ENTERPRISE, HALSEY. OREGON, JULY 19. 1928
INFANT MORTALITY
DECLINES GREATLY
HUBERT C. WORK
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OREGON STATE NEWS
GF GENERAL INTEREST
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S ea ttle and P ortland Both
H ave a V ery Low Death
Rate.
P rin cipal Events of the W eek
Assem bled for Inform ation
of Our Readers.
New York. — The infant m ortality
rate in cities of the United S tates
during 1927 was lower than in any pre
vious year, the American Child H ealth
association announced In its annual
report.
The rate last year was 66.4 for each
1000 as com pared with 73.7 in 1926
and 100 in 1915, the association an
nounced.
The report covers th e 683 in the
birth registration areas Including
states th at have records of a t least
90 per cent.
“The im provem ent in the Infant
death rate was alm ost universal over
the country," said the announcem ent,
“there being but few cities which fail
ed to show a declining rate."
Seattle, Wash., had the lowest rate,
41, among the cities of more than 250,-
000 population. Portland, Or., and
Minneapolis, Minn., were second with
rates of 47 each.
More than 300 delegates attended
the B aptist state convention In Eu
gene.
The new Shelley building In Coquille
has been completed at the cost of
*14.000.
Extensive Im provements are being
made to th e Clackamas county fair
grounds at Canby.
Dr. H ubert C. Work, secretary of
the Interior, who w as elected chair
man of the Republican national com
mittee.
Ninety-one persons took the annual
state bar exam ination held at the
state capltol In Salem.
Fire ot undeterm ined origin caused
loss of between *8000 and *10,000 on
the main street of Dayton.
A contract for the construction of
livestock exhibit buildings was le t by
the K lamath county fair board.
The business district of Glendale
was alm ost totally wiped out by a fire,
with a loss estim ated at *200,000.
The T alent grange has decided to
Geneva.—C harles E. Hughes, form ht vo a special T alent exhibit at the
er American secretary of state, prob Jackson county fair In Sepember.
ably will be elected to succeed John
Work has started on the new
B assett Moore as American Judge on
Douglas county courthouse.
The
the league of nations' perm anent court
building Is to cost approximately *275,-
of international justice at The Hague,
000.
it was said in league circles recently
Another Masonic lodge came into
While the election rests in the
W ashington, D. C. — The general
being with the formal Installation of
hands
of
the
league
assem
bly
and
the
farm wage average of the country July
Chiloquin lodge, with 35 m em bers last
1 had dropped to 170 per cent of the league council, secretariat officials week.
said
there
is
such
a
world
wide
move
pre-war level, as compared to 172 per
The Southern Pacific company has
cent last year, the bureau of agricul m ent in favor of H ughes’ election that
requested authority to extend its
tural economics announced and “is It Is virtually a certainty be will re
ceive the necessary m ajority vote dur m otor bus service from Roseburg to
the lowest July figure since 1925.“
Marshfield.
Although the index figure of 170 is ing the Septem ber assembly.
It
Is
now
certain
th
a
t
Mr.
Hughes
Road signs, giving both directions
four points above the April figure of
166, the bureau’s report added that will be nom inated for the Judgeship and mileage, are being erected by
this increase is “som ewhat less than by at least half a dozen of the lead Tillamook county a t 25 county road
the usual seasonal rise” and th at ing nations of the world, and this fact intersections.
