Roseburg news-review., January 13, 1928, Page 1, Image 1

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Highest temperature yesterday 54
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ROSEBURG, OREGON. FRIDAY, JANUARY 1 3, 1 928. . "TSRW ot l!5
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VOL. XXVIII NO. 300 OF THE EVENING NEWS
VOL. XVIII NO. 226 OF ROSEBURQ REVIEW
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Today
Looking Over the Water.
The. World's Real Ocean.
Where's the $1,200 Man?
Alaska, Champion Bargain.
' -By. Arthur Brisbane'
(Copyright 1928 by Star: Company)
SAN SIMEON, Calif. This
spot, on the edge of the Pacific
ocean, supplies texts for ser
mons, or philosophical . musing
especially at . four in the
morning, with the white line of
the surf just visible in moon
light. ,
, . ; i
, You see only rolling break
ers and gray water beyond, but
i you know of things that you
' cannot see. ; ; , . , , , . . i
' Asia is across the water; and
Ceylon pearl fishers are going
"all ' naked to the hungry
shark;" old temples of India
tangled in , the jungle; 400,
000,000 patient Chinese bear
ing their burdens; $60,000,000
clever . Japanese . ruling their
neighbors, because they bor
row knowledge; Koreans and
Filipinos crying for independ
ence; that they won't get, be?
cause they are not ready for it;
sacred monkeys, around a Hin
du temple ; sacred snakes,' wor
shipped in a Chinese temple,
and yellow gold, the important
power everywhere. , . . , . : , ..
. To the south shines a gigan
. tic planet,; with .its own , little
"ring" of mist, Hefying the
greater light and bigger ring of
the moon. More important; to
men in their boats, is the little
San Simeon lighthouse, flash
ing its intermittent light on i
rocky point to the north. ' '
,' That ' light shines' over its ,
path of water, lights and warns
of rocks close by. Such ars the
wisdom and science of man,
lighting our way in this- little
corner of space, which is the
limit of our knowing and think
ing. . Those that live along the lit
tle eastern ocean should come
here, see the world's real
ocean, and know for them
selves how hard it is for a hu
man mind to think across inter
stellar space to our nearest star
neighbor,
'
With the rising of the sun,
comes Steve of San Luis Obis
po, bringirtg the latest edition
of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
and that newspaper, with news
of Alaska, in big letters, re
minds you of interesting and
profitable things too far away.
if
From the Seattle P. I. you
learn that it is hard to make a
mistake, when you buy on this
continent. Seward bought Alas
ka from Russia for eight mil
lion dollars, the purchase was
really engineered as a plausible
way to hand American money
to certain Russians that needed
it. "Seward's folly," that pur
chase was called. Since this
country has owned it, Alaska
has sent us $366,000,000 in
gold and $110,000,000 worth
of furs, among other things.
1 This great traffic from Alas"
ka is enriching Seattle, and the
process has only begun. Pub
lishers are interested in two
pulp and paper mills, to be
built in southeastern Alaska to
cost more than $10,000,000
each and produce 3UU tons
daily. You'll never pick up
such a bargain as Seward got
... i.i ..u-
"mi", dui D"X nuincLiiiiig
in this country. Take care of it
and, if you pick wisely, it will
taW. mri. of von
take care ot you.
Tk kin n.nUam im tn vntr
sure that each has a fair chance.
and that we hold what
we
have, in the way of prosper
ity, compared with other
(Continued on page 2.)
BRUTE SOUGHT IN
FIEND SLAYS
5-YEAR CHILD,
CUTS UP BODY
Kindergarten Pupil Is
Seized on Street '
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Mother, Waiting, Sees Her
Daughter Dragged Into
an Automobile. -
TROOPS ' AID SEARCH
Murderer. Drives to Woods,
Stabs'": Victim in Heart
', Before Dissection i i I
: ' ' Parts Missing. ': i ; '
FLINT, Mich., Jan 13,-
man who police said answered
in a general way; the descrip
tion 'of a man sought as. the
kidnaper and slayer of 5-year-old
Dorothy Schneider was ar
rested here today. His name
was withheld pending ,' further
investigation.' . : . i , ,,
Officers said the man was
driving a sedan which tallied in
description with the. "; car in
which the child was kidnaped
and carried to her death yes
terday, near Mt. Morris. ' ' 1
Several severed parts of the
child's body were 'ound on the
creek bank near where the
body was discovered.
