KIDNAPED LOS ANGELES GIRL RETURNED DEAD DR. A. C. M ILS P A U G H M u tila te d Body D e liv e re d to F a th e r W hen Ransom is P aid. OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST B rie f Resum e of H appenings of the W eek C ollected fo r O ur R eaders. County Judge Moses of Benton coun­ ty, president of the S tate association of County Judges and C om m issioners, has called a sta te convention of the organization, to be held in P ortland three days, sta rtin g Jan u ary 24. Dates for the annual m eeting of the Oregon W oolgrow ers association in Pendleton have been changed to Ja n ­ uary 9 and 10. The change was m ade in order not to conflict with the an­ nual m eeting of th e M ontana Wool- grow ers association. Marion county put a crew of sur­ veyors in the field p rep arato ry to out­ lining its road-building program to cover a period of five years. It was said that a num ber of roads would be m acadamized or paved, while several new highw ays would be constructed The Bandon cham ber of com m erce is cham pioning the action tak en by the Port O rford cham ber in an effort to remove all road signs from the Roosevelt highw ay from the C alifornia line north to the Coos-Curry county Mrs. Helen D. O rton, known as the lice, it becam e known in Coquille re ­ "fig u re sleuth" of the United States cently. D epartm ent o f A g riculture, because HOUSE COALITION PASSES TAX BILL R eduction $ 6 5 .0 0 0 .0 0 0 Above M a x im u m S e t by S ec ­ r e ta ry M ello n . Log A ngeles.—The m utilated body Sixty-one tu rk ey grow ers of the Red­ W ashington, D. C.—T he tax bill, of M arian P ark er, 12, bank official's mond d istrict last week received $12,- passed by th e house, reached the sen­ d aughter, kidnaped on T hursday last 720.92 for 2696 birds shipped out for a te w ith indications th a t it would no* week, waa tossed out of an autom o­ the C hristm as trade. even be considered by th e senate fl- bile S aturday night a t the feet of h er , Dr. John R ankin, A storia, was elect­ nance com m ittee aatil a fte r C hrist­ fattier, P erry M. P arker, who had gone j mas. ed persld en t of the W illam ette Valley to an appointed street corner in the V eterinarian association in session at O ut of line w ith th e recom m enda­ n o rth w est section of the city, carry- ! Oregon City la s t week. tions of th e tre a su ry , and calling for lng $1500 in ransom money dem anded a $290,000,000 d ecrease in revenue pay. by the abductor. An ord er has been issued authoriz­ m ents—m ore th a n th e treasury, in ing th e establishm ent of a mail deliv- P a rk e r received a telephone call in P resid en t Coolidge's opinion, can ery serv ice a t Coquille with two regu­ stru ctin g him to proceed to th e corner stan d —it will be th e su b ject of brief lar carriers, effective M arch 1, 1928. of Fifth stre e t and M anhattan place | i hearings, then th e sen ate will take it with $1500 In gold certificates and his R oseburg was chosen as the 1928 up, w ith predictions general th a t con­ d au g h ter would be retu rn ed to him m eeting place of the Oregon S tate certed effo rts will be m ade to revise there. H orticultural society, which closed its its provisions. A few m inutes a fter he arriv ed a 42d annual m eeting in Hood R iver As approved by th e house, the meas sm all ro ad ster drew up alongside last week. Forty-seven years ago telephone ex she checks fo r errors in the docu­ ure would re su lt in an ann u al tax re­ P a rk e r’s autom obile. The banker saw m ents issued by the departm ent. A group of business men has m ade change service was established duction of $57,000,000 m ore than the his dau g h ter in th e seat beside the Corvallis, and th a t event w as cele­ application for a ch arter for a new am ount recom m ended by its ways and d riv er and was told by the kidnaper national bank for Tillamook. The pro­ brated a t a m eeting la st S aturday m eans com m ittee—-at least th a t is tha th a t the little girl was asleep. Dr. A. C. Millspaugh, form erly finan ­ posed cap ital is $50,000 and the su r­ noon in th a t city, when about a hail estim ate. T he house to ta l was $65,- A ccording to th e agreem ent, the a hundred of the original users of the plus $10,000. 