DIVIDE REWARD FOR
D’AUTREMNT TRIO
REV. JOHN TAYLOR
Brief Resume of Happenings of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
San Francisco Soldier is Al
lowed More Than $5000
As His Share.
Spokane, Wash. — An echo of the
worldwide manhunt for the three
D’Autremont brother# was heard when
Charles Rlddlford. postal Inspector,
announced division of money offered
for their capture.
The government had offered $6000
for apprehension of the three men,
Roy, Ray and Hugh D’Autremont, who
dynamited a Southern Pacific train In
Siskiyou tunnel October 11, 1923.
Thomas Reynolds, the San Francis
co soldier, who recognised Hugh and
gave authorities the tip which result
ed In his arrest, will receive $2000 of
the government money. Additional re
wards from the state of Oregon and
the Southern Pacific will raise his
share to more than $5000.
The second highest paid clue finder
Is Albert Collingsworth, New Boston.
Ohio, who Identified Ray and Roy, a
pair of Steubenville, Ohio, laborers,
as the wanted brothers. The govern
ment will give him $1700, while state
and railroad rewards will swell the
total to about $4000. MrB. Emma May
nard, Ohio, detective, also will receive
a similar amount for her share In
identifying Roy and Ray.
The combined total of government,
state and Southern Pacific reward
money Is $15,900. The remainder will
go out in small pieces to individuals
having a part In the capture and Iden
tification of the brothers.
The D’Autremonts are serving life
terms In the Oregon penitentiary at
Salem for the murder of trainmen
during- the holdup.
HOOVER OFFERS TO
QUIT CABINET JOB
Superior, Wls.—President Coolidge
received Saturday the resignation
from the cabinet of Secretary Hoover
of the commerce department. Mr.
Coolidge has not yet accepted the
resignation which becomes effective
at the chief executive’s pleasure.
In reply to u separate communica
tion from the republican presidential
nominee, President Coolidge invited
Mr. Hoover to stop off us his guest at
the summer White House on his way
west.
f No definite information was avail
able at the White House as to when
Mr. Hoover would reach here, but
preparations were being made for his
arrival around July 15 or 10.
Mr. Hoover was represented here
as undesirous of embarrassing the ad
ministration in any way by his activ
ities as republican presidential candi
date. He is said, however, to be will
ing to continue in his present capacity
of Mr. Coolidge should wish to re
tain him In the cabinet.
FOREIGN TRADE INCREASES
Commerce Department Show« Gain«
in America*« Exports.
Washington, D. C.—Gains in Ameri
can foreign trade for May were due
chiefly to increased business activity
between the United States and Eur
ope.
Commerce department figures deal
ing with the month’s forelgu trade dis
closed that Europe purchased Ameri
can goous during the month to a total
of almost $17,900.000 more than like
purchases in the same month last
year? while the United States in re
turn bought $6,000,000 more of Eur
opean goods than it did in the same
months of 1927.
Rev. John Taylor, pastor of the Con
gregational ehurch at Brule, WIs.,
where Preeldent Coolidge will worship
during hie vacation on Cedar laland.
Mr. Taylor Is blind and reads from a
Bralle Bible.
YAKINA GROWERS
ADOPT MARKET PLAN
Yakima, Wash.—Two years' persis
tent effort bore fruit when 43 leading
fruit growers of the Yakima valley,
representing 38 districts from Ellens
burg to Kennewick, formally adopted
a constitution and by-laws and a
marketing contract, for signature of
members. The action was taken by
practically unanimous vote, and there
was no serious objection in the dis
cussions, but general enthusiasm over
the plan.
The proposed marketing contract
was amended to include pears and
other fruits as well as boxed apples,
and to make more definite the grow
ers’ obligation to pay, If shipping in
dependently, or to authorize their
sales agencies if shipping through
such an organization, the levy of 54
to 1 per cent a box of apples and
pears.
The by-laws bind the central Wash
ington association to recognize and
co-operate with the shippers’ council,
and to work with it for greater re
turns to the growers and benefit to
the industry.
BRIEF GENERAL NEWS
John D. Rockefeller celebrated his
89th birthday Sunday.
President Calles of Mexico has sign
ed a contract with Wright Motors
company to establish a factory in Mon
terey and Mexico City.
The farmers of western Canada are
riding on a wave of optimism as crop
conditions continue to be the most
favorable in many years, reports show.
The United States army balloon,
piloted by Captain W. E. Kepner, with
William O. Eareckson as aide, was of
ficially declared the winner of the
Gordon Bennett race.
