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THE MOUSING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1922 5 E 0D TO FOREST FIRES Blaze Along Columbia High way Is Spreading. CONDITION IS CRITICAL Two New Fires in Snoqualmie National Forest Are Reported to District Office. A number of the airplanes -which have been sent from San Francisco to take up active duty in forest fire patrol over the forests of Oregon have been ordered by A. O. Waha, district forester in charge of oper ations, who has been conferring with the aviators at Eugene, to re jort for scouting duty at the large fire in the Oregon national forest Rt Wyeth, on the Columbia highway. How many.have been delegated to go to the fire was not learned yes terday. The fliers are to co-operate with the fighters on the ground in doin reconnaissance work, discov eriiL2 the actual boundaries of the fire and advising as to the best means of combatting the blazes. Fire Spreads Toward lake. The latest report of the fire re ceived at forestry headquarters yes terday advised that all available men were being put to work to try to check the blaze which was caus ing undue trouble. The fire is driv ing back into the virgin timber over the crest of the; bluffs along the highway and is spreading toward the Wahtum lake area. However, the fire is some distance from the lake as yet, and no anxiety need be caused for the boys at the scout camp on the lake. Every precau tion is being taken to provide for the boys safety, and James h,. Brockway, scout executive, avers that there is no cause for alarm. Two New Fires Reported. Two new fires have been reported to the district forester's office. Both are burning in the Snoqualmie na tional forest in the vicinity of Sauk river. One, at the headwaters of the river, has grown to cover an area of 200 or 300 acres and is spreading rapidly. George L. Drake, national forest examiner, has gone to the scene of this fire. Another fire is farther down the river, west of the town of Darrington. No de tails of this fire could be gained. yesterday. Two other fires in northeastern "Washington, which were reported to the forester's office Saturdayi were known today to be in better shape. They are in the Colville forest re serve. The weather conditions have made the fighting there more ef fective, and it is hoped soon to have the fires under control. Conditions Are Critical. No other fires, with the exception of the one at Wyeth, are burning in the Oregon national forests. In the private patrol areas in western Ore gon, however, the conditions are still critical. The Tillamook fires are practically the same as they have been for some days. At Tim ber the Are broke its bounds on the lower end, but no trouble is experi enced in handling it. - Thirty-nine more men were sent out to Timber yesterday by the Forest Fire Patrol association. No reports were re ceived from Cochran or, Belding yes terday, but it is thought the lack of information is indicative of fa vorable conditions. One new fire was reported south of Tillamook in the timber of the Coates Lumber company, where the Yellow Fir com pany is operating. Description of the fire was not available. The fire which was reported at Mohler, north of Nehalem, was con fined to the slashings and was not causing any trouble. is very close to the roadway. No big timber has been touched there. The. first airplane of this year'a Oregon forest fire patrol was sent out from the base today to the .bis fire on Herman creek, west of Hood River. A. O. Waha, district forester. who is here to co-operate with the army officers in the new patrol, re quested that a plane be sent to this blaze to take observations as to its extent. Lieutenant Goldsborough was pi lot and Lieutenant Maughan acted as observer. They returned late this afternoon and reported spotting a number of fires between Eugene and Hood Rivery The equipment for the patrol base here is expected to arrive from Crissey field, San Fraii- cisc.o, tomorrow or next day. LOG OPERATIONS TO CExVSE Operators to Wait Till Rains Eliminate Fire Hazards. VANCOUVER, B. C, July 17. (Special.) The following resolution was adopted by loggers assembled here today: "In view of the unprecedented dry spell, creating a serious situation, it was decided that this organiza tion take such steps as it can in conjunction with the forestry de partments to reduce the fire hazard created by logging operators, berry pickers, campers, etc., by request ing that the present enacted laws be vigorously enforced and that all logging operators comply with the request of the governor of the state of Washington and the minister of lands of British Columbia in ceas ing logging operations until the occurrence of sufficient rains has eliminated the fire hazard bo as to make the carrying on of logging operations safe. MOST FIRES IN SLASHINGS No Serious Blazes Reported to State Forester's Office. SALEM, Or., July 17. -(Special.) Although a large number of fires have been reported to the state for ester's office here during the past ten days, none of them are of a serious nature, according to a state ment issued here today by Frank Elliott, state forester. In most in stances the fires have been con fined to slashings, and little or no valuable timber has been destroyed, the state forester said. The most serious fire reported, Mr. Elliott said, is