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PORTLAND OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1930
PRICE FIVE CENTS
HOUSE TO ME
BOXES IN SCIO BANK
LOOTED BY ROBBERS
OUIfS MYSTERY
LANDLORDS BOOST
' RENTS ON CRITICS
FARMERS AVERSE TO
RADICAL ALLIANCE
E
LABOR THREAT FAILS
TO DETER MARRIAGES
DRIVES 4 INSANE
IY REST .TODAY
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ABOUT 930,000 TAKEN FROM
DEPOSITORS' CACHES.
WOMAX TELLS OF ADTAXCE
WHEN SHE RAPS PRICES.
EFFORTS TO LIXE UP AGRICUL
TURISTS DENOUNCED.
MOVE TO OUST WEDDED OF
FICE" WOMEN IGNORED,
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DRIVE BEGUN FOR
PALMER'S COMDUGT
AIRPLANE PATRO
Louisiana Sugar Price
Fixing Is Issue.
DEMOCRATS OPPOSE MOVE
"Covert Attack Against Pop
ularity," Cry. -v
PARTIES SOLID ON VOTE
Attorney-General anil WHsoii Are
Blamed for High Price or Product
by Republican Members.
WASHTXGTO.V. March 4. A hot row
Broke out in the house today when
the republicans forced through a res
olution authorizing investigation by
the Judiciary committee of the acts of
Attorney-General Palmer In connec
tion with prices chargeafor Louisiana
eugar. ' The democrats bitterly op
posed the projoct. charging repeatedly
that it was designed as an indirect
impeachment of Mr. Palmer and only
intended as a mens of checking the
"growing popularity"' of a democratic
presidential aspirant.
Tn reply, the republicans charged
that the president and Mr. Palmer
were directly responsible for prevail
ing high sugar prices; that Mr.
Palmer had no authority to recognize
the high figure at which Louisiana
sugar sold and that ne had failed to
press action against profiteers.
In two hours of debate on the reso
lutions offered by Representative
Tinkham, republican, of Massachu
setts, democratic members asserted
it was a "covert" attack on Mr,
Palmer and was calculated to divert
public attention from failures of'the
incapable" republican leaders in con
cress. When the time limit expired,
the resolution was put through, 162
to 124, by a party vote, and the com
mittee will proceed with its inquiry.
"Concurrence In Price" Target.
The resolution directs that the in
vestigation be directed "to the ad
mitted concurrence of the "attorney
general In maximum fixed prices" of
17 to 18 cents a pound for Louisiana
sugar, the basis on which the prices
were fixed, and whether immunity
from prosecution for profiteering was
given any one for charging these
prices.
Republicans asserted that the ac
tions of the attorney-general in re
gard to the Louisiana growers caused
increased prices for the Cuban crop
but this was denied by the democrats,
who in turn. asserted that his action
was a "saving to the consumers."
"That Louisiana crop was just
enough to supply the United States
with sugar for one day," said Rep
resentative Martin, democrat, Louis
iana. The president and attorney-general.
"by their conduct," said Representa
tive Tincher, republican, Kansas, were
to blame for Increasing prices of
eugar, but his assertion that "he did
not care about politics," brought
questioning "noes" from the demo
cratic side.
Democrat Question Motive.
Representative Sanders, democrat.
"Louisiana, insisted that the investiga
tion was proposed "to lessen the pres
ent popularity" of the attorney-gen
erai. who is "looming up in the public
eye."
Representative Begg, republican.
Ohio, asked what the attorney gen
eral had done with "the million dollar
fund given him to prosecute profi
teers," adding that "not a single
prosecution" had been brought.
Representative Mondell, Wyoming,
said that if Representative Sanders'
charges of profiteering were true,
the attorney-general "had willfully
failed to do his duty." He also at
tacked the president for "inactivity
in buying the Cuban sugar crop."
Representative Garrett, democrat,
Tennessee, charged the investigation
resolution as "a covert attack on the
highest law officer in the United
States."
"The purpose of the resolution is
to Impeach the attorney-general," de
clared Mr. Garrett, adding that he
challenged any memberjof the house
to do it in the regular way.