000,000 above th e “safe" maximum, man a fter tak in g the money drove cial adviser to Persia, who has been telephone service in C orvallis were se t by S ecretary Mellon and approved ahead of the fath er a little way. Climb- I appointed financial advisor to H aiti. B enjam in B. Ostlind, m anager of the guests. by the president, b u t m ore than $100,- Coos V eneer & Box company, has an­ lng out of the car, he threw the body 1 Toledo high school stu d en ts retu rn 000,000 below th e figure recom mended nounced an expansion of the business of the girl on the grass In front of a P rovincetow n, M ass. — T he U nited by th e cham ber of com m erce of the to the construction of furniture, an lng to th eir classes a fte r lunch one house a few doors up the street. day last week, w ere routed by stifling S ta te s subm arine S-4, com ing to the U nited S tates. en tirely new departm ent. As soon as th e man had driven ( skunk fum es which perm eated the su rface a fte r an undersea dive, rose C hairm an Sm oot of th e senate fi­ away, P ark er ran frantically to his Schools a t C latskanie, 40 m iles east classroom s. Investigation disclosed d irectly in the p ath of the navy de­ nan ce com m ittee h as expressed the d au g h ter's side, clasped h er in his □f A storia, w ere ordered closed last th a t th e anim al had been killed and stro y er P aulding, and w as sen t plung­ belief th a t the sen a te m ay scale the arm s and found she was dead. week following the death of a 6-year- hidden In a cloakroom by som e of the ing to the bottom w ith h e r crew of bill dow n to som ew here n ear the W ashington, D. C.—P ap ers from the F irst exam ination of the m utilated old boy from infantile paralysis. It scholars. approxim ately 40 men and officers. tre a su ry to tal. On th e o th er hand. child revealed th a t both legs had been files of th e offices in Mexico City may was th e first case reported. T he Paulding, on p atro l d u ty off S en ato r Sim m ons of N orth Carolina, Aviation is not exclusively a young cut off ap p aren tly close to th e body. be sought by the special sen ate inves­ T he N ew berg to u rist park this p ast m an’s game, J. M. S taats, 66, told of­ Provincetow n, w as m aking for the th e senior d em ocrat on th e committee, A wire had been tw isted so tightly tigating com m ittee to check ag ain st season had th e best patronage in its ficials of th e Pacific A irplane Service harbor. Suddenly h er lookout saw the sees no reaso n w hy th e reduction around the g irl's th ro a t th a t the flesh docum ents published by th e H earst history, C areta k er Van F leet having corporation in Salem last week, when S-4 ru n n in g subm erged dead ahead. shouldn’t be boosted to $400,000,000, had been cut deeply into a gaping new spapers supposed to have been taken from th ere p u rp o rtin g to show taken in about $350, practically three he signed up as one of 16 stu d en ts T here w as no tim e to sw erve from the and is laying plans to th a t end. wound. tim es th e am o unt tak en in last year. th a t a $1,215,000 slush fund was pro­ being in stru cted by the corporation course and the vessels crashed. The W ith a dem ocratic-republican coali­ P u rch ase of th e asse ts of the S tate a t th e ir field adjoining the sta te fair d e stro y e r m ade p o rt w ith h e r low er tion holding a w hip hand, the house vided by Mexico for four U nited S tates senators. bank of T alen t by the F irst N ational grounds. hold flooded. passed the tax bill w ith th re e m ajor Absolution of th e four senators bank of A shland, which will tra n sfe r T he S-4 w ent down a b a re 1800 am endm ents, w hich w ere vigorously In honor of Dewey Morris, Ed N ich­ named in th e HearBt docum ents—Bor- the en tire business of the T alen t in­ ols and Roy W ilson, Bend trap p ers yards from the shore off W ood End opposed by republican p arty leaders. I ah, N orris, H eflin and La Follette— stitu tio n to A shland, was closed last m urdered a t L ittle L ava lake early ln coast guard station. T he w a te r a t On a final showdown, however, only has been given alread y by com m ittee week. 1924, a volcanic cone, prom inent lan d ­ th a t point is very deep, which, it was 21 republicans w ere w illing to go on E llis S. D em ent, M yrtle Point stock- m ark in the upper D eschutes coun­ adm itted, would in crease th e difficul­ record a g ain st th e m easu re after ex­ W ashington, D. C.