LlhDBERG FtlES ACROSS ATLANTIC MAJ. G FN. JADW IN SHERIFF IS KILLED IN LIQUOR BATTLE J ^ A D M IR A L BULLARD * X C la rk Connty O fficer S la in in Gun Fight W ith Alleged M oonshiners- D arin g Young A m erican Pilot W ins N ew Y o rk -to -P a ris Flight. Vancouver, W ash.—L ester M. Wood, P aris. — Captain C harles A. Lind sheriff of Clark county, was shot and bergh. th e young American aviator, I killed Bunday afternoon In a gun b a t­ who hopped off from New York all tle with alleged m oonshiners In a alone In his monoplane, arrived In > densely wooded region in th e Dole P aris, safe and sound. ' valley. 25 m iles n o rth east of V an­ The sandy haired son of the middle couver. went dropped down out of the d ark ­ “T ed” Baker, declared to have been ness at Le Bourget flying field, a few | seen n ear th e place of the shooting, m iles from Paris, only 33 H hours after was arrested here by V ancouver po­ leaving Long Island—the first man In histo ry t"> go from New York to P aris lice. A posse which had been h astily as- w ithout “changing cars." ■ sem bled upon news of the m urder of " It w asn't such a had trip ,” he said Wood, surrounded “the old Erion farm a t the American em bassy. "1 ran into place," about a mile from the scene of »jm e snow and Ice in the early p art; th e shooting, and arrested Ellis Baker, th e rest wasn’t so bad fath er of Ted, and E llis’ two brothers, "T he biggest trouble was staying L u th er and Edwin and L ester H u n t­ aw ake 1 went to sleep several tim es, Admiral W illia m H. G. Bullard, who The four surrendered w ithout but was lucky enough to wake myself MaJ. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, chief of ing. it ohairman of the federal radio com­ rig h t away. I was afraid of the san d ­ United States arm y engineers, who i resistance, but the possem en said mission. man all of the tim e.” directed the efforts of engineers to i th eir prisoners had been arm ed. Computing th e distance as 3800 control the Mississippi flood. S heriff Wood and Deputy Johnson miles, his speed averaged around 113 were advancing along a tra il In th e [ vicinity of w here a lookout waa en­ m iles an hour. countered by the deputies e a rlie r in A crowd of at least 25.000 surround 16460124 the day when w ithout w arning a shot •d his plane, tho "S pirit of St. Louis," rang out fijom the brush and the When It came to earth after Its epochal sheriff fell m ortally wounded. D eputy voyage from the new world to the old. Spokane, W ash. — A dditional funds Johnson said he fired several shots In The airm an was lifted from the seat, w here for two days and a night he sat th e direction of where the shots came for continuation ot Investigations In 8aiera, Or. — D uring the p ast 14 connection w ith the Colum bia basin from and then retreated . fixed, guiding his plane over land and years, dating from 1913, Oregon has sea, and for 40 m inutes he was h a rd ­ S heriff Wood, who was elected last Irrigation project should be asked of expended approxim ately (100,000,000 ly able to talk or do anything else, fall th e first tim e he had ever taken congress a t the next session, Dr. El­ on Its highway program, while only except let him self he oarrled along any p art In politics, assum ed office wood Mead, federal com m issioner of J68.000.000 covered all oth er govern­ l>F a m ass of men made delirious with Jan u ary 10 and has since been con­ reclam ation, recom m ended to th e a n ­ m ental expenditures w ithin th at Joy a t bis achievem ent. ducting a ru th less w ar on liquor vio­ nual m eeting of the Colum bia Basin period. The la tte r figure included (5,- Irrigation league here. When P resident Doumergue pinned lators. 