GERMAN AIRPLANE
CROSSES ATLANTIC
W. A. G ILK E Y
B rief Resum e of Happenings of
F lie rs Are F orced to Land
to Land on an Isla n d off
L a b ra d o r.
New Y o rk —The first men ever to
m ake a non-stop w estw ard airplane
flight across th e north A tlantic, after
m ore than a day and a half In the air,
and four hours spent in blindly wan
dering through an im penetrable fog,
landed in the Ju n k ers m onoplane Bre
men on Greenly Island, in the stra its
of Belle Isle, betw een Newfoundland
and Labrador.
M essages relayed to the outer world
by dog sled, radio and telegraph bore
assurance th at though th e plane was
dam aged the th ree fliers, Baron Ehr-
enfrled von H uenefeld, C aptain H er
m ann Koebl and C on/m andant Jam es
Fltzm aurlce, were uninjured and be
ing well cared for by the little Island’s
14 Inhabitants.
T hree factors combined to prevent
Im m ediate continuation of the Bre
m en’s flight from Ireland to New
York, tor one thing the fuel tan k s were
em pty when th e Bremen landed on a
little lake on the m ile-square Island
and the n earest supply Is across the
Ice pack on th e mainland. The m es
sages from the aviators reported th a t
th e propeller was broken.
T he Bremen started out wtih its
Germ an-Irish crew from Baldownel
airdrom e n ear Dublin, hopln • to make
a non-stop flight to New York. They
planned to follow th e g reat circle
course, but for some reason they d rift
ed northw ard and ran into fog off L a
brador which prevented th eir contin
ued progress and k ept them groping
blindly about until th eir fuel gave out.
the W eek Collected for
Our R eaders.
W. A. Gilkey, Instructor In chemis
try at the California Teachers' college,
who has succeeded In producing syn
thetic rubies.
POWERS INVITED TO
JOIN PEACE PACT
W ashington, D. C. — G reat Britain,
Germany, Italy and Jap an w ere Invit
ed to Join F ran ce and th e U nited
S tates in negotiation of a world wide
tre a ty bidding th e nations n o t to re
so rt to w ar w ith one another.
T he invitation was extended by Sec
re ta ry Kellogg, a fte r an ag reem ent
on the procedure w ith A ristide Briand,
foreign m in ister of France.
In a note to th e four governm ents,
presented slm ultan «usly a t London,
Berlin, Rome and Tokyo by A m erican
diplom atic rep resen tativ es, Mr. K el
logg outlined th e discussions on the
proposal betw een him self and M,
Briand, and subm itted a d raft rep re
senting In a gen eral way th e form of
tre a ty the U nited S tates Is prepared
to sign. Its language is p ractically
Identical with th e original tre a ty pro
posed by M. B riand to th e U nited
S tates last June.
T he four governm ents w ere told the
U nited S tates "would be pleased to
W ashington, D. C.—Spread of senti
be Informed as prom ptly as m ay be
m ent of rep resen tativ es of the auto
convenient w h eth er they are in a posi
mobile Industry for repeal of the auto
tion to give favorable consideration
levy Is th reaten in g the adm inistration
to th e conclusion of a tre a ty such as
position In th e senate for a tax reduc
tran sm itted , and, if not. w hat specific
tion within the 1200,000,000 lim it set
m odifications in th e te x t would make
by S ecretary Mellon.
It acceptable.”
The 3 per cent autom obile tax In
volves 106,000,000, and Mr. Mellon said
B R IE F G ENER AL N E W S
It m ust be continued, although the
house voted Its repeal. While most
R. B Howell, U nited S tates sen ato r
of the senate republicans appear ready
from
N ebraska, defeated O. S, Spill
to support him otherw ise, the treasu ry
head is adm ittedly facing a hard battle man, atto rn ey general, for the republi
can sen ato rial nom ination.
on this Issue.
T he trial of F lorence E. S. K napp,
C hairm an Smoot of th e finance
com m ittee, which is laboring with the ex-secretary of sta te of New York, on
1290,000,000 house reduction m easure, sev eral crim inal charges grow ing out
declared th ere was a tough fight ahead of h e r conduct of th e 1925 sta te cen
If any part of the auto tux is to be re sus, will begin April 30.
