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ROSEBURG, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1927.
OL XXVIII NO. 152 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
VOL. XVIII NO. 226 OF THE EVENING NEWS
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BAD WEATHER IS
AGAIN CAUSE OF
DELAYING 'DAWN'
Study of Reports Made by
Steamers , Forces
. . Postponement.
NEW LANDING GEAR
Trying Scheme to Raise
Gear Hurriedly Allow
ing Pontoons for
Water Landing.
(Auociated Pnu Iued Wire!
OLD ORCHARD, Maine, Oct. 18.
Adverse conditions today apainst
forced postponement of the Euro
pean flight of Mrs. Frances Wilson
'Grayson and her two companions
In their amphibian plane, The
Dnwn. A radio poll of steamships
Rhowed contrary winds clear across
the Atlantic.
Undismayed by their false start
yesterday when an excess load of
gasoline made the machine nose
heavy and forced a return less than
o quarter of an hour after the take
off and after a large quantity of
fuel had been hastily jettisoned,
the fliers had hoped to get a,way
with first available , tidal condi
tions this forenoon.
Mrs. Grayson herself announced
the enforced delay (today after he,
together with Brlce Goldsborough,
the navigator, and Wilmer Stultz,
pilot, had studied the 'weather re
port gathered for them by the Ra
dio Corporation of America through
Its Chatham, Massachusetts, sta
tion, i
Mrs. Grayson Bald that the delay
would be utilized in an attempt to
speed up the hydraulic median. am
for lowering the landing gear. On
;. returning to the beach yesterday
; the Dawn . was forced to circle
nbout almost eight minutes before
the landing wheels, drawn up as.,
the ship went out uver the water,
' could be lowered for the landing.
The plane Itself Is fullv ready'
for the new attempt. Gasoline
which was dumped had been re-J
piacea anu mecnanics were ran King
a few additional minor adjust
ments. ' '
LACK OF FISH
; THIS YEAR 1
AnocUted Pre Leaaed Wire)
REDDING, Cnllf., Oct. 18. Be
cause of lack of fish the fall take
of salmon In the McCloud Rivor
United States fishery at Baird has
been abandoned this year for the
first time in a qarter of a century.
The streum was so muddy from
glacial flow all winter , and last
summer that it was impossible for
the fish to 'live.
FALLING TREE
(Aaaoctated Pre Leaaed Wire)
EUREKA, Calif., Oct., 18. Ben
jamin Peterson, 45, died last night
from Injuries received when he
was struck by a falling tree in the
wood of the Little River Redwood
Lumber company twenty miles
north of here. He is survived by
a brother In Oregon. . . .& . .,
GIRL-MQTHER IS
(Aaeoclated Pre Leaaed Wire)
SAND POINT, Idaho. Oct.
18 Margaret Brooks, 20 year
old Ravalli, Montana, girl-
mother, was sentenced to one
year In the state penitentiary
on a charge of manslaughter
here yesterday when she ad-
mitted throwing her baby boy
out of a train window.
The Infant s body was
found near Granite,, Idaho,
September Id.
HERE'S A BIT
OF BRAVERY
FOR YOU, FOLKS!
(AaaocUted Pieaa Leased Wire) '
BATAVIA, N. Y.. Oct.
18. Androcles showed
great courage in removing
the thorn from the lion, but
Batavia citizens were asking
today how about Harry Rus
sell and Lockwood Ager.
"There's a skunk running
around here with a can on,"
said an unidentified voice
telephoning to police head
quarters. "Well, what do you want
us to do, make an arrest on
a public intoxication
charge?" the desk sergeant
answered.
It developed, however,
that a full grown skunk was
running blindly around in
Franklin street ' with a sal
mon can wedged over its
head, unable ' to find the
open fields back , of the
street.
Russell and Ager, em
ployes of. a factory, .picked
up the skunk before the po
lice arrived and with a pair
of shears removed the ican
from its head and allowed
the animal to scurry away
uninjured.
The appreciative skunk
spared its benefactors.
