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Congratulations to Douglas County on Being Out of the "Red." And Here's Hoping That the "Reds" Can Always Be Legitimately Kept Out of Douglas Co. THE WEATHER Humidity 5 p nt. yesterday 24 Highest temperature yesterday it 2 l,4i went temperature Inal night 53 PreWpitutlon for 24 hours ti Preeip. since first of month , 0 Prccip. from Sfpt. 1. 1K36 Deficiency since Sept, 1, 93ti 4.23 Not much change. mSl CONQUEST I-ook like the Jans Intend to grub about half of China, whlr.h contains foreign concessions worth, millions of dollars. This may lead 1o serious computations. Watch dally news reports. THE DOUGLAS COUMTY DAILY ROSEBURG, OREGON. THURSDAY. AUGUST 5, 1937. VOL. XLI NO. 315 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW VOL. XXVINO. 85 OF THE EVENING NEWS r APS E IE mm 13 Editorials On the Day's N ews lly FRANK JENKINS KTKW war development: HusKiu protests seiurfl anil runsacklnK of soviet cailKlihito ill TleuUln. The eolisulate waa tieiz eil uiKlfsaekcd by "wiilto" Itns Hiuiis, AlDHli, Russia insists, ly Juimnntie military forees. ("White" Russians are anti-communist Russians.) JAPAN first attacked soviet "forces along the Amur river, presumably to find out whether or not Russia Is in a flKhtlns mood. The. Amur incident indicated that Russlu ISN'T ready to flRht. It Is a good Buess Unit the Tientsin consulate is onother feel er. If Russia Rets pretty hot un der the collar over it anil Indi cates READINESS TO FICiHT, it may be that Japan will pull In her horns somewhat In China. Soviet Russia, It it means business, is no opponent to be tackled lightly. -Rut if Russia does no more than protest the Tientsin consulate In-, cident, following the Amur river Incident, Japan will be warranted' In believing that Russia means to do no more than growl from the other side of tho fence. In Hint event, Japan will prolk ably feel safe in going ahead and taking however much of China she has designs on at the present mo ment. TVJRW political development: The senate indicates that if President Roosevelt fills the pres ent vacancy on the supreme court (Continued on pase t) JUDGE ACCUSED OF KLAMATH FALLS, A tiff. 5. (AP Walter Hannon, deputy Klamath county clerk, signed a complaint before Justice of the Peace W. U. llarnes last night charging Circuit Judge Kdward U. Ashurst with use of abusive and profane language in a place of public resort. The complaint said the Incident 'occurred November .10, V.i'Sti, in the public reception room of the cir cuit judge's office. Justice Barnes accepted the com plaint but did not isime a warrant. Deputy District Attorney Sisemore said he would Investigate but ques tioned whether what happened constitutes a technical filing of a complaint. Hannon said he understood ho was swearing to a complaint. Ilanuuu, who la clerk of the cir cuit ,ourt, suid a heated discus sion took place Novemi'er 0 out tide the judge's office. Oddities Flashed '(By the Associated Press.) After-Thought RALEIGH. N. C. -County Clerk U H. Sawyer got this letter from a woman whose name he withheld: "Will you please let me know whether or not I Riii divorced, for if I am not divorced I urn in a hell of n fix. I have just got married uvain." Sawyer, after checking the rec ords, eased the lady's mind. Court Scoies UK AVER. Pa. Raymond J. Eback pleaded guilty to writing "numbers" before Judge Henry H. Wilson. "This Is where the court makes a hit." the Judge said, fining Eback $500. Out Where It Grows LES MOINES. la. The harvest situation is reversed tall corn has the midwest "by the ears." Governor Philip LaFollette of Wisconsin and Iowa's governor, Nels, G. Kraschel, thought thev settled the question of tall corn last week when a 16-foot, six-Inch lown stalk won the "corn derby" Tafi Dodging 100 MilliQN E Senate - House Committee Asks Hoist in Rates on Personal Holding Companies. WASHINGTON, Aug. fi. (AIM A seuute-house tux committee recommended today drastic In creases in domestic personal hold ing compuny taxes as. one means of preventing tax avoidunce. The committee, proposing for enactment at this session a $100, 000,000 eighl-point program of legislation to plug income tax leaks, also recommended an in novation in the taxation of foreign personal holding companies. It suggested that undistributed net income of such companies should be figured in the gross in come of the American owners of the companies Just as if it actual