j tTAe Weather Highest temperature yesterday.... 69 Lowest temperature last night..44 77 DOUGLAS COUNTY FIRST, LAST and ALL THE TIME r of te8n U.vet y -' Forecast for southwest Oreyun: Generally fair tonight and Wednes day; cooler tonight. ZPmsS : -v DOUGLAS COUNTY p Consolidation of The Evening News and The Roseburg Review An Independent Newspaper, Publlthed lor the Beet Interetti of the People VOL. XXVIII NO. 313 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1928. VOL. XIX NO. 77 OF THE EVENING NEWS M LnJ DEW rwae-a i II . WW a 11 IS SMK mm Today High Priced Little Sabine Can't Convict $1,000,000 15,000,000 Years Apart Rome's Birthday ' By Arthur Brisbane 1 (Copyright 1928 ny Star Company) A small bust of a little girl made by Houdon, the child's father, used to stand in judge Gary's small room, off the hall, in his Fifth avenue house. It lived there with some furniture covered with Aubusson tapes try, for which Gary paid a for tune to Alavoine. On Saturday the Houdon bust sold at auction for $245, 000. Prices paid in America depend not on value, but on the ease with which $245,000 can be acquired. Houdon's little1 girl was named Sabine, in honor, pre sumably, of Indies carried away by Roman soldiers. Now little Sabine is carried away by American dollars. . Mr. Nye, chairman of the oil committee investigating brib ery, says following Mr. " Sin clair's acquittal: ."You can't . convict a million dollars in this country." ' It needs no ghost come from the grave to tell you that power creates the laws and is above them. Power just now is or ganized money. However, every man is bound to recognize a legal de cision as final, and putting aside generalizations about mil lionaires, to remember Mr. Sin clair is acquitted by a jury con vinced that no evidence was presented sufficient to convict. ' .-. The Rev. Dr. Strntton wants to argue evolution with Mr. Os born, hend of the Museum of Natural History. Mr. Osborn believes that man developed on earth, like other animals, through millions of years of evolution. 1 Dr. Stratton says all living things, also the earth, sun, moon, stars, comets, clouds, oceans, etc., were created in one week, by the will and pow er of God. He had existed from all eternity, when He decided, about 6000 years ago, to create this earth, with man in His imnge, sun, moon, stars, etc., to light the earth for man. f Dr. Stratton says man was made from red earth in a few minutes. He looked lonesome, in Eden, so a deep sleep was put upon him, one of his ribs removed, the first surgical op eration on record, and Eve was made from that rib. For centuries clergymen taught that men had one more rib on one side than the other. Somebody counted the ribs of 1 200 male skeletons and the odd rib theory was dropped. On Saturday Rome cele brated its 2661st birthday. And Rome today is as ener getic, powerful and intensely earnest as at any time in the past 268 1 years. Marvelous are the Italian people, with their tireless lead er, Mussolini; for more than 25 centuries they have contributed great men to the world, some among them the greatest in the world. Mussolini celebrates this happy birthday by inaugurating great public works. One of his birthday presents to the great city will be the finest airport in the world. This country. 2529 years younger than Rome, and ten times as rich as Italy, has two of its greatest cities. New York on the Atlantic, and Los An geles on the Pacific, with no airports worthy of mention. We (Continued on page 2.) E STANDARD TOLD Robert W. Stewart, Head of Indiana Unit, Before Senate Probers. CANADA FIRM ISSUE Division of Profits Made by Continental Trading Company Recited by Indicted Man. (Afmiwlfttr-d Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, April 24. Ro bert W. Stewart, chairman of tho board of the Standard OH company of Indiana, testified before the senate Teapot Dome commUtee that lie was. awarded a one-fourth share of the profits of the Con tinental Trading company of Can ada, ovon though, he had protest ed that ho did not want ,the money. . - ' Stewart said H. S. Osier, presi dent of the . Continental, handed lilm pnekages of Liberty bonds at various ' times totaling $759,500. Previously he had decided to set v v . -." , ...... WJOCIAT6Q PRESS (I'NOCKvjOOO) ROBERT W.. STEWART up n trust fund and place one-half of the securities each to the credit of the Sinclair Crude OH company, and the Standard of Indiana. The oil man, who Is under Indict ment for once having refused 10 answer committee quest ion.