Retrenchment That Blocks Progress is False Economy. Pruning of Federal Aid to States for Highways is One Wrong Way of Trying to Bump the Slump.
TAXES i
Roosevelt Insists cn retention of
the levy on undistributed corpora
tion profits. The senate finance
committee says "no." The house
approved bill says "yes." How will
the controversy end? The answer
will he a news highlight lu the
ii:ws-nnviEW.
THE WEATHER
.y Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 56
' Highest temperature yesterday ..57
Lowest temperature laU night ..39
Precipitation for 24 ho lira 03
Precip. since first of month ....1.05
Precip. from Sept. J, 1937 39.55
ExcesH since Sept. 1, 1937 11.35
Partly cloudy, to cloudy.
VOL. XLII
NO. 297 OF ROC &(. REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13. 1938.
VOL. XXVI NO. 217 OF THE EVENING NEWS
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Editorials
ON THE
Day's News
I)y FRANK JKNKINS
AST Friday the house or ropre
sentatlves killed the bill to re
organize the government of the
United States, which provided
MORE power for the executive and
LKSS power for congress.
That was a BIO event.
N THE same day the people of
seven Oregon 'counties defeat-
ed, two to one, a proposal to put
government Bt ill more deeply into
competition with private business.
That was a small event. .
IN THE first event, the members
of the congress of the United
States spoke.
They said:
"This must 'remain a govern
ment of law; and must not be per
mitted to become a government of
men. Wo are THROUGH with be
ing rubber stamps. We here and
now reassume our constitutional
function of making the laws as we
see fit, and not as we are TOLD
BY EDICT."
N THE second event, the people
of seven Oregon counties spoke.
They said,
"We have seen government forc
ing lis way Increasingly into com
Jf petition with private business. The
J result has been loss of confidence
in the future of business, with
growing unemployment and depres
sion. '"We are FEARFUL of this trend,
.nd wo here and now go on record
as OPPOSED TO IT."
IN THE years to come, when our
children look bock upon today
(Continued on page 4)
SHOCK OF INJURY
KILLS CANDIDATE
KUOENE, Ore., April 13. (AP)
Harry II. Johnson, 50, president
of the United Workers League
hero, candidate for the democratic
nomination for state representa
tive anil sclr-styled champion of
Lie "common man." died suddenly
in a hospital here lust night fol
lowing a heart attack brought on
V by a slight arm Injury.
Mr. Johnson, a Wl'A worker, suf
fered the Injury while at work on
a university WPA project late yes
terday. Physicians said the heart
attack was caused by the shock of
the injury.
He is survived by Ills widow, two
daughters, und three sons.
Oddities Gleaned
From Day's News
By the Associated Press.
Verified
? MOUNPSVII.I.E. V. Vn. Supcr-
i stltlon aside, Raymond Rivers Is
j certain Hint Friday, .May 13, is his
j unlucky day.
j On that day, a court has decreed,
! he must die on the gallows for kill-
' inj a woman during a holdup.
V Anachronism
MICHIGAN CITY. Ind. Rnula
Clans has been made an Issue in a
mayoralty election.
Fred
d Parker, republican ciincii
critlcized his democratic op-
. 1J r r,,r
(late,
penent
having Snntn ride in the uniiual
Indiana day parades each August.
"I do not believe," said Parker,
"we should bring Santa Clans out
In such hot weather as we have
hero III August."
Flood Warning
SANTA CRUZ Miss Thelma
River announces she will be mar
1 Hed to Franklin Waters and they
will live nt Boulder C'recJt.
Hello, Mom
KANSAS CITY "Know me?"
nsked the young man at Mrs. Ruby
y Scott's door.
"Well, it seems I've seen you
some place," she replied.
She had. The youth was her IT-
year-old son, Vernon, whom she
had not een since he was adopted
y an Osborne. Kas., family 11
I years ago.
Recovery-Relief Program
RDDSEVELT TO
TO
Agreement on Outlay Of
$2,750,000,000 Reached
at Conference, With
Garner Absent.
WASHINGTON, April 13. (AP)
President Roosevelt and his eco
nomic advisers worked at top
speed today to complete a new re
covery and relief program, appar
ently agreed, upon at a lengthy
night conference at the white
house.
While the conferees did not dis
close details, it was Indicated the
keystone probably would be a pro
posal to spend $1,500,000,000 on
public works as a means of reviv
ing business and industry.
