The Demonstrated Value of CCC Work in Current Fire Fighting is a Powerful Argument in Support of the Flan to Make That Body a Permanent Institution.'!
THE WFATHER
Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 21
Highest temperature yesterday 104
Lowest temperuture lust night 69
Prectpltatiou for 24 hours 0
Preclp. Blnce first of nnth....40.SO
1'ieitp. from Sept. 1, 1837 05
Excess siuce Sept. 1, 1937 8.24
, Partly Cloudy.
CHECKMATE '
Prance and England have moved
to check the peace-periling pro- -grams
of Hitlor and Mussolini, buf
further trouble for Europe may eitf",
sue If the Spanish insurgents wttu
the civil war. Big news looms, j
Follow NEWS-REVIEW service.
VOL. XLII
NO. 300 OF ROS
ROSEBURG, OREGON. THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1938.
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Tiy FRANK JENKINS
IJOWAKD - HUGHES, modest
youiiR millionaire, using tho
last word in modern .Hying equip
ment, circles the earth iu a little
less tlian four days.
Before the reverberations of his
remarkable feat have bad time to
die down, 31-year-old Douglas Cor
rigan, flying an ancient, single-motored
American piano (it is nine
years old, which is prehistoric, as
airplanes go) drops down in Dublin
after an unheralded, unit censed
flight from New York.
'JHROW up your hat. Let ott a
war-whoop. Go into the war
dance and kick up a lot of dust.
Then thumb your nose at these
nit-wits who've been proclaiming
dolefully that America's days of
Rreat achievement are over and
that in the future we must con
tent ourselves with a humdrum
level of existence.
America is still America!
yoUNG Corrigan first flew his
antiquated crate from Long
Itaach to New York without a
i t op.
1 Then, knowing that he couldn't
qualify for a trans-Atlantic flight
permit, which Is a complicated af
fair, ho tuned up his engine, wired
the pieces of his dilapidated craft
together with baling wire. 'climbed.!
a uove tne ciouua, pointeu ua iiu.e
towatd the other Bide, and set out.
When he came down at Dublin,
he had less than 30 gallons of fuel
left.
RAZY?
Of course ho is crazy as a
coot. Veteran flyers figure that, he
had about one chance In a hundred.
(Continued on naire 4
WASHINGTON, July 21. (AP)
The agricultural adjustment ad
ministration has approved a mar
keting agreement to regulate the
slate handling of prunes grown in
Umatilla county, Oregon, and Walla
Will la and Columbia counties,
Washington,
The agreement will become effec
tive July 23.
Kighty-six per cent of the partici
pating growers In the three coun
ties voted for the agreement.
A nine-member control committee
will bo set up soon at a meeting of
growers and handlers.
"The prune industry of Wash
ington and Oregon now bus an in
strumeul which should enable it to
keep prune shipments within the
limits necessary for profitable re
turns to growers." said V. R. Wil
cox. AAA marketing agreement director.
Owen Wister, Famous Writer and
Political Crusader, Passes at 78
PROVIDENCE. R. I.. July 21.
( AP) Owen Wister, 7S, author of
"The Virginian." died of a cerebral
hemorrhage today at his home in
North Kingstown.
Tender and expressive in his
novels. Mr. Wister nevertheless
wielded a caustic pen when he un
dertook to write about politics. His
political writings oftiines brought
down upon him the wrath of the
people to whom he referred and
many were unable to reconcile the
human passages In the novels writ
ten by Mr. Wister with the heavy
bludgeon be wielded in his politi
cal writings.
Mr. Wister was a political Ideal
ist. On several occasions he un
dertook to upbraid the people of
Pennsylvania for their submissive
compliance to tho orders of politi
cal bosses. In one article, he de
nounced the Pennsylvania German
stock In his native state as a most
supine class of voters. The fact
that Mr. Wister himself had a
strr.ln of Pennsylvania German in
htm did not prevent the members
of that folk from denouncing the
novelist for his uncomplimentary
references.
Pick - a -
FIRST LEG OF
L
New York City Next Goal
fo Mercury, on Initial
Trip of Scheduled
Experiments.
PORT WASHINGTON, N.
Y., July 21 (AP) The 10-
ton British "papoose plane"
Mercury, completing a. flight
of 3,042 miles from Ireland,
arrived at the Transatlantic
air terminal at 3:U8 p. m.
(EST, today.
The actual flying time Tor the
trip across the Atlantic was 22
hours, 28 minutes. A nlop of 2
hours, 40 minutes was made at
Montreal, making the total time
2f hours and eight minutes.
