HAVANA CONFERENCE
CONCLUDES LABORS
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
James, the 5-year-old son of J. E.
Montgomery, president of the Bank of
Southwestern Oregon, died last Frl-
i day at Marshfield of infantile paraly
sis.
Baseball interest in the coming sea
H ughes’ Eloquence S w eeps
B rief Resum e of Happenings of son throughout the .Medford section Is
B urden of C o n tro llin g W a te rs
so keen that already preliminary
A w a y Opposition to U. 8 .
the W eek Collected for
P lac ed on the F e d e ra l
steps are under way to form a six-
P olicies.
Our R eaders.
dub league comprised of Medford,
G overnm ent.
Klamath Falls and Grants Pass In
southern
Oregon,
and
Yreka,
Weed
Havana.—The sixth pan American
Dr. E. J. 3chuster was appointed
oongr*
which ended Monday, mark
Washington, D. C.—Placing the en
county health officer for Tillamook »nd Shasta City In northern California.
•d a notable departure from the char
tire burden and cost upon the federal
Alex Lavon of the Applagate valley
county by the county court last week.
acter of previous conferences of this
government and carrying an appropri
Retail merchants of Oregon gath rushed to the Jackson county court
type by being dominated by controver
ation
of »473,000,000, a flood control
bouse
In
Medford
last
Wednesday
ered at Corvallis last week for the
sies of a political nature Instead of
bill was presented to the house by
and recorded his filings on a mining
24th
annual
session
of
the
state
ass»
confining Its activities mainly to tbs
Its flood control committee.
claim where last week be found a
j elation.
Study of tangible means of Inter-Amer
The measure, which was drafted by
»42 nugget. Mr. Lavon said that there
Of the total tax of 8517,389.93 levied
ican Intellectual, social and economic
Chairman Reid of Illinois, was ap
had been three attempts to Jump the
In Yamhill county for 1926, Sheriff
So-operation.
proved in committee by a vote of IX
claim since the discovery of the gold.
Manning reports that he has collected
Following closely upon widely ad
to 6 with one member not voting.
There
was
one
fatality
due
to
an
in
i 8729,583.93.
vertised incidents in Nicaragua be
The bill diverges sharply from the
dustrial accident in Oregon In the
tween United States marines and ban
Hal E. Ifoss, private secretary to
plan prepared by Major-General Jad
week
eqdlng
February
16,
according
dits and upon the unsuccessful efforts
Governor Patterson, submitted his
win, chief of army engineers, and rec
to a report issued by the state Indus
of the ArgenUne ambassador at Wash
, resignation, which will become effect-
ommended
to congress by President
trial accident commission. The victim
ington to obtain mass Importation ol
- lve March 1.
Coolidge, which proposed the expendi
Miss
Agnes
Wilson,
daughter
ol
was
Charles
M.
Martindale
of
Wol-
Argentine products through United
A shortage of horses to carry on ths lowa. There were 689 accidents re W illiam B. Wilson, secretary of labor ture of »296,400,000 for the project,
States tariff barriers, the present con
spring work Is reported by farmers of ported to the ommlsslon during the in the Wilson administration, who and called upon the Mississippi valley
ference« began Its labors last January
Tillamook county. As high as »400 Is week.
seeks the Democratic nomination for states to contribute 20 per cent of the
amid general predictions of disaster.
Cspt. A. W. Marshall, who Is com I being paid for good teams.
expense.
congress
from the Sixteenth Pennsyl
Events In Saturday’s plenary ses mander of the new airplane carrier
The first boat to be built on Coos
The measure would set up a new
Blasting
on
Coos
river
Monday
for
vania
district.
sion brought American diplomacy at Lexington, the biggest vessel In the
bay this year was launched at the
governmental agency. This agency
rock to supply highway needs, work
this conference to Its climax and pro American navy.
