HALSEY
IMPORTANT MAHERS
BEFORE CONGRESS
Congress C onvenes W ith M a n y
M a tte rs of Im p o rtan ce to
be C onsidered.
W ashington, D. C.—The second and
final session of the 70th congress con
vened at noon Monday, with prospects
for controversies over half a dozen
o r more m atters of m ajor Importance.
The president’s annual m essage will
be subm itted to congress probably oa
Tuesday. His annual budget m essage
and num erous departm ental reports
also will be presented to congress dur
ing the week.
The Boulder dam bill, passed by the
house last spring, is the unfinished
business in the senate, and its spon
sors will seek to hold it continuously
before the senate until disposed of.
Senate Center of Interest.
The big controversies of the session
will center in the senate. Besides the
Boulder dam bill, which may occasion
another filibuster such as has m arked
Its progress in several prevtous ses
sions, the naval cruiser bill is on the
senate calendar, and the Kellogg an ti
w ar treaty will be subm itted to the
senate during the opening week.
The house situation offers few er
com plications than th at in the senate.
The house leaders will keep the ap
propriation bills before the house al
m ost w ithout Interruption until they
are out of the way.
Reapportionment Measures In House.
Reapportionm ent legislation th reat
ens to cause trouble in the house. An
other effort will be made to pass some
kind of a reapportionm ent bill. Con
gress has failed to pass such a meas
ure since the 1920 census and In the
last session a bill was blocked by
those who want no change In the pres
ent number of d istricts of states which
would lose representatives under a
reapportlonm ent. The bill which was
before the house in the last session
would provide for autom atic reappor
tionm ent following the 1930 census.
Those advocating
reapportlonm ent
have been organizing a bloc which
th reaten s to filibuster against other
legislation until this subject is give»
consideration.
Farm Legislation Not Likely.
The number of those who think
farm legislation has a chance to pass
HALSEY, OI1EÜOX. DECEMBEH li. 1 9 » .
As a gift from K lam ath county,
P resident and Mrs Coolidge will re-
ceive a box of N etted Gem potatoes
AVERY BRUNDAGE
which carried first prize a t th e Spo
kane potato show recently. The spuds
were raised by H enry Seraon.
Irons of F reew ater reports
P rin cip al E vents of the W eek th John
a t a carload of his Italian prunes
shipped to New York brought »76 per
Assem bled fo r In fo rm atio n
ton at auction. I. M. Phipps shipped
of O ur R ead ers.
few tons on th e sam e train that
brought him tbo sam e returns.
Edwin M. Byers, resident of Gard
Announced intention of Umatilla
Iner and Oregon pioneer, died sudden county to gravel six miles of highway
ly a t R eedsport while attem pting to from the end of the present road from
W eston to MacDougal camp will mean
crank a power boat.
The public service commission has realization of the dream for a good
granted to the Lewis & Clark Railroad road to Toll Gate, It was stated by
company authority to abandon its line A lbert Baker, in charge of the forest
reserve in th a t district.
of 18 miles In Clatsop county.
The result of an application of 10.
Tim bers are being shipped from the
Johnson mill a t R eedsport for build 000 gallons of em ulsified asphalt oil
■
ing the fist unit of the S itka spruce to a section to Macadam road near
pulp and paper mill a t Empire, in Coos Sandy is being w atched with interest
by sta te highway officials. If the ex
county.
perim ent is a success a large part of
r. L. P h ip p r o f The Dalles was ap the road oiling program for 1929 will
pointed by Governor P atterso n county
be devoted to bitum ulus.
Elected national president of the judge of W asco county to succeed J.
F ire loss In the city of Tillamook
Amateur Athletic union by unanimous T. Adkisson, who was recalled a t the
since January 1, 1928. to ta ls ’ $74.290,
vote at the fortieth annual convention, recen t general election.
according to F ire Chief Dave Stein
Avery Brundage of Chicago threw
Mrs. C lara A. Kirk has received the bach. T hirty one calls have been an
down the gauntlet to “commercialism appointm ent of postm aster at Dorena.
sw ered, with an average cost for fire
in sport” before he had been In the She is the widow of the late J. H.
men. including drills, of only »19 34.
