judging From the Present Aftermath, the Chief Item on the Menu of the Democratic "Harmony" Picnic Was Sour Grapes, Which Left a Long "Hang-Over"'
THE WEATHER
Humidity 5 p. in. yesterday 29
Highest temperature yesterday SS
I X) west temK?ruiuro last night 50
precipitation for 24 hours 0
Precip. since first of ntontb T
Precip. from Sept. , licit! 2S.2D
Deficiency since Sept. 1, IHHG 4.45
Cooler Sunday.
BLOODY WAR
It's taking on bigger proportions
in China, and it's bnunil lo have
imiiortaiit effecta on American and
other foreign Interests, lievelop.
meats hot off the wire daily in the
NKWS-HEVIEW.
THE DOUGLAS COUNTY DAILY
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 , I937.
VOL. XLII NO. 19 OF ROSEBURG REViw.
VOL. XXVI NO. 99 OF THE EVENING NEWS
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Editorials
f on the
Day s News
lly FRANK JKNK1XS
A IJIKItT VON VAKCiKIt, holder
of degrees from several tier
man universities and u former
member of the Uernum diplomatic
service, who Is visllin? in South
ern Oregon, spoke to ll Southern
Oreeou service eluh the other liny
on conditions in Kurope notably
in dictator-ruled Cermany ami
Italy.
Mis picture of what has hap
pened over there, nod how, was
interest Imc because of Its bearlnii
on what MKIHT HAI'I'HN llKKH
if some of our "advanced" thinkers
have their way.
(ilerr von Yaeaer himself made
no such intimation, hut the thought
occurred lo many of his hearers.)
HITI.KI! and .Mussolini' (he suid)
were able to seize dictatorial
power because conditions in tier
many and Italy got so hud they
couldn't very well net any worse.
and people hoped that under a die
tutorship they MKMIT CUT
TKlt.
WOT
BOTH Hitler and Mussolini (he
added) have lli:7.1 their power
because of on unusual combination
of in a is n e t i c personal charm,
shrewd undoratandiiiK of human
motives and aspirations and an un
canny ability to 'handle" people.
I Besides, Herr von Yaoa.er said,
both Hitler and Mussolini actuully
havo IMPROVED conditions in
Germany and Italy. Rigid regimen
tation of EVERY PERSON'S LIKE
Inward the objective of advancing
(Continued on pa;e 41
MANILA. Aug. 21. (AP) Wat
ln China audi earthquakes here
made Manila a city (if refugees to
dav lis authorities cleared away
the debris of natures destruction
and prepared for more unfortunates
from battle-torn Shanghai.
Thousands of Manila's nearly
41)0.01)0 residents took temporary
stations in parks, where they spent
last night after two severe earth
quakes rocked the city, toppled inn
sonry, cracked buildings and plung
ed the metropolis lnu dark:'8s.
No fatalities were reported from
quake injuries,
A mass tragedy was averted by
minutes in Puele. Rizal province.
Several hundred church goers hud
just left the 200-year old Catholic
church when the roof collapsed,
strewing heavy debris over thu
door where they had knelt a mo
ment before In prayer.
The -inO-year-tdd Catholic church
at Santa Maria. I.nguuu, was de
stroyed. Many other churches of
Manila and surrounding provinces
were damaged.
Oddities Flashed
(My the Associated Piess)
Last Laugh
NKW UKITAIX, Conn "He who
laimhs last "
The cops got their ha-ha when
Ihe fire alarm rang just after they
sat down with the city's fireman
for a banq iet. It was the fireine.Vs
turn, however, when they relum
ed lo demand I hut the cops find
mil who turned in a false alarm.
No Help Wanted
MARTLKSVILLK. Okla. When
II. L. Hridu-fs, klaboma Clly sales
man, turned down an offer In
state highway patrolmen to help
him fix a tire, he tossed away J2no.
As the patrol car left, two men in
another automobile robbed him of
I2U0, he told officers.
Out of Luck
YELLOWSTONE PARK. o.
After rangers had to clean out
Morning Glory pool at Yellowstone
, pnrk twice. Kdmuml H. Rogers,
park ft ipeiintendent. issued this
waniim;:
"Anyone lossing anything into
the pool to receive good lurk will
' he invited to visit the I'nited
States commipsioner. Thnt may
mean bad luck."