FUNT, Mich., Jan. 13.
The most intensive manhunt in
the history of Michigan today
sought the kidnaper and. slay
er of five-year-old Dorothy
Schneider.
Kidnaped from under the
eyes of her mother, wife of an
automobile factory worker, the
child was taken in an automo
bile to the countryside near
Mt. Morris, not far from here,
and brutally slain. The child-
slayer then dissected the body
and stuffed a portion of it un
der a ledge of ice bordering
a creek. Some portions of the
body still were missing today.
Dorothy was hurrying home
from kindergarten shortly af
ter noon yesterday when she
was snatched from the side
walk a block from her home.
Her mother, watching for the
child from the porch, saw a
man drag her into an automo
bile and then drive away.
Discovery of the body was made
by members of posses and offic
ials, spurred to action by the moth
er, who ran screaming to the near
est police station, after witnessing
the kidnaping.
The officials traced a dilapitated
sedan with the man driving to
spot adjacent to the farm of
Archie Bacon, near iriu morris.
Bacon told police ha saw the man
alight from the car carrying a
bundle with which he hurried to
the woods.
The man according to Bacon,
returned to the car two hours la
ter minus the bundle, and extricat
ing the machine from a mud hole
where It was atucK, arove
A WAV-
i the creek which runs thru the
I woods officers found the mutilated
; body. ..,..
Coroner Brasle, who conducted
,,., ...j rtliillnn were
that the chleld died of a stab
; wound to tho heart and that the
body was dissected after death,
! He expressed the opinion that the
! deed was the work of a maniac
! Ttlft flltrltiVH VBH - described SS
1 Jt f est. M Inches in height. I
nf llrht mmnlexlnn. RtooD should
' ered and slender. He was wearing
ltgbt suit, and dark overcoat. 1 ment with the priest who accom
Chief ot Police Scarvada, enlist-' panled him and then made a brief
(Continued on page 4) statement denying his guilt.
FRIDAY
THE LUCKIEST DAY
A . )r7 w
GORILLA
WHO KILLED 22,
TODAY
Earle Nelson, the "Dark
Strangler," Dies at 7:41
' This Morning.
SAYS ,"NOT GUILTY"
"Forgave'' All Who Testi
fied Against Him Ca
; reer of Crime Most
Horrible.
(AmortatefJ Vrru LriMl Win)
WINNIPEG, Man., Jan. 13. The
hanclng today of Earle Nelson, no
torious "dark strangler," ended the
grim story of a criminal trail, wind
ing from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
-along which police ascribed 22 mur
ders to Nelson s brutality.
The trap was sprung at 7:41 this
morning In the provincial jail
courtyard here,
Nelson protested his innocence to
the last and Bald he "forgave" all
those who had testified against
him. At 1:60 a. m., IS minutes af
ter Hangman Arthur Ellis dropped
the trap, Nelson was pronounced
dead. '
Known as "the Btrangler" and
"the gorilla man" because be was
believed to have strangled all of
his victims. Nelson was hanged
today for the murder of Mrs. Emily
Palteraon. mother of two children,
in Winnipeg. June. 10. 1927. He
had been Indicted also for the kill
ing of 14 year old Iota Cowan,
Winnipeg school girl, whom he was
accused of strangling.
Police said that Nelson, on Feb
ruary 20, 1926. In Ban Francisco.
Calif., began his trail of death
which stretched for 7.000 miles
along the Pacific coast, across the
United States to the Atlantic sea
board, then doubled back Into
Canada and ended In Manitoba. Of
the 22 murders for which he was
blamed. 20 of the victims were wo-
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men, one was the Winnipeg school military, chieftain, the store-men-girl
and another a baby. Honed John J. Pershing. The great
Nelson was composed as he
as he
innrrhed ' to the scaffold between
his guards. He spoke for a mo-
GREAT MANHUNT
THE 13th
aWv5!Whed
TTyrteen" Bound Closely
to Nations Fortune.'
History Proves Day Is Good
One for U. S
Don't foel thnt you ought to ta)
IndoorR and keep your fingers cross
oil Just because touuy Happens to
be Friday the 1 13th.
