THIRD PAN-AMERICAN
CONFERENCE OPENED
C O L BLANTON W IN S H IP
Col. Blanton Wlnshlp, U. 8. A., who
has been named military aid to Presi
: dent Coolidge.
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G. N. ROAD GETS
SUBURBAN LINES
W ashington, D. C. — The G reat
N orthern
took
an o th er step
In
strengthening Its In terests In th e In
land Em pire when the In terstate com
m erce commission gave the Spokane,
Coeur d'Alene & Palouse railw ay
authority to acquire the lines of the
Spokane & E astern Railway ft Pow
er company and the Inland Empire
Railroad company. T his Is. In effect,
a gathering Into the hands of the
G reat N orthern of th e netw ork of
suburban lines branching out from
Spokane. O perating alone, It Is said,
they cannot expect to stand. Com
bined In one m anagem ent, using the
G reat N orthern trackage and depot In
Spokane and serving as feeders for
a trunk lino, they are counted on tc
survive and thrive.
A nnouncem ent of this consolidation,
coming on th e heels of th e G reat
N o rth ern 's hid for en try into K lam ath
Fulls and for operation of G reat N orth
ern train s from Spokane through to
th e southern boundary of Oregon,
gives em phasis to the keen in terest it
la showing in building up tor Itself
various laterals of traffic without re
gard to the affections of the N orthern
Pacific.
M U R D E R E R BREAKS JAIL
Edward Sickles, Who Shot Sultan,
Wash , Marshal Escapes.
E v erett, Wash Edward C. Sickles
of Seattle, under sentence of death
for m urder, escaped from th e county
Jail here early Sunday.
The hoard of county com m issioners
has offered a rew ard of $500 tor his
capture, dead o r alive.
The 27-yearold desperado, who was
convicted here March 23 of slaying
Percy Z. llrew ster, town m arshal of
Sultan. W ash was aided from the out
side In his break for liberty, county
officials believe.
Sickles was to be hanged at the
sta te p en iten tiary in W alla W alla on
Friday, May 13.
Wyoming Rancher Shot by Horse.
L aram ie, Wyo. C larence Gothberg,
ranch hand, is In a hospital here, one
ot the few men who can say he was
shot hy a horse. G othberg was sad
dllng a sk ittish anim al In a burn near
Mlllbro, when the horse kicked a .22
caliber rifle, discharging It. T he bul
let. deflected by a rth, tore a six Inch
furrow under th e skin and lodged In
th e hack, G othberg will recover.
$5,000,000 Raised to Boost Lumber,
Chicago. 111. The N ational Lumber
M anufacturers' association m eeting
here has raised $5,000.000 to be spent
In an effort to Increase the popularity
of lum ber as a building construction
■natertsl Brick, tile and stone m anu
factu rers have taken scute of th e lum
b er business, according to F ran k G.
W isner, president.
Wind Flattens School, Injuring 1$.
S cottsburg. I t u l
Sixteen children
were Injured, two probably fatally,
when a country schoolhouse In the
west part of S cotts county was blown
down during a sever« rain and wind
storm.
W. H. TH O M P S O N
B rie f Resum e of H appenings of
the W eek C ollected fo r
O ur R eaders.
C harged W ith F irs t D egree
M u rd e r Com m itted in H o ld
up of S. P. T ra in .
U nited S ta te s Is R eady to
R eciprocate W ith S is te r
R epublics.
W ashington, D. C. — The United
S ta b » desire» nothing from 1-a.tln
A m erica th a t she I» not willing re
ciprocally to gran t to h er siste r re
publics, S ecretary Kellogg said In an
address at the opening of the third
Pan-American comm ercial conference.
F our hundred delegates from th e
U nited S tates and the 20 Latin A m er
ican republics listened to the secre
tary'« welcome, In which he stressed
th e "unity of purpose and unity of
Ideals" of the American nations.
“The more I study th e conditions
of this continent," Kellogg said, "th e
m ore I am Im pressed with the fact
th a t the basic principles underlying
the civilization of all the republics of
A m erica are essentially the sam e. The
points of resem blance th a t u nite us
are far more num erous and far m ore
Im portant than any difference th a t
may exist.”
