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1 Ujo Weather Highest temperature yesterday 50. Lowest temperature last night 42 Forecast for southwest Oregon: Rain tonight and Thursday, moder ate temperature. VSEW if irct !b MrT'c ' irsl"" waders to I :4- In results - .1101 idTertistrj Q DOUGLASCOUNTY An Independent Newspaper, Published for . the Best Interests of the People Consolidation of Tho Evening Newt and The Rose burg Review VOL. XXVIII NO. 242 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY I, 1928. VOU XVIII NO. 316 OF THE EVENING NEWS rt" 0 5 '. V mm itj F n urn II I IV -n ii UK To day Some One, Not Trotsky. Dempsey's. Two Eyes. Ibanez Sees Four Horsemen Why Poison Any? i By Arthur Brisbane! (Copyright 1928 oy Star Company) Trotzky . is supposed to be raising an army of his sym pathizers to fight against Bol shevist bosses that exiled him and others of ' Lenin's asso ciates. A fight for supremacy will come some day in Russia. Trotzky probably will not lead it. He is a consumptive, in weak health. And it would take a man with terrific force, men tal and physical, the type of Peter the Great or Ivan the Terrible to terrorize and or ganize 200,000 Russian vil lages into a fighting army. - If' :.S ; "The night hath a thousand eyes, the day but one,", says on old song. " ; . The heavens have a thou- , sand eyes, and Jack Dempsey only two. But millions in the ' United States,; as Mr. Rickard will testify, are more interested in Mr. Dempsey's two eyes than in all the eyes that shine above,- ' t r ', : . Therefore, news that Demp- sey is going blind is much more important than the falling of many" stars' would be. : Financially : speaking"' 'M Dempsey's eyes are worth more than a million dollars apiece, ivhereas there is actually ' no financial value in' two .'"eyes" that shine in the belt or Orion. Later hews, you may be glad to hear, says Mr.- Dempsey's trouble is temporary, and will not interfere 'with his 'fights as planned. " '-' , , i : , : Ibanez at war with the Spanish government when he died, cannot be buried in his own country. His friends will bring Spanish soil from Ibanez' own garden among the orange groves of Valencia and have him buried in that soil on French territory. It will make little difference to Ibanez, who, according to the belief of millions, is even now setting from St. John exact details about the Jrouri k Horsemen of the Opocalypse, perhaps, studying them, white, red, black and pale, as they ride out the universe. The government has a new "denaturant" that, mixed with alcohol, makes it "taste ter rible," but not poisonous. The government will learn that terrible taste will not dis courage confirmed drinkers. A denaturant that would cause instantaneous vomiting, with out serious injury, would prob ably be as good as anything. But why must the govern ment poison, or half poison, any of its citizens? New York Gty IS groaning in a tempeiature or i above yCar neg changed. He's been rest- corporation Department have con zero. This makes people laugh less and full of notions and didn't spired to keep theio out of busl- above In nnrlhnn (ntM. where 3 below is pleasant weainer, also in Florida, California and Gulf States, summer. where it is always , , .. . - ' ! last October, he lust said. "Hello, department for the Union Ser- France, the real flying coure- mother." as If he'd ported from me Tlce aMOclatlon. His conversa- try thus far, is about to estab- that very morning. Then he said. ,on wlth Arn0ld, ho claims, was lish air mail service between "How are you? Don cry. mother. fr,t ,n ArnoUr, offce, and later p " . ' ;' n. !nirr. This,H,, wa" rea,,y e?n80,Ln,,! , In Yates office with another man Pans and Rio De Janeiro. 1 his He asked m about his sister. We nt but hldden from Anwill. letter carrying Toute. O.UUU , didn't mention the troubH" nt all. Arn0d, says Yates, told Yates miles long, will be covered in I. . . He didn't and I didn i t . . .I,nat Fred yeindi, investigator for sevn "air nnd water" hops at But next time I see Edward I n pun ,he .corporation department.- had .h. f . ,K..d mile, a day. Wonderful now, it will seem slow ten years hence. The Bishops of the Church rt- i i .ii i .i d or cjigiana. guiaea oy ine .v- erend Archbishop of Cahter - bury, wrote a new prayer book. TV,. 