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PAGE TWELVE lUlTflflS M ...-. s Olmsted Story Backed by Various Members of his Rum Organization (Cootlno4 from pais 1) loaded there. Gralgnle pleaded Sallty IB the second Olmsted case mt4 n another charge and err ed It months at McNiel. Island penitentiary. Although Graignlc and George K ear as, book keeper of the Olm sted ring; told of m ney payments being made. Kearns did not total tna amount, except to say he had tarad over "lots of money to Al Has sard for federal protection." Chris Curtis, McCleary, Wash., was more specific about the asaoant he had paid Hubbard for protection. He said it amounted tm SI40K for his own nrotectinn between September 192. and Pebraary 1927. and had also giv en soma amounted to several taoasand dallast to Hubbard for "protection of the Grays Harbor 11 aaor ring, operating at that time. IS PORT ORCHARD. Wash.. Aug. 27. (AP) W. W. Eaton, who the sheriff said has been under aarveillance in connection with bootlegging activities in Kitsap coaaty. was arrested today when officers found a revolver at his home belonging to one of the two elderly moonshiners slain yester day at their secluded quarters on a kill hear Poulsbro. No charge had been filed to night against Eaton, whose home Is abont a mile from the scene of the alayings. Three other men and the 26-year-old widow of G. L. Christenson, S3, one of the slain men. were also being held in the county jallhere. Eaton told officers his brother-in-law stole the revolver from John Hlgebar. the other slain man, killed on the same day that he be came a partner in the moonshining business with Christenson. Offi cers said Eaton had quarreled many times with Higebar and late ly with Christenson. An autopsy was to be held to determine whether bullets In the bodies of the men were fired from Hlbear's gun. Christenson was shot three times In the heaft, stomach and breast, and Higebar la the abdomen, while both were working in a little root house, snaking moonshine. Christenson's widow, Mrs. Julia Lee Christen aoa, said her husband began mak ing j moonshine there right after their marriage a month ago. She was In their home, about ISO feet from the root house, when the shots were fired and said uis assailant or assauaais nea la ta the woods before she reached tha scene. SB OFFICIALS (Continued from page 1) county board of commissioners, were also arrested on secret In dictments. Strevel was accused of the aaaa two charges as Wheeler and was attempting tonight to raise a similar bond. Buckley aad Ray Hungate, a taxi oper ator here for the past ten years, were each charged with liquor conspiracy and bond for each was set at $3000. laraw Area Covered By 841 Indictments Two others arrested on secret liquor conspiracy Indictments were Fred Learner, former soft drink establishment proprietor and Frank Pate, who gave his occupation as a rancher, both well known figures here, whose bonds were set at $4000 each. Fifty two other Indictments were made public up to yesterday by the grand jury, and were served on persons from eastern Wash ingtoa points as widely separat ed as Waterville and EUensburg and Spokane and Cle Elum. With more secret Indictments to be served the "cleanup of astern Washington" promised to be nearly as sensational as the Mallaa "whiskey rebellion case the prosecution of Wallace, Idaho. Pacific officials and the current federal trial of former prohibition enforcement chiefs of tha Pacific northwest In Se attle. Crossing Crash Kills Four When Train Hits Auto PLATTS BURGH, N. Y., Aug 27. (AP) A passenger train that piouched into an automo bile at a bund, unguarded cross tag north of here tonight, killed tour persons. The dead were Mr. and Mrs. Harold S. Labounty; of West Caasey, N. Y., and their 12 year M daughter, Ruth, and Mrs. Albert Labounty, their daughter-to-law. AO but Harold Labounty were UIM outright. He died in a hospital. . x Columbus Youth Best Marksman CAMP BERRP, Ohio, Aug. 27 AP) Milton Miller. IT. of CoUmbas. Ohio. , was - declared wiaaer ot the class A prone sit ting trophy shoot ot the national Junior rifle matches here today after h and ricaard Heller, 16. of AJtoona, Pa., tied wlth,S$l points out at n possible 400. The win ner's medal was given Miller tor the highest score, on his last striae which decided ties. , nniinnn HELD DOUBLE MURDER LEW RUM DMiET Sound Taps For Canine Old Soldier ELKHORN. Wis.. Aag. 27 (AP) Denny O'Keefe. who bark ed defiance to tbs enemy from a dosen . front line trenches aad marched over the Rhine to tri umph, is dead. Old age and 'strain of service with the A. E. F. were too much for Denny. He succumbed last night but without a whimper as befitted his title: one of the old est war dogs in thp United States. 