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. j j j 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.