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The Weather Highest temperature yesterday 66 Lowest temperature last night 43 Forecast for Interior southwest Oregon: Cloudy tonight and Sat urday; moderate temperature. BUM Editorials on the Day's News DOUGLAS CPU NTY An lndet U.'Ve - - ""ubllihed for ..nerests of tha People Consolidation of The Evening News and The Roseburg Review ROSEBURG. OREGON, FRIDAY. MAY 3. 1929. VOL. XXIX NO. 321 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW VOL. XX NO. 92 OF THE EVENING NEWS SjfiWEWSM An lndet By FRANK JEXKIN'S I EMI" EL. Hi-rsliel worked hard on a ranch near Yakima, Wash ington, saved his money and bank ed ii in his uocket until he had f 'OO. Thru he decided to quit his Job, burn his old clothes, buy a car and travel. I3ut he was too hasty. After burn ing the old clothes, he discovered that he had forgotten to remove his money from the pocket of the pair of overalls which lie had burn ed. So the car and the travel went glimmering. Here is another case of the man 'Who burled his talent in the ground. He knows now, to his cost, that money is something to be in vested not hoarded. Ot'PPOSE Lemuel Hershel had in- vested his money, instead of hoarding It. Then, when the time came to quit his job, he might have so rebelled at the thought of stop ping his interest as to put off the trip and go on working and sav ing. Thus, in the course of time, he might have had income enough from his invested capital to enable him to travel on his income, mean while retaining the principal and keeping it at work for him. That is what is known as "get ting ahead in the world." And that, by the way, is how It Is done In the great majority of cases. pRANZ Haunt, of Budapest, Hun gary, driver of a horse-drawn truck, hated automobiles, which, he reasoned, threatened his job. So, brooding over what he fancied to he his wrongs, he took a gun and went out and started shooting at the occupants of the first automo bile he passed, killing one and wounding another. Now he has no job and no lib erty. Soon, it may be, he will not even have life, for he faces a charge of murder and in the old country juries are apt (o be stern. pOOR Franz! He hi a victim of wrong thinking as so many others before him have been. Instead of fighting the automo bile, which represents progress, he should have learned to drive one. Then he would have been able to earn more money than he ever dreamed of earning by driving a horse-drawn truck. ; That is the way with progress. At the beginning, it seems to threaten our jobs, and even our cherished Institutions. But, If we possess the precious gift of adapt ability, we learn soon that prog ress, instead of being a menace, Is a beneficient thing that enables us to achieve comforts we had never even aspired to before. HPHE Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway company, with its sub sidiaries, paid last year as taxes on its Oregon properties the very con siderable sum of $047,329.05. That is a lot of money. At the present moment the rail roads are not so much in the pub lic eye, because the public's imagi nation has been captured by the transportation possibilities of the airplane. But what are the taxation possibilities of the airplane? The airplane requires no rlght-of-way and no tracks. The public pro vides the terminals, in the form of municipal airports, and public prop erty is not taxable. Under existing forms of taxation in Oregon, only the planes themselcs will be lev led upon by the assessor. Progress brines its problems, along with Its benefits. T TOW much does it cost to run an automobile? Following a series of carefully conducted in-; vestigations, the engineering ex-' periment station of Iowa Plate col-; lege Is ready to answer that ques tion. ' If you own a medium-weight six cylinder car. it says, it costs you S.