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MANY DRY AGENTS FAIL TO PASS TESTS Carl R. Gray, president of th e Union Pacific system , has advised A. S. Ed M IS S JE S S IE HOOVER monds, assista n t traffic m anager in Portland, th a t the com pany has decid ed to purchase *5,000,000 w orth of new equipm ent, including 23 model freight Cheering Throngs G reet the Force W ill Be D isru p ted Un* B rie f Resum e of H appenings of engines to be placed in service in the Pacific northw est. P resid en t When He Lands less R e -e x a m a tic n s Are the W eek C ollected fo r A serious outbreak of sm allpox was found a t G rand Ronde in northw est in Cuba. A rra n g e d . O ur R eaders. ern Polk county by County H ealth Of ficer Dr. A. B. S tarbuck. F o u r chil Havana. — On the shores where W ashington, D. C.—A t least 76 per Yamhill county's expenditures In dren in one Indian fam ily and three American forces planted freedom, cent of the governm ent’s prohibition 1928 are estim ated at *551.122.45. This other children, one a w hite girl, w ere President Coolidge landed trium phant agents, inspectors and supervisors, com pare* with *668,525.10 sp en t In found to have th e disease. T his Is the ly Sunday amid th e g reatest demon have failed to pass the recent civil 1927. , second outbreak this w inter. stration Cuba ever has accorded the service m ental exam inations. Com The Bank of Dayton, In Its sta te Jack Glover, 11, L aurelhurst school, visiting bead of a foreign nation. m issioner Doran announced, and, un m ent of D ecem ber 81, 1927, registered P ortland, won first prize for the best He was honored as the head of a less a re-exam ination can be arran g ed , a to tal gain of *15,000 in resources essay on “H ighw ay Safety,” subm itted great and friendly country by Cubans he said his force Is th reaten ed w ith for th e year. I by Oregon elem entary students in the of high and low estate, who, led by com plete disruption. Clover grow ers of C lackam as coun 1926-27 national safety cam paign held th eir own president, Gerardo Macha Doran estim ated th a t the applica ty atten d ed a clover conference held under the direction of th e N ational do, poured out a full m easure of hom tion of civil service rulings would cut a t th e Oregon City cham ber of com Automobile cham ber of comm erce. He age, to the man who came with a mes out of governm ent em ploym ent 1500 m erce ro o m , la st Monday. was aw arded a gold m edal valued at sage of good will not only for th eir agents out of a total of 2000, and leave ,15. country, but all other nations of the T otal sales of stam ps and stam ped him unable to continue the p resen t p aper a t th e Sandy postoftlce for the w estern hem isphere. F ay Dinsmoor, O akgrove orchardist, system of enforcem ent. Landing from the battleship Texas, year ended D ecem ber 31, 1927, was lost bis chicken house and 400 hens Doran sta te d th a t he w as m aking Miss Jessie M. Hoover, who I* i *2178.22; a gain of *316.89 over the last week. H e had adopted th e new j on foreign soil for the first tim e since Uncle Sam's milk utilization specialist every effort to give those who had | previous year.- he took office, Mr. Coolidge was m et system of lighting his hennery before for the Department of Agriculture. failed, including some he vaiued high Lieut. Col. E. P. Easterbrook, who by the Cuban chief executive and his day in order to get his birds out early, | C harles W alker, B eatty stockm an, ly, an o th er chance. He again sharply has been named chief of chaplains cabinet and taken to the national G asoline lan tern s w ere used. H e re- j criticized th e form of th e exam ina with the rank of colonel, to succeed was found guilty a t K lam ath F alls on palace through streets literally seeth tired a fte r lighting th e lam ps, and j a specific charge of stealin g a cow tions, declaring th a t he would have Col. J. T. Axton, who retiree April 6. trig with a m ass of wildly cheering ! by a Jury which deliberated a little th e fam ily was aroused la te r by the been unable to answ er some of th e Cubans. fire. i more th an tw o hours. questions him self. It was a spectacle such as this W ithin a sto n e’s toss of the Pacific T h e N orthw est Society of State Pending word from the civil service American president had never before | H ighw ay E ngineers will hold th e ir au- ocean a t W inchester buy, n ear R eeds com m ission w hether it would re-ex participated in and recalled to mind ! nual m eeting a t th e M ultnom ah hotel j port, roses are in bloom, according to H avana.