ly had been distributed to them. Treasury officials, who cooper ated with the joint committee In making an Investigation which brought in the names of many prominent citizens, estimated roughly Hint enactment of the com mi line's v e c o m m e ndatlnns would mean an Increase of $100, 000.000 in federal revenues. "In addition to the domestic and foreign personal holding company proposals, the committee recom mended stlffer tax treatment for the following methods used bv wealthy persons to reduce their taxes: Incorporated yachts and country estates, incorporation of personal talents (such as acting), artificial deductions for Interest and business exoensc, multi-trusts, non-resident aliens, ami artificial deductions for losses from sates of exchanges of property. " Result of Probe The committee report to the house and senate followed an In vestigation extending over several weeks and undertaken at the re quest of President Roosevelt. The president said In a message to congress that a comparatively small number of wealthy persons was reducing tax payments by (Continued on page 6) SOUTH UMPQUA AREA FIRE SOON HALTED The first fire of an consequence in the L'mpqua forest was reported at 7:30 yesterday mon ng. It was located five miles north oi Abbott hutte on Jeckson creek In the South Umpqua district. Forest Su pervisor V. V. Harpham naid today, i.len were sent to lue fire at once and. finding it spreading rapidly, set up pcrtable radio equipment and called aid. In response to the radio call, 25 men were sent to the fire from Diamond lake and 40 from South l'mpqua falls camps. Tue fire was stopped after it had covered enly about 10 acres, Mr. Harpham stales. From Press Wire the two governors stuged here. But Hiawatha, Kans., reported a 16-foot, six-inch Btalk. Sidney la.. Hi-foot, 7 inch stalk, and a Blue Earth, Minn., farmer turned in what he said was a 19-foot six inch skyscraper. Wrong Pick DES MOLNEH--A 2-year-old man attempted to pick the pocket oT R .!. Vlaek nt a parade here, but suddenly was collared by the 'mended victim and held until po lice arrived. Vlnch Is chief of po lice at Cedar Rapids, la. Bouncing Baby Boy SAN DIEGO, Calif. Playing on a second story porch at his home, WsyneBuce. 17 months, fell over the side and landed on a concrete pavement 17 feet below. Doctors could find neither a scratch nor a bruise on Wayne. Albino Squirrel ST. ANTHONY, Idaho Farm boys near here captured an albino ground squirrel. The animal, de scribed by its captors as a "bal loon-size white rat," Is on display at the county agent s office. REVENUE RIS BENGSOUGHT ROOSEVELT VETOES BILL TO CHANGE NAME OF CHEMICAL WARFARE UNIT TO "CORPS" WASHINGTON, Aug. fi. (AP) President Koosevcll said in a veto message to the senate late Wednesday that be was doing ev erything iu his power to "discour age the use of gases and other chemicals in any war between na tions." He returned to the senate n bill to change the name of the chemi cal warfare service to the "chemi cal corps.' He said he hoped the time would come when the chemi cal warfare service could be ahol-, ished entirely. "To dignify this service by call ing It. the 'chemical corps Is, In my judgment, contrary to a sound public policy." he wrote. The president added: ''While, unfortunately, tho de fensive necessities of the United States call for study of tho use of chemicals In warfare, I do not want the government of the Unit ed Slates to do anything to ag TS 5-Cent - an - Hour Increase Granted 800,000; Auto Strike Unsettled. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND Railroad strike threat fades with granting of '5-ceut-an-hour wane increase to 800. 000 non-operating employes. DETROIT Police guard against new violence between C. I. (). and independent union members at Chrysler's huge Plymouth motor plant which remained closed to day with 1N.U0II employes idle. WASHINGTON House farm bloc threatens delay or wage-hour legislation unless consideration oi' bill to resume general crop loans is grauted. PHILADELPHIA Emergency police force hunts men who con tinued rioting- after conclusion of 50-hour strike of truck drivers; GO held under $10,OUO bull each. MONTREAL Dominion Tex tile company shuts down nine mills, refusing collective bargain ing, wage and hour demands of Nutional Catholic Federation of Textile workers; nearly 10.UO0 call ed on strike. NEW YORK Tom M. Girdler, Republic steel chairman, says steel's labor trouble "over" und he does not anticipate ouy more. MOSTON Four Haverhill shoe companies employing 3H0 persons notify state of intention to leave Massachusetts after 1'trikers reject 5 per cent wage increase; strikers asking 211 per cent raise. FARM BLOC URGES SPECIAL SESSION WASHINGTON, Aug. fi. (AP) Senator Black (D.. Ala.), sub mitted a petition signed by 41 senators today urging fi special session of congress In the fall to enact general farm legislation. The petition was signed chiefly by democrats and independents. it said the signers felt It would be "unwise" to wait until .Tnminry to enact farm legislation because farmers making preparations for their crops should know what l::ws would be on the bookr, ahead of that time. Black presented bis petition to the senate shortly after a group of southern democrats said after a white house conference that Presi dent Roosevelt ha d reiterated his stand that crop control legislation should precede a renewal of crop. loans. BOY HIT BY AUTO IN NORTH ROSEBURG Edward Gibson, 11, son of tour ists from Craig. Colo; ado, nufferod the loss of r.everal teeth and se vere cuts about the face and head when he was struck by cn automo bile driven by H. II. Waltermire. Hoscburg nalerman. near the Oren fon lmildinK. North liosebiirR, thl nioi mm?. The hov waa taken lo the Mnrev honnltal for first aid. The nccident.' E'.lenburg Is a native of Monroe, which was reported by Waltermire, I Ore., and formerly resided In Hone occurred when (he boy atepped out i burc. Mamhlleld and Kunene. He from between two parked cam'has been a member of the stale and started across the street. pollen since Its Inception. Curb Recommended grandize or make permanent any special bureau of the army or navy engaged in these studies." The president said It was his thought that the major functions or the chemical warfare service were those of a "service" rather than a "corps." "It Is desirable to designate as a corps only those supply branches of the army which are included in the line of the army," he said. "To have changed the name to the 'chemical service' would have been more In keeping with Its functions than to designate it as 'the chemi cal corps.' Hut he said he bad n rar more important objection to tho propos ed change iu name, adding: "It lias been and is the policy of this government to do every thing iu Its power to outlaw the use of chemicals in warfare. Such use is inhuman and contrary to what modern civilization should stand for." Steffen, Reported Victim, Disappears; Agent of A. F. L. Probing. GRANTS PASS, Aug. fi (AP) Developments In the purported kidnaping of Bill Steffen, restaur ant " employes' union secretary. awaited the appearance expected today of A. L. Rice. Klamath Falls A. K. of L. organizer. Bob Cumuiings, who said his room was also invaded by three men looking for Steffen, reported that Rice planned to come here and ask him to identify the trio a ecu setl. The whereabouts of Steffen him self was not clear. In Klamath Falls he charged armed Grants Pass businessmen had seized un ion books, heat him, and ordered him out of lown. Yesterday he boarded a bus for Medford but apparently did not arrive. Roy McCleary. who yesterday said he received an anonymous telephone threat by long distance from Medford. was guarded last night by Lincoln McGrew, former chief of police. MEDFORD. Aug. 5 A. L. Rice, general organizer for the A. F. of L.. has been unable to Hud any trace of the w hereabouts of W. L. Steffen, Grants Pass culinary un ion leader, purportedly kidnaped. Rice said that he learned from a hotel clerk here that two men pur chased a ticket to San Francisco on a stage and that afterwards Steffen had requested him to change the ticket for one to Klam ath Falls, which he did. Ilice said he Intended to go to Klamath Falls today to check up on the case there. SERIOUS ILLNESS HITS TOM MOONEY SAN DAFAI'.I.. Calif.. Ann. 5. (AH) Fifty - lour yi-ar-oM Tom Mooiipv. Sun (Mi-Minn mom wlile Iv known iii-tsnnnr. a shiIoiihI.v ill In l hi- prison Imm.ihil to ioy wllh ii call hhuhliT Infection. Two nttenilliiK imynli'i.m ' pri'inu'il tin' lii'lipf Moo -i-y woulil ris-ov!- atlKfa'torliy without an operation. Tin- primmer recently wan treated for Btoniaeh uleel'M. Mooney. convicted in tho 1!iW' 1'reparednenB clay lionililnK, In which Id perHoltH were killed, hail penilinK with the "tale puprenie court an anneal for freedom hnwil on a petition for a writ of linliea eorputt. -o- STATE POLICEMAN ELLENBURG STRICKEN MKDPOIll). A Hit. 5. I AP) William H. KllenbuiR. 