Kirk, who died recently a fter holding D estruction of th e Masonic building
chair two minutes.
the office for 27 years.
by fire created »70.000 for th e com
The E astern Oregon Dairym en’s as
plete fire loss.
sociatlon a t H aines so far this year
Domestic geese of W. W. Southwell
has received and paid for 612,182 are heroes of the hour aa a result of
pounds of b u tterfa t a t an average
the attem pted robbery of Southw ell’s
price of 48 cents a pound.
turkey roost last week. W arned by
P lans for erection of buildings on the honking of his geese, Southwell
Guayaquil. Ecuador. — Pushing his the U m atilla county experim ent sta
surprised four men attem pting to
good will crusade into South America, tion near Adams have been completed
break Into his garage. H e ordered
President elect H erbert Hoover land The project calls for a home for the them to halt and when they scattered
ed here in a country beset by unfavor caretaker, barns and Im plem ent sheds
aim ed a shotgun a t one thief.
able economic forces, and in a peren
Among th e m any clover seed dis
A large tra c t of logged off land
nial dispute with Its neighbors over
plays at th e Pacific International Live
2400
a^res,
has
been
deeded
to
Oregon
the location of boundary lines.
stock land show recently held in Port
Provisional P resident Issldro Ayora S tate college by John W. B lodgett of
land. C harles U pcraft of Tum alo got
Grand
Rapids,
Mich.
The
land
will
be
of Ecuador cordially received P resi
first and second prizes in the red
used
in
experim
ents
with
reforests
d en telect Hoover and tendered a ban
clover and Jam es Underwood of Red
quet to members of the goodwill mis tion.
mond also received a second in red
Fourteen
million
E
astern
brook
sion. This was attended by m em bers
clover. In the alsike display Thomp
of the cabinet and prom inent citizens trout eggs, one of the largest takes In
son Bros. & Young of Plainview re
the
history
of
trout
propagation
work
of Ecuador. Crowds which lined the
in Oregon are a t the Fall River fish ceived first.
main street of Guayaquil! upon the ar
A blast th at shook the business dis
rival of the Hoover party also accord hatchery near Bend ready for hatching
trict of Roseburg partially wrecked a
in the spring.
ed the mission a cordial reception, al
though there was no wild dem onstra
T hree Eugene firem en were hurt, local filling station, startin g a fire
which was extinguished before any
one fatally, when the northbound
tion.
great dam age was done. Gas escap
“True democracy Is not a td cannot S h asta Lim ited of the Southern Pa
ing from a pum p filled a hollow con
be im perialistic." Hoover said in a cific company struck a fire depart
m ent chem ical truck at the Eleventh crete pillar w ith fumes, which were
prepared address to Ayora.
ignited when an electric sw itch, con
avenue crossing.
trolling the lights of the station, was
Ashland is planning a celebration
BUBONIC PLAGUE RAGING
snapped off.
for D ecem ber 5 to m ark the comple-
J. T. Bryan
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
J
ECUADOR RECEIVES
HOOVER CORDIALLY
ysterious recurring scourge, seem s
are left for his successor to w restle
to be fastening its grip tig h ter and
with. Members of both houses from
tig h ter upon Shansi province, and to
the middle west incline to the view
be increasing the num ber of its vlo
th at it would be a wise move to let
tlm s annually.
the Hoover adm inistration handle the
The first known cases of bubonic
farm relief from the ground up, re
plague in Shansi occurred in 1915
gardless of what the president-elect
when only two villages were affected
may think about it, and Senator Mc
and the deaths numbered only IS. with
Nary may find th at attitu d e an obsta
no recoveries. This year. It is feared,
cle of insurm ountable size.
the deaths already exceed 2000. and it
Is known th at 22 villages have been
NEW CALENDAR FAVO RED affected. If foreign medical men do
not tackle the problem next y ear half
13-Month Year Proposed in Resolu
of the province may be visited by the
tion by Chairman Porter.
plague, and the deaths may run into
W ashington. D. C. — A th irteen th tens of thousands.
month would be added to the calendar
under a resolution which Chairm an
Washington State Senators Meet.
