ACCORD ON FRENCH T
DEBT BELIEVED NEAR L
ERIC ENGLAND
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
P oincare W ill Ask P a rlia m e n t
> R atify M e llo n -B e re n g e r
T re a ty .
P rin cipal Events of the W eek
Assem bled for Inform ation
of Our Readers.
Pari».—T hat P rem ier Poincare will
request parliam ent to ratify the Mel­
lon-Berenger and C aillauxC hurchill
debt agreem ent» a i a result of hi» con­
versations last week with W inston
Spencer Churchill, B ritish chancellor
of the exchequer, and S. P arker Gil­
bert, agent general for reparations, is
strongly intim ated in circles close to
the French governm ent.
Growing belief th a t the United
S tates would refuse to aid in floating
the German bonds necessary under
th e proposed revision of the Dawes
plan unless the Mellon Bevenger ac­
cord was ratified, is said to exert much
Influence in fram ing the French fi­
nancial policy for the Immediate fu­
ture.
It is also pointed out in governm ent­
al and financial circles th at as France
now Is m eeting her war debt payments
to both America and Great Britain
with perfect regularity, ratification of
th e records Is only a logical step.
Lively interest is displayed by the
French press and in political circles
over the renewal of conversations on
th e debt question by M. Poincare,
Churchill and Gilbert. The fact th at
J. P. Morgan was a luncheon guest of
Chancellor Churchill and Mr. Gilbert
a t the British em bassy is pointed to
by many as having great significance.
In well-informed circles it is gener­
ally conceded th at th e total sum to be
paid by Germany as fixed in 1924 is
im practicable and m ust be consider­
ably reduced.
A 30 ton carload of lime arrived In
Tillamook a few days ago from the
state lime plant and was distributed
to the farm ers and dairymen of the
county.
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A new telephone book containing
8000 names is being made up by tha
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph com­
pany for distribution to patron« In
Lane county.
The first Issue of The Elevator,
semi-monthly publication of the Ore-
1 gon City high school, made Its appear­
ance recently. Mis» Clarice Murray
Is editor-in-chief.
ZEPPELIN SERVICE
PLANNED BY ECXENER
New York Dr. Hugo Eckener, pilot
of the trans-A tlantic dirigible Graf
Zeppelin, hopes th at the flight front
Frfedrlchshafen to L akehurst will in­
terest American capitalists to the ex­
ten t of $14,000.000 in a plan he has
for regular trans-A tlantic airship serv­
ice. He want to have four ships run­
ning on a 50 hour schedule, with the
European term inal in Switzerland and
the American port somewhere near
W ashington or Baltimore, believing
that the best w eather conditions pre­
vail at these places.
The 114,000,000 would be Just
enough, Dr. Eckener estim ates, to
build the ships and the hangars to
house them. He would spend $2,000,-
000 for each dirigible and the hangars
would cost $0000.000.
The trip ju st ended has convinced
him th at t(je Graf Zeppelin is not fast
enough for such service. T h e.sh ip s
he hopes to build will be only slightly
larger than th e Graf Zeppelin but
would have a cru ising speed of 80 or
$5 miles an hour.
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Erie England, recently appointed
chief of the division of agricultural fi­
nance in the bureau of agricultural
economics of the Department of Agri­
culture.
SINCLAIR CONTRACT
HELD TO BE INVALID
W ashington, D. C.— Secretary West
ordered delivery of governm ent royal­
ty oil to the Sinclair (’rude Oil Pur­
chasing company from the Salt Creek
field in Wyoming stopped after a
ruling by Attorney-General Sargent
th at the contracts negotiated by two
ex-secretaries for the sale of the oil
were Invalid.
The order was issued within 24
hours after the attorney-general had
delivered his opinion th at the con­
tracts made by ex-Secretary Fall in
December, 1922. and renewed for five
additional years last February by ex-
Secretary Work, were not binding on
the governm ent because they were
illegally executed.
The action is prelim inary to working
out a plan for the sale of the royalty
oil to the highest and best bidders
after it is readvertised for sale, Secre­
ta ry W est said.
