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Newspaper Page Textsix STATESMEW STILL IE! T (AMorlatrd I'rew Lttitrd Wlr) TIIK UA(!L'E, Netherlands, Aiir. 13. The Kreat statesmen of hIx powers this afternoon attempted 10 reach a compromise on disputed provisions of the Young plan In the privacy of their hotel apart ments. While the financial expertH of the conference attempted to hreak the deadlock hetween Creat lirl tain and her allies over British de mands for increased share of Ger man reparations, the heads of the French, Ilrillsh, Helnlan and Ger man delegation met to talk over the date for evacuation of the Ithineland. Officially, no dates have lieen even mentioned yet, but iho chiefs of the delegations carefully con sulted their mllllarv advisers he fore beginning discission this aft ernoon. Gossip at The Hague persistent ly mentions Christmas us the date on which the Germans will he able to celebrate t;ie final freedom of their territory from foreign occu pation. - Iletter progress toward nn un derstanding on evacuation of the Itblneland has been all along re ported from the political commit tee than on the division of repara tions from the financial commit tee. But Important proposals In the spirit of compromise on tho fi nancial deadlock are expected from France, Belgium and Italy. ixu announcement was made nner conferences today between I'hlllp Bnowden. Hrltish rluine.d. lor of the exchequer, ' with Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium, and j-onia Mmcneur, French minister of labor. HIGH WINDS ADD TO FIRE SWEEP IN NORTHWEST (Continued from page 1) could get them under control. Ptne Timber Leveled hlght hundred men. Including amt imuKiioDoi-fl, rtiHhed from Grand Forks, II, C., were working desperately to quell the Dollar mountain blaze In norlh central WnshliiKton. This conflamalion. a crown nre roaring through nn Ini inenHely valuahle Bland of yellow pine timber, had leveled nearly 12 000 acres. Aided by a t Iff wind Sunday the fire ravaged 0,000 acreg In two hours and forced two contingents of flghterB to abandon their cnnis nnd flee for safety. Other fires In that region, some of which had been reported to be under control, fluined with re new ml vigor today. The obstinate Chelan forest fire today bad cov ered a thousand ncreH more, bring ing the total to ll.rwiO, Wind Savei Town ','Iu Idaho, Oregon. Montana nnd Canada forestry officials reported C M. C. JL'icluve iourstlf in The Londonderry suit hu MIIIDISIIADU Co.ME in mid see The Londonderry IMiddihlutdi-'s new Line suit ultit'li litis no Hindi 'gel-up-mitl-go" to ils Btyling. A tivo-ltiitton coat, v illi semi-roll IiijicIm tailored Kith the sort of painstaking euro that bestows individuality on its wearers. The moder ate price will Buririne you. PENCER6 major fir1, beyond control, with little relief In proHpect from the weather, lleuvy rulnn were said to be the only means by which the flames could be quenched. In Manitoba, Canada, provincial fur entry officials reported the most s'Tlnus fire conditions In many years. A last mlnuie shift In the wind saved the town of Dubois for (a time thought doomed, The town or Itennie was reported to be out of danger from a huge fire in that district. The Hald mountain and Old Man creek fires in the Selway forest of Idaho still held fighters at bay af ter two weeks of fightinK. They hud covered 3.500 acres. The fire in the Salmon river county of the Eiune si 111 was out of control aficr having burned over an .un known area. Farms, Grain Consumed It wan certain, however, that up wards of 6.000 acres had been tltt st roved. Several farm buildings and wheat fields were consumed near Greer, Idaho. In addition to these blazes of major proportions, some of them covering areas of 3,0011 acres, were burning fighters in Montana, and hundreds of smaller blazes were reported out of control throughout