-, agreed at the outset to reply to any queries directed at him. The witness said he turned over the bonds to Hoy J. Harnett, a tax expert for Ihe Standard, who was to act as trustee for the fund. Turned Over to Sinclair "Those bonds remained In tho vaults of the Standard Oil com pany of Indiana until last Satur day," Stewart continued. "When I ?ol to Chicago that day from Washington. I called In the ul (Continued on page 2.) .FOX TO BE SPEAKER AT IE An Interesting program has been arranged for the Chamber of Com merce forum luncheon tomorrow noon at the Umpqua holel. As this wee kls being celebrated as Forest Week It has been decided to put on a special forest program tomorrow. Richard M. Fox, western manager for the Roach Timber company, will be the. principal speaker. The Roach Timber company, which Mr. Fox represents, has the largest limner noidings in Douglas county. owning 66.000 acres east of Sutli erlin. Mr. Fox is eIbo the president of the Douglas County Firs Patrol association aud is one of the best versed men, with regard to timber. In the state of Oregon, and be will be able to present a very Interest ing discussion of the timber re sources and conservation methods In this county. CONN CTION IM WITH 1 ' n Ulnquest, Grave, Uli Flowers; But Man Was Alive (Anoclated Preu Lnifd Wire) CI1IOAOO, 'April 24. Dead nmn ordinarily toll no lalos. Arthur Me Coriray Is' different. He was pronounced dead by Ills own father. A crepe was hung on his door. An Inquest was held. A jury returned a' verdict that he had come to his death at the hands of Ihe usual person or persons un known. Tho Brave was dug and his friends ordered flowers. The hody had been taken to an undertaking establishment. A friend, William O'Connell, went there to see what service he might render. Then ho telephoned Mrs. McCoffrny. the "widow." She appeared. In her weeds, and ' dis covered tho corpse was not Arthur after all. McCeffray, who had not been home for several davs, elected to return at the time Mrs. McCaffrey was at the undertaker's. He saw the crone on his door and found a mournful air within. Mrs. Mccnffrnv round her hus band seated at the head of tho table. "This place," bo told her, "is like a morgue. You and tho five children are in mourning. How come?" There were explanations all around. McOnffray said, that he V-nd been ("king enre n'f a sick friend and had neglected to notify his wife. The bodv that had been identi fied as Mcfnffrnv's was found In an alley, a bullet hole In the head. The coroner's Jurv verdict will be changed to read "John Doe." FRESH: OUAKES ADD TERROR CITY Corinth Destroyed Second Time in 70 Years; May Not Be Rebuilt. THIRTEEN LIVES LOST Heroic Operator Perishes at His Post People Moving Elsewhere to Locate. f Anwlnled Pi-pm 1rfaMd WIrM ATHENS, April 21. The devas tated city of Corinth was rocked by two earth shocks this morning and Corinthians must seek homes elsewhere. Four Greek ministers who went to tho stricken district returned today and said they considered tho city ruined beyond repair. Recon struction on tho same site Is con sidered Impracticable, especially since this was the second time In seventy years that Corinth has been destroyed. The damage was estimated at (100 000.000 drachmas. ($7,800,000) The death toll was set at 13. Aid le Dispatched The government sent food, tents and two steamers to serve ns a temporary refuge for the homeless and destitute. General Motaxas, ' minister of communications, said nothing but a neap or ruins remained at Corinth. Not a single house could