000,000 levied in taxes for loans and C haracterizing the project “the on L indberg's breast the cross the cosh bonuses for ex-service men. largest and therefore costliest e n te r­ Legion of Honor at the very spot at This Inform ation was contained in prise of its kind in th e world," Dr. Le Bourget on which the plane drifted a report prepared by Sam A. Roger, Mead outlined som e of the considera­ to the ground S aturday night, com­ secretary of state, for the considera | tions involved In its developm ent and pleting the epochal voyage, the p resi­ tlon of a num ber of civic and com­ predicted th a t it m ust w ait for a t least d ent was in a real sense acting In the m ercial organisations In Oregon. ten years before it can be undertaken. nam e of the whole nation. It Is felt The report showed th at during the He referred to th e program of the everyw here th at this fine young Amer- W ashington, D. C.—Roy A. H aynes last 28 years, the governm ental ex loan has done more in a few hours to it out of the governm ent service and secretary of the in terio r for comple­ fienses, exclusive of highways, aggre prom ote genuine sym pathy betw een th e duties of prohibition com m issioner tion of existing projects before any gated (87,750,000, and for the first the two peoples than volumes of have been taken over by Dp. Jam es new ones a re started , and said th a t 14 years of th is period these expensee speeches and ream s of literatu re. M. Doran, appointed to th at poet by because of the im m ensity of th e Ya­ were less than J20.000.000. kim a project and th e fact th a t ten S ecretary Mellon, “Many persons are unable to justify Doran, whQ has been head of the years will be required fo r Its comple­ th e high m otor vehicle license fee In prohibition b u reau ’s technical division, tion, a large sh are of the income of Oregon when compared with the li­ assum ed charge of enforcem ent activ i­ the reclam ation bureau for th a t tim e cense fee in the adjoining states of ties S aturday supplanting H aynes, will be used In this state. W ashington and C alifornia," read the who had been serving as acting com­ report. "In our neighbor states it m issioner. i e P L A N E S S CO UT FO R E S T S must be borne In mind th at a personal Longview, W ash.—Testim ony taken Doran recom m ended appointm ent of -rt- » property tax Is paid In addition, while here In th e ouster proceedings brought M ajor H erbert H. W hite, now a special Machines From Five Bases W ill Map in Oregon the m otor vehicle is ex by the slate of Missouri against the in vestigator, as a ss ista n t prohibition Forest Biases. em pted from any such tax. Long-Dell Lum ber company, at th e in­ com m issioner. » W àshington, D. C.—A rm y airplanes G eneral Lincoln C. Andrews, a ss ist­ from five bases will fly over th e na­ stigation of F. J. B annister, ex presi­ SHORT N EW S NUGGETS dent, disclosed th at the Long-Bell an t secretary of th e treasu ry since tional fo rests of th e Pacific northw est — -— r Lum ber com pany's Investm ent In the April 1, 1926. subm itted his resigna­ and C alifornia this sum m er as forest Jack Sharkey, giant ex sailor, knock Longview development project totaled tion, effective August 1, 1927. fire scouts, the d e p artm en t of agricul about 1(5,947.320, although those ed out his Boston rival, Jim m y Ma Form er L ieu ten ant G overnor Sey­ ture announced. loney, In the fifth round of a 15-round figures were not entirely agreed to by m our Lowman will sucoed him. T he planes will have bases a t E u­ P resident M. 11. Nelson aud Long Dell m atch in New York. A ndrew s explained in his le tte r of gene, Or., a t S eattle, W ash., and Spo­ Fourty-four persons were killed and Ooufisel. resig n atio n to Mellon th a t he took kane, W ash., a t M ather field, n ear Of th a t am ount 124.948,077 covered 41 injured In th e blasting of the Bath over the federal prohibition enforce­ S acram ento, Cal., and a t Olendale. {ho sawmill operations here and log Mich . village school house by Andrew m ent work to coordinate the activities n ear Los A ngeles, Cal. T hey will be ging operations and the tow nslte of Kohoe, dem euted farm er. of the coast guard, custom s bureau piloted by arm y a ir service reserve E ight lives were lost when a wall and prohibition bureau and th a t this Ryder, 30 miles north of here. officers tem porarily In th e employ of k A ttorney Roberts, representing Mr of w ater from what is known as the work would be com pleted by August 1. tho forest service, who will be ac­ B annister, questioned Mr