j.. rh rv ...... v:----c Late News Breaks Because of its late hour of publication The Statesman frequently carries important news which no other morn ing paper brings Salem readers. mm The Weather ; Tnir today and Monday, rising temperature, rery low humidity; Max. Temp. Saturday 84, Mia. 89, river S.S feet, northeast wind. EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR Salem, Oregon, Sunday, Morning, September 27, 1936 Price 3c; Newsstands 5c No. 153 l?Gret Fire Mom ; i 19' -Bin reimg9 O- i ' '" Wind is So reading - M ; - ! i O Flames; Operations Are All Shut Logging Equipment Inipi periled; Several Small Fires In Linn County One Near Niagara Is Reported Worst As Crew Previously on Detroit Line Divided for New Task GATES, Sept. 28. (Special) A slashing fire which burst out of control at the Fred . Ritner logging camp Friday night wasjp today endangering logging equipment and nearby timber.' The flames were being whipped by a strong east wind. j lieved not dan&erons until the wind came up last night and con- i tinued blowing this mornlns. The Ritner camp is located ssven miles east of Gates. J One hundred fire fighters were transferred from t3 crews bat tling the Detroit forest fire yes terday and placed on small fires in Linn county north of that com munity where the situation was dangerous, it was reported at the state forester's office yesterday. Approximately 300 men remained on the Detroit1 fire, believed . un der control, which has burned oyer about 150 acres of young timber and a small amount of old growth. -, The worst Linn county fire broke out. near Niagara yesterday morning. Twenty-live- mw-ere fighting another blase at Wrenn in Benton county and a third lo cal blaze was reported running .through cutover lands above Black Rock. . .. Yesterday's Increasing fire haz ards caused State Forester J. W. Ferguson to issue an order clos ing down virtually all logging (Turn to page 10, col. 1 ) Communist Talk Allowed, Church CHICAGO, Sept. 26.-p)A communist campaign speech scheduled in the home of commun ism's foe the church tonight ruffled the sabbath eve calm of suburban Oak Park, the world's largest village. The pastor of the First Congre tlonal church and the young folk of his flock were arrayed together on the side of "free discussion of political issues. .Against them was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. Martin H. Mc Grath, and her friends in the con gregation, firm in the belief that a communistic speech would be "desecration." : Samuel T.- Hammersmark, com. munist nominee for governor of Illinois, was due to talk at . the church tomorrow night. He was invited by the young people's or ganization, the Colliquim. Bush School Will j Bush grade school w i 1 1 open Monday morning on a full-day Schedule after having been run on half-day time last week to rer . suit completion of interior paint ing and plumbing. Superintendent jSiias Galser announced last night, i (Children living on River road and . In the area bounded by Lincoln. icovimnr nit Misslnn streets and ..the river will be transported to : tbe school by bus. 'Riverside drive east on Miller to iFir street, south on Fir to Leffel Jle. east to Saginaw, north to Mis jsion and east to the school. Child ren along this route will be picked lup at intersections about 8:3Q fa. m., Gaiser said. Those living I on the east side of Saginaw have I been Included in the transporta tion area, Registration r -iri;, ; : . 3Iultriohiali Higli i -PORTLAND, Ore. Sept.. 26-j!P) t -Multnomah county will go to the polls as never before this Novem ber If -registration figures mean anything. James W. Gleason, registrar In the county clerk's office, said that with six days remaining, before tbe registration deadline, more than 166.000 persons were on the Jbooks. . an all-time record. Registration for the 1932 election was 160,369. ' own at RitnerVCamp Bothersome o . Contract Tourney Arranged by Elks To Start October 12 but Practice! Session to Begin j Tomorrow The Elks club Invites contract bridge players of Salem and near by communities to a great big bridge party. It's in the form of a bridge tournament, to begin Mon day, October 112 and will extend through the following seven Mon days, j - Mrs. Max Gunter, the Elks club tournament director said: "We want to impress bridge players that non-members are Just as wel come as members. We want lots of players, that makes it more fun.' . f . fTwo preliminary evenings are planned for tomorrow and next Monday so players will be primed for the contest. These evenings however have nothing to do with the" tournament, but are merely to stimulate interest in the com ing contest. : Rules for Entry Are Announced " Here as rules and suggestions for entering the tournament as outlined by Mr- Gunter. who is by the way a certified Culbertson teacher: ! Bring your own partner, other wise you may have to take a less skilled player. You need! not be experienced, just so you can play contarct bridge. There will be many other novices and I you'll have fun just the same. j Xo need to be a member of the Elks club. ! There Is no need to register ahead of time, just be sure to (Turn to Page 12. Col. 8) Nine New Houses Started in Week Last week added nine houses to Salem's rapidly, rising residential construction record for 1936 and $23,067 to September building permit values. ! 