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-,-.. f "... " ' '-'';'? "... , -ii- i ' -5 CIRCULATION Dfly a-n .istrftetiea r U aoat wdtac Jut SO, 1S30 - 5 6.677 r Averags t pel JM: - Kenter f - Aa.lt Bmw et Clrleite-a, . WEATHER v : today ud SwUj, dowdy tonight; -Max. trm- ? latuTa Saturday 7 Mia. 1 1 clondy, sonth -wind. : river At- - -t- FOUMDCD 1831 EIGHTIETH TEAR Salem; Oregon, Sunday Morning, Jury -1S M30 i No. 3: I SEERS DM AT flllC FUTURE KIP. M Usual Bases For Sizing up Prospects Lacking as Big Caucus Nears Kay! Policy Announcement ' Outstanding Feature of i Week Just Past ,1 The selection. of the governor nominee by the republican con vention July 25 or as many days - later as the Job - can be accom plished, Is one political ; mixup which betting men will avoid.' For the sound bases for predic ting the outcome, customarily ., available before a nomination, are not at hand. . . . There are no straw rotes. Noses cannot be counted - along Main street. The delegates do not come from .'districts who send them bearing: instruction. .. . , Each of the 3 C men, as far aa can te seen; Is free, white and able to rote for whomever he de sires.' . ... If grapevine reports ean be be loved, few delegates are pledged. They come with a presumably "open mind.'' - . Empty Judgments Being Hazarded. " Political writers the state, over have been forced, -therefore,, to confine their predictions toswiv-el-chair judgments which "mean little or nothing. AU the esti mates and predictions are subjec tive; objective Judgments are vir tually Impossible. It does appear that Thomas B. Kay, state treasurer, has an inner place In the raee because he is known, because his health has im proved, because this . week he came out with a definite, straight-from-the-shoulder platform of his own. Kay is not assured of the nomination but he la a big eon tender. ' The week also brought consid erably more attention - to the candidacy of Julius Meyer. High Hume of the Portland Spectator, opened the door for an audience with Meies by showlngthat-the Turn to Page 3, eoTlt I SB BY HI LONQYIEW. Wash.. July (AP) A world record for arch ery was claimed here today when Rer. L. L. Daily of Monmouth, Ore., shot an arrow 409 yards, two feet, 1 inches as competi tion opened In the two day Paci tlon tournament. . George A. Cathey of Portland, shot one 40S yards t f eft IK Inches to take second place JLreh ra here declared the shots Were the first erer made with arrows of more than 400 yards. Mrs. Homer Prouty. Portland, won first place" ta the women's flight shoot. Jack Dally, son of the Monmouth pastor, waa -first in the Junior, event. Mrs. Daris Chase, Portland, was first in the women's nation al rvmnd with a score of SI 2, al though Adele Hodge, shooting an exhibition, turned In 3 33. ; t CONTEST CONTOKTTKS PORTLAND, Ore July 12 (AP) The Aberdeen high school band won the first honors in class B" vtv the first annual Pacffie northwest amateur .band .contest which dosed here today. The band was directed by W. E. Wer en. The class "A" contest will be completed Sunday. DIVORCE SOUGHT ' PORTLAND, Ore-, Jly l (AP) Mrs. Lottie J- Myers . today filed moH in circuit court .- for divorce from Stanley Myers, district attorney 'for i Mnltno- xnali cewjity. -. " . ; . xh cesipLatnt alleged cruel and inhnxniaa treejnet VJX ' CASE HELD Fl-IMSY 1 - ASTORIA. Ore-, July 12 -CAP) J. R. Burke, prominent Port land and Astoria salmon packer, Waa acquitted of charges of arson today when Circuit Judge Howard K Zimmerman 'sustained , a de fense motion for a directed ver dict. ---', Burke was' Indicted several .weeks ago by the : circuit .. court grand Jury in connection with aj fire Jast January- which destroyed' the Sanbom-Cuttlaf salmon can aery,' operated by Burke. Loss waa estimated at about 2i 0,009. - N Judgo Zimmerman aahf appar ently only contradictory state ments eonnected Barke with the ' DATE SET AUGUST 'PORTLAND, OreVrJuly 1 ' (AP)N Announcement -was' male here today t- the - Oregon'; State American Legion junior baseball .league championship will bo nam- - .ed In Portland August : f . . The ouarter and semi-final contests - are yet to be played. ; "r ; ; a quarter finals contest will be tlayed here Thursday between the 01 EE wmm War Rate Gasoline Signs Slowly Fade From View in City Pre-Conflict Price Restored at Some Stations Early Saturday, Others Wait Until V Night ; Warned Public Tanks Up The response to oil company's announcement of increase in the price of gasoline effective Saturday morning was slow but sure. , ----- Virtually every service station in Salem was selling the motor fuel for 23 cents, the pre-war" price, by 6 o'clock Saturday evening. Shell and Standard Oil stations had in- PIES ALL W COAST . Gasoline Ranges From 5V2 To 24- as Companies Wait Further Orders SAN PRANCISCO, July 12 (AP) Although gasoline in many Independent stations " was sold today below prices establish ed by several of the major oil companies, belief was expressed all dealers would Boon fall in line, ending the gag war started on the Pacific coast June 12. , In San Francisco . major oil company stations and leading in dependents sold gasoline at 20 cents a gallon but motorists could obtain It as low as 10 cents in many places. OU company spokesmen and in dependent operators said the situ ation was "not unexpected." Other oil officials said while those companies with headquar ters on the eoast could get in line quickly, other concerns with of fices in the east needed time to report developments and take measures to restore "pre-war" prices. , Conditions similar to San Fran cisco were seen In other eoast ci ties where officials said the end of the war was in sight. At Los Angeles major concerns sold at 19 1-3 cents while others displayed slgna varying 10to 11 cents, in Seattle, Shell, Union; Richfield and Standard sold at It 1-3 with a few independents holding to a 10-cent price. Most Spokane dealers asked 24 cents with scattering of indepen dents at 12 cents. After a con tused condition in Tacoma where prices today opened from to 20H cents, later In the day most dealers brought prices near the major oil company figure. Port land prices varied 9tt to 21 cents but Indications were that the price would soon be stabilized near the top figure.. Pendleton Shows 108 Temperature PORTLAND, Ore., July 12 CAP) Portland's maximum tem perature today was SI degrees, four degrees less than that re corded Friday. r Pendleton reported a tempera ture of 108 degrees today while The Dalles reported 104. Aberdeen Band Is Winner District Attorney Sued Salmon Packer Acquitted Juniors Vie In Portland Edwards Furniture team, Port land city champions, and the Hood River team, district cham pions, silverton and Astoria are expected to meet tomorrow to de termine, the team to play the win ner of the southern district for western section honors. The regional championship ser ies will be held at Baker August 14 ahd IS, during the state Amer ican Legion convention. V . STUDENTS TO SAIL . f EUGENE. Ore.. July 12 i(AP) The second ' annual ; Alaskan summer cruise of the University of Oregon" will leave. Seattle August 14.' . .-irv SA faculty of ten and a student body of 11S will make the trip. .. . - - -LIONS TO OaTHER ' v PORTLAND, Ore- July. 12 (AP) .- Northwest. International Lions 'club will convene here next Wednesday. Delegates from Brit ish Columbia, Washington, Idaho, northern California and;- Oregon will participate.- -' , The feature of the day will be a beauty contest to choose Miss Oregon" for the International pa geant of pulchritude at Qahresgn, Tex., August to C, "vV - j - ' - - ? SM0-DEIt3 BMMEB --- 4 " YEXDUZrOX, July.: 13 ; 0 (AP) -Five forest . Urea- have - been reported so far this eeaea-u ta the TJmatill national forest, Hansert said aU were started kera.AllbIaee -were checked. .. ItOSEntllG WINS J.' BOSEBURO, Ore-, July lt, (AP) The Roseburg American "Legion: Junior baseball team de feated the Medford team here to day, IS .to 12,- and captured the southern Oregon junior league ti tle. 1 " -. - ' ?creased their selllar