Nelson on “slide" d: m In th e Gros V enture rivet com panied by forest officers, acting as (ho umount of mouey Invested In lands sw ept over the little town of Kelly observers. F R U IT S H IP P E R S O RG ANIZE Bud Im provem ents In Longview. It Wyo. The p rim ary w ork of the a ir patrol President Coolidge, it is understood Was brought out that (6 500.000 bad Kipp M arketin g Idea Followed in will be reconnaissance of large fires, will tuke for his sum m er W hite House been expended In developm ent of the confirm ation of fire rep o rts, spotting Principle by Dealers. the attractiv e Cusack estate at Cas ot lightning fires, especially In areas glty. Yakima. W ash.—O rganization of the cade, 10 miles from Colorado Springs I P acific N orthw est F ru it Shippers' not adequately covered by ground Colo. lookouts. W A R -TIM E C LA IM S F IX E D Prediction th a t a tax surplus ot council was launched here in a m eet­ 1500,000.600 would be In the treasury ing of shippers of seven districts. A 26 Sailors Landed by Lifeline. (n g ia n d Owes Am erica *1.(00.000 on by th e tim e congress m eets in Decern com m ittee was appointed including H. • hipping Seizures. San F rancisco.—A fter 48 hours of her was m ads by S enator Sim mons of L. Yost, sou th ern Idaho; Edward ' W ashington, 1). C. The American N orth Carolina, ranking dem ocrat on P ierre, Spokane; F rank Lamb. W alla anguish w ith th eir boat spitted upon gild British governm ents have agreed W alla C. T. Baker, M edford; P F. a reef. 26 m em bers of th e crew of the (he senate finance com m ittee. pn a settlem ent of mutual claim s and C lark, Hood River, O r.; H A. Perham , freig h ter Indiana H arbor were taken those of Individuals against both gov Yakima, and C. W. W hite, W enatchee, off with breeches buoy. The vessel C alifornia's »8,000,000 Bridge Opened h r intents for leisu re of w ar tim e ship­ to m eet in S eattle, June 4, to perfect bound from San F rancisco to Portland, Vallejo, C al.—The w orld's biggest ping. but term s of the settlem ent are was driven aground n e a r Point Gorda. plans. being withheld pending an arrange- highw ay bridge, spanning C arquinei G row ers m eeting at the sam e tim e south of E ureka, Cal. Blent for publication of final notes s tra its in San F rancisco bay, was beard a rep o rt of th e sh ip p ers’ ac­ opened for public travel last S aturday ratifying the pact. tion aad wHl m eet next S aturday to Flood R elief Fund T otals (13.445.206. i It Is understood th a t balancing of The bridge not only sh o rten s overland 1 plan a grow ers' organisation. W ashington, D. C. — The national »he claims has left an aw ard of ap­ travel up and down the Pacific const The fruit grow ers Interested in the Red C ross flood relief fund totaled proxim ately (1.(00.000 to the United but also brings San Francisco and the m ovem ent to organise under the so- J13.445.206 S aturday. ( t a le s The claim s grew out of de­ East Bay cities Into closer contact called Kipp plan expressed disappoint­ ten tio n and search during th e w ar of with the fertile north cen tral reglor ' m ent at the decision of the fruit ship­ T H E MARKETS. •hipping of both countries suspected of th e state. Portland. pers to exclude grow ers and brokers of carrying war supplies to the enemy. W heat—Big Bend bluestem . (1.58; from th e ir organization. S. P. Buys More Right of Way. hard w hite, (1 5 3 ; federation, soft K lam ath Falls. Or.—T h at the South 1 Oregon Executive Invites 4 G overnors white, and w estern white, (1 48; hard Dr. Juan B. Sacsea Q uite Nicaragua. W ashington, D V Dr. Juan H. 8a ern Pacific Is preparing to Join in the Salem, Or. — G overnor P atterson w inter, »1.4»; n o rth ern spring and aii"a, leader of th e N icaraguan revolt! railroad developm ent of the K lam ath 1 sen t Invitations to G overnors Bald­ w estern red, »1.46. lion, accom panied by 27 of hts follow basin was fu rth er evidenced h ere with I ridge of Idaho. Young of C alifornia. H a y — AlfaWa. »20020 »0; valley e rs and supporters, boarded the steam th e announcem ent th at the Oregon H artley of W ashington and F arrin g ­ tim othy. (1 8 0 1 6 50; e a stern Oregon a r Wawa at Puerto C abeta his capi­ C alifornia A E astern, subsidiary of the ton of Hawaii, urging them to attend tim othy, »21022. tal for Limon, Costa Rica, according gouthern Pacific, has purchased add! th e annual convention of the Pacific B u tte rfa t—40c. to a dispatch to the navy defw rtiuent tlonal right of way p roperty In th» Coast A dvertising Clubs association Eggs— Ranch. 