McDonald & Holland shipyards last
would be designated as the Mississip
men brought down 40,000 cubic yards
vided the most dramatic scene ever
J of material that will be used in rip- Saturday, with officials of the Haeser
pi valley flood control commission and
witnessed In a Pan-American confer-
Construction company, for which she
would be composed of seven members.
rapping the river front near Seaside
•nee. Arising to face a hostile ma
wae built, present. She has been
Including four proiginent civilian en
Because of the city’s Increasing chlrstened "The Multnomah". The
jority, Charles Evans Hughes, leader
gineers and scientists to be appointed
growth In recent years, the postmas craft Is a 46-foot tug boat, costing
of the American delegation, shattered
by the president.
ter at Medford ha* been notified that »9000,
Insinuations and denunciations of
The measure states specifically that
hie request for as additional carrier
American imperialistic purposes by
Vancouver, D. C.—Abolition of pri the work shall be done "without local
The state highway commission, at a
has
been
granted,
giving
Medford
nine
talking hard realities to his critics.
Chehalis, Wash.—One bank robber,
meeting In Portland February 28, will vate liquor warehouses in Vancouver contribution” and authorizes the gov
When he had finished virtually all op George Allen, was killed and his com city carriers.
open bids ior the grading and surfac and with them, perhaps, the export ernment to bear the entire expense
position had been swept away In a panion, Robert Stevens, was wounded
The Heppaer American Legion post ing of tbs 4.1 miles of tho North liquor trade is forecast by an unex
of purchasing and Indemnifying the
flood of applause that rocked the con on the calf of his right leg when they has constructed an emergency land
Albany-Wells market road in Benton pected order from the minister of cu» property on which levees, spillways,
ference hall.
toms
at
Ottawa.
held up the Pe Ell State bank at Pe ing field for airplanes on Morrow oounty. Bids also wtll be considered
floodways and other control works are
Thus, on the eve of adjournment, Ell, 25 miles west of here. Three field, located on a hill Just east of
The order rules that private ware to be built.
for the grading and surfacing of 2.2
one of two major political Issues thousand dollars in currency, gold, town. The field will be placed on gov-
miles of ths Fine creek market road houses must not receive liquor after
This cost Is placed upon the states
which kept the conference In a state of silver and nickels which was taken eromeot maps.
February 29, and that supplies now In
In Wheeler connty.
In the Jadwin plan and was one of
uncertainty for more than a month was recovered when Allen and Stevens
storage
must
be
moved
by
June
30.
The Columbia River highway, which
Announcement of tho Impending
the chief targets of its opponents on
soil which provided ground for a mass were brought to bay 20 minutes after
It has been reported that the domin
has been closed to night traffic and sale of the Coos Bay Water company
the ground that It would amount to
attack upon the United States’ Ixtln the robbery while attempting to make
ion
government
Is
planning
to
develop
under daily one-way regulations sines of Marshfield to the OregoD-Wash
over »100,000,000.
American policies, has been cleared their getaway into the brush at Pe Ell
the storm and tie-up two months »go. Ington Water Service oompany was legislation to the point where only
■P
automobile park, a quarter of a mile was thrown open for 24-hour service made at Marshfield by officials of the the provincial government liquor con
The United States also led the win east of town.
last Friday.
local company through Its attorney trol boards will be able to import li
ning side In the tariff struggle, the
Allen, 35, was killed by Harry Vis
As soon as weather permits, con The Coos Bay Water company serves quor. so restrictions of some sort are
other great political question which ser. Pe Ell butcher, with a 25-20 rifle.
struction
will begin on a 10-mils rail Marshfield, North Bend, Bunker HUI expected. The drastic action of the
appeared for a time a serious threat He was hit three times. One bullet
minister of customs, however, came as
to the tranquillity of the conference. passed through Allen's neck from the road to tap 34,00») acres of timber In Englewood and Baypark.
a complete surprise to exporters here.