the northwest. One Fighter Killed TJKM-IN'GHAM, Wash., Aug. 13. One man was killed and another seriously Injured early today fight ing a fire that has been burning about a week In slashings south of Lake Samlsh, near here. The dead man was reported to be C. S. Hutten, 35, of Sedro Wol ley, a watchmnn. Frank Arnold, al so of Sedro AVolley, received In juries to Ills right hand when a burning snag which they were guarding was said to have fallen on them. Tho fire wns reported to have been started by a back fire from an nlrplane flying low over the slashed area. Fraser Valley Ablaze VANCOUVER, a C, Aug. 13. Valuable timber areas In the Fraser valley were menaced by a number of forest fires reported to day burning widely separated dis tricts. The outbreaks were the first serious ones in the New Westminister timber district tills season. One hundred men were fighting a serious outbreak ten miles north of Ilaney nt a camp of the Aber-nathy-Loughccd Logging company. A fire eight miles north of Mission was reported last night and an other outbreak nt Stout, between Hope and Don. on. were creeping down the mountain side above the timber line. SNOOK DICTATED OWN CONFESSION. OFFICER SWEARS (AwmHutid Vrvim lamil Wlr) COM 'Mill's. O., Ax 13. 'I siate pu3htd toward tho close 'if Ils rebuit.il testimony today In the trial of O. Jfimes II. Snook for the klilnc of Theorn Ilix with the pros pect that the case would be in the hands of (he eleven men and one woman tomorrow. Chief Harry French of the Co lumbus police department was on the st a ml, denying tbe testimony given by Dr. Snook .ns to the ad missions the defendant made (lur ing the examination (hat preceded his confession. Tho chief declared that It was Dr. Snook himself who dictated the confession that the de fendant had attributed In his testi mony to Prosecutor John J. Ches ter, Jr., ami he corroborated the confession by saying that Dr. Snook, before making it. bad de scribed the cutting of Ml.ts Hlx's t broil t. hi his testimony Dr. Snook paid h swore be bad no recollec tlon of severing her jugular vein the act on which the state bases ils charge of premeditation, necessary for (ho first degree murder convic tion. Dr. J. M. Dunn, who examined Dr, Shook Friday, testified today that he found bruises on bis body but that he thought they were not mitre than two or three weeks old. The drlVn.se maintains that Dr. Snook struck the first blow with a ham mer ftn Miss Mix's bead after she attacked blm at a ill It rane on the edge of the city where they bad gone for their lust tryst on June 13. "BABY FACE" DOODY AND CITY EMPLOYEE TAKEN BY POLICE (AnHat(Hl Pnm IhnM Wlrr) CHKWC.O. Auk. 13.- "Willie" (Itahy Face) Doody, veteran of half n dozen recent gun Ibthts and wauled in connection with two killings and several mall robberies, was arrested today. He was caught In a third floor apartment on the West side with out a struggle, although he was armed. Among the things police wish lo question I IimiiIv about was the holdup last Friday of the Illinois Central train when a guard was shot and killed and $-100 taken. Doody was found In the com pany of a divorceo, ami her six- yesi -old daughter. Donald II. Unit, a clerk in the city water di-part incut, also was arrested loduy In connection with ibe Illinois Central robbery. The Sunday felt mini: the robb'vv be reported to police the license plates of bis automobile had been stolen. Police said they believed they were the plates used on the eutomoblle used by the bandits in their escape. Holts orrest lodav was not ex plained, allbotmb It was MIckcI he aroused the suspicion of the police when they questioned htm Sunday. TRAPPER PERISHES, LOYAL DOG IS RESCUED ALIVE Mm-v-Utt PriM Wltv) KDMONTOX, Altft., Aug. 13. I ot In a bllriard that howled down out of the Arctic on June Mst last. Ivan McKay CtirintW. Ihithurst Inlet trapper was froen to death. It was le.irned today His faithful hesky Hoc was found alive by searching parties that set out on the frapp' trail nfter the I) I itzurd bad spent its force. ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW. ROSEBURC. WOMEN AUTOISTS ATTACKED, ROBBED BY HITCH-HIKERS MMocIatM Prt-u l-anl Wltv HOXIK. Kans., Aug. 13 The vlc tiurt of two young hitch-hikers they had given a ride from Colo rado, Miss Led a lleaureganl, 21. and Mrs. Heatrlcn Walsh, 34, both of Concordia, Kana., were In a hos pital today with Injuries received in an attack near here Sunday night. Nude, b"aten and slushed with a razor and apparently abandoned to bleed to death, the two women were found bound In a pasture east of Hoxie by a ranch foreman. Physicians said they would re cover. .Miss Ileauregard, a telephone op erator, and Mrs. Walsh, a widow, were returning from a vacation trip whn they were hailed by the two young men near Llinon. Colo., they said. The youths, about 2i years old, were well mannered and asked for a ride, saying they were ramming to their home In Kansas City. The attack, the wom en suld, came without warning. Overpowering them, the youths slashed the women with a razor, bound them with rope and cast them into the pasture. Stripping them. of their clothing and money the youths drove off in Mrs. Walsh's car. They have not been captured. BLACK RING GIANTS TO CLASH TONIGHT LOS ANflKLKS, Aug. 13. Two of flsliaua's biggest Bubjects, Cieorge Godfrey, of Leipervllle, Pa., and "Long Tom" Hawkins, of San Diego, Cal., negroes whose com bined weight closely approaches the quarter ton mark, will go ten rounds or less here tonight. The great physical advantages which the "black shadow" usually boasts over his foes, will bo les sened considerably In the meeting with Hawkins, tho elongated San Diego fighter being almost his physical equal. Hawkins towers ti feet 41 inchcB In height, a half inch more than Godfrey. Weight, however, will favor Godfrey. He will scale around 240 pounds, about 20 more than Hawkins will pack. Although Hawkins In the Inst year has chalked up a number of notable wins, betting odds favor Codfiey by a sizeable figure. The bout will mark Godfrey's first ap pearance In this section since be defeat 'd Paolluo t'zcmlun. the basque, here more than a year ago. COUNTY MARKET ROADS INSPECTED County Commissioners Huron Clnugh and Itoyce lusenbnrk, to gether with Floyd Frear, county enetneer. and J. H. Scott and E. A. Collier, state market engineers, left tills morning on nn inspection of market road projects in the county. They are Inspecting the work done on tho Melrose road, the Oakland-Klkton road ami the Loon Lake road. They will be in the field for a couple of days. MYRTLE CREEK MAN KILLS RATTLESNAKE Alrln Wenver killed what Is be lieved to be the largest rattlesnake ever seen In this county, on the Claire Weaver ranch near Myrtle Creek. The huge reptile was M Inches long ami eight inches in cir cumference at the largest point. Several rattles were missing but fourteen were still Intact. The make was skinned and Is on exhi bition In a garage in Myrtle Creek. county"court to secure right of way for roads Resolutions have been prepared by the county court to secure rltibts of wav for tho Gardiner Summit section of the Koosevelt highway, the Ady section of the Myrtle Creek-Nugget road and the Winchester Hay light house road. The Gardiner road has been built about four years, but the right of wav for a distance of about a mile ami a half baa never been settled, The claims have been under dis cussion for a long period of time and the court Is initiating an en tirely new proceeding to get the matter straightened out. The Improvement to the Myrtle DR. NERBAS DENTIST Painlesi Extraction Gas When Desired Pyorrhea Treated Phono ASS Masonic Uldg. use a IkCASOUNE A 4V kJr fr' pti knocks Creek road consists of relocation