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' i HILL LINES FILE PLANS FOR MERGER C. D. C H A M B E R LIN FORD FRAMES HIS OWN RETRACTION Detroit, Mich. — Indications th at H enry Ford "did his own talking" and "played his own hand" in making his peace with the Jew ish people were given added weight with fu rth er evi dence th at none of the arm y of regular Ford legal talen t participated In the overtures th at led to the autom obile m anufacturer's apology for antl-Jew ish w ritings in his Dearborn Independent. In disavowing these w ritings Mr. Ford explained (hat the wide scope of his activities had made It Impossible for him to devote his personal atten- tlon to the conduct and policies of his publication and th at he was obliged to delegate th eir m anagem ent to others. Mr. F ord’s statem ent, copyrighted by the New York j.m erlcan and given out through A rthur Brisbane, express ed "great reg ret" over any Injury the articles may have caused and added th a t a survey he had made showed him "th at this Journal (the Independ en t) Intended to be constructive and not destructive, had been made the medium for resurrecting exploded fic tions.” The statem ent concluded with th e assurance th at "henceforth they (the Jew s) may look to me for friend ship and good will.” NAVAL PARLEY P U Z Z L E S British Insistence on Big Cruiser Tonnage Unexplained. Dublin, Ireland.—Kevin O’Hlggina, known aa "th e stro ng m an" of the Irish F ree S tate, was shot down In the stre e ts Sunday and killed by a s sassins. As in th e case of an o th er “stro n g m an,” Michael Collins, his m urderers lay In wait for him and as he was w alking along from his hom e to Black Rock, a sh ort distance from Dublin, an autom obile pulled up be side him and three men pumped bul lets Into him. The assassin s drove aw ay and th u s far have escaped th e police. Mr. O 'H iggins usually was accom panied by a detective, but Sunday when startin g for the Booterstow n C atholic church he told his escort for the first tim e in th ree years to rem ain a t home. He was taken entirely by C. D. Chamberlin, who piloted the su rp rise when attacked. The first shot monoplane "Columbia” In the flight struck him In th e abdomen, but he from New York to Germany. m anaged to stag g er across the road, w here he collapsed. H is assailan ts fired five or more bullets into his head and body before springing Into th eir car and driving furiously away. As he lay on th e road m ortally wounded, O'HigglnS, vice-president of the F ree S tate council, m inister of St. Paul, M in n —R ep resen tativ es of Justice and foreign affairs, gasped out, m idwest farm organizations opened a “I forgive them all.” two-day confeernce here to form ulate a plan of action for furm relief legis lation at the next congress. T hroughout the first session, speak ers of national prom inence urged the principles of the M cNary-Haugen bill, vetoed by P resident Coolidge last win ter, as affording the most satisfactory W ashington, D. C.—An Increase of $245,726,873 In the collection of Income basis for farm aid legislation. Congressm an L. J. D ickinson of tax es during the last fiscal year over Iowa declared th a t If satisfacto ry th e preceding 12 m onths was reported farm relief legislation is not passed by th e Internal revenue bureau, which by the 70th congress n ext teinter, showed total collections of $2.219.831,- "farm relief will become th e m ajor 014. A decrease of $216,031.255 w as Issue of th e 1928 cam paign.” shown in m iscellaneous taxes, w ith Co-author of th e McNary-Haugen collections of $645,864,495. bill, C ongressm an G ilbert N. Haugen, T otal tax collections from all of Iowa, insisted the m ajor political sources showed an increase of $29,- parties, through platform prom ises, 695,617, reaching $2,865,695,509. are duty bound to pass legislation Income tax collections totaling $6,- looking to relief of the agricultural 197,759 from th e sta te of O regon were situation. reported for th e fiscal year 1927, w hich The conference was called by the ended Ju n e 30. * The 1927 to tal rep resen ts a drop of American Council of A griculture, or approxim ately $200,000 from