It wasn't bo bad until pomeone
War, Flames Still Ravage Shanghai
CITY AREA OF
11 SO. MILES
Air - Land - Water Struggle
Enters 9th Day; Killing
of American Sailor
Under Inquiry.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 21 (API-
War und fire continued to lay
waste in Shanghai today, with for-
ign polieo estimates Unit ahotit
leven suunro miles of the world's
sixth largest purl had been de
stroyed. I-ire In voted most, or Chinese
C'hiipei, Japanese Hongkew, Yang
Izepoo. industrial Pootung, across
the, Whangpoo river, and Kiung-
wan.
Only the international setlle-
nieni, the French concession and
parts of Nantao in the Soochow
reek area reman; intact.
in i lie absence of ff rumen, who
1 1 ready had evacuated ; he burn
ing amis, the flames continue. 1 lo
spread unchecked in all directions.
Stilling .smoke unfl fierce heat
were driving many Chinese b.-llig-
rents from the Hongkew bal'ie
area.
Three Chim so warplanes dron
ed over (he smoking ruins in re
newal of warfare today, aiming
their bombs at lhe( Japuncso eon
suhile. ' The' projectile 'iWl-Vfifr
of the mark, but killed one Chi
nese and one Japanese and wound
ed Ll others, nil believed lo be
Japanese.
From the Pulled Slates cruiser
Auiiusta. Jlrt.(H),uu flasslilp of the
American fliet. prim -fa red blue
jackets carried the shell-ripped
body of a 21-year-old lonfsiana boy,
one of the crew and the fourth
American lo be killed since the
hostilities started.
Sailor Tragedy Probed
The AuBusta still lay resolutely
at anchor on a curve of ihe
Wtumgpoo near the heart of the
international settlciiUMit to pro
tect American lives while investi
gators sought lo b-arn the orimn
of the one-inch anti-aircraft sh 11
that killed khe .teaman. Freddie
John Falgout of Itaceland, La.
A routine navy inquiry board
.(Continued on page 0)
BABY SAVED WHEN
FIRECRACKERS WARN
DALLAS. Ore.. Aug. 21 (AP)
A tpackage of firecrackers, hid
den away on a kitchen shell, were
credited today by William Spring
er with saving the life of his two-months-old
baby boy when bis
lotir-rooui house caught fire fol
lowing the explosion of an oil
stove.
Springer's wife was outside the
house and her first intimation of
danger was the exploding fire
crackers. Alarmed, she rushed Into
the house and found the kitchen
ablaze and the flames already eat
ing their way through the wall
Into the bedroom where Ihe child
lay sleeping. The child was not
harmed.
From Press Wire
got the Idea tossing lax tokens in
to ihe pool would bring eternal
good fortune.
Streamlined Cops Only
KVANSTON. III. Advised that
one of his men was outrun by a
robber in a two-block chase. Chief
of Police William O. Freeman or
dered overweight policemen to
"train down" ai a gymnasium.
Fried Chicken
THOMPSON'. Neb. Farmer
Charles Saf Ill's chickens jiveiit
home to rnont for the last time. A
liuhiufng boll struck his poultry
?hed kilMnc all of them an even
one hundred.
Telling Him
IIKATRICK, Neb. Rernie Roili
enberger likes to talk football as
well as the next fellow, and whm
he found a guest at a banquet who
w.is interested Rernie went the
li-.tt.
He told the ptiest in great detail,
liov Nebra-ka b-al Pittsburgh In
1!:M. ('t scribing each play. After
he banquet was over Rernie dis
covered the sweat was
Clarende
Swanson. who caught the pass
which enabled Nebraska tn heat
Pittsburgh that year.
QESTRDYED
ADJOURNMENT NEARED BY CONGRESS
Fight Over Wage-Hour Legislation i.
Looms as A.F.L. Executive Board
Meets to Map War Against Lewis
. ATLANTIC riTV, X. J.. Aug. 21
(AIM A light within the
-.American Federation of Labor's
executive council over wage and
hour legislation was forecast In
usually well-informed quarters to
day as members met to draft plans
for a fall campaign against John
L. Lew Is' CIO.
A few old line federation lead
ers were expected to make a last
ditch tight to keep the AFL from
supporilng revival of the federal
wngH and hoar bill that the bouse
rules committee Killed at this ses
sion of congress.
William Green, federation presi
dent, supported this bill over the
protest oi these old line leaders.