bo re paired and those houses which threatened to collapse mus t bo rased Immediately. I Many Corinthians desire to set tle elsewhere and they will ho , granted free transportation by j railroad. I The American Red Cross offered tents and medical supplies for Ifi, 000 persons. A submarine volcano like that of Santorln In the Cyclades Is believed to have form ed in the lagoon of Mesolonghi. which forms part of tho gulf of Patraa. ' The metropolitan of Corinth anil the archbishop of Athens Issued an appeal to the Oreek people. j Heroic Operator Dies - as ine earinquaae lata waste to Corinth the telegraph operator there clicked out over and over again without ceasing, the words "Help! help! help! All Is lost." Remaining heroically at his post In order to acquaint the outside world of Corinth's plight, the operator a few minutes later was buried alive by the collapse of the building Id (Continued on page 6 ) AT RUINED OHIO IS CENTER OF INTEREST IN T VOTING Hoover Following Opposed by Faction Preferring j Dawes or Lowden. STRENGTH TEST SEEN Primaries or Conventions Held in 5 States and ' Alaska; Jim Reed Still Trying. (ABHOclalnd Press Leased Wire) "With presidential primaries on today's political calendar In three j stales and the territory of Alaska,1 Die fight In Ohio for delegates to the republican convention nelti' chief Interest, largely because ot its bearing on Herbert Hoover's candidacy. Dtte to a lack of con tests, the balloting In Pennsyl vania and Massachusetts attracted In Ohio one si ate of fil delegates is pledged to the commerce- secre tary; the other, since the uenui 01 Senator Willis, has showu leanings toward a half dozen republican presidential possibilities, Including Lpwden and Dawes. ... . ... The democratic organization slate of 48 delegates in Ohio is committed to former Senator Atlee Pomerene for first choice. It had opposition In only two districts. Other Contests Pennsylvania will have unin structed delegations of 7!) dele gates at Kansas City and 7U at Houston, while the republican dele gates from M assacliuset t s will number 1)9 and the democrats :10. Only a few contests' were to be settled today at the polls iti .ollhor state. i Although Alaskans will have no vote for president in November, the republicans In the territory re sorted to the primary syotein to select thejr two delegates to Kan sas City with the democrats going through the formality of ratifying a slate of six delegates pledged 10 Smith. In addition lo tho four primaries, party conventions were on the day's schedule to complete ! the Oklahoma republican delegation of 20, to designate the same number of delegates from Kansas to the democratic convention aud to pro vide for the selection of the repub lican delegation of ulna from Ne vada. Reed Still Trying WASHINGTON, April 24. James A. 'Heed of Missouri has de-( cided to enter his name In tho (Continued on page 3.) I Grand Canyon Evidence of 0 Millions of Years in Age (AwmvIoIpiI Vrcu LftivHl Wire) WASHINGTON, April 21. Dis covery of traces of organic life possibly millions of years older than any hitherto .Jound, was an nounced before rfie national aca demy of science, by Dr. I.mvts White ot the United States geolo gical survey. His evidence, taken from rocks, formed In the proterozolc period at least 600.000,000 ears ago. was obtained near the mouth of Ihe Bright Angel Creek In the Grand canyon, about 6,000 feel lov.-r Ihan traces discovered by lh.j lute Dr. Charles D. Walcolt ot the Smithsonian Institution which have stood for many years ns the oldest known records of life Pi southwestern North America. Al though he has not completed his study of the new evidence. Dr. White, who Is home secretary of Ihe academy, Is convinced that much of It is tho product of rock forming processes still In progress, described by Dr. Marshall A. Howe, of the New York Itotan'rul Garden, these processes Involve Ihe action of algal, or microscopic iKeaweeu, in orawmg caroonic arm .from surrounding zones of water thereby causing the crystallization