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o:t statesman, saleit, Oregon. Friday morning, October 23, 1927 w Xt 9 i v A f -1 'BIB BILL' MICKS CHICH60 uwuffi Mayor Thompson Still In Full Cry After Deadly British , Propaganda - CT?ICACO...Oet. 27- (AP). Mayor .William Hale Thompson, w,o heads the British Hon hunting expedition In Chicago, . today trained his artillery on the public library and fired a broadside cal culated to frighten the game from Utat hunting ground. The mayor, wrote a letter to the board of trustees charging, that pro-British and on-American prop aganda was being .disseminated In the form of reading courses spon cored by the American libray as sociation. v; ' ' .- Mayor Thompson' called atten tion o f the trustees to a booklet : by "Herbert Adams .' Gibbons ,f Princeton, entitled "Reading with a Purpose Europe in Our Day," distributed by the American Li bray association from the Chicago library and advocating the read ingof six books. Four of these books, he charged. Including one by Dean Inge, contained matter which he considered un-American. He quoted' from this : book -and from the descriptive booklet at length and asked the board to en lighten him-on what was meant by advising th reading of such Clatter. .. Meanwhile.! U. J. "Sport Herr man. head of the mayor's commit tee to hunt Britls.h propaganda in the library had seized four books " which be had heard are tainted and said he would read. Mr. Herr mann baa f arored public bonfire of condemned books in Grant park but Maror Thompson " has ;: dis claimed favoring any such action after two suits were filed to stop destruction of, any books. Action in these suits, u pending, r i i The original cause of the furore.j the ouster of Superintendent Willr lam McAndrew. pledged by Mayor Thompson In his mayoralty cam paign last spring, has been rele gated temporarily to the back ground. Mr. iMcAndrew, suspend ed on charge of Insubordination, faced bis accusers before the board of education yesterday and heard fresh charges of pro-British history texts being nsed In the schools. The hearing was con tinued until next week. Meanwhile somo of Mayor . Thompson's close advisers have been repot ed to hare tod hfm to drop- the investigation of British sronannda. maintaining that he has laid himself to ridicule rather i. than helping correct the evils he t believes existjjr To this advice the '. mayor has been reported to have turned a deat ear. that "for being out of. humors-Mr. Coo lldge was. unusually cordial as he spoke of the senator's repeated public assertions that the country would exercise the draft and keep the jpresent occupant of the White House In office for another four years. ' j .v. " 2-- What, the ' president ' did J. em phasize, wrote Senator Fess, was that, he had found the senator's statements "embarassing" because of a feeling that the public might be misled as to their real source Thereupon Mr Fess took occasion to assure the public that j he was speaking i for himself alcae, and was " not 1 assuming to ' speak tLa sentiments of Mr. Coolidge.v ; : Where all ' of , this leaves : tlse I argument over CooLidge and 1928 U a ruestion which Senator Fess is willing to let developments dis close, v He did predict however, that "unless another statement is forthcoming,! Mr. Coolidge will be renominated and re-elected de- snlte his Black Hills announce ment that he does not "choose" to run. j - - . . u SOB in MM l-T! ILL! nnn OilU iMin n nanim v Directors aridTeaehers:Dis . cu$s Their Problems -Jointly At Meeting-' tlon as to whether he had met Sin-led - until midsumnfer, when the MA9RUDER PRiUSED COXGRKSSMAX HAS 'HIGH H PRAISK FOR ADMIRAL : : HOT SPRINGS Ark., Oct. 27. --(AP) -Representative J. -Y. McClintlc of Oklahoma, second ranking democratic member of the house naval : affairs : committee, said in a. statement published to day that he would try to obtain from that committee a vote ef thanks for Rear Admiral Thomas P. .Magruder for his recent 'arti cle about the navy. "Everyone knows that during the early period of Secretary Wil bur's tenure In office, the same publication that gave to the world Admiral Magruder's timely and constructive criticism of the navy published Secretary Wilbur's lit tle 'bunny rabbit' and 'brown bear children stories, there show ing thoughts uppermost In his mina." . . - - - Commenting' on the recall of Rear Admiral Magruder from the command of the Philadelphia na vy yard,? Mr. McClintlc said that the secretary's 1 attitude proves conclusively that the small coterie of officers that control the activ ities of the navy would scuttle the ship ot state rather than . allow anyone to minimize their impor tance in the maintenance of un necessary yards, and battleships. KEIZTTTt.