—G eneral G erardo Machado, am ine th e B unkers, Doran took step s th e clam orous entry of Woodrow Wil In P ortland, Jan u ary 28, according to Mrs. 8. M. Scott, resident of th a t dis president of the Cuban republic, de to preyent th e ir discharge from th e son In Paris. trict. The sunshine of recen t days | a recen t announcem ent. clared th a t it was not w ithin the prov service by telegraphing all prohibition Moved ns he seldom has been be W ith a yard full of lum ber and a has caused the buds to unfold, she ince of the Pan-A m erican conference ad m in istrato rs to m ake no p erm anent W ashington, D. C.—S ecretary W il fore, Mr. Coolidge responded to the scarcity of logs as the cause, th e O re said, and open spaces of th e commons to assum e the role of a trib u n al to appointm ents for the present. repeated dem ands for him after he bur's recom m endation th a t no definite A clean sw eep of th e prohibition gon T rail saw m ill a t N orth Pow der a re turning a brighter green from new judge the N icaraguan problem or th e date be set for com pletion of th e ad entered the palace by appearing on has sh u t down and will probably not grow n grass. general policy of th e U nited S tates force in C arolina te rrito ry would re the balcony of the Cuban p resident’s m in istration's *740,000,000 new w ar W heat is being threshed In heavy with resp ect to in terv en tio n in sm all su lt from the civil service com m ission open again until spring. home looking out over a plaza filled ship construction program was re je c t snow a t the F red W. E ppinger ranch states, as th e congress has no such exam inations, D oran explained. ed by an overw helm ing vote by the Of a to tal of 8573 children exam ined with a crowd that threw Its collective In New York, 50 per cent of agents in th e elem entary schools of Marion north of Baker. T he grain could not rights. It would be dangerous, he said, hats Into the air and let out a mighty bouse naval com m ittee. be threshed during the fall because of to establish such a precedent. in service failed. In P hiladelphia, Thum bs likewise were turned down county, only 34 p er cent w ere found ro ar when he waved to them. the rains. It seem s little dam aged by “I desire to regard the Monroe doc w here th e sam e percentage of failures With all delegations of 21 Latin by th e com m ittee on an o th er proposal free from defects, while 5642 were the snow and Is running about 40 trin e as rep resen tin g th e noble action obtained, Doran said th a t one of th e American countries here and with by the naval secretary th a t th e p resi found w ith defects of som e kind. 1 bushels to the acre. So far as known of a p resid en t of the U nited S tates unsuccessful governm ent agents w as d en t be empowered to suspend the A 66,000-volt line has been built by P resident Coolidge and party present this is the first w heat th a t has been who prevented the reconquest of a g raduate of the U niversity of Iowa the opening m eeting of the sixth pan proposed construction eith er In p art th e Pacific Pow er & L ight company threshed th ere In January. or In whole a t any tim e he m ight deem A m erica a t the tim e of the holy alli and an ex-Unlted S tates m arshal. betw een Pendleton and A thena a t a American conference will tak e place In arguing with the civil service It advisable T here was one fatality due to in ance. The Monroe doctrine was, and Monday morning. cost of *15,000 a mile. N ext sum m er Fifteen m em bers voted ag ain st the th is will be extended to W alla W alla. dustrial accidents in Oregon during ought to rem ain the common defensive com m ission, the prohibition comm is the week ending Jan u ary 12, accord policy for th e te rrito ria l Integrity of sioner said he had pointed out th a t It secretary on th e first proposal