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ROSEBURG NEWS REVIEW. SATURDAY. N6VEMBER 26, 1927." SIX Remits Trial Seen by an Artist for NEA and News-Review (OUNTlrtBiaiFS i afl th 8c: He Pli II, mc kn nu thi Til de CO clu th Mi le . Pt cin re. Ik 13 . Al fa CI' 3 UP III. to nil th be bi 111 be ( Im ill! PO tl( RIDDLE LOCALS Herbert Tifiyum of Canyonvllle was attending- to business affairs hern Friday. Miss Kima Mfllor who Ik em ployed nt the Umpquu National bank at Roseburg. spnnt Thanks giving with her parents here. Dr. Coryell of Myrtle rreek wan lit re for a brief time Friday. John Hoot and family of Rnse btirg motored up Saturday and spent the week-end visiting at the homo of W. it. Hoot. Robert Slauffer anil Jack Orlner, students at O. A. C, were guests at the home of MIhh .Mary Riddle JaHt Saturday and .Sunday. W. I. ('hapjH'tl, l'f'preHentlng the Sunset Mugusdno, has been spend ing Hevoral weeks in this coininuu- ity. Tho MIsbhs MurKarfit and Mur joriii Wilson ami Ltlllun Logmlun, who nr. attending nonniil Hirhnol at Monmouth, ure Kpenrilntf their Titration vIkIUiik t)nlr jiari'ntK burti. They will return to Kchool -Sunday. The A. H. PrlpiH fainfly, accom panied by AuguHla Ktrating and Abner I.okhioh, inotorcJ to 'i'ulc Lako last weHk-cnd and spent sev eral ilayn HhnottiiK wild Beetle. They brought hack u fine lot of birdH. Mm. Laura Urailfleld, who has been living at the Kllver Peak iiilim with her boh, departed for Cullfornla WedneHilay, wiiere uhe will vlHlt with her granddaughter indefinitely. Darrel Carter, while -driving to RoHebiirg Thursday evening, ac companied by Donald Carter and (lien WIIIIh, met with an accident near the Winston bridge when an other cur crashed Into Ills on a turn. No one received any Injuries but Mr. Carter's car .was wrecked ' almost beyond repair. Klder Johnson of noRohurg, preaching for the Seventh Day AilvontlHt church, will begin a pro tracted meeting here ut , Alklun hall next Sunday evening. The meetings will continue, several weeks. ('. K. Logsdon and dnughter, Willumoltu. were culled lo Jasper the rlrst of the week by the very serious Illness of MrB. Logsdon, who wiis visiting at that place. Mrs.- Logsdon whb moved to the Kngono hospital and last reports gave her condition as slightly im proved. Mr. and Mrs. O. V. Logsdon and tluiiKhlor, Hosnmond, Mrs. A. W. Wilson and Mrs. Jordan Shultz wore ftoHcburg visitors Friday. Mr. and Mrs. I). L. Crow of Marshfield and Clarence Crow of , Hoseliin-g spent Thanksgiving nl Ruth Cheers Mime. Nungesser. Ruth Elder and Qeorga Haldemann visited Mmo. Nungeaser, mother of the loat French trane-Atlantlc flier, during their Parle sojourn to express their condolences and sympathy. Here are the three together. You Furnish the Uniforms for This Natural Eleven irlrlriirr ALL-NA AOmnjRE TEAM 1 pit Moon.', Alleyway. . , , , , .End Mah. .... . : . . ,W. V. WWT.ckle Vineyard . . . . .Louisiana Stitc . . .Guard : Wood ... . .Navy .Crnta Rock. ..St Bonaventure. .Guard j Lee. . .Tenneuee .Tackle Sapp North Carolina. . . End LiUy. ....'. Miuiuippi. . . . . (garter I Rose ;....Jlawire..'..:..Halflarl HJI. .......... Htw York. .... . .Halfback Sprintr. Navy Fullback For the benuflt of all rud-hot wait for the All-Amorlcan and various All Sectional teams to be select el we SPRING this unique combination of grtdders to form our All Mature eleven.- For sheer versatility this team has no rival, being equally adept at playing by day or gamboling o'er the LKA by the light of the MOON. The center, WOOP, Is most durable aud who could upset a guard "as solid as a ROCK. The training table la Ideal, having auch advantages as a VINE YARD on the HILL for muscle buildlug fruit and a SPRING to quench the thirst of the perspiring athletes. The quarterback la a LILY and when It comes to directing the at tack, he's no 8APP. 1 This team is not handicapped by had weather when the playing field resembles a MARSH. Quite naturally It is a great comblntalon. the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. II. A. Crovt, returning Thurs day evening. A number of Rlildle people were shopping in Koseburg Wednesday. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. 11. F. Nichols, JIib. C. L. Willis, Mrs. C. F. Sowersby and Mr. and Mrs. Pete Dldlel, Jr. Frlen'ls. have received word of the death of Kverard Lee, at Liver more, Calif., on Nov. 1. Mr. Lee was from .Mississippi, but spent several years on a homestead neur Peck in an effort to regain his health. He had many friends here. Word has been received also of the death of Mrs. Carrie White, Nov. 7th, at Wamlc, Ore. .Mrs. While will be remembered as Mrs. Ferris, whose husband was drowned in the Bouth Umpnua a number of years ago. J. Clyde Cazley, who has been In California for several years, was greeting old friends here Saturday. He expects lo, reside on his ranch at (iazley for the present. Amos Crlpps and his son, Yar nel, were transacting business in Hoseburg Wednesday. .Mr. and Mrs. W. It. Winkler are looking after property interests hero this week. In a city election held last Sat urday arteruoon It was decided by tt vote of 27 for, 4 against, lo sell the power lino In the town of Rid dle to the C. O. P. Co. The com pany expects to take over the Hue about December 1. Mrs. Klmmel of Canyonvllle en tertained a party of relatives Thanksgiving day at one of her fatuous dinners at her home there. Those who attended were Mr. and Mrs. Max Klmmel and son Karl of Kiddle, Mr. and Mrs. Will Willis and daughter Evelyn and Mr. and Mrs. Klton Uollenhaugh of Canyon vllle. Mrs. Fred Ball bad as her guests Thanksgiving day Mr. and Mrs. Ham Hall, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Al Tompkins and Mr. Martin nnd son. Mr. and Mrs. 0. L. Grant enter tained a family party on Thanks giving, Including Mr. nnd Mrs. Er nest Riddle, Mr. and Mrs. O. V. Logsdon' and family, Helena Kid dle, Mrs. Cnrrte Parsley and Ar thur Olson. Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Berry had as their guests Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hart and childron. Mrs. Ed Riddle had as Invited guests Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Riddle Troin Koseburg, Mrs. J. B. Riddle, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Frator and Rob ert Stuuffer. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lawrence en tertained at dinner Mr. and Mm. Campbell and son Paul of Days Creek and Klder Johnson, wife and grandson of Roseburg. XX L simply i:m&r mrilKmVmV'irijyfJrfJfJsjjfjt IUKt TEAM football enthusiasts who Just can't This panorama of the courtroom during the Remus tria lat Cincinnati, sketched by Manuel Rosenberg, staff artist for the Cin cinnati Post and NEA Service, gives a gra phic view of the sensational trial of the multi-millionaire murderer. At the left are the alienists, who must rule on Remus' sanity; behind them Is the jury with the one "flapper juror," Ruth Cross, in the rear RELIGION'S FINALITIES Leading American Churchmen Present Them in New Symposium of "Last Sermons" Final it I ph of mmlcrn re 11k lima IhoiiKhL us a Kcoru of loading American churchmen concuivu them are presented In a newly imlillHhed book, "If 1 1 1 ml Only One Sermon to Preuch." Under thft direction of Rev. Charles Stelzle, the HyinpoHium wuh pre pared as an extension of tin Idea advanced fur Lent of tills year by Htudenla ot clmrc.i advertising The contributors represent a wide variety of (lenonilnuUon.il uilher enr.e. ot liberalism, of conserva tism. KoUuwIdk nro exeerpls 'from Home of Ihe heretofore t tin pub lished sermons contained in the volume. These serruoiiH all reflect the authors' deepest religious con vlctlons. Bishop Warren A. Candler,; Methodist Episcopal Church South, on "Incontestnblo Fact and indis pensable Truth": j "They do Kieatly err who would have us believe that Jesus knew no bodily resurrection, and that belief In Ills resurrection is not necessary to Christian life. His resurrection was very real, and when it Is reduced to a more phan tom, the source of Cliristhin life is evaporated and Christian ex perience becomes n slunlowy