He assailed ihe rules committee
for refusing to allow the measure
to go to Ihe bouse Moor for a vole.
John Coelield. president or me
plumbers, said bis union was
against any wage and hour legis
lation, except for women and chil
dren, and that he would oppose
its enactment.
STUDEPJTKURSESEX
Chicago Crime Similar to
Others in City During
Last Two Years.
CHICACO. Aug. 21 (AP)
Miss Anna Kuilita. IS, a student
nurso ill tllo Chlrago llonpltnl, on
tin1 Houth side, was criminally us
suiiltoil ami slain. I'olicc Captian
John li. I'l'i'lldfrgust said, by a
man who truslnd In-r skull witli
a brick curly today.
Dctci.livcs said tin' slaying was
similar to those of other women
in Chicago ill the last two years.
The partly clad, bruised and
bloody body of the attractive und
brilliant student lay on the floor
near her lied. At her side was her
crumpled uniform.
Three other women have been
slain by the same brutal methods
in the last two yeais. Two kill-
lags have been solved, one negro
nttaclieil (lien in ine necuic man
and another was sent to prison lor
9tl years. Two women have been
assaulted by ll negro arineit wltn
a brick In their hotel moms here
in the last two weeks, and police
believed him lo lie tho inn sen
slaver.
The killer, police said, lieu
through a fire envape w inilovv wnen
Miss I'lorence 1'alniowsKi. i:, an
other nurse, opened the '
the room lo call Miss Kuclila alter
a test period.
IVtecltvcs said the Killer nan
stuffed part or a pillow down the
girls throat. A bureau had been
ransacked and a small radio was
reported missing. A coroner's In
vestigator said she bad been raped.
Miss I'alinowski said she saw
onlv the man's bark as he went
out the winduw. She described him
as )il or ill years old. wearing a
white shin, dark trousers and a
light nip.
Police said she could not sa
definitely whether he was .vhile
or a negro.
Miss Irene liusch. a nurse at the
hospital, told police several at
tempts recently had been made to
enter rooms nf young muses. She
sn'd a negro had been seen loiler
ing around the Institution
clothTng burned
from child's body
Kl-C.KNK. Aug. -1. (AP)-- Lois
Knwvcr. 5. was recovering today
from serluiM burin received Tlinr.s
day night when her clothing cam-in
file from a kitchen stove. II-t
clothing was practically burned
from her body betore her mother
could come to her aid.
ASKS LIQUOR BAN
AGAINST HIMSELF
IM'OKNK. Aue
F. Moittiromery. :u
2. (A P) V'.
presented a P"
lit'ou iu justice cour! asking that
tle routt instruct ail dealers to re
j faso to sell him liqu r, as be didn't
want It but couldn't resist buying
lit.
IRs request was granted,
Several other building and metal
trades union leaders were In t'oe-
lield's camp.
Some leaders predicted the
whole issue might be fought out.'
at the federation's Deliver conven
tion next October.
The council decided:
U To consolidate AFL ranks
and to conduct a root .limited or
ganization campaign lhritugiio-.it
American Industry.
(21 To sei aside, tempoiarlly,
Ihe fed. Mitt Ion's t radii iotial policy
of enrolling workers into cratt un
ions when industrial org:mizatio:i
was more feasible.
CI) To increase the f.'i'.eretlon's
"war chest" by doubling tines. All
AFL unions now are sunpcfe.d to
pay two cents instead of one rent
lor each member each month.
Hi To disregard the t btims of
all CIO unions of the rigid to en
roll certain groups of workers
to invade CIO territory at every
tin n.
;MATTERfJ FfilLSTQ
Hi LOST FLIERS
Arctic Dash of 400 Miles
Yields No Sign; Wilkms
Party Takes Off.
HARROW, Alaska, Aug. 21.
(,j)IHol Jimtnie Mattern, not
ed American distance flyer, report
ed today he Hew 40U miles out over
the Arctic ocean seeking the miss
ing soviet trans-polar plane but
instead found Impossible landing
conditions.
Mat tern flew north of Harrow
then west to a point where his gaso
line supply began to run short. He
landed here with his tanks empty.
He said he had difficult flying
conditions and encountered fre
(pient fogs.
The soviet ice breaker Krassin,
progressing about five miles In 15
hours through heavy Ico floes,
was offshore. Aboard her were
three ski-equipped planeH which
will use the Krassin as a base for
another phase of the hunt.