P o rter of the house foreign affairs
Seattle, W ash.—S tate senators of
com m ittee has drafted for Introduc western W ashington conferred here
tion in the house.
recently with John Gellatly of W enat
P o rter said the resolution would chee, recently elected lieutenant gov
propose the culling by the president ernor, and considered the m akeup of
of an international conference to take the various com m ittees and inform al
ap the question which he believes ly agreed that taxation and highways
should be tackled at once. If his plan would be the chief problem s of the
should carry through, he would have 1929 legislature. Mr Gellatly also an
the 12 month year cease as the hells nouneed th at J. M. Stoddard, publish
toll out the old year on December 31. er. W aterville, would be secretary to
1932. The new or 13 month year would the president and rules comm ittee.
he ushered In a moment later with the
celebration of the year 1933 on Suu
Woman Aged 103 Diet.
day morning.
Minneapolis, Minn. — Mrs Dorothy
Reed Dunham, who for the lust four
Detroit Bribe Fund *2.000.000 a Year.
years has received birthday greetings
Detroit, Mich With estim ates al ! from President Coolidge, is dead at
ready before it that rum graft in the the age ot 103.
customs border patrol service in the
Detroit area annually approaches the
THE M ARKETS
staggering sum of ,2.000,000. a federal
P o r tla n d
grand Jury wilt resum e its inveatiga
W heat B. B. hluestem . hard v h itj,
tion In an effort to determ ine the $1 48; soft while, w estern white. £1 19;
scope of the alleged corruption.
hnrd w inter, w estern red. »1 13’» :
no rth ern spring $1 12.
Spokane Haa *100.000 Fire.
Hay Alfalfa. $1941 19 50 ton; valley
Spokane, Wash Fire of undeter tim othy. $1741 17 50; eastern Oregon
mined origin caused loss estim ated at timothy, $2O ’.O4f21; clover. $144115;
between »80.000 and »100.000 at the oat. $15'(t 15.50; oata and vetch hay
garage and store supply building of $15d 15 5".
Armour A Co. The th re e sto ry stru c
B utterfat 54 055c
ture. which adjoins the main packing
Eggs Ranch. 31050c.
plant, was damaged on all three floors
C a ttle -S te e rs , good. $12012 30.
and the roof.
Hogs Medium to choice, $7 2.54)
8 75
Army Filar Burna to Death.
Lambs -Good to choice. $11012
Dunean, Okla.
L ieutenant Park
Seattle
Sanders ot Lawton. Okla . was burned
W heat
S o ft w h ite . $1 19; western
to death and his mechanic, clem ent white, $118; hard w inter. $1 12‘t ;
Migllore ot New York, suffered severe w estern red. »1 IS»-®; northern spring.
burns when th eir airplane was de $1 12; hluestem . I t 4»$»; hulk Montana
stroyed bv lire while they were taking N o 1. $1 l i t ,
off from Hallhurton field here.
H ay—Alfalfa. »22; tim othy. »28
Five D ie In A ir p la n e C ra s h .
Spur, Texas Five men were burn
ed to death six miles norlh of here
late Saturday when the tri motored
airplane In which they were flying en
route from San Antonio to Denver
c ra s h e d and hurst into flan,„a
v y t k IIPIU SE.
B utterfat 54c.
Eggs Ranch. 29046c
C a ttle -P r im e steers. $11011.50
Ilo g s—Prim e. $9 50 0 9 65.
Lam bs—Choice. $1101150.
Spokane.
Hogs Good, and choice. $9 1009 2$
C attle Steers good $10 5001$ in
JOSE V ASCO NCELO S
KING OF ENGLAND
NOT IMPROVING
W e akn ess of R u le r C auses
A n x ie ty ; Duke of Y o rk
a t B edside.