-J cents per mile to operate It. The medium-weight four-cylinder car costs approximately two cents less or 6.4 cents per mile. This of course, covers all costs, including deterioration. OUT here is the interesting part. The Iowa investigators assert that when a poor road Is changed to a thoroughly good one the sav ing to every automobile using the road amounts to 2.06 cents per mile. That Is to say. the good road saves you $2.6 for every loo miles you drive. Every time you Qrlve 1000 miles, you save $2". fin. If you drive lO.ono miles In a sea (Continued on page 2) NEW RIOTS BREAK OUT IN BERLIN Police Fired On, Then Struck With Stones. i Fresh Communist Assault ! Answer Announcement ; of Street Siege. MACHINE GUNS USED Government Blames Soviet Propaganda and Lodges Protest; Death Toll at Least Ten. (Ajwiwliitt'rt Presd Leased Win) BERLIN, May 3. Com munist disorders broke out again this afternon in the Her manstrasse, principal street of the suburb of Neulln, and bat- ! tleground of last night's i troubles. A number of shots i were fired on the police from I windows and a bombardment i of stones began from the house tops. Simultaneously a steady ! stream of communists began pouring in from adjacent streets. Most of the communists were armed with clubs and brass and Iron knuckles. They charged at jiolice who fired shots iu the air. ! The attack soon grew so hot that the police began to shoot to wound. This cheeked the communists, I who precipitately took shelter in ! nearby houses while police ' cars j filled with emergency squads dash ! ed through the si reels returning 1 the shots from houses and door ways by nteady machine gun fire. By two o'clock this afternoon the fighting was in full blast with In cessant firing by both sides to the accompaniment of yells and shrieks of the wounded. Two women, who Inquisitively 'stepped out on a balcony were shot. The police passed word strlctlv prohibiting showing one's self at windows or doors. Many Casualties Today's outbreak followed a t morning announcement of police ! that two sections of the city were in a state of siege, a sequel to yes ! teniay's rioting in which at least one person was killed, eighteen i seriously injured and numerous ar rests made. ; Blame for the May Day com : nmnist riots and the disorders j which have taken place during the j past few days has been laid at the ! door of Moscow communists and the communist Internationale by j the Berlin chief or police and the same accusation has been made by , Reichstag members. Cabinet Men Insulted In fact the German foreign of I flee today started diplomatic pro ceedings wilh the government at i Moscow in connection with the ! Continued on page 6.) 1 The second class in the Cham ber of Commerce school for em ploye will be held at the indUn loom of the I'tup'-iia hotel Tues day morning from 8 to 9 o'clock. Ttiis fchool Is beina held for the purpose of Instructing clerks and other employes of local bu.d:wss houses, who come in contact v. fih the traveling public, regarding the various resources of the county, so that they may more satisfactorily answer the quest ions a.-ked by tourists or ptospertive settlers. Tuesday J. C. dy will speak on tht agricultural and hortieulnir-1 n represents a summer's research at repouives and possibilities. I'sii- in the libraries of the Academv of ally one of the first questions j Merliefne and the American Srhool ask' d regarding a county concerns ; of Social Hvjiene. She wrote it for its principal industries and re- j her own sons, and it was printed sources. As Douglas county Is 'first in The Mediral Rrgyow of Re rhiefly concerned with agriculture. ! views, and later printed separate it is important that those who j iv because of a demand for it by come in contact with the tourists ! teachers and Y. M C. A. workers. ben)ariirnlarly well advised on the I During the past 10 years, some subject. It is desired that alt who j ij.yOfiO copies have been distribut attnd the school be provided with Jed pencil and paper so that notes may Ohe Sex Side of Life" is writ- tie kept for future reference. It is i planned to bold elates once each : week. Hoover Sheds I 15 Pounds Since I Taking Office i i ( AK-lalc Prow T.pim1 Win-) WASHINGTON", May 3. Pres.