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WEDNESDAY,
MUST INSPECT British P olo PÏayers Fear H itchcock Echo Of Famous D’Autremont *
BERRY PLANTS
' Murder Trial Found In Poem
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Not he, the Brave; Not Sidney Bates, whose code is duty well
Cepsoes Siskiyou tunnel holdup and( murder, for which the three
performed!
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D*Autrrmont brothers are serving Ilf» term« In the penitentiary nt
Pretends to act, but leaves all set; no car can move. He holds the
Knlem, was written by A. D. Porter, 818 Granite street:
Strawberry growers who plan
on shipping young planta for sale
should note the fcHowing extract
from the Horticultural laws of
Oregon, says L. P. Wilcox, coun­
ty agent:
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“Any firm, person or corpora­
tion,, growing strawberry plants
for sale for propagation purposes
In Oregon shall, not less than six
weeks previo^i to the time plan­
ned for removal of the plants In­
tended for sale, make application
In writing to the horticulture
commissioner' of his district for
the Inspection of the field giving
such facts regardng location and
acreage as shall be stipulated by
the president of the Oregon State
Board of Horticulture.
"All strawberry fields and their
surroundings from which plants
aro'to be sold shall be Inspected
by a duly authorized inspector of
the Oregon State Board of Horti­
culture. Any fields found Infest­
ed or In, or adjacent to, an area
likely to be inflated by the straw­
berry root-weevils, which in the
judgment of the Inspector Is or is
likely to he a source of contamin­
ation through the disposal of
i trawberry plants for propagation
The British Army-ftWbdls polo team think they can win the chal­
purposes, shall be quarantined,
lenge cup at Meadow Brook next month If they smother Tommy
and no plants may he used for
Hitchcock. No 2 An the United 8tates team, when the two teams
sale or propagation from said
meet. 80 they have planned their game accordingly— to smother
quarantined fields.
Weevil-free
Hitchcock! This young man. regarded ay the greatest polo playas
fields shall be issuel a certificate
tat this age, will carry the load e< the Americans’ attack.
of Inspection, copies of w h I c h
shall accompany each shipment
of plants and be displayed in a
conspicuous place on each package
or bundle.
“No common carrier shall ac­
cept for transportation any crate,
the backfield combination is not
1/y Charitas* É. Ahrens
bundle or pscksge of strawberry tlnlted Press 8taff Correspondent much better than that of last sea
plants for transportation except
sop. Experience will mark t h e
CLEVELAND. Ohio., Sept. 2
where same Is accompanied by the — (IP)— The battle for football su­ only difference.
certificate o f inspection duly cer­ premacy In the Western Confer­
From the poper strength of the
tified and correct.”
Big
Ten. which is not always
ence will be fought this year with
^Requests for such inspection Michigan, last year’s champions, fair way of comparison, the teams
should be addressed to the Coun­ far out of the running, if the early should finish in the following ol­
ty Agent's office, Medford, Ore­ guesses of the experts carry any der: Minnesota; Purdue; North­
gon,
western, Michigan, Ohio
State,
import.
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Predictions of the downfall of aqd Chicago, with the rest trail
Michigan, last year the New York ing.
Yankees of football, are based
mainly on the fact that Benny
Friedman, the Babe Ruth of this
gridiron team,
has graduated
tution, and
with,
mainstays of last
season’s pupil* of Coach Fielding
trol in. Family
and “Hurry. Up” Yost.
In turning their back on Mlch-
BOSTON, Sept. 27. — (LB —
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 27.
gan.
the experts have turned to When officials of the Boston and
-—(LP)— Mayor John L. Duvall,
of Indianapolis, convicted of vio­ Minnesota as u likely winner of Maine railroad decided to aban­
lating -the corrupt practices act, the 1927 title. Minnesota last don the conventional black and
has mate a brilliant coup d’etat season was barely edged, out of a paint two of their locomotives
by appointing his wife as city win In Its annual game with the colors, they little realised they
Wolverines, and this year will go were starting a controversy which
controller and thereby assuring
into the season with its 1926 line­ was to involve historians, college
himself that the mayor’s chair
up practically intact.
professors and artists.
will remain at home.
