ea Weather
Highest temperature yesterday -60
Lowest temperature last night. . 42
Forecast for southwest Oregon:
Unsettled with probably rain to
night and Friday; moderate tem
perature. DOUGLAS
tL COUNTY
FIRST, LAST and ALL THE,
TIME
DOUG L AS C O U N T . V )a
Consolidation of The Evening Newt and
The Roseburg Review
An Independent Newspaper, Published for
the Best Interests of the People
VOL. XXVIII NO. 279 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1928.
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Kill Them and Sell Them.
Busy Old Wall Street.
The Flying Salesman.
Church and State. ;
! By Arthur Brisbane
(Copyright 1928 oy Star Company)
, Bankers offered $5000 for
any bank robber dead or alive,
especially dead., Captain Ha
mer 'of the Texas State Rang
ers says that, fqur dead bank
robbers for which Texas bank
ers paid $20,000 "were lured
into bank robbing jobs by a
man who directed them, gave
information to the police, and
privately shared the rewards
for killing them."
Organization of a ' "murder
machine" that starts men rob
bing banks in order to get
$5000 apiece for their corpses,
is said to worry the Texas
bankers. It might.
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On Monday Wall street
broke all records.- selling more
than 3,900.000 shares. In one
day the value of stocks traded
in increased by a billion dol
lars. Yesterday the stock market
again broke . its own record
selling more than
4,000,000
shares
Some poor bears were badly
torn and twisted in the whirl
wind. Don't sell thi
is country
ihbrt. It's expensive.
A new career is open to
mergetic salesmen. Captain
Gordon Smith, former
aviator, opens the way.
in an
,Vr,lnn. t V,!m nrl nilnrorl
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by Kicnard Wall,
Captain smith will visit 4U
mencan cities in a vUUU-mile
flight, selling airplane advertis-i1"
ing for the New York Ameri-I
can. Uther newspapers
want to borrow the idea,
may
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Mr. Wall, wealthy Toledo
Ktiainaa mnn lfnra hia nirrrnft
c:.u J :if it.
f """i " " ing the St. Francis Dnm disaster,
for the fun ot Hying. 1 he Secretary Work today ordered in
plane will carry an operator spectlon of all reservoirs and dams
and broadcasting apparatus in- operated under the reclamation
stalled by the Radio Corpora
tion of Amsrica.
Before long airplanes will
simplify . the traveling sales
man's work eliminating time
and distnnce, multiplying the
salcsmnn's value and earning
power by three.
Cardinal Mundelein of Chi
cago, received by the pope, on
Monday, presented to the head
of the Catholic religion a check
for $1,500,000, contributed by
American Catholics to "aid in
propagation of the faith.'
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That complete separation ot
church and state does not
jure religion is proved by the
fact that American Catholics
nre the most generous contri
butors to their church.
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Cardinal Mundelein was sal
uted by 'the Swiss guards wear
ing the interesting uniform de
signed by Michelangelo. His
cloak was removed by papal
"bearers" clad in red damask,
that ca,rry the great chair in
which the pope rides to his
throne in St. Peter's. The As
sociated Press report describes
Cardinal Mundelein prostrating
himself on the ground before
the pope, who affectionately
raised and embraced him, and
cent special blessing to each
contributor in America.
Stefansson, eating nothing
but meat in a test, finds that i
agrees with him. Men in
the!
Arctic circle eat only meat the
greater part of their lives, and
thrive. Man is an adaptable
tor. the thermometer at 1 41.
above, or in the Arctic at 60
degrees below zero. He can eat
and live on almost anything. :
But what man needs and
ought to have is a much mixed
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DAIVI FOUNDATION
PROBE OF DAM
DISASTER MAY
PLACE BLAME
Chief Engineer Mulholland
Blames a Major Earth
Movement.
MANY ARE BITTER
Ranchmen Below the Dam
Say City of Los Angeles
Solely to Blame for
' Catastrophe.
(Aucclated Preaa LphkiI Wire)
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Mar.
15.
Foundational weaknesses in the.
nhnttniRnta nf tlm St. Trnnpln Tlnm
of the Los Angeles wator system
were blamed today 'for the col-
lff. ' the ,st,ruciu b E,dwaI?
