HALSEY ENTERPRISE, HALSEY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 22, 1928
CUBA IS INCLUDED
IN HOOVER TOUR
HUGH 0. S M IT H
P re s id e n t-E le c t S ta rts on Good
W ill V isit to Southern
C ountries.
Palo Alto. Cal.—Cuba ha* been add
ed (o the growing list ot countries to
be visited by President-elect Hoover
and bis party during the two months'
good will tour ot South and C entral
America.
Mr. Hoover. It was said at his home,
h as accepted the Invitation ot the
president ot Cuba. This will be the
last port for him before departing for
th e United States. He Is expected to
cross over to Florida from H avana
and to rem ain there until ju st before
his Inauguration.
The comment being made on P resi
dent Coolidge's A rm istice day speech
and the efforts to draw some opinion
from Mr. Hoover on the policies out
lined there have led his advisers to
point to the wisdom ot his leaving the
country at this time and taking him
self entirely outside the scope of n a
tional politics until he takes control
of the governm ent In his own right.
T here is no Indication th at Mr.
H oover disagrees In any way with
w hat P resident Coolidge had to say
recently on national defense or on the
agricultural relief program. On the
contrary, the Coolidge views seem to
be In line with Mr. Hoover’s own ex
pressions at various times, but the
president-elect wants to rem ain silent
and refrain from It all for the present
Hugh O. Smith, farmer living in the
vicinity of Stronghurst, III., has just
received a Carnegie hero medal for
his feat of saving the lives of Mrs.
John Peasley and her four children.
NEW INDICTMENT
ACCUSES ASA KEYES
Los Angeles. — Asa Keyes, district
attorney, and seven others, were In
dicted by the Los Angeles county
grand Jury on charges ot conspiracy to
give and receive bribes.
,
The charges were contained In two
blanket indictm ents, the first charg
ing Keyes and the others with ten
overt acts in the prosecution of the
Julian Petroleum case which collapsed,
and the second charging 40 acts in
connection with the dism issal of fel
ony charges ag ain st A. I. Lasker.
The recen t indictm ents replace
W ashington, D. C.—The federal bu those which were returned two weeks
reau of reclam ation is ready to take ago. The defendants are charged in
over the Stanfield irrigation project dividually instead of as a group.
In eastern Oregon and to spend ap
proxim ately $640,000 in Improving It BIG
TU N N E L O PENS SOON
only on condition th at state and local
In terests organize a developm ent cor Trains W ill Be Run Through Moun
poration which would raise funds to
tains December 28, 1928.
loan settlers, Commissioner Mead has
Cashmere, W ash. — W hat officials
advised S enators McNary and Stel- consider to be the most im portant re
wer, who have held a num ber of con alignm ent work ever undertaken on
ferences with him regarding federal any of the tran sco n tin en tal railroads
aid for the project.
in the United S tates will be completed,
Commissioner Mead also stipulates at a cost of around $25,000,000, when
th a t the governm ent must have title trains run through the new G reat
to the main Irrigation ditch of the N orthern eight-mile Cascade tunnel
project.
between Scenic and Berne in the Cas
Mead's proposal Is th at the develop cade m ountains December 28.
ment corporation raise about $60,000
C. O. Jenks, vice-president In charge
to be loaned settlers in average sums of operations, announced th at the new
of $1800 for 60 acre tracts. He sug tunnel, the longest railway tunnel in
g ests that this company could take a America, would be ready for train s on
m ortgage on the lands for security, al th at date.
though such a m ortgage would be i About a month ago the main tun
supplem entary to the lien which the 1 nel was holed through, and all th at
governm ent holds for w ater rights.
rem ains to be done is several hun
N ecessary Improvements on the pro dred feet of enlargem ent and clearing
ject would cost about $.1600 per tract, up of sides and walls at the center.
he estim ates, and advises that no set This then will be lined with concrete,
tler should be accepted unless he had about a two w eeks' job. and the con
half that amount. Loans would be struction ot the big tunnel will be
repayable in 20 years at six per cent. ' complete.
