4'
Dcrn .Demons! '
The Dent Demons are
raining the kababbage 'crop
and It's quite a problem for
King Kweepea and Fopeye.
Follow 'them on the comic
The Weather
Clear today and Saturday
with fog on coast; Matimiina
temperatare Thura. 103,
Mia. ex River -3.2 feet.
Korthwest wind.
EIGHTY-EIGHTH YEAK
Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, July 22, 1938
Prier 3c; Newsstands 6
No. 103
TVA Minutes
Ordered Held
To Be Probed
Action Comes Following
Testimony That They
Were Changed . -
Morgan "Wins Point "When
Rule Against Him Is -Ordered
Revoked
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.. July 21.
-(JP) A congressional investiga
tion committee today ordered the
minutes of the Tennessee valley
authority's board of directors im
pounded,' after a 'witness testified
of "changed entries.". -
This action followed conclusion
of testimony by deposed TVA
Chairman Dr. Arthur E. Morgan,
who gained a major point when
the committee set-aside regula
tions which had prevented his in'
terviewing TVA employes without
permission of officials. .
Late today Charles Hoffman
assistant secretary to the board,
testified that on "15 or 20 occa
sions" the minutes- had beea
changed "mostly by Mr. Llllen
thal." He referred to TVA Direct
or David Lilienthal.
-Hoffman also testified James
Lawrence Fly, TVA "general coun
sel. Instructed him pot' to 1iave
any contact with Dr. Arthur E.
Morgan, deposed chairman of the
federal agency.
Hoffman said Fly became" con
cerned over two stateir--.s mad
by Lilienthal which went Into the
minutes November 2, 1933. The
statements later were deleted
from the record.
One . of them, he said, . was a
statement that Wendell- L. Wil
Ikie. president of the common
wealth and southern corporation
agreed to make an arrangement
tutderV' which r certain , electric
properties were" to be transferred
from private to public ownership.
The other, Hoffman testified,
concerned applications of north
Alabama towns for PWA loans
for 'purchasing private power fa
cilities. Shortly after Hoffman's state
ments, the TVA released a letter
from Lilienthal to committee
Chairman Vic Donahey. CD-Ohio)
giving the director!- explanation.
Lilienthal said v,ihe" board's
secretary. In dralttae.vthe" min
utes, did not give Van1 ' accurate
summation of hUVfepoTt on ne
gotiations with WJllaie.- and for
that reason It was deleted.
The second Item;' Lilienthal
said, dealt with a statement that
he had consulted Secretary of In
terior Ickes requesting "Immed
iate action on applications for
learn to build municipal distribu
tion plants In the Alabama towns.
Dr. Morgan, whose charges of
mismanagement against his for
mer associates. Lilienthal and
Harcourt A. Morgan, present
TVA chairman, led to the probe,
precipitated a storm before the
committee yesterday by charg
ing TVA employes had been in
structed not to talk except In
tbe presence of the committee's
counsel.
Concluding his opening testi
mony today. Dr. Morgan fired
one' parting shot charging that
-TVA legal opinions were made
to fit the desires of the direc
tors." Lilienthal and - Hai-court
Morgan. . ,
FSC to Purchase
Flour for Relief
WASHINGTON. July 21 (JP)
The Federal Surplus Commodities
corporation said today It would
buy about 1.000.000 barrels of
wheat flour for states to distrib
ute to families on .relief.
The corporation In the last
two months has bought 2,902,225
barrels of wheat products. In
cluding flour and' cereal, at a
cost of 111,751,000. .
The new flour purchase will
remove about 4.500,000 bushel
of surplus wheat from regular
market channels, officials' said.
They added that additional pur
chases may be made from time
to time this year.
Pickled JFish
Evidence out
As Heat Rises
YAKIMA, July 2!-Yak-ima's
beat ot 104 degree to
day was too much for federal
court evidence stored; la the
vault and Deputy Clerk Thorn
" aa Granger found . several bot
ties, the odor from which filled
the federal building, had bro-
ken open. - ' ': ':.. . "'-" ;;v'o '':
The buttles contained pick-
led fish. - '
The fish bad beeax evidence
Ja a-Bounevllle "1 laud condem
nation suit heard last term.
- Grtr " destroyed the fish.