Northern Klamath county recently
Births last month, numbering 488,
left side to right, one lodged In his up
If the order Is enforced it will mean
acquired by the Shaw-Bertram Lum were .8 of 1 per cent more numerous
Washington, D. C.—The federal
per left arm near the shoulder and ber company,
that private liquor warehouses will be
In
Portland
than
for
January,
1M7,
imbedded Itself In his body; a third
unable to operate in the city. As a trade commission has decided to pro
Nels Skjersaa and Emil Novdlne, and were 78 more than the total of result, the importing and expbrting ceed Immediately to carry out the pro
tore a gaping wound on the front of
visions of the Walsh resolution calling
his right leg near the groin, Stevens, Norwegian ski racers of Bend, trav 868 deaths reported. Dr. John 0 trade may suffer considerably.
eled
across
MeKsnsle
pass
last
Bun
Abele,
city
health
officer,
said
In
his
for
an Investigation of public utility
who had been wounded In a street
battle by Cashier E. Lee Dunlap of day and back to the eastern slope of monthly report. Boys numbered 234 G REELY HEADS L U M B E R M E N power corporations.
Washington. I). C.—Adoption by the the bank, Immediately surrendered.
ths Cascades, making the trip of 40 and girls 20«, while the deaths
The commission adopted a resolu
federal government of the Columbia
miles without accident
claimed 202 men and 156 women.
tion in which it was made clear that
Merger
of
Pacific
Northwest
Timbei
river basin Irrigation project, one of
the Inquiry will be carried on "In strict
Bonnie Smith. 3 daughter of Her
Harris Hart of MUwaukle was op
Interests Approved.
B R IE F GENERAL N E W S
the largest reclamation developments
and full compliance” with the terms
bert Smith of Sumner, a community erated on In a Portland hospital and
Seattle, Wash.—A merger of the of the Walsh resolution and that in
In the world, was recommended by the
near Coos bay on the old Cooa bay physicians removed a sponge from his
The
body
of
Eddie
Foy,
veteran
West Coast Lumber Trade Extension
senate Irrigation committee in favor
comedlun, who died at Kansas City, wagon road, died of Infantile paralysis body. Twelve years ago Mr. Hart bureau and the West Coast Lumber making the investigation the commis
ably reporting the Jones Dill bill.
sion would rely on all powers "legally
last
week.
This
was
the
only
case
to
fractured a rib, which required an
Cost of constructing the project, was brought to New York for burial develop In Sumner this year
operation, and since then he had com men 8 association was approved hert available to it, whether contained in
and
taken
to
New
Rochelle.
by the 150 Pacific Northwest lumber Its organic act or elsewhere, which
which embraces 3.000,000 acres of land
Snow at ths rim of »'rater lake Is plained of Illness. The operation dts-
The senate has ordered a "thorough
In oentral Washington, is placed at
men
whom the associations represent. may conduce to a diligent and. com
cloeed that the trouble wae caused by
»300.000,000. A total of 1,833,000 acres and complete Investigation" of condl- 96 inches dsep and drifts have mount
Colonel W. B. Greely, chief forestet plete performance of the ends or pur
a
sponge
that
the
surgeon
had
left
In
ed
as
high
as
ths
second
story
of
Cra
of the Lhited States, is to assume th« poses set forth."
would he Irrigated and made Into val tlonq In the bituminous coal fields of
the man’s body 1| years ago
uable farm lands, and the remaining Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir ter Lake lodge. John Maben, caretaker
Post of secretary-manager of the new
By a margin of 15 votes the senate
ginia.
of
ths
lodge
and
weather
observer
at
Contract
for
the
new
mall
route
be
1.117,000 acres would be used aa graz
association. Robert Allen, secretary- referred to the federal trade commis
tween Newport and Taft, on the Roose
The United States government has the lake reported last week
Ing lands.
manager of the old association for 10 sion in the Investigation of the financ
Infantile paralysis claimed Its first velt highway. Is now effective. The years, tendered his resignation.