The Mercury was launched
from her mother ship, the flying
"boat Mala, at Foynes, Ireland, yes
terday, high above the seacoast.
It was the first operation of its
kind across the Atlantic.
MONTREAL, Julv 21. (Cana
dian Press) The first trans-AU
lantic flight of a pick-a-back plane
ended here at 10:20 a. m., E. S.
T., today when the British sea
plane Mercury alighted on the St.
Lawrence river near ' Montreal.
: iThe'Met'cury glided to a; smooth
landing in the Boncherville air
harbor 20. hours 20 minutes after
leaving Foynes, Ireland, 2,715
miles away, where she had been
launched by her mother Hhlp, the
Mai a.
Some 2,000 miles of her route
hail traversed the North Atlantic
and she come on to Montreal with
out, making her expected stop at
Hot wood, Newfoundland.
Boncherville is 12 miles oast of
Montreal.
Manned by Two Men
Completing the first of eight
scheduled experimental flights to
Canada this year, the seaplane
cut her engines and coasted into
an area of the harbor marked off
by buoys. .
A yacht steamed out Into the
river to greet Captain Donald
Bennett and Wireless Operator
(Continued on page 6)
LOST GIRL FOUND
AFTER 48 HOURS
BAKER, July 21. (AP) 'Rose
mary Wendell, 18, Payette, Idaho,
was found uninjured yesterday af
ter being missing nearly 48 hours
in the heat-ridden mountainous
area of Sumpter valley.
The glii showed no HI effects of
her experience despite the rugged
ness of the country in which she
became lost hist Monday afternoon
while leading a cow near the pros-
I peeling camp where she had been
living.
j She had secured the cow to a
J tree when searchers found her ap
parently confident she would he lo
cated. She was about four miles
from the camp.
On nnothcr occasion. Mr. WJster
announced IiIh candidacy for city
council In Philadelphia In an effort
to prove just what strength an hon
est man would have against an or
ganized boss. When the returns
were compiled, the "boss" to whom
the novelist referred had 3,-lfiS
voles, while Mr. Wister had a scant
646 ballots to his credit. He then
announced he had made out better
than he had anticipated.
Generally credited with being
cold and scholarly In his dealings
with his fellowmen. Mr. Wister
surprised Philadelphia when be
voluntarily nppeared before a coro
mr to plead for the relenso of
Charles D. Skirden, a Philadelphia
nnllceman accused of killing a boy.
The appearance of the novelist at
the hearing created n sensation es
pecially when Mr. Wister revealed
the fact that the policeman had
acted as his guide on a number of
trips to the west for material for
novels, and had provided the In
splrntlon for the character "Tram
pn" In "The Virginian."
The policeman was discharged
when Mr. Wister adduced a long
career In the army In favor of the
accused man.
T
AT MMA
Back Plane Crosses A tlantic
Heat 104 Twice
Wave Still Under
Temperature of 104 degrees in
Roseburg yesterday fell three de
grees short of the 107 all-time max
imum set July 10. 1026, but tied
the season heat record. It was the
eighth consecutlr- day of 90-plus
temperatures, which, too, falls
short of the record.
The longest continuous hot
spell-days, when the mercury did
not drop below 90 degrees, was in
1917, when the populace sweltered
for 12 successive days, although
the maximum temperature of that
period was 100 degrees, reports at
the local ofilce of the U. S. wealher
bureau reveal.
The current heat wave, however,
yesterday tied two previous spells
of prolonged high temperatures,
S
Richard Hayworth Sinks
to Death Near Elkton
While Swimming.
Richard Vernon , Haworth, 40,
resident of Drain, ' was drowned
about 9 o'clock last, night, while
In the umpqua- river near Kfkton.
Coroner H. C. Stearns reported he
was told by witnesses that Ha
worth sank suddenly and without
outcry. Due to an undertow,
which carried the body consider
able distance, it was not recover
ed until about 11:30 o'clock last
night.
Born nt The Dalles, Jan. 12,
1898, Haworth had been a resident
of Drain for I lie past 26 years,
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Ada Haworth, Portland; mother.
Mrs. Lillian Haworth, and a sis
ter. Mrs. D. L. Gorsline, both of
Drain.
The body was removed to the
Stearns chapel at Drain.
Funeral services will he held at
the Drain Methodist church at 2
p. in., Friday, Rev. R, F. Parker
officiating. Interment will follow
in the Drain cemetery.
