RUSSIA WILL ADHERE
TO KELLOGG TREATY
E. R. A. S E LIG M A N
In v ita tio n E xtended by F ra n c e
to S oviet G overnm ent is
Accepted.
Moscow.—Soviet R ussia has made
known Its Intention of adhering to the
Kellogg Briand renunciation of w ar
pact, a t the same tim e JJpking to th e
tre a ty which was signed In P aris the
question of disarm am ent.
Announcem ent th a t the soviet gov
ernm ent would accept the Invitation
extended through F rance to adhere to
th e pact was contained In a note hand
ed to A m bassador H erbette, th e
French envoy In Moscow.
The soviet answ er says th a t while
th e pact Is vague and has no provi
sions for disarm ing, yet "It does Im
pose certain obligations upon coun
tries before the b ar of public opinion
and sim ultaneously gives the soviet
union a new possibility of subm itting
to all the signatory nations a question
of the g reatest Im portance to the
cause of peace—th at of disarm am ent
—which Is th e one and only guar
an tee against w ar.”
The note reviews th e efforts of the
Russian governm ent to bring about
disarm am ent and m entions particu
larly the plan presented by the soviet
rep resen tativ es a t Geneva for to tal
disarm am ent.
The pream ble to th e note, p art of
which Is to be forwarded to the United
S tates through th e French govern
m ent, m akes clear th a t the soviet gov
ernm ent has n eith er enthusiasm nor
adm iration for the treaty signed In
Paris.
•
E. R. A. Seligman of Columbia uni
versity, who was selected by John J.
Raskob, national Democratic chair
man, to make a complete study of the
farm relief situation and d raft a plan
for the benefit of the farm ers.
BODIES OF AIR CRASH
VICTIMS RECOVERED
P o rt Townsend, W ash. Two bodies
of two passengers washed ashore in
Discovery bay, n ear here, revealed th e
fate of the seven persons aboard th e
B ritish Columbia Airways monoplane
which plunged into the S trait of Juan
de Fuca In a dense fog Saturday, Aug
ust 25.
SHIP IS OPERATED
ENTIRELY BY RADIO
W ilhelm shafen, Germany. — Ger
m any's new "phantom " ship, the radio-
controlled Zaehringen, Is able to per
form difficult m aneuvers with weird
accuracy and not a soul on board.
In trial m aneuvers w itnesed by ex
p erts and press rep resen tativ es, It
obeyed radio commands with the ex
actitude of a fully manned vessel.
The ship’s only point of contact
w ith the world is Its antenna. On
th e com m ander's bridge instead of
th e usual nautical Instrum ents th ere
Is an electrical apparatus which upon
receiving the corresponding signal
from the m other ship "L ightning" sets
In motion such m achinery as is neces
sitated for starting, increasing or re
tarding the speed, stopping or chang
ing the vessel’s course.
The m other ship can also Ignite
searchlights and o th er lights on the
Zaehringen, and can cause the Zaeh
ringen to envelop Itself with a smoke
screen.
‘ BOB" G AINES HANGED
Seattle Man Pays W ith Life
Murder In 1928 of Daughter.
for
W alla W alla, W ash. — W allace C.
(llob) Gaines paid the suprem e penal
ty at sta te ’s prison for th e m urder of
his 22 year-old d aughter Sylvia th e
night of July 16. 1926.
The condemned man was com par
atively calm as he stood on the gal
lows trap.
He walked unassisted from th e
death cell, accom panied by his sp ir
itual adviser, Frank Novak, and pri
son authorities.
W hile prison atten d an ts hastily per
formed th eir last m inute duties and
Novak prayed, Gaines stood unmoved.
Once he com m ented: “Get th is over
as quick as you can.” Those w ere
his last words.
Gaines was convicted August 19,
1926. a fte r a sensational tw ow eeka
tria l of th e brutal slaying of his
■laughter Sylvia Ju n e 16 of th at year.
Subsequent appeals to the state
suprem e court and the United S tates
suprem e court and at the last m inute
to th e governor proved futile.
British W alker Cup Team Routed.