and Impotent mist of unreality. . . . The obstacles to Christian life are too great to be overcome hy a feeble faith; and the proper eleva tion of It in too lofty to he attained hy an unmiraculous leliKlou." Frederick F. Shannon, Central Church, Chicago, on "The One Thing Wan": " Kifo is a pretty drab affair says our ChrlstlesH humanitarian'. Well, why not, if thero is no God, no Soul, no Ono Thing that can be known in the midst of many things that cannot be "known ir some people gave a tenth aB much of their time In an honest endeav or to find out the fact of Cod in Christ as they do In trying either to disprove or obscure liuit Tact. 1 would be willing to bet my soul that they, too, would he uhie to find the white-hot certainty that contluueH to burn tho cold chill ofr many uncertainties." Devil Doge Sleuth Douglas S. Catchim, private, U. S. M. C, formerly with the Burns International Detective Agency, was one of the witnesses before the grand jury Investigating alleg ed tampering with the Fall-Sinclair, trial Jury at Washington. He was I photoed thus as he left the grand Jury room. I Press k 'T ml - The , I Sheriff VM' Ijfll n . . Public- n. Gzor?e. Andcricw F4ls. - Iriof 1 ' ' 1 row and the 13th the murder. In the center i iarry Emerson Fosdlck, Park Avenue Baptist Church. New York, on "The Curse of Cynicism": "Our failure to recognize moral cynicism as our chief enemy; Is re sponsible Tor the' fact that much of our preaching goes wide of the mark. We 'often preach as though we had on our minds some Robert Ingersoll with his lusty agnosti cism; whereas what we reaily have on our hands la II. IV Menc ken splitting his Hides laughing at uh. We frequently talk as though wo were trying to save religion rrojn Tom Paine, whereas - Tom Piilne; is long dead and - what Christianity faces is Lothrop Stod ai'd and his cynical gospel thut we are the people, and his contempt, for leBHer breeds. We continually talk as though we had . to eonstritct theoretical arguments for religion, whereas what the people are read lug Is Sinclair Lewis having a riotous time burlesquing religion ami putting an Inconceivably wild An Oxclusive Interview i With George Remus' Mother Loyalty In a Deserted Palace Mother of Bootleg King Carries On for Him. -i BY ALLENE SUMNER NEA Service Writer CINCINNATI, Ohio, Nov. 25 "Mother Remus," the 77-year-ofd mother of George Remus, bootleg king now on trial Tor his life, a self-confessed murderer, has come hack lo her son's Dream Palace on tho hill. And "Mother Remus" who pre ferred her own tiny and shabby Chicago flat in the days when priceless rugs ami .tapestries and carvings and oils and bits of bronze and marble Uttered "The Kings" mnnsfon of many rooms, Know sleeps, or tries to. In a great bare room at the top of tho barreit:pal nre and trembles to hear the bare houghs of the trees In the park be low grate across her window. "Mother Remus," who preferred her coffee from n thick white mug and her kitchen from a thick china plate to all the squabs and terra pin nnd truffles nnd woodcock and caviar served on her son's solid cold service plates, now stirs len til soup on the hugo kitchen stove of the empty palace where once were cooked veritable Lucullan feasts for her son and his guests. And George. "The King." smiles in his cell when "mama's soup" or kuchen or hassenpfeffer Is brought him nearly every day. An Empty Palace And "Mother Remus," who "didn't feel right" In George's bonne in the days when gold and ruby wines flowed like water at his great feasts, when six maids tried to help her bathe and dress and eat, when five gardeners trim med the holly and. Ilex nnd sweet briar In the vast acres about the mansion, now sweeps the robwehs. from the bare tinted walls of George's stripped aud glutted home or scrubs on her knees the corn ers of the priceless marble fire places, the sole ornaments ia the nude rooms. As she scrubs or sweeps or cooks, she mutters words at the dead woman. Imogene Remus, who brought her son so low. She Is almost happy now,' be cause "My Remus needs me now' N? 7 ,momcy juror In front. Remus' defense is that he was insane at the time of f are the principal actors In the trial. Standing Is Remus himself ad ; rotter Into the Christian pulpit. We attack skepticism when our most popular and powerful enemy is cynicism, and, as another has , said, .cynicism 1b a devil." I JU. Rev. Jamea E. Freeman, I Bishop of Washington, on -"The i Greatest Story Ever Told": . "The near approach of the bless ! ed and joyous season of Christmas I brings once again before our vision the story of the birth of Christ. 