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15.700 Acres Cascade Forest Timber Sold
QRGE KELLY
CORPORATION
IS PURCHASER
LaFoliette and Wheeler
Indorsed by Rail Clerks
M5,000,000 Board Feet is
Xo Bring iores& ocivnio
$2.25 Thousand; Douglas
Fir Tract Near Oakridge.
PORTLAND, Ore., July 31. Sale
U 685,000,000 board feet of lumber
ti,. Cascade national forest in Ore
gon Is announced by the Portland of-
ct of the forest service.
A corporation represented by Geor-
t H. Kelly was the successful bidder
lor the Cascade forest timber at an
iverage price of $2.25 a thousand feet
!or the Douglas fir.
Total Value $1,500,000.
The total value of the timber Is
blaced at $1,500,000. It -will be cut
Lt the rate of 60,000,000 board feet
early.
Prices are subject to revision In
h928 and at three-year periods there
after. Fifteen years is allowed for
emoval
The body of timber sold comprises
15,700 acres in tie watershed of the
oorth fork of the Willamette river
abort distance from Oakridge on the
Klamath Falls-Eugene cut-off of the
Southern Pacific railroad, 43 miles
!rom Eugene. The average stand per
icre is estimated at 44,000 feet, 00
ber cent of which is Douglas fir.
la First Large Sale.
This sale is the first large opera
ndi to be started on the Cascade na-
ional forest, which contains over 25,-
(00,000,000 board feet of mature tinv
fter.
This is the largest body of Doug
las fir timber ever sold by the forest
service.
CHICAGO, July . 81. Sufficient
signatures on the petition to place the
LaFollette-Wheeler ticket on the No
vember ballot in Nevada were secured
today and the petition will be filed
thlB afternoon or Saturday, M. J.
Soanlon, of Bono, reported in a tele
gram to Donald It. Richberg, in
charge of legal details of the LaFol
iette campaign.
MEYOUTOE
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RAIL, SHIP WORKERS ACT
CINCINNATI, O., July 31. (A.
P.) Senator Robert XL LaFoliette
and rSenator Burton K. Wheeler, in
dependent candidates for the presi
dency and vice-presidency, respect
ively, "were endorsed today by the ex
ecutive board of the Brotherhood of
Railway and Steamship Clerks,
Freight Handlers, Express and Sta
tion Employes.
At the same time the board voic
ed its approval of the "progressive
program" adopted by the conference
for progressive political action con
vention at Cleveland on July 4 and 5,
end recommended to its members ear
nest support of the program.
Names Not Mentioned
The names of Senators LaFoliette
and Wheeler were not mentioned spe
cifically but in a supplemental state
ment attached to the resolution giving
support to the program of the con
ference for progressive political ac
tion, the board, which has been in se
cret session here for more than a
week, indorsed the two independent
senators and representatives in con
gress who are known to be progress
ives. The action of the clerks is in
line with that taken by Beveral other
railway brotherhoods, which urged its
members to support the two independ
ent candidates.
PROPOSAL NUDE
FRENCHMEN
Oil
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BUILDING RER
E.
BREAKING ALL
Fl
RIR IRKS
NON-PARTISANS FAVORABLE
BISMARCK, N. D., July 31. Sen
ator Bobert M. LaFoliette and Sen
ator Burton K. .Wheeler, candidates
for president and vice-president, re
spectively, will have the support of
the Non-Partisan league of North
Dakota in their campaign in this
state this falL
This was decided on at a confer
ence here last night, attended by rep
resentative members of the league,
who voted by acclamation in favor of
the action.
In a separate meeting farmer-labor
party supporters also endorsed La
Foliette, according to R. H. Walker,
chairman of the party in North Dakota.
Compromise Is Unanimously
Accepted By Committee
No. 1 At Allied Meet;
Difficulty Over, Belief.
LONDON, July 81. (A. P.) The
members of the experts committee of
the inter-allied conference after ex
amining the proposals submitted by
the French experts yesterday as a
compromise plan to end the confer
ence deadlocked over security for the
Dawes plan German loan, declared
their belief today that the French
proposals with minor alterations,
would probably be acceptable to the
conference.
