GERMAN DIRIGIBLE
CROSSES ATLANTIC
G raf Z ep p elin , W orld s G rea t
est Airship, Lands at
Lakehurst. N. J.
P rin cip al Events of the W eek
Assem bled fo r In fo rm atio n
of Our R eaders.
L akehurst, N. J.—The giant airliner
G raf Zeppelin won a fight against ad
verse winds and the handicap of a
damaged port horizontal, and landed
here Monday.
The giant liner left Friedrichshafen.
Germany, T hursday morning, with 60
people on board, Including one woman.
The en tire trip took her about 109
hours.
All through the early hours of Sat
urday night and for a great part of
Sunday the airship hovered in the
region of the Bermudas, fighting winds
and seeking to find a more favorable
course. For a tim e she even flew in
a southerly direction in order to gain
b etter conditions.
Only the most m eager information
was coming through and It was not
until noon Sunday th at the ship was
definitely located about 80 miles east
t y north of Bermuda.
The Graf Zeppelin la the g reatest
aircraft In the world. It is driven by
five reversible engines with 550 horse
pow er each. Its fuel Is “blue gas."
It cost about $1,000,000 and is own
ed by the German people, the money
being raised largely through popular
subscription. It has a maximum speed
of more than 80 miles an hour.
The Boy Scout troop of Mosier Is
organizing a drum and bugle corps un
d er the supervision of Guy Duvall.
A three-day C hristian Endhavor con
vention will be held a t the C hristian
church In E stacada November 2, 3
and 4.
Dalton Biggs, Judge of the Ninth dis
trict, which includes Malheur, G rant
and H arney counties, died at his home
In Ontario.
The cranberry harvest on Clatsop
Plains has been completed and ac
cording to grow ers the yield has been
quite satisfactory.
E ight men and 54 women a re now
employed a t the Grand Island can
nery, where 400 cases of tom atoes are
being canned daily.
Commander Richard E. Byrd, hero
A chapter of the Order of De Molay
of the flight over the North pole, who with 25 charter m em bers was Institut
loft San Pedro, Cal., recently in com- J ed in St. Helens recently by Friend
mand of an expedition to the South ship chapter of Portland.
pole.
The Larson-Kennedy company Is at
The record for nailing apple boxea
was set recently by Robert Beal, up
per Hood River valley boy, son of Mr.
and Mrs. L T. Beal. The youth lidded
2029 boxes In ten hours. He received
60 cents a 100 boxes.
The 1929 Oregon grand lodge con
ventions of the K nights of Pythias
and Pythian S isters will be held In
Portland, according to announcem ent
made at the closing session of the 1928
meetings held in Salem.
The co-operative berry grow ers of
the Gresham section handled 3073 tons
of berries and cherries this year,
against 2059 tons in 1927, an increase
of 50 per cent and they paid for har
vesting the crop $137,515.
One hundred years old, George
W ashington Wendover, Civil war vet
eran, celebrated his birthday a t his
home In Oregon City recently. W end
over Is able to read the daily papers
without the aid of glasses.
The W apinitia C attlem en's associa
tion started Its annual fall ride for
upper range stock pastured in the
Mount Hood national forest recently.
The fall drive tak es on the n atu re
of a rodto, with social campfire circles
at night.
Because of the m arked increase in
registrations for the November elec
tion, it has been necessary for the
secretary of state to order a second
edition of voters’ pam phlets. These
pamphlets are now being sent out by
the state departm ent.
E. R. Pooley, Pine Grove orchardist
who has completed packing his d'An
jou pear tonnage from a five-acre full
bearing tract, reports 1420 packed
boxes per acre. The pears were sold
for $2.50 per box, bringing the total
value of the year's crop from each
acre to $3550, or $17,750 for the block.
Combined efforts of the N orth Bend
and Marshfield fire departm ents sav
ed more than $500,000 in the W estern
Lumber M anufacturing company, Ost-
lind F urniture, Inc., and th e Coos
Veneer & Box company plants, when a
fire started in th e Oregon P roducts
plant. The loss was estim ated a t $50,-
000.