At the sum« time, the committee purchased the property In Ottawa,
ing of public utilities power corpora
Union county victim since the epi
route wtll serve ranch»* and bench re-
reported favorably the McNary bill Ont., on which will be erected offices dsmlrts
The new wlYhinThe^Tar
organization, 'is
to t^ b s tions. The vote was 46 to 31, with
outbreak last fall Buaday’ at I
th* tw° D0'0»*- Olomv I functioning’
for
tho
American
legation.
The
site
providing for government adoption of
Union whs» Bruce Maxwell, 16, son , eD' K"D*
th’ n*WlZ '’• ’'’‘■OP’*’ known as the West Coast’ lumber party lines obliterated.
the Deschutes project In Oregon whirh faces the parliament buildings.
All
commercial
air
speed
records
*
.W
.
?
plon~
r
rMtd">'-
men'8 association and win renres.n,
calls for the construction of a dam at
, X
" Z ~ u ttt X ° 7 y o; V Z I a tOta,a—
-.ta g J T f'
W A TER P O W E R G AINS
Denham Falls on the Deschutes river. between London and Paris were died following a short lllneea.
—_---- more
broken
when
an
Imperial
Airways
Both measures were approved over
Ths Swift Packing company has
than five billion feet. It Is expected
appela led assistant postma-rter.
575,000 Horse Increase In 1927 For
the opposition of Secretary Work of liner covered the 230 mile flight to Purchased ths Coqullls Valley cream baen
Geors. Qarvrt, .
I
°f
119
lum-
United States Reported.
the Interior department, who has ex- the French capital In 80 minutes.
T
”
*
Oarrett,
ex-clty
manager
of
bermen
in
the
region
will
join
®rY at Coqullls and the Norway cream
the
The bodies of two Lafayette. Ind., ery of Norway from J R McCloskey, l a Grande, Oregon, Grand Janetkin, combined
Washington. D. C.—Water power de
presaed opposition to the adoption by
I alternanze and^dterflse “the^indun
velopment In the United States in-
the government of reclamation proj deputy sheriffs, missing since Febru veteran butter and cbeeee maker of
ary 7, when they disappeared while Coos connty, it was announced
and
for
a
number
of
years
employed
creased 575,000 horsepower, or 5 per
ect* of this character at thia limo.
try.
last
taking two youthful prisoners from week.
In various capacities by tha etty of
cent. In 1927, there being a total of
I-afayette to the Indiana reformatory
Dedication of the »25,000 Preeby Portland, was appointed city manager More Candidates Enter Ohio Fight 12,296,000 horsepower January 1, 1928,
M RS. LIN D B E R G H HONORED at Peudleton, have been found.
the geological survey discloses in a
terlan church at Phoenix, being con by the Astoria city commission at a
Columbus. O. — Three more presi- report showing that the Increase was
special
meeting
last
week
Mr.
Oarratt
Filer’s Mothsr to Receive Education
Oregon W ill Fight Tax Refund Effort. structed by Ashland contractors, will -till succeed 0 A Krats, city manager dential candidates were brought into In plants of public utility power com
Association Cold Emblem.
be held Palm Sunday, according to
the Ohio fight between Senator Willfs panies.
Salem. Or.—Members of tho state
Washington. D. C.- For "character- tax commission held a tnwllng here Rev R. w . Nelson, pastor of the there for ths last five years, whose and Secretary Hoover for control ol
The report shows that the total
resignation
wae
recently
presented
ef
church, which
lst I os of modesty and Idealism and
s about 100 active fectlve March 15
the state’s delegation. Ex-Governor
ami Instructed the attorney general to members.