Kellogg defined Pan-A m ericanism
as “far deeper than the existen ce of
friendly relations betw een govern
m ents.” It means, above all things,
he said, a m utually sym pathetic un
derstanding of national Ideals and
purposes between the peoples of this
continent.
"We are anxious," he continued,
“th at this hem isphere shall give to
th e world an exam ple of orderly prog
ress, of m utual respect for rights, and
th a t there shall also be a m utual ful
fillm ent of obligations. It is only on
such a basis th a t real and perm anent
progress can be assured.”
HUGH D'AUTREMONT
PLACED ON TRIAL
FOUR NEW CREVASSES
OPEN IN FLOOD AREA
Medford, Or.—Hugh De A utrem oat,
for over th ree years the m ost hunted
man in the United S tates, was placed
on trial for his life Monday m orning
at the Jacksonville court house. He
kt charged with m urder In the first
degree of Coyle O. Johnson, on O cto
ber 11. 1923. during a holdup of South
ern Pacific train 13 In the Siskiyou
m ountains at tunnel No. 13, about 17
miles south of Ashland.
De A utrem ont’s tria l will be one of
the most im p o rtant and sensational
cases which has ever been tried In
Oregon courts. C ircuit Judge C. M.
Thom as will be on the bench.
A ttorney F red E. Smith of E ugene
will be chief defense counsel. A sso
ciated with him will be A ttorney John
A. Collier of Portland, A ttorney Gus
N ewbury of Medford and A ttorney
David E vans of Eugene.
Prosecuting the case for th e state
will be Newton C. Chaney, d istrict a t
torney of Jackson county; George
Neuner, U nited S tates d istrict a tto r
ney, of P ortland, and A ttorney George
R oberts of Medford.
Four men were killed In the S is
kiyou holdup, the mail and express
cars were blown to a tw isted m ass
with nitroglycerin and the robbers es
caped with an unknown am ount of
loot. The men killed w ere: S. G.
Bates, 55. engineer, of D unsm uir, Cal.;
Cal M. Seng, firem an, A shland, O r.;
C. F. D augherty, 35, mall clerk, and
Coyle O. Johnson, 40, brakem an, of
Ashland.
The holdup occurred shortly a fter
the noon ho u r In a densely wooded,
wild m ountain d istrict. T hree men
took part in th e holdup, a fte r laying
in am bush and com m andeering the
train when it slowed down on the
grade a t the tunnel.
New O rleans, La.—L ouisiana Mon
day began feeling the full force of the
floods which have d evastated more
than 10,000 square m iles of territo ry
and a score of tow ns In A rkansas.
M ississippi and o th er valley sta te s to
th e north.
B reaking through th e protecting
levees at four places south of Vidalia,
the rushing M ississippi to rren t was
com pleting the Inundation of Concor
dia parish, with prospects th a t It
would overflow m ost of C atahoula,
n o rth ern Avoyelles and th e low p arts
of La Salle and e a stern Rapides p ar
ishes.
The th reaten ed te rrito ry com prises
about 3100 square m iles with a popu
lation of 70,000, and a property value
of more than $30,000,000.
W hile the m ain riv er flood was
claim ing this new area, the overflow
from the A rkansas riv er was sp read
ing over so u th eastern A rkansas, and
the flow from the Stop’s landing break
above G reenville was widening over
New York. — T otal federal Income
the M ississippi delta, adding hourly to taxes paid by bootleggers In th is city
the hom eless and sw elling the gigan last yenr am ounted to $5,000,000, Hugh
• Iq s e a t . t -
McQuillan, chief of the secret service
unit attach ed to the in tern al revenue
dep artm en t here, revealed.
IN C O M E TA X E S DROP
McQuillan said his dep artm en t was
Oregon and Washington Income Re not concerned with "any law viola
turns In 9 Months Lees.
tions except those dealing with the
W ashington, II. C Receipts of fed federal tax," and he had given this in
eral tax es in Oregon for the nine form ation to "prom inent bootleggers"
m onths which ended March 31, were who cam e to his office to "sound him
approxim ately $700,(100 less than those out" on th e question of paytag their
for the sam e period a year ago, but 1926 Income tax.
“They m ade th eir re tu rn s under the
only $230,000 of the the drop was a t
trib u tab le to reduction of Income clause 'rev en u e from o th er sources’
taxes, according to the latest report of In the tax blan k s,” he said. "It is
not up to us to tu rn th e ir nam es over
th e bureau of Internal revenue.