There were 137 fires in the state
outside of Portland during Septem ber,
1928, as against 57 fires during the
corresponding period in 1927, accord
ing to reports received a t the offices
ot Clare A. Lee, state fire m arshal.
Fire losses during Septem ber, 1928,
aggregated $392,0O0 as compared with
$250,000 in Septem ber, 1927.
F arm ers in the vicinity of Redmond
In D eschutes county are changing rap
idly to the raising of clover for seed,
W. M. Wilson, president of the Red
mond Land it Loan hank said. In
the past season, approxim ately 550
acres were planted to red and Alsike
clover, A survey of the d istrict in
dicates the planting this fall and next
spring will am ount to about 2500 acres.
The road over Mapleton hill, which
Is one of the present routes between
Mapleton and Florence, is now closed
and will rem ain so until spring, ac
cording to announcem ent at the office
of the Siusiaw national forest. The
forest service has had a crew of men
a t work improving the road over the
m ountain and to use it this fall and
w inter would damage it badly, it Is
stated.
Increasing popularity of C rater Lake
National park in Oregon is clearly in
dicated in attendance figures for the
1928 season ju st issued by departm ent
of interior. None of Uncle Sam 's great
parks showed as g reat an increase in
visitors ns did C rater lake this sea
son. According to departm ent figures,
113,323 persons visited th 's national
domain, as compared with 82.354 dur
ing 1927. This is an increase of
39,969.
P lans for the season’s turkey ac
tivities have been tentatively outlin
ed by the Douglas County Co-opera
tive Turkey G rowers' association, a
new m arketing agtncy said to control
about 60 per cent of the county's crop.
A t a meeting of grow ers in Uakland,
headquarters of the association, an
estim ate of the birds already Signed
up with the organization showed a
total of about 40.990, with others still
expected.
W alnut grow ers of Oregon are in
better shape this year from a m arket
ing standpoint than they have ever
been. The crop is a record one for
, the state, and w ith crops in all other
walnut producing countries of the
world small, price* are high and the
demand strong. The Oregon nut har
vest is now on and will continue for
about 39 days. The w alnut crop is
' estim ated at from 1299 to 1599 tons as
compareu with about 599 tons in 1927.
The filbert crop is close to 199 tons
' and last year was only a third as
| large.
work excavating a boom for the Coos
Bay Lum ber company near Coquille,
calculated to hold 5,000,000 feet of
logs.
Septem ber, with 255 deaths,, was
th e healthiest m onth th a t P ortland
has had this year, breaking the record
W ashington, D. C.—Speaking over set by August when there were 260
a radio and cable circuit 6500 mile* deaths.
long. President-Coolidge and King Al
Fire, which started from the exhaust
fonso of Spain inaugurated a telephon
of a gasoline engine, completely de
ic service between their two countries,
stroyed the La Pine hotel and two ad
acclaiming the new m eans of com
joining houses with an estim ated loss
Pekin, China.—Reports received by munication as a great factor In the of $12,500.
the Kansu provincial guild tell of perpetuation of friendship and peace
Ruby Wilson, 6, daughter of Mr. and
famine and suffering in that western between them.
Mrs. Robert Wilson of Boardman, died
Availing
him
self
of
his
first
oppor
province because of a serious drought.
In the hospital at H eppner from chol
The reports also state th at more tunity to speak by radio-telephone
era morbus, the result of eating over
with
Europe,
Mr.
Coolidge
told
King
than 100.000 persons were killed in
ripe melons.
fighting in the province, ulthough the Alfonso th at with the possibility of
A valuable brood sow belonging to
governm ent, legations, Catholic, Meth- I communicating with far countries by
odist, Episcopal and other missions word of mouth, “the danger of any P ere Peterson and 10 tam e geese own
with Kansu connection have not heard . serious disagreem ent is im measurably ed by S. Anderson were shot Friday
by careless hunters near Rocky Point
lessened.”
of any wholesale massacre.
P resident Coolidge’s voice required In Coos county.