1Mb Inwrought In the dear est and finest things we treasure In life. It has furnished the inspi ration of art, of poetry and of the nobler und truer things of domes tic life . . . How poor and mean seem all our piled-up national wealth, our proud intellectual con ceits, our speculations and nega tions, in the presence of this mighty mystery, which this anni versary of the birth of Christ pro claims." Joseph Fort Newton, Memorial Church or St. Paul, Philadelphia, on "Tho First und Final Truth": "Every man Is aware that he is every moment dependent ti'pon. a Power other and greater than him self, by what name soever he may call It Fate, Force, Destiny, God. The- real crux of the question Is not as to the reality of such a power, hut as to the nature and power of 'Him in whose great hand we stand. . . . By faith we learn that thero is tenderness behind the hardness of life, meaning in its mystery, purpose In its ofren George Remus' mother; a close kitchen of his big mansion on the She never calls her only living son anything but "Mr. Remus." To her he is still the pompous, digni fied, nil-great "King" who stagger ed his mother and sisters with tales of his wealth, nnd who laugh ed at their pleadings to stop spend ing money "so crazy like." "Maybe he would not like me photographed In an apron and not i dressed up so fine." she said In her broken English. "They got my pic ture once when I was in just my house apron and Mr. Remus didn't like it at all. He said his mother should not be seen like that." But "Mother Remus', does not see that things are different now and that George Remus, attorney as well as prisoner at the bar, wants the world to know that he has a stooped and shabby little old mother who believes In htm with all her heart and who lives in his LAST MISTRESS OF DECAYED MANOR strange medley, and prophecy In its fleeting, fading beauty. . . . Alas, in our day we are obsessed with introspection, seeking amid the phantoms of the mind for a subjective salvation, as if trying to lift ourselves by our own shoe strings; hence the tiresome ego tism of an ingrowing religion, now so much In vogue. What we need, as much for our sanity of mind as for our health of heart, Is an emancipating rediscovery of the obvious fact that our life is from above downward, and - that ...our help and hope are In God." Rabbi Leon Harrison, Temple Israel, St. Louis, on "I am u He brew": "The ringing cry of Jonah Is my text and theme. 'I am a Hebrew'. . . . Every man remains, for the most part, what he is born. He in herits, generally, his social class, his fatherland, and various precon ceived ideas, religious, political and otherwise. Religion rarely Is a choice deliberately made as at an intellectual emporium. It is an In heritance. . . . Twill 'to believe and 1 must believe as a Jew in the historic mission of my people, a prophet people and a priest peo ple, that has begotten great world religlon?i ns well as its own pe culiar Faith. I believe that Israel is to be not a 'privileged people. but a pattern people; that its suffer ings are to be a discipline; that It is not to cease prophesying or teaching until there shall arise a Kingdom of God upon earth." PBWSWETS I - up, and a view showing her preparing him a special dish in the empty hill. empty, dismal house when all oth ers have tied. The days when "Mr. Remus" kept mother more sequestered were when Imogene Remus, hi second wife, now dead by his own hand. Illumined from her houe on the hill all Cincinnati with the