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About The Hillsboro argus. (Hillsboro, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1928)
Friday, May IK VOTE In The Primaries The Leader in Its VOLUME XXXV HILLSBORO. OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY Portlanders Will May Day Fete Is Officers Are Exercises to Think III Health County Court Candidates to Tour Dairy Farms Colorful Event; Suicide Cause at Kidnapped By Start Sunday Was Justified Hear Fates In Of County Friday Give Prize List Aloha on Monday Three Gunmen For Hi Grads In Tax Matter Ballot Friday A tour of county dairy farms will The Annual May Day exercises Tables Turned on Deputies lie made by the agricultural com- Baccalaureate the Portland chamber of Duley and Schendel mittee of commerce Friday. The committee is especially interested in seeing the advancement in alfalfa. The J. J. VanKleek farm at Kin ton will be the flrst visited in the morning and at noon a luncheon will be served in the chamber of commerce. Members of the board of directors of the Hillsboro cham ber and members of the agriculture committee will also be present. A drive will be made Into the west end of the county to visit a i dairy farm in the afternoon. This same committee visited in the south end of the county two years ago. Despondency over ill health is believed to have been the motivfe of of “Has Been«” Will Be for Andrew Jemtegaard, 70, shoot ing himself through the heart with Increased Materially a 38-caliber revolver at 10 p. m. Monday at Aloha. Coroner Glenn F. Bell investigated. Approve Tax Contract Interment was in the Riverview Polls Open at 8 A. M _________ cemetery in Portland today. I Deceased, a native of Norway, is Personal Tax Collection Diffi survived by the widow, a son, Commissioner’s Job Most Pop Scott, and a daughter. Myrtle Cor ular in County; Many Will culties Pointed Out for nell, at Aloha. He had been in the Go Unopposed Probe Group United State« for 51 years, and for the past years had lived at Aloha. Baptist were held in the court yard Friday Investigating Committee afternoon with Old Sol smiling his Church at 7:30 P. M. Pomona Reports blessing down upon the hundreds at the of merry school children clad in gay Parents and friends by the Suspected of Robberies Class Is a Record One colors. score formed a circle for the va- rious stunts. Miss Hazel Fahy, assisted by the Graduation Exercises at the Encounter Occur« Near Ma grade school teachers, directed the Auditorium May 25; Dr. festival. sonic Home Early Tuesday The queen, M ir « Grace Williams, Holmes Speaks Morning and her attendants, were seated on a platform decorated with flowers The baccaluureute exercise« for and green boughs. The attendants Deputy Sheriffs A. F. Schendel Registered voters of Oregon The Washington county court was the largest graduating class in the were Muriel Smith, Helen Blazer, justified in making the contract and Oscar Duley were kidnapped pass judgment on the merits Margaret Yantti, and Dorothy Rood. history of local schools will be held with Earl C. Miller of Portland for by three men early Tuesday morn demerits of various republican Mrs. C. E. Wells crowned the the collection of delinquent per at the Baptist church Sunday eve queen. ing following an encounter with democratic candidates for public of sonal taxes, according to a report ning, beginning at 7:30. the men, whose actions aroused the fice in the primary election tomor The following program won the made Saturday by a committee from The Rev. S. McMinia will deliver praise of all: Queen’s Processional; the Pomona grange. suspicions of the officers. row (Friday). The polls will be the baccalaureate sermon. "Hail to Our Queen," song by the open from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m., the Believe in Robbery Meet Saturday Hillsboro Mill be the mecca of all j The Hillsboro union high school school; selection by high school or II. T. Bruce of Reedville, chair Rotarians iW this district next Thurs polling places having been listed in Investigation indicates that the will graduute this large class at the chestra; Maypole dance, first and man of the committee, C. W. Craft day night when the second annual last week’s Argus. men attempted the robbery of t second grades. Miss Jones and