43, a ner rreant In the mate police office here and a major in the Oreeon i nntlmnil Beard, waa ntricken with a heart affliction at hln home late i ye.lerday. ALLEGED KIDIPI M MIRkQ TlMC .unuL iiinliivu I lljftL. lid HOUSING B LL ROILS SENATE Chamber Members, Resent "Propaganda" Used to Upset Limit Voted on Projects. WASHINGTON, Aug. ft. (AP) Circulation to senators by page boys of a statement urging recon sideration of an amendment to the Wagner housing bill caused an uproar in the chamber today. Circulation of the statements, called "propaganda" by Senator (Mark (D., Mo.), was denounced both by the Missouri senator and Senator McNary, republican lend er, Clark mado a point of order against the procedure. Senator Piltman (D., New), president pro tempore, who was presiding, ruled the pages could not be blamed, aud that If any l)lnme attached to the matter It should be laid to the senator who had ordered the distribution. Senator Wagner (D N. Y.), au thor of the housing bill, quickly as sumed "full responsibility.' He said he had not believed there was anything "Improper' 'in the procedure and thought "any en lightenment." on the Issue wits .'perfectly proper." 1 IUIIV Oil HI I J IV IMIICCHH III tlltt- trlhuting tho literature Involved "employing the machinery of Hie senate to cover senators desks with propaganda." McNary Raps Move McNary asserted that accept ance of responsibility for distribut ing the statement by Wagner 'does not cover the case." The republican leader said it was "the boldest attempt to In fluence legislation 1 have seen in (Continued on page 6) T PRINCETON, B. C, Aug. 6 (AP) Seventeen miners lay In a hospital today three of them In a critical condition - as u government mines inspector sought the cause of a machinery breakdown which plummeted their hoist cage down 4f)0 reet of a shaft at Copper Mountain mine yesterday. As doctors sought to save the life of the most Beverely Injured. Resident Mine Inspeetor J. Higgs studied a broken bolt found In (he hoist machinery after the cage had dropped back to the bottom of lis pit after climhing half way up Sou feet toward the tnlnehead. A counter balance attached to the cage and quick application of compressed air and baud brakes by Hoist Operator John Cogginw. prevented the men from striking the bottom of the pit with the full Impact of the drop. Cogghis said the brakes began to act just as the cage reached the bottom but not In time to stop it. o- EMILIE DIONNE IS REPORTED BETTER CAM.AXIiKR. Out.. A UK. ' (Canadian I'l-euM Knillle. third larKixl of tlie Mionne ijiiint 11 pll t.. .ul up iu her ' i n llie verandah ol the laiioe ImiImI loday Ilr. Allan Hoy liafoe. the qulnm' Idiyaicuiu, announced aiie waa "KetllllK ahull! veiy well " Kinllie haa h Ill i.ince Monday with a sore throat. The ynuniSHlei'H I eniperal are waa normal. Dr. Daloe said, hut Him will not lie allowed to Join her four alKlern at play mil II Sunday at llie earlleBi. Her fdnteia are In excellent health. - o CANCER RESEARCH MEASURE SIGNED WASHINGTON. Aur f. (AP) Senator Mono (!.. Wash.) said to day President Roosevelt had sign ed his bill authorizing an appro priation of JTiVi.ii id lor constic! Hon of a cancer refearch Inborn toi v here. The bill also authorizes an an nual appropriation of J7O0.0U0 to carry on the research work under direction of the public health ser vice and a committee of scientists. DEFENDERS OF MADRID BEAT Insurgents Suffer Reverse Near Capital but Gain Elsewhere; Blockade Runner Sunk. (lly the Associated Press) Spanish government forces, ral lying to defend tho Madrid-Valencia "life line" road, took defense positions mil Hi of a highway to I'uencu ami announced they bad won a siiirmtsh from Insurgent .Moorish forces. A government cominuniuue said hand to-hand lighting, ten miles southwest of Teruel, base of the insurgent Aragon drive, ended with the bodies of turhuncd Moors strewn over the battlefield. In northern Spain Insurgents re ported gains In a decisive defeat of their enemy near Cuero. The insurgent gunboat Datowas reported to have sunk a small Hauler of unidentified nationality as it attempted to run the block ade ot government-held Sautnnder on the Hay of Iliscny. Evacuation of Santauder, reduc ed to serious straits by crowding aud lack of food, was reported tin der consideration. Valencia, government officials. reporting