T - A Weather Highest temperature yesterday .77 Lowest temperature last night . ..48 Forecast for Interior, southwest Oregon: Partly, cloudy tonight and Sunday; moderate temperature. - NEWS THE NEWS-REVIEW Goes Into Over,! 4200 Homes Every Day b( DOUGIIaSCOU NT Y )a Consolidation of Tht Evening News anal . The Roseburg Review An Independent Newspaper, Published tot the Beet Interests of the - '.J 0lt6n " ROSEBURG. OREGON, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 29, 1 928., c . tvC VOU XXIX NO. 138 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW VOU XIX NO. 209 OF THE EVENING NEWS 1 I K 4H, IVIAN SUSPECTED SETTING FIRES AT YO NCALLA Jesse Brown, Transient, Is Held in County Jail for Investigation. CHANGED CAR PLATES House and Barn Destroyed in Afternoon Blaze Fire at Myrtle Creek Schoolhouse. A man giving (he name of Jesse Brown, a transient, who claims to be a medical student, was arrested yelserday evening near Youmllu, and is being held while an inves tigation is being made of two fires which occurred yesterday after noon, destroying a large frame house In the center of town and al so causing dainage to a barn. Brown, according ' to reports fronv Yoncalla, was seen earlier in the day, and his actions attracted attention, as he was moving his car frequently from place, to place without any apparent reason. About 1:30 o'clock fire broke out in a large frame house about one block from the center of town. The fire alarm was inime- lurnea in, dui Deiore netn could be secured the entire struc- ture was ablaze. The stranger was . seen assisting the volunteer fire- men in lighting the glames, but while the fight was In progress he disappeared. A few minutes later fire broke out in a big barn owned hut by the 1. O. O. F. lodge and locat ed about one and a half blocks north from the burning house. Firemen who rushed into the barn to extinguish the flames Found some oily rags, and spread Iho alarm that a firebug was at work. Brown, it is claimed, lnmio diaii.ly disappeared. Someone voic ed a suspicion nf the stranger, . ana immeaiateiy a search was ' started for him. Altered License Plat's Some boys reported to Marshal Newby that they had seen the man doing something to his II - cense plates near the edge of town, and the officer, who Is alto a deputy sheriff, started In pur- suit, and soon overtook Brown and Placed him under arrest. He was brought to the county jail here lat nlghi. I'pon examination of . "cense piaies u was found that he was using a scheme new to the officers for changing num bers. Small strips of black friction tape were cut out the width of the lines of the numerals and were pasted over gaps so that a 9 was converted Into an X, a 5 made over into a 6 and a 2 made into an 8. The alteration could not be no ticed at a distance of a few feet, consequently muklng it very diffi cult to pick up the car according to the license plate number. Under this system the plates could be changed to a different combina- szZ7, r:: ZZms cows tail notions jyid his apparent desire to avoid being picked up, officers are making a careful check of his (Continued on page S.) YOUNG WOMAN IS ADMITTED ROBBER OF GROCERYMAN (AavnrlatH Prtm LflMPd Wlw) PORTLAND. Ore.. Sept 29. Arrested early today as aha nat in an automobile on the Llnnton road waiting for a man who was caught in the act of robbing a service sta tion, Nina Coleman, 24, ad mitted, police aaid. that she the wnsn who hd up Iahi Fuohs, grocer, threw weeks ago and robbed hfm of $3.00. Albert Andernon was caught in the act of looting a ser vice station on Llnnton road, police reported. R. R. Barry, station operator, waa awaken ed by the shattering of a window in the station, and seizing his gun ran from his home nearby while his wife telephoned for police. Harry