HALSEY ENTERPRISE, HALSEY. OREGON, MAY 3, 1928
SENATE COMMITTEE
REVISES TAX BILL
Clean up day for Dayton was helo
Saturday. Mayor U'Ren asked all ctt
IRA E. ROBINSON
A. JOHNSTON
liens to co-operate with city officials
In the move.
A freak of natura In the form of a
triple, or nine-pointed trtlllum, was
Measure Pared Down to Meet
Brief Resume of Happenings o found near Falrvale school by Verlie
German-Irish Conquerors of
Warner, pupil at the school, last week.
Treasury Deadline of
the Week Collected for
the North Atlantic Cheered
The flower was large and perfectly
$200,000,000.
formed, all Dine of the white petals
Our Readers.
by Thousands.
being of equal size. The ordinary tril-
Washington, D. C.—The house >290,-
The postoffice at Westfir, which Is Hum is three-pointed.
New York.—Ten years after the end
000,000 tax reduction bill was remodel
Three new buildings will be con
now
fourth
class,
will
be
raised
to
of the World war two former German
ed completely by the senate finance
presidential class July 1, the postof structed at the Multnomah county fair
•oldlers and an Irish veteran of the
committee In voting a >203,000,000 re
grounds in OTesham. this summer, ac
fice
department
has
announced.
allied air forces paraded In peaceful
duction schedule Into the measure to-
A corn club has been formed in the cording to plans now being prepared
triumphs through the streets of New
meet the limitation set by the admin
Kinton community of Washington by M. E. Reed, county engineer. Two
York Monday.
istration.
county. Roy Van Kleek is president of the new buildings will be used In
While hundreds of thousands
The republican majority of the com
exhibiting livestock and the third will
and Mabie Van Kleek, secretary.
cheered their passing and millions
mittee pared down the total cut with
be used as a machinery hall.
more listened In on the celebration
A cannery and packing plant of a
in range of the treasury deadline of
The Bowman-Hicks Lumber com
by radio, Baron Gunther von Huene-
strictly modern design is being con
>200,000,000 over the votes of the
pany will resume operations In the
feld, Major James Fttzmaurlce and
structed at Empire In Coos county
democrats, who had advanced a >325,-
sawmill at La Grande and In the log
Captain Hermann Koehl were carried
by L. J. Simpson and associates.
000,000 plan.
ging camps In Wallowa county on
along the route where the 89th divi
Gross earnings of the Mountain Tuesday, May 1. The company has
To win the support of the western
sion and General John J. Pershing
States
Power
company
during
1927
republican
Independents, whose sup
been
inactive
since
last
October.
About
were feted when they returned from
were $3,391,690, an Increase of 8.11 215 men will be employed In La
port Is necessary for the party In the
the war.
per cent over the previous year.
approaching fight on the floor, the re
Grande and 200 In the woods.
Flags of the United States, Germany
Ira E. Roblnasn of Grafton, W. Va.,
Albany college has received a check
and the Irish Free State were un
Dragged a half mile by a runaway who haa been confirmed a t a member publicans abandoned the proposal of
the treasury for repeal of the inheri
for $5000 from New York as a gift horse, Karol Argraves, 12-year-old son of the federal radio commission.
furled for the three men who were
tance tax. The plan, which ignores
from
the
estate
of
Mrs.
Butler,
a
friend
first to complete a westward airplane
of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Argraves, was
A. Johnston of Cleveland, who Is
the proposals of both the house and
flight across the north Atlantic ocean, head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive of the college who died recently
killed on the Argraves ranch near
Secretary Mellon, follows:'
a feat that won them a reception such Engineers.
Merrill.
The
horse
ran
away
just
as
A count of aliens In Coos county,
Reduction of the corporation tax
as New York alone knows how to
carried on with help from the schools, the boy was mounting. His foot was
from 13H to 12^4 per cent instead of
bestow on her visiting heroes.
caught
In
the
stirrup
and
the
child
disclosed but 174 adults who are not
1114 Per cent as voted by the house.
On the municipal tug Macom the
was dragged along the ground.
citizens, 107 males and 67 females.
