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.... v...: . . jl ! .f sSSr yrx .jTl T TV--- ...... .. ....... . 7antedrA Joh! By Mickey Mouse. LJk snany nolhrr promising' young fellow, he's uncm ployed. Follow .. his adrca- twN In The Statewmaa er ery day. r. The Weather . Clear today and Friday with fo2 on roast. Maximum ' tc-taperature Wed. 104. MJn. ' -B7. Rrrer Northwest triad. V KICIITY-KKillTII VKAR 3 -- , Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, July 21, 1933 Price 3c; Newsstands & No. Bf(Q) A 7 V .ea 5s y .mess : i is l "v. v v v vr ums u v. peuNDdD 1651 - t ' ?!:' ICD4 M(D)F.(C Mil .ker:. Project ! let Fund; But Hopes Dim 'Action on Umatilla Dam not Criterion, Says . Donald Macleay Says Small Local Setup May Be Necessary for Cooperation Hop for the allocation of PWA fund to Urt the Wil Lamett Valley project this year ia not entirely extinct but neither Is .. the jrospect bright, Donald Macleay, -attorney from Washing ton. DC.vho baa been aasistins - la TDraBttng the project back ers there, told a group of Salem business men Wednesday. Action of Harold Ickes, head of PWA, in refusing auch funds for the Umatilla project is . not precisely a criterion of what the decision may be on the Willam ette Valley project, because the Umatilla project had only the army engineers' approral and uot congressional approTal. Macleay explained; but a similar ruling on the Red Rirer project Is more applicable to the situation here. . Congress has authorized 911. 300.000 expenditure on the Wil lamette valley project but has not appropriated the money, Macleay explained. The authorization was made in a bill which Includes about 1300,000.000 for such pur poses; the army engineers have approved projects' which will cost altogether. If built, about a bil lion dollars. Engineers Hare Allocation. Even when the appropriation is made, probably by the next congress, for this portion of the flood control work, allocation of the funds to various projects will be solely . up to - tbs - army -en-, gtneers. he explained, this pro gram being an improvement over the old "pork barrel" method of making specific allocations In congress. . The result of this change, how ever, is that groups Interested in the Willamette Valley project must first cooperate with other groups to get the appropriation through congress, and then com pete with their recent collabora tors to get a portion of It--for their own project, before the chief of army engineers whose decision Is final. Although $11,300,000 expendi ture was authorized. $5,800,000 will be the top limit of any al location to this project the first year, Macleay indicated. And al though the requirement for' local financial participation that was Included In the 1936 flood con trol law was virtually wiped out by the act passed in the closing days of the recent session, it will be necessary for Oregon to set up" some sort .of agency to be responsible for a possible small local contribution, and for other cooperation which may Include condemnation of land needed for the project since It may be ruled that the federal government can not condemn land for an intra state project. Klpp Kays Iiw To Be Sought . . It. ILKipp. executive secretary of the project committee, said legislation to this effect would be sought from the 1939 state legislature, after consultations with the army engineers as to just what type of agency should be established. Macleay mentioned that I the Willamette Valley project was' one of the biggest projects, in relation to area Involved, among the many approved by the- army 'engineers. ' - Douglas McKay, chairman of the project committee, said co operation and support in the val ley was growing rapidly after gtme early skepticism. Lane county people are leading In the fight since their lands suffer the major damage, with Marion county In second place. Yamhill county is now taking active in terest. McKay reported. It was agreed by all who spoke that the project must be actively promoted before congress and be fore the army engineers, If the remaining barriers are to be re moved and construction started. Probe Is Ordered Of Tunnel Blast BALTIMORE, July JO.