—The tills of the mem bers, who are d eterm ined to find tre asu ry gained approxim ately $400,- out how the docum ents got into exist­ man, resigned as m ayor of th a t city, try, is to be nam ed T hree T rappers' tie s of raising the sunken vessel. h au stin g every p arliam en tary means and W. W. Baynes, president of the butte, Bend fo rest service officials 000,000 a t the close of the reg u lar ence. Two navy divers, T hom as E ady and to elim in ate th e th ree contested To th is end, careful check is being council, was im m ediately nom inated have announced. q u arterly fiscal operations. W illiam C arr, w ho braved freezing am endm ents, am ong them one for re­ The tran sactio n s represented a tu rn ­ made on th e sto ry of Miguet Avila, for th e office and elected by unani P ro p erty valued a t n early $175,000 tem p e ra tu re s and rough seas in a 102- peal of the sales tax on automobiles. over of approxim ately $1,250,000,000 A m erican-born son of a Mexican fa th ­ mous vote. w as destroyed in R eedsport la st week foot d escen t to the bed of the ocean, The vote on passage w as 366 to 21. and completed operations th a t made er and Italian m other, who told the The Oregon S tate M otor associa by fire, and in d u strial p lants of half brought back word th a t six men of the possible approxim ately a billion-dollar com m ittee he purchased all th e docu­ tion, a fte r an investigation, finds that a million d o llars’ value were th re a te n ­ 40 w ithin th e w recked subm arine S-4 reduction In the national debt for the m ents with money provided by H earst approxim ately 1000 storage garages w ere alive. ed by a blaze of undeterm ined o ri­ calendar year, leaving it at about $18,- and saw m ost of them ex tracted from and 1560 reg u lar rep air shops a re nec files in the Mexican archives in Mexi­ essary to keep O regon's m otor cars gin. The fire destroyed the C oast 000,000,000. F isheries and A nderson P acking pluut M O TH E R F L IE S TO L IN D Y T he principal sources of receipts co City. on th e road. w ithin two hours. The nam es of the sen ato rs w ere di­ from the qu arterly financing came E xtensive im provem ents a re to be P u rch asin g of rig h t of way prop­ Mrs. Lindbergh to Spend Christm as when W illiam Randolph from the last paym ent of federal taxes vulged Mexico City.— Mexico safely cap­ made soon a t the Necanicum river e rty betw een L ebanon and Sw eet In Mexico C ity. H earst, publisher, testified before the for the calendar year, estim ated at tured, Colonel C harles A. Lindbergh tro u t hatch ery , dam aged by flood- H ome by M. L y n o tt and J. F. Byers, D etroit.— Mrs. E vangeline L indbergh $430,000,000, subscriptions to the 3 4 sen ate com m ittee investig atin g the w aters on T hanksgiving day, accord­ who have been surveying a railw ay soared aw ay from th e F ord airp o rt at made plans to extend the Lindbergh one-year treasu ry certificates placed veracity of th e docum ents. ing to G. C. W ebb, sup erin ten d en t of route betw een Albany and F oster, was 10:10 a. m. M onday fo r Mexico City, a ir line to C entral A m erica. H earst Indicated he had paid be­ nt $261.761,000 and sem i-annual pay­ H e announced his acceptance of In­ the hatchery. in progress la s t week. A crew of w here sh e will spend the C h ristm as m ents on foreign debts to the am ount tw een $15,000 and $16,000 to obtain vitations to visit G uatem ala, H ondur­ A huge b last set off to loosen a solid m ore than 20 was also engaged in re­ holidays w ith h er fam ous flying son, the letters, which w ere printed with of $96.644.830. as, Salvador and P anam a. Colonel C harles A. L indbergh, a s a rock cliff Monday destroyed the new surveying p art of the route. E ight foreign countries cam e for­ th e sen ato rs’ nam es blocked out. A fter leaving Mexico C ity he will Q uestioned specifically about the Galice bridge over Rogue river, leav­ T he population of B aker, based