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"Rally Hound the Flag" is Modernized by a Rally for Uncontrolled Judiciary, With the Battle Cry of Freedom Against One-Man Plans That "Shall Wot P&m."
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THE WEATHER
Highest temperature yesterday 53
lowest temperature Lint iiilit 4 1
Pit-Hjiitutlmi for 24 liourti .... O.U
Prmip. sinco first of iiuiPlh 3,tH
I'rccflj. from Snpt. 1, ltKit... IH.iil
lK-fk-ieiu-y ahice Bt-pt. 1, lifti S.lu
Unsettled, possibly showers.
NEW STRIKE?
.Southern Pacific employes
hay) begun to volo on a walk
out over alleged agreement vio
lations. A strike might. Berious
ly affect count trade conditions.
Result of the vote will he la
NKW-RBVIRW wire news.
THE DOUGLAS COUNTY DAILY
ITOL. XL
NO. 283 OF HOSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG. OREGON, FRIDAY. MARCH 26, 1937.
VOL. XXVI NO. 203 OF THE EVENING NEWS
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By FRANK JKNK1NS 1
'ERE is a bit of advice:
Don't form your opinions of
the President's plan to make the
supreme court Jump when he
cracks the whip by what OPPON
ENTS of the Nov,' Deal are Bay
lug about It.
No matter how impartial you
try to' be, you will find yourself
thinking: "These men don't like
Roosevelt, and are trying to DIS
CREDIT, him.",
Thus you will be misled by pre
judice. , :
'T'HE proposal to destroy the lib
dependence of the supreme
court .by compelling It to rule as
the President WANTS it to rule
involves so many grave (lungers
that It has aroused the opposition
of large numbers of people who
have been FRIENDLY to the Now
Deal.
' You will find yourself joss sway
ed by prejudice If you consider the
court-packing plan in the light of
what theso men think of it.
pROFESSOR RAYMOND MOUOY
can hardly bo regarded as an
opponent of the New Deal. lie
was a member of Ihe original bruin
trust, and still favors the Roose
velt objectives.
Before the senate judiciary com
'. nilltee on' 'Tuesday, be assort oil'
iiulu, rresmeux iiooseveiis court
bill would "inovitably weaken the
authority and prestige of the su
preme court."
He added:
"The ends which Mr. Roosevelt
lias so courageously made his own
can be achieved within the grand
mosaic of the American constitu
tional tradition. Rut to seek to
(Continued on page 4)
U. S WATIOniAL TO
BUILD AT K-FALLS
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., March
2.r (AP) Purchuao of mlil
lown property ami plana to erect
a two-story ib'nnk building were
revealed today by Godfrey C.
Ulnhm, manager of the recently
acquired Klamath Fulls branch of
the United Slates National bank
of Portland. Coat of neither the
site nor the ' projected structure
was disclosed.
The new banking homo will bo
built on the southwest corner of
Main and Eighth streets, virtually
the exact center of the city's busi
ness district. It will occupy the
full area of a lot BO by 106 feet
and will be of concrete type with
Hie facing, lllohm said. Construc
tion will begin as soon as urehl
lect's plans can be approved.
Iurchase was made from the
Standard Holding company of Ne
vada, representing Joseph Mcllon
nld, pioneer Klamath businessman.
In moving to the new location tile
V. S. National will abandon the
structure at Sixth and Main which
it and its forerunner, The Ameri
can National bank, have occupied
since liiai.
Planes, Fishbones
Kill Alaska's
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 2(i
(AP) Alaskans eyed with
approval today two new methods
of killing the predatory vnlf.
Pilot Archie Ferguson, who io
turned here from it flight in Ihe
Kotzebue region north of here,
said he saw a large srey wolf at
tacking a reindeer.
Swooping down from the sky.
Ferguson encircled the animal and
at just the right range with bis
ship slightly tilled, let the wolf
have a hroadside- from a shotgun
loaded with buckshot.
