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SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR
Saleav Oregon, Friday Morning-, January 24, 1930
No. 268
FLYER RUSHES
WITH DOCTOR
TO SICK CHILD
Tex Rankin Brings Physician
Down From Sky to Save
I Youngster's Life
Both Men Narrowly Escape
Death in Making Dan
gerous Landing
PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 23
CAP) Aviation and medicine
Joined hands tonight in an ef
fort to save the life of a 9 year
old girl on Ice-bound Paget Isl
and, 80 miles west of this city in
the middle of the Columbia river.
Thirty minutes after an appeal
was received by the Oregonian,
Tex Rankin, prominent Portland
aviator, and Dr. Ernest Boylen,
local physician, were roaring
through the night in a tiny, ski
equipped training plane, the life
of June McGilvray, daughter of
W. "E. McGilvray, Longview,
"Washington policeman at stake.
An hour after the take off, the
little plane cropped to a safe
landing on a field near the north
shore of the island and the doctor
was rushed to the sick girl's bed
side. More than 200 residents of
the island greeted the tiny plane.
They had kept beacon fires burn
ing around the small fiela' to aid
its safe landing.
Lives Are Risked in
Effecting Landing
Facing the pilot and physician
was the prospect of a landing on
either the rocky shore of the isl
and or the rough ice of the Co
lumbia river. Either is hazar
dous, local aviators declared, and
a night landing, without lights,
Increased the banger immeasur
ably. Storm bound for 12 days, resi
dents of the island had unsuccess
fully sought to obtain aid for the
girl across the river ice. Today
her life was despaired and a final
plea for medical assistance Was
telephoned by relatives to the
Oregonian. The newspaper ap
pealed' for volunteers through the
city and county medical associa
tion. Dr. Boylen immediately
agreed to make the hazardous
flight and was rushed to Rankin
airport, where Rankin was pre-
- pared to take off.
Little Jnne McGilvray was said
to be Buffering from pneumonia.
Two women also were reported
to be seriously ill and they were
to be given medical attention fry
IDr. Boylen.
Rankin late tonight advised the
Oregonian Dr. Boylen planned to
remain at the girl's bedside until
late tomorrow, wnen the crisis
was expected. The pilot said he
would be unable to take off from
the field on which he landed un
til considerable brush at the
edge of the clearing is cut away.
Residents of the Island started to
enlarge the field tonight, he said.
Rankin declared he would fly
to the Washington mainland to
morrow to pick up the girl's par
ents who have been unable to
cross the river, and transport
them In his plane to. the island.
The girl has been living with her
grandfather, Edward Rasmussen,
and great grandmother, Mrs. Olaf
Carlson.
Extradition
Authorized in
Thornton Case
Governor Norblad Thursday
authorized the extradition of
Thomas Thornton, who is under
arrest in Baker charged with
lirst-degree murder in Seattle".
It was alleged that Thornton on
October 20 of last year, with
Cilbert Showalter, attempted to
rob August Crilolini, 65, in Se
attle. The latter resisted and
as killed. Showalter was i fa
tally wounded, and in a dying
statement, Implicated 'Thornton.
It was said that Thornton admit
ted' to Sheriff McKinney of Ba
ker that he was wanted in connec
tion with the crime.
R. A. Richardson. Seattle police
officer, will escort Thornton to
Fcattle.
When May
One Use
His Knife?
Or is there any cor
rect time for employing
only the knife as the ta
ble weapon of warfare?
These and similar
questions of etiquette;
the proper time to tip
the hat; the correct sa
lute to a casual friend;
the thousand and one
niceties of convention
will be discussed daily in
The Statesman in a short
feature starting Sunday
on the woman's page.
The title of this short
daily question and an
swer la "Etiquette."
.It starts Sunday. .;
Rev. Payne
For Assault
Chair At Meeting
Complaint Filed in Justice Court Here After
Deacons Session at Which Resignation
of Baptist Minister Is Urged
ASSAULT alleged to have been committed by Robert L.
Payne, pastor of the First Baptist church, against Vir
gil O'Neil, a jnember of the church, at a deacon's meeting in
the church building, was charged in a complaint filed in Jus
tice Brazier CSmaiYs court Thursday night. Payne has not
been arrested.