This would be In addition to a
$1,250,000,000 relief appropriation,
which would let the works prog
ress administration carry a peak
load of unemployed from next July
1 to February 1, 1939.
Both the public works and relief
proposals were to bo covered In a
presidential message to congress
tomorrow.
Official white house sources had
disclosed earlier that the message
would discuss not only the state of
affairs Jin this country but also
touch ah conditions .abroad. "
It probably will be followed to
morrow night by a 45-minute "fire
side chat" in which the president
may explain to the nation his
views on the general economic sit
uation and the reasons for his new
program.
Time has been reserved on the
NBC, CUS and Mutual radio chains
beginning at 10:30 p. m., eastern
standard time.
Cabinet members who went over
(Continued on page 6)
STEP-DAD ASSERTS
LOS ANGELES, April 13. (AP)
Ilrewery Owner Arthur L. Bern
stein says his stepson, Jackie Coo-
gan. isn t going to get a penny
or the fortune Coogan amassed as
a child movie actor.
Coogan, estimating that $4,000,
000 is due him from his mother,
the former Mrs. John Henry Coo
gan, has sued her and Bernstein
for that amount. The case readies
court next Wednesday, when Judge
Wilson hears a motion for an In
junction against the mother and
stepfather transferring or dispos
ing of any of the property in ques
tion. Jnckie claims that when his fath
er was killed In an automobile ac
cident near San Diego In 1935, his
mother told him his fortune as a
child actor had been invested and
would be turned over to him when
he was 21. Now that he is 23 and
married, he wants the money. His
suit contends that Bernstein, who
was financial advisor to his father,
has influenced his mother to resist
his claims.
"Nobody dominates me," was
Mrs. Bernstein's answer to -that,
"not even Jackie."
She and Bernstein contend
J.'.ckle's earnings as a minor re
verted to his parents.
ILLNESS COMPELS
TEACHER TO RESIGN
Miss Maud Craigmllcs. Instructor
in English and librarian at Rose
burg senior high school, has re
signed because of illness. City Sup
erintendent V. m. Campbell an
nounced today. Mrs. Iova Buchan
an Young, who haR been substitut
ing for Miss Craigmlles dun use the
past two weeks, will continue lu
that position for the remainder of
the school yenr. It Is th same
work which Mrs. Young was en
gaged previously in the local
schools.
PHILANTHROPIST
AND BANKER DIES
MANCHESTER, N. H., April 13
(AP) Frank Pierce Carpen
ter, 92, philanthropist, banker and
manufacturer, died here today.
It Is estimated his charities
amounted lo t4,000.U0O. He was
I president ot the Amoskeag Paper
mills.
PLAN
CONGRESS
Cornerstone Data Rolls Back Years
a? if :
Rose School Razing Bares History
ft ft ft
Building's Condition Extremely Bad
The cornerstone of the 31-year-
old Rose school building, now be
ing razed, was removed and open
ed today and revealed many inter
esting facts. The metal box In the
hollow sandstone block contained
three' newspapers of the date of
Feb. 20. 1004, a history and roster
of the G. A. R. post and Masonic
lodge, report cards of the honor
students, a list of school on leers
and employes, a Masonic medallion
and business cards ol contracting
firms.
The Russo-Japanese conflict was
occupying front pages of the Even
ing Roseburg Review, the Twice-A-Week
Roseburg Review and the
Uoselmrg Plaindealer, then pub
lished in Roseburg. The Southern
Pacific company was surveying a
route between Drain and Coos
Hay, and promotion of a line from
Salt Lake to Coos Bay was attract
ing much attention. The Elks lodge
had just purchased the site of its
present lodge hall. The Roseburg
Maccabee lodge had just been In
corporated, and traffic was about
to be resumed on the Roseburg
Marsh field stage line, which had
been closed by rainy weather. The
road between Roseburg and Look-
iugglass was impassable.
War news In the three newspa
pers was from a week to 12 days'
iilil - Inllnntlnir tUn olitVMAStl ol1
communication facilities as com
ALLOTMENTS FOR
Acreage Limits to Serve as
. Basis For Payments in
AAA Program.
WASHINGTON, April 13 (AP)
The agricultural adjustment ad-niinisti-atlon
announced state
wheat acreage allotments today
under the 1938 farm program.
The allotments will serve as the
basis for paymentH to wheat grow
ers from the $5(10,(1110,000 soli con
servation fund congress is author
ized to appropriate.