Sir Hubert Wilkius and his five
companions took off from the Slave
river on Ihe next leg of their
search.
Thev left for Coppermine, N.
W. T.
Pilot Zadkoff of Russia was pre
paring to hop off lu his hydroplane
to cover tin1 coast from here to
Aklavik, about fiiiO miles east and
south. He then planned to fly to
Ranks land, in the Arctic oati
about f)HU miles northeast of Ak
lavik across Dolphin and I'll Urn
strait. Id- refuelled here with X00
gallons of gasoline.
S. A. Kmlrnov, soviet radio ex
perl, expected lo leavo here mo
mentarily by plane for Aklavik.
where he will set up a radio sta
tion to aid in the search, lie
awaited arrival of radio tubes.
WORLD'S FAIR BODY
FOR OREGON NAMED
PORTLAND, Aug. 21. (A P)
(Iroxer Whalen, president of the
New York World's Fair corpora-
" i a i ". . . Tt ,
.i i ll .nn
mdtee for the fair planned in lit:,!.
iMin-i nifiiiueiM iiii-uiiie t Mjiinnm
McKay. Salem: Thomas W. Iiibli.il footprints aloiid a seldom-iH-d
Albany; Irving K. Vining, Ashland
Itohert W. Sawyer. Rend; (. K. In
gnlls. Corvallis; Carl W. Wash
bin ne. Kugeiie; W. S. CbleiiM,
Matshfield ; Judge Arlle W..lker.
rm-.Miiiiivnie, nun v.. u. Ami nil,
pendbiou.
FUNKHOUSER SPEAKS
ON DISEASE WAR
Hr. S. P. Funkhouuer. of tVc
medical staff at the veteran fa
cility' at Rosehnrg. was a speak.-r
b-'forc Hip Ro:ebitiK Lions club at
Fuultlioucer. author of Ihe recently
nuiM.meii honk. "The Great Amen-
can Talwo." spoke on tho efforts
being made to stamn out rv hill.
Marshall Pongra and Don Helllwell
were annouurcd as mw members
of the club.
WORDY DUEL TWO MAJOR
. SHAKES RJWKS i BILLS AWAIT
OFDEMQGHATS) FINAL ACTION
i
Senator Guffey's Blast at
Court Bill s Opponents
Draws Hot Replies
in Session.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 21.-(AP)
A threat of retaliation for oppo
sition to l he adiuinistiai Ion s
court reorganization plan turned
the senate's closing session today
into a fierce poliiicnl battle over
democratic parly regulai it v.
The threat was voiced by Sena
tor C til' ley D., Pa. I, in a radio
speech predicting defeat at thy
polls of Senators O'Mahcney (1).,
Wyo.l, and Murke (IK, Neb.); ques
tioning the re-election possibilities
of Senator Wheeler ll.. Mont.);
and belittling Senator Holt (I)., W.
Va.)
The session was hardly open be
fore the attacked quartet arose one
afler atml her to heap angry, emo
tion-choked response to the Pnnn-
vyvauiuu, who sat. Utile ruffled.
in tns accustomed seal.
0'Mahoniy said it. would be
well for the democratic contin
gent In the senate to remove
(iuffey from the leadership of tho
democratic senatorial campaign
committee. He asserted, (bat if
he had the power he would not
"change a word, or a line, or a
vote of his record, lu ringing
voice, he told (Iuffey that (Iuffey
had not harmed Ihe senators he
had mentioned, hut tho democratic
party.
O'Mahoney, turning lo face (Iuf
fey. shouied at hint:
"The .sooner we get that man
removed from the position he oc
cupies now. the betler ll will be
for the democratic parly."
Wheeler said thai (iuffey bad
not wi ll ten the Hpeeeh he deliver
ed on the radio. He charged Ihe
broadcast was arranged by the of
fice of PoHlniasler-tioneral Far
ley, the chairman nf the democra
tic national committee.
Attack Draws Fire
Rurke met the (Iuffey attack
with a counter-attack on admini
stration policies.
"It was not until I camo to see
tho new deal could quickly lie
changed Into a rotleu deal," he
Maid, "I hat my enthusiasm waned
(Continued from page 1)
RKNNlN(!TON, VI., Aug. 21
(API Alice lorraine Raker
spent five days alone In Vcimoul
woodland an experi'oieo that
wouiu nave laxeu urn siatnimi oi
persons many times older than h
20 mouths, hut doctors said today
she should, be well and playing
again in a few days.