A letter received by I)r. S. Parkes
Commemorating the 75th anniver
Cadman, chairm an of the China fam about one-fifth of a second to reach
ine relief organization in New York the king of Spain, 6500 miles away in sary of the founding of the United
city, from Leighton I*. Rand, Chinu ’Madrid. The circuit employed included Presbyterian church a t Albany, 250
Inland mission, at Lanchowful, Kunsu, wire transm ission from W ashington to persons gathered a t a banquet served
told of a m assacre of 200,000 persons Rocky Point, Long Island, whence Mr. a t the church recently.
by fanatic Moslems. A dispatch from Coolidge's rem arks were broadcast
Salmon fishing on the lower Coquille
Shanghai, however, said th at advices , across 3000 miles of ocean to Cupar, river is nt present employing about
from th e China Inland mission Indi Scotland. Front Cupar 1154 miles of 123 men who are catching from three
cated th at the 200,000 deaths resulted direct wire circuit brought the chief to 10 tons per night, for which they
front a Mohammedan uprising which executive’s voice to the border of are paid 8 cents a pound.
had raged for a long time, rath er than Spain, over British and French tele
The W estern Oregon Packing cor
phone lines and through a subm arine
from a mussacre.
poration has finished the run of B art
The Kansu provincial guild said in cable across the channel.
lett pears, 11,000 cans being packed,
Its announcem ent that the number of
Mid has now started work on 700 tons
persons indirectly affected by the mas
BRIEF GENERAL NEW S
of carrots and 60 tons of beets.
sacre far exceed the number killed.
For the first tim e in 50 years a
The official receipts and attendance
w
aterspout
was sighted Friday on the
figures for the 1928 world series an
CHINA RULED BY CHIANG nounced
were: paid attendance, 199,- Oregon coast a short distance off As
toria by Captain C harles A lberts of
Nationalists Name Secretary to Late 075; net receipts, 9777,290.
the steam er Florence Luckenhach.
The
United
States
potato
crop
de
Sun Yat-Sen President.
Linn county electors will vote on a
Nanking. — Chiang Kai-Shek, who clined slightly during Septem ber, the
2 mill levy to raise $30,000 w ith w hich
wns commander in-chief of the nation October estim ate being 463,722,000
to m atch state and federal funds for
alist forces in the Chinese civil war, s bushels, compared with the Septem ber
the construction of the Santiam high
was elected president of the national I estim ate of 466.815.000 bushels.
way to the sum m it of the Cascades.
The
Wyoming
W
oman's
Christian
ist governm ent of the Chinese repub
Tem
perance
union
has
cautioned
mem
Construction has begun on an $85,-
lic. The selection was made by the
central executive council whose 44 bers not to drink cider after it has 000 new grade school building in
m em bers have been th e chief govern stood 24 hours. A resolution to that K lamath Falls. It will be* the third
m ajor si hool plant constructed in
ing force of the nationalist adm inis effect was adopted.
R epresentatives of American, Eng Klamath Fulls in the last three years.
tration.
A $30.099 building perm it has been
The new president Is not only a lish and French banks are negotiating
mem ber of this council but also a with the Polish governm ent regarding issued at Corvallis for the eroctiou of
mem ber of the nationalist governm ent a loan, conclusion of which depends a new Alpha Gamma D elta chapter
council and has been chnirman of the upon agreem ent on details and pur home. The stru ctu re will be of Eng
lish architecture and will house 20
adm inistrative board which has su poses of credits.
A charge of conspiracy against Jose girls.
pervised the eight m inistries or gov
de Leon Toral. Mother Concepcion and
ernm ent departm ents.
Annie Greene, 36, packing house
Chiang Kai-Shek was studying In II others held in connection with the worn, r, died at Medford from injuries
assassination
of
General
Obregon
was
Japan at the Tokio m ilitary college
received when she tripped on the
when the revolution broke out In 1911. ordered withdrawn by the superior ¡ Item of her bathrobe and tell and
He a t onee abandoned his studies, re court of Mexico City.
struck her head on a sharp object in
Prince Gustavus Adolphus, oldest
turned to China and became secretary
her bathroom.
son of the Swedish crown prince and
to Sun Vat Sen.