»mount of potential water power avail
outstanding work in the teaching pro
Lowden of Illinois, Senator Curtis ol able 90 per cent of the time is 38,110,-
send a telegram to Oregon’s delega
_ Emery Olmstead, ex president of ths
fesslon," Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh
OMu Arnsplgsr was reelected man
Kansas and Senator Watson of Indi 000 horsepower, with 56,166,000 horse-
tion tn congress urging that action be
Northwestern National bank, and J E
wtll be awarded a gold emblem aud
deferred In connection with a bill in ager of ths Talent Irrigation district Wheeler, c i president of ths McCor ana each has authorized Willis candi i°ffl7 r avaliabIe 50 per cent of
life membership In the National Edu
dates for delegates to name them as
T
Nswbry
was
chosen
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troduced by Representative Hawley I w
mick Lumber company and tha Tele their second choice. Willis headquar
cation association at its convention providing that the counties alone shall n
’h' ,,O“rd ** dlr -tors.
If it were feasible to develop all
In Boston In March.
participate tn the Oregon & California ! Due to *.
T*r <*
a '.V”
large rarTr°
carry-over
of water - in gram Publishing company, w*re terg announced. These written con the water power resources In this
found
guilty
on
cnch
of
38
counts
on
Secretary Crabtree, who signed the land grant tax refund. The llawlev I , <,l8trlct 8 aessrvolrs the water sup-
sents already have been received. It country 85.000.000 horsepower couid
oartlflcate, said: "It Is a source of bill would amend the original refund . 7 WlU ** Dormal- »«"cording to Mr an Indictment charging specific mlf- was stated.
he produced, the roport continues
application of funds of the North
distinct pride to the teaching profes
act so as to preclude the state from Arnsplgsr.
California ranks first m the devel- ‘
western Natkins! bank of Portland by
sion that the youth whom the nations
Abraham
Lincoln Comlnl l* the
T H E M ARKETS
sharing In the land grant refund, even
a
Jury
which
handed
It«
sealed
verdict
have so singularly honored Is the son
Portland
though litigation now pending In the name given a son born to Mr and to Federal Judge Bean al ths opening
of a fellow worker."
Wheat—B. B. bluestem, »1.41; hard
Oregon courts should result favorably Mrs Louie Comlnl of The Dalles on of court last Saturday.
The testimonial to Mrs Lindbergh, to the state.
Lincoln* birthday Four years ago
white. »1 30<4; federation, soft white,
representing the high regard In which
In the annual meeting of the Coos western white, »12714; hard winter,
a son horn to Mr and Mrs. Comint
she Is held hy more than 180.000 Death of Asquith Widely Mourned. was named Calvin Coolidge Comlnl. •nd Curry fair steekholdere the cxgaa- western red, »1.22; northern spring
teachers In all parts of the country, Is
Ixatloa selected the date at holding »12354.
London.- The death of the earl of and still another non bears the earns
to be presented while her famous son.
the 1922 fair |n Myrtle Po4at and
of
Leo
McKinley
Comlnl.
Hay — Alfalfa. »18@18.50; valley
Colonel Lindbergh, looks on. Just aa Oxford and Asquith awakened a uni
Robbers entered the Capitol theater named September 19, 30, 21 and 82. timothy, »18@18.50; eastern Oregon
versal feeling of the deepest regret,
•he has looked on while the world
Ths custom of having a fair repre timothy. »20.50 6 21.
coupled throughout Britain with a In Salem last week, dynamited the
heaped honors on him.
sentative la every town to the county
Butterfat—49@ 52c.
passengers were swent ?
3°
sense of national loss at the exit of safe which held two days' receipt* and
was
continued,
and
these
men
named:
Eggs—Ranch.
23026c
of the ferryboat P e X int” V '
escaped
with
between
|4o„
and
»500
one
who
for
year*
had
been
such
a
Borah's Candidacy Launched In Idaho.
Joe Laraon. Marshfield; Q. GosSafeoa.
Cattle—Steers, good. »11.50 0 12 50 The opinion prevails irT ° 'h<? bay"
notable figure In the political life of I The safe was badly wrecked A strong
Boise. Idaho. The republican party the kingdom and empire.