The to tal of Income tax paid by to the prohibition authorities."
It was Intim ated th at when the
resid en ts of the state of Oregon d u r
ing the nine m onths ending March 31, figures on tax es paid by bookm akers
1927, was respectively $4,689.272 and and o th er gam blers are announced
$4,919,175 for th e corresponding period they will be Just as am azing as those
paid by illicit liquor dealers.
of 1926.
The aggregate of federal tax es col
lected from the sta te of W ashington,
U. S. A D M IR A L BARRED
Including A laska, dropped from $11.-
110,524 for the nine m onths ending American Naval Officer Refused Soviet
Permission to Traverse Russia.
March 31. 192«. to $10,728.451 for the
Moscow. — The soviet governm ent
corresponding period ending March 31.
1927. Income taxes Increased from recently announced it had refused to
$9,306,801 to $10,142.139. but m iscel vise a tra n sit passport perm itting
laneous taxes dropped from $1.803,722 , R ear Admiral Mark L. Bristol. A m er
ican naval com m ander In the M editer
to $586.311.
ranean, to cross soviet territo ry on
his way to take com m and of the
Lightning Bolts Kills Four Fliers.
Norfolk, Vs.
Four navy airm en, American fleet In C hinese w aters.
The grounds for this attitu d e by
two lieutenants and two petty officers
were killed hy a holt of lightning that the soviet governm ent were stated to
struck th eir seaplane 1200 feet In the he W ashington’s refusal to perm it
atr and sent It h urtling Into Chesa Gregory Sokolnlkoff, ex finance com
peake bay off New Point Comfort, a m issioner; George Platnkoff, economic
com m issioner, and Mme. K ullantay,
splintered and scattered wreck.
soviet am b assad o r to Mexico to enter
th e United States.
TH E MARKETS.
Rear-A dm iral B ristol, who Is high
Portland.
W heat Big Bend bluestem . $1.45; com m issioner to T urkey and com-
hard w inter. $1 42; soft white, w estern 1 m ander of th e U nited S tates naval
white and northern spring. $1 39; hard forces in T urkish w aters, is said to
have asked for a visa for him self and
w inter. $1 38. w estern red. $1 36
Hay
Alfalfa. $ 2 0 8 20 50; valley his wife, explaining th a t Mrs. Bristol
tim othy. $18 i 1« 50; eastern Oregon was unable to stand a long Pacific
voyage.
tim othy. $21® 22.
BOOTLEGGERS PAY
LARGE INCOME TAX
Itutterfat 43c.
Eggs Ranch. 19@23c.
C attle Steers, good. $ 9 50810 25
Hogs —- Medium to choice, $9 00®
Republic, Wash., Gold Rush Keeps On.
Spokane. W ash. — W ith announce
m ent of m ining men that evidence«
b ear out th e belief th a t a vein of gold-
10.85.
Sheep— Lambs, medium to choice, l bearing ore 12 feet In w idth has been
discovered n ear Republic. W ash . ex
$11.50013 50.
citem ent continued high th ere Own
S eattle.
W heat Soft white, w estern whtte, ers of ag ricu ltu ral and tim b er lands
| Big Bend dark hard w inter, $141; are selling options on th e m ineral in
. h ard w inter, n o rth ern spring $1 40; th eir holdings, and operations are con
i w estern red, $1.394$; Big Bend blue- tinuing on th e Joe W iesm an working«,
| stem . $1 4 6 4 ; Big Bend dark n orth where Indications are said to be prom
ising
ern spring. $1 4$.
Hay Alfalfa, $35; tim othy. P. S .
$22
B u tter C ream ery, 43c.
Eggs Ranch. 25 8 29c
Hogs Good, $11 00811 35.
C attle S teers, choice, $ 9 5 0 8 1 0 2 5
Spokane.
C attle- Steers, good. $3 7 5 8 9 80.
H o g s—Good. $10 So u 10 50.
Ex-Senator Beveridge is Laid to Rest
Indianapolis, ln d.—The body of Al
bert J. Beveridge, < x U nited S tates
sen ato r and noted biographer, who
died h ere of a h eart ailm ent, was
taken to Its final restin g place In
Crown HUI cem etery here with Im
pressive rite«.