-fcPy-Im-. mediate Investigation of a dyna mite blast that killed 10 men and Injured six others working deep Inside a new water tunnel part ( a $5,300,000 PWA project was ordered tonight by Mayor Howard W. Jackson, Fourteen workmen were tamp ing down charge of 450 pounds of dynamite when the detonation mushroomed out of the solid rock, blasting men and rocks to bits. Seven were killed outright; three others died In hospitals. All were negroes Valley MayG Hero Business Souring On Corrigan, Who Says Free Plane not Wanted Plans to Sail for Home Middle of Next Week With Five Steamship Lines Begging Him to Be Guest Aboard Their Liners ! DUBLIN, July 20. ( AP) This hero business is rap idly turning sour to the taste of Douglas G. (west is east) Corrigan, and he doesn't want anybody to give him an air plane; , . . ., ; In the midst of a busy day in which he had a good many new ideas, received congratulations from important people, Montana Renames Demo 'Freshmen9 Big Day for the Irish as O'Connell, O'Connor 1 Are Nominated HELENA, Mont., July 20 JPi I Montana democrats renominat ed the state's two 'freshmen" congressmen for second terms, unofficial and incomplete returns from (yesterday's primary elec tions Indicated today. Rep. Jerry J. O'Connell, who told voters President Roosevelt instructed him to "defeat Sena tor Wheeler's machine so he wouldn't be back in 1940," was conceded renomination In the first district by his leading rival, Payne Templeton, Helena super intendent of schools. James F. O'Connor of Living ston, Incumbent, ran nearly 5 to 2 ahead of his only rival. H. D. Rolph of Joplln, farmers' union leader. In the second congres sional district. In the first district, the unof ficial retu rns from 327 precincts of 413 gave O'Connell 19.693; Templeton 15.140; Maggie Smith Hathaway - l.f : T.- J. -Collins 4.605.' and Eugene BurrU. who withdrew but whose name ap peared on ballots, 849. Unofficial returns from 561 precincts from 800 In the second district were: O'Connor 29,919; Rolph 12.415. j Chinese Line Firm As Japan Attacks SHANGHAI. July 20.-(i!PWaP-anese failed today to break Chi nese lines for an advance up the Yangtze river toward Hankow, provisional Chinese capital. Chinese entrenched on the riv er banks held fast against air. planes and river boat guns at tempting to puncture the defen ses In a "big push" which had Kl ukiang. 135 miles below Hankow, as Its Immediate objective. Two Japanese warships shelled Chinese positions at Hukow, at the mouth of. Lake Poyang and IS miles downstream from Kiuklang Three others attempted to force a passage npstream but were re pulsed by land batteries. Chinese air headquarters an nounced several Japanese trans ports had arrived off Hukow, only to be bombarded ' by Chinese planes. One of the river craft was said to have been sunk. Hoinemaker Camp Dates Are Named COR VALLIS. July 20 The State college extension ser vice set the dates today for eight hoinemaker camps for 20 Oregon counties. The camps are estab lished annually to give farm wom en a vacation. Attendance at the camps costs about $ 1 a day and enables rural women to have a vacation from their; arduous tasks. The. dates Include: Benton. Linn, Yamhill, and i Marlon counties at Long Bow. July 27-31. Lewis (Sinclair, Blue About Boston's Culture COHASSET. Mass., July 20.-()-Sinclalr Lev? Is, Nobel prlxe novelist who temporarily revamp ed himself Into an actor for the summer tourist trade, was ready tonight to make his professional bow with no pre - performance Jitters, but a bad case of "blues" about Boston and Cambridge cul ture. : i "It's beyond all belief that Bos ton with Its tradition of culture and Its history In the , American theater, should be without a play at this time or any time and Its people forced to go to Cohas set to see one," said the red-haired author, who will play the lead, beginning July' 25, In a dramatic adaptation of his own book, "It Can't Happen Here." , "We talk about being superior Oand looked over cables offering marriage, movie contracts and what not, the young Callfornian who flew from New York to Dub lin (by mistake) declared: "I certainly hope " they have stopped being Corrigan-mad when I get back to America." Informed of a report that the advertising club of Newark, N. J., was opening a campaign to collect $25,000 to present him a new plane, Corrigan said: "I hope they don't do any such thing. I don't deserve it at all. I appreciate the spirit in which they are planning it, but this contri bution business isn't right In view of the circumstances of my trip." The flier, who hopped the At lantic in a $900, plane and con tended all the time that he really (Turn to page 2, col. 1 ) Kidnaping Charged Portland Lawyer Arrested on FBI "Warrant for Alleged Aid to Extortion Plot PORTLAND, Ore., July 20(JP) United States District Attorney Carl C. Donaugh said Isadore G. Ankella, Portland attorney, had been arrested today: on federal charges of kidnaping and con piracy In connection with the al leged extortion of $970 from Thomas Lowe, Idaho farmer. Donaugh said Ankelis was ac cused of advising and assisting Anthony Garguilo and Lee W. Tombleson, Portland special po lice officer, in the alleged extor tion plot. Ankelis was arrested by federal bureau of Investiga tion men on a