1 Permits for the 102nd and 103rd houses were Issued yester day to Ed Thomson, for a $542 house at 1810 North Fourth street and F. C. Headrick. for a $2,500 residence at 1 S 1 0 East Nob Hill. The nine permits taken out last week were for new houses called for expenditure of $18,642. An additional $125 in permits tor private garages and sheds was listed at the city hall. Repairs remodeling J and reroofing ac counted for $6,300 worth of per mits, j ; . Soviet Attack on Currency Checkmated by U.S. Action (By the Associated Press) Some of " the U. S. treasury's $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund was used in the foreign exchange markets yesterday, as Premier Blum's government in Paris whip ped Into shape its plan to slice per haps as much as a third frord the yalue of the French currency. . :' Secretary. Morgen than. disclosed that no sooner . had the gentle men's agreement been reached be tween France, England , and " the United .States- to preserve ex change equilibrium during the re adjustment of the franc than the bank of Russia stepped Into for eign exchange markets and offer ed 1.000,000 pounds sterling "at any price." . ' Since declines In the pound in terms of the dollar have frequent ly had a depressing effect upon the West Wins Unique Grid ist. olups Steam Toward Blocked Ports Naval Battle is Likely; Insurgents Ready for Attack on Toledo : Madrid Victory Claim ! is Refuted; Deny Azana Planning to Flee i LISBON, Portugal, Sept. 27 ( Sunday ) (p)-The Portuguese radio club announced early to day it had received information a Spanish fascist column had entered Toledo and rescued the Insurgent and their 'families in the old Alcazar fortress.- J The radio club said it yarned Toledo, which is about 4a miles south of Madrid, had been at tacked by four columns march ing along the roads from Mad rid, Torrijos and Moregon and that south of tbe Tagus river. (By The Associated Press) The first naval battle of the Spanish civil war appeared immi nent Sunday as naval authorities in bomb-battered Bilbao reported five government warships were steaming at full speed toward ports blockaded by fascist vessels along Spain's northern Bay of Bis shore. ' Meanwhile the insurgent radio station at Corunna claimed fas cist troops had succeeded in re lieving the beleaguered Alcazar garrison after capturing Toledo. This report conflicted, however,: with a government announcement in Madrid that rebel forces were being "slowly but surely' forced back from Toledo. Correspondents from the Tole do front said trained fascist le gions prepared to launch a dawn attack Sunday on government held Toledo. Buenos Aires reports said an Argentine warship was standing by to take off Spanish President (Turn to page 10, col) 6) Menace of Flood In Texas Recedes SAN ANflELO, Tex.. Sept. 16. -(yP) The menaciug threats of floods along the Rio Grande and in West Texas dissipated some what Saturday night as high wat ers began sinking toward normal levels. . i ' I San Angelo, In the midst Of re habilitating itself from the effects of a $5,000,000 flood of a week ago, breathed easier as the North Concho river descended rapidly from the 3 5-to-3 7-foot level it reached in mid-afternoon. " ? Fears of further Inundation In the Presidio section in the Big Bend country lessened as moun tain streams lost their high water marks as they coursed eight miles eastward and Into the Rio Grande. Clear skies augured well for the future. " I The cotton crop in the Presidio valley was about ten per cent lost. Freshman Registration At O.S.C. Sets Record CORVALLIS, Ore., Sept. 26.