Albany American Legion band has
"w ages of all classes of farm labor alone is regarded as alm ost certain to
insure his election.
been selected as the official band to
are below wages of a year ago.”
play at the Oregon state fair Septem
The wage decrease for farm labor
ber 24 to 29.
ers is attributed by the bureau to the
HOOVER STARTS W EST
n atural working of the law of supply
A carload of carbon bisulphide is
and demand, and to an Increase In the Republican Presidential Candidate being distributed in the A thena w heat
Off to California.
supply of farm labor made available
sections this week to com bat wild
this year by lowered Industrial em
W ashington, D. C. — H aving said morning glory.
ployment.
farewell to the men with whom he
A total of 2249 cars of w heat was re
B ureau of labor statistics records has labored in the commerce depart ceived and shipped from the P ort of
for the first five m onths of 1928 show ment for seven years, H erb ert Hoover Astoria this year, an Increase of 631
th a t the monthly index figures for em Saturday turned westward. The first cars over last year.
ployment in m anufacturing industries presidential candidate from the Pacific
Abraham Y. Banta, one of the old
averaged 85.4, as compared to an aver coast was going home to receive the
est residents of eastern Oregon, drop
age of 90.4 in the first five m onths formal notification ot his selection as
ped dead a t Redmond while visiting
of 1927.
the standard bearer of the republican
at the home of a friend.
party.
C rescent City is preparing to build
Closing up of his affairs as com
W HEAT ABOVE E ST IM A TE S
merce secretary occupied his final a cement boulevard 100 feet wide and
3800 feet long parallelling the sea
Oregon, Washington and Idaho Yield hours in W ashington and his last act
was to express to the heads of divi shore on F ront street.
W ill be Close to 85,000,000 Bushels.
Hood River will sell a »25,000 block
Portland, Or.—The w heat crop of sions In the departm ent his apprecia
the northw est has made substantial tion of th eir co-operation in turning of bonds, th e money to be used In pre
"the arm of commerce away from the liminary work on the Cold Springs
Im provement since the latest govern
m ent survey was made and grain men narrow channels of business into the municipal w ater project.
About 150 M ethodist young people
believe the next monthly bulletin will great service of p u tlic welfare.”
attended the Southern Oregon Ep
show several mllllun bushels more
than was estim ated In the July report. Desert Thirst Conquers Bank Robbers. worth league Institute on L ittle river,
Independence, Cal.—Two young rob 30 miles east of Roseburg.
Predictions are now made by the
best posted au thorities In the grain bers, defiant in the face of the deadly
C. B ryant of Moro was reappointed
trade here th a t the w heat crop of rifles and pistols of a possee of up a member of the state board of normal
Oregon, W ashington and Idaho will wards of 40 men, had wavered and fall school regents. He has served In
total close to 85,000,000 bushels. This en before the onslaught ot a merciless this capacity for several years.
is 1,686,000 bushels more than the desert country. W ithout a shot being
The Lincoln county seat fight Is
five year average, but still far below tired, th e tw trm en , W ayne Bland and again simmering, prelim inary steps
the record production of 112,500,000 H. C. Cochran, residents of Owens having been taken for removing the
bushels In the three states last year. valley and robbers of the Security courthouse from Toledo to Newport.
R ecent rains th a t were general bank a t Lone Pine near here, surrend
Fire losses in Oregon exclusive oi
throughout the w heat belt were ot ered to officers who tracked them af
Portland, during the month of June
g reat benefit to spring-sown wheat, ter they had escaped with loot esti
aggregated *137,188, according to a
which had suffered during many weeks mated a t 61500. The money was re
report prepared by the state fire
ot insufficient moisture.
covered intact.
marshal.
The apricot crop of W asco county
Idaho Halt Storm Doss Big Damage.
Stockyards Act Is Declared Void.
this
year is estim ated at 850 tons, 500
Omaha, Neb.—T h at p art of the pack
Grangeville, Idaho. — Houses were
ers and stockyards act of August 16. unroofed, hundreds of windows broken tons of which have been pooled and
will be sold through the American
1921, vesting in the secretary of agri and 1900 acres of growing grain wip
Fruit, Inc.
culture power to fix comm issions ot ed out and others damaged when a
William Jeffries, who killed a small
livestock commission firms, was held hail storm swept over the Tolo lake
unconstitutional by B. 11. Dunham, region near here. Damage is esti hoy on a mountain road near Ash
special m aster in chancery. The case, mated at *300,000 with insurance at land and then fled heavily arm ed In
brought originally by three Omanu about 60 per cent. The region visited to the mountains, was captured at
commission houses, against the gov by the storm is tine farm ing country Dunsmuir, Cal.
