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Ufyo Weather Highest temperature yesterday. .46 Lowest temperature last night.41 Forecast for southwest Oregon: Rain tonight and Wednesday, nor mal temperature ffirst-,nrto0 H irer ,n results t0I y Hal"" advertisers b uwv -w U( sebum 1 1 MVC DQUGfCOUNTY Consolidation of The Evening News and The Roseburg Review An Independent Newspaper, Published for the Best Interests of the People VOL. XXVIII NO. 259 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1928. VOL. XIX NO. 23 OF THE EVENING NEWS K "Y jUQvv- -5 Today 37 Cents to $35,000. But Buy Cautiously Thanks, Ex-Kaiser 1 By Arthur Brisbane ' (Copyright 1S28 ay Star Company) SAN SIMEON, Calif. It you get a good piece of Innd and take care of it anywhere in the march of American prog ress that land will take care ' of you. For instance: Yesterday Mrs. CMcLeod paid . $35,000 for . the Bender lot on Ventura boulevard in Los Angeles quite far out. She probably got a bargain. Eight years ago the lot sold for $6,500. Sixteen years ago a syndicate, "taking a chance of Los Angeles' fu ture." bought a lot of land, in chiding that lot, for $50 AN ACRE. In 1867 the same land sold for 37 cents an acre. But remember that some land now sold for $50 an acre is not worth $10. SEE what you buy. and know, for your self, WHY you buy it before you invest your money. And remember that every American community has its great bargains and possibilities. If you cannot make good real ' estate investments where you are, you will probably make worse investments elsewhere, The former Kaiser, who mu3t have' done some hard thinking in the last few years, tells Sylvester Viereck. "Today the center of gravity which de I ermines world power - has rhifted to the United States. America is master of ' the k world." America probably COULD be master of the world, but to desire that mastery would be foolishness. To be masters of ourselves, mind our business, develop this country and in crease the well-being of the av erage man is a big enough task. At present this nation is in a dangerous condition, rich, tempting, like a fat worm lying in the path of stray birds. Every day this nation needs the warning that Solon gave Croe sus, displaying proudly his piles of gold: "Croesus, if any one comes having better iron than you have, he will be mas ter of all that gold." If any nation comes, having flying machines, which we hnvA nrtf" it urill Vtn m nolo. n( S V ll ,.. 1J , .u:i. ... gpi w " "it giiu tut mine ai least. Nevertheless, Mr .Ex-Kaiser, we thank you for the compli ment, as the colored gentleman said when asked to change a fifty-dollar bill. W. R. Hearst will build on his 250,000-acre ranch here an astronomical observatory on a mountain top near the Pa cific. It is strange how few of the world's rich men think it worth while to look out. away from this earthly patch of real estate. The termites, incorrectly called "white ants," spend their lives underground, driven be low by fighting ants, and those termites are content to live down there, never looking out. A majority of men are like them. Yet the things worth seeing are all above and outside of the ocean of air that covers us, as water covers the fishes. Dr. V. S. Adams, who di rects the great observatory on Mount Wilson, says modern astronomy counts "billions of stars" in the cosmic group or galaxy, to which our sun be longs. Many of those stars are a million times as big as our sun, which is a million times as big as our earth. Ptolemy could count only 1,022 stars no telescope, (Continued on page 4) PIS T TO TOURIST THE Conveniences Afforded by Clean and Sanitary Camps Are Magnet. GOOD ROADS HELP Public Looking to Sections With Paved Highways and Good Camps for Vacations. A very Interesting report, out lining activities in which the auto camps of the state are cooperat ing, was presented nt the conven-; tion now in progress by Clinton Ambrose of Portland, the secre tary and treasurer of the organi zation. In commenting upon the camp ground situation Mr. Am brose called attention to the re markable growth of the auto camp industry in the United States in the past few years. "The importance of the auto campground to the American mo toring tourist public cannot be over-emphasized," ho said. "However, it, like ail other new enterprises, cau be overdone. Year by year the traveling, public has come more and more to rely