PALMER SPEAKS OX IXDISTRY
First Address Since Announcing
Candidacy Deals With Problems.
WASHINGTON,. March 4. In his
first speech since formally announc
ing bis candidacy for the democratic
nomination for president, Attorney
General Palmer told the National
Press club tonight that the urgent
need of the hour to stabilize indus
trial conditions was machinery to
adjust differences before they got to
the point of a strike.
Mr. Palmer declared there need be
no compulsory arbitration or restric
tion! of the right to strike if pro
vision were made for the public to
be informed of disputes affecting
them.
"Public opinion is the only mon
archy in this country," he said, "and
informed public ' opinion will always
secure justice to both sides in in
dustrial controversies.
"All the government sought to do
in the coal strike situation, for In
stance, was to insist that both sides
bhould be heard before an impartial
tribunal without the country being
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Liberty Bonds and Other Xegotia-
ble Securities Stolen Main
Vaults Are 'ot Touched.
ALBANY. Or., March 4. (Special.)
The safety deposit boxes In the
vault of the Scio State bank were
looted last night by burglars, who
dug their way through a brick wall at
the rear of the building. The wall
also formed one side of the vault. A
large quantity of liberty bonds and
other securities were taken. The bank
has no "list of the contents of the
boxes, so no accurate estimate of the
amount lost can be made until each
holder of the safety deposit boxes re
ports his individual loss. It Is be
lieved, however, that the loss may
reach $.10,000.
The burglars made no effort to pen-
trate the bank safe. '
Xon-negotiatble bonds and papers
of value only to the owners were
scattered over the floor of the vault,
indicating that the burglars took time
to select, their loot.
The robbery was discovered this
morning when E. D. Myers, cashier,
opened the bank. Officers went to
work promptly, but no arrests have
been made yet.
It is surmised that the man who
attempted the robbery o( the Jeffer
son bank Tuesday night may have
gone on to Scio and committed this
robbery.
INCOME EXTENSION GIVEN
Corporations Granted Until May 15
to File Final Return, i
WASHINGTON, March 4. Exten
sion of time for the filing of final
income tax returns by corporations
to May 15 was announced tonight by
the bureau of internal revenue. A
tentative return or an estimate of the
tax due, together with one-fourth
payment must be made by March 16,
however.
A statement explaining' why "re
turns cannot be completed within the
prescribed time and a formal request
made for the extension" must be filed
by corporations taking advantage of
the extension, when formal postpone
ment will be granted.
ROPER DESIGNS APRIL 1
Revenue Chief Announces Date for
Leaving Office.
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 4.
Daniel C. Roper, commissioner of in
ternal revenue, will retire on April 1
front office. He called the members
of his staff together tonight and in
formed them that he expected his
resignation to become effective on
that date, which will be after the
many problems Incident to the collec
tion of the first installment of 1919
taxes have been largely met.
There was no indication as to the
identity of his successor, although it
was understood that Secretary Hous
ton would make a recommendation to
he president nexr week.
LOAN PARLEYS RENEWED
Polish Minister Opens Negotiations
With Americans for $50,000,000.
PAWS, March 4. The Polish news
papers state that Minister of Finance
GrfclisWt has renewed nntintlnns I
with American capitalists as to who
should cover the loan arranged for by
the former minister, M. von Bilinskl,
according to Warsaw advices to the
Havas Agency.
The loan, which will amount to
ISO.000.000, will bear interest at 6 per
cent and mature at the end of 20
years. The funds will be used by the
Polish government for the general
purposes of reconstruction.
DRUGGISTS GET WARNING
State Strives to Curtail Illegal Use
of Patent Medicines.
.LINCOLN, Neb., March 4. IV move
ment to prevent the sale in Nebraska
for beverage purposes " of patent
medicines, proprietary remedies, per
fumes and drugs of high alcoholic
content has been launched by State
Attorney-General Clarence A. Davis.
Mr. Davis has sent letters to county
attorneys asking them to call to
gether druggists to explain to them
that if they sell such preparations
knowing they are to be used, for in
toxicating purposes, they are just as
guilty of violating the state pro
hibits law as if they sold whisky.
