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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 He had withdrawn $100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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
The lumber company, kindly
disposed toward its non-paying
tenants, did not wish to eject
them and yet was concerned lest
they establish "squatter's rights"
by seven years' continuous pos
session. It worked out a plan
under which each family leased
its plot for a dollar a month
and retained possession of any
buildings erected, with the right
to remove them.
Now, however, many of thai
families are moving out as their
breadwinners find employment
and they are able to afford
better places to live.
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