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PAGE Ti: rrcPFORD MVTL TRIBUNE. rEnFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST IS. 1937. E 10 CITY COUNCIL; THREE LDTS SOLD (Continued from ta one.) w ctin a church of their own. Coun cil approved the committee's report. If It materializes, the sale will be a cash deal. It was brought out. The lot has a frontage of 125 feet on Cen tral avenue and 140 feet on Jackaon treat. Other tales recommended by the committee and concluded by the council were: lot at the northeast corner of Central avenue and Thin! street to Delbert 8. and Leona O, Simmons; lot at the southwest cor ner of Dakota avenue and Grant street to Harrison W. and Vera B Wright; lot on the south side of Eat Main street between uicnmonu and Modoc streets to John F. and Thora 8. Lawrence. The Lawrences withdrew from previous negotlatloni which had not been consummated for the purchase of a lot and a half on Queen Anne avenue between Academy place and Oregon Terrace A summary report of the work completed by the city superlntend nt denartment last month was read and ordered filed. Councilman Purnaa complimented Fred W. Schef fel, city superintendent, for his econ omy in running the department. FATE OF ACCUSED DOG BUOFNB, AUff. 18. (AP Six Justice court Jurors couldn't arrivo at a decision last night about the life or rtenUi of a mongrel dog accuwd of attacking persons in the Spring field district. The dog, owned by R. E. Burns, watched the proceedings Indifferent ly, although the case caused quite a stir. It wns transferred to the Justice court here becati Spring field has no ordinance relating to the disposal of dogs, Springfield residents sponsored the complaint upalnst Burns and the an imal, charging the dog attacked and bit Marilyn Dawson, 13. FOR BLACK SELECTION PORTLAND, Aug. 18. (AP) The United States supremo court Is 'one ninth packed' with the selection of Senator Hugo Black of Alnhama as a Justice, former President Herbert Hoover remarked hero yesterday. He told interviewers "the nomina tion of Senator Black Is an example of what wo should expect from a packing of the supreme court." Hoover, who Is In the northwest fishing, came to Portland to mceet J. N. Emerson, Washington . Repull can national committeeman from Pullman. Truck Operators Paying More Fees SALEM, Axik. 18. UP) Trucking operators paid ft7 1.387 in feea to Public Utilities Commissioner N. Q. Wallace during the first half of this year, compared with fftOft,38fl for the same period last year. Receipts for the first nix months of 1934 were $361,6110, about aaiO.OOO under this year's figure. Wallace said the Increased receipts reflected Improved conditions In the motor transport Industry. June receipts were $104,800, the largos t monthly total In four years. At Trial of Triple Killer Mr. and Mm. Merle O. Everett, parents of Madeline ond Mrlba Everelt, two of three little clrln slain and at larked utter helng taken Irnm a li lln park In Injtleivnwl, calif., were In the f-os Aiicelrn raurt room aa trial begun of Albert Dyer. .'I'!. on the triple murder rharge. HELP INjFABER SPUDS WASHINGTON. Aug. 18. (P) Planting potatoes In the dark of the moon Is no insurance of a good crop. the Smithsonian Institution solemly declared today. Mnny old beliefs that moonlight In fluences plant growth were analyzed for the first time by the Institution scientists and found to be erroneous. Dr. Earl s. Johnston, plant physi ologist, concerned himself principally In the experiments with the efrect on plants of polarized light, the rays of which vtbrate In only one direc tion. Moonlight Is sunlight which is polarized In being reflected from the moon's surface. Johnston found there was no dif ference between polarized and non polarized lltfht in the way in which plants turned toward it. LOADINGS ON S. P. SET NEW HIGH MARK Cm Mall Tribune want adi. FLIES, FLIES, FLIES. I'VE GOT TO GET RIO OF THEM. I'LL TRY THIS FLYTOX SPRAY ). not a fly in 1 -fSfc lTHE HOUSE ?l j A WELL. I SPRAYED ff y WITH FLY-TOX J y t k (good! this au. is real 55COMFORTj SPRAY PLEASANTLY PERFUMED FLY-TOX DURING THE DAY J ND BEFORE RETIRING