Her chief worry, they sail, was
a sore throat and the many
scratches Inflicted by buslh--t and
morns During iter wanner, ugs,
ri;ei miij hi inui mi.i -.m.
,M'Hm' 1 ... . "Vi , , I
'V ' " '"' V .
deniy la,, yslerday ' w I "."""7
. who WfM'O IIOH'IUIIV lOIIOWMlg l n -
road Im t w
en Raid and
'
moil ii tn ins. heard moans limit r a
spruce tree aboiil 'Mi yar-ls aivay
-o - - -.
; FARMERS OPPOSE
i , A(,rn cirn trc K
CLOSED SHOP IDEA
HOOD RIVKR, Aug. 21 (API
Four hundred farmers of Hood
River countv unanimously resolv
ed to refuse to consider a closed
Hhop in harvesting their crops,
pa'-king nr transporting ptocesheii
farm commodities.
The renolniion said the rarmeiH
would not tolerate labor interl'er -
ence with ttusitifss men, truck op".
raloi h or inenxieiveH in ine mime
; Uuk of their crops.
A demand of a cannet, iruii.slt In judgment on tho case won d
(flnd agricultural workers union for
la closed shop ami wage increases
prompted the declaration.
Much of Original Program
Postponed, Leading to
Belief of Special
Session Call.
WASHINGTON, AUU. 21.
(AP) The house approved a
compromise form of a $526.
UCu.uOO low-cost housing and
clum celarance bill today. The
standing vote was 128 to 48.
Senate acceptance of the
compromise will send the
measure to the white house.
The measure representc the
first major attack on the
problem of getting slum dwel
lers into decent homes.
ADJOl'RNMhWT 3rd banner p 1 .
WASHINGTON. Aug. 21. (AP)
A weary congress neared ud
journiueiit today, bul with sd much
til Us original program postponed
that members half expected President-,
llooseve.ll to call Iheui truck
in Iwo niuuths, -
Majority Leader Rayburn (l.,
Tex.) predicted tills aesHlon's end
will come "by sundown."
Little remained except to bring
the senate and nouse into agree
ment ou the final form of the v ug
lier housing measure and the de
ficiency appropriation bill.
Two major pieces uf legislation
went to (he while house yesterday
Ine sugar quota hill and Ihe tax
loophole plugging measure.
The lax bill was certain of ap
proval. The president had askeu
for It when he round revenue was
far below expeditions last spring.
It hits particularly at what treas
ury officials said was the use by
Ihe. wealthy of personal holding
companies to avoid taxes.
The senate also sen) a $:H,uOn,0)ii
flood control hill to the white
house. The president indicated ho
would sign it, although not ap
proving of all Its provisions.
Salary Boost Vetoed
Mr. Roosevelt vetoed a bill to
set $2,000 as the minimum annual
pay for Pulled States marshals.
The senate approved late yester-
(Contlntiod on iiiiko 0)
Tl
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. (AP)
- The white limine uunounced to
day that President Roosevelt had
signed the hill to create a lempo
raiy administrative authority nor
Ihe Roiiiievflb dam project on the
('oluuibla rivei-.
The legislation, advocates said,
Will He eve nu n uliinutin iiii.O ,.
permanent aulliorlty is esii.hilslM'd
lor till federal projects hi the Co-
iiimiua river iiasin.
The meHure provides for a
civilian administrator, to he ap
pointed by Ihe Hix retary of the In
lerlor; war department supervis
ion oi ine nam, shipiocks, fishways
un, i,W).r phuii
iene-atlitll lyilll
( , i r, .. .
nt ui the power
f'"' eooperatives
1 lov; "'"f'Tin rates or rate. uniform
t ,. i , ,, ...
I. '., i.iIHh!. ...,, !"T."
me J,:,.imiumii prnj.-ct will b
lenny lor 0ieialtotl in December,
army l imine, ik Indicated today.
PINBALL HELD NOT
UP TO EQUITY COURT
(.J RANTS PASS. Aug. 21 -(API
- Judge 11. D. Norton, after lis
tening to two and one-half 'ioiiih
of argument In a suit ir rest rain
the district attorney und sheriff
of Josephine county from niforc
;ing their ban on pinball machine.
today refused Jurisdiction,
1 R is not ihe dace or n '-on it
!f equitv. he said, to prevent en
lorcemetit of n law.