Fire of undeterm ined origin swept
ernm ent and proper agencies, drew in located on the C entral P rairie uplands.
lumber yard No. 1 of the Ewauna Box
nearly 90 plaintiffs before it was |
company ot K lam ath Falls, burning
placed in the m aster's hands.
THE MARKETS
lumber and equipment valued at *200,-
Portland
Chile and Peru End Rupture.
W heat—Big Bend bluestem, hard 000 to »260,000.
W ashington, D. C .—Chile and Peru white, *1.43; soft white, w estern white,
Rogue river fruit has suffered little
have agreed to resum e diplom atic re- J *1.34; hard w inter *1.23; northern from blight or any other disease this
latlons after a ru p tu re of 17 years' j spring *1 28; w estern red *1.24.
season, according to Elm er Oatman,
stunding, Secretary of S late Kellogg
Hay — Alfalfa *16.59®17; valley for more than 15 years fruit Inspector
officially announced. The rapproche j timothy *17.59018; eastern Oregon for Jackson county.
ment. which is expected to facilitate timothy. »21 ©21.50.
Lupine weed, commonly known as
ultim ate settlem ent of the Tacna-Arica
B u tterfat—46© 47c.
wild pea, probably was responsible fot
controversy between the two coun
Uggs—Ranch, 27© 31c.
the death of a large number of cattle
tries was brought about through the
C attle— Steers, good, *11.25© 12.19 and a few horses in eastern Oregon
good offices of the secretary. Both
H ogs—Medium to choice. (19©12.25. recently, according to investigations
countries have accepted his plan for
Lambs—Good to choice. *11.50©13. conducted by Dr. W. H. Lytle, stab
Seattle.
all accord. Kellogg said
veterinarian. Most of the losses wer>
W heat—Soft white, w estern white, confined to Sherm an county,
Canadian “ Export“ Liquor Seized.
*1.33; hard w inter w estern red, north
Barham B rothers of Salem, with I.
Windsor, O ntario.—O ntario provlu ern spring. *1.24; bluestem, *1.42;
bid of *94.000, subm itted to the boari.
clal authorities seised beer and llquoi dark northern spring. *1.30; dark hard
of control the most satisfactory pro
valued at more thau *5,tide,909 In two j winter. *1.28.
posal for the general construction o;
ot the largest export w arehouses on
Hay — Alfalfa, *24; tim othy *39;
the new state tuberculosis hospital
the border. The move was understood P. 8.. *24.
at The Dalles. There were 12 bids,
to be the first of a series which will
B utterfat 48c.
the highest being (120.000.
result in seizure ot all border w are
Uggs—Ranch, 24 ©39c.
Ivar Oragiadh. chief entomologtsi
C attle— Prime steers, *11.25© 12.le
houses.
of Sweden, is in Klamath Falls to col
Hogs— Prime, »12 59© 12.69.
laborats with Paul Keene, United
Lam bs—Choice. »11 59©1J.
States entomologist, in attem pting tc
Spokane.
discover some practical method of
Hogs—Good, and choice, *11 35©
controlling the pine beetle infestatioos
ll.M .
of ths K lamath pine forests.
C attle—Steers, good, 119 50 ©11.0
GENERAL FARM WAGES
REPORTED DECLINING
WILL OFFER HUGHES
WORLD COURT PLACE
Many pioneers were included among
i the 175 ex resid en ts of Polk county
who gathered a t th eir annual picnic
i In L aurelhurst park in P ortland to
talk over old times.
Miss Florence E. Miller, daughter
of E. C. Miller of Salem, accepted the
1 position as pastor's assistant and
| church secretary of the F irst M etho
dist church of Portland.