C om ptroller of th e C urrency McIn
tained.
Involving such a sum of revenue, tosh announced th a t th e com bined re
th e adm inistration leaders realize th at sources of 7734 national banks on F eb
If th is tax Is repealed th ere will be ru ary 25 was $27,573,687,000, or $2,-
little hope of keeping the to tal ru t 600,000,000 m ore th an a year ago.
Mrs. Ruth H anna McCormick, widow
w ithin the Mellon limit.
The com m ittee, which has ended Its of th e late U nited S tates sen ato r Me-
hearings on th e house bill, will settle dill McCormick, and d au g h ter of the
down this week to fight out the dif late Mark H anna, led In th e prim ary
ferences betw een th e dem ocrats, who co n test for one of th e tw o nom inations
a re urging a 1300,000,000 total cut, for republican representative-r.t-large
and th e republicans, who are gener from Illinois United S tates S en ato r C.
S. Deneen, which in the statew ide pri
ally behind th e adm inistration.
m ary sw ept in to the political discard
the republicans of the Small and
G ERM ANS LIK E PEACE PLAN Thom pson faction which for seven
years have dom ination Chicago and
Kellogg Note Received In Berlin
Illinois.
STIFF FIGHT MADE
TO REPEAL AUTO TAX
W ith Satisfaction.
B erlin.—Semi-official announcem ent
w as tnude th u t the German govern
m ent has received S ecretary Kellogg’s
anti w ar proposal and th e covering
F ranco American correspondence with
the greatest satisfaction, especially as
tho W ashington initiative was In no
w ise directed ag ain st th e objects and
tendencies of th e league of nations.
T he proposal was sem iofficially de
scribed as a powerful im petus for cre
atin g peace and security within Eu
rope, and as likely to lead to a signifi
can t turning polut in th e history of
nations.
Coolidge Extols Andrew Jackson
W ashington, I). C.—A seven-foot
bronze statu e of Andrew Jackson, most
dynam ic of A m erican presidents, was
accepted by P resident Coolidge Sun
day for the nation for p erpetual dis
play In th e hall of fam e tn the eapltol.
Before a large gathering In S tatu ary
hall, com prising m ost of W ashington’s
officialdom, Mr. Coolidge extolled the
sev en th president for his private and
public virtues and for his effo rts In
stren g th en in g the national conscious
n ess of his country and consolidating
the federal governm ent.
In Battle.
Plane Drops Motor But Lands Safely.
South San Francisco. — Vance
Tolodo, Ohio. Five bandits kidnap^
ped an express m essenger and th ree llreese, flier and airplane m anufact
guards here, seised $200,000 In loot urer, piloted an airplane containing
and $0 m inutes la te r were surrounded seven passengers, besides him self, to
In a garage by police. Abandoning the a safe landing n ear here a fte r the
loot, the robbers fought th eir way to m otor and propeller tore loose from
freedom with sawed off shotguns, after th eir frame and dropped to the ground
wounding P atrolm an George Zientara. from an altitude of 1200 feet. The en
gine and propeller were sm ashed into
Now York Planning Ovation for Filers Junk h alt a mile from » h ere the plane
landed.
New York. S tirred ns they had not
been since Colonel C harles A I.ind
Bill Provides More Tars for Navy.
bergh flew to P arts nearly a year ago.
W ashington, D. C. Increase In the
New York's millions planned such a
enlisted stren g th of the navy from
welcome as only he received when the
83,250 to 86,000 would be provided in
crew of the Bremen finally reach the
th e navy appropriation bill reported
city.
to th e senate by the appropriations
com m ittee.
D rops $200,000 Lo ot
White House Picket Drive Diepersed.
W ashington. 1». C. A dem onstration
Staged at the W hite House by about
100 m em bers of the A nti-Im perialistic
league In protest against the adm inis
tratio n policy In N icaragua, led to dis
persal of the group and a rre st of the
p ic k e d by police.
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
SL Francis Oam Death Tell Raiaed.
V entura. Cal. T hree m ore bodlea
of victim s of the St. Francis dam dis
aste r were recovered from th e Santa
C lara river bed by reclam ation work
er«, raising to 314 the total bodies re
covered.