TOPI COAL
FIELDS THREAT
RED AGITATORS
Denver's I. W. W. Distiir
' bances Reach Serious '
. Proportions.
HOLDING MEETINGS
Four Thousand Miners in
, Boulder Field Meet and :
Decide to Walkout .
Officials Worried.
(Associated rren Leaaed Wire) ;
DENVER, Colo., Oct.' 18. Den
ver's I. W. W. agitation which had
its root in sympathy for. Sacco
and Vauzetti, grew to fulfillment
today as" the state faced a possible
tleup of its coal fields as'-the re
suits of caTling a general coal
strike by I. W. W. leaders last
night, to become effective today.
With the I. W. W. agitation
sweeping from the Southern Colo
rado coal district to the Boulder
coal fields, law enforcing bodies
In the districts affected mar
shalled their forces early today to
combat any disturbances ' or at
tempts on the part of I. W. W.
strikers to prevent those' that re
fused to strike from reporting for
work at the mines.
Thomas Annear, chairman of
the Colorado State Industrial com
mission with George Taylor, com
mission member, were "standing
by" at Walsenburg today until the
exact extent of the strike is de
termined) What line 'of action the
commission would follow In case
the strike took on a serious aspect
had not been announced today. .
Meetings were held last night at
Walsenburg, Agullar, Lafayette
and Boulder, with I. W. W. lead
ers spurring miners on to make
the strike a "100 per cent, propo
sition. . First word of the spread ot the
agitation to the Boulder field was
received here last night when it
was learned that more than 4,000
miners, .representing that entire
section, had met and voted unani
mously to walk out. : The meeting
was held in a baseball park and
presided over by A. S. Embree, I.
W. W. member from the southern
field. .The meeting had been
scheduled for a down 'town' hall.
bat the crowd was so Immense
that it had to adlourn to the ball
park, where automobile spotlights
were used for Illumination.
' At waisenourg the miners num
bering 400 met in the I. W. W.
headquarters building which last
Saturday night was raided by
Mayor 'John J. Prlchard and
committee of business men and all
records burned. Permission for
I the meeting last night was granted
; by Msyor Prlchsrd who accepted
the responsibility for Saturday
night s raid. v '
Intense excitement was evident
at Agullar last night when mem
hers of the town council met with
L W.iW. leaders and discussed the
,' (Continued, on page CI -
FALL-SINCLAIR
JuRYCDMPLETE
TRIAL STARTED
Forty Talesmen Examined
in Selecting Body to
Hear the Case.
TWO ARE WOMEN
Celebrated Case to Deter
; mine Whether Two Men
Conspired in Dispos
ing of Oil Lease.
(Associated Pren Leued Wire)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. The
jury for the trial of Albert B. Fall
and Harry F. Sinclair was com
pleted today at 12:18 p. m. after
the examination ot forty talesmeu.
WASHINGTON, Oct 18. After
two days of painstaking examina
tion, a jury was placed In the box
today to decide whether Albert B.
Fall, former secretary of the in
terior, and Harry F. Sinclair, oil
promoter, conspired criminally in
disposing of the lease of the navy's
great-Teapot -Dome oil reserve. '
The jury was completed alter a
veritable procession of talesmen
in and out of the box. Although
when court opened only one jur
or's seat remained vacant, chal
lenge after challenge from both
government ana uetonse removed
those to whom the lawyers ob
jected.
The jury which win near tne
celebrated case consists of two
women, one married and one
single and ten men, eight married
and two single. The jurors all live
in the. District oc Columbia; and
are as follows: ' "
Mrs. Annela L, Bailey, clerk, age
not elicited. - -
MUs Bernlce Heaton, a tele
phone Instructor, age not elicited.
Gardner P.- Crenfell, .26, single.
cable splicer. ,
William H. Goucner, 39, married.
a tire vulcanised
Conrad J; Herzog, 56, married.
saleB manager. . ' 1 . ,
Robert ..C. Flora, 39, married,
sales agent.' ' ' "
Jbhn P; Kern, 32, married, sales
man. . r'r
Bradirer W, . Holmes, -34, -mar-.
rled, department store floor mana
ger! ' ' 1
John P. Cosllnett, 61, married.
tailor. ' . . ': ... t i.