Hyatt, Jr., state engineer, follow
ing a hurried investigation yester
day at the source of the great dis
aster.
LOS ANGELES, Msr. 15. Testi
mony produced at the first Inquest
lot the St. Francis Dam flood vie-
armyitinis, held at Moorpark today Indl-
cuted mat a total of 285 bodies
had been recovered In Lbs An
fgeles and Ventura counties, where
'all the deaths occurred. This fi-
EUre. clashinu with nrevinus estl-
mates caused a sharp upward jump
tlle death toll.
lne coroner s jury made no nt-;
tropho, but brought in a straight
verdict of "accidental drowning
due to the breaking oU the St.
Francis dam."
WASHINGTON, Mar. 14. Heed-
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 15. Wil-
llnm Mulholland. chief engineer ot
.1.0 ai.
and power, after a thorouqh In
spection of the scene of the St.
Francis dam collapse, declared ins
belief today that a series of land
slides above the dam caused the
catastrophe.
Mulholland said: "Something
terrific happened to break that
huge mass of concrete Into bits."
Water and power bureau engin
eers reported they fouL evidences
of three slides above the dam
which poured tho earth Into the
lake, suddenly raising its level
' HI,U unaiiy lorcing mo gigantic
, buttress to collapse.
Other investigations are In pTbTl
ress. A group of geologists today
is going over the ground toseek
evidence of Mulhollnnd's claim
that a "mnjor movement" was re
sponsible for the disaster that
took a known tool of approximate
ly 200 lives early Tuesday.
Blaming Los Angeles
Coroner Frank Nance of Los An
geles county is seeking the an
swers to two questions, whether
the dam was faultily built and
whether Los Angeles city officials
bad any reason prior to the dis
aster to fear that It might glvo
way. The latter phase of the probe
sprang from statements of ranch
ers living below the dam that It
had been leaking or seeping for
some time before the final break.
Officers of Ventura county,
whose residents In the Snnln
Clara River valley fought construc
tion of the dnm, today started tho
machinery of the committee
named yesterday to' pTobe the
tragejlv to tho bottom.
Inquest Starts Today'
The first Inquests on bodies of
victims were opened today TITVen-
lura county, two In the morning at
Moorpark and Fillmore, and two In
the afternoon at Santa Paula and
Oxnard.
While Investigations proceed, tho
, -
Ing the missing and rebuilding on
the scene of destruction also went
steadily ahead.
Location of 11 bodies In aTiasIn
off the Santa Clara River near
Satlcoy resulted In a large force of
men being sent to that point short
ly after dawn today to seek other
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HOLDHUSBANQiLAUNDRY DJVIDENDSARENOT
GHARGE OFiPAm ON CAPITAL STOCK
SLAYING WIFECORPORAT O il
Woman Is Found Bound,
Gagged and Strangled
to Death.
CHILDREN ASLEEP
Husband Declares He Found
, Wife Dead When He
Returned to His
Ranch Home. '
(Associated Piew. Lenurd Wire) '
SPOKANE, .Wash.,. Mar. 15. L.
C. Bagwell. 37, was lodged In jail
this morning in connection with
the death of his - wife, who was
murdered last night.
The woman had been bound,
gagged, and apparently strangled 1
to death. Her husband said he die-1
covered the body when he returned
from Spokane to his ranch home
on the edge of the city at about
9:30 last night,: Mrs. BugweR was
36 years "old.' ''."-" ." ' " ' ."" ' ':' ;"
. Her; two children,, nine and el
even years old who slept in an ad
joining room, we're not awakened,
officers .were told, ' though .their
mother had been bound 'to her bed
and killed.'; . ; ;
After an investigation by. Sheriff
Floyd Brower. and 'Coroner Barn-
I hart,. the; husbarfd. was;taken into
custody. There, were discrepancies
in his story, the sheriff said,, which
would have-to. be cleared up.
The sheriff ; declared1 a doctor
v ho examined the body doubted
that death had been-caused-by the
nalrf It InntoH no (hnliirh tho aov
The -physician, Dr. J. Farrow,
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had been placed in the woman's
motith after death, as it was not
molst. " ' -
Bagwell, who has a small place
in Blgelow Gulch, has beett-run-'
nlng a truck into Spokane.
