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Newspaper Page Text10a (Iranite CITY EDITION Full Associated Press Leased Wire (Service 5 PAGES TODAY THE WEATHER OKKGON: Generally fair tonight and Thursday but cloudy along tho coast, warmer In Interior Thurs day. , , ' VOLUME XXVITI JIHJ1UF.II ASSOCIATED PHESS AND A. 11. O. LA GRANDE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1930 EAST75RN OREGON'S LUADING NEWSPAPER NUMBER 253 MANY KILLED IN BAY M rin II .n ir T) FIRST CLASS OF GRADUATES GET DIPLOMAS Seventy-Four E. 0. N. Seniors Hear Address by PiMsfdent N. F. Coleman WOMEN GRADUATES DRESSED IN WHITE Large Crowd Attends Commencement Exer ' cises President Inlow Presents Diplomas. ; An address on the Kast and the W.cs', as Inleroslin;? us it wua uii-mu.-il, was given. by Dr. Norman K. Coleman, president of Kecd col leen yesterday afternoon nt the commencement exercises' for the riiHt Brniluntlnff class of tho Ku st ern .orejron Normal t-chonl.- i mentioned tho difference' In Iho soeia I customs and habits of. the.' dirferehi ' races; thrt dtificullies that, arose in tho mixint; of the tribes or man. saylnj? that prnell-. rally speak int? it wan the Import ant problem anil tin: most Import ant ono of today. 11 hi iiiiiiup t: tho graduates waa that when they so out to touch little children.- they . take them to a hilltop and Id them look out hWt the valley, or tho world: and ho cautioned tho teachers that ijholr pupils look not only oast, I'd th.il in t ho past, hut also to tho west. HV divided the racial 1 prejudice Into three moral, eco nomic, and -domestic- hostilities and left a too ling I hat what was needed more than any other one Ihim; was a. greater undcrstandim? between t lie races, .especially those of theUhdont. Whito silk IHVfvoH Worn Tho women graduates -wore , at tractively irt tired In. while silk droMKoa wlii Jackets ol pastel idiaUes, which although they wero tinirurtn in stylo wore i strikingly individxnl, Tim class hopes to sot u-tradition in this type of Kradua tion apparel. Tho boys wore busi ness; suits. , A laro audience witnessed the ceremony and later a I tended u re ccptior. given hy ires!'ont and V.r. ir. K. Inlow, the faculty and members of tho graduating clas Ir. iho north courl of Iho school a I. the head of the grand stairway. I 'resontation of diplomas w as made by, J're.-ddent Inlow, who said that he believed these stu dents, who formed a pioneer class , were capahln of defeating unusual difficulties, because of thei. year's expereinee in a sehoil . (Continued on Pago Five) CANNED HEAT IS BELIEVED DEATH CAUSE I'eter Tray nor. transient and formerly employed for u short time on the raneh near here owned by Mrs. I. A. Howell, died hi the hobo camp between tho, bridge at Oro Doll yesterday afternoon. After an e.va mi nation, authorities expressed tho opinion that too much "can ned heat was the cause of death. Tho deceased was about GO years of ago. His homo and other facts concerning him were unknown to duy. . J le will be buried tomorrow In tho Odd Follows cemetery -with bnodgra.su & Zimmerman in charge. MRS. M'COY IS HURT, HIT BY AUTOMOBILE M.-! Itoxio .McCoy was seriously bill imt ilit ngcrotifily injured about Ibo head yesterday when she was knocked down by a car driven by C. I:. Itii' It. iof 2MIH Kecond street. According to the report made to the police by Mr. Itiioll. he was backing his ear from his garage and apparently the machine hit Mr.