upon the automobile tourist camp as a means of- the annual vacation. This auto camp business has grown to such proportions . that were all auto camps suddenly to be elimi nated at this time It would be necessary to forego at least one half of the contemplated summer vacations for the coming summer.; "Since the founding of the first auto camp some years ago, this type of accommodation as a factor In luring the American public to spend Its vacation In the open, sleeping in the great outdoors, has Increased tremendously. It is true that good highways have been perhaps the greatest factor in spreading the desire to tour, but safe and sanitary camps along the way, and the assurunce that con veniences wit) be found, have also played their part and a very large part at that in getting the motorist to enjoy the pleasures of the summer camping tour. That auto camps and good roads are a contributing factor In the encour aging "of travel is apparent from the figures obtained of foreign automobiles registered in Oregon in 1927, totaling 91.356. Of these, some 50,000 carried California license plates, 28,000 Washington license plates, and the balance wore from the surrounding states, the Fast and the South. It is esti mated .that these tourists left $12. 000.000 In our state. The excellent character of our highways Is wide ly known throughout the nation. They are a lure to the tourist. Bet ter highways lengthen the life of the car, they cut the cost of opera tion and lessen the cost of repairs, they broaden life. Two weeks or a month of vacation travel in tjie summer months can he spent on on our highway system, with new beauty and changing scenes un folded to the traveler every day. "We are told that Oregon auto camps are the finest to be found In any state In the Union. We have good reason to believe the truth of these statements. Let us by courteous treatment and by im proving sanitary conditions main tain this reputation. Many of our camp owners have investments totaling from $50,000 to $150,000. Some are not members of this As sociation, trusting merely to luck that their investments will ride the waves of fortune, that ruinous legislation will not be endcted. and that ruinous competition will not be successful in its effort to destroy them. Certainly, they would not attempt to conduct their business wihout fire protection, anil yet they would attempt in a sinple-handed manner to conduct their business affairs, Inviting ruinous competition and ruinous legislation. The solution of our problems lies In unity of purpose and in co-operation with one an other and by an organization pow erful enough to cope with every regulation that tends to stifle or interfere with fair and reasonable conduct of our business. "However, might I transgress and suggest to you. as camp own (.. tso folly of men and women establishing here and there along our highways ami in the remote sections of the state, auto camps, wiih the expectation of obtaining a Vvfntr from fofr operation? Ore-1 gon is not blessed with weather i condiiiOOi which will permit year-) rourd- tourist travel, and auto camps established here and there without regard for the necessity of the same, must necessarily meet "lth failure and loss of In (Continued on page 4) AUTO CM IMPORTAN WRIGHT BIPLAWE Tl (Auoctatcd rren Lrwd Wire) LONDON. Feb. 21. The biplane in which the Wright Flrothers made .their first suc cessful flight at Kitty Hawk. N. C, landed on Knglish .soil from the Mlnnewaska today. The famous plane will be placed on exhibition, in the science museum at South Kensington. (Orville Wright, on the de nature nf the plane from the United States for England, was quoted as saying that failure of the Smithsonian Institute to give proper credit to the original plane which he and his brother developed was the chief reason for send ing the biplane out , of the country.) TELLS TEXANS Missouri Senator Advises Fellow Democrats to Get Together. REPUBLICANS FLAYED Wants "Public Plunderers," "Corruptionists" and "Bribe Givers" to ' Get the Ax. ".-. .'. DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 21. In the fight for "the united and mili tant democracy" which he demand ed here last night to bring about "the return of honesty in govern ment," Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri, set out toriuy for Tulsa, Okla., to continue to spread hisj doctrine of harmony. i Opening his western campaign,' the Missouri democratic preslden-1 tial candidate told his party that first of all it must be united. He set out the platform on which he believed the democratic party can unit and win. "The most Important question be fore the American people," he said, "Is to drive the republican party from power; to take this govern ment out of the hands of hoodlers, grafters and lobbyists and to place Its control once more In the hands of the American people." Evasive on Candidates. Emphasizing the (necessity for party harmony, the Mlssourlan de clined to discuss presidential can didacies, "including my own," as he talked here with some of the Texas democratic leaders yester day. With the a ward of their 40 votes in the democratic convention still In doubt and involved In fac tional trife, most of the Texans who streamed into the senator's hotel room were easily steered by him from political discussions. The veteran silver-haired cam paigner, who Is making his first bid for the presidency, centered his opening attack on what ho de scribed as the "public plunderers" and "corrupttonlsts" of the Hard ing and Coolidge administrations. He called for the "swift and sure punishment of all public plunder ers, bribe givers, election corrup tionlsts and other malefactors." He departed from his prepared ad dress to declare for law observ ance and to denounce racial and religious prejudices. Outlines Platform Base. "Upon other problems we may be In division," he said frankly, "but here Is a field on which tho democratic party can plant its ban ners: "Return of honesty in govern ment and re-estahllshmcnt of the old democratic doctrine. "The inalienable right of the citi zen to liberty of conscience with out coercion, criticism or obloquy. "Preservation of the right of freedom of the press, peaceable as semblage, trial by jury and the re- esiabllshment of local self-govern ment and the sovereignty of the states. , "Bringing the federal power within the limits not only of the letter but the spirit of the consti tution. "Abolition of government by boards and bureaus. "Equalization of the burdens of taxation: the repeal of all laws creating special privileges and the dismissal of a vist army of spies. Mioopers, sneaks and Informers. "Liberation of honest business from oppressive Interferences by governmental agents. "Prosecution aid runirhment of those who by criminal conspiracy in restraint of trado make war on tonest business." UNITY PARTY'S; ivirrn mniAf qltfi IlLLUnJUVV.IlLLU CORONER'S JURY FIXES NO BUMEII III OVER FOR AGGIDENTIHIS OLD ROUTE Schwartz Is Absolved From Responsibility in Auto Wreck Case. . : ; LIQUOR WAS ISSUE i Inquest Given Over Largely to Effort to Learn Whether Members of .' Party Drinking. A verdict of accidental death, with no bluino or responsibility at- : tuched to any person, wua returned flast night by the coroner's jury 'that inquired into the death of ! Mary Julia Robertson, who was killed eurly Sunday morning in un auto accident on the Coos iJay highwuy. Uolund Schwartz, driver of the cur In which Mrs. Robertson met her death, was absolved of blame in connection with the accl-; dent. ' The inquest was one of the most extensive ever held in the county, thirty-one witnesses being called in addition to deposition- secured from two of the principals in the wreck. The jury was composed of B. W. Strong, H. C. Parslow, T. II. Ness. Prank Clemens, H. S. French and Kurl Vosburgh. The inquest was conducted by Coroner M. E. Hit ter, the witnesses being examined by District Attorney Cordon. Attor ney J. O. Watson, representing Mr. Schwartz, was also present but took no active part In the investi gation, other than conferring with the district attorney on one or two pojntB in connection wUh the ca;f4- The inquest was attended by a crowd that packed the courtroom to overflowing, many being unable to gain admittance us even stand-1 ing room was taken. The crowd was noisy, even bordering on j rowdyism at times, and several ! times it was necessary to threaten j to clear the courtroom to preserve j order. , . Drinking Denied The principal issue In the Inquest was whether or not there was any liquor connected with the accident. A very careful Investigation was made to determine whether or not any of tho members of the party had been drinking, immediately prior to tho accident, and while there was some difference of opin ion expressed by