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... - ii 1 VAo Weather Highest temperature yesterday 48 Lowest temperature last night.36 Forecast for southwest Oregon: Unsettled tonight end Sunday with occasional rain, normal tempera ture. ,1 BUM doug1Wcounty Wished for Consolidation of The Evening News arid The Roseburg Review . An Independent- VOL. XXVIII NO. 210 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1 927. VOLi XVIII NO. 284 OF THE EVENING NEW8 fcD 111) m RS3E CITY ! EDITION 1 m yfciUVl llUJ ;: JV .if i Today Always Gay in Chicago. A $110,000,000 Idea. 23,000 Must Die. The Dangerous Crime. I By Arthur Brisbane 1 ; (Copyright 1927 by Star Company) CHICAGO Far western cities, once "tough" are now 1 tender as a spring lamb. But Chicago never disappoints. To- - day's news.-read in the brac ing air from the lake,' tells you ?.f . "f. 8anBster "taken" for a "ride," one of those sad Chi cago rides. A lady found his Vbody with many bullets where f his automobile ride ended. r Gamblers had half promised "lay off during the Merry Christmas shopping season, but regretted their kindness. They, also, should share the sea son's festivities; besides, they had some shooting to do. J-fank Noonan, -"proprietor, of a popular beer oasis who dis agreed with some- others as to Jaw-breaking "privileges," was found shot to death, at the en trance to his oasis. "Gats" car ried here have many bullets, and when shooting starts, there : is rarely a failure. : , These fights and killings in Chicago's jungle do ijot bother the big city of , terrific enter prise. Gamblers, gangsters, blackmailers, beer runners, etc. i only. shoot each other, and in bite of occasional police , de- fiance, the professional crimi nal's life is made harder daily, If there were not so much money in . bootlegging, such willing payments to various officials "for not seeing what they might see," police work would be easier. Long ago, near Batavia, N. Y., a boy was born and soon . had an idea. He once told this writer how he gave up smok ing "extravagant five-cent ci gars, saving money to carry out his plan and build his first car. Two men sept in the upper, two in the lower berth for fifty cents apiece. Abraham Lincoln was one of his first passengers, eoing from Chicago to Spring field, and was too long for the berth. The other man protest ed. The man selling the tickets beside the car was George M. Pullman and now the Inter state Commerce Commission fixes the value of his Pullman company at $110,238,786. which is far below its real value. ' Get a good idea, stick to it, make sacrifices, and the idea will take care of you later. . Statistics, carefully analyzed tell, with marvelous accuracy, what will happen. The number of suicides in each month is foretold, and now vou learn that iust about 23 000 will be killed and 700.000 injured by automobiles in the coming year. Nearly all those deaths and accidents would be avoided, if men. women and children could be made to realize that public roads are more danger ous now that railroad tracks. , Many deaths would be avoid ed if every man were jailed for a yeir, when caught driving, moderately or completely drunk. There is some comfort for worried parents in the fact that the Los Angeles kidnaping was based on revenge, it was not a . kidnaping crime in the ordi nary sense. Children should be warned not to go with strangers on any' pretext, and should never be sent away with strangers by those in charge of them, as the (Continued on page 4.) MISSING PLANE CREW OF SHIP ARE LOST Efforts to Locate Am phibian Plane, Long Overdue Prove Futile Late this Afternoon liIay Be in Sea. (AMOcfated Prea Leased Wirt) ; HALIFAX, N. S., Dec. 24. All efforts to locate the am phibian plane of Mrs. Frances W. Crayson and her three men companions, hours overdue, had proved futile this after noon. As the gasoline supply was only enough to last 20 hours after the start from Roosevelt Field, N. Y., or '.until' ' one o'clock this afternoon, it was felt certain thnt the plane had made a forced landing some where between Cape Cod, where it was last heard from, and Trinity Bay, N. F., her destipation. No wireless station "working" in this district over which the plane wac to pass had received any message either from the plane or concerning it from coaatal sta tions or ships at sea. Weather conditions over the In tended route during the night and today were not unfavorable, winds being only fresh and - visibility good. Although It was generally be lieved the plane was down. It was considered quite possible that tho descent had 'been made la some isolated bay where there was no danger, but from which communl- NHS GRAYSON AND GRAYSON IS LOST cation was impossible. - j 'Those on Board r ' i NEW YORK, ' Dec. . 