HALSEY ENTERPRISE, HALSEY, OREGON, ALGCST 30, 192S
FIFTEEN NATIONS
SIGN PEACE TREATY
DR. HALDOR R. BARNES
P rin cip al E vents of the W eek
Assem bled fo r In b rm a tio n
of O ur R eaders.
P act to O u tla w W a r is Con­
cluded at M eeting Held
in P aris .
Paris.—Representatives of 15 great
nations met here Monday and solemn­
ly pledged their peoples to outlaw war
from the te .'h .
Never since the signing of the
treaty of Versailles, ending the World
■war, has there been such a gathering
of men prominent In the world’s capi­
tals.
The United States, as It did at the
Washington disarmament conference,
has taken the lead again In the search
for peace.
Frank U. Kellogg, the United States
secretary of state, who signed for his
country, proposed the agreement after
an exchange of Ideas with Aristide
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Brland, the French foreign minister.
Dr. Haldor R. Barnes, the Danish
An effort will be made to have the physician selected by Commander
treaty subscribed to by every nation Byrd at the official doctor for hit sx-
on earth. Kellogg announced. After peditlon to the Antarctic.
the original signatories have ratified
It, each of the other countries will be
Invited especially to subscribe.
Germany signed the treaty first. It
Is regarded as a happy omen, made
possible by the decision to have the
nations sign In alphabetical order. In
French, Germany Is called Allemagne.
New York.—The flagship of Com­
, Brland signed for France.
mander Richard E. Byrd’s antarctic
Kellogg, who signed for the United expedition sailed Saturday, carrying
States, was about half way down the 82 men and 200 tons of supplies and
list, as the French name for the Amer­ equipment to Dunedin, N. Z., point of
ican republic Is Etats Unis.
departure for the south polar con­
Lord Cushendun, acting foreign sec­ tinent.
retary of Great Britain in the absence
Aboard the 160-foot barque City of
of Austen Chamberlain, signed twice— New York rode Commander Byrd and
once for Britain, Northern Ireland and a party of 40 close friends who bid
the Dominions not reported in the the craft goodbye at quarantine. The
League of Nations, and once for India. ship, equipped with an auxiliary en­
The others were Italy, Belgium, gine. will proceed direct to Dunedin,
Japan, Union of South Africa, Canada, where she will meet the other mem­
New Zealand, Australia, Irish Free bers of the expedition, sailing next
State, Poland and Czecho-Slovakla.
month on two vessels. Byrd plans to
catch one of these ships at San Pedro,
Cal., on October 15.
Airplanes to be used by Command­
er Byrd for gathering scientific data
on the vast Ice-ridden land will travel
south on the other ships. In one of
these planes, a tri-motored monoplane,
Vernonia, Or.—One hour after he the leader hopes to reach the south
had robbed the bank of Vernonia, R. pole.
E. Doone, 25, had been captured, had
confessed, had waived preliminary
B R IE F GENERAL NEW S
hearing, and had been held to the
grand Jury under >8000 ball.
Senator William II. King was nom­
Doone was the second ‘‘customer’* inated unanimously to succeed him­
to enter the bank after It was opened self by the Utah democratic state con­
hy Alma Kullander, assistant cashier. vention.
The first was Frank Heath, a grocer.
One conviction of either reckless or
In addition to these two, Helen Hel- drunken driving will henceforth mean
her and Lowell Roberts, clerks, were the cancellation ot a California motor­
¿n the bank.
ist’s license to operate a car.
Doone, his face partly covered by
The epidemic of dengue, which has
e handkerchief, flourished his revolv­ already caused 300 deaths in Athens
er and ordered Heath and the bank and more than 100,000 cases of sick­
¡employes Into the vault.
ness, has spread to the Greek army.
j After scouring the cages for mon­
Bees, whole swarms of them, can
ey, he opened the door and directed be sent through the mails, if delivery
the inmates of the vault to pass out can be made within a period of five
'.the currency.
days, the postoffice department has
I A few blocks from the bank Doone announced.
Btopped Tony Norino’s car and forced
The state of Oregon received ap­
¡Norlno to drive him out of town. proximately $470,000 from the opera­
iMarshal Harry Phelps, responding to tion ot the gasoline tax during the
the sound of the gun. gave chase and month of July. The gasoiina tax pro­
caught the car Just outside the city. duced $433,500 in July, 1927.
IjXtone did not resist arrest.
