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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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