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4118
b
Hogs—Medium to choice, »8 0 9 35. States InsnerL
u amonS
“m°Dg V
Vnlte«i
i box In the safe, which contained ap- North Bend. Henry Hesa. Coquille;
of Idaho virtually put United States
Lambs—Medium to choice, » n g “«Up ’ of the P^aHa ‘
f°rWard
' proxlmately »1800, was carried to the Ray McNair, Bandon B U Clauaeo.
Broadbent;
Earn Wagiww, Curvy 12.86.
Senator Borah out In the open tn the Yankee Spying on Germans Sentenced stage, where It was abandoned
county.
republican presidential race us a re
Seattle.
Düsseldorf, Germany.-Guido Melael,
North Bend high school Wednesday
« « ..
„ „ j:;:
s
Wheat -
sult of the action hero of the state
A Schramm, state -«upvrlnteiKleBt i t
night captured the Coos county debate
American
chemist
of
Portsmouth.
N.
»127«,;
hard
wmter.
»]
.
oxmtral committee, when It passed res
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•
-
anka, has announced a Itvldeod of
H , was sentenced to one year’s im championship for 1923. both teams
olutions Indorsing him for the nomin
•It 1 2 per cent, aggregating »T«.<34.»L red. »122*4; northern spring | i eg.
prisonment
and
fined
5000
marks
on
;
wtnnlng
unanimous
decisions.
Teams
ation.
bluestem. »1 39*4; dark northern
charges of commercial espionage In j fram Marshfield. North Bend. Ban i to depositors of the detanct First spring, »1.44 54; dark hard
Stale
Bank
of
Seaside.
This
Is
the
»Inter,
seeking to obtain German chemical don. Myrtle Point, Coquille and Cooa
Auto Record Set by British Driver. and dye secrets.
hrst dividend to be declared since the 31.385*.
trie Power com, « ? . f ortl*“<» Elec-
j River took part.
r "*’ ,7 .
*“ : « « » . « < ; »»stern Elcetric
Daytona Beach, Fla -Captain Mal
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At a recent meeting of Taft Cham bank closed Its doors Reptssnbsw I I
an l the North-
colm Campbell, British ace, establish Hill Jury Unable to Agree; Dismissed ber «* Commerce a reeoluBou Was
February 34 lias beoo ae< hp the
«ohd.te.j-0 . ? . C°mpa^ - * —
“1 he con
Butterfat—61c.
• i'®
fio People
rjArtnl,-. of Portland
M M lnnvtlle school board hor a special
ed a new world's speed record when
Ottawa. Ill The Jury which for ! ******* unanimously against the pro.
«*’ • their consent th ,
Eggs-Ranch. 23@26c.
election to determ ine w hether Mo
he drove his huge Napier Blue Bird
h^n decided np„n by thi aCtl0“ ha*
four days deliberated the (ate of Harry po,* t
• u,°
law Fear was M lnnvtlls taxpayers shall authorise
Cattle—Steers, choice, » n »5
special over the hard beach course
¡811.3d. be of both nuho. 7 *h P°»®rs that
Hill, charged with killing his mother.
,h*< enactment of such
Hog»—Prime.
»9
30@s
<0
*
ths
board
to
Incure
an
Indebtedness
her > at an average speed of 306 »6603
R“t before the merger
C° Dlpan1*8'
was discharged after It reported • dis law would mean an end to further act to e ir e e d »40.500 for • new g y w
Spokane.
miles an hour.
highway MMtrwcOo*.
agreement
t° he held for th
“ ¥lecU°n Is
naatam-andltortum nad Its sgu tptn eat
» ^ » e u .0 9
-he deal
they • rlll
111 aonvo.^
approva
C A P Ì. A. W. MARSHALL
ONE BANK ROBBER
KILLED AT FE ELL
HOUSE COMMITTEE
REPORTS FLOOD BILL
CANADA TO ABOLISH
LIQUOR WAREHOUSES
FEDERAL TRADE BODY
READY FOR INQUIRY
SENATE COMMITTEE
FAVORS BASIN PROJECT