According to a story told by witnesse sin justice court
when the complaint was filed, an attempt to attack CNeil
was made while the deacons1
were meeting Thursday night
to ask the pastor to give up
his position. Payne was said
to have brandished a stick of
stove wood, and later to have ad
vanced on O'Nell, swinging a
chair about bis head.
O'Nell was not touched, but E.
J. Ayers, 245 South Cottage
street, one of the deacons, was hit
on the head probably by accident,
it was said. He was not serious
ly injured.
Trouble Starts
When Payne Won't Quit
The altercatio narose after
Payne had refused to terminate
his services to the church, which
the deacons had asked him to do
in order to avoid further trouble
in the church and unfavorable
publicity.
Payne's reply, it .was stated,
was that he would take the mat
ter before the congregation and
that the deacons could not mus
ter the two-thirds vote necessary
to oust him.
H. F. Durham, chairman of the
board of deacons, then suggested
that the board had in Its posses
sion evidence which might cause
Payne to change his mind.
Pastor Professes
Complete Surprise
"What do you mean?" Payne
is said to have questioned.
"We have certain letters of
very recent date which might con
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SIXTEEN AFFECTED
. BV MONOXIDE
Passengers On Stage Are
Injured by Fumes Upon
California Trip
TREKA, Calif., Jan. 23. AP)
SixteeH men and women of a
Portland-bound Pickwick stage
were found to be suffering from
the effects of carbon monoxide gas
today when the motor carrier ar
rived at Mt. Shasta. The gas was
reported to have headed Into the
passenger compartment from a
faulty heating line, attached to
the exhaust pipe.
All passengers were affected In
varying degrees by the fumes, but
with the exception of one woman.
continued their journey three
hours later after treatment at ML
Shasta.
The woman passenger, a Mrs.
H. Wilson, remained at a Mt.
Shasta hotel, too ill to continue
the trip to Portland.
The passengers were reported to
have first noticed a peculiar sen
sation of giddiness when passing
through Dunsmulr. In that city,
one of the women was treated for
what was thought to have been a
fainting spell.
It was not until the stage arriv
ed at Mt. Shasta and the compart
ment doors opened that the trou
ble was discovered. Passengers
were taken to a hotel where they
were treated by Dr. Edwin J. Cor
nish of Dunsmuir.
Meanwhile a mechanic was call
ed and he traced the leaking
fumes to the heating plant which
is connected to the engine ex
haust pipe.
SEATTLE. Jan. 23. (AP)
Determined to make the celebra
tion of his 20th anniversary some-
thin e to be remembered for -all
time, John C. Cook, traffic man
ager for a transfer company, has
hired a lodge hall In which to
hold the memorable event tomor
row night. Friends and acquain
tances were invited to attend
through press notices.
"When you celebrafe' a wed
diss: anniversary, do it right,"
Cook advised. "Pat a punch in it.
Give it a wallop. Make It a wow.
Let it be something epochal, cat
aclysmic You'll never celebrate
your 20th anniversary more than
once."
Cook said his wife and two
daughters agreed heartily to the
plan.
Entertainment will include ten
vaudeville acts, a boxing boot and
dancing, with music provided . by
a 10 piece orchestra. By way of
refreshments there will be hot
dogs, Ice cream, coffee, mllXfcnd
other provender, with, plenty of
cigars and cigarettes. . -
ii hired mm
lillttl FETE
Cited
With
SALEM'S DEBATERS
to 0 Decisions Captured
By Locals in Contests
Held Last Night
Salem high school scored a
clean sweep in the first series of
district debates held, last night,
the affirmative team of Fred
Blatchford and Eleanor Hender
son winning In Salem 3 to 0 from
Stayton, and the negative Salem
debaters, Norman and Gertrude
Winslow gaining a 3 to 0 decision
from Independence there. This
gives Salem eight points. Includ
ing two for decisions. Norborne
Berkeley is coach.
Although only a small handful
of persons witnessed the verbal
encounter here last night, the de
bate was good all the way
through, despite the fact Salem's
arguments on the question, Re
solved, That the state of Oregon
should adopt a compulsory auto
mobile liability insurance law,
outclassed those of the opponents.
The presentation and rebuttal of
the Salem team were smoother
than those of the visitors.
The affirmative based its con
tentions on one main point, that
such a law would be beneficial to
the citizens of the state on three
main points: First, that traffic
accidents are increasing and about
78 per cent of the drivers are un
able to recompense for Injury
done In an accident; second, that
the affirmative had a plan for
such Insurance which would be
practicable; and third, the af
firmative's plan for such a law
would remedy the situation.
