' 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