on guest of the governm ent of Mexico. ward with paym ents on th eir funded fly to the C en tral A m erican countries F lying In a tri-m otored F ord plane, ing Galic resid en ts w ithout m eans to num ber of fam ilies, is fifth am ong indebtedness. Of the total brought in docum ents relating to senators, H earst “L indy's" m other, as dauntless as him ­ and then visit Cuba before pointing from th is source. G reat B ritain paid said he was convinced the money had cross th e riv e r to G rants P ass. The th e cities of Oregon, according to the self, sw ept sw iftly squthw ard to cover the nose of th e S pirit of St. Louis dam age Is $5000. re su lts of a house-to-house count. The the bulk with $92,575,000. It brought never been paid to the senators. In th ree o r four days an aerial d is­ tow ard its hom e port, St. Louis. W hen surgeons recently m ade an count is by fam ilies only: P ortland B ritain 's total paym ents since 1923 up Mexico gave L indbergh a reception tan ce ju s t a little g re a te r th an th a t inclsior *or m e n te r—---- ‘ -.eratior leads with 53,435, Salem follows with to $903,506,879, leaving a balance due th a t im pressed him m ore th an any B R IE F G ENERAL N EW S h e r son negotiated in 27 hours to w rite for a p p .n g trt';« on >tr« lone»- ■»«o b-ugene is th ird w ith 2816, As- of approxim ately $4.500,000,000. The his la te s t epic in the pages of aviation o th er hs had received a t home or o th er seven countries making pay­ Thirty-six children and one woman prom inent M arshfield woman, they io n » to u rth w ith 2172 and B aker fifth history. abroad. m ents w ere: Belgium, $1,125,000; m et death in th e St. C harles o rp h an ­ found a needle had been im bedded in w ith 1825. “Vivas," flags and bunting In the the flesh for years. C iecho Slovakia, $1,500,000; Esthonia. age fire In Quebec. It is expected th a t th e qu aran tin e capital of th e so u th ern republic vied R ail C lerks Get W age Increase. $75,000; Finland, $182,210; H ungary, Over 19,000 applicants are a fter 2500 Five or six carloads of tu rk ey s w ere im posed a t R oseburg two w eeks ago S alt L ake City, U tah.—Oregon S hort w ith New Y ork's tic k e r tap e and the $39,724; L ithuania, $47,896, and Po­ Jobs in the federal prohibition service, purchased by buyers throughout Doug­ when the first case of infantile paraly­ Line railw ay clerk s w ere granted bouquets and m edals of W ashington, land, $1,000.000. and the civil service commission, las county for shipm ent to P acific sis w as reported will be lifted soon. wage increases of $6 m onthly and oth­ P aris and London in acclaim ing Col­ which is sorting them out, will spend coast m ark et centers. The turkeys For th e past two w eeks movies and e r wage Inequalities w ere adju sted at onel C harles A. L indbergh as th e dar­ nearly $200,000 in the exam inations. are all of prim e stock and will be used churches have been closed, public PRAYER BOOK REJECTED a conference here, officials of the road ling of the people w herever he goes. An Investigation has been started for th e holiday trade. m eetings forbidden and ail children announced. C lass A clerks will re ­ British House of Commons Votes by the Intelligence unit of the in ter­ T h ere will be no teac h ers' in stitu te under 21 years have been confined to ceive $6 m ore m onthly, while class B H E R R IC K C O N TR A C T VO ID ED th e ir homes. nal revenue bureua Into charges th at Against Revised Edition. In Coos county in the school year clerks w ere granted $3 Increases. The B aker m erchants played S anta Claus increase is retro activ e for th e first of Oregon T im b e r Sale Deal Declared London.—C ontrary to all expecta­ forged search w arran ts ami affidavits 1927-28, Mrs. C. E. Mulkey, school su­ w ere being used by prohibition agent» tions, th e house of commons has re­ p erin ten d en t, announced. C ancella­ to 2000 school children of B aker and D ecem ber. One thousand em ployes O ff by C h ief F oreater Greeley. jected th e revised prayerbook, despite In Arizona in th e ir enforcem ent activ i­ tion of th e in stitu te was due to in G rant counties Saturday, D ecem ber a re affected. W ashington, D. C.