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PAGE TWO FIRES CAUSE li MS 32 in Oregon Last Year, is Report of Clare A. Lee, State Marsha! There were J 2 deaths resulting from Are in Oregon darim lJU, or an increase of. II whca com pare rltH Of (! for' the previous yean according to the .atonal report of Clare A. Lee, atate fire marshal, which was completed hero Friday. A total of 94 persons were fajdred, which wajr air Increase ot 35 over the rear .1928. Of the deaths by burning, seven were' children under- the age of 10 years, three were persona be tween 11 aad If years, 14 were persogf between 19 aad 19 years. end four were persons more man SO -vare of asre. Three ot the death! were girl student at the Orezon state, normal school at IfaaatojBth. Gains, blade, la Co tret Practice - "While the loss reeord of 6r tit, til for the year 1929 con p ares very favorably with that Ot IS 2 8." read Lee's report, "I de sire, to -call yonr attention to. the wrOtreesf that hae been made oar in tfto oaet three years i this rieiica' of rir Control. This' waa due ta'0. Urge 'measure ta the ef ficiency of local fire control units. "DeaDtte the. heavy losses sui tered by Industrial plants ta the- total Increase la losses ores the prevloee year m only $! 427, or wail me increase In percentage to losses to Talnea Involved In 8300 fires was but four tenths of n per cent over that of 1928 Is (M fires. "Thmamago aggregate losses for the six year statistical period was IS, 57.231 aad the average . percentage of losses to Talnea-in volved for this perieo was a per cent, showing a redaction of. ilj 759.599 or zt.B in volume in favor- of the 1999- reeord and s de crease ofl. 9 per cent la the per centage of r losses to values. The nveraa-e loss ner fire in 1929 was ll.eei.27, as compared to lj- 121.29 to. 1928. "Arson and Incendiarism will be major problems for those identi fied in the work ot fire preven tion so long, as the element ot mo ral hazard enters into the fire in surance business. Persons who re sort to arson as a means ot col lecting Insurance are frequently highly respected citizens of a com munity, who would not think of committing any other crime. "Instances in which over insur ance is the underlying cause iot the malicious burning of property show the Insurance Is, almost without exception, taken out in premditated anticipation of the tire. "Much, arson could be avoided by cheeking up the record and fi nancial condition of the applicant and a careful survey ot the prem ise upon whicb the InsuxAoce Is sought.. Of 113 Area reported lor Investigation daring the year 1929. 107 Investigation were completed. "As the result of these investi gations eeafeasions were obtained In 19 cases -and' convictions In 19 cases. Two ot these who confessed were committed to the insane! asylum two of those Indicted are awaiting, trial, four cases are awaiting action of the grand Jury, and. Id cases, axe Incomplete. Of the confessions secured seven, were tor violation, ol the fraud statute, which makes It a crime to make, false, claim tor lose by fire. Nine were for the., crime of arson. C m patgna for Prevention Aided "Aside from the inspection and Investigation work; the department took an active part In all cam paigns, local and statewide, for the prevention, of tire. There vras pot a single Christmas or New Year holiday Ore In 1929 and but three minor casualties. "One of the chief alma of the department during the past year has been to arouse Interest and encourage organisation of fire pro tection nails in rural communi ties. At the close of the year 1929 tour organisations were- In pro cess of . formation and others, ana In prospect, ' "The receipts ot the department showed- a increase over the pre vious year, wane the costs of ad ministration were lowered materi ally." A tabulation prepare by the de partment shews .receipts for the yeaz aggregating Sll.387.lt. The disbursements included salaries ot fzl.Ss 7, furniture and supplies. 