about themselves of lime held In solution by that chemical element. So many periods of extreme pressure have buckled and crush- LINDY DASHES STORM TO HELP SUFFERER Lone Eagle Speeds in Air Northward With Serum 'for Bennett. , MONTREAL HIS GOAL Medicine Will Be Relayed to Quebec by Railroad Greenly Island Snow-Bound. (Amoclnli'it Prcaa Lennnl Wire) '''.' CURTIS FIELD, New York, April 21. Colonel Charles A. Lind bergh, tho Loud Eagle of the At lantic, took tho air today to fly as he never flow before In a race to savo the life of a fellow airmail, Floyd Dennett. . Lindbergh hopped off at 3:08 p. m., carrying anti-pneumonia serum needed by doctors tending the North Pole flier In Quebec whero lto was taken after being stricken with pneumonia while commanding a relief expedition to tho niuroou ed trans-Atlantic filers ou Greenly Island. . ' '; ',."-' , , It was learned that a request had como from Quobeo to "Tho Rockefeller Foundation" In Now York for the serum and the Rocke feller organization had appealed to the Guggenheim fund for the pro motion ot aeronautics to get quick transportation. Harry Guggenheim, president, Immediately asked Col onel Lindbergh It he would fly Willi the Boruiu to Canada. "Sure 1 will. Let'B go," Lind bergh replied and a rush was made for an nutoniobilo. Guggenheim and Colonel Lindbergh left New York for the flying field shortly before 2 o'clock with motorcycle police clearing tho way. Snow 8torm In Path MONTREAL, April 24. Cana dian 1'reas). Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh will run Into a snow storm as he reaches the province of Quebec on his ulr race lo tho bedside of Floyd . Bennett, with untl-piieunionla serum, Sherbrooko in the direct airline between Now York and Quebec reports soft wet snow with a north easlorly wind which will be head wind tor Lindbergh. Tho same condition prevailed In Montreal and Quebec. Bennett "Very Low" QUEHIOC, Que., April 24. Floyd Dennett, who contracted double pneumonia while on a re lief flight to the disabled lire- men, waB "resting somewhat more (Continued on page II.) Rocks Yield Organic Life ed tlie various strata of tho (Mirth cniftt since the prolcrozolc period ended about 425,OOU,000 years ago that most ot the rocks formed at that lime have probably been enu rl. Tim (trnnd f'f.tivon 1h one of (the few pluys discovered where they have been preserved by na ttiro in a condition making It re latively easy to recognize traces of such organisms. Whether any of the rock forma tions In the bae limestone Investi gated by Or, White carry traces U)f antmnl life has not been deter jmlned, but he said he had found "reefs" unmistakably of algal de position and stiveral other types iof deposits very probably of algal origin," while molds "possibly of antmnl but surely of organic oil gin" were discovered about tho same time In a layer of shale just. f above the Hmestork by O, K. Btur i devant, firand Canyon National I i'ark naturalist. ' It ts In this region, where gome : of the lock formations urn et(- 1 mated to date back to 1,400,000,- : 000 years, that Ihe academy, with the financial support of the Carne gie Corporation through the C'arne- .gie Institution of Washington, la j establishing a permanent exhibit of evidences of prehistoric llfo in their natural environment. These j exhibits already rover a span of I a lto ut 300,uoo,000 years. G. O P. Tax Cut Proposal Ninety Millions Short of Meeting Bourbon Demand (Awoclotod I'rcwi Lewetl Wirt) WASHINGTON, April 24. Revision downward of the house $290,000,000 tax reduction bill to $210,000,000 wns decided upon todny by the republican majority of the sen Ate finance .committee. The $210,000,000 program wns lnid before the com mittee by Chairman Smoot on behalf of the republicans who have a mnjority of I I to 9 on the committee. The demo crats, who ore urging a $300,000,000 reduction, took it un der consideration and another meeting will be held Thursday, when the majority group expects to revise the bill ns pro posed today.. i The republican program