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TURNS JNLAWD fH Latest Hurricane Wreaks Havoc Along 150 Miles of State's Coast Some Sawfish! JACKSONVILLE. Fla.. Aug. 14. (AP) After isolating a 150 mile stretch of the northwest Flor ida coast on its journey up the Gulf of Mexico last, night, Flori da's latest-tropical storm veered inland with hurricane force today and tonight was blowing across southern Georgia toward the At lantic ocean. - Thomasville, Cairo, Qultmar "and other extreme southern Geor gia towns felt the approach of tht- turbance which the- weatbei bureau beUeved was" attended by winds of 60 to 70 mile velocity. It was believed the center would pass in the vicinity of Thomasville late tonight. - Sudden emergence of the storm from the Culf of Cedar Keys in northwest. Florida together with Its seemingly increased Intensity bolstered the theory that the cen ter passed so far out in the Gulf last night at Tampa and St. Pe tersburg that those cities felt merely a lashing from the eastern edge. Communication Halted Wire communications Into the new storm area rapidly were go ing down before the advance of the gale but first reports said the damage apparently would b e greater than that done by last week's storm which followed vir tually the same course. Cairo, oa the Georgia-Florida border, sent word that business virtually had been demoralized by gale and driving rains. Quitman was dark ened at noon and a high wind al ready had done more damage to crops than did the storm last week. Barometers fell rapidly through out the area, warning the resi dents to prepare for the gale. Communication in a section of the Florida coast reaching from above .Cedar Keys to a poiat west of Apalaculcdla was paralyzed. Little fear for that section was felt, however, since indirect re ports from some of the coast towns said that small damage was done. At Panama city. Port town 23 'miles west of Apalachicola, storm warnings had been taken down. Section Deluged 4 Torrential rains accompanied the advance of the storm, bring ing flood threat to lowlands in northern Florida and southern Georgia where highways were bad ly washed last week and where re pairs to lines of communication have barely been made. Meanwhile the Lake Okeecho bee flood conditions held the spot light in Florida where other sec tions were recuperating from the two blows within one week. The water level in the lake itself was said to be slowly rising with pros pect of receiving a fresh deluge when the new flood crest will bear down into the great reservoir. Un official reading of the water gauge in the lake was 17 feet, within one foot of danger from overflow which would inundate a stretch of country from Okeechobee city around the western shores of the lake to the vicinity of Labell. ah y k W EDITORS DEBATE I ran E CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va Aug. 14. (AP). The power and place of the press in local, national and international affairs were discuss ed tonight by two editors before the Institute of public affairs of the University of Virginia. Boyd half century. Gurley. editor of the Indianapolis Times. spokeoa "Newspcper rer an Political Corruption," while Willis J. Abbot,' editor of the Christian Science Monitor, dis cussed the importance of interna tional affairs in the American press. The modern newspaper has sig nally failed, declared Mr. Gurley, as a deterrent of political corrup tion although in the last eight years more instances of political ills . have been brought to.light by newspapers than in the previous The reason, he declared, for the lessened Influence of newspapers is that "the commercial emphasis in newspaper-making has destroy, ed the seal of other days for pub lic service.- "It seema to many," said Dr. Abbot, "that there is open a great opportunity for some idealist will ing to lose money in the cause of international peace to establish a newspaper at the capital of the United States and seek a world wide constituency. He would make no mistake. BOHiS PERFECT GROUP .SALT LAKE Armstrong, Salt Lake banker, was advisory committee. Members t nmi ranrr nf tn rrinmi . the advisory committee will b headquarters established here to day. The appointments were an nounced this afternoon, by Fred W. Johnson, Rock Springs. Wyo., chairman for. the region which em braces Utah. Idaho. Aritona, Coi- i'orado, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico and-Wyomlng. (AP) L. E. Dillingham.', j r. louuauu auu upua ui. mu- Mackay, Idaho, chairman of thel"' "er 1 T .7 ' , democratic state committee of organisation will be patterned af Idaho was appointed associate re- jr national campaign organ glonal chairman for the democra-fixation, with a publicity depart tic national campaign, and W. W. ment, a speakers' bureau, and an ! 14. committee men and women, stai chairmen and riee-chairwome.! and chairman of the congression al committees of the eight state in the district, he said, adding that the list later may be enlarged to Include United States senators and other party leaders of the re gion.... Culture is sadly on the wane in America, according to a french critic. Maybe he bad in mind the fact that a prise fight doesn't seem to draw $1,000,000 any more. After a three-hour battle. Ed Stedman, of Beaumont, Texas, and bis fishing party tiaeJed In Uis 3100-poand sawfish from the Golf of Mexico. It, is 16 hi feet long, the second largest ever caught In Texas waters. Former Federal Agent In Arrest SUPERIOR. Wis.. Aug. 14. (AP) Edward B. Nelson, former federal prohibition agent at Chi cago, was sentenced to one year and one day in the federal peni tentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., on a charge of im personating a prohibition officer and obtaining money under false pretenses. OREGON ASS as us MEXICAN S E V WILLIAMSTOWN. Mass., Aug. 14. (AP). The Mexican situa tion was discussed today at two conferences of the Institute of Politics. One was a round table presided over by Prof. H. T. Col lings of the University of Pennsyl vania, and the other a general conference under Prof. C. W. Hackett of the University of Tex as. Guy Stevens of New York, di rector of the association of pro ducers of petroleum in Mexico, in timated that the oil companies were not satisfied with conditions there. The general debate brought out that virtually all of the re. cent trouble with Mexico arose from the subsoil clause of the Mexican oil regulations and that a conuici oi legal systems ana practices added to the complexi ties. Prof. Collins expressed sym pathy with the Mexicans in their struggle to progress. "Mexico." he said, ' "should break up her large Tandholdings and give small farms to the peons,; but first ehe myst educate her people to the idea of small farm holdings.