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PAGE TWO FIRES ATTACK ill FRONT Town of Stevenson on Co , lumbia River in Danger Of Being Burned '' (Continued from Pas 1.) the Columbia river at that point, and Stevenson. Estaeada Believed In Xe Mere Danger The town of Estaeada, 35 miles southeast of this city, tonight be lieved Itself no longer In dancer of destruction by fires which had blackened more than' 29,000 acres of timber and logged over land In Its Tletnttr. Housewives, who had packed their belongings last night when fires crept to within two miles of the town's limits, tonight were reported re turning their possessions to their accustomed places Ten groups of farm buildings In the La B&rre district near Es taeada, the log La Barre hotel and the Garfield school were des troyed by the fire last night. Many farmers declared they had been "wiped out" 8UDDEX 'SHOWERS SAVE VEXTURA OIL SECTIONS - VENTURA, Calif.. Sept. 17 (AP) Shifting winds and a fair ly steady rainfall for an hour this afternoon, enabled county fire wardens to report late today that the Santa Paula lfoantains- OJai valley brush fire, which wept 19,000 acres and for a time seriously threatened the Ventura Avenue oil field, virtual- ly was under eoatroL Casualties of the fire, which awept 10,000 or more acres of a 20 mile front. Included . one death, one man seriously burned and six others with minor burns, the sole fatality being Norman Beems. a national forest service official, who collided with a truck while riding a motorcycle along the smoke burled highway, He died fn a hospital of his In juries. Tetal of Ninety Oil Rigs Consumed Ninety oil well rlgs were' es timated to have been burned: in tho entire fire area of which 70 w?re active wells. The remainder were described as wildcat wells. most of which were producing little if any. Three small district school houseg also were included In the - lrS89 ceused by the fire demon. One of three was the San Antonio school. In the Creed road district back of OJal. There also several ranch houses were devoured by the flame?. Two other small dis trict school houses In the OJal sector were believed to have been lost. Damages from the fire were estimated et $2,500,000 In burn ed water sheds, grating lands and property. E OF LIFE' IS A scoop has been scored by George B. Guthrie, owner and manager of the ELsinore, In book ings one of the year's greatest talk ing, singing and dancing produc tions, 'The Dance of Life." It opens at that theatre Friday for a four day engagement. The Dance of Life," which features that favorite Broadway musical comedy star, Hal Skelly, is said to b? one of Paramount's wee productions for the current esason. It has been shattering all box-office records in the huge string of Pnblix threatres through out the entire land. In conjunction with offering The Dance of Life," the Elsinore management will also present the regular huge and elaborate Fan chon and Marco stage presenta tion, Saturday and Sunday. Fanchon and Marco are sending to Salem, one of their most novel and elaborate stage shows, en titled. "Watermelon Blues Idea, featuring the 16 famous Southern Steppers. Others featured In this stage unit, are Mammy and her Picks, Ted Ledxord and other ad dlrtonal talent. K SHOW SETS . (Continued from Page L) rnirlf SO Tears aro at the Call ffnrtita state fair at Sacramento, it was not until 1919, ten years ago. that the real growth began. In . that rear, with Fleming as man- -rrr the Pacific International Livestock show at Portland pat on a horse snow mac auraciea at tention all up and down the coast, n 4 tm in eastern circles. The stakes, which have now become n nonnlar. were originated at thU time. From then on horse shows be gan to grow until at the present tim in the onalitr of horses shown, they equal, and in amount of money offered, exceed any is the world. Following the establishment of the Pacific International, came Los Angeles in nil. witnin tne next two years, the Saa Joaqntn county fair, at Stockton, gained national prominence under Mr. Fleming. Oakland sooa followed suit, with Its show la 1925. and taken over m lazs ny neming. Seattle Show Offers :Th Seattle International horse " show, established about this time. offered In its first year tne rec ord stakes