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Higheit temperature yesterday. 35
Lowest temperature last ilght....34
For.cast for interior southwest
Oregon: Fair, but with fog or low
clouds tonight and Thursday; con
tinued cold.
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ROSEBURG, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 9. 1929.
VOL. XXIX NO. 223 OF ROSEBURQ REVIEW
VOL. XIX NO. 303 OF THE EVENING NEW?
DOUGLAS COUNTY )a
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EADEH
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Guests Drink to Victim's
Health Then Pour Lead
Into His Body.
ESCAPE MADE GOOD
As Detectives Search for
Murderers, Gangsters
Wound Second Man
on the Street.
I Ananriated Pivw Lcd Wir)
CHICAGO, Jan. 9. At PaBqua
lino Lolorcto'8 house late yesterday
three smiling men raised glasses
to drink the health of their host;
then they shot him dead.
Eleven bullets from automatic
pistols drilled into the head, neck
and shoullders of Lolordo. Wheu
he fell, Ihe fingers of his right
hand still clutched the stem of a
wine glass, shattered by the shots.
Lolordo's assassination was a se
quel, as are all Chicago gang and
Mafia slayings; but whether it
was a sequel to the murder of
Tony Lombardo last fall, to black
hand operations of recent months;
or to some unexplained gang hat
red, police were nut prepared to
eay.
They were looking, however, for
Joe A lei to, eldest of seven broth
ers whose participation in gang
violence has come under police
scrutiny several times in the past.
John Stege, deputy police commis
sioner, said he had a witness who
Identified Aiello as one of the
three men in the room when Lo
lordo was slain.
Second Man Shot
Detectives were still at the Lo
lordo flat, questioning Lolordo's
grief-stricken widow, ' when an
other gang shooting left Rocco se
verely wounded in his parked auto
mobile. Maggio, once convicted of
murder, was shot in the head by
men who tired shotguns from their
automobile as it sped by Maggio 'a
home.
The guns that removed Lombar
do from gang power four months
ago in a downtown street shooting
echoed In the Lolordo flat yester
day, for It was Lolordo's brother,
Joe. who walked at Lombardu's
side when that leader among Ital
ians fll. Police believed the two
assassinations were connected, but
in what manner they could not
eay. There was even one re.tcrt
that Joe Lolordo was In the room
when his brother was shot, and
that h was wounded. His wife re
futed this, saying he had been out
of town several days.
Slain Man Gang Leader
Pasqualtno Lolordo. who was 43
years old, was described to police
as the uncrowned but powerful
successor to Tony Lombardo in
the affairs of the unique Sicillano.
His widow said she knew only that
lie was an olive oil dealer and thut
4 fehe had no knowledge of any other
activities In which he may have
been engaged.
An 18-year-old son, Vincent,, la a
student at the University of Illi
nois. When police phoned him at
Urbana last night they said his
first words were: "Did somebody
kill my father?"
Mrs. Lolordo said she had seen
two of the three slayers at least
twenty times before, but that she
did not know their names. They
frequently came to the beautifully
furnished flat in the severely plain
(Continued on page 8.)
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(AcUt.t IV-M ImmI Win)
. MICHIGAN CITY. Ind.. Jan. S
Fire following an explosion today
destroyed the summer home near
here of John F. Tyrrell, a Chicago
attorney. Officials expressed the
belief that the residence had been
bombed.
Tyrrell is a former assistant
state's attorney of Cook county.
There was no one in the house at
Ihe time. The bomb had ben
placed in the basement. A timber
was hurled throurh the roof of an
other house litO feet away while
smaller hoards fell Into the lake
2ihi feet away.
The dwrlling Is located at 1-nng
Peach. the site of prominent Chhm
goans' summer homes.
Police believe the bombing mar
h linked with gangsters' actlvl
ties.
Imminent Ousting Of Head
Of Salvation Army Points
. To Close Of One-Man Rule
i ' t
"If' - fs?
GEN. BRAMWELL BOOTH
(Associated Press Leased Wire.)