Organization of the Linn County
Good Roads association, designed to
combat legislation inimical to high
way development In Oregon, was start-
! ed a t a meeting In Albany.
Crook county potato grow ers have
approxim ately 900 acres in potatoes
I this year, a 50 per cent increase over
| last year, with prospects for the best
crop ever grown in the county.
Between 150 and 160 people from
. all parts of the stato climbed Mount
( Hood under the auspices of Hood
| River post, American Legion, and
guided by the famous Crag rats.
Justice N. J. SInnott, ex congress
man from the second Oregon district
has arrived In his form er home town
[ of The Dalles to spend a month In re
laxation with old friends and acquaint
ances.
Mrs. Cecile Wiegland, principal ot
i the Salem H eights school, suffered
serious injuries when an automobile
In which she was returning home
from Monmouth left the highway and
overturned.
Sheriff H urlburt states that it costs
Multnomah county more to collect
■ the personal tax on sm all business en-
' terprises than the tax collected totals.
The present law is not workable In
j the county, he said.
Income tax collections In Oregon
during the fiscal year 1928, which
1 closed June 30, were approximately
*380,000 less than those of the fiscal
1 year 1927, according to figures of the
Internal revenue bureau.
A percentage ot net sales of 18.23
is given as the average total cost of
doing business in general m erchan
dise stores of Oregon, according to a
bulletin Just issued by the Oregon
A gricultural college extension service.
The state board of control execu
ted a lease covering approxim ately 25,-
900 feet of floor space In the Oregon
building In Portland. Twenty-three
ot the 25 state functions now located
i in Portland will be housed in the Ore-
’ gon building. The activities are now
, widely scattered.
The lives of approximately 10,000
predatory anim als in Oregon were
snuffed out during the fiscal year end
ing June 30 by w orkers of the United
S tates biological survey and cooper-
I atlng agencies, according to the an-
! nual report of Stanley Jew ett, in
charge for the government.
The 20th state encam pm ent of the
Spanish American W ar veterans open
ed in McMinnville with attendance
estim ated at 350. Commander-In-Chief
John J. Garrity of Chicago, was the
first national commander to visit an
Oregon encampment. W. I. Vinton of
McMinnville greeted the veterans for
the city.
Sam A. Kozer, secretary ot state,
notified Governor P atterson th a t he
would accept the appointm ent as direc
tor of the state budget, effective Sep
tem ber 1. He will resign as secretary
of state at that tim e and take up the
work of shaping the next biennial
budget preparatory to th e 1929 leg
islative session.
The wild blackberry crop In the
Applegate river out from Jacksonville
will be the largest this year In the
history of the Industry. The berry 1 b
not the real Oregon wild berry, but
the evergreen blackberry imported
from Japan to Oregon many years ago.
which has spread and became wild ana
extends for more than 30 miles along
the stream s in the Applegate valley.
Old abandoned hill ranches under min
Ing and Irrigation ditches overgrown
with the vines have become valuable
from a royalty of 15 cents per gallon
paid by people who come from all over
the country to pick for household pur
poses and sell to the canneries.
Snow clearing and oiling of state
highways must be reduced, declared
the highway commission at a meet
ing in Portland. The financial situa
tion has been so Jeopardised by the
tiling ot the Dunne initiative measure,
which will be voted on in November,
that the road officials are curtailing
w herever possible. Even requests for
surveys had to be refused, for the com
mission has laid oft the surveying
parties, just as it has also laid oil
some of the rnluor officials of the or
ganixatlon. The commission is in s
quandry over the situation, for not
until the people have acted in Novem
ber will they know what the revenues
are likely to be for the coming year
The Portland city council has start
ed on Its way to the November ballot
a telephone franchise providing lor a
25 per cent cut in rates and for many
other radical changes in the relations
between the company and the people.