0 Denny was a mongrel. He was born one rainy October sight of 1917 In a dugout just back of the lines. The boys of the 32nd divi sion carried him with them wherever they went Cantigny Soissons, Montdidler, St. Mihiel and the Argonne. When the first division tramp ed Into Germany, Denny went along. When he "first" came back to the United States he was with them, smuggled aboard ship in a rain coat At Camp Grant he was mustered from the army as "Private Denny O'Keefe. honor ably discharged." Beside him was his master. Sergeant Tom O'Keefe of Elkhom. At Montdidier he nearly lost his life in a gas attack. Soldiers rushed him to a hospital. He was treated as a regular patient, giv en, a bed and discharged a few months later as cured. The 32nd took no chances. Thereafter he wore a special gas mask. With him will be buried his token of service; five wound stripes and a five-battle badge. Rollar Coaster Crash is Fatal CORPUS CHRISTI. Tex., Aug. 27. (AP). One girl was killed and eight other persons were in jured, one probably fatajly, when a roller coaster plunged from the track in descending a chute at a beach amusement park here to night. Miss Ina Morton, 17. of Corpus Christ!, died soon after ward in a hospital. Her neck was broken. r Greenh Central Public Service Corporation $4 CUMULATIVE PREFERRED SHARES Are a safe investment f, can be easily sold . 2 ; are good bank collateral ... and yield over 6. I You can boy this stock out of income on theTl payment Thrift Plan, for as litde as $3 a month, if (Albert E. Tehee & Co. J In ears of . Pacific Northwest Public Servire Company 237 N. Liberty, Salem Pabfic Service Name. EKE . lilEB PASSES D JBE George Adams Miller, 7S, a res ident of Salem for tha past If years, died Wednesday morning at tha residence, 2 IS Marion street, following an extended illness. Ha was bora la Grants Pass in 187 aad had- spent almost bis entire life In Marlon eonnty. Ha was a prominent fruit grow er la the Gervaia district for many years. Ha leaves his widow, Mrs. Louisa Miller, a daughter, Mrs. Gibsoa rollls, step-mother, Mrs. I. B, Miller. Cllntonville, Wis., and the following brothers and sisters: B. J. J. Miller of Gervals. Dr. E. A. Miller, ft Cllntonville, Wis., Mrs. Ernest Brown and Mrs. Har old Lathrop of Portland. Mrs. O. T. Ottoway of Aurora. Mrs. F. W. Durbln of Walla Walla. Wash., Mrs. Irving Toombs of Albu querque. New Mexico, Mrs. My rene Scbmledke, Mrs. Richard Mil bauer, of Cllntonville, Wis., and Mrs. Nellie Taldln. Wyoming. Remains are rn charge of tha Terwilliger funeral home and fu neral announcements will be made later. LIQUOR LH BOUT CAUGHT OFF COAST NEW YORK, Aug. 27 (AP) Loaded to tha gunwales with first rate liquor and malt valued at $220,000, the 'trim Canadian sea dory, Nova V, was bought in to the harbor today by the coast guard boat Cardigan, after her capture yesterday within the twelve mile limit off Shinnecock, Long Island. Captain William Kaulbach and ls crew of nine were under ar rest and will be arraigned on charges of smuggling. The Nova V, a. motor driven craft valued at $50,000 and ca pable of doing 22 knots, was over hauled by th patrol boat after a chase of half a mile during which one round of shot was fired. A difficult legal problem was foreseen by customs officials in the statement of counsel for the prisoners that his clients had UseG reennouses One of the leading .florist magazines recently said: "Portland's finest private greenhouses are automatically heated by gas. In our Portland displayroom aereral Caaxy birds cheerfully sing their happy songs. All oi which helps prove that plants and birds enjoy gas heated homes as much as the owner does. Mail the Coupon Efeh k will Bring You Infornuticn About TEPCO f aba 1 ---.j ' committed me crime because they ware outslds the three mils limit, had not had contact with tha shore, and had not transferred their cargo to another