The Mexican Federation of Labor
has voted for general strike, begin
ning the last of this month, as pro
test against the recent decisions of
the arbitration committee.
Reductions in the existing rate on
muriate of potash, an important fer
tiliser, between Troua, Cal., and North
Portland, Or., and Apple Center and
Seattle. Wash., was ordered by the
interstate commerce commission.
Hot weather records for Chicago
and other middle western points for
1938 were smashed Saturday when
the mercury climbed to 92 here and
over the 90 mark elsewhere, climax
lng two weeks of rains, humidity and
erratic temperatures.
Good to Manage Hoover in Weet.
Washington. D. C —Jarnos W. Good
of Chicago was named Western cam
paign manager for Herbert Hoover
Saturday. Mr. Good is a former mem
ber of tho house from Iowa, preceding
the late Murtln II. Madden as chair
man of the appropriations committee.
In 1924 ho handled the Western pro-
conveuliou fight for Coolidge. He is
expected in Washington soon for a
conference with Mr. Hoover, after
which he plans to leave for Chicago
to establish headquarters.
Ccolidge
May
Dtdlcats
« e
Widow of Henry Villard Dies.
Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. Funny Garrl
son Villard, only daughter of William
Lloyd Garrison, the abolitionist, died
here, she was S3 years old. Her hus
band «us Henry Villard, «ho was at
one time president of the Northern
i ’ u'ifl« ltadruud company.
I
U. S. Government Awarded Huge Sum
Seattle, Wash.—Judgment of $1,827,-
780.02 was awarded the United States
government here against the Skinner
A Eddy corporation for alleged over
payments mude during the war for
ships built by the company. The gov
ernment charged that bonuses in ex
cess of $7.000,000 were paid the com
pany to which they were not entitled.
Thia figure was later reduced to $5.-
600,000. The decialon set the amount
due the government at one-fourth the
total asked.
Monument.
Superior. Wls. President Coolidge
looks with favor upon an invitation
extended to him to speak at the un
veiling ol a monument July 29 in Can
non Falls, Minn., commemorating the
part played in tho battle of Gettys
burg by Colonel William Colville at
the head of the First Minnesota vol
unteer Infantry.
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Grain Hearing Opens In Portland.
Portland, Or. — Portland defenders
of the Columbia basin differential on
grain rates will have their innings in
their own bailiwick when bearings
opened Monday before» representalivea
of the Interstate commerce commit-
alon. The hearings will be a con tin
uance of those which have been to
progress at Seattle since May 22.
Two Veteran Pilots Dis In Crash.
Whittier, Cal Howard Blanchard.
32, and Paul Hammer, 30, both of
Holly wood and veteran air pilots, were
killed in the crash of thetr home-made
eight passenger monoplane during an
experimental flight.
Disbursements made to run the Al
bany schools during the year 1927-28
aggregated $134,578.77. Receipts dur
ing the year were $123,891.85.
The Oregon Cattle and Horse Rais
ers’ association convened in Enter
prise with a large crowd of stockmen
present from all parts of the state.
The new airport at Elgin, sponsor
ed by the American Legion, was form
ally dedicated last week during the
first day of a three-day celebration.
The construction of a 500-foot tun
nel on the O-W. R. & N. at Weather
by, 15 miles north of Huntington, will
be commenced in the next few days.
A forest fire, believed to have been
caused by sparks from an engine, has
been discovered along the Sumpter
Valley railroad, half a mile north of
Austin.
According to word from Salem, War
renton's city water supply is first
class in quality. The latest tests give
a rating of "Class A,” the highest
mark possible.
The Clatsop County bank, recently
organized at Seaside, has been made
a depository for postal saving funds.
Deposits must be covered by accept
able collateral.
The Gold Beach Packing company
last week sent 600 cases of canned
salmon to Brookings for loading on
the steamer Martha Buehner for de
livery at Astoria.
Robbers last week robbed the Mitch
ell State bank at Mitchell of about $100
in cash. The robbers used tools stolen
from the high school building to bat
ter open the vault.
Sheriff Floyd Huntley of Curry
county, a member of the Gold Beach
baseball team, suffered a broken jaw
last week in a game between Gold
Beach and Smith River.
Bids were received at Roseburg last
week for the construction of a new
courthouse for Douglas county. The
county expects to spend about $275,-
000 on the construction.
Remarkable and continued improve
ment in the dairying industry in the
Coos bay district is disclosed by the
annual reports for the two Coquille
cow testing associations.
Evangeline, the 11-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Millard, suffered
two broken arms, cuts and bruises,
when she fell from a merry-go-round
at Hazelgreen park in Salem.