1533.55, printing $897.73; travel- lag expanse it field deputies S7r 916.43, telephone, telegraph: and postage 987.40 and miscellaneous Ii.ei4.ai; Legion Junior Title Clash at Portlan&Taday 1 PORTLAND, OrO., An f fAP-Tbe-Portland and. Silver ton American. Legion Jnnier base, ball tea mw wtrl meet" here tomor row for .the Oregon, atate cham plonshlp." EUverten woa the: west tern dJvfalenv "ehasnplonship end Portland won the eastern division . title. : ' - Renaloe. Eieivar wdrl nlten. the tirst haJULt, GQvernotliorbladLwttl fifarfg ricci rio-c . bent ra4 tt hmisaett,Cciac?'V irwius Anna wm - snwnyy xm cafeir tho pftchV: Harry WQliama, 'president ot tho PacffJo Coast . league, will umpire. Zelinshi Better -JUiet)peratidn HAZEL CBXETT,' f Aagnst' W. Peter ZeHaskl..wlw-underwent, a niaior operation at Salenv GehOi ai Is doing; nlcelsult wd bo seme time before ho-. can "bo.-? moved Mrs. Matilda Kobe bna retard ed . te, hen home.. wlihCdaurh tec. Mrav lUnnie lUcIuxMm.at Uaxte. i n1 :' LtrbrM arei Snneeme Jaeiice . IUchnrds, Jesse W. CnrtJe and WlQiaai H. Larfg&m a they appeared Grain Prices RaRy Due to Grass Famine; Failure Of Corn Afso Factor J' (Continued front page L) weighed "wheat prices down. From the -Kansas-- State. Af rkaitnraJ college caste's statement 25,000.- 001 to SO.091.000 bujshels of hard winter wheat alone was going te fatten stock while an estimate from Indians, said 40 per cent of that stste's wheat would- go for feed; 1. Colorado wheat was left standing m the field. Nebraska has had a 96 per cent cut in its corn crop prospects since the drought began. An of ficial report today said the sub soil is still in good condition gen erally and a rain might bring a fair crop. In central Illinois farmers re ported thty- had been carrying water to stock for weeks. The Iowa eora crop has been cut five bushels to the sere,- an official re port said, and while- steady rains fell in some parts of Iowa today, the heaviest precipitation failed to benefit the.dryest areas. Ohio a loss from tne drought was estimated at $200,000,000 to date, Missouri's at 100,000,000. Missouri corn has, diminished from td to CO million bushels. and pestilence and famine in the Kentucky stock growing regions has followed the fire weeks' drought The Louisville fraxA of trade, describing the. acute short age or water in that state, asked the federal farm board to send inr spectors to survey the situation. Kirn I1K COoattaaee from rase L about 299-prisoners took part rending arrival or police emer gency aqnads from Manhattan the nre eepartnent company on roe island turned streams ef water on the rioters in an attempt to stop the right. when rietinr continued despite the aid of firemen, additional help was asked from police head quarters. Emergency arucka. with machine gune and. tear gas bombs were mshed to the stairway at the middle of this Qneensbero bridge, which lead down to the island. A pallet boat with addi tional force, waa else sent across the rives t the Island. Shortly after the police reach ed the island Ihe riot subsided an the- prisoners . werw herded ek ; to tnel noamra. Tbe eBergeMy tracks then: returned to-Manhattan,; t Stockholders, ot thr Major Fruit Prod nets com pany, sponsors . .of Prunt Port Tuesday night heard their, ceneral maaager teU the aue cesses and. failares.of their new prane juioe product an4 adjourn ed witbont reackiag any decision regarding an appeal for I ?,4 00 ad ditional working capital. Advertising- in Portland papers baa brought a considerable