SIX
R0SE3URG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1929.
LOCAL KIWIS
TO
; Organizations Hold Joint
Session at I. O. O. F.
Hall Fine Program
Presented.
commerce, and has been accomp- or four minutes later. . . . And
Hulling untold Rood In the develop-1 say, I guess 'at lets Miss Lester
ment of the city and Immediate vi-i out, all U. K.! If the kid had found
clnlty, taking an aggressive part; his boss dead he wouldn't arode
In any movement for the benefit 'back down whlmling, wiuld he
Ituth Bniiled gratefully at the
boy who was so obviously anxious
to lift suspicion from her.
'lf the boy came back for some
thing he'd fogotten, it was un
doubtedly In the outer office," Mc
Mann pointed out. "And the door
i was clotted between the two of-at-j
flees after Horden whs killed, ac-
the cording to Miss Letter's own story
Hut
of the lower Uinpqua country.
ATTENDANCE AND
PUNCTUALITY IN
THE CITY SCHOOLS
A group of nearly thirty Hose
burg Klwanluns hail a. most c!
. llRlitful nieellnj! ttith the Iteedn
- port club last nluht. The Joint
- meeting at Keedsport was held as
a part of the local organization's
. Inter-club relations work, and
- proved to be a most auccessful
and Interesting session.
The meeting was held In the I.
O. O. F. hall, which provided am
, plo accommodations for the large
. crowd of lioseburg and Reedsport
Klwanlans and their wives.
.-H. Gordon McCall, president of
the livewire Iteedsport club, pre
sided and after a most delicious
meal introduced T. II. Ness of
noseburg, president of the attend
ance committee of the local club
; Mr. Ness told of some of the
means used to keep up the club's
attendance during the year. This
talk 'was followed by a group of
songs by the Roseburg Kiwanls
trio, after which H. It. Shoemaker
of Itoseburg, district trustee, made
a brief address. Mrs. Stanley
Chapln and Mrs. Frank Taylor
then gave a vocal duet, accompan
ied at the piano by Mrs. K. K. Ad
ams, and this was followed by a
violin and saxophone duet by Mrs.
N. L. Heyser and Mr. Hernard I
Jones with Mrs. Itoyce I.ockhart,
accompanist. I.yniiin Spencer,
chairman of Inter-club relations,
spoke of the activities of his com
mittee, outlining the plans for fu
ture group gatherings. A banjo
and narmolilci duet was then giv
en by It, L. Whipple and Charles
V. Stanton, wllh Cliff Kles at the
piano. The meeting closed with a
brief addresB by District Attorney
Guy Cordon and another group of
Bongs by the Kiwanls trio. Croup
singing was Interspersed with
the other numbers on the program
during the evening.
Tlio Iteodspnrt club, while It
has only a small membership, has
lieen a powerful Influence In the
community. II has voluntarily as
sumed the dutlcB of a chamber of Arundel,
The following report coverirj
tendance and punctuality in
city schools for the period ending' of her dlHt-overy of the body.
.March lf was compiled by city
Superintendent W. M. Campbell:
Total pupils enrolled to dale. .1251
Av. numlier pupils belong
ing 1113.8
Average daily attendance 1075.3
HTHE
IVr cent of attendance 96.1
Number tardinesses 6tl
Pupils neither absent nor
late 719
Number visitB by parents 30
Number visits by parents 30
Combined record of attendance
and punctuality by buildings and
grades according to rank, Is as
follows:
Benson, 2A, 9ft.4; Benson, 6B-GA,
99.3; Jr. High, 9, 99.2; Rose, 2A,
99.2; Jr. High, 7-8-9. 98.7: Rose.
1A, 93.7; Rose. fiA, 98.7; Sr. High.
11, 98.6; Jr. High, 7-8, 98.5; Rose.
3A. 98.4; Benson. fiA, 98.3; Sr.