MARINE SOUGHT IN
SLAYING OF WOMEN
PORTLAND, July 21. (API
Police searched today for a 30-year-old
man dressed in the uni
form of a United States marine
following the fatal shooting or an
unidentified woman in a hotel
yesterday.
The woman, about 4f. register
ed at the hotel with the man as
Mr. and Mrs. James Carroll, Detec
tive Sergeant John Schilm said.
The woman's body, shot with a
small calibre rifle, was found be
neath a bed. The rifle lay on the
boil.
A crudely wrlllen noto on a
table said:
"I am from California. So no
one knows me here. Please don't
think the boy friend did it."
U. S. AID TO OREGON
NEEDY REPORTED
WASHINGTON. July 21. (AP)
The social security board report
ed today Oregon received $2,147.
700 from the federal government
Tor public assistance during the
year ended Juno 30.
Of the total. VI 929.900 went to
the aged noedy, $1H3.3UO to depen
dent children of needy families,
and $iH,r,0 to indigent blind.
In a statistical study of April
the board found 206 of every 1,000
aged persons in the state receiv
ed old age assistance, compared
with the national average of 214.
$120,000 ASKED FOR
DILLARD BRIDGES
Construction of two new bridges
replacing the present covered
structures on the Dillard section
of the Pacific highway, is propos
ed in an application to be made
by the state highway commission
to the PWA for assistance on
eight project, which otherwise
would be delayed through lack of
state funds.
The two Dillard bridges are In
cluded in the eight projects, and
assistance Is asked In the sum of
J 120,000.
During Week
j
Roseburg Record
July of 1935 having produced eight
days of continuous beat wittii a
maximum of 104 degrees and July
1888 eight days with a maximum
of 100 degrees. In 1928 the mer
cury soared nbove 90 degrees dally
for a seven-day period with a max
imum of 103. In 1926, when the
all-time high record was reached,
The hot spell lasted for six days."
Maximum daily temperatures of
the current heat wave have been
as follows:
July 13 101.6 degrees
July 14 .104 degrees
July 15 96.2 degrees
July 16 ...... 94.1 degrees
July 17 ..... 94.4 degrees
July 18 93.3 degrees
July 19 93.6 degrees
July 20 104 degrees
Kiukiang Sector Undergoes
Bombing; Chinese Judge
at Shanghai Slain.
SHANGHAI, July 21. (AP)
Japanese warships began today the
transport of heavy reinforcements
,hbto the,,upper Yangtze battle .iftraa
wlie're the 'Japanese army' Is slalled;
in its drive toward Hankow.
From their precarious, positions
along the south bank of the
iangtze, the Japanese today tried
another bombing attack in the
Kiukiang sector, 135 miles down
river from Hankow.
Chinese accounts said more than
300 bombs were dropped in the
vicinity of Kiukiang, and that 30
1 erBons were killed and a number
injured at Slaoklapo, -which was
wrecked. , .
The troop concentrations appar
ently were in preparation for a
push into Lake Poyaug, to which
the Yangtze is linked south of Kiu
kiang. A Japanese naval officer an
nouueed Japanese planes bombed
and sank two Chinese gunboats, tt
munitions transport and loaded
lighters on Tauugtlng lake. Two
other gunboats, he said, were se
verely damaged.
SHANGHAI, July 21. (AP)
Wan Shi-Sen, Chinese member of
the Japanese dominated local gov
ernment of the Shanghai district,
was shot and killed by two gunmen
in his home In tho International
settlement today.
One assassin escaped but the
other was caught by a watchman.
Settlement police questioned him
and u series of widespread raids
with numerous arrests followed.
There have been more than a
dozen political assassinations In
Shanghai since the Japanese army
occupied the district. Most of the
victims have been Chinese who
had taken office in I tie Japanese
dominated regime. Wan was chief
of the judicial department of that
regime.
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CARNIVAL PLAN FOR
NAVY VISIT KILLED
PORTLAND, July 21. (AP)
Commissioner J. K. Bennett, Port
land's gambling crusader, prompt
ly squelched Ideas for n fleet week
committee for a carnival yesterday.
He refused to give unanimous ap
proval to a request for an emer
gency ordinance necessary to give
the carnival a license.
"They'll take nickels and dimes
away from people who need them,
and I'm against ft," said Bennett.
A carnival agent, seeking per
mission for his company to operate
on the waterfront during fleet week,
offered to pay the committee $1500
in addition to putting up $25 for a
license.