-(P)-First week freshman iregls tratiou figures hit an all time peak this year, E. B. Lemon, reg istrar, announced today. f The total was 1,181 compared 1.095 in 1927, the previous high year. Gain over last year was 27 per cent. American priceJevel, Morgenthaa quickly bought the sterling, offer ed, and the British currency, which had been declining in snof flcial dealings recovered. ; New York Stocks : Clijub as Knlt -'-Prices on. the New York stock, exchange closed higher. , X While Premier Blum hopes tor speedy acceptance of the devalua tion plan, to be submitted to an extraordinary session ef narlia- ment tomorrow, extreme Tight and left wings of French politics were quick to condens it. and the man in the street, perplexed, wondered if the cost of living would rise. - French officials hoped disorder would be avoided. - Exchange 'dealings were tem porarily suspended in the world's (Turn to Page 12, CoL 8) Loyali First Naval Battle of Spanish War Looms; Loyal Ships on Way 1 ' ' - - , - - t ' - - ' ' " 1 - ' " - ' s ' - 1 1 rfti-'--:i The first real naval batUe of the Spanish revolution appeared immin ent today as five loyalist warships similar to the Jalmie I, shown above, speeded to attack fascist Teasels blockading ports on the nor thern shore of the Bay of Biscay. International Illustrated News I photo. Oaks Are Routed In Second Tussle Scbrts 10-0 with Five - Hit Pitching Turned in by Bill Posedel PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 26.-(-Behind the brilliant flinging of Sailor Bill Posedel, the bat tering Portland Beavers pummel ed Oakland's Acorns 10 to 0 to night to climb one step closer to the 1936 Pacific Coast league pennant. Portland now leads two games to none; in the champion ship series. For six Innings the game was a tight pitching duel between Posedel and Jimmy. Tobln but in the 7th Tobln and his successor, Hal Ilaid, went completely to pieces to allow Portland to score fiva runs on only two hits. With one down, Bongy singled to start the fireworks. Tdbin then walked Lee and Sweeney, filling the bags. Haid was called in at this point and after he had walk- (Turn to page 10, col. 4) . . Fire Situation in Calif ornia Is Bad SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26-(P) Forest and brush fires cast a black pall of destruction over northern California tonight as the state .recruited emergency forces to battle the spreading flames In a dozen counties. Fears of possible loss of life In creased with reports from out lying districts of desperate strug gles to save property and hopeless flights from burning homes. Women and children joined their men at some places in the Sierra foothills in efforts to check the worst fires in several years. The pioneer settlement of Ore gon House, former stage station on tha Marysville-Comptonville road, was wiped .out. A hotel, post office, store and eight homes went up in flames. Thirty head of cattle perished in Placer county as flames swept the historic Whitney estate ranch. Other livestock was being hastily driven from the danger area. The flames, lashed by a 40-mile wind, destroyed ranch buildings In Tnba and Sontma counties and threatened a number of small communities. Ignoring Police Order Is Charge William Harold McFarland, 27. Gerrate. landed In the county Jail yesterday afternoon because he failed to heed a'state policeman's command, at Brooks, not to move an automobile.' McFarland drove away in an automobile from which a trooper had removed Wlllard McKay, Gervais, on a charge of drunken driving. Arrested later on a technical charge of operating a ear without a muffler, McFarland was taken before Justice of the Peace "Overton ! at Woodburn and the judge revoked his parole from a 50-day jail sentence. Both men were brought to the county jail here. McGrady Working For Labor Peace Federal Trouble Shooter On Job; Temporary Truce Discussed SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26.- -The government'sace "trouble shooter stepped tonlghr Intothe troubled waterfront situation while shipowners and maritime unions, still were seeking to avert a threatened itieup October 1. . The trouble shooter. Assistant Secretary of Labor E. F. McGra dy, arrived by airplane from Washington. McGrady, who was instrumental in bringing about a truce in the bloody 1934 maritime -strike, con ferred with government labor con ciliators E. P. Marsh and B. H. Fitzgerald in the initial move tor ward averting the new crisis. After tbe conference, McGrady said the situation had been out lined to him and that his first step, would probably be an effort to night to contact the coast commit tee for waterfront and ship em ployers. Waterfront employers and the district executive board of the In ternational Longshoremen's union made various proposals to each other for a temporary continuance of work after expiration of their regular agreements nextWednes day: . ;, Pursuant to its decision last night the ILA proposed a 15-day extension of the present agree (Turn to page 10, col. 2) Highway Blocked Following Crash Pacific highway traffic was partly blocked for four hours be ginning at 4:45 p.