-. McCoy at the intersection of I be sbloualk and his driveway. JO- wok nd driving very fast, and iniiiied lately took Mrs. All-Coy to the (ijande Itond" hospital. Itepnrts today are that Mrs. Mc ( iy':: ei.ndition Im good. ' w i;.vrin-:i TODAY 7:30 a. Hi. .Vi above. Minimum: 51 abovt-. Condition: partly cb-ur. vi;.tm!;i: vksti;iuav Maximum S.I. minimum 5.' above. Condition: ib,u. vi:atiii;i! jim; tt. ijb - Miiv'nniiii 71. minimum 4J above. Condition: ch ar. EAST OREGON LIVESTOCK SHOW OPENS THURSDAY AT UNION National Guard At Clatsop For Field Training Company E Leaves : on Special Train Last Night, Together With East Oregon Units. Tho flint four trains, bearing Oregon mfliouul guardsmen to 'amp .Clatsop, pulled out of J'ort lund early this morning, according to Associated I'ress dispatches, with hundreds of parents flocking tlx; North Bunk station to bid their sons iidicu, , ThG trains wcro to arrive, ut t'amp t-'lulsop shortly before noon nnd among them wan Olio Currying the Second Itutlullon. ISCtli Jiifuii try.' from Kustern Oregon. Company K, of l.u Oramic, en trained here lust night about 7 o'clock on a special undor Iho com mand of . Lieutenant. Colonel Kalph Huron, of l.a Grande. A lur.J-. crowd of relatives. friends and foi nter guardsmen was at the depot lo hid tho troops "ho long." Tile. Un ion headquarters ' company also joined the train here, the Maker company entraining lit ..Ttaker where the special was made lip. 'jwo other Stops After leaving l.a. Cirande. the train slopped at l'endloton for tile company' or riflemen there anil made another slop at Tho Unllcs, ' (Continued on I'age Five) Ringo Accepts Nomination r or Board Candidacy K. It. UiiiKO, local attorney, yes terday filed his acceptance of the petition nominating him for candi dacy for tho a Cirande school board, aecordlntf to Merk , II. K. 'llllam. This hrouwht the num ber of candidates up to six,, with two to be elected. ' ' Others, who had previously ac cepted tho nominations, a'p: A Scott. K. J.. .McWilliams. f'olon It. Kbnrlmrd, John 8. 1 1 ods' n fnW Jf. Kintlh. The election will he held Mon day, June Ifi from 2 to 7 o'clock at the - (irecnwood and Central grade schol buildings. Jury's Verdict In Jenkins Case Is "Not Guilty" Charles Jenkins, oha rged wil h larcetiv in a dwelling place, was J found not guilty by a circuit court j jury in a verdict returned at 1 0 i o'clock last night. Tho Jury retired when the trial was completed at 4:10 o'clock In tho afternoon. The case was presided over by Judge t H. MeCulloch, of Fiakor. who substituted hero for Judge J. AV. Knowles, who lit turn went to Haker to try a case there. The case yesterday c('mplet"d tho June term of circuit court In Ia (Jrande, unless olher cases are set for trial later in the month. Band Concert At I Park On Fridau Tho summer series of band con certs will begin this week, it was announced today by Director A n dr?w Loney Jr., the first of the series to take place at Itiverside park on Friday evening, June 13. Tho program will bo published In Tho Observer later this week. Tho band, which has been re hearsing diligently during the past few weeks in preparation for en trance in the Northwest band con test in Vortland next month, is expected to be near a peak of per formance this week and a particu larly fino concert Is anticipated. New Temporary Licenses Arrive Temporary green stickers rot motorists may be secured from Sheriff Jesse lirenhears on June 11 but cannot be affixed to the auto mobile until June 1", It was an nounced today. A supply of 3. Mm temporary license stickers have been received here. It Is not neces sary to secure the 1930-31 automo bile license until July 1. but all are urged to apply for them early so as to aVoiU the rush. Far nam Speaks A t Rotary Luncheon Hoy !arnam gavn hi4 autobio graphy during the Wednesday noon luncheon of The Iji Grande Kittary club at the li Grande ho tel today. J I i.-t talk was very in teresting. Another feature of I he prfiuram nn H number of exceptionally fino vocal selections given by llw Hen driokson iuartet. unWsilnsr of three boys and a girl. GRADUATES Students frsiiu 1 nlou county who a ix ouiulli1tts for degrees thU spring from ..