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EWS-1 UAa Weather Highest temperature yetterday....76 Lowest temperature last night.48 - Forecast for southwest Oregon: Rain tonight and Tuesday, mild temperature. . , . AlwayslZeiztls BUM and Local Industries I 1 DOUGtCOUNTY Consolidation of The Evening New and . The Roseburg Review An Independent News ' the Best Interests LIBRARY , Oreg0n VOL. XXVIII NO. 151 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1927. VOL. XVIII NO. 225 OF THE EVENING NEWS Rose 1 , w Iffl ELDER ISiTWO YOUNG GIRLS CEOUS FACE OF DANGER Crawls Along Ice-Covered Fuselage' and Empties Gas Tank. LETTING HAIR GROW Refuses Services of Barber and . Says She Is Thru With Bobbed Hair Leave for Paris. ' i- . (Aunclulcd Pro, I.imic.1 Wire) HORTA, iBlnnd of Fnyal, Azores, Oct. 17. Until Elder Is thru with bobbed hnlr. The American avlatrlx who started on a flight front New York to Purls with a pastel-tinted ban deau over her rebellious brown hair, was Introduced to the barber yeHlerday by her co-iflot of the lost "American Girl," George Hal deman, Who had decided she need ed her hair trimmed.. . In fpite of the barber's willing ness to accept the honor of being the first to bob Miss Elder's hair after her thrilling rescue at sea by the crew of the Dutch tanker llarendrecht, the avlatrlx refused his services. Haldeman- tried to persuade her, but Miss Elder in sisted her hair must now grow.. - Another chapter in the story of miss Elders heroism was added during a day of receptions and laudations. Before their descent to the sea, 360 miles from land last Thursday, her courage' was .tested iu a breath-taking manner. The illers had been driving their plane, even then slowed down by a defective oil line, thru . a sleet storm. The tull of the plane, on .which a heavy coating of sleet had formed, beoatue too heavy for the machine to be kept on even keel. Something had to be done to right this. There was somo gaso line stored In the tall of the plane a reserve supply to be used in an emergency. Haldeman and Miss what should be done. They decid ed that the reserve supply of gus oline would have to be jettisoned. They then took turns at the stick. wniie one or the other, crawled along the ley fuselage of the plane, then flying over the tossing At lantic, and threw overboard some or the reserve supply. .. i . Ruth took her turn at trawling atong the fuselage without a trem or, it was related, and this chore accomplished, returned to do her (Continued on page 8.) WHAT'S WHAT IN AVIATION (AModattil Preu Leaicd Wire) (By the Associated Press) Ruth Elder and George Halde man, co-pilots of the lost "Ameri can Girl," were lauded at Horta, the Azores, when it became known that Miss Elder and he took turns in crawling along the sleet cover ed fuselage of their airplane to jettison gasoline stored in the tail in order to keep the plane bal anced. Dleudonne Costes and Joseph LeBrix arrived . Sunday at Late coere air field near- Caravelles, Brazil, 450 miles north of Rio Jan eiro, from 'port Natal, Brazil, on the third leg of their Parts-to-Rio Janeiro flight- - The Heinklt hydro-airplane D 1220 with Its crew of three Ger mans, flew from Amsterdam, Hol land, to Vigo, Spain, a distance of about 1,000 miles. , , The Junkers hydro-airplane, D 1230, in which the Viennese actress Dili Dillenz and three German bird men are attempting a flight west ward over the Atlantic to America, was being groomed for a continua tion of its projected flight while Mite, Dillenz was feted with Miss Elder at Horta. The aviators in charge said the D-1230 would hop off when ready. Captain Charles, French aviator who left Villa Coublay, near Paris, October 11, on a flight to Indo China landed at Karachi, India. His flight will end at Hanoi. Mrs. Keith Miller and Captain Lancaste, on a London-Australia flight in a tight two-seater plane, arrived at Dijon after a flight from Paris. Their next hop will be to Rome. Captain Frederick Giles, Eng lish aviator who hopes to fly across the Pacific to Australia, ftew from Salt Lake City. Utah, to Elko, Nevada. SHOT TO DEATH BY A TMICAB DRIVER (Associated Press CHICAGO. Oct. 