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here from
Dilhird visiting overl The fire kept practically all
. Idowntown. and. Beveral east Hide
Wednesday,
Where Impounded Waters Loosed Their Fatal Fury
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Where Southern California's latest horror startstd. This view,
of the famous St .Francis dam,-a few hours after the mighty body of
down San Franclsquito canyon. to destroy life and property. At th.
dim Is at ths left, with floodwatsrs rushing through ths gaps.
WAS FOUND WEAK
Brokers Blamed for Making Misrepresentations!?-'
to Public and Must Present All Advertise
ments to State -Office Permit
Is Not Revoked '
(Associated Press Leased Wire.) :;
SALEM, Ore., Mar. 1 5. The stock selling permit of the
New Service Laundries, Inc., which is attempting to establish a.
plant at Roseburg, will not be cancelled by the state corporation
department as had been threatened in a recent letter from the
department to the concern, it was stated today by the state
officials. .
Complaint reached the department a few days ago from
the State Laundry association, that certain false claims had been
made in the concern's advertising, particularly with reference to
a statement implying that a 7 per cent dividend had been paid
on the entire capital stock. The New Service Laundries' attor-
nnv wna Kftri vQtf-r-inv nnrl cmirl rrtAf- : rlivirlf-nrlft nn nmferrerl
8tock have been paid to January 1 last and that the brokers
, ... . . i i -ii c .l. ii j: t
i npnanng me biock saies are responsible ror inc mitucauiup K-
7 The department has demanded that the firm comply with
tne" law' by Submitting all stock, selling advertisements -to f the
corporation commissioner beforeS
s A statement from the Nevir
that the concern on Deceniber 3
682.411 arid liabilities, including
- . . Laundries 'lof the chainnorganization have been : operated
for some time, Sit "Klamath 'FaUB''and Lugene.i- ' '.. ;'-'
ROYAL BAKERY IN
: PORTLAND BURNED
PORTLAND, - Ore., . Mar. 15
Fire -todny swept. -the 'plant of the
RoyaT Bnkery, Eleventh and Evcr-
leU StreeiS, COUSlng tt' - lOBS esll
' mBlori of nhmil tlK )
med at about JS,uuu. -rae nuini:
was a one story structure 00-
cupying a quarter block. About 25
workers escaped. vThe fire, which
started . n the - basement swept
(through, to the roof. - Several fire-
1 men had narrow -oscapes when a
Iglass roof upon which they were
DEPT. FINDS
publication. '
Service Laundries, Inci,' shows
1 last had assets of $ ! 68.-
capital stock " and surplus, of
fire.1 companies '.fighting, for, more
than two hours; ThOiblaise finally
was driven . back into-one corner
of. the building, leaving u- charred
and : smouldering ruins.-
J. K. Brown, a salesman employ
ed by the bakery, Buffered severe
burns about the face and arms
when he nltempted to save his
personal effects (rum a dressing
loom on the .floor; .'..
Two pieces of tire nppnratua,
hurrying to the blaze, collided at
Tenth and Burnslde strootu but lit
tle damazo resulted. . ,
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Mrs. Fred Asiam of ullue was in
Roseburg Wednesday afternoon
vlBitlng with friends and shopping.
telsphotoed by nEA Service, inc., for the News-Review shows ;tne rutns,pany, Kurdy's , Department store,
water It penned up broks through to destroy the structure snd sweep I and FfsherB.
rl ghl la twitted pile of broken concrete. , The remaining portion of the I From the Elite Beauty shop Miss
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Old African Trader Creates
; ! : Furor Among Intelligentsia
(AMooUtnl Vtvm Leisctl Wire)
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NEW ' YORK. ' Mar. 15. Alfred
Alovslus Smith (trader horn) who
at the ugn ot 75 left his peddling
.of pots und pans In South Africa
to dictate, a book which hus been I
a: best seller In this country (or
months, hus a new slant on tho
Queen of Sheba which he expects
to put Into a book.
The first beauty of her time was
"only a Malay lady cut of Mada
gascar," says the old African trad
er, fighter and explorer, here to
prove to a doubting America that
such a person as the glamorous
figure Uiat stalks across the pages
thelreda Lewis' book
his announcement at
tea given by the literary guild
of America.