SUNBURY-ON-THAMES, England. Jan. 9. The reformist
party in the Salvation Army high council, headed by Evange
line Booth, American commander, was understood this after
noon to have 53 members on its side against ten non reformists
headed by Mrs. Bramwell Booth, wife of the general, and Cath
erine Booth, his daughter.
It was said that the election of Commissioner James Hay of
: . .
New Zealand yesterday as president ot the council was carried :
on the lines of this division. Commissioner Hay belongs to the i
reformist prouD
icioniusi gi jj. i
i oidu i. ...... - v..
has been regarded as one or me
has ranged himself at the side of
Dynasty or Democracy?
LONDON, Jan. 9. ( NKA) At
the present meeting at Sunbury.
officials of the Salvation Army are
in ,aii,a u'hpthfr their ortraniza-
tion is to continue under the rule!vear'
Ol a iiooin U)i.i. u. ..
Is to become a democratic body in i
which the chief shall be selected
from and by the membership.
General William Booth founded
the Salvation Army 60 years ago.
For 34 years he presided over Its
destinies, an autocrat and a cap
able one.
From a purely local body. h3
saw it grow Into a world wide as
sociation. From a body that used
to be tie butt of the hoodlums, he
saw it grow into a great, institu
tion which all people and creeds
hail for its beneficent work.
Before he died In 1912, William
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Testimonv Reveals Straneel
Practices Among Group
of Pennsylvania
Residents.
AMoHtl Vrcm JLaxHl Wire)
YORK, Pa., Jan. 9. An . alien
ist, called by the defense, testified
today that John H. Blymyer, re
puted "witch'' doctor, on trial for
the killing of Nelnon I. Rehmeyer
last November believed he carried
an imaginary picture of his victim
in the palm of his hand.
The mental expert. Dr. Julius
Comroe of this city, was - called
shortly atter the York county
court had overruled a motion of
Herbert B. Cohen, defense coun
sel, charging the commonwealth
with purposely withholding testi
mony In order to show a motive
other than witchcraft.
Blymyer Is alleged to have
killed Rehmeyer when the latter
resisted an attempt onthe part of
Blymyer to obtain a lock of his
hair to bury it In the ground hi
order to break a "spel." over an-1
nthr familv
Wilbert G. Hess. 18. and John
Curry. 14, charged with aiding In
th killing, are awaiting trial.
Says Blymyer Was Crazy
"In my Judgment, Illymyer was
insane on the night of the slay
ing." !r. Comroe testified.
He said he examined the defen
dant last night.
"Did he know the dirferepce be
tween rislil and wrong?" District
Attorney Amos V. Herrmann ask
ed. "He did not In major questions,"
the doctor replied.
"I asked him If be thought, to
save his soul, he would have to
kill the judge of this court. If he
would do that.
"He said that lie would. Even
! his own father. If necessary."
Blymyer. Ir. Comroe said, be-
JlhLnrZt, tim h.. fi.-d
.a. t...
i ue uffiunn aim me iiuii- in c-
lecvery is "extremely sllirht.- i Minneapolis its first woman can-
I Oscar Atland. superintendent of , dldte for mayor.
I the county alms house, where! Mrs. Florence Fredeen Orav -
Hlvmyer hrd been an Inmste in ' lhl, mother of four children, fll-
i l'i23 said he came back to him I r ystrda as a candidate at the
i 's-M fall for treatment. .municipal primary next spring.
I When asked what the trouble! ' dreamed I was leading a big
was Blymyer answered, according 1 army of people." she said In ex-
I to Atland "they are still after P'1'' tag her filing. Mrs. Grav
roo i dalil has been active In local poll -
l Asked what he had been tak- ,,rs for IWTerl Jrr bnt b"
ing as a remedy. Plymyer gave , nevr before been a candidate for
(Continued' on pag S) public office,
R2JMSQSMBSB&aBKSS& tffiiiTiV S
EVANGELINE BOOTH
, . i '
- ...BIS...., - - I
supporters oi ucuciai uuum,
the reformists.
l.ooth nominated his son, Bram-
well Booth, to be general in his I
place. The latter, now In his 72nd j
1 1 ..l ui .nM..ftf
hub uuiiiiuaicu uid oul .inovi
and the name reposes In a sealed
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London office of the army.