-j dent Hoover has worked off 15; pounds since taking over the of fice of chief executive, and now weighs 1S5 pounds which is re garded as normal for a man of his height. Dr. Joel T. Boone, the presi dent's personal physician, and a member of Mr. Hoover's morning exercise group, says the president is In the best of physical condition. The chief executive weighed near ly 2ii) pounds upon entering the White House. Dr. Boone feels that the pros! dent's early morning exercises arelINo INeed Or rroposed Koad, proving most beneficial. Volley ball! has been added to the p roe ram of early morning exercises for the president. A regulation net for the sport has been erected on the south grounds of the White House and a court marked off in lime on the grass. President Hoover, however,; has not yet indulged in the game, preferring until now. to stick to the medicine ball and bull in the ring, the favorite sports of the group who exercise with him. "SAFETY FIT" TO BE PRESENTED BY "Safety First." Members of the high school fa culty will appear in a comedy to night undetr the above title. The story concerns a young wife whose husband failed to return to the family roof with the approach of night for the first time. The con flict centers about fact and the ef forts on the part of the husband in explaining bis real reason for staying out at night. The comedy is under the direc tion of Miss Enid Reach and Miss Kate Buchanan, with the following cast. Jack Montgomery, a young husband, T. T. Mackenzie; Jerry Arnold, an unsuccessful fixer, George Warberg; Mr. McNutt, a de fective detective. J. Allen Wick ham: Elmer Flannel, awfully shrinking. Homer Grow; Abou Ren Mocha, a Turk from Turkey. H. H. Turner; Mabel Montgomery Jack's wife, Gladys Roegii; Mrs. Harrington-Bridger, their mamma, Genevieve Perrin ; Virginia Bridg er, Mabel's sister, Shirley Knight; Zuleikn. a slender Turkish maiden, Marie Ring; Mary Ann O'Flnnerty, an Irish cook, Effie Stanford. Legally Branded As Criminal For Telling Truth About Sex, Mrs. Mary Dennett Says She Prefers Term In Jail To Paying Fine By IIORTENSE SAUNDERS (NKA Service Writer) NEW YORK. May 3. At the age of 5.1. Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, teacher, writer, art critic, social worker, and mother of two grown sons, found herself facing five years' imprisonment or a $5,000 fine or both, because a Brooklyn (Jury fijund her guilty of sending onscene matter tnrounn me mans. "I shall pay no fines, no matter how small." she insisted, "nor will I let anyone else pay them for me. If I go to jail for the work I have done in behalf of the young people of the country, the disgrace will be on the government." That announcement left the gov ernment in a somewhat embarrass ing position. For Assistant United States Attorney James E. Wilkin son, who called Mrs. Dennett's book "pure filth" during his prose cution of the case, announced Im mediately after the verdict that "she'll not be sent to jail." No one could look, act or talk less lik a criminal than Mrs. Den nett. She Is a woman of great f harm and cultivation. Her voice is musical and well modulated; she obviously Is a woman of education and of polio. She radiates calm and peace that Is reflection of bT own state of mind. 35.000 Conies of Book Distributed The little bluernvered pamphlet which made a criminal of her has lust 24 natei and costs a quarter. It i called "The Sex Side nf Ufe. ton for the adolescent youth and Is j a frank statement of physiological (Coutinuea on page 4) RAILWAY LIES RESIST CROSS STATE PROJECT Southern Pacific and U. Register Opposition With Interstate Commission. Future Traffic Fully Provided for Now, Contentions. (AsBftolated lr.tts Lvascd Wire) WASHINGTON. May 3. Both the Union Pacific and the South ern Pacific systems have filed with the interstate commerce com mission statements objecting to the petition of the Oregon public ser vice commission requiring the rail roads to construct 185 miles of new line across that state from Crane to Crescent Lake. A tentative report before the commission by one of its mem bers, Frank McManamy, recom mends that the railrods undertake the construction. U. P. Argument "In a proceeding of this charact er the complaint must establish its case by clear and convincing testimony reflecting the necessity and justification tor the line," ttie Union Pacific brief protesting the (Continued on page 6.) STATE CONVENTION I