THE MORNING OHEGONIAN, THURSDAY; JULY 6, 1923
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FIRES IN FORESTS
NEARLY ALL'SMALL
Oregon-Washington Timber
In No Great Danger.
VIGILEMCE IS EFFECTIVE
Although Areas Are Like Tinder
From Dry Weather, Situation
Seems Under Control.
Though many fires are burning
throughout Oregon and Washington,
' and though weather conditions are
favorable for more fires during the
month of July, reports are coming
In to local forest bureau to the ef
fect that most of the fires are
small and need be cause for no great
alarm.
The extremely dry weather has
made the forests tinder-like for
blazes to spread, but thus far in the
season firea in the state of Oregon
have not caused the damage that
they did at this time last year. The
forest protective associations are
issuing precautions -throughout the
country to berrypickers and camp
ers and theN fire-fighting organiza
tions constantly are on the watch
for new blazes.
Chelan Fire Tinder Control.
"Word came into the forest serv
ice bureau in the postoffice building
yesterday that the fire at Lake
Chelan, by Little Big creek, which
has been creating much excitement
during the last ten days, is under
control- The force of 100 men,
which has been at work building
barriers and saving what of the
surrounding country it could, has
been reduced to 40. The fire at
Fish creek in the same district is
also controied.
From Republic, Wash., a telegram
has been received reporting that all
fires there are under control. A
patrol is guarding the smouldering
Deer creek and Dead Man creek
fires. Warm, hot winds are fast
drying up all the forests there.
Private Tracts Are Burned.
E. T. Allen of the Western For
est and Conservation association,
said yesterday the general situation
throughout Oregon is that fires are
email and those which have caused
trouble have been brought under
control. The reports which have
come in to the association offices
are of small burns in private tracts
to which small bodies of men have
been sent out to" fight Thus far
no large losses have been sujfered
in any of the territory under the
associations patrol.
Carl C Scott, secretary of the
Forest Fire Patrol association, tells
, of fires burning in Tillamook coun
ty. These are located around Tim
ber, Belding and Cochran, . prin
cipally in logged-over land. Two
hundred men sent out by the patrol
association are working in that dis
trict lumber Companies Affected.
A fire, the size of which has not
been reported, is burning in Clat
sop and Columbia counties in the
property of the Lark & Green Tim
ber company where the Big Creek
Logging company is operating.
The Murphy Timber company has
suffered the loss of its mill at
Banks, Or. The mill, of 100,000
foot capacity, caught fire, it is
thought, from sparks. The loss,
estimated at $200,000, was partially
covered by insurance. There are
numerous fires on the properties of
the Murphy Timber company, both
at Banks and at Deer island.
There are fires also on the prop
erties of the Silver Falls Lumber
company at Silverton. No details
have been learned of onditions
there. There are men fighting fires
in all parts of the state.
FIRE SWEEPS THREE FARMS
Northern Idaho Timber Visited
by Fierce Forest Flames.
SPOKANE, July 5. A forest-fire
on Locke creek has covered eight
miles on a three-mile front, -since
starting Monday afternoon and is
now within 10 miles of the lumber
town, of lone, on the Pend d'Oreille
river, 75 miles north of Spokane, ac
cording to word received here today.
The fire has a three-mile front and
is burning through heavily timbered
country. Three farms in the heart
of the timbered country belonging
to O. M. Turk, Gus Love and Earl
Watson, were burned out by the
blaze yesterday. Two serious forest
fires in northern Idaho were re
ported by Fire Warden Rose at St.
Maries, Idaho, today. One, on Mar
ble Creek has burned over several
thousand aeres and is being fought
by a crew of 150 men. It is burning
in green timber. The other, in
Fourth of July canyon, is burning in
slashings and fighters are seeking
to prevent its spreading to mer
chantable timber.
TRAINS HAMPERED BY FIRES
Southern Pacific's Tillamook
Line Is Handicapped.
Forest fires along the line of the
Tillamook branch of the Southern
Pacific have handicapped passenger
and freight service to some extent
during the past three days. Two
trains that arrived here yesterday
morning had been delayed for some
hours due to the fact that fires had
swept through the timber along the
tracks near Cochrane and Belding.