High, 12. 98.3; Sr. High, 10, 9S.3;
Rose, 6A, 98.1; Rose. 4A. 98.1; Ben
son. 4A-fiB, 97.7: Benson, 3A-4B,
97.6; Benson. 1B-2U. 97.5; Rose,
3B-4B. 97.4; Benson, 1A, 97.3; Fill
lerton, 3-4, 97.1; Rose, 1B-2B, 96 7:
Rose. 5B-6B. 95:7; Fullerton. 1A
2A, 95,4; Fullerton, 5A-6A, 94.".
o
you Btlck to your own story Moran.
and let the office boy tell his when
he conies in if he ever gets here,"
Mc.Munn added curtly. "Who else
came to the seventh floor Saturday
afternoon ?"
"That lady I heard you call Mrs.
Borden," Micky answered sullenly.
"Gees! f didn't know the sheik was
married!" he added, brightening.
"Ha sure didn t let It cramp his i grins a little at that an' cracks
style none." I right back, 'I'll say she did! And
.iic.viaun rrowneo. "Keep your how!'"
exactly," Micky admitted, flushing.
"It 'at was my girl on the phone,
and I made a date with her for
Sunday, and and kidded her
along awhile, 'neu when I got back
In my car the seventh floor red
light was on."
"Five minutes? Seven minutes?
Ten minutes?" McMann suggested
impatiently. i
"Maybe 10 minutes, maybe j
more." Micky admitted, bis (lush
deepening- "This Rita dame looks
sore because I've kept her waltin',
and I jolly her up a bit. I says toi
her 'Sorry if I kept you waitln'J
Miss. 1 waB mukin' a date wllh my
sweetie,' I Lays. 'Nen she says.
Well, be sure you don't stand her
up. old dear. Nothing makes a glrlt
more sore than to be stood up she) The roads from Roseburg to
says, tapping her foot again, like i Reedsport are In very excellent
she was sore as all get-out. An' I j condition and fast time may be
says, 'Gees! Did IJorden stand up! made by auto between the Pacific
swell frail like you?' An' sbei highway and the lower Umpqua
by either of the two main roads
from Elkton.
Dodge Canyon Route Over
New Smith Bridge Af
fords Quickest Way
to Reedsport.
opinions to yourself until they're
called for, Moran! When did you
bring Mrs. Horden up?
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E BLAGK 13IGEO
0 1929 By NEA Service. Inc y ANNE, AUSTIN
THIS HAS HAPPENED
When Ruth Lester, secretary.
-rinds the dead body or her em
ployer, "Handsome Harry" ilorden,
sprawled on the floor beneath the
window of his private office, she
ruih at once to the office of her
fiance, Jack Haywurd. Ills office
, la Just across the narrow airshaft
' from Borden's.
Finding Jack out. Ruth searches
for ills pistol, which he hnd pur
chased at the flame time he bought
an Identical weapon for her to
keep In her d-nk. His gun Is gone!
?etrlfled with fear, she recalls
Jack's incriminating behavior" of
the past Saturday and his nnery
threat against Borden.
When Jack returns, he accom
panies Ruth to Borden's suite and
while he phones Tor the police
Huth hurries to close the airshaft
window In Ihe private office, fear
lug Jack shot Borden across Ihe
airshart. The window is already
closed! Ruth tells Detective Mc
Mann of Borden's two Saturday
morning visitors: Rita Dubois,
night club dancer, ami MiOt. Bor
den his wife iohI mother of his two
children, who called for her month
ly alimony check. Mrs. Ilorden
comeB in during the questioning
nnd McMann accuses her of ihe
murder, but she defies it Ruth
tells McMann of Ihe pistol !;i her
sk. but when he looks fi.r it, it.
too. Is gone! Tiny footprints of a
pigeon In dried blood on the win
dow ledge and on the floor near
the body Indicate the window was
open when Borden was shot.
Rulh's fear for Jack rown but
McMann Insinuates Ruth Is the
murderess of Borden! 0iiin, the
elevator operator's, testimony
makes things look black for Ruth
when McMann suddenly asks
whose office is that across the air
shaft. When he learns it is Jack's,
he asks the cle a tor operator
what lime on Saturday afternoon
Jack returned to his office.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
. CHAPTKIl XV
Otto Printer hunched his shoul
ders and rammed his hands deeper
into the pockets of his uniform.