effort a made to preserve Spain's art treasures, said two chests ot jewelry, securities, and art objects, believed lost In trans fer at Barcelona, had been rocov- (Continued on page 61 LAW INTERVENES TO PHILADELPHIA. Aug. fi. ( AP) Physicians at the l'hthidelphfa General hospital stood by today walling for Mrs. Mary Iloccassini to die so they may deliver an ex pected baby. Mrs. lloccasslnl, 27, Is suffering from tuberculosis meiilngll Ih lor which they said there is no cure. The doctors told the husband Domiuick, of the situatlcu aud that they would perform an opera tion an soon as death come to the mother, to save the c.uid. They hoped the baby would arrive before the mother passed away. The husband objected, telling the doctors that If the wife must die to let the haby go with her. The physicians sought legal ad vice and the matter wan taken be fore Judge Harry E. Kalodner. Hi decided that when the time comes the operation can be performed. "Even an unborn babe has Us rights." he said. o - OWEN GEORGE REID OF IDLEYLD DIES Owen George Held, 41, resident of lilleyhl, died at the veterans fa cllity hospital last night following a short Illness. He was horn at W'eiser, Idaho. January 15, lSJiti. During the World wur be served as Ilreman, first class, In the Hnlt ed States navy. He is survived by his parents, Mr. ami Mih. Ueo. Held, of ldlcld. and two brothers. Cliff Reld of Eu gene and Maurice Held of Idleyld Euneral services will be held Saturday morning at ten o'clock at the veterans facility cemetery un der the auspices or the Aiucilcan Lfgion. Arrangements are Iu charge of the Douglas I'uneral home. gibsoremdVal warrant sought poltTLANl), Aug. 6. ( AP) The Hulled Slates attorney will ask the federal court tomorrow for a warrant to remove Claire Gibson, :il , lo Minnesota to face chai g"S in connection with n series of rob beries ami killings In tho middle west. Deputy Attorney Dillard said Gibson, arrested InHt week nt n liirli.diit lit I tut tiiiiiitfiluii ill t Jinti lake, confessed participation In the robberies of the State Hank nt "old Springs and the Farmers State Hunk at Kyota, Minn., last year. He denied knowledge of rob beries nnd slayings In South Da kola aud Iowa. BACK MOORS Car Crashes Drain Home, Hurls Baby From High-Chair Crushing through the side of the J. T. Sullivan home at Drain and Into the kitchen, u rampageous automobile huiied (be Sulllvnn baby bov from his high-chair against the cook, stove, bruising him badly, and smashing turn I lure according lo a report to the sheriff's office here. The uulomoblle, bearing u Washington state license, was occupied by two women and u boy. aud one of the former, Daisy Trout, v. as reported to have been ut the wheel. None of the trio was injured. In Its dash toward the Sulli van home, the cur, after leaving the highway at a charp turn, crossed back and smashed through u fence. No eharges nave been filed. TO BATTLE FLAMES Steamboat Camp Responds to Call rrom Columbia National Forest. VANCOUVElt, Wash., Auc. B. (AP) Emergency calls for fire fighters und laiiers were sounded today as national forest admini strators Hougiit io establish a de fense against u firo that exploded yesterday afternoon to more than louble Its sle in a matter of a few hours. By midnight last night the Spud hill conflagration on the Clspud river In the Columbia national lor est had ..Uicreaued froiy. 759 tt more than lfiOU acroa. Fire fight ers on the ground now total about lfiOO with reeiHorcements arriv ing hourly. Weather conditions were de scribed as more fuvorable for the fighting contingents this morning but the fire wub still out of con trol. Its spread has been to the east and southeast from the fire's point of origin near the Skamania- Lewis county border. Forest executives described yes terday's "blowup" of the Spud hill fire as a spectacular demon stration thut flro fighters wore powerless to check. Before a brisk afternoon wind the bluie broko Its boundn to reach an area cov ered witlh afileui-MJld' reen Xlr trees In which It "crowned, eat ing h path rrom tree to tree and fattening on resinous needles of the young trues. On emergency call to aid In fighting tho hugo Clstus fire uenr Handle, Washington. , 60 CCC en rollees from tho Steamboat camp and Foreman Krank IilllH and Hue Philbrfck left I tone lung ,M J:fi0 lust evening In two special Greyhound (Continued on page 0) SCHOOL BOARD QUITS IN BOND REJECTION KLAMATH