with Bids for highw ay construction jobs ing to a rep o rt prepared by the state- America. The M onroe doctrine Is not would be literally im possible to re one, McCHntlc, dem ocrat, Oklahoma, in th re e counties and a park conces recording him self as present. The sec industrial accident com m ission. The only com patible w ith the sovereignty place so g reat a percentage of his sion In U m atilla county will be opened re tary 's second req u est was rejected , victim was Jam es R. Stem m erm an, of of A m erica below the Rio G rande, but force from among the asp iran ts to at a m eeting of the state highw ay com 15 to 1, McCHntlc voting to support M arshfield. T h ere were 483 accidents is a docum ent giving the g reatest the service from the outside. Though m ission In P ortland, T hursday, Jan u about 4000 such individuals seeking the navy dep artm en t head. reported to the comm ission during force to th a t rig h t.” ary 26. A fter the m eeting four republican j the week covered in the report. C uba’s m em bership in the league of Hl3068 have passed the exam ination, Schenectady, N. Y.—The magic A new high population record was P ortland becam e 77 years old Fri- nations, said the president, does not he a«serted th a t th eir qualities, for th e wand of science, passing over the fac m em bers, Chairm an Butler, B ritten of set a t th e state p en iten tiary in Salem Illinois, Darrow of P ennsylvania, and , day, when the city had one of Its sev influence C uba’s adherence to Pan- m ost part, did not appear to be very tory of tho General E lectric company when 651 prisoners were registered. here, disclosed to a sm all group of Andrew of M assachusetts, in terp reted All of th e convicts, w ith th e exception eral birthdays. It was Jan u ary 13, A m erican union. He believed th a t the good. th e com m ittee’s action as a positive 1850, th at the legislature of th e terrl- conference would be able to accom radio engineers, scien tists and new s In favor of "actual iron cf those In the hospital, a re employed tory granted to the city its ch arter plish a b e tte r understanding betw een j paper men a vision of the future of express!« regularly. and a few days la te r the city council th e countries of A m erica in th e way radio broadcasting -a future designed and steel" ships instead of a possible Mrs. E lla Shulx W ilson w as re confirm ed th a t ch arter. It becam e ef paper fleet.” to bring to broadcast fans the sight of reciprocal aid, m aking such union elected secretary of th e sta te fair B utler explained th at a m ajo rity of fective F eb ru ary 8, 1850, and the first a m aterial and m oral benefit for true as well as the sound of the radio p er the com m ittee felt th a t In any new board. A. C. M arsters of Roseburg election was held April 6 when Hugh Pan-A m ericanism . formers. was elected president, H. R. Crawford D. O’B ryant was elected mayor. S itting In com fortable chairs In w arship construction bill It m ight re of Salem vice-president and A. Bush port to the house a specific tim e for W ashington, D. C.—The general av three Schenectady homes, several R eports re<jently given out by P o st 4 0 R E B E LS K IL L E D FROM AIR of Salem treasu rer. erage of farm prices on D ecem ber 15 miles from the com pany's broadcast- completion should be provided. O ther m aster T ulley a t W allowa Indicate a W. J. Culver was elected Marion steady gain In receipts for the office Ing studio, the visitors were enabled wise, he said, th ere would be no a s Marine Aviators Drop Bombs On at 137 was ten points higher than a year ago, the d epartm ent of agricul to both hoar and see the studio pro surance to the country th at all o r any county ro ad m aster for th e 15th oon- during th e p a st year. Stam p sales Sandino Men. of the vessels would ever be launched. secutlve tim e. V irtually all of the i for the q u a rte r ending D ecem ber 31, ture reported in its m onthly sum m ary gram. M anagua. N icaragua.