—Chief F orester ties. fantile p araly sis ijan. 10, when presen ts w ere d istrib u ted at the fact th at P rem ier Baldwin recom ­ G reeley canceled th e c o n tract of Fred South China is being purged of com­ m ended its adoption. It had already Between $150,000 and $175,000 will a huge com m unity tre e erected a t the Russians Ordered to Leave Shanghai. H errick of St. M arie's, Idaho, for the been approved by the house of lords, munism by fire and sword. As a re- be d istrib u ted by the Hood R iver Ap­ co rn er of Main and Court streets. The Shanghai, China. — A pproxim ately sale of 880,000,000 feet of tim ber or by a vote of 241 to 88. The comm ons i ’ ° f event8 ln C anton and Shanghai, ple G row ers' association th e la tte r event was a p a rt of the form al C h rist­ 100 persons In the R ussian settlem en t the M alheur n ational fo rest ln Oregon. rejected the m easure. 247 to 205 It : lnclu,llnK »'omplete sev eran ce of diplo- p art of th is week. T his is th e first m as opening in Baker. The city is w ere notified by police th a t they m ust R ep resen tativ es of H errick said they th erefo re cannot now be presented for mn‘iC re l,tlo n » betw een n atio n alist "m elon" to be cut by the co-operative decorated gaily for th e C hristm as sea­ leave im m ediately. The o rd er was would appeal to th e se c retary of agri­ royul assen t. China and soviet Russia, bolshevik di- association th is year. son. given in pursuance of the n atio n alist culture. The sale to H errick occurred Seldom has a decision of parliam ent | plon" " 'y has "Uffered th e m ost severe T he high school strik e a t N ew port cam paign to deport com m unists and several y ears ago. F ailu re of the com­ The stre e ts of Dayton have received throw n th is g reat com m unity into setback yet experienced In th e fax th e ir C hristm as decorations of sm all ended abruptly last week when 27 of other R ussians considered undesirable pany form ed by H errick to carry out east. such confusion. R ejection seem s to fir trees being placed at close in ter­ the stu d en ts presented them selves at the term s of th e c o n tract aroused resi­ have been a possibility which no one the school and, through a re p resen ta­ T H E M A R K E T S vals. A large fir has been placed in d en ts of B aker, Or., to petition the sec­ contem plated. P rep aratio n s had been Coolidge Nom inates Radio O fficials. th e cen ter of the main stre e t and elec­ tive of th e ir parents, said they had de­ Portland re ta ry of ag ricu ltu re to cancel the con­ W ashington, II. C P resid en t Cool­ com pleted for printing millions of cop­ cided to re tu rn to th eir studies. They trically lighted at night. tract. R ep resen tativ es of Mr. H errick ies of th e new p rayer book, and now idge bus sen t nom inations of th ree asked Mrs. Daisy T. H alleck, prin­ W heat—B. B. bluestem , $1.31; hard failed to satisfy Chief F o re ste r Gree­ Books, 2,745,293 of them , w ere cir­ m em bers of th e federal rad io com m is­ all th is work of p rinting and binding cipal, against whose adm inistration white, $1.26; federation, soft w hite, ley th a t prospective asso ciates or pur­ culated by the P ortland L ibrary asso­ has suddenly cessed, throw ing h u n ­ sion to th e senate. They a re : O restes they had been protesting, to aid them w esteru white, $1.23; hard w inter, chasers w ere prepared to tak e over I H. Caldwell. New Y ork; H arold A La- ciation for the year ending Octobei in m aking up grades. dreds of w orkers out of em ployment. n orthern spring, $1.214; w estern red and push the lum ber project to com­ Fount. Utah, and Satn P ickard, Kan- 31, 1927, a gain of 163.809 over the W ith every lake of the K lam ath ba­ $1 .2 0 4 . pletion a s dem anded by the govern­ previous year. Miss Anne M. Mulher- J sas, now in office u n d er recess ap- sin covered with thick ice and with Billion D a lla r Farm Body Borah Plan Hay — Alfalfa. $16.50017; valley m ent. j pointm ents. G arland S. Ferguson. Jr., on, librarian, reported recently. deep snow throughout the central and W ashington. D. C. C reation of a j North Carolina, was nom inated to be The proposed new highway between n o rth ern sections of the county, win­ tim othy, $17.5O0$18; pastern O regon federal ag ricu ltu ral corporation with a ! federal trad e com m issioner. Young Texas Co-Ed G uilty of Robbery. Sw eet Home and Holley, which ellnt- te r sp o rts in K lam ath are now in tim othy, $20.60 0 21. capital stock of $1.000.000,000 was pro­ C attle—S teers, good, $1025011.50. La G range, T e x .