Mrs. Democrats Few Shute park auditorium, Friday eve- Mooberry, teachers; “The Eerie 18,” of Dilley and D. B. Burkhalter of inter-city Rotary meeting will be Kennedy garnge al Hanks shortly ning, May 25. Dr. O. H. Holmes, presented by the first and second Hillsboro have gone into the mat held here in the Shute park audi The crop of “has-beens” political before being stopped by the two The story of the air mail was well known Forest Grove orator, grades, Mrs. Paine, teacher; “Ring ter in some detail at the direction I torium. Delegations will be here ly will be materially increased after deputies. Suspicion also points to from Kelso, Longview, Vancouver tomorrow in both parties, with the told at tho chamber of commerce will deliver the commencement ad Merry May Bells,” song by school; of the Pomona grange in session at and them in connection with the Roy Cathlamet, Wash., and Astoria, exception of the democratic party dress. L. J. Merril), chairman of fairy dance, first grade, Mrs. Priest Forest Grove some weeks ago. luncheon Monday by Hal E. Nourse store robbery Sunday night, accord McMinnville, Forest Grove, Corval in Washington county, where there These three members of the com- the union high school board, will of the service, This week is the end Mrs. Nosier, teachers; balloon ing to officers. present the diplomas. Singing by dance, second and third grades, Mrs. mittee met with the county court lis, Albany, Eugene, Salem and are only two democrats seeking tenth anniversary of the air mail The suspicions of the officers the high school glee club will be a Lake and Mrs. Bride, teachers; and District Attorney E. B. Tongue Portland. nomination, and without opposition. were first aroused when shortly af- and has been designated air mail feature of the exercises. The program will include a ban- They are Mrs. C. E. Wells, who Saturday. C. F. Tigard of Tigard week. Fred C. Holznagel, local “ Guards of Oz, ” first and second ter midnight they were passed by quet, a five-minute each wants a seat in the state house of grades, Mrs. Paine, teacher; sailors’ and George Woodworth of Hills club, and dancing. stunt by Book Lists Them this car near Reedville. Turning to postmaster, was chairman. boro, the other membefs of the representatives, and Finis L. Brown, The class numbers 77 and in the hornpipe, third and fourth grades. committee, were not present, but the north on the Reedville-Orenco ! Considerable gain in the air mail More than 300 Rotarians and who is in the contest for county Miss Pilkoer, teacher; “ May Magic,” is being brought about principally sch.^l year book includes the fol market road, the car was soon lost Mr. Tigard had looked into the their wives attended the 1927 meet- commissioner. to the police car. The deputies, through lower rates and the adop lowing: Gladys Bentley, Earl Baker, song by school; garland dance, fifth question previous to the meeting ing and the committees are prepar- The office of county commissioner grade. Miss Doran, teacher; wand however, went on up the highway tion of night flying, Mr. Nourse Esther Brown, Maxwell Chambers, and concurs in the action of the ing for a greater attendance thia is the most popular among the re as far as Gaston in the hopes of said. Plans, he said, call for bea John Connell, Dorman Blazer, Wil drill, third, fourth and fifth grades, committee. year. publicans with four seeking the of running into them again. It was on cons and emergency fields along the ma Baker, Lee Brown, Georgenia Miss Drake and Miss Young, teach Mr. Tongue told the grange com fice. M. E. Easterday of near For ers, and Maypole dances by the .route. The night flying cuts a full Brown, Kitty Caldwell, Anna Chris their return from Gaston that they | mittee that the action of the court ekt Grove, J. M. Hiatt, present in tensen, Lena Delplanche, Wayne sixth and seventh grades, Mrs. Mel- in attempting to secure payment of Nutritioa Schools met this car and gave chase, finally day off eastern delivery time. cumbent, J ,H. Wescott of Gaston, stopping them near the Masonic To stress the faith of the public Emmott, Joseph Fowells, Ross Hart- huish and Mrs. Woods, teachers. and T. E. Cornelius of Reedville Miss Meredith, Miss Doyle, Mrs. delinquent personal taxes through a home. in the air mail, Mr. Nourse salB