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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.
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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
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Wind is So reading
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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
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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. '
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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
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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
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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
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Loyali
First Naval Battle of Spanish
War Looms; Loyal Ships on Way
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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