W heatln. 111.—The W alker cup. sym-
iHtlical of the am ateu r golf team cham
pionship of G reat B ritain and the
United S tates, will rem ain In th e pos
session of Bobby Jones and his seven
men phalanx for at least another tw o
years. The Am ericans won seven of
th e eight single m atches at the Chi
cago Golf club, which combined with
th e ir clean sweep of the two-ball four-
sem es gave them th e cup. 11 m atches
to one, th e most overw helm ing vic
tory in the five series of m atches
sin ce the trophy was put up In 1922.
Man Charged
With
Burning
Homs.
Oregon City. — Martin Mikkleson,
farm er, who was found tied to a fence
on his farm near Sandy recently, was
charged before Ju stice T atro with
burning hi« own home.
Fargo Bank Closes Its Door«.
Fargo. N. 1>— T he Security National
bank ot Fargo, w ith deposits of ap
proximately »1,000,000. closed its doors
because of trosen assets.
The bodies, wrapped In wreckage
of the plane, were those of Mrs.
A lexander MacCallum Scott of Lon
don, England, whose husband, a for
mer m em ber of parliam ent, was also
a passenger, and Floyd Soverel of
E ast Orange, N. J., who boarded th e
plane at the last m inute.
Both bodies gave evidence of hav
ing been crushed from below as they
sat in th eir chairs. This, aviators
think, proves th at the plane struck
the w ater with terrific force while
In practically a horizontal position.
Instead of a nose-dive.
SENATOR ROBINSON N O T IF IE D
Acceptance Speech Defend* Smith'»
A ttitude on Liquor Issue.
H ot Springs, Ark. — Farm relief,
prohibition, m erchant m arine and
political corruption were singled out
as leading campaign Issues by Sen
ato r Joe T. Robinson of A rkansas, In
accepting the dem ocratic vice-presi
dential nomination.
H e cited farm relief as perhaps the
“ most Im portant” of the four, and de
clared th a t H erb ert Hoover, the re
publican standard bearer, who is de
scribed as the p resid en t's tru sted ad
visor. w as "perhaps m ore directly re
sponsible for the failure of farm re-
l|pf legislation during the Harding-
Coolidge ad m inistrations than any
o th er single political leader.”
S enator Robinson defended the pro
hibition modification stand of Gover
nor Alfred E. Sm ith as a personal
rig h t to which the presidential nom
inee is entitled and denied th a t
Sm ith's program would constitute
"nullification” of the constitution as
charged by republicans.
N ever before has A rkansas given a
candidate to the national ticket of a
m ajor party. Not since 1856 has the
Bouth had a rep resen tativ e on a na
tional b a llo t
T entative Value of Postal Tel. Fixed.
W ashington, 1). C.—The in te rsta te
comm erce commission placed a ten ta
tive valuation of »20.603,725 on the
used property of the P ostal Telegraph
com pany and subsidiary companies as
of Ju n e 30, 1919.
THE MARKETS
Portland
W heat — Big Bend hluestem , hard
white, »1.31; soft w hite and w estern
white. »1.13; hard w inter and w estern
red, * 1 .0 8 4 ; n orthern spring. »110.
Hay — Alfalfa »165O®17; valley
tim othy »17017 50; eastern Oregon
tim othy, »21 ® 21 50.
B u tterat—50c.
E g g s—Ranch, 2 9 4 ® 39c.
C attle— Steers, good, »11.75012.50.
H ogs—Medium to choice, »11 50®
»13.25.
Lam bs — Good to choice, »10.75®
»12 25.
S eattle.
W heat — Sot w hite and w estern
white. »113; herd w inter, w estern
red, » 1 .0 8 4 ; no rth ern spring, »1.10;
bluestem . »1 38.
Hay — Alfalfa. »2»; tim othy »30;
P. 8.. »24.
B u tterfat—61c.
E g g s- Ranch, 28® 36c.
C at-le—Prim e steers, »11.75312 50.
H ogs—Prim e. »13 50013 65.
Lam bs—Choice, »11 25012.25.
Sookane.
H ogs — Good, snd choice, »1160®
12.75.