1-1 f rJTmn. threw (Continued on page 4) KiCElPvlArrS IVJOTHER TELLS HE MUST BE TISANE" SAYS HIS PARENTS "Keep Your Boy at Home," Advises Frantic Mother of the "Fox." EXCLUSIVE S T O R Y Mrs. Eva Hickman Writes Special Story for Read ers or Koseburg INews-Keview.. . Editor's Note: Stunned by the confession of , her son, William Edward ' Hickman, to the murder of little. Mar ian Parker, Mrs; Eva ' Hick man has gone to Los Angeles to. testify in ht3 beluilf at his trial. In order that the war tion mat understand whv shr tifiil testify' for him, she' has written 1 exclusively for ' the News-Review and NEA Ser vice the follouring article set ting forth a mother's emo tions as a son goes to trial for his life for murder. It t presented here' exactly t$ she wrote it. : . . BY MRS. EVA HICKMAN Written Exclusively for the News - - Review. . . Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc. I have a message for moth ers. ' Don't let your boy get away from you. Don't let him out of your sight until you are sure he knows what he's about. " ." Of course, it seems that with all the talking and reasoning I did with my Edward before he left home he would have re- membcred some 01 it. , but as soon as he got away it seems he didn't realize or pay any at tention to what I said to him. Must Be. Insane It's just too pitiful, too piti ful for words. I'm just so hurt, so hurt. He's not so black. His raising hasn t been to that ef - feet. He s bound to be insane. reflecting against the State Cor V., u : TU. poratlon Department, the Port- Young hke he is ... lhe lan(, Uetter Bug,nCM BureBU ,, way it s all put up as if he was the Undertakers association of a soulless monster. If only a Portland and particularly agiUnst closer watch could have been J- O. Arnold, a Portland attorney, kept on him. if I had been with ? 'e""r TrT by Governor Patterson -from him, it 1 nadn t let him go away Cnarl(,g s yatea assistant nian this wouldn't have happened, lager of the Union Service associa- Edward Just can't be right that's tion. all. Or he never emild have done a The latter Is a corporation In thing like that When he was a boy the undertaking business which growing up he was just like other 'claims that the organized under- ' boj-s. He was a mischievous and .. . t,!M tfa ha.n In tho Inat seem to Know wnai ne wanieu 10 do. He wouldn't stay at any one, 'thing. It was lust his mind. Didn't Discuss Murder When I saw him the other dsv.'Sen.e R0Dert Mount, manager fit wnen I wanted into inai jan ceu. the first time I'd Seen him Since rlm ot "a.?ee wn" ne W1" ""ybeeA up to see hlra. and that they In regard to it. I wouMn t have been a tnie mother at all If I h-idn I t niMo see him I hor tht I can heln him. nnt i con t nu. . v. look like a criminal. Tlut :. . " t 't "' JT J , like that Hf .IcoVs all I jJeM I He "JJ r a nratorl lye"r'" l?h "TTvI2rk" r I, 5' j One Tragedy After Another j nnrprui DiiDrmilpnainr'p r nDHii fllNFRIII .CflfiTfi! G 0 R P 0 RA11DNS Undertaker Tells Governor .' Extortion Was Tried on Business Permit. ' SHUT-OUT IS ALLEGED Portland Better Business Association Head and. Atty. J. G. Arnold Are Named. (Auoctalpd PreH IbkkI Wire) SALEM, Ore., Feb. 1. Accusa- itions of a sensational character, takers of Portland, the Bettur n...lna.. n, ..-,,.. an.l lh. Hl.fa neas. Savt Extortion Tried yatcs claims that Arnold offer- Ud for 9 financial consideration to the Uetter Business Bureau, an-1 a rurmll tmm tha pnrnnrattnn 'had rone over the matter of the a88ociation-s application for a s,ork ,B,n(. pern)lt He adlloi (ha Melnd, wmild , n hour. lie is going to see uon aiuuiii t the Better Business Bureau and I thought I would be In a posl- tlon io he" M and W nipany la getting a permit," Arnold Is (Continued on page 8.) IS UNDER ' . imp nPAnmnin PROGRAM TO BE GREAT' BENE Every : Community ., to Be Helped by Agricultural Activities. MEETINGS PLANNED Eight Major Projects Are Adopted to Be -Worked Out During the Year. The agricultural program out lined by Douglas County Pomona grange is one that will be of great grange is one mat win oe oi greuii: , ' :: Importance in the way of agrlcul-j ,ve B "orlh Carolina, says a re - tural development