The geological survey announced
that during the current year ending
August 31 the production from the
Salt Greek field totaled 1,281.1)00 bar­
rels, tor which the Sinclair company
paid the governm ent $1,638,000.
BRIEF GENERAL NEW S
Stanley "Bucky” H arris has been
appointed m anager of the Detroit T i ­
gers for the season of 1929.
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Benjamin Strong, governor of the
federal reserve bank of New York,
died In a New York hospital.
President Coolidge has issued a pro­
clamation increasing the duty on fluor­
spar from $5.60 to $8.40 a long ton.
It is u sed lu in cip ally as a flux in mak­
ing steel.
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C. T. ^ ’ang. nationalist foreign min­
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ister, has addressed a note to the
treaty powers, in which he demands
Young Slayer Pays Price of Murder­
their im mediate relinquishm ent of ex­
ing Girl,
tra te rrito ria lity rights.
San Quentin, Cal. In a state of j A dividend of 5 per cent on the cap­
physical collapse, his bravado and pre
ital stock of the Panama railroad coin
tended coolness gone, William Edward pany was declared by the board ot
Hickman, 21, of K ansas City, Mo., was j directors, according to announcement
hanged h ere for the kidnaping and at the war departm ent.
m urder of 12 year-old Marion P arker
Of Los Angeles.
Nationalist China Wants Advisers.
Twenty two seconds after the con
Shanghai. The newly organized n a­
detuned man entered the death chain
ber the trap had been sprung. Fif­ tionalist governm ent state council,
teen m inutes later he was declared headed by General Chiang Kai Shek,
dend by prison doctors. Hickman's which is seeking to bolster the nation­
nerve fulled him ju st as death beck­ alist governm ent's China wide recon­
oned. lie fainted Just before the trap struction program, has decided to ask
was sprung. This declaration was five prominent Americans to act as
made without qualification by Hubert "honorary economic advisers to the
nationalist governm ent." The Ameri­
Hognhoom, the official executioner.
The executioner had hardly raised cans selected for the invitation were
Henry Ford. Owen I). Young, Robert
his right hand as a signal tor the trap
Harper. W ashington banker; Edwin
when the tense spectators saw Hick
m an's knees begin to bend. Ilia body Seligman and Jerem iah Jenks, econo
sagged and he was virtually hanging mists.
from the noose when the three con­
cealed n o n In the boxlike room
sprung the trap.
Coolidge Approves Reservoir Project
W ashington, li. (' ( on-lructlon ot
U. S. Infantry to Have New Rifles
W ashington, I). C. Paving the way
for ultim ate arm ing of Uncle Sam's
Infantry with sem i-autom atic rifles
and spelling the end ot the historic
III calibre Springfielcs. the war de­
partm ent has approved the r» com-
in ndation of a Joint army, navy and
marine corps board to cut the bore
of
the au to m at» « from .30 to .276.
I
a $1,200,000 re- ervoir on the !>• adwood
riv e r, 60 mill s northeast of Boise
Idaho, has been approved by Presl
d e n t Coolidge
A div ersio n dam and
pow er plant already hav> been built
on this project at s i -it of $1 949.000, |
th e interior departm ent said In an
n o u n rin g th e new work
California M.iy License Airplanes.
San Francisco, Cal
P roposed s ta te
law s to govern th e licensing of a ir ­
p lan e s snd |'il»
w ere discussed a t a
m eetin g held here u n d e r the au sp ices
of the stu le ra ilro ad com m ission, and
pro b ab ly will lie p re se n te d to th e leg
ialu tu re next J a n u a ry , co n ferees said
Admiral Grayson Would Quit.
W ashington I) C Hear-Admiral G
T. Grayson, who attended Presicenl
Wilson throughout his Illness in the
W hite House and until his death, has
made application for retirem ent from
the navy und ?r a law providing for
th e retirem ent of perm anent adm irals
of the world war period who have
served ten years since 1918.
Lindy to Hunt Bears in Mexico.
Mexico City.
