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Oio Weather Highest temperature yesterday.43 Lowest temperature last night 31 Forecast for southwest Oregon: Snow turning to rain tonight and Sunday, rising temperature. 4 i(dougl 7 OfsV Consolidation of The Evening News and The Roseburg Review COU NTY p An Independent Newspai y fiV the Best Interests VOL. XXVIII NO. 219 OP ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 31, 1927. VOL. XVIII NO. 289 OF THE EVENING NEWS . EDITION AS r i Today Whispering Foolishness. Rockefeller Listens. The Colored Porter's Job. Lindbergh in Guatemala. ! By Arthur Brisbane ! (Copyright 1927 by Star Company) WINSLOW. Ariz. News papers talk of a "whispering campaign," suggesting that Herbert Hoover is not eligible to the presidency, because, working at ' his profession as engineer in various parts of the world, he has not spent all of the last fourteen years in the United States. The constitution says "Neither shall a person be eligible to that office who shall not have been fourteen year9 a resident of the Vnited States." Herbert Hoover was born , in 'the United States, has work- ed wherever he chose, in any part of the earth, which is the right to every American. He did not lose his citizenship or . birth right by crossing the ocean. His travels seeing what science and engineering have accomplished elsewhere, have enabled Herbert Hoover to suggest on a sound basis, mag nificent, needed projects for the United States. The Grand Lama of Tibet is supposed to live cooped up in one place, but the United States doesn't need a Grand . Lama for president. "" When they told Lincoln that General Grant drank too much whisky, he asked what kind of whisky, and suggested that the same be given to -other -generals. It would be a good idea to find out just where Herbert Hoover has done his traveling and send some of our other statesmen on the same trip. They need it. Mr. Hover's ancestors have been born and live.d in Am erica for six generations. Not that it makes any difference. The son of any immigrant, born in this country, might be, and often is ten times better than a man with ten American generations back of him. , Part of Hoover's absence abroad was devoted to war work, feeding hungry child ren. Would he make a better president had he spent that time at home, working for war profits? John D. Rockefeller. 88 years old, immediately changes his "staunch" at golf, when told by a professional that he stood too close to the ball. That change lengthened his drive by 20 yards and he won a nickel, solemnly bet with his friend General Ames, and went home contented. Mr. Rockefeller has said that his success in the begin ning was due to patience and economy. It may have been due also to his ability to listen to oth ers and take advice. That is a thing that many young men who. would like to be Rocke" fellers have not learned to do. For the first time, Chinese replace colored men as porters on trains. The Northwestern Union Pacific lines have install ed twelve young Chinese as club car porters in place of negroes. All but one of the twelve are American born. They will work well doubt less, but the public satisfied with excellent service rendered by colored porters, will not like them displaced. Colored men are descendants of those brought to this country against their will, as slaves and for that reason are entitled to especial consideration. Lindbergh's visit to Guate mala and Nicaragua, flying over vast forests, in uninhabi (Contlnued on page 4.) Hickman and Accused Aide Confess j WJIdy vHunt.i, uppor confessed' accomplice of . Edward Hickman, lower, In the murder of a druggist In a Los Angeles suburb; sketches Illustrate highlights in Hickman's pew confession. Upper, Hickman meets Hunt, December, 1926, and they hold up drug store In Los An geles, killing pharmacist. Center, the two boys go to San Francisco. Lower, armed with guns they held up two drug stores and a grocer's. PARENTS SAY en son Cruel Indifference to Fate of Sub Victims Is Charged. INVESTIGATION ASKED Rescue Operation to Be Probed by Special Com mittee of Congress Want Ship Raised. (Asuoclatnl Prtu Uim) Wire) WASHINGTON. Doc. 31. The Navy Department was accused to day by the parents of Commander Roy K. Jones, commander of the submarine S-4, with having "cruel fled our dear boy and his com rades" and also with having dis played a "cruel Indifference" toward the crew, of the sunken ship. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Jones, self forth these views, In a Jointly pinned letter to Repre sentative McCltntlc of Oklahoma, a delegate on the house naval committee, who has demanded a congressional Inquiry Into the sinking of the ship. "We both feel that the Navy Department has crucified our dear boy nnd his comrades and the cruel Indifference which they have shown toward these poor boys who died In the service pf their country Is Inhuman and without a precedent," the letter said. McCllntlc, In making public the letter, issued a statement declar ing that It "will be a travesty on justice" for congress to refuse to create a special committee to in vestigate the disaster. Both the letter and statement were given to the press for publication today prior to the announcement lat yesterday hv Secretary Wilbur that' a special inquiry had been ordered by the Navy Into rescue operations. The secretary at that time ex plained that the special investi (Contlnued on page 8 ) GOVERNMENT THREE ALARM FIRE SETS NEW RECORD PORTLAND DEPT. (Awinclntoil Vtvrb Leaunl Wire) PORTLAND. Ore., Dec. 31. A spectacular three alarm. . fire which damaged the " Pacific As bestos and Supply company, on front street, to the extent of $50, 000; the setting of a record-breaking number of fire alarms for a 24 hour period and one of the most difficult fights ever waged by the Portland fire department against flames and the elements featured the last days of Lc-e 0. Holden's. regime as chief of the Portland fire bureau. A chilling east, wind froze the two Bcorc hose lines to the streets and coated scantily clad firemen with thin sheets of ice, hampering their actions as they fought the Pacific Asbestos and Supply company fire. T Driving Snowstorm and In tense Cold Hinder Res cue Work One Woman Is Dead. f.Wtl Priiul LtiftM Win) CHICAGO, Dec. 31. Twenty five persons were Injured and at least one killed In a triple collis ion here today between three pas senger trains of the Chicago and Alton railroad. Number 8, a St. Louis-Chicago passenger train, had stopped in the West Thirty Seventh street yards for water, and number 78, a St. Louis mall train, had halted be hind It when number 10, "the Hummer" from Kansas' City, ran into tho mail train and threw it into tho St. Lout passenger train. The Injured with the exception of the fireman, Estill E. Beatty, of Bloomington, on the locomotive pulling "the Hummer," were all In the slepers of the leading train, the Alton management said. One Woman Dead Miss Sarah Spreckel, 18, of Tul-' sa. Okla., alive but seriously in-ju.'-ed, and an unidentified woman who was dead, were removed from the wreckage of a Pullman car In the Chicago and Alton wreck today after firemen and railroad em ployes had cut thru tho walls of the coach with acetylene torches. The rescue work waa greatly (Continued on page (.) U.OFD.VARSITY BEATS LOCALS BY SCORE 54-29 Untrained Collegians Un able to Hold Out Against Better Trained Squad, r GAME IS EXCITING Varsity Displayed Ragged Offense and Lack of Teamwork in Hard- ' Fought Contest.' Despite rough and ragged play las and a one-sided score, the game last night between the Uni versity of Oregon varsity and the Roseburg Collegians was a con test that furnished plenty of ex cltemont for the large crowd of spectators that filled the seats at the Senior high school ym. The University won 54 to 29, but until the last few minutes of play the game was a fuirly even contest with the Roseburg team constitut ing a real threat. . ' While the game was an enter taiulug and exciting exhibition, the crowd wns considerably dis appointed in the showing made by tho IT. of O. team, which Jacked the teamwork and coordination