now raging along Herman creek. PLANS LI FOB EDITORS STATE ASSOCIATION SESSION TO BE WELL ATTENDED. Corvallis Will Give Delegates Fine Entertainment, Including Outing at Newport. CORVALLIS, Or., July 17. (Spe cial.) Plans for the meeting of the Oregon State Editorial association in this city next Friday, Saturday and Sunday are about completed. Invitations have been sent by the Corvallis chamber of commerce to every editor in the state. All papers also have been notified and invited to be here by Hal Ross, secretary of the state association; by Frank Snow, head of the department of industrial journalism at Oregon Ag ricultural college, and by George TurnbuU of the University school of journalism at Eugene. Replies are beginning to come 'n, which indi cate that there will be a large attendance. The shop part of the programme has been made up to suit the needs of both the small daily and the weekly. An important part of the business session will be a report from W. F. G. Thatcher of the school of Journalism upon the results of his visit to the eastern advertising agencies. Friday night a dinner will be served by the chamber of commerce, after which there will be an exhi bition of aquatic sports under the direction of Coach Rutherford in the men's gymnasium. Saturday afternoon the corvauis chamber of Commerce will take the association to Newport by special train. There it will be entertained by the Newport Community club, a seafood dinner being one of the at tractions. The special train will re turn to Corvallis in time to connect with the north bound electric train reaching Portland about 8 o'clock in the evening. If the programme is not completed when the spec'al train is due to start, it will be finished en route. CANINE AND GARDEN OWNERS IX BITTER DISPUTE. Fire Menaces Macieay Park. Residents of Willamette Heights reported a forest fire blazing back of that section last night and which seemed to be menacing a portion of Jlacleay park. One fireman was said to be watching the blaze but, because it was outside the city lim its, no call for apparatus was sent in. BIRTHDAY IS RECALLED (Continued From First Page.) WHITE SALMON THREATENED Business Suspended and Every body Fights Dangerous Blaze. WHITE SALMON, Wash., July 17. (Special.) A spectacular brush and grass fire which started near the Zeigler place just below the high bluff at Bingen Friday night ran up the hill for several hundred feet, endangering White Salmon's residence district. Property owners along the bluff were up all night fighting the fire and protecting their property. At noon Saturday a brisk westerly wind fanned the flames and it was considered necessary to sound a general alarm to protect the en dangered town, but the fire was confined to the grass and windfalls and no damage to property resulted. Business for a while was entirely suspended. An emergency pipe line was laid down Jewett avenue to the bluff, which is two blocks away. The 350-foot stairway from the dock road up ' the bluff was partly destroyed. Several new small fires in the vicinity of the White Salmon and Little White Salmon rivers have been reported, but no damage of consequence has resulted as far a known. The air is filled with dense smoke. LANE FIRES MOSTLY SMALL First Plane of This Year's Pa trol Leaves Eugene. EUGENE, Or., July 17. (Special.) Small fires in different parts of the Coast and Cascade mountains were reported today and a largo number of men are fighting them. No serious fires are located in the national forests, however. A 400 acre blaze that had been raging in the Lorane district, south of Eu gene, was being fought by the farmers in that locality and was partially under control. The spread of the fire had been slow and no great damage has been dene. ' A big fire near Triangle lake. 35 miles northwest of Eugene, is now under control. The blaze along the McKenzie highway between Biue river and McKenzie bridge has made It uncomfortable for motorists, as it i : - back to the days when he was 30 instead of 75. Inventor Was Hard Up. "That was a long time ago," he observed- "The laboratory at Menlo Park" he paused to laugh "that building was the negation of all ar chitecture. We built it in the sim plest possible way, because I was short of money, I always was. The life of an inventor, from childhood to death, is a continuous state of being hard up. I guess inventors are necessary evils of civilization." He laid the page down and pushed his spectacles up as if they Inter fered with his vision of that great moment. "1 thought v then," he resumed, "that it was possible to make a machine that would reproduce the human voice. After that the ques tion was to find the easiest way to try the experiment, so I sketched a machine. I got it as I wanted it on August 12, and sent it down to John Kreuz, my instrument maker. How much money did I say Kreuz could have to construct it?' he asked, turning to William H. Meadowcroft, who has been asso ciated with him nearly half a century. Economy Then Necessary. "Eighteen dollars," Meadowcroft told him. Edison laughed again. "I had to be careful," h said. "I didn't have much- money to spend on experiments. "Did you foresee then what place the invention would have in modern life?" he was asked. "I thought of it at first prin cipally in connection with dicta tion," Mr. Edison answered. "It didn't