The national allotment, estab
lished in the new farm act, Ik
02,500,000 acres. It compares Willi
an average of 70.SCS.920 acres seed
ed to wheat and diverted from the
grain In the 1928-37 period.
The largest state allotment of
12,159,870 acres went to Kansas,
the nation's top ranking wheat
state. Oregon's allotment is 807,
859 acres.
The state allotments will be
broken down among counties and
Individual larmers under a formu
la set up in the farm act. Growers
who planted within their allotments
will be eligible lor benefit pay
mentfl nt the rate or 12 cents a
bushel on the normal production
of the allotment.
Overplanting To Be Costly
If growers overplant they will be
subject to deductions from such
payments nt the rate of 9li cenls
a bushel on the normal production
of the excess ncrenge, unless they
make a corresponding reduction in
acreages of other soil-depleting
crops.
The acreage allot mentfl will have
no connection Willi marketing ono
nis tills year, as the bread grain
Is exempted from the control
nbase of the new farm net under
the 1938 program ns now outlined.
(Juntas could he proposed nils year
only in the event congress appni-
(Contlnued on page 6)
GAME STATUS FOR
STEELHEAD ASKED
A bill which would make the
steclhead b game fish In all Ore
gon streams and would piohibll
taking ot the pperles commercially,
was proposed by the legislative
committee of the lloilglns County
Conservation council at Hie or
ganization's regular meeting here
last night. The council approved
the committee's recommendation
nnd Instructed preparation of I lie
measure and Its presentation be
fore the state legislature nt the
next session. Other sportsmen's
clubs throughout the state will be
asked lo lend support. The council
meeting last night was given over
principally to reports of past meet
ings and activities and routine affairs.
pared to those of the present day,
Much of the war news was pub-J
UHiieii as rumor.
Each of the newspapers curried
the program connected with the
laying of the cornerstone. George
K, Chamberlain, then governor of
Oregon, later United Slates sena
tor, was the principal speaker.
None of G. A. R. Post Alive
A note of sudness was touched
by the roster of Reno post No. 29.
G. A. It. The roster carried the
names of GS veterans, not one of
whom remains alive today.
The school hoard of that date
consisted of S. C. Flint, chairman;
and 11. W. Strong and K. C. Woolly,
directors. Miss Clara Dlllard wus
school clerk. Frank H. Hamlin was
city superintendent and A. M. San
ders was principal. Other Instruct
ors were Ennfs A. Stewart, Flor
ence Aikin, J. O. Beyers, Aura D.
Thompson, Leone Kabul, Bessie
M. Kidder, Adeline M. Stewart,
Edit-h M. Aldrlch, Sadie Hatfield,
Anna H, Clark, Jennie Cook, Ed
warda ICrickson, Sinclair P. Stew
art, Rosa B. Parrot t. John Battoy
and Lester Bell were janitors.
Honor Students Recalled
Honor students were represent
ed by their report cards, showing
their excellent grades. Among the
names were Sybil Gibson, G ranee
Marsters,- Elmer .Mitchell, wajiaee-
(Continued from page 1.)
ALL, WIN SAYS
Leave Bonneville Service
Out of Politics, Urge of
Oregon Governor.
PORTLAND, April 13. (AP)
Asserting that the power question
"is not a political one." Gov.
Charles II. Martin said today he
was confident that Hoiinovillo pow
er "will be distributed to the bene
fit of all our people."
In an address prepared for de
livery at the Fast Side Commer
cial club, the governor said the
power question is "one of adminis
tration of existing laws and regu
lations," and urged that the pow
er issue be left out of the primary
campaign.
"The Bonneville project provides
one of the elements that has been
lacking for the fullest development
of our empire cheap power that
can be made available lu a com
paratively large area," he said,
pointing out that the power would
enable the state to finish raw prod
ucts such as lumber anil ore.
"The state has provided the
machinery for the organization of
public utility districts . . . The
question therefore is not a politi
cal one. It Is one of administration
of existing laws and regulations."
Taking "Oregon's future as his
theme, the governor said the stale
needs to develop agriculture, min
ing and industry, to conserve its
(Continued on page 6)
CIO LUMBER UNDER
NEW AFL BOYCOTT
PORTLAND, April 13.- (AP)
A new boycott on CIO lumber was
announced yesterday by the AFL
building trades council, which said
It had signed a working agree
ment with the general building con
tractors' association.
