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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.
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