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eicht ...... :.t;:v - 7 rrrr.-, ...... roseburg news-review, roseburg. Oregon.- Monday, may 6. 1929. All of Ten Other Entries Down, With 405 Miles as Best Record; Perils Are Narrated. riTTSIitriUlH, May 6. Two bal loons that left Itere Sutunhiy hi thn national elimination balloon race had not reported to rat:' headquarters ln-ro today. The ten Other entiioH ere down at point: in Pennsylvania and New York. Ol those reporting, the (Joudyeur VII apparently had covered the greatest distance of 405 miles, al though ult figuns were unofficial and were bafced on cursory esti mates. The Detroit Halloon club entry's pilot, Svend Kasmussen, reported to headquarters this mornlnK that hediad landed yesterday near Cam den, N. Y. lie estimated (he dist ance traveled rourhly at 300 iiiIk-h. Battles Recited Tuloa of battles with (ho ele ments and In one instance a near collision villi an air mail plane were (old hy balloonlsts who took part In the national elimination balloon race. -Cuntuin II. R. Honeywell, pilot Of the St. Louis Chamber of Com merce entry, who landed at Middle Bex, N. Y., said in a message re ceived here "we rammed into a mountain, zattled wind, snow, rain and fierce blizzard and narrowly cftcnped beln? dumped into hake pinnndntKua." . Lieutenant U. G. Ent, aide on army No. 1, which landed near Branch, N. Y., reported he and Captain W. J. Flood, pilot went tluouRli rain, snow and hall, nar rowly escaped being struck by a plane and were nearly dumped out onco when a draff palo caught In a tree. Lieutenant Ent recently ra- reived the distinguished service flying dona for his heroism In last year's race when he piloted to the ground the blazing halloon in which his pilot, Lieutenant Paul JSvert was kilted by lightning. Collides With Mountain Honeywell wild that although the barograph showed the "Ht LouIh" to be up 2.000 feet, "we suddenly run lined Into a inountntn side." He added that a "quick ballast heave prevented serious damage and not us over the top." ilo said the bal loon collided wtlh the mountain about 11 o'clock lust night. Tlio Clayton, Mo., veteran of the air, said his balloon was nearly grounded at 2 o'clock In the morn ing when it ran into a terrific rain storm, followed by snow and wind. At one lime, he said. It was believ ed the bug had drilled over the ocean, but later it was found to havo been a In Ice,, possibly Lake Caimndnlgua. "We saw our 'MtO foot drag rope trailing In water and we worked like the 'devil to get ItaVk to Hafety," Honeywell . tele-ttraphcU.- WORLD PEDALERS GLASGOW lr. J. H. Hell, and the son of the late Canon T. Ien nle of Glasgow Cathedral, J. T. 11. Lennie, lett Liverpool reeently on I a bicycle trip that will take them around the w orld. It Is estimated that the trip will take four years. ATTENTION PATRIARCHS All members of Hnlon Encamp ment 1. O. (). V., who possibly can, are requeued to go to to Oakland Tuesday to attend the funeral of Patriarch Ed Hlchards at 2 o'clock p. m. HALPll L. UUSSELL. C. V. Ilo (heatedly) : "Remember, I'm not as Hlmple as you think 1 am!" She (fervently): "Thank Cod I tor that!" I Start Today TO Accumulate Money FAST Mail the Coupon Learn how you can secure bigger returns, quickly and safely. UNDER STATE SUPERVISION CLIP AND MAIL I Street City : ASSETS OVER $1,000,000.00 Western Savings & Loan Association , V.M.C. UUl. : ; ' " Portland, Oregon. If Mooney and Billings, 13 Years in Prison, May Be -Freed As Innocent Of Bomb Outrage That Killed Ten BY PHILIP J. 8INNOTT NEA Service Writer SAN FRANCISCO, May 4. Thirteen years ugo he was strong youthful and energetic. Today he Is weak, whlle-huhed. emaciated by years of ill health. A dozen years of prison life have broken him phyHlcally, although his fight ing spirit is still as alive and vi brant as ever. Torn Mooney, about whom those two contrasting pictures are paint ed, is still in prison. Some time this spring, however, he may get out. For Coventor C. C. Young has promise!) to innke a thorough hi tidy of the 600 pounds of affida vits, bitefs and other documents that make up the records on 'his case, and to take some definite ac tion on his long-standing plea lor a pardon. It was in 1917 that Mooney en tered San Queutin penltenllujv after spending approximately a year In jail. He had been convict ed of first degree murdfcrv A'jliry found him guilty of hurling a bomb that exploded along the line of march In a greut preparedness parade here In July, 1!HU, killing 10 people und injuring 3a more.. Mooney was