look as if we could make it perfect enough to produce ' music enjoyably. Kreuz, in spite of his faith in his chief, declared this latest scheme of a machine to record talk was a "crazy idea." The foreman of the machine shop offered to bet the in ventor a box of cigars it wouldn't work. But it did work, while the laboratory staff stood amazed and joined hands and danced and sang around it and stayed up all night trying it out. The next day Mr. Edison took the machine to the office of the Scien tific American in New York and dis played it to the editor, Alfred E. Beach, and an astonished crowd The wildest reports of the new in vention filled the newspapers and went around the world. Old Records Still Exist. Some of those first tinfoil records, with the impression of the voice of Mr. Edison reciting his favorite test selection, "Mary had a little lamb," are still in existence. "Several people have them," said he today. "I guess maybe we have some of them around the plant yet, all crumpled up." The phonograph is Edison's pet invention, he said. It was during his researches for a satisfactory wax cylinder that he once put in five successive days and nights in his laboratory, the longest of his famous stretches of continuous work. "I love the phonograph best, be cause I love music," he said. "I am a one-finger performer on the piano, but nevertheless I am sensi tive to any defect in a musical per formance. I can remember any tune I ever heard. . "Jazz? Tes, I like it, if it s tune ful; I don't ' like the unearthly sounds they inject into it, but I like its sharpness and clearness and its peculiar quality. In fact, it would have to be a pretty tough tune I wouldn t like. "By constant,1 experimenting we have got the phonograph to the point where an audience cannot tell whether it is listening to an artist's own performance or our reproduc tion of it. The hardest thing has been to reproduce the piano. I have been- trying for 15 years to do that and I have Just lately succeeded. Now I have set my heart on repro ducing perfectly Beethoven's ninth symphony with 75 people in the or chestra. When I have done that I'll quit." Mr. Meadowcroft looked up, with an expression born of a lifetime ex perience of Mr. Edison's ways. "He will not," he observed, Just a little too low for the inventor' deaf eas, . ., Pronosed Ordinance to Restrict Animals Creates Uproar in Vancouver Council Room. VANCOUVER, Wash.. July 17. fSnecial.) After a hearing at whicn dog owners and garden owners bit terly attacked and champlonea tne proposed ordinance restricting dogs in the city, the council tonignt re ferred the entire matter to a com mittee of seven which, with the city attorney, will draw an ordinance that is expected to please everybody. The council chambers were crowded and many spoke for and against the proposed ordinance which would have required all dogs to be on leash or if found at larg3 would have permitted their con fiscation and the fining or im prisonment of the owners. Mrs. Jo seph Roane, president of the City Beautiful club, and numbers of other women were among the speakers for the ordinance, pointing out the damage that they said dogs had done to gardens. Claude Cre tan, hotelman, together with some feminine dog-owners, opposed the measure. It is the plan of the council to have three dog owners and three garden owners on the committee, and these will elect the seventh member. Trunk and operates it as a branch line. The city of Madras, the North Unit irrigation district, the town of Mecca and C. W. Risdahl, Indian agent of the Warm Springs reserva tion, will be represented at the hearing as opposed to the plan. Mecca, which is located only on the Oregon Trunk-road, will be left high and dry 10 miles from a rail road if the abandonment plea is granted. Madras is served also by the O.-W. branch, but it is eaid that this line is 1 miles from the city, whereas the Oregon Trunk road runs almost through the heart of the place. The irrigation district enii braces 100,000 acres of irrigable lands and expects to show that it would be very adversely affected by loss of this span of the Oregon Trunk line. The contention of the railroad at torneys will be that inasmuch as the two roads jointly use stretches of track, both north of South Junction and south of Metolius, there is little reason why they may not jointly use the more direct line of the O.-W. R. & N. between these points. It is ad mitted also that the necessity of building two new bridges' at a cost of $250,000 in the near future is a factor. Between the Columbia river and North Junction the rival railroads still use closely parallel tracks. It is hinted that attempt will later be made to get authorization for joint use of the Oregon Trunk line and abandonment of the O.