necessary to take a high place in the coast conference. In tho first half the offense was very weak, while the defense left the Rose burg team many openings, and ex cept for the local team's inability to hit the basket, the score would bare been far different, for the loqnls had many more shots at the goal than ' did the varsity, but lacked the accuracy of the1 ;vis- In the first half the Roseburg defense was going strong; Rose burg took first basket,' and for a few minutes the - score- see-sawed back and forth. Then the varsity look a small lend, but near the end of the half Roseburg evened things up, hut another spurt put the green-lemon supporters - 9 nolnts ah oat: at the end of - the hair, 24 to 16. 1 f ' A change of line-up weakened Roseburg's defense at the open ing of the second half and Eu gene piled up a wide margin. Roseburg's'lineup was again shift ed and the Collegians stnged a sensational rnlly that brought the crowd wildly to its feet, but the spurt was short lived for the un conditioned local players were un able to keep up the pace and after exhausting themselves fell easy prey to the better trained visitors. - The varsity weakness was- most evident in its ragged - offense. (Continued on page 8.) WIFE OF DISTRICT ROTARY GOVERNOR DROWNED SEATTLE (AtvorUtM I'rrti Leucd Wire) RKATTLE, Wash., Dec. 31. The body of Mrs. Hanx Manny, wife of the Rotary governor of Seattle, who was drowned Thurs day night in hake Washington, hud not been reoovered today. She was drowned when an auto mobile backed off the ferry into the lake. Her husband had neg lected to put the car out of gear when cranking, it was reported. The car was brought to the sur face yesterday, but there was no trace of the woman's body. . Mrs. Manny wan known to many Roseburg people, having visited here with her huabund at the oc casion of his visits to the local Rotary club. SNOW TRAPS 22 BOY SCOUTS IN SIERRA RANGE Struggle for Life Starts With Provision? for Only Two bays. RESCUE PARTY, FAILS Caterpillar. Tractor Used in Attempts to Force Passage Oregon Cold General. (Anorlatrd PrrM Teased Wire) MODESTO, Calif., Dec. 31. Twenty-two Stnnislaus county Boy Scouts, snow bound in a lumber camp ten miles In the Sierras be yond Long Barn, California,, with only two dayH provisions, today faced a. death Htruggle with the drifts separating them from civili zation., , , . . The boys, averaging from 12 to 14 years, were scheduled to strike out for Long Barn on foot -while a rescue party with a catorpillar tractor' attempted to crawl into tho mountains to meet them. Ver non Buird, scout executive, tele phoned from the lumber camp last nigtit that the boys had conquered three miles of drifts believed from ten to fourteen feet- deep, arriving at the lumber camp , safo and in good spirits. The scouts went to their camp nt rlne Crest, in the Sierras , 4 miles above Konoru, last week with two automobiles. They were provisioned for n week and ex pected to break camp Thursday. Rescue rarty Baffled - Heavy snows In the Sierras cut off communication with the camp (Continued on page 8.) -"And So to Bed!" ROBBER KILLS NEE R MAN AT KLAMATH FALLS Resisted Order to Deliver Money and Was Shot Through Head. SLAYER MADE ESCAPE Scooped Currency From Safe and Joined Crowd of Hurrying Pedes- trians Outside. (AuocUtttl Prtm LraKtl Wire) KLAMATH FALLS. Ore.. Doc. 31. John AuhoH, pioneor resident of Klnmatli Falls and employed in the Klamalli Uun Store, was mur dcrod this morning shortly after 7 o'clock by a robbor who looted the hardware store save or several Hun dred dollai'B. ' . , . , The robbery and murder occur red while. hundrods of people were passing to nnd rro In front or the store. Just n few minutes before tho murder, Ausell had wavqd to a city piurounuu as ne paBseu uy on his nay to work and had chatted with the janitor. Tho only shot fired from the .45 calibre revolver oleaved thru Ansell's brntn and emerged on tho othor side of the liend,. dropping to tho floor whore officers Inter picked it up, ! Death was instantaneous.. Ten mlnutos before the shooting a colored