re sponse with, orders, aggregating more than $100 tor the new pro docU the me.. were. tobL-bat the company lacks capital for suffi cient advertising sd. , mortgage lot 98 go on Ike Taacoam. Wash., piant or tne concern, is also a handicap. RChanied 1 Thavahlle service eRBmtssfon Toesday granted the appiicaOos of thoBrfs Logging cejapany for pe mlssfon: f o donstrncr and matntain two crossings at grade, fn WasH- ttgton, and" Multnosaah county, re- apeTrxtwy; ThescaarmissTon 'also snrproved an rpptl cation of the eonntr const of Tilumaor. optuity fff eonstnidr and' matntara a eroflsrng. at grade across, the tracks- offbr Sontfiem paerne: company at Pxrurtlr street. ta annatiaw, TUTaiBook: eoanty; PIMIITSfflS ejtqClassifef MOONEY TRIAL WITNESS APP2AIBSF0TJ2SIJ?ER1E JUSTICES J6h W. Prtfedow, Jdfan V. Been. Here; And on Bits of PeBsnal News Gfennc Abooi Interest ing People John C. Darles, one of the "big suns" in.- tke. Pert Oxford ce dar lumber industry, was fa 'the eitjr yesterday iron Karabfield te confer t irlth Prink Johase-n, eotfnty rodmater. Davies' re ports that it will tike- eight- earf t haul the SCO piling: of rort OrV ford cedar which Marlon county has purchased to use on the 1191 foot trestle In the Lake Labish district. The last cars of the tim ber will be shipped next week, he said. The first estimate reokoned only six ears for the piling shin-1 ment, Davles stopped here on his way back south from a business visit In Portland. Civil service as planned by the city council will be a good thing ft it Is Inaugurated, In the opin ion pf Sergeant Asa Fisher of the city police department. ''For opt thing It wilt separate politics and the' city employes; especially the police and fire departments," he declared. Fisher admits Salem has been fortunate . in escaping the shake-ups accompanying changes In city administration, hut "yon never can tell what' going to happen," he says . POn DEFEATS SEATTLE IfJ 0FEr;E(l PORTLAND. Orn Auv S (AP) Pprilaacf we tne opening game of the series from Seattle tonight, 11 to 4. Woodall's ho aier tn the f onrth off - Leman kt seored three runs ef a. Port land outburst in the lamlag. a h e Seattle . 4 11 t Portland .- j. u.11 1 I Lamaaekt, June, Hnbbetl end Borreanl;. Keating and WoodalL OAKLAND, Aug. 5. (AP) R H t Saeratnento U S t c Oakland; Bryan. Gonld and Koehler: Craghead, McQuaid, Hradertoa and Lombard!. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5. (AP) San Francisco' -. .8 li g Hollywood 2 6 I Jacombs and Gaston: Turner and Baeeler, Pioneer Dies at Home of; Sister-; Here on Tuesday Mrs. Nellie Blair Hetteeav sis ter ot Mrs. Frederick W Btsns- lofi, died at the Stemsloff reaf deac et . 107. Nertk. Oomnrexeiat street Tneeday moming after an maeai of lttthf mere UUa a week. 8hn- had Yisited 1 at the home-ef-ber sister foe-the past two weeks. Mr. Hetmea is aurVived by her widower, A. R. HolmeiJ and 1 a danghten Juana, both-OA Inde-I pendence: she was horn-lnrVaa-oouver; Wn., (I 'years' ago, but bed spent the greater part- of her life In CorraBle. l - Fuaeral aervloes -will be held Wednesday aftefnoes- at 1130 O'clock from tan .W. T.' Bigdoh mortuary with Dr. W a Kantner offlciatlng. interment will bO at Corvallia, . - TODAY? cad : a w ' Ki:v'Tk Tker - 4 - lias, The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Esmnet BeeeerLxb-lgaTKnVaht la tbe snprcsoe resjrt far at bufliSng, 8I9 "f" Seen in forecast Foi Production; River Areas Suffer Host (Continued from page L) Z, fittha ntt an tavera(ra prodactioa of. feed ; grata is beUoved Bossi ble over a vast area comprised o4 parts of Ohio Indiana. Illi nois. Missouri. ArkangBt and Alabama, - Even thTee-fonrths of a nor mal feed grain crop is indicated -wlil normal August raiafall-r-Id that