"I dunno abditt two o'clock , I
gm'HM. 1 ain't keepin' tabs on them
that's got a right to come and no."
"(Hii't there a register record for
Saturday aftei noon, Coghlmi?"
McMann demanded. "You require
everyone to sign in nnd out, don't
you ?"
Couhlan shook his head. "Not
until four o'clock Saturdays. Too
many tenants coming and going
before then."
"I can tell you almost to (he
minute when I returned and when
I left the building." Jack Hayward
settled the . question maiter-of-
faetly. "Miss Lester and I went to
lunch at the Chester Hotel, and
just before dessert was served I
discovered that I had left the
theater tickets on my desk. We
were going to a matinee. I looked
t my watch, found that It was 10
minutes to two, and walked rapidly
from the Chester to the Starbridge
Building a distance of only two
blocks. I didu't hav to wait for
the elevator, so It must have been
not later than five or six minutes
of two when I got off at the sev
enth floor. I went to my office
and "
"Just a minute!" McMann Inter-,
rupted. "I'd Just a little bit rather
have Otto's story before you have
ti fiance to tell him what he re
members. And you might unclench
that fist of yours. Haywurd. I'm
afraid you 11 snraln your fingers,
and that would he too had. . . .
Now, Otto, how long was Mr. Hay-
ward In his ofrice before he went
back down again In your car?"
"I ain't saying he was in his o
flce at all." Otto denied sullenly.
"Oh!" McMann pounced. "So you
saw him head toward this wing of
tho building vQien he left the ele
vator, did you?"
Otto Pfluger shrugged, and
slouched lower asalnst the wall.
"Naw! I alr.'t sayf.n' he was In his
ofrice or he wasn't In his office, be
cause I didn't follow him see? I
'tended to my business and that
was riinnin' my elevator."
"And right now, young man,
your business Is to answer my
questions," McMann retorted.
may not give you a tip to keep
your mouth shut, as Mr. Hiayward
evidently did, but I can give you a
free pass lo the jail if you don't
open up and spill what you know."
"Mr. I lay ward didn't give me no
tip Saturday naw, nor this
mornln' neither! Ho Hps us boys
reg'lar the rirst of the month. Ilk!
most of Ihe other tenants do. , . .
Aw, all right! I'm lellln' you. If
you'll let me! 1l was about 10 min
utes after I took him up before
look him down again. I guess, he-
cause I sent my hid brother, what
was ha nc In' around in the lobby,
over lo the drug store aioss the
street to get me a cup of coffee,
right after I'd took Mr. Haywurd
up, and I'd drunk it before he rung
for me to take him down."
Micky stuck out his lower Jaw
pugnaciously and seemed about to
go Into a stubborn silence. Then.
1 "I dunno! Pretty soon after I took
i Benny down, I guess. After half
j past one, anyway."
' Did you notice her manner?
Anything unusual?" McMann
rapped out.
"I didn't pay no attention to her.
She didn't mean nothing in my
young life," Micky retorted. "She
just got in the elevator and I took
her up that's all."
"And when she came down?"
McMann was having hard work to
i restrain his anger and impatience.
"Was she upset? Crying? Pale?"
"Gees! I didn't give her a second
look, after I seen It was the same
lady I'd took up," Micky protest
ed disgustedly. "I ain't got no time
for dames her age.
McMann looked as if he could
cneerruuy bave clouted the Impu
dent youngster over the head, but
he limited the expression of his
anger to a black scowl. "Anyone
else?" .
. "Sure. A frail that wbb here Sat
urday morning, and two or three
times Vfore then," Micky an
swered sulkily. "Looked like a
chorus girl."
"Rita Dubois!" Ruth cried. "I
thought she was to meet Mr. Bor
den at the station "
"Just a minute," McMann
silenced her peremptorily. "De
scribe the girl, Moran hair, eyes,
clothes, anything you can remem
ber." "Black hair, black eyes. Kindn
tall and slinky, like a movie vamp,"
Micky obliged, "t didn't notice her
clothes, 'cept she had on n swell
rur coat with a real live white or
"chid pinned onhe collar."