Elwin Van De W alker, state traffic
officer, was taken to a hospital Sun-
day with injuries suffered when a
motorcycle he was riding skidded and
left the Pacific highway five miles
north of Salem Van De W alker was
unconscious when found by a passing
notorisL
MEXICAN 'LINDY' IS
KILLED IN CRASH
RICHARD J. W ELCH
-
C a rra n z a B elieved to Have
M et Death in Forced
Landing.
Representative Richard J. Welch of
California was the author of the bill
that gave 135,000 government workers
a raise.
OFFICES BARTERED
BY STATE LEADERS
Biloxi, Miss.—S ensational disclos
ures are expected from the federal
grand Jury here Investigating distribu
tion of federal patronage by state re
publican leaders following the return
of a fourth indictm ent against a per
son whom federal officials declined
to name pendin’g his arrest. The na
ture of the charge also was kept se
cret.
Two men, J. C. Tannehill, ex-United
S tates m arshal for the southern dis
trict of the stAte, and E. L. Patton,
negro republican leader, already arc
in custody of federal officers follow
ing their a rre st in Jackson recently on
six indictm ents charging “purchase
and sale of public offices.” An an
nouncem ent from the district a tto r
ney’s office said im m ediate trials
would be sought for the men after
their arraignm ent here.
A third a rrest was made when
Deputy United S tates m arshals took
into custody William E. Miller, post
m aster a t Wiggins, Miss., on an in
dictm ent charging "purchase and sale
ot public offices."
BRIEF GENERAL NEW S
William F. Varney, Rockville Cen
ter, N. Y., was nom inated by the pro
hibition party as its candidate for the
presidency.
The surrender of a total of 186 "con
fessed” N icaraguan bandits, to United
States m arine forces a t Ocotal, was re
ported to the navy departm ent.
Senator Moses of New Ham pshire
was made chairm an of the committee
to notify Hoover and Senator Fess ot
Ohio was appointed head of the com
m ittee to notify the republican vice
presidential nominee.
Colonel William H. Screws, com
manding officer of the 12th Infantry
stationed a t Baltimore, was elected
president of the Rainbow division
veterans a t the annual reunion In
Columbus, Ohio. The convention vot
ed to hold the 1929 reunion in Balti
more.
D irectors of Palm olive-Peet com
pany and Colgate & Co. have agreed
upon a plan ot merging these two or
ganizations It stockholders approve.
This m erger will be effective as ol
July 1, 1928. The name of the new
company is to be Colgate Palmolive-
Peet company.
Two Republican Councils Called.
W ashington, D. C.—Two conferences
of w estern republican national com
m ittee men and com m ittee women
were called by Chairm an Work, out
to be held in Chicago and the second,
to Include tar-w esteru states, to be
held in San Francisco. The chairman
of the national com m ittee will parti
cipate in both meetings, which will be
arranged to coincide with his trip to
the Pucific coast early in August to a t
tend the notification of H erbert Hoo
ver as the republican presidential
nominee.
Air-Rail Transport Service Promised.
Chicago.—Three northw est railroads
—the N orthern Pacific, the Chicago.
Milwaukee, St. Paul tt Pacific, auu
the Chicago Burlington at Quincy—
and two air transportation companies
entered into an agreem ent recently to
provide air and rail transportation
irom Chicago to the Pacific coast, via
Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Affirmative Pleas Filed for Measures
Salem, Or.—Affirmative argum ents
for eight constitutional amendm ents
and initiative m easures which will go
on the ballot a t the general election
in November have been filed with the
secretary of state.
Norris Refuses Third Party Bio.
W ashington, D. C.—Senator NorrU
of N ebraska declined to accept the
nomination tor president given him by
th s farmer-labor parly a t its Cblcagu
convention.
New York. — C aptain Emilio Car
ranza lay under the flags of two na
tions—Mexico and the U nited S tates—
whose peoples he had sought to unite
m ore closely.