witnesses on tho stand, there was nothing to show conclusively the presence of liq uor or to Indicate that any of tho group had been drinking. Mr. Schwartz testified, when called as a. witness, that earlier In the evening, beforo gathering up tho group to leave Jtoseburg, ho had had one drink of wine, but that it was several hours before tho accident and that he had taken no other drink during the even ing, nnd that there In or about the car. Ho slated Hint no iiiiu a miiaii uotuo containliiK wine anil that while ho was Willi Miss Golden, whom ho escorted to tho dance, they consumed the wine .after securing her costume for the masquerade and (hat after leaving her at tho Itnmlall home, where she changed her costume, ho went on to pick up tho rest of the party and then, about 1(1 o'clock went out to the Ten Slile dance. He did not take another drink that night, ho Insisted. Flask In Evidence There was much evidence re garding a silver flask found on llio bank a short distance off the road the flask being Identified as one belonging to Schwartz. The young man claimed the flask, but said that It had had no liquor in it for sovoral days, and that It was not containing liquor on Saturday. Two witnesses clnlmed that they saw Schwartz throw the flask awav, one claiming to have heard win say "Get that d thing out of here." After the Jury had retired, how ever, another witness, Kenneth Martin, came forward ami vninn. teered the Information that ho was tho one who threw the flask bo tho : Jury was called hack to hear his j testimony. Mr. Martin was the one .who discovered Mrs. Robertson's i body beneath the ear and he said that when the marhine was turned back he tried to lift the woman's body. The flask lay beside her and In order to keep from dragging her over It ho picked it up and tossed it off to tho side of the road where It was later found. The flask was corked and was empty when j.itneu up ny omcors making their investigation ot the scone. I Doctors Called , Dr. E. B. Stewart and Dr. L. M. Lehrbach were the first two wit nesses called. They told of the In juries received by the various members of the party. Dr. Stewart reported on his examination of the body of Mrs. Robertson, stating (Continued on page S.j LINO, CARRIES;! Response of Public to His Appeal for Letters Wonderful. AHEAD OF SCHEDULE Round Trip Over Route Formerly Flown.by Him Completed in Rec ord Time. . (Auoclatod Pron Lcnted Wire) ST. LOUIS. Feb. 21. Flying n big Douglas mall plane ahead" of schedule, Colonel Charles A. Lind bergh landed at Unnhert-St. Louis Field at 9 a. m. Today, com pleting a round trip over his old air mall route between St. Louis and Chicago In an effort to adver tise the postal Bervice. The response of tho public to his appeal was far beyond the fondest dreams sf air line operat ors. From St. Louis alone yester day Lindbergh and five other fliers curried 1,997 pounds and ten ounces of mall matter. Approxi mately half a ton additional was Picked up at Sprlngrield and Peoria. After a quiet night with his fel low pilots In the apartment of a flyer at Chicago. Lindbergh was at the Chicago flying field shortly after 5 a. m. today. At 6:12 with the cockpit of his plane filled to tno top wttu mail, the flying colo nel took the air. , Ho landed at Peoria nt 7:25 a. ,111, Within. five minutes tho Peoria sacks hud been unloaded ami he was on his way again. He Inndod at Springfield, his second stop, at 8:05 and took off again within the five minutes provided by Ihe post al schedule. Just 50 minutes later he landed In front of the national guard hangar here. In reply to questions as to his fill uro plans, ho said he Intended to fly to Albany, N. , next week for n conference of February 29, at which a state aeronautical code would be discussed. Thomas P. Nelson, Cleveland New York air mall route flier, and an old time flying mate of Lind bergh, leti Chicago nt-0:2ft a. in. with another loud of mail anil ar rived here at 9:20 a. m. Other pllott! were held at Chicago await ing mail from New York and the Pacific coast. ST. LOUIS, Fob. 21. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh landed at Lambert-St. Louis Field at 9:05 a. in. today, completing a round trip over the St. Louis-Chicago airmail route. Lindbergh was followed by Pilot Thomas P. Nelson, who land ed at 9:20 a. in. CHICACO, Feb. 2L The Chlea-go-St. Louis air mail started south at (J: 04 a. in., today with Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh at the con trols. The Btart. scheduled for 5:50 a. in., was delnyed by failure of the outgoing mall to. reach the airport from the downtown post office. Lindbergh's Douglas biplane rode west with the dawn to swing outward a short distance over Chi cago. Following It closely was an other Douglas, with Thomas Nel son as pilot and Phil Love, who piloted one of Ihe six planes from St, Louis yesterday, as passenger. Two oilier planes awaited Ihe ar rival of the San Francisco and New York mail planes before fol lowing. In the Lindbergh plane were 17 sackB of mall weighing approxi mately 900 pounds and filling the ship. The average time required for the Chlcago-Ht. Louis flight in three hours and 20 minutes, hut Colonel Lindbergh anticipated de lays at i'eorla anil Springfield, (Continued1 on oace fi.) OFFICERS HOLD MAN SUSPECTED PEDDLING DOPE A man giving the name of Ed Larsen was arrested here today on a vagrancy charge and is being held Tor InvestI- gation. Officers believe thai Larsen Is a drug runner and 4 4 that he has bff-n engaged in activities in violation of the narcotic laws. A thorough in- vestigatlon Is being made in- to the man's pant movements in an effort to learn whether or not be- can b connected up with a suspected move- ment to organize a "dope" ring In this vicinity. The ar- rest was made by the city of- fleers. when lindy landed in mil i iim ill " W"1 .. " " -,,. ' ill lf f ' 1 Here Is America's "Lone Eagle" flight from Havana. Cuba, jto St. started his conquest of the air nine oleture showo some of the flags of tries which have been placed on 40,000 miles of flying. T State Health Officer Speaker at Morning Session. Is SANITATION IS URGED Association Commended for Its Work in Keeping Up Standards Ladies Organize. Complimenting the Oregon Auto Camp association for Its efforts to maintain a high standard ot ser vice, hospitality, comfort and health safety lor the tourist public, Dr. Frederick D. Strieker, secre tary of the Oregon Stale Hoard of Health, spoke this morning before tho camp owners and managers meeting at tho Knights of Pythias hall in the annual state conven tion. ,Dr. Strieker called attention to tho importance of providing en joyable camps In order to keep the tourists within the state. If a tour ist finds a camp lacking in cleanli ness, conveniences and courtesy ho Immediately receives an impres sion that causes him to hasten nut of the slate. On the other hand If ho finds clean, beautiful camps where his every want is satisfied, he is tempted to remain longer In the state and goes homo proclaim ing to his friends the Joy of a tour in Oregon, and the entire state benefits. Dr. Strieker stated that ho has no sympathy for the Individual who sets up an auto camp without first determining the laws govern ing such camps. "Oregon has a certain set of laws and rules governing auto camps," Dr. Strieker sald,"these laws helium practically Identical with those of Washington nnd California. There Is no reason why people starting nuto camps should not first study these rules and build their campsac rordlngly, but vb find mnny who do not do so, and It Is hard for me to be sympathetic with them when they come complaining about the cost of making the necessary j changes." Ife spoke nf. considerable length concerning matters of sanitation, I garbage disposal, drinking water i and other such matters. lie also urged that camps he made attrac tive In appearance. protesting ; against tho use of glaring colors, checkerboard decorations and oth !r "hideous" color schemes to at i tract attention. Ho discussed vari ous types of ramps and gave many hints to aid camp owners In keep- ' tnif hiilMlntra host if trllrhorid nlo Iclean and sanitary. Dr. Strieker's tatk was followed (Continued on page G.) CONVENTION GiP OWNERS octosrrar after completion of his 1300-mile Louis, the point from which he months ago. This NEA telephoto Latin-America and European coun Colonel Lindbergh's plane during Its ll . Appointed Pitm Ihmh Win.) V ' ; FruoNprmT,: nis.; Feb. zt: A million Hollar fire swept Kreeport today. Four large business houses were do- stroyed, and several nearby structures were badly dam- aged. An explosion, npparentlv of the heating plant of Ihe Pfelf- for Clothing company, start ed the fire sohrtly after four n. m. The flames spread to three adjacent buildings all