(ho- I iilvciil.v ol Oihkoii. Top, lea -U right Bliss Aiisucs, Mai'jorii I'mnlii, bolli (if Ui Ciramlr; IhHIoiu, Sid ney Dobbin, rni:nt;. CeMii Stoii .ilard, Im ;ramle. Other grado ales wIkisi, pldnrci do ttol ap inar abovi?' are 1. Elvlti Jen scn and I tenia rd V. Humnielt, Idi O ramie. SIX GRADUATES FROM UNION CO. Five La Grande Students to Receive Degrees at ; Oregon University. CNIVKIIHITY OK OUKOON, Kugene, Juno 11 (Special) Hlx tC tU" 077 studcntH at tho Pnlvet sllyVf Oregon, vli: form thcnfi'i'g est graduation class in Hie history of any Institution in the state, are from Union county. Klvo .if tho candidates are. from La Grande, and one is from I'nion. i (Continued on Page Five) Valley Pioneer Passes Away At Cove Yesterday 'Jesse Nathaniel '.Motion, Union county pioneer, died suddenly at Covo yesterday afternoon -while on roii to to tho AVeimor home. His d e a tti , coming unexpectedly, brought sorrow over the valley among his many friends. . Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow ufternoon at tho homo of bis daughter. Mrs. V. K. Hristow, at Cove, with burial In Iho Covo cemetery. Knodgrass At Zimmerman have chargo of the body. Mr. 1 lorton was born in Ten neseo Oct. II, 1850 and was 7'J years, seven months and days of age. Ho came to Union county r4 years ago and since then made his homo in the Grande Hondo valley. Koeently he has been liv ing with his daughter, Mrs. lirls tow. Survivors include four daughters 1 and two sons, M rs. '.rlstow, Mm. I'. K. Hay nes, of Union; Mrs. Joe Clark, of Arlington; Mrs. Joe, Tob ln, of Vancouver, Wash.: and Ud and Way ii" Morton, of Union. Bishop Cannon Continues Defiant; Answers Questions About Church WASHINGTON, Jun- II (Al' Walking In on Mu; senate loliby committee as abruptly as he walk ed out on Its last week, liishop James Cannon Jr.. answered ques tions today on activities of the Southern Metluidlt church, 'but persisted in his refusal to undergo examination on his liUS antl- t Smith campaigning. The churchman surprised the committee meeting w hich had been called to determine what to do about his dfj;ince. The Investiga tors d"Hdod to give him a chance lo testify ami to consider their Tut urn course only after learning bis attitude. Senator Walsh, democrat, Mon tana, brought up the matter of anti-Smith funds obtained by Can non from K. c. Jiinw-Fon. New York capitalist, but th wllnens refrr-d again and again to his objections to answering questions on his political work. "Oo you care to ki' anything ahout'the JIK.noo that was not re porlcd." asked M'alsh. Ilohfii-on Sides With Itl-bop sriiator KobinJMjn. republicim. Indiana, sided with Cannon say ing he wondered "what that has to UNION READY FOR ANNUAL STOCK SHOW George W. Joseph to be Guest Tomorrow, Which is Children's Day. BUILDINGS TAXED TO HOLD EXHIBITS Four Six-Horse Teams to Compete Each After noonFriday to be La Grande Day. , JOSK1M1 AT I'MOX Tlll'ltSDAV , (Jeorge Joseph. republican candldato for governor of Ore gon, will visit the Kaslern Ore gon Livestock show at Union Thursday morning and after noon, according to a wlro ro ceived by Tony I). Smith today. Kor a time it appeared that iMr. Joseph could not make the Union show, hut owing to tho importance of the event lie de cided to cancel other engage menls so he could attend. Mr. Joseph will not be unfamiliar wilh good livestock, as he is slid io have spent his boyhood on a Central Oregon sheep ranch. Arrangements are being made for .Mr. Joseph to appear before Iho grandstand, also to address tho first day crowd. Many re publicans of nearby towns have signified their intentions of at tending on Iho first day, In order to hear their candidate speak. "Deck yourself out in tho bright est array. And come, . come, come to the Fair!" The Kaslern Oregon Livestock show onmi; tomorrow at Union for Oiriifdays, Juno 12, 13 and 14. with 'The largest n"nd 'most repres entative exhibit of livestock over aembled In the Eastern Oregon country. Tho officials m the show admit that, the hlsloric buildings of the 22-year-old stock show will scarcely hold the ;irray of beef cattle, dairy stock, K. A. and 4-l club exhibits, swine, :hecp and horses. More than imi bead oi' thoroughbred and remount fine-boned horses alone, besides lour ponderous six horse tea ins and other displays make up an oiiuino exhibit that harks back I" Iho best days or the horse world when the big show at