J SAN PHANC1HCO. Aug. lfl. fp) Southern Pitrlfle rompany reported a new high record for cnrlo.id.nKfi for the recovery period wa set on the company's lines last week. Shippers filled 35,146 freight ears an Increu.se of .055 over the like week last year and 3,740 over the preceding week this year. The company hauled 43.803 cars, a gain of 13 percent of 4.708 enrs over last year, and 4.343 cars or 11 percent more than In the preceding week. Hop firkin Slurs. INDEPENDENCE. Aug. 18 (AP) Severol thousand hop pickers will be nt work In the wards or this vicinity as soon as the harvest reaches Its peak. Hundreds of pickers havo al ready found employment brining in the bumper crop. I PORTLAND. Auk. 18- iTH The Pacific northwest Klwanls convention chose Q. I. Griffith, Olympla. Wash, district governor Tuesday and select ed Tncoma for the 1038 convention, with Victoria. B. C, bidding for the 1039 meet. Ray I. Wise, Bellinglmni, Wash.. Frederick E. Baker. Seattle. Wilbur Daniels, Buckley, Wash., Harry Born, Olympla. Wash., J. E. Beebon. Cle Elum, Wash- Harry Nelson, Spokane, Charles Harlan, Lewlston, Idaho, Jack Allen, Pendleton, Ore.. Jack Oodfrew. Portland, Ben H-mseyer, Salem, Ore., and E. A. Faber. Medford, were nam ed lieutenant-governors. Achievement prizes were awarded to Monroe, Wash. CHICKEN FEED SIFTED WHEN NUGGETS FOUND THOMPSON FALLS. Mont. Gold crazed poll I try men are sifting chick en feed by the barrel here. Sam Lee found several nuggeta of gold In the gizzard of a chicken , but he can't remember where he bought the fowl. CREAMTiUED RATTLER UNDER KITCHEN SINK OfiflKOSH, Neb. Four-year-old Owyn Hogoboom told his father h silver-colored snake that made a noise with Its tall was under the kitchen sink. Fa i her Investigated and found a creom-hued rattlesnake. The Heather. Northern California: Fair tonight and Thursday, but fog on the coast; little change In temperature: gentle northwest wind off coast. Oregon: Fair tonight and Thurs day, but morning fog in west por tion: little change in temperature; moderate northwest, wind off const. FILL IT WITH OOP! I Tovt like OOP (hort for OIil 0cf . Tcpprr). For this rich, full bodied whiskey command ihe respect of any man who knows whiskey! Every drop of OOP is whiskey smooth, mellow whiskey dU tillcd by the slow old-fashioned method. OOP was first made down in old Kcntmky 'way back in tH.H. Try it and you'll know why it's been so famous ever since! OLD OSCAR PEPPER A hltnd oj straight u bi'kits 90 prmj I'tAnkfnrt PiMilleric, tninrpomcfd Louillle Udlumore $100 12 mxiii - , CRIME WILL BE PROVED SAYS T OF HEW YORK. Aug. 18. P, flpecial Rackets Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey Intends to "prove" during the present mayoralty contest his campulgn charge of an "alliance of long stand ing between crime and certain ele ments of Tammany Hall," a spokes man said today. Dewey la Republlcan-Puslon-Labor candidate for district attorney of New York county on the ticket headed by Mayor Ftorello H. LaGuardla. Dewey's charge that certain ele ments of Tammany are linked with the underworld was made Sunday In his statement accepting the Repub lican designation. Dewey la now technically a special assistant to District Attorney WU- am C. Dodge, a Tammany protege. He was appointed by Oovernor Her bert H. Lehman. Dewey's only opponent for the of fice of district attorney is Harold W. Hastings, chief assistant in the district attorney's office. Dodge is not a candidate for re-election. LAWS FOR PLICE PORTLAND. Aug. 18. (API The Second Oregon regiment of the Spanish-American war veterans sent resolutions to President Roosevelt and congress today asking for legis lation to keep the Unit?d Slates at peace. . It requested a bHn on the mnnu- : facture and sale of war munition by j private firms, conscription of labor ; and property, wltb proper compenaa I tlon. as well as man power, a law preventing the future Issuance of tax 1 exempt bonds of the national, state or local governments, payment of war 1 debts by foreign nations, nationwide 1 referendum to determine If congress should declare war except In case of Invasion. ' - Sam L. Hanson, state commander of the United Spanish War Veterans ana 24 other delegates leave today to attend the national convention at Columbus, O. Oregon State Bar Governors Elected PORTLAND, Aug. 18. 