24. Follow ing a "Who's Who" of those aboard the aphiblan plane Dawn: Mrs. Frances Wilson Oravson. half owner ot plane, a young busi ness woman, whose greatest ambi tion was to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic. ! .. (Continued nn page 8.) mrrxi ' i. r 1 3 -rras- r t a , v Ck r ' s ' m&? s- . a 5 , ... :K v . m i ' x ' - . , ' 'i ' -,- 4. i H. , B 1 Chief of Police Tom Gurdane, of Pendleton (left), who with State Traffic Sergeant C. L. "Buck". Lieuallen (right) captured William Edward Hickman, (center), youthful kidnaper and suspected slayer of Marian Parker, 12, Los Angeles. This late photo pf the kidnaper and his captorswas rushed to the Roseburg News-Review by. airplane. , .... ,, . FEEBLEi in HOME-SAID M BE'ILL-HOLE ii t I ;1 ' Doctor Charges That Young , Boys Must Submit to t 1 ! Sterilization. A DIPPY'S RETREAT Superintendent Denies Alle gations Boy Received , Wound From Knife of t Kitchen Help, j -S ( Associated- Prew Ltai-vl fro) -SALEM, Ore.; Dec. 24. A heat ed session between Dr. 'J. N. Smith, superintendent of the state institu tion for the feeble minded, and Dr. O. U. Snapp, a Salem practitioner, took place at . the institution today, arising over disposition of the case of Llewellyn Burnside, a 14 year old boy who escaped from the in stitution a week. ago. Snapp averred that . the boy is above normal, should not have been in the institution, aud offer ed to take him, educate him' and give him all the privileges .of nor mal children. ft ; "I hope Borne day he'll be governor.- I hope he'll come here and bifat this place fin V' uahV Shtapji- Dr. Smith told Snapp -thathe would be allowed to take the, boy without the sterilization, which or dinarily jls .required by he Blate eugenics board before an Inmate is released.' '. t ' ' v- , . The jnnin. contontiou arose over a wound In the boy's head which he received before his escape. Dr Snapp, who dressed the ..-wound when the lad- appeared at Bridal Veil, declared the hoy.. '.told the truth when he said it was caused by a knife with which ono of the kitchen employes had struck hint, The institution authorities declur - ed it was caused by the boy's cnair falling over and his Btriklng his head oh a radiator. This was confirmed by at least one of the boy Inmates, but Snapp declared the lad had been coached whut to say. He said young Burneide had told him this would be the story. (Continued on page 3.) - ' HICKMAN AND - h'vssSombeo : I (AnorUtnl Vwm Lnatd Wire) NEW YORK, Dec. 24. The National City Bank of New I York today received a cable dispatch from Buenos Aires stating a bomb had been exploded outside its branch bunk here thia morning anil adding that another bomb had been exploded in front of a branch of tba First National Bank of Boston. The disnatch fc rnntniiioil nn .latutld eft - 1 uuriwn Ainco, net, t. -w A bomb exploded at the Buen- oa Aires branch building of the National City Bank of New York today. Several per- sons were injured. ; -The bomb was a powerful one and caused considerable damage, the windows in ad- joining bullttjngs also being shattered. Later evidence indicated that from 12 to 15 persons were - wounded, some - being taken to the hospital badly Injured. Immense crowds gathered, making the work ot rescue dlf- ficult: ...,..-'' DOWNHEARTED, SUICIDES . . (Amoclited rreu Lenatd Wire) 4 PETALUMA. Calif., Dec 24. Ben Erickson, . 38, of Klamath Falls, Oregon, at- a . , i . ii.in a his throat- on the highway south of Colatl tonight. Ho told police he wus penniless. without work, and . dreaded the prospect of , a . hungry Christmas. . After slashing his throat, Erickson crawled under a cul- vert to die. The wound was .only superficial, however,, A passing uutolst took him jo a hospital. Physicians said Erickson probably will re- cover. ' ' NEWS-REVIEW GIVEN GIFT FINE PRUNES Th T7nwfl-T7nvl'pw fnrpn la Vftrvd grateful today' to the Norton Can- ninir nnmtiinv f,. a tl,la rt,rli,tn,n a I irirt. Thrmieh rnnrtv r Mr. Norton, the manager, the News-lto-1 coast rood where the car could view this morning received a fulllhnve gone over a steep bank and lease of delicious, canned, Italian I could not be' seen from the road, ! prunes, from the choice stock nack-' If it is found thnt they' did not ;ed by the", local cannery. The prunes wee distributed to tli members of the force-and were 're ceived with much pleasure. . . 