Tho French proposal was accepted
unanimously by committee number
one of the conference, while ' en
amendment put forwnrd by -tin Brit
ish members this morning was with
drawn, both the French and British
delegates congratulating each other
on the happy turn of events. One del
egate said: , - i
"The great difficulty of the confer
ence is now over."
Program Now But $16,520
Short Of Two Million
Mark For 1924 With
Five Months Yet To Go.
Parcel Post Export
Business Doubles in
Seven Months Time
Sentence of six months in the coun
ty jail and fine of ;500 was handed
lout to Eddie Valentine and Clarence
Milne, each, by Justice Jesse G.
Wells this afternoon. The young men
will appeal, they say.
A verdict of guilty was returned by
fa justice court jury late Wednesday
in the case of Clarence Milne and Ed-
Mie Valentine of Cottage Grove,
charged with selling moonshine last
piarch.
Sentence was to be pronounced to-
icay. '
Walter B, Jones, attorney for the
defendants, has announced his inten
tion of appealing the case to circuit
court.
WASHINGTON, July 31. Tho
parcel post system has come to the
aid of the exporter to the extent of
carrying $2,000,000 of export busi
ness a month. The bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce of the com
merce department made publicfigures
today showing that exports by parcel
post have more than doubled since
January, and that for the first five
months of the year $8,300,452 worth
of goods was exported.
A fourth of the figures represented
shipments of clothing and dry goods.
These v. :re followed in importance in
shipments of optica goods, leather
goods, fur and jewelry.
Playgrounds to
Close on Friday
Final day's work of the Patter
son and Lincoln playgrounds wiU
"e nem Friday afternoon. , beein-
"ing at 1 o'clock, on the Lincoln
grounds. A Joint nroeram -will he
carried out.
Count Didn't Know
Peggy When They
Wedded, Is Plaint
NEW YORK, July 31. The sum
mons in the suit tor annullment of
marriage brought by Count Ooata
Morner against tho former Peggy
Hppklns Joyce, has been filed In
the county clerk's office. No com
plaint was filed and the summons
did not state the ground of the
action. The countess' previous mat
rimonial record Includes two annul
ments and two divorces. ' -
Bluing in the office of his lawyer,
P. Dudley Kohler, Count Morner
spoke sadly of hla marriage .and
bitterly of his wife.
Peggy, he declared, had a beastly
temper, was utterly selfish and
married him solely for his title.
"I am very unhappy that I didn't
know more about her before I mar
ried her," he said, "I only saw her
four or five times before we were
married."
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FROM 3 FORESTS
PORTLAND, July 31. The United
States forest service yesterday an
nounced the closing of all or portions
of the DcschuteSj Umatilla and Col
umbia national forests to smokers due
tothe-fire menace. The total of thoso
in which smoking is forbidden was
brought up to nine.
The situation, it was stated, 1b par
ticularly acute on (he Deschutes and
if there is no change for the better it
is likely tJint the forest will be closed
to all other fire uses.
Among the new fires reported yes
terday on the Deschutes was one-on
the Woods ranch near- Metolius, al
leged to have been started by a camp
er, who was arrested. The blaze caus
ed a dangerous situation. ,
Crowe Prepares For
Possible Leniency
With Loeb, Leopold
CHICAGO, July 31. On condition
that the defense withdraw its plea
of "guilty," State's Attorney Crowe
in the Franks murder trial offered
to drop the kidnaping indictment, by a
nolle prosequi order. The defente
promptly refused the offer.
It was believed by authorities on
proceedure that Mr. Crowe made tiie
offer for the purpose of providing a
basis of re-Indictment on the kidnap
ing charge if the murder penalty
should not Bntisfy him.
HOPE IS RENEWED
LONDON, July 31. (A. P.) The
inter-allicd reparation conference
took a new lease on life today when
the experts assembled to consider the
new French proposals, presented by
Premier Herriot yesterday. , ' .