LUPE SUES MOVIE
TARZAN 3RD TIME
LOS A NO ML ICS, July 21. (AP)
The third divorce suit of Lupe
j Velez, Mexican nctresfl, against
jiimiiiy v eiMHiNiiiicr, movie i iirzun
and former swimming champion,
was on file today. She charged
mental cruelty.
Two previous suits, filed in 1934
and 1935, were dropped. They were
married in 1933,
Lupe snfd In her complaint that
Johnny was sullen and morose.
snubbed her friends and wan tin
reasonably Jealous of her.
AltO Ml
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OF
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Pageant of War Machines
in Paris Gives British
Monarch Eyeful of
Ally's Power.
i'ARIS, July 21. (AP) France
paraded her newest war machines
for the first time today to demon
strate to King George VI of Brit
ain the strength she can lend to
their common cause.
For more than an hour, Infantry,
cavalry and artillery regiments
tho flower of the French army
swung by the reviewing stand at
Versailles.
King George and President Al
bert Lebruu of France, reviewed
the columns of marching men, to
talling 50,000, supported by hun
dreds of tanks and about 50 air
planes. The spectacle, a highlight of
King George s state visit to France,
uttested to the strong bonds that
unite Europe's great democratic
powers.
The king and President Lei) run
were taken from the station to the
reviewing stand In a bullet-proof
automobile flanked by a mounted
guard. .
Modern Arms Seen '
Vast throngs lining tho foute of
the parade, saw implements r6f war
tho French1 army never before had
shown publicly.
They watched columns of trucks
swiftly pulling sixdnch guns on
pneumatic rubber tires and mech
anized three-inch anti-aircraft guns
with trucks for ammunition.
Fifty infantry trucks, each
mounting two machine gunB and
carrying ten soldiers armed with
repeating guns, paraded past to
gether with tanks ranging from
liny whippets to rolling fortresses.
Camouflaged "land battleship"
tanks, weighing as much as 12 tons,
had three-inch guns protrudlug
(Continued on page f
PORTLAND, July 21. (AP)
Coroner K. II. Rider, Vancouver,
Whsh., said circumstances indicat
ed Forrest Collier (Fritz) Burrlll,
39, Portland lumberman whose
body wan recovered from the Co
lumbia river off a Vancouver dock
yesterday, either committed sul
cldo or drove bis automobile off
accidentally.
Burrlll's disappearance last June
S provided the most puzzling case
in recent years. Ho left tt lumber
men's meeting at the Portland golf
club at 2 a. m., never to be seen
alive again. A slopped watch on
his wrist showed his automobile
plunged off the Vancouver dock at
2:40 a. in.
Rider suld it was not clear why
nurrlll drove to Vancouver, since
he had started for his Portland
home. Skid marks at the edge of
the dock and a battered car window
Indicated Burrill attempted to free
himself.
Ilurrill's friends nnd family were
amazed nt bis disappearance and
could offer no reason since home
and business affairs were In excel
lent condition.
OUSTED CIO DEFY
RETURN WARNING
RACRAMKNTO, July 21. (AP)
Forty-six automobiles carrying
C. I. O. strikers of tho Red River
Lumber company left here early to
day for a return to Weslwood,
Lassen county.
A mass meeting which ended af
ter midnight reaffirmed the strlk
ers' decision to return despite a
warning telegram from Sheriff Olln
Johnson asking them not to come
in a group.
Harold Arrasmlth, secretary of
the West wood Lumbermen s union
In a reply informed the sheriff the
300 men, women and children here
since last Wednesday's "purge" in
tended to return.
Officers at Westwood said no
trouble wan anticipated In there
when the striking C, 1. O. mill-
workers return to their homes.
The C. I. O. group asserted It had
been driven from Westwood last
week by vigilantes.
FRANC
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STILL IN GRIP
Fighters Battling Fires on
More Than 20,000 Acres
in Western Oregon;
Heat Handicaps.
CAMPBELL RIVER, B. C
July 21. (CP) The little
fishing resort of Forbes
Landing went up In flames
today as a northwest wind
kicked a section of Vancouver
Island's 50,000-acre fire back
Into the settlement.
By the Associated Press.
Heat and Its unmanageable and
far ,moro dangerous companion,
fire, began the second week of
Oregon occupation today with
three persons dead and smoke still
belching from more than 20,000
acres of forest.
Tho northwest continued to wal
low in the trough of low pres
sure and the government weather
bureau promised only slight relief
from temperatures which soared
well over 100 degrees in many
sections yesterday.