sentenced to death. In HUH his sentence was com muted to life imprisonment. Judge, Jurors Join Plea Since that time the judee who Med and sentenced bim has be come convinced that Mooney is 'n uoceiit. Nine of the ten surviving members of the Jury that found ltlm guilty hnve reached the same view. The San Francisco police captain who handled the investi gation of the bombing also be lieves him innocent. Most of the evidence against Mooney has been proved fatso. ' 1 So, now, after 12 years of Im prisonment, Mooney 'h case comes up for n rehearing. The most fa mous convict in the country the man whoso case has stirred com ment and agitation from one end of the country to the other Is at InHt about to find out whether the world ut large is ready, now, to believe his constant protesls that be Is Innocent. Mooney was n labor leader a radical one. As such, ho had plenty of enemies. In the early summer of 1)19 he was In San FraneiHCO, trying to pull off a big street car strike. The strike, for one reason or another, hung fire. A few weeks after that came the preparedness parade and the bomb explosion. ' San Francisco was aroused to u high pitch. A man named Warren K. Hillings, who had once Borved a term for ille gal trnnnpoWuifon f explosives, was arrested; and a day or so lu tor tho police swooped down on iMooney. History of Case It Is necessary, how, for the reader to keep carefully In mltld the next steps In thu conviction eft the two men. Hillings was tried first. District Attorney Charlej m. Flckert and his chief assistant. James F. Itren nan, produced as a witness one Kstolle Smith, who swore Hillings had called t her place or employ ment, carrying a suitcase, just be fore the explosion. Her Identifica tion of hlin was positive. Flckert and Rrennnn contended that Hil lings' HultcHse held a homb, and he was speedily convicted. Then Mooney went to trial. Lib erals In various parts of the country, convicted that he had heon arrested morn because of his labor agitation than because of evidence against him, raised a de fense fund and sent the lale ftourke Cochran, fatuous New York attorney, to defend him. First the state nrodueed tun witnessesMrs. Mellle Edeau ami her daughter. Sadl. both of Oak- uitui-wiio suit thev had ro.oi Mooney at Sieimit and Market I Htl-imlu uli.i.-u !.. .,I..I .... I ,v ,llr. ,-AFHIMU UJIrR place, shortly beroro the tragedy. Then came the prosecution's triump card-Frank C. Oxnu-n. "catteman." He swore that he had seen Mooney, Mrs. Mooney and Itlllfni.'H with a suitcase, at Steuart and Market streets a few minutes before the disaster. They DR. DEAN B. BUBAR OPTOMETRIST Specialist In the fitting of QIMes 1IS Jackson St. Sale of New RADIOS lleautlful Stuhe Crowley large eonsnle. rnmilar price. 'jt'iL'.fiO. our special price complete $100 A. t". Crosley Stuhe Khowhnx, complete with Crosley Dyna cone speaker, tubes and aerial. Toda's rem. In r nrfre i:t.rv.', our special price $75 Crosley b tnhe battery operated ft't. ustn 4 I" X tube, com plete with Crowley Iiytiacone. tubes nnd aerial, remilar nrln $115 tie, olir in-ial pi n - $t8 A. C. 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Oxmun. the Judge declared, had written friends in Illinois, a IVw months before .Mooney's trial, ask ing one to come to San Francisco to act as an expert witness, ami h a d forwarded transportation money. Had he known this be fore, Judge Ciifliu said, he him self would have granted a new trial. Now. however, thu case was out of his jurisdiction. Webb asked for a new trial. The supreme court denied It. President Wilcon Intervenes Meanwhile, the t' lilted States had entered the World war. Or ganized labor, which was being ap pealed to on every hand to stay put and help the gieat ludustii.tl machine' win the war. had taken the conviction of Mooney and Hillings much to heart. Indeed, labor got so dlsgiuuted about It that President Wilson, In May of 1!H7, wrote Governor Stephens of California asking him to postpone execut Ion. A t the same t line ho sent to California a commission, headed by Secretary of Labor Wil liam H. ' Wilson, to investigate. After mouths of study, this com-j mission reported that Mooney should have n new trial. John B. Deusmnre. then a solici tor for tho labor department . d.d some extensive research work. In he fall of HK he reported that Hillings' convict Urn w as due lo witnesses who had since been dis credited, that Oxmnn was chiefly responsible for Mooney's convic tion and that Oxnian's credibility had been destroyed by his attempt to get other witnesses to perjure themselves. A few days later Governor Stephens commuted Mooney's sen- I ! 