London.—The m edical bulletin tu-
aued ju st a fte r m idnight Monday morn
ing said th a t anxiety concerning the
atrength of the h eart of the king per-
alsta. It was signed by tw o consulting
l
apecialists as well as by two regular
physicians to his m ajesty.
T he bulletin was issued by the phy-
slcians only a fte r a prolonged examin
ation and did nothing to alleviate the
nervousness which had been aroused
by the m edical rep o rt Sunday even
ing.
As soon as th e early m orning bul
letin was posted on the palace rail
ings the crowd which had waited pa
tien tly outside rushed eagerly to read
it. The earlier bulletin, w ith its dis
couraging new s of the serious state
Jose Vascor.celos, known as “ El
of the king, had prepared them in part
Maastro,” who is now a candidate for for the new s th a t two o th er physicians
the Presidency of Mexico to succeed
had been called in.
Portes Gil.
The Duke of York, the only one of
th e four sons of his m ajesty who iz
now in England, w ent to the palace
to be with his m other and sister dur
ing the anxious hours while the physi
cians w ere consulting.
The prolonged illness, which began
w ith a heavy cold and developed into
W ashington. D. C.—An exhaustive pleurisy and a slight infection of the
study of aerological and geographical lung, has now continued for two weeks
conditions in different p arts of th e and is beginning to tell on the royal
country has been undertaken by the p a tie n t’s stren g th and pow ers of re
navy d epartm ent with a view to estab sistance.
lishing a new landing field and hang
ars for dirigibles.
A tlanta, New O rleans. El Paso, St.
Louis. Los Angeles and S eattle all
figure in the survey now being made
by th e navy bureau of aeronautics
w ith the co-operation of the U nited
Santiago. C h ili—R elief moved out
S tates w eather bureau. The relative
sm oothness of the air, suitability of to the living among the ruins of the
the surrounding terrain , and the earthquake Sunday while the official
w eather record over a period of 25 or count of the dead rose to over 100
30 years all will be taken into con- C om m unication still was lacking with
sideiation and com pared with condi some tow ns, while in several cities the
tions at L akehurst, N. J., field, which piles of the debris throw n down by
go far has proved entirely satisfactory. th e shock S aturday m orning had been
W ithin the next 18 m onths, betore only partly investigated for victims.
The g re a te st devastation fell on
the first of the two new airships Is
completed, recom m endations for a new Talca, an industrial city of 36,000 popu
field may be asked of the bureau of lation. about 150 m iles south of the
aeronautics by the bureau of navy capital. Fifty-seven bodies were In
operations. No provision for any new the Im provised m orgue th ere and un
field has been included in the 1929- official reports were th a t the death
100 for the city
alone.
iency
bill.
crashed in. E xpecting to find a care
tain in the plaza.
T alca virtually was wiped out and
W illam ette pass has been closed foi lessly kicked football, a rock or some
persons arriving here said th a t the
other such object, the women investl
the w inter, according to C. B. M cFar
B R IE F G ENERAL N EW S
dam age would «m ount to 100.000,000
land, forest ranger, who crossed the gated, and found that a China pheas
pesos (about »12.000.0001. Troops who
The tru stees of th e R ockefeller w ere enforcing m artial law took over
pass a few days ago, the trip ot 42 ant hen had made an uncerem onious
entrance, carrying away the pane ol foundation have placed $170,00(1 a t the m ost of the food supply to prevent
tulles from C rescent lake to Oakridgt
disposal of the U niversity of U trecht looting and were rationing it. They
glass on the way.
requiring five hours.