-m. yesterday when a truck driven by F. C. Brown, 1080 Madison street, over turned on the pavement near Sun nyside. five miles south of Salem. Brown escaped, injury. State police said T sacks of fish meal from Brown's truck were scattered along the highway for an eighth of a mile. The truck and debris were not fully cleared from the road until nearly 9 p. m. A head-on collision on the same highway two miles north of Jeffer son at 9:20 p. m. sent T. B. Tuck er, Olympia, Wash., to an Albany hospital for treatment of severe cuts about the face and head. John O. Wagoner, Centralis, Wash., who was riding in Tucker's light coach, received minor scratches. Both the coach and a truck load ed with Roseburg! cantaloupe were heavily damaged in the crash. The truck driver, Clifford White, Rose burg, was not Injured. - ? . Williams Named Head of ' County Bar Association The Marlon county bar associa tion elected Fred A. Williams president at-its meeting at the Marion betel yesterday noon Wil liam P. Ellis was named vice-president and William J. Llnfoot sec retary. The attorneys were ad dressed by L !L VanWinkle, state attorney-general, Contest Eight Elevens Battle, Stage Colorful Show Score is 22-14, Gridmen of West Linn Making; " Deciding Points Canby Rooters Adjudged Best; Silverton and Woodburn Tally By PAUL HAUSER West Linn's snappy green and lemon football team singlehand- edly stood off a pack of four teams from the eastern side of the Willamette river last night as the west, with West Linn scoring 20 of its points, defeated the east 22 to 14 in the Willamette valley interscholastic league's unique opener on Sweetland field. Paul Brown's snappy club from West Linn scored three times against Molalla in its allotted 15 minutes to give the west a victory after Silverton and Woodburn had both scored for the east in the first two quarters. Excepting a safety scored by In dependence in the first period no other western team scored. Canby Is Awarded Prize for Rooting Every color in the spectrum was seen in Sweetland as eight clubs, arrayed in bright new jer seys, took to the- field two at a time In the most unusual football spectacle ever seen in the north west. Five bands and organized root ing sections from each of the eight high schools kept a continuous wave of sound issuing from i the field from the moment the festiv ities started with a colorful par ade of all eight teams. Canby high school won the trophy for having the best rooting section. Silverton and Independence drew the right to open the game in which each team was to play 15 minutes. Silverton lost little time lu chalking up first blood for the (Turn to Page 12, Col. 5) Prisoner Shot by Medford's Jailer MEDFORD, Ore., Sept. 26.iA) -Harold Fougpty, 20, of Long view, Wash., was shot in the ab domen by Jailer Harry Ingling in a battle in the county jail this morning.- Dr. C. I. Drummond said Foughty, even if he lived, faced the possibility of paralysis. The shooting occurred after Foughty and Buff Marshall, also of Longview, had assaulted Ing ling and a trustee, Albert Cowan of Jacksonville, when the latter twoentered the men's cell to get a mop pail. Foughty and Marshall were awaiting sentence for a series of robberies at Phoenix near here which! Brown said they Jiad con fessed to. . Asks Government Get Out, Banking PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 26. (JP) Henry Verdelin, president of the 'American Institute of Bank ing, told Portland members of the institute he felt the time had come, in view of improved busi ness conditions, for the federal government "to cease It competi tion with banks and retire its various agencies." Verdelin said control of bank ing assets in one centralized source was the first step toward socialization. Eight in Prisotf to be Back to Marlon County Jail Governor Martin issued an or der Saturday commuting the sen tences of eight prisoners serving terms of less than one year in the state penitentiary, and send ing them back to the Marion county jail. - . v - c .The sheriffs office was noti fied yesterday that the eight men will be brought ; to " the., county jail Monday morning. The eight additional prisoners will make a total of 29 men being held by the county, Sheriff A. C. Bark said. : - ' ' V !' This action by the governor establishes a new policy on the part of the executive department and state parole board in hand ling these penitentiary cases. The order was made primarily to re-si lieve crowded conditions in the Goos-Curry Region Hard Are Hundreds of Acres Southwest Part of State Ablaze; Communications Are Cut Of f People of Milling Being Transported to Coquille; Fire Fighters PORTLAND, OreM Sept. 27.