SLEEPING MALADY TAKES 8
Eleven Cases Exist In Portland at
Present, Says Health Bureau.
According ts reports announced at
the . city health bureau yesterday
there are 11 cases of sleeping sick
ness in Portland at present. Deaths
from the disease to date total eight,
of which six were reported in De
cember, one in January and one In
February.
Sleeping sickness Is comparatively
new here, and no record of cases was
kept prior to last December.
HOLLAND WANTS WILHELM
Close Gnard Promised to Insure
f World's Peace.
THE HAGUE, March 4. Tha draft
of Holland's answer to the second
allied note regarding the extradition
of the former German emperor is
completed.
It is learned that Holland, while
reiterating her refusal to surrender
Wlihelm, expressed her willingness
to gdard him and also her realiza
tion of the necessity Of safeguarding
the world's peace.
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Effort to Talk to Dead
Leads to Asylam.
GIRL, 15, FALLS INTO TRANCE
Hair and Money Burneckto
"Oust Evil Spirits."
3 MEN PROVE SANITY
Seance. Lasting for Days and
Xights Behind locked Doors of
Darkened House, Interrupted.
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 4. (Spe
cial.) Tampering with the unknown,
through the ' agency of the ouija
board. In an attempt to penetrate the
mystery that separates the living
from the dead, today resulted in three
women and a girl of 15 years being
sent to the insane asylum.
They are Adeline Bottinl, ex-student
of the Richmond high school;
her mother, Mrs. Susie Bottini; Mrs.
j Marie Moro and the latter's daughter.
Mrs. Josie Soldavini.
In company with three men, mem
bers of the household, the women
were arrested Wednesday night, on
tfie complaint of neighbors, in the
Soldavini home at El Cerrito near the
Contra Cpsta county line. The men
Carlo Soldavini, Harry Ferrairo and
Louis Ferrairo were ordered re
leased today by Superior Judge R. H.
Latimer oA Martinez, who committed
Miss Bottinl and Mrs. Moro to Stock
ton and Mrs. Bottini and Mrs. Sol
davini to Napa- on the reepmmenda
tion of Drs. E. R. Merrithew and
George Sweetser of the county lunacy
commission.
Girl Is Central Fignre.
Miss Bottini, who said she attend
ed her school classes until she fell
Into a trance several days ago,
proved to be the central figure In the
mystic circle of delvers Into physic
phenomena and the occult.
She and other members of the group
were engaged in a seance when the
authorities, headed by Marshal A. H.
McKinnon, broke into the blind-drawn I
house, where for Days ana nignis, De-
hind barred doors, the strange de
viations had been carried on.
Dressed in the tasteful clothes
which she said she was ordered to
purchase by voices speaking through
the ouija board, the pretty high school
girl today Insisted in her statement
that it is possible to communicate
with the departed, and she was joined
in the belief by her 12-year-old sib
ter, Rosie, whose hair was shorn and
burned by the devotees.
Mother Concurs In Avowal.
Concurring, too, in the weird avowal
made to the insanity commissioners,
were Mrs. Bottini, mother of the girl
Mrs. Moro and the latter's daughter,
Mrs. Soldavini.
While the women stood fast in their
expression of credence In the plan
chette board, the men told the ex
amining doctors they had nothing to
do with the peculiar happenings, had
endeavored to stop them and that the
condition of the women was due to
lack of sleep and worry over the death
of Mrs. Moro's husband and her
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LOOKS
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Hotel Owners Declare Tenants Are
Destructive, but Contention
Is Flatly Denied.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 4 A San
Francisco woman who criticised high
rents in the hearing of her landlord
was penalized by an additional $10 a
month raise, while a male hotel ten
ant suffered a raise of from $27.60 to
$75 la a few months' time, -according
to testimony offered -here today in a
hearing by the public welfare com
mlttee of the board of supervisors on
the high-rent problem. The hearing
was to enable the municipality to
frame some action to relieve hig;
rent conditions here.
M. Blanford, chief of the bureau
of investigations of the department
of Justice here, appearing as a pri
vate citizen, said his rent had been
raised from $45 to $75 since last May.
There was no federal statute that
could be successfully invoked in the
situation, he said.