seared ribbon of farm land following the Ohm river to its junction 'with the Mississippi and on 'down to the gulf. Three fourths of a crop la expected in similarly scorched sections ot Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota. Paradoxical as it seems, the river regions, have suffered inost; : Conditions approximating famine obtaining ' in ' Kentucky, southern parts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and in Missouri. Three-fourths pt a crop then means farmers will have te sell their livestock or buy feed. . Reports from Kentucky speak constantly of the "flameUke" heat. Early corn has been en tirely ruined, Gardens are dead or worthless. Water for live stock has besome contaminated and foul. AJ1 crops, not harvested. In Mis souri, are about ruined in the worst drought since 1901. S i The Shenandoah valley remind ed V: 8. Seotr Pace of tao good old' Willamette valley; rierlda is shut op in summer and widoopen in winter, but -nonw too prosper-, oak any- of the Urna In certain sectlbBsrt of the eootlrem states whitts and bUcks all4 start aJt-tiar-down by nin o'clock to. the aaorniag.and star that way all day loot.' fc . These were gotna ot the tmpres stoa orooght to Klwants club when Mr. Page, its president, re ported on hli eastern trip at the Tnesdar noon tunsheon. Page waa impressed by the number ot mon uments erected throughout the east. "Fact la aKer w& had rend aboat ao niany of them we Just sWppel paying any. attention-to the-next eaee," said Page. He reaffirmed hl&vteUet ta Ore gon add its beabtiet." Fred Wolf, -high, school pfind- pavgav a cleax-cut characterise- tiohof th uff or rUTaman "Ten mr Robarts, ' wh tost hir eyo- slaU thxongnith prankt; W-n playmate, when rcmy war she rear Of gge.,Welfb OutUned the efforts RObertt maao to achieve hlsedacation;. . . Shaking. Rusty OunGetsCoin hantosd, aik; Aflfc 1 ZAP) Their gtift iraa rosty. and their heads shakingbut neverthe less, RV Boyd, sertice station owner, didnV wtfttto taw a chance. So . two bandftg f Ooh the SS ft U Boyd'a cash register; and drora dwty la a tig: aotomowi. H4 toil Police lie baHdit'4 ghh ioofcedV useless;, but It wtint worth 3 9 f oflfic? ut. THURSDAT " X, OLIVE M. DOAK TOO MUCH sn 3au:-T ) nv e ' Oregon, Wednesday Morning, iSaitmr aUnf CfcU Sag Frjinriio a tt&fSjm hearing. e. e- e a . ELSpfpBE Today Joan Crawford In "o aiaahiaa Bsidev" CAPITpl f Today WiU Rogora ta t tWS ThU is London." Thursday "Gold Diggers Of Broadway," HOLLYWOOD. e Tc?dARutb, Chatteiton In "The Laughing LadyV Friday -"Hunting Tigers In India." GRAND Today "The Furies" with if. B. Waraer an Lois Wilsofl. ' ' Friday Buch Jones in "The Lone Rider ee'eeeeeeeee Will Rogers has been draw ing such a big lauh at Bllgh's Capitol that he has been "re tained" y Mr, Biign and Man ager Archie Heit for ono more day. Bo cheer up, ail you weary ones who thought you had missed him. for he is yours tor the seeing today. Today at the Fox EUinore will be Joan Crawford in "Our Blush ing Brides." I couldn't make the preview last night so can't say for sure just yet what think of the show, but Jpan has been changing so fast in each of her last productions 1 snpuid bate to miss this one, for I am curious to see what she baa done The caption does not tip one off very much might te anytping. Ton might speak, out if you agree with mo Thursday morn ing. Both the Grand and the Holly wood have productions of merit beginning with today. Ruth Chat t acton In. "The Laughing Lady new at the Hollywood ia a play worth seeing any day; And H. B. Warner and Lois Wilson, give an excellent pfesen tatioa in "The Fortes" now showing at the Grand. Dairymen Heard Scollard; Due Here Tonight J. A. Scollatd, ono of the out Standing dairy leagae. organisers