BYRD'S FLAGSHIP
STARTS ON VOYAGE
ROBBER OF VERNONIA
BANK IS CAPTURED
Defunct Insturance Company Absorbed
RAILROAD S TR IK E P O SS IB LE
St. Louis.—The Missouri State Life
Insurance company became the larg­
I.Tralnmen'a Official Says Men Stand est life Insurance company west of
Fast for Waoe Increase.
the Mississippi by its merger with the
/ Cleveland. O.—Basing his statement International Life Insurance company.
Upon telegrams received from union Combined Insurance in force exceeds
'officials in various western states, A. $1,000,000,000. The Missouri State as­
F. Whitney, president of the Brother- sumed all obligations of approximately
hod of Railroad Trnlnmen. predicted $320,000,000 outstanding Insurance of
th a t a strike, affecting 70,000 railroad the International. Thus no policy­
jworkers west of Chicago, will be call­ holder loses anything In the wreck of
ed early In September, unless the the International, brought about by al­
'toads meet the union wago demands.
leged withdrawal of $3,562,000 assets
I Members of the trainmen and the by its president, Roy C. Toombs of
Order of Railway Conductors have Chicago.
%ecn balloting upon a strike.
' Reports from the west are to the Smith Near Death When Horses Run.
Effect that a walkout is virtually cer­
Seagirt. N. J.—Governor Alfred E.
tain. Whitney said.
Smith had a narrow escape from in­
Strike ballots are to be returned to jury or death here when the horses
Chicago September 2. but the result pulling a tallyho In which the gov­
will not bo announced officially until ernor was riding bolted. Governor A.
September !.
Harry Moore of New Jersey was In
The strike vote Is being taken upon the tallyho with Smith. The field
the question of the original union de­ was covered with ruts, which tossed
mands for Increases ranging from 10 the tallyho about, and several times It
to 18 per cent. A compromise offer almost upset. After a dash of about
of 7’i per cent was turned down by 400 yards, the driver regained control
the unions.
of the reins and halted the panting
steeds.
Turks Gran: Americans New Trial.
Constantinople A sentence of three
days' Imprisonment recently imposed
by the Broussa petty court upon three
American teachers charged with reli­
gious propaganda has been annulled
by the court of appeals and the case
will be retried. The women are Miss
Edith Sanderson of Berkeley. Cal.;
Miss Lucille Day and Miss Jennie Jll-
aon, all teachers in the American
school at Broussa.
Soldier's Shoe
Nail Starts Fire.
West Point. N. Y.— Sparks from a
oldler's hobnailed shoe were blamed
or a $260,000 fire here. A garage and
• serve trm ks at the military academy
lore ware destroyed.
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL
INTEREST
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Young Pitot and Student Flier Injured,
Vancouver. Wash. — Jimmie Rine­
hart. well known Portland 20 year-old
aviator, suffered a broken rib and
minor cuts and bruises, and Jimmie
Nolan. 36. a student filer. Blso of Port­
land, was badly shaken up and bruis­
ed when their plane fell 2000 feet
here and landed in a prune orchard.
Chine and Japan Friction Less.
Shanghai. China. — The Slno-Jaran-
ese treaty deadlock resulting from the
Chinese nationalist government's dec­
laration July 19 that it Intends to abro
gate the Sino-Japanese commercial
pact Is lessening, according to C. T.
Wing, nationalist foreign minister.
Umatilla county's wheat crop for
1928 was estimated at 4,750,000 bush­
els by Henry Collins, Pendleton grain
dealer.
Heavy marketing of white cedar re­
cently is noted in North Bend, one
shipper last week, W. J. Conrad, send­
ing out 3,000,000 feet.
Hop picking began at Dayton last
week in the Will Magness 17-acre
yard, near the Wheatland ferry. One
cent a pound is paid for picking.
File of unknown origin destroyed
the Columbia hotel and its contents
at Wheeler. The loss is placed at
$8500 with Insurance of $4500 by the
owner.
The Eastern Oregon Light & Power
company has let a contract to 3. P.
Nielsen of La Grande for the erection
of a new Bub-statlon at that place to
cost $12,000.
Jack Hudson, deputy surveyor of
Washington county, dropped dead Fri­
day while working with an engineer­
ing crew near Buxton. Heart trouble
was the cause.
The Gold Hill schools will open
Monday, September 10, with George
Melsslnger as superintendent, who
will teach history and economics in
the high school.
The Kentucky Wonder bean harvest
in the Grand Island district is at the
peak and night and day shifts have
been working for several days at the
cannery In Dayton.
Fire of an undetermined origin
nearly destroyed the Union county
courthouse at La Grande, the flames
gutting most of the interior of the
two-story building.
E. C. Lake, for 44 years a resident
of Eugene, died suddenly of heart dis­
ease. Mr. Lake had been in the gran­
ite and marble business in that city
for about 40 years.