1P) F. M. Sercombe. secretary of the Oregon State Bar, announced today the 're election to the board of governors of Alan G. Carson. Salem, from the first congressional district, and H, H. De Armand, Bend, from the second dis trict. Rupert P. Bulllvant of Portland was elected from the third district, succeeding Nicholas Jaureguy, who did not seek re-election. .Murder Theory, HILLSBORO, Aug. 18. (AP) County officers searched for clues to substantiate a murder theory today In the death of a man identified aa Swen Lundstrom. Lundstrom dis appeared in 1034 and a body believed to be his was found last week in the wilds of Dutch canyon. The remains were a mile away from Lundstrom a cabin. Cause of death has not yet been learned. Home, Cure for Crime. PORTLAND, Aug. 18. (AP) The "best and greatest cure for 'crime, communism and radlctillfm" is a home for every child, K. O. Eben hart, former governor of Minnesota, told a luncheon club here yesterday. He Is a federal housing administration official. The borough of Manhattan, New York, contains 27.000.000 tons of steel, of which 33.000,000 tons aro In skyscra)ers and other buildings. PAT PENSION ASSURED OAPPER EX-MAYOR BY wrui vnotr Am ia txr tnM., In 1932 as mayor of New York, vir tually was assured today of a life time city pension estimated at be tween 912.000 and 915.000 annually. The Democratic-con trolled transit commission appointed him assistant commission counsel yesterday Just two weeks before a five-year absence from the city payroll would have disqualified him for a pension. His new Job pays (12.000 a year. Commissioner Reuben L. Haskell said the vote to appoint Walker was unanimous. "There was no politics involved." Reuben said. "He qualifies for the Job by virtue of his knowledge of transit." In his new position Walker, who has been living quetly on a Long iAiand duck farm, will direct the transit commission's activities in eliminating grade crossings in New York City. The dapper former mayor, whose wlscracks and debonair aplomb won favor with Gotham's millions, neg lected to apply for a pension when he resigned during the Seabury investi gation in 1932 and left tor Europe. Still trim In figure but graying slightly. Walker Is now 56 one year older than the minimum age for re tirement. 4 New Economy Train On 5. F. Chicago Run A new fast train, exclusively for passengers traveling on low cost coach and tourist tickets, will be placed In dally service between San Francisco and Chlnto. September IS, according to announcement today by p. 8. McGinnia. vice-president In charge of system passenger traffic for Southern Pacific company. To be christened th? "San Fran cisco Challenger." the new train will feature numerous lnovatlr-ns includ ing ste warden-nurse service, extreme ly low cost meals served in "coffee shop" dining cars, free pillows and a chair car reserved exclusively for women and children. The train will be fully air-conditioned. Joint op eration will be by Southern Pacific. Union Pacific and Chicago St North western railroads. BAG FULL OF PENNIES BUYS WEDDING PERMIT PORT WAYNE, lnd. A prospective bridegroom gave Miss Thelma Smith, deputy clerk, a bag full of pennies and asked for a 2 marriage llcenhC. "You only have 10B pennies here," said Miss Smith after a laborious count. "And thl Isn't bargain day." The youth, red-faced, flahed un successfully In hl pockett. Turning to his u-lfe-to-be, ho whispered: "Do you have one?" She did. Use Mall Tribune want al. WHY SUFFER? WHY BE DISCOURAGED? HF.MORRNOIDS (Pil.n) Colitis Constipation Vi I ur. Ulcers. All Rectil, Colon and Stomach trouble! completely eliminated with out iurr;ical operation after all other method, hav. , tor thousands of others we Can do li for you. 26 years in Portland. FREE BOOKLET your request. CmII or wrif Dr. C.J. DEAN CLINIC Physician and Surgeon N E. Cor. E. Biirnside and Grand At. Telephone EAjt 3918 Portland. 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