Norman L. Glos&cock, , 47, mar-,
rieu, clerk. , , .
Edward J. Kldwell.'j'r.. 31. single.
leather worker. ' ,
Charles Holt, 63, married, retired
brick mason.
One of the flrs't jurors' to be re
moved from-the box' today was
Mrs. Pauline Levitt, chosen yes
terday with the two other .women
(continued on page three.)
MAN WITH TEN
WIVES CAUGHT;
WORRY IS OVER
, (Asm-latrd Press Leaaed Wire) 1
CHICAGO, Oct. 1 8. i
Women have caused Alfred
Herbert, 32, more or less
concern, if the police ac
count of his being friarried
to ten of them at the 'same
time is accurate.
Thus it was something of
a coincidence that .his ar
rests on a bigamy , charge
late yesterday was made by
a woman police officer. The
policewoman, with drawn
revolver, arrested Herbert
in front of a loop . office
building where he was em-,
ployed as private watch
man. ,t
His father, Frank Her
bert, said he knew of "at
least six wives" of his son.
Two "Mrs. Herbert's"; met
at the police station and by
comparing notes and infor
mation brought the total to
ten. Some' of the women to
whom Herbert may have
been married are believed
by police to live in San Fran
cisco and inquiries are be
ing made there.
TAX REDUCTION
FOR YEAR TO BE
$250,000,000
Treasury Officials Regard
I Estimate of Thsit Sum -
a Safe One.' . ' '
OTHERS TOO HIGH
U
S. Chamber Commerce
and Finance Committee
Estimates Declared ..
. to Be Excessive.
(Auoclnted Pros Leafed. Wire)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. After
studying figures on the prospec
tive surplus from the current. fis
cal year, treasury officials es:i
mated today that tax reduction
could not safely exceed $250,000,
000. ' ' '
The controlling factor for tax
curtailment In 1929, a high trea
sury .official declared, will bo .the
(Continued on page 6.)
The Little Gray Dome in the
Where the
The cross marks the locality where the tank steamer Barendrecht
.Florida flapper, and her pilot and
New York.to.Pans line, and was neadea ror uisoon wnen a oroKon on
thirds of the journey had been completed.
ROSEBURG MAN GUILTY OF
POLYGAMY; 3 YEARS IN
10
. (Auoclnted rre Leaied Wire) '
KANSAS CITY, MO., Oct.
IS. A human serum has
been discovered for the treat-
ment of Infantile paralysis
and has recently been admin?
4 lstered to fifty patients in a
Massachusetts hospital. ij)r.
Milton J. Hosenau, profosBor
of preventative medicine at
Harvard -University, said .last
night at . the Joint meeting
here of the post graduate
medical association and the 4
Kansas City Southwest CUnl-
cal . Society.,. , Br. Itosenau
warned his auditors ngaiiiBt
assuming that a cure for the
now epidemic - disease had
been found, and pointed out
that . use of the serum ' was
only in the early stages of
'development. t
The serum is prepared
from the blood of. convttlus-
cent parnlytlc patients.
EARL CARROLL IS
TO GET A PAR'OLE
, '
' (Anoelatnl Pre Leaied Wire) 1 4
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.
Earl Carroll, New York the-
alrical producer, has been re-
commended for a parole by
parole board. '
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West
i
Flying Flapper Was
navigator. The map also pictures
FOUND LIVING
WITH WIFE'S
Left Wife In This City
. and Took Girl To
- Hood River -
(AMoclatcd Pren Leued Wite)
HOOD RIVER, Ore., Oct.
18. Sam Heinken, 46, plead
ed guilty in circuit court today
to a charge of polygamy, un
der a statute passed in 1864,
and was sentenced to three
years in the state penitentiary.
The law which the district at
tomey's office said fitted the
case, provides that where a
man is legally married ..and
thereafter lives with another
woman as his wife he is guilty
of polygamy, though he has
not been married to the second
woman.'