An apple tree on the Clarence Bad
ger farm near Dayton, with almost
fully developed apples on it, is bloom
ing abundantly for the second time
this season. It is of the snow var
iety.
A throng of 20,000 people enjoyed
Vale’s eleventh annual Fourth of July
celebration. The three-day program,
which closed at dawn Thursday, was
the most varied aad successful ever
held.
The Bank of Oregon City celebrated
its 47th anniversary July 1. Thia is
the oldest bank in Clackamas county
and was founded in 1881 by Thomas
Charman, E. L. Eastman, and J. T.
Apperson.
Advance work on construction of
the Southern Pacific company's 97-
mlle line between Klamath Falla and
Alturas, Cal., will begin early this
week with the arrival of construction
engineers.
Additions to Christian churches in
Oregon during the year totaled 3653,
C. F. Swander, state secretary of the
denomination, reported at the Oregon
Christian missionary convention now
in session at Turner.
The statement of condition made by
the banks of Forest Grove at the call
of the controller of currency show a
substantial Increase. The combined
resources of the two banks on June
30 totaled $1.607.949.
The Mulkey school district. No. 90.
near Coquille, will hold school In the
winter time rather than during the
summer months as heretofore, ac
cording to unanimous vote of the tax
payers of that district.
Since Oregon began cooperating with
the federal government under the ma
ternity and infancy act six years ago,
the mortality rate for the state has
dropped from 82.8 per 10,000 births
to 59 per cent, according to statistics
I prepared by the children's bureau of
the department of labor.
Deposits In Albany’s three banks,
: aa shown in the June $0 statement,
j are 10 per cent greater than at the
j corresponding call In 1927. The com
| bined deposits now are $3,459,000, or
$334.000 greater than last year at this
time.
Three hundred eighty infants and
children of pre-school age were weigh
ed and measured In the county-wide
baby clinic just completed fn Union
county. Clinics were held In La
Grande. Elgin, Cove, Medical Springs
aad No th Powder.
A strike that may prove of excep
tional value was made the past week
by A. C. and C. C. Davidson at their
mine in the Althouse district of Jos
ephine county. The ore is yielding as
high as $10 In gold to the pan.
In accordance with the recommenda
tion of the Oregon state board of hor
ticulture and the Oregon state college
extension service, in a county-wide
campaign against the fruit fly. Union
county has practically completed the
spraying of cherry trees.
J. Harrison, who resides on Morri
son creek, a tributary of the upper
part of Evans creek, was in Medford
last week exhibiting a teaspoonful of
quicksilver which he had retorted
from a new discovery he has made a
few miles north of the War Eagle
property.
Cut-worms are found on several of
the farms in the Coquille valley, main
ly in the bottom lands, Harvey S.
Hale, Coos county agent, said. There
are two varieties, the climbing species
and the ordinary variety, both of
which are causing considerable loss
to farmers.
Checks totaling close to $2000 be
longing to O. V. Myers, Medford auto
mobile dealer, accidentally taken
when a demonstrating cash register
was removed from his office last week
by a saleman, were returned Monday
after the salesman had reached Kla
math Falls.
More prisoners are now confined in
Oregon's jails and prisons than at any
time in the history of the state, ac
cording to a survey conducted by
Henry Meyers, superintendent of the
Oregon state penitentiary. A total of
713 prisoners were housed in the state
penitentiary.
Frederick Griswold, 5, son of S. A.
Griswold of Powers, fell from a cliff
75 feet above the south fork of the
Coquille river and landed in the
stream. He was taken te the Myrtle
Point hospital where It was found he
had suffered no "Injuries other than
scalp wounds.
Concrete mile posts for The Dalles-
California highway, giving mileage
from the junction of The Dalles-Call-
fornia and Columbia highways to the
Oregon-California line, are being plac
ed this week by state highway depart
ment maintenance crews. The posts
are three-sided with beveled edges.
The Hunt Bros, cannery at Salem
set a new record last Tuesday and
Tuesday night when it packed 12,719
cases of fruit. This was said to be
the largest 24-hour pack of any can
nery in the history of tho state. Pre
vious to Tuesday the average 24-hour
pack was slightly less than 10,000
cases.
Disposal of a 500-ton pool of Wasco
county apricots through the Ameri
can Fruit company, Inc., was announc
ed by members of The Dalles Co
operative Growers’ association last
week. The apricot crop is the heaviest
in history this year, and the total yield
will be around 850 tons It Is esti
mated.
The Oregon state library, under a
recent federal enactment reducing
postal rates on books sent from and
returned to free public libraries, will
save approximately $3000 annually, ac
cording to Miss Cornelia Marvin, state
librarian. The Oregon state library in
1927 sent out 23631 packages of
books.