of about a mile of that road. The Winchester liny Improve ment Is to be a new road branch ing off from the Koosevelt highway and leading to the beach and lighthouse. SANTA FE TRAIN LEAVES RAILS; ONE WOMAN HURT PI'KIILO, Colo.. Aug. 12. One woman v. as sJightly injured and sixty passengers badly shaken when several coaches of a Santa Fe train, Chicago hound, left i he rails twenty miles east of here to day, j The chief dispatcher's office here reported today tlial the de railment was caused by what Is known us a transverse Interior fissure. This Is explained as a crack on the inside of a rail and Is Baid to be difficult to locate. The engine, two baggage cars, ami a mail car passed rafely over the rail but the first Pullman was de railed, causing the other cars to leave the tracks. The head Pull man remained nearly upright but the other two sleepers were over turned. BALLOON VENOOR VICTIM OF CALLOUSED JOKER ( AnneMrA Vrem tawft Wire) CHICAGO. Aug. 12 It wasn't so funny for Tony Notorela. "Iluy a balloon!" Tony cried, ns he moved filowly down St. Louis avenue carrying the gayly covered rubbe renvelones, round and buoy ant with the illuminating gas which he bad inflated them. An automobile whirled alongside the 14-year-old balloon vender. One of its occupants leaned out and shouted: "Watch the fireworks, folks! Let's have some fun." And he flicked bis lighted clg aret squarely anion? the lm Moons. There was nn explosion. The gay- Iv colored balloons were bits of burned rubber. Tony Notorella lay screaming on the ground. Doctor lator said he would he scared fdr fife. TIip one who had tossed the cigaret stepped on the accelerator and sped away, laughing. STATE'S JULY FIRE TOLL ( AwcMrd Prm IfflM Wire) SALEM, Ore., Aug. 13. The to tal fire loss In Oregon outside of Portland for the month of July was $436,252, according to the monthly statement of Claro A. Lee, state Insurance commissioner. The heaviest losses were: Chlloquln. hotel and Btore. $80,000; Forest Grove, restaurant and tea room, $10,000; Klamath Falls, sowmill. lumber nnd equipment, $100,000; St. Hetons, sawmill, lumber nnd equipment. $60,000; Umatilla coun ty, sawmill and lumber, $10,000. The total number of fires was 132. HOW THEY STAND IN PENNANT RACES National League W. rot. .GSlt .BUI) .550 .5119 .439 .425 .411 .390 .71 S .1119 .r2x .514 .4X1 .423 .3!lli .311 CIlic.IKO ...70 IMIlHburRli Ntnv York . .....63 ....(1(1 St. Louis ... Itronk-lvti J7 Cincinnati 45 HoHton .u I'hllailflphla -II American League I iiiiiltinpillil NVv Vork ... Cleveland ... ..711 ..(iii Ml. I,miia ....58 f2 Del roll Washington chleaKO ..13 HoHtoa 33 Fire Dangers nre prea 1 1 y I ncrea sed t h rough the dy season. Check up on your fire insurance. Carry ade quale protection. This agency Is nt your service. We write all lines of fire and automobile inf-urnnce. Call or phone and we will be on the job. G. W. YOUNG & SON INSURANCE 111! Cass St. Phono 417 Turn Off the Gas , with Pep Tabs! One Hundred for 50 cents Gas pains and sour stomach are soon relieved bv the m tivatcd charcoal which Pep Tab contain. The next time you are ntriictfd with kus, take two or three Pep Tabs. SoUl only at your Uexall lni Store. Nathan Fuilerton lygynTg, Drug Storm ROSEBURG, OREGON tAVe WITH 8AFETV fiiif OREGON. TUESDAY. AUGUST 13. 1929. BOY SCOUTS END JAMBOREE; NAMED ENVOYS OF PEACE (AMnclatcd I'reu ls4 W!rv) ARKOWK PARK. Enghtiid, Aug. 13. Tens of liiciLan-js uf boys trekkvd out of Aivuue park today as ca up wm broken jnd ilie great World jamboree uf boy scouts came lo an end. Fifty thousand youths left for their homes in nearly fifty ditffieiH coumricd. ' They took with them the farewell me.ssaKe from the thief scout, Issu ed before he left the camp, the key note of which was: "From now on the scout symbol of peace Is a golden arrow. I-roin the ijorthlands, south lands, easllands and wemlands you came