Pleased wllh tho hunting and
his aim. be turned the flight Into
an expedition nnd shot down three
other wolves.
Ferguson said he would go Into
r the wolf-hunting business, seek
aid from the game commission
to buy a small plane for the hunt'
lng. The territory allows a bounty
on wolves.
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OCCURS NEAR !
PITTSBURGH
Victims Mangled Almost
Past Recognition; Drop
Attributed to Ice On
. Plane Wings. ,
PITTSBURGH, March 26.
(AP) Officials of the Trans
continental and -Western Air
lines declared today that ice
forming on the control ;equip- "
ment caused the crash of its
airliner near Pittsburgh, with
he loss of 13 lives.
By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, March -26.-The
nose dive of a palatini .'.kyliner in
to u hillside, carrying its l:i occu
pants to instant death, furnished
toduy another mystery of tho air
ways. The giant Transcontinental and
Western Airlines Silver Bird, Hear
ing the $2,0(10,000 Alleghany coun
ty airport for a stop on its jour
ney from Newnrk to Chicago, drop
ped like a plummet seven minutes
after the sun had sot yesterday.
Tho sjiy was clear for some 2,
400 feVW . there ..was,,,nQl ,,muub,
'wind"" and a sister ship was-cruis-ing
a few hundred yards . above
and behind the twin-motored Doug
las, C-7, number 320.
Captain. A. M. Wilklns, winging
home the second ship, turned his
head to avoid looking at the doom
ed liner's final 50-foot drop. He es
timated tho fatal plunge . begun
about 1,700 feet up and that Phot
F. Lawrence Bohnet, a veteran of
10 years' service, made two com
plete left turns witli his pluno's
nose pointed straight down.
All the victims except the pret
ty blonde hostess, Doris C, num
inous of Elk City, Okln., were bat
tered almost beyond recognition.
They were catapulted to the front
of the ship, whose nose plowed
into n hillside on the fringe of Mt.
Lebanon, fashionuble suburb.
Llsf of Dead
The dead:
Edward .1. Fleming, Jr., '22, stu-'
dent, Standard Oil Co.; or. ploy ee,
Kansas City.
C. R. (Dick) Lowers, 22. utudent,
Standard Oil Co., employee,. Kan
sas City.
Hasan Haxhl, Albanian repre
sentative of Diamond T Motor Car
company. Argo, ill.
John F. Hermann, 4B. ergineor
und inventor. Lincoln, III.
Frederick D. Lehman, 25, Metro
politan Life Insurance Co., Harris :
burg, Pn.
Miss Pauline Trnsk, 37, school
teneher, tiermnntown, Pa.
Edgar E. Hnzelton, 30, stove
tCnntlnued on page 31
EX-GOVERNOR MEIER
HAS AN OPERATION
PORTLAND, March 26. (API-
Former Governor Julius L. Meier
bad a satisfactory night at the
Good Samaritan hospital following
an appendectomy yesterday, at
tendants reported today.
The hospital dCBcribed the ex-
state executive's condition as
splendid. "
and Skis Used to
Predatory Wolves
Natives, angered by the havoc
wolves are playing with reindeer
herdB, have resorted to a simple
trick, he said.
A whalebone with ends sharp
ened Is frozen Into a half-circle,
covered with tallow and thrown
out as bait for wolves.
After the wolf gulps Ihe bone
down, body hent cnuses It to thaw,
straighten out, piercing the stom
ach walls, killing the wolf.
Another resourceful pilot, exas
perated when he and a game war
den Tailed lo shoot a coyote from
the air. killed the animal by
swooping down anil breaking Its
bark with one of the plane's skis.
After their bullets missed their
mark the pilot left the warden on
Ihe Ice at the edge of the lake and
took off again after his prey. Kill
lng Ihe covoto. he nosed up Into
the air and went back lo pick up
the warden.