Autocratic Rule Irks
The general of the Salvation
Army now has complete control, as
he is the sole trustee ot its im
mense interests. But for some time ;
Cieneral Booth has been lncapaci-1
U1UU uy. unless nuu Bviuti ui i
members of the higher
organiza-
tlon determined It was time
laae action. ney u buyui iit-u uj
a ueeu pon wmuii ma
drawn up. It was drafted by
Charles Sargent, later a Lord Jus
(Continued on page 8)
JURY SELECTED TO
TRY ASA KEYES AND
5 CO-DEFENDANTS
(AMOrUtrd Prw, Ltiird Wlrr)
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9.A Jury
of ten women and two men was
um-eed unon by defense and prose-'
j cutlon in the third day of legal
1 sparring to try former District At
i torney Asa Keyes and five co-de-1
fendants on bribery and conspiracy
charges.
Keyes. the outstanding figure of
ika pial untura It hanrlriaT
scars of many legal battles In a baugh was found in an upstairs
court room where he has prosecut- rin trylK to conceal himself un
ed hundreds of persons, as the cli-lder n aheepskln coat. He readilv
max ot a law enforcement career j submitted to arrest and confessed,
of more than a quarter of a cen-l (Continued on Dace 8)
tuiy. He is charged witn conspir- j
ing with and accepting bribes to ,
prevent prosecution of the other j
principals following the crash of
the Julian Petroleum company. I
Investigators for the prosecution'
claim to have followed a trail
through an underworld jungle of
gambling, racketeering, arson aud
"hush money" nil wetted down by
rum accumulating -evidence which
they say leads to the bones of sev
eral famous southern California
legal skeletons. Including the still
remembered "kidnaping" of Almee
Semple Mcl'berson, evangelist.
TRAIN WRECK IN
ENGLAND KILLS 4
(Axuti lre J-! w
ASIK'HI KCH. Gloucestershire,
Jan. Four persons. Including
I the engineer, were killed and a
number of others Injured when an
express passenger train traveling 50
miles an hour crashed head on in
to a freight train In the fog last
niKlit. The engine of the express
overturned and a number of
coaches were smashed.
The wreck occurred about J
miles from CharKeld. where 1T per-
i sons were killed in a train w reck
I last October.
Ten hours elapsed before the
' first two bodies were releas-.-d.
I ih. ruirriAri .nrbin. with the
I greatest difficulty. The guard ofl'oumy assure conunuen proms,
'the express, with a broken arm. I The sheep business has been grow
I crawled from his crushed car and! Ing In Iiouglas county as rapidly
helped the rescuers, bringing eight j '! nl pasture conditions p' r
persons from a telescoped coach mil, but probably not as rapidly as
slurlehanded. I""" average lncrese for the sheep
0 Industry. Although the top of the
nnriu impels WOMAN TO I price cycle has been reached the
BE MAYORALTY ASPIRANT
MIN'N'FAPor IS Jan 9.
i dream that she was destined to
"Imh i). twonl-" today h.,1 given
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UUUULL!!UHUL1!
CONFESSED BYb
EX-
Girl-Courting Swain of 25
Says
s He Coveted His
Employer's Auto.
SHOT MAN AND WIFE
Offhand Remark of Victim
Gives Clue to Identity
of Fugitive, Found
in Hiding.
(Aiaoclated Prm Uavd Wire) 1
CANTON, Ohio, Jan. 9. EMward
KultenbaUKh. 25, who has confess
ell Ul(, aouble murder o( his former
employer, John User, Canal Kulton,
dairyman, and his wire. Bertha,
,M m;.,, here today from
Newcastle, Pa.,
where he was ar-;
rested last night, and held in coun
ty jail for action by the grand
jury.
Kaltenbaugh has signed a con-
fesslon to the double killing,
His arrest terminated a search
"iuuiun tuiw uiiw iia, wiiii.ii
. . .
has been under way since Oner
', was found in his dairy barn with
bullet In his head and his wife,
in her niKtit clothes, with her head
mashed Sunday morning by their
six-year-old son, Harold.