the rampf, Frances Gnoss, Ione God- special collector was legal. Planned For County are in the race. Three seek the Davis and Miss Konigan assisted frey, Dick Hornecker, Ruth GiU- Schendel and Duley, according to big banks of the country were us The committee found that the approval of the republican voters with costumes, and Miss Johnson more, John Konigan, Bessie Ha- their story, took guns from two ing it to transport currency, The for the republican nomination fdr and Mrs. Kruchek were in charge collection of personal taxes is a Miss Lucy A. Case, nutrition spe sheriff and they are J. A. Ferrell of of the men, and found another in service has very few accidents ■ nd thorp, Walter Hansen, Howard Hil- of Maypole decorations. Throne difficult matter, that the assessment the ditch, where it had been thrown mail on the coast this winter ha« lis, Gwendolyn Heintz, Ruth Julien, decorations were by Mrs. Case and is made on March 1 and that the cialist of Oregon State college, will Gales Creek, Virgil Weckert and Ashley Jackson, George Johansen, sheriff does not get the roll until hold nutrition schools in the county John W. Connell of Hillsboro. by one of the men. Duley went been 91 per cent. Dr. J. O. Robb announced that Vera Hensley, Carol Handley, Bev Mrs. Blades. The Boy Scouts gave almost a year later. During that next week at the following places: after it, thinking it was a bottle of general aid. Edward C. Luce for clerk, E. North Plains, at the home of Mrs. period many of them have moved liquor. After the search, however, committees would call on members erly Kramer, Ruben Kuratli, Patty Sappington for treasurer, Earl Prize winners at the Boys' and and it is difficult to trace them ex Fred Beach, Tuesday. one of the men drew a gun from of the marching and host group to Lomax, Mildred McPherson, Mattie (Continued on page four) Watts Community, Wednesday, at Hobbs for surveyor, and Glenn cept through some specially equipped cover and «hot at Schendel, the secure deposits on the uniforms. Mann, Virginia McCann, Wayne Bell for coroner, all present inei . Lincoln. Elva Ulery, Avery Mil The name chosen was Cornucopian« Community hall. collection agency, the investigation concussion «pinning him around. The program for both places in bents, are unopposed for the repub revealed. After being relieved of their own and the uniform will be all cream. stead, Edward Meier, Pearl Miller, cludes sandwich, school lunch, with lican nomination and have no demo weapon«, as well as those they had He said organization would not be Wynne MacManiman, Velma Mer Mrs. Ralph Ireland sang several rill, Dorothy Yates, Arnold McCoy, eggs and cheese demonstration in cratic rivals. taken from the men, the officer» Ed S. Piper is unopposed for the the forenoon, and the afternoon Stamp of Approval were forced into the car of the solos, accompanied by Mrs. Reynold Roderick McLean, Ella May Miller, democratic nomination for secre Bertha Mohr, Joseph Patterson, Chapman. talk will be on how to eat and three men, who shot the fights out tary and William Levens is in a Clarence Poor, Erma Pasley, Regi grow thin, how to eat and grow of the sheriff’s car before leaving. Is Placed on Rand fat, and meal planning. Time— like position for S. attorney general. nald Reynolds, Gladys Nissen, Kyle Tho men drove to Portland, let the No democrat is seeking election oa Reynolds, Alice Rasmussen, Glenn | 10 a. m. to 3:30 p. m. The Hillsboro baseball team jour- deputies out at the head of Sixth Local Golfers Win the ballot to congress, state treas Rood, Margaret Rood, Francis Robb, neyed to Washougal Sunday and re- Washington county lawyers have street and handed them their un urer, supreme court justice, dairy Sewell, Elbert Stevens, ceived one of those old fashioned gone on record as endorsing John Tournament Sunday Evelyn loaded guns. The deputies were and food commissioner, circuit Irene Stevens, Dorothy Sherman, trimmings. The score was 8 to 2 L. Rand, chief justice of the Ore- City Advertised by given $1 to come home. judge, joint senator, senator and Thomas Sholes, Seth Smith, Marie and dropped the locals into third gon supreme court. They deplore The gun Duley picked up jammed attorney. The Fore.