Two new rotary snowplows, costing for establishm ent of a new school of blocked efforts of speculators to take
Green corn Is being enjoyed by resi
physiology.
advantage of the em ergency by jum p
dents of M yrtle Point, and the supply $11,000 each, have been delivered to
An official announcem ent is made ing th eir prices.
was grown by H enry StroHg on the the state highw ay departm ent, ac
north fork of the Coquille river. The cording to announcem ent m ade In th a t the 53d session of the league of
variety is golden bantam ,' and war Salem recently. One snowplow will nations council will he held at Lugano, STATE ROAD FU N D S SHORT
he used on the Columbia highway and in southern Sw itzerland, all m em bers
planted late In June.
having agreed.
the o th er on the Old Oregon trail neat
Revenue Mortgaged at Previous Ses
Farm ing activities are progressing
The trad e com m ittee of the A ustrian
La Grande. T he state highway de
sion; Little Chance of Gain.
in Yamhill county, the recen t rains
national
assem
bly
votes
approval
of
partm ent now has 70 pieces of snow
Olympia.
W ash.—Final retu rn s on
having put the unplnwed fields in per
the m easure ratifying a treaty of
fighting equipm ent.
m otor license fees and gasoline taxes
feet condition for fall-sown grain and
am
ity,
comm
erce
and
consular
affairB
A total of 35 carloads of Oregon tur
every available m eans is being utilized
betw een A ustria and United States. for the biennium ended November 30,
keys have been shipped out ot tht
io hasten th e plovlng.
In a very close election, Jim Bot- to g eth er with official and unofficial
state, about three-fourths of them go
The Owen-Oregon Lum ber company,
tom
ley of the St. Ixiuis Cards won the estim ates on prospective revenues up
ing to eastern cities and the remain
employing 700 men in its sawmill in
National
league valuable player con to March 31. 1931. Indicate th a t the
der to California and northern mat
Medford and logging cam ps and rail
test
over
Fred Lindstrom of the New- 1929 legislature will he unable to
kets. T hese shipm ents of approxi
way at B utte Falls, operating uninter
York
G
iants
by six votes. The final m aintain the custom ary biennial in
mately 70,000 dressed turkeys repre
ruptedly the past two years, will close
vote
stood,
Bottomley
76 and Lind crease in appropriations fur the state
sent a value to th e Oregon grow ers ot
road program . The m ost liberal of
lown for the w inter this year.
strom 70, out of a possible 80.
about $306,250. The quantity forward
estim ates fix the income up to March
George P. Gove, N. R. G ilbert and
Prim
e
M
inister
Baldwin,
according
d broke all previous records.
31. 1931. at »25,400.000. m aking it ob
to au th o ritativ e inform ation, has dis
Dr. J. F. Hosch were elected as Bend's
A city park for Tillamook was mad»
patched a friendly reply to the propos vious th a t the coming legislature will
Irst city com m issioners under the
possible by the gift of H enry Frem ont
new commission m anager form of gov
al made hy R epresentative B ritten for have to recede from the high point set
Goodspeed, pioneer Tillamook county
by the 1927 legislature with road ap
ernm ent authorized by the voters a I
an Anglo-American parliam entary con
dairym an, ex-county clerk and ex
ierence on naval affairs. The reply propriations totaling »30.100.000.
i special election October 16.
county judge, who nled th ere Novem
The prospective backw ard turn of
was sent to Sir Esme Howard, British
Erection of a new- telephone build
her 17. It was revealed when his wil
the road program is not due to a fall
am bassador at W ashington.
ng in Salem at a cost of approxim ate
was filed for probate. The park will
ing down of gasoline taxes or m otor
ly $140.000 was announced recently. (onsist of two city lots in Goodspeed's
license fees, which finance highway
Stanford Wins in Clash with Army.
The site for the new building was second addition to Tillamook city and
building, but is essentially a case of
lurchased by the telephone company
New York, N. Y.—Sm ashing W est legislative chickens coming home to
will be named for Lillian A. Good
recently at a cost of $25.000.