Repeal of the automobile levy of 3
airmen were taken down New York
The appeal of P. J. McGowan &
J. H. Farrar. Salem postmaster, has
per cent as voted by the house.
bay while harbor «.raft staged a re
Washington, D. C.—The mounting
received word from Representative Sons, Inc., challenging the validity of
Revision of the surtax rates apply
ception such as that accorded Colonel
Hawley that plans are being completed the Oregon law prohibiting the opera death rate among civil war veterans ing on incomes between >18,000 and
Lindbergh. Then came a formal re
for an addition to the Salem federal tion of fish wheels and drag seines on reduced the number In March to only >70,000, proposed by Mr. Mellon, but
ception at city hall and a subsequent
the Oregon side of the Columbia river 79,300 pensioners. A total of 1283 died
building.
Spokane,
Wash.—Major
John
T,
not provided
the house.
parade up Fifth avenue. Tuesday
was dismissed recently by the supreme last month, the pension bureau an
Fancher,
37,
commander
of
the
41st
Increase in the exemptions allowed
William P. Smith was elected presl
night the aviators were guests of hon
court. The court affirmed the deci
corporations from >2000 to >3000, pro
or at a municipal dinner at the Hotel division air service unit, Washington dent of the Baker Manufacturers as sion of the lower courts sustaining the nounced.
Once, In 1898, the pensioners total vided by the house.
national
guard,
died
In
Wenatchee
gociation at an organization meeting
Commodore, where they received
law.
ed 745,822, which was the peak, but it
Increase In exemptions under 10 per
the tribute of at least 2000 persons. Sunday from injuries received when In the chamber of commerce rooms
Plans for the Yamhill Jersey cattle remained for increases In appropria cent admission tax from 75 cents to
an aerial bomb he was holding In his last week.
show to be held In McMlnnvIlh the tions to bring the highest in the
Washington, D. C.—The flags of hand exploded, said Information re
The district convention of the South latter part of May are being made. amount of pensions in 1923, when >3, house proposed Increase only to >1;
increase to 25 per cent In tax on prize
Germany and Ireland, which the Bre ceived here.
ern Oregon Federation of Women's A subscription list for cash prizes has >141,377,515 was disbursed.
Major Fancher had gone to Wenat
fight admissions, as proposed by
men carried on Its transatlantic flight,
Clubs was held In Medford last week, been circulated with a goal of >400.
Every civil war pensioner is now house, accepted.
were laid across the grave of Floyd chee with other officers of his unit with delegations from every city In
It
Is
expected
that
at
least
100
cattle
to
participate
In
the
annual
apple
more
than 80 years old, but it was
Repeal of levies on cereal bever
Bennett Saturday by the German and
the territory.
will be on exhibition. The winner In estimated at the bureau that a few of ages and wine, as proposed by house.
Irish filers, to commemorate his fi blossom festival and in the dedication
F. C. Sloan, representing the Idaho- the county contest will go to Salem the civil war beneficiaries will live
of an aviation field there. He had
Reduction In the rates on insurance
delity to the traditions of the air.
Washington Seed company, Is In the and Portland fairs.
landed
after
a
night
bombing
maneu
25 more years. This estimate is based companies from 13*4 per cent to 12 >4
Bennett, who had safely flown over
Athena-Weston district lining up acre
High school typing champions from on the fact that five Mexican war pen- per cent.
the North Pole with Byrd, was unable ver and was examining some of the
age under contract for bean growing 85 Oregon cities gathered at Corvallis sioners are still on the roll, although
to withstand the attack of pneumo bombs that had failed to explode
on a large scale.
last Saturday for the sixth annual It has been 80 years since that war.
nia which he suffered while going to when one of them was detonated un
The mill of the Creswell Lumber state contest under the auspices of the
expectedly, Injuring him so badly that
The last survivor of the revolution
the aid of his fellow airmen.
company on Bear creek, four miles secretarial training department of ary war, Daniel F. Bakerman, died
he died In a hospital there.
Major Fancher was the republican east of Creswell, was sold by the Oregon Agricultural college. A state April 5, 1869, at the age of 109 years,
candlate for representative In con Bherlff Saturday on execution to credi novice champion to attend the na and 90 years after the war of 1812
gress from the fifth district In 1926, tors of the concern.
tional meet will be selected and team Hiram Cronk, the last survivor of
having been defeated by Representa
that war, died.
The third annual convention of the championship determined.