if carried on as planned. With eight major pro jects decided upon the grango has a very largo task ahend of It, but one that Is well worth tho effort required to put It over. Four different projects will be carried on by -the farm Ncrop divi sion. One will be a corn variety test which will be tried out at Yon calla, Melrose, Camas Valley and Myrtle Creek. There are now too many varieties of corn being grown In the county. These tests will he for the purpose of determining which varieties are most suitable, taking In the matter of adaptabil ity to soil and value for silage and grain purposes. It Is hoped by these tests to determine Just which varieties are most suitable and then confine corn growing to these particular kinds and work towardB a more satisfactory yield. A teBt is also to be mado In con nection with die growing of bulb ous hluegrass. This grass is new In this section and It Is claimed that It has many outstanding ad vantages as a winter feed and also as a weed killer. Experiments will he conducted at Oakland. Klkton. Happy Valley, Glendale and Rose burg. A somewhat similar test will be conducted at Smith River, Loon Lake and Rcotlaburir with Japan ese Barnyard Millet. This is a .feed that Is most suitable for low swampy or wet country, but makes! Ideal stock feed, particularly for dairy purposes. Seed certification for potatoes Is to be carried on at Camas Valley, Melrose and Glide, the chief pota (Continued on page (.) STORY OF DEMPSEY OUT OF SAYS RICKARD vfAswclatod Pre Leunt Wire) MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. I .Announcement that Jack Pempocy has permanently re tired from the ring and that HGene Tunney will 'defend his title in June against the winner of the Sharkey-Heeney and Riskp-Delaney elimination con test was made here today by Tex Rickard. Rickard expressed ' regret over, "Dempsey's passing." He also: said that the site of the championship affair next sum mer was still undecided, Phila delphia, Chicago, London -and an unnamed Canadian city all being "in the running." ' ' . LOS ANGELES. Feb. I. Jnck Dempsey, when told of Tex Rickard's announcement of Dempsey's retirement from the ring, said "that's fine. It's O. K. with me. I told Rickard that I would not be ; ready in lune. If my injured eye muscle improves I may fight again or 1 may not. . ....... , New Jersey Most Expensive - ' State in Which to Die, ;' Says Report. SURVEY IS COMPLETED North Carolina Found to Be Cheapest Costs Said to Absorb Most Small Estates. f Auoclxtffl Preu' Leased Wire) . NEW YORK, Fob. 1. The most expensive, state in which to tile is New Jersey ana the least expens- port of tho advisory committee on burial survey, made after a two year Investigation. Tho report gives Newark, N. J., as the city in which funerals aro the most expensive,, tho average cost there being S-184. The costs in- the United States have risen until they now ubsnrb a major part of the small estates, says the report. In some Instances 62.1 per cent of the monies left hy the deceased Is UBed for funeral expenses.- The survey lays the responsi bility for this situation on exces sive emetionallsm of the bereaved family and the "disorganized and RING GAME Hi i - i ii ill n iHtitiitb.uiyiiPib FlfEPORBITflNJ wasteful" condition of the funeral i thuslastlc welcome which they had Industry. The solution, it suggests, given and told them he wished he Is elimination within the industry could spend as many weeks as he of Us weaker and more inefficient planned days on the Island but that members and cooperation of the hlB Bhort visit was made necessary clergy and agencies dealing with j In order to keep to his schedule, the bereaved families In educating The flier then visited the hos people of limited Income to keep pltal here skid the Masonic lodge funeral expenditures down. : w-here a special meeting was held Figures for funeral costs In In his honor. During his visit to other cities were given as: Phlla-ltho lodtre he was presented with a delphla, $483; New York City, I silver Masonic trowel with a silver I4.'t2; Cleveland. 