McMann looked at Ruth, who
nodded an eager confirmation of
the girl's identity. "All right, Mo
ran. When did you bring her up
and what happened, that you know
or? Did oyou talk to her?"
"Not when I brought her up
Miekg answered the last question
ursi. cine was looaing sore, tap
ping her ffl)t amr acting so Impa
tient, that I kept my month shut."
"When was this?" McMann
pounced.
"(lees, I 6unno! 'Bout half an
hour after Mrs. Borden left. I
reckon. I ain't got no way of tell
ing the time each party come up.
I let her off at the seventh floor
and then I went back down. While
my car was down, the telephone
in the booth started ringing and I
answered it. The starter goes off
at half-past one. and they wasn't
anybody else but me down there."
Yes?" What of It?" McMann de
manded Impatiently. "How ,. long
before Miss Dubois, rang for the
elevator?"
'At's what I don't know
"What else?" McMann demand
ed.
"Gees, ain't
trip?" Micky grinned. "She got off
and beat it out of the elevator, ilk1
she was In a hurry. She run Into
By way of Dodge canyon over the
new Smith bridge, which replac
ed the old pioneer ferry, the dlst-
at enough for one'aIlce s considerably shorter froir
uoseDurg to neeusport. m lie road
Is on a good grt.de and In good
condition all of the way. The
the telephone booth and that's thenL'w W&den are Eomewhat slippery
last I seen of her 'cause I had a'1" extremely wet weather, but
call from the fourth floor then i tho,re are no dangers to be ex-
mavbe if was the fifth. Naw, it 1 i'eriencea u a anver uses due pre
s the fourth. Old man Cohen I !uion- T 16 road fro" r'n
was the fourth. Old man Cohen-
wholesale shoes."
"Any other passengers for the
seventh floor Saturday after
noon?" McMann demanded impa
tiently. "Naw, not a soul," Micky an
swered promptly. "1 thought Bur
den had gone down by the other
elevator, foi some reason or oth
er. Gees! He musta been dead al
toady, and his sweetie thought
he'd stood her up! Gees! She
musta stood there poundin' on the
door "
"That'll do, Moran!" the detec
tive shut him short. "You and Otto
can get back on your jobs, but
don't leave the building till I give
you permission, understand?"
When the door had closed upon
the elevator boys, McMann faced
Jack Hayward, his eyes narrowed
to glinting gray slits. "Well, how
about it, Hayward? I suppose
you're going to tell me it took you
10 minutes to find those conven
iently forgotten theater tickets."
Before Jack could answer Pa-i
trolman Diggers appeared, with
the information that the men from!
tho morgue had arrived to remove
the body of the murdered man.
"Just a minute. Riggers. Hold
'em back until I get Mrs. Borden
out of the way. I'll put her In
Covey's charge down the hall till
I need her.'
Some of Ruth's hatred of the de
tective evaporated as she wit
nessed his gentleness with the
widow whom he had, a few min
utes before, tried to bully Into con
fessing that she had killed her huB-
hand. But when the body had been
removed on a stretcher, and Mc
Mann was free to devote his en
tire attention to Jack Hayward.
fear for the man she loved fanned
her hatred of McMann Into a high,
not blaze.
(To Be Continued)
Can Jack Hayward explain away
those 10 minutes? Newspaper re
porters appear in the next chap
te. We are overstocked on General
tires and offering a special disJ
count to clean up. If you are look-,
Ing for a high grade tire now Is tho
time to buy. The Roseburg Garage.
A carload of McCormlck-Deerlng
farm machinery has arrived at
Wharton Bros. It contains binders.
mowers, rakes, harrows, discs, cul-
tipackers, corn planters, corn shell-
ers, cultivators, engines, plows and
not many other Implements.
Elkton is In very fine condition
and may be travelled at a rapid
pace without danger. The grade
is wide and smooth.
Between Elkon and Scottsburg
there is some rough road encoun
tered, but no dangerous road. The
stretch from Scottsburgh to Reeds
port is wide, smooth and level.
The heavy rain yesterday
brought down numerous slides
and filled the roads with small
boulders at many points, but main
tenance crews had the roads
cleared this morning without de
lay.