Michigan on the other hand has
But such a controversy has de­
Should her husband resign or
lost Ft-iedman, one ot the greatest
veloped over the railroad’s choice
be ousted from office— either of
field generals and passers of all
which is probable— Mrs. Dnvalt time, who now Is captaining the of blue and buff as color repre­
would become the first - woman Cleveland professional team. Cap­ sentations of the uniforms worn
mayor of Indianapolis.
tain Benny Oosterbaan of the by the Minute Men.
The locomotives selected tor
This city -Is the political center Wolverines, Friendman’s mate» in
of Indiana, the politick' of which the passing game developed, by coatings of blue and buff were
to the
long has been under Investiga­ “Hurry Uta” Yost,
accordingly these a t t a c h e d
tion. The last two governors of will have to find someone to road's crack trains which pass
the slate, including Ed Jackson, throw the passes made famous by dally through those historic fields
present governor» have been In­ Friedman. Bo Molenda, another where the Minute Men battled
dicted and Warren T. McCray, his Important cog In the Michigan the British a century and a half
predecessor
recently
returned machine- aleo has passed out of ago.
The state of Massachusetts,
from Atlanta penitentiary, where the picture with Friedman, to­
he served three years and four gether with three others of the Sons of the Revolution, and the
New England Council had long
months for using the malls to last year’s eleven.
Some favoC likeswlse is being looked upon bine and buff as
defraud.
Ohio the uniform colors of the*M in­
Editorial demand has been cast upon Northwestern,
Wisconsin, ute Men, hat the current diverg­
made upon Duvall to resign. He State and Purdue.
has said he will remain in office they say, will be foroed to build ence of opinion has revealed that
until forced out, but the appoint­ an entirely new team and even the first official color combina­
ment of his wlfp to the position with Olepn Thlstlewalte, n e w tion of the Continental forces
from which she can 'become coach Imported from Northwest­ was blue and white.
After various authorities had
majror is interpreted as indicative ern. will find the football sailing
exceedingly tough. Illinois Isn't expressed their views, railroad
of Duvall's intentions.
Mrs.
Duvall
promised she entirely overooked in the early official announced that blue and
predictions, but it is passed by buff had been chosen to typify
would give >at least half of each
with the comment. “ Bob Zuppke
the Minute Men only after ex
day to her, new job. She said
is too hard to figure In the early
she would continue to fake
haustlve research, and - Indicated
season.”
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charge of her household for the
the locomotive would continue
Alonso Stagg will have 11 let­
rest of the day.
to sport that combination of col
ter men back at Chicago and the
ore.
popular guess is that his team
Michigan Doped To Lose Grid
.Supremacy Of Western Leagues
Chinese Actor
Leaves Estate
NEW YORK, Sept. 28.— (LP)—
The will of, Benjamin Tsang, Chi­
nese aetpr, with two stage names,
was filed in Surrogates’ court
Tuesday^ leaving his estate to two
slaters of New York and S a n
Francisco.
Tsang, who executed his will on
the day of his death last Septem­
ber IS In New York, declared he
“was an actor who had appeared
all over the country.” He left
83,000 outright to Jackson A.
Robertson, of Berkeley, Cal.
The actor was also known .* as
Ben Nee One and Benjamin One
Wan. He lived In San Francisco
mest of his life.
Russian Soviet agents buy 452
blooded Oregon sheep for export
to Rpssla
may creep into the select circle
and press Minnesota for t h e
championship. Iowa Is given
passing rrtentlon, while Pat Page
and his hoosiers at Indiana are
practically Ignored as contenders.
Pardas seéms to be the dark-
horse o f ’ the conference. Coach
Jim Phelan, according to early
predictions, w ill h ate 20 letter
men back on hie eleven Including
Cotton” Wilcox, who has been
c-ne of the most feared backfield
men In the Big Ten. Should Pur­
due qpme Into its own this year
and win a title, It will be a com­
pliment to Coach Phelan w h o
almost lonehanded has built a
football machine fsom practically
green material.
• Coach Jack Wllce of Ohi^ State
Isn’t predicting any champion­
ships for his charges bnt believes
he »as the nucleus for an eleven
which will offer' stiff competition
for any team It meets. The line
admittedly needs bolstering, while
Knows that his life Is on the brink of dim Eternity’s strange shore.