C attle - Steers, good, »1101171.
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Members ot the E lks’ lodge from
ltles In all sections of Oregon as-
embled In A storia last week for the
nnual state convention of the order, j
DR. J. H D E LLIN G E R
W hen he heard the bellowing of a
mil attacking A rthur Coffin, 24. Ar-
P rin cip al Events of the W eek : ille Baker, Coffin's employer, shot
he bull to death, saving the young
Assem bled fo r In fo rm atio n
; Ban's life.
of O ur R eaders.
I According to crop forecasts, Klam-
i ith county this year will produce be-
H arvest of the Lake L ablsh onion ween 900 and 1000 carloads of potar
crop has started In a small way. buy oes. The first car left K lamath
ers report, and car loading is begin falls last week for San Francisco and
iroufeht »1.10 per hundred pounds.
ning to get under way.
I The Bagley Canning company at
The Roosevelt highway through
Tillamook county is now completed. 1 tsbland is now running a day and
It is a broad, modern thoroughfare light crew. Is employing 200 people
tnd has a payroll of »10,000 per month.
from A storia to Newport.
, The company has already shipped out
F ire destroyed the New E ra Broom
! ¡5,000 cans of fruit and vegetables.
H andle factory, five miles south of
Oregon City, causing a property dam [ A fter an illness of four years, Hugh
{ Jrady, 74, widely known through his
age estim ated a t »50,000.
lervice as city grappler for 18 years
F ire of undeterm ined origin destroy ! ind for 50 years one of the most ex-
ed a w arehouse owned by Louis Lach- I >ert men with grappling hooks on the
mond at Salem, with a loss estim ated
■ :oast, died at his home In Portland.
a t approxim ately »65,000.
I The American Legion is sponsoring
T hree hundred head of horses have I in air derby for Corvallis Septem ber
been bought in Oregon by the Russian 10, and F rancis Zeigler, commander
governm ent for use in the cavalry. if the X,egion and Paul W alters, gen-
Dr. J. H. Dellinger, head of the
They will be shipped from Portland tral chairm an of the air show com-
radio laboratory of the United S tates
by A. C. Ruby.
nittee, have announced 22 committees. bureau of standards, has been made
T o u rist autom obiles from other
T riplets, two girls and a boy, were chief engineer of the technical divi
states passing through Oregon this jorn to Mr. and Mrs. G ilbert Court-
sion of the federal radio commission.
year so far to tal 63,327, according to ! right of Union. The two girls weigh-
statistics In the office of Secretary id five and one-half pounds and the
of S tate Kozer.
J Soy seven. The m other and her trio
A. J. Jones, McMinnville grocer, has , :re getting along satisfactorily. Court-
presented Linfield college w ith a new right Is a w heat farm er in th at dis
drinking fountain that will be install trict.
________
ed on the campus near the B aptist
A cache of guns and other goods
church building.
' :aken from a local hardw are store
Los Angeles, Cal.—E vangelist Aimee i
A p art of the K lam ath m arsh in the ast May has been found in the Rogue Semple M cPherson will be summoned j
n orthern part of the reservation Is dry river a t Gold Hill. The burglar be before the county grand jury in an
ahd hundreds of young ducks died for ing hard pressed, dumped the loot ln- Investigation into her real estate op
lack of w ater, according to M. J. . to the river and escaped. The goods erations a t Lake Tahoe, Cal., resort,
Barnes, district gam e warden.
were returned to the owner a little the labeled “fraudulent” by civil litigants.
According to a decision of the school ’ worse for the ducking.
T his announcem ent was made by the
board, tuition will be collected this
Medford post of the American d istrict atto rn ey ’s office.
year from all pupils attending the ! Legion reports th a t more than 256
Decision to bring the famous ex
Bend schools from outside districts veterans of the world war who reside ponent of the "F our Square Gospel”
having schools of their own.
creed before the Inquisitorial body
In Jackson county have obtained in
M orris Beck has established a fish Jividual loans from the world war followed closely upon the visit of a
curing plant at Florence which it Is veterans’ state aid commission of Ore group of purported "victim s" of her
said will give new im petus to salmon gon totaling »593,437.31. About 10 or realty activities to the prosecutors’
fishing and bring maDy boats to Flor 12 are applying for these loans each office.