403: Dotrolt, 3!2: Chicago, J3S1; St. Louis, $.151; Baltimore. S249: Louisville. Kv.. and Nashville, Tvnn.. $233. Funeral expenses are relatively higher among low Income groups than the well to do, says the re Dort nn'1 ar" higher In the north and east than in the midwest ami south and higher in the cities than In the small towns. The report says that among the I racial groups represented by thai (Continued on page I.) 1 HER TRAGIC UFEDID NOT HAVE BDOY OF EARL IS BY THOUSANDS Countrymen File Past for Last View, of Famous War General. POPPIES' ON COFFIN Lady Haig Brings Flowers ; to Bier While Hundreds i ; Bow Heads in : ; . ' Grief. .- (AuocUtal Prwi Leased Wiru) LONDON. Feb. 1. Within the brick walls - of St Columbn's church, Bolgrnvla, Into which the whirl of London's trntflo came only as a faint hum,, the body of Eurl liuig, lender of Britain's armies in the World War. lay lu solemn state today. . . All day thousands of his county men and women filed reverently by the bier with quiet fooUtteps in silent .tribute to the dead. ... A'-motionless figure In the uh! form of the --royul -horsegtiards stood with head bent over-sword at: each corneg of the coffin, as a lino of mourners mntle lis way past ithe body, of (he fluid, marshal; lit the' sorrowful procosslon woro foi-mor. sorvica men, some of whom limped painfully,' womon, who wopt silently - and t othor 1 who sohhpd audibly, ;ihen vho'enmo almost-au toniniicaiiy to tne gesture o sa- lulo and other who bowed tnelr heads as If In prayer. W . j i Atvtha, head, of the coffin lny .thu flold marshal's baton untl) helmet and from its' side hung his joweled and embroidered sword belt. Atop the brief wero massive wreaths of Flanders' poppies. They ,wei-o laid there Just bnroro llio doors of St. Columba's woro openod to tho public and the- hunds that 'plnced them were those of Lady Haig who brought them to the church In her arms and then remained alone with him for a fow moments, In si lent grief. Men .waiting in . thu queue which alroichcd for a long distnuce outside tho church rnls their hats as sho re-entered her automobile and drove away. COL. LINDBERGH GETS BIG WELCOME ON VIRGIN ISLANDS (Airwintr.1 lTees Leased Wlre ST. THOMAS, Virgin Island, Feb. 1. -Colonol Charles A. Lind bergh, whose brilliant flight from Caracas, Venezuela, to fit. Thomas has more than ever endeared him , ....... . .. in the hearts of Americans hero, today was feted enthusiastically. Driven In an open automobile with Governor Kvaiis to the public garden, ho was constantly sur rounded with cheering crowds In cluding school children who waved flags eagerly. The automobtlo was escorted by a baud and a guard of marines. A short Thanksgiving sorvlco was held. Governor Hvnns and the chairman of the council delivered welcoming addresses during which they presented tho air hero with an Inlaid mahogany table, tho girt of St. Thomas citizens. Tho colonel, in accoptlng the gift, thanked the people for tho en ; handle. PROMINENT OOCTOR KILLED (Associated I'reaa Leaaed Wire) SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1 Dr. J. Y. Whlttler, prominent Rose ville, California, physician, was In stantly killed early today, and his wife, who was riding with him. was st-rlously Injured when their automobile crashed through a guard rail on the Yolo causeway and- plunged to the ground 20 feet below. IID Hickman's Judge i Z ' ' ? 1 C '4dl i . When Judge Carlos Hardy -was disqualified to try Hlekman, Judge J. J. Trabucco of Mariposa county, shown here, was seleoted to hear the Marian Parker murder obarge, preferred against. the "Fox". --; . IIQNDF, CALLED BY DEATH (Associated Presi Leased Wtte) - ' SCRANTON, 'Pa., Feb.i 1. - Hughlo Jennings Is dead. After. 35 plcturesquo years on the dla: raond and a careor na a lawyer, followed by a long . battle , for health, the end enmo at 1:1s o'clock this morning inthoolty whore ho waB once a breaker boy In the anthracite mines. He was K7 vnnra nlil. ' Cnptnln of tho famous unitimoro Or olos. Hugh Ambrose Jennings later for 14 years was manager of the Detroit Amorican league ciun which socured its only pennants, three, during his roglmo. He led tho TlgerB to championships In 1907, 1908 and 1909 and his "ee hay" and pulling grass on the coaching linos delighted fans. At the cloeo of lite 1920 season Jonnings turned ovor the Dotrolt helm to Ty Cobb and became as sistant manager