Governor P atterson reprieved for
one week the death sentences Imposed ,
on Jam es Wlllos and Ellsw orth Kel
ley, who were slated for execution in
the state penitentiary Friday, for the
slaying of Milton Holman and John
Sweeney, guards, during a break at
the prison In August, 1925.
A fter clinging to th eir overturned
boat for one and one-half hours tn the
middle of th e Columbia river off B rad
bury slough, near Mayger, ten miles
below R ainer, Ray Johnson, 35, and
his brother-in-law, a boy of 13 years,
were rescued by tw o deputy fish war
dens passing In a patrol boat.
O nofourth Inch was added to the
length of th e standard pear box by
the state board of horticulture a t Us
m eeting in P ortland last week.
S tream s of B aker county will be
Fire losses In Oregon, exclusive of
stocked w ith tro u t again this year,
Portland, during March aggregated
according to plans of the forest serv
ice and the B aker S portsm en’s associ $231,443, according to a report pre
pared by the state fire m arshal. There
ation.
were 60 fires reported, five being of
W ork on th e m ark et road betw een
incendiary origin. The m ost disastrous
Dayton and Salem hag been resum ed.
fire was a t Goble, w here a warehouse
C learing th e right of way is well under
was destroyed with a loss of $30,000.
way, so th at grading is expected to be
L a Grande will be host for the next
started soon.
conclave of the Oregon grand com-
W ithin a few days w ater will begin
m andery of K nights Tem plar, grand
pouring Into the Impounding basin
chapter of Royal Arch Masons, and
which lies back of McMinnville’s new
grand council of Royal and Select
$60,000 dam recently com pleted on
M asters, It was announced in P ort
H askln creek.
land recently, a fte r the th re e bodies
The Fred Schwab Commission com had voted to m eet in th a t city next
pany has begun th e construction of
year.
an additional w arehouse a t Mount An
The Salem jail was flooded last
gel th a t will be used for potato, hop
week when Bill Lang, an unruly pris
and grain storage.
oner, tore th e w ater pipes from their
The Coos county bathing season
fastenings and caused o th er damages.
opened last w eek, when hundreds
Lang was arrested when officers had
bathed in the surf a t Sunset, Basten-
found him beneath an automobile
dorf and Bandon beaches. The tem
which had overturned a short distance
p eratu re was 80 degrees.
east of the city. Officers said he was
A pproxim ately $135,000 outstanding drunk.
w arran ts of the city of Eugene will be
Joe Kirby, 26, employe of the Booth-
called In for paym ent w ithin th e next
week or 10 days, according to Fred Kelly Lum ber company, lost his right
hand and part of the left, and Wesley
W entw orth, city treasu rer.
1 Kibby, 28, also of W endling, was
Bids for new q u arters for the M arsh
burned about the face in a dynam ite
field postoffice will be received May explosion. K irby was blasting stum ps
14. Floor space of 32,000 square feet
and was holding a stick of dynamito
Is required. T his was announced by
with a 12-inch fuse in his hand while
P. J. Nell, postoffice Inspector.
he lighted it.
F our blocks of stre e t pavem ent In
T here was one fatality due to In
Iiaytoa were voted at the last m eet
dustrial accidents In Oregon during
ing of the town council. S uperintend
the week ending April 12, according
en t of S treets T. A. Boulden will have
j to a report prepared by the state In
charge of the construction work.
dustrial accident commission. T he vic
Four hundred young chickens and a tim was Fred W. W agner, bridge car
brooder house on the ranch of W. penter, of Elgin. T here were 716 ac
Campbell, south of Athena, w ere de cidents reported to the commission
stroyed by fire recently, when the during the week.
brooder stove set the stru ctu re afire.
The sta te highway m aintenance
Val Becker, well-known stockm an of
! crew is engaged in repairing the dik
W estfall, buldogged a wild ste e r th at
ing along the Roosevelt highway, Just
acted queerly one day last week. The
south of Coquille, which was damaged
anim al bit him. Now Mr. B ecker Is
by th e recent high w ater. A strip 200
taking th e p asteu r treatm en t for ra
yards long and 2 feet wide was wash
bies.
ed aw ay from the south side of the
The P o rt of Coos Bay commission highway. The state crew lg refilling
has voted to recom m end to the w ar j
w ashout wlth balla8t.
d epartm ent th e construction of a dike
The load lim its on the Old Oregon
across H aynes Inlet. It Is hoped to
T rail highw ay betw een B aker and
reclaim approxim ately 3000 acres of
H aines and betw een Pendleton and
tid e land by the project.