Yesterday the fires kept ranging
towards the areas where there are
large tracts of valuable timber,
The Southern Pacific has sent two
fire fighting trains into the Tilla-
mo'ok country for the purpose of
heading off the flames and prevent
ing further damage to the timber.
Trains are kept running along the
railroad line, but the smoke and the
heat from the fires have rendered
traveling uncomfortable.
Blind Slougji Fire Spreads.
ASTORIA, Or, July 5.-r-(Special.)
A forest fire that started late
Monday afternoon in tfle logged-Qff
lands owned by the Larkin Logging
company, near Blind clough, jumped
into the holdings of the Big Creek
Logging company and the Oregon
Timber company. Today it was re
ported to have swept over about two
sections of land consisting princip
ally of slashings, had burned about
40 acres of green timber and dam
aged a considerable number of logs
belonging to the Big Creek company.
and his men, endeavoring to save
the pipeline from destruction, were
hemmed in by flames, which swept
across tie only road offering egress.
ne leiepnonea lor neip.
WASHEVGTOX SITUATION BAD
Hot 4ry Winds Increase' Forest
Fire Hazards in State.
OLYMPIA, Wash.,, July, 5. (Spe
cial.)- Warmer weather today, with
hot dry winds in the afternoon,
brought the forest fire situation in
Washington back 'to the acute stage
it reached Monday. Fires which had
beep partially subdued yesterday
were whipped into flames again by
the wind and spread, some to new
territory and some back over their
old burns, with losses constantly increasing.
To prevent new fires starting Gov
ernor Hart issued an appeal to log
gers not to resume operationsuntil
after rain comes.
State Forester Pape and G. C.
Joy, chief warden of the Washing
ton Forest Fire association, left to
night for the scene of the Coweeman
river fire in Cowlitz count, which
is considered the worst fire in the
state. The timber burned and burn
ing principally is owned by the
Weyerhaeuser Thnber company.
The Lindstrom-Handforth fire at
Rainier also escaped control Tues
day night and burned its way into
green timber, where it is causing
much damage. A fire which is said
to have started from sparks from a
Milwaukee locomotive at Chop lake
burned the Milwaukee depot there
and today had spread out over a
front a mile and a half long..
The Pleasant Glade fire near
Olympia was checked last night
after it had bnrned an 80-acre slash
ing and 15 acres of standing timber.
Reports received today by R. L.
Fromme, federal forest supervisor,
from the Olympic National forest
fires show a tremendous loss to the
Webb Logging & Timber company,
in the Duckabush river fire. One
camp was destroyed completely, five
donkey engines burned, four miles
of railroad with several bridges de
stroyed and 1,000,000 feet of logs re
duced to about half their former
value.
Eighteen fires in Pend O'Reiile
county, all serious, but none beyond
control, were reported to State For
ester Pape by the warden today. No
word was received from Stevens
county, where conditions are known
to be as bad or worse than in Pend
O'Reiile.
PORTLAND SCHOOL!
IUGNED1S1EY
Weird Tale of Drunken Rev
elry by Students Told.
STORY PROMPTLY DENIED
CAMPS ARE THREATENED
Flames on Lake Creek, West of
Eugene, Are Spreading.
EUGENE, Or., July 5. (Speoial.)
A forest firt is spreading in an
old burn on Lake creek, west of
Eugene. ' It. has crossed the ridge
over to the Sulslaw side and is
threatening timber and logging
camps of the SteVens-Farris Lumber
company, operating at Walton, ac
cording to R. S. Shelley, supervisor
of the Siuslaw national forest.
George J. Stevens, member of the
Stevens iFarris Lumber company,
who was in the city today, said that
ten men were sent out from the
company's crew Sunday to fight the
fire..
Another fire bas been burning on
Hills creek, a tributary to Fall
creek, for a number of days, and
Ed Schultz, fire warden In J;hat dis
trict, left yesterday with 12 men to
fight it. The fire -is burning on the
edge of green timber.
