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TUESDAY, JULY 21. 1936 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON vNEGRO SLAIN BY BLACK LEGION Detroit, July 31 (Pi Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea announced to day that Dayton Dean, confessed Black Legion "trlggerman" In the slaying May 12 of Charles A. Poole, had told of a new killing in which members of the terrorist organiza tion shot a negro to death "just for the hell of it" May to, 1935, near Pmckney. Mich. The victim. Dean said, was Silas Coleman. 43. a World war veteran He was lured to a desolate spot on the pretext he was to collect wages due him. Dean told McCrea. and shot down for the entertainment of a Black Legion drinking party. ' McCrea said he would ask war rants today charging five men with kidnaping Coleman from his home here. The men Dean accused of partic ipating in the slaying are Harvey Davis. Jack Bannerman, and Ervln V D. Lee, who are held for thai for f the Poole slaying; Charles Rouse, awaiting trial as an accessory after the fact in the Poole case, and James Roy Lorence. who was re leased after questioning , In the Poole slaying. In a formal statement to McCrea, Dean said Coleman was' killed be cause of Dean's superiors in the Black Legion said he wanted to "see what it feels like" to shoot a negro. Four members of the Black Le gion and their wives were spending a week-end at a cottage near Rush lake, in Livingston county, and the slaying was arranged to furnish a little excitement" for the men in the party, Dean related. F or urn Contributions to this col umn must be confined to 300 words and signed by writer. Salem. Oregon July 30, 1836 To the Editor, Capita Journal Salem, Oregon Dear Sir: The following is a copy of a let ter being sent to the Salem school board, and I would appreciate it if you would publish it in your Open Forum department: "Salem. Oregon July 30, 1936 Salem School Board, Salem, Oregon Gentlemen: "I wish to submit for your con sideration as the name for the grade school on Mission' street 'Bush School.' "The Bush family of Salem are pioneers in this part of the state and their many benefactions for which the people of this vicinity are Indebted make it fitting and proper that some recognition be given this esteemed family. "I. therefore, urge that this sug gestion be given your earnest con sideration, so that this highly de served recognition may be afford ed and an appropriate name given this new building. Respectfully submitted. MRS. E. A. RHOTEN" Walnut Crop Short In Southern Area While some walnut growers in the northern portion of California are reporting exceptionally heavy drop ping during June and in some other areas considerable evidence of wal nut blight, the total State crop has not changed in production outlook since a month ago and is now fore cast at 42.000 tons, says a report in the California Fruit News. Other recent crops have been 52.000 tons In 1835. 43.000 in 1934. 32.000 in 1933. 45.500 in 1932 and 29,000 in 1931. The July 1 report of walnut per cent of a full crop for Oregon is 55. while no report was made for Washington. Oregon filberts are re ported at 12 per cent of a full crop. GLAD TO DISBAND Los Angeles (IP) A CHlien's Ad visory committee of 15 members, appointed by the county supervis ors, to deal with the problem of re habilitation, never cast but one unanimous vol. It was on a mo tion to disband. "Kindness Week" hi France was mvmori hv a radio anneal from Paris by Mme. Dussane of the Comedie Francalse, who urged individuals to perform as many consioeraie na helpful acts as possible Saved The King: V HOUSE BLOWN TO BITS - r k , . V The camera clicked at this house tumbled to earth Just after 60 pounds of dynamite had been discharged. The two-story structure, a former lifeguard house, was destroyed to make way for a new boardwalk at a New York beach. (Associated Press Photo) MARTIN AND PARTY TO INSPECT ROADS ACROSS HOGG PASS (Continued from page 1) the junction of the Santlam high way by way of Fish and Elk lakes. The party is scheduled to leave Salem at 8:20 o'clock Wednesday morning to travel over the North Santiam road to the South San tlam Junction by way of Stayton, Mill City and Detroit: thence over the Santiam or Hogg Pass route to Sisters for lunch; back over the McKenzie highway to Belknap Springs; over the forest trail past Clear lake to the Santiam. junction, and back to Salem over the South Santiam highway via Lebanon and Albany. If time permiu a side trip