- Then she must extend suffrage, because today the party In power can turn an election la its favor. ' "President Calles Is not anti Catholic; all he wants is thst the church have no part In his gov ernment; he does not want to rtri it out of the country. Tho Mexican contention tt sub-soil riches belong to the state Prof. Collings said, is a u-v. from the old Spanish law that all such wealth belongs to the crown. E TO ATTEND SESSION Oregon assessors and other tax officials who ordinarily do not have, the privilege of attending na. tional -conventions will have the opportunity for. the first time when the conference of the Na tional Tax association meets in Se attle. August 27 to 31. Because of certain tax questions and Investigations in Oreeon at the present time, there will be a large attendance from this state, according to Earl Fisherstate tax commissioner. Severalcounty as sessors will be in attendance and most of the members of the spe cial tax committee headed by John H. Carkln of Medford. The fact that a state income tax is to be voted on by Oregon vo ters in November is expected to stimulate attendance from this state. The investigation now be ing made by the special state com mittee appointed under a resolu tion of the 1927 legislature makes the Seattle conference of special importance to Oregon and mem bers of the committee expect to glean some ideas for use in their deliberations. Dr. Falrchlld of Yale university, who with a force of experts is now investigating timber land taxation in Oregon, is on the Seattle pro gram and the timber owners will hare representatives in the Ore gon contingent at the convention Several Oregon men will be on the program; Earl L. Fisher, state tax commissioner, will be one of the speakers. James H. Gilbert, of the University of Oregon, will talk on "The Situation Under the General Property Tax System Oregon men will also participate in a round table discussion of state tax researcn commissions. -.Of. i met m 1 $W SH. i i - tmum w. , - - I I . I XL VJ Ul lSllBBlBk FRANCE DISSOLVES SM , JERUSALEM. Aug. 14. (AP) - The Syrian assembly, which re-1 fused to modify the proposed new constitution for that country so that the document would conform to France's idea of compatibility with the mandate over Syria, has been dissolved. The assembly is to I stand adjourned for three months and meanwhile the French com-1 missioner, M. Ponsot, will .try to 1 arrange a compromise. The high commissioner had ask- ed the assembly to change the pro-l vision of the proposed constitution concerning Syria's part in deter mining frontiers and also a pro-l vision which would have given to the president of the national army the right to proclaim martial law. FOREST FIDES USEE EAST WSIK1 KOOVEB 'S BELIEF PROGRAM LAUDED SACRAMENTO, Calif.. Aug. 14 (AP). The farm relief pro gram, of Herbert Hoover, republi can presidential candidate, outlined- In his acceptance address ' at Palo Alto is "thoroughly sound economically, of broad vision and one to which the farmers ran and should heartily subscribe. G. H. Hecke, director of agriculture, de clared here today. "On. - not read Hoover's statemen' said, "without having t ; -.that . he is admirably sincerely Interested sympathetic and that his intentio is to bring about, througur ciou rather than promises, sound and constructive relief of agriculture." Boys and Girls of This City and Vicinity w Secure MIS KTISW Subscriber to no fcsb JV Jf jTjDiiDi Come On, Kids! THOSE 1 p" " Showing in SALEM r Every youngster who secures only ONE NEW subscription to The New Oregon Statesman for THREE MONTHS or longer, will be given a ticket to the gigantic 5 ring show, also a ticket to the wonderful side show, where you will meet the tallest 11 . 1 s.1 1J I 11 nMJ A ftf tVio hicr fthnw 'f oiiu smaiicsi fjcvftc ui uic w ui tu aiiu an ucans cuiu vuuwwa --e comes the WILD WEST concert, which is also free to boys and girls who obtain a New Oregon Statesman Ticket. ' -1 SPOKANE. Aug. 13. (AP). - Several old forest fires and som new ones la eastern "Washington and northern Idaho flared afresh tonight, and additional crews went out today to fight buses covering some thousands of acres. In the John Nagan mountain district. 80 miles east'of Orofino, Idaho, a 2009 acre fire raged. Several small burns near the crest of the mountain were believed to have Joined when wind fanned the flames. c On Middle creek in the ClearwaterNational Forest, a six . hundred acre lire Durnea. a iorcv of 200 men was fighting these confla-crations tonight: and 30 more men. with three truck loads of food, were exnected there to morrow from Spokane. . - Spokane forestry headquarters lso sent 23 men to combat a fire the Salmon river forest of Ida. ho and 28 men to Plains, Mont. o the. Cabinet national forest, where flames were licking In.' a growth of young timber. The Mis soula offices sent crews to two small fires In the Bitter ftoot and Lolo national forests of Montana. 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