telegraphic war rant from Spokane. Garguilo and Tombleson, ar rested here, waived . preliminary hearing and were taken to Spok ane Monday. They were accused to posing as federal " officers, "arresting'? Lowe in Idaho and taking him to Spokane where he deposited $970 with, them as "bail." Donaugh said he would sign a removal complaint against Ankelis tomorrow. Pact-Governor's Ticket Suspended HARRISBURG, Pa., July 20 (5J)-George H. Earle became "non-flying" governor tonight when his chief of aeronautics lifted the chief executive's flying license for two weeks ; after a crack-up. . I Colonel Camllle ? Vinet. who taught the governor to fly and lat er became head of the state aero nautics bureau, grounded the gov ernor. ' - i ' ' - -i Ajfew hours earlier, fikrle, fly ing through fog, had to land on the campus of a college near Philadelphia. He clipped the top of a tree, hopped a fence, smacked a wing into another tree and" emerged with painful bruises, vl : He promptly called for another plane and flew back to Harrls burg. : l ..- Penitent but grinning, Earle re turned to the capital and heard the bad news from Vinet. hot John LS) to fascist countries ! of Europe." continued -the man whose' stage role will be that of an anti-fascist Vermont newspaperman, - "and we talk about being superior to com munistic Russia, but at the same time we have cities like Boston lacking In theater one of the most definite signs of culture an 3 civilised enjoyment of life." ' j And Lewis, who. In his novels, has .bewailed the "Babbitts" of life '.and the narrow-track minds along any, town's "Main Street.' also had a tear to shed for theater-less Cambridge. : "Has Cambridge, site of famed Harvard university, given up Its traditions also?" asked - Yaleman Lewis, who got hij first training in histrionics with student play ers of the Ella. Morgan Claims Hush-Hush on TVA Employes Congressional Prohc of Federal Agency Has -Stormy Session Deposed Chairman States "Workers Told not to , Talk With Him KNOXVILLE. Tenn., July 20 (Jp) Charges by Dr. Arthur E. Morgan that TVA officials In structed employes "not to talk" with him stirred a storm today in the congressional Investigation of the federal agency. The deposed chairman testi fied workers told him they were under orders to discuss the Ten nessee Valley Authority's activ ities only by permission and that he could interview them only by making arrangements through Francis Biddle, counsel for the Investigating confmittee and In the presence of committee coun sel. Jekins and Biddle In Quarrel During the tempest Dr. Mor gan's statements stirred, Repre sentative Jekins (R-O) Inferred Biddle was "In cahoots" with the TVA. "If that kind of dirty slur comes again, sir," retorted Bid dle angrily, "I will resign as counsel at once." I think," replied Jenkins. "You will do the committee and this country a great favor If you do." Dr. Morgan leveled a barrage of charges against his former associates, TVA directors Har court . Morgan and David E. Lil ienthal, saying .there was a "ruthless disruption of a project that Is heart-breaking." Ke previously had testified that - Lillenthal and , Hareourt Morgan engaged In Intrigue, held "secret meetings, and adopted (Turn to page 2, col. 4) Longshorers Stop At Picket Cordon PORTLAND. July 20.-(JP)-Longshoremen thrice refused to day to pass picket lines of the CIO . lumber union at the west Oregon sawmill, precipitating a demand by the Chamberlin Steam ship company representative that the Waterfront Employers associ ation recognise the refusal to load Its vessel, the W. R. Chamberlin Jr., with 2.500,000 feet of west Oregon lumber. ' The steamship company con tended that the longshoremen were not adhering to their con tract with the employers but longshoremen answered that a clause of the contract specified that they need not work under haxardous conditions. The picket lines was regarded as such by the longshoremen. The CIO has started picketing the mill since It signed a con tract with the AFL for hiring of employes. Previously ' the CIO had been designated by the labor board as bargaining agent at the mill. - Concentration of Air Forces Will Be Held in North FT. LEWIS Representatives of Brigadier General . Delos C. Emmons, commanding the first wing, GHQ air force, stationed at March field, near Riverside, Calif., and Hamilton field, near San Rafael, Calif., called on Major General Walter C. Sween ey, commanding the 3d division and Fort Lewis, this week to discuss arrangements for a con centration of the first wing of the GHQ air force In the Pacific northwest area during the period of August 8 to 15. The representatives, who flew to Fort Lewis from their sta tions - in California, were Major Harold A. McGlnnls, air corps, and Major Howard K- Ramey, air corps. According to present plans for the concentration, the first wing GHQ air-force will he divided In to three groups, to be located at McChord field, near Tacoma. Pearson f 1 1 d. Vancouver Bar racks and Felts field. Spokane. Chaco 3 Agreement Finally Finished BUENOS AIRES, July 2 Representatlves of the Bolivian and Paraguayan governments to day approved the Chaco peace agreement negotiated under neu tral auspices here, virtually com pleting the second phase of long negotiations to prevent a resump tion of the Chaco war. .. . , Sabotage iti CampDravi?s Chairman F '' 1 . ' '-..