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PAGE THRE1 8-YR. OLDMURDER True Confession Signed By Petty Officer Never Sus pectedOn A 'Binge.' Seattle. Aug. 27. UP) A dra matic surrender at the sheriff's office with the words, "I've killed a man!" led to the holding today of Earl Floyd Ingram, 50-year-old chief petty officer in the navy, for removal to Stevens county to face charges for an eight-year-old murder. Ingram gave himself up yes terday to Capt. Ed Storgaard and under questioning made and signed a full confession, Chief Criminal Deputy Sheriff O. K. Bodia said. The victim was Sam Johnson, 75, a woodcutter found dead in his burning cabin 30 miles south of Colville, May 29, 1933. Asked why he surrendered when he never had been suspect ed in the shooting, Ingram re plied: "My conscience, of course. I've thought of it so damned , long. I just had to get it off my mind." "Why did you wait eight years?" Bodia asked. "I'm not proud of this," the gray-haired man replied, "but it has been on my mind so long to have been in the service so long and then pull a stunt like this . . ." At Colville last night, Prose Vcutor F. Leo Grinstead said rec ords disclosed a coroner's Jury reported Johnson was shot to death by an unknown person, with robbery the probable mo tive. He had withdrawn $100 from a bank two days before he was killed, telling friends he was going to the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. A hole was found in his skull. Deputy Sheriff Bodia quoted Ingram as having told him: "Sam wanted to be put out, to I put Sam out with his own rifle. I shot him in the back of the head. . . I just put him out of his misery. I wasn't drunk but we had been drinking. I'm not trying to alibi." Ingram, who retired from the navy in 1922, was recalled Aug ust 15 to active duty as a chief commissary at Port Townscnd. He left there Friday and started on a "binge." He remained in the vicinity of the shooting more than a year after Johnson's death. I, Grange Booth Is Fair Attraction JW'ES: .". HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL LASH EAST This booth of the Gold Hill Grange attracted much attention at the 9th annual Northwest Jackson County Fair. It Is built around the Grange symbol "Patrons of Husbandry." The cen tral panel was made of grains and beans and alfalfa and honeydew melon seeds. Both the Gold Hill and Live Oak Grange booths received first awards. AS Corvallis. Aug. 27 P Far mers are experiencing the un usual sensation of having prices for their products rising in the face of abundant crops, L. R. Breithaupt, extension economist at Oregon State college, said to day. In the past year prices have advanced more rapidly than costs, so that the exchange value of farm products has increased from an index of 75 in July 1940 to 94 per cent of the 1910-14 average for. July, 1941. This places the general exchange value of farm products slightly above the 1926-1930 average for the first time in many years, Breithaput pointed out. The combined production of chief cannery vegetables green peas, snap beans, sweet corn and tomatoes is expected to be' 17 per cent above 1940 and 57 per cent above the 1930-1938 average. HAS WET AUGUST Redmond, Aug. 27. UP) Alfalfa and grain harvests here have been interrupted by rain fall which has broken all rec ords for August. Irrigation ditches in the Sis ters area were filled to over flowing. Red silt and sand wash ing down from the mountains clogged many ditches faster than they could be cleaned. All forest service lookouts in the Sisters area have been called in and put on road maintenance work. Stockmen reported that cattle and sheep were in the best condition in years and ranges were lush with forage. Aluminum Drive Total Washington, Aug. 27 OF) The office of production man agement was optimistic today that final returns from the re cent aluminum collecting cam paign would total 14,000,000 pounds of scrap. fjxjf aW tt a ... iBBk ammo? (to (SEE GjRxr If 41 In office everywhere, people turn to refreshment right out of the bottle without turning from work. It take but a little min ute to enjoy Ice-cold Coca-Cola -a minute buy people welcome. You trust Its quality ON PRICE BOOST Salem. Aug. 27 (JP) The state milk control board, which heard farmers at a hearing here yesterday ask tliat the milk price be increased from 11 to 13 cents a quart, said today its de cision might be announced by next Monday. The dairymen, asking for a raise from 60 cents to B0 cents per pound butterfat, said the In crease is needed because their production costs have Increased. terms unmi AUTHOittr op THi coca. ecu corxr ir COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO., of Medford, 601 No. Grape St Phone 3339 115 Salem. Aug. 27 UP) Salem school directors decided last night to open the schools on Sep tember 15 as originally sched uled, but they said they would cooperate in the harvesting of beans, hops and fruit. State employment service of ficials said the shortage of pick ers is still serious. Reclamation Meet Set Corvallis, Aug. 27 UP) Dr. W. L. Powers, secretary of the Oregon Reclamation Congress has issued the call for the an nual meeting of that body to be held at Ontario September 29 and 30. The call was authorized by Frank Morgan, Nyssa, presi dent of the congress. CIO Wage Agreement Los Angeles, Aug. 27 UP) Members of the CIO United Automobile Workers employed at the Vernon plant of the Alum' inum Company of America have ratified a tentative wage agree ment with the employer, union officials announced. Closing Urn tor Classified Ads 9 a. tar Too UM to Classify 13:30 p. 1 rael by train with safety, speed and comfort ... cross Canada to Eastern destinations. 