FALLS, Aug. 5. (AP) All members or tho Modoc I'nion High school board at Al ItUHH had reslgued today because voters or the district recently re jected u $lii:U)mi bund Issue for construction or a new building. The present building haa been condemned. A letter from the of rice of the California stale architect informed the board that In case of an accident lu which children were injured, the members of the board might be held responsible. In resigning, board members Is sued a statement faying they were leaving their positions to those "who feel they are more capable In Ibis lime of emergency than we ate." Dog Hero Dies In Roseburgers View HI OH HONK, Idaho, Aug. G. ( A P I Nigger the snnke-killcr Is dead, and if there's a dog heaven he'll surely make the grade. Reared In rattlesnake country, the dog, a pet at Ihe J. A. War rington much, hud many dead "tattlers" to his credit. Itiu when one celled up before Mrs. Warring ton and her two grandchildren, Jean ami Marjorle, this weel , Nig ger leaped recklessly to their aid and was struck several times on the jaw before he killed the rep tile. First aid efforts failed to save the dog's life. County Clerk Roy Agee says he saw snakes yesterday at least ho saw one snake. I. W. Harrison, farmer and pros pector from (be Tennessee gulch YELLOW RIVER OBJECT! OF 1 Consuls Advised to Warn Foreigners Accordingly; Americans Called On to Organize. NANKING, China, Aug. 6. (AP) (Friday) Official for- eign circles In the central Chi nees capital heard today that ' the Japanese army had Inform ed diplomats at Tientsin that Sino-Japanese hostilities would be pushed to the banks of the Yellow river. (North of the Yellow river lies the 5-province territory In which Japan desires a dominant economic influence: llnpeh, ( harhar, Shausi, most of Huiyuan, and the northern, third of Shantung. Most of the t'hiupflo central government's troops presumably are still south of the river. Most, of tho fighting p.o far has been in Hopeh). - ' The information received here suid the Japanese consul at Tient sin, at the lustunce of the Japanese army, had told the senior foreign consul there: "Continued concentration of Chi neso troops north of the Yellow river means hostilities In that re gion.' "Therefore the Japanese military suggests that foreigners In that area bo warned accordingly.' SHANGHAI, Aug. G. (AP) United States consular officials lu, all China organized- the whole Amerii an population tonight lo guard their lives and get Ihem oui.. of possible danger zones, if neces sary while China's generalissimo, Chnlng Kai-Shek, suddenly pro claimed: . : . "We will fight to the death." lly nightfall the r.ionth-ohl unde clared war brought these other developments. 1. Columns of motorized Japa nese troops rolled north to halt a Chinese , advance from behind ( hiua a great wall. . 2, American missionaries, recall ing previous Japanese contiuestH, feared Japanese domination of North China would wipe out mis sionary and education work repre senting millions of dollars In Amer ican Investments, and years of the hardest toil, 3. Counsel Oonorul Clarence Gauss at Shanghai directed forma- (Continued on page t M'COLLOCH NOMINATED FOR JUDGE WASHINGTON, Aug. & (AP) President Roosevelt to day nominated Claude McCol loch to be United States dis trict judge for the district of Oregon. If confirmed by the senate, MoColloch will succeed the late Federal Judge John McNary of Portland. KLAMATH FALLS. Aug. G. ( AP) "I deeply . appreciate the high honor the president has ac corded me," said Claude McCol loch, Klamath Falls attorney, when informed of his nomination by President Itoosevelt to the federal bench. McCnllorh said he hail no other statement to tnak.'. at Fight With Snake "Tame" Rettler a ron above Azalea, ontered tho clerk's office to file on some min ing claims. Curious as to the con tents of u queer looking basket und a Kmull screen covered box carried by Harrison, A gee asked about them. In the basket was an object which Hatrtson called his "coon cat." Hut when the screen box was opened tho folks In the county clerk's offico began to de part It contaiued a ln-tre rn'e snake complete with rattlers, fapgfl. and poison sacs. Harrison ur sorted the snake waa tame and opened Its jaws to dis play tho fangs, Agee said. letter tho roptlle was taken out on the courthouse lawn where Its ownei demonstrated how docile it was to a group of people, none ot whom went very close. Ml T