( In return (or the local financing of
settlers, the reclam ation service would Mrs. Coolidge Christens Big Plane.
spend $640,000 in enlargem ent of the
W ashington, I). C. — Mrs. Calvin
main canal and the laterals for In Coolidge christened the first of the
creased flow of water, and would fur Pan-American
Airways
passenger
nish w ater as needed from the McKay planes, which will operate on a daily
creek storage reservoir.
schedule betw een Miami and the West
Indies. The plane christened was a
E X P O R TS TOTAL B ILLIO N S tri-m otor Fokker with 12 passenger
rapacity and carrying, in addition to
Government Pays Tribute to Modern two pilots, a radio operator and a
steward. Its daily flying schedule is
Sales Methods.
W ashington. 1). C -The export ot to begin January 8.
BUREAU WILL AID
STANFIELD PROJECT
American m anufactured goods reach
e<l the huge total of $2,961,000,008 in
th e last record year and was described
bv Dr. Julius Klein, director of the
com m erce d ep artm ent's trade bureau,
ns the reuult of modern trade prom o
tlon.
Business en terp rises of this
country, enjoying an outgoing sales
volume 70 per cent g reater than In
1921 22. were described in the annual
report of the trade bureau as main
tuinlng an activity greatly responsible
for the country's prosperity.
A series of regional studies of trade
and production in the United States
were described and problems of credit
and transportation were sketched for
future consideration
Weddings on Increase in Japan.
London The Evening News says
th at a record num ber of m arriages
are expected in Japan during the next
sly weeks following upon the enthrone
tnenl cerem onies of the new em peror
Young couples consider it extremely
lucky to be m arried at this time and
th e enthronem ent event has hastened
many proposals. The Shinto shrines
report that m arriage reservations al
ready are 60 per cent above normal
and are continuing to pour In
State of Illinois Keeps $3,000,000.
Springfield. III. Circuit Judge Brig-
gle ruled that the state should keep
more than $3,000,000 collected under a
gasoline tax law before It was de
clared unconstitutional. The decision
was in the case brought by two score
gasoline com panies seeking a refund
of the money they had paid to the
state while the law was operative.
THE M ARKETS
Portland
W heat Big Bend hluestem . hard
white. $1 47; soft white, $1 16'»; w est
ern white. $1 16; hard winter. $1 11’»;
northern spring. $111; w estern red,
$1 lit* .
Hay Alfalfa. $19019 50 ton; valley
timothy, $17017.50; eastern Oregon
timothy, $20.60021; clover. $14015;
oat. $15015.60; oats and veleh hay,
$16015.80.
B u lte rfsl—65c
Eggs Ranch, 2 8 0 49t»c.
Callie Steers, good. $120 12 50.
Hogs Medium to choice, $ 7 0 9 75
Lambs Good to choice. $11012
S eattle
W heat Soft white. $1.18; western
white. $t 17; hard winter. $1 12. west
ern red. $1 12; northern spring. $1 11;
Etna Lava Flow Ebbs: Vesuvius Next bluestem. $1.48,
Hay Alfalfa. $22; tim othy, $28
Catania. Sicily The worst of Mount
R utterfat 54c.
E tn a's eruption is over. Professor
Eggs Ranch. 2 9 0 45c.
A lessandro Malladra said. He predict
C attle Prime steers. $1101175
ed activity, however, on the part of
Hogs Prime. $9 5 0 0 9 65
Mount Vesuvius
Malladra. director
Ijtnihs -C hoice. $ 1 1 0 1 1 5 0 .
of the Vesuvius observatory, has been
SpsUans.
studying the recent eruption of Mount
Hogs Good. and choice. $9 1009 2$
Etna, which destroyed two towns, did
Cao
o • - a- "I. $1"
u 11.
thousands ot dollars damage
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
D espite the storm y w eather and the
lateness ot the season, tourists contin
ASA KEYES
ue to visit K lam ath Falls. Up to last
Friday afternoon 87 tourists had reg
istered a t the cham ber of commerce
j for the m onth of November.
A pplication ot H. H. H anseth for
P rin cip al E vents of the W eek
perm ission to construct a broadcast
Assem bled fo r In fo rm atio n
I ing station a t M arshfield, has been
approved by federal radio commission.
of O ur R eaders.