the total ganized here tw o years ago. The group Includes rep resen tativ es collections during the fiscal year 1926, of 49 farm organizations, principally which were $6,399,176. Income taxes from th e s ta te of in M innesota. N orth and South Da kota, W isconsin, Iowa and Montana. W ashington, Including A laska, show ed an Increase in 1927. T he total pay m ents from th a t revenue d istric t were SHO RT N EW S NUGGETS $13,307.881 In 1927 and $12.307,536 In L ieutenant C. C. Champion, U. S. N„ 1926. M iscellaneous taxes In 1927 to broke his own w orld's seaplane alti taled $694,556, bringing the aggregate from W ashington and tude record July 4 when he climbed collection Alaska during th a t year to $13,002,- 37,995. John D. Rockefeller celebrated his 438. 88th birthday an n iv ersary Saturday by en tertain in g a few close friends In I l l s JAPANESE PATRO L TS IN G TA D home a t Pocantico Hills. John Drew, noted A m erican actor, Official Count Shows 419 Americans Now in Menaced City. died In San Francisco a fter being con P ekin.—Jap an ese m arines, num ber fined to a hospital since May 31 with a rth ritis and rheum atic fever. He was ing 750, are p atroling T singtao, Shan tung province, replacing the soldiers 73 years old. The federal tra d e commission held who have been sen t w estw ard along the Famous Players-L asky corporation, th e railw ay in read in ess for em er Adolph Z uker and Jesse L. Laaky, gencies. It Is reported th a t a Ja p a n guilty of Illegal attem p ts to mono ese cru iser h as left S hanghai for T singtao carrying 450 additional m ar polize motion pictures. P ostal receipts of 50 selected cities ines. The Jap an ese w ar craft a t T sing totaled 829.681,229.47 In June, as com tao are two cru isers and tw o gun pared with $28.719.454.55 for the sam e boats. T singtao and T sinan a re quiet and m onth In 1926, an Increase of $961,- 774.92 or 3 35 per cent, th e postofflce th ere is no Im m ediate th re a t of dis o rd er o r occupation by the southern dep artm en t announced. (n atio n alist) forces. G overnm ent to Aid Plane Builders. An official count on June 19 show- W ashington. D. C.—A foreign trad e ed th ere was 419 A m ericans In T sing and Inform ation service for A m erican tao, the m ajority of them refugee m is civil aviation was inaugurated by Sec sionaries from in terio r posts or sum retary of Comm erce H oover w ith ap m er sojourners. pointm ent of Jam es I). Sum m ers, Los Angeles, as the first United S tates Virginia Schoolmam Heads Educators. S eattle, W ash Miss C ordelia S to rrs aeronautic trad e com m issioner. Sum m ers’ te rrito ry will b e C entral and Adair, class room school teac h er of South A m erica with h ead q u arters In Richmond, V a. becam e president of Panam a and he will Investigate air th e N ational E ducation association at tran sp o rtatio n developm ents and as th e close of the general session of the sist in the sale of A m erican com m er organization here. M inneapolis was cial aircraft and equipm ent. T rade unanim ously chosen by the board of d irecto rs for th e 1928 convention. com m issioners for other foreign coun tries are to be nam ed later. M'NARY FARM AID PLAN IS DEMANDED W ashington, D. C.— Increasing m ys tification over th e in sisten t British demand at Geneva for a cruiser ton nage of 600.000 as a basis for a sup plem ental naval treaty w as evident nt the sta te departm ent, w here tt was ■aid th at G reat Britain had approved a t the W ashington arm s conference five years ago a proposal to limit nil auxiliary craft to a total of 450,000 tons. Sir Esm e Howard, the B ritish am bassador, Is rem aining In W ashington during th e critical period of the de liberations. It was pointed out h ere th a t the original American proposal a t the W ashington conference to limit aux iliary surface craft to a total of 460,- 000 long for G reat B ritain and the 200,000 Veterans Seek Insurance. U nited S tates was accepted without W ashington. D. C. A pproxim ately reservation by Lord Balfour of th e 200.000 applications for conversion and British delegation. rein statem en t of w ar risk in surance were received In Ju n e by the v eteran