report fd he found Anderson crouching behind a counter, and covered him with his gun until the police arrived. Detectives then found Miss Coleman sitting in a eoirpe. she was armed with a ."2 calibre revolver. The po lice said Anderson carried a "sap." The police found In the car a quantity of goods which they wera trying to Identify as loot. I 4 : e 4 DEFEAT OF GIANTS GIVES ST. LOUIS LEAGUE NEW YORK, Sept. the National league pennant Cuds defeated the Giants at the Polo grounds by 6 to 2. Although the St. Louisans were still engaged with the Boston Braves when the Giant game was finished, the New York defeat settled the McKechme s band. The score: , 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Chicago .. .......2 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 06 9 1 New York 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 02 6 3 Batteries and Hogan. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 29. Although not approaching the wild demonstration of 1 926, St. Louis was neverthe less enthusiastic and demonstrative when word was flash ed that the Cardinals had three years. The din of noise deafening. There was much confetti from office buildings. BOSTON, Sept. 29.-With" the pennant previously clinched by the- defeat of the Giants earlier in the after noon," the Cardinals cleaned up their third straight game against the Braves here today by a score of 3 to 1 . Willie r , , .. , , . , .1 oherdel pitched to mane tne favor of Flint Rhem soon r 1 . j t . lltduc Ul 111c uiaiu utji-ai, R H E St. Louis : 3 8 0 Boston I 8 2 - r Batteries Sherdel) Rhem and Wilson Smith )r-De-Ianey, Brandt and Taylor." 'r-,i , ; ' ' K.i li ', ! u GIANT DIRIGIBLES SOON TO BE BUILT 1 (Amocis riu mm wtr.) , WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. Sec- I rotary Wilbur announced today that 'tlio ooiiU'mit for construction 'of two 6,5uu,uuo cubte feet volume 1 dirigibles will be negotiated with ; the Goodyear-Zeppelln company of Akron, O. f j making the announcement, he ,a thlrt the navy had denied , pml(.t of the American Brown Hoverl Electric corporation of Camden, N. J., against the award of designs for the alrshins to the Akron firm. JOHN McCORMACK ic r 1 n . 1 IS PAPAL COUNT ( Aaairlttnt Vrrm mr4 Wlr.) HOME, Sept. 29. John MeCor- mack, Irish tenor, today thanked la for fair weather In southern Pope Plus in Italian for conferring , California and 'southern Nevada upon him the title of papal count. 'and unsettled elsewhere, probably The singer, his wife and daughter, with occasional rains during the were received by the pontiff, whoi forepart of the week. Temperature imparted an aiKtstolic benediction, t will be mild. How Chicago Gets Its Bad Name "BOMB" PACKAGE HAD NINE LIVES f Aworiatrd Prrm Lmwd H'irr) WEST CHESTER, Pa., Sept. 29,-k.Becaui ha cut off several pieces of a cow's tail, Charles Merrill, a farm hand, was In the-Chester county jail today awaiting a hearing on a charge of.oruelty to animals. Whila mttking the cow yesterday Merrill became angered when It truck him in the face with its tail. In retaliation, It la alleged, ha cut the tail with hia pen knife. CHICAGO, Sept. 24. Tha Gordon Dress Shop waa being held up. One man handled the revolvera while hia companion did the rob bing M-s. Foi Melthjney, s !ewo.r) wt. been In C"icao very long, remained silent as tha costly frocks were tossed In a pile, but finally she gave voice to extreme indignation. Such a thing aa thia, the told the robbers, was an outrage, ana just wmt on mignt njve ex- pected in Chicago. Tha man with the revolver whirled menacingly. "Enough of that, lady," he aaid eharply . "if you were a man, I'd shoot vou for that remark. It'e talk Ilka that that gives Chicago a bad name. Then tha robbers drova away CHICAGO, Sept 2. A