The California-Oregon power line Is
being extended from Roseburg eight
miles northwest toward Garden valley
to supply electrical energy for the
farms In that locality.
The amount of money asked for hte
schools of Bandon has decreased ev­
ery year since 1924, when the amount
asked was $52,037.28. This year the
amount asked is $47,044.10.
G. G. Partin, farming west of Red­
mond, paid a fine of $10 in Justice
court at Bend after pleading guilty to
a charge of allowing irrigation water
to run onto a county road.
The Pine Valley Fair association
has decided on September 28-29 as the
dates for the county fair and prepara­
tion is being made for the biggest
event yet staged in Halfway.
High school graduates last year for
Clatsop county's high schools num­
bered 172 and graduates from grade
schools was 312, according to O. H.
Byland, county superintendent.
O. J. Butler, station agent at Tigard
for the Oregon Electric, has received
orders to close the office, business
having fallen off to such an extent
that it is unprofitable to have an
agent.
J. H. Henry of Pasadena, Cal., and
Lincoln, N. H., has started construc­
tion of a lumber mill on the Ashland-
Klamath Falls highway and plans
building a city there, to be known as
Lincoln.
One hour after he had robbed the
bank of Vernonia. R. E. Doone, 25, had
been captured, had confessed and
waived preliminary hearing, and had
been held to the grand Jury under
$8000 bail.
Paul Detlefsen, Coquille high school
student, is dead at Myrtle Point from
a double skull fracture received when
his car left the road and plunged over
a grade into the north fork of the Co­
quille river.
A new structure to replace the
schoolhouse totally destroyed by fire
July 26, will be built immediately in
the Dancbo district near Eugene. Cit­
izens voted a bond Issue ot $5000 to
provide a new building.
The first annual Oregon twin round­
up will be held in Albany September
1, according to plans of Leonard Gil-
key. secretary of the chamber of com
merce. Each set ot twins entering
will receive an entry award of $1. and
other prises will be granted for the
two that most resemble each other
and the youngest and oldest pairs.
Scolded because she went to a dance
at Seaside with a girl whom her fath­
er did not approve. Margaret Basil.
17. daughter of Rudolph Basil of As­
toria, commltteed suicide by ieapinR
into the water near the Youngs bay
bridge.
Three road crews are working In
Crater National forest. Forty are
building road at Fish lake, 15 in the
Dead Indian area, while 15 are in the
Lodge Pole district. These crews will
continue until winter and will continue
work next spring.
The Nehalem Bay fair was held at
Nehalem for ft two-day session with a
record attendance. One of the features
of the fair was the floral display, said
to excel any seen there in the past.
The Grants Pass Chamber of Com­
merce has adopted a resolution op­
posing the four bills designed to close
the Rogue, Umpqua, McKenzie and
Deschutes rivers to further power and
Irrigation development.
Actual construction has commenced
on a new dam across the Rogue river
at the site ot the power plant formerly
owned by the city of Gold Hill, and
lately acquired by the Beaver Port­
land Cement company.
The city council of Marshfield or­
dered an investigation of conditions
which prevail against radio reception,
and intends enforcing an ordinance
providing against electrically equipped
machines during the nighL time.
Deer In Curry county are more
plentiful than for years, according to
John Adams, former game warden,
who farms in the hills, and complains
that deer have been breaking througb
his fences and eating his vegetables.
The general fund deficit of the state
now aggregates approximately $100,-
000, but will be Increased to more
than $750,000 by the first of next year,
according to a statement given out
by Thomas B. Kay, state treasurer.
Improvement of the Pacific highway
between New Era and Oregon City
will be completed In November, ac­
cording to Roy Klein, state highway
engineer. Rock work will continue
throughout the winter, but this will
not interfere with traffic.
Repairing of the bridge over the
Yamhill river at the east edge of
Dayton Is completed. Farmers along
the Dayton-Salem market road met
with the Yamhill county court In Mc­
Minnville and decided on measures to
speed up road construction.
T. A. Snyder, 65, employed on a
ranch near Donald, was killed some
time Saturday night when he was
struck by an unidentified motorist.
His body was found near the highway
on which he was walking from his
place of employment to Donald.
A. C. Chase, who Is operating the
Holt-Chase cannery at Myrtle Point,
says there Is a heavy demand for
huckleberries, and he Is asking for
pickers when the season opens. The
cannery is operating on corn on cob,
evergreen blackberries and beans.
A Rambouillet ram bred by the
University of Idaho topped the second
annual Oregon ram sale last week,
held In Pendleton, ft was sold to
Harry Ruhl for $350. Five hundred
rams were sold. The sale was con­
ducted by the Oregon Wool Growers
association.