Indignant, rising high,
For all to see, , . '
A Cross against the sky,
v For you for me! :
We may not kilow tho pain
The tragic plea
He offered, there, for us '
In agony.
We cannot hear the sob,
"Forsaken Mo"!,
. But, throughout tho years,
The cry will be
Haunting men, anew,
Pleadingly ...
: Helen M. Magers. .
SE
Ex-Senator ' Gets ' Control
Of Big Grazing Area in
Eastern Oregon.
ONTARIO, Ore., March 26
(AP) ; Reports current here to
day, said R. N.. Stanfield has ob
tained control of almost oiie-hnlf
of the state-owned range land, or
about 2S3.000 acres, largely in Mal
heur, Harney and Baker counties.
Members of the advisory board
of .district three and, representa
tives of the federal grazing service
said they, wero.tpUV. .ho had ,suc,
coseliilly 'bid' for the land, .'paying.
about 83.630.
Officials of the grazing service
expressed concern over what .er
feet the lease will have . on admin
istration of tlte Taylor grazing act,
fearing legal action on grounds of
trespassing.
Stanfield, former United States
senator, obtained the. land on lease
at a letting by the . state land
board in Salem. The price was re
ported at 11 mills an- acre .and
reports- here said six sections' had
been sub-leased by Stanfield at 10
cents an acre.
The land consists of school sec
tions and foreclosed property and
is scattered, thus complicating the
problem of avoiding trespass and
also providing Taylor grazing act
ofricluls with a puzzle on how to
enforce regulations on In-between
property.
Slunfleld conferred with district
officials on the question of ex-
chance and blocking of the large
acreage, but no decision on what
course would be pursued was
forthcoming.
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OREGON'S NEW CCC
QUOTA SET AT 671
WASHINGTON. March 26.
(AP) Oregon's quota of the 111,
090 men to be enrolled immediate
ly by the civilian conservation
corps will be 671, Robert Fechner,
director of emergency conservation
work, said.
Junior enrollees, selected by the
department of labor through state
directors, will make up the bulk of
the new personnel. Veterans will
be recommended by the veterans'
administration, and camp superin
tendents will have the selection
of n small number of local exper
ienced men.
Tiie enrollment period begins
April 1.
CALIFORNIA'S BAD
WEATHER ABATES
SAN FRANCISCO, March 2fi
(AP) Slorm-hurnssed Califor
nia, threatened by floods and suf
fering from untold crop damage
from unprecedented rains the past
week, enjoyed normal weather to
day, with a prediction from the
weather bureau that It would con
tinue until tomorrow night at least.
Three thousand acres of farm
land on Little Holland Island were
flooded by cxress water from the
Sacramento river. Shasta farmers
reported livestock losses and or
chard damage. San Jose area or
cbardfsts reported jacket rot bat!
damaged the apricot crop.
NEBRASKA SRJRNS
CHILD LABOR BAN
LINCOLN, Neb.. March 2G
(AP) The Nebrankn unicamer
al leirUlalure killed today a hill
to ratify the proposed federal child
labor amendment.
The action put .Nebraska in the
ranks with five other states which
have; rejected ihe proposal this
year. Twenty-eight slates have ap
proved the amendment.
N
BELIEVED
T OF
Governor Murphy Reports
. "Progress" in Parley
Between Chrysler
and Unionists.
LANSING, Mich., March 2C.
(API conferences between the
highest officials of the Chrysler
Corp., and the United Automobile
Workers, scheduled for adjourn
ment at noon, continued long past
that hour, giving rise to hopes that
an agreement might, be reached
today.
Homer Martin, president, of the
UAW, who left the conference
room for lunch, replied "your guess
Is as good as mine" to inquiries
about the possibility of a. settle
ment. When Walter P. Chrysler and
John L. Lewis resumed their con
ferences Ibis morning. It was Indi
cated the negotiations would he re
cessed at noon . for the Easter
week-end, 'resuming probably on
Tuesday.