The British participants in the
conference view tho French plan as
the greatest effort yet made to bring
about a settlement of the conference
difficulties so that the Dawes plnn
can be put in operation, and thoy are
of the opinion that it will be a great
step toward a final settlement '
Has Board of Arbitration ,
Tho plan was laid before the ex
perts at noon. After considering it
for an hour the committee adjourned
until 3 p. m. One of the points of the
French 'proposal provides for a board
of arbitration calculated to make
declaration of default to obtain than
now. Another provides for setting up
machinery to take care of defects
which might develop in the working of
the Dawes plan and still enother es
tablishes guarantees against Germany
maneuvering out of payments of kind,
According to a French semi-official
source, the proposal also provides for
the evacuation of the Buhr in success.
ire steps as the securities issued un
der the plan are floated.
Eugene's building program for the
year 1024 is within $1(1,020 of tho
$2,000,000 mark, for permits totaling
?1,0S3,4S0 hnvo been Issued.
The first Bix months of the year
saw the issuance of 347 permits, with
the cost of construction estimated at
$1,554,025.
The month of July, ending today,
saw the issuance of 82 permits, with
the estimated cost of construction at
$42S,555. It 1b the third month of
the year to have more than $400,000
in construction.
Number Seta Record. ,
In addition to passing the high
mark in cost of construction, July
saw the establishment of a new rec
ord for a single month in the num
ber of permits Issued. The previous
high mark for any one month was 77,
established in April of this year. This
month thcro were 82 permits given
out.
. Last year there were 440 permits
issued. This year, with but seven
months gone, there have been 420,
only 11 lees than the previous high
mark for an entire year.
Fees Highest Yet.
Fees collected this month in tho of
fice of W. H. Alexander, city build
ing inspector, were the highest ever
totaled in a single month In the his
tory of tho city. Building permit fees
were $205.75, plumbing fees wero
$145.25 and electrical permit fees
were $107.35, for a totnl of $008.35.
Last year set the previous ' high
Darrow Seeking to
Mitigate Penalty
For Loeb Leopold
CHICAGO, July 81. W The
Btute had reached the final stage of
its effort to keep out of the court
record the opinions of alienists on
mental responsibility of Nathan Irfo
pold, Jr., and Bichard Loeb, when the
afternoon session started today.
Thomas Marshall, legal expert for
the state's attorney, started at that
hour to sum up the reBults of the ar
gument which he had presented to
Judge John ii. Caverly throughout a
day and a half of court Bcssion.
Battle Over Sanity Test.
The Btate was maintaining that tes
timony by alienists could be heard
only on the question of insanity,
which problem if admitted, could bo
decided only by a Jury on a plea of
not guilty.
The defense was resting on its
contention that u condition of mental
disease, short of. insanity was proper
for consideration in mitigation of pun
ishment.
Tho largest crowd that has yet as-K
sembled for the trial struggled for
nlace3 in the court room but only
Repeated Wireless
Queries To Locate
Fliers Unsuccessful
(Continued on page five)
CONNOR DEATH CASE
Today's
Feature
$10 00 Reward
for Return
of fin
Guard Adleta
Make Ton
Money
LaFoliette Forces
Watch A. F. L. Doings
WASHINGTON, July 31. Cam
paign activities in behalf of the LaFoliette-
Wheeler , presidential ticket
wero temporarily at low ebb today
with the interest of leaders turned
chiefly toward the meeting at At
lantic City of the national executive
committee of the American Federa
tion of Labor.
At an early date campaign work
ers said today, a program will be
worked out to guide the efforts of the
candidates themselves.
Neither, however, is expected to
take the road for Btump apeaking
much before September 1L
Senator Lodge Has
Comfortable JVight
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 81.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge had a
comfortable night at the Cdrlerate
hospital where he Is recuperating
from a operstion. The bulletin is
sued by Dr. John IL Cunningham,
today, said:
"Condition continueB satisfactory.