Comm issioner Lafount so advised Sen
ato r F rederick Stelw er recently.
Oregon’s total apple crop for 1S28 I The fine late autum nal w eather pre
la now estim ated a t 6,950,000 bushels vailing in the Siuslaw section has giv-
and the comm ercial crop a t 4,600,000 en flower lovers the happy surprise
boxes.
of gathering rhododendrons twice thia
T raffic on T he Dalles-Callfornla year. Second crops of fru its and veg
highw ay has Increased from an aver etables are of frequent occurrence.
age of 125 cars per day in 1923 to 400
An engineer of the state board of
cars per day in 1928.
health looked over the Sandy city wa
The proposed bond Issue of $100,- te r plant recently, made a test, and re
000 for a new Union county courthouse ports the w ater 100 per cent pure.
lost at the recent election by a vote of Sandy has 105 w ater users, with
m onthly collections averaging $225.
more than six to one.
A big crowd gathered on Main stre e t
Motor truck thieves robbed the tur-
key roosf of T. J. Miller, Hood River in B aker to see Clint Haynes, police
rancher, of 43 birds being prepared ' chief of La Grande, trundle Sheriff
for Thanksgiving dem and.
! McKinney of Baker down the stre e t
District Attorney Asa Keys of Los
in a w heelbarrow. The La G rande
L aura D. Harlow was elected mayor
AngEles, Calif., who was indicted by
man was accom panied by the La
o f T routdale and H. E. Bloys city re- j
the grand jury on charges of willful
corder at the recent city election for j Grande American Legion drum and misconduct and corruption In con
bugle corps and city officials.
the third consecutive term .
nection with the Junan Petroleum
At a meeting held recently In A ,
, Dry tre e k ' “ trib u ,ary
the Sixes company investigation and trial.
toria. of the Columbia river packers ' rlVer’ " ear Port O r,ord' has been
operating on fall fish, th e price of found to be a natural death trap for
salmon fry which die in boles when
chums was cut from 3 cents to 2>4.
I the river sinks below the surface in
T he W. M. B arnett bank of W asco most places during the dry season.
has moved into its new building and ! More than a million salmon are esti-
ihe nam e of the institution has been mated lost each year in th is stream .
changed to the Bank ot Commerce.
Marshfield is to be aw arded a cup
Melbourne, A ustralia. — By an over
The Rev. W. J. Morrow has been f for having the best fire prevention
called by Bishop Lowe to leave his record during the past year of any whelming m ajority the electors of
A ustralia voted in favor of giving the
pastorate at Bay City and become
j city in the United S tates under 20,000
head of the M ethodist church a t Cot population, according to a report of force of law to the debts and borrow
ing agreem ent entered Into by the
tage Grove.
j the m eeting of the International Asso-
W ith five of the seven candidates i ciation of F ire Chiefs, carried in the sta te s and comm onwealth last year.
The agreem ent provides for the ap
for city council at R eedsport receiv last Issue of the A m erican City Mag-
pointm ent of a com pulsory loan coun
ing a total vote ranging from 304 to ' azine.
cil on which all th e states will be rep
312, a recount of the ballots have been
D eschutes county officials plan to resented. In the new schem e of Aus
decided upon.
j place prow ler cars on roads In mid
tralian financing, as produced by Pre
A m eeting of the C entral Oregon state farm ing districts to guard flocks
m ier Bruce at th e 1927 conference,the
Highway association was held in Vale of turkeys being fattened for the
comm onwealth governm ent was to
recently, with many visitors present , Thanksgiving m arket. P lan s to take
tak e over ail the debts of the Aus
from Harney, G rant, Lake and Des this action were made when reports
tralian states and contribute $37,925.-
chutes counties.
: reached the sheriff's office th at turkey 000 in connection therew ith.