little atepped narvouely from a taxicab on rrom unoer tne rim of hia up and down tha atreet. Satisfied doorstep of 735 Case, deposited swiftly back to hia cab and waa whlaked away Into the night. dui a woman, aeateo at a window nearby had eeen him. She had noted hia furtive movements and the careful manner in which ha had handled tha auspicious-appearing package. Knowing her Chleaaa. she telephoned police that a bomb had finoera in her ears and waltrf fn. Police rrrived. They circled the Into a huddle aa to waa and meana. to pick up the parcel. He touched it ; compamone and said: "This la mora serious than a bombing, gentlemen. This la a esse of abandonment." The efficere then returnee) to the police etatien with the twe cun ning little kittena. , , PENNANT 29. The Cardinals clinched for 1928 today when the pennant issue in favor of -Blake and Gonzales; Fitzsimmons, Scott won their second pennant in in the downtown area was cheering and throwing of . . 1 . 1 victory certain, Dut retired in after the announcement was BODY OF BOY IS . .. FOUND IN DITCH ' ( Asftirfaf M fnn Li-antf Wire) i DKNVKR. Sept. 29.--The mys tery surrounding the , disappear anee Monday night , pf five-year-old Sxiiiiriy Sabel.', ' believed to have ben kidnaped, whs r cleared today when sear her a found hiB body In an irrigation ditch about 16 yards from his own home. The boy had evidently wandered from the houtfe and fallen into the ditch, thtiH eliminating -the possibility of kidnaping. , .. WEATHER OUTLOOK (AwsrtriBlH 1'rww 1iih1 Wirr) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29. The weather outlook for the week beginning Kept ember 30 was an nounced here today by the U.. 8. weather bureau as follows: Far western states: The outlook with penknife wlfh fininn worth of merchandise. man with' a oackaoe under hie arm Case atreet early today. low-drawn hat hia eyee peered furtively he was unobserved, he ran to tha the package gingerly, than turned been planted. Then aha stuck her tha ri.t..,i;. package cautiously. They wsnt They elected one of their numbeV carefully. Then ha turned to hhj n ' NEK AFFIDAVIT fKM Evidence Burned by Pair Says Document in Hands of the Police. ' . MARRIED OLD WOMAN "She Has Plenty ofMoney L .. 1 It . if 'r dui i nate ner, aays Accused "Wife" on Way North. ( Aanclstrd m Lruril Wit.) I VANCOIJVKK. B. C, Sept. 29. A declaration that "Dear little mother and 1 burned all the evi dence up." was credited to Gordon Stewart Northcott In an affidavit in possession here. today of Cali fornia police officials who art seeking to return (he young Ca nadian to Riverside, Calif., to face charges of murdering four boys. The officers, J. R. Quinn and Albert Kelly, of Riverside, made public the document, which they said they had obtained from Louis Philip Datils, of Saskatoon, Sask., a friend of the family of Mrs. Winulfied Clark, aister of North cott. The affidavit was sworn to be fore H. S. Tewell, American vice consul here. i Danis' affidavit related that while he and Miss Jessie Clark, Northcotts niece, were walking along the streets of Vancouver on September 8 they met young Northcolt and his mother, Mrs. Surah Louisa Northcolt, who also IS accused of , complicity, in thrt murders. - ; Young Northcolt Vaainuotil a having said , he had ijianluil "an old woman down there," presum ably in southern California. i 'Sim ha's ptentvof ntonev.. 