What does be do, when told again to turn on steam add puM' the
train
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The following graphic story, rather uniquely written, of the Betray his trust and lose his might? Give up and 1st the (jght be Id f?
County Agent Will A u ist ”
in Aiding Strawberry
Grower»
CONVICT MAYOR
APPOINTS WIFE
two men ernely done, wantonly
Grey-headed Bate
killed,
What Color DM
“Minute Men” Of
Revolution WeSr
One thorough spray with bor-
deaux mixture 4-4-50 in late'
summer has proved an effective
protection in Oregon tor red
raspberry and loganberry plant­
ings against various fnngl cane-
in g cane spots, spur blight ,and
“gray hark” of all aorta, reports
the experiment station.
I t the
canes go into the wet period well
coated more vigorous fruiting
wood is assured tor the nett year.
The best ram is none too
good for the Oregon sheep raiser,
says the extension specialist after
observing practices throughout
the state.' An extra 85 Jn cost
may mean an -extra Iv e pounds
on every lamb he sires.
THE ENGINE BELL
Passenger train Number HHi-teen. snorting up Siskiyou’s
grade.
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long
Stops at the tunnel portal dark,— Morp Thirteen, superstitious folk
W ill remind you; coincidence whtcb le repeated ev’ry day
Through ev’ry year, and so not strange. Cast aside Superstition’s
yoke!
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Here at the summit Engineer Bates tests his brakes, usual thing.
Glances a: fir clad mountains bright, quiet raid-day, beauty and light.
Life to him sweet, as youra or mine— open« the throttle, casual act.
Turns to the fireman, “All right, Seng?’’ then to the road directs his
sight.
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"The automatic engine was ringing."
That bell, rings oai That bell! Notice It!
The locomotive bell!-
Skirting the hill, then nosing fa, over the switch points, slowly now,
Testipg the air,— so on each tri®.—«ainlng momentum for the
plunge
Into the dark, and then down grade; big steaming engine,— Bates
In control.—
Palace cars rolling behind, steddily pulled, no jerk nor lunge,,
WooSen are there and children,too; enjoy their ride and latagh and
talk.
Look down to Stieiynan peak, and np to the flower'd slopes, eat
. sweets or read:
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Trusting their lives to Bates ahead, a common engineer ai work,
Watching machine, and rails fo front,— just common duty, usual
deed.
“The automatic engine bell was ringing."
That bell rings on! That bell! Hear you it?
The locomotive bell?
tra(n.
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“The automatic engine bell was ringing.”
That bell rings on! That hell! Do you hear :
The locomotive bell?
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S T U D E N T IN
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, RACE BATTLE
Transfer of Colored 8tw>
dent» Gauses Student
Strike
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GARY, Ind., Sept. 28.—<LB—
Striking students at
Emerson
The bandits shout, “We’ve lost onr all! Agree to shoot poor Seng high school drew recruits flrbtak
those who answered the school
right there.
“Come, bump him o ff!" Then Bates Is dead! But the train stands, bell tot^ty, and In* the afternoon
passengers safe;
more than 80Q . white stqdenta
Stands at the head of that long steep, where loosened band would
i were on* strike protesting the
hurl them down;
Stands, though the bandits wring their hands; stands though they transfer of twenty-four negroes
swear, and rave, and chafe,
to their school.
No human eye perceived those men, that unsklll deed which came
The strikers assembled In the
to naught
But blood, aud woe for widowed women, children fatherless and school yard this morning and di­
robbed.
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rected jeers and jibes at those
“ I will repay," salth the Lord; God who hears the widow’s plain­ who started for the
building.
tive cry.
Warned away by teachers, they
Be sure your sin will find you out: God was not mocked when I
assembled In East Side Park, a
children sobbed.
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“The automatic engine bell was ringing," said one robber boy; tew blocks away and héld
“ We shot the brakeman— never will forget hl« face— to me ’tls meeting. Officers were elected,
hell!
and an organization formed.
“That bell rang on! That bell! Oh! It was ringing all the time,
Mayor Floyd E. Williams has
“Thai dam bell! Still 1 hear It ring, sdtnetlmes, that warning engine
called a conference of civic edu­
bell!"
cational leaders for this after­
noon and speakers for the strik-
4 ing student body may be asked
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to attend.