Union was" principally a. horse n ITn ir. Now tho "tail wags the dog" to Home oxiont, with eattfo and other qmid rupeda riva lliug "man's besl friend." "Persons whose nerves tingle at the sit; lit of good horseflesh will enjoy tho stock show to the lit -piost tub: yea r,' predicts George I ienson, veteran horse breeder and former president of Iho slock show who takert it keen and active interest in all affairs of the horse department of tho show. "Itac i n g. exhibit loll riding, euuest rja n games, ca If -roping, bucking and trick riding will certainly provide lo. Mill every laste.' j Six-lluiso Teams Compile j l-'our six-horse teams compctint; j at Iho stock show in the arena I each afternoon Include those own- 1 ed by Itoiith McKonnon and Wayne Krixxeil. of A Heel: Willis: iCoss, of Island Cfty, M. C. Meyers' and I "la ud e Wood e II. of , Sjimmor villc, Sam 1 tuck man and John 'Continued fin Fan FIvM . do with tho lobbying invcHtfgu jtlon." As Canonn refused to answer a question of Senator Imilne, i-epub- lican, Wisconsin. aboiil tho 1 !t2H Virginia anli-Smllh funds, chair man Caraway r-aid I he objection jof tho bisbrqi would bo considered I by the committee, j "In the Huston matter had Mr. Huston made such answers we never would have been able to go to the soure of his fund," observed JJlatne. Claudius Huston, chairman of the republican national committee, was examined by the lobby investi gators several months ago in con nection with money received ,y him for tho Tennessee Hiver Im provement assoHwUon. I'rvHcM OueM lotting "This has nothing to do wilh lobbying nor wit h t he 1 1 usioii case," awfl-rted Itobinson, protest ing iJlalne'H questioning. At this point, an elderly uoiikhj walked to the co-mmlttec (.ii,ie to say "thin Is a Itomanist hold-up of protectant America and I protest." Chairman Caraway ra t e d sharply for order and sin returned to bur eut. Mellon Favors Tariff Measure, Smoot Believes Veteran Utah Legislator Expresses Opinion in Senate Today During Period of Debate. WASHINGTON', Juno 1 1 (AP) In Senator Smoot's judgment, Sec retary Mellon l.s "for tho tariff bin." Tho veteran Utah legislator so expressed himself today In tho sen ate. The question of the treasury secretary's attitude has been chal lenging legislative und political In terest of late. While ho had not talked with Mr. Mellon, Smoot told Senator Harrison, democrat, Mississippi, tho "secretary denies tho stories in tho press',' that ho looks with disfavor on tho pending menjjuro. . lie i said he did not know how senntom Heed Grundy of .Penn sylvania, would vote, but asserted "I'm ijust as sure as I live that n, majority of tho senate want to pass tho bill." p liaCollclo Flays Hill Tho view of Smoot, who is chuir man of tho flnanco committee, held attention after Scnntor I.tiKollette, republican Independent, Wiscon sin, hud flayed the measure with u vigor reminiscent of his famous falher. Il'o said It represented n betrayal of President Hoover's pledge of a limited revision "to give agriculture equality with in dustry." JjiiFollctto declared it -'places (Continued on ?age Five'. COCHRAN NEW PAST PATRON, EASTERN STAR POliTLAND. Ore.. June. 11 (Special) Mi-H. Carrlo Jackson (MrsJamoH P.) uT Kalhor chap ter, No. 1L linker, Ore., whh elect ed worthy grand matron of the grand chapter of Iho Order "of the Kastcru Star at the session yester duywwifternuon aL- Iho Masonic temple. Frank M. Mangold, Ou i i nt li in it chapter. No. 54. Portland, was elected worthy gland pal roil. M.rs. Kilzaliuth Tiplcn. of Port laud, and George T. Cochran, of La Grande, become, by tho elec tlon yesterday, past worthy grand matron and past w orthy grand patron, respectively. Intvodui-tion of past grand mat rons ami ast grand patrons yes terday was followed by an ad drets uf welcome by George T. ( ocliiaii, worthy grand patron, Expert May Study Mildew Disease SAL KM.. Ore., June II (AP) Assistance of an expert in Oregon from iho department of agricul ture, lo. spend a number or years in in vest