloting.
When the Princess, who Is finan
cing tho. flight, ontored the. plane,
she took off her cloak, revealing
she was wearing a puple leather
flying outfit of knee breeches, and
Jacket, black, silk stockings , and
brown leather hoots with bluclt fur
around the tops. Hho carried her
own simply of food In. a leather hat
box and wicker basket,
Plane Is lessed
Sho drove on the field while tho
airmen were preparing to leave,
but said sho had decided not to ac
company them. She became so In
terested in tho preparations and
prospects, however, that sho an
nounced that sho had suddenly al
tered her mtnd and would go after
nil. With her on arrival at the
field was the Mol Rev. Francis
Mostyn. Roman Catholic archbish
op ot Curdlff, Wales, v,iio blessed
tho plane, bailo the filers godHpeed
and said ho wished he might Join
them.
In spllo of the fact that Ihe
British military flight officers ex
pressed their suspicions over the
weather, the aviators continued
their preparations. Among tho sup
plies placed aboard the piano wore
emergency army rations for two
days, strong entree lu a vacuum
Jug and "sleep averting" tablets.
Then Hamilton made a detailed
examination of tho plane and pro
nounced It In excellent condition,
(lood byes were said, and the plane
was off on Its hazardous vonture,
cheered hy a largo crowd which
hail gathered beforo daybreak,
largely attracted by the report
that the princess would be a pas
senger. ,
Princess Confident
.Inst before taking her seat In
the piano, she snld to friends;
"Of course wo are going 'to
mnko II. there Is no doubt about It.
I I'll send you a cable from Canada."
The courso set. by Ihe avlalors
WRH.for the coast of Ireland, after
which they expected to make
i about twenty miles south of Dub
lin, thence to Clifden and (Jahvay,
! wliero thoy wero to strike out over
the Atlantic for St. Johns, N. F.
' The plane Is the type used dally
I In the London-Amsterdam service,
i It has a wing spread of 60 feet, Is
equipped with a single 500 horse
! power Bristol Jupiter engine and
; bears tho letters "OKBTO" and
the name "HI. Raphael." It does
not carry radio apparatus, but has
a collapsible rubber boat.
The fliers are taking letters to
the mayor of Ottawa from tho may
or of Bristol imd also, letters j to i
Colonel; Char-leal A. Lindbergh Mm"
frieiKls'lhjEnglttnd. : j ,' ! ' I t: 1
'i i I Make Oaod Progress ' -' -
BELFAST, 'Ireland',' Aug.' 31.-- j
The trans-Atlantic plane: of Cur
tain Leslie, Hamilton and Colonel
F. F. Mlnchln is reported from. '
Guywny ,lp, have passed l ovenliii
veran, near the, coast of Clalwuy; ,.
;Bay, at 1 12: Id V- m. brotoedthlT
due wo8t;.'A-?-'-'i . v
The above: .dispatch Indicates
that. the. fllers'nt the time i woro
about to ileave land behind them
and begin-the actual overseas part .
of ithelr Journey. From Ilpavon.lo
the Oalwuy cuiist. la slightly under
400, miles lu u straight line. Ap
parently, ,. howeyer, the . ..filers
deyluted -slightly to tho south, suc
cessiyQ reports .showing them -f io
have reached the Irish coast' at ,
County Wexford, thence . bearing
northwest . through- County- Tll'lter
ury to Clalwuy..!
The elapsed time' for -.their hop-
off, nt Upnvon to' the reported pas
sage over Iiiverau Is 4. hours 38 :
minutes, indicating maintenance of
a speed closo to 100 miles an houiv '
-,"Old Glory" Ready Again
ROOHISVULT FI10LD, Now York,
Aug. 31. With tho promise ot n .
.wind shifting urotind to the woHt,
Indications this ufternoon woro that
the mouoplnne Old Glory would at
tompt to take-off Into today on its
lione-stop flight to .Rome, ulthough
no official announcement wns fnriii
coming from Pilots Lloyd, Bertuud
and ,lumes J). Hill.
'INSIDE" DEFEAT
OF AL SMITH IS
NOW PREDICTED
MINNEAPOLIS. A uk. HiDefeat
of Al Smith "from (he Inside vX ;
the democratic party" was predict
ed from tho floor nt Ihe National
Women's Christian Tempere,iiu
Unlon'H annual convention today
following reading ot a teleKram
from the national Wojnen's Demo
cratic law enforcement league, en
dorsing the unlon'H Mnnd In . de
mandlnK "bone dry" .platforms ;nid
candidates In the nexi pretiUlenU-il
elections'
The teleKram, signed hy Mrs.
JohhIc W. Nicholson, league preM .
dent, and pledKliiK cooperation to
ward obtaining "tho desired re
sults" had scarcely boen rotrl
when Mi'8, LoiKh Colvln, president
of the New York W. C. T. U, leap
ed to her feet with Ihe exclamation
that "Mils nietuiH Ihe defeat, of -Al
Smith from the Inside of th? dem- i
ocrallc parly." . A,tf
FIREMEN CALLED
BY TWO ALARMS
Two alarms were answered yes
terday hy the Itoanburg fire de
partment, one a short circuit In a
homo on Short nnd Spring stroma
and the other at the carnival
grounds In West Roseburg. The
service wires at the residence oil
Short and Spring streets, becuniy
crossed and caused n short circuit.
Workmen at the Cot-n mPl -saw
the smrke and called the lire de
partment before the buriilii!,' in.-uil-atlon
set file to the structure.-
The fire nt the carnival grounds
apparently started from n mutch,
curelessly tossed Into the , dry
grass, the fire spread to a lent
occupied by a dull ruck and :ils
caltuht Ihe tent, of another conces
sion. Itolll tents w.'l'O destroyed
and there was considerable loss of.
stork and equipment for tho
stands.
K. M. Mnltl'.ews or Reslon was
In this city Tuesday looking nfier
business matters and trailing.