from Detroit to Breitenbush Springs Is contemplated. With work of grading and sub- surfacing the last 3 mile link of the North Santiam road through the forest reserve from Detroit to San tiam Junction which will open the entire highway to travel from Bend and other central Oregon points to Salem and Portland, attention of members of the official party will be called particularly to the need for Improvement of that part of the road between Detroit and Salem. Estimates compiled by the high way engineers of the cost of build ing this section of the highway to modern standards show a total of $3,290,000, to which must be added another 1300,000 for relocation ex pense if the proposed flood control dam is built across the Santiam river canyon below Detroit. The estimated items of expense are as follows: Salem to Stayton. 14 miles of grading and surfacing and one rail- Diversity Marking Farm Occupations Central Howell Hav balers and threshers are vieing with each oth er this year. Acres oi hay remain to be baled while the farmers are trying to get their grain cut before it gets too ripe. Some balers have not even been taken out of the barns as their owners have too much ether work to do. The baler owned jointly by Henry Werner. Clarence Simmons and others the Kuensl and the Roth Brothers balers have been busy for the part two weeks with at least ten day; more work in view. Some threshing of fall bar ley has already been done in the Middle drove sector with many acres of grain in th shock. Some of the grain is not turning out very well, probably due to the freezing weather of the past winter. Hay yield is exceptionally good, some oi it going six and seven tons to the acre. road undercrossing. $825,000. Stayton to Mehama. 9 miles grad lng and surfacing. 1360.000. Mehama to Mill City. 7.2 miles grading and surfacing. 1560,000. Gates to Niagara, 4.24 miles grad tag and surfacing. $250,000. Niagara to Detroit. 11.8 miles of grading and surfacing, $1,300,000. The Improvement of the Gates Detroit" stretch, the canyon section which at present is narrow and dan gerous, will be urged upon the com mission and the forest service for first attention, inasmuch as the present road from Mill City into Salem is all hard surfaced and ade- quate to handle present traffic COMET CAN BE SEEN TONIGHT New York. July 21 (Pi Star gazers will be able to see Peltier's comet with the naked eye tonight and it will Increase in visibility until it reaches its maximum brilliance on August 4. The comet, discovered by Leslie Peltier, famous amateur astronomer of Delphos. Ohio, is at present in the constellation Casseopeia. Prof. William H. Barton. Jr.. act ing head of the Hayden planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, said the comet Is low in the northeast Just after dark, but by two or three o'clock in the morning it is high overhead. About the first of August It will move into Pegasus, said Professor Barton, and will move into Aquarius on August 3 and 4. when it will be about 16,000,000 miles from the earth. Peltier's comet will not be as spec tacular as was Halley's comet 25 years ago, but when closest to earth will be about as bright as the dim mer stars in the Big Dipper. Nor will its tail be as long as that of Halley's comet. The constellation Casseopeia com monly is known as "The Lady in the Chair;" that of Pegasus as "The Winged Horse." and that of Aquar ius as "The Water Bearer." SAYRE TO HEAD VOTERS' LEAGUE New York. July 21 W Demo cratic Chairman James A. Farley announced today the appointment of Francis B. Sayre, Jr.. grandson of Woodrow Wilson, a president of the newly formed Roosevelt First Voters' league. 8ayre, son of the assistant secre tary of state, sent the following word on his appointment to demo cratic headquarters from a summer camp at Bath, Me.: "It Is well recognised that a very large percentage of the young vot ers will, without solicitation, cast their first vote for President Roose velt. National polls indicated a preference of about 75 per cent of first voters for the president. "We young people need a pro gressive president who will con tinue to guarantee to American youth the opportunity fast vanish- HOME AGAIN AFTER TRIAL After th successful conclusion si tha alienation of affections suit brought at Chicago against her. Helen Hayes, noted acrtass, and her playwright husband, Charles MacArthur, returned to the quiet of their home at Nyack, N. Y. Here they are taking thtir ease In a hammock. (Associated Press Photo) ing under