A ttorney B enjam in Lewis, leading
ence which now unload at Coos Bay.
month.
H arvesting of B artlett pears was the party, dem anded a crim inal com
K enneth Kinzua, an 8-pound boy
born to Mr. and Mrs. G. H anna of practically completed In orchards plaint against the evangelist. All of
Kinzua, a new town 25 m iles south throughout the Rogue river valley last his clients described them selves as
of Condon, has the distinction of be week, with more than 100 loads being m em bers of Angelus tem ple congre
ing the first child born in th a t town. shipped and 200 cars are stored in gation.
A fter a brief conference, a t which
C entral Parent-T eachers association Medford. More than 1726 w orkers are
h er followers said that Mrs. M cPher
employed
on
the
regular
crew
s
of
the
of F orest Grove will sponsor a clinic
son sold them property n e a r the
for children of pre-school age the first packing plants. Of th at num ber many
northern C alifornia reso rt through
week In October, according to the are women.
m isrepresentations, Deputy D istrict
chairm an of the child w elfare com
The big game districts of Douglas
A ttorney M clsaacs announced th at
county are full of deer, according to
m ittee.
th e m atter would be turned over to
The Eugene cham ber of commerce la Deputy Game W arden Ed W alker, who the county grand jury for investiga
making plans to wage a spirited fight has returned from an extended trip
tion.
against the Initiative m easures oppos In the m ountains east of Roseburg.
ing utilization of the McKenzie river According to W alker, deer are more
B R IE F G ENERAL NEW S
and other Oregon stream s for power plentiful this season than for some
years, and a great many were seen in
purposes.
T he m other of C harles and Sid
The Hayes m int distillery at Lablsh the upper river sections above Steam
Chaplin, Mrs. H annah Chaplin, died at
boat.
C enter began running full capacity
The 1927 legislative act, which Glendale, Cal.
last week. It is running about two
G overnor A. G. Sorlie of N orth Da
and one-half gallons of oil to the tub, m akes the state board of control the
k ota died in Blsm ark. D eath was
a half gallon below what norm al yield purchasing agent for all state Institu
tions and departm ents, is not broad caused by h eart disease.
would be.
Florence Vidor, motion picture star,
The box factory and planing mill enough to give it authority to take has been m arried to Jasch Heifetz,
over
from
the
state
library
board
the
of the Baker W hite Pine Lum ber com
world famous concert violinist.
pany was reopened for a run of sev purchase ot books ot the public school
The S anta Fe railroad received
libraries
of
the
state.
T
his
was
the
eral weeks. It was said th at the work
au thority from the in te rsta te com
opinion
handed
down
by
the
attorney
would last more than a month and per
general a t the request of Miss Corn m erce commission to acquire the Kan
haps longer.
sas City, Mexico & O rient railroad by
elia Marvin, state librarian.
W ith the purpose of defeating the
purchase of its capital stock am ount
Sombreros, lound shirts, Windsor
Dunne m easure affecting auto license
ing to »14,507,500.
ties,
buckskin
vests
and
other
cowboy
fees and adding an additional two-cent
“ More than 100.000 people are fac
tax on gasoline the Linn County Good accoutrem ents will be in vogue as the ing starvation in the hurricane-devas
Roads association has been organized male attire in Pendleton until aftet tated area ot H aiti. All anim als were
the Round-up as a result of the dress
a t Albany.
killed and entire crops were destroy
up parade held last week. The Round
ed. C ultivated farm s were completely
The contract for construction of the
up will be held on Septem ber 19, 20
drowned out.
foundation for the new Baker com
21 and 22 this year and the dress-up
m unity hotel was let last week. The
j parade officially opened the Round up
Bostan Man H eads Foreign W ar Vets.
building to be razed on the hotel site
season although preparations for the
Indianapolis, Ind.—Eugene P. Car
originally boused the first livery stable
epic dram a of the west have been un
v er Jr. of Boston, Mass., was elected
in Baker.