Colonel Charles A
Lindbergh has accepted an invitation
to hunt hears In the Male of Coahuila
and to seek cliff dwellings in the S
erra Madre m u n ta in s of Chihuahua
F ire originating in a defective chim-
j ney caused $1000 damage to the
; Claude Davis furniture store in
K lam ath Falls, and for a tim e threat-
ened the entire town.
Bob W est, Baker county sheepman,
accidentally shot him self through the
body near Durkee while ejecting a
cartridge from a .25 35 rifle. It Is
thought he will recover.
The offices of the Siletz Indian
agency have been officially closed and
*the records taken to Chemawa. The
agency was established following the
Rogue Indian wars in 1850.
Jew s of Eugene are planning to
erect a synagogue there, and a fund
has been started. More than $1000
has been subscribed by members of
the Jew ish Social club there.
A new river steam er to take the
place of the ancient Julia B., grown old
in the lower Columbia river service,
will he constructed this fall by the
Astoria Shipbuilding company.
Surfacing of the Algoma road, a
three-quarter mile stretch of highway
near Algoma, has been let to the Dunn
& Baker Construction company of
K lamath Falls, it was announced.
A financial statem ent issued a t the
close of Septem ber shows th a t the
w arrant Indebtedness of Tillamook
county has reached $150,358.27. At
the close of July it was $126,193.75,
The Oswego school house was dedi-
cated last Monday evening.
This
building recently was completed a t a
cost of $65,000 and is one of the most
modern gram m ar schools in the state.
Because police officers found 40 gal­
lons of liquor cached in an abandoned
barn at Myrtle Point the city council
revoked the license of W alter P erry
for operating a pool hall. P erry lives
near the barn.
Flour shipm ents from Astoria during
the month of Septem ber aggregated
10,242 tons, the heaviest shipm ents
from (he port ever recorded in a single
month.
W heat shipm ents reached
6533 tons.
The state highway commission, at
a m eeting to be held In P ortland
October 30, will open bids for construc­
tion of a bridge across Agency creek
on the McMinnville-Tiilamook high­
way near Grande Ronde.
Salmon trollers on Yaquina bay
have been bringing In the largest
catches brought to Newport in many
years.
Prelim inary reports received by F.
A. Elliott, state forester, show th at a
total of 738 fires during the past sum­
m er burned over 80,871 acres of forest j
land in Oregon and caused damage to
m erchantable timber, logs and logging
, equipm ent, and to settlers' improve­
m ents, in the amount of approxim ate­
ly $220,000.
Total registration of voters In Ore­
gon for the general election to be held
November 6 is 427,446, as against a
registration of 359,236 prior to the
general election held on November 2,
1926. This was announced by Hal
Hoss, secretary of state, following
compilation of retu rn s from every
county in the state.
E M IL IO PO RTES GIL
FIRST PHONOGHAPH
In v e n to r R ecalls That Talking
Box W orked F irs t T ria l on
N u rs e ry Rhym e.
One of the most phenomenal yields
of w heat on record in southern Ore­
gon has been reported In the lower
K lam ath basin country by H. Liddell,
a Tule lake hom esteader. Liddell har­
Emilio Portes Gil, who was elected
vested a ten-acre tra c t of w heat which provisional President of Mexico by the
yielded 91 bushels to the acre. The congress, to take office on December 1.
average yield from the homestead land
section of the Tule lake Is from 40 j
to 60 bushels.
The Grand Island cannery complet­
ed the canning of tom atoes and will
begin canning Boston Marrow squash
soon. Five farm ers will furnish about
100 tons. Approxim ately 25,000 cases
of beans, prunes and tom atoes were
canned this season and are stored In
the warehouse where labeling will
goon begin as practically all the pack
has been sold.
His neck torn by th e fangs of a
coyote, C. E. Hamilton, central Oregon
trapper, Is in Bend receiving surgical
attention while the head of the anim al
is on its way to a laboratory in P o rt­
land. It is believed the coyote was
rabid. N ineteen stitches were needed
to close the wounds. The coyote, in
a trap, leaped at th e man. The man
choked the coyote to death with one
hand.
tiJISoN RECEIVES
POSSE CAPTURES
SLAYER OF DEPUTY
Dayton, W ash.—Emile Pfaff, 25,
charged by police with killing Jam es
Smith, a deputy sheriff, when he es­
caped from the Starbuck, Wash., jail,
was captured in the Snake river hills
about 40 miles from here.