follows: Reduction of the corporation tax from 13 J to 12J per cent, loss in revenue $82,000,000. Repeal of the automobile tax, loss $66,000,000. Repeal of the estate tax, loss $7,000,000. . Revision of the surtax rates on incomes between $ 1 8, 000 and $70,000, loss $25,000,000. Increase in the' exemption allowed corporations from $2,000 to $3,000, loss $12,000,000. Increase in the exemption under the admission tax from 75 cents to $3, loss, $17,000,000. Repeal of the taxes on wine and cerenl bevcrnges, loss $1,120,000. Effort Being Made to Find Wife So She May Be Notified of Death .Seeking Relatives'. Efforts are being mado hero to day to locate relatives of Mrs. M. A. Moorman, a former resident of Roseburg and of Drain, who la now believed to bo on her way to this city to visit with fiiendB. Mrs, Moorman's husband was found dend In El Paso last night and It is hoped that through the wife's rela tives her whereabouts can be as certained so that she may bo notl fled of .Mr. Moorman's death. She left Tucson yesterday In an auto, us near as could be learned, and II Is hoped that she can he located Immediately and given the news ot the death, Mrs, Moorman Is the daughter ot Mr, and Mrs. Will Moore, who were residents of Roseburg for many years. Following her mar riage to Mr. Moorman, who sorvoQ for about three years as train dls-1 ...I.I , n . jmium.i iit jiunciHiig, may moveu l Iwl.t it- i , iviiuii yvmuii mi. muiuiiiuu wus S. I', operator for several voars. tlllnr ,ui,,.l,nal,wr mDl ,,..'. n,l slore there and also handling the1' MlflS Annlo Stallonl, 22, leaped agency for a loan company. from a third floor whitlow and was riiey moved to Texas nbout threo years ago and Mr. Moorman lias been serving at El Paso as an operator. As far as could be loarnod horo today Mrs. Moorman's mother loft about six montils ago Tor White fish, Montnnn, lo visit with an other daughter, Mrs. Charles Drown, formerly Mrs. Leo Cannon. No Information was given in tho early dispatches rceolvod regard ing Mr. Moorman's death, other than Unit ho had been found dead at M I'aso. The body was lak lo tho Peak Had Ron ' Mortuary jn 11.1 raao anu ia oeinR held there untll the wife can be located, and can give Instructions for the dlR. posltion of the body. It was thought that relatives miirhl know wh she could be located and bo an effort Is being made to i ut touch Willi nnvnnn wlin nrm olwn the desired Information. TRIAL MARRIAGE LOSES VERDICT AT STANFORD U. f .A"orIfiiP(l !( lnvl Wire) STANFORD 1JNIVKR8ITY. Cnl.. April 24. Trial marrlugo in any form companionate or otherwise has been voted down 570 to 247 by Htanford university students of .... .. ...... .lucniiuii- nalro from the Stanford Dally, siuiient publication. The Bame roliirns showed the double standard of morality is looked upon with disfavor, the vote against that being six hundred to 201. 1. O. Morris Is here vl-iltlng his family. Mr. Morris, who formerly operated a business hero known as the Morris Products company, is now representing the Old Home Comrort Kange company and has been In Ihe northern part of tho state, House Is Left With - Fire in Range Two Girls Leap to Death, Tot Is Suffocated, . f A-wot-itilcil Pres. Lpnitpd Wire). SOUTH P,I3ND, Wash., April 24, Trapped In their beds, Louis, 0, mid Qeorge, 3, boiib of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wolborg, ot South Bend, wero burned to death hero today when fire destroyed their homo. Tho parents had built a flro In tho kitchen range and gone to n bnrn a quarter of a mile away to lnll , 11,6 0("VB. They left the boya sleeping upstairs. The flro was first discovered by a neighbor, who turned In a tire alarm, but tno flames bad gained so much head way that the boys could not be rescued. Tho house, vnlucd at ?2,000 was destroyed. NEW YORK, April 21. Two Panto stricken slaters leaped lo 1 fltAti, ilanltin nn.1 n nt.ll.l ...... ..ttn 1 -" mu.."o ... i. v..,.. u .. do oiiilu- i cnled In n tnnnninnl fhn l,i Ilia WH. : -- " ... u ... ,..u Hamsburg section of Brooklyn early I