s' Brotherhood Chief Out After 24 Years bureau, according to estim ates by Cleveland A fter serving as p resi D irector lltn es. More than 100,000 of dent of the International Brotherhood th ese applications were from ex serv of Stationary Firemen. Oilers and Kail ice men who hud allowed th e ir Insur w ay Shop L aborers for 24 years. Tim ance to lapse. T he period In which othy Healy was defeated for réélection Insurance m ight be converted o r re ■nd his post voted to John F. Mc in stated closed at m idnight July 2. N am ara, Boston, Mass. In one of the b itterest ( lections of the brotherhood's U. S Ambassador to Mexico Quits. history, Healey hist out to his younger Rapid City, 8 D.—The resignation Opponent by a vote o( 74 to 66. of Jam es Y. Sheffield as am bassador to Mexico was accepted by P resident French Aee Hired to Fly “Columbia.” Coolidge shortly a fter It had been Paris, — C harles Ir v in e announced tendered. The post will rem ain for th a t Maurice Drouhtn, not. ,1 French the tim e being In th e bands of the airm an, had been selected to fly the charge d'affaires, as Mr Coolidge has Columbia to America, and had accept- not derided when th e reslg n atto a ed. Levine will go ae a passenger. shall become effective. INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECTIONS LARGER Liberia's U. S. W ar Debt Paid. W ashington, D. C.—L iberia became the second nation to pay Its en tire war debt to the U nited S tates when It turn ed over to th e tre a su ry a check for $35,610. Cuba la the o th er nation which has wiped Its w ar debt slate clean. Slayer of Wife Admits Murder. Oregon City, Or. Alvin McCurdy, 56. m illw orker, confessed th a t with th ree blows of a claw ham m er he kill ed hts wife, Ethel, 45. and then set fire to th eir hom e at Canem ah. a vil lage one mile south of here. English Assembly Approves Revision. London. Tl.e proposed revision of th e book of common prayer tn the C hurch of England was approved by the church assem bly In session here. The vote was 517 in favor of the revla- ton and 133 against tt. OREGON STATE NEWS 10425569 B rie f R esum e of H appenings of the W e e k C ollected fo r O ur R eaders. K evin 0 Higgins, V ic e -P re s i dent, Shot D ow n W hile on W ay to Church. G reat N orthern and N orthern P acific Ask I. C. C. to Com bine Roads. W ashington, D. C.—Form al applica tlon was made Io the In terstate tom jnerce commission for approval of the project to consolidate th e N orthern Pacific and G reat N orthern railroads. The com plete plan, which has been draw n up and approved by stockhold ers and officers of the two roads, provides for creation of a new com pany, th e Great N orthern Pacific, un d er the laws of Delaware. U nder this plan the corporation ask s th e com mission to allow It to issue 4,97(1,976 shares of common stock, 2,479,950 ■hares of which would be exchanged for the outstanding stock of the N orth ern Pacific railroad and 2,490.981 ■hares of which would be exchanged fo r outstanding stock of th e Great N orthern company. Most of the securities of the exist ing companies already have been de posited with com m ittees in p repara tion for th e contem plated exchange. The new G reat N orthern Pacific company's plan also Includes lease of th e 900 mile system of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle railroad, which Is now owned In common by the N orth ern Pacific and Great N orthern. While the definite application did not deal with the subject, th e corpora tion also contem plates control of the 11,400 mile system of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, which Is now jointly owned by the Great N orthern and N orthern Pacific. The new company, If the commis- ■Ion approves the project, will own or operate approxim ately 25,000 miles of trunk line railroad and will become by far th e larg est railroad system in the United States. IRISH FREE STATE OFFICIAL IS SLAIN RICHARD ANTRIM t W a te r is now being released from th e McKay re se rv o ir for Irrigation purposes in the w est end of U m atilla 1 county. Only the norm al flow of Mc K ay creek has been released but i t ’is now planned to utilize 350 acre feet a