at the call of my horn to this rat gathering. Today I yenU you back to your homelands across the seas as my ambassadors of peace iimung the, nations of the world." Despite the rain and mud the jamboree was a success far beyond expectations. The total number of visitors was 314,422. The next jam boree will be held in l'J.i;t. The place will be determined at a con ference to be held in Salzburg, Austria. CHAS. McELHINNY MAKES IT EASY FOR AUTO THIEVES Charles McElhlnny, former resi dent of this city, now district man ager for the Oregon Life Insurance company with headquarters at Sa lem, believes in making it easy for auto thieves. His car stolen last w eek at Salem has just been recov ered at Grand Island, Neb., where the thief is being held by the gov ernment. Mr. McEIhinny left his car stand ing on the street with the keys In the ignition lock, his identification cards in his brief case, and a gaso line scrip book, good for J20 worth of fuel lu the machine. He even had it headed out the highway. He is now making arrangements io get the car home. GLENDALE. MAN'S DEATH CAUSED BY OVER-EXERTION (i-wi-Rpvtpw Douiflai County Snoctall GLENDALE, Aug. 13. John Sanders, who was found dead in A field a short distance from his house by his son-in-law. Homer Martin, last Monday morning, died as a result of cerebral hemorrhage, according to Coroner H. Stearns. Owing to the proximity of the body when found, to some high voltage electric wires, which were down because of a burned off polo, it was first thought Sanders' death might have been caused by an elec tric shock. A careful investigation proved conclusively that Sanders had In no way contacted the 2300 volt line. As he had just been righting a small grass fire, excite ment and over exertion Is now thought to have been the indirect cause of his death. Sanders bought the former Fred McGregor ranch on Windy creek In moving here from Yreka. Cal., where he lias mnde his home since. He was of Portugese de scent and was born in San Fran cisco about 70 years. ago Hesides his daughter, Mrs. Hom er Martin, who resides on a near by ranch on Windy creek, he had three other daughters and a sou AT Rainbow Gardens Wednesday Night ' August 14 Music by the Yellow-jackets bey are Sir. Thornton Lockhart of Napa, Cal.. and Mrs. Chaa. Kelly, .Mm. Matt Nunuu and John Sanders, Jr., of Vallepo, Cal. Funeral services weie ueiu . . ... .1... lnieiintut toon piacv ui sonic cenieieiv 'I uesday forenoon. DR. FRED A. MOORE DIES rnia Ann- 11 1 )r Fred A Moore. o'i. formerly of Portland, Oregon, and Han Francisco, and former president of the American t . nrw-iiillnn died at the American hospital today. His ashes will be sent to Minneapolis iur in terment. AMERICAN BULL FIGHTER HAS NARROW ESCAPE (AhutIii!m1 I'n-M Uawil Wire) I.ISIION. Aug. 12. Sidney, Franklin, hull lighter of Brooklyn. ; N. Y today rested from a stlenu i ous battle with a bull iu the Lis- bon corrida yesterday and nursed i a flesh wound in the leg. The Brooklyn bull fighter had a narrow escape from a particularly fierce animal. lie was caught on the bull's horns but managed to j keep from being gored. In the i struggle the bull's horns raked through the flesh on one of Frank lin's letrs. M E N --Great News For You A Big Opportunity To Save Money WORK SHIRTS ON SALE Ready As men's Shirt Sales go, this is the "King Pin" as the bovs say. 2000 dozen . . . 24,000 sairts . . . WORK AND DRESS. All new I All fresh! the like of which we've never offered before. You see, a big shirt manufacturer had piles and piles of fine shirts made up, expecting a banner business which didn't materialize. His money was tied up in the shirts. We Saved 25 Per Cent of the Regular Price YOU WILL TOO! Because we purchased this b:g tot outright, for a cash consideration. Each Bieier store will receive its quota. 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