Survey of the highway betw een thieves are active in all parts of the
The federal governm ent was to es
Burns and Lakeview is progressing country.
tablish joint sinking funds to provide
rapidly and If w eather conditions re
Fire of undeterm ined origin destroy for the extinction of the debts in 58
main favorable will be completed be ed the Long Pine mill, fam iliarly years and the extinction of new loans
fore December 1.
j known as Lorenz mill, six miles east in 53 years. The existing sinking fund
L auscerica & Garay, Frenchglen of Bonanza on the K lam ath Falls- redem ption and sim ilar funds were to
sheepm en, last week shipped a car Lakeview highway last week. Fire be transferred to a national debt com
load of w ethers from Burns to P o rt fighters were able to prevent the blaze mission, and all future borrowings
land, and sold 916 ewes and lam bs to from working into the lum ber yard or w ere to be controlled by the loan
the Johnson ranch at lzee.
taking the bunk houses and adjoining council.
The feeling in A ustralia is th at the
Many salmon taken from northern buildings.
Curry county rivers this fall are of no
Home brew ers who m anufacture new finance schem e will raise Aus
m arket value, low w ater having d eter tjlgir own liquor w ithout paym ent of tra lia 's credit and prestige in the
red fish from entering stream s until a $50 governm ent tax are subject to w orld’s money m arkets and enable the
they were in poor condition.
a fine of $500 under laws drafted by states to raise loans at a cheaper rate
The comm unity chest cam paign in the liquor men more than 50 years than hitherto.
A storia was form ally open on the ago, according to F. A. H azeltine, fed
morning of Monday, November 19, and eral prohibition investigator, who was
B R IE F G ENERAL NEW S
w orkers set forth to secure in cash the principal speaker a t the Salem Ki-
Dr. George H arding, 85, father of
wanis club luncheon recently.
and pledges a total of $20,245.81.
Selection of a Joint com m ittee of the late P resident W arren G. H arding,
The last concrete in the new Ash
land w ater supply dam was poured the senate and house of the next Ore was near death at the home of his sis
last week, m arking the completion of gon legislature to conduct a study and te r in Santa Ana. Cal., the victim of
the dam and assuring Ashland an am outline some plan looking to the con a stroke of paralysis, which he suf
struction of a new state penitentiary fered recently.
ple w ater supply all next sum m er.
The track and field com m ittee of
as
soon as possible was recom mended
A lbany's city budget of $64,500.79
th e American A thletic union recom
by
H
enry
W.
Meyers,
superintendent,
was adopted unanim ously by the bud
mended that the 1929 national senior
get board. It Is $1450 less th an the in his biennial report filed with the
and outdoor cham pionship be held at
slate
board
of
control
in
Salem.
1928 budget and $2200 less than the
Denver. This m eet is held annually
A te s t to determ ine w hether rubber
6 per cent lim itation perm itted.
on or around July 4.
can
be
obtained
from
a
weed
known
The Pacific Power & Light company
The United S tates public health
has made a voluntary reduction in its as Irish furze, which has been over service announced th at John Early,
running
the
Bandon
section,
will
be
rates th at will be of substantial ad
64 year-ol<i North C arolina mountain-
vantage to its custom ers in Hood made at the laboratories of Thomas eer, whose many escapes from leper
A.
Edison.
The
Bandon
cham
ber
of
River, Wasco, and U matilla counties.
colonies caused consternation among
comm erce is to send the w eeih, hop
From nine acres of the E rnest Doug
health officials, bad “recovered" from
ing to obtain valuable by-products, in
leprosy.
las farm in the Grand Island district
cluding rubber, from the plants.
700 bushels of perfectly m atured corn
Manuel Chapolio, 106 year-old In
More than 3000 No. 1 grade turkeys
dian, has spent 11 years and seven
of the blood butcher and gold-dent var
were shipped from H erm iston last
ieties cross was produced th is season.
m onths of a life sentence in Folsom
week for the Thanksgiving trade in
The Thanksgiving turkey pool of the New York city. Though in other sec prison. Cal., for first-degree m urder
DonglHs County T urkey G rowers' as tions of the sta te 60 per cent of the com m itted in San Bernardino. The
sociation was sold last week to the 1928 turkey crop Is being m arketed prison board denied Chapolio's peti
Jerpe Commission company of Omaha, this month, it is estim ated that not tion for parole.
The M ethodist board of foreign mis
Neb., for shipm ent to New Vork by more than 30 per cent of the Uma
sions
announced th a t the M ethodist
express.
tills county birds will be sold now.