day. F ire of unknow n origin caused an estim ated dam age of $50,000 to the M. & M. d ep artm en t store in Medford last week. The loss was due m ainly to w ater and sm oke. T he blaze raged for an hour in the basem ent before It was brought under control. Bandon proposes to have a golf course ready by 1928 on w hich visitors to th a t beach city m ay play. W a te r h as been tu rn ed Into Ash Com plete renovation of th e F orest land’s new equalization reservoir, al Grove postoffice will be under way w ithin a few days, it was announced though it will be several days before the reserv o ir will be filled for use. recently. T his is p a rt of A shland's new w ater Dale Drew, 21-year-old son of Chas. system , for w hich $450,000 bonds w ere Drew, prom inent K lam ath rancher, approved a t a re cen t election. was drow ned a t L ost R iver dam , 10 Two hundred and seventy-eight ves- m iles south of K lam ath Falls. selssels of a com bined n et re g iste r of Lane county's bonded Indebtedness 925,973 tons en tered the Oregon cus- Is now $1,531,700. $136,800 having been i tom s d istrict direct from foreign ports recen tly paid off w ith O regon and during th e y ear ended Ju n e 30 com C alifornia land g ra n t tax refunds. pared w ith 204 vessels of 653,106 to n s E stab lish m en t o f , a new postofflce th a t entered d irect the preceding year. Richard Antrim of Chicago, who a t B eaver M arsh, in K lam ath county, T he C003 riv e r consolidated sahool heads the list of 25 young men chosen Is announced by postal authorities. d istrict, one of th e rich est in the sta te from the entire United States for a W illiam Zum brunne is postm aster. for its class, is considering an inno four-year course at the Annapolis The B aker C ounty Cow T esting as vation for accom m odation of its five Naval Academy. sociation h as com pleted organization teac h ers. It is proposed to dispose of and th e new te ste r, Leroy W right of a tra c t of 11 acres, purchased when K lam ath county, has begun work. th e consolidation was m ade, and build The p lant of the C apital City Bed them a home. ding com pany of Salem was destroyed Jackson county will not have a fa ir by fire la st week, w ith a loss estim at th is year, th e directo rs of the Jackson ed a t $30,000. ?4u-tially covered by in county fair association have decided, surance. because of the lack of finances, due to Corvallis, Or.—A stam p of approval O regon’s filb ert crop will be light, defeat of the proposed mill tax for was given am endm ents to the grow er possibly less th an half a crop, while the support of the fair and the county packer plan for m arketing th e Pacific th e w alnut crop will be large, accord c o u rt’s inability to advance any funds N orthw est prune crop by 75 delegates ing to grow ers who m et last week at for the purpose. assem bled here for the second m eet Dundee. N o rth w est w heat and flour ship ing of the Pacific N orthw est dried D edication of the new Crooked riv er m ents com bined, th e la tte r being re prune convention. bridge crossing the Crooked riv er can duced to w heat m easure, am ounted to U nder the plan, all Pacific N orth yon In the extrem e southern p a rt of 55,415,665 bushels for the 1926-27 cer w est dried prunes will be m arketed Jefferson county will tak e place F ri eal year. F or the 1925-26 season th e y by present cooperative grow ers' or day, July 15. w ere 41,923,571 bushels, during th e ganizations and private packers, un 1924-25 period they w ere 37,021,957 A rrangem ents are being m ade for der supervision of a central m arket ing board, to re p resen t organized and the Sandy pioneer and early s e ttle r's bushels and in the 1923-24 season th ey unorganized grow ers and private picnic, which is announced for July 31 reached 70,688,233 bushels. Bonds of $37,000 w ere voted in Rose packers; prices will be determ ined by a t the R obert K onsrud grove, on Bluff road n e a r Sandy. burg la st week a t a special city elec a grow ers’ com m ittee of five. W hile engaged In strin g in g wire on tion. The sum will be used to con W ork will begin a t once, under direction of th e cen tral com m ittee ol a pow er line