10 !'r" ""Irli"-ijl. horl-!,,. i ine.eatter, how eMT. (he I', b. .supreme courl refused lo review ?""Wi, 1,11,1 """ '"; ii., . V V .1 , .. . the revl of their lives In prison. ears passed by. (.ovcrnor Stephens w;u succeeded by Cover nor F. Itfehai ilsnn. , re fused to net on Moeney's rase. Kicnarutn was succeeded by i.ov emor Yount; -who Ikih finally iiKieed to rev it w the enilte mass of evidence, "Perjury," Says Trial Judne Jude C.riffiu, w ho oiiiflually aenteuced Mooney to hanj;. Is the most nctlve wotker of till for the man's p:irdon. "There were only four wl'iieiea iiKuinat him. nnd every one has been proved ft perjurer," he says. Oxman was tiled on perjury chari?ef prowlnic out of his letter to his IllinotM fritMid. but was ucmiitted. McDonald, a witness who testified acainst both Mooikv and HilHtiK". made an affidavit .n New York that while he had mvii men with a suitcase near the sc.n. of the cnme. Cie police bad Torct d him to swear that the nu u were Mooney and Itilliiics. Former roliceman Draper Hand testified that much of (he police cas-e ncaiiiht Mooney had bfcti "franieii." Then. miKt st-n-saMiMial of a'!. ' listeHe Smith, the woman whose ( testimony convicted lUlllm-n. re cently declared that she had never been positive that the man site sn.v I was Hillinprs. District Attorney Flckert and n deterflve employ. -d j t' th Street railway company, she , 13 years of prison life have done for man. At the left is the alleged San is Mooney as he appears today. of California, is shown with part action on the petitions for pardon. said, had forced, by threats of prison, to make her tiwear to his idem it y. A drug addict, she hud taken morphine tablets throughout the trial, she added. Prosecutor Is Defeated Flckert, Incidentally, was defeat ed for re-election In l!Uli, In a cam paign in which the Mooney case was the lsnue. The man who de feated him, Matliew Urady, is still district attorney and is one of those seeking a pardon for the two men. , A pardon for Mouney, it is be lieved, would necessarily carry with it n pardon for Millings. Doth men have insisted that they will never accept, a parole. To do bo, they say. would be a tacit admis sion of guilt. looiiuy and Hillings are waning lor a re-nearing alter U I Rass had been shattered. But years. Mooney is In bad shape ; a(rttln lhev aPe f.lC)Mi wUn the fact Physically. His hair Is white; aj(!mt ,ll(.re won powder burns . . . ........ i. unria 11.1 . r: , sanp.Mi nis mrrnirt i ami emac ateci sappe ' bis once powerful frame. But he is still fighting fighting for the Justice that he says was denied him U years ago. . ir,00 Y" " ' HESS MURDER r Ace Viri n? .r! . NO NEW CLEW . (Continued from page 1) while still In the bedroom, or while fleeing from the house. Airs. Hess said that as she rati into i lie Kttciien die could see a masked face at the window, but ; there was nothing by which she! roil Id Hi'nllly the slnyor. and thiro i ivus uuthint; about his voire, when., he eomnmmled them to turn on J jncUson is also making a further the liKht :mil reniniii in the house, ; search In the house for signs of that would enable her to she any the bullet fired through tho win clew as to hu identity. ' dow. Mr. Hess, she salil. obeye! :ie I There has been nothing pro I'oinmnnd to turn on the light InUlm-ed so far. Ihe officers state, lo the bedroom, and then sat down j even warrant suspicion of anv per on the edge of the bed. appearing ! son atul absolutely nothing in the as if he intended to put on some wav of a motive can be learned, of his clothing. Then he followed Ail effort is being made to trace her Into (he kitchen nnd opened i the ownership of the weapon .1... 1 i 1 1 n.... .i I. ,1... O....I..I t.iinil.nf hut Ihla ' , ' ...... '..! iH-droom window to remain in , ,h,, hm,31 A lhl.v ,. m llw ! , ,., ,.,,. shl. .a,d ' another shot, nnd her husband groaned and fell. , n., k on the w indow nnd on Mr. lless's I will aid in locating him. A guard nl lit clothes. I is being kept over the place night lleing unable to establish any ! and day to prevent anything in the motive for the killing, the nfficrs home from being touched or are having a hard lime to find any! chanced until the investigation has place from which to start their! been completed. work. They have Investigated ev- The son. Norman lless. a stu erv possibility so far bronchi tot dent at the Adventist college, ar- lipht. bnt have so far discovered! nothing of a definite or tangible I nature that