17. Two death early today and then thrown from an automobile whidh sped on for a block before skidding to a stop against the curb, with' a dead man at the wheel. The driver, a bullet thru Winters, 22, one time taxicab driver, but recently unemployed. The girls who were killed were, Catherine Stradler and her hum, Margaret Martin, both year. . The triple shooting took place on Khodes Avenue, on the south side. The neighborhood was aroused by the crack of revolvers about 1 a. m. At least two householders living on the street went to their windows and looked out in time to see the bodies of the .two "girls pushed from the automobile. The car zig-zagged ahead and finally struck the curb, bounding back into a passing automobile which it struck on the rear bumper. Winter's body was hanging over the edge of the car. A revolver was found on the floor board near his feet. . ' A block back, lying face down on the pavement where they had been thrown, were the The Martin girl .had been shot fired at Miss Stadler entered her luugca near ner nean Winters had been casually several months, her father said, were in love W. . J- . . , . t r .1 i . U'ci Bunnuij' nuu H lutein ppettsvr, inters, according to the girls father and to his, had an important message for own relatives, had been in poor reoently returned from the west where he had gone in the hope his failing lungs would be benefitted. . Mrs. William J. Martin offered the only suggestion as to a possible motive for the shooting of her daughter. She said she believed Winters had killed Margaret because she would not marry him and that in a moment of anger or unbalanced mind also had shot the Stadler girl and then himself. CHAS. A, LEVINE OF ARGUMENT FAME IS HOME Plans Trans-Atlantic Mail Service at i i 50c Per Letter. DISCUSSES JOURNEY Tells of Flying Plan Over English Channel Alone Pilot Chamberlin Not in Reception Party, ' (AMorlatnl I'reu laaed Wire) NEW YORK. Oct. 17. Charles A. Levi ne, the only trans-Atlantic air passenger, came home toduy. He announced on his arrival that he would fly the reverse journey from Kurope to America next sum mer ami that within two years he would have in operation an ocean air mail service carrying haters to Europe for fifty cents apiece. Levlue was taken from the Le via'haii ut quarantine on. the city tug M acorn, which curried ' the mayor's reception committee head ed by drover Whalen, and rela tives and friends of- the' filer. Clarence , -Chambertuin, Levlue's pilot on his ocean hop, was not on the Macom and nd reason for his absence was given. Levine accorded reporters a lengthy Interview on the, Macom as it stean"ii up the bay but frfeuds stopped all questions deal ing with arguments iu which the air passenger became embroiled during his four and a half mouths iu Kurope. "How about the fight you had with an American on the street in Paris," was the first question of this type. he vine opened his mouth to unswer hut a friend In terrupted. "There was no truth In that re port," he said. "We won't talk about that." In like manner Irvine was asked and prevented from replying to questlous about bis differences with the French pilot he hired to fly him bark to America. He did. however, talk some about the time he "stole" his own plane at Paris and flew it to Iondon. "It was the first time I had ever been in a plane alone," he sail with a smile, "and some of the journey' was very amuBine;. When I got over Croy don airdrome I had to laugh to see them run out the ambulance for me." The Macom had to wait at quar antine almost an hour before Ir vine was transferred and durTRg Continued ob page, lw.). Leafed Wire.) i ' 19-year-old girls were shot to . . . , his right temple, was Wilfred high school ' graduates of last bodies of the young women, twice in the back. One bullet.?'