of 142.000," which was 17,000 more than had ever been offered before at any show In the world. As Idea of the rapid in - , In at .tea Vaa'be rained fey the fact that about four years be fore this tns snow at ban -ernan-,-wK. California, offered T,tM and w considered ' nhenomenal. - In 1929 San Francisco entered the ranks with a show of national DIC BOOKED HERE mmm prominence, and other cities are nuking plans along this line. Tho horse shows on the coast hare been the means of attracting the country's greatest horses, and has so stimulated the breeding of the American saddle bred horse, kackenv horses and ponies, and Thoroughbred horses for hunting, that the prices obtained for these have Increased enormously. 'At the present time $25,000 paid for one horse does not excite com ment. It fa entirety fitting that the horse show should be extremely popular in the west, which has always been the borne of fine stock horses. While the horse as an everyday useful animal has played a losing game with the au tomobile. Mr. Fleming believes that its popularity is now oa the Increase, gad he has supreme faith in the future of the horse show game. DIDDLE BEBTO SALEM BATE Rev. L. w. Blddle, pastor of the castle united Brethern church was returned to his post here for another year, at the annual eon ferenee of United Brother church es which just closed at Spokane, Wash. Mr. Blddle was also elect ed general director of the new de partment of Christian edncatlon tor the Oregon conference. The Dalles was selected as meeting place for the 19 SO annual con ference. Ira D. Warner was reelected bishop of the Pacific district. Rev. F. W. Pontius of Vancouver was renamed conference superinten dent and Rev. G. K. Hartman of The Dalles was reelected secre tary. Mr. Blddle reports that the conference Sunday offering amounted to $2141, which will be used for preachers' aid and conference extension programs. Bishop Warner observed his 43 rd birthday Saturday, the group sur prising hint with a three-story birthday cake at the evening ban quet. A splendid program marked the four-day meeting, the local pas tor says, with an address by Rev, W. H. Widdoes, missionary to the Philippine Islands, and a discus sion and questionnaire on 'Evan gelism and Nineteen Hundredth Anniversary of Pentecost" being particular highlights of the ses sions. UTEST PFIQPOSSL WASHINGTON". Sept. 17. (AP)--A suggestion for govern ment regulation of air passenger planes was heard In the senate today when Senator Bratton. dem ocrat, of New Mexico, called for a senate inquiry into the wreck of the Transcontinental Air Trans port plane which crashed recent ly In New Mexico with a loss of eight lives. In his resolution Senator Brat ton asked that the senate inves tigators make a report on "the feasibility or advisability or plac- ag those engaged in such com merce under supervision of the In terstate Commerce commission. and if so, the kind and charac ter of legislation needed to accom plish that result. The resolution was forced to lie over' a day by Senator Bing ham, republican, Connecticut, who voiced an objection to placing the airplane service under the Inter state Commerce commission. He urged that the department of com merce be continued as the arbi trator for the air. Tariff Increases Will Be Restored Assurance that tariff increases in 'filberts and cherries provided for fa the house tariff bill and lowered by the senate committee on appropriations would be restor ed was contained in a telegram Just received by Walter Stoltx from. Senator Charles McNary. The senior senator from Oregon Indicated that he had taken the matter up with senate leaders as well as Mr. Hoover and that a revision .upwards was. assured. Coshow Speaks to Salem Kiwanianst Justice O. P. Coshow substitut ed tor Mark Weatherford ef Al bany in an informal address at Ki wanls club Tuesday on the Unit ed States constitution. Preceding- the address,' Dr. George R. Vehrs gave a sketch of the life of Winiam P. Ellis, Ki wanlaa, and Dr. Henry Morris gave a sketch of the record of Fred A. Erixon, Kiwanian. The Oregon Statesman annual bargain period Is on Renew your subecriptiou now. For mail sub sorimers only $3.09 per year. Too Late To Classify LOST Blue leather nurse with SS bUI en K. Summer, street near