todSV. , ""i"';u picnei imice. hit sis- tor, Eleanor, 14. lumped from window nt tho roar of the house. She died soon after reaching a hos pital. The child suffocated was Angelo Harden, 5 years old. MEXICAN PRIEST LEADER AMONG 40 OF REBELS SI.AIN MEXICO CITY, April 21. Dls- Pn(cllGfl fi'om Impuato today sakt "" I'yi' vutun- loers hoia sIx hundred rebels at buy for ton h0UI'8 lie" thy nt" tucke(1 1,115 lown 'Ot Cueramoro, 8tHt0 of """"Jimto. Federal forces rrivliiff on tli scons put the at- tACkera to flight, killing forty of 1 110111. Tho Insurgents, led by Arlsteo l'edroza, a Catholic priest, and I their self-styled colonels, Onbnlno Alvarez and Jesus do la Torre, be gan their attack at midnight Sun day, Major Louis Aralsa personally led tho heroic defense of tho place, j At one time tho attackers succeed ed In entering tho town and burn ed several houses. At ten o'clock Monday morning federal troops arrived. Pedroza, a picturesque Insurgent leader, was believed to havo been' ,, or tnose s ain, , FUNERAL MRS. DYER BE HELD WEDNESDAY Funeral services for the late Mrs. AlcJnrila Tver. wire of W. V. I)yor who died at Mercy hoapital Sunday evening, will be hold from tho Methodist church at Myrtle Croek, Wednesday afternoon at Iwo o'clock. Tho remains are at tho MoBeburg Undertaking company I parlor whero friends may call, , M. K, Hitler will be la charge, PROPERTY HIT BY LOSSES Itl THE MILLIONS Crops Are Destroyed, Bridges Gone, Rail . Lines Blocked, Roads Awash . Many Towns and Villagej Isolated, Four Lives Lost; Rivers Are Still Rising. - (AMWlatnl Prow lcawd Vln) , - ATLANTA, Gn April 24. " River banks in parts of six southern states had vanished today beneath spring torrents that shot toward a crest almost overnight to isolate scores of towns and villages, and cause millions of dollars damage. , Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas and Te$ nessee felt the scourge ot ris ing water!) in the order named, with Florida presenting the most serious flood spectacle iu the' , evacuation of Caryville. More than six hundred resi dents fled hurriedly as the Choctawhatchie valley inunda tion caught them almost un awares. They received food and shelter at ' Bonifay, 50 miles away. . Four Lives Lost . Partial reporlB from Isolated areas showed that four persons hail mot death, one a school girl who stepped on a live wire nt Drnr demon, Florida, and tlireo i ne groes who pensneu in . rnniner Ci'oek, Alabama. The torrent that, had Its Inception In almost, unpre cedented rains ot laat wook-oAd, today had demoralized railway and highway traffic, and uprooted thou- . sands of acres of spring crops. Georgia appeared to have borne tho brunt of dumage, Cordolo re ported four railroads Into Florida and Alabama paralyzed and all highways blocked. 81 Inches Rain S Hours " Eight and a halt Inches of rain fell at Blakely, now isolated, In fivo hours, and at Tipton, eight, and one-fourth Inches foil ln'"34 hours; Sylvoster reported SlOO,- t . 00(1 crop, highway and railroad damage: tho Ocmulgoe river was one and a bait feet above flood, stage-at Macon; iMoultrio repott ed the worst rain in thirty year, while Pel hum counted tornado damage ' Many Alabama towns wero luted, Including Andalusia aud Caatlederry, whero throe passen ger trains were marooned. Mil-, stead, near Montgomery, tho capi tal, reported that tho Tallapoosa had risen 15.6 foet and waB surg ing high. Several hundred peruons were reported drlvon from their homes at Iirewton, Alabama, when (Continued on page It.) j ; ' YEP Jupe- PluvlUB ' Is brcukln' uu hoiisekeepln', Ills sprlnklln' can la dern near empty and ho Is Ivuvln for parts un known. . Thai's the nulu wo found In nut' gossip mill IliU a. m. and It waa algned: OFFIS CAT. So finally the ol' boy Is at the i t t.i. , Warm " ,u"'" Now for a general cleanup of lha village asd a neck shave. This Is convention year in Posoy villa and tho Office Cat has prom ised delightful climate throughout May. So folks, let's doll up and glv our visitors Hie glad hand. rOuPw&ather Man