-jPMVith two thirds of the dwellings in the town burned tures on fire, the town of Kan ing according to information received here by telephone from I Miss Evelyn Mancient, chief telephone operator at Bandon, short ly after midnight. f Flames were! licking at the windows of the concrete tele- phone office as Miss Mancient and her companion on the switch- board were preparing to flee to safety.' The courageous operator said the fire situation north of the town became serious about noon and that the first Bandon build i ing caught fire about 8 p. m. She declared fire fighting equip- ment being rushed from Marshf icld and Coquille would be unable ' to halt the inferno. miss Mancient said tne town i but that it was doubtful how long j NEWPORT, Ore., Sept. 26--Fanned by a high east wind, j flames were threatening to destroy the little resort town of De l poe Bay in northern Lincoln county tonight as fire fighters battled blazes throughout the western portion of the county.. I Fire fighting apparatus was 1 ana Toieao. TiffARSHFIELDp Ore., Sept. 26. (AP) Bandon, 38 miles JjfJ, south of here, was reported on fire tonight as savage 1 - forest blazes! turned Coos and Curry counties into a rag ing inferno. Telephone connection between here and the be sieged town were broken when Bandon telephone operators received orders to leave their posts. The town has a popula tion of about 1,500. t Fire equipment was being rushed to Bandon from larshfield and Coquille. - Throughout jthe two counties fires were destroying hun dreds of acres o timberland as more than a thousand CCC then and other workers battled the flames. Eight stage loads of men from Portland passed O , through here en route to the var ious fronts, i Gold Beach, 30 miles south of Bandon and the largest town in urry county, was inaccessible from both north and south on tlie Coast highway and Siskiyou national forest headquarters re ported it could not be reached by telephone. Unverified reports said lames were lapping at the edge &t Myrtle Point in eastern Coos county. The f ire- zone extended as far north as Scottsburg in Douglas County, 4 3 miles north of here. Marshf ield and North Bend, pop ulation centers of this region, did pot appear to be In danger al though several spots were on fire in slashings between them, in cluding one small fire within the jviarshfield city limits. f j A sinister note was added by Statements of Marshfield police that at least some of the fires were clearly of incendiary origin. (Turn to page 10, col. 2) West Salem Boy I Reported Missing l Kenneth McVey, 12, of West Salem, was reported to Salem po lice last night as having been missing from his home since 6 a.m. He has run away from home several times previously, officers ssald. ' . I The lad Is five jfeet tall, weighs TO pounds, and has blue eyes and light hair. He was believed wear ing a white sweater, blue waist. overalls and black oxfords. He may have taken his young shep-. herd dog with him, police were advised.: I Sent prison. Governor Martin said. Tha population of the institution now approximates 1000. Good Time Allowed To First Offenders Previous offenders will serve their entire, sentences while first offenders were allowed five days a month good time credit. 'Nine prisoners under '21 years of age previously were transfer red from the penitentiary to the state training school . for boys. This order also was made to re lieve congested conditions at the prison. There are no prisoners in the penitentiary, from other Oregon counties serving terms of lees 3 than one. year. Prisoners to be returned' to (Turn to page 10, coL 3)' Hit; Citizens Forced to Flee of Tiniberland in Town Reported as Rushed to Aid down and several business struc don appeared doomed this morn- was still accessible by nignway the road would stay open. rushed to Depoe Bay from here Fruit Men Plead For Labor Peace SEATTLE, Sept. 26-(T)-Thir-ty - five representatives of the fruit industry, in Oregon and Washington at a meeting here to- day warned steamship operators and maritime unions that a wat erfront tie-up would seriously af fect the fruit industry. . The growers and shippers from Medford, Haod River, Yakim and Wenatchee appointed a com mittee to impress on the water front employers, and employes me seriousness or the situation which confronts the fruit industry at this time." . ' Myron S. Foster, chairman of the committee, said: "We are not Informed as to the merits of the controversy between the employers and employes, but ' the industry we represent insists that those responsible for the movement of this fruit take im mediate steps to assure that Pa cific coast ports will be kept open for the free and unobstructed movement of apples and pears." South Dakota Lad Held, Auto Theft Jack Stoner, who said he was 15 and from Sturgess, S. D., was arrested by state and city police at 7:15 last night in possession of an automobile reported stolen, during the afternoon from Hill boro. District Attorney William H. Trindle, Baying the lad admit ted the theft, said he would be returnedVto Hillsboro. The automobile, -registered to Laurel G. Heinrich, Cornelius, was spotted by a downtown service station operator, who telephoned for police. Service Bureau For Women . - The Women's Department of . 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