Wa t loan connected with tho Itgbl on the newly developed downy mildew condition In Wil lamette valby hopyards, is asked in a telegram seal hy Louis I .deli mit ud. Salem hop and fruit man, to Senator M.cNary. Me Nary answered that ho has taken Hie matter up with tho head of the bureau of plant industry. Tho plant bureau head said lie would confer with experts at once. In lilr telegram Luchmund said that an I Loon. olid industry, bringing a gross a verago annual income of $7,(11111,00(1, faces a ser ious crista. Seven Months Old Austin Baby Burned IJAIvKC, Ore,, Juno II (AP)--I'iro destroyed the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe M'cCoy at Austin, Grant county, loday and burned to deal h their granddaughter, seven months, old. Tho Infant was sleep ing in an adjoining room anil could not la. reached ufter the names were discovered. Other-) escaped through win dows. Wheat Today CHICAGO. Jane II (AP) MtH report of rain falls in Canada gave a d'clded adwlntag.j to the selling side of 1 he wheat market today, and prices, iitid'-nvent a material setback. Virtually no attention Was paid 10 1 he official crop report from Washington, although the condition of spring wheat, was given as 85.7 the lowesi with only .tix exceptions Hince I MI 7. Willi no 'xpfirt deiuiiiid of sequence, about tin- .ole source of buying was that from previous s Mem who were tn it postjon to eoll'ct profits. When rloK. d heavy, at almost the day's bmlom b-v-l, I 1 2c t baslnd low-r Mian yesterday'" fin ish. Corn closed fn I v down, oats ft off, and provisions varying from 12c d-clitiu to u rbie of 2c. PRETTIEST Dorothy Tcopc, Portland, Who ' reigned over tho Junior Prom t M10 Vniverslty of Orcni re cently, as tho prettiwt girl hi tho junior olnss, chosen from a field of IH fair candidates. POISON LIQUOR RAIDS SUCCEED Thirty-six Arrested Along Bowery by Federal Pro hibition (. Agents. NI3W YOUK, June 11 (AP) -Accused of soiling - poisouoas Ikpior, afl proprietors, bartenders ami bouncer for "smuko" shops along tho bowery wuro under ar rest today. - ' Spurred 'byrBS ileal its -Within ti mouth from poisonous alcohol and other deadly concoctions dispensed to bowery habitutes dt 1 f und !if cent a drink. Major Maurice Campbell, prohibition administra tor, led 50 federal agent 1 tt a series of raid yesterday on tho drinking huimts of the down-and-onlcrs. Tho agent dressed In shabby clothes and with two-day beards on their face visited drug stores, paint shops and speakeasies, pur chasing samples of "smoke," so called been ami of lis clouded, milky white appearance, and arresting the dispense. r . Two Agents Hick Two agent w ho disregarded' a warning from Major Campbell and drank some of the stuff reported sick at prohibition headquarter. This raiders said they found scores of patrons of the bowery drinking dives lying in drunken stupor in tho sawdust which covered the rioors. These men were carried out or tho place by Hie agents be fore they arrested the ownern and employe'. Major Caiuphotl said that analys is allowed some uf the scl.od liquor lb be denatured alcohol of the kind used as anti-froexe mixture In automobile radiators. ithor sam ple proved to bo p. ire- synthetic wood alcohol, which he said has no distasteful odor and Ih not read ily Identified. In a paint store tin; raider pur chased a half-pint hot He la bled "denatured alcohol poison" for 'J ft cent si The proprietor and his wife were arresle!. A drum and 0f bottles labelled "denatured alcohol" wore seized in a bowery drug store; (Continued on Pago Four) WOMEN PRAY AS OIL BLAZES; SA VES LIVES JIOSTllN, Juno II (AP) A group of women knelt lit prayr on the hurricane deck ot the steamer Fairfax during the height of the excltoment which followed the col lision of that Hldp with an uniden tified oil tanker last night. Harry J (utcheroft, of Jackson ville, Fla., a marine, who witness ed the scene, sab) (heir act Ion probably was responsible for sav ing many of I heir lives, since it ri'siilteii in postponing