Episcopal church in 1927 gained 34.-
L ast month's report of the Raker
In divisions, regim ents, companies
County Cow Testing association shows and platoons, thousands upon thou 635 new constituents in mission fields,
a total of 819 cows enrolled. 141 of sands of northern geese winged their bringing the num ber of its overseas
which were dry and the rem ainder way into the K lam ath basin country adherents to 903.183. More than half
producing an average of 40 pounds of the past week, and have stopped over the gain was made in India.
tat each month.
on Tule lake, the biggest public shoot
U. S. Army Flying Field Has Fire.
The order of the E astern S tar held ing grounds in the west. Saturday
Mitchell Field, N. Y —F ire of unde
a county meeting a t Union last week. night th e clarion cry of geese was so
term ined origin destroyed the engi
loud
and
persistent
that
many
resi
Mrs. Hess S etters of Astoria, worthy
neering building and one hangar at
grand m atron of Oregon, and Mrs. dents had difficulty in sleeping.
this arm y aviation field, causing loss
Claims
were
presented
during
Oc
C arrie Jackson of Baker, grand con
tober to the sta te game commission which arm y officers estim ated at be
ductress. were present.
tween $250,000 and $300.000. Enlisted
C larence Lee McAIexander. 44. was for bounties on 27 cougars and one
men, routed out of their quarters at
tim
ber
wolf,
according
to
Harold
Cllf
fatally wounded on K lamath river near
3:30 A. M . risked their lives to tru n
Keno when the shotgun of G. C. Tay ford, slate game warden. A bounty
dle four $50,000 planes and 15 motor
of
$25
is
paid
for
both
cougars
and
lor discharged accidentally in a boat.
trucks out of both buildings None of
Taylor had shoved off from shore, and wolves. T hirteen of the cougars were
the planes or trucks were lost.
the gun was pointing away from shore killed in Douglus county, six in Curry,
three
in
Lincoln,
one
In
Jackson,
two
but when the boat struck the current
California Singers Win Radio Contest
the craft whirled around so that It in Clackam as, one I ’ Lane and one in
San Francisco, C a l—Two California
Josephine.
The
tim
ber
wolf
was
kill
pointed at McAIexander on the bank.
A sudden jar discharged the weapon. ed by W ilsie P ruitt in Jackson county. singers. Miss Dove Irene Kilgore. 21
year-old soprano of Oakland, and Don
Sandy d istrict school census for
Michael Sum erlin, 56. of Bakers
aid Novis. 22-year-old tenor of Pasa
Creek, near M yrtle Point, and J. J. 1928 lists 94 boys and 93 girls that
dena. were announced as w inners of
Landry. 30. of Portland, were killed will draw school money, which Is the
the far w estern radio d istrict contest
when dynam ite caps exploded, setting largest num ber ever listed in Sandy
held recently by the Atw ater-Kent
off a box of giant powder. The men district. The tax valuation for 1927
company,
in which singers from nine
had been clearing a logging road near was $76.743 58. hut will be consider
w estern states competed.
ably higher for 1928.
Marshfield.
V ernonia's new $12,000 Masonic tern
A petition to secure d osing to com
Haines. Oregon, Without Mayor.
m ercial fishing of stream s between pie was dedicated recently. Previous
Baker, O r.—G W. Vanderwall. elect
the Coquille and Rogue rtve.-s, which to the dedication cerem ony a dlnn»r
ed m ayor of H aines on the people's
Include the Elk and Sixes rivers in was served in honor of officials of the
northern Curry county. Is being lib grand lodge of Oregon who were pres ticket at the reren t election, has pub
erally signed by ram hers living along ent and past m asters and present of lished a notice declaring that he did
not consent to serve in such a rapac
fleers of V ernonia lodge.
the stream *
ity and does not choose to be mayor.
AUSTRALIAN FINANCE
PLAN IS APPROVED
CONGRESS WILL HAVE
TURBULENT SESSION
S p ec ia l S essio n of New Body
Thought N e c es sa ry to
C om plete P lans.
W ashington, D. C. — C ontroversy,
on half a dozen or m ore proposition,
of m ajor Im portance prom ises to keep
congress In a turm oil th is winter.