—F orty rebels It Is the com m ittee’s plan to tak e hard surfaced highw ays in Marlon j 1926, w ere , 1671 g5 M d for tke glml. of farm prices and business condi "Simple tw ists of th e dials on the were killed by a m arine corps air tions. Most of the com m odities includ home television se ts” brought to these up the advisability of approving th e county w ere constructed under Mr. lar q u arter ending D ecem ber 31, 1927, plane squadron th a t attacked El Chi- men tho m inute reproduction of the 25 cruisers, five a ircraft carriers, nine C ulver’s supervision. the sales w ere *1720.78, a gain of pote, stronghold of General Augustino ed in the index showed m oderate p rica d estroyer leaders and 32 subm arines increases but w ere offset by a déclina T he Mt. Hood Railway com pany’s *48.93. T his gain has been consist ch aracters who appeared before the Sandino, the squadron's commander, in the prices of cotton and hogs, th e microphone, even to the curl of clgar- proposed In the ad m in istratio n 's p ro track s havs been kept open constantly ent through every qu arter during the M ajor “R usty” Howell, reported on report said. during th e recen t storm and service p a st year. et smoke from th eir lips and the blink gram . retu rn in g here. ing of th eir eyes. The sound of th eir has been m aintained to Parkdale. W ith the exception of w heat, hay , T he E astern O regon Peace O fficers' The aviators hid 5000 feet in the air About 85 cars of apples along Its track voices was heard In th e usual way B R IEF G ENERAL N EW S Co-operative association m et In La behind clouds and dived down when potatoes, hogs, eggs and chickens, it are aw aiting shipm ent. through a loud speaker supplem enting G rande la s t week and elected Clint opportunity offered to drop bombs, fire said, most of the com m odities w ere the visual apparatus. The Reed Blush fund com m ittee Seaside is to h av s an aviation H aynes, L a G rande police chief, presi m achine guns and even throw hand above last year's prices. The re p o rt The climax of many years of labor will recom mend th a t Senator-elect school, a tra c t of 60 acres having been d en t; H enry M cKinney of Baker, vice- predicted th a t the Jan u a ry level of grenades. This is believed here to be In the laboratories of the company, the rank I.. Smith of Illinois be denied purchased for th a t purpose in the p resid en t; S. H. Burleigh of E n ter farm prices would not be m a 'e ria lly the first tim e hand grenades ever te sts dem onstrated the principal value his senate seat. different from th a t of th e -p a st th ree north end of th e city, with a mile of prise, secretary -treasu rer; Amos Helm were used from airplanes. m onths. of television as a m eans of en tertain All broadcasting licenses have been river and ocean frontage. The school of La G rande, a ss ista n t secretary ; m ent lu the home as well as opening extended to March 1 by the federal will be opened tn July. F acto ry em ploym ent and total wage Jeese B reshears of La G rande and Sharkey and Heeney Fight a Draw. the path to endless possibilities in the radio commission The licenses would paym ents ended the year a t low er Coos county eipendod *23,897.26 for D istrict A ttorney B lodgett of Nyssa, world of commerce, the radio engi have expired February 1. New Y o rk —Tom Heeney. New Zea, levels and tended tow ards a low er road pro jects during December, It was m em bers of the executive com m ittee. land's hope in the heavyw eight title purchasing pow er of industrial con neers In charge of the dem onstration A million and a q u arter persons a t revealed a t Coquille by figures com B usiness of the H arrisburg National chase, fought a twelve-round draw asserted. tended last week’s national autom o plied in th e county clerk 's office. The sum ers at th e beginning of th is year. bank has been purchased by the Ju n c with Jack Sharkey, Boston sailor man, bile show In New York. New cars g reatest am ount was spent on gent ral P rospects for im provem ent on th is tion City S tate bank, and consolida before 17,000 spectators. The huge facto r of dom estic dem and depend LU M B ER PRO DUCTIO N FALLS worth at least *2.000.000 were ordered. roads, totalin g *14,089.70. tion of th e in stitu tio n s was effected Bishops of the C hurch of England crowd booed the decision heartily, in j »Pon th e Im provem ent of the a u to m o F ire losses in Oregon, exclusive of la