CALLAGHAN FUNERAL SERVICES TOMORROW
   Honorary and active pallbearers were named today for the funeral services for the late Michael Callaghan, pioneer retired farmer of Wasco county, who will be buried tomorrow morning with services at 9 o’clock from St. Peter’s Catholic church.
   Honorary pallbearers will be Henry Mayhew of Dufur (OR.), Paul Ziesch, Poe Studeniker, Julius Velarde, Harry Dunn and John Hix of Dufur. Active pallbearers will be George Blake, Joseph Stadelman, Leo A. Schanno, George McDonald, H. C. Hurley and Frank Shannon of Centralia, Wash.
   Rev. Father Egan will deliver the funeral sermon and interment will be in the Catholic cemetery under the direction of Crandall’s (funeral home). Mr. Callaghan had been a resident of Wasco county for 52 years.

The Dalles Daily Chronicle
August 26, 1931

TAGS ON SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS AID OFFICERS
   Tags required on all slaughtered animals being shipped over the highways or railroads of the state were of material assistance in tracing the
   veal which figured in the arrest over the week-
end of Harry Hoak and Mrs. A. C. Thompson on cattle-rustling charges, according to Sheriff Harold Sexton.
   The local officer pointed out that it was through the numbers on the tags received by the Portland buyer, checked against the stubs to the sheriff’s office, that it was possible to find who took out the tags from the sheriff’s officer here and who was actually shipping the veal.
   Hoak and Mrs. Thompson were still in jail today awaiting a hearing on the charges. Officers claim that Hoak killed 24 calves during the last two months, Mrs. Thompson taking them to Portland in her car and selling the meat. Just how many of these animals were allegedly stolen, officers are not prepared to say.

RADIO INTERFERENCE CASE UNSETTLED AS JURY IS DEADLOCKED
   Six Wasco County circuit court jurors, after more than two hours of solemn deliberation, have failed to agree whether it is justifiable to resort to primitive force upon a man whose electrical equipment interferes with radio reception.
   The jury in the case charging Fred and Joe Zurlinden with assaulting and beating G. G. Shults following an argument over radio interference was dismissed at 7:35 yesterday evening after they had been shown by ballots to be hopelessly deadlocked.
   The county courtroom was comfortably filled yesterday afternoon as the case went to trial and details of the alleged assault were graphically described in the picturesque language of eye witnesses. The jury retired about 5 o’clock.
   The state’s attack was built around Shults’ story that the older Zurlinden, Fred, had twice turned off Shult’s electric water pump Sunday morning because it interfered with reception of a radio sermon broadcast; and that Zurlinden and his son, Joe, attacked and clawed Shults without provocation.
   Zurlinden, a native of Switzerland but a long-time resident of Mill creek (The Dalles), claimed that Shults threatened him but was not very clear on just who started the fracas between Joe and Shults. He denied deliberately striking Shults.
   The high point of the trial was the description of the battle as given by Harry Spitler, son-in-
law of the complainant, who separated the other three contestants and admittedly “socked Joe a couple.” Spitler’s “style was cramped” by the insistence of District Attorney Francis V. Galloway that the witness cling more closely to the king’s English.

   The trial might have set a precedent for other anguished radio listeners to follow – a perhaps dangerous precedent – but the hung jury leaves to doubt the right of others who have been goaded to battle pitch by the horrible sounds emanating from their own loud speakers.