Governor Frank Murphy, who
brought together the chieftain of
the Chrysler . CJorp. . and the ..com
niitleo' for - industrial' organization
and arranged the momentous
agreement for evacuation of the
Chrysler plants, was optimistic.
He said ' 'progress" was being
made toward an agreement on the
deadlocked issue of sole recogni
tion which is keeping 60,000 work
ers from their jobs. v
A source close to the governor
said Murphy preferred that the op
ponents discuss the situation us
long as they chose .rather than
reach a hasty decision. :.i
The evacuation of ' the eight
(Contnhied on page 3.),;
3-WAR VET. 105.
SAN FRANCISCO, ' March 26.
(AP) Flames and smoke did what
age could not do to Mother Min
erva Ilartman, 105-year-oid volenti)
of the three wars. Thoy killed
her last night ns sho slept In her
three room home on stilts.
Day after day for years Mother
Hartman has kept old glory flying
from the flagpole at her home.
She. was a nurse In three wars, the
Civil war. North Front Indian war
and the Spanish-American war.
She was horn . In Canton. Ohio,
June 26, 1832,' she bad said, but
aside from thut little is known of
her past.
Mother Minerva once said: ' 1
"I have no radio. My Bible fur
uisbes me with words for enter
tainment and the birds atid wav
ing trees are, my music."
She often confided that Florence
Nightingale had been her friend.
WHISTLER PRINT
STOLEN AT O. S.
CORVALLIS. March 26 (AP)
Oregon Slate college nnd city
authorities investigated the theft
of a priceless, original Whistler
print from Kidder ball today.
The famed artist's picture was
the "little nude figure" from the
collection of Leasing J. Rosen
wald. an Englishman. It had been
loaned to the scliool for an ex
hibit. J. Leo Fairbanks, head of the
art department, said it was Irre
placeable as a part of the Whist
ler collection.
The thief cut tbp picture from
the frame,
A number of valuable JapaneHP
prinlx were taken from the bull
several weeks ago.
TEXACO SERVICE
STATION ROBBED
The Texaco service station nt
Monher and Stephens streets was
robbed lust night by n burglar
who forced entrance through a
window, according to Chief of Po
lice John . Duer. Forrest McKay,
manager, said that the thief ob
tained u lion t 810 tn money, a quan
tity of oil nnd some nnto act on
sorlcH, Uuor reported.
A
BLOCK JURIST
T
Judge Williams' Promise
To Retire at 70 Draws
Fire From Opponent
of Court Plans.
WASHINGTON, March 26.
(AP) Tho possibility arose today
that -opponents of tho Roosevelt
court bill might attempt to block
the elevation of Judgo Robert Luc
Williams of Oklahoma to tho fed
eral circuit court.
Senator Burke (1)., Nub.), said
Williams' letter to Attorney Oen
ural Uumnilngs saying be would be
willing to rotlro In less than two
years when bo reaches 70, "raises
tho question of his qualifications"
for the post.-
Williams, now ii district judge,
was nominated by tho president
yesterday to the tenth circuit court
of appeals. The White House gave
out this letter.
"I disupprovo of tho letter en
tirely," Uurke Bald. "Any judge
who would write tho kind of letter
Williams did raises the question ns
lo his qualifications.
"1 . would. v.gryl. strongly oppose
putting a .man on the bench who
would say he was going to serve
only so long and then got off.
"If Judgo Wllllums Is going te
be elevated to a higher court, nnd
a larger salary, he ought not start
bv def In te v stating he IB going tn
quit in two years. If he feels his
nys of usefulness will lie over in
two years, he bad better slay
where he Is. .
(Under the present law federal
district judges draw $10,000 a vpu
and circuit court Judges, S12.B00.)
Uurke Is u leudlng opponent ot
the president's request for author
ity to name additional Justices to
the auprenio court unless justices
now over 70 rotlre.