Sho was a Malay lady, but.
came out of Madagascar to make
her mark on men and history," he
said, "t got It from the natives
They know all about her and told
It to me straight. 1 louna goou
solid proof of it, rtnd you can lay
to that. Links up the old and now.
You hnvo to go to Peru, then to
India and back to Africa to lie it
all up; but It's there heh-heh
It's there. I told John uniswor-
PLANE BRINGS AIO
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Mar.
16. An army transport plane
piloted by Lieutenant Joseph J.
Soper and carrying four passen
gers, left Selfiidge Meld this
morning on a flight to the relfof of
the snowbound villages of the up
per Michigan peninsula.
TO BE HELD AT CITY
Tl
-iThe Inquest Into the dentil
of' Jack Waynlck, who was
itlllod. Sunday morning In au
' auto accident at Camas Val-
. ley, will be hold tonight at
! Uio city hall nt 7:30 o'clock.
I rrhn f-miflltlnn nf Harrv.RnDD.
who wttB driving the car in
which Wnvnlck met hlB death,
has Improved sufficiently to
allow his deposition to be
tiiken so that the tostlmony of
the other witnesses will be
heard tonight. Rapp, It Is un-
derstood, told the officers
that when the cor struck loose
grnvel Waynlck reached ovor
and grabbed the wheel, cnuB-
ing the car
to swervo nnu w
m Bkld.
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injJIJi u jjJMWl1.
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thy about It and John GalBWorthy
said 'old mau you've got It,' and I
have."
Then turning from the Queen ot
isheba to Stanley the African ex-
plorer, he suld.
I paddle my cwn canoe. I carry
my own gun. I discovered more
than. Stanley did. Stanley discov
ered Livingstone, but he knew he
was there all tho time; yus, lie
knew it. '
The old bewlBkered man, who re
sembles portraits o( Walt Whit
man and Longfellow, Is very bitter
ngatnst Stanley and suggestB dark
ly that the fate of Borne ot Stan
ley's white assistants on the expe
dition was not entirely due to na
tural causeB.
"Thnt lnstn, that chap that
was reported weut over the falls.
They say he did go over the falls."
Then squinting angrily: "Maybe
so he could have. The natives
would tell you what happened.
I'm not pleased because he turned
the Congo over to that song and
dance artist, Leopold, anyhow."
Unembarrassed, as he stood
knee deep in authors and literary
critics at the tea, he showod scars
on his aims and legs to prove tho
truth of some of his tales
EXHIBITION OF
SPRING STILES
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Season's Modish Ensemble
Will Be Presented by
Roseburg Shops.
NO DETAIL OMITTED
Legion Auxiliary Making
Final Arrangement for
Friday Event for . .
Charity Fund. ,
High Interest being manifest-
ml in Dm annual Spring Fashion
Show scheduled for Friday even
ing, March 16, is making that date
nn outstanding one of the week
nnd final touches for the enter
tainment are being mude today and
tomorrow by Mrs. V. J. Mlcolll,
general chairman, and Mrs. Clnlr
K. Allen and their assisting com
mittees. -Elaborato
preparations under-
wny for the past fortnight assure
n n.oal llllimlMll Olid Wholly UOVUl
nffulr. which is being given by
limnniia Post ot the Amorican Le
gion Auxlllory with the Bsslstiince
uf tho ludleB' Bnops anu omor uuoi
ihihh houses of Roseburg nt the
Antlers theatre. Models from six
ladles' shops, two mon's stores and
ono bnby's shop will feature cloth
ing styles, ami there will bo the
showing ot the newest modes In
millinery, shoes ana accessories
from the shoe and millinery stores
In the city.
neautirul stage settings will be
effected for the show, tho furniture
heine donated by tho McKoan,
Uurby and Baldwin storo, and flor-
al arrangements by the Umpqua
Florists. A maid will assist the
models with their wraps on the
stngo.