Drice at o'clock that morning, but Texaco, General, Associated,' and Union dealers stuck to the 12 cent fig ure throughout the day. : Retail ers selling at the low price . re ported good business and many ran out of the fuel daring the aft ernoon and were forced to refill their tanks with high priced gas. Western gasoline, which under sold others before the "war. was reported to be retailing at 22 cents during the day, bat whether this figure will be held long eonld net be ascertained. Four Cent Margin ' Stffl Prevails The major distributing compan ies bare boosted their price to 19 cents and dealers will sell at only a four cent margin of profit, the same figure in effect daring the brief price tussle. Salem residents, warned that the : price wonld advance during the day, flocked to stations with every conceivable sort of contain er to fill up on the cheap gas. Reports from Wood burn Indicate that dealers there were selling the fuel as fast as oil tracks re filled their supply tanks, and that at one station a line of automo biles nearly three blocks long was waiting for service. SILVERTON, July 12. The old wooden bucket was brought down from its place by the well, glass Turn to page 2, coL f FLYING TAKES TOLL OF 7 LIVES IN DAY PiarlTTaxi'lnH on-Reid Is Responsible For Spectator Deaths VALLEY STREAM. N. T.. (AP) Two persons were killed at the Curtia-Wtight 1 flying field here tonight when a huge ls-pas- senger plane crashed Into, a grand stand mied with spectators waten ing a night flying exhibition. The victims -were Hlaman Kanterman and his wife, Mary, both SO years old. ' They were struek by the whirling three bladed propeller of the ship as It ran through a guard railing Into the grandstand. ' Alfred Watts 21, a licensed mechanic, was piloting the ship. Ho was moving it from a place on the field where it had been sta tioned all day Int oa hangar about a half mile away. -. r He apparently lost control of the ship as it taxied across the ground. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., July 12. (AP) Two men were killed to night as their "plane nose .dived In the woods at McKee City en the outskirts of Pleasantville. The, victims were Charles .F. Hlrsch. 34, the pilot, and Edwin Noonan, 18, who was a passenger, Vi CASPAR. Wyov July 12 (AP) -An unidentified pilot was in stantly killed in the crash of his ftlane on a ranch 20 miles west of here. The words "San Diego, Calif.' and numbers NR1 4 w were painted on the plane. . . - i ' ------.---- MATTON. DL. July 12. (AP) Jack Bell, pilot of Blooming ten. Hi:, and Cliff Holt.' student of El Pascv UL, were killed today when Bell crashed his plane at the opening of the new airport here. JUNEAU, Alaska, July 12.' (AP) Word was received here today that Captain Clayton Scott, who was flying a Gorst plane from Cordova to Ketchikan, .had been unreported for two cays. ;- ., ' i" BOABD'S SALE OF : iT s viki9 rrrr: Jnlv 12 -(API Isale of a 'moderate quantity' f 1S2I wheat to , southwestern millers at current prices , by the grain w stahnisation corporation federal farnr board sgeucy, - was followed, by announcement : that an equal amount of new "cheat would bo purchased In ordr not tA MdnM the xuTenunent's total wheat holdings. 'vC--ir x': -'.v'.- A flnrrr was caused in grain elwlea her -- when :. It bocamo known wheat which the stabilixa- tion eorporatiott purcnasea uunng the last crop season -In an effort ta atabillxe nriees had been sold at a time when the new crop' is belne marketed. . -- 1 Got. Clyde M. Reed of Kansas, upon learning of the transactions. telegraphed a protest- td Alexan der. Legge, culrmaaiwho was at PHD hebelstbset; up cjipital at peipkie. word Claim . Revolution Success Assured; Say Nanking ' Party helpless Nationalists Confer With Statement of Victory In Shantung Zone SHANGHAI. July 12 (AP) Convinced their rebellion agalnat the nationalist government would triumph, war lords of Northern China were reported tonight planning early establishment of an Independent government at Pelplng. The republic which