Answering previous statements of
Thomas J. Chrystal, secretary of the
apartment-house owners' association,
that "the high rents are caused by
the destructiveness of the tenants,"
Blanford said that the tenants were
ust as destructive four years ago
and it was not found necessary ai
that time to use such alleged destruc
tiveness as an excuse for raising
rents.
Chrystal said that another cause for
high, rents was the Inability of land
lords to secure leases from their ten
ants and the problem of dealing with
an ever-shifting tenant population.
Blanford answered that the landlords
are not seeking leases because the
leases to some extent protect the
tenant.
The committee determined at the
conclusion of the hearing to submit
all of the evidence adduced to the
city attorney for his consideration and
action.
A proposal was submitted on be
half of the Housewives' league and
the recently formed Tenants Protect
ive association to have the city ap
point a commission to make rent ad-
ustments between landlord and ten
ants similar to the one created in
New York city.
BEND BARBERS FOR BOOST
Long Locks and Rough Necks May
Be Latest Fashion,
BEND, Or., March 4. (Special.)
Within a week s time Bend will pay
cents instead of buying the old
four-bit hair cut if the demand sub
mitted by the barbers' union of the
city to the master barbers"is granted
A 10-cent neck shave and a 15-cent
mustache trim are other items in
eluded. in the proposed revision.
Two out of five shops held out
against the advance in the price of
haircuts, although consenting to the
other increases and tonight a com
promise of 60 cents was proposed by
the journeymen. This also was re
fused by the two shops, and a joint
meeting is to be held tomorrow night
in an effort to reach an agreement.
NOSSAR SOVIET VICTIM
Chief Organizer of First Russian
Revolution Is Executed. .
LONDON, March ' 4. Khrustaleff
Nossar, chief organizer of the first
Russian revolution, has been exe
cuted by order of the. soviet au
thorities. His authorship of a pamphlet en
tielcd "How Trotzky Sold Russia,"
according to a Moscow wireless wlTch
says4 news of the execution was re
ceived from Kiev, is given as reason
for the order.
AS THOUGH THERE WOULD BE
Farm Bureau Federation at Chica
go' Conference Makes Clear
Its Industrial Position.
CHICAGO, Mar. 4. The American
Farm Bureau federation, at the clos
ing session of its first annual meet
ing today, adopted a resolution de
nouncing the attempt to ally the ag
riculturists of America with the rad
icals of the industrial world. The or
ganization is composed of 1.060,000
members of farm bureaus in 28 states
The resolution declares:
- "We wish the American people def
initely to understand that the organ
ization styled 'The Farmers' National
Council' has no authority to speak, in
behalf of the farmers of this country
and any and all efforts on the part
of 'The Farmers' National Council' to
ally agriculturists .of America with
radicals in the industrial world are
hereby denounced."
Resolutions relating to legislation
and other desires of the federation
were also adopted, the. salient feature
being the creation and operation of
bureaus that would have direct su
pervision of the various items per
taining to the work of the federa
tion. Among those bureaus would be
trade .relations with foreign coun
tries on distribution of farm products,
on statistics, on legislation, on trans
portation and for business organiza
tions with authority to set up with
out delay a business organization un
der direction of trained experts.
Other resolutions Indorsed the
American Legion and conservation of
health and Industry; condemned
strikes and legislation tending to levy
a tax of one per cent on land hold
ings in excess of $10,000.
The executive committee left for
Washington, where it will present the
federation's programme to congress,
and also decide on permanent head
quarters.
HOUSER FOREGOES SALARY
$25,000 Yearly Pay as Grain Di
rector Held for Charity.
Although he receives a salary of
$25,000 a year as one of the vice
presidents of the United States Grain
corporation, M. H. Houser has never
cashed any of the vouchers. He is
holding them trntil he decides to what
charitable purpose he will apply the
money. v
Mr. Houser made this statement
yesterday in connection with the an
nouncement from Washington that
Julius H. Barnes, wheat director, had
furnished Senator Hitchcock with cer
tain detailed information regarding
the grain corporation, including the
salaries received by the several zone
directors. From the organization of
the food - administration in August,
1917, until July, 1919, Mr. Houser re
ceived no salary whatever for' his
services.