Washington, D. C.—A total of >9,-
tive HUI, democrat, the Incumbent. northern division of the southern dis
000,000 will be made available for con
About a million pounds of unsold
Major Fancher was educated in the trict of Epworth leagues held a three- wool remains In the hands of growers
struction of forest roads and trails In
GERMANS FAVOR PACT
co-operation with state government»
Washington, D. C.—Five additional high schools of this city and in the day session at Creswell, last week. In Umatilla county, the largest amount
marine planes have been sent to Nic university of Washington, where he More than 200 delegates were regis of any county In the state, according Proposal to Ban War Deemed One of by the agricultural appropriation bill
tered.
as agreed upon by the house and sen
Greatest Since 1919.
aragua by the navy for use against was a basketball star.
to Pendleton wool authorities. Grow
Berlin.—Foreign Minister Strese- ate conferees.
Bandlno’s forces on the east coast.
With the exception of one or two ers are declining to contract their
The house agreed to the action o f
The planes are to be used In es
points in Texas, Salem leads all Pa crop In advance of shearing opera mann has lost no time in letting the
BRIEF GENERAL NEWS
tablishing a naval air base at Puerto
cific coast cities for the accumulation tions, preferring to take chances on United States know that Germany ful the senate In increasing the actual
The supreme court of Canada de of mohair. More than 750,000 pounds
Cabezas on the east coast where San-
ly approves of Secretary Kellogg's pro sum to be appropriated from >6,500,-
rise on the eastern markets.
dino's forces have been especially ac cided that women are not entitled to of mohair was shipped from Salem in
state penitentiary officials at Salem j P°sed outlawry of war pact. With the 000 to >7,500,000 and In directing the
appointments to the Canadian senate. a single year.
tive lately.
are confronted with the problem of approval of President von Hindenburg secretary of agriculture to incur ad
Twenty-one coast guard ships have
Brigadier General Frank R. McCoy,
There were a total of 668 industrial housing 696 prisoners, a new high and the cabinet, the foreign minister ditional obligations aggregating >1,-
President Coolidge's pergonal repre been ordered to Detroit to reinforce accidents reported to the public serv record population, in a prison with handed a four-page reply to Jacob 500,000 on the credit of the United
sentative In Nicaragua, has been call the rum patrol against a threatened ice commission during the week end normal accommodations for 500 per Gould Schurman, the American am States, so that >9,000,000 in all can
be spent.
ed to Washington for a consultation, It flood of Canadian liquor.
ing April 26, according to a report sons. Officials said It had become bassador.
A reduction of rates on binder twine prepared by the state Industrial acci necessary to assign two men to each
was said at the state department.
The agricultural bill conferees also
It Is understood the German note
Whether his coming betokens a grave from Portland, Or., to points In Idaho, dent commission.
cell. Beds also have been Installed In not only welcomes the American pro approved the Increase to >14,000 of
turn In the Nicaraguan situation as a Montana and Washington as far east
the item to Investigate the earwig In
Plans were announced at Roseburg the barber shop and in other parts of posal, but considers It one of the great
result of reported Increased rebel ac as Miles City and Glasgow, Mont., was
Oregon and Washington, the amend
est
practical
steps
toward
peace
un
the
prison.
recently by the Baptist clfurch for the
tivities was not learned It was sug ordered by the Interstate commerce
Oregon leads the Pacific coast states dertaken by any government since the ment providing >15,000 for an investi
construction of a two-story reinforced
gested he would attempt to clear up commission.
In
gain In ordinary life insurance sales war. It also emphasizes tliat the proj gation of improved methods of precool
By pressing a button In the White concrete building to be used for Sun
the mystery surrounding the reported
day school In connection with the pres both for March and the quarter end ect is In accord with Germany’s dis ing fruit and refrigeration which was
seizure by rebels of several American- House. President Coolidge fired the
ing with March, the Increase for the armament proposal as championed by requested by fruit growers of Oregon
shot that "holed through" the pioneer ent chur< h building.
owned mines.
Count von Bernstorff in behalf of the and Washington and the addition of
O. M. Sanford, city treasurer of For month being 6 per cent, and that for German government in Geneva.
Despite repeated denials by officials, tunnel of the Great Northern railway
>10,000 to the bill for experiment to
the
three-month
period
2
per
cent
It also was Indicated additional troops under the Cascade range In the state est Grove for eight years, has re
find a substitute for arsenical sprays.
over
last
year's
figures.
Sales
in
the
igned because of ill health. Mr. San
might be sent to Nicaragua to rein of Washington.
Senate Begins Quiz on S-4 Disaster.
A field station In Umatilla county,
Eastern Mason Dixon line states ford Is in his 80th year, and has served Pacific coast states for the past year
force the 2800 marines already there.