President Chiang Kai-Shek established at Nanking In September 1127, after the victorious march of his Can tonese armies, . the rebels assert ed could not maintain! Itself by the sword. With their armies seemingly 1 well entrenched in Shantung and Honan prorinces after two months heavy fighting the northern lead ers. Generals Ten Hel-Shan and Feng Yu-Hslang were said to have a' conference of their allies to meet in Pelplng to set up a new government. They proclaimed the Nanking administration was in efficient, corrupt and helpless against widespread banditry, and must fall; Chlagn Kai-Shek, its "dictator," must be banished. The nationalists denounced such claims tff rebel conquest. They declared the northerners had been crushed with heavy casualties in Shantung. National ist troops have covered the rail way sone north of Nenechow with rebel lead, said one government report. Meanwhile, a half million com batants on the northern ITonan province, front, exhausted by many days of battle, held positions south of the Yellow river. In the great Yangtse valley thousands of bandits and com munists, born of famine condi tions and emboldened by absence of government troops in civil war, scourged towns along the river. From Chungking to below Hankow, more than 800 miles. shipping was attacked and trade almost ceased. 1 mm WW WEEK Two conventions are slated for Salem this week according te an nouncement by the chamber of commerce. The Oregon Naturopathic asso ciation convenes here Friday tor a two-day session. The meeting will be held in the reading room of the chamber of commerce. Fifty members of the organisa tion are expected to attend. A. Slaughter of Portland Is president of the group; May Putnam, local doctor, is first vice-president of the association. The Oregon Furniture Dealers' association convenes "here Satur day, July 19. H. L. Stiff is in charge of the local committee handling arrangements. The dele gates will go on from Salem to Washington where the Pacific eoast meeting will he held next week. H ID DEPART 8HAMR0CK, Tex.. Jul 12. (AP) A mob of several hundred men gathered tonight near the negro quarter after placards had been displayed warning 'negroes to leave town." The move was re garded aa a reprisal for the slav ing of Mrs. Henry vaugnn. .arm wife living near here, who was beaten to death yesterday by a nerre, . . i- Sheriff W. K. McLemore of Collingsworth . county and half a dosea men with drawn guns warn ed the mob to disperse and were parolling the streets guarding against any disorders. - .More than50 families of neg roes, were reported having left town since several warnings were Dosted near their homes last night. :. v Jesse Lee Washington, negro accused of the a laying of Mrs. Vaughn, who was beaten to death with an Iron pipe, waa not In the Jail here v.-.-.r- He had' been in an unnamed Oklahoma Jail since Sheriff Mo Kinney of Wheeler county outdis tanced a moo wnicn pursued nun yesterday, trying t seise the EaFthiniakeT Felt cln Montana AfeS HELENA; Montr - July 11 (AP) An earthquake waa felt at Helena. Lewlstowa ; and suungs tonlrht at 1:02 n.m. M. 8. T, - Tbe'eentef, reports to the Asso ciated Press Indicate, was between Three Forks and Trident, tn the Horseshoe mountains. It was' this area -which waa most affected, by a tremor in 1SZ6. .o. No. material JlamagsKwaare- ported. - 101! MOB 1 Fight for Freedom Nears Gliinax PACT BACKERS ;. ' - V ABSENTEE LIST ifB I. 1 . t Arrest of John ptcDonald, chief witness agsinst Tom Mooney and Warren K. Bflllngs in the bomb out rage trial of 1910, brings a real prospect for favorable action on their picas lor pardon. McDonald baa declared ble testimony false, and blames San EYancJsco police for indncing him to commit perjmry In the case. Governor Young of California Indicates that he will listen to McDonald's story. Above, Tom llooney, bis wife, Governor Young, and the prison 'where Mooney is confined. San Francisco Police Of Scheme to Convict Mooney I Confessed Perjurer Charges HEftT WAVE ENDED FOR MIDDLE WEST More Than 