FIRE STARTED AT BULL RUN
Blaze Extinguished, hut Another
Rages at End of Reserve.
Carelessness on the part of Fourth
of July campers, near Bull Run sta
tion, was held responsible for a fire
that broke out in the Bull Run for
est reserve Tuesday afternoon. The
fire waB discovered before it gained
much headway and was speedily put
out, according to word received yes
terday by John Mann, commissioner
of public utilities. It is believed that
the fire-started from a firecracker.
A bad fire is raging on the edge
of the Bull Run reserve, near Cam
eron and Hogg's mill. United States
forest rangers who guard Portland's
water supply in the reserve are tak
ing extra' precautions to prevent the
fire from spreading into the reserve.
More than 600 picnickers visited
Dodge park, near Bull Run, Inde
pendence day, according to Mr.
Mann. -
City Officials Angry at Falsehood
Spread in Australia by
Returned Traveler.
RAILWAY TRESTLES BURNED
Fire in Camp of Lacamas Logging
Company Gaining Headway.
CHEHALIS, Wash., July 5.(Spe-ciaU--Fira
in the camp of the La
camas Loggingr"company, 20 miles
east of Chehalis, gained headway
yesterday and damaged two trestles
over which the, railway traek is laid..
No damage was done the machinery
and the fire is tielng held in the
logged off land. -
The burning ,of the trestles will
prevent the running of trains for at
least a week. Both of the big Che
halis sawmills receive their logs
from that , source, but there are
enough logs in the ponds to prevent
shutdowns.
ACCIDENT MAY BE FATAL
Boy Throws Lighted Firecracker
Into Gasoline Drum '
HOOD RIVER, Or., July 5. (Spe
cial.) A Fourth of July accident
may cost the ljfe of six-year-old
Louis Glazier, son . of a Cascade
Locks garage man. The child sus
tained a fractured skull when a
gasoline drum into which he dropped
a lighted firaeracker exploded. The
drum was supposed to be empty,
but some gasoline remained.
The child was taken to a Port
land hospital, where .splinters of
bone were removed from the brain.
A telephone message today said the
ehlld had a chance for recovery.
Little Thelma Willis narrowly es
oaped death when a firecracker
tossed by a small boy ignited her
dress. A womap nearby seized the
child and smothered he flame with
an automobile robe.
City officials were highly indig
nant yesterday over an article ap
pearing in the Sun, newspaper of
Sidney, New South Wales, Australia,
in which tt declared' that pupils
in a Portlana pumic scnool were dis
missed for riotous drinking at the
school. .. (
The story, wihich was printed May
9, purports to quote a returned Aus
tralian traveller. It was sent to the
municipal authorities here by F. A.
Peters, an American citizen residing
in Sidney. The story was as fol
lows :
" 'The boys and girls at the Prince
Alfred Dublic school near Portland.
Oregon, had & half holiday not long
ago.
" The reason was that in the
morning session five of the scholars,
between 12 and 16 years old, ap
peared carrying bottles of moon
shine. The bottles were passed
around the school and the children
soon became so riotous that the
teacher had to dismiss them for the
day.
Everyone Drinks, Says One."
" 'One of the boys boasted that he
was independent of bootleggers, as
he had his own still'.
"This is a story brought from
America by passengers aboard -the
Makura today:
"One of the passengers, Mr. F. G.
Brown, a mining expert of Queens
town, gave it as an example of how
drinking had spread in America
since the introduction of prohibition.
I '' 'Everybody drinks," he declared,
i-ium uno pieameut ana xne juugeg
and the doctors to the young boys at
school.
"Here Mr. C. J. Titmus, the Syd
ney, sharebroker, who came back by
the same boat, added his oplnion.
" 'It's ruining the country', he de
clared. It's making the people a na
ti-on of lawbreakers Forbidden
fruit, you know. The people will
have it, despite the law and the high
price."
"Mr. Brown explained that there,!
were more prohibitionists than ever
in America. The. reason for this was
that there were 5,000,000 bootleggers
all strong prohibitionists.-. With
out it they would not be able to
make fortunes.