a d' clslon whether lo jump into I h() seu or stay with the ship. Mutchcrofl was one of four mar ines en route lo Nicaragua to servo Willi the I nited Slates Inlioii commission there. He and his com panion dasln-d from their state rooms to find Hie Fairfax drifting Into a s a of rtaiii' M which, fed by the oil from the doomed tanlci , sprang up on all sid t of tho Vcs- HOl. Katchr i oft told of a ejng out, man. hi wife and child plunge overboard and perish In the flam ing wut'-r. Canadian Timber Is Destroyed By Raging Flames Sixty Million Feet of Valu able Timber Burned Other Outbreaks are Be ing Combatted. PltlNCK ALHKltT. -Sask., Juno II (API Defeuted in their effort to save Co.ooo.ooo foot of valuable timber in tho 20 square mile re servo of tho Pa Lumber company lit llireh Lake, sixty miles east of here, forestry officials .today' or dered their lire ft gh tors into Iho north where flames are. menac ing other valuable stands. A force of 200 men who had been combatting five fire in tho Hirch Lake district worn dispatch ed with their equipment Into tho region north of tho Churchill river whero two outbreaks threatened tho destruction of valuable pulp wood. Another blaze of dangerous pro portions was discovered thirty miles east of here near whore 100 square miles of tint her uro men aced. Tho voh1h are said by raugerH to bo parched after a pro tracted dry spell. Sixty men wero Kent into tho area lo combat Iho flro. SITl ATlOiV ACUTH .POUT AllTHUH, Out.. Juno II ( AP) Additional equipment was sent today into blazing regions east, north and west of Port Ar thur for use of fire, rangers striv ing to check numerous forest fire. Forestry officials said the situa tion mill' was acute, with warm winds and continued dry weather adding to the hazard. l-'lumes have broken out anew in several tow:nhlps whero fires raged a, few days ago and were temporarily quieted by rains. Nearly 200 men, are s.onguged in the Attack district HO miles north- (Continued on. Pago Eight) Bankers Opposed To Interference With Farm Board MKOKOIUi, Ore. Juno 11 (AP) - Opposition tn Interference wilh tho operation of tho federal farm board because that furiunmrketlng legislation was passed by emer gency measure und haq. tptt , yet had tlmo to demonstrate Its effec tiveness was voiced in resolullun adopted by tile- Oregon Backers' association, which ended lis con vention hern yesterday. Another resolution urged Hint in the event Iho proposals lo form a departmental or cabinet . form or stain government, are approved ill tho November election tho state hanking department ami Its funds ho kept separate. KxcepL for the two resolutions, tbe remainder wero given over lo endorsement of various previous actions, Sam IT. Maker, Orants Pass, was elected president of (he association. John N. J'Mlefsen, Portland, was elected vice president and John It. Hiimphrys, Oregon City, was named treasured Tho following were appointed as members of tho executive commit tee Tor ensuing year: chairman, I'red li. Callister. Albany; L. Hnr inim, Tho Dalles'; It. K. Harder, iMedford: O. C. Colt, Portland, and A. A. lingers, Kugene. S. S. McCready, Kugene, won the golf tournament. Murder Continues To Puzzle Police CI-'NTI1ALI A, Wash., June 1 I lAPj Authorities today continued their Investigation of the mysteri ous shooting to death of Maynard Taylor, li7. Centra liu, who was wlaln Sunday night near here while, seated In an automobile with Agnes Stflham, 27, a ienhio divorcee. She Is being held in Hie county Jail at Chehulis for further ques tioning, a II ho ut; h authorities said evidence l hey have gathered near tho spot where the crime was com mitted bore out. her story of an unidentified assailant. i Platform Urges Prohibition Vote OSH.KOSIf. Wis.. Juno 11 (AP) A platrorm which ignored the customa 1 y pla nk indorsing both tpie national republican admini stration mid I ho president, a ud proposed that congress ;t in Ionize ;. national advisory prohibition referendum w ay- adopted unani mously today by Hi" oninei vativu lepiiblicau Kimip in Wisconsin. Tho convent hoi of the Ko-called ad ui i 11 lit rat inn yn.ijp uI.ho unani mously I ml I f b.vernor Wa Iter J. Kohlcr inr recb-ction. The platform besides asking for a national wet and dry poll, con tained is demand lor bgislallon to curtail ami rcyulato the activities of chain store organizations. DON'T FAIL TO OIL FLAMES AFTER SHIPS IN COPION Tanker Sinks in 20 Min utes Time Definite List of Dead Unknown. 