La Grande were lifted last week, ac-
A. E. Veatch. form er m ayor of R ain-| cord)nK tQ announcem ent by H . G.
ter, who w as recalled in an election Sm ith, division engineer. The rem ov
last fall, has purchased the Dwyer al of the lim it over the Blue moun
shingle plant In the Fern Hill district tain s is tentative, as the highway near
and has moved it to th e Columbia riv Glover is still reported to be weak.
er w aterfro n t at Rainier.
D irectors of the Canby, Mundorf and
Two firem en were injured when the Union Hall school d istricts m et at
large wooden stru ctu re housing the Canby recently and form ulated plans
Burke Fish Packing company was de to discontinue school in each of the
stroyed by fire a t A storia last week. two latter districts, Bending the pupils
The firem en were cut by flying glass to the Canby school. T his plan is
when an am m onia tank exploded.
made possible by com pletion of the
An unidentified slayer Friday morn new high school triihling and will be
ing opened th e door of a bunkhouse tried out for the rem ainder of the year.
at th e Oregon American Lumber camp
M embers of the state suprem e court
20 miles northw est of K easey and shot w ent to Champoeg park Sunday where
Edward W ilson Morgan, 27-year old th ey held a brief cerem ony in com
logger, to death as he lay asleep.
m em oration of the first suprem e court
A proposed $37,500 bond Issue for law action in the state of Oregon.
a new building and Im provements for The original session of the suprem e
the G resham high school was voted court was held on T ualatin P lains in
down at a special election last week, April. 1844. The suit heard a t that
at which about 1000 ballots were cast, j (ime Was a replevin proceeding filed
The vote was 3 to 1 against the bond by Ahi Sm ith to recover a team of
issue.
Oxen from Nlnevah Ford.
Word was received at A storia late
Senator F rederick Steiw er has tele
S aturday by officials of the North- graphed from W ashington, D. C., th at
w estern Pulp A P aper company th at | he win take up with the departm ent
co ntracts for the erection of a 100 ton of comm erce the B aker request for
pulp mill th ere had been signed with perm ission to use the governm ent
the Austin Construction company ol landing field north of the city In re
Cleveland.
turn for paym ent of the ground rent.
T ire puncturing m aterial weighing It is felt th at Baker m ust have a land
56 pounds, made up mostly of nails ing field before long and the govern
and tacks, was rem oved from The m ent field north of th e city can not be
Dalles-Californla highway through the used by private fliers except in em er
city lim its of Redmond last week by gencies.
the road sweeping m agnet of the state
Complying with the request of the
highway departm ent.
Lincoln County A gricultural council,
A m eeting of the John Day Highway the county court has set aside a re
association was held a t John Day on volving fund of $260 to purchase agri
April 6 to com plete advertising plans cultural lime for the farm ers of Lin
for the coming season. A comm ittee coln county. Splendid resu lts have
from Condon was appointed to estab been obtained on all types of soils
lish and m aintain any signs necessary with the use of ground lime rock.
on th at portion of the highway west Clover and vetch yields have beeo
of John Day. C. Woodward of Vale, doubled, and stands secured w here the
and R. W illoughby of Nyssa, were ap crops failed to grow previously. A
pointed to supervise advertising on carload of lime was ordered for Im
the east end, from John Day to Boise. ' m ediate delivery at Toledo.
Election of officers and the plans I The Douglas county conrt has g ran t
for obtaining fire apparatus m arked ed the request of the granges of the
the organisation m eeting of the Glad- county for appointm ent of a county
stone fire departm ent last week at the I fair board and nam ed George Staples
G ladstone city hall Paul Wyman had | of R eedsport. C, O. G arrett of Glen-
been appointed fire chief by the city dale and C. C. HUI of Glides as the
council at a previous meeting.
three m em bers, who, with the county
The G rant County bank of John school superintendent. Mrs Edith Ack
l<ay has taken over the F irst National ert, will m ake up th e board
T here
bank of Canyon City, and will pay all has been a strong dem and throughout
th eir depositors. The Canyon City the county for renew al of the annual
bank closed tts doors on April 4. hav county fair and the board was ap
tng made arrangem ents with the John pointed with a view to Ils re-establtsh-
Day bank to protect Its customer*.
menu
IS H B E L MACDONALD
FARM RELIEF BILL
PASSED BY SENATE
fe a tu r e s O b jec tio n a b le to the
P re s id e n t A re R e ta in ed
in M e a s u re .