1 hnti. her,' but It is the money 1 am ; af ter," Northcott was reported to have said. The affidavit Indicated that Northcolt had spoken casual ly of his "wife being on the- vay la Vancouver In a prtvate yacht; of his llllngtiess to employ JvasVi Clark aB his "wife's" secretary at S'lou a month, providing she would act square. Northcott was further represent- ed as having said that Jessie. Clark. . had, "made a mesa of things," but that he and his moth er would not any exactly what they were referring to In making these statements. The affidavit failed to set forth what "evidence" was re ferred to thif was ."burra-d up.", COOLIDGE SENDS ' MESSAGE OF SYM PATHY TO INJURED fAMnriiiH PrM liH Wfr.) WASHINGTON Kut.l 90 dent Coolldae has sent a messatre of sympathy to Wilfred Veno, of New Haven, Conn., and his mother for the injuries Ihey sustained yes- it-ruur in mi automobile ooiiislon In that CltV With tt far Irlu.n his son, John. . Colonel James F. Coupal, While House nhvsifiHti luft vu.Up,iau New Haven lo see If he cuuld alii In the earn of the injured persons. At the White House it was under stood the president desired lo have Dr. Coupal Inform himself thoroughly of their condition and ssisi me local physicians. NEW HAVKN, Conn.. Sept. 29 Wilfred Veno and hia mother. Mrs. Mary Veno, who were In jured Thursday In an automobile crash In which one car was driven by John CoolldRe, son of the presi dent were reported today as great ly Improved. Wilfred Veno, who has a fractured skull, is still on the danger list at the New Haven uuapitMi, however. .Mrs. Veno wua cut and bruised. JUNIOR HIGH TEAM LOSES TO OAKLAND The noaehiire; Junior hlith school I football learn waa beaten 12 to 0 u s name witn llaKlsnd hlKh school at Oakland last night. The Koaebum team was considerably outweighed and tired out unoVr the attack of the more experienced OUDOnentS Tha lnr.l Ki.ua forced lo make many aulMtltiithuis.l particularly in the backfleld, whh h I ral!y weakened the team. The' local line showed jcood . atremctn. I bat the backfleld was nnabln to1 lake advantage of the raps opened , up by ih linemen. The Oakland . high school has a fine team this I year, having exceptionally good i wvigni roc a nigh school of that sise. while most ' of the pl.iyers have had considerable experience. The tram Is well coached aodds a credit ti the-school. . . . , Principals .w. ...... .. i . a : L Poison, '1-!',,iton and slid ' . the l)arrela ,v,t1 1 nok ! i- firing mow. before snapping " x of vour order will iollo j ) Balano . ; I I soon. i.- A poison gas pistol, latest underworld weapon, has been connected Baaaett, of Maryland, from Seattle recently, following diecovary of such a gun In possession of D. E. Mayer and Mrs. Marie Smith (right), arrested In Oakland, Cal., In possession of Bassett'a auto and watch. Mayer Inaiate he bought Bassett'a car In Seattle. Above Oakland detectives are shown examining the gaa piatol and its cartridges. Below, directions for the pistol's operstlon, found on Mayer. HOOVER SLAPS LETTER PENNED mi Religion Not Campaign Is sue, Says Candidate in Repudiation. . POSITION IS CLEAR , i Virginia Committeewoman ' Says Smith Would Ro manize Country Let ter "Dressed Up."'" lAunf latnl Pro L.gm Wlr) ' I WASlrTNdTON. Hept. 29. Her bert Hoover reiterated today thai neither he nor the republican par1 ty wanted support on the basis of the rellaious issue. Ills declination was in ampllfl-' cation of the statement made last night In which he repudiated a circular litter sent out under the stamped slannlure of Mrs. Willie w. Caldwell of Roanoke, Va.. re publican national commitleewom sn for the old dominion. In that letter 11 was slated that "We must save the 1'nlted States from being Homanized and mm-ridtlen and the call Is to the women to do so." Very Indignant "I cannot fully express my In dlgnstlon at any such circulars," Hoover said In a formal statement. "Nor can I reiterate too stronaly ff'otitlniierl on nare Si t AL SMITH'S TALK BROADCAST TONIGHT f' t A-mrlslMl PrM f,Ml Wlr) I'OHTI.ANI). Ore.. Hept. 29. e av .t I. .F.i..)i ... t . i a. at fr..J L- U...l.k .