List of Exhibitor
- Tho list ot models and the stores
for which they will appear, show
ing suits, coats, frocks, liutB and
shoes for ladles and suits, sports
wenr, shoos and overcoats for tho
men, are as follows:
Kurdy'e Department store, Mrs,
A. E. Ilrown. Carmen Atterbury,
Mrs. Wnrda Budlong: Marksbury
store. Wave Reed, Mrs. Harold
llemls, Mahnon Wlmer: the La
dles' Hhnppe, Clarice Lockwood,
Mrs. Harold Roadman, Evelyn
Quins; Abraham's Hllk store. Ha
rd Strickland, Marion Ness, Lu
cille Vaughn; FlBher's, Mrs. Loren
rtrttt. Gene Whitney, Mildred Ful
lerton: J. C. Penney company,
Vera McCllntm-k, Shirley Knight,
Mrs. W. I). Wiley; Harth'a Tog
gery, Noel Cavender, Wayne Rlggs,
Allan Moore; The Men's Shop. Har
old Roadman, Lavorno Siilherlsnd,
Harlan Atterbury.
Hat models will be shown from
the nell Millinery shop, The Vo,-ruo,
the Specialty Shoppe, the .1, C.
Penney company and thore will be
shoo models from the Roseburg
Hooterle. the J. C. Pennnr coin-
nnrrnunnr
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SLE OFF MAINE
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LIGHT Hill
ENGLISH PAIR
Waving Duo on ObjectAt
tract Attention of People
on Mainland.
VIEW NOT DISTINCTi
Yellow Flotsam Proves Not
to Be Lost Fliers Says .
Coast Guard Capt.
. After Trip. . , ,
(AMOPtfltttl I'roM 'tananl Wire)
B1DDEFORD, Maine, Mar.
15. Stating there was no
truth in the report originating
this afternoon at Old Orchard
that the missing monoplane of
Captain Walter Hinchcliffe had
anded on Stratton Island.
three miles out to sea from Old
Orchard beach. Captain R. A.
Morton of the Biddeford fool
coast guard station, returned at
o clock after a tive-mile mo
tor boat trip to the island. . .. J; ,
BIDDEFORD.. Maine, Mar;, IE.1-
A j motorbont started from tha .
Fletcher's Neck coast guard sta
tion nt Biddeford Pool shortly be
fore 2 o'clock this afternoon, for
juration's Island to Investigate a
report that two persons and an ob
ject resembling an airplane, or a
yellowish color, had been seen
through glaB?es trninen on sna
Island from Old Orchard beacli." i
It wns considered possible fJlaT .
It mhht be - Captain Hinchllffe'eJ
mlsslns plane, Endeavor. '
View Not Distinct
The report was telephoned td
the const guard Btatlon by a worn- .
nn at Old Orchard. At the station
it wno said that no very clear view
of the Island could . he obtained
from Old Orchard beach, about
two miles from the Island, and al- -
though a glass was used, at the
station five mites distant, only a
Bmall part of the Island could be
seen, with no Bign of life. -,
Thore is a summer house on"the1
Island and at the coast guard sta
tion tt was Bald that a caretaker
was believed to bo living there
this winter.-The island is Shout
throe quurters ot a mllo long,' Jfai't
ly rocky and part grasil covered.
Boatswain R. A. Morton and
three men went out In the motor '
boat and were expected to ratlin
to the station Between 4 and.6 -p.
m. I'T...'
Pair 8een Waving -
PORTLAND, Maine, Mar,, 1B.-
Tho Evening Express lenrns-that
const guards at the Blddloford
Pool station thlB afternoon wife
Investigating nn unconfirmed re
port that a yellow object aod two
human bclngB, posBlhly the miss
Ing Endeavor and Its occupants.
Captain Walter R. Hlnchllffeand,
the Honorable Elsie Mackny,' are)
snfe on Stmt ton Island, about' two
miles off Old Orchard Beach. .
A woman, who made the report
(Continued nn page 8.)
Willi the breath of Spring per ,
mealing the atmosphere It was nl-
moBt impossible
to corral the Of
fice Cat today for
a forecast.
He 'merely
snickered and re
ferred to last
night's official
p re d I e 1 1 o n ot
"Frost and Frees
Ing." "Why dnng It
all, I put on ev
ery extrv blan-
Hriglit het In the house
and dern near roasted to death,''
he said.
So Prophet Fletcher changed It
today.
MODERATE TEMPERATURE!
Times mUch better
But oh man, look ut tho sunshine)
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