Heinken was married at
Roseburg in 1926, and was
charged with having lived with
his wife's daughter, Maybelle
Taylor, 17, for several months
this year at North Bend, Ore'
gon, and other Coos Bay
points while his wife remained
at Roseburg; Recently Heinken
and 'the : girl ' came'' to Hood
River picking tipples in orch.
ards her.' His wife became sus
picious and started an invest
gation which resulted in Hein
ken's arrest Saturday.
County Budget
Completes
At the mooting of (lie county
budget committee Monday to con
sider the needs of 1928 tho total
amount allowed was $169,140.05
Ipsr the estimated receipts of $16,-
960.03. leaving the general county
levy $142,189.02. Increases total
ling around $10,000 were asked by
the various county offices In their
tentative budgets for next year and
submitted before the committee
named' by the county court and
consisting of Rpencor Hinsdale of
Reedsport, C. O. Garret of Olnn
dale and Napoleon Rice of Rose
burg. Tho $4,750 asked for roads and
highways was allowed by the com
mittee. -
The sum of $3,600 was asked for
election fund, but because of tho
fact that two elections must be
held In 1928 tho sum was Increas
ed by the committee to $7,650.
The amount asked by the Sher
iff and tax office was cut $300, the
amount asked being $14,780 and
the sum allowed was $14,480. The
sheriff's office, in the budget, ask
ed for the Increase to provide for
an extra deputy to take care of the
sddltional work thrust upon the of
fice by the state through handling
of automobile licenses and to as
sist in th law enforcement work.
.To provide for board of prison
ers the Jail fund was set at $2,000
but was cut (ISO, making the sum
DAUGHTER
Rescued
rescued Ruth Elder, ths flying
where the plans deviated from ths
pins rorceo ii Down, more man iw.
IS
KILLED IN AUTO
II
J (AmocUIkI Pre team) Wire) '
, MARTINEZ, Calif., Oct. 18.!
A middle aged, iinldentl-
4 fled man believed to have
come from Oregon, died at a
local hospital today ot Injur-
les received when the auto-
mobile on which he was glv-
en a "lift" crashed into an Ice
truck. ' - .
The man Was plowed up by
v y.i..i. Jtoiey wno, Willi hod- 9
ert ltuckman, both of Marti-
4 nez, wore headed for .Bay
Point. In the collision the
stranger was hurled to the
4 pavement and neither ot the
two men was hurt.
The name J. A. Drlskell,
Marshfield, Oregon, was
founil penciled on the tailor's
mark of his coat. It - was
used by the police to' chock
the man's Identity. v
FOURTEEN FEDERAL
Tf
(Aaaoclital Pre- peaaed Wire) '
NO0AI.E8, Ariz., Oct. 18. Spe
cial dispatches to tho Herald to
day say that 14 Mexican federals
were,klllod and 48 wounded In
furious fighting Wednesday near
Suchil on the border between. Vera
Cms and Pucbla states with rebel
followers ot General 'Arnulfo It.
Gomez, Insurgent presidential can
didate. THEATER IS ROBBED
(Aaanclaled I'reaa Leaaeil Wire)
MARSHFIELD, Ore., Oct. 18.-
Robbers looted the . safe of the
Liberty, theater at Coqullle ot
$400 early yesterday and escaped,
leaving no clue.
Committee
Work; Reports
11.850. ...
The county clerk's office was al
lowed $150 less than In last year's
fund. In 1927 $8,840 was allowed
and for 1928 only $8,690 was allow
ed by the committee.
The budget for the treasurer's
office was allowed, the sum bolug
$3,200.
The naseasnr'N hiidget was cut
$200, making the amount $10,500.
The court house was allowed
$4,180 In the budget
The circuit court asked $7,450
and was allowed $6,850.
The county court was allowed
$7,840. the cut being $375.
. In the Justice court the amount
asked, $2,300, was cut to $1,950.
Tho county coroner was allow
ed $1,000, nn cut being made.
The county school superinten
dent's office was allowed $3,900.
