f REPARATIONS ASKED FOR NANKING RIOTS A LE X A N D E R KERENSKY B rita in . F ra n c e . Ita ly . Japan and A m erica Send P ro ­ test Note. Shanghai. The consul generals of th e United S tates. G reat B ritain, F rance, Japan and Italy Monday pre­ sented a note to th e C antonese coo- 1 taln ln g th ree dem ands In consequence of the anti foreign rioting at Nanking Of March 24. T h e d em an d s, a s given out by the RUSSIA TO CLOSE EMBASSY AT PEKIN L A. GAUSS h OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERANNTEREST Note to N orthern Chinese G ov­ e rn m en t P rotests Raid on S o v ie t Buildings. B rie f Resum e of H appenings of the W eek C ollected fo r O ur R eaders. Moscow. — Soviet Russia, dem and­ ing redress from the Pekin govern­ ment tor the raid conducted last week on buildings attached to the soviet em bassy in th a t city, has served no­ tice on the no rth ern governm ent th at as a sign of p ro test It will recall its charge d'affaires in P ekin and its en­ tire em bassy staff. The soviet governm ent, while pos­ sessing sufficient technical m eans for | employing rep ressiv e m easures, the note says, nev erth eless definitely re­ jects the idea of a punitive action. The note dem ands th at the C hinese police m ust im m ediately evacuate th e buildings raid ed ; th at all the a rre ste d employes of th e em bassy's economic in stitutions be im m ediately released ; th at all docum ents taken from the buildings m ust be returned and th a t all possessions, money, books and per­ sonal property m ust be given gack to th eir owners. The soviet n ote was in the n atu re of a reply to one from the P ekin for­ eign office, tran sm itted through the local charge d ’affaires, sta tin g th a t under th e protection of the soviet em bassy com m unists had established them selves in the Dahl bank, and the old R ussian barracks, and had plotted an uprising. The Pekin note declared th at aa a resu lt of the raid, w eapons and propaganda and o th e r evidence had been found proving this intention. Sixteen hundred baby chicks w ere burned in a fire which destroyed the W. Cobb poultry plant n e a r R oseburg J. J. W alsh has been appoihted w ater m aster for W allowa county to succeed A. H. Page, who has resigned. A —. B ruce M illard, noting som ething to be w rong with his car on the F ulton Canyon road n ear Rufus, got out. and while hunting a rock to put u n d er the w heel to hold the car. It ran through two fences and then plunged into th e abyss below, a distan ce of 600 f e e t A fter a tour of Inspection, R. P. N ew lands, m aintenance engineer for th e s ta te highw ay departm en t, an­ nounced th a t a light, p reserv ativ e coating of oil would be applied on the M ount Hood loop highw ay, betw een Hood R iver and P arkdale, as soon as rains cease. V . e C onstruction of 15 m iles of w ay trails to connect with existing trail* Fred Hogg is th e new m arket m as­ on th e north side of Mount Hood h a s te r for Oregon City. Mr. Hogg was been planned for this season by 3. C. C h in ese a u ih o r lt.e s , a re : appointed to the office following the W alters, chief forest ra n g e r for th a t F ir s t- Punishm ent of the com m and­ section. A forest road to connect th e resignation of H. W. K anne. ers and troops r> -ponsible tor the kill­ loop road with D ufur will be b u ilt The first shearing of sheep of any ing and wounding of foreigners, for considerable num ber sta rte d a t Pilot this sum m er. th e Indignities to which o thers were ( O rders were given by O. L aurgaard. subjected, and for the m aterial dam- I L. A. Guass, the Am erican consul Rock Ityit week, when th e C unning­ P ortland city engineer, to the Pacific age done. general in Shanghai, who is looking ham in te re sts clipped 1500 head. Second—A w ritten apology by the a fte r Americans caught in the area of The McCoy A Atwood general mer- Bridge com pany to s ta rt work Imme­ com m ander In chief of the C antonese ' j chandise store a t W asco was de- d iately on the >2,000 000 unit of th e arm ies and a formal prom ise to ab- j Alexander F. Kerensky, head of the ! stroyed in a