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CONGRESS EXPECTS TO ADJOURN JUNE FIRST Roseburg residents have approved the Issuance of $35.000 bonds for the SEN. FRANK B. W IL L IS purchase and im provem ent of an air MRS. G IF F O R D P IN C H O T port. The vote at the special city election stood 807 yea and 904 no. The Soapstone bridge on the Roose B o lder C anyon Dam and B rief Resum e of Happenings of velt highw ay ten miles north of D e c la re s S in c la ir's Bonds R e W heeler was officially opened last F a rm B ills Hold Chief the W eek C ollected fo r week. The structure is of concrete ceived fo r In te re s t in and replaces a wooden bridge con In te re s t. Our Readers. His Ranch. structed In 1916. W ith S tate F orester E lliott and Dep W. J. W alker opened a new cream W ashington, D. C.—Speeded on Its uties King and McCarthy of Salem and E l Pano.—A lbert B Fall, examined ery and cheese factory a t his ranch on way by the rapid fire action of th e several o th er out-of-lown officials for four days regarding b it leasing Platol river, C urry county, Monday. senate last week on the gigantic flood present, the Union County F ire asso when secretary of the Interior of the control m easure, congress is w orking B etw een 600 and 700 S hrlnera were ciation held its annual 'm eeting in La T eapot Dome oil reserv e to H arry F. tow ard th e end of its legislative tangle In St. H elena last week for the quar Grande last week. Sinclair, closed his cross exam ination In a m anner forecasting adjournm ent terly m eeting of the Columbia River E. J. Dixon, Portland, m anager of with the declaration th a t th e senate well before the opening of the first of Shrine club. the Pacific Co-operative Poultry Pro oil com m ittee was not constituted to the national political conventions in The firs t paym ent of 1928 to the ducers' association, was elected presi be fair. June. K lam ath Indians, one of $300 to each dent of the Oregon Co-operative coun The end of th e exam ination found F arm relief and tax reduction de of th e 1274 m em bers of the tribe, was cil a t the close of a two-day session th e 67-year-old ex-senator In good spir mand senate atten tio n thia week and made la st week. In Eugene last week. its though weak from the strain of w ith disposition of th ese tw o contro Mrs. S arah W oodruff iuat week cel telling bis sto ry of th e lease for the More than $5000 w orth of the de versial issues, th a t branch of congress ebrated h er 97th birthday anniveraary linquent land in the Medford irriga first tim e. H e enjoyed, apparently, will have cleared Its decks of its prin at th e home of h er daughter, Mrs. W. tion district has been disposed of In th e cross-exam ination by A tlee Pom- cipal problem s for th e session. P. Babcock In Salem.. erene. the last two weeks since the land was Then comes the boulder canyon dam During the th ree days Fall has given The Lane County C hristian Endeav placed in the hands of th e Medford bill and with it the only p resen t th re a t Mrs. Gifford Plnchot, wife of the realty board for sale. his side of th e story of the oil leases on the horizon against a sm ooth road former governor of Penneylvania. who o r nnlon held Its 13th annual conven for which the governm ent charged he R esidents of B utte Falls are seeking to the end of th e session. S en ato r has announced her candidacy for a tion a t Creswell recently. A regis United States Senator Frank B. accepted $233,000 In lib erty bonds m eans of continuing the local bank, A shurst, dem ocrat, of Arizona, whose Republican seat In the houee of rep tratio n of 150 attended. W illis of Ohio, a candidate for the Re- j from Sinclair, he has denied em phati The Yamhill county F ederation of owned and operated for tw o decades publican nomination for president, state Is battling the com prom ise m eas resentatives from the Fifteenth dis cally th a t th ere was anything unlaw ure of S enator Johnson, republican, W om en's clubs will m eet in Dayton by George W. B arker, who ended his trict of Pennsylvania. who died suddenly. ful o r even unusual In th e negotiations California, for construction of the dam, S aturday, May 19, Instead of May 26, life last week as result of worry. for th e lease. H e said th a t the lease Butte F alls Is one of the busiest sm all has frankly given notice of a filib u ster as was previously planned. arran g em en ts w ere carried out by J. tim ber centers in Oregon. when th a t bill comes up. L. L. Montague, representing a large W. Zevley, now dead, and th a t the Meanwhile th e house will grind out The Salem cham ber of commerce bridge financing company, Is asking w ealthy oil man him self did not come during the next ten days the la s t of went on record favoring the Issuance for a franchise for a steel toll bridge Into th e deal until the day the lease the regular appropriation bills for thia across th e Columbia river a t Arling of bonds in the am ount of $50,000 for w as signed, April 7, 1922. Even th a t session and may, before the end of the establishm ent of an airport there. ton. day, he said, S inclair rejected the th e week, tackle th e sen ate $325,000,- The proposal probably will be referred Delaware, O.