-t Hills Country club de Schmidt, Velma Taylor, Lester Local Legionnaires district the attacks made through the Eve when the third gunman started ac feated the Alderbrook club of Til Smith, Keith Susbauer, Dorothy place in the league standings. Mrs. Emma Bryant, present coun ning Telegram of Portland on the Kaiser, Washougal pitcher, was tion, and before he could get to his lamook on the club course near Tongue, Margaret Tucker, Eugenia ty school superintendent, is being in rare form and tied the heavy chief justice, and denounce it as gun was covered. Blooming Sunday, 26% to 16%. Cypher, Roy Thwaite, Delwin Hara- hitting Hillsboro batters in knots, unjust and wholly without excuse. Hillsboro received considerable opposed for the nomination by N. (Continued on page eight) Report to Police The local team included B. M. Good- der, Roy Shipman, Vlagdaline Za- letting them down with six hits, They recommend to the voters of advertising through the presentation Sheriff J. E. Reeves was called man, J. II. Garrett, Dr. Ralph Mills, now, Albert Davis, Mildred Lind Turk and Nosier took two each, and the county that they vote for his of the American Legion minstrel Francinc, holm, and Nita Meyers. I-atham, Joe ■nd the deputies reported in at the Marion Stangel and Delplanche accounted nomination and election. The en show at Gresham last Thursday Stapleton, Charles Hill. Glenn dorsement is signed by Benton night and through the 20-car cara- Business House Is Portland police station. for one each. Charles Cusick. Dick Fendall, Dr. A check on the car showed that The Hillsboro boys had one of Bowman, president of the county van through the main streets of Robbed on Thursday those off days and Washougal was bar association, M. B. Bump, W. P. Portland. Officers McMahon, Weck- it had been sold to an automobile Todd. Dr. Waltz, Frank Miller, Berry Festival Is Dyke, W. G. Hare, Thomas H. ert, Schendel and Duley escorted agency nnd then to an East Port Norman Armes and C. G. Reiter. not to be beaten. They just stepped The club will play Silverton at Jr., Paul L. Patterson, D. the legion caravan to the head of Off For This Year up to the plate and hit everything Tongue, land resident. Police arc hoping to Silverton The Herman Rehse cigar stand Sunday morning, begin Ncuenschwander had to offer. Stan- D. Bump, R. Frank Peters, and E. Sixth street where a squad of Port- and pool hall was robbed early on capture the men in a short time. ning at 9 a. m. land officers met them. B. Tongue. gel ’ s lusty clout in the third drove I The same gunmen, it is believed, A spring handicap tournament The minstrel show was presented Thursday morning. The article« The Hillsboro berry festival was in the only earned run Hillsboro were frightened away from the, will be started at Forest Hills May in the Gresham high school audi- taken were valued at a little les« called off by the committee Tues got. Hoag walked, stole second, Kennedy garnge at Banks by Henry 27 and will end Sunday, June 17. torium before nearly 400 persons. than $50, according to Mr. Rehse. Potato Growers to Stohler and Windsor Moore. The There will be a championship flight day night on account of the late and came in on - Luke’s hit to cen Entrance was gained through a rear ness of the season. The committee ter. lock was broken off the garage door and a first and second flight with window. Change was taken out of Meet on Monday Maling Returns to and when the men drove away in trophies. A women’s handicap tour members felt that the festival Manager Ray Dillon has signed the cash register, together with sev their car Stohler telephoned to nament will be held nt the same might perhaps interfere with farm up Robert Gardner, son of Harry- eral knives and cigarette lighters. work, and that to hold it later Deputy Sheriff Virgil Weckcrt, who time. Everyrtne is supposed to turn Gardner, old Pacific coast and major Three men were seen in the rear of Cannery from East the A meeting of the Washington drove toward Banks and, failing to in their scores between now and would be too close to the Fourth league pitcher. Gardner will prob building early that morning by of July. County Burbank Potato Growers ’ find them, returned to Hillsboro. ably start on the mound Sunday. workmen. May 27. association is being called by Otto With the addition of Frank Turk on The owner of the automobile used