spectacular fire th a t for L aurgaard w ater-front developm ent project, following the approval by the stain from violence ag ain st foreign­ firs t revolutionary government In Rus­ a tim e th reaten ed the en tire city. w ar dep artm en t of the changes asked ers' Bveg and interests. sia, who is visiting in the United F ire broke out in the boiler room of in the harb o r line. Unless the C antonese prove their States. the boys' training school n ear Salem Intention to comply w ithout delay, the The F ebruary rep o rt of th e C lacka­ and did >2000 dam age before It was powers warned th a t they would ba m as C ounty Cow T esting Association controlled. T he boys did m ost of the compelled to take such steps as they shows 521 cows tested, with a 'to ta l fire fighting. considered necessary. average for all cows of 751 pounds of W ashington. D. C.—Condition of the P o rtlan d 's 1927 C om m unity C hest Delivery of the protest wag made milk containing 31.6 poundç of butter- w inter w heat crop April 1 w as the by Sir Sidney Barton, B ritish consul cam paign will be staged during the highest of any y ear on th a t d ate since fat. One hundred cows produced m ore general, as dean of the consular corps, week of O ctober 21-28, according to 1921. the d epartm ent of agriculture than 40 pounds of fat, a depided in­ acting as the spokesm an for the placing it at 84 5 per cent of a norm al, a decision ot w orkers a t a m eeting crease over the previous report. W ashington, D. C.—The spring su r­ American, French. Japanese and Ital­ an increase of 2.7 points since Decem­ held last week. vey of the agriculture departm ent A ppropriation of >25,000 for th e pur­ ian consul generals. M em bers of the state board of con­ chase of fairgrounds, erection of ber 1 compared with an average de­ shows th a t the general level of farm The C antonese arm ies, checked in cline of 4.6 points betw een those dates trol approved the site of the new state buildings and holding of a fair h as wages on April 1 was 166 per cent of th e ir northw ard advance, now a re ap­ tuberculosis hospital a t T he DaUes been made by the Josephine county in the last ten years. the pre-war level and practically the parently threatened on two fronts by The departm ent issued no forecast and said th a t work would be started court, A site has been selected fo r sam e as a year ago; but th at farm advancing northern arm ies. of indicated production Dor any sta- as soon as possible. wages a re not n early as high as in­ the fair on the Redwood highw ay, It Is persisten tly reported from tistica on the acreage abandoned, both dustrial wages, which are about 231 Due to a surplus of receipts a t e a st­ about a mile and a half from z G ran ts Nanking th at M anchurian forces are of which will be estim ated next month. ern and middle w estern m arkets, the Pass. W ork will be' s ta rte d ''a t once. per cent o t the pre-war level. rapidly advancing down the Tlentaln- The area sown to w inter w heat last broccoli price broke at R oseburg last High Industrial wages, th e d ep art­ Pukow railway, while to the east. M achinery providing th e final lin k , fall was 41,807,000 acres. L ast y e a r’s week, sales being reported at >1.20 General Sun C huan-Fang’s reju v en at­ m ent states, have apparently acted to in the chain of production from tow harvested a re a was 36,913,000 acres and >1 25 f. o. b. Roseburg. ed arm y is progressing in strength m aintain farm wages a t about last to the w eaving looms was placed In and production 626,929,000 bushels. year's level in the face of an Increase N early 300 delegates from 33 com­ operation at the Oregon linen m ills southw ard along th e Grand canal. AU im portant w in ter w heat states m unities of both Oregon and W ash­ in farm labor supply relative to de­ last w-eek. The first spool of the com­ mand. P ractically all sections of the W ashington, D. C.