Had good night's sleep; slept seven
and a half hour."
Henry Ford Flees
"Birthday Stuff"
DETBOIT, July 31. In an effort
to "get away from all this birthday
stuff," Henry Ford disappeared from
Detroit yesterday on the occasion of
his 61st birthday. His business asso
ciates professed to know nothing of
his whereabouts and it was said he
had driven to an unannounced des
tination to ovoid birthday callers. Mr.
Ford recently wob pronounced in ex
cellent health.
Willamette Scout
Executive Resigns
SALEM, Ore., July 81. K. L
Haga, Boy Scout executive for the
Willamette volley Boy Scout council,
composing Marion, Polk, Linn and
Benton counties, since the four-county
merger was effected last winter,
banded in his resigmtion this morn
ing, and left for his home in Seattle.
Dr. H. E. Morris, of this city, first
vice-president of the council and head
of the business administration de
partment, will act as executive, as
sisted by H. F. Zinser, until August
2fl, when a regular meeting of the
four count' council will be bald.
Gland Treatment
Increases Yield
Of Wool, Claim
LIEGE, Belgium, July 81. Dr.
Serge Voronoff, famous French sur
geon, addressing a scientific congress
here, asserted it would be possible to
increase tho yield of -wool by applying
his gland trauiplnntation operations
to Bheep. Although tbo operation can
not ho performed successfully on all
sheep, he said, he hoped to be ablo to
creato a special breed by repeating
.the process on the direct descendants
of a certain number1 of picked speci
mens. The experiment was already
being made, he announced, on a flock
of 3000 sheep in Algeria, and also on
goats. '
TACOMA,. Wash., Jidy 81. Mrs.
Frances McArthur, 28, who, officers
claim has admitted that Bichard
Connor, charged with the murder of
his wife, proposed marriage to her
wos arrested Tuesday afternoon in
Seattle and is held thero by officials
a witness, the Ledger said this
morning.
The federal district attorney, Wol
lace Mount, filed a first degree mur
der charge against Conner who ban
been held here for two weeks under
county charge of the same nature.
The filing of the charge by Mount
marks the formal transfer of the case
from the stato courts to federal juris
diction, it having been found tha
Conner's wife, Pearl, who disappeared
May 10, was slain on the United
States military reservation at Camp
Lewis.
Federal officers here refused
comment on Mrs. MeArthur's ffrrest,
Heh parents yesterdsy were preparing
to mortgage their home to provide tho
$000 bail necessary to obtain their
daughter's release.
New York Attorney
Thinks Firpo Will
Soon Be Deported
NEW YORK, July 81. Luis Angel
Firpo, South American heavyweight
pugilist, "will be deported from this
country on a wave of moral indigna
tion," it was predicted today by Ber
nard Sandier, attorney for Canon
William Shenfe Chose of Brooklyn.
Canon Chase is leader in the fight to
have Firpo deported.
Kerrs Sued By
Lister on Note
Suit to collect $'!-r0 said due on
, promissory note) since February
Missing Man Safe
At Vancouver, Is
' Belief at Medford
MEDFOBD, Ore., July 31. It
the supposition of the local police that
James Bradley, reported missing- by
the Portland police Monday, under
fenr that he had met with foul play
is on bis way to Vancouver, B. C, to
attend the races where he said he
wos going when he left here last Fri
day. No word has been received from
Portland regarding the case, bit
northern authorities are looking for
him in the Canadian city.
According to the police, the auto
cobile in which Bradley left was
mortgaged, and hence not permissible
to be driven from this state, without
the consent ct the mortgagee. The
Bering Sea Patrol of U. S. Coast Guard In
3-Day Search For Englishmen; Reported
At Petropavolvsk, Kamchatka, Week Ago
ABOARD U. S. COAST GUARD CUTTER ALGON
QUIN, July 31. (By wireless to tho A. P. via St. Paul
Island) Although no word has been received from A.