; According , to the superstitious
lore of the. ages Friday the 13th
may be fraught with evil omens
but America, at least, ought to re
gard the day as the lucklcHt on die
calendar. : ' ) ' v
Friday and tho number 13, either
together dV separately, have played
a .large and beneflcient part in
American history, and anyone who
thinks they are unlucky, will have
to take a Becond guess. ;
Pershing's Birthday.'
To begin with. It's supposed to
be the height of ill luck to be
born on Friday tho 13th. Yet Gen
eral John J. Pershing, war-time
commander of the A. E. F., was
born on such n dato, and It must
be admitted Hint he haa risen pret
ty high for a man whose life be
gan under an unfavorable star. The
exact dateitit his birth was Septem
ber 13, I860.
Then, as everybody knows, there
are 13 stripes in the American flag.
Originally, when that flag was most
In need of fortune's smiles, there
were 13 Btnrs also. And, of courHC,
there were 13 colonies at the time
of the Revolution.
If 13 were an unlucky number
for America, George III ought to
have won that war in no time. Hut
the combination proved so lucky
for America whoBe revolutionary
commander customarily' signed his
name Geo. Washington, In whlrh
there are exactly 13 letters that
I on June 13. 1778, the kingdom of
France decided to come to the new
country's Bid. and thus made cer
tain the success ot the War for in
dependence. You might notice that there are
13 letters In "revolutionary." too.
' Ab If they were aware of these
thlngB. the fathers of the republic
then proceeded to work 13 Into tho
American scheme very effectively.
For our national motto they pink'
ed "E Plurlbus Unum." wlilch has
13 letters. On the escutcheon of
our country they put an eagle, each
wing of which has 13 feathers.
They lnld the foundations of the
White House on October 13, 1792
They organized the Northwest ter-
Him; uii juij noi.
So much for our early history.
Now lets' come down to modern
times.
Woodrow Wilson, wartime presi
dent under whom America was vic
torious In Its greatefat war. had 13
letters In his natie. And there sre
13 letters In the signature of his
American victory of 81, Mlhlct was
on Friday, the 13th.
. Our prosperity rests on our In
dustries, and If they should have
bad lurk the country as whole
(Continued en page 4.)
l!2 aiicL'
RUTH
AND
DECLARE DEATH
T
Both Express Deepest Sor
' row For Commission of
Horrible Crime
SINNED TOGETHER
Pair, in Last Message, Said
vThey Were Being Pun
ished Rightly Ruth
Is Real Penitent
(AuoclatPtl Prrn 'IitaMM! Wire)
OSSINOINO, Jun. 13. Hope that
her life' would serve as a lesson
to the world was expressed by
Mrs. Ruth Snyder In a conversa
tion with her attorneys shortly bo
fore her execution while Henry
Judd Gray told his attorney that
he realized the enormity of his
crime and agreed that Justice must
.be served.":
i Mrs. Stivder ' was ' Bittlnjr in a
thalv - with -tier. head. In ,lierarniR
when Udgur V. Hnelton,riDiui
(Continued, on phkh 4.)
PENALTY
RUTH'S DAUGHTER.
MOTHER,
jtffs II ill
' Vv 1; :- s&&$m '
ftp: K't( 3 r
Three Immediate relatives of Mrs. Ruth Snyder thsred her solici
tude over Governor Al Smith's action on a plea for commutation of har
death sentence. They are her daughter, Lorraine (top); her mother,
Mrs. Josephine Brown, pictured with Mrs. Snyder at the lower right;
and her brother Andrew Brown, of New York, lower left ' Lorralns
has besn in the care of her grandmother, Mrs. Brown, ever since the
murder. - c
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EXECUTIONER OF
RUTH COLLAPSES
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(AaucUtrd Tnm Lraanl VIM
NEW YORK, Jan. J3. Ho-
bort Klllott, ' executioner at
Sing Sing prison, took to his
bed today with a nervous 4
breakdown. Dr. Morton Herts,
his physician, said . he had
been ''pretty badly shakea"
by the task of Bending Ruth
Snyder and Henry ludd Oray
to their deaths Inst night.