-Oct, 27. (Special) The Keizer -school. C district is Ijrowirs rapidly in population; and rii account of the number of new pupils It was foua-1 . ncrcsary4 to llseontSnne' the ninth grade.' Baqh of the fsur lase . rooms is' filled' :o the, limits wUb.jwo grades In ' rccsi. -' ' Tle s"hool has ben under-way ?or a month, with, slndil result? L-e-iniff obiaSr.ed .b;.'tfce!. teachicg taff, uliith U the tarae" as laet v??r. , - '-' ' ' " . At fLe last raeetlnc of th'ecfhool oard, all of the teachers attended ht the invitation of Charles 'Wea- ) . . . m j. i A : The board f members made a aumber of suggestions . and tbe 'e-iffcors made their wants known is well. ; J ; H ', Many" IciproveraeEts are being made at tie school building. The bssement walla are being. eled. A number of new dcaks pare been 9nrchtcc-d. A full time janitor, has Ibeen employed. A.; C-i Pooler who is capable of makinK toe invprove ments about the building as well s doing the regular Janitor work. clair prior, to February. t!922 Justice Slddons directed: him to answer. .'- - '- Refuses , - 'I decline . lo answer," Ever hart reiterated. " , ' . - - Charles A Douglas, a Washing ton attorney,: appeared then for Everhart fend aked permission to advise the witness! Justice Sid dons refused, remark!-5 that he had advised Everhart. . '. : The.. wfLness then -r asked the stenographer to repeat tae. ques tion and finally answered la the affirmative. That eased the ten sion for the moment, but; Ever-; hart later refused" to : answer, an-; other question and Justice Slddons, directed him to do so. - i With the conclusion of the' ar-; gument. Justice Siddcnj' took,-tne? juestion ' under adriement and Prevlomsljr he bad exetised theS jury; while the lawyers 'argued the jri points of law Involved.""" " ifi millionaires and would-be million aires pour fin from Korta and South. America. ' Other beaches. nearer England, such as LeTou- quet. begin rating 1 nthe pounds and francs-ar Easter. This year all the casinos on1 the Channel coast - witnessed snore rambling on a big scale at Easter; than - last; . At Pentecost or Whitsuntide, as the English can it the Easter receipt were made to seen like pretty small takings. Games 'of chemin do fer went on all night at Le .Touquet, ' some players staying until i a. m.. A! yea ago the casino there was sel dom open until dawn. Banks of $10,000' were not uncommon, and the winning or losing of a million francs , at a ltting jraaiw Jare sigbt.:.-; rrf?'.''':. -";a"': . . . crow is nrr FREESOIL. Mich. A pet belonging to Theodore X'c" has been adopted as a ma- a nearby oil station. -..-.He .3 peanuts aad perches on the r tor of tourlstv cars untu give him tidbit.. .. . . 1 Bloom on Peaches Put on Tremendously Big Thing PARIS (AP Gambling is be .-oming a r bigger industry in f France every year.; The bis winnings- and ,bg los ings that Deauville talked about last summer are likely to seem like small change when that luxu-i rlous resort reaches -the height' of its season late In the summer. " Deauville doesn't get well 6tart- BUSY SKSOl.OP i : i EXCEIXKXT n A R VEST RE PORTED AT,KETZKU i CAL 'STIll SOUGHT SENATOR FESS STTIA THINKS COOLIDGE AVAILABLE KEIZER, Oft. 27---(Specia!) The Keizer community has. closed a busy harvest season. - with the exception of apple picking; whick la not yet finished, and the wal nut harvest, : "' :; : 'f.T'-?". Mr. Blake of Willow - Lake ha? exceptionally fine crop ot, wal nuts, and Mclary and Stow were well nleased with their cro of walnnts and filberts. Charles Weathers is trucking a fine lot of canning squash to the cannery. Mr. Weathers and i Gi deon v Stolz are going into ; the sheep business, and have: pur chased a fine lot Of : purebred sheep. " Tottenham Firemen Want To Wear Big Overcoats LONDON (AP)I Should fire men wear overcoats, and If so whynotT ' , - j ' A question in : words to this ef fect is being debated by the Tot tenham Council, London.1- - For 25 years h tbe Tf iremen of Tottenham have had ho overcoats. Now they want them. Councillor Jay: said that the Fire Brigade ommlttee recommended that their request be refused because the firemen had s done without, over coats for a quarter, of a century and. could do without them now. BANKER REFUSESiTO - RELATE TESTIMONY (Continued from Page One) later, probably tomorrow, wheth er Everhart will be required to tell from whom be received ; the bonds: The government contends that : Harry F, Sinclair gave J the bonds to Fall as a part,, at - least, of the consideration of ; the lease ot the Wyoming naval reserve. Patently nervous and extreme ly ill at ease. Everhart was a re- luctuant ; witness from f the flrat, and at one point appeared on the verge of going to jail for his. re fusal to answer a previous . ques- WASHINGTON, Oct. 27j (AP) The debate over President Coo- lidge'a availability as a presiden tial candidate in 1928 has been tarried one step further by Sen ator Fees ef Ohio, " w ' : In a letter to a Washington bus fness man the' senator has, given a new aspect to . hia recent call at the White House, and has, ex plained what he meant by saying afterward that Mr. Cooildge was displeased with 'recurring- predic tions of renomination,v ,y The - senator Said in' his ' letter. 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