Colonel W. C. N orth of Portland
prospective heir to the throne, will
was named by Governor P atterson us
43 Lose Lives on French Submarine. visit the United States next month to : a mem ber of the World war veterans'
P aris.- The subm arine Undine, one act as best man at the m arriage of his i state aid commission to fill the va
of the newest units of the strongest father's cousin. Count Bernadotte, and cancy caused by the resignation of W.
arm of the French navy. Is at the Miss Estelle Manville of Pleasantville, I C. Culbertson.
bottom of the ocean and all her crew N. Y.
Boyd Summ ers, postm aster at Swim,
of three officers and 40 men are dead.
has received orders from W ashing
Doctor
Cuts
Out
Own
Appendix,
The m inistry of marine learned that
Los Angeles One of the most ton, D. C , th at Swim postoffice will
the tragedy o n urred about midnight.
amazing
surgical operations ever per- 1 h ereafter function the entire year, in-
October 3, when the submarine was
stead of only through the sum m er sea
ram med off Oporto by the Greek cargo formed stood revealed here with the
son, as formerly.
carrier Aikaterinl M. Goulandrls The announcem ent th at Dr. Robert Meals,
The newly completed school house
young
Hollywood
surgeon,
had
sue-
¡
advices came in brief dispatches from
a t Camas Valley, near Roseburg, was
eessiully removed his own appendix
the French consul at Rotterdam.
Dr. Meals Is well on the way to recov dedicated recently with a program
Pacific Coast Paint Merger Approved. ery. Fully conscious, he lay propped sponsored by Umpqua post of the
American Legion. The concrete build
San Francisco, Cal. The General up with pillows on an ordinary operat
P ain t corporation, a combination of ing table. The pain of his rutting ing was erected at a cost ot Jso.uuu
nine paint companies in six Pacific only slightly dulled by a local anaes- Í to m eet the needs of a large farming
coaat cities, received a corporate per tbetlr. Dr. Meals opened his abdomen, co m m . i.y.
Tweity eight hunter* worked a total
mit from (he California state corpora removed the Inflamed appendix, and , The port commission of Port Or
ford h rs set probable expenses for of 778 days during beptem ber and took
tion commission. The stock of the closed and sewed the wound.
the pert at $9811, anil will ask lor that 449 predatory animal», including 376
company, which has assets of approxl
Sixty Dead In Building Crash.
am ount through the Curry county tax coyotes, 52 bobcats aud 12 stock kill
m ntely >5.090,090, was heavily o v e r
Prague, Cxei ho-Slovakia. — Sixty assessm ent. The annual report shows ing hears, it was reported by Stanley
aubscrll.-d.
workmen were burled under the de the p <it in 1928 has done more bust G. Jew ett, leader of p n ilalo ry aui
bris of an eight story building which Bess than in any past year.
mal control for the United States
S200.000.000 F ilm M e rg e r F o rm e d .
New York, N Y A J200.000.000 m o collapsed here.
Janies Lear, 102 years old, ot bureau of biological survey in Oregon.
tion picture combination through
K lamath Falls died as he slept qutctl) C harles B. Brown of Malheur was
Former Russian Empress Marie Dies a t the home ot tits son. It u lx*ar. Mr. credited with the largest catch, turn
w hlih W arner Brothers Pictures, lu c ,
obtains control of the Vltaphone cor
Copenhagen. Denmark.
The aged L ear was a second cousin of John ing in 37 coyotes aud 14 bobcat* cur
poratlon. the Stanley Company of ex Empress Marie of Russia, born Quincy Adams, sixth president ot the leg 30 working days, a total ot 51
America and First National Pictures.
Princes* Dagmar of Denmark, died United Slates, and It light throughout a n n u ls with the largest num ber oi
Inc., was announced here.
both bobcats and cvyv. s.
her«.
he war under General Lee.