Advance Indications are th at th ,
legislative m achinery will become clog
ged early in the session and that there
will be much discussion and com
paratively little action.
D espite the efforts of many leaders
to avoid a special session, the outlook
Is th a t H erbert Hoover, upon his in
auguration ns president on March 4,
will announce th e convening of the
new congress e ith er during th at month
or In April.
T he final session of the 70th con
gress convenes two weeks from Mon
day. In the th ree m onths allotted to
Its work on appropriation, bills for the
fiscal year 1930 m ust be enacted and
a large am ount ot non-controversial
legislation which is already on the
senate and house calendars disposed
of. Such tim e as rem ains will be de
voted to the big m easures of the
session which may or may not be act
ed upon by the tim e the gavel fall,
March 4.
Boulder dam legislation has provid
ed filibusters in the past two sessions.
As the bill providing for this $125,000,-
000 project is the unfinished business
before the senate, it offers an oppor
tu n ity for an o th er filibuster. The
Kellogg anti w ar tre a ty is likely to
become involved In a filibuster before
the session is over and the opponents
of the adm inistration naval cruiser
bill are planning to use obstructionist
tactics to keep it from coming to a
vote. F ilibusters on these propositions
will serve to keep farm relief legis
lation from enactm ent and make nec
essary a special session to carry out
the H oover cam paign pledges.
A C C ID E N TA L D EA TH S ARE 27
C arelessness on P a rt of Drivers Re
sponsible in Most Cases.
Salem, Or. — Twenty-seven persons
were killed arid 475 were injured in
2780 traffic accidents in Oregon dur
ing the m onth of O ctober, according
to a rep o rt prepared by Thomas Raf-
fety, In charge of the state traffic
bureau.
More than 1330 of the accidents
were due to carelessness on the part
of drivers. In 128 accidents the driv
ers exceeded the speed limit, while in
402 cases the operator responsible for
the accident failed to give proper right
of way. Failure to give proper signals
was responsible for 175 accidents.
Forty-two drivers w ere found to ba
intoxicated by the officers.
The officers made 489 a rre sts for
traffic violations, issued 6512 warn
ings and observed 83 accidents. Fines
imposed in the various cases aggre
gated $5229.50. Delinquent m otor ve
hicle fees in the am ount of $3302.69
were collected during the month.
Union Labor Gains 81,387 Members.
New O rleans—“Double trade union
m em bership in 1929” is the slogan and
the job the executive council of the
A m erican Federation of Labor put be
fore the 48th annual convention of
the federation, which opened in New
O rleans, Monday. The council’s an
nual report is a survey of the year's
activity in organized labor. It said
the paid-up m em bership for the year
ending August. 1928, was 2,893,913, an
increase of 81,387 over the previous
year. Five hundred thousand mem
bers who were on strik e or unemploy
ed and for whom no tax was paid to
the federation are not included in the
m em bership figures.
National
School
Group
Formed.
W ashington. D. C.—Form al organ
ization of the save-our schools com
m ittee, whose purpose ia “to help
aw aken the nation to the grave danger
th at th reaten s our schools and col
leges by reason of the attem pt now
being made to use them for propa
ganda.” was announced recently.
Bishop F rancis J. McConnell of the
M ethodist Episcopal church of New
York city Is national chairm an of the
organization and John Dewey, pro
fessor at Columbia university, vice-
chairm an.
Viscountess Grey Dead in London
London.—■’”-». D».;!y Jail annou. c *
the death of Hetut. ■<>«.«* Px n.
0 .x r
after a sudd» i »'Ire'S a: 1er ti-.rK l
W llsford m an?;, ?x.i;bnr-.
14?» b f
band, the ex-te ?ictary for Icreign af
fairs. was at h ij Falladon estate and
was hurriedly summoned. The vis
countess. who was the daughter of the
late Percy Wyndham, was 57 y e a r,
old.
Five Loae Live, in Kanaat Floods.
Kansas City.— Swirling water, <F
K ansas and Missouri stream s brought
to flood stage by continuous ra in , had
claimed the lives of seven persona,
according to recent reports.