Washington, D. C.—An investigation Oregon, to study crop rotation was as
were
1
per
cent
larger
than
In
the
pre
Sunday dug out from a belated winter the city as mayor, councilman and
of the S-4 submarine disaster was be sured In the final approval of a >10,-
ceding year.
bllxzard which descended upon fruit treasurer for 18 years.
gun Saturday by the senate naval af 000 Item for the establishment of the
MADDEN HONORED
A paper bag factory, which will em
The Jacobs sawmill at North Pow
trees In full bloom, drove plowmen
fairs committee. Forty lives were lost station.
ploy 50 workers from the start, about
when the submarine was sunk In a
Coolidge, Supreme Justice and Diplo from their fields, blocked railways and der, which has been closed all winter,
highways and tore down telephone and started operations Monday with a full evenly divided between men and wo collision with the coast guard cutter
mats Attend Services.
COOLIDGE PREVENTS STRIKE
men, is to be established in St. Helens
Washington, I). C.—President Cool telegraph wires. Damage by frost to crew of men working 10 hours a day. within a month. General Manager Paulding on December 17.
idge. Vice-President Dawes, Justices of fruit trees, it was feared, would mount The mill expects to saw 3,000,000 feet Max Oberdorfer of the St. Helens
Trouble on Railroad Will Be Mediated
of lumber this season.
Britain Gives Egypt Ultimatum on Bill
the supreme court, the foreign diplo Into the millions.
By Board.
Pulp
A Paper company has announced.
Pond lily bulbs, worth $600. were
London.—Sir Austen Chamberlain,
mats In the capital and his colleagues
Wichita, Kas.—Because President
C.
H.
Jaite
of
Jalte,
Ohio,
is
head
of
Girl Movie Cashier Shot Down.
shipped to Ohio growers last Wednes
foreign minister, announced in the Coolidge invoked his power under the
were among those who came to the
Chicago.—The greatest manhunt of day by Fred Bauer, who has a small the company which will Install and house of commons that Britain had
capitol Sunday to honor Representa
railroad labor act to require mediation
recent years was in progress here 1n acreage set to rare varieties. Many operate the plant.
demanded written assurance from of labor disputes on railroads. 600 em
tive Martin B. Madden of Illinois.
Running wUd after its crew had Egypt that the assemblies bill, objec ployes of the Kansas City, Mexico &
The veteran legislator, who was one a search of four bandits who shot and come from distant foreign lands, mak
lost control when brakes failed to hold, tionable
England, will be with Orient railroad, members of the "big
of the little coterie that has dictated killed a 16-yrar-old girl cashier during ing them very expensive.
affairs In the house for years, expired a motion picture theatre holdup.
Continued rains ever since cherry a light engine on the Silverton Log drawn.
four” brotherhoods, will operate their
without warning In his office in the The girl was shot through the heart and other fruit blossoms appeared ging company railroad Jumped the
trains as usual.
THE MARKETS
appropriations committee room. He when she Involuntarily screamed from have caused much damage to the rails near Mehama, killing Joe Hayes,
Union leaders postponed the walk
Portland
was chairman of that powerful com fright at the bandits' appearance. A crops, according to fruitgrowers near 54, engineer, and seriously injuring
out after receiving a message from
girl
assistant
fainted
at
her
side.
The
Rert
Parson,
54,
fireman.
Martin
Pow-
mittee.
Wheat — Big Bend bluestem hard Samuel E. Winslow, chairman of the
Eugene. Further rains would increase
den.
a . third member of the crew, white, >1.66; soft • ilte, >1.56; west-
,
Heart disease was ascribed as the bandits calmly atepped over their bod the damage, it was said.
mediation board, giving official notice
ies. acooped up >1500 In currency and
jumped and was not injured. The lo- ern white. >1.55; hard winter >144- that President Coolidge had appointed
cause of death.
A total of 20.638 voters have regis
fled. The bandits, armed with shot
comotive turned completely over after northern spring, >1.45; western red. a fact-finding board of five to report
guns and revolvers, held 2000 persons tered for the primary election in Marl leaving the track.
I >1.44.
Franca to Maks Mors Payments.
on the dispute.
on
county.