WOMAN DEAD IN SLOUGH
Mrs. D. B. Boydston of Independ
ence Apparently Suicide.
INDEPENDENCE, Or., March 4.
(Special.) Mrs. D. B. Boydston, a
well-known resident of this place,
was found drowned in a slough near
her home today, and the coroner.
after an Investigation, expressed the
belief that she had committed suicide
through despondency at the death of
her daughter, Mrs. William Ridge
way, who succumbed to influenza two
weeks ago.
Mrs. Boydston disappeared from her
home last Tuesday and constant
search for her had been made sines
that time. x
A LOT OF FUN IN THIS CAMPAIGN,
Montesano Trial Near Its
Final Phase.
REBUTTALS WILL BE BRIEF
Jury Expected to Take Case
Some Time Next Week.
STATE COUNSEL NOTIFIED
C. Blund, Recalled to Stand, Re
vises Previous Testimony Re
garding Alleged Raid.
ET BEN HUR LAMFMAN
MANTES A NO. Wash.. March 4.
(Special.) The trial of the ten I. W.
W. defendants accused of the murder
of Warren O. Grimm, victim of the
Centralia armistice parade ambuscade,
which has been in progress here for
nearly six weeks, is approaching its
final phase.
Notification has been served by the
defense that it will conclude its testi
mony and rest its case not later than
Saturday afternoon, and probably to-
orrow at the close of the daily ses
sion.
The prosecution, say W. H. Abel
and C. D. Cunningham, special coun
sel for the state, is prepared to take
up the issue in rebuttal, calling many
witnesses.
Rebnttal to Be Brief.
For the most part," said Cunning
ham tonight, "the examination of
state witnesses In rebuttal will De
brief, as their testimony will be con
fined to one or two specific points in
each individual instance. Rebuttal
should be concluded within three or
four days."
Against the rebuttal testimony of
the state, the defense may present
witnesses in sur-rebuttal, but the
time consumed in such examinations
will be confined and limited. It seems
now apparent tnat tne aeienaanis
will have heard the closing arguments
and will have watched the jury leave
for deliberation some time during the
coming week.
O. C. Band Revises Testimony.
Today's testimony was without spec
tacular incident, eave in two particu
lars. One was the revised testimony
of O. C. Bland, defendant, who now
asserts that he saw wounded men at
the entrance of the hall a claim not
made in his previous testimony. The
other was a surprising and an un
expected statement, varying but little
in detail from 10 defense witnesses.
That two men marching in the
civilian's squadron of the- Armistice
day parade carried colls of rope on
their arms, was the corroborative tes
timony of each witness. Many of the
witnesses testified to the identity of
the two, naming them as P. H. Mc
Cleary, postmaster of Centralia, and
Rev. H. W. Thompson, retired clergy
man of the same city. Both ar
elderly.
. Witnesses Describe Incident.
The witnesses who testified to the
rope episode, several of whom Iden
tified Postmaster McClcary and Dr.
Thompson, as the men who bore the
coils, were Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Slddle,
Mrs. Nelson Hyatt. Serena Armen-
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Two Weddings of State Employes
Take Place, Adding to Al
ready Long List.
SALEM, Or., March 4. (Special.)
The recent threat of labor to petition
state officials to oust from their em
ployment all married women whon
husbands are capable of providing for
their support, appears to have stimu
lated rather than deterred marriage!
of girls on the state payroll.
Two of these weddings took plact
last night, the brides being Hope
Purdy and Hazel Freeman. The former
was wedded to Ramon Bassett, while
the latter was married to Levant
Pease. Both of these brides returned
to their desks this morning. Other
weddings Involving girls in the secre
tary of state's office during the past
few weeks were those of Lavilla
Bolten to Chester Tantts; Florence
Esch to Kenneth Bell; Laura Areni
to Harry Crane and Leitha Wels to
Floyd Gibson.
In each case the brides have re
sumed their employment In the state
department. It Is said by- men em
ployes of the automobile department
that at least two more of the girls
there are to be married within the
next two or three weeks.
Because of the many marriages Is
the state department the employes
there have abandoned the sending of
flowers and other tokens of congratu
lations and have adopted the mors
simplified and less costly system of
orally wishing th brides' a happy
married life.