Uurke sn A Professor Irvlli (ills-
wold of Harvard would . testify
Tuesday when hearings aro resum
ed. Later In the week Pean Henry
M. Dates of the University of Mi
chigan law school will appear.
Foes' Forecasts Vary
Opposition senators wero some
what divided III their forecnts n"
the court bill's fate todny. after a
week of testimony by opponents.
Hiii-Ico nrci cted. t in . the judici
ary couiinltteo would reject tlio
(Continued on page 6)
ANDU.IAR, Spuln, Murch 20
(AP) Government troops, pro
ceded by bombing planes, pene
trated Insurgent southern lines In
fresh attacks today, forcing Gen
eral Franco's liallnn-relnforced le
gions buck five- miles from posi
tions outside Pozoblanco.
Internal fighting among 30,000
Italian volunteers on the (luiiihil
ajara front, official Spanish sour
ces said today, has caused their
removal from the ranks of the In
surgents. Deserters coming across the
hnltle lines confirmed government
pilols' reports yesterday that the
Italians had been withdrawn from
Ihe front Hues In the Uuadalajiiia
sector.
Government sources said an
"enormous number" of corpses had
been found In "certain places. In
dicating those In the front line
hnd been shot by oilier behind
I hem."
1'innsfer of Ihe Italians lo other
fronts was expected here. Spain
lards have moved Into Ihe pnsi
linns vacated by I lie Italians, It
wua said.
FALL FROM AUTO
SNAPS BOY'S NECK
Ronnie Knnpp, Ibree-yeftr-old
ion of Mrs. Miles Knnpp of liriilu,
faces spending the coming sum
mer In a cast, according tn word
received from f'orvallls, where the
child Is In Ihe hospital. Mrs. Knnpp
was on Hie way to visit, her moth
er, Mrs, C. II. .Monro, of Tllhnnook,
when Ihe door of her car flew
open nnd the child fell to Ihe pave
ment. Ha suffered a broken nock,
APPDINTMEN
F
E
State and County Planners
Seek Means of Utilizing
1 County Tracts Taken
Off Tax Rolls.
Plans for a thorough study of
possible uses of county-owned
lands, held- under foreclosure- of
delinquent taxes, wero being con
sidered here todny- at. .a meeting
of the Douglas County Planning
commission. .
Suggestions included propoBuls
for a complete survey nnd study
with particular attention to pos
sible future markets for timber on
forested lands, nnd the possibility
of burning nnd rescodlng cutovor
lands to produce livestock range.
Still Istlcs presented by Sinclair
Wilson, of the II. S. forest service
Wind River experiment station,
showed that Douglas county now
holds tltlo to 161,900 acres of
land, us compared with 42,300
acres in 11132. Of the 151,900 acres
held by tho county, 109,000 acres
contain Umber ot size suitable for
lumber, Wilson' Blild, this typo ot
land held by the' county hnvlng
Increased1 ' from 25,6,00 " acres ' In
1932. - .'.'v
Aside from lands classed as
timber of pile or tie slue, repro
duction and cutover lands, the
county's holdings of city, farm,
and other property amounts to
oulv 6.200 acres, a gain of 2,200
acres In 1932, he said, pointing
out that the problem of returning
timber land is the the mutter for
most serious study.
Tho same condition, he told the
commission, holds true In nil oth
er timbered counties of Oregon,
while the ratio of return of cut
ovor lands is still grimier In Wash
ington. Speculation Blamed
It was agreed 111 the discussion
that the principal reason Tor tho
lurge return or timber lands lies
In the ract that private speculat
ors a few years ago invested In
small, Isolated tracts, but fulled
to find markets for tho lands or
timber, and have been forced to
surrender their holdings because
(Continued on pngo 6)
SCIO, March 26. ( AP) All was
quiet on the school strike front
here toduy, with the students back
111 school and Conch Cecil Kldor
buck on tho Job,
More than a hundred scliool and
uppcj' grade school pupils walked
out of their classrooms Monday
protesting the failure of the school
board to ofror Hlilor u contract for
next year.