Sheriff Moody of Columbia county
and a posse of six men found the fugi­
tive hiding in an old well on a farm .
[ Alonzo Hayden, who Is alleged by
police to have supplied Pfaff with the
j death pistol, Is In jail here. Police
said he had confessed.
A charge of first degree m urder will
be filed against Pfaff. An investiga­
j tion of the Starbuck jail revealed evi­
dences of a struggle betw een the offi­
cer and his prisoner, and it was
thought th a t each had fired one shot.
Police have not yet learned exactly
how Hayden smuggled a second gun
in to Pfaff. Pfaff lives a t Odessa,
W ash., police said.
West Orange. N, J.—Thomas A. Ed-
Ison recalled h ere how, more than 56
years ago, he stood before a flimsy lit-
tie contraption of his own invention,
recited "M ary Had a L ittle Lamb 'and'
heard the inanim ate machine repeat
his words, the w orld’s first phono­
graphic reproduction.
The occasion of his recollection»
w as the presentation to him of a con­
gressional gold medal at exercises at
which the B ritish governm ent return­
ed to him th at sam e first phonograph.
“ It is Indeed a source of much grat­
ification to m e,” he said, speaking
over a nation-wide radio hookup over
which the laudatory rem arks about
him had already been broadcast by
P resid en t Coolidge and Secretary of
the T reasury Mellon, “to regain pos­
session of my first and original model
of the phonograph, which I loaned to
the B ritish governm ent some 45 years
ago for exhibition in its patent-office
museum at South K ensington, London.
"T his little m achine, which was
m ade from my sketch by my faithful
associate, the late John Kruesl, more
than 51 years ago, brings to my mind
many pleasant m em ories, especially
th e rem em brance of the fact that it
worked perfectly on the first trial
when I shouted into It 'Mary Had a
L ittle Lam b’ and heard the reproduc­
tion of these w ords.”
POLICE OFFICIALS
GUILTY OF BRIBERY
Philadelphia, Pa.—M atthew P atter­
son, republican ward and state legisla­
When the Rev. Fred C. Taylor, pas­
tor, and Charles W. Schoenleber, sus­
tor of the F irst M ethodist church at
pended police captain, were convicted
Salem returned to his home, he found
of conspiracy, bribery and extortion
on tile doorstep a basket Jn which
In taking money from saloonkeepers
som ething moved. A blanket was over
for police protection. The jury was
the basket. Attached was a note:
out an hour and 47 m inutes.
"Keep the baby. All It needs is a
Judge Gordon commended the jur­
bath and som ething to eat." Open- I
FORD PLANT M O VED
ors for th eir verdict.
ing the basket the m inister found a
P atterson and Schoenleber were In­
puppy, which he gave to his 10-year- Fordson Tractor Branch Going to
1 old son.
dicted by the October grand jury on
Cork, Ireland.
,
D etroit, Mich.—The principal seat evidence uncovered by the special
Alfred Dimbatt, who operated a
farm near Stafford, was drowned in of the m anufacture of Fordson tracto rs grand jury which Is investigating gang
the W illam ette river across from Wil­ by the Ford Motor company will be m urders, bootlegging and police cor­
sonville when he drove his automobile transferred from Fordson, Mich., to ruption. They heard the verdict with­
onto the ferry slip ju st a fter the ferry the com pany’s plant at Cork, Ireland, out any show of emotion.
The two were convicted on 37 bills
had pulled out. A trailer, carrying a by next January 1, it was learned here.
M anufacture of the tracto r at Ford­ of indictm ent, charging they collected
cow, attached to D im batt's automo­
$12.195 in protection money. In the
bile, swerved when he applied the son was discontinued about a year ago
testim ony of the trial, which began
brakes, upset, overturned the aOto- to allow more space for the manufac- j
Tuesday, Joseph L. Ehrenreieh. a law­
ture
of
the
new
model
"A"
Ford
car.
j
mobile and threw D im batt into the
The principal reason for the trans- ' yer, said P atterson hired him to get a
water.
fer, as explained by officials, is th at saloonkeeper's fund from William Pe­
Jam es Whitford, probably the oldest increased dem ands for tracto rs in Eu­ ters, who ran a saloon.
living m em ber of the Masonic frater­ rope has made increased production
nity in the United S tates, affection* overseas advisable.