Need Protection
From Headlights
As <»•> train slows to try the air, two small men dodge and dart
along,
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STOCKHOLM — (LP) — A new
And reach the tender-side, and one .grasps the hand-rail and swings
aboard;
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kind of eyeblasses to protect
The other stumbles, drops a gun. Is fflv’n a hand by the first one,
drivers of automobiles against
And Just crawls up In nick of time; both breathless, purpose most
glaring headlights has been in­
untow’rd.
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What purpose theirs? Not far away,-a mile or so, at the south end vented by a Stockholm eye spec-
Of that same tunnel, smoking cigarettes, waits one wlio^»-i«.-jUlwXf J ia lls t, Dr. Carl O'. Bostrom.v who
Hir. nerves on edge, his mind a whirl of hateful, nfisdlrected Is also chief medical officer of
thoughts.
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“ Ho had been reading Darwin, Huxlqy, Schoepenhauer, and all that the Swedish Navy.
The glass Itself is not new,
• stuff."
"The automatic engine TielV was ringing.”
being the German made Hallauer
That bell rings on! That bell! Do you hear
glaqs No. 66 which eliminates the
The locomotive bell?
Irritations caused in the human
eye
by certain sharp rays, but
. The Bible this man thought a anyth, and named the Name" of Christ
in vain, >»
Dr. Bostrom’s Idea consists In
Sad comment on ouf “modern” disbelief, lack of One Standard pure: graduafly shading this greenish-
For if great God had not revealed His Way and Truth and Life In
yellow-gray glass Into ordinary
fact.
clear
glass at the lower half of
Each koul would set his own w ill first,-—The Devil take the hindmost,
the lenses so that by slightly
So planned that man and built h ls jjfe that evolution worked its bending the head when meeting
way,
a glaring head light, the driver
Degrading him who had no God; and .brought his brothers downward, can protect himself and at th t
too:
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Learned from their youth to shoot their neighbors’ cattle on the same time have uninterrupted
range,
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vision for ordinary driving.
To disobey their father's word, nor honest labor like to do.
Dr. Bostrom’s original Idea
“The automatic engine bell was ringing.”
was to protect the eyes of avia­
That bell rings oh! That belj! Steadily!
tors and commanders of naval
** The locomotive bell!
destroyers both against the sun
“ If we could rob the malls we would not have to work," was what and hostile search lights.
they said:
Thought— “We are better than you are; we have Colt’s automatic
guns;’’
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“ Sick of our life: tired of It il l ; We didn’t care;” for “our ideas
You can never tell how to bet
“Of fair play twisted.” But “W . waited still Io live.” So their tale on a champion bout until the
runs.
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Their plan not wiser^-blow Up fto cT?/search out the loot and fllfcn gokg sounds at the end of the
last round. — Roseburg News-
retreat:
Admire the bandits bold and br; re! ’’One thing we have, too much Review.
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of guts;'*
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“Those who hate us we hat in turn; no sissy hoys are we, but
take
“Just what wo want; the other g vs are under-dogs, are silly mutts.”
"The automatic engine bell'was ringing:”
That bell rings' yet! That bell! Hear yon It?
The locomotive bell!
Ah! The 111 fated train goes rn, and from the wholesome day Is
shut.
Then in that smoke and reek of dark those two men creeping,
mischief bent!
Above the roar and din and clrnk, Bates hears the startling shout.
“Hands up?”
And turning, sees through murk obequre, muzzle of gun and eyes
Intent.
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Train robbers these, though almost lads! Hard faced and grim,
pitiless eyed.
Threatening death unless Bates halts the engine at the tunnel vent.
He knows well youth is bold and rash nor understands the cost
of life.
And some have not the fear of God. the Judgment sure and evident.
“The automatic engine bell was ringing,”
That bell rings on! That belf! Steadily!
The locomrtlve bell!