- V e"awaus. - ; it , "" '--K- " . - " "'' - . Lj - -. f- ' - '' ' V . - a '"-"' Predicts ; Party to Be Strongly Welded Despite "Ceaseless Efforts to Sow Disharmony ? Appoints Executive Committee ; PORTLAND, July 20. (AP) Asserted attempts of political strategists to nurture a "slight disaffection in par ty ranks into a serious rift Were censured today by ' Frank Tierney, newly-elected state jchairman of the democratic par ty in a statement accompanying his appointments of f an ex ecutive committee, i J i He predicted that "in spite of O the ceaseless efforts to seed dis harmony where there Is only ;a slight disaffection," the party would be strongly welded by the November election and would un animously support the ticket. Tierney Identified the incident only as a "sore spot," but presum ably he meant the schism between supporters of Henry L. Hess and Gov. Charles H. Martin, who ws defeated by Hess for the democra tic nomination. ) The chairman selected Senator A. Evan Reames, Medford, as hon orary chairman and W, J. Con rad, Marshfield, as chairman of the ' executive committee. Other members will be C. A. Robertson. West Salem, Tierney's main op ponent for the state office, M. F. Corrigan, McMinnville, O. S. Blan chard, Grants Pass, Mrs. Gertrude Dale, Eugene, Charles S. Leavltf, Vale, George R. Wilbur, Hood River, Albert Kemmer, Beaver ton, and Del Parker, , Bend. T The committee, and three vice presidents, U. S. Burt,, Corvallls, Robert Bradford, LaGrande, and Walter B. Gleason, Portland, for the executive board. ' 'i New Deal Power ram Republican Strategists Plan Campaign for I Senate Races i WASHINGTON, July 29 (JP Strategists singled out the ad ministration's power program to day as a major point of attack In the senatorial campaigns. Senator Townsend i (R-Del), chairman of the republican sen atorial campaign committee, said he considered the attempts by the administration to expand Its pub lic" power programs ' a "live Is sue" because It affected millions of voters who had Invested In private utilities. The senator Intimated that a direct appeal would be made to women voters who were utility stockholders. Many women, he said, had Invested their savings In public utility companies and these Investments now were (Turn to page 2, col. Ik Greeks Expecting More Earthquakes ATHENS, July 20.-iT-Frlght-ened Inhabitants were warned today that more shocks might: be expected to follow, a morning earthquake which' scattered wreckage across much of ancient Greece. : v.; ; Incomplete estimates were that 20 persons were killed and 100 injured in today's shock, the strongest felt In this country' in modern times.. Twenty miles north of Athens, gaping fissures swallowed houses but the capital Itself suffered no serious damage. Torrential rain fall which - followed the earth quake hampered rescue work. In some places Red Cross tents were washed away. RememberHuglies? He's to Meet Hull WASHINGTON. July 20-Fr-Howard Hughes, 'record-breaking round-the-world filer, : will rislt the nation's capital tomorrow and be received by the highest rank ing officer of the government now In Washington.;.' ; - . :. 1 Hughes will be received by Sec retary of State Hull at the ; state department. President Roosevelt Is fishing In Mexican' waters and .Vice-President Garner Is In Texas, thus making Hull the highest of ficial here. .: v-; 1 . The flier Is expected to go - di rectly to the state department up on his arrival In Washington, . I: Hughes will speak at: a lunch eon at the National Press club to morrow. The speech will be broad cast, starting at 1:30 p.m. (EST) over two national networks. Prog Targe Democratic Censure 'pf rank.Tierney Martial Law Rules After Strike ot National Guards i ; Break up Fighting Around Maytag Factory . h NEWTON, la., July ! If! 0.-(-This community of 12, 000 persons operated under the command of national guard officers., tonight after early morning street fight ing around the Maytag jwashin? machine factory sent one person to a hospital and a scope home with cuts and bruises. 