The bureau forecast scattered
thundershowers for the Siskiyou
and the middle southern Cascade
mountains, where - hundreds or
men battled to nrevent, the unread
of fnm6a from the thousands of
acres already charred. Forest of
ficials feared the possible show
ers would be accompanied by
.'Jiln.n" vhicl: .ou.d Bet moie
fires than the rain would exting
uish. Three Casualties
A brlckmason collapsed and died
at his Job in Corvnllls yesterday
where tho temperature blistered
the countryside at 103 degrees. A
tanner near Sllvertan sutfored a
(Continued on page 6)
COURT REFUSES TO
ORKOON CITY, July 21. (AP)
An employer being picketed by
a labor union In an attcm.pt to
convert his employes to a union
shop faces a legitimate labor dis
pute, Circuit Judge Carl Hen
dricks, Fossil, ruled yesterday.
Judge Hendricks sat in a hear
ing or the request of four merch
ants for an Injunction to prevent
picketing. The Judge refused to
issue an Injunction on this ruling.
Merchants sought the restraincr
against a local of the retail clerks
union.
The dispute started lust March
20. About 20 stores have been
picketed since, pickets remaining
before the stores throughout the
extended court proceedings. The
union's main objective was n clos
ed shop, which merchants and
groups of their employes have op
posed. The dispute drew attention
when merchants put on bargain
sales In uu effort to draw trade.
The union hired bitsea to lake
customers to Portland in hope of
preventing them from shopping
here.
PLANE CRASHES ON
DAY BOUGHT; 2 DIE
RKI) I1LUFK, Calif., July 21.
(AP) An airplane crash mat kill
ed lien Torrey, 43, veteran filer
and aerial huntsman, and Jack
Buskins, 19, a flying student, was
blamed by Investigators today on
lack of gasoline.
Torrey and Raskins were crush
ed to death early last night when
their plane dived Into a field a
mile from the Red Bluff arlport,
which Torrey managed. They wero
riding in a plane Torrey had pur
chased Die same day.
DRIVER, 19, KILLS
PEDESTRIAN, 70
PORTLAND, July 21. (AP)
Mlko HoiiHlicy, ahoiil 70, win kill
ed IbhI nlKlit when tin wiih ntnu-lt
by tin aiitomuhUt! wlill utlpmnl-
Iiik In cruHH llio roiir-liiiHi Mi"
l.oiiKlillu liunlf viinl. Jink r.
Lynch, lit, (HuiIhIoiir, ilrlvnr of tliu
car, told Httitu itillct ho tlltl nut
ace tho t'lilerly iicdimlrlun.
FRED DEMON
Chosen to Head
Wage-Hour Act
FN V
y . ' - ,
The difficult task of adminis
tering the wage-hour law, first
federal experiment In establish
ing nationwide minimum labor
conditions, falls on the shoulders
of Elmer F. Andrews, above.
Long experience as civil engi
neer and as industrial commis
sioner of New York state qualify
Andrews to undertake the plac
ing of a "floor under wages"
and-a "celling over hours" In all
industries engaged In Interstate
commerce. ,
VALENCIA DEFENSE
f-vnrTpri, With Superior
Mechanized Equipment,
. Continue to Gain.
HENDAYE, Prance, July 21.
'(AP) SnanlBh Insurgents . nil
leauhed a Bonorol offensive In
eastern, central and southern
Spain today against governmental
lines weakened by aenorallsslmo
Franco's Bteady drlvo toward Val
encia. The scream or BUelis over long
hCBlugetl Madrid signalled the re
newul of liiigt'si'ttle warfare In
all sections uf Spain.
rinvemtneht reports Haiti Insur
gent batteries poured BOO shells
on the capital's battered buildings
hi a few lioui'B. Clovemnient troops
drawn from central and southern
fronts, were concentrated In
eastern Hpnlii for the tlefenBO of
Valencia, whero they were being
beaten bank slowly along the
Teniel Metlltorroneaii highway by
mechanized Italian units In tles
peralo battles which took heavy
tolls.
Insurgent dispatches reported
gains up to six miles In the first
dny's fighting along the Tagus
river Bouth of Madrid and In Estre
Mailura provlnre In southwestern
Spain.
Military observers wero aston
ished by Ilia extraordinary urrny
or planes, tanks nnd heavy artil
lery Franco was uble to dispatch
to those two fronts while appar
ently devoting his full powers to
the Vulencla campaign.