Both sides referred freely to a
similar law in Massachusetts.
KAY WILL DECIDE
February 1 Is the date on which
Tom Kay, state treasurer, will or
will not cross the Rubicon of the
political waters of Oregon.
And not before or not alter
that date will the decision be
made.
Such was the emphatic state
ment made by Mr. Kay to The
Statesman Thursday in an exclu
sive interview given this paper.
"Friends throughout the state
have been urging that I run and
it I feel my health permits; I feel
now that I will," declared Mr.
Kay.
He hastened to add that he
had been in constant touch with
his doctors who, along with him
self, were pleased with his con
tinuous recovery from his long
sickness of the fall.
"You may be assured," said the
state treasurer, "that if I do mke
the race my health will permit
me to make a strenuous cam
paign."
Mr. Kay pointed out the fact
that his 13 years on the state
board of control had made bis
knowjedge of state's affairs very
comprehensive. This experience
has also brought him In touch
with leaders throughout the state
who are now urging that he make
the race.
WIN
N
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Indiana River Still on
Vm iAin iMKflv at lHn
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boslaess. The above photo vras
White river bridge, - t
THERMOMETER
E
Br LOCAL FOLK
Chamber of Commerce Asks
That Instrument be Re
moved to Salem
Present Location Declared
To Work Injustice to
People of City
Request that the government's
weather recording instruments
here be moved to a location in
side the city, has been forwarded
by President J. N. Chambers of
the Salem chamber of commerce"
to Edward L. Wells, in charge of
the weather bureau at Portland.
This request was made because
of the discrepancies between tem
peratures recorded on these in
struments, now at the municipal
airport, and those shown' down
town during the present cold spell.
The lower temperatures at the air
port resulted in the broadcasting'
of reports that Salem was the
coldest placed by several degrees
in the Willamette valley a con
clusion not supported by the read
ing of other thermometers.
The suggestion was made In Mr.
Chambers' letter that Salem's
weather would be more faithfully
represented If the Instruments, In
struments, in their protecting cab
inet, were placed on a vacant lot
somewhere in the city.
Location Upon Dock
Found Satisfactory
Several years ago, when the In
struments were located on the
Spaulding Logging company's
dock, no fault was found with
their readings. Several months
ago they were removed from a lo
cation near the river because It
was deemed expedient to keep the
records. Including those of wind
velocity, at the airport. The rain
gauge is still downtown.
There had been some objection
to summer maximum temperature
recorded while the Instruments
were on the river bank, but the
principal objection was the one
record of 107 degrees, which was
read, it developed later, by an in
experienced substitute while the
man regularly in charge of the
records was 111.
FIVE NATIONS TELL
TUB ML NEEDS
Stimson Declares for Equal
ity of United States
With England
By FRANK HAVILAND KING
A. P. Staff Correspondent
LONDON. Jan. 23 (AP)
The five great sea powers nations
today -nroclalmed the fundament
al nature of their naval needs.
In Queen Anne's drawing room
at St. Jamespalace, ana under me
eyes of a greeat portrait or King
George the thrrd, secretary oi
State Stimson declared that
"equality in naval power be
tween the United States and Great
Britain" was the basis of the
American position.
Prime Minister MacDonald
pleaded that the very life of Bri
tain's tiny isles depended on free
and open access to the wnoie
world. "Our navy is us," he saia,
repeating the formula he bad
used at the opening plenary ses
sion of the disarmament confer
ence on Tuesday.
For France Premier Tardleu In
timated that everything depends
on some arrangement for Euro
peant security. He pointed out
that the French home fleet had
to be cut Into three parts because
France ead coast lines on three
seas, and ad'ded that the French
navy must be adequate to police
thetrade routes to and from the
vast French colonial possessions.
But be went on "if the decisions
of this conference result in an
Increased sense of security for
France, so 'much the more will It
be possible for France to reduce."
Foreign Minister Dido Grandl
of Italy asserted his country's
claim to naval armament equal to
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aaadbaes alosur the banks of the
over a laree part of the citr. tnundatins! many dwellings and places of
takes at Ilaaelton, south of Vinexmes Indiana, at the approach to the
" ' T-' :.
Congressman to
Face Indictment
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V X 1 ' - JtX.- 1
The indictment net caught Repre
sentative Stanley H. Kunz in
Chicago when it was disclosed
before the Grand Jury that the
lawmaker had accepted money
to "fix up politemaus' Jobs" for
several.