?" the interesting talks made by body under the right arm and I attentive to Miss Martin for but he did not believe the two health for some time. He only Ell IE LEAPS TO DEATH - NEW YORK, .'Oct. - 17. Helen McCloskey, 26, a mo tion picture actress, "donned her -tbrldal-' veil ' and 'leaped j from a sacfiixd Btory --window ( todjiy seeking death becauHe she grieved over the remar- Wage of her divorced 'bus- band. She was taken to a bo.Hiltul Buffm-lug from a pos 'Bible fracture of the skull and a broken arm: New' York a year, nKo from ! a iiniivuniKi ' a AiA4A444Al y ' Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Lawrence" secretary, Mrs. Lillian B. Oavls; motored to Ashtautl Sunday and recording secretary, Mrs. It. A. Bu vislted during the day, returning senbarkr treasurer Mrs. V. J. Ml- hnn in the evening. . j WHEN THE FLYING FLORIDA FLAPPER FLAPPED HER WINGS j 3 f S I V.t - - s, 7 .r. y X. kmy . ' v. w V r ' "tfj - . These pictures of Ruth Elder, the flying "Florida flapper," who .just before the hop-off at Roosevelt Field, Long Island To the left were taken. Above she is shown bidding goodbye to Mrs. Virginia is the take-off of the plane from the runway. To the right Miss Elder r.alr, a sweater and knickers. W. C. T. U. MEET AT SUTHERLIN BEST IN YEARS Thirty-Second Annual Con-1 vention Is Largely .1- Attended. PROGRAM IS FINE Mrs. A. C. Marsters Elected President of the Organ ization Wonderful Talks Heard. - The thirty-second annual conven tion of the Douglas County W, C. T. V. held at Sutherliu October 11 was one of the largest and most successful meetings of the county union In recent years. The sea sons were held In the Methodist KpiHcopal church. One of the dis tinctive features of the convention '.oTSres ' ment and the department. of moral welfare of the. Presbyterian church. Miss Aldrich, a1 woman of pleasing those attending the sessions. The morning session opened the convention, davotionals being con ducted hy Mrs. 1. N. Tuthlll, who took as a text "Through Faith the Lame Man, Leaping Up, Walked," Acts, 3rd chapter. The convention was called to order by the county president, Mrs. A. C. Marsters of Roseburg and appointment of com mittees and reports of the officers followed,' the president dialing that, with the' assistance of. Miss FruHor and Mrs. K. T. Sun ford, sev eral unions had been rebrguulxed, malting nine unions in rue county. The local president's hour was nn interesting part of the, morning program with the subjects taken up being "The Most Helpful Depart ment" and "Our Greatest Need in the Future." Mrs. :. L. Denn of Camas. Valley gave a brief talk on the former subject and. Mrs. D. C. McGehey of Glengaryl and Mrs. Tense Buscnbark of Roseburg also spoke, the former on Farm Home and Charily and the latter taking up all lines of the W, C. T. IT. work In her discourse. Mrs. It. O. Slator of Sutherlin was a speaker on edu cation nnd' Mrs. Anna' Godsey of Wilbur; spoke on "Work in ' the Schools' is Important." The splen did record of a newly organized union dud the enthusiastic outlook for the future was told by Mr.. fcJlTle Payne of Yoncalla. The election of officers resnlleo as follows: president, Mrs. A. C. Marsters; vice - president, Mrs. HpIpii It. FprKUsoli: cnrrpHitondln ' (Continued on page three.) " Denmark Flight Means Much to Them , , j j fw yiwrj , ; . v( ,,, x , i:JsV xif-fJr: iv-A The attempted flight of Mrs. tor, and Wllmer Stultz, pilot, from the center above, la Mrs. Grayson right Mrs. Stultz, wife of the pilot. AIRED BEFORE TAX COMMITTEE Gov. Patterson Urges Body to Reports Something of Actual Value. CARKIN IS CHAIRMAN Treasurer Kay Declares It w Js Duty of Commission 1 to'Devise'lVIeahs of " Raising Revenue. (Associated J'rett Leased Wire) ' SALEM, Ore., Oct. 17. Gover nor Patterson, In plain words, told nit: sin ie imi puny iua icuutumi commission nt its; flit session here today that something of act ual value to the state is expected from it. He first mentioned that previous commissions for the same purpose huvo not produced results. Further discussion today Indi cated that state officials nnI load ers 'in state affairs are not in en tire agreement as to what the duties of the new commission are. John H. Carkln, chairman of the commission, said that the function of the commission is to reduce nnd equalize taxes. State Treas urer Kay said, among other things, that it is up to the commission to devise means tp raise mora, reve nue, Kay and Secretary of 3tate (Continued on page 8.) STATE