st week. T his deal presen ts the un the belief that the stubby giant from bile and Iron and steel Industries, have agreed to revise th e p rayer book, About 2 Billion Feet Lower Than Portland, during D ecem ber aggregat usual situation of a state bank acqulr- down under had edged out a decision. which w ere largely responesible for rem oving m isapprehensions which Previous Ysar. ed *396,042, according to a report pre- | ing a national bank. Deposits amount- caused Its recent defeat In the house the 1927 recession In industrial activ W ashington. D. C. Based upon tele pared by the sta te fire m arshal. T here ing to betw een *70,000 and *76,000 1 Surplus Labor Supply on Pacific Coast ity and n seasonal rise In these indus graphic repo rts from eight regional of commons. wore 76 fires reported, of which three w ere taken over in the transfer. The f S en ato r Willis, of Ohio, has a n lum ber m anufacturing associations San Francisco.—A general decrease trie s may be looked for, it was stated. were of an incendiary origin. Junction City S tate has more than which represen t approxim ately 40 per nounced th at he had requested Carm i The sla te legislature would be pro tw ice th a t am ount of deposits. The in employment and surplus of labor cent of the total business, the National Thom pson, of Cleveland, Io take S ER VE V E N IS O N hibited from interfering with legisla change leaves H arrisburg with one In the Pacific coast sta te s during De NAVY TO Lum ber M anufacturers association charge of his cam paign for the repub cember. is reported by the United bank, the F irst National. tion enacted by th e voters, under the estim ates th e production of last year lican presidential nom ination. Reindeer Steaks to Be Tried Out on W ith grow ing conditions absolutely S tates employm ent service. Mrs. Buth Snyder and H enry Judd provisions of a proposed constitutional a t 5.000.000,000,000 board feet, about Bremerton Sailors. am endm ent filed in th e offices of the ideal, Douglas county broccoli growers 2.000,000.000 feet less than lit 1926. and Gray died In the electric chair of W ashington, D. C. - Alaskan rein T H E M ARKETS secretary of state at Salem last week. a re looking forw ard to one of the big nearly 10.000.000.000 feet under the Sing Sing prison seven m inutes apart. Portland d eer m eat is to be tried out in th e L ata reg istratio n at th e Oregon Ag g est crops in the history of the Indus They were executed for the m urder record year. 1909 W heat—Big Bend bluestem , *141; m ess of the Brem erton, W ash., navy try. The present fear Is th at the un ricu ltu ral college has Increased tho of h er husband, Albert Snyder. The actual figures obtained from hard white. »1 3 4 4 ; federation. »128; yard to see if it can win a place on to tal fo r this term to 3297, the largest usually w arm January w eather will reporting mills were 14.279.000.000 bring th e crop on too early, a t a time soft w hite and w estern white, *1.27; th e navy ration menu. enrollm ent of degree stu d en ts for the Hickman and Hunt Face Joint Trial. feet Inst year, against 15.266,000,000 Comm issioner of Education T igert second term in th e h istory of th e ooi- when the m arket is flooded with Call hard w inter. * 1 2 3 4 : n orthern spring, feet In the previous year, when about Los Angeles. — F orm er pals who lege, according to th e latest report Is- j f° m ta cauliflower, resulting in lower *1.2454; w estern red, *1 2214. has informed a house sub-committee 6 per cent additional mills were in plundered and m urdered together and H ay — Alfalfa, *180 18.60; valley which considered the Interior depart- prices. The present estim ate is that sued by E. B. Lemon, re g is tra r cluded In the statistics. then "squealetl" to bring each o th er to th ere will be more than 600 carloads tim othy, ,1 8 0 18.50; eastern Oregon ment s appropriation that 1566 pounds Decision to solicit support for the The Southern Pine association re lustlce must fuce the state together. of the m eat had been sent for te st shipped out of the Umpqua valley dur tim othy, *20.50 0 21. ported production of 3,470.000.000 feet. Superior Judge C arlos Hardy so rul proposed wool w arehouse In Baker