The bureau of Vital statistics
was allowed $150, the sum of $175
asked In the budget being decreas
ed $25.
The county home and Indigents
budget was allowed, the sum bo-
In" $15,435.
The budget of $7,000 for depen
dent mothers was allowed.
The county agent and fruit In
spector budget asked for $1,550
and was allowed $4,300.
Tho sum of $2,935 asked hy the
. (Continued on page tlx.);
PEN
CRASH
RUTH EMBARKS
ON STEAMSHIP;
Wave Farewell, to Islander
and Is Still Wearing ;
Captain's Cap, , !r
EXHIBITED NERVE
Charleston With a ( Hand-
Englishman ,
some englishman , on
! Wall: fof.. VeraBahi' i
'; j ooe Harbor. t j
hi' : f, - i n - r ; . )
! (Aamrtated.Fre- teaaad Win)
HORTA, jsland Of Fayal, Asores, i
Still weariiig Captain Goos' cap as '
a reminder of her thrilling; rescne
by the steaniBhlp Barendrecht,
Ruth Elder sailed early this morn. :
tng for Lisbon aboard the Portu-
guese mall boat Lima 1 with' the ;
cheers of a great crowd of spec- -tators
whose hearts she had com
pletely won, ringing in her ears.-
With her sailed George W. Hal-
trans-Atlantlb 1 venture'' in the '
monoplune American Girl, and the
two- waived a vigorous farewell n ,
the mall boat crept away from ths
city bathed In a brilliant moon- .
light. '
The last view of the Amerloan
aviatrlx, who had captivated her
hosts by her spontaneity and de
mocracy, was the picture of a tiny .
figure aboard the Lima, waving
hands, blowing klsBes and made
more jaunty than ever by Captain
Goos" hat polBed . on her wind-.
losseu ouris.
"Has my luggage gone below?"
was the flrBt question Bhe asked
as she boarded the ship and the
crowd laugliad at the quip, know
ing that tho clothes she had on
plus fours and red sweater Includ
ed were nil that she had been
able to rescue from her plane. ....
Horta, during the three-day vis
it, of the American aviatrlx, wlt
nessed one incident that gave
proof of Miss Elder's nerve when
she Charlestoned with a handsome
englishman on the - wall or the
veranda of the Mackay house, de
spite tho tact that the wall rlaea
above the harbor below. -
Lilly Dillons, Viennese actress
and passenger aboard the Junkers
plane D-1230 which is now wait
ing for favorable weather "to re
sume Its flight across the Atlantic
to the United States, has deep
praise for the little American,
flier. .',?., , ,
"I have never been so charmed
by another woman," said Madame
Dlllens, whose path by a strange
quirk of fate had crossed that of
Miss Elder at this island town far
from their, respective starting
points. ,
Tho crew of the D-1230 . last
night decided to postpone their
tnke-off until tonight. ' A heavy
swoll In the harbor ' last night
made 'a tako-oft un.wiBe. It was
raining today with but a slight
wind. ' .
SON LOCAL PEOPLE ! -MADE
COXSWAIN OF
150 POUND CREW
Hall Seely, soa of Dr. and Mrs.
A. C. Reely of Roseburg, who en
tered his third year at Yale Uni
versity this fall, has been made
coxswain of the 150 pound varsity
crew, according to word received
here. The first coxswains chosen
alternnto In taking the crow out
each night until within two weeks
of the spring regatta at the uni
versity and at that time one of the
men Is permanently made cox
Bwaln of the erew. He and an
other student are the coxswains
who will alternately take out the
crew. ' There will be a number of
crews In training at tho university
during this winter.
TOUCHES IT OFF
4 (Aanetated Preaa Leued Win) 4
WALLACE, Idaho. Oct. 18.
Daniel C. McUlnnJs, 59,
committed suicide by dyna-
mile.
The body was found yester-
day near Mullen, with the ab-
domen blown away. McUIn-
nls had tied the stick of ex-
plosive to his stomach before
setting off the blast. Ho was
a miner. -
. He leaves four children and
a widow, who said that he
had been drinking heavily.
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