DEFICIT se t out on- the Lindbergh trail across the Atlantic ocean, were taken she ts shown getting the eats ready for the trip. Nine pounds of food Haldeman, wife of the navigator-pilot of the plane American Girl. Below is shown in the outfit she wore on the flight big ribbon around her (Copywrigbt, 1J7, NEA Service. Inc.) JL. Frances W. Grayson, Long Island realtor; New York to Denmark, means a great deal to thtse three women. In herself; to the left Mrs. Goldsborough, the navigator' wife, and to the ' - - - CRAZY BUTCHER STRANGLES THE GIRL HE LOVED ' ' f AocUted Preu X..wh1 Wire) NEW YORK, Oot. 17. Fr of knivei Is the reason assigned by a six-loot butcher for strang ling the woman he loved. Harry Ollmore was In Jail to. day, having confessed that he killed Mrs. Helen Brandon be cause she terrorized him by Im. plements of the sort he cut meat with every day. They had come, he said, from Washington, five weeks ago on the i understanding that i he would support her in return for her services In keeping house for him, Mrs. Brandon desert. Ing her husband and taking her eight-year-old son, Billy, with her. 'M But Gllmore told that the woman had not lived up to her bargain, that sne had lazily ne glected to make his meals, or wake him In tlme for work, and last of a long, list :of- Indlg nltles had refused "to- Iron this shirt. i :; i Hvj l In answer i tp ! hlf i renion stratlons, Mm Brandon' usually flourished a , knife at him, know ing, said Gllmore, tAat he had a tear o(' knives. Mrs.. Brandon 'was known' as Mrs." Samuel Young In Washington. Her hus band left Washington to take care of the body. ' UNMASKED BANDIT ROBS K. FALLS MAN , ' ' (AltMH'tHifll 1'lfM U'ri-) POUTI.AN'D, Ore.,'. fct. n.-r-nek Murphy, mnploye'l by the Southuni Pacific nillrond at Klnm ulh KitllH, whs held up and rphbed or $20 and an expensive wulnh by an unmasked, armed bandit at Third and Flanders HtruetH ibis morning. , ' Murphy, according- (n police re ports, described the, bandit as 35 yeura . old, medium height and wearing a li-athor cont, light cap nnd light trotitrH. sfr Brlce Goldsborough, navlga- PICK AXES BLOW T BANDITS" TOOLS Would-Be Thieves Worc . for 12 Hour, on -Building Waff. ; -i- PLATINUM IS MELTED Bore Thru Three Feet- ,of Mappnry But Torch Does i Not.Penetrate Safe ! I A ih jiwelry Store. v iSpATTLB, Oct.) 17. Wonidhe t uuyes, wno worked with l jdck axos for-niore limn 12 hours, 'bored through u side wall of a depart ment store here . yesterday and used blow torches to cut throuKh the rear nf Hie vault of an adjoin ing jewelry store' while thousands strolled hy .011 th 'busy street out side. Police said mat, .two 'roll. iters apparently emercd I lie de partment store skylight, early in the morning and left a confederate on the street to act aB u lookout. ' The pair began boring -through tln-en feet of masonry ' with pick axes. They laid bnro the rear of the heavy steel safe In l!io jewelry' store and then set up two - large tanks nf oxygen nnd acetylene to cut a nolo, two feet scpiare through the six Inch tenuiored steel casing of the safe. Katiy last night they were In terruptod by the watchman who was met with the muzzle of an automatic pistol. lie waa gagged and socurely bound behind a counter and the thieves proceeded with their drilling. The heat of tin; acidylene torch melted 320.001) worth of platinum behind ths steel walls nf the safe, a good two ffct from tho flnme. KfforlB to cut through the safe wull lolled, howover, when the acetylene supply became exhaust ed. . The attempted robbery' was dis covered late last night when a niercliuut patrolman noticed the store , wntchman'H nbaouce from his accustomed heat. BAD WEATHER SPOILS CHANCES FOR NEW RECORD NEW YOItK. Oct. 17. An at tempt to establish a new record for low enHollne consumption for air planes fulled today when (Jcnrjte Melssner, lest pilot for the Fntr ciilld Aviation Corporation, was forced down by heavy ruins. Iln took off with 107 Kullons of Kasnllnf' yesterday itftminnn ami planned to fly until the supply was exhausted. When he lauded today there were still severtl gallons in the tanks and MeisHiicr said thorn was no need of