—United S tates Sena C onstruction of a reduction plant lease because the Interior secretary Chicago.—Federal authorities raided 000 flood control m easure w hich faces to the voters of Salem at th e tim e of insisted on larg er royalties for the to r F rank B. W illis died here sudden thia y ear a t the M other Lode mine the home of an alcohol gang leader In early approval w ith some m odifica holding the prim ary election May 18. governm ent and accepted It only after ly. He bad been sittin g on the plat n ear Maker, will be an im m ediate re Blue Island, a suburb, and seUed large tions. The new Tillamook N ational Bank considerable argum ent. T he lease, form in G rays chapel where 2500 p er sult of a recen t refinancing of the quantities of dynam ite which, it was The M cNary-Haugen farm bill, will open Monday, April 9, according F all m aintained, had nothing to do sons had g ath ered to hear him apeak property. believed, m ight lead to solution of re dressed up in clothes more to th e to an announcem ent made by H. H. in his own behalf as a presidential w ith the receipt by him of the liberty The city of Ashland has purchased cent Chicago political bombings. fancy of P resident Coolidge, but still bonds from Sinclair. These, he said, candidate, when suddenly he arose, the Balfour-Guthrie tra c t of 93 acres Rosenberg, president of th e institu U nited S tates D istrict A ttorney w ithout hlB definite sanction, cam e up tion. The quarters form erly occu walked to an ante-cham ber and suc w ere paid him by th e oil man for one- n ear th a t city to provide for the In George E. G. Johnson, in announcing In the senate Monday. C hairm an Mc th ird in terest In his T res R ltos touch cumbed. creasing dem and for a landing place pied by the Tillamook County bank the raid, verified reports th a t federal N ary of the agriculture com m ittee and will be used and have been remodeled A physician w as called from the for airplanes. In New Mexico, w here the oil man authorities here w ere In the m idst of co-author of th e bill, started the de for the opening. audience and pronounced Senator w anted to establish a breeding place a determ ined -campaign to “get the Kicked in the tem ple by a work C erebral hem orrhage Columbia county has accepted the higher ups” in the Cook county liquor bate. to r race horses and a country club WIUIs dead. horse, H enry, th e 6-year-old son of was the cause of death. for men only. Mr. and Mrs. Van Eamond, died at petitions for four new roads, tw o of racket. S enator W illis was Just preparing to The raid w as on the home of Lor Vale la s t week w ithout regaining them in th6 N ehalem valley, and two give his speech when he becam e ill, in the w estern p art of th e county. enzo Juliano, head of the Kensington- consciousness. it was a t first believed, from th e gas Two bridges will also be erected thia Chicago H eights alcohol gang. The U niversity of Oregon Medical used In the torches In th e to rchlight year, one on th e Nehalem highway Juliano apparently had been w arned parade which welcomed the senator school received a check for $35,599.39 m arket road, and one on the diked in advance, and had fled. Liquor, raw from th e G eneral Education Board of home. lands near C latskanie. alcohol, and dynam ite w ere seized. W ashington, D. C.—F avorable re Mrs. W illis, who w as on th e p lat New York city, according to Dr R. B. Oregon taxpayers will be called S enator C harles Deneen, whose port on the S lnnott bill for develop DUlehunt, dean. form, wag called In as h er husband W ashington, D. C.— France has an upon to pay a total of $49,943,568.06 hom e was bombed Monday night, took m ent of the U m atilla rapids project L a G rande's city comm ission has au nounced h er readiness to subm it to was dying. this year, according to a sum m ary of personal charge of his republican fac was voted by th e house com m ittee on Drs. D orrence Jam es, D. T. Mc thorized another bond Issue of $38,- th e German, British, Italian and Jap taxes ju s t compiled by E arl Fisher, tion’s campaign against Mayor W il anese governm ents all th e Franco- C arthy, Floyd M iller and O. W. Bon 480.54 to tak e care of several improve state tax com m issioner. T his Is an liam Hale Thompson and S tates At Irrigation. It was am ended only in m inor respects and received nearly m ent d istricts for which the citizens n e r attended him. As ho was dying American anti - w ar correspondence Increase of nearly $2,000,000 over the