Wednesday, Elder submitted his
resignation to the school bourd,
effective Immediately, and litter
withdrew It at Ihe request of pu
pils. Meanwhile the board went on re
cord opposing offering any more
contracts to teachers until n pro
posed school consolidation Issue Is
settled.
A portion of tho students, who
continued on strike until Thursday,
held the hope that Kldor will be
retulned.
STRIKE VOTE BEGUN
BY S. P. EMPLOYES
RAX FltANCIHOO, March 20.
(AP) A strllto vole was started
today anions the 8,000 union rail
way member employes of the
Southern Pacific railroad because
union ftpnkcKmcn declared the
company had violated pay HKi-ei"
ments and failed to recognize the
brotherhoods in labor dispute.
The vote was begun nmoni; em
phiys of the Southern IMirif! !'
citic lines). Including the. former
Kl Paso and Southwestern system,
nnd the Northwestern Pacific rail
road. The fcoiilbern Pacific; lines ( run
from Portland. Ore., lo' PaWson.
N. M., and the Northwestern Ta
rifle. Roes from Sausulito to Eu
reka, Calif, , '
ORECLOSED
LAND PROBLEM
TACKLED HER
Strike Powers To
President Favored
- C, M. Chester, above, president
of the National Association of
Manufacturers, stepped into the
labor situation when he offered
congress the association's plan
to permit presidential Interven-.
tion in serious 'tabor disputes.
The association offered a pro
gram of action In the national
strike situation. Chester Is presi
dent of General Foods Corp.
Officials and Operators of
...Machines Clash While
v Arrests Continue!- n;
PORTLAND, March 26 (AP)
City, officials and plnbuU ope
rators locked bends today In a
showdown nn the city's recently
enacted ordinance prohibiting ope
ration of tlio games.
Two men, Claud Dempsuy and
A, K. Melln, wero clinrgod .with
possession of gumbllng devices
yesterdny and ordered to appear
In municipal court and four mora
nion wero arrested today as lead
ers of a move to forco a referen
dum defied the legality of the or
dinance, .
The machines reappeured In sev
eral establishments after Commis
sioner J. R. Ilennctt. author of the
ordinance, attempted to block tho
proposed referendum by inlrnduc
lng an emergency ordinance which
would hnve prohibited the gnmes
pending an election In May, 193S.
Koeently, pinball operators pre
sented more Hum 22.000 unmns In
petitions calling for a roferendum.
If tlio petitions are found suffi
cient, the gnniOH could continue
without Interference until 1938
election but Dennett hoped to pre
vent this by the emergency ordi
nance, it was defented by n four-to-ono
voto of tho clly council.
Tlennetl was accused of attempt
ing to "throttle the referendum"
and the session was thrown Into
an uproar us spectators boood and
cheered in'opouniils anil opponents
of the ordinance.
Sliorlly iiftnrwiird plnbnll lead
i'Ib h Id they would resume npern
(tons and city ofricluls promptly
servod notice Ihoy would prosecute
anyone displaying tho games.
FLASHES OF OREGON EVENTS
Adjudged Suicide
VAI.K. March 20 (A I')
Coroner R. A. Tacke snld a self
inflicted knife wound In the thrnnt
caused the death here Wednesday
of Don Con k II ll . HI.
Conklln. brother of Ihe late K.
II. Conklln. Malheur county edit-
calor, wns found dying In n bunk
nt a CCC camp where be wns
employed.
il
Hh-Runster Says Guilty
SAI.KM. March 211 Joe I.eroV
Htiiffnid, 22. whose iiulnmnblle al
legedly Injured Nndlne Conwny,
IS, pleaded giilllv In police court
to charges of driving while In
toxicated and hit-run driving. The
court deferred Imposing sentence
until later 111 the week.