Race Feeling Reaches High
Pitch in California Sec
tion Yesterday
WATSONVILLE. Calif.. Jan. 23
(AP) With one Filipino shot
to death, believed the victim of
the mob which last night terror
lied Filipino residents and work
men of this section, the' race feel
ing situation today had assumed
proportions probably the most
serious In a series of small dis
turbances over a long period.
Engendered by resentment over
employment of Filipinos as agri
cultural laborers and by employ
ment of white girls in a Fllinlno
dance ball, anti-Filipino demon
strations reached their peak last
night when a mixed mob of whites
wrecked the interiors 'of several
Filipino residences and severely
beat their occoupants.
Today authorities of Monterey
and Santa Cruz counties took
drastic steps to prevent a replti
tlon of last nighfa disturbance,
and with offers of assistance from
the American Legion posts ol San
ta Cruz, Salinas and Watsonville,
expected to maintain order.
Watsonville Legionnaires, meet
ing today in response to a request
by Acting Chief of Police Mathew
Graves, offered their cooperation
in checking the race riots through
patrolling the streets and endeav
oring to persuade gatherings to
disband. One of the points brought
out at at the meeting was that
unless violence was checked, Fil
ipinos might bring reprisals in the
Philippine Islands. Sheriff N. P.
Sinnott of Santa Cruz county a
short time later brought word to
Watsonville that Santa Cruz le
gionnaires had promised him their
cooperation. Sheriff Carl H. Ab-
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CHICAGO, Jan. 23. (AP)
As forecasters promised some
moderation from winter's third
frigid blast, which brought death
to five persons and hampered reg
ular work and rescue work among
marooned flood sufferers,' atten
tion was centered today upon
further inundating dangers by a
war department order for imme
diate investigation of an ice gorge
on the Wabash river at Palestine,
111.
Appeal to the secretary of war,
for the investigation was made by
Governor Louis L. Emmerson and
(-Senator Otis Glenn of Illinois.
who pointed out the rapid flood
ing of Illinois farm lands.
Persons living below the Ice
gorge at Palestine and another at
Covington, Ind., were fearful that
any break would release great
volumes of water upon them,
while the lands of persons living
upstream were rapidly being in
undated, the secretary was In
formed.
Rampage
White river in am effort to check
ITI-FIUFfO RIOT
claims oi men
MODERATION LOOMS
IN MID-WEST AREA
PLANES GARRY
SUPPLIES EOR
EL00DE0 AREA
Boats Also Make Way Over
Stricken Area Cutting
Way Through Ice
Cold and Sickness Reported
Among Marooned People
Of Tennessee
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan
23
(AP) Relief went by air
today
to isolated regions In the flood
stricken area in northeastern Ar
kansas and the southeastern tip
of Missouri while rescue crews
batterer their way into the ice
bound overflow to bring several
hundred persons from the flooded
lowlands.
An airplane dispatched from
Memphis by the Memphis Evening
Appeal, Joined forces with the
American Red Cross and dropped
foot' and fuel to distressed low
land dwellers marooned in cabins
and isolated farming lenters.
Ground operations were don
cuted from a Base near Blythe
ville by Walter Over, field repre
sentative of the Red Cross.
Boats Crush Way
Through Heavy Ice
Volunteer crewg of a half hun
dred men armed with pick exes,
mannec' boats and nosed their way
into the overflow, crushing chan
nels through the ice.
"People in the flooded areas
are suffering cold and some are
reported ill," Mr. Over told the
Associated Press, in reporting
conditions in the flood zone. "In
one bouse a rescue crew found
30 persons huddled with their
supply of fooa' narrowed down to
some meat."
Close on the heels of the news
of the plight in which the news
paper plane found the marooned
sufferers, the Memphis head
quarters of the Curtis-Wright fly
ing service put its entire fleet of
sixteen planes at the disposal of
the Red Cross.
Continued cold weather
throughout the flooded district
added to the gravity of the sit
uation. Both fooa' and fuel sup
plies of the marooned farmers
were reported running low and
Immediate help was regarded as
urgent.