torney Robert E. Crowe. unanim ous support, tw o votes being have petitioned. along w hh th e d raft of a general th e sen ato r called for his wife. taxes of la st year, which totaled $47,- Deneen in a speech before a poli cast ag ain st It. The sen ato r's tragic end cam e at Two and a half million young sock 975.377.52 for all purposes. treaty pledging them not to reso rt to tical m eeting, laid directly before The action of the com m ittee places th e larg est political m eeting Delaware eye salmon will be liberated from the war. The first G reat N orthern train out Crowe blame for bombings, political it on the house calendar in the sam e ever had w itnessed. feeding ponds of the commercial The purpose of these subm issions, assassinations and general crim e con position as the Columbia Basin and The whole city had turned out In h atchery a t E nterprise, according to of Portland for K lam ath Falls by way as outlined In a note handed to Sec of the new Bend-Chemult-Southern ditions In Chicago. the D eschutes project bills. homage to him. A band, a parade and reports given out recently. retary Kellogg by A m bassador Clau Pacific route, is scheduled to leave A corresponding bill by S enator Mc del, would be th a t th e to u r govern red fire had been provided to make Platinum and o th er precious m etals Thursday night, May 10. The train, N ary Is pending In the senate com m it B R IEF GENERAL NEW S m ents m ight "join In seeking, In the bis appearance an auspicious occasion. In paying q u antities are reported to according to present plans, will run tee on reclam ation. sp irit and In the le tte r of the last have been found on th e 320-acre ranch special and will carry m em bers of T he German reichstag has adopted The m easure would authorize an ap American note, any adjustm ents which of E rn est Bohna on the Big N estucca th e P ortland cham ber of comm erce FLOOD B ILL FAVO RED the governm ent bill prohibiting Ger propriation of $45,000,000 for the con In the last analysis may be forthcom riv er in Tillam ook county. and other citizens to the new rail cele man firm s from selling arm s and mu struction of a dam and pow er p lan t ing with resp ect to the possibility of Senate Measure for Control of Mis B enjam in F. Craigen, lifelong resi bration to be staged a t K lam ath Falls, nitions to China. a t U m atilla rapids, which are betw een sissippi Backed by Committee. reconciling previous obligations with dent of the W eston country, dropped May 11 and 12. P resident Coolidge has signed the the states of W ashington and Oregon. W ashington, D. C.—The house flood dead S aturday afternoon while walk th e term s of the contem plated treaty." Citizens of Rainier, In a closely con Jugo-Slav debt settlem ent bill, provid In addition, the S lnnott bill would Stripped of the argum ent th a t sur control com m ittee approved the Jones ing along th e road beyond Shiloh tested special election, rejected a pro ing for the paym ent of a funded debt provide for construction of locks for $325,000,000 M ississippi riv er flood rounds It, the F rench note proposes church on W eston mountain. posed am endm ent to th e city charter of $62,850,000. the Im provement of navigation. U nder th a t the W ashington and P arts gov control bill passed by the senate. New stre e t lights to be Installed In changing th e m unicipal governm ent P resident Coolidge has signed the the m easure, title to th e plant would A fter an all day session th e com ern m en ts agree upon a d raft m ulti the residential districts of Eugene will from Its present form to the commis bill providing for federal participation rem ain for all tim e in th e U nited lateral anti w ar treaty , then Join In m ittee, by a vote of 20 to 1, approved cost betw een $12,000 and $13,000, ac sion plan, an<f approved a tax meas in the industrial exposition of th e P a States, and th e federal governm ent presenting this as a working basis to th e senate m easure with a half dozen cording to Carl A. McClain, superin ure providing for special fire protec cific Southw est at Long Beach, CaL, would retain control and m anagem ent am endm ents draw n from (he bill by th e o th er four powers, accompanied ten d en t of th e w ater board. tion for the DuBois-Kettenring saw next summer. of the project. by all the Franco-Am erican exchanges the com m ittee chairm an, Held of 111! A rthur S. Vandenberg, republican, T. F. Rea, pioneer mining man and mill. The c h arter am endm ent was nols, who had drafted a bill of hts on the subject. a resid en t of B aker county since 1862, voted down, 125 to 106, and the special editor of the G rand Rapids H erald, own. tax approved, 107 to 74. was appointed United S tates senator I ENDURANCE RECORD BRO KEN The am endm ents, however, woub died In Baker last week, aged 75. Mr. OHIO F IG H T C O N TIN U E D Following a num ber of m eetings from Michigan to succeed the late New Mark Set by Courageous Ameri Rea was a scout for G eneral Howard not effect any radical change In th w ith ranchers who are raising sheep W oodridge N. F erris, dem ocrat. during the early Indian wars. Jones bill. can Filers. W lllia’ Manager Says Contest For P resident Coolidge signed the bill Through a rejuvenation of the in the M arshfield vicinity, H. A. Lind Jacksonville, Fla.