Trnst Reported at Spokane.
"One interesting piece of news
brought by Makura was that in"Spo
kane, Wash., the bootleggers had
formed a powerful trust to keep up
the price of whisky. - They called it
the 'Associated Retail Bootleggers
of Spokane.' , .'
"Mr. Brown explained, that the
amount of smuggling on the border
was amazing, ,
"But they were hopeful of a
change. Just before they left Amer-
ft nuiiiuar oj. HiLiuejiLiixi cjlizuiib
in New "York started an emphatic
move tp force the government to re
peal tne law and there was a chance
they would succeed." -
Vigorous action will be taken by
members of city council to protest
against the arpcle.
"The story Is absurd on its face,"
Mayor Baker declared. "There never
has and never will be a school in
Portland with the prefix 'Prince' beJ
fore it. The article is a libel on
Portland and on every resident of
the city. It is untrue in every ref
erence , to this city
Mayor Take Up Matter.
, The other commissioners expressed
themselves in like terms. Mayer
Baker communicated wy:h the county
ana City scnool ooarus, unu leariieu
that no school bearing a name even
remotely like that of Prince Alfred
existed in this vieinlty.
The letter of Mr. Peters, who is
president of a large ice cream fac
tory at Sydney, was turned over
to Frank & Grant, city attorney, for
reply. Mr. Grant is gathering affi
davits to enclose in his answer. The
letter from Mr. Peters was as fol
ia ws; 4
"Enclosed herewith is a page
taken from the issue of the Sun
of Tuesday, May 9, wherein appears
an article that the signer, as an
American citizen, . takes very great
exception to. Unfortunately the
American residents of Sydney have
never been able to get together and
form an association for their mu
tual projection and for giving suitr
able reply to such articles as is re
ferred to herein. - - .
"The signer is sending this toVou
as evidently the school" referred to
must be either in or adjacent to
your city and I cannot for a moment
believe that any such episode could
have happened in any American
school as is set out in the article.
Denial la Requested.
"I will appreciate, ad an American,
to have a very strongly worded
publication in any one of your lead
ing newspapers giving; an absolute
denial to. the statement ma-de-pro-vided
it is not founded upon fact,
and J -do not believe for one moment
that it is a.nd if you will then send
me a copy of the newspaper in which
the reply appears, I will undertake
to have the same published in-one
of the principal papers in this city.
"The advocates of prohibition are
having a very hard row to hoe in
their efforts to bring about this con
dition in this country and the propa
ganda that is being circulated
against prohibition is largely pro
vided by and paid for bv the liannr
Interests; but"notwithstandin,gthis
tne signer is unaer tne impression
that prohibition will be an accem-
1
Hot Weather Foods
for Children
Mothers have many problems
in Summer, but none so full
of peril as the problem of feed
ing the little ones. Happy the
mother who knows
Wlieat
Children like the tasty crispness of
the baked whole wheat. It gives
them all the nourishment they
need in Summer, is so easily di
gested and fortifies them against
those distressing ailments that are
peculiar to Summer. It is salt-free
and unsweetened you season it to
suit your taste.
Two Biscuits with milk or cream males
a complete, nourishing meal. Eat it for -breakfast
with sliced bananas or prunes;
for lunch with berries; for dinner with
sliced peaches, apricots, stewed raisins, or
other fruits. Ready-cooked, ready-to-eat..
Pacific Coast Shredded Wheat Co., Oakland, Cat.
17,50.0
fir i
Nimiber
manges
plished fact in Australia within the
next f've years,"
A possible explanation for the
designation of Portland In the story
was offered last night by Mayor
Baker. ' "
"Some time ago when a commis
sioner from Australia was in this
oountry studying prohibition, he re
ceived some very strong letters from
this city in support of the dry
laws. These letters were circulated
throughout Australia and this story
may have been published to coun
teract the effect they made."