past administrations." Herbert Bayard Swope. Jr., was named treasurer of the league, and Miss Betty Dern, daughter of the secretary of war, secretary, Farley said he would complete the organization of the democratic campaign staff during the coming week. Appointment of a chairman of the democratic finance commit tee, as well as a chairman of the veterans' division,, are still to be made. The chairman appointed Oscar Hellstrom of New York and Seattle, publisher of the Swedish post, as head of the Scandinavian division of the foreign language committee. Aurora Mrs. John R. Wilson of Seattle arrived Saturday morning to visit her daughter. Mrs. Frank McAllister, and family Most Irksome Words Named By Instructor Berkeley, Cal. (IP) The most ob- jectionable phrase 'n the English language according to Mrs. Ruth Norton Nonnelly, English Instructor of the University of California, is "What I mean Is" Slang. Mrs. Donnelly thinks, is preferable to the necessity of hav ing to explain what a person means if they cannot do it the first time in correct English. Most of the trouble, howevei, she states, lies in the fact that the per son talking does not know himself what he wants to say. Chemical business in British Ma laya is the best in recent years. LANDON FAMILY RETURNS HOME Topeka. July 21 (LPX Non-parti - &an test polls of national sentiment and symptoms of sn Li-Roosevelt feeling at the Grass Roots cheered Gov. Atf Land on 's adherents today as the republican presidential candi date patted into place final phrases In the acceptance speech which he will deliver here Thursday night. The governor's family returned today from their Estes Park, Colo., vacation ranch for the acceptance ceremonies. Mrs. Land on and the children found a splash of color spreading up broad Kansas avenue where workmen are scrambling up ladders with the bunting and lithographs of the nominee. This principal business street of Topeka is being transformed for the first of Thursday's big shows a parade and historical pageant which will depict the pioneers' conquest of Kansas and the development of the prairie states. Gov. Landons advisers have ob served two recent political develop ments interpreted as definitely in creasing his November chances. The first was the bolt of conservative democratic leaders under Alfred E. Smith from the candidacy of Presi dent Roosevelt. The second com bined scattered expressions of Grass Root sentiment. This latter is reflected in various polls which in the past fortnight have indi cated the republican candidate is gaining at Mr. Roosevelt's expense. PLANTATION OF JURIST BROKEN UP New Orleans U One hundred and fifty years old and possessor of a colorful history, the plantation of the late Chief Justice Edward Doug las White will be broken up into re habilitation farms. The plantation has been purchas ed by th federal government from tha estate of th laU Mrs. Whit, who died in 1834, and will be brok en up Into many small farms for men ana women inn xrom u de pleted and wasted farm land in north Louisiana and other sections. The plantation home, an exam ple of American architecture of Usa 17tOs, will remain untouched as a shrine to the great American Jurist, who waa appointed to the high pott by President Cleveland. TWINS WOBJC TOGETHEB Pasadena, Cal. OP Milton 0. and Francis H. Claueer, twins, born So years ago at Kama City, and whom college professors have diffi culty in telling apart, will follow the same profession. 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The unidentified "woman m gray." who ponibly saved King Edward VIII from an assassin's bullet, la shown in this snapshot transmitted from London by radio. She knocked I the pave ment a pistol leveled at the British monarch by George An drew MrMahon. (Associated Pre Photo) CSC CHINESE HERBS WHEN OTHERS FAIL Charlie Chan Chines Herb Remedies an i on, their Ing TUtM keen' tested keen' teste j , hondreds year nf In f.llowlni IrfdYii It chronic ailment, s. H. rang throat, ainasitle. catarrh, eara. ruga, asthma, chronic coush. stomach, gall atone, colitis, con stipation, diabetic kidneys, blad der, heart, nerve, neuralgia, rheumatism, high blood preuur. gland, skin sore, male, female, children disorders, ft. B- Fong. reus prsrtlce la China, Htrb Bpeclaittt. glias relief afur others fall. 121 w. Commercial u. Salm. Or. Office boon dally 0 to S p.m. ex eept Sonde? sod Wednesday t I. Let The Capital Journal Be a Daily Visitor To Your Vacation Address Two WeeEic fon4 2gc Phone 257 U -