Stuart MncLaren, English round-the-world flier, and his
companions, from Potropnvlovsk, on the southeastern
point ot Kamchatka peninsula, where tho English aviator
has Inst reported, it is. behoved by otticers of the Algon
quin that MacLaren hits been delaying in continuing his
iiight on account ot Jug.li winds, heavy iogs and rough,
seas, prevalent at this time of year.
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EAST ORANGE, N. J July 31,
One bandit was killed, one escaped
and a rnnil clerk was wounded twice
when be frustrated an attempted mall
robbery at the Lackawanna railroad
station esrly today.
Eugene Stack, 23, mail clerk em
ployed at the local postofflce js In a
hospital with bullet wounds as the
result of his repulao of the bandits,
who lt la believed tried to steal a
pouch carrying federal reserve packages.
The esesped bandit got away In a
boxl which Is believed to have been
driven by a confederate.
Stack went to the station to meet
the 4:50 a. m. train and had taken off
six pouches, when two men got off
the train and limped' toward him.
They opened fire without warning.
The shot were returned by Stack.
One bandit fell dead at the top of
a stairway and plunged to the bottom.
The other fled to the otreot, where
Stack saw him enter a taxi.
Pendleton Man Is
Shot By Accident,
Piercing Own Heart
PENDLETON, ' Ore., July
Charles Bolchee, rancher In the Co
lumbla district near Hermiston, was
Instantly killed last evenlna, when
shota-un with which he was be
lieved to be shooting; rats was dls
oharged. The shot pierced his heart.
He was 75 years of sue, had lived
In the Columbia district for nine
years and leaves a widow and two
children, one In Oregon and one In
California.
ABOARD U. S. GUARD CUTTER ALGONQUIN
AT ATKA ISLAND, July 3.1. (A. P.) Repeated efforts
by wireless in all "directions have failed to obtain any
word of Major A. Stuart MacLaren since a party under
his command arrived at Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, last
Thursday, on a circumnavigation of tho world.
Cutters Conduot Search.
Endeavors to learn something of
the whereabouts and welfare of tha
British party, which wos flying In ona
plane and which left Calshot, Eng
land, March 25, have been energeti
cally carried on for throe days by tha
cutters Algonquin, Halda and Mojnva,
composing the Bering Sea patrol of
the United States coast guard.
According' to information received
by tin cutters the steamer Tblepval ot
tho Canadian fisheries patrol, was at
Potropnvlovsk when Major MacLarea
and bis companions, Flying Officer
W. N. Plcndcrlelth and Sergeant An
drews, arrived there. Aboard tha
Thiepvnl was Lieutenant-Colonel I
10.-Broome of the British service, who
was to fly with Major MncLaren to ..
Nikolskl, the next stop scheduled
after Petropavlovsk. '
The Thlcpval hua a wireless set
kwhoso Bonding radins has been rated
ot 200 miles, but It has been thought
that none of the cutters was within
radio reach of her, nevertheless she
would have been able to send out
Borne word by a commercial VcBsel
paaatng In that vicinity, ' "
Fog and Rains Prevail.
Fogs and rain have been prevailinf
In the northwest Pacific Ocean and
ho Boring Sea waters which Is cot-
erod every summer by the coast guard
Bering Sea patrol in carrying succor
to the people of southwestern Alaska.
At the village of Noznn Bay, Atka
Island, tho dentist of the Algonquin
pulled fifty teeth from the 80 natives.
Results were pronounced good. ,
KIRKWALL, Orkney Islands,
Scotland. July 31. (A. P.) The
United States army world fliers who
arrived here from Ili-ouuh, England,
yesterduy, havo postponed llieir de
parture for Iceland until tomorrow
becnuse of adverse went her reports
received from tho pntvol .limits.
The hop-off, set for this morning,
was called off when tho patrolling
destroyers reported a heavy fog and
rain along the 500-mile course'. Lieu
tonnnt Lowell II. Smith, the flight
commander, waited until tho last min-
nt before deciding to abandon to
day's get-away, Tho hop is such a
long one that lt would require nn
early morning start to Insure the ur-'
rival of the airplanes in time for them
to fill their tanks in fair daylight.