Miss Ishbel MacDonald, daughter of
the former British premier, has been
elected as a councillor in the London
elections, running on a Socialist ticket.
SENATE APPROVES
JONES FISH BILL
W ashington, D. C,—The senate pass
ed a bill by S enator Jones to au th
orize appropriation of $100,000 for es
tablishm ent of a fisheries experim ent
station on th e coast of W ashington, at
a point to be designated by the de
partm ent of commerce. The m easure
is indorsed by Comm issioner O’Malley
of the fisheries bureau, who explains
th a t It desires to consolidate scattered
Investigation activities th at reach from
California to A laska, and to conduct
extensive research work which should
be of g reat advantage to the fisheries
industry on the Pacific coast. T hese
investigations will include m ethods
for b etter utilization of w aste pro
ducts, refrigeration, and the use of
species th at are practically neglected
In a comm ercial way.
A nother bill passed by the senate,
originating with S enator Jones, au th
orizes expenditure of $25,000 for in
vestigation as to m ethods to prevent
the loss of fish in irrigation canals
and ditches.
COOLIDGE
P R A IS E
F L IE R S
Messages Sent by the President to
Germany and Ireland.
W ashington, D. C.—T he McNary-
H augen farm relief bill, carry in g fea
tures which caused P resid en t Coolidge
to veto It a year ago, w as passed by
the senate and se n t to th e house,
w hich also is expected to approve It
at an early date.
The vote w as 53 to 23, as com
pared to th e 47-to-39 vote a t th e last
session. W hile th is is m ore than the
tw o-thirds m ajority w hich would be
required to override a veto It was re
garded as doubtful th a t w ith th e full
m em bership p resen t a tw o-thirds ma
jo rity could be obtained.
P resid en t Coolidge has left no doubt
in the m inds of congressional leaders
th a t the bill still carried featu res ob
jectionable to him , principally the
equalization fee by w hich it is pro
posed to ra ise funds to tak e care of
the surplus crops so as to m aintain
prices of farm products a t a higher
level.
On the final vote all th e progressive
republicans voted for it. In th e far
w est the only votes a g ain st it w ere
cast by Borah of Idaho and S hortridge
of C alifornia, but W alsh of M ontana
and K ing of U tah w ere paired In op
position. New E ngland voted solidly
against It, but W agner and Copeland,
the New York senptors, both favored
It. Twenty-four republicans, 28 dem
ocrats and one farm er-laborlte voted
for the bill. A gainst it w ere 14 repub
licans and nine dem ocrats.
Before coming to th e final vote on
th e bill itself, the sen ate rejected, 64
to 5, a su b stitu te by S en ato r Brook-
hart, republican, Iowa, w hich would
have provided for a d irect governm ent
subsidy up to $600,000,000 to m eet
losses incurred by farm ers In m ark et
ing th eir surplus crops.
The bill creates a governing board
of 13 m em bers, one from each of the
12 federal reserve d istricts, and th e
secretary of agriculture, to ad m in ister
a revolving fund of $400,000,000.
T he federal farm board, to be ap
pointed by the p resident, is given
broad pow ers to aid cooperative asso
ciations, lend money, negotiate m ar
keting agreem ents and w ithhold crops
from m arkets, under provisions of the
bill.
T he p resen t bill proposes tw o dis
tin ct and sep arate rem edies for th e so
lution of agriculture Ills. F irst, loans
to cooperative associations a t low
ra te s of in te re st and, second, in case
of failure of the first, to negotiate m ar
keting agreem ents, th e cost of w hich
would be paid by th e equalization fee
levied on the com m odity receiving the
benefit.
W ashington, D. C.-—P resid en t Cool
idge sent m essages of congratulation
to G erm any and Ireland. To P resident
Von H indenburg he said:
“T he American nation rejoices with
me over th e successful spanning of
the north A tlantic from east to w est
by Captain K oehl and his com panions.