100 Deaths Are Caused, Checkup of Reports Reveals ICAGO. July 12 (AP) causing more than 100 fuweths-tn the-HBiddle west this week, the worst hot wave in a de cade seemed to be breaking up to night as reports of scattered showers and thunderstorms brought some relief. The official forecast 'said the heat wave would be entirely brok en up with it hours and already waa dissipating over the Missis sippi valley where 100 degree tem peratures of yesterday had fallen to the SO's and low nineties. In this city the mercury rose to t?. the hottest July 12 on record. The previous high mark was SS on July 12, 1914. - The heat sent thousands scurry ing to the beaches to seek solace in the surf. Scattered showers tn Nebraska sent the mercury tumbling from 103 or thereabouts down to around 25 but not until 15 deaths In the state had been at tributed to the heat. Missouri, adding 20 more vic tims since yesterday, i suffered most from the hot wave and had a total of 52 deaths traceable to the beat. Eight more deaths were report ed in Iowa, for a total of 22 dur ing the spell. In South Dakota, where : temperatures up in the 100's had been general all week, the mercury dropped to 79. Five died from the-heat in South Da kota during the week. "More than a doxen deaths oc curred in the wake of the heat Wave in Minnesota, but cooler weather there today brought wel come respite. KotthoflGwh .Full Aniduhiih ? Rosen Rye Case w. a. Kottnoa received , ver dict for the entire sum for which he sued. I5.llt.50. in bin ease against tne Portland Seed com pany, tried in circuit court here. The ease went to the jury yes- teraay morning - after occupying two fun days In court,, v- ' The . suit was based upon, rye seed which ,the Portland company sold to Kotthoff as roeen rye and which Kotthoff alleged to be noth ing but . common Bohemian rye. The case - was brought : by Kott hoff, feed " dealer. . at Jefferson, after he had been sued by a farm er "to whom he sold the seed for what the Portland company claim ed n to nV- - - Lots of Value Atl-ittle Cost ' ' Yon, wlITfind : ; better ee lection of used ears in Sa lem at'a lower price than at any, place else. r i , f1en you purcuase a good naed gnr from one of 8s ' lem's reliable i dealers . yon -'are sure, that yon-get vatoe lor tout jDoncy. v ; J .This la the time to buy .when" yon can ' enjoy some : . weekend or vacation trips. :. - Tarn to the classified page of - this paper mad yon will fiad may excellent buys 11st- j y Sam Qm ftagou ft Thomas? McDonald Still in Jail in Charge Filed; Governor Young Puzzled But Wants to Hear Man's Story BALTIMORE, July 12. though no charges are McDonald, worn and broken, charges that police of San Francisco were to blame for his testimony which 14 years ago in California for life. Mooney and Billings, laborO leaders, were convicted of the Preparedness day .bombing in San Francisco in 191i which claimed ten lives, on McDonald's testimony that he had seen the two plant a suitcase containing the Infernal machine. This stes tlmony. McDonald said after his arrest last night through Identifi cation by""a newspaper photog rapher, was planned by officials and he was coached in it by the state prosecutor. Along with the story of official Interference in his 1917 testimony McDonald coupled a charge he had been offered bribes by the police - and forced to Identify Mooney, whom he declared he nev er had seen before bo was taken to the San Francisco jajl and told by police the labor leader was -his man." Now, broken and aged by-the knowledge of what he has done, the state's key witness appeared in circuit court where his attor ney sought his freedom on a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Walter I. Dawklns refused to grant the action sought and ordered State's Attorney Herbert R. O'Connor to fhold him until advices of what California wanted done were re ceived. O'Connor wired Gov. C. C. Young of California the proceed ings and embraced In his message the suggestion criminal action could be brought against police and other