1 ' Miss Alta Tauiier Is hero - from Grants Pass visiting, having arrived-last ovenlng from the Bouth. HIS CAPTORS "7.", !,'.- . it, , j -.. n v '"'4 P1' 'I h TEXAS COUPLE DISAPPEAR Left Bandon on 28th of November and Have Not , I ' Been Seen Since. ' LETTERS HAVE CEASED Officers Making Search of Canyon on Accident Theory May Have . Met Foul Play. " "Local "officer's are' today making a search for Mr. and Mrs. DennlB Webb, recently of Abilene, Texas, who disappeared on Nov. 28 and hare not been heard from since that time. . They, wore last seen at Bandon, where Mr. -Webb . was given a position with the Coast Guard. They started back to Hose burg to gather up their personal ffec,U' pro5?8l"5.w lo return to Bandon on the 29t,h. They never reached Roajburtr and letters to Mrs. Webb's parents, which were sent regularly while t.Uie couple were in Roseburg, ceased on that date. Mr. and MrB. Webb were married during the summer and had come to Oregon to make their home, The parents of tho couple havB""becflme " annrehenBlve -and have appealed-ortli,offi;o4:afor, assistance. On the theory tunc tne oouple met with an aooident'' re turning from:-Bandon on the night nf thn Qsth. thn nffinera are-today starting a search for the misBlng auto. Traffic,; Officer Williams or Coqulllo ip"' conducting the search in Coos County and Sheriff Webb 1b today sending out a deputy to go through Uietosnyon on, foot: as fnr HB the DOUcIBS COUnty 11116. i There are many plnceB on the meet with an accident tho officers will proceed '6n the theory that they have met with foul' play. Couple Newly Married ' Mr, and Mrs. DennlB- were mar ried during the late summer after Mr. Webb had comploted 6 years (Continued ou.pu.Ke 0.) WAY ROSEBURG POLICE FINDING WORE EVIDENCE IN BOY'S ROOhT Apartments Yield Fingerprints of a Mysterious . Woman Said by Hickman to Be Involved in Los Angeles Child Mutilation -Hickman Calm (Associated Press Leased Wire.) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24. Finger prints found in the Bellevue Arms apartment of William E., Hickman, confessed kidnaper of .little, Marian Parker, today definitely connected a woman' in the case of the murder of the child, police announced.' ' ' : Lieutenant H. L. Barlow, policy finger print expert de clared the prints were not those of the slain child. He also dei clared they were not those of any woman thus far mentioned . . a t .. - r f: t:t. m the case. Mn-exnausuve examinauon oi -iiutsci nm. v... in police files was started. '-' A-.. 'J '.'-'r-' " Two finger prints werp-found-thia morning when Lieutenant-Barlow made a "now. examination of the apartment Hick man occupied-under the name of Evans. One -was on a milk bottle and the other on a plate. ' ' ( :f - ' i, '. ' V " Police late thia morning declared they did not attach im portance to the finding '6f a pair of stockings and underwear at first believed to have been worn by the girl when she was kidnaped. -The garments, found 'wrapped in a .newspaper dated December 17, the date the girl was abducted, were de clared not those of Marian Parker.' - ; ' ' ' ' Explains Bloodstains ' PENDLETON, Deo. 24. While officers from Lob Angelfia were on their way to Tendleton today to get .William .Edward Hickman, he gave an explanation of facta which the southern police believed Indicated that Marian Parker, 13 yeatvold banker's daughter, "was killed in Hickman's apartment be fore, hor body was delivered, t.0 her fathet last Saturday night j, A reportjthat there, 'were ten bars pf soap in his rooms was ac counted for by Hickman by saying that be had one bar about half used, which ho bad been using dally, and that he had several bars which he bad picked up at hptelB on his .recent travels. Ho tald he had one can of cleaning ', powder, not two, hb. Ltua aijkivd, 'i stated. He used this he' said, in clonning the bath tub. ' There wore no blood . stalne in his npartmeuV.he definitely Btatod, There might hayo been some spotB of blood on a towel from cuts while shaving., , i, .