"OREGON Si A lt NtW S
CF GENERAUilTEREST
W. H. Thompson, republican, who
was elected mayor of Chicago, defeat
ing W. E. Dever, democrat.
COURT TEMPORARILY
PERMITSHSH WHEELS
Portland, Or. — Fish w heels were
perm itted to operate on the Colum bia
river when the salm on fishing opened.
O perators of w heels and tra p s won
a tem porary victory in U nited S tates
d istrict court when an o rd er re s tra in
ing the sta te of Oregon and its fish
commission from in terferin g with
operation of w heels and trap s until a
tim e when a full trial can be had and
a Judicial decision reached on th e con
stitutionality of th e in itiativ e m eas
ure, adopted by the voters of Oregon
last November, abolishing all wheels
and traps.
The re strain in g order w as issued in
response to the petition of P. J. Mo
Gowan & Sons, a W ashington corpora
tion which operates fish wheqjs on the
Oregon shore of the Colum bia river
in Hood River county.
The McGowans asked the court to
restrain the s ta te of Oregon from en
forcing the law which was to have
gone into effect with th e opening of
the salmon com m ercial fishing season
on the ground th a t it w as in violation
of a com pact entered into by W ashing
ton and Oregon in 1915 and ratified
by congress in 1918. T his compact
regulates fishing seasons and m ethods
on the Colum bia and Its term s can
only be changed by the m utual con
se n t of both states.
It was also set up by the petitioner
th a t the Oregon law is a violation of
the federal constitution in th a t it pro
vides for the confiscation of property
w ithout due process of law.
A ppearing for the p etitio n ers were
W. B. McCord of S eattle and E. W.
A nderson, a ss ista n t atto rn ey general
of W ashington.
A ttorney G eneral Van W inkle, ap
peared in behalf of Oregon.
S HO RT N E W S NUG G ETS
Soviet R ussia has decided to send
a delegation to Geneva to a tte n d the
L eague of N ations economic confer
ence.
S ecretary W ilbur has disapproved a
m ovem ent t ' establish a second naval
academ y on the w est coast or some
o th er place.
P resident Coolidge does not foresee
th e necessity of calling a special ses
sion of congress to m eet the situation
in the M ississippi flood area.
Mrs. W illiam K. V anderbilt, form
erly V irginia Fair, filed suit for di
vorce and W illiam K. V anderbilt a
counter su it for divorce in P aris
courts.
C harged with em bezzling $1,000,000
of th e funds of the K ansas City Joint
Stock Land hank, six officials and
d irecto rs of th e bank w ere indicted
by a K ansas City federal grand Jury.
A nother record price for New York
stock exchange m em bership was es
tablished when the seat of Reginal
Fincke was sold to C harles Sincere
for $190.000. The previous price was
$180,000.
Gangster Admits Slaying Mayor,
The season's first carload of asp ar
agus was forw arded from Hood River
last week.
The honey season th is y ear In C lat
sop county is six weeks behind the
usual tim e.
L a st S aturday w as Baby day in Cor
vallis. It was the first baby clinic to
be held in B enton county.
C leanup day was observed la s t week
a t the Sandy union high school. N ear
ly all the stu d en ts and faculty took
part.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob George, pioneer
resid en ts of St. H elens, celebrated
th e ir 60th wedding an niversary there
last week.
T he city of Bandon is p reparing to
oil a num ber of streets, la s t y e a r’s
experim ent having been considered
successful.
T he sixth annual reunion of the Old
W asco C ounty P ioneer association will
be held in the civic auditorium a t The
Dalles May 7.
The city of Springfield has req u est
ed th e E ugene cham ber o. com m erce
and th e Lane county court to help iD
a flood prevention project.
A pproxim ately tw o-thirds of the city
of E m pire, on Coos bay, will be re
platted in connection with an indus
trial project now under way.
W ork is again under way a t the
L eeper Dome oil well n ear S utherlin
and indications are th a t operations
will be continued indefinitely.
D espite th e covering of ice and snow
over Diamond lake, raibow tro u t are
beginning to spaw n. Eggs are being
taken by the gam e comm ission.
Royal Anne and Bing cherries seem
to have been dam aged more th an oth
e r varieties, according to F. B. H ar
low, an o rch ard ist of Lane county.