Auto Coveted
In nis confessiun, Kaltenbaugh
.ril.,, ,. rte,rR fnP ,h
automobile,
Oser
large sedan, protnpl-
. k ,)Rer. pifIp .o kiti-hen
1
tOiaHr. -I,,,, ,),- i,ai,uj anA .(r
,.,t ov(,r me a , a
; deli," he explained. "1 wanted the
automobile, so 1 shot Johuny. Then
.Mrs. OBer crme out ot the house
and I shot her too.
Chance Remark Clue
A chance remark made by Oser
a day or two before the fatal
shooting, led directly to Kulten
baugh's arrest. Oser remarked to a
friend, L. C Lawreuce, "Well, it
looks as though I am going to lose
Kddie; he has a girl In Newcastle."
After the tragedy Lawrence re
lated It to Sheriff Ed Gibson.
Ulbson drove immediately to New
castle and told the ol fleers there
what he had learned. Yesterday
they advised the sherltf that they
had spotted a suspect.
i i n mienr itii m m rurm hnimn
i near Crave Citv wher Kulttn-
Douglas' Major Crops Promise
Good Profits During This Year,
Says County Agent J. C. Leedy
Agriculturnl crops unquestionably ftive a very optimistic
outlook for 1929. according to J. C. Leedy, county agent.
Unless unusual weather conditions should bring losses, there
will be profit from all of ihe major crops, with ready market
for the bulk of the products of the county. The condition of
all crops, he reports, is now
closely in touch with the farm
1929 to be one that will bring
past years.
"The increase in the number of turkeys and the prospect
of better markets, through effective organization, gives promise
of fine results there, Mr. Leedy
"The sheep outlook Is excellent
While we doubtless passed the
peak of high prices during the lat
season, and will exerlence a grad
ual recession of prices during the
next few years, owing to increased
production, yet the outlook for
1U29 Is very favorable. The sheep
Industry will continue to be
prosperous business over a Inn 4
period of time, as the Ideal eondi
Hons for sheep production In thia
j outlook for the future and partlcu-
(larly 1929 Is good. Pastures are In
'flne shape, winter blue grass Is o-
'to more and more and sheen
owners are improving; their feed-
i .,
'
"Poultry proxpects re exception-
. ally Kood. Cooperative marketing
j la urowlnfr. and already IwurIss
county has an SO rr rent sign-up
1 without any membership campsigu.
' The number of hens throughout
the country has decreased, but an
! increase has Keen msde in Lous:ali
: county. Profitable prices for prod-
i rts are in pmsiect for the jrrar
while feed prt es are expected to
I be moderate.
(ABSENCE OF TAIL
LIGHT LEADS MAN
TO SERIOUS WOES
Pret LMaml Wlrr)
Ore.. Jan. 9.
found himself in a
peck of trouble today simply be-
' cause he neglected putting a new
1 bulb in the tail light of his auto
j mobile.
j Pratt last night , was overtaken
j by a police prowl car, bent on In
vestigating the lack of proper
lighting equipment. Pratt failed to
I heed the siren. The officers pur
sued mm tor live blocks, rirlug
several Bhots. Pratt stopped and
was arrested. In the car police
found five gallons of liquor.
Pratt was fined $150.
Police then searched Pratts
house and found parts of a still.
I And today Pratt stands charged
with possession of a still, and Mrs.
1 1. M. Sprlngstead, who was arrest
j ed in the house, is charged with
possession of liquor.
ALLEGED SOVIET
AND BQMAH TAKE'
U'ASHINC.TOW Jan Horn.
nients purporting to show pay
ments of linj,uuu each to Senators
Borah, of Idaho, and Norris, of Ne
braska, by the Soviet government
for their services to obtain Ameri
can recognition of Russia have
been declared fiilne by a senate
committee which Investigated
them.