I derw ay for months.
national com m ander in chief ot the
Otis Day. who has lived in the John
Thirty-two persons were killed and
Day country alm ost 60 years, made his I 418 persons were Injured In 2515 traf V eterans of Foreign W ars a t th eir
29th encam pm ent here. He won over
first visit to Portland a few days ago.
flc accidents in Oregon during July P atrick W. Kelley of Portland, de
Day had never seen a stre e t car nor
according to a report prepared by T partm ent com m ander of Oregon, the
"such tall buildings" until he arrived
A. Raffety, in charge of the stat« only o th er candidate.
Mrs. Bessie
In Portland.
i traffic departm ent. More than 100( H anken of Revere. Mass., was elected
The fruit warehouse of the Drager : of the accidents were caused by reck
Fruit company at Salem, together with less driving, while 407 accidents w en president of the W om an's auxiliary.
several thousand cases of dried prunes due to drivers failing to give the prop
Repetto Rancho Brings $7,500,000.
and dried loganberries, was destroyed e r signals. In 236 cases drivers at
Los Angeles, Cal —The old Repetto
by fire with a loss estim ated at more 1 tem pted to pass other cars on tht
rancho, owned by the I. W. Heilm an
than »10.000.
i wrong side of the road.
estate of San Francisco, was sold to
The Portland Seed company has con
Salem business men, co-operatlnp J. B. Ransom, head of a Los Angeles
tra d e d with a number of farm ers of with the local cham ber ot commerce
corporation, and O. N. Gabriel for »7,-
the W arren section for 56 acres of have launched a campaign to obtalr
500.000. The rancho contained 1558
seed peas at a contract price of »120 I for th at city a federal building to cosl
acres and adjoins the eastern bound
per ton. The crop is expected to approxim ately »250,000. The propos
ary of Los Angeles. The deal was de
average one ton per acre
j ed stru ctu re would house the post clared the greatest of its kind ever
William P. Merry of Portland was office and other federal departm ent! closed in southern California.
appointed hy Governor P atterson a ' with headquarters in Salem. Th«
director ot the Museum Association of move was launched after word hat Motorcyclist Dies But Sticks to Seat.
Oregon. A branch of the association, ' been received that bids for the pro
Montesano, W ash. — Adolph J. K.
which will feature Oregon products, posed postoffice annex had been re Gregorie, 18, was found stone dead
is being opened in Portland.
i turned from W ashington unopened.
beside the Olympia highway still seat
R epresenting the largest summer
Encourage by the success of the 20! ed boldly astride the motorcycle he
building program of this type in the j hom esteaders on the north and north had been riding. Skid mark* showed
history of the U niversity of Oregon, j east fringes of Tule lake, and by th< he had gone off the curbing and
new qu arters for 455 students are on beginning of construction of the Mo struck against a telephone pole.
d ir construction at the Eugene insti doc N orthern railroad, which will bi
tution and a total of approxim ately sect the valley, the United S tates gov
Chicago Rum Raider* Too Rough.
(550.00*) is being spent.
ernm ent has decided to open up ai
Chicago. — H arry M. Dengler of
More than 50.000 pickers will be at additional 2000 acres to homestea« W ashington prohibition headquarters
work in the W illam ette valley hop entry on the northern part of Tub arrived nere and launched an investi
fields this week, according to a labor lake, on the west side of Lost river gation of the alleged rough m ethods
survey conducted hy the Marlon coun It was announced at Klamath Falls to ! and quick trig g er tactics of a special
ty agent. Although the crop Is only H. D. Newell, m anager of the Klamatl I prohibition unit commanded by George
approxim ately 75 per cent of normal, Irrigation protect. The land will b> "H ard Boiled” Golding during six
the quality excels that of last year.
opened next soring.
I m onths of activities in this district.
AIMEE FACES QUIZ
BY A GRAND JURY
THREATENED RAIL
STRIKE IS AVERTED
E xe c u tive s
and
T ra in m e n
Reach A greem ent on
P ay In c re a se .