n e a r Jacksonville, J. H. stru c t a highw ay bridge over D eer nine. In organizing the prune grow H arrington of A shland was killed creek, ju st inside the city lim its. T he ers of the sta te and of C lark county, when he accidentally cam e in contact p resen t steel stru ctu re, held to be too narrow and unsafe, is to be rem oved W ashington, by m em bers of the pres w ith a 2200-volt wire. ent com m ittee of 100. All present In Ike B arker, 55, of M apleton, who had and a reinforced concrete bridge th e dependent grow ers will be organized been em ployed a t the W. H. Dandy full w idth of the stre e t erected. Into units. T he private packers and saw m ill at Junction City died in a Eu The d istrict about A rago on the Co the cooperatives will then act as sales gene hospital following an autom obile quille riv er is grow ing excited over oil agents for all th e grow ers. prospects. More th an 1000 acres of accident on L ake creek. G round w as broken la s t week for land have been obtained on an oil F IN D FLO G GER G UILTY the construction of an $18,000 exhibit leasing basis. The cause of the move building on the K lam ath county fair m ent is a well which was drilled on a. One of Five Men Who Whipped grounds. The large stru c tu re will be ranch In th a t te rrito ry to a depth of 170 feet. T he ow ner had a fine sup Woman Convicted. com pleted by S eptem ber 1. ply of w ater, but in a few days it w as Toccoa, Ga.—W. G. Aeree, principal Building perm its a t La G rande for spoiled by oil indications. of the S tephens county high school, th e first six m onths of this year show was found guilty by a ju ry of assault ¡ Ben B ennettson of P ortland was res an aggregate construction figure of and b a tte ry in connection with the | 0763,715, a higher to tal th an for any cued from a tunnel at the H auser Con flogging Ju n e 12 of Mrs. Ansley Bow stru ctio n com pany rock q uarry on one year in the city's history, ers. Coos riv er a fte r being entom bed for Jam es R. N unam aker, 73, ow ner of Mrs. Bowers and her son Lloyd were 24 hours. B ennettson was drilling a. taken from th e ir home here by a one of the larg est aggregate holdings tunnel u nderneath a rock cliff for a m asked and robed band of men into of Hood R iver valley orchards, drop big charge of dynam ite when a rock the country and flogged. They told ped dead la s t week while sittin g in slide of hundreds of tons shut off th » h er they w ere w hipping her because his autom obile talk in g to a neighbor. entrance. More than 100 men w orked The appointm ent of George Alexan steadily for 24 hours to release him. of "im m orality and because you do der of H illsboro as sta te prohibition not go to church.” D espite the fact th a t his horse w as Five men were Indicted for the flog com m issioner to succeed W illiam S. ram m ed and killed by a mad bull, ging, four of whom rem ain to be tried. Levens, effective July 15, w as an George Baker, 17, escaped w ithout in nounced by G overnor P a tte rso n last jury. The horse, a fte r being m ortally “ Fag" Fully Reinstated in Kansas. week. wounded by th e infuriated anim al’s Topeka, Kan. — K ansas has been A special election will be held In horns, carried his m aster to safety buying cig arettes legally for several B oardm an July 16 for th e purpose of and then collapsed. Young B aker w as weeks, and now It can advertise voting on Increasing the corporate attem p tin g to herd the bull into a them in Its new spapers. The sta ti boundaries of the city, and taking in corral on the H yde ranch n e a r T re n t, suprem e court ruled th a t advertising th e school and other p roperty to the w here tt had w andered from the high of cig arettes in the state could not Colum bia river. way, when the anim al charged h is be prohibited, and declared invalid C h arter of the M cKenzie riv er lodge horse. th a t section of the new law, legaliz of M asons, organized In Eugene some Deeds to th e rig h t of way for th e ing th e ir sale, which sought to pro tim e ago. was presented la st S atu r Roosevelt highway through the p latted hibit ad v ertisin g of them . day night. Several grand lodge offi section of W inchester