—Any prospect of In the eastern, cen tral and no rth cen­ ington m et in St. H elens In a session pleted product was turned over to R. country reported an increase in the im m ediate Philippine independence tral sections showed im provem ent in of associated cham bers of comm erce C. Snelling, m anager of th é plant, supply of farm labor relative to de­ waa killed by P resid en t Coolidge In a conditions since December. of the low er Colum bia river. who will preserve it as a souvenir. In K ansas, th e g re a te st w inter mand, the larg est d ecreases being in veto of th e proposal of th e insular A dvent ot spring In K lam ath has The w eaving looms began the m anu­ southern states. legislature for a plebiscite on th e ques­ w heat producing state, w here 11.962,- been signalised by the re tu rn of g reat facturing of crash tow eling im medi­ The farm labor supply was reported tion. The plebiscite bill bad bean ve­ 000 acres w ere sown last fall, th e de­ flocks of m agnificent white pelicans. ately. W ashington, D. C.—H enry L. Stlm at 90.8 per cent of norm al April 1, toed by Governor-G eneral Wood but partm ent said rainfall had been am ­ The birds have chosen K lam ath lakes The dairy Industry of Orégôn m ade ton of New York, form er secretary ot com pared with 91 1 per cent March 1 passed over his veto. The action of ple. except for the w estern third and as th e ir spring and sum m er habitat. a very satisfacto ry show ing in the past, in portions of the soft w heat area In thia y ear and 89.1 p er cent April 1 Mr. Coolidge definitely shelves It. war, haa been appointed a special rep­ Road crew s on duty In the Des­ year In point of production', according The p resid en t sum m arized his rea­ the southeast, w here rainfall w as ex­ resentative of P resident Coolidge to last y ear; farm labor dem and 88 9 per chutes national forest in th e coming to a statistical report leaded by J.*D. cent of norm al, com pared with 87.5 cessive. sons for opposing the m easure as fol­ Investigate the N icaraguan situation, season are to be organized into fire­ Mickle, Oregon dairy and food com­ S ecretary of S tate Kellogg announced and 91.0, and supply of farm labor In lows: fighting unite, with experienced for­ m issioner. The b u tte r output of th e per cent of demand was 102 5 per cent, “The plebiscite, u nder conditions a fte r a conference a t the W hite House. T E L E V IS IO N MADE REAL est fire-fighters serving as foremen 93 cream eries of the sta te was 24.827,- provided or, In fact, now possible, "T he strife and bloodshed going on compared with 104.1 and 98. W earing of etripes by incorrigible 751 pounds, an increase of Y.056,947 Monthly farm w ages with board, would not accom plish th e stated pur­ Secretary Hoover’s Image Sent Over In th a t country Is a m atter of great prisoner« In the Oregon sta te peniten pounds ovcf the production ’ In '1926 April 1, were reported a t >3453 and Telephone W ire. pose The re su lt of the vote would reg ret and the necessity for protect­ tlary has been abolished according to The gain in cheese was also large, w ithout board a t >48.47, compared be unconvincing. ing the Interests of our citizens there New York.—Television, a sc ie n tists’ 2,525,793 pounds, the production la s t “It might create friction and dis­ dream ever since the telephone was announcem ent m ade by H enry W and the large In terests of the United with >32.94 and >47.07 Jan u ary 1 this year being 13,515,716 pounds. year, and >34.38 and >48.17 April 1 .Meyers, superintendent of the lnstitu- tu rb business, slowing down progress Invented half a century ago. became S tales governm ent Is very g reat,” the A ppointm ents of m em bers of both “It m ight be taken to m ean its a p an actu ality when S ecretary of Com­ tlon. Kellogg statem ent, announcing Stlm- last year. S atisfactory progress on a bore the sta te fish com m ission and sta te proval by th e United S tates or as an m erce H oover spoke over the tele­ son's appoL ment. said. act likely to Influence th e United phone in W ashington and w as seen through N eahkahnie m ountain, which game com m ission w ere announced by Julian B. Sacasa, N icaraguan rebel SHO RT N E W S NUGGETS States. leader, Is reported by the N icaraguan as well as heard In the Bell telephone Is being m ade p rep arato ry to con­ Governor P atterso n recently. The R