It was disclosed today that the
! documents had been under Invest!-
i gation for a year by the committee
which several months ago declared
I1 papers showing payments by the
Mexican government to senators
Borah and Norris, and Heflin of
t Alabama and LaFollette of Wis
I consin, were forgeries,
j The case was concluded with
j the testimony of Senators Borah
I and Norris before the committer
that the Russian documents wert
j untrue. Senator Reed of Pennsyl
j vania, chairman of the committee,
who Is preparing a report to the
i senate, declared the senators' tes
timony was not necessary and that
, he had not intended to make pub
I lie the forgeries, but that Norris
; and Borah had requested him to
do so.
During a visit to Kurope last
summer Senator Heed attempted
to find the source of the papers,
but he said today he was not ready
to identify the forgers. ,
PORTLAND AUTO TRAGEDY
PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 9. Mrs.
Charles Johnson, 47, died last
night, three hours after she had
been injured In an automobile ac
cident. The driver of the car in
which she was riding, J. Huber, 69,
her step-father, suffered cuts and
bruises.
Mrs. Johnson's death was the
ninth traffic fatality since liec. 1.
extremely favorable, and those
situation look for the year of
greater profits than for many
says.
"The small prune crop of lattt
year assures a reserve energy
stored up in the trees and an abuii-
daut setting of fruit buds. With
average weather conditions a good
crop Is In prospect. Marketing Is
being well taken tare of and
profits are In slcht agHln after
series of lean years. That Douglas
I county can produce the nest prunes
ln the country was ably proven at
I th various fairs and expositions
auring me year wnen ine jurm
product won all prizes.
"Pears have bet-n profitable and
will continue that way. Much no
acreage Is being set out. Walnuts
are also coming into bearing and
will p if vlde additional Income this
year. Jlrocrnlt and winter garden
peas afford revenue when there Is
no other crop Income.
"Dairying Is always a reliable
source of Income. Many co s
were sold from the county during
the past year, nut they were not
the bent ones. Our beef cattle are
good and are now at the low point
of the production cycle and the
high point of the price cyrle, so
that the general outlook for several
years is extremely favorable.
"Taken as a whole It would ap
pear to me that the year of 1929
promises to be one of our most
successful agricultural years, and
should greatly Improve local conditions."
s
ON IN FIVE OF
Shower of Congratulations
Conies From All Parts
of the Country.
GUESTS AT BANQUETS
'Silence" Disturbs Sleep
of Crew After Landing
Cities Eager to
View the Plane.
(AMnrUtiHl Vrrm Leuni Wlr)
LOS ANCkLKS, Jan 9. - The en
tire nation today was paying
hotuuge to the live air corps men
who Hew the Quasi Ion Murk ou
the worlds lougeit susiumed
flight. Tho mass ff cor.;rUula
tory telegrams still pouring in to
all members of the crew included
urgent invitations for the Ques
tion Mark, Its crew and its re
fueling crews to visit practically
every city in the United States for
exhibition of the plane and fitting
civic welcomes to the filers- All
messages were being referred to 1
the war department.
After two nights sleep In m-
fcrmhle beds, with all tho con-j
enlences 01 mouern cmi-zauna
at their hands again, the five
l.eroes. four officers
and a fer-
Leant today had faced the fr.st of
at they described as ta ' hhr::-
isl part of the whole reiu.it k hie
right and that was the lounu or
public reception asnd speech luaK
mtt. They had taken tli-j first
piunge with a radio address ys
te 1 d a y afternoon broadcast! u.f
their iuiprusMlims and analytic of
the flight over a national radio
hookup and there was mom to
come.
Honors Come Qulckl
Early tic tails for tho entertain
ment, and puh.lc functions for the
filers Major t'nrl Hpatz, Captain
Baker, Lieut. Harry Halver-
son, Lieut. Quetiuda and ISergeRtii
Hoy Hooe, had not been complet
ed, but they were scheduled to be
Kueats of honor at a banquet ar
ranged by the Kichfield Oil com
pany for this evening, and at sev
eral other functions being arrang
ed to pay their tribute during the
day. Tomorrow night they will
he honored by a banquet or tne
Los Angeles chapter of the Ke
servo Officers association when
Major Hpatx will make the first
address on the military aspects of
tho flight, before a distinguished
gathering including high army of
flclals.