11 AFE RESCUED
All of Crew and Passengers
Saved From Wreck of
Huge Steamship
BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 23
(AP) The ministry of marine
tonight announced a dispatch
from the naval headquarters at
Uehaia, Tierra Del Fuego, Stat
ing that all the 1,100 passengers
and the crew of the steamer Mon
te Cervantes had been saved from
the wreck of that Hamburg Sud
American liner.
The ship struck a rock in the
straits of Magellan yesterday af
ternoon. The telegram to the
marine ministry said the steamer
would be a total loss.
The dispatch also revaled that
the army transport Vicente Fidel
Lopez ana' four naval dispatch
boats were standing by the Monte
Cervantes, salvaging baggage and
provisions.
This is the second major disas
ter which has overtaken the
wrecked vessel. In July, 1928,
while taking 1,500 German tour
ists to Spltzbergen she struck a
rock in Bell sound and sent out
an SOS which brought to her aid
the powerful Russian ice breaker
Krassin. The Monte Cervantes
was so badly damages all her pas
sengers were put ashore. With
the help of the Russians, howev
er, the crew managed to make re
pairs and the ship was taken back
to Norway, escorteu1 by the Kras
sin.
A dispute as to salvage award
was won by the Soviet govern
ment which was given a verdict
for 1160,000.
No Immediate hope for termi
nation of Oregon's unprecedented
cold ware, now entering its 18th
day, was held out by the weather
forecaster Thursday night, but
thermometers in Salem classified
it as the warmest night of the en
tire period, with the mercury at
2C decrees above tero at mia
night.
The earlier part of the day was
also mild in comparison to the
past two weeks, the minimum
Thursday morning being 20 de
grees after a brief period of snow
fall on top of Wednesday night's
layer of sleet. However, the of
flcial thermometer credited Salem
with no thawing temperature, the
maximum Thursday being 29 de
grees.
LB
GOES
DOWN
NO HOPE SEEN FOR
W LETUP
Inventor Plans
To Circle Globe
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If
Harry A. Husted, Cleveland in
ventor and manufacturer, is
planning to cut in two the Graf
Zeppelin's 2 1 -day vforhl-eneir-cliiig
record by performing the
same feat in lO days and 12
hours. Husted's proposed
route is from San Francisco to
Hong Kong, Siberia, Moscow,
Paris, London, Newfoundland,
Now York and bark to San
Francisco.
IS NOTYET LIKELY
mp!e Supplies on Hand for
Season in South Says
Byrd's Aide
NEW YORK, Jan. 23. (AP)
The New York Times tomorrow
ill quote Captain H. H. Railey.
personal representative of Rear
Admiral Richard E. Byrd, as say
ing there is no immediate pros
pect of a food shortage in the
Byrd expedition In Antarctica.
Captain Raiiey's statement says:
'While it is true that the ex
pedition is not fully equipped to
spend another winter In the Ant
arctic, there Is no Immediate
shortage of the food supply.
There is ample fuel for heat and
for the operation of the radio.
There is no immediate prospect
that ther will be. They are well
clothed and comfortably housed.
"In extreme circumstances, an
adequate supply of whale, seal.
penguin will sustain life b u t
those who might have to rely on
such a diet over a prolonged per
iod would scarcely count it a
pleasant experience.
"It is believed that through the
kindly offices of the state depart
ment which has instructed the
the American minister at Oslo to
seek the cooperation of the whal-
ng companies whose vessels are
now fishing in the koss sea a
navigable passage through the
Bay of Whales will be discovered
or, if necessary, forced.
"The period of greatest separ
ation of the ice in the Ross sea
is in February. It is possible
therefore that the present impen
etrable condition of the ice pack
may be so altered within the next
ten days that Admiral Byrd's ves
sels will be able to proceed south
under their own power to his
base on the Ice barrier.
"Admiral Byrd's present posi
tion is exactly that of a cool, wise
commander taking preliminary
precautions for the safety of a
numerous and Important expedi
tion. SLAYER SENTENCED
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 23 (AP)
Efforts of officials to prose
cute slayers of police officers In
Kansas City today resulted in a
fifth killer. Joe Hershon, Chicago
gunman, receiving a sentence of
death.
HORTAGE of food
frr Portland Backaroos Lose Top
(jregUIl Place Position by Dropping
l?c Game to Lions; HiUsboro
DllCIS Woman Dies of Burns
Vancouver Takes Lead
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 23.