janitor was eloanlng up the establishment Ansell wub open ing the safe. In. the rear of the store the janitor said thero wns a dark man, with black slouch hat and red and black macklnnw who, he thought,- had i apparently been given permission by Ansell to warm himself by the slove, ; ' Shortly bofore 7 a. m. Holene Drottenstein ,n Herald . reporter. noticed a ninn standing before the Ouu Store peering thru the .win dow. As she passed tho store tho man turned and stared nt her. lier description of tho man corresponds with Hum of the janitor; Police bollovo that Ansell was told to throw up his bunds nnd re sisted strenuously. His - glasses were found broken and blood Rpat lored on top of a counter Bovornl feet away from the body. ' The Bnfo was open nt the time of the killing nnd tho murderer scooped up all eurroncy nnd checks Inside. Ho failed to take a largo quantity of sllvor. After looting tho vault, tho un known killer calmly turned off the lights of tho storo and walked lnr to the street to join tho slroam of podostrlans hurrying to nnd fro in a heavy bhow storm that struck Klnnmlh this morning. Ten min utes later n patron of tho storo ' (Continued on page 8.) IMITATOR OF HICKMAN LOOSE , IN NEW JERSEY t (AuoelaliHl I'rem LrAM Win) f BKVKKLY, N. J., Dec 31. A be-speck led would-be kidnaper! who calls himself "the wolf" and 1 has terrorized this neighborhood! for three days, was sought today by police throughout the state. - ! Believed to have been prompted in his actions by reading of the kidnaping and slaving of Marian Parker in I.os Angeles by Wil liam Kdward Hickman, who nick named himself "the fox," the man has nmue three appearances in this vicinity. - Terror-stricken mothers have teen warned to keep their children Indoors while anxious futhers serve In posses. "The wolf's" latest uppearanco was at midnight last night when he attucked 17-yeur-old Reginald Duncan, son of the superintendent of the Beverly cemetery. It - was his second attempt to carry otf young Duncan. On . Thursdny night the boy escaped after a se vere beating and last night he sot away before the assailant, de scribed as about 35 years old and more than Q feet In height, got hold of him. A young woman nurse frustrated "the wolf's" at tempt to kidnap an infant son of a prominent Illverton family three days ago. COUNTY LEVY REDUCED MORE THAN 5 MILLS Assessor Calkins Announces Tax Rate Will Be 17 Mills. CITY IS ALSO LOWER Roseburg to Have Smaller Levy Despite1 Issuance of Recent Deer Creek 't Bridge Bonds. "' ; :H, f :' ! As n result of tho O. nnd C. grant lnnd refund paid by tho gov ermont to Dnuglas county the levy for the ensuing yonr for Btalo and county purposeB -hns -been trodud ed from 22.3 mills to 17, a reduc tion of C.3 mills, according-to' nrt announcement mndo today by County Assessor Frank Calkins. At the tlmo tho county was working for tho O. nnd C. rofund it wns Btntod thnt tho payments, if grnnted, would docroase tho stato and county tux by 20 por cent, nnd the levy JUBt cnlculatod by tho county nsscssor provos that tho claim was accurate Taxes paid this year, as extend ed on last yoar's roll, were levied nt the rate of 22.3 mills. It was nocessary Inst year to raise J132, 118.30 for bond redemption and $77,184.67 Interest on bomlB. Tho money applied by llio county court to tho bond redemption fund, to gothor witli paynionts to bo made each year by tho government, will tnko care of the bond principal and lntorest pnyments, It is be lieved, nnd consequently it was not necessary this yonr' to raise tho money for such purposes. Tho levy for county nnd stnto purposes, ns announced by Asses sor Calkins, Is as follows: Fund I.ovy Amount Slate Tax OOn444 $210.