"Silence" Bar Sleep
The filers had gono to bed last
night hoping to sleep better than
they did the first night back on
earth after taking "cat naps' for
six and a hair days to the roar
of the plane's motors. Like the
sailors who couid not sleep ashore
unless a hose was turned on the
side of the house, the fliers were
waked up thew first night by the
"silence."
Plans call for the full crew to
fly the Question Mark to Rockwell
field, San Diego, this week, after
the minor repairs to the motors
(Continued on page 8)
Mid. SON OF
II
(AsWKlati! Pn U11M Wlr)
OKLANlMJ, Fla Jan. Van
C. McCrory, son and sole heir to
the millions of John C. McCrory,
chain store operator, was accident
ally killed by one of his closest
f 1 tends during a deer hunt yester
day. Itaymer F. Magulre, Orlando at
torney, and a relative by mar
riage, shot tlin 32 year old vice
president of the McCrory chain of
2MI stores while the two were
I raveling horseback through the
lMirU-acre McCrory estate In Or
anne county.
I nvest Ign ting officers reported
that the nhoollng was clearly ac
cidental, and made a report M- h
led to the announcement that no
lno.uet will be held. McCrory was
shot once In the back, and died of
hemorrhage of the lungs before
medical aid could be obtained.
Magufre was formerly states at
torney for the 17th Judicial dis
trict of Florida, a former president
of the Orlando Chamber of Com
merce and president of the Uni
versity of Florida alUmnl associa
tion. His wife was a first cousin
of Van .McCrory.
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HON
MARK
CONGRESS VOTES
DOWN RESOLUTION
TO BAR J. M. BECK
(AanrUtrd PnM LttunJ Wire)
WASHINGTON. Jan. By a
vote of 247 to 78, the house yes
terday rejected a resolution to bar
James M. Beck, former solicitor
general of the I'nlted States, from
a seat as republican representative
from Pennsylvania.
The' resolution, offered by the
democratic leader, Representative
Jumcs M. Ueik
Garrett of Tennessee, on the open
ing day of the last session, was
swept aside by a vote that saw
more than a score of democrats
joining in the almost unanimous
chorus of republican "noes."
A moment later the house adopt
ed an affirmative resolution giving
tho Pennsylvanian 'a clear title to
his seat. Then, for the first time
since he came to the house. He-
(( R(i(ireftB tne hotiyi thanking the I
members for "sustaining my rlffht
to memhership."
CITY STREET GREW
TO
Employes Under Old Coun
cil Will Serve Until
an Agreement
Is Reached.
The street cleaning crew em
ployed under the former council
was ordered back to work totfuy
by Ihe new street committee, it
was felt that the streets should
not be left In disorder until the
council irons out Its difficulties
over the appointments, no the old
crew was instructed to continue
work until the council can get to
gether aud decide upon the de
finite action to be taken.
Mayor Hoover at the meeting
Monday night recommended the re
duction of wages of all of the
mem Hers 01 ine street crew, una
also made new appointments. The !
council, however, objected to the ,
change, contending that the pres-,
ent workmen are efficient and are :
entitled to wages In keeping; with !
the responsibilities placed upon
them and the class of work they 1
are doing.
The mayor and council failed to
reach an agreement so that the
meeting ended with no provision
being made for (he cleaning of
the streets until the next meeting
of the council.
Memlwrs of the street commit
tee secured the advice of an at
torney and were Informed that the
I members of the street crew are
classed as employees and that
their work Is not ended until they
are replaced. As no appointment
has as yet been ratified the street
committee ordered the old crew
back to work this morning.
Mayor Hoover in expected lo
call a meeting of the council be
fore the end of this week In an
effort to secure an agreement re
garding the appointments.
ESCAPES DEATH IN
FALL ONLY TO FACE
CHARGE OF BIGAMY
ATLANTA, (la.. Jan. . Whn
Itallih H. Mrailrlrk rsrarml with a
broken anklf in a fnnr-storr dive
from an olflen building. h didn't
mind lh "nlr ninths" which ap-
iwarpd In psprs.