The
registration
In
April,
In the audience at hay as they backed
A
movement
recently
launched
at
Hay — Alfalfa. >18.50@19; valley
Paris. -Additional provisional pay out of the theatre lobby. They es 1926, was 18.793. Of the total regis
ments will be made against French caped In a large closed automobile. tration for the primary election 17,478 Hood River to draw all mid-Columbia timothy, >180 18.50; eastern Oregon Revised Prayer Book up to Common».
asparagus growers Into a single ship- I timothy. >20.50021.
debts. It was announced. The minis
London.—Final approval of the re
are republicans and 5254 democrats.
ping and co-operative sales organiza-
Butterfat—43044c.
try of finance announced agreement, C. M. A St. P. Asks to Iseue Bonds.
vised prayerbook measure of the
Preparations are under way by the
tion In affiliation with the Apple
Eggs—Ranch. 200 24c.
through an exchange of notes with the
Church of England was voted at a
Washington. D. C.—Authority to Is Burnt River Community club at Hunt
Cattle—Steers, good, >11012 25
American and British government, for sue $24,000,000 of general mortgage Ington tor a big picnic of Baker coun Growers' association. Is apparently
special session of the church assembly.
Hogs — Medium to choice, $9 500 The measure about which so much
further payments pending funding of 4t> per cent gold bonda was sought ty people, featuring the county's pto- nearing materialization. Car lot ship-
metits of asparagus could be made to 10.75.
the French debts.
controversy has centered now goes to
from the Interstate commerce com neers. at Weatherby, Sunday, June 10. advantage, It was stated. The Apple
Lambo—Medium to choice. $12,750 the house of commons for acceptance
mission by tho Chicago, Milwaukee,
planned to make the event an an- Growers' association is equipped with ' 15.00.
Auto Speed Record Seeker Kilted.
or rejection. The total vote wag 396
ual one.
St. Paul A Pacific railroad
refrigerating facilities.
Seattle.
to 153.
Daytona Beach, Fla Frank Lock
Albany will have 22 ornamental post
The annual home products dinner
Wheat—Soft white, western white,
hart. youthful racing driver, was cata
Tacoma Man Gets Federal Job.
type lamps on First street between
of the Medford chamber of commerce >1.56; hard winter. >1.42; western red, Coolidge Signs Double Pension Act.
pulted to his death when a tire blew
Washington. D. C Harris F Mires Lyon and Washington, when the city
out while his automobile was speeding of Tacoma. Wash., was nominated to counrtl ratified the bill at the meeting was held at the Hotel Medford Fri >146; northern spring, >147; blue-
Washington, D. C —President Cool-
day. It was one of the most elabor- , stem, >164; dark northern spring, ' idge signed an act granting double
loo miles an hour In an attempt to set be assistant to the commissioner of
Wednesday night. The contract was ate affairs of the kind ever held there i >1.66; dark hard winter, >1.62.
a new record for land travel over the Internal revenue He succeeds Charles let to the Mountain States Power com
pension to widows and dependents of
at which the viands served were home i Hay — Alfalfa, >24; timothy $28; officers or enlisted men of the navy
sands of Daytona Beach.
R. Nash, who has resigned
pany for 10 years.
P. 8 . » 4 .
grown products only.
who died as a result of submarine
San. Ayers. 35, foreman of a pile
Butterfat—45c.
A proposed $105,006 bend issue to
Spirit of t t. Louis Going Into Museum. Llndgergh Has Flown 200.000 Mile».
disasters.
driver (Yew, was killed, and Jack
St Louis. Mo—Colonel Charles A.
Washington. D. C -Colonel Charles Sharp. 45. one of his workers, was finance the construction of an eight- ; Eggs—Ranch, 22025c.
Lindberg announced that he would fly A. Lindbergh has flown more than critically injured when a locomotive n»m grade school and an addition on J Cattle—Steers, choice. >11012.25.
American Member of Court Resigns.
the Spirit of St Louts to Washington 100,000 miles, or a distance about eight crane and a pile driver overturned on an existing school was ratified last ; Hogs Prlme. >11011.50.
Geneva. — John Bassett Moore re
Spokane.
and place the ship In the Smithsonian times around the world, during his fly the C. H. Wheeler logging railroad week by voters of the Klamath Falls
signed as the American member of
district at a school election at which
Hogs—-Good. >9 36 0 9 50.
institution.
the permanent court of international
inc career.
three miles west of Cochran.
only 315 rotes were casL
Cattle—Steers, good, >11.50012.
Itasttce of the League of Nation».
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
NEW YORK HONORS
BREMEN AVIATORS
WASHINGTON GDARD
AVIATOR IS KILLED
ADDITIONAL PLANES
TO FIGHT SANDINO
GRAND ARMY RANKS
REDDCED BY DEATHS
FEDERAL AID FOR
ROADS IS ASSURED