1 1 The street riot. In whch near ly 500 persons participated, broke out like a flash and. ended just as suddenly when national guardsmen appeared on the scene. It lasted only 20 minutes, hut during that time there were 20 different fights, one .man suf fered a slight concussion of the skull, a policeman was ' knocked down and kicked, a constable lost his gun, several persons received cuts and bruises that? required treatment at doctors' offices, and many received tears i n their clothes. Principals ' were CIO union strikers at the Maytag washing machine factory, their wives, oth er strike sympathizers and back-to-work advocates. f National guard troops, who ar rived on the scene three hours earlier to prevent just; such a feared outbreak, were eating breakfast at their camp on the edge of the city when the trouble broke out. 1 1 . Police, unable to cope fwith the fights, summoned the guardsmen, (Turn to page 2, co 1) Spanish Strategy Denied by Nazis . i LONDON, July 20 -p)- Ger many has "categorlcallyjdenled" a British newspaper report that she has "strategic alms"'4n Spain directed against France and Brit ain, Prime Minister Neville Cham berlain told the house of commons today. . Chamberlain disclosed that Her bert Voni Dirksen, the'- German ambassador, had called at the for eign office to deny the alleged motives. - i t The News Chronicle said Ger many had plotted a long-range plan for cutting vital French and British lines of communication to their respective colonies and for using air bases in Spain land Por tugal. : i Teamsters Ignore Safeway Pickets PORTLAND. July 20JPyAA vised by their officials that a con tract with the Safeway stores In suring deliveries would he In validated If a picket line estab lished by the Retail u Grocery Clerks union was observed, the AFL teamsters' union, by a rising vote, agreed to ignore : the ,Une The clerks union called a strike because of the non-lnclusilon of store managers In a contract. Fishbein Questions Medical Aid Program of Government - WASHINGTON, July 29 Dr. , Morris Fishbein of the Amer ican Medical association; question ing the soundness of the adminis tration's proposed $850,000,000 health program, likened. It today to an attempt to fly to Ireland vdhnnt nroBcr eaulnmeet. . Asserting that "medicine Is a different finainesa than 'flTlnr to Ireland," the editor of the associ ation's Journal suggested In an ad dress to the national health con ference that It needed to deter mine whether the program was a safe map" for charting a future course. . v-1 R " " He made It abundantly clear, In restrained language, that he him self did not regard the program as Asks for- Probe:: i Of Jimmy's Tax REP. HAMILTON FISH, Jr. Ham Fish Wants Roosevelt Probe States Congress Should Blake Study of James' Insurance Sales POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., July 20-rVRep. Hamilton Fish, Jr., (R-NY) said In an address tonight that ! the next congress "should in sist upon a thorough and impar tial Investigation" of the Income tax and insurance activities of James Roosevelt. Fish denfed that he and the president's son sought insurance from a utility company as con tended in a recent mazagine (Sat urday Evening Post) article Fish sought unsuccessfully two. years ago to have congress Inves tigate James Roosevelt's income tax returns. Young Roosevelt Is his father's secretary. , Pick-a-Back Plane Crosses Atlantic ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, July 21, (Wednesday) (jpy The seaplane Mercury reported at 11:30 p. m., PST (Wednesday) she was In the vicinity of Cape Ball, tip of Newfoundland, and heading, directly for Montreal, without making a Newfoundland stop. She expected to reach' Mon treal early this morning. FOYNES, Ireland, July 2 1 (Thursday) (P) The unique British pick-a-back seaplane Mer cury,.; upper half of a composite" "twcAn-one" aircraft, was push ing through headwinds over the Atlantic early today on a 2,-000-mlle, flight. to Botwood, New foundland. ' The comparatively small, heavily-loaded Mercury took off. from the back of Its parent ship Mala 1,000 feet above the River Shan-, non here today at 8 p. m., Brit ish summer time, Wednesday (2:00 p. m. EST) and pointed westward for its first transoceanic flight. The two craft had left the water as one, locked together by secret devices. - - Diver Splits Skull On Greek Bottom A broken neck, a possible skull fracture and . at least temporary paralysis of the legs and arms was sustained yesterday afternoon by G. W. Drury, 17, as the result of a dive 'Into South Silver Creek near the entrance to the Silver Creek Falls recreational area. '' Drury dived from the bridge. about six feet from the water, and hit. his head on the bottom, ac cording to. C. M. , Charlton, lty