MOHAMMEDANS SLAY
100,000 CHINESE
riBAcdir«*
CO M M ANDER BYRD
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
COOLIDGE TALKS TO
KINS OF SPAIN
DR. HUGO EC K EN ER
PAUL V. M’NUTT NEW
LEGION COMMANDER
L o u is ville. K y ., S elected as
1 929 N a tio n a l C onven
tion C ity.
Dr. Hugo Eckener, who was In
charge of the ZR-3 in its flight across
the Atlantic in 1924, and who com
manded the giant liner Graf Zeppelin
in its flight from Friedrichshafen,
Germafly to Lakehurst, N. J.
GRAYSON COMMANDS
VETERANS OF 1898
H avana.—W illiam L. Grayson of Sa
vannah, Ga., unanim ously was elected
next year’s comm ander in chief of the
Spanish W ar V eterans a t the 39th an
nual encam pm ent here.
Otto Raugh of St. Paul, Minn., was
elected senior vice com m ander In
chief, and Rev. A rthur O. Sykes of
R ochester, N. Y., was elected chaplain
In chief. They were elected w ithout
opposition.
Denver was unanim ously selected
as the m eeting place for the 1929 en
campm ent.
Among the resolutions adopted was
one asking for increased pensions for
veterans of 1898 and 1992, and another
thanking President Machado and the
Cuban people for the hospitality ex
tended convention visitors.
It was announced that 1474 dele
gates have been registered so far,
with an attendance of 9999 veterans.
LIQUOR
R'JM TRADE BRISK
Canadian Whisky Rxports to U. S.
Show Big Increase
Ottawa, Ont.—C anada's exports of
whisky to the United S tates increased
in value from $17,471,437 for the pre
vious year to $18,629,159 for the 12
m onths ending last August 31, it was
shown here in ofticial Canadian trade
figures. Exports of beer and ale de
creased in value.
During April, May and June of this
year, according to the figures, the
United S tates absorbed the total ex
port of Canadian whisky -44,680 gal
lons, valued at $1,919,355. This was
a heavy increase over the correspond
ing period of 1927.
Famous Driver Killed in Track Crash.
Salem, N. H.—Ray Comer of Los
Angeles, one of the best-known driv
ers in the country, was fatally Injured
when a tire on his car blew out, h u rt
ling the m achine off the huge wooden
bowl.
A fter turning over several
times, the car hurst into flames.
Former Christian Science Leader Dead
Rochester, N. Y.—Mrs. Augusta E.
Stetson, formerly one of the leaders
of the C hristian Science church, died
here at the Sagamore hotel a fter an
illness of two months. Friends esti
m ated her age as more than 85 years.
She would never divulge it.
Ontario Ministers Asked Not to Smoke
Toronto, Oct.—A resolution adopted
by the O ntario branch of the W omen's
Tem perance union requested clergy
men not to smoke in public. F orbear
ance was asked as an example to the
younger generation.
U. S. Mining Man Slain by Bandits.
Mexico City.—C harles Smith. Ameri
can mining man. has been m urdered
by bandits near Mascota, a dispatch
from G uadalajara to the new spaper
Excelsion said.
THE MARKETS
Portland
W heat—Big Bend bluestem . hard
white, $1.46; soft white, $1 21; w estern
wh'lte, $129; hard winter, $112;
northern spring, $111; w estern red,
$1.13.
Hay — Alfalfa. $17017.50; valley
tim othy $170 17.50; eastern OregoD
timothy, $20.69 0 21.
B u tterfat—55c.
Eggs—Ranch, 24047c.
C attle— Steers, good. $12012.50.
Hogs—Medium to rhoice, $8010.75
Lam bs—Good to choice, $11012.50.
San Antonio, Texas.—Paul V. Mc
N utt of Bloomington, Ind., was elected
national com m ander of the American
Legion a t the closing session of the
organization's 10th annual convention
here.
Louisville, Ky., won the 1929 na
tional convention.
F or the second successive year, Ml-
Rmi, Fla., was adjudged to have the
best A m erican Legion drum and bugle
corps In the contest at the convention.
Fifteen survivors took part in the
finals. Salem, Ore., was second, Frank
fort post of Philadelphia third and
South Pasadena, Cal., fourth.