The completion o; the Smith
bridge has niaae a great improve
ment In the travel from Roseburg
to Elkton by way of Dodge canyon,
eliminating the necessity of cross
ing the old ferry, which was diffi
cult to approach because of the
steep river bank. The Dodge can
yon route, as a result of the new
bridge now provides the quicker
route to Reedsport, as the dist
ance is considerably shorter and
there Is no wait for a ferry. The
road, however, in not quite as wide
or smooth as the Drain-Elkton
section.
Work on the new Scottsburg
bridge Is moving slowly due to the
fact that little can be done until
all danger from high water has
passed. The concrete work has
been finished for the piers and ap
proaches, but the steel work can
not be done until it Is possible to
erect falsework, and this must
wait until there is no danger of
freshets.
since Friday, March !S. police!
were Informed today by M. L. Co
turri, special agent for the rail
re, id. Coturri said Smith was
known to have several hundred ;
dollars at the time of his disap-1
pea ranee. He Is believed to have
no relative here.
LINCOLN COUNTY SLAYER
ACCUSED BY GRAND JURY
TOLEDO, Ore., Mar. 20. A
charge of manslaughter was re- j
turned today by the coroner's Juryj
against Sylvanus Neal who onj
Mardh 18 shot and killed his neigh-j
bor, Kred Kox, on a highway near;
here. '
Neighborhood differences, argu-1
ments over line fences and mixed l
bands of sheep are reported tot
have led to frequent quarrels be
tween the men. j
After the shooting Neal tele-;
phoned the sherirf and awaited his
arrival. He told the sheriff Fox had
accosted him as he was riding his
horse along the road, that Fox had
pulled him from the horse and
threatened him. Neal drew his re
volver, he said, and shot his at
tacker.
NEWS AGENT MISSING
PORTLAND, Mar. 20. John W.
Smith, news agent for the South
ern Pacific, has been misBing
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A Battle Creek physician says,
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more misery than any other
cause."
But Immediate relief has been
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of Production
Is as good as a higher price for the product.
A John Deere will cut your costs.
Pulls 3 14-inch plows, costs $1235.
Starts easier, lasts longer and has more power and
fewer parts than anything in its class.
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Roseburg Oakland
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A carload of McCormick-Deering
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Wharton Bros. Another car of
American fenco will arrive . next
week.
Broccoli Wanted
FOR CANNING
We want the following crops to be produced on
contract from seed furnished by us: beets, carrots,
parsnips, cabbage, brussell sprouts, tomatoes.
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DESPITE the alarming rumors
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R.OSEBURG
J , relations with Lngland in an ef- jfW'l ' ti ! I
fort tos -j'
McMann fir hi nod crookedty as he
nuule rapid notes of the boy's
story, "You didn't have any othei
naMsenuTT mm UK most iu minutes.
Otto?"
" v."
"And when Mr. Hayward left.
j did you notice anything peculiar
about his behavior?" McMann suk
ccHlcd. t H lo glowered. "Naw ! "
Ituth rnuld have kissed the sul
len younn tow head for his failure
to On-iit Ion a fact which might yet
Hrtsiiini' vast import ance that
Jink llnvfard had returned to his
ortlce empty handed and left 11
wUli a heavy brief rune,
"Who else rode in your car be
tween two and four Vloek Satur
day?" McMann prodded the unwill
ing wllnesrt.
"I sin't been taking no memory
("re." Olio Pfluger shrugged.
"Itut fur as I remember 1 didn't
tnke down no passengers from the
seventh floor after Mr. Havward
left."
.Ur. mi scowled, then turned
upon Mteky Moran, who grinned !
clieerfiilio. "How about you. Mo-1
ran? Who were your passengers j
for the seventh floor after Miss
Lester's and Mr, I lay ward's sec
ond trip?"
Micky Hi-iatched his thatch of
red hsir. "Vim 1 brought up Denny
Smith, the kid that works here."
"Denny!" Ruth exclaimed. MVhy,
he left for the day at exactly one
o'clock!''
"Well, he come hack," Micky
grinned. "Said he'd forgot some
thing. 1 took him back down thrte
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