18 MISSING FROM ! STEAMER FAIRFAX Entire Crew of Oil Tank er, Pinthis, Carried Be neath the Blazing In ferno. : ' ' "' ; ). ; .' " HOSTO.V, Juno U' (AP) A toll of (load which mounted to45 tiiln iiUpruoon yvan loft by exploHtona of llninliiK oil which sprayed from the rail lltvcr oil tanker J'llithtrs ufter si 10 waH In collision with Uio const wise liner Fairfax lit n heavy foe oft Scltunto last lilght. . BOSTON.. June-1 1 (AP) Miim liB btoh of flouting oil claimed the lives of nt leant a score of persons possibly three times 'that num- -ber In Massachusetts bay last night as the passenger steamship Fairfax rammed and sank un .un identified oil tanker."'-... Tho ships crashed .blindly in a denso fog that blanketed the coast throughout tho night. .; ' ' TUo Fairfax, a - Merchants and MinerH Transportation . compnny thlp, bound out or noslon tor Nor folk, Va., with a passcngor list of W. nnd a crew of Tn, drove her bow Into tho port aldo of the tank er. Watchmen uboard tho steam ship could do little .moro than sho.ut a warning. ... . v-.. Hurst Into Flumes - lieforo the ships 'broke apart; tho tanker! loaded, wlth .o,. burst Into flames.. 1 Ulnzlng -oil poured out upon' tlio surface 'of the sea, and swept by the waves' envolopod tho foro part of tho Kalrfax. ' . . .The., tnnker. .wgtk jvMllin JfiJWllt .. tiles, carylnir with her her entire crew which seaipcn Said probably nombercd at least 40 men.' eighteen of tho passengers and crew o.f the Fairfax were missing when a roll was called later. ' Bev eral wero seen to juf'np overboard us tlio flames swept upward and it In believed all of tho missing per ished In tho sea of blazing oil. -, Ono Torso i Kossugo One terse message from Captuiu Archibald Brouks, commander of tho Fairfax.--reached: -tho' offices of Iho company hero,;-tells or tho crash, and asking that amhuiances und medical aid bo in' readiness for tho arrival of the'., rescued. I.uler a messugo ..froui Captain. A. V.. Itunllng of .lhe Gloucester tuld of Ihc trunsfor of pussengers. Htorles of the disaster, 'as told hy pussengers und crew' .upon their urrlvnl In Iloston, . pictured the scene that followed the crush. . Tho Fairfax, they said, had been (Continued on Page Eight) . CONDITIONS IN LEPER COLONY ARE DESCRIBED PORTLAND, Ore., June 11 (AP) Dr. ltobort Lindsay Mc Arthur. -Portland, who, returned home to day niter resigning lilts position uh territorial government physician in the leper sett lenient at Kalati papa at Molokai Inland, charod that (icploriiblo physical und moral coiidlUonn uro porniilted to oxlst whllo tho territorial board of health has refused to consider u constructive proffram. Ir. JIcArlhur, who was jcnulu atcd with the Unlvorstty ot Ore gon class of l'JUO and from the medical school in 1920, said in his letter of resignation, which con tained tho charges, caused tho greatest sensation In Honolulu In recent years. Tho letter was dated to heconio effective yewterdny. Tho Oregon medic said that during his three yenr term ut the leper haven, ho wns continually rebuffed by tho territorial board of health on every tuujor project he undertook for the betterment of tho colony. BASEBALL .NATIOMAIj I,KAtil'K It. H. K. rhlcuBO '. 6 13 1 I'hllaiii-lphia 8 8 0 lliiiteiles: Holt and Harinetl; Ciill.'ir!. Nichols and McCurdy. it. h. k. I'ltlsluirKii a S 'J New- York i 'J IS 2 ItiilterleN: .Melne. Jones und liool: ifitbliell und llogun. II. II. K. "'liH-innutl ' 14 0 111 o.iklyn 2 7 1 llatterles: Kolp. Ulxey and Ktiki'fortlt: Vance and Debefry. St. l.ouls at Uostun postponed; rain. ATTEND!