BAPTIST CHURCHES ! HERE MAY 20-24 . . , The state convention of Uaplist churches of Oregon wilt he held in Roseburg May 20 to 24, according to an announcement made today by Rev. Frank Matthews, pastor of thn nn.ohnrir Mnirnl, vvl.r, u Initial llV reducing UIH HtlWUIll Ol charge of local arrangements. This! convention will draw delegat from the 110 churches of the slate, and it is expected that there will be between 200 and 300 persons in attendance. A. M. Harris, of New York City, president of the Northern Rapt 1st j Convention, the national church organization, made churches, is to be up of 10,000! thp r nr. mi speaker at the convention. Mr. Harris is a retired New York banker, who is devoting his full time to religious work. JUDGE BURROWS ATTORNEY ERNST . k '; J If r ;; MRS. MARY DENNETT M:: . h Bilk )S Bli, Izk jy Kyi J Escapes Death AndLaw'sHand A.iatnl I'rt-M I..'M.h1 Win) SAN IUKGO, Cal.. May Roeer CUpp, three years old. bad his wish to drive an automobile gratified yesterday. He climbed into his iiainers car, which was paiKeu in front of the family home in Mission .(Hills, released the band brake, and uie car negan 10 rou. as u gwin ered momentum, it careened wildly down the street, leaped a curbing, crashed through a wire fence and then plunged into a canyon and rolled 2:')U feet to the bottom. The Impact threw the youngster clear of the machine when it struck the curb, and minor bruises and a shock were all the punishment he got. He was not charged with reckless driving, operating a car without a driver's license, or with out the owner's permission. SIZE DF FIELD An official ofrer from the Rose burg airport commission to the owners of 90 acres of land at the proposed aviation field, has been submitted as the first step In ac quiring the land to be used as a landing field. The original propos al was for the purchase of 140 acres, which included the land north of the ditch that crosses the field and also a portion of the hill side ou the west side of the tract. The airport commission has decid- U. (111 u.f.iu uhrtnlil In. u. I eiueil I he Imlf ivlnn HOUth of the ditch, and is also excluding the hillside land, which the proponents of the project thought desirable for park purposes, furnishing a vantage point for onlookers at any air show or special events at the In the event the !0 acre tract Is secured, as surveyed by the com mission. It will be possible to build a runway abnul.S.itOO feet long. The commission took the position land to be purchased. It will be pos- sible to devote about 35,000 more to improvements. Due to the delays caused by liti gation the options on the land were allowed to lapse, as the American Legion post did not have sufficient finances to meet the ex nense. so that it is now necessary to renew negotiations wnn me owners. TIlC COmilllHHlOll IB iniei- ! intr t unv the land on the original price of Slno per acre, and will in stitute condemnation proceedings if tills proposal is not acceptable. PROSECUTOR WILKINSON STORMS TAKE 44 SEVEN SOUTHERN AND REGIONS OF WINTRY BLAST FRUIT AREA LASHES RAISING Orchards, Strawberry Crops in Illinois And Missouri Periled. Residents of Ozarks Offer Prayers Against Frost; Highways Blocked, Wires Down. (.Woclutcil 1'rt-KN Liiiw-it Win;) CHK'.AtlO, May 3. The niltld lo west today was checking its loss from yesterday's Htorni, which took at least three lives. Snow, rain, sleet, hail, and wind combined to do damage over a wide area ex tending from southwestern Mis souri to southeastern Michigan. Two men were killed near Rattle Creek. Mich., last night In an auto-1 mobile crash' attributed to poor visibility because of the Htorm, A map was killed in Chicago when ho tell on ttio slippery pavemeiiv. Two other deaths were considered possible, a workman at Indiana, Harbor, Ind., reporting he had seen an airplane containing two men plunge into the lake. A search re vealed no trace or the plane. PrayerB for Relief Fill it farmers In southern Illin ois and the Ozark belt, were re ported to lie heavy sufferers. Al though the snow acted as a blanket against the frost. Its weight broke down many trees. Farmers in numerous , places in Missouri held prayer