vessel. Tha captain Insisted he was enroeta to Bermnda end lost his bearings. OF Ml KILLS TWO (Continued from page i) went to his death because he man euvered his plane to preeent strik ing the bleachers head on and causing a tradegy of major pro portions. His comrades took to the air in formation, after the crash with a blank Jlle between tha dipping ships, in a gesture of farewell. Silent crowds read in the a?t a tribute to heroic action. Deshato was one of the best known stunt fliers in the navy. He was a member of the 1929 batUe fleet stunting trio and again this year was a member of a navy team known as the "unholy three!" Tiget Attacks; Lad Near Death LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27. (AP). Twelve-year-old Alfred Hill, who climbed a Luna Park fence to explore a miniature jun gle, narrowly escaped death from the claws of a great Bengal ti ger today. His screams brought Melrln Koontz, lion keeper, who killed the tiger with a single shot of a large bore rifle. The lad's right arm and scalp were badly torn by the claws of the tiger, which leaped upon him from a screen of bushes. Girl Starts try At Channel Swim CAPE GRIZ NEZ, France, Aug. 27. (AP) Miss Elsie West, English swimmer, tonight began an attempt to swim the English channel. She entered the water at 10:39 p. m., (4:39 E.S.T.) withthe sea calm and the water warm. as row Telephone. HS0 UB r.wi m in IT (Contlnoed from page 1) over the Tientsin customs for Ten Hsi-Shan. a northern leader. Simpson displaced Colonel Hayley Bell, also an Englishman, as com missioner of customs and the na tionalists protested strongly. Bertram Lenox Simpson, bet ter known under his pen name of Putnam Weale. is an English nov elist and Journalist who first came into fame shortly sfter the .siege of Peiplng, then known as Peking, through his book. "In discreet Letters . from Peking. This book was a diary of the siege snd wss frank in its criticism of diplomatists and other foreign of ficials who were In Peking dur ing the siege. WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. (AP) A tasteless, odorless com pound, generally used in the lac quer and leather industries, is re sponsible, in the opinion of gov ernment chemists, for the thou sands of eases of paralysis that followed the drinking of ginger concoctions. The bureau of Industrial alcohol announced today that the "strange poison" is "ortho-tri-cresy phosphate'- and that the "ortho-tri-cresyl" alone caused the paralysis which has been particularly seri ous in the south and west. The body, the investigators, said act ed chemically en the compound o. on ivM3 RULES re CHEMISTS DISCLOSE GUI DEATHS' CAUSE vlKi: 275 Norh liberty Street Telephone 1435 sach a way that It "split" aad the poisoning resulted. The hareaa said some unknown chemical genius ot tha under world apparently had hit upon the Ideal sabstance tor adulterating fluid extract of Singer nsed for beverage purposes. The substance is cheap and the unknown chem ist had no reason to believe the substance would prore extraordin arily BarmfuL It Is in fact, the investigators said, harmless, until the body changes it Into a poison. mm mm LIGHTS IIP CHICAGO CHICAGO. Aug. 27 (AP) Chicago tonight winked at the moon as the Lindbergh beacon, most powerful guide tor aviators known to the world was turned on by President Hoover, sitting at his desk in Washington. The beacon, invented by Elmer A Sperry, famous New York in ventor, . now dead, shines forth from a specially built tower above the Palmolive building in Chica go's loop. Its light is so bright that an aviator, close to the ground, can read a newspaper by It at a distance of between 50 and 75 miles away. It has a range equivalent to the distance between Chicago and Cleveland but after that melts oft into space due to the curvature of the earth. Twd billion candle power, said to be the greatest focus of light nergy ever yet gathered together on a single reflector, fires the man-made sun. It had been hoped that Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, for whom the great beacon was named, would be present for the dedica tion, but the famous flier was not on hand. 5 et s HOW Tires! Do you know that many big tire makers are offering and selling "second line" tires to the public? 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