Bay w ere re cers w ere In attendance to conduct ceived recently by the Douglas county 20,000 Pheasants to be Set Free. th e cerem onies. court, settling a controversy th a t has P ortland, Or. — More than 20,000 Connie J. G rabb of B aker was elect been existing for considerable tim e C hinese p h easan ts will be liberated in ed president of the Oregon S tate Elks betw een the court and the highw ay O regon this year by th e Oregon state association w ithout opposition a t the commission. The R oosevelt highw ay game com m ission, H arold Clifford, final session of the 1927 convention was laid out a t an angle through the sta te gam e w arden, predicts in his held in B aker last week. A storia was W inchester Bay tow nslte, and as th e June report. chosen as th e 1928 convention city. county Is required to furnish th e rig h t of way the cost was greatly Increased. W ith th e h eaviest traffic on the T H E MARKETS. highw ays In the history of the state T here w as a total of $6,173,434 of Portland. W h eat—Big Bend bluestem and hard th ere was not a single fatal traffic state funds on hand July 1, according w hite, $1.39 federation, soft white accident over the F ourth of July holi to a report compiled by S tate T reas and w estern white, $1.38; hard w inter, days In Oregon, according to T. A. Raf- urer Kay. Of this am ount $1,402,842.52 $1.35; n o rth e rn 'sp rin g $1.37; w estern fety, chief of the state traffic squad. was credited to the general fund of Slxty-one different varieties of the state, $3,106,009.16 to th e highw ay red, $1 33. H ay — Alfalfa. $18@21; valley w heat w ere inspected a t the U m atilla fund, $636.336.57 to the soldiers' bonus tim othy, $20020.50; e a stern Oregon county grain nursery north of Pendle fund, $372.236.47 to the common school tim othy. $22@22.50, ton la st Monday, when the annual fund, $233,454.S8 to the industrial ac B u tte rfa t—39Hc. field day of the county grain grow ers cident fund. Included In the general Eggs— Ranch, 19@22c. was held. D. E. Stephens, superin fund as shown in this rep o rt are $791,- C attle— S teers, good. 89 50@10.25. tendent of the experim ent station at 467.99 of autom obile reg istratio n fees H ogs — Medium to choice, $9.5O@ Moro, and George R, Hyslop, head of which will be apportioned S eptem ber he farm crops departm ent at Oregon 1. leaving only $611,374.52 In th is fund 11.35. Lam bs — Medium to choice. $10® Agricultural college, explained the re with which, to g eth er w ith betw een sults obtained In the developm ent of $300,000 and $350.000 in insurance, 12 50. Seattle. new types of grain and the b e u ’flts of corporation and m iscellaneous, to run W heat -S o ft w hite or w estern white, certain types of fertilizer. the state. $1.44; hard w inter, $143; w estern red The cherry crop in the Ashland sec A large body of high-grade ore has and n o rth ern spring, $1.42; Big Bend tion Is exceeding all expectations, ac been reported uncovered in th e old bluestem . $1 53; Big Bend dark north cording to officials of the local F ruit , w orkings of the Red Oak gold mine. ern spring. $1.52; Btg Bend dark hard and Produce association, who stated This property, situated below the Ku- w inter, $1 49. th a t Instead of only one car for 6hlp- bll m ine on Galls creek. Is an o ld tiin o H ay—Alfalfa, $25; tim othy, P. 9 , inent to the east, the crop will total j producer, but has been closed down $22 several cars. for a num ber of years. B u tterfat—42c. W ith a program th a t has attracted M V. K eeves of South Baker, 102 Eggs — Ranch, 19@ 22Sc. ponltrym en from southern C alifornia years of age, enjoyed the B aker F ourth C attle—Steers, choice. $9@9 75. »nd northern W ashington, as well as of July celebration ao much th a t a fte r Hogs Prim e. $11 4081150 ; from all parts of Oregon, the fifth an riding with o th er clvfl w ar veterans Spokane. nual convention of the Oregon Poul In the parade he danced to m usic In C a ttle — Steers, good, $9.2501.75. trym en's association was held ia Cor the park for the en tertain m en t of the Hogs —Good, $10 50 0 1 0 60. rallia last week. crowd during the barbecue. e PRUNE SALES PLAN HAS BEEN APPROVED t a