19® 20c. from A dinliil l4itlm er This would in­ Sprague river country. C attle— S teers, good, »9 25010.15. which will be held In P ortland dicate that Saras« for the time being HLgle Medium to choice, (9.50® Ju n e 19. Hughes Not in Presidential Raoe. has abandoned his revolution. 11.00. Sheep—Lam bs, medium to choice, Now York -Charles E. Hughes, re Short Line V aluation »98.360.000. Sinclair Sentenced to T hree Months. publican nominee to r president of th> ! W ashington. D. C.—A ten tativ e valu­ »9 50011 00. Seattle. W ashington. D C H arry Ford Sin U nited S tates In 1916, In a forma ' ation of »98.380.000 was placed by the W heat Soft white, w estern white rlalr. m ultim illionaire oil operator and statem en t referrin g to published r> In te rsta te com m erce com m ission on sportsm an, was senteuced to serve ports of his possible candidacy tot the O regon 8hort Line, as of Ju n e 1. northern spring. Big Bend dark hard th ree m onths In "common Jail” and th e presidency next year, said: “1 1926. The com pany's capitalization on w inter. »1.48; hard w inter. »1.47; to pay a fine of (500 for refusing to atn toe eld to run for p resident and th at d ate was »122.188.173. while ita w estern red. »1.46; Big Bend bluestem gnaw er questions of the senate Teapot I would n eith er seek n or accept tb< cap ital Investm ent was »133,094,104. »1.58. H ay—Alfalfa. »25; tim othy. P. S. l>, m e com m ittee In 1924 nom ination FUNDS FOR BASIN PROJECT URGED 100 MILLION ON HIGHWAYS NEW PROHIBITION COMMISSIONER NAMED NEARLY 65 MILLIONS COST OF LONGVIEW E x G o v ern e r H. E. Huntington. Rail Magnate, Die« Philadelphia H enry K H untington. 77, C alifornia railroad m agnate, died In the lam kennu hospital here tallow |ng an operation. The aged million aire had been critically 111 for several days. H uerta A rraigned for Cenepiraoy. Loa Angeles Adolfo de la H uerta fu n n er provisional preaidant of M ei tco. waa form ally arraigned here oi charge" of conspiracy to violate fed oral neu trality laws by shipping a ra n aud am m unitions to Mexico. MoCray to be Paroled, W ashington, D. C. — The federal parole board has recom m ended th a t W arren T McCray, form er governor of Indiana, sentenced to the A tlanta p en iten tiary for 10 years, be paroled In August when he becomes eligible for c l e n , ^ y. OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST Sixteen persons w ere killed and 321 Injured in 1925 m otor vehicle acci­ d en ts in Oregon during April, accord­ ing to a report prepared by T. A. Raf- j fety, chief inspector for the sta te au­ tom obile departm ent. B rie f Resum e of H appenings of the W eek C ollected fo r O ur R ead ers. J. W ard E vans, a ran ch er in th e C orbett vicinity, called a com m unity m eeting last week a t the C orbett high school to form a squadron of ranchers w ho may be called upon to aid forest ran g ers in g ettin g quick action on C onstruction of a m odern and at­ sm all forest tire s and th u s p revent tractiv e sum m er hotel will be started th e ir spread. th is sum m er a t Lake Odell. Salem voters will pass on proposed F o rest Grove will expend »8500, bond issues aggregating (890,000 a t which will increase by « tre e tim es the the special election June 28, the coun­ productive capacity of the m unicipal cil decided last w eek. Of the total, lighting system . »500,000 Is asked for sew ers and a A pproxim ately 200 plum bers g ath er­ sew age disposal plant. »350,000 ¡or ed in Salem la s t week fo r the annaal perm anent bridges and (40,000 tor an convention of the Oregon A ssociation incin erato r plant. of M aster Plum bers. The heavy snow fall of th e p ast w in­ W ashington county Is now on a cash basis, the