He said that the proper time io
he when vlolallon of the law was
( cliarged and the accused brought
.to nlal.
GLENDALE PLANT SUFFERS
Ll
New O-CBill
AwaintigO.K.
of Roosevelt
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (AP)fi.
....... .,..! Ititae. I 11
urt-iin ruiiKi irr:iin-!i mm tin i
iiii- department officials joined to
dav hi expressing satisfaction with
i.iil ......t., un.loo.LvlMl,!
management program lor some I
.-.UtMMHl limbered acres ol revest-
ed irnmt lauds.
I lie IIM-HMIM-. iimum.
dent s signature, m -..vi. s for e-
distribution ol im nu . gU K
gran and cou t es , a, rox
"' i''.U'i tt""
gou and ( . Ilur iu R" "u,' (" !
puny and the Loos Ray ag m
$250,000
UNIT,KiLNS,MATERIAL BURN
.... . - . . i
uoau com mil), ... " ! r ihe mill and saved that $:t00,0OU
government laml plant. The fire fighter- were aided
lor vln atu.n J11"11 the wind which was blowing
a.erior depar i.m 1 ''" "...way r.o.n Ihe mill proper.
,aid the new pan MA nU. the, equipment sufficient
il;""l,,trt T"l 111 . i'lH. ili men engaged in
I8'. , i , i , ' Z said I, IIbm stomped out
Mot oi ha r,l ;.,"vii, he i.iC'I,v ',,,,,,1'H wl,tl Teet and
-well hii lrtlli;r til the IroM-j(oro (nv I)m.nh mulpi.ln, w,tl
idons which include. t , . , . .... .
1. Sustained yield management.
2. Perpetual imyinent o r r.ii per ,
,ei t ihe. revenue lo the conn-
tlIK- .....
Payment of 25 Per cent to tho
.1. i aiui in in i. I" . ;
''."i I li'!.. iiii.iiilii lui ve been lioill
. .. .. ...
uat nl. . a n i r. which iiti ......i "
u.i m ihe unvernineut. to clear B
, ,. , ,1 fiiiwl 1 'uoiiiiik uio iii-o o II in lor HH
dellclt 111 tho land Itrnut fund. ,....,, T,. ,. ullh ,.,,., ...
4 I'ii vmoiit or Zli tier cent io
the Interior deiiiirtmeiit tor nilniln-
im ration.
i Guarantee that the atimi.il
. :.,.. to .onntlea Khali never bn"'' ' ' "
llllll rereived ill 10.11. , . ..,. ,,., .,, , ,.
COOS COUNTY LOGS
DESTROYED BYFIRE1
MARSHFIKLD, Aug. 21. (AP)
Coos counly'a first serious flrn
of the aeuson, burning in uuu
acres of slash on the east fork or
tho Millicoiua river, was believed
to huve destroyed fiini.tuiu feet or
decked logs ami threatened valu
able merchantable Rtumls.
Tho C. K. Dick, Rrady and Neal
operations were affected.
Nearly Uao loggers ami 1 1 i
men were fighting Ihe blaze.
PORTLAND, Aug. 21. (AP)
A sleeper lightning fire lu Ihe
Wallowa national forest near Itu
naha blew lulu a lM0-acre bla.o to
day, bringing 20U men ou to Hie
lines. From the Lu Grande and
Raker areas another 117 t't'G en-
rolees were en route.
The lire was burning in what
the V. S. forest service described
as a "Jungle" and was out of con
trol. The weather was reported
"not too favorable."
Kighl miles from a road and In
a mountainous territory, the fire
was difficult to reach but Hie for
est service said It hoped to have
it under control soon.
LOCAL PRISONER
TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
John R. Ward, recently return
ed lo Rosebing from Astoria to
answer lo a bad check charge, was
talten lo the slate hospital lu Sal
em today. He was adjudged men
tally tiusouud at an examination
eotiduclrd by the local board, He
phvBical condition and In need
,,,l,llzlio. aeconlini.. to I
re,oil from Ihe office of Sheriff j
I'erey Wchb.
CAMAS MAN HURT
BY ROLLING LOG i
Klnio Locker ployed al tho
Standley Kros. sawmill in Camus ;
Valley, was brought to Ihe hos-
pita) here todav suffering from a ,
hadlv mangled leg. The injury was
Incurred when he was struck by!
a rolling log.