of the state of Washington, who wilt address a meeting of the dairymen's association ta the chamber of bommeree rooms to night, tpoko to a largo crowd at tteen&g of Htnsbero dairymen Twesday night, A few anirysaea treat salens ' attended the. moot ing: professor Bread! of Otogoo. State eoUee ai epeke- at the HtUsooto - tabetfne abd mkf dp peaf hefw tonight: Joo .DUhhO ot Portland, arsbadiva ta dairy or ganising, win also cpeaC TATfKtft is wcnntB M ATT APTIS ETT. Mass.. Amfc 4 (APF Talteei Boettn'4 can- fllflate f6 tBo tetefise of' Cho America's cup. defeated threeetlH Or asphwBtt tbf that BSnoV ift the 80-4niie race from Newport" "ore today. r-.t : li III UllUM I WEDS. THTJR3. " jC'f mm wtSfrh, J- a m .-,. v .. . -BMv.-jjt- w jsBom' sr 1 m, . ' rm-- m ir - . Im 7fK.ni I : - f -v-'l 1 1-' 1 l.-V-7 h, August 6. 1930 X 1, t: li i I j j iLJf I H.We asaf Jastkee Jehfa EJ i fflfSKlET (Continued B9i Pte t yalleji lastUutlon. The coat-a? eobdueting- these instttuttona would bo distributed among' thp eoantiae, baaed, on the number of peraenacceiniBitttd trein eaca, - Sarins in Bsnease U Predicted. ' Deyere said taie piaa w.euig make It possible to care tor the rtmT etficientlylat a smaller cot 1 inan unoer ine present system. Another proposal offered' by Devers is that all life term pris oners in the various states ee turned over to the government, and bo Incarcerated in federal prisons. For the care of these men and women, the states would pay a stipulated amount of -money monthly, based on per capita commitments. Devers said suck a plan would-relieve the states qf over building and savo the tax payers many thousands of dollars annually, The state power commission proposed by Devers would make an exhaustive study of water power., development to the. end that much of the waier'now go ing to waste in Oregon would be harnessed and us.ed for manufao turing purposes, .The state power commission would worg fn har mony with the federal power commission jB all questions in volving state rights. Coats Shed as Mercury Rises . To 88 Tuesday A fairly high degree of humid ity and higher temperature than in recent days, shed many a coat from the backs of Salem business men yesterday. The high, mark; of the day' was reached at 5 p. ra. when the, thermometer stood at If degrees. At t a. m., Tneeday morning the mercury showed 50 degrees. At noon the. temperature had climbed- to the 79degree mark and It continued upward until s p. m. At 9 p. m, last night the thermometer had receded to the 70-degree point, J., ijjfljgajiia tit Time TadeS: WILL ROGERS - ijSjr lin "6r This U Loftdott tlrapfidtre AtU Siovietdhwww 1 Broaght beek to Salem fee) reinrav engagemen by- popnla setwrdeaev-; 4berskmaaa- LJ MIL'S SEtt : Kl Recovery of Changsha Now Claimed by - Government kHn nnd'bafikhw, the comnfu 1st I err 24 kotrrs hsfei been lootf .lftgthttdto:htliIUeCWi: ently eeeklng'to terrortie-TOeairyf inn iill JkZXMkiini: advices Uteo; ftfstri Wfte. growing wt ciiy was awm ejrto red attacX ehortly ae U. pfrsamnbists were resorted advartof teg from- the west. AddlUoAarfOi elrefslaepiittfa froia Kalklahi levari for safer greal: : Trom- Jianierw ealnlrjir--iat nfneaalB9S there coniffffied at high Mich la?trcTrang, Hanio'aad- ITShyan as reds -were -reuoxtaa plafltattk.Tiie cnipee popi fnrA. . IM. niKriM heinsf. tO tnrevent av reewtiUOn there of- the wacoeeaie ronoery aaa muraer peri peusteo oy .sommuniBts at vu sna. "coatln.ued active norUL. of Hankow extorting money and. aupf CpUearrojn belpiees people. : Ljtoydy L. Ltcat, a former Salem man and "e?retarf of the Belling. ham Tag and Barge company, eOsamitted Salctde' b inmolne from the llthk Story of t BeCing-" nam aoieu savs a Keinorpam pa per m teuing of tne death pi tne 38 year old