Miss M ildred Cole of Albany has
been elected queen of the May day ex
ercises of A lbany college, which will
be held on th e new cam pus May 6.
D elegates from all up and down the
O regon coast w ere in attendance last
week at a m eeting of the Oregon
B eaches-R oosevelt Highw ay associa
tion.
W hile some dam age w as done to
the p ear crop in the Medford district,
the real danger is yet to come, says
the governm ent fro st expert stationed
th ere.
A city election is to be held at N orth
Bend for the purpose of voting on a
proposition to elim inate city taxes
from new industries for a period of
10 years.
Due to contam ination believed to
be com ing from an unlocated sew age
leak, drinking w ater from the C entral
P oint w ater system m ust be boiled b e
fore using.
An evidence of th e gradual retu rn
to norm alcy in the lum ber industry
of K lam ath county is the an n o u n ce
m ent of th e reopening of several log
ging camps.
C ottage Grove w as selected by the
U m pqua Valley B aptist association as
the m eeting place for th e 1928 con
vention. The annual m eeting will be
held in Septem ber.
An English b a y o n e t 20 inches long,
believed to date back to th e m assacre
of th e Sm ith p arty a t E ast G ardiner
in 1828, was excavated by w orkm en at
G ardiner, n ear Reedsport.
S tudents on th e U niversity of Ore
gon cam pus num ber 3054, according to
reg istratio n figures for the spring
term . T his is an increase of 60 over
the sam e period la st year.
Irl I. Blagg, Hood River county tax
assessor, narrow ly escaped death last
week while leveling an orchard tra c t
for irrigation. Mr. Blagg was riding
a drag, which tipped over, when s trik
ing an obstruction. Although pinned
under the cum bersom e im plem ent, he
stuck w ith the reins when th e team
ran away.
Bend is jubilant over the Great
N orthern extension plans announced
last Tuesday. No formal celebration
was held but a feeling of general sa t
isfaction was expressed by business
men.
Benton. 111.—Solving the m urder of
Joe Adams, form er m ayor of W est
A nother dividend of in per rent will
City. 111.. H arry A. T hom asson. 19.
B irger gangster, confessed he and his •oon be paid by the defunct F irst N a
brother. Elmo, now dead, sh o t down tioual buuk of Bandon. T his will
Adams at his front door on the a f te r be th e fourth dividend, making a total
noon of l»ecember 12. last. The con of 70 per cent since the bank closed
fession was made in open court and tw o years ago.
C ircuit Judge C harles H M iller sen
More than 2000 Marion county
tenced Thom asson to life Im prison school children, chosen as physically
ment. Thom asson said th e m urder the roost perfect in the county, pa
was com m itted at th e command of raded on th e street» of Salem last
C harlie Birger, Southern Illinois gang Sat unlay in the first dem onstration
leader.
of its kind ever held on the Pacific
c o a st
Filer Believed Smuggler; Shot Down.
The property of the C entral Oregon
Los A ngeles.—A J D augherty, stu Irrigation district Is valued at approxi
dent aviator of Som erset. Ohio, was m ately $2.600.000 and the d istrict's In
shot and killed by th ree federal immi debtedness is $262.000. according to a
gration Inspectors, who shot d o sn an report prepared by the d istrict direc
airplane believed to contain smug tors for consideration of the state en
tiers.
gineer.
A cougar m easuring nine teet from
tip of nose to tip of tail was killed on
C edar creek in Colum bia county by
Reed Holden, according to word re
ceived at th e sta te gam e com m ission.
F ederal Judge R obert S. Bean h a s
announced th a t th ere will be no Jury
service in the O regon federal c o u rts
during May and June, because th e gov
ern m en t has no m oney to pay ju ro rs
or w itnesses during those m onths.
A log gcaler nam ed Dugan, about
40, employed by the E ast Side Logging
com pany n e a r K easey. was in stan tly
killed last T uesday when a strin g e r
of a tre stle gave w ay and a load of
logs, on which he w as standing, fell
w ith him.
The annual conference of the S outh
ern Oregon A ssociation of Law E n
forcem ent O fficers was held in R ose
burg la s t week. T he association in
cludes all state, county and city p eace
officers, as well as traffic and gam e
officials.