EX-CONGRESSMAN
HULL PASSES ON
RL'NNINCTON. VI., Aug. 21.
(AP) Morton Dcnison Hull, UU,
former republican congressman
from Illinois, died during the
night at his summer home after u
long Illness.
)SS AS PLANING
Main Portion of Mill
Saved in Hard Fight;
Owners Planning
to Rebuild.
Weary firemen, eyes red-rimmeti
om a night spent in terrific heat
and smoke, slill battled today
i against fiauies which lust night
raged through the lughum Lumber
,.n,,.,hv uii.'i,i t
- - - ' u ...
glare visible for more than 30
. (h lnt,tra ,,luntn
;n ; -
of ,. iu umi(. uml Blwk piles.
Hundreds of inee engaged In
discovery at 7:lu p. m.. drove the
J i
1 mill roof ami on piles of lumber
extensivo mill yards.
jMmtff ,.,.,.. drlvers. shield-
gthe r fa.; wi ,
Inn Ihetr fiieeu Willi rn:itn unit lilnn.
keta. drovo their llliKnlnly vehicles-
! "I"""1 ln, "' 'ry -lis.
or Hie lillHlei-lnir Itifei-nfi tin. I ilrtn.
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i .. . "'r 1 " . -"'." "T."
'. :
'atrnddle IniKa" (dearoil thu docka
i between iho mill and planer wart
" 1IKV. m ..urn reHnmDi
mlll'H atetiui plant, wtileb waa put
Into operation nfter power lines
whi o deal t oyed. The tllnnm I'nsa
t'iro department Aunt one of Itrt
pumpera lo rurnlali additional
Htreauis of water. Chief lalo Htnph
eim und I'hil llnrth of the Hone.
Imi'K flro depiirlment iniide a hur
ried trip to Ciletidnlo to uive nY-
Boual aid, but ItosehtiiK eiiuliuneut
wan not reiiulred. A irew of Cl'C
inon from t'ump W'imer wa dia
putehed by I''rod Sniithwlek, super.
vlalKK warden of I bn llinmlna t'or
eHt l'rntuettvo aaHotriatlon, to aid
tho volunteer tire Hunters of (.Men
dale. The fire wan believed to have
Blurted lu a dry kiln filled with
Iilili! lumber. It wim believed that
tho blazn had its origin iu a spark
from I lie w aate fuel Inrlnertltor or
tho mlll'H switching locomotive.
Hunt ami kiih in the kiln caiiaed
an omiIohIoii, which threw flrn Into
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J. H. SIEGEL DIES
Joseph Harry Slegel, 74. died at
liia home In this city Friday, Aug.
20, afler a long illness. He wan
horn in Unit more. Md., Feb. ll,
ISl:i, and had been a resident ot
ibis county for the past 42 years
and a resident of this city for 117
years, coming from Chicago. On
Jan. 12, 1N!1. be was married to
Miss Louise Jansen at St. Louis,
.Mo. For 27 years he waa employ
ed by Ihe Southern Pacllfc and re
tired as a conductor about Id
years ago. He was a member of
the Masonic and Klks lodges. Re
Hides the widow, be is survived by
son. William Siegel, Roseburg:
i a sister. Mrs. Celiu Sharp, St,
"fl1-""": !."- "I!" " lu'01 ''''"j, CI'aC!nl
lie h'el. I enilllle, t're. rvieea will
be h.-lil In the chapel of the Doug
las Funeral home Monday Ht 10:30
a. m.. under the auspices of tho
Masonic lodge. Following that tho
body will be sent to Salem for
cremation. Arrangements are lit
care of Ihe Douglas Funeral homo.
SHOOTING VICTIM AT
r'DAMTC DACQ HTFC
UKAPtlO TAOO
'
GRANTS PASS. Aug. 21. (AP)
George Rryan, 71, plumber, died
at u hospital here this morning.
i md wan admitted August t in cnu
leal condition from a shotgun
t wound in his chest.
I Fred V. Rerger, 7fl, In countv
jail under $r.,(H)0 bail ponding grand
jury hearing, bad not been inform
ed of tho death, fterger pleaded
not guilty to a charge of assault
with a dangerous weapon shortly
after Rryau waa shot In his garden
south of the city.