(II I a.' ' tonight will be broadcast by e the National HrnltlraHlIng cmnpany over TCtiW between e 7 p. m. and I p. m., Pacific e) coast time. e CHICAfJO. Hept. 2 The -ridrevs which H-nator Wll- e, a Ham K lloish will give In e Minneapolis Mnndsy night will he brnsdeaat over the Na- 0 tlonal Uroadcasting com- pany'a II' d Chain, the re pub- e( e llcan national committee an- . e nou.tced lotlay. KK1. Los Angeles: KOMO, Resttle; KOP. Han Francisco; KOW, Porllamt; KHQ, Kpo- 1 ksne. i - 4 j WOMAN In Mystery Murder Case .,-,y(vfrtrt-rfrvmvvmwvMWWwi.tf.i f iia1iT to or SWISS AVIATOR FLIES UPSIDE DOWN 18 MINUTES AticUll i'rrM UrWiJ Wlr)' KASSELi Germany, Sept, 29. Pilot Clardon, young Swiss flier, achieved what was described aa a world record for ' flying upside down today, but on landing Wat taken out of his ma chine more dead than alive. He flew upside down for 18 minute and 56 second, beating the record set by the German flier Fieteler ' by nearly four minute. Clardon is stated to have turned hie machine over at an altitude of about . 150 yard and then rose to an altitude of about 700 yard when the blood pressure in hi head became so severe and hi leg so cramped that only by a last desperate ef fort wa he able to right the machine and to glide to earth. , "It wa the worst quarter of an hour of my life," he said later. OFFICER AT MYRTLE Tap Griffith, 'W'pt'.tjr tlH'rirf bikI rlty niftrhi.ir nf MyriiV Crptk, w aft pHlnfnlly Irfjurei yenU'nlfiy wMIc Hnntftitiiir in tnwiri In ft utol.-n mr found hoHlili th HtrOrnr Hill rnad. 'Th rar Inid iwn li'ft Niantltnic bfl. thp hlirh way Kpvcral day, nml a report waa made to (he officer who ar rarifcftt lo liavw Iho machine tow ed Into Myrtle Crefk. Thp mr- nhal was at lh wheel of the atulen ear when one of the front wheel ran, ovyr the tow rope. Aa tho strain waa avaia placed on the rope II Jerked one of lhi front wheels of lh towed car Into the afr, throwing the driver heavily aKalnxt tha upright aupportlnx tho top. Th hlow waa aufflclcriL to break In otflcer'a arm at tho ahoulder. The lnjurywaa treated at Hyrtie Crek and he tame to Koaeburx today for further ex amination. . ftpnt Mornfnfl . .Mrt A. Lmyle, reiJdent of Myr tle Creek, waa In town today for e vara I. hour a ,vbitlr) with ftlendi and ihnpplng. i j . yam y . with the dlsanoearanea of Jin F LIUKEE T 0 HEAD AL TALK Town Made Famous by r rvl r. r v ieer nans nig Recep tion for Governor.' PROHIBITION ISSUE 'College Students in Brown j Derbies Stage Rally Smith to Speak on rrohi Keform. (AanrUtt Prrta IhjI Wlr ; MIIAVAI'KKK, V1h., Hept. 29 In Hi Id former brewltiK cntffMjnv. Hmllh tonlKht will lay before a waiting electorate hia detailed program for iirohfbltlon reform, j The apeech, tho aixlh and Unt !of hia two weeks' weHtenu Invua ilon, will be the flrat devoted by the democratic preaidenllal candi date to the KlKhteenth ainetidnient and VolHtead act alnce he advocat icd their modification In hia ac Ireptancfi pe'ch at Albany August 1 22. ' Willi only this one aiihject an hia text, It la expected that the. .nominee will elaborate to aome ex Jt'Ttt on the atand he took In that tA(ldref, for atate contr)l of liquor iaala and In the aide dlnctiKHton of prohlhlllon at Omaha Septem ber ix, when, at the clone of hia ifui.'.. i.M hs, tnsv.rrrd june of several queatlons propound ied to him In a newspaper udver ttlHement with the declaration that he did not conttldor liquor "the Ureal Uaue." of the campttlKn. An la hia custom, Jv, Hmlth 'worked late on a draft of hia IfMteech laat nkht at tho Hotel Hchmeder, where hia party Is (quartered on the nineteenth Poor. A pre a conference waa the flrat engagement facing him aftef ibnakfaat today. It then had been planned to take him on a tour of the city, 'prob j ably for a vlidt at Marmu tte uni versity, whoae atudenta. In brown derblen and college