SEARCH FOR BODY FUTILE
Day Devoted to Hunt f3r Artliur
Sherman, Drowned at Aberdeen,
ABERDEEN, Wash., July 5, (Spe
Cial.) An all-day """search of the
vicinity where Arthur Sherman, air
craft engineer,' was drowned late
yesterday afternoon failed to find
any trace Qf the body. Sher
man was rushing across a raft of
logs to clear the seaplane, which he
had brought here earlier in the day
from Seattle, from logs against
which it was being battered by
waves stirred up when the des
troyer Delphi passed on its way out
of the harbor. He had crossed but
a few logs when' he slipped, landed
in a straddling position over a log,
then .slid from the log; into the wa
ter and disappeared.
Sherman was an airplane engineer
for the Boeing company of Seattle.
His father, J. M. Sherman of Seattle,,
reached the harbor this morning and
aided in attempts 'to find the body.
Prunarians to Visit Newberg.
VANCOUVER, . Wash.. July 6.
(Special.) The Vancouver Prun
arians, uniformed marching? body
pf this city organized to boost the
use and sale ef the luscious prune,
today accepted an Invitation from
Newberg to be the guests of the
Newberg Berrians at 'the big berry
festival to be held in Newberg Sat
urday, July . In addition to other
entertainment promised, there wiU
be a banquet in honor of the visi
tors. , p. J, Plypn Is chairman of a
committee to make all arrange
ments. .
Phone your want ads to The Ore
gonian. Main 7070. Automatic MO-95.
WEATHER SEEMS COOLER
DROP IN HUMIDITY OFFSETS
RISE IX TEMPERATURE. '
.
Thermometer Registers 83 at
Maximum, but Northerly
Winds Bring Comfort.
Oregonians felt the heat less yes
terday than for nearly a week, even
though the Fahrenheit re-ad one de
gree higher than on Tuesday. The
maximum temperature of yesterday
was reached at 4:30 o'clock, when
the mercury climbed to the 83 mark.
Prevailing northerly winds and less
humidity than has been ih the air
since the commencement of the hot
spell lent general comfort to the
atmosphere.
Though the sun continued to shine
and made working more bearable in
the shirt sleeves, fewer collars wre
wilted and considerably fewer brows
were mopped. Office folk as well
as those on the streets expressed
general approbation of Forecaster
Wells' weather, and hoped that his
"guess" of fair . and prevailing
northerlies for today would be a
good one.
Yesterday at 5 o'clock he humid
ity was 5 per cent less than it was
at the same time on the previous
day.
TRADE OF FOURTH LARGE
Crowds During Aberdeen Splash
Celebration Spend Heavily.
ABERDEEN, Wash!, July S. With
cheeks totaling 11,353,000 cashed
during the annual Fourth of July
"splash"' celebration, July 1 and3,
banking ' records were broken "ju
three Aberdeen banks. A heavier
tradw than in any previous "splash"
was experienced by local merchants
and proprietors of cafes and confec
tionery stores. Restaurant owners
were forced to bar their doors at
times during the two-day celebra
tion. Stores remained. o)en Monday
night for the accommodation of
out-of-town visitors who are esti
mated at between 15,00(1 and IS. 000.
Flames Trap Water Official.
i EVERETT, Wash., July 5. R. B.
Williams, commissioner of public
works, left this morning with a
erew of men tor the Sultan basin
country to effect the fescue of Carl
Klapp, city water superintendent,
whose return yesterday from the
Everett water intake- on the Sultan
river was cut off by fires. Klapp
f - .
Weil Known
Undertaker Moves
Mr. Wilson Benefiel, for many
yearg president and senio
member of the East Side Fu-.
neral Pirectors, East Sixth an4
Alder street, has severed his
:onnections with the old firm
and becomes associated with
Downing & McNemar, Under-,
takers, at East Seventh and
Multnomah streets. Jtfr. Bene-'
fiel succeeds Mr. .McNem&T as
president, henceforth the new
firm will he known as Down
ing & Benefiel...
ATTENTION
ICE CONSUMERS
Effective July 6, 1922
Ice wiU be sold to families in ex
change for coupons or cash only,
No monthly charge accounts. 7
500-potind coupon books $4.00
XOOO-pound couport books $7.75
Cash ice lc a pound.