-W. R. & N. tracks between these points. HO JOBS MUD CONTRACTS IS CLACKAMAS TOTAL $111,986. Most of Concrete Paving Is to Be Nine Feet Wide, but Some Will Be 16 Feet. OREGON CITY, Or., July 17. (SpecJaL) Contracts totaling $111, 9S6.30 for grading and hardsurfacing 9.1 miles of market and bond roads In Clackamas county were awarded to the Oregon Contract company here today. The contracts and the roads on which they were let are: Molalla south, one mile, $8838.55; Wright's bridge section of Molalla road, three and one-half miles, $37,903.55; Ore gon City-Molalla" road south from Oregon City, 2100 feet, $7603.68; south end road, two miles, $26, 383.60; Hardscrabble road, 2.1 miles, $31,256.52. All of the work will be of seven inch concrete, one, two, three mix ture of the Oregon state highway commission specification. The roads are to be built nine feet in width for the majority of the contracts, but in some places 16-foot pave ment W'll be laid. The awarding of contracts is the result of the decision of the county court to combine both market and bond road funds on some of the main county improvements. The sale of a $152,950 bond issue August 7 to finance the improvements is pending. RAIL HEINE IS TODAY QUESTION OF TEARING TRACK TO BE ARGUED. UP Oregon Trunk Would Abandon 1 8 Miles of Line, but Plan Is to Be Fought Bitterly. Hearing on the proposal to aban don and tear up 18 miles of the Ore gon Trunk railroad, between South Junction and Metolius, Or., will open before the Oregon public service commission in Portland at 10 o'clock this mornihg. Application for aban donment of this line and subsequent joint use of the O.-W. R. & N. line between these points was presented to the interstate commerce commis sion several months ago. The federal commission vested the state com mission with authority to conduct the hearing in the matter. There will be strenuous opposition to the abandonment plan advanced by the Spokane, Portland & Seattle railway, which owns the Oregon BILLY SUNDAY IS HOME Evangelist's Wife Prepares for Canning Season. HOOD RIVER, Or., July 17. (Special.) Rev. Billy and Ma Sun day arrived yesterday from Winona Lake, Ind., where the evangelist rested for two weeks following a month's preaching at Mornstown, Tenn. Today Mrs. Sunday was in the city purchasing glass jars; jelly glasses, extra can tops and sugar, preparatory to her season's canning, which she declared would begin im mediately. The Sundays will remain until September 1 on their Odell ranch. Rev. Billy plans several automobile tours of new mid-Columbia high ways, he says. Work on Tumalo Dam to Start. SALEM, Or., July 17. (Special.) Work on the diversion dam through which approximately 16.000 acres of land contained in the Tumalo irri gation district will receive water will start within the next 10 days, according to Percy Cupper, state en gineer, who returned from Bend to day. The district is located in Des chutes county. The water for irriga tion will be obtained from the Des chutes river. The development will cost approximately $600,000. Church to Hold Picnic. Members of Sellwood Methodist Episcopal church and their families and friends will gather at Johnson Creek park Thursday for a big union picnic. The affair will be an all day one and a basket lunch will be served with coffee on the grounds. Preparations have been made by the committee to handle a big crowd. Klan Holds Outdoor Initiation. EUGENE. Or.. July 17. (Special.) The Ku Klux Klan held an out door initiation ceremony on Emer- Br 1 Twenty to ajtlLUJ JIM. J 111 L ISgU JJL-SffU -L'gy .1 UBB1IJJI W Jll-f--. - a Qwadei cucdnf TaREYTONS arc a quarter, again; Note twenty for a quarter. Yon r own goo d taste and the mil lions of Tareyton smokers assure you There's something about them youlllike" While they last MEN'S SUITS with two pairs of pants $30 . An unheard-of price! Addi tional economy thrown in, in the extra pants! The fabrics are all-wool finished and un finished worsteds. , Many desirable shades and patterns will be found in this remark able collection. BEN SELLING fT0FRoRS Portland's Leading Clothier, for Over Half a Century No, my dear, it's the same "old" car Of course it looks brand new runs like a top and leaps like a thor oughbred on the getaway. I've just had it to the H. & E. for tuning up. Yes they're so careful, too before one's car leaves everything is spick and span washed and polished in and out! AUTO CO. Washington at 19th Street Distributors for Marmon Stephens aid Heights, a butte just outside the city limits of Springfield, to night, and members of the organi zation declared that 150 candidates were given the ritualistic work. Candidates from Eugene, Corvallis, Albany, Harrisburg, Junction City, Springfield and smaller towns in this part of the valley were ini tiated, according to those who took part. Farmers to Hold Picnic. Arrangements have been completed for the 8th annual farmers' day and picnic, which will be held at the fair grounds at Gresham Saturday, July 29. A programme will include several interesting and educational addresses, afternoon sports and foot races for valuable prizes. The farm ers' picnic has grown to be one of the gala events of the year and plans already under way will as sure one of the best picnics held yet. Jitney Injures Motorists. STATTON. Or., July 17. (Spe cial.) While Mr. and Mrs. Paul Blakely of Los Angeles and Ed Blakely and family of Cottage Grove were en route by auto to Stayton for a visit with relatives they were Btruck by a" jitney driven by Percy Rodgers near Cottage Grove. None of the party was seriously injured. Rodgers was, sentenced to ten days in jail, was fined $200 and lost his jitney license as a result of the accident. 1 .M. Wills Sainte Claire owners buy for two reasons. Because they have seen the car an d ridden In it. Chas. C. Fagan Co., Inc. Ninth at Bnrnslde O'has. C. Facan. Pres. 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