The idea of executing a wo-
man, he said, had preyed on
the executioner's mind. . ,
PETTY GANGSTERS
BELIEVED GUILTY
CHICAGO MURDER
(AuorUtnl ITl-M Uurd WIrri
CHICAGO, Jan. 13. Police
turned to the-haunts of- "alky"
peddlers today to solve the mur
der of a woman known as Mrs.
Betty Chambers. .
A maid found hor body Into yes
terday In the fehnlnbers apart
ment, resting beneath a Bllken
coverlet and supported by bright
ly colored blood stained pillows.
She was clad only In pajamas.
Death could have como to the
2.1 year old vomnn by. any or all
or three ways. Adhoslvo tape had
been wound around her head, cov
ering mouth and nose.; She had
been struck with a blunt instru
ment, evidenced from the senr on
the back of her nook.-A- -tightly,
drawn olectrlc " light cord was
tautened about hor neck..
Police '- ..pressed ..mi Intensive)
search for two -men. 'ipetty gang
sters," Ihey, called them. ' .
I)r. 0. H. rinlley, editor of the
State amnio Bulletin, nud Mrs.
Bailey, pt South. Ueor Oroek, leave
In ttie morning forv Mnrshflold,
wJior DivBailejCwIll. assist, in fhe
CBtabllHhniiyit .of ir poinonu Ki'uiigo
at the coast? - ' " ' '
MOTHER
RUTH SNYDER AND JUDD GRAY
WALK UN ASSISTED TO DEATH
CHAIR WITH PRAYER ON UPS
Execution Seven Minutes Apart Mrs. Snyder -
Closes Her Eyes and Prays As Mask Is
Adjusted Gray ' Looks Directly
At Awed Witnesses .
: (Associated PresB
OSSINING, N. Y., Jan. 13.
Judd Gray, illicit lovers, died
prison seven minutes apart last
Mrs. Snyder was pronounced dead at I I :U"i o clock and
Gray at 1 1 : 1 6.
Neither of Pair Collapse
' Suggestions freely made that Mrs. Snyder would collapse
at the end were not borne out. She walked to the death dealing
chair and seated herself in it with little direction from two ma
Irons accompanying her. They held her arms but were guiding
her more than lending support. , .' '- ,
- Gfay was the Gray of the Long Island court room, who .
walked with elastic tread to and from the court room each day. .
In court, however, Gray for all his almost jaunty walk, always,
stepped in and out of the room with eyes, averted. At his exe- J '
cution, the former corset salesman looked directly into the faces :
of the awed witnesses, numbering almost two-score; ,-, ..-i
Ruth Closes Her Eyes . , . ; ;; ; '
i Mrs. Snyder walked . jnto the 'execution chamber with'
slightly dragging step and although her eyja ' were wide open'v
they were apparently, unseeing and it was evident that, , for her
the crowded room did hot' exist. She closed her eyes as'jsho-"
slipped' into th electric chair--,-1 , , , "
i HOth -dlrtrt W1U1-. nrnvsra .oil, ttieir.1
lips. Just beloro; ,tho black, huiskj
rnngeinents. was nlaced: over her1
face, 'Mrs Snyder cried t ''Forgiveil
them, Father, for they, ikiipw, uqt,
what theyt do.") , , , , , ,i
(Gray'B, Inat, words were not
audible, tjut It was tertttiA "thitt'
his lips were' movlnk I6'pfayei'ia
tho current was applied i i!)iv
i ' 'Sllance ln( Chamber-. .
Tlio Sing Sing death cltaniber
IsBlieil n hold , black wiiVnltife H)
those' who ' aBBoinbled there, '"Si
lence''. ' The warnln i was . I uot
necessary v as-, tArs, Bnyder, , (he.
flint woman to up executed In tho
state In nearly 30 yearn, camo
through the door beneath the sign.
The 20 newspaper men and seven
physicians, jthroe of them prison
doctors, tvere. jSllent Only the
slight sound of escaping steam
from a radiator-could be heard,
. Mrs. Snytier wore a black dress
with a tun smock as alio wnlkod
25 feet from hor cell. One of her
black stockings,' the1 right,- was
rolled down. Her lips wore mov
ing but the words could uot be
distinguished . until she was' heard
to murmur, "Have mercy on my
soul." The Homun Catholic chap
lain of the prison stepped forward
as she was placed In the- chair,
nnd Warden Lewis K. Lawes
asked if the condemned hnd any
thing to say. Then the woman re
peated the wordB of Christ on. tho
cross. i - . -
i ..Death Comes Quickly
Immediately the . black mask
hid her face from the lookers-on
and four minutes later she was
pronounced dead.