Farm Hints
Detailed Information on the.
cost of production of all types1
of hay in practically every sec­
tion of Oregon has been com­
piled through two years study
on 3G6 farms- made by H. E
Selby of the department of farm
Ancestors of Police Chief Mc­
management of the experiment
Credie of Medford may hara
Station. This Investigation car­
been rivals of Charles Paddock,
ried out under the provisions of
famous sprinter, when they pass­
the federal Purnell fund is recog­
ed through the heather of Scot­
nized as the most extensive study
land, but McCredie was only
of forage crop costs ever made.
second best in a footrace with
A summary of the results of
a 17-year-old youth he arrested
the first two years work show the
Tuesday noon. The boy broke
average cost of alfalfa hay pro-
away from the chief and sprint­
duet Ion to be 87.99 ,» ton for
ed away, pulling away -from his
the state, varying between $6.55
pursuer, until the chief sounded
tor the Baker-Union region to
an alarm and a bystander stop­
89.11 for the Willamette valley.
ped the boy and held him until
In the Willamette valley clover
the chief arrived. The boy was
hay cost 87.38 a ton to produce
given a reprimand and warned
when seeded with grain, and
the straight and narrow path was
810.32 when seeded alone. Vetch
the proper one to tread— bat the
and oats cost 810.29, wheat hay
chief advised him not to use so
88.77, corn silage 87.72* vetch
much speed
silage 84.40, Bnd kale 88.75 a*
ton. In all cases cash expenses,
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labor and overhead were con­
sidered.
The study covered farms in
Malheur, Baker, Union. Crook.
or h ea d a ch e— rub the forehead
Deschutes, Klamath, Josephine, I m
Jackson and eight Willamette I » . — m elt and inhale the vapore
valley counties. A progress re­
port has been prepared and will
be mailed free on reqnest
Medford Chief
Loses Footrace
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Printing
Sid Bates, nnarmed, thinks quickly'how he may perhaps outwit
these men.
If given time; applies the brakes. The grinding wheels sullenly
locked,
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Responded swift to hissing air. pow’r immense to thrill his soul.
For the last time. His a«ys are past, the signal set, right of way
blocked.
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Do Bates and Seng feel that sad premonition known to some near
Regardless of what kind of printing you may
death?
What are brave men’s thoughts when brought face to face with
danger to their lives?
These guarded two were ordered down, while Mail-clerk Daugherty
was called.
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And an Infernal machine brought, dynamite such as tears and rives.
“The automatic engine bell was ringing.”
That bell rings on! That bell! Do you hear
* The locomotive bell?
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LETTERHEADS, STATEMENTS, ENVELOPES,
BOOKLETS, OR WHAT NOT,
The mail clerk looks from out his car and catches glimpse of
holdup nen;
Amidst the mark he dodges back, just as a shot-gun’s aimed at him;
Slams the door shut and locks It fast— the Peoples’ Guardian of
the Malls.
"Come out cf there,” the robbers yell; echoes the timbered tunnel
dim.
" If you would shuffle mall Again for Uncle Sam, come out of that!"
An instant’s pause, then scuffling feet; engine crasv driven, helpless
folk.
Come, burry! Faster! Theje’s no time! Demons are here and hell
with them.
I knew ’twould kill him !” Theta— the— BLAST! Pillar of fire and
vapor of smoke!
“The automatic engine btall was ringing.”
That bell rings on! That Jtell! Hear that belli
The locomotive bell!
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PRINT SHOP
can handle it quickly and to your entire satisfaction
at reasonable price.
“Get I* the cab, yo«l Pull her out!” command* a boy with livid
face,
Presents hie gun, and Bates Is forced,— having seen murder done,—
aboard;
le made to spin the driving wheels,— cunningly spun, with car
brakes jammed.
Then one goes beck to cut the train behind the mall ear, splintered,
shored.
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There he meets Johnson, railroad brakeman, with fuses lighted,
• sends him
Ahead, through pall of choking gas, on to his agonising death.
8b»t through the stdmaeh with bnekehot, horrible pain; then
killed by bell,—
Wounded, defenseless, gasping, “W ait a minute, boys,” with his last
, brrajh
,
* “The automatic engine bell Was ringing.”
That bell rings on! That belli Hear you It?
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AÑD WE WIÉL BE GLAD TO CALL
The locomotive bell!
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Corvallis— pld war-time wood­
sy barracks at Agricultural Col­
ft can’t be done; the car stick» fast! No man can enter In that hell
lege will give w a / to milllon- Where the mail clerk lies in hie blood. “Make that dam engine try
dollar housing plan.
once more!”
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