—The w orld’s a ir Delegates to Go On. M arshfield cham ber of commerce the gren, expert from the Oregon Agri extending for another year th e life < ’ plane endurance record came back to U. 8. Commissions Biggest S u b m irr Columbus, O.—Although a tem por m em bership has been built up to a cultural college, and H arvey S. Hale, the radio commission and providing A m erica from G erm any when E dw ard W ashington, D. C.—The su b m u r ary truce has been called in the Ohio to tal of 286, with a good prospect of county agent, made a statem ent which for the allocation of wave lengths Stinson and George H aldem an se t a V-4, th e largest In th e world, was co:, showed the sheep Industry had grown am ong broadcasting stations In vari contest for presidential delegates be m issioned at Portsm outh, N. H., navy reaching th e set goal of 400. new m ark here of 53 hours, 36 m in over 100 pei cent in Coos county in ous sections of the country in propor tw een S enator W illis' supporters and yard, April 2. This Is the first m ini utes, 30 seconds. G overnor P atterso n has extended the past year, there now being 13,000 tion to the population. those of S ecretary of Commerce Hoov laying subm arine to be built for thi the reprieve of Jam es WiUos up to The new record was 1 hour, 13 m in sheep, other than lambs on th e ranges, e r because of Mr. W illis' sudden death U ulted S tates navy. and Including April 12. This will make utes, 59 seconds beyond th a t of 52 at Delaware, the fight will go on un as against S600 last year. Geo. Remus Wins Fight for Freedom. the d ate of his execution the sam e as hours, 22 m inutes, 31 seconds m ade abated, Carmi A. Thompson, m anager T he past several weeks have pro Lim a, O. — George Remus, form er la st A ugust by Johann R isticz and Lindy May Take Trip Around World. th a t set for Ellsw orth Kelley, Friday, of the WIUIs campaign, declared. vided one of the m ost favorable bootleg king and wife slayer, won his Cornelium Edzard, German fliers, us W ashington, D, C.—The la te st re April 13. springs for lam bing operations to be fight for freedom from the state hos To whom the W illis delegate candi ing the Ju n k ers monoplane Europa. porta among close friends of Colone. The cornerstone of the new Red d ates now will turn as th eir first experienced In W allowa county in a pital for the crim inal Insane when the I L indbergh here have It th at the filer mond hotel was laid Saturday in the A fter Jockeying th eir single-m otor choice m ay be decided by a meeting num ber of years, according to sheep third d istrict fcourt of appeals handed will m ake a round the world trip In presence of a large crowd. The build ed Stinson-D etroiter monoplane to ta k e of th e delegates them selves soon. owners, the g reater part of whom have down a decision holding him sane. every advantage of breeze and a lti a plane hut will span the A tlantic and ing will be th ree stories In height, All doubt as to th e legal statu s of finished lam bing at this tim e. Even Remus killed his wife, Imogene, as she Pacific by boat. tude, the A m erican aviators cam e will contain 59 room s and will coat th e W illis delegates In the prim ary th e large flocks are reporting per was riding through a C incinnati park ! down w ith five gallons of th eir ori $160,000. April 24 was removed by Secretary centages of b e tte r th an 100 per cent th e morning of October 6, 1927. He I T H E MARKETS A lthough “lack of funda” will pro while In the sm all flocks above 150 surrendered him self im m ediately and I ginal 550 gallons of fuel still in th e of S tate Brown, who ruled th at names Portland hibit any construction of extension per cent has been reported by a num entered a plea of "tem porary mania- I tanks. of all candidates m ust stay on th e bal W heat—11. B. bluestem . $’ 51; hard work In th e W allowa forest this year, lot. He also ruled th a t S enator Wll ber of farm ers. cal Insanity.” A fter a tria l of a m onth ' w hite, fe d e ra tio n , soft w hite, w e ste rn the forest service will be allowed Brookhart Offere $600,000.000 Bill. Ils' name would stay on the preslden The fish ladder at the W inchester a ju ry returned a verdict of not guilty I white, $1.42; hard winter, $1 34; north $7000 for the m aintenance of roads tlal preference ballot along with those power dam five m iles north of Rose- "by reason of insanity” 20 m inutes | W ashington, D. C.