Ner- war Fleese call SS4D-R. Beware. mode nun Hollywood IP OREGON STAGE BUYS H Eight Years of Service Will Come to Close Late Thursday Night Continued from Pag 1.) called, although there were minor collisions aid occasionally some mechanical trouble. For five years the Highland has had the field all to itself, but when the street car "company be gan abandoning" Its lines and sub stituting basses, -one of the bos lines was extended Into the High land avenue area. Mr. McClean has been popularly credited with running- his bus on Sundays to haul his regular pa trons to church free of charge, but he says this is aa exaggera tion. On several occasions he transported members of the High land Friends church to gatherings at Qnlnaby and the reason that he made no charge, was that he had no license under the public serv ice commission. Purchase of the Highland bus line by the Oregon Stages, Inc., followed tho passage of an ordin ance Monday night by the city council, subject to the approval of the voters next May, granting the bus company an exclusive fran chise. Mr. McClean will still carry oa his chosen vocation of hauling' pas sengers, for he holds the contract to transport students to the Sa lem high school from districts out side the city, which have no high schools. T, WEST SMI Orville O. Nichols of Indepen dence, was attempting to drive past two cars whea be had to turn off the road to avoid a collision with an approaching car in West Salem Tuesday night. Witnesses claim he hit S. P. Nelson also of Independence, who was walking along side the pavement. Injuries to Nelson are said to have beea minor. Nichols said, a few minutes later in police station, that he did not know his car struck anyone as the roadside was extremely rough and it was difficult to see la the approaching lights. He was stopped by a tourist after enter ing Salem. Investigation, in West Salem shortly after the reported aecldent revealed no trace of Nelson. WASHINGTON Sept. 17. (AP) The viewpoint of the ad ministration group in the senate prevailed today in the first voting on the tariff bill. By a 40 to 32 vote a committee amendment was adopted requiring that imported articles be marked conspicuously with the country of origin except in certain Instances. The ballot was taken on recon sideration of a previous rejection vote i of 38 to 28. Eight republi cans Joined thirty democrats on the first roll call against the amendment, the eight being Sen ators Borah. Cutting, Howell. La Follette, McMaster. Norrla, Nye, and Reed. The last named a Pennsylvan ia republican, subsequently com plained about the part of the amendment relating to place of marking and asked reconsidera tion on the gronnd that a majority of the members did not know what they were voting on. Others differed with him. to Hco SscnoSca These extremctf low ares see avail. Br train you enjoy grater comfort and speed. Tickets are good ia coaches and in Tourist SUeprs on "West Coast". '"Klamath".- -Oreeoolxn" xfid Shuta" fao tourist sleeper on "Shasta"). The coach fare sad tourist ticker save nearly half the regular travel cost. Doathcrn PoclSle CUy Ticket Office: IS X. XAerty St Pans SO Puftsager ttattoa. tsth and Oak Sta DEfMCE Ml II smws VEWPOM n u rip a homi I heatre 25c Today and Thursday OENEE ADO&EE GEOBGE DUOYEA FEED KOHLEtt The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. SIGHOFSKY TO DROP CHARGES Self-Styled Polish Count to "Make Present" of All Money Stolen t o.. (Continoed from Page 1.) -worth of securities through depre dations of officials fa the Lot An geles district attorney's office and Mr. Gannon of the state prison board. Securities Stolen Siehofsky Declares These securities, be alleged, disappeared from a safe deposit vault or were taken from him while he was serving a prison sen. tence. A report from John P. Garrity, inspector in charge of immigra tion at Los Angeles, dated July 1, and stating that at that time no definite information had been secured regarding Slchofsky's claim, was read at today's hearing. Garrity requested In the report that Skshofsky send copy of re ceipts which he claims to hold from the Los Angeles district at torney's office for the securities deposited there. He said he had been unable to "locate anyone in the district attorney's