Approximately
KING PO SSIBLE
ately known to the craft as “Uncle 80 per cent of the tractor-m aking ma- ; HUNGARY
Jim ," is about to celebrate another chinery and equipm ent is being re­
Premier Bethlen Indicates That a
birthday anniversary. W hen he cele­ moved to Cork in Ford vessels.
Change W ill Be Made.
brates this anniversary he will be 101
Budapest,
H ungary.—A fter a lapse
years old, and the event will take Oregon Defeats U. of W. at Football.
of 400 years H ungary again is to have
place a t the Masonic and E astern
Portland, Or.—Oregon made foot­ a national king of its own. Count Ste­
S tar home In Forest Grove. Ills birth­
ball history Saturday afternoon on fan Bethlen, the prem ier, has indicated
day Is October 30.
the Multnomah civic stadium -gradirou in recent public declarations.
One-third of the m erchantable yel­
Reduction 6f rates of the Pacific by sweeping its way to a 27 to 0 vic­
This sudden decision to upset the
low pine on the territo ry east of the Light & Pow er company, affecting
tory over the U niversity of W ashing- | president regency under Admiral Hor-
Bull Prairie ranger station of the Uma­ residential and com m ercial lighting
ton team . Nearly 30,000 people saw thy and to fill the golden throne, left
tilla national forest was destroyed by and comm ercial cooking, was announc­
the game. The victory was the first vacant in the 16th century by John
fire during the sum m er season of this ed by th e public service commission
Oregon has scored over W ashington Zapoiya of T ransylvania, who was the
year, cruisers have estim ated.
a t Salem recently. The new rates af­ in four gam es on the local gridiron.
last real national king of Hungary,
A dividend of 25 per re n t was paid fect consum ers of Hood River, Uma­
has throw n countries of the little en­
out by the defunct A storia National tilla and W asco counties, and will re­
Clark Girl Now at Riverside,
tente into a ferm ent. Much anxiety is
bank, according to W. C. Crawley, re­ sult In an annual saving of between
Riverside, Cal.—Jessie Clark, sister given to the European powers which
ceiver. The dividend am ounts to ap­ $40,000 and $50,000. The new rates of Sanford Clark, 15-year-old accuser |
are unalterably opposed to any mem­
proximately $426,000 and was the first become effective October 31.
of his uncle. Gordon Stew art North- | ber of the H apsburg family ever again
payment to depositors. It was divided
W ith 66 carloads of celery, 172 cars cott. alleged to rtu rer and killer of wielding a royal scepter.
among 3546 holders of claims.
of onions, eight cars of onion sets and boys on his Riverside chicken ranch,
M onarchists believe that Archduke
The new building erected by Dr R six cars of w heat sent out from has arrived here from Canada.
Albrecht, who has Rethlen's support,
E. Lee Kleiner and D. J. Jarm an for Brooks since the fall harvest began,
has the best chance to assum e the
the use of the slate in housing the the 1928 crops are showing up better
New York Curb Seat Sells High.
throne and will win over 16year-old
state printing plant and the state mo
than was anticipated during the grow­
New York.—A seat on thp New York Archduke Otto, son of the late Emper­
tor vehicle division has been com plet­ ing season. Quinaby has sent a sim i­ curb m arket was sold for $103,000. I or Karl.
ed, and the keys were turned over to lar amount of celery, making the total This is a new record figure, and a
the secretary of state last week.
132 cars, all of which was raised In $3000 advance over the previous sale. I
Amundsen Plane Fuel Tank Found.