eappointm ent of Joseph H. W heel­ struction of a tunnel as p art of the new fish com m issioners are John C. "Finally. I feel th at it should be dis­ laboratories here. legation here as about to flee to Mex er as warden of th e sta te penitentiary approved because it is a p art In the Ico. Not only w ere S ecretary Hoover highway along the coast, was reported Veatch of Portland. Ç hrls Lqinenwab- er of A storia and Frpd P. K endall of S acasa's revolution Is destined to was announced by the Idaho state agitation I d th e Islands which, by dis­ and a score of others In W ashington at Tillamook. couraging cap ital and labor. Is delay seen In New York by telephone wire, end In "com plete failure,” according board of prison control. P rune packers and grow ers from Portland. The new game com m ission­ T he C anadian national funded debt ing the a rriv al of the day when the but a radio program was broadcast all parts of w estern Oregon and south ers are I. N. F lelschner of P ortland, to the ’ legation, and unless he flees, Sacasa haa no altern ativ e but to sur­ was reduced >35,000,000 last year, Philippines will have overcom e the over the lab o rato ries' experim ental ern W ashington attended a conference M att C orrigan of Corvallis, L. A. ren d er and throw him self on th e m er­ leaving a total o u tstanding of >2,480.- m ost obvious p resen t difficulty In the station, and moving likenesses of the held In Salem la st Tuesday, for the W right of Union, M A. Lynch of Red­ 305,000, according to comm erce d ep art­ way of Its m aintenance of an unaided perform ers as well as the sound ot purpose of discussing grow ing and mond and Ben D orris of Eugene. cy of P resident Dias governm ent.” The legation statem en t aald Sacasa ment advices. Action by the state to recover ap­ th e ir voices were put on th e a ir and m arketing conditions. A utomobile accidents w ere respon baa only a “beaten, retreatin g and de­ tra n sfe rre d to a screen in th is city. R oger W. Morse, for the last four proxim ately >1.349,391 which It allege« serting force betw een him and the stble for 441 d eaths in 78 large cities W H IT E years county agent of Morrow county, is Its sh are of the Oregon and Cali­ HO USE IN DANGER oncoming victorious governm ent of the United S tates during the four Eastern Oregon Towns Have Quake. has been selected county agent of fornia land-grant tax refund to 18 Ore­ forces" and th at S acasa's exchequer weeks ending March 26, 1927, the de­ Roof Trues Supports Found to Have Baker. Or.—Four tow ns in Pine and B aker county to succeed Paul C arpen­ gon counties, was launched in Salem partm ent of com m erce reported. is "totally depleted." Sunk Out of Place. E agle valleys reported a series of mild ter, F L. Ballard, sta te leader of coun when Sam A. Kozer, se c retary of Minority stockholders of the Chica­ state, personally made dem and upon W ashington. D. C.—F e a rs of engi earth q u ak e shocks at intervals S atu r­ ty agents, has announced. go. Milwaukee A St. Paul railroad m em bers of the Marion county court, Shocks w ere felt at neers th a t th e W hite H ouse roof was I day m orning POTASH TRUST CHARGED F arm ere in many eeotione of W al­ were denied an Injunction to restrain In a precarious condition have been Richland, Newbridge, S p arta and Half lowa county are w arring upon ground U. Q. Boyer, county clerk, and D. O. D rager, county treasu rer, for >24,- U. 8. G overnment Sues French and the In terests which have purchased confirmed by Its recent rem oval In squirrels w ith poisoned grain. Those the road from proceeding with a n ­ 029 41 of the tax refund of >119,>55.56 German Companies. th e course of reco n struction of the j who have been poisoning during the W ashington. 