Ilut now that two women arc
his bedside with hliritmy rhancps.
KesdiWk is tindlnn It difficult to
smile.
After ilica women quoted Mm
ssadmlttlriK bigamy yesterday,
Headrlrk hastened to correct that
statement today. The structural
steel worker said he wai married
only In lluth Inei Headrlik. 1.1
yesrold Tarewell, Tenn., achool
xlrl. That's his story, and he In
tends to stick to It, despite Mrs.
Jean ileadrlck, who positively
Identified the man as her husbsnd.
J M Cornutt. Riddle resident,
spent the morning In this city look
Ina after business mailers and vla
ltlnit with friends.
L A
CITY ENTIRELY;
INSIDE LAI 111
T
Opinion Rendered by Chief
Justice Coshow Bnef
and Conclusive.
COMMISSION NAMED
Mayor Hoover to Appoint
Same Members as at
Present, Except
Councilman.
The law regarding the rights ot
a city to issue bonds for the pur
poseof establishing an aviation
field admits of no argument or
controversy as to its meaning.
Hon. O. V. Coshow. chief Justice ot
Oregon state suprenia court, de
clares in the opinion handed down,
yesterday relating to the proposed
$25,000 bond Issue voted by the
city of Roseburg for the purchase
and Improvement of the American
l.culon airport a mile north oC
town.
Judge Coshow wrote the opinion.
which all of the members of tho
court cuiicurreu, amuiug
nical question that has been hold
ing up the- airport development
work of six Oregon cities. The
brief Is short but direct, the plain
declaration needing no additional
comment or Interpretation.
"This suit was instituted," the
opinion says, "to enjoin the city of
Koseburg from Issuing and selling
Us bonds in the amount tf t25.t)0i
for the purpose of establishing an.
airport near that city, 'this mat
ter was submltteto the voters o
said city and the bonds authorized.
No question la raised In the suit
regarding the legality of the elec
tion. The only part of the proceed
ing challenged Is the right of the
city to construct and maintain an
airport at the expense of the tax
payers. This question ts submitted
under two headings: First, Is tho
city authorized by the necessary
legislation to construct and own an
airport at the expense of the tax
payers? Second, Is an airport a
public enterprise which can be sup
ported by taxation? The circuit
court dismissed the complaint and
entered Judgment for the defend
ants. Plaintiff appeals.
"We think the statute Is very
clear and plainly authorises mu
nicipalities to maintain and own
airports.
"The reading of the statute Is as
follows:
"Sec. 7091. Any Incorporat
ed city or town of this state
shall have the right to appro-
prlate any private real prop-'
c. ty ... for the general us -and
benefit of the people of
said city or town, Including .
real property, for an aviation -field
or park . . . 1925 Oen.
L. 16?, Chap. HIS.
"This language does not require
construction or Interpretation. U
(Continued on page M
(AMnclatrd Pre Iietl Wlrr)
. OAI.KSHIIRO, 111., Jan. 9 Mora
than thirty persons were in hos
pitals today aitli Injuries suffered
when a balrony In the KnokTillu
hih school gymnasium collapsed,
during a basketball game.
Although many were only cut
and bruised, others suffered brok
en less and arms In the accident
that terminated the game between
Knoiville and Abingdon last
night.
Aliout 100 fans were In the bal
cony when one side gave way a
they stamped their feet and
cheered. It fell upon scores ot
stiectatora seated beneath and In
falling scraped the control liok of
the electric light system from tho
wall, plunging Ihe gm Into dark
ness. The darkness added to the ter
ror of the frightened and injured
spectators and the screams of wo
men antl the moans of the injured
filled the gymn until a high school
student succeeded in twisting th.i
wires together to again illumlnatu
the building.
Bereral men raised one end of
the falles balcony while others ex
tricated the Injured and adminis
tered first aid until the errlral ct
ambulances and police patrols. The,
injured were brought to hospitals
here. , 4