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Transcontinental train with oir-conriitioneef equip ment leave Vancouver deity, eon nertint with Prfnreta steamships from Seattle. rMtr 4Wrtce durtu f fmnhm In Com4s taw ym All details from your travel aeent, or By the Associated Press Violent thunderstorms accom panied by heavy hail and rain- falt laslied Puget sound areas and eastern Washington and Ore gon yesterday afternoon, doing considerable damage to electric al transmission equipment and flooding many basements. At Seattle a day of sporadic showers was climaxed by a bril liant lightning display about 6 p. m. with more than a quarter inch of rain and hail falling In fifteen minutes. A number of transformers were burned out and power was cut off in many homes just at dinner time. A number of Seattle building basements were flooded when water backed up from overtaxed storm drains although no serious damage was reported. Eastern Washington and Ore gon also felt the storm with Spokane and Wenatchee report ing heavy rains that flooded basements. Transformers and meters in Spokane suffered heavily and a 60.000-volt line in Spokane valley was hit. In Pendleton, Ore., rain of cloudburst proportions sent a wall of water roaring down West Birch creek bed and many persons prepared for flight, re membering a disastrous flash flood of June, 1939. One car overturned when hailstones ob scured vision and the driver left the highway while a number of road washouts were reported. Store windows also suffered, with a number reported broken by large size hailstones. trouncing La Grande, 8-1, and' Bonneville downed the second battalion of Astoria behind Biff Gerogesen's three-hit pitching, 1 to 0. The winning Bonneville run came home in the second inning on a single by Catcher Daniel son and a double by Joe Edgar. Commercial Iron of Portland defeated Hood River, 9-1, and Oregon City edged out Gresh am, S-4, to move into the quarter-finals. The winners will meet tonigh. FEW ANTELOPE TAGS LEFT FOR HUNTERS Portland, Aug. 27. (IP) More hunters than ever before have bought antelope tags, but some are still available for the hunting season in southeastern Oregon. The state game commission said Antelope would be hunted south of the Burns-Ontario high way in Malheur county from September 22 to October 5, and in parts of Lake and Harney counties from September 28 to October 8. Western International Spokane 8, Salem 7 Vancouver 0-6, Tacoma 1-T Yakima at Wenatchee post poned, wet grounds. Infant Perishes Portland. Aui. 2ft i!P nh. ert Stone, one-year-old son of a Derry pictser, was trapped In a flamins tent near nmshnm v terday. He died of the burns. FAMI WILL GET $4,175 Washington, Aug. 27 IP) A bill authorizing payment of $4175 to the Gilbert Jackson family of Portland has been signed by President Roosevelt. Jackson will receive $175, Helen Jackson $2,500 and Edwin Jackson, a minor, $1,500 for in juries suffered in a collision in Portland in 1937. The house claims committee found that a CCC truck driver ran through a red light and crashed into the Jackson car. NORTHWEST PEARS Y Seatle, Aug. 27 UP) Oregon and Washington packing firms received numerous contracts for canned goods for the army in a summary received today from the quartermaster section at Fort Mason, Cal. The total of all canned goods contracts was $3,779,103. Northwest firms outside of Seattle which received orders were: Canned Bartlett pears No. 10 cans Ray-M a 1 1 n g Co., Hills- boro, Ore., 6,250 dozen cans, $43,750; Paulus Bros. Packing company, Salem, 4,000 dozen cans, $28.0000; Washington Can' ners Cooperative, Vancouver, 2,450 dozen, $17,101. No. 214 cans pears Ray Mating company, 5,000 dozen. $10,375; Paulus Bros. Packing company, 8,000 dozen, $16,800. CORVALLIS SOFTBALL CLUB IN SEMI-FINALS Oregon City, Aug. 27. IP) The Corvallis Bottlers, con querors of last year'f champion, and the Bonneville Engineers moved into the semi-finals of the Oregon Softball tournament last night. Corvallis swatted ll.hlU In New York, Aug. 27. (IP) A Brooklyn woman and three of her four children were slain, their throats slashed, and her other child and her husband were wounded similarly today, apparently, Assistant District Attorney Edward A. Hcffernan said, because the entire family suffered from a contagious dis ease which he did not Identify. In the blood-spattered flat where the slayings occurred de tectives found a note, which Hcffernan said probably was written by the man. It read: "This is the best way out. Don't touch anything." LANIFERO RECALLED ?Y SAN DIEGO PADRES San Diego, Calif., Aug. 27. iP) Six baseball players op tioned to San Diego to its Ana heim farm In the class C Cali fornia State league will get fur ther tryouts with the coast lea gue club next year. The San Diego management announced It was recalling Fred Lanifero. Mcl Skelly, Gus Hall bourg, Joe Malman, Dus De- Volder and Anto Jell for the 1942 season. Lanifero is from Salem, Ore. SUBURB SUFFERS AS HIS IMPROVE Pensacola, Fla. UP) Hoover, ville, depression-born suburb of Pensacola, Is on its way toward becoming a ghost town be cause times are good again. The settlement, with its shacks of scrap tin, lumber and tar paper, was started back in 193S when several families moved onto vacant land owned by large lumber company, and grew to a population of about 200. Unable ot pay even modest rent, they Improvised living quarters from .whatever mate rials they could find. 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