Bert Maling returned Sunday third, Hillsboro has the fastest in Brose, president, for Monday eve from a trip which included all the by the three men has been identi ning, May 21, at 8 o ’ clock, at the Smith and Goetter field in the league, Three double fied as Jack Nelson, an ex-convict, Oregonian Carrier principal cities of the east and Rotary Club Names plays were completed against Wash- county agent’s office, Hillsboro, for south. He left here the first of the according to Deputy Sheriff Virgil the purpose of appointing a dele First in Bowling ougal. Weckert, who said yesterday that a Hurt in Accident year, and the trip was in connec Board of Directors Estacada, for the first time this gate to the potato grade conference tion with Ray-Maling Cannery busi lot of the material stolen from the at Pendleton, May 28. year, will play Hillsboro on the Roy store was found in the Nelson ness. He was accompanied home Dr. E. H. Smith and William Fred home on Russell street. Steve Tevny, 19, special carrier Goetter were first in the doubles local grounds Sunday at 2::30 p. m. Orange Phelps, M. H. Stevenson, by Mrs. Maling, who has been This is booked as a red-hot con John Hare Takes a Schendel’s flashlight was abo found for the Oregonian, sustained a frnc- John Anderson, M. P. Cady and B. spending the winter in Honolulu, in this house. The car was aban- tured left leg Saturday night when in the bowling tournament of test and the league president. Bill and his daughter, Eleanor, who has M. Goodman were elected directors doubles and singles at the Rehse Heales, will be out to take in the doned at the foot of Failing street , an automobile crashed with the of the Hillsboro Rotary club Thurs Place at Corvallis been in school in California. alleys last week. They piled up a game. in Portland. motorcycle he was riding, at the in total of 1153 pins, day. Dr. Smith The Hillsboro lineup: Nosier, ss; tersection of Tenth and Oak streets. crashed the maples for a total of "A Rotarian’s Responsibility to The car No. 128-475 was registered (154 pins at an average of 218 pins Hoag, 2b; Delplanche, rf; Stangel, His Vocation,” a paper prepared by John Hare won fourth place and Freeman Wins Two cf; Deaville, If; Turk, 3b; Schul- two points for the Hillsboro union Dean Collins Talks R. Frank Peters, was read by Mr. to E. D. Fitzgerald. 51 East. Bald- a game. merich, lb; Ziegler, c; Neuen- high school track team in the state win street, Portland. Tevny was Peters. Robert and Ann, children Firsts in Track Meet follows: Those entered were as schwander, p; Frost, cf, and Dillon, At High School Meet taken to the Jones hospital, His Smith nnd Goetter, 1153; Gillmore If. Johnson, Gross and Miller went interscholastic track meet at Ore of Mr. and Mrs. Peters, sang sev eral songs. home is in Portland. gon State college Saturday, John and Dahlheim, 1137; Harvey and in as pinch hitters. Walter Freeman of Hillsboro The McMinnville club visited here took fourth in the broad jump with Rehse, 1043; I.arrance and Garrett, # Sunday’s Results Denn Collins of the Portland a leap of 20 feet 3 inches. A leap took two first places in the Pacific Thursday. 994; Linn and Dickey, 966, and Oswego 8, Estacada 7. of 20 feet anil 10 inches took first. university and Willamette univer Telegram addressed the delegates Slicker Artists at Rood nnd Ireland, 946. Davidson’s 7, Armory 5. Coaches B. M. Goodman and Lee sity track meet at Forest Grove to the high school press association Rehse was high in the singles j Sherwood 5, Barracks 4. Pacific university de- Coffee Club Play a'ccompanied the 12-man team, The Saturday, Work Within County in session at the chamber of com With a total of 580 pins. Other | boys were given a banquet follow feated the latter by a score of merce Thursday afternoon. Mr. ¡scores were: William Goetter, 574; 74 2-3 points to 56 % points, Pa- ed by a theater party. Is Great Success cific led by such a large score that Collins told of tho opportunities for I Slicker artists were at work on Harold Ireland, 544; James Dickey, Roy Store Robbed it was not necessary to run the mile young people in the newspaper garagemen in the county last week. 538; Jack Harvey, 524; Homer Da-J Cash, Merchandise Form a Commercial relay. Freeman ran the 440 in "When a Feller Needs a