flivvers, turn ed out In auch large numhra lest night and paraded aeveral ml lea ialonitmde the automobile procee ion. i A vtalt toJhe Soldiers' Home !also had been arranged for the nomine, who la spending 42 honra in thle Wisconsin -roetropolU be fore making a bee-line for Rorhe AB OUT LIQUOR r (Continued on page ft) iGURMES HELD" IH WINNIPEG JAiU REMAINS CALM Will Be Returned to Atlanta October 6 to Face ; Theft Charge. WOMAN GIVES TIP. Came to Canada and Posed as Manufacturer of a Breakfast Food Was Financing Girls. fAmnHnti-d LmmnI Wr . WINNU'KtK' Hept. i 2!.Clntoa S. Cames, wanted In Atlaiilii, ht on charges of theft and 'era boM le nient of approximately one inllllou dojluth, waa remundett to Jail to iluy until -October 6 when lie will be turned over to an escort from Atlanta which la nuw;oiv Its way lo Winnipeg. i . i The prisoner, appearing In cMjr police court this morning, waa hot charged, but I). O. Potter, crown prosecutor, read to the court a statement that ("amen waa wanted by Atlanta authorities . for em bezzlement. Carnes,' whose alleged specula tlona occiired while he was tren- surer of the Home Mission Board of the Southern llapilst convent lun displayed little lnterext In the court proceedings. He walked quietly Into the ck and sut wltb folded hands until (old to nrln. He was well dreaaed, In a dark gray buHlnesH suit, and wore h pre lacies. He waa allent during the en lire 'proceedings . and walked back to tils cell as quietly as tie bad come. Carnes' came here three weeks: a 30, Maying for a time at a down town hotel and later moving Into a private family, lie registered under the mime of K. L. Lewis, representing himself as a manu facturer of breakfast foods. -He said he was planning a plant yi Winnipeg. ' An Informant, whose name po lice ref unetl to divulge, but who Is believed to be a woman tipped them off that a mtin answering fumes' dcacrlptlon waa living here. With the arrival of pictures from St. Paul yesterday Carnes was ar rested. Ho at flrat gave the name of )ewls but later admitted hia Identity, Police said a search of his room1 revealed a considerable sum of money, bow miich lhey would not bay, and numerous per fonal papers. ' Itrwcrds totalling f.r,ftofl were nfored for his capture and In the cu. ti'.ng Investigation his jiilsoii record wan revealed. The Investi gation also brought to- light tho fact that he waa financing Hut careers of two would be mm-hi stars. ' ' Physician Visits lr. Patterson of Myrtle Creek spent the morning In this rlly vis iting friends and looking arter business affulrs. PRODUCT OF SILK WORM SAVES 96 AIRMEN'S LIVES 4 f AMtrlaM Pri-M Unil Wlrvi) WASHINGTON, Sept. 2fl. The product of the little silk wbrm has saved the Uvea 4 of 96 American airmen In 4 lou siiccesaful jumi from 4 disabled aircraft In flight. 4 The war department an- nounced today that the tiara- chute Jump made Tuemlay at Han I He o. Calif., by l.leuf. Itoger V. Williams of Kpo- 4 kane, Washington, when his 4 4 airplane collided with one pi- loted by l.teut. W. I, for. 4 nellun of Antlers, Okla.. the 4 second of the army's Ihree munkeelers" killed recently, 4 brought the live-saving para- 4 4 chute jumps In this county to 4 an even hundred. 4 4 Airmen whu leave disabled 4 aircraft by tha parachute 4 4 route automatically beenrnu 4 members of the CuMerpill.tr 4 Club. (ol. Charles A. Und- 4 bergh holds tht record for 4 4 four Jumps, whila Captain 4 Frank Hunter and the late Meut. Kugene H. Barksdale 4 each Jumped twice, making 4 up for the discrepancy he 4 l ween the number of jumps 4 and Uvea saved. - . Army records show that 4 no army type parachute baa 4 4 fulled to bring Its burden 4 safely to the ground, where 4 4 the aviators succeeded In clearing the airplane before 4 pulling the relense ring. ,