meei iugt when further frost was forecast. Capo (ilrardeau, I'oplar Bluff and oilier southeast Missouri com munities were completely isolated for several hours when wind and hail snapped communication lines and disrupted rail service. A high wind at St. I jouis caused consid erable properly damage. Snow flurries were seen In Chi cago, but. most of the damage hen' was caused by hake Michigan which again swept over the break waters and flooded south side si i eels and basements. NunierouH accidents were caused by the flood ed streets. Traffic Paralyzed Snow four Inches deep covered most of southern Michigan where many highways wen- blocked. De I roit felt t he storm's fury u hen two creeks overflowed and flooded the east side of the ctly, willed was recovering from a flood two weeks ago. A summer resort col ony on tin- Canadian side of Lake St. Clair was damaged w hen the high wind blew the lake waters over the shoreline, flooding ap proximately 2nd cottages. Several Cottages collapsed. Airmail and passenger plane ser vice from her to the east was cancelled. PORTLAND RETAIL GASOLINE GOING BACK TO 21 CENTS fAn.Kwt.--l I'n-M I.-jm.I Win ) POUT I,AI. Ore., May 3. 'JaHoline in Portland will un to thej "oftb Ial" price of 2 rents lomor-l row. A. T Kurtz, president of the! PorHand Retail (Inn-dine Dealers' ' association, announced today. ll.-'a,"J plantations no ieHving a nun said he expected nil filling stations: fri" Tampico south to Vera Cruz, lo keep In line on the price as lliey ; American. Victor Carle, in.-in had rome "new HclieineH" for main- ber of the crew of the American talnlug the price. Many dealers have motor fuel for l'lj e liuie for more than a been selling uts a gallon week. KAI.KM. Ore.. May 3- If. II. 'orey. member of the Orcuon pub he service commission, said today that the commission lias no niilhor- Jlty to regulate nil companies or the sale prices of gasoline for the rea son that oil companies are not. public utilities. Corey made this statement in commenting on press reports that Oregon motor fuel dealers would appeal (o the public servn e com mis Ion as well as to the federal trade commission con cerning the activities of thn oil companies In war. tlie present gasoline DEATH TOTAL IS NEARING 50 MARK (At-ttvlalril Pr. Win-) RICHMOND, Va., May 3. Three additional deaths as a re sult of the tornado which lash ed Virginia last night were re ported to the Associated Press today by J. H. Abernethy, Meth odist clergyman at Flint Hill, Va. This increases the death toll in Virginia to 28 and brings the known total of lives lost in the entire southern area lashed by the storm to 47. It is regarded certain that the total will ultimately exceed 50 when all stricken districts are heard from. E Copeland Will "Hold Nose" and Vote Yes; Nye Says He "Hopes to Make Up Mind Soon." (Aiouu'lriti'it fri'M t-.wil Wir) WASHINGTON, May 3. Sennie advocates of the export debenture plan today claimed two more votes from the ranks of those they had previously put down as certain to cast their ballot against tho pro posal. The two claimed are Senator Copeland, democrat, New York, ami Nye, republican. North Dnkola. Senator Copciand declared on the floor that he intended "to hold his nose and vote for the debenture plan" as altered by the Norris amendment which Is designed to reduce rates when overproduction is forecast. Quest loned about the report that he would vote for the debenture plan. Senator Nye said "I hope to have my mind made up soon. Administration senators si 111 claim a majority against the plan although they admit the vote will be close. Senator Copeland argued thai the large industrial centers of the country will not have prosperous conditions unless the farmer Is prosperous. Therefore, he said, he would vote for the debenture plan although he considered It no more than a bounty, lie contended th;t the tariff was just as "economical ly unsound" as the debenture plan. Newspaper Bill Senator Harris, democrat, tlor gia, has reintroduced his bill to deny second class mailing prlvi hires to a nev-iMper held under common owner-h in with anotii'T newspaper. L wi.nld apply only to v. spapers iie.