(AP) The Vancouver Lions, af
ter dropping a game to victoria
resulting in a deadlock with
Portland for the leadership of the
top rung of the standings ladder
again by defeating the Bucks, 2
to 1 at the Coliseum here to
night. Burns Cause Death
HILLSBORO. Ore., Jan. 23.
(AP) Ann Grenbemer, 51, died
at a local hospital today from
burns suffered when a stove ex
ploded ' at her home. Funeral
services will be held Saturday.
Deep Channel Ordered
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 23
(AP) The Oregonian, in a spe-
ical dispatch from its Washing
ton correspondent, tomorrow Will
say an eight foot channel in the
Willamette river below Oregon
City has been recommended, to
the chief of the United States
army engineers by. Colonel O. R.
Lukesh, district engineer here,
subject to the requirement that
local Interests contribute $160,-
000 toward the undertaking.
McEwaa Leaves Engene
EUGENE, Ore.. Jan. 23 (AP)
Captain John J. McEwaa, for
mer Oregon football coach, will
leave this city tomorrow for New
kYork, where he plans to open
3
Mexicans
Criticize
Russians
Diplomatic Relational
Between Nations
Are Severed
Soviet Demonstration!;
Cited as Reason
For Action
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 23. (AP)
The Mexican government today
ordered its entire legation in Mos
cow to leave Soviet Russia as a
protest against the recent com-
munist demonstrations before the
Mexican embassies In Washington,
Buenos Aires. Argentina, and Rio
Janeiro, Brazil. The Mexican ad
ministration holds that the Mos
cow government was responsible
for the demonstrations.
Announcement of the step was
made by Genaro Estrada, minister
of foreign affairs. He revealed
that the Mexican minister had "
been ordered to leave Moscow sev
eral days ago. Today the charge
d affaires and all others in' the
embassy personnel were directed
to quit the Russian capital, "as
an act of protest."
Russia's Minister
Is Not Mentioned
Senator Estrada, in handing out
the written statement to the press,
made no mention of the status of
the Russian minister to Mexico.
The statement said that Mexico
does not hold any of the coun
tries where the demonstrations oc-
penings.
The foreign minister refused to
amplify the written notice and
Alexander Makar, Russian minis
ter, also declined comment of any
sort.
The statement said that Mexico
had tried to maintain friendly re
lations with Russia, but that the
latter had not appreciated this ef
fort. This had produced a situa
tion which "it is neither possible
nor decorous to continue tolerat
ing."
Communist Plots
In Mexico Cited
The statement referred to re
cent alleged terrorists plots by
communists in Mexico. It said
these had necessitated the arrest
and deportation of several foreign
communists and the Jailing of a
large number of Mexican com
munists. These measures in turn
gave rise to the demonstrations
before the Mexican embassies
abroad.
Senor Estrada emphasized in
the announcement that Mexico
was perfectly within its rights in
taking action against the "reds"
within Its borders. He said the
government would continue to ob
lige all persons living in Mexico
to respect its laws and not use-
the country as a place for hatch
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Griffith Sinks
Slowly; End
Feared Near
m
L. F. Griffith, assistant super
intendent of the Oregon state hos
pital here for the past 20 years,
was reported in a precarious con
dition at his home here Thursday.
Dr. Griffith has been in 111
health for more than a year, and
recently underwent a serious op
eration. He spent some time in
a Portland hospital but return
ed to his home in Salem a month
ago.
school for line coaches. Captain
McEwan was guest at a farewell
banquet given by the football
team last night.
i
Commission Loses Suit
TOLEDO, Orer Jan. 23 (AP)
Suit brought against the Pacif
ic Spruce corporation by the Ore
gon State Fish commission charg
ing the pollution of Yaquina bay
with sawdust from the corpora
tion's mill saws, resulted in a de
cision for the defendant In Dis
trict Judge Arnold's court here
today.
m Two Cops Suspended
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 23.
(AP) Two policemen today
were suspended by Chief L. V.
Jenkins for 30 days on charges
of conduct unbecoming an offi
cer. The patrolmen, W. B.Stram
and Martin Rekdahl. were said to
have made uncomplimentary re
marks and Improper advances to
a - stenographer in the Pittock
building here while selling tick
ets to a policeman's ball.
Prisoner Escapes
PORTLAND. Ore.. JavM
(AP) Patrick Fleming, arrested
iOctober 22 by constame uwm
and Deputy Constable wauraoi
for Columbia county authorities,
escaped from the county Jail at
St, Helena today, local -authorities
were advised.