— Mrs. Rebecca Inates th e steep hill over the Rowell vogue. U pper K lam ath lake, the larg­ posed In a bill intrisluced by S enator Hogs—Medium to choice, $8 2 5 0 B radley R ogers, ex-U niversity of Tex­ O rderly Apple M arketing Planned. hill, is m eeting with general approval est .body of fresh w ater west of the Borah, republican, Idaho. The board 9 85. Portland, Or. E xtension of fune- In those com m unities, according to as student, w as-found guilty by a jury Rocky m ountains, is under a thick of d irecto rs would be composed of the Lam bs — Medium to choice, $110 in d is tric t co u rt h ere of the daylight lions of the Pacific N orthw est Advt word received from th at section last sheet of Ice. and sk aters can skim 12.50. secretary of agriculture and eight in sory board to orderly m ark etin g of week. robbery of the F arm ers N ational bank over th e Ice for 30 miles. divlduals to be appointed by the pres­ Seattle. the apple crop of Oregon. W ashington of Buda, Tex., in which $1000 was ob­ The MArlon county com m unity led ident. one of whom would act as m an­ P erishable freight affected by freez­ " h e a t—Soft white, w estern w hite, tained a y ear ago. H er punishm ent and M aho was determ ined upotl at the eration in session at Salem last Wed aging d irecto r at a salary of $25.000 a ! d o sin g session of th e board here. nesday went on record In favor of a ing tem p eratu res has been shifted by $1.254; hard w inter, $124; w estern w as assessed a t 14 y ears im prison­ year. O th er m em bers of the board ‘ The board voted to c reate a com m it­ county agent and agreed to sponsor a the S outhern Pacific company from red, $ 1 2 2 4 ; northern spring, $125; m ent in th e s ta te p enitentiary. would draw $20.000 salaries. tee to make a com prehensive study of m ovem ent to place the question be­ the C ascade line to the Siskiyou line, bluestem , $1.38; dark n orthern spring, i he subject and report recom m enda­ fore the voters again at the November. on account of the colder w eather at $1 44; dark hard winter, $1 38. Republicans Rule Senate Election. Congressmen Should Be N ative Born. tions. the sum m it of the C ascades and in H ay — Alfalfa. $25; tim othy, $28; 1928. election. W ashington. D. C.—D rawing the sup­ central Oregon. W ashington. I». C. Only American- P. S.. $22. T he Arlington city council at its last port of both th e irreg u la rs in their R epresentatives of the state v eter­ born citizens would be allowed to stt B u tterfat—64c. Pan-Am erican Meet In Havana. reg u lar m eeting adopted a resolution own p arty and the one farm er-labor tn congress under a constitutional Eggs—Ranch, 34c. H avana. Cuba P rep aratio n s for the calling for bids for the leasing of the inarian departm ent left. Saiem last m em ber, S hipstead of M innesota, the week tor Tygh Valley. W asco county, am endm ent Introduced In the house sixth Pan A m eritan conference, to be C attle—S teers, choice, $9.75010.50 republicans w ere able to hold control m unicipal auto camp The lessee will by R ep resen tativ e Wilson, dem ocrat, held h ere beginning Jan u a ry 16. are to Inoculate a herd of hogs which con­ H ogs—Prim e, $9 7501050. be required to construct several mod of th e sen ate organisation. By a m ar­ tracted hog cholera. The county agent of Tenneasee. Thia provision uow a p being rushed m an effort to have Spokane. ern cabins and otherw ise attractively gin of a few votes they re-elected Sen­ of W asco county sent the request for piles to p resid en ts only. everythin* in read lu ess by th a t date im prove the site. C attle— S teers, good, $100 10.50. a to r Moses, of New H am pshire, presi­ state assistance. U o*a—Good. $9 3509.50. DESTROYER SINKS U. S. SUBMARINE COMMITTEE CLEARS FOUR U. S. SENATORS NATIONAL DEBT NOW EIGHTEEN BILLIONS LINDY WILL VISIT CENTRAL AMERICA dent pro tem pore. A.