glory thrown by her $100,000 wortn of diamonds, the pearls on her breast and fingers, and the ruh- ; bles and emeralds In her hair. t 1 Those were the days when the j marble swimming poor, which a ; glass-roofed promenade Hronnected with the mansion, saw hundreds of the world's prettiest girls col lected by Remus diving there. Praises -Her Boy Those were the days when or chids made the air of the Remus green houses heavy with perfume, when the whole city and the whole world were trying to part "The dressing the court. Seated in the foreground are Prosecutor Charles P. Taft, son of the chief Justice, and his assistant, with Defense Attorney Elston Just beyond him. Reporters and spectators can be seen massed together In the back- r ground, with a bailiff standing near the jury box. Judge Chester R. Shook, presiding at the Remus trial, can be seen at the right. In front of him Is the witness chair, where the men and women who will testify for or against the defendant will sit while they tell to the jury, seated oppo site, the stories that will mean life or death to the former multi-millionaire liquor seller. In the background is the crowgd of interested spectators that jam the court dally. Morrow's First Dwlght W. Morrow (left) chats with President Calles at the Mexico City executive paiace after presenting nis credentials as the new American ambassador. Standing attentively between them is an in-terpreter. King" from his money, charging him ten times what other men paid for their wife's clothes and jewelry and furniture. Hut no word of reproach, to "Mr Remus."' Only rhapsodies of praise for the little four-year-old boy whom she brought with her from Germany nearly half a century ago. The boy who at 13 went to work In his uncle's Chicago drug store when his father a lumberman, could no longer support his family. "Such a good boy till he mar ried that woman," the little old woman said. "Mother Remus" led me through the half hundred rooms of "The Mansion of Many Rooms." point ling out with anger and dlgust the I ravages made by her son's wife (who looted the house while her husband was scarcely behind peni tentiary bars. Chat With Calles m "T? pw TT Lives in Mansion Slain Wife Once Ruled. She took me to the odd car. room on the third floor with its . murals and diamonds; tho billiard room wilh the massive mahogany claw-footed table. '.'That was too heavy for her to move or it wouldn't be here," she said. She showed me the vast third floor ballroom and showed mo where the leather seats along the wall had been pried from their hinges. She showed me solid old doors, with hollow cavities where plate glass mirrors had been. She showed me jagged corners on ftp places and mantles from whicn marble figures had been hacked away. The dining room with Its huge built-in hand-carved buffet, which once groaned under trays of rich foods and decanters of wine, con tained only a bare picnic table. The only other furniture in tho house were the three or four cheap beds where "The King's" mother, his sister and her husband, and a care-taker sleep. The stone lions which Imogeneb Remus had torn from their moor ings before a Cincinnati store and brought up Price Hill, casually writing a $4,000 check to pay for them, are gone now from their sta tion before the Remus driveway. Only Desolation Now The park is a tangle, sodden mass of leaves and brambles. Tue iiuku (wrvams ciock beside "The King's" bed can summon no serv ants now. The silver fixtures In his bathroom are tarnished, and only black holes in the wall tell where various unique toilet ar tlces of silver and gold and moth er of pearl yere fastened. On the wall of "The King's" bed room Is a picture of his mother and one of himself. She likes 10 sit alone In this empty room and gaze at the two pictures. She Is here in his mansion almost hap py, oecause to her he turned, and jthe woman who possessed him in .days of plenty is gone and snurned. "Poor boy, he always wanted a home." she moans, "and all be got was this place." (Copyright, 1927. NEA Service, Inc.) i