office who recalls the case." Student self government as us ed in the Salem high school is be ing introduced into the high school at Oxford. N. TV, by Virgi nia Page, who was graduated from the senior high here' Isst June, she writes In a letter to J. C. Nelson, principal emeritus here. Miss Page Is taking some post graduate work at Oxford, and when she found that the eastern school had no conception of stu dent government she explained the system used in Salem and the students decided to initiate it there. The Oxford students will also see used there this year for the first time a point system, pattern ed after that introduced in the lo cal high school last year. This change these is also due to Miss Page's efforts. Miss Page plans to enter Mt. Holyoke next fall. Auto Accident Hurts Portland Man Near Here Jack Haeton.i 1812 Stewart street, Portland, wds taken to a local hospital for treatment last night as the result of an automo bile accident which occurred about 8:30 o'clock on the Pacific high way four miles south of town, near the Grabenhorst corner. Has- ton had quite a gash on his head and a sprained shoulder, so tar as physicians determined last night Mrs. A. J. Kramer, sister of Haston, who was riding In his car. was thrown clear of the ma chine, but was not seriously In jured. Mrs. Kramer's two children also escaped with but minor bruises. The aecldent occurred when lights of an approaching machine blinded Haston eaasing his ma chine to give a passing truck a glancing blow. The left front wheel of the truck was ripped off and the other car damaged con siderably. Haston was driving to ward Salem. Mrs. Kramer lives at 421 Beacon street, Portland. 1 top-roes Atmtcsnv""! VEDSTtOTS rev? irrfemimo?iAL DICTIONARY i THB bOEBKIAM WUSSlUt Became Hundreds of S Hundreds of Supreme Court Judges concur ia highest praise of the work as their Authority. The PrckdecaWsJLl leading Uoi venules, Colleges, and Nonas! Schools give their hearty indoor AS States diet hare adopted a large dictionary as nemdan have selected Webster's Mew Interna tional. . The Schoolboofci of the Country adhere to tha idtntaiaWcbseec system of diicrtttral marks. The Government Printing Office at Washington uses ft as authority. WR11H sW a BMajsa ssei ef dw Nw wMf, apectaaea of Kraiilw and HOME OF THE TALKIES - r raiKSH WIDE LIKE M 1 li India B a rapines. BBBaaiBBnaUBBBBBBBBBBUMaW-T7a Oregon, Wednesday Morning, September 18, 1929 Advance of WallStreet Mart Slow NEW TORK, Sept. 17. (AP) The stream of credit flowing in to the stock market grew uaex pectedly alnggish today, sending the call loan rati up to 10 per cent, aad once more opening the spillways f stock liquidation. Operations for the advance,, which had bees ratumtd yesterday as the recent flood of selling appeared to have subsided, were unpleasant ly interrupted. The day's business was rather meager. Some of the leading rail reads were said to be once more la the market for large orders of equipment, which improved sen timent in the steel industry. Cots la the prices of steel scrap at Chi gace and Youngstown, however, were displeasing-. Directors of the Wheeling and Lake Erie declared a dividend of S25.C0 to apply to arrears of the- 7 per cent prior Ilea stock. Public Service of New Jersey, Columbia Gas and Electric, American- and Foreign Power, Electric Power and Light and Southern California Edison were among futilities reaching new high ground, the first named .closing-, up five points. United Gas Improvement was heavily bought, A few special ties, notably Cutler Hammer and Foster Wheeler also reached rec ord levels. Columbian Carbon Jumped 13 points and closed at the top, and American Can, Amer ican Telephone, Fox Film and Simmons closed 2 or 2 points higher. In the Industrials generally, however, most of yesterday's gains were lost. Sach issues aa U. S. Steel, General Electric, Westing house Electric, Hershey Chocolate, Allied Chemical, Commercial In vestment Trust. Greene Cananea, Radio, Grigsby Grnnow, Pullman and Toungstown Sheet and Tube lost from about S to 6 points. Coppers, motors, and rails, were under moderate pressure. Anacon da, General Motors, New York Central and Pennsylvania closing from nearly 2 to about t points lower. Mr. and Mrs. Gregorla Garcia Peres of