meuMtrHiR 11 as the test was spoiled. RESIGNATION OF BAN JOHNSON IS ACCEPTED TODAY fAMnoUtd Frew lotted Wire) CHICAGO, Oct. 17. The resig nation of Hyron Bancroft Johnson, founder and prenlient of the American league for 21 yeuiH, was accepted today by the lean lie board of directors. Frank Navln. vice president nf the Ipasue and head of (he Detroit dub. said he would take chargo of tli leagues affairs until a n.pet Iiik would b railed and Johnson's successor elected. DAWN FORCED TO DUMP FUEL GET BAD START Overload , Causes : Ship to Nose Downward and ' ! Nearly Crash. ! I j ' ' START .TOMORROW; ; : . : i i ,: ! ; . I ! ' '. ' Mrs. Grayson Unable to Get Enough Gas for New Start Today Made Good Takeoff. ! ' , , (AuoclaMl I'rpn IamhI Wire) t OLD OHCHARD, Maine, Oct. 1j -Less than a Quarter ; of : an hoifr utter tho Dawn took off hopefully for Europe today, it was- buck, on the sand a& the result of Improper ' balance when she was iu the air. The plaue was nose-heavy . and Pilot Wllmer Stultt aald that it waa impossible to- Keep her. up. HIh navigator, mice GoldBborougu, pulled the wire' which .dumped 260 gallons, plmast a thtrUjof the loadi into tno air where it M'fuyeu duck In a groat .white cloud. The first word of, Mrs, Frances W. Grayson us she stepped from .' the plune was to L'nptalu. Harry M. Jones. "We must have 260 galloon . of gusollne at once. We will shift? . DO gallons aft to give her a better . balance and try it again." They still had almost two Hours beforo the tide would block the at tempt. - , 1 Faced by the fact that all of the needed gasoline was not available' I and that much time was needed to . load it, it waa decided after a con ference that tho flight , must, be postponed from this tide. Since the next low tlde-tonlght -wiH-b-ftai' dark, tomorrow morning " will ' bo the first opportunity for another attempt. The plane was returned to its position high on the beach . The Sikorsky amphibian had ris en easily from the beach after a run of lesB than a mile. 'Scarcely hud the nose been pointed 'toward its ' European goal, however, when It waa seen that she was - rapidly losing the altitude gained. ' The plane wan barely 2D' feet above the water when the gasoline was dumped. 'it took' less than n, minute to ease the plane - of the contuuta of the two tanks which streamline tho motors, Just below the' upper wing. ' The ship then ollmbod 11s though 11 11 anchor had boon cast oft aud was nearly lost to view over the ocean as It sped east past Prouts Neck. Then ' the cry went up from the hundreds of watchers on the beach: "Sh ..I4 coming back." '. - , Mrs. Stultz and Mrs. Ooldsbor ouglt'were Btandlng on. the sanda. Never word did they say during the erltlcaf, moments ; before' tlie gasoline was dumped. Only when tho piano -was again' over.; tho beach did Mrs. ' Goldsborough ex claim : - "Didn't they drop that gas quick ly?" After circling about to the south ward, Pilot, Stultz brought -the Iiawn down to a porfect landing and emtio to n stop in front of the hangar where tho plane had await ed Its chance for exactly a week.' Nuvigntor . Uoldsborough tald that the plane took the air In 52 seconds. The dumping of the load, which saved the ship, took 40 sec onds. Although all three flyers . (Continued an page 8.) , ' PLACED UNDER TOW ' (Aurla!ftl 1-rrM U.M.1 Wire) I'OHTI.AND, Ore., Oct. 17: . The steamer Walllngford, disabled off the coast of Ore- gon near Cape Arago by the loss of her propeller, Satur- day night, was being towed to Ban Francisco today by tho coast guard cutter Cahoka. The cutter, arriving from Ku- reka, 'took charge of the 4 Walllngford. ending a contest of about 24 houra between aea and seamanship. The Walllngford of the Mc Cormlck Steamship com- pauy's coastwise fleet, bound from Portland to San Francis- co. lth a cargo of lumber and with a crew of 20 and the the wlfo of captain Ouss llllg aboard, broke her tall shaft late Saturday. The steamer Ccllllo of the some Una took the Wnlllngfonl In tow hut 4 1Mb line broke yeslerday. The steamer Wlllametie then got a lino aboard the Walllngford. (jitter the Caboka took the 4 tow and proceeded south. . '. . I ; i. r