As soon as the body of the
woman could be removed' from the
chair and the room, ' Oray . was
brought In, 'walking with two
guards who barely touched his el
bows, -
(iray was carefully groomed, In
contrast to f the bedraggled ap
pearance of his wrfltwhlle para
mour. He wore a gray suit with a
handkerchief showing from a
pocket, of his coat and was fresh
ly shaven. Mrs. Snyder had
washed her hair on her last day
alive but prison confinement with
no access to beauty parlor equip
ment had destroyed the wave of
ber blonde hair apparent In court
at her trial. Her hair was streaked
with brown and was much longer
than she woro It when she waB
the Queens Village housewife. ,
Gray Is Silent
Gray Beatetl himself in tho chair
as the protestant chaplain of thj
prison begnn to repeat the beati
tudes, with a pause before each
of the "Blessed," as he quoted tho
asHurances from tho scriptures of
inheritances for many. Tho pris
oner's lips seemed to move In re
sponse but no one could hoar
what ho said. He made no re
sponse to the warden's formal
question If he bad a last word.
Throe times the pulsing curront
of the dynamo feeding the chair
with electricity bad bcon sent
through tho form of Mrs. Snyder,
but only twice was it called on to
snuff out the life of Gray.
The second execution over in
Leased Wlro.) ,r
Mrs. Ruth Snyder and Henry
in the electric chair of Sing Sing
night, , , ' " '
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. ; i i i i
absolute qulit,. the, wltpensen filed,
siuwly , ai(d (solciiin!y 'from t the;
death ' cluunber. As they1 1eft,! tho1'
p'rlBou 'doctor,-' 6. C. Sweet!, - chleti
Sing' Slug' Hurgnotv and- tola- assist-',
ants, Drs. 1 Kernel', ,oud; Qoslln,.
woro performing phet autopsies tho'
law requires. . ' 1 1 ,f
Itolutlves ' of r Mrs. Snyder,
through .counsel, j had Bought to
prevent this, but tliolr contention
wub overruled.' 1 - ':.' 1 '" "
' to'day funeinl services will be
hold In the' prison chape! and, the
bodies .given., lntp . tho, t hnds of
relativi's. They must, however, rbe .
taken immediately to the ' ceme
teries chosen to receive them.
Tho last from tho "outside" to
speak to the coudemnod pair wore
their lawyers, and Fnther Miirphy,
Long Islnrid ' City jail ' chaplain,
who ministered -to- Mrs. . Snyder..
The priest quoted MrB. Snyder as
Baying: , ; ' '
"if ever there was a penitent,
It la I." The woman was also quot
ed as saying she bore no malice to
any whu-had criticised her. No
mention of Oray was made in her-,
quoted lust . utterances.
Gray was described as referring
'to Mrs.' Snyder in kindly terms.
Lovers long before -they killed Al
bert Snyder with o, sashwelght
and plcturo wire as he slept, they
became enemies after the murder
and nt their Joint trial attempted
to plitcu tho greater burden ot re
' spousibillty upon each other.
. Mrs. 8nyder Aged '
Mrs. Snyder had aged visibly
Blnco.tho time of her trial. Shu
looked nearer 50 years ot age than
tier 32. Gray did not seem to have
(Continued on page 4.)
"Now If yore dinged Office Cat
which Ir too dern black for com
i fort, hadn't walked In front of me.
the sun wouida kept on shlnln', '
somplalned
Prophet Pugh
this a. m. as he
folded up hla
bumbershoot and
dripped sky
Juice all over the
lanctum.
With that wo
shied the diction
ary at the feline
Just to show him
thst - FRIDAY
THE THIR
TEENTH is NOT
Jtolu
his lucky day.
AND IT RAINED
Yep, evon pouredl
Which only proves again that
block cat on Friday tho Thirteenth
la the unlucklest thing In the
cockeyed universe.
MORE RAIN T'MORROW!