-eiiiter bought ".Hi de? common ownei tihlp. 'Hie Ccoight He i' nl or said he wis prompted to act an a result of tne lecent Inquiry by the federal ti 'id' ctniiulssion whif,h rhowed that 'he Icieruatioual I'aner company held ..lock In a number of ncwspapei a. The $-I.2:.lHli' bill for the er.idi ca'.fon of the Mt t'iienaneaii fruit fly in Florida was signed today by President Iloo'er The ap-Kiin'mcet of former fiev ernor Charles C. Moore of Idiino to the position of comuiissione.' of I he general land nltice was an no;inced yest t day at the Whi.e ilof' e. GULF OF MEXICO HURRICANE KILLS AMERICAN SEAMAN fU..wt..l l'r. Wir.-l MKXICO CITY, May .'J. A hurri cane swept the gulf coast of Mexi co last nik'ht, wrecking buildim: steamer San Jacinto at Tampho, was killed. The wind exceeded a vetm-ity of 7l miles an hour during most of the night at Vera Cruz. It was feared a number of small craTt in the harbor there had come to grief. At Tamplco the steamer San Ja cinto was torn from its mooring in the I'aiiin-o river and collided with another ship. Carlie, a member of the crew, wj. knocked overboard and was drowned. Neither of two ships was believed sciJously dam aged. Mr. and Mrs. Al ('reason have returned from Bellingbam. Wash ington. wher they have been at- tending to business matters. They 1 mad the trip by auto. LIVES IN STATES MM EST INJURED LIST PUT AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED Virginia Heads Death' Toll With 23; Fury Of Wind Wrecks Schoolhouse. Ohio Jail Collapses, Lake Michigan Lashed, Ruin Wrought in Fruit Raising Areas. (Awt-H-fatt-ii lrrW UmteA Wire) Forty-four lives were lost yesterday and Wednesday in the storms that struck, in vary ing form, in seven southern states and sections of the mid west. Virginia's death list of 23 was the largest. A teacher and 1 3 children were killed in a school building collapse in that state. Other southern states suf fering loss of life from the storms were Arkansas, Ten- nessee, Maryland, Florida, Ala bama and Kentucky. At least 1 00 persons were injured, many seriously, throughout the south. Storms were of less violence in the middlewest. Two deaths occurred in Michigan, one in Illinois and two in Ohio. The latter deaths were in Columbus, two prisoners being killed in the collapse of a portion of the jail in a wind storm. In the southern Michigan fruit belt, now celebrating blos som time, soggy snow covered trees, vines and landscape to a depth of four inches. The un seasonable snow is believed to have protected most of the fruit from frost damage. , Lake Michigan went on an other rampage, pounding the Chicago shoreline, and attack ing the foundations of many buildings close to the shore line. The weight of the snow dam aged fruit trees in southern Il linois and Missouri, and cold weather was a threat to the strawberry crop in the Ozarks. School Ruins Searched ll Y K COVK. Va.. May 3 Orie? stricken parents searched the de bris of the Hye Cove consolidated school today, fearful of finding ad- (Continued on page 5) FUGITIVE CAUGHT NEAR HERMISTON MAY FACE MURDER M -itl.'d 1'n-Mt l.w.I WlrO PKNIH.KTON. Ore.. May 3. (b-orge M. lirown, wanted In San Francisco on a charge of Brand theft, was captured near Ilermis ton today. lie escaped yesterday from tho train on which be was being taken to California, after throwing a por ter from the moving car. James I). Crregson, tbn officer fiom whom Mi-own escaped, (iratit itoblnson and Marry Kelly of ller mistoti found Brow u in an orchard, siinoiindrd him and took htm with out a struggle. He was immediate ly taken to Pendleton In the cus tody of county ofttcers. Three shots wer fired at Brown last night when he was seen near liernitHton. but h" was uninjured. While ofricrrs were searching ill the outskirts of llermiston last night. Brown slipped Into the city ami robbed n hardware store. When Brown escaped nfter knocking Itoscoe Sims, a porter, from the train, he was wearing on ly his shoes and underclothing. It was learned t"day, however, that he had taken bib overalls and a Jumper from a gravel pit near I'maillla. Kiins. the porter, was in a criti cal condition In a Portland hospital today. It was feared ho would dlo.