New Building Deferred
(OHTI.AND. March 2D Uck
of funds will prevent early con
struction of n state highway orrice
building ni Siilein, the rand com
mission decided at Its two day ses
sion heie.
Finance for the structure, nip
thnrlted by the legislature, will
not be available for nt least a year.
COMPETITOR'S :
SON USES GUN
TO END FEUD
Claude McCracken, Dying,'
Dictates Terse Wire .
on Shoting as His ,
Last Reporting.
AI.TURAS, Cnllf.. March . 26.-f
(Al) Killed In what Sheriff John
Shnrp said today was the climax
of u newspaper feud, Claude U Mc-
iTnoKon, 1t-year-old editoiv report.
ml the story of his own shooting
iib his hiBl act.
Harry French,; 30-year-old Btate
employee and son of AHurus' rival
newspaper publisher, surrendered
voluntarily, after. McCracken was
shot down in bis awn homo last
night ns he. ate dinner with two
young women. French was held on
an open charge today.
With five bullets In his body,
McCrncken was carried to n hos
pltul where bis wife wns the nurse
assigned to earn for htm: There
ho wrote "30" to his newspaper
career by dictating a telegram
currying the first report of tho gun
play to tho Associated PresB bur :
oiiu In Snn Francisco. It read:
'"Tonight about slx-thlrt" Harry
French shot Claude L. McCrncken,
editor of the Modoc Mail, with an
automatic plsol. Condition of Mc
Cracken serious.
"Signed McCracken."
Two hours later he died. A good
reporter to the last.
McCrncken was the 'Associated
Press correspondent at. Alturas
and publisher of the mimeographed!
Modoc Dally Malli -
French Is tho son- of Bnrd
French,-' pnbllslier 'btUho long es&"
tnhllshed Alturas , Weekly Plain
Dealer und a Modoc county
pioneer. . . . :
Papers Long In Feud
"The papers have been battling
back and forth on every Issuo that
has come up," Sheriff 8hnrp said.
"I think the shooting wns due to
hard reelings aroused by this rlv
ulry. Sharp said McCraoken was eat
ing III his kitchen with Miss Donna
Conwell, bis bnslnesB partner on. .
tho Mull, and a family friend, MIbh
(Continued on page 6)
!F.
i
James V. (lorthy; 75, well known
resident, or West Kosohurg, died
late Thursday ut the home ot his
son, Cllnlou, following a long per
iod of Illness. Horn Dec. 15, 18111,
In New York, he hail made Ills
home In liosohurg since 11I2.'I, Ills
wlfu died three yonrs ago.
Surviving are six sons and'
daughters: Clinton, Clarence und
Robert Oorthy, Mary Fosson, Ktlyl'
Andrless nnd Frances I.ong, ull
of Roseburg. -
Mr. Qorlby was u member of
Ihe Hnptist church.
Funeral services will bo held nt
2:30 p. in. Saturday at (he Rose
burg Undertaking company chap
el, with Rev. J. R. Turnbull offi
ciating. Interment will bn In the
Civil llend cemetery.
Lung Rid of Toy
PORTLAND, March 20 Clydo
Rice, 9, enn pucker his lips uud
whistle without concern today. Hu
knows Its okay.
Kver since a toy whistle lodg
ed In his right lung n week ago
tl made n sound when he cough
ed. A doctor using n hronchoscopo
removed it yesterdny.
Prowl Car Robbed
PORTLAND. March 2(1 It's
always a good Joke for everyono
but the victim when a thief puts
one over on a police-officer. Pa
trolman C. N. Anderson reported
a reefer coal stolen from n prowl
car.
Bad Bridge Blown Up
MARSIIKIF.LIl, Mnrch 2(1
Rnadmnstor Floyd Rohb used 40
sticks of dynamite to blow the
superstructure of the condemned
Cons city bridge Into Isthmus
slough.
Although condemned, snme mot
orists continued to use the span,
removing barriers erected by au
thorities. - ,