la s t ot the outstanding w ar­ ra n ts having been redeem ed by Coun­ ty T reasu rer Sappington. E ight Salem canneries will s ta rt operations about June 1, according to ow ners. T hey s ta rt on gooseberries; the straw b erry crop will follow. A. R. Shum w ay of Milton was ap­ pointed a m em ber of th e Oregon sta te fair board to succeed J. E. Reynolds of La Grande, w hose term has expired. T he opening day of the com m ercial fishing season a t Gold B each for salm on in th e Rogue riv er brought the sm allest catches recorded In many years. Jam es A lger F ee of P endleton was appointed circu it judge for U m atilla and Morrow counties to succeed the late G ilbert W. P helps, who died re ­ cently. T he first n atio n al fo rest closing or­ d er for the season has been issued on the C ascade forest e a st of Eugene, th e d istrict h ead q u arters a t E ugene has announced. te r will result in th e heav iest crop of wild blackberries and h uckleberries of years, according to old-tim ers of Mill City, and persons th a t have been around the patches. One of the large huckleberry p atches oi the sta te is located n e a r there. The first road m aintenance work in th e U m atilla national forest will s ta rt th e first of the week, when a crew will be put on in the Ukiah sec­ tion. The late spring has delayed the w ork In th e fo rests th ere and larg er crew s will be necessary to com plete th e program for th is year. John H. C arkin of M edford w as elected d istrict governor and H. T. H ubbard of M edford d istrict se c re ta ry a t the second annual convention of division 34, the s ta te of Oregon, of the Lions order, held in Medford la st w eek, and Salem was selected as th e place for next y e a r’s convention. T he harvest of straw b erries around Hood R iver this season will be th e la te st for m any years. A recu rren ce of cold w eather h as retard ed the d e ­ velopm ent of blooms and young fru it. The Apple G row ers' association does not an ticipate shipm ents of b erries until about June 1. It will be som e tim e a fte r this before carlota are mov­ ing out. R etail food prices In P o rtlan d are 37 per cent above 1913, the b ureau of labor sta tistic s h as reported, lower th a n any o th e r city except S alt Lake, am ong 51 cities. Two a rte sia n w ells re cen tly drilled The year-old child of Mr. and Mrs- by the city have increased th e w ater O. Skurdal, living near D eadm ond's supply of L a G rande until th e am ount ferry, ten m iles n o rth east of E ugene, available every 24 hours is nearly 4,- was shot fatally by a ten-year-old 000,000 gallons. brother. The m other had left the boy Edwin A nderson MacDonald, Med­ with th e baby while she was p rep ar­ ford youth, w ill be adm itted to the ing the evening meal. The boy, th e U nited S tates naval academ y a t Ann­ m other said, took a revolver out of a apolis, Md„ a t the beginning ol the book case and shot the baby through, autum n s e m ^ te r . the head. A pproxim ately 2000 delegates a t­ P rofessor H enry H artm ann, associ­ tended th e 72nd annual convention of ate professor of pomology a t Oregon th e sta te grand lodge of Odd Fellows A gricultural college, addressing mem­ and the R ebekah assem bly held in bers of the Apple G row ers’ association A storia la st week. in Hood River last week, declared wip­ T he first c a r of road oil for the ing apples to rem ove spray residue a road betw een Mill City and Mehama m akeshift. E ventually, he said, all arriv ed a t L yons la st week and will apple and pear grow ers will use equip­ be applied as quickly a s w eather con m ent th a t perm its passing th e fru it through a hydrochloric acid bath. dltions will p e rm it.. The law enacted a t th e last legis­ T he A m erican N ature association’s national cartoon co n test on "outdoor lative session authorizing th e s ta te good m anners,” has been won by Mrs board of control to borrow (600,000 F lorence McCabe, of G rants Paas. from the state Industrial accident fund for the erection of a new state office- The aw ard w as »100. Canby city council has passed a building in Salem is