W ashington, D. C. — The United
S tates board of m ediation announced
th a t an agreem ent had been reached
by the executive officers of the Order
of R ailway Conductors and the Broth
erhood of Railroad T rainm en and the
railroads of the w estern territo ry in
the dispute betw een them involving
ra te s of pay and certain rules.
Final approval of the agreem ent Is
subject to ratification by the associa
tions of general com m ittees of the
w estern territory.
Should approval be denied by the
employe associations or general com
m ittees of the w estern territory, the
board said, th e dispute would continue
to exist and would have to be tre a t
ed in accordance w ith the law.
It was the belief of the board th at
th e agreem ent, which under the law
cannot be m ade public, will be ac
ceptable to both sides in the dispute.
T he plan would affect 70,000 em
ployes on 80 railroads, involving 98
p e r cent of the m ileage w est of Chi
cago.
i The original dem ands of the labor
organizations involved a pay Increase
ranging from 10 per cent for yard-
p e n to 18 per cent for conductors
and o th er trainm en. The railw ays of
fered a pay increase am ounting to ap
proxim ately 7 4 pet cent on condition
th a t certain w orking rules be dropped.
¡¡The Increase was acceptable, but the
[employes refused to give up the rules,
[which they m aintained were more im
p o rta n t than the pay question.
RULING ON MONROE
DOCTRINE REFUSED
, Geneva. — The League of N ations
will refuse to in terp re t the Monroe
doctrine, it was understood on good
authority.
The league council was reported to
have drafted a reply at a secret m eet
ing to Costa R ica's dem and for an
In terp retatio n of the doctrine's appli
cation. The reply indicates It is im
possible for the council to comply
w ith the request because the 7>lonroe
(doctrine concerns only the states di
rectly interested.
' The United S ttaes received Its first
opportunity to participate with the
¡council of the League of N ations in
th e perform ance of its official func
tions.
On proposal of W. L. Mackenzie
K ing, prem ier of Canada, the coun
cil authorized Sir Eric Drummond,
secretary-general, to invite the United
■States to send representatives to th e
¡January session of the council. The
purpose would be to participate in
.the work of the new central board
created by the league’s 1925 opium
convention for the control of the in
ternational traffic in drugs.
HIRAM JOHNSON N O M IN A TED
California S enator Gets Big M ajority
in S tate Prim ary.
San Francisco, Cal.—S enator H iram
W . Johnson will be the republican
nom inee and Minor Moore, a Los
A ngeles attorney, will be the demo
cratic nominee for the seat In the U nit
ed S tates senate at the general elec
tions in November.
A t the California prim ary election
S enator Johnson received a trem en
dous m ajority over his republican op
ponent, C harles H. Randall, a form er
rep resen tativ e In congress of Los
Angeles.
1 S enator Johnson's m ajority was
C o re than 6 to 1.
. Moore was unopposed for the demo
cratic nom ination.
T he vote throughout the state was
light, due to lack ot Interest on the
p a rt of the electors. Thé reg istra
tion was more than 2,000.000, but less
than 50 per cent of the voters cast
th eir ballots.
Four Persons Shot in Spokane Fight.
Spokane, W ash.—Four persons w ere
wounded in a downtown gun b attle
when police officers clashed with John
O'Mera, 30, ex-convict, suspected of
burglary. O'Mera was hit by a charge
of buckshot and fled but was captured
later. The wounded are: Mrs. R. E.
Webb, 19, splintered glass in back.
Mrs. J. W McAlvin, 39, bullet in arm .
John O'Mera, buckshot wounds. P a
trolm an W illiam Hudson, buckshot
wounds in legs.
China
Threatens
Andrews'
Fossils-
Pekin. China.—Faced with probable
■alzure of 85 crates of fossils dug up
by his expedition In the Gobi desert,
Roy Chapman Andrews may appeal
to W ashington. D. C . for aid in getting
his discoveries out of China. This be
came known when Mr. Andrews said
h e had heard th at Chinese au th o rities
in Kalgan were contem plating confis
cation of the finds.