man. ' News of hj death was received lata last week by Salem friends, but no details were given. Dis covery of the, man's hat, coat and vest; and a -bote addressed to his wife saying, "Good-bye, I love yon all. take care of the chil dren." led. police to believe he took his own life. According to the newspaper, Lucas returned from work on thai day of nia death suffering from a slight heart attack. After his wife had. given bim medicine he went for 'a walk, saying the fresh air would help him. He went to a hotel, wretp the note to his wife, entered the. elevator and rode to the seventh floor. Then the paper says, he walked to the 15th story, from where bb leaped from a parapet to the . aide walk below. He was seen by two city firemen, the only witnesses. Lucas is survived by his wife and four children. Flier Has Cold But Endurance Test Continues ST. LOUIS, Aug. 5. (AP) Dale Jackson, one of the pilots of the endurance monoplane Great er.St. Louts, said over the planes short wave radio transmitter to night he bad a cold and dont feel good. The announcement caused concern at Lambert St Louis field, trot the concensus was it would take , more than a cold to force Jackson and' his co-pilot. Forest OTBtine, to land now that they: are within striking distance of the record of the Hunter broth ers. At 9:11 .a. m.. Jackson and O'Briae had been In the air Sf4 noura. Tba Hontera. remained n , THREE DAYS T T uirnvn iirnianriTi FMItDH ...... iMRuiiuui jean Eparties y . A lIio rtm-in a setting ' J of jewels! JTho lory Of three dangh- ; Urs of today! i vr w-rsj icz-m-. :XiT9cg CHATIU2 j pWHiSPfiRLS'a WHOOPfiE'- 554 hours at Chicago In July. " llWtUitrr wjjiarrived at the. field .this afternoon aedt np n -noto eohgratuUtiig the tilers for" theif success to det&: CBTtie Welch Swice&to Be Held Saturday Funeral services for Mrs." Car rie Welch who died Tuesday at her . home , on the Gardenf road, route -T, will be' held .frons the Clough-Tayler ehapel satdrday. afternoon at J oclock with Rev. V, F. dordon Of SUrerton offici ating. Ihterment will beSt Bet erest Memorial vpark. "1 i jars, weicn wan oorn in inai ana, July 24, 1J and bjuL lived Oa; the farmn rente 7 tpr-several years. She is survived by her wldowjsry B. welch; tro brothers.- Lester Wise of Detroit, Mich., and .Clare Wise of Calif or- bnla:, four children. Mrs.. C C. Cobren,.Msr M. .L, Barber, Dale Welo'h, alL of Salem, and. Me Roy McFarlancl of Sherwood. She also leaves 1 grandchildren and two nieces. Staytqn-Youth Novrm Charge; STATTON. Aur. 8. Rov Lee. who. has been ". employed ' for" the pajst year," in th'sr MacMarr" stora herf haa $een; placed ta: 'charge ot xne aiore. Tea Mcuermott, wno has held this position will' go te Portland $0 tikVcharg of a store there2 Roy t a son-ef Mr.' and lira, pharlea Leo of this plice aad a'tlne class ef- the 8tayten high pehoot'He has many friends here who. are much gratified to aeo him place In so responsive a position. Stefe Trpwces Florida gatter BOSTON, ' Aug. 8. (AP). Dave Shade, veteran Los Angeles middleweight govt Joe Apderson, Covington, Ky., a severe, trqusc ing In the Boston. Gardens featqra ten roun4 bout tonight at Braves Field. Dave's flszling two-lister attack to the head and body gave hint nine rounds. Anderson held him even in the second. Shade weighed 15S and Anderson 163 pounds. Keep Cool Clearance Sale ESKIMO FANS Was Now ....$5.00 $3.50 6.00 40 8 In. Fait 9 in. Fan 10 in. F; 8.00 5.50 10 in. Oscillating: 16 in. Oadllatiitr ...11.00 7JK -.17.00 11X0 VIBBERT& TODD Telephone 2112 460 State STARTING TODA if fcro A2s Tzx CotszZf Its rz& SssJ Xirtfctr Uca K&bow wjua-visUiac nephews Joseph Zeiinskl. L FRESHLT eet wi a ted IK fro r apartment, f is. CaU at 1601 High. -. - - f I tjl ' ' " " I