unconstitutional, resolution for a special election to be according to an opinion banded down held in July to pass on the sale of by Judge L. H. McMahan of th e M ar­ the light and pow er plant to Portland ion county circuit court. The s ta te will appeal from the decision to th e E lectric P ow er company. suprem e court. T he C lackam as County B ankers' as­ H igher tariffs on agricultural prod­ sociation has again indorsed the Boys and G irls' club work by offering ten ucts grown in the W illam ette valley scholarships at th e 1927 county fair were favored by the Oregpn F arm ers union convention in the closing day for prizes in club work. of its session a t Albany last w eek. Marion, Ute 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W illiam Reed of T alent, may Increased tariffs favored include un­ lose the sight of both eyes as the re­ hackled flax fibre and vetch. T he sult of the explosion of some dyna convention recom mended th a t th e ta r­ m ite caps w ith which h e was playing iff on fibre be increased from 1 to 5 ' cents a pound in view of the n ew n ess R obert N. McKamey, 21, of Percy, ! of the flax industry in the U nited Ark., was killed by a falling piece of I States. bark from a sp ar tree a t a logging Clifford La Mere, engineer on th e cam p of the E astern & W estern Lum­ b er Co., on th e Lewis & Clark river I logging railroad of the Silver F alls Timber company, near Silverton, gave n ear A storia. his life to save th ree women who w ere The C urry C ounty Sportsm en's as­ accompanying him on th e engine, sociation has been organized a t Gold when he tossed the women from th e Beach for the purpose of co-ordinating cab while a train of 19 cars loaded the w ork of several local organiza­ with logs, appearing suddenly around tions in the county working for game ; a sliarp turn, bore down' upon them . conservation. The log cars collided with the engine C onstruction on the Oregon Trunk head-on and La Mere waa burled un­ railroad south ot Bend — halted ab­ der a huge m ass of logs. ruptly 17 years ago— will be resumed Oregon last year regained ground on a prelim inary scale soon. Two in exphrt trade which had been lost carloads of co n tracto rs’ equipm ent a r­ In 1925 and surpassed even th e pre­ rived la st week. vious high m ark of 1924 w ith aggre­ P lans are on foot to establish an gate shipm ents of m erchandise des­ A m erican Legion post on the Umatilla tined for foreign consum ption valued Indian reservation to be composed nt »S3,532.419, according to the d ep art­ solely of w arriors of th a t tribe who ment of commerce. The 1926 to tal were in th e national service during indicated a rem arkable climb in Ore­ th e world war. If this post is formed, gon exports during the year, as th e it is said it will be the only American aggregate value of m erchandise se n t Legion post composed solely of in to other lands In 1925 was (48.637,- dlans to be found. 915, or (34.S94.534 less than last year. J. P. Dillon and Tim Sullivan, Coos The last step In the im provem ent county logging operators. have con J traeted to cut 10.000,000 feet of whit, of the F lora E nterprise highw ay, In W allowa county, w as the opening of cedar tim ber in th e vicinity of Em bids last week by C. H. Purcell, dis­ pire, w here the Empire Development 1 trict engineer of the U nited S ta te s company recently bought 1600 acres bureau of public roads, for surfacing ot land. (21. the F lora section. ».7 m iles B u tter—C ream ery 42c. Discovery of a rich vein of tin ore Mrs P. C Kcmesies of Los A ngeles Eggs - Ranch. 23 ® 25c. 3» miles east of Klamath Falls was C attle— Steers, choice, (9 50 010.25 1 reported by C A Hendricks. Worden died in a hospital at Albany as th e result of an autom obile accident n e a r Hogs- Prim e. »11011.25. and C. L Spencer, K lam ath Falls Shedd. In attem pting to pass a wagon Spokane. who returned to that city a fte r two I Mrs. Kemesles* autom obile skidded C attle—-S teers good. »9 7509.»0. weeks spent in prospecting and atak and overturned and she was throw n Hogs Good, »le 50 010.66. in* out claims. into a ditch filled with mud and w ater,