At the nine state institutions for
the care ot the insane, feeble-minded,
prisoners and other wards, the pop­
ulation July 31, 1928, was 4964, as
against 4747 on the same date in 1927,
The most pronounced increase in pop­
ulation was at the state hospitals and
penitentiary.
Dragged a long distance by runa­
way horses, Louis Papa, Pleasant
Ridge farmer, died within 12 hours,
according to information received at
Redmond. The wagon to which the
horses were hitched ran over the
farmer, breaking several bones and
causing internal injuries.
More than 3000 persons are now
employed In the canner'es operating
in Salem, according to a labor survey
completed recently. Approximately
1000 of these workers are employed
in one cannery. Reports Indicated
that the canneries would continue to
operate until late in October.
The second cutting of hay in the
Halfway district is practically all in
the stacks and threshing of grain is
under way. Despite the late spring,
crops are excellent and quite as early
as usual. Quite a number ot hay
crops have already been sold and the
price is very gratifying to the farmers.
The spring fishing season on the
Columbia closed August 25 as provid­
ed by law. Efforts to secure an ex­
tension of a week on the grounds that
the season has been abnormal was
abandoned with the receipt of definite
news that Governor Hartley ot Wash­
ington has refused to act upon the
plea of the fishermen.
Crater lake national park in Oregon
is having the most popular year in
its history, the national park service
has been informed. The number of
travelers visiting the park has broken
all records and they represent every
state in the union. Hawaii ami Porto
Rico and nine foreign countries, rang
tng from Canada to South Africa. Up
to the middle ot August 70.429 persons
had visited the park as against 44,581
for the same period in 1927.
The last two vacancies In the Pa­
cific college faculty at Newberg have
been filled by the appointment of
Miss Laura A. Betts of Des Moines,
Iowa, as librarian and Miss Alice B.
Myers of Portland as professor of
French and German.
The North Bayside grange is con
| structing a grange hall at Glasgow
which will be completed and ready for
occupancy in five weeks. The build­
ing is to be 51x80 feet, and will have
kitchen and banquet room, besides
the general assembly halt
N ILS A. OLSEN
BUSINESS RECORD
IS UNPARALLELED
S how ing fo r L a st S ix Months
B reaks All P revio u s
Records.
Nils A. Olsen, who has been appoint­
ed chief of the bureau of agricultural
economics of the Department of Agri­
culture, succeeding Lloyd S. Tenny,
resigned.
FIRST CLASS AIR
MAIL SHOWS GROWTH
Washington. D. C.—Transportation
by air of all first class mail between
distant points In the United States is
within the realm of possibilities.
High postoffice officials state that
the Increased air mail business has
opened new revenues for expansion of
air mail service.
Second Assistant Postmaster Gen­
eral Irving W. Glover, In charge of
air mail service, has under consider­
ation a dozen petitions from cities urg­
ing that they be given air mail service.
The department, however, will take
no action on these requests until after
the full effects of the reduced air mall
rates have been determined. The re­
duction to 5 cents an ounce for first
class air mail has already Increased
the volume about 45 per cent.
Glover predicted that the air mall
business would expand another 50 per
cent in the next six months.
Contract operators have reported to
the department that mail has become
so heavy that preparations have been
made to fly extra sections whenever
necessary.
'Washington, D. C.—Business condi­
tion In the United States during the
last six months and the few years Just
preceding were declared by the com­
merce department to have exhibited
"a general stability unparalelled In the
history of the United States or any
other important industrial country."
The statement was based upon the
showings of all the statistical ba­
rometers which have been set up by
the government with the co-operation
of a variety of economic agencies to
detect the ebb and flow of the cur­
rents of trade, traffic, production and
consumption.
"With only occasional minor réces­
sions, such as appeared, for example,
during a few months of 1927, business
and Industry as a whole remained at
a high level for a long period of
time,” the statement said. “This
period has been one ot almost un­
broken increase in production and con­
sumption without exhibiting any of
the characteristics of a business boom.
There have been unprecedented
amounts of savings and investments
of new capital in recent years. Thia
investment, together with improve­
ments in methods, has greatly increas­
ed the efficiency of industry and the
output per worker.
