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.
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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:
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HOUSE BLOWN TO BITS
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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. They are tak
ing final degree in aeronautical
engineering.
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COWBOT RIDES DOWN COYOTE
Miles River. Mont .IP The lat
est test for a cowbo Is his ability
in the saddle to run down a coyote
and knock It over with a rock from
his hand. Cowboy Helder Tom is
the first to claim the state bounty
for a coyote killed in this manner.
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CRESWELL PEOPLE CALL
Jefferson Mr. and Mrs. W. 8.
Oillenwater and grandson. Billy
Melhorne of Creswell. were Sunday
night guests at the home of Oll
lenwaters' parents, Mr. and Mrs.
D. M Oillenwater.
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)
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