The association, which docs fin
per cent of the building In the
Portland area, also agreed to hire
only AFL workmen, renewed 11137
wage schedules and provided for
arbitration and an 8-hour day.
DR. HOSCHSTJEDON
TRAFFIC ACCIDENT
ALIIANY. April 13. (AP) Dr.
.1. K, llosch, Bend, who withdrew
as a candidate for the democratic
nomination for governor, was made
a defendant today in two suits
based on an automobile accident
near Scio last January Hi.
Mil!. Lila Barber asked damages
of $5,050 and her son, Russell,
sought $10,500 for injur Ion alleged
to have been received when Dr.
Hosch'n automobile crashed Into
their trailer car.
CHINE5EGAIN
INWAR SKILL
HPS STALLED
Defenders Using European
Military Tactics With
Success; Japs Pour
in More Troops.
SHANGHAI. April 13. (AP)
Employing European military tac
tics with increasing skill, or, when
necessary, the big swords of their
ancestors, the Chinese, temporar
ily at least, have stalled the Jap
anese war machine on the central
China front.
The real test of the new Chinese
resistance, however, is yet to come,
with numbers, geographical posi
tion and improvement in training
of soldiers among the factors In
China's favor.
Japanese reinforcements are con
tinuing to pour Into Shantung
province, and this probably means
a smashing drive to regain what is
left of Taiorhchwang, embattled
southorn Shantung town.
Chief credit for the recent Taler
hchwang victory is given to irregu
lar Chinese units who demoralized
Japanese communications along
the Tientsln-Pukow railway. If
tlieBe Irregulars operated accord;
ins to plan, then U was the high-
.Lost, form. of..sU'.aleBy.,:.iii ..the opjti;
ion oi toreign military experts
here.
If General Ioe Ts ung-Jen did not
control the units, which limited
Japanese supplies of ammunition.
gasoline and food, the Chiueso vic
tory had a pronounced element of
good fortune.
Chinese Improving
Aside from this mujor advantage
in weakened communications for
the Japanese, the toreign military
is agreed that the Chinese arc im
proving as soldiers.
The Chinese troops who won at
Talerhchwaug were not polished
soldiers, but, likewise, they were
lar from down-at-the-heels.
They maneuvered in accordance
with the best strategy, seeking mo
'.Continued on page 6)
ILD RIDE
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April
13. (AP) Vera Shuvalova, wife
of Comedian Stan Laurel, was re
leased by police on $500 ball early
today after a rib-cracking drive in
a rented automobile.
Detective Sergeant Mannagh re
ported the blonde Russian actress,
Mrs. Laurel No. 3, struck two park
ed cars on Beverly drive, then con
tinued to within a block of her
home, where she crashed into a
tree.
The officer experienced some dif
ficulty In freeing Mrs. Laurel from
the wreck. Ho booked her on huh
picion of hit-and-run, reckless driv
ing, and driving without an opera
tor's license.
Treated at the emergency bos
pltal for bruises and a possibly
fractured rib, she supplied bond In
a lew minutes.
Only yesterday she accompanied
Laurel to court when he resisted
the demand of his first wife for
Si,3fifi monthly support of their 10-
year-old daughter. Laurel said hn
made $160,000 a year, but alimony.
commissions and taxes took uioh!
or it.
CHARGES AGAINST
SHERIFF DROPPED
OREGON CITY, April 13 - (AIM
Sheriff E. T. Mass and his
chief tax deputy, Jessie Paddock,
w ere freed of charges of larceny
of public funds yesterday when
Circuit Judce Hendricks signed
order voiding tndlci uwiits.
Assistant Attorney General Fran
cis Wade recommended the action
because he Hiiid prosecution would
constitute a needless expense
Mass hail been indicted on un
tried cbargcK of larceny of $11, One
and $i.'!7. His son. Deputy Howard
Mass, recently was acquitted of a
Joint indictment on the latter
charge.
Deputy Paddock had been nerus
ed with Moss of theft of $1,273.
Mass was acniillted last week, A
jury failed to agree when Mass
previously was tried on the same
charge.
Drawn
SEIUTOHS HIT
BACK AT F. D. R.
ON TAX BILL
Committee Will Not Yield
to President's Urge to
Retain Undistributed
Profits Levy.
WASHINGTON, April 13. (AP)
President Roosevelt, urged con
gress lodav to retain the principle
of the bitterly-disputed undistri
buted profits tax. but mot stubborn
resistance from the senate finance
committee.