W hile a big barn, one of two be
lieved to have been destroyed by a
firebug, burned ju s t w est of Redm ond
last week, men w ith rocks and Sticks
fought back a herd of dairy cows, to
keep the anim als from running into
the blazing stru ctu re,
Jefferso n Myers, m em bers of th e
shipping board from P ortland, has ad
vised the P ortland cham ber of com
m erce th a t one of th e g overnm ent's
new b attle cru isers may be nam ed in
honor of the city of P ortland, if offi
cial request is m ade for such d istin c
tion.
Bids for Im proving the Mount Hood-
W aplnitia highway, M ount Hood n a
tional forest, and the Salmon riv e r
clearing and P itn e r section grading,
Siuslaw national fo rest, have been
requested by the bureau of public
roads. U nited S tates dep artm en t of
agriculture.
The th ree landm arks known as Cas
tle, T ourist and E lephant rocks, oppo
site the town of Seal Rocks in Lincoln
county on the Oregon coast, have been
w ithdraw n from public en try by th e
general land office of the in terio r d e
partm en t at the req u est of S e n a to r
M cNary of Oregon.
The special election for bonding
Milton city to the am ount of. $150,000
for a new hydro electric project c a r
ried by a vote of 439 to 49. The co st
of the project will be $230,000 and
will be paid for w ith th e $150,000 bond
issue, $35,000 cash on hand, and $45,-
000 short term w arran ts.
P roof of the profits in dairying w as
given on the Union Pacific D airy-Prof
its special touring eastern O regon
when Bess, a G uernsey from the Oak-
grove dairy a t Scappoose, gave b irth
la st W ednesday to a 75-pound caJf.
The train at the tim e was running be
tw een H erm iston and Stanfield.
McKenzie riv er w ater will flow In
E ugene w ater m ains soon a fter M ay
1, unless some obstacle arises in th e
next few days, it was announced re
cently by Carl McClain, superintend
ent of the city w ater board. T estin g
of th e last section of pipe has heen
com pleted and cleaning and p ain tin g
work is all th a t rem ains to be done.
A djudication of w ater rights on th e
John Day riv er in eastern Oregon will
be undertaken by the state en g in eer
as soon as the 3900 se ttle rs along th e
stream have filed th eir resp ectiv e
claims. H earings will open at Condon
Ju n e 15. O ther hearings will be held
a t Fossil, June 17; Spray, June 20;
Dayville, June 21; Canyon City, Ju n e
22, and Bates, June 25.
Two suits to re s tra in the « tat»
board of control from proceeding w ith
the construction of th e proposed new
state office building authorized by th e
last legislature, and enjoining T. B.
Kay, sta te treasu rer, from selling an y
bonds of the s ta te industrial accident
comm ission to obtain funds to finance
th e project, w ere filed in the circu it
court in Salem last week.
H earing of the application of th e
Wilson River Toll Road company fo r
a certificate of necessity and public
convenience has been set for Ju n e 2,
according to announcem ent m ade a t
the offices of the public service com
m ission in Salem . T he hearing w ill
be held in Portland. The road would
shorten the distance betw een P o rtlan d
and th e Tillam ook county beaches by
approxim ately 35 miles.
The state fish comm ission, th rsu g h
the attorney-general's departm ent, re
sisted in the federal court in P ortland
a suit brought by P. J. McGowan ft
Sons, a W ashington corporation, to
restrain the defendant fish com m is
sion and attorney-general from en
forcing a law enacted by th e voters
last N ovember prohibiting the o pera
tion of fish w heels in the Colum bia
river and of tra p s and seines In th o
stream above C ascade Locks.
Oregon m onthly pensions have been
granted as follows: F rancis J. Mc-
G ettlgan, P i^ tla n d , $30; R obert L.
Adams. Portland. $25; S arah A. Win-
term antel, P ortland. $30; Jesse W.
Kelsey, W oodhurn, $20; R obert J. Do
lan. Rainier, $30; Edwin B arker. O re
gon City. $20; Sm ith L. Taylor, Eu-
eesie, $20; F ranc Szopleray, K lam ath
Falls. $25; Lovina A. H askell, B eaver
Creek $50; E lm er Coleman. Milwau
kie. $25; Mary J. Cook. Junction City,
$20; Em ily Modoc F aithful, K lam ath
Falla, $J0.