The m ost im portant item s of busi
ness of thé session were reports from
the child w elfare, rehabilitation and
Americanism com m ittees.
The child w elfare report recom
mended a program of further co-oper
ation betw een the auxiliary and the
v eteran ’s bureau. It also stressed the
Im portance of using preventive meas
ures to minimize relief work.
The rehabilitation comm ittee made
several recom m endations to improve
the business operations of the reha
bilitation bureau. They also moved
th a t a uniform gift program be pro
vided to lim it the expenditure for each
gift to a hospitalized veteran to nut
more than $3.
The A m ericanism com m ittee recom
m ended indorsem ent of the program
provided by the American Legion com
m ittees for national defense. They
recomfnended th a t auxiliary units
m ake a survey of historic flags within
th eir departm ents and provide for
th eir preservation. They suggested an
international reception for all foreign-
born students attending colleges and
universities in the United States.
Mrs. Boyce Ficklen Jr., W ashington,
Ga., was chosen president of the na
tional auxiliary. Five regional vice
presidents were elected. They were
Mrs. George Murphy, Pleastonville, N.
Y.; Mrs. Fred K raem er, Madison, S.
D. ; Mrs. Louis Julienne, Jackson,
Miss.; Mrs. A. L. Hoyal, Prescott,
Ariz., and Mrs. Nellie H art, Cumber
land, Wis.
BYRD HEADS SOUTH
ON POLAR CONQUEST
San Pedro, Cal.—Commander Rich
ard E. Byrd sailed away from here
tow ard the silences and m ysteries of
the A ntarctic.
He and m em bers of his party hade
goodbye to American soil as the whal
e r C. A. L arsen put out past the break
w ater of San Pedro harbor, with the
shrieks of w histles, the boom of guns,
and the cheers of thousands of per
sons wishing them God speed.
They will go down to the bottom
of the world, to study the birth place
of winds and to fill in the blank
spaces of the world’s map.
For 18 m onths, possibly two years
or even longer, Byrd and his comrades
will he in the icy w astes as they seek
to fly over the south pole and adja
cent regions.
The famous explorer and aviator
headed one of the largest and most
scientifically equipped polar expedi
tions the world has known.
CARNES SHORTAGE $ 9 5 3 .0 0 0
14 New Indictments Returned Against
Alleged Embezzler.
A tlanta, Ga.—Fourteen new indict
m ents charging embezzlem ent of Bap
tist home mission board funds over
three years and involving $203,666
were returned against Clinton S.
Carnes, form er treasu rer of the church
body.
Each w as based on a specific al
leged offense discovered by investiga
tion of C arnes' accounts, to which a
total shortage of $953,000 has been as
cribed by board officials. C arnes pre
viously had been named In three in
dictm ents charging em bezzlem ent of
$280,000.
Philadelphia Police Convicted of Graft
Philadelphia. — T hree Philadelphia
police officers found guilty of extor
tion after a special grand jury started
an investigation of extensive racke
teering. aw aited sentence th at could
reach a maximum of 172 years in
prison.
S eattle.
1
W heat—Soft white, $121*4; west
pro white. $1 20>* hard winter. $1.11;
western red, $114**; bluestem , $146;
northern spring. 11.11*4.
Hay—Alfalfa, $22; tim othy, $28.
B utterfat—52c.
Eggs—Ranch, 34 047c.
C attle- Prime steers. $12012 50.
I Ilo g ’ P rim e. $10010.35.
Lam bs—Choice. $11 25012 50.
Spokane.
Hog*—Good, and choice. $9 6509.75.
C attle —Streets, good, $10 75 011 5v
Misaiatippi School House Stolen.
Wiggins. Miss.—Somebody has stol
en the schoolhouse at Peace, H arrison
county, it was revealed here.
The
small fram e building disappeared the
night before school was to open. No
clew was left.
Lightning
K ill*
Minneaota
Fa-mar.
Owatonna. Minn —Earl J. Bork, 30,
a larm er of near here, was killed when
lightning struck him. He was riding
on a tractor.