1». C —A conspiracy to nounced reorganisation plans. upper p art of the executive mansion P ilo t of Airplane and Passenger Die past two weeks state th at satisfactory received recently by Marlon county Fifteen m asked and arm ed men control and monopolize the potash In from the federal governm ent. U ncovering showed th a t th e huge S eattle, W ash. — Raymond Small, resu lts have been obtained. dustry of the United States, directed held up four employes of th e Illinois tru sses which held the burden of the v eteran ex-PacIflc ertast airm ail pilot The m ysterious duck disease w hich Bobble, nationally known as the col­ by German and French producers. Seas W atch Caae com pany plant at Elgin. root had sunk out ot place and were and F rankes Bemrick. a passenger, lias claimed tens of thousands of gam e charged In a suit fl'ed In New York I III. ran sack ed th e vault and several actually restin g on the fragile parti i are dead as the result of an airplane lie dog who walked back to th e home birds in the Tule lake and M alheur of his m aster, O. F. Brazier,- in 811 by th e governm ent. Through rep re­ sm aller safes and escaped In four tlon walla of th e third floor. crash a t Ihe Sandpoint naval aviation lake sections has again broken out, verton, a fter he had become separated sentativ es In New York, arranging autom obiles with gold, th e value of In the opinion of arm y engineers ' field, n ear here. according to George Tonklng, U nited from him in Indiana, died in Portland with American distributing agencies, which may run as high as >16.000. the roof m ight have caved in a t the S tates deputy game w arden, who la after an illness of several weeks. th e governm ent alleges th at the slightest provocation and It may have T H E M ARKETS. on an Inspection of the duck situation. French and German companies are ' 188.94, Oregon Cars Licensed, P lans were perfected at a meeting Instead of returning north to nest, continued In place for m any more I Portland. dividing the sale of potash to be made Salem, O r Motor vehicles totaling years, depending on circum stances. W h eat—Big Bend bluestem , >1 3 6 4 ; in G rants Paes last week of local hundreds of thousands of game b ird s In this country, ( 188.941 have been licensed In Oregon hard white, 11 3 3 4 ; federation. >130; poultrym en for the organisation of a are nesting in the low er K lam ath lake T he com panies also are alleged to j ^or 8927. as against 176.594 in the soft white, w estern white, >1 30 4 ; Rogue River valley m arketing co­ and Tule lake areas T he disease, the Oregon Prison Abolishes Stripes. have been fixing price* and the gov l » rlo<' » F"W ago, said a state hard w inter. >1,3814; n orthern spring, operative, Including the grow ers of nature of which is still a m ystery, 1* Salem. Or.—Prison stripes, adopt) ernnient a sserts th at because the - m,'nt Issued by Sam A. Kozer, s c ire Jackson and Josephine counties. >1.30; w estern red, 1127. prevalent am ong th e nesting bird«. under th e ad m in istration of Ward) tnlnne of the French and German corn , **r F ot «thte. License fees for 1927 F o u r thousand sacks of certified H ay—Alfalfa. >13013 50 ton; valley Lillie ms garb for the "hard boile< D uring March when baby coyote*, panlee constitute th e only source* ol | >5333.031. Should the tim othy. >18318 60; eastern Oregon seed potatoes, recently ordered for baby bobcats and baby cougars w ere m em bers of th e state penitential a large supply of potash. American reg istratio n s Increase at th e same farm ers of the county by County tim othy. >21 321 50. population, will be taboo under tl born on all the ridges and slopes and users are alm ost wholly dependent ratio during the rem ain d er of the Agent Donaldson, of W allowa county, B u tte rfa t—46c. new adm in istratio n . It was decided 1 the valleys of Oregon, »he population year, th e to tal for 1927 would exceed upon them for th eir supply. have all been spoken for. The price, Egg» Ranch, 19024c. of predatory anim als In the sta te w as 250.000. T h e license fees for 1927 the sta te board of control, followlt C heese— Tillamook, triplets, 25 4 c ; delivered a t E nterprise, fc >2.70 a lessened 255 by United S tates biologi­ a visit of Inspection to the priso Tim e Allowed Oregon T runk Plan. *Kgregate >«-«00 000 o r >580.000 more hundred. loaf. 2614c per lb. "The strip es simply set the 'hai cal survey hunter». Forty-four of th e W ashington. D. C.