“The general quantitative index of
manufacturing production, the most
comprehensive of all measures of in­
dustrial activity, in the first half ot
1928 exceeded the previous high rec­
ord of the first half of 1927. The
building Industry, which has been dur­
ing all recent years a very important
factor in creating demand for manu­
factured products and for labor, show­
ed greater activity than in any other
six months’ period in American his­
tory. The automobile industry, which
so conspicuously reflects the buying
power of the people, had a larger out­
put than at any time except the first
half of 1926.’*
EMFLOYE IS BLAMED
FOR SUBWAY CRASH
New York—Full responsibility for
the subway wreck In which 15 persons
S. P. GETS NEW O F F IC E R S were killed and more than 100 injured
at Times Square was saddled on to
the back of an obscure switch In­
Paul Shoup W ill Succeed William
spector.
Sproule as President of the Road.
William Baldwin, the only man ar­
San Francisco. — Breaking his sil­
ence on the question of his retirement, rested after New York’s first major
William Sproule, president of the subway disaster, was released on bail
Southern Pacific company confirmed of $10,000 when he appeared In court
previous reports that he would retire to answer to a charge ot homicide.
December 3, this year. He will be Bond was furnished by the Inter-
succeeded by Paul Shoup, now execu­ borough Rapid Transit company,
tive vice president, who will have whose attorneys came into court to
defend the company employe.
headquarters in San Francisco.
According to the complaint filed
Henry De Forest will retire from
against
him by District Attorney Ban-
his present office of chairman of the
executive committee to become chair­ ton, Baldwin was criminally negli­
man ot the board, a new position, in gent because he ordered a motorman
direct charge of management of the to “proceed against a red signal light
company's general financial affairs and over a switch which he knew to
and consolidation matters. Hale Hold­ be defective."
en, president of the Chicago, Burling­
ton & Quincy Railroad company, will S U B M A R IN E D E V IC E SU C C ESS
succeed Mr. De Forest as chairman of
the executive committee in general Navy Men Go Down 110 Feet With
Oxygen Bag.
control of business.
Washington, D. C.—Successful use
Three Mexican War Veterans Living. of a simple breathing device, design­
Washington, D. C.—With the death ed for rescue of men on wrecked sub­
of August Markle at Lodi, Ohio, but marines, was accomplished In experi­
three veterans of the Mexican war ments conducted off Dahlgren, Va., by
survive, the pension bureau announc­ two naval divers, who descended 110
ed. These three old soldiers are Wil­ feet in a diving bell and arose to the
liam F. Buckner of Paris, Mo., 100; surface without ill effects.
The device consists of a bag of oxy­
Owen Thomas Edgar, 97, of this city,
and Richard D. Howard, 97, of Sterl­ gen and a mouthpiece strapped on
the head and weighs only two pounds.
ing City, Texas.
If the device is adopted for use in the
75 submarines In commission in the
TH E MARKETS
navy, one for each member of the
Portland
Wheat—Big Bend bluestem. hard crew is to be placed in each of the
white, $1.30; soft white and western three escape compartments.
The men would emerge through the
white, $1.11 >4; hard winter and west­
ern red, $l.O7’4; northern spring, escape hatches. One of them is in
the forward part of the submarine,
$1 osi,.
Hay — Alfalfa $16.50017; valley a second in the conning tower and
timothy $17017.50; eastern Oregon the third in the rear.
timothy. $2102150.
Recount in Ohio Finds Wet Victor.
Butterfat—51c.
Columbus, O.— Graham P. Hunt,
Eggs—Ranch, 26035c.
Cattle—Steers, good. $11.75012.50. Cincinnati wet, is the democratic nom­
Hogs—Medium to choice, $10.500 inee for the short term United States
senatorial seat made vacant by tho
13.50.
Lambs — Good to choice, $10.750 death of Senator Frank B. Willis last
spring. His nomination was declared
$12.25.
by Secretary of State Clarence J.
Seattle.
Wheat—Soft white, western white, Brown, with an of icial majority of
$1.12; hard winter and western red, 757 votes over Senator Cyrus Locher,
>1.07; northern spring. $1.09; blue- Cleveland. The official count by the
secretary of state gave Hunt 94,198
| stem. $1.30.
Hay — Alfalfa, $24; timothy $30; votes to 93,441 for Senator Locher.
P. 3.. $24
Massachusetts Man Gets Hoover's Jab
Butterfat—61c.
Superior. Wis. — President Coolidge
Eggs—Ranch. 28 0 31c.
Cattle—Prime steers. $11.75012.50. accepted the resignation of Secretary
Hogs—Prime, $13 25013.50.
Hoover from the cabinet and appoint­
ed William F. Whiting of Holyoke,
Lambs—Choice. $11.25© 12 2«.
Spokane.
Mass., to succeed him. Whiting is
Hogs — Good, and choice, $12.750 head ot the Whiting Paper company
13.06.
of Holyoke. Mass. He la about 65
Cattle-Steers, good, $11011.7k.
years of age.