-';' V Wore Not Mittens .. ' He denied that there was a pair ot home-made mlttenB In the place. He said that while in Kansas City he had made a holster for his re volver from a sleeve of a Bhlrt; and he declared he had made a caslnsr of oil cloth for his gun. These he believed were what haB beon considered by the police as home-made mittens. "It was sometime after I loft be fore the police made their search of the place, and I am not respon sible for what might have been put there after I loft," he eald. Hickman bore the brunt of a battory of motion picture cameras In the jnll today. The cameramen who had been waiting lor permis sion from tho chief of police to take movies ot Hickman finally wore allowed to train tbolr Ioiibdb on the prisoner today. Yesterday the chief would allow nothing but still pictures to be taken. Today also Chief (lurdane and State Offi cer Lleuallon, who captured Hick- man, on tho Old Oregon Trail near here Thursday, posed for the moving picture men. . " " n'c ":", City Attorney C. Z. Randall an - nounced early this afternoon that the city authorities had decided I that Hickman would not be re-1 leased to the Los Angeles officers' until they could produce extradi tion papers. Approval of a Cnllfor- f nla requisition for Hickman was. being obtained today from Cover-1 nor I. L. Puttorson at Salem. j Prosecuting Attorney Koyos, Chief of Detectives Cllne and oth er officers of Los Angeles wore on a train due hero late today. They announced before leaving Portland that a statement would Kbe obtained from Hickman Imme diately aftor their arrival. Hickman has declared, ever since he made his confession of participation In the kidnaping pint, that he did not kill the girl, but that she was slain, and her body dismembered by a confederate whom he named as Andrew Cra mer, with whom he had been aseo-i elate din a number of holdups. PORTLAND, Ore., Dee. 24. Asa I B. Koyes, 1ot Angeles district atr torney, and Herman Cllno, chief ot Los , Angeles detectlveB, and three other office -arrived here this morning on 'their way to- Pemlla-.v, ton where they will take William , Edward Hiokmati into oustodyi f ' The party, traveling In a special Pullman, arrived at 8:30 and 30 minutes later left on the Union Pa cific for Pendeton. The officers' Indicated (hat they expected Hickman to break before what additional Information they have .with which to, confront bim. Other bfflcorB In the party were Chief of Police James B. Davis, Po llece Lieutenant Dick Lucas, form er Police Chief Qeorge K., Home and Detective Harry Ramon. .. ' ."Judging from my knowledge of the type that Hickman represents I believe he will break and confess what he has not already told when we question him with the knowl edge we how have' Bald Keyes. - "HIckninn will not be hard to prosecute," ho contlnuod. "As I see it the 'case is a simple one but It Is tho most atrocious crime thnt I have ever handled." : Keyes, asked what the procedure would be after the official party reached Pendleton, said a complete statement would be taken from Hickman at once.' He will then be started back to Los Angeles as soon as possible. It was indicated that the prisoner would be taken as fnr as northern California, via Portland, and then picked up by an airplane tor the last lap of the trip. , .... AHki'd what his attitude would be should Hickman or his counsel de mand sanity hoarlng, KeyeB said that when he left the southern city no lawyer had appeared for the kidnaper. "I am not afraid of any insanity defense," he added. "Los Angeles was bitter when wo left they may cool down soma be fore we get back," enld Chief Da vis, "but If HUkman had been caught within 72 hours, ot the crime n lynching would have been lnevltablo." PENDLETON, Ore., Oec. 24. " i";j c..uo that he had killed Marian Parker , " his apartments at Los Angeles. W. Edward Hickman, youthful 'prisoner In Jail here replied to tho - An(,.firi Press tod av- . Associated Press today: "That is not true, I did not do it." "Under the California law you face death for what you have al fOudy confessed," be was told. "I can't help it," replied Hick man. He spoke steadily and with (Continued on page 8.) NO PAPER MONDAY Owing to the fact that Christ, mat will bo legally celebrated on Monday, December 26, the Newt Review management and , staff will join the re it of the commu nity In observing the holiday, and there wfl' ic no publication on that day. In the event any startling news concerning the Hickman case Is received during the two day holiday season, a special edition will Immediate be issued by the News-Review to inform subscribers regarding , the de velopments In the case.