—A $600,000,000 c m sp rin g , w e ste rn red, $1.35. and trails. of S ecretary Hoover and Olin J. Boss. biyg was destroyed last week by a a fte r it had been given the case. The ! farm relief bill was offered by S ena H ay — Alfalfa, $1301350; valley to r Brookhart, republican, of Iowa, as A pproxim ately $374.000 will be charge of dynam ite, one whole section H am ilton county probate court, how tim othy. $13018 50; eastern O regon Federal Income Tax Collection Lower. sp en t for im provem ents In Oregon by of the fishway being blown away, com ever. adjudged him Insane and com- j a substitute for the pending McNary- tim othy. $20 50O H- H augen measure. He would m eet th e the O.-W. It A N. company this sum pletely blocking the river to the prog m itted him to the hospital. W ashington. D. C Income tax col B u tterfat—60c, cost of exporting surplus crops by lev ress of fish up the stream . It Is be mer, It was announced by W alter H. lections for March have fallen below Eggs- Itanch, 19024c. ies upon th e treasu ry up to thle lieved that fish poachers were respon Guild, superintendent. The largest the corresponding period last year, the Oregon Man Heads Ways Committee amount. C attle—Steer- good. $11 25 011 75 Job, $187.000, includes widening of sible for the crime, as th e officers treasu ry statem en t for March 23 re W ashington, D. C.—The house Sat Hogs — M. a lu choice, $7.900 cuts and fills on th e main line between have had a g reat deal of trouble In urday elected R epresentative W illis C vealed. Collections to March 28 to tal »26. Heeney Picked to Fight Tunney. Meachem and Huron, a nine-mile th e past few years over Illegal fish Hawley, republican, Oregon, as chair ed $502,204,314 04, which com pares Lam bs Medium to choice. $13015 Miami Beach, Fla.—Selection of ing at W inchester. stretch . w ith $504,614.145 23 up to March 23 man of the ways and m eans com m it Tom Heeney, A ustralian champion, to Seattle. P ortland took sixth place in the tee. to succeed R epresentative William last year. Total collections are now P eristo n to subm it a $35.000 bond W heat Soft w hite, w estern white, m eet Gene Tunney for the w orld's expected* to be about $510,000,000, $134; hard w inter. $ 1 3 5 4 ; w estern issue to the people of Coos bay to ac U nited S tates for 1927 In fire preven R. Green, republican, Iowa, who re heavyw eight boxing title in July and which is $6,000,000 below the treasury red. $1 37; northern spring. $1 39; blue- quire an airp o rt was made recently tion In class 2 cities, according to tired to become Judge of the court of the possibility th at the contest would word received by E N. W einbaum of estim ate. by a Joint airp o rt com m ittee of North claims. Hawley, who Is from Salem. ' be staged In London was announced stem . $154; dark northern spring. Bend and M arshfield civic oiganisa- the PorUand cham ber of commerce Or., is serving hia 11th successive $1 55; dark hard w inter. $1 52. here by Tex R ickard, New York pro Paper Firms Join in $100,000,000 Deal. Hay — Alfalfa, $24. tim othy, $2$; tlons. The question will be voted on from the U nited S tates cham ber of term as a member. moter. commerce. May 1$. San Francisco, Cal. Consolidation P. S , $24. A council m anager form of govern New Quota System Held Back Year ! M ultitudes of golden daffodils m a r B utterfat -51c. of th e Crown W illam ette P aper com Oregon Debate Team Beata Misaourl. shalled In b rilliant array before a m ent for the city of Salem will be pro W ashington, D. C. — Postponem ent ! Columbia, Mo.—P resenting the af Eggs Ranch, 23035c. pany and the Zellerbach corporation, posed In a ch arter am endm ent to be background of palm s and spaced by C a ttle S te e rs, choice, $11012. with combined asse ts of aitoni $100,- for one year of the national origins firm ative of the question: "R esolved, Ivy-wreathed colum ns greeted flower referred to the voters at the tim e of quota system of U nited S tates immi Ilogs Prime, $9 200 9.26. 000.000, was announced here, subject th a t dem ocracy la a failure," U niver lovers a t the opening of F orest holding the prim ary ele c tio n accord gration was approved by the house, Spokane. to approval by stockholders. The sity of Oregon deb aters defeated the Grove's th ird annual daffodil show ing to announcem ent made by Mayor wh.ch adopted a resolution previously merged concerns will be knowu as C attle Steers, good. $11.26011 60 U niversity of Missouri team here by T . A. Llveaay. >*at week. H o g s—Good. $9tf9.10. the Crown Zellerbach corporation. adopted by the senate. an audience vote of 112 to 80. OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST FALL TELLS STORY OF OIL LAND DEAL SENATOR WILLIS EXPIRES SUDDENLY FRANCE SUGGESTS WORLD PEACE PACT 1 FEDERAL MEN RAID GANG LEADER'S HOME I UMATILLA RAPIDS ’ PROJECT FAVORED * ♦ r A 7