CENTRAL CALLS NO MORE
Alarm Clock Service Discontinued
by Telephone Company.
"I am sorry, but we are not calling
any, more," sweetly responded the
chief operator when the request waa
made over the telephone for an early
morning call. The Pacific Telephone
& Telegraph companw has discontin
ued the courtesy of performing the
functions of an alarm clock for pat
rons. One by one the luxuries of former glad
days are denied patrons. Last year
the company ceased to keep time for
the world and now It makes a polite
refusal to call time. The company
declared the alarm-clock service had
grown Kto such proportions that It
became burdensome.
GUEST BRINGS SMALLPOX
Charitable Donor of Half Bed In
Hotel Gets Rude Shock.
ONTARIO, Cat. March 4. A- T.
Galloway, a rancher, did not feel very
well last night and when he was
turned away from all the hotels be
cause they were full, he made loud
plaint. Jesse Smith heard Mr. Gallo
way's call, and extended,, succor by
permitting the latter to occupy his
hotel room with him. This morning,
Mr. Galloway felt worse, and the doc
tor said he had smallpox.
Mr. Galloway Is In the Isolation hos-
pltal, and Mr. Smith Is nursing a new
vaccination and wondering about the
future.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature.
54 degrees; minimum, 41 degrees.
1-irftVU Hr.K. klu rain- W . .. I 1
winds. '
Foreign.
Former French premier praised and de-
nounced by ex-ambatsadors. F.ge I.
Central Europe has no uae for league with J
U. 8. not participating Page i I
National.
Two more peace .treaty reservations
adopted by senate. Pag. ?
House orders probe of conduct of attorney-general.
Page 1.
Financial relief for ex-service, men flatly
opposed by ex-of fleer. Page 15.
Drive for general airplane patrol of north
western forests begun in senate. Page 1.
"Wets" begin (leg against prohibition
amendment. Page 4.
Pomes tie.
Mysteries of ouija board send three women
and girl Insane. Page I.
New Tork assembly urged to expel five
"traitors." Page .
Farm bureau federation wants no alliance
with radical element. Page 1.
Landlords boost rents on critics. Pag 1.
Pacific North next.
Boxes In Frio bank looted of tO.AOO;
burglars dig way through wall. Page 1.
Allies made peace too soon declares Briton
at Seattle. Page 15.
Hearing of evidence finished In (titer Mill
company suit against government
Page IT
Threat of labor fails to deter marriages.
Page 1.
Washington conference recommends $18
weekly wage for women. Page 5.
Sit-W. W. defense at Montesai
I today. Page 1.
. : Former Mrs. Dempsey tells
no may rest
of
having
i.i..b..
tlackeU Jack eye
Page C.
Mehan an
d Walker expected to arrive
soon. Page 14.
I Two youngsters go to International league.
Page 14.
Columbia takes Hill quintet Into camp.
Page 12.
Commercial and Marine.
Mohair market about to open with uncer
tain prospects. Page 2tl.
Corn higher owing to bliszsrd and German
rellof measures. Page 23.
Stocks advance with cheaper money and
firmer exchange. Page S3.
St. Johns terminal may be given aew
name. Page 1.
Portland and Vicinity.
Two-language war rages la Portland.
Page 11.
PaMors In Interrhureh world movement
holding final aesslons today. Pag It.
Revolutionary aim of communists problem
before local court. Pag 9.
"Attracle man" to open mission bar today.
Page .
Newton McCoy finds rival sponsors for
McAdoo petitions. Page 12.
Grocer acquitted on sugar profiteering
charge. Page 13.
Cache of powerful dynamite discovered hr
police may be work of yeggs. Page 8
Newton M-Coy criticise Thomas Craw
lord, rage .
Campaign to Guard West
ern Timber On.
OREGON SENATOR IN LEAD
General Fire Detection Serv
ice in Northwest Aim.
ARMY STAFF TO DECIDE
Value of Protection to Forests Made
Possible by Aircraft Held Fully
Proved Last Season.