A midnight fire that destroyed a the Lake Labish section, as were the
Copenhagen A fuel tank believed
store, the postoffice and telephone of­ onions and onion sets, while the wheat
TH E MARKETS
to belong to the French Latham plane
w*as
from
the
upland
farm
s.
fice at Medical Springs, caused more
Portland
in which Roald Amundsen and five
than $17,500 loss. Lightning was be­
W heat Rig Bend hluestem , hard
Twenty-six persons were killed and
companions are presum ed to have per­
lieved to have started the fire. Upper 551 persons were injured in a total of white, $1.44; soft white, $1.17; w est­
ished In an attem pt to reach survivors
floors used as apartm ents were occu­ 2652 traffic accidents in Oregon during ern white. $1 16; hard winter, $10814;
ot the ill fated dirigible Italia, has
pied by IS persons who escaped in the month of Septem ber. This was northern spring. $1.07*4; w estern red,
been found. The motorboat Keif a r­
th eir night clothes.
announced by T. A. Raffety, in charge $1 09*4.
rived at W alilersund with the tank,
H ay — Alfalfa. $18@18.5»; valley having found it at latitude 64.52 north,
Licenses revoked by municipal of the state traffic division. Five of
judges in cases w here persons have the fatal accidents were in Portland. timothy $17@17.5O; eastern Oregon longitude 8:50 east, about 200 miles
The report of the traffic officers In­ timothy, $20.50if 21.
been convicted under municipal ordin
north of C hrisiiansund. Norway,
B utterfat—55c.
ances on charges of driving a motor dicated th at 1056 of the accidents
Eggs- Ranch. 24® 47c.
were traced to carelessness on the
vehicle while drunk, will rem ain re
Collection of China Fossils Released.
C attle Steers, good. $12® 12.50.
voked for a yesr, according to H a1 part of the drivers, while in 136 cases
Peking.—The Chinese authorities
Hogs
Medium
to
choice,
$7.75®
the
drivers
were
exceeding
the
speed
lloss, secretary of state. In a letter
have released the 85 crates of fossils
sent to II. M Tomlinson, judge of the limit. Approximately 197 of the driv­ 9.75.
which Roy Chapman Andrews, the
Lambs Good to choice, $11® 12.
ers Involved in the accidents failed
municipal court of the city of Port
American explorer, brought back from
(o give the proper signal.
Ssattfs.
land.
W heat Soft white, w estern white. the Gobi desert. The fossils were
Rain which fell In Union county
Through a conference between sev
$118;
hard w inter. $1.09; w estern seized and held tem porarily and it was
eral Eugene banking officials and recently, was another one of those
teared th eir shipm ent out of China
m em bers of the Lane county court, an ' mlllion-dollar" kinds, as far as wheat red, $1.10; northern spring. $108;
would be prohibited.
hluestem.
$1
46.
farm ers were concerned. The ground
agreem ent was reached by wihich na
H ay Alfalfa. $22; tim othy, $28
tlonal hark s will pay. and the county was extrem ely dry and farm ers were
Maikin Mayor of Greater Vancouver,
B u tterfat—54c.
will accept, one-halt of the am ount ol greatly i i need of m oisture for fail
Eggs—Ranch. 34® 47c.
Vancouver. B. C.—W ith a m ajority
the taxes on capital stock.
wheat.
C attle Prime steers. $11® 11.75.
of 1666, W. H. Malkin, pioneer m er­
K lam ath Falls faces the unusual sit
T here v.-ers five fatalities due to in
Hogs Prim e, $8® 10 10.
chant, was elected first mayor of
uation of having one of Its leading
lustrial nccldents In Oregon during
I jtm bs Choice. $11® 11.50.
G reater Vancouver, com prising Van­
hotels, the Pelican, padlocked by th>
(hs week ending October 12. accord
Spokane.
couver, Point Grey and South Vancou­
tovernm ent and closed for a year, at
ng Io a report prepared by the state
Hogs Good, and choice, $9 50®
ver. Malkin polled 18.733 votes, nos­
oriling to a statem ent made recently
ndu-itrlal accident commission. There
9 75.
ing out Louis I). Taylor, incum bent,
by Fran« is E. Marsh, deputy Unite-
vere 964 accidents reported to tb«
C attle Streets, good. $10.75® 11.50. who polled 17,037 votes.
sta te s district attorney.
ommissi in during the week.