Friend,” A man would go into a gnrnge, ac vis, 510; Ernest Dahlheim, 475, and game. 53.3 seconds. His record for the staged by the dramatic department Verne McKinney of the Argus cording to the officers, say that his Art Gillmore, 473. half-mile was 2 minutes and 12.3 of the Hillsboro Coffee club Monday Club Around Timber seconds. talked on practical advertising for friend wns in jail following an ac The Roy store, L. C. Potter, pro- William Adler of Gaston night at the Venetian, was a de high school publications. Mr. Cof cident, and that money was needed prietor, was robbed Sunday night. placed second in the mile run and cided success, with a laugh in every fey, who did the photqgraphic work to bail hint out. The repair of n Church Given Part The communities of Hulbert, Tim second in the half-mile event. ' Entrance was gained through a rear line. The characters were well por on the Hilhi, tnlked about annunl large car wns offered if the garage ber, Westimber and Cochran have Of Window. $150 trayed, and reflected great credit photography. Thomas Sholes of the men could loan them money. A V StatTCtt ^s«saaS.SV Estate rnsh nn(J The about thieves $400 took in m< ,rchnI1 in organized what is known as the upon the ladies and their director, local high school is the retiring watch or a ring would be left as --------- dise. Sheriff J. E. Reeves and Dep- Timber Commercial club. J. B. Contract For High Mrs. Stannard. Those taking part security. president of the association. Wheeler is the president, B. T. Hart were Mesdames S. W. Bentley, II. The John P. Chambers estate, uty nenry Hickox investigated, Building Not Let vice-president, Guy Griffith secre R. Morgan, Fred Caldwell, M. Elder, valued at $6,500, and the F. M. ' Congratulates Argus tary, and O. S. Shiffer treasurer. j H.* O. Osborn, W. C. Gifford, H. “ Decoration Day to Starrett estate of $4,500, have been Oicz'iicc Praklomc Thirty-two new members will be On Having Good Paper admitted to probate. The Metho- ‘-'»»«-USS rrUDlt 1115 Or No decision was made on the Stannard, T. C. Reynolds, Fred taken into the club tonight, and of Union high school building contract Sewell and Frank Davis. The same dist Deaconess association of Ore-1 Be Legion Subject ficials expect to increase the mem by the board in session last night. play will be presented at Gales Farm on Monday gon received a seventh of the Star- 1 “I have never lived in your bership to 150 within 30 days. A meeting will be held by the Creek next Tuesday night. county, but as your newspaper rett estate for endowment purposes ; board again tonight in the hopes of in the will. Plans for Decoration Day will be came to my home for J. B. Klatt, iti Edward Olton Manager A new dtorase, which threatens | arriving at a decision. Roosters Crow at 10 Weeks the special order of business nt I have read it each week," writes to wipe out the clover and straw- Edward Olsen o* Hillsboro was Mrs. Harvey Huff of west of Hiatt's Daughter Dies the meeting of Hillsboro post of J. E. Todd of McMinnville. “I ! berry industries, will be discussed elected manager of the “Heart of Vernonia Man Fined Hillsboro reports that some 10 Mrs. Peter Gabriel, 21, daughter the Americhn legion Tuesday night. wish to congratulate you on hav ---- ) at ..i the Schefflip community hall Oak,” student body annual of Pa C. L. Fouts on Monday was fined weeks’ old roosters on their place ing one of the best county pnpers The legionnaires are working every of Commissioner .1. M. Hiatt of this Monday at 8 p. m., according to a cific university, for the 1929 edi $25 by Justice of the Peace Henry are crowing. Poultry raisers say Monday night until Decoration Day I have ever read. If I lived in county, died at Tillamook last' call made by Charles R. LaFollette, tion, recently. Edith Hansen of on tho cemetery, Work starts nt 7 your county would surely sub night. Mrs. Gabriel was born and j county fruit inspector. All growers Gaston will edit the publication next Kuratli on a charge of switching this is a very unusual thing, and license plates. Fouts is from Ver they have never heard of them reared near Dilley. scribe to it." p. m. , of these crops are urged to attend. year. nonia. I crowing so young. City Is Mecca Of Rotarians Story of Air Mail Is Told Locals to Play Estacada Here