P oint’s defenses to bits with a rip roost. Revenues continue to increase,
speed, his wife, who died in 1924.
roaring. bew ildering attack th at kept although the combined gain is running
The old William Btft-ns residence on
Linn county has taken a long for
he l.uckiam ute, the oldest house in ward step looking to the completion up Its mom entum from sta rt to finish. »» about 8 per cent per year instead
Polk county, was burned to the ground of the Santiam highway across the Stanforu put the Army football team of the commonly estim ated increase
last week Maggie Burns and Grand
m ountains by two recent votes. At to rout and won the most spectacular of 10 per cent.
ma Mary Jones, now in her 99th year, the recent general election the people
intersectional battle of the year hy the
lopsided score of 26 to 0. While a New Oregon License Plates Ready.
p h o lias lived In the house since it of the whole county voted »60.000 foi
was built in 1853. were in the hous<
next year to m atch state and federal capacity crowd of 88,000 looked on in
Salem. Or.—Issuance of m otor ve
when it caught (ire.
astonishm ent, the last hope and pride hicle licenses for 1929 will begin De
aid for this road. Then the Cascadia
of the eastern gridiron was sm othered, cem ber 10, according to announcem ent
Bernice R entschler. three, of Salem
road district No. 38, by a large ma
com pletely outplayed, outgeneraled m ade here. A total of 233.373 cars
narrowly escaped Injury In an ode
iority vote, added $10.000 to the turn
and soundly trounced by what turned were registered up to December 1 of
Occident. W. A. R entschler wag driv for next year. If th - state highway
out to be a C ardinal cyclone, sweeping th is year, with license fees aggregat
ing home when he noticed th a t thi
commission and the federal govern
rear door of the m achine was open m ent meet th eir proportion, as usual all before it.
ing $6.958.049.98. The new plates for
and his child was missing. Looking for such roads, and there is every In
1929 have a black background witli
Rocket Car Tried Out in Germany. w hite letters and figures.
hack, he saw her sitting on the pave
diration they will, there should b»
ment in the middle of the street. Shi
funds on hand to undertake the com
B erlin.- Engineer K urt von Volk-
was unhurt although she narrow ly es
pietion ot an o th er 2"-mile section ol hardt tried out a rocket car of new Crack Southern Pac f c Flyer Ditched.
»■aped being struck by other cars.
this road.
design on the Avus speedway in G rüne
Roseburg. O r.—A loose tire of th e
wald but only attained a speed of 20 fourth driven heel of the locom otive
M. B. C hristensen's new 60.000 cap.-
Ralph M. Singer of Portland. wh<
city sawmill on the o u tsk irts of Ei.
has been appointed sales m anager ol miles an hour when six rockets were pulling the Southern Pacific south
fired in quick succession during the bound Shasta limited No. 11 Sunday
gene, the city's most recent industria
the $2.000.000 W estern Lum ber Manu
plant, sawed its first log Monday
third attem pt. E arlier sta rts drove afternoon, derailed six c a ts about
farturing com pany at Marshfield
the car only a few yards and one side miles north of Roseburg on a stra ig h t
Members ot the Eugene cham ber o, says the new ow ners will double th«
of the machine was partly blown out
omtnerce w itnessed the beginning ol capacity of the plant and im rease th«
away track at Deady station, injuring
>perat ions.
nearly a score of passengers, none of
payroll about 50 per cent.
The Milton C hristian church congr«
whom, fortunately, was seriously h u rt
Trojans Beat Notre Dame, 27 to 14
At a m eeting of the directors of th
ration held a unique service last Sun
Newport »hnm ber of com m erce stipe
Los Angeles. In one brilliant and
lay. when It burned the m ortgage on were taken to co-operate with the city
George P. Griffith Diss in Salem
m asterful stroke Southern C alifornia’s
he church property A drive put ot, council in obtaining a larger water
Salem. Or. George P G riffith. 49.
T rojans, coast conference champions.
he last few weeks cleared the $6ddo supply for the city of Newport, so that
form erly state com m ander of th e
• nded th eir 1928 football season Sat
■ malnlng of the debt and there was w ater can be furnished to Industrie'
American Legion in Oregon and proni-
urday with a sm ashing 27-to-ll victor«
56O M a ever.
tnent in this section, died here Sunday.
that locate in or near the city.
aver the Ram blers of Notre Dame
V
'J,
LANDING FIELD FOR
DIRIGIBLES SOUGHT
CHILEAN EARTHQUAKE
CAUSES HEAVY LOSS