Attacking provisions of the sen
ate lax bill which would eliminate
the undistributed profits tax op
posed by business and substitute
a flat capital gains tax for the
graduated system now employed,
Mr. Roosevelt wrote chairman -ot
the senate finance and house ways
and means committee;
"The repeal of the undistributed
profits tax and the reduction of
the lax on capital gains to a frac
tion of the tax on other forms of
income striko at the root of fun
damental principles of taxation.
"Business will be helped, not
hurt, by these suggestions."
Chairman Harrison (D., Miss.),
of the finance committee, gnvo out
the communication and commented
tei'sely:
The senate coufcroos will Insist
lu conference on the amendments
adopted by the senate."
The veteran Misslssippinu per
sonally had led the senate light for
the changes opposed by the presi
dent. The senate amendment lo the
five billion dollar tax revision bill,
on which senate and house con
ferees uro attempting lo work out
a compromise, include repeal of
the undistributed profits lax.
For that tax, the senate would
substitute a flat 18 per cent levy
on corporation Income. Tho house
bill provided for maximum rates
of 16 to 40 por cent on long lorn!
capital gains; the senate substitut
ed a flat 15 per cent tax. , t
Senators Rap Letter
Some of tho conferees were even
more blunt thuu Harrison in re
jecting the president's views.
Senator King (D., Utah), said
(Continued on page G)
Roy H. Stewart Victim of
Mistaken Identity in
Forger Quest.
A case or mistaken Identity was
announced here today by District
Attorney J. V. Long lu reporting
the re I earn; from custody of Roy II.
Stewart, recently arrested at Bend
and charged with forgery. Investi
gation revealed that Stewart was
not lu any way implicated In the
passage of two forged checks at a
local grocery store, (he district at
torney said. The manager ami em
ployes of (lie store from which the
complaint originated declared Stew
art was not l he person who passed
the checks, when they viewed him
fol lowing his return to Roseburg,
Long said.
The name of O. L, Waterman,
piling contractor, by whom Stew
art had been employed at Hoseburg
prior lo the hitter's departure for
Rend, was forged to the two checks
which were In the sum of $IG each.
The district attorney reported
that Stewart freely aided the offi
cers In their InvcHtlgatlon and es
tablished to the satisfaction of all
concerned that he was completely
innocent of the offense.
FIRE HITS CRANE,
TINY OREGON TOWN
CRANE. Ore.. April 13 (AP)
Plans (o rebuild this tiny Har
ney county (own, 30 miles south
east or Hums, were launched to
day as It emerged from the ashes
of a $irn,000 fire.
The post oitlce, a bather hop.
cleaning cntahllshment nnd Inui
residences were destroyed with a
gHTano In wlili'h the fire htoke out
Sunday.
Mall ami equipment from the
pout office were saved. Wet blan
kets prevented the uprend of the
flames to the Denman hotel.
Rivals for the u. 8. senator
ship at the next general eleotlon
in Illinois will be Scott W. Lu
cas (top), democrat, and Richard
J. Lyons (lower), republican,
nominated at the state's pri
maries yesterday. Lucas Is a
Roosevelt program supporter,
Lyons a bitter foe of the New
Deal.
,T
WASHINGTON, April 13. (AP)
Senator McAdoo (!., Calif.) has
asked President Roosevelt to par
don Dr. Francis E. Townscnd, old
ago pension advocuto, who faces a
30-day jail term for contempt of a
houso committee.
McAdoo disclosed his request to
day In a letter lo Attorney General
CummliigH asking iilm to give his
consideration to the proposal to
savo the elderly California physi
cian from tho jail term.
McAdcn, describing Townscnd as
a "respected citizen of California,"
said he believed hn was "ill-ad
vised" In defying a Iioiiho commit
tee which was Investigating his
old ago revolving pension plan last
year.
Tho supremo court last Monday
denied Townr.md s petition for a
review of his conviction on the
contempt charge.
Several members of congress al
so have suggested a presidential
pardon.
Circus Goes On In
Spectators Help
NEW YORK, April 13. (AP)
Strike or no strike, "the greatest
show on earth" must go on and it
did.
There were no ponnuis or pop
corn at last night's performance lu
Madison Smiare garden ns several
hundred attendants, cogs In
smooth running machine of the
modern circus, quit the sawdust
for the picket line, but tradition
was preserved,
John Itiugliug Norih, 31-year-old
"boss" nl the Mingling Brothers
and Itanium I In I ley cirrus, lugged
at ropes and guy wires; a circus
lawyer pushed seal wagons, clowns
fetched and carried; and the eight
foot "Texas giant" helped push the
lo-tou cage wagon of Garganlua,
(he gorilla, lu place of a six-horse
team.