first aid car officer. A CCC doc tor" attended Drury when first pulled from the water, and tele phoned for Salem's first aid car. He did . not wish to risk moving the Injured boy . without proper equipment. . ' . "- , The Injured boy was brought to the Deaconess hospital here. the answer to the problem of at taining adequate medical care for all and thought It had been pre pared without regard for many factors which could not be exclud ed, i .wr W ; "A program planned In the light of conditions In this country during, the past 10 years cannot be a far-reaching program planned for a nation which Is to go forward during the next 10 years," he said. - , " "It Is inconceivable that any nation like the. United. States can look forward to a future In which there will always be eleven1 mil lion workers unemployed, and yet the health program planned here is a program planned on the basis of such conditions." . Forest Fires Still Roaring : -;Wbb dlaiids Temperature t Highest Since July, 1935, When 107 Registered 6000 Acre Smith River.r , Blaze Temporarily Uiider Control Three years of heat records were broken Wednesday when the government thermometer at the airport registered a maximum of 104.2 degrees at 4:30 p. m. The most recent mark exceeding Wed nesday's temperature was 107 de grees on July 14, 1935. Salem's all-time high- was recorded in 1927, 108 degrees, although the accuracy of that mark was dis puted, an Inexeprienced observer being on duty at the time. There was little wind to mit igate the severity of Wednesday's heat, and downtown, thermo meters which registered 110 de grees or more were no doubt approximately accurate for their positions near j heat-reflecting pavements. s The afternoon maximum was a rise of 12 degrees from Tues day's high mark of 92. Modera' tion after sundown Wednesday was slight and it was still uncom fortably warm at midnight. No relief was promised until Friday at the earliest, A new record for number of swimmers In Leslie pool was set by persons seeking to escape the heat, 2893 being registered. The dinger registration for the day was 1770. SEATTLE, July 20 UP) The vast Campbell river conflagration in British Columbia took the spotlight on the northwest forest fire front tonight,., but on scores of other fronts thousands of men. continued their dogged fight. The Canadian fire, on Vancou ver Island, roared before a wiad to. menace new settlements, and the navy department sent two de stroyers to evacuate fighters and residents of beleaguered towns if need be. Most Pacific northwest cities had their tenth day of abnormal ly warm temperatures. . Medford, Ore., reported 108.2. hottest since July 13, 1915, when It was 110. Oregon City -had 105. hottest since 19 3 3, and Albany, Ore., 101, breaking a season record. , Portland reported 101, hottest since Aug. 12, 1935, but this did not Jibe with US weather bureau figures at Seattle,. which, gave the Rose City 100 degrees. It was 102 at Walla Walla, 102 at Roseburg, 100 at Yakima, 98 at Spokane and 89 at Seattle. . A 50-acre fire In Weyerhaeu ser Timber Co. holdings on Hay den mountain between Bead and Klamath Falls' was controlled by crews recruited from the De schutes national forest. The advance wall ot the C.000 acre Smith River fire in western Lane county. Ore., was halted at least temporarily along the Ump qaa divide by an augmented crew of 1,300 men. A brisk northeast wind hampered efforts, however. -' Two hundred woodsmen w e r, e sent from Medford to O r 1 e ato rf, Calif., on the lower Klamath Tf Iver to aid In fighting a fire there. A 24-hour battle by 350 'men ended In controlling a fire which burned over 1,500 acres of slash ings, down logs and standing fir 20 miles east of Marshfield. The road between Drain and Scdttsburg was ordered elosed by the state highway commission yes terday, because of fire conditions. Officials said the fire was ap proaching the highway and that motor travel Jn that section .was hazardous.-' , . Groceryman Gets Thiers Four-Bito PORTLAND, July 20&P) Francis Hart was 50 cents richer today because he was quicker than a thief and the thief was that much poorer. Hart raid the man entered his grocery and bought a bottle of wine for SO cents, then - grabbed at the cash register when - Hart opened it. Hart slammed It shut and the man ran. leaving behind the wine bottle, v v Steam Radiator's Service Unnecded PORTLAND. July 20 (JP) D. munUIpl court, mopped his brow Gf-Willemin, chief clerk of the and. remarked what a hot day it was. In fact. It was the hot test day of the year here with the thertnometer touching- 100 but 'for Willemin It was even warmer. He had his team radia tor on. This afternoon it was considerably cooler in Willemin's office. r