War bulletins reported troops
were attacking on all fronts be
hind mussed tanks whoso way was
cleared for them by ah plane
stiiiadrons cnnpnrutlng with long
rsnge artillery.
Oddities Flashed
.Ilr the Asioelated Press.
Stop Sign
PHILADELPHIA. Tho 73 sum
innnes ho has received lor traf
fic violations are a problem to Ja
cob Kalz. clothing siilesinnn whose
t.iHluess requires frequent stops
at downtown streets. .
"I'll either have to give up my
car or my business," he sighed,
as he paid n 94.4ft rine for overllniu
parking.
Machine Age Flunks
SAN ritANCIRCO. This city
tins been using voting maclihins
for Rfvcriil years, hut citizens will
mark their ballots with pencils
In the August primary.
Ko many candidates llleil for
county committeemen there Isn't
room on the machines for ull their
names plus those or other candi
dates. Joys of Living
CHICAGO. James Alexander
Hendry, Ht. Louis, businessman,
DRAIN CQAST '?
ROAD REOPENS
TO THE PUBLIC
Timber Blaze too Far Away;
to Impair Visibility to .
Traffic; Scottsburg ,
Not in Danger.
The Umnoua highway between.
Drain and Reedsport was reopened
this morning upon orders from the
division office of the state highway
department in Roseburg. The road
was closed yesterday by highway
authorities at Salem upon the re
ceipt of erroneous Information con
cernlng proximity of the Smith
river forest fire to tne ingnway, ic
wus stated.
R. B. Sunnrell of the local office,
who made the trip laBt night be
tween Drain and the Wells creek
guard station, reports that the fir
Is from a mile and a half to two,
miles from the road and that visi
bility Is not seriously affected by
smoke.
Advance Partly Checked. '-' ;
The fire Is nenrest the highway1 1
In the Paradise-Weatherly creek; j
section. A crew of 110 men went i
Into that area yesterday and re; i
ports to the local orrice or tna
Douglus Forest Protective ABsoclai
tlon was that a mile and a halt
of trench was built and it was be.
lieved that advance of the fire had
been halted In that Bectlon.
Reports of danger threatening
Scottsburg were reported to be ex
aggerated and little concern Is felt
lor the safety of that community,
unless there should be a Bhltt in
the wind coupled with a crown lira
causing the blaze to leap rock cliff
forming , a natural protective barrj
rler, ... ... '
. Thirteen hundred men in all
reported fighting ths fir, Mid (
ciauia"e 0.000 acres.
Firebugs Troublesome
A two-fire report was made by
the Umpo.ua national foreBt bead.
quarters this morning for the fourth,
successive day. Lightning struck
(Continued on page 6.)
T
WASHINGTON, July 21. (AP)
The Interstate commerce com".
mission cancelled today a certifi
cate authorizing the Gold Coast
railroad to construct a line of rail
roatl from Port Orford on the Pi
elite coast, to a connection with tho
main line of the Southern Pacific at
I. eland, about 90 miles away, in
Curry and Josephine counties, Ore
gon. t
The commission also dismissed
ah application by the city or Grants
Pass and the Crescent City harbor
district for authority to acquire the
California & Oregon coast railroad,
extending from ' Grants Pubs to
Waters Creek, 14.6 miles.
They wanted to extend this lln
rroin Waters creek to the Oregon'
California boundary, 30.4 miles, and
from the state line to Crescent
City, 61.2 miles in Del Norte coun
ty, Calir.
The municipal applicants asked
dismissal or their petition, saying
economic conditions had changed
so that they do not now regard it
ns desirable to undertake the con
struction program.
From Press Wire
Rnys he has had a foil and happy
82 years or living although he has
never:
Read a novel, danced, smoked
nor chewed tobacco, tuken a drink
of liquor, played cartlR, seen a
ball game.
Hut, he said, he has:
Not missed church or Sunday
school In fiD tars.
He Is here for tho convention tif
the Gideon association.
Biting Evidence
CHICAGO. Ray Schmidt's
panls, somewhat tattered, wero
ordered locked up by Judge Ro
bert Dunn In criminal court.
The trousers are the chief ex
hibit In a case against Leo Heinz,
Sr., N I les Center street commis
sioner. Schmidt said the holes In bis
trouserB were put there by the
teeth or Kenneth Emerson's dog,
Pntsy, which subsequently was
killed by Heinz.
The street commissioner Is
charged with maliciously killing
domestic, animal, .