I congratulate you and the G erm an
nation most heartily on th is splendid
achievem ent.”
To Governor-General Jam es Mac-
Neill of the Irish free state a t Dublin,
the president telegraphed:
"I wish to express to you, as well
as to the people of the Irish F ree
State, the g reat adm iration of myself
and th e people of the U nited S tates
for Colonel F itzm aurice's share in the
W est Plains, Mo.—T hirty-nine a re
m agnificent flight of the Bremen, and
known to be dead and 20 m ore a re In
to rejoice over his safe arriv al.”
hospitals h ere In a serious condition
Name Republican Convention Hostesz as a resu lt of an explosion of unde
K ansas City, Mo.—Mrs. Jacob L. term ined origin w hich w recked a
Loose will be the official hostess for crowded dance hall.
F lam es which followed th e explo
the republican national convention
h ere in June, Conrad H. Mann, gener sion sw ept th e ruins of th e building
al chairm an of th e K ansas City con and burned th ree adjoining stru c tu re s
before th ey w ere under control.
vention com m ittee announced.
One theory was th a t gasoline w as
stored
in th e tw o-story building In
Italian Ruler Escapes Blast at Milan.
Milan, Italy.—A bomb explosion which the dance hall w as located, but
shortly before King Victor Em m anuel th is has been denied.
S ixty o r m ore persons w ere a t
inaugurated th e Milan fair, killed 14
tending
th e dance w hen th e explo
persons and injured 40 others.
sion occurred. The force of the b last
25,000 Textile Mill Workers on Strike. blew out th e front and re a r w alls of
the building, carry in g m any of th e
New Bedford, Mass.—P ro testin g a
people w ith it.
10 per cent wage reduction, approxi
Many of th e Injured th a t escaped
m ately 25,000 textile w orkers w ent on
from the burning building w ere found
strike.
lying in th e s tre e t and on the oppo
site side from the dance hall.
DANCE HALL BLAST
KILLS THIRTY-NINE
THE
M ARKETS
Portland
W heat—B. B. bluestem . $1 55; hard
white, federation, soft white, w estern
white, $1.49; hard w inter, $1.38; n o rth
ern spring. $1.40, w estern red, $1.38.
B u tte rfa t—44c,
H ay — Alfalfa, $18.50019; valley
tim othy, $180 18.50; eastern Oregon
tim othy. $20.60021.
B u tterfat—45c.
Eggs—Ranch, 19 0 24c,
C attle—Steers, good, $11012 25.
H ogs—Medium to choice, $9.35©
9.50.
Lam bs—Medium to choice, $13016.
Seattle.
W h eat—Soft white, w estern white,
$1.50; hard w inter, $1.40; w estern red,
$1.42; northern spring. $1,431$; blue-
stem , dark northern spring, $160;
dark hard w inter, $1 57.
H ay — Alfalfa, $24; tim othy. $28;
P. S . $24.
Eggs—Ranch, 22025c.
C attle—Steers, choice, $11012.
Hogs—Prime, $9 4009.50.
Spokane.
C attle—S teers, good. $11.25011.6«.
H ogs—Good, $9.1009.2$,
W IL L VETO FLO O D B ILL
Coolidge Wants States to Assume
Position of Obligation.
W ashington, D. C.—A fter a visit to
th e W hite House, C hairm an M adden
of the house appropriations com m ittee
predicted th a t P resid en t Coolidge
would veto flood control legislation.
Such action w as forecast unless state*
in the flood control a rea agreed to
b ear th e cost of land needed for spill
ways and for construction of levees.
Oregon State Prison Crowded.
Salem, Or.—The peak population in
th e history of the Oregon s ta te peni
te n tia ry w as recorded according to an
nouncem ent by prison officials. W hen
the count w as tak en a t noon th e re
w ere 690 prisoners In th e in stitution.
Sixteen of these w ere women.
Statlar, Head of Hotel Chain, Dead.
New York.—E. M. S tatler, head of
the S ta tle r chain of hotels, died in hi*
suite at th e P ennsylvania hotel. S ta t
ler was 64 years old and was widely
known throughout the country.