Edinburn, Tex., have IS children. Including six pairs of twins. DOUBLE U. S. Government World War Movies "AMERICA UNDER FIRE" With Corp. R. H. Inglestoa General Corps Photographer In Person Oregon Troops Under Fire Added On Our Living Screen WILLIAM BOYD In a Great Thrilling Talking Picture "THE FLYING FOOL The Greatest Aerial Drama Ever Filmed Vitaphone Acts Movietonewi Benefit Show for American Legion Drum Corps Plant Now to Attend the 68th OREGON STATE FAIR Salem. September 23-28 Monday, Sept. 23 Community Club Day. Tuesday, Sept. 24 State Grange Day. Wednesday, Sept. 25 Salem and Goveraora Day. Thursday, Sept. 26 Portland and G AJL Day. Friday, Sept: 27 Press Day. Saturday, Sept. 28 Chfldren's Day. Six Big Days - Six Big Nights Agricultural, Industrial and Educational Exhibits of a Great State. Big Free Vaudeville Acts. Horse Show, Races, Auto Show. nncuncement .We have several Essex Demonstrators and Courtesy Cars that we will sell at a substantial Discount All are 1 930 models and carry our regular new car guarantee. Some of these cars have only run a.few hundred miles and can not be told from new. STATE MOTOno; Ice. High and Chemeketa . Hudson and Essex Distributors Marion and Polk Counties Open Nights and Sundays- FALL OPENING IS BIG EVENT Virtually All Business Es tablishments Cooper ate in Event (Continued from Page L) Margaret's Baby Shop, The Bon net Shop, I. W. (Doe) Lewis, BloeVa Golden Rule Store, Oscar D. (Frosty) Olson, Cross Market V Bailey's Grocery, Eotf Electric William Gahlsdorf, Kafoury Bros., Noumea's Paint Store, Browns villa Woolen MUle Store. Adams Florists, Presnall Paint Store. Im perial Furniture Co.Weller Hard ware Store, Pickens & Haynes. Fleener Electric, H. L. Stiff, Fnrnture Co.. Thrift Way Cash Cleaners, Lloyd C, Ramsden, Vanity Hat Shop, Miller Mercan tile Co.. Bishop's Clothing ft Woolen Mills Store, J. C. Penney Co., Glese Powers Furniture Co., Shipley's, Hamilton FnmtuTe Co., Portland Electric Power Co., Montgomery-Ward, C. F. Breit haupt, Cooley'a Clothes Shop, Aaron Astlll. Dr. O. Ltott, Gun-nell-fcobb Studio, Ha&ilton Shoe Co., Anderson's Home-Made Can dy Shop, French Shop, First Na tional Bank, Portland Gas ft Coke C Macks, Steusloff Market, Smart Shop, Capital Drug. Fash iOnette, Gray. Belle, Alex Jones and Fleener Electric Co., Wil liams Self Service Store, Direc tor's, Crown Drug Store, Midget Market. Store Officials To Gather Here Purity store leaders from Ta nnine. Snokane. Yakima, and MarshfJeld as well as officials here will gather In Salem for aa all-day conference Thursday. The meeting will be at the Marion hotel. Purity store groups, consisting almost entirely of individually owned groceries, have grown re markably fast in the last two years. The Purity chain here is sponsored by the Willamette Groc ery company. We print Letter Heads, Busi ness Cards, Posters, Signs, book lets, almost anything in our Job shop. Call Sue for prices. Today Thors. Fri. BOX Phone 1000 Fall From Root Of Silo is Fatal to Waconda Man Ulrsses C. Loron, 73, suffered fatal Injuries. Tuesday whea he fell from the roof "of a silo on which he was working near Wa conda. He died while being ta ken to a hospital. Mr. Loron was IT ENDS THURSDAY ... SO BETTER COME DOWN AND . . . 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The In-A-Drawer Broiler ia the only broiler Ton can use with an assurance of safety there ia no danger of burning your hands or face. , 11 ea7 and convenient to usethe entire broiling compartment rolls out the full length of the broiler pan. at the touch of a finger, as easily accessible aa the cooking top. It enables you to see the progress of your cook ing food at a glance without stooping or bring tog your face close to the heat-A safe, practical snd usable brofler.exduaive in Universal Ranges. YwOURaiigem J W born In Milwaukee. W!& and came to. Oregon in IS 79. He had lived near Brooks since 1879. Mr. Loron leaves a daughter, Mrs. Winard Ramp, of Brooks; a step son, W. F. Gray, of Portland; a sister. Mrs. William Kolholts, of Glendale, Wash., and three grand children. Funeral arrangements have not yet beea made. Read the Classified Ads. "TTDOE ILD'ES" Aa AU Talkie Triumph! Bift and Interesting . . v.. mm 4 Big Days! 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