The strikers, members of the
American Federation of Actors
ALM.t uollinil n.it in n umi iri ilia.
putu a few minutes beforu the
LUliflb LtAUb
E IN RAGE
FOR SENATOR
County Judge Jarecki Tops
Prystalksi in Primary
Returns; Light Vote I
Cast by G. O. P.
CHICAGO, April 13 (AP) .
Scott W. LucaB, backed by Gover
nor Horner's recently developed,
power in Illinois democratic poll
tics, assumed a growing lead for
the party's senatorial nomination,
today over Michael L. Igoe, adher
ent of the fuctlon dominated by
Mayor Edward J. Kelly and Na
tional Committeeman Patrick A,
Nash. .
Lucas, serving Ills second term
In the national house from the dis
trict of the late Speaker Henry T,
Rainey, held a lead of 24,855 with
7,211 of the state's 8,286 precincts
reported in yesterday s primaries.
Igoe, United States district at
torney at Chicago, scored heavily
In the Cook county bailiwick oC
Nash-Kelly forces, but the Havana
congressman more than made up .
the 'difference, .lu the dowustnte'
voto. " '
Lyons G. O. P. Choice ' --.
State Senator Richard J. Lyons
of Libertyvillo, bitter foe of the
New Deal, was assured or the re
publican senatorial nomination.
The democratic vote In 7,211 ,
precincts, was: Lucas 674,388, Igoe
649.533.
Igoe Is a veteran of 16 years in
the state legislature and served
part of one term in congress bo-
fore being appointed U. S. district .
attorney. ' . , , v . ,
Iforndr' "forces likewise claimed
a victory In County Judge Edmund
K. Jareckl's lead over John Pry
stalski, NiiBh-Kelly entry, on the
basis of Incomplete returns.
Both democratic ructions, ai
though vowing siipport of the
Roosevelt administration, engaged
In the ftuttlonal fight on cries ol
"bossism" leveled at each other.
Judge Jarecki, Bhelved by tho
Kelly-Nush group after 16 year
on the bench, has jurisdiction over
tho county election machinery by
(Continued on page (1)
INSURGENTS CRUSH
GOVERNMENT ARMY
WITH THR INSUnOHNTS IN"
SPAIN, April 13 (AP) Tho
Insm'K'-'Ut coinmnml nnnouncocl to
iluy n crushing clofeut wan Inflict
ed upon n HtroiiK novornment forco
Hint coimtoi-iittiickcd In tho Hula-
Kuor Ructnr.
InauiBontH suit thoy buried 000
of llio eiumiy iloud.
MADItin, April 13 (AP)
I'l ft nlnnnna Wftlfl
culled Into military Rorvlco today
by a government uecroo i)uimniii,n
In the official Oiuiolto In llaicelonn.
They afreet men ot 32, 31 and 18
yeuru.
LIFE TERMS GIVEN
IN BATHTUB MURDER
SKATTLR, April 13. (AP) .
l.iro BontoncoB wore Imposed yes
terday by Superior JuiIko McDon
ald on Dell and Claire Hlchnrdson,
convicted In tho "bathtub murder
ease." . Thev wore convicted of the
slayhiR of Dell's bride, tho former
Clara Compton ot San Francisco,
who died of pneumonia and a head
Injury lasl fall alter submersion lu
n tub or scaldlnK water. Tho
Itlehnnlsons' attorneys solved no
lice of appeal to tho stale supremo
court.
Spite of Strike;
in Manual Tasks
night performance was scheduled
to slnrt.
With nn audience of more than
lo.oiio persons waiting, ami virtual
ly no one to do tho lechnlcnl work,
North neveriheless ordered tho as
sembly call blown.
Slightly hewilderi'd performers
pitched In with enthusiasm and for
Ihreo hours "doubled" In the thou
sands of tasks of property-lugging,
rigging and other work usually
done by the aUendnnts.
Professional jealousy was forgot
ten as members of one bareback,
riding troupo acted ns grooms for
another.
Several spectators Jumped from
their seats to help and were paid
off in passes.
So successful were the combined
efforts that many In the audience
did not realize anything wan wrong;
until North, as the show neared ita
end, thanked them for their indulg
euce during difficulties,