of tlte New York (Hants under John J. McOraw. Jonnings como In for a big share of the praise for tho suoceBB of tho Giants during the" succeeding cnmpalgns. When the Giants an nexed the National league cham pionship in 1924, It was tho Bonventh world series for Jon nings. In his playing days he was first a shortstop, then a first baseman. His latest Illness took a serloun turn on ' Friday when ho was stricken by menginltlB. Ho be came unconscious Sunday and ex cept for brief Intervals remained In a state of coma until he died. Members of his family wero gathered nt his bedside nt the time of death. Ho Is survived by his widow and ,ono daughter, Mrs. Thomas P. McWllllams. Jonnings came to Scranton from the Pocono mountnlns Friday, to nttend a meeting of tho Traders Bank, of which ho was a director. He had not missed a meeting of the board for 36 , consecutive weeks. - On ronchlm? his home, however, he complained of being 111. , , AUGUSTA, Oa., Feb. 1. "Base ball has lost one of Its most con structive forcos In the death of Hughey Jennings," Ty Cobb,- who played undor Jennings for mnny yoars as a member of the Detroit tenm, said today. "Jennings Introduced n most at tractive and wonderful Bplrlt which seemed to Inspire all playors under him." Cobb added. "Ho was liberal with me In nil my careor, never reprimanding mo for a play and goodness knows I deserved plenty of them. It Is with the deepest re gret and I learn of his passing." o HELLMAN IN FAST FIGHT Moisted Preae Leased Wire) rit'TTR. Montana, Feb. 1 Chuk Hellman, coast bantam weight, of Portland, gavo Dixie T-ahoocI of Butte a six pound ad vantage and a terrific battle here last night. Lahood was given the decision. NERVETOCHOP A HEN'S NECK Forced to Resign Hi' Job Because Duties Were too Bloody. YOUTH WAS QUEER Former Police Chief . of ? Kansas City, Advisor to . Hickman, Noticed - " Change in Lad. - ... ' r A AaaocUted r-reae Leased Wire) : ..': - HALL OF JUSTICE, Los An.1.. P.k 1 A Kansas . City .butcher shop proprietor, e l i ' I 1 T ror . wnom nicssinaua , rrurstcu, testified today in the sanitj . trial that the youth refused to kill chickens, one of his duties. explaining that he did not like ' to kill them. -. ."-' i. '' Tha butcher testified he kept Hickman in. spite of the .re fusal because he "was a stood boy" and that ; Hickman quit ' the job of his own accord. The trial was ' recessed at noon to 2 o'clock'...- :. .:, ... ; HALL. ' OF JUSTICE,' LOS ANGELES, Feb.: I. Captain Charles Edwards, former chief of police of Kansas City, dis closed his friendly interest in William Edward Hickman in a long deposition read today in the . youth's sanity . trial. Ed wards, who was chief of police in 1921 and 1922, "thought" Hickman was "no different from other normal boys'' up to the end of his senior ' high school year, 1926... . ...'' -,;. Restlessness, , i and apparent inability to make up his mind as to what he wanted to do were the only "changes" Cap tain Edwards noticed in the slayer of Marian Parker, these occurring in the spring of 1 926. . Captain Edwards testified he went to considerable trouble to give Hickman some requested aid In entering Park College, where he could work his way, as he financially was forced to do. Then suddenly Hickman decided he would not go there, as the eight year, half-work, half-school was too long. ; Quit Many Job Captain Edwards lined up jobs for. the youth only to have him de cide he wanted something else.. Finally, the witness testified. Hickman wanted to go west and was given roforence letters by the police captain. Later Captain Ed wards helped by correspondence to. get Hickman a position la the Los (Continued on page 3.) Now we've got the upstate poets slngin' about the balmy climate of the ITmpqiiB Valley, and oh boy IT WON'T UB LONO NOW I Purty soon so says the Office Cat we'lt have a flock of Pasa dena millionaires up here with rod and reel and they'll be tellln" thrlr neighbors about this sports man's paradise and then-- Urlgbt We'll be doln' a land office business. If we Bell our climate we're sell In' our best asset, folks . Jiut look at yesterday and glance around today. You can't beat It on the coast. Yep SUNSHINE TOMORROWI Our WeatherMan (Continued on page 4.)