officials who McDon ald elalms are responsible for the wrong he seeks to right. Whatever action Is taken by Gov., Young and O'Connor, "Mc Donald is going to return to Cal ifornia to lay his story before the executive. He says be wants "at last officially to recant the story which the foreman of the Mooney Jury said resulted In the convic tion. - , - SACRAMENTO. CaU July 12. -(AP) -Governor C. C. Young tonight telegraphed Herbert H. O'Connor, Maryland state - attor ney, advising him California can not now compel' the -. return of John McDonald,: witness . in the trials of Warren K. Billings and Thomas J. Mooney, but suggest ing he bold the man, until such steps ean be taken. ; . y " "I suggest you communicate wtth the Mooney defense commit tee, . 440 Turk EC, San Francisco; which committee 'V am told Is wining to return him. " v - ' ."I am anxious to question 'Mc Donald and sincerely trust ho will be held until a procedure Is final iy determined.". . ,- - , . ; Oregohians Lose, -; In N.Y; Finals STBACUSE, Jury 1 H flP) Frank .Shieldsew York, won the state- tennis championship here, today by defeating Richard Murphy, TJtka; IF19. f-a.e-', "Shields and i Mortimer i Bern stein, New York, .took the doubles title' by defeating : Stanley Aim quist and Sherman Lock wood,' of the University of Oregon, l-eys-i, -2.v .; -. ;.' - ,-'V A MboHe: UK: Guilty Baltimore Though no (AP) Refused his liberty pending against him, John M. though but 58, today hurled sent Tom Mooney to prison ; WALTON, N. Y., Ju.ly 12. (AP) Andrew L. Beers, 77, was in the Delaware county Jail at Delhi tonight in consequence of the killing of his 24-year-old daughter Frances, whom he could not bear to see suffer In ill nee s. He feared, too, the 'girl describ ed here as mentally blighted might fall into Jess kindly hands when death came upon- him, ac cording to county authorities whom he voluntarily told of the slaying. For 20-years Beers' affection for his almost helpless daughter. was a by-word in this little com munity. . His explanation of the deed as a "mercy killing, due to an "ir- resistable impulse" to save the girl from further suffering and to guard against harm coming to her after he was gone, has been ac cepted even by the prosecutors who believing him, must neverthe less observe the letter of the law and bold him without ban on first degree murder charge. It is believed he will be committed to an institution for the insane, there to spend the remainder of his days. Invalid Tended From Early Youth From birth, the girl had been confined to the Beers home. The ff ather and mother shared the bur den of caring for hex until four rears ago. when the jnotner aiea The father cheerfully assumed the extra duty then, and even sought - : Turn to; Page ?. col e III! DRAWS nun Fifteen Years at W. U. . : Completed by Dr. Doney ; Fifteen years ago tomorrow Dr. Carl Gregg Doney took over the duties o. the presidency of Will amette university. In that time he has been the chief factor In 'put lug the institution on a financial statue . that . only ono- or ; two de nominational schools in the" en tire country ean equal. K, When he arrived on the.camp us, July 14. 1915. the?5 school faced an Indebtedness of approx imately $121,000. By 1111 that debt had Increased to $359,000 with the addition of new buildings and repairs to thers. f In 1919 Dr. Doney. saw the pos sibilities of future service of the Methodist school and' was instru mental in the beginning af Laus anne - halL ' $120.00 , women's dormitory. - .While that bulldlngj was unuer eoastrucuoa n aun hall burned and It took 140,000 for repairs which were completed la 1921. Further Indebtedness was brought on by the fire which des troyed the gymnasiam later in tl-t year and the' building of the new structure cost $7 M00. So in 1922 when the financial campaign be gan the school was nearly $400, 000 In debt, -.: - - Then his work really began, in the psst eight. years Dr. -Doney, Fear Necessary Two-Thirtb Vote May Be Lacking r For Showdown 1 More Than Bare Quorum