B u tterfat—60 0 56e. m eals for the sailors at the navy ya rd ing th e last of February. M arih and was m ade at a m eeting of the Baker Wi-st Coast L um berm en's assta latlou ed when he dented the petition of Eggs—Ranch, 32039c. He declared th at If the experim ent April. An effort to standardize a crate 6.243.000,000 feet, the W estern l’lne Welby Hunt, 16, who sought to be County Wool G rowers' association in C attle— S teers, good. *11.50012 50. proved successful, it might provide a for Oregon shipm ents has so far met Baker last week, and a com m ittee was association 1.472.000.000 feet, Cali tried separately from W illiam Ed Hogs— Medium to choice, * 8 0 9 63. m arket for the 631,000 reindeer la w ith failure, and the several shipping fornia W hite and Sugar Ptue associa ward Hickman for the m urder of Ivy appointed with a view of determ ining Lam bs — Medium to choice, ,11 50 Alaska. organisations will probably each use the sen tim en t of sheepm en In regard tion 1,185.000,000 feet. Thoms, druggist, shot to death In a 01300. a different style of crate. Io the project. holdup, C hristm as eve, 1926 Seattle. Legion Aims for World Peace. K. G. W arner of Pilot Rock, presi The Coquille cham ber of comm erce Canada Ends Strangler’s Crime Wave. W h e a t- S o f t white, w estern white, Indianapolis. , nd _ Proni()tlon of d e n t and Bob Thompson of H eppner, will petition th e federal radio com- I Lindy to Rest and Hunt. W innipeg. Man. — Earl Nelson, *127; hard w inter. »1 23 4 ; western mission to perm it th e estab lishm ent I vice-president, w ere unanim ously re world peace was the upperm ost sub- "stra n g le r killer," was hanged In the Colon. Panam a A m erica's flying of a broadcasting station th ere aa the ' elected to th eir position* by the Ore red. *122 4 ; northern spring, * 1 .2 ,4 • bluestem . » 1 4 0 4 ; dark northern Ure n i t i d i ” 1“ - 0"* *dopte<l h ere bX courtyard of the Provincial Jail here. m essenger of good will took a short center of Coos county. Thia action ' gon Wool Grower* association a t the spring. *1 3 5 4 ; . executive com m ittee of H e paid the penalty for killing Mrs. rest before continuing his arduous dark hard winter, I cam e as the result of a m eeting of the , close of their 31st annual convention *1.394. the A m eri.an Legion at th e close of Emily P atterso n , and was believed flight through th e C entral American in Pendleton last week. cham ber last week », se8slon- One resolution, » • 2 — Alfalfa. ,25; tim othy ,2 ,- guilty of m ore th an a score of stra n countries. A fter flying tn an arm y a ir In celebration of the installation of P. S.. »22. Loss by fire tn A storia during 1927 j intended to cause creation of a p r a c gulation m urders In the United S tates plane to Panam a City to g reet th e was lowest of any year since the big I a new w ater system, the town of F air , icable plan for the promotion of world E ggs- Ranch, 26c. and Canada Nelson we believed to F rench a ir adventurers, Dteudonne d isaster of 1922. according to the an view. 11 miles east of P ortland on the Peace. Instructed the Rev. Gill Robb C attle— Steers, choice. ,11.50 0 12.25, have been the m ysterious "gorilla" C osies and Joseph 1-eRrtx. Colonel nual report of F ire Chief C. E. Foster. Columbia highway, wUl bold a m eet W ilaon national chaplain, to work out H ogs—Prime. ,9 40 0 9 50. who spread te rro r along th e Pacific C harles A. L indbergh retu rn ed to The total loss last year was *17,- Ing and entertainm ent In the auditor tor presentation to the com m ittee m Spokane, coast and tn liotrott and Toledo, where Colon and announced he would tak e 997 09, on which insurance totaling ium of the town s new schoolhouse os , / B plan calling for Inter« hange of C attle—Steer*, good, »10011.25. Women were strangled to death. a sh o rt hunting tour. T hursday night. Jan u ary >6. (10.260 02 was paid. students between the countries of the H ogs—Good. »909 25. vurl«L COOLIDGE RECEIVES OVATION IN HAVANA E. P. EASTEREROO K COMMITTEE REJECTS WILBUR'S NAVY PLANS OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST CUBA FAVORS THE MONROE DOCTRINE RADIO TELEVISION IS DEMONSTRATED GENERAL AVERAGE FARM PRICES GAIN