tnlpht be of use to j them. Ample footprints were fur nished when the slayer tramped across the orchard nnd stood be-l neath the window, but these bean no diMinpuishliiK marks. No arrangements have been made so far for an intiuest. but it is expected 5hat the official In - (luiry will take place Tuesday. The ROSEBURG UNDERTAKING CO. Established 1901 M. E. RITTER, Manager Founded and Maintained on Efficient Service and Courtesy Oak and Kane Stl AMBULANCE SERVICE Embilmer TO MOONEY Tom Mooney, who, It Is expected, Francisco dynamiter at the time Below (left), Charles A. Whitmore of the mass of evidancs which the In the center is Governor Young. funeral services will be held Wed net-day. Autopsy Performed At the request of District Attor ney Cordon a post mortem examina tion was performed on the body of Mr. Hess this morning by Dr. E. H. Stewart. The examination re vealed that the bullet struck the breast bone and was deflected slightly downward and went through both cavities of the heart. Whether or not It would he pos slh'e for a man shot In such a manner to run from the bedroom a 0llt to tilt, ,.(,!U. tJj lno house is doubtful, yet the luck of a bullet mark in the house, officers state, would make it appear that Hess was shot as he turned over in his bed and partially raised himself to look out the window after the )()t, on , n(1 Ri:lss aml oil the mail S ! night clothes. m,0 .illoa aflI,i tunt uar h.iehnn.i Bnt (lmvn on ,h(! b(.t-t aml ,nat he 8,,emed to lag behind her as she ran RO lnat u may bH possible I that he was hit before he left the j building, and that the second shot, i fired while they were fleeing went wild, or may even h.r.e been fired i at the woman. Further Investigation Sheriff Jackson is this afternoon 'endeavoring to piece the broken j glass together. In an attempt to j iarn more regarding this phase of ; the case, which, although a small timiter. mav lend to further re- milts in the attempt to reconstruct tho kllline. The officers are leav- nv undone In llii'lr effort lo solve .,P mysterious murder. Sherirt ,f.,i a ,..! , the Investigation Is being largely , cl)rilled to an effort to completely reconstruct (he events connected with the murder. In the possibillty I that something may he learned .,. ....i.,7, r ,i. .iv..nlmt rived yesterday from W alla W alia Funeral services are to be held eunesuay anei iuhmi hi - v w from the chapel of the lioseburg rndertnktim company. Klder West brook of F.imene will officiate. In terment will take place In the Ma sonic cemetery. o , From Coquille 1 Harold Gould of Coiiuille was "visitor in this city last night. RE Nash. Who Meets Padelford on Season's Last Program, 1 Preparing to Leave 1 This Month.- ': Jack N.'tsti, who Is to meet Pat Padelford of' Medfortl in the main event of a boxing card at the arm ory Wednesday night ,1s preparing to leave within a short time for Australia .where he will spend the summer boxing season in company with a group of Portland a'hites who are making the trip. 'Nash ds a fast boxer and hard hitter who has been making a fine record. He was seen here recently in an ex hibition match wilh the late Eddy Cart wright. Nash and Padelford have had one previous meeting which was one of the hardest fights ever seen at Marshfleld, where the two boys held their gory battle. Throwing science to the wind they pummel led each other through six hectic rounds to a draw decision. The boys became so angered thai they I refused to stop when the ! goug ! sounded to mark the end of Cie : rounds, and had to he pulled apai"t. ; They later tried to fight again In the dressing rooms. Wednesday's1 fight will be a grudge match that should see both boxers slugging 1 with every . ounce of power and ability. . In fact, the entire card Is made ! up of fights that show every indi- cation of being slugfests. Austin ! 1'endergrass of Roseburg - meets Charley Wilson of Bandon in the i semi-final, both boys bejng slug- I gers and clever boxers. Tiger Dunn or Jiosehurg Is to meet Joe Cor- j bett of Sutherlin in the special '. event. Corbett having once fought Honry Drown here and having la ter having won several knockout fights around Klamath Falls. The preliminaries are re-matches between Rattling Judd and Young Franco and Kid Franco against Young Sayers, all of Rose burg. These boys furnished plenty of action on the last card and havo been anxlcus to get back into the ring again to settle their differ ences, which were not decided to their individual satisfaction be fore. 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