The Mexican aviator's crumpled
body had been brought back from the
New Jersey berry patch where he
crashed soon after startin g a flight by
which he hoped to dem onstrate anew
th at distances and frontiers mean little
in this airplane age. An inquiry at
Mount Holly established th a t Carranza
m et death in a descent probably forc
ed by m echanical trouble and not by
a bolt of lightning as at first was
though by some observers.
The Mexican "Lindy” was on his
way from New York to Mexico City
on a projected non-stop flight.
At the request of A rturo Elias,
consul general a t New York, no re
ligious cerem ony of any kind will be
held in New York or at any point on
the route of the funeral train which
will bear the body of the Mexican
aviator to the capital of his own coun
try.
P lans form ulated by A m erican and
Mexican arm y officers provide for the
largest m ilitary funeral cortege that
has ever escorted the body of a soldier
through the streets of New York.
RASKOB TO MANAGE
THE SMITH CAMPAIGN
New York.—A leader in the busi
ness and industrial world—John J.
Raskob of the G eneral Motors corpora
tion, will direct Governor Sm ith’s
cam paign for th e presidency.
Raskob, who never has been active
politically and who is listed in “Who's
W ho" as a republican, was named to
succeed Clem Shaver as chairm an of
the dem ocratic national com m ittee at
a m eeting of the com m ittee here. He
Is a close friend of the presidential
nominee, who suggested his election.
Given wide powers by the national
com m ittee in the conduct of the cam
paign, Raskob appointed H erb ert Leh
man, a New York investm ent banker,
as director of finance, succeeding
Jesse H. Jones of H ouston. He also
was authorized to nam e an advlsuiy
com m ittee and w ithout delay announc
ed the selection of Senator Gerry of
Rhode Island as its chairm an.
Nellie Taylor Ross, ex-governor of
Wyoming, was selected by Raskob to
tak e direct charge of all women’s ac
tivities in the campaign.
C R U IS E R NAM E W ANTED
Tacoma, Portland and Oakland Ara
After Honor From Navy.
W ashington, D. C.—Com petition be
tw een Pacific coast cities for the
honor of having the two rem aining
light cruisers now under construction
bear their nam es is likely to be keen,
It was indicated when Tacoma entered
the race with P ortland and Oakland
for the rig h t to christen one ot the
vessels.
In naming the first four new naval
vessels after Chicago, H ouston, Ches
ter, Pa., and A ugusta, Ga., the navy
departm ent overlooked the w est en
tirely, but officials of the departm ent
have Indicated th at one ot th e re
m aining two may be given the name
of a Pacific coast city.
Deputy and Robber Die in Fight.
E ureka, Cal.—Two men were killed
and one seriously wounded a t Salyer
creek, east of here in a gun fight be
tw een peace officers and four men
who were fleeing after robbing the A.
Brizard, Inc., store a t Willow creek.
The dead were C harles William Car
penter, 40, a deputy sheriff at Willow
creek and one of the robbers identi
fied as John W. Bishop, who has a
long crim inal record. Oscar Hayward,
who was assisting C arpenter in an el-
tort to capture the band, was possibly
fatally wounded by a shot from one
of the fugitives' guns.
Viglieri Group Saved by Russians.
Rome.—The C itta di Milano sen t a
radio message stating the R ussian ice
breaker K rassin had taken aboard the
Viglieri group of refugees from No
bile's airship, the Italia. An official
announcem ent of the rescue was made.
The Viglieri group consisted of five
men. T heir rescue brings to eight
th e number saved from the crew of
16 aboard the Italia. Of the others.
Dr. Finn Malmgren ana Vincenzo
Pomella are known to be dead.
Los Angeles Gets Next Elks Meeting.
Miami. Fla.—Murray H ulbert, New
York was elected grand exalted ruller,
and U/S Angeles was selected as the
1929 convention city a t the business
session ot the Benevolent and Pro
tective O rder ot Elks a t their 64th
annual meeting her*.