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Two Papers Fail in
Effort to Join A. P.
NEW YORK, July 81. A opecinl
meeting of the members of tho Asso
ciated Prcsa woo hold today to con
sider tho applications of representa
tives of tho Rochester (N. Y.) Times
Union and tho Boltmwo (Md.) Evo
nlng Sun for membership. A vote be
ing taken, tho applicants failed of
election.
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Express Train Off
Rails; One Killed,
Several Are Hurt
NmV YORK, July 81. W) A wo.
man wos killed and 17 persons were
injured, 12 of them seriously, late
Wednesday, when several cars of an
express train on the Long Island rail
road Jumped the rails one of them Bide
swiping an electric locomotive nn an
adjacent track at Woodside, L. I.
The seriously injured were brought to
the Pennsylvania station in a special
ambulance train and then transport
ed to' Bellevue hospital.
West Jester Will
Aid Stanley, Says
Advices By Radio
MANILA, July 81 W The Unit
ed States shipping board freighter
West Jester, enroute here from Sing
apore, is proceeding to the assist
ance of the disabled steamship Stan
ley, according to radio adviceB receiv
ed hers tonight.
The Stanley, whose engines broke
down while she was off tho coast of
the Island of Palawan, In the south
ern port of the Philippine archipelago
reported that she was mfo for the
time being and In no .danger of foun
derlng.
The West Jester is expected to
reach the disabled steamer some time
tomorrow, the radio meisagea indi
cated.
27, 1B23, wns started in circuit; local authorities think that Bradley
court today by C. M. Lister against' gave the car to Mann to keep until he
W. T. and A. W. Kerr. Hill and 1 returned, and that afterwards the Los
Marks of Albany are attorney fori Angeles salesman turned tha car over
the plaintiff. to the Portland pou.
Man Falling From
Telegraph Pole at
Harrisburg Is Dead
BALEM, Ore., July 8L Elllsc
Jones, about 82, died at a local bos
pltal early this morning from in
juries received Tuesday afternoon
near Harrisburg when as a member ot
a Postal Telegraph construction crew
he fell front a pole. He sustained
fractured skull and failed to regain
consciousness. His home eras In Mo
aUnnrlll. ,
Ireland Boundary
Dispute Up Again
LONDON. July 81. M The Irish
boundary problem hOB suddenly be
come acute again In consequence of
tbo unanimous decision of tho privy
council's Judicial committeo that tho
only way to constitute the boundary
commission provided for in the An
glo-Irish treaty Is to emend by the
treaty by legislation in the Imperial
parliaments binding both the north
ern and southern Irish governments.
The British cabinet was summoned
to a special meeting lat Monday eve
ning to consider the situation whleh
is said to ,be conning the ministers
considerable anxiety. In view of the
extreme delicacy of the situation, the
cabinet deeded, lt is sold, to invite
the British signatories of the Anglo
Irish treaty and the leaders of the
other British political parties to con
fer immediately
PORTLAND, Ore., July 81. M
the legislative bill exempting income!
up to $2500 from taxation shall fall
to pass at tho November election, tha
state grange will appeal to tha legia
Intnre to pass a better Income tag
law, declared C. B. Spence before the
fact-finding committee of the Port
land chamber of commerce last night
at the final hearing on the subject.
"If -tho legislature refuses to pass)
the bill we shall go before the people
again ot the next election following,"
Spence added.
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ZIMMER BUILDING f
INEQJfTEllTSj
T. C. and Jack Luckoy, propria- w
tors, of the Club cigar store and 0
tenants ot the Zlmmer building S
on Willamette, near Eighth, are) g ;
the owners of the building, with
Frank Zlmmer, one of the broth-
era formerly Owning the building, :
lt became known today. - ' t;
Whon Frank Wetherbee bid In
the building, which has 28 feet ot .;
frontage, at a price of T44,0, hat
was acting tor T. C, Jack Luckey; t
and Frank Zlmmer, lt is Me
Jnounced. r