Coupon books wiU be sold for cash
" only; no credit.
Our June, 1922, directory is being distributed to our sub
scribers. It is important that the old directory be discarded
and only the new book used hereafter. vThere are approxi
mately 17,500 number changes in the new book. In the in
terest of your own service you should consult the new di
rectory before placing a call Failure to do this is very apt
to delay your own calls as well as slow up service to other
subscribers. "
Prefixed Zeros:
All numbers below 1000 inall exchanges have been built
up to four numerals by prefixing zeros to the old number. For
example, Main 23 is now MA in 0023. The zeros (pronounced
Oh) should be given as a part of the telephone number.
New Prefixes:
Woodlawn has been changed tp WAlnut.
Marshall has been changed to AT water. .
Columbia' has been changed to EMpire.
. For the present there is no change in the method of using
the telephone from that heretofore in effect.
Manual subscribers should call numbers as they have here
tofore. . -
Automatic subscribers should dial numbers as they have
heretofore.
Continue to use your telephone as in the past, consulting
the new directory before calling.
The; Pacific Telephone if
& Telegraph Company
More automdbile tourists poured
into the city from every section in
the northwest during the four days
than ever before.
5000 ATTEND ROUND-UP
AH Parts of State Represented at
Crawfordsville Celebration.
BBOWNSVILL,B, Or., July fi. (Spet
cial ) Brownsville residents who at
tended the Crawfordsville round-up
and celebration yesterday estimate
that there were fully 6.000 persons
in attendance. All parts of th state
were represented and the roads and
fields were taxed to hold the auto
mobiles. The races were a great drawing
card and the whole programme was
praised highly. There were no
serious accidents although some of
the bucking steers in the round-up
threw would-be riders "sky-high."
Chamberlain Promises Visit.
ASTORIA, Or., July 6. A telegram
wag received this morning by R. D.
rinneo, traffic manager of the port
of Astoria, from George E. Chamber
lain, chairman of the special ship
ping hoard committee, stating that
the members of the committee,
consisting of himself, Myer Lissner
and Admiral W. S. Benson, will ac
cept the invitation extended by
Chairman Stone to visit the Astoria
terminals. The party will arrive
next Saturday morning, remaining
here the entire day. "
Astoria Milk Price Raised.
ASTORIA, Or., July 6. (Special.)
As a direct result of the injury
to pasturage by the long continued
dry weather, the price of milk was
today boosted from 8 to 12 cents a
quart by the companies delivering
to consumers In Astoria. The in
crease Is effective from July 1.
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Cp.
Oregon Electric Railway Co.
- , At Portland, Or., and, Vancouver, Wash.
FOR RAILROAD SERVICE AND AT WAGES AS FOLLOWS:
, ' Machinists 70 cents per hour
Boilermakers . , ,". , 71 cents per hour
Blacksmiths'..,......, 70 cents per hour
Electricians 70 cents per hour
Sheet metal and other workers in this
line 70 cents per hour
. Car repairers, freight and passenger,63 cents per hour
Car inspectors .63 cents per hour
Painters 63 cents per hour
Helpers, all crafts. 47 cents per hour
Upholsterers , , .70 cents per hour
These men are wanted to take the place of men who are striking
against the decision of the United States Railroad Labor Board, and
their status, and the, FULL PROTECTION GUARANTEED, are
explained by Mr. Ben W. Hooper, Chairman, in his statement of July 1:
"RegsudleBS of any question of the right of the men to strike, the men who take
the strikers' places are-merely accepting the wages and working conditions prescribed
by a government tribunal and are performing a public service. They are not accept
ing the wages and working conditions which an employer is trying to impose. FOR
THIS REASON PUBLIC SENTIMENT AND FULL GOVERNMENT POWER WILL
PROTECT THE MEN WHO REMAIN IN THEIR POSITIONS AND THE NEW MEN
WHO MAY COME IN." (
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Apply to Room 808 Pittock Block, Portland, Oregon