of which were destroyed. I'Yoeport firemen called for help from the Hockford 'do- purl men I, and the united forces brought the fin; under control tiflor three hours' work., LATEST TARGET Chicago Prosecutor Comes Back With Reward and Immunity Pledge. POLITICS ARE BLAMED Year's 19th Blast Wrecks Entrance to Apartment but Occupants Are Not Injured. CHlCAOO, Feb. 21. Chicago's lfith bomb of the year, aimed at the apartment building In which lives Lawrence A. Cuneo, brother in law and seerelary of Slate's At torney Hubert K Crowe, has blown the Mil off official patience. Incensed by the bombing last night, the state's altornev offered a Sin.ntm reward for information tending to conviction of the per netraiors of recent bomb outrages. Including thoHe at the homes of City Comptroller Charles Fltzmor rln and Municipal Judge John A. Sbarbaro. The offer was accom panied by a promise to the Infor mant of Immunity from prosecu tion. The bomb last night destroyed the entrance to the 16apnrtment hiilldtntr in which Cuneo lives In thr, fn;hlonable nnrthslde district, shattering windows In nearby places. The Omens were not In the building but other residents were routed. "I don't believA this outrage ts (Continued on page ft.) I'S KIN IS FOR BOWSERS AIRPORT BOND ELECTION SET 28 Ordinance Passed By Council, 6 to 1 . Campaign of Legion Yields Petitions Bearing 730 ' Signatures. J. E. FLURRY SPEAKS City Not to Bear Expense of Judges and Clerks . at the Polls, Is Pledge Made. By n vote of bIx to one, the city1 council last night passed an ordi nance calling a Bpecial election oil March 2S on the question of Ihsu ing S2't.000 worth of bonds for tho establishing of an airport on tho 140-acre site nt Edenbower select ed by Umpqua Post, No. 10, ot tha American Legion. Salient provisions of the ordi nance are that the administration or-(he airport shall he vested in. the mayor and four associates to he appointed by him. one to be a member of the council; that a . sinking fund shall he created to liquidate the bonds at maturity; that tho bonds shall not exceed a tenure of twontv years, and that the rate of Interest shall be no higher than five per cent, payable semi-annually. , ;Land, Price ..Opposed iw-w Tho lone, dissenting vote on the ordinance was voiced bv Council man Louis Kohlhagen. Ho made no exolanstlon of his allude at tho time of voting, hut after the meet ing ho stated tbttt his objection was based on financial grounds. The lauding field site for wh'icli the city Intends to pav SlOu un. acre was not worth .over ifi an acre, he contended, nnd he further declared that. In his opinion, it would coit the cltv Bovernl thou sand dollars, additional to tho bond Issue, to establish a right-of-way to the field. " Personally, Councilman Kohlhagen suld, lie wfifl In favor of an nlrpor under what he considered reasonable conditions nnd would cheerfully make a cash contribution toward getting one. . Experts Endorse Site . Previous to the introduction of Ihe ordinance, petitions bearing Ihe, signatures of 71(0 registered voters and asking for the .pond election were presented by a coim nilttee of Legionnaires. There was also an address by their spokes man, John B. Flurry, who reviewed the seven months of quiet and un remitting labor of the local post to get the airport project beforo the votors. In the circulation . ot the petitions only slight opposition lo the venture was' encountered, Mr. Flurry stated, nnd on th basis of the signatures secured he predicted that the proposed bond floatation would be authorized by at least ninety per cent of the ,yot ers. Aviation experts brought in by the Legionnaires pronounced the proposed airport site the most suitable within a radius, of six: miles of Koseburg, Mr. Fltiny said. The land was not only large, enough for the accommodation oC official air craft, but for privately owned planes as well, he pointed (Continued on page 6.) 1 QurWQatKorMan j "A little aqua pura won't do any harm." hummed tho Office Cat as he trotted Into the fnk-daubhi' establl s h m e u ti this "F e r onco Weather Prophet Fletcher wan right," cooed tho Cat. "Hut I no tice right now that the blue sky Is hreakln' thru In places and be foro our readers munch this edu cational tidbit we'll prob'ly be napkin' In sunshine." But .Seer Fletcher says differ ent ! It A l T'MOHT. Yep titans wot he mutters . Hut the Office Ct proclaims . SUNSHINE! ; FOR MARCH