Proposals were opened recently by
the United States bureau of public
roa^s for grading the Cascadia-Ranger
station section of the Santiam high
way in Linn county, approximately
three miles in length. Improvement
of this section will complete the San
tiam highway from Albany to Ranger
station.
The final dividend in liquidation of
the First State & Savings bank of
Klamath Falls was paid last week,
according to announcement made by
A. A. Schramm, state superintendent
of banks. Approximately $139,29J.84
will be distributed among 1915 claim
ants. The bank was closed January
28, 1922.
Lack of passenger patronage threat
ens removal of one of the two passen
ger trains the Southern Pacific runs
to the Marshfield territory. It was
said the late train leaving Portland
for Coos bay will be taken off, and
the one running opposite from there
at 9 A. M. jwill also be discontinued,
probably after July 22.
Gold Hill is to have a new foot-pas
senger swinging bridge to span Rogue
river In the center of the city at the
site of the old bridge, which was
washed out two years ago during the
winter flood. The local chamber of
commerce has appointed a committee
to provide ways and means for imme
diate construction of the structure.
At the end of the first halt of the
year La Grande building permits had
reached a total of $150,975. Those
In close touch with construction plans
here expected a quarter of a million
dollars worth of new work to tie com
pleted before 1929.
John VanCurier, 26, Veneta, died in
a Eugene hospital last week from
burns suffered Saturday, when a ket
tle of lard exploded in his home. A
pan of water was upset In the lard.
In which potatoes were being tried,
causing the explosion.
A
JOHN L McNAOB
ITALIAN AIRMEN
GROSS ATLANTIC
Risticz and Zimmerman Re
main in Air 65 Hours and
26 Minutes.
John L. McNabb, San Francisco at
torney and Republican leader, who
preeented the name of Herbert Hoover
to the convention in Kansas City.
Rio Janeiro. Brasil.—A new distance
record for sustained flight was com
pleted when Captain Arturo Ferrarin
and Major Carlo P. Del Prete landed
on a little beach 10 milea north of
Natal, Brazil, some 4600 miles from
their starting point at Montecelio field,
Italy.
They brought their big seaplane, the
Savola 64, In which they previously
had established a world's record for
duration flight, to land after a flight
that took them across the Mediter
ranean, through the Straits of Glbral
tar, and then southwest over the At
lantic, via the Cape Verde islands.
Stormy weather and heavy clouds
put the fliers In peril In the last hours
of their effort. Radio reports receiv
ed here Indicate that they had dif
ficulty In keeping their bearings after
they reached the coast of Brazil.
APPEAL OF HICKMAN
IS DENIED BY COURT GERMAN FLIERS SET
NEW ENDURANCE MARK
San Francisco.—William E. Hick
man, 21, murderer of 12-year-old Mar
ian Parker of Los Angeles, must hang
for his crime unless the United States
supreme court should decide other
wise.
The state insanity law under which
Hickman was convicted was held con
stitutional by the state supreme court
In a unanimous decision. The court
held that under the law Hickman had
received a fair trial on his plea of
"not guilty by reason of insanity.”
Jerome Walsh, Hickman’s attorney,
announced he would appeal to the
highest tribunal on the ground that,
under the California law, the 14th
amendment to the Constitution bad
been violated, as Hickman was not
given “due process of law.”
The supreme court sent the case
back to the trial court at Los Angeles,
where after 30 days Hickman must be
resentenced. The slayer is In the con
demned row at San Quentin prison.
ORDER FUNDS SEIZED
Second $100,000 of H. M. Blackmer,
Missing Witness, Involved.
Washington, D. C.—A second $100,-
000 of the property of H. M. Black
mer of Denver, missing Teapot Dome
witness, was ordered seized by Jus
tice Jennings Bailey in the District
of Columbia supreme court because of
Blackmer’s failure to appear as a wit
ness at the trial of Harry F. Sinclair
on April 9.
The action was taken under law
sponsored by Senator Walsh of Mon
tana upon petition of District Attor
ney Rover. The latter asked Justice
Bailey to sign the order requiring the
United States marshal to seize the
property and summon Blackmere to
show cause on October 15 why he
should not forfeit it.
Average Motorist Spends $365 Yearly.
Chicago.—One dollar a day—$365 a
year—is what the average automobile
costs the average American motorist
in 1927. At least that is what the
figures compiled by the American
Motorists’ association reveal. The
operation and maintenance of his car
cost each motorist $229 while the de
preciation was figured at$136. The de
preciation was figured at $136. The de
year life expectancy of a passenger
automobile and the average retail
price of $953 for the year.