—The Oregon than for 1926. C attle—Steers, good, >9 25010 15 The lew enacted at the lfc»7 legls >14 coyotes killed, acqordlng to the boiled' off as heroes In the eyee of tl T runk railroad has been given until Hog*—Medium to choice. >10312 25 lalure, authorising refunds of auto­ monthly report of Stanley O. Jew ett, less hardened crim inals.” Jim Lewi April 25 to notify th e In terstate com­ Naw Oregon Gam« W arden Named. Sheep—Lambs, medium to choice, mobile license tees paid under th e so th e new w arden, told th e board governm ent biologist w ere pup* w hich Salem. O r- Harold Clifford of Can m erce commission w hether It will ac­ >11.(0014. control mem bers. called peddlers act, relates only to were dug out ot th e ir p aren te’ dene. cept the term s proposed by the yon City was unanim ously elected Seattle. comm ercial salesm en This was the Forty bobcats and one cougar w ere Southern Pacific railroad for Joint state gam e w arden by the new state W heat -Soft white, w estern white, substance of a legal opinion prepared Dry Agents' D rin k * Are Lim ited. reported killed during the m onth, la use of th e la tte r's Cascade line Into game comm ission at a special meeting >13314; hard w inter, >13114; w estern by th e attorney-general recently at W ashington. D. C.—The answ er addition, a large num ber of unborn K lam ath Falls, to g eth er with other in Salem, following a conference with red, >1 30 4 ; northern spring. >1.334; the request of the secretary of state coyotes and bobcats w ere dstroyed. privileges. Including the right to build G overnor P atterso n . The commission the question, "when Is a prohibit!) Big Bend bluestem . >138; Big Bend officer Justified Io taking a drink A half-million bees to be used for Its own extensions within prescribed voted to retain Matt Kyckman as su A uthorisation of a sale of >125.000 dark northern spring >1.37; Big Bend the pollination of cherry blossoms In in 1-year bonds waa made at McMinn­ lim its. p erlntendent of h atcheries and Harvey waa glvso officially by A ssistant Se dark hard w inter. >1 37. retary Andrews. In charge of tl the O rchard H eights district of Polk ville by the Pom w isilbh Bi charge a t Moreland aa chief clerk. Hay— Alfalfa. >25; tim othy, p. 8 , treasu ry 's prohibition policies It county were received in Salem recent construction of th e SalmoA Wver-Ol|h M ilita ry Attache A tksd to Explain. 133 “Only when It Is absolute ly by H. M Mead, so-called bee king short-cut road to the R oosevglt high­ W ashington, D. C Lieutenant Col Portland Departm ent Store Robbed. 'h is B utter- Cream ery. 45c. ot the Salem vicinity. Included In the way. onel Edward Davis, m ilitary attach e at Portland. O r A daring gang of safe necessary to do to to obtain w iden, Egg» Ranch. 25 338c. consignm ent w ere 50 queen bees. the A m erican em bassy in Mexico City robbers, believed to have num bered of ta le th a t will stand In courb” P ro p erty taxes In O regon for 193Y, H ogs —Good. 213.11312 25. A tale of maddened dairy cows and as extended on th e tax ro lls 'fo r 192«, I t retu rn in g to W ashington. called at least seven, a fter holding the night C attle— Steers, choice. >9 25010. beef cattle attacking employee of his aggregate >47.9T>.377 52, according to bark to assist the sta te departm ent In w atchman a captive for alm ost three Lamp W ins Boise Race for Mayo C heese — Cream bricks, 25 3 26c, Its Investigation of the m anner In hours Sunday night, robbed the Old» ranch, of the death of 14 cattle from I i statem en t issued by E arl E. F isher, Boise, Idaho H erbert F Lamp *i triplet*. 2«c; loaf. 26c. w hich confidential em txaay documents W ortman A King d ep artm en t store elected m ayor of Boise by the d ed al, rabies of mad coyotes attacking his state tax com m lsaloner The taxe* Spokane. found th eir way Into possession of ihi vault or between >3iiJ>00 and >40,006 vote of 4482 to 1617 over Ern O. B herd, was told at K lam ath Falls by for 1926 totaled >44 97(»48 10. or ap ­ Hog*- Good. >11 85312 Mexican governm ent. ind then made th eir escape. gleson. lacum benL H M Anderson, ow ner of a 1000 acre proxim ately >3,000.000 less than th o se C attle Steers, good. >8 75 0 1 . ran