OREGON1AN NEWS RCKKAT,
Washington, March 4. A tremendous
drive to secure a general alrplsn firs
patrol of all the forests of the Pacific
coast and northwest states will be
Initiated tomorrow by a speech In the
senate by Senator Chamberlain of
Oregon. Senators nd representative,
from the northwest believe that the
effort will succeed If commercial and
civic organizations In the country af
fected will get behind them.
It Is now up to the general staff
of the army to decide whether there
hall be a complete air patrol the
coming season of all the foresta of
the northwest, Including Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Montana, norlh
west Wyoming and California. A proj.
ect drawn by Colonel Arnold of th
army air service, western department,
has been submitted to the general
staff for approval. The authority tn
approve or reject the project already
la lodged In the general staff with
out additional legislation.
Need f errlce Prwre.
The efficiency of such a service In
preventing forest conflagrations, by
detecting fires In their Inclplenry, was
demonstrated last summer by sir pa
trol tests mads In Oregon and Cali
fornia. The losa In those two slat
was negligible on account of the air
patrols, at ths very season when fires
were raging over vast areas of ths
forest regions of Idaho and western
Montana. Airplane observers discov
ered and caused to be extinguished
675 fires In Oregon and California.
Th Arnold project calls for flv
squadrons, earn squadron consisting
of H 'planes. $2 officers and 132 an
listed men. The project as outlined
establishes the permanent station for
all forest firs patrol servlr at
Mather field. Sacramento, Cal. During
the forest fire season one squadron
would be stationed at Mather field;
two squadrons at Camp Lewis. Wash,
and two squadrons at Missoula, Mont.
Each patrol would consist of thre
planes, three pilots and thre ob
server.
nb-Basea Propose1.
Attached to ths bsse at Camp Lewis,
Wash., would be sub-bases at Kugene.
Medford and La Grande and Spokane.
Attached to ths Missoula base would
be sub-bases at Boise, Idaho, Cody,
Wyo., and Helena, Mont. Ths patrols
under the Camp Lewis and Mlsaouia
bases are scheduled as follows:
Camp Lewis, four patrol ona cov-
I erlng the Olympla peninsula, ons fly-
Ing to Portland, covering forests on
both sides of the coast range, one fly-
jng- t0 The Dalles and Hood River,
- . of c)e Elumt Wash., snd
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one covering tha forests of north ctn-
tral Washington.
Eugene, Or, two patrols, ona to
Portland covering both sides of the
coast range; ons to Medford covtrlng
both sides of ths coast range.
Medford. Or., two patrols, on
Alturaa, CaL, and tha other to Red
Bluff, Cal.
La Grande. Or., two patrols, on
Grangevllle. Idaho, covering forets
to northeastern Oregon and south
eastern Washington and the other to
Burns and Prlnvllle. Or.
Spokane, two patrols, on to Fon
nor Ferry, Idaho, returning by way
of Republic, Wsah, and the Okano
gan country and on to Kallspell cov
ering all of northeastern Montana.
Missoula Kiv patrols, on to fcpe
kan covering all of th Coenr
d'Alen region of Idaho, on to Kali-
spell, on to Helena and Butte, on
to Salmon, Idaho, another rout yet
to be arranged.
Boise, Idaho, two patrols on to
Salmon and on to Grangevill.
Mark TerrUory Cwvered.
Each patrol. It should be under
stood, would cover a circuitous rout,
averaging about COO miles. On or two
trips dally would b mad aa weather
conditions In to forest regions r
qulr. Whll primarily th patrol Is In
tended1 to protect th timber In lh
rational forests of th northweat, It
would serve equally well to protect
state and privately-owned timber. It
Is estimated that th timber In th
state to b patroled amounts to
l.SOO.000,000 board feet, which at th
conservative valuation of II per thou
sand board feVt ts worth Jl.i00.000.009.
Of this timber 400,000,000 board fct
is In national forests, figures for th
states. Including national forests,
state and privately-owned timber ar
as follows:
Washington, S9S.000.000: Oregon,
47,000,000: Idaho, 130,000,000; Mon
tana. l,000,000; Wyoming (part).
2,000,000 California. 31,000.000; total
feet, 1,514,000,000.
The p'an calls for co-operation b-
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