Teacher 57 Years: Absent Once.
Huntington, N. Y.—Miss Sarah May
bee has retired after teaching school
continuously for 57 years, during
which she was absent from duty only
one day.
TH E MARKETS
Portland
Wheat — Big Bend bluestem, hard
white, $1.45; soft white, western white,
$1.36; hard winter, $1.27; northern
spring, western red, $1.28.
Hay — Alfalfa, $17.50618; valley
timothy $17.50618; eastern Oregon
timothy. $21 621.50.
Butterfat—46647c.
Eggs—Ranch, 26 6 31c.
Cattle—Steers, good, $11612.
Hogs — Medium to choice, $9.506
11.50.
Lambs—Good to choice, $11.50613.
Seattle.
Dessau, Germany. — Surpassing the
old record for duration in the air by
6 hours and 52 minutes, the German
fliers Risticz and Zimmerman landed
their Junkers plane after having been
in the air for 65 hours and 26 minutes.
The former record of 68 hours and 34
minutes was held by Captain Arturo
Ferrarin and Major Carlo D. Pel Prete
of Italy.
Professor Hugo Junkers, Just back
from the United States, was a grateful
spectator as his plane, piloted alter
nately by Risticz and Zimmerman, reel
ed off the tell-tale rounds on the mo
notonous shuttle between Dessau and
Leipzig which meant a new air record,
fresh aviation honors for Germany and
further vindication of his plane.
They brought the new duration blue
ribbon to Germany In a one-motor
Junkers plane, the D-1231, a sister
ship of the Bremen and Europa. It
«as this type of plane in which Ris
ticz and Cornelias Edzard brought to
Germany its first world endurance
record of 52 hours 23 minutes In
August, 1927, and which this year
carried Captain Hermann Koehl, Bar
on von Huenefeld and Major Fitz-
maurice across the Atlantic.
291 PERISH IN SEA
Only
Four of Crew Rescued
Chilean Disaster.
In
Santiago, Chili.—Two hundred and
ninety-one lives were lost when the
transport Angamos sank in the Bay
of Arauco, according to information
given out by the ministry of marine.
Eighty of the victims were passen
gers.
Only four members of the crew
were saved, according to reports of
the accident. The captain commit
ted suicide on the bridge of the ves
sel.
Wireless dispatches said that the
cruiser Zenteno and the destroyer
Williams arrived at the scene of the
disaster, which is south of Lebu, off
the southern coast of the republic,
but had found no wreckage of the
vess’el.
Death of Belgian Financier Puzzles.
Paris.—Whether Alfred Lowenstein,
Belgian financier, reputedly one of the
richest men in the world, deliberately
hurled himself from the private plane
that was bearing him across the Eng
lish channel or was the victim of a
travic mistake, was unknown. Low
enstein had been in the habit of travel
ing between Brussels and London al
most every other day and it was on
one of these regular trips that he
boarded his plane at Croyden. When
above the English channel the banker
went to the washroom. Ten minutes
later his secretary, Hodgson, went in
search of him and found the exit door
to the plane, on the far side of the
washroom, open. The banker was
missing.
Ritzville Posse Takes Girl Attacker.
Spokane, Wash. — Ellis Williams,
negro Pullman porter, was lodged
safely in the Adams county jail at
Ritzville, Wash., to face charges that
he attempted to attack a woman pas
senger on a Northern Pacific train.
A posse arrested Williams at Hill
crest, 15 miles east of Ritzville, where
he had been hiding in a box car after
leaping from the train at Lind, Wash.,
shortly after the alleged assault.
Wheat-----Soft white, western white,
$1.375»; hard winter. $1.26*4; west
ern red, northern spring, $1.2754; blue-
stem, $1.4554; dark northern spring,
dark hard winter, $1.4354.
Hay — Alfalfa, $24; timothy, $30;
P. S.. $24.
Irish Justice to Talk In Seattle.
Butterfat—47c.
Dublin. — The chief justice of the
Eggs—Ranch. 23827c.
| Irish Free State, Hugh Kennedy, and
Cattle—Prime steers, $11612.
j Mrs. Kennedy, sailed for New York
Hogs—Prime, $12612.10.
1 Sunday. The chief justice will deliv
Lambs—Choice, $11.50813.
er an address before the American
Spokane.
Bar association at Seattle July 25 and
Hogs—Good, and choice, $11.358 also an address before the Canadian
11.50.
Bar association at Regina on August
Cattle—Steers, good, $10.100 11.14.
29.