(190.27 flonornl County ...004194 142.M2.27 Common School .001902 07.728.23 Library 000021 713.98 fienernl Itoad .....0027M 93.3r,8.31 Market Itoad OOlfilO 01,338.60 Fire Patrol 000020 679.08 Indigent Sol diers 000060 2,039.04 Total 017000 J677.539 71 The work of extending tho assessment roll Is now undorwny. In addition to tho stato nnd county tnx of 17 mills tho various taxing districts will havo ndded their sneclnl school and road taxes In whatever amounts they havo voted. In the rltles thero will be added the school and city taxes. Ttonebnrg will have a tnx levy this vesr of 44.4 mills, a reduction of 29 mills despite the feet thnt llio city on!v recently ndded a bur den of $37,000 In bonds for bridge construction. T.nst venr the city's tnx rate was 47.3 mills. BODIE8 NOT FOUNO The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Webb who aro bo- 4 Ileved to havo been drowned In Coos nay when their car went Into the water at the end of Virginia avenun In North Bend. Nov. 28. have not yot been fonnd. Tho bay hA been dredged In tho lo- eallty' where the rar was fonnd, and ft search la being made of the shoreline. DRY FORCES OF nnnrnmiiiiriiTTn buitnnntn iu CURB REVELRY Augmented Squads to Be on Duty Tonight in Chief 1 . Moist Centers. CITIES GIVE NO HELP Chicago ' Hotel Men ; Take No Chances New York ' Club Reservations . Are Exhausted." (Awoctatnl rrvm Leaicd Win-) I. CHICAGO,' Deo. 31. Prohibition , enforcement in Chicago tonight ; will bo purely a federnl nTfalr with ' enforcement officers on duty from 2 p. in. until the last tin horn has sounded Its blatant hurrah to the New. Year. , , ' 1 I Clilot of Police Hughes Indicated that tho police force would mako no extra efforts toward liquor law enforcement, i Tho federal prohibition depart ment, however, has made ox'ensle plans tn make certnln tlut Chica go's Now Year evo celebration Is dry. ' A force or 250 louorai men nnH been nssigned to the hotels nnd cabarets." Tho depnrtmont, under the direction of B. C. Yollowley, ndmlnlHtrutor, has boon recruited for the occasion by agents from ludlannpolls, Milwaukee, and, South ern Illinois cities. - - Tho fedoral men aro understood , to hovo, been instructed to arrest any hip flask toterB they may ob. servo. . - - Many hotels' havo posted notices : that no "setups" of glngernle and cracked Ice will ho sorved. Old Law Revoked . NEW.YOIIK, Deo. HI. Tho ghost of an old revenue law roso today to cause aonio misgivings about what promised to. bo Broadway's most oxponslvo'nnd wildest celebration. , of a new yonr. ., . - - Under authority of thli law pro hibition agents stripped Chej Holen Morgan, one of tlia cltj's most popular night resortB, of Its $60,000 worth or furnishings. ' Ownors of, other night olubs became a bit ap. ; prehdnslvp about tonight's doyoop ments. ' ' I Denervations at' all the popular -clubs nnd hotels had been exhaust ed days ago and It wns estimated 100,000 persons would dine nnd danco tho old year out nnd the now year In, pnylng at least 41,000,000 ' for tho privilege. . , . . , . Officials Warn Clubs. Coupled -with the throat mndo by the Morgan club raid wns a letter . sent nil night club proprietors. by Administrator Maurice Campbell in which ho warned thnt two agents would bo nsHigned to each club. Hu also cnllcd attention to a recerti. federal court decision In Chicago which ho bold more furnishing of glass, cracked Ice or glngorale, with knowledge they would he used In consumption of liquor, was ground t for padlock proceedings. Campbell snld that the raid on tho Morgnn club had tho aporoval of United States Attorney Chnrlos It. Tuttlc. Tultle said the disman tling of tho club wns carried out under section 3463 of tho rovlsed statutes. He added thnt he was convinced tills section authorized tho consflscntlon of property. J. Arthur Adler. counsel for Miss Morgan and eight employes of tho (Continued on-pngo 6.) , o . OH SLUSH! Certainly plenty of It today, but then It might bo worse. The average temperature yester day was 37, only four degrees bo low the normal for '' that ' date. The lowest Inst night wns 31. And wasn't tho snow pretty this morning? Tho Office Cat grabbed his fled, as soon as tha janitor unlocked the door, and scooted to Mt. JNebo, forgetting to leave nis usual prediction. Prophet Pugta, however, says "Snow turning to rain tonight and Sunday, with rising tempera-1 ture." Hope he's right shout that ris ing temperature stuff. i Our "Weather .Man. I I M