Present; Reservations ! To Be Voted on WASHINGTON. July 12 (AP) Concerned over the perslstewt 1 fight being waged against tte , ; London naval treaty, its advocates j . today demanded a roundup of the p 1 " absentee senators for a showdown . on the first, of several reserve- jk tlons to be taken up next week. 1 Leaders were taking eerieua note of the reservation offered by , j, Senator Norrls, republican. Neb- ; raska providing this governmeat ; - should not be bound by any ret understandings which mar bo ! embodied in the papers Presides j Hoorer has refused to give tl-a senate. . . - Senator Moses, republican. New r Hampshire, a leader of the treaty opponents, claimed there woaM be 33 votes against ratlficatloa f the pact if the Norrls resolution were not approved. This is alnteet twice the number of votes which i have hitherto been counted tgsiaet ' the treaty and approaches the one-third necessary to defeat rati fication. Norrls Resolution Vote is in Doubt Treaty proponents were still t- vided today -on the Norrls resolu- tion. Some wanted to accept - the ground that it was a propeeV tion that could do no barm to tfee - treaty and that its approval woa-t hasten disposithn of the pwt Others, however, contended It was insulting to President Hoover who assured the senate -there nre no secret understandings. Meanwhile, advocates of the re servation were confident of . enough votes to adopt It regard- less of the attitude of the admin istration. Chairman Borah of the . foreign relations committee, was withholding an opinion pending t study. But the real worry to treaty proponents is the small attend ance of senators. Only 49, one , more than the necessary quorum. answered the opening roll call . yesterday, the fifth day of debate 1 on the treaty. AU of the oppon- . ents to the pact hare been-pree- ent on almost every roll call aad the treaty supporters realise they are at the mercy of the opposi tion any time the foes care to : break a quorum and end the -racial session. I BEND, Ore., July 12-(AP) Completely out of control a spec tacular forest fire in the Cascade foothills tonight was sweeping rapidly toward the national" for est boundary after laying waste 4000 acres of - privately, owned timber. The fire, discovered late yes terday, was believed to have bera , caused by a careless smoker. It . was not considered serious uctll late today. ti . Hundreds of men have be pressed Into service to fight tfee ; conflagration. The fire is fanned . by a hard wind. Trench buildiaft equipment has been rushed te the scene. . . - The forests are tinder dry.- A little rain fell in Bend late today, ; but not enough to affect the fires. . BRIDGES WASHED OCT t . RIFLE. Colo , July 12. (AT) Two highway bridges were washed out, crews were trying to save a third from destruction aad r two railroad bridges were swept away in floods down Rifle' and !Elk creeks-tonight. - mum DESTRQrS n with some additional help, ha -raised over a million dollars fta -cash, $279,000 of It for current . expenses and major Improvement. ' -some of the accumulated tit at having been paid during the tint years ofDr.:I)oaey'a.adnilnistra-...-tlon. - -. ' The balance of the million has gone Into a permanent - enaew ment, which at the end cf Sep tember, if the campaign Is success- . fcl. will provide -a productive - dowment of-$200 for every stu dent in the school. The present " e ndowment -campaign begaa rn . 1922 and closes October 1, 1930. Under a contract with the gener al education board of the Reea feller foundation Willamette" aV versity received 54 cents oa-oach. dollar, raised Bp to that time ter Its permanent endowment W -- When the annual meeting; X the board of trustees was heU at commencement .time this sprier. .. a report by th university rpeae urer showed net cent of m- -debtedness; fa Itact somrtlErS- ; like $7,000 is a net balance was reported." .- . 'V Dr. Doney came v here ' rftos West v Virginia Wesleyan, whera he served as president tor eevera) years prior to his coming te tfca v. est coast, . - -' ' . - ." - -