Wins First Ro ifJ
In Probe o'tffA
I ' I
DR. ARTHUlt E. MORGAN" ;
0
Charles P. Howard" Dies
of Heart Attack; Was
1 CIO's Secretary 1
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo .
July Sl.--Charles P. Howard,
president of the International
Typographical union, died of a
heart; attack tonight at a Colora
do Springs hotel. He was 58.
Howard, subject to hea-t at
tacks during the last four or five
years, came ; Into the hotel thi
evening, went to his room and lay
down-on his bed. : . i -
Hia wife, Mrs. Margaret Hew-;
ard, went to the . room ' a short
time 'later and found his body.
She said he apparct'-y died while
asleep. ;
Howard b ame president of
tbe International Typographical
union in 1922 upon the death of
John ! McFarland and held the
post until 1924 when James M.
Lynch " was elected. Howard was
elected Lynch's successor In 1926
and held the office until his de
feat for re-election, by Claude M.
Baker of San Francisco.
Howard was secretary of John
L. Lewis' committee for Industrial
organization. Baker was an Am
erican Federation of Labor sup
porter In the referendum cam
paign. Baker was to succeed Howard
as president September 1.
Corrigan lo Sail
For US July 30
DUBLIN, July 21-i!P)-Dougla8
O. Corrigan, tbe California me
chaiiic with a peculiar sense of di
rection, bundled his nine-year-old
trans-Atlantic plane onto the
United States maritime commis
sion : steamship Lehigh today - for
its homecoming. - , . , .
He booked passage tor himself
on the United States linerMan
hattan, sailing from Ctobp July 30,
wistfully pondering his favorite
and faster mode of transporta
tion.' '. -i . .-'i--- , , : ;.rt: :
Commenting on today's highly
scientific Atlantic crossing of the
pickaback plane Mercury, Corri
gan said: .v-.
. "I sure wish I could .have been
on her. At least they knew where
they were going. Perhaps It's bet
ter that way."
Grass Fire in Portland
Threatens Dozen Homes
PORTLAND, Ore.. July 21-(P)
A Stubborn 20-acre brush and
grass fire at southwest Sixty-First
avenue and Barbur boulevard
threatened a dosen homes before
It was controlled tonight. H. R.'
Moy, county fire warden, said it
started from a burning trash pile.
50,000 Poilus
King George
PARIS. Jly 21 (JP) The
union of French and British
armed might was sealed - sym
bolically today when 50,000
French fighting men , -and the
newest war machines passed in
review before King George VI
and President Albert Lebrun of
France, 1 - -' -:-
The bonds between Europe's
two greatest 'democracies were
further tightened by Lebrun' ac
ceptance of the British monarch'
invitation to Tislt England before
hi term as president 1 finished
in May, 1939.
The- president and - Madame
Lebrun probably will go to Lon
don within the first three month
of next year.
Typ
Suddenly
Mesit
Dirigible Is
Important
Pictu re, Says Rosendahl
Answers Accusation hy Ickes That He Changed His
Mind Alter Being "Wined and Dined"
by German ' Seekers of Helium
LAKEHURST, N. J., July 21. (AP) Commander
Charles E. Rosendahl, in charge of the naval air station here,
asserted tonight that the dirigible no longer fitted into the
military picture to any worthwhile extent in Europe.
America's most noted authority on lighter-than-air craft
issued a statement answering Secretary of Interior Ickes' as.
sertion that Rosendahl had chan-O1 1
ged his mind about the military
importance of helium after f being
"wined and dlned'Mn Germany.
T "The Washington statement,'
said Rosendahl, "is more than in
accurate, but undoubtedly due to
an almost . complete misunder
standing of what I have' said and
written on the subject at various
times." . '
Rosendahl then declared that
a "random selection of extracts
from any book cannot be de
pended upon to tell the full and
correct story nor to give proper
interpretation to the author's full
meaning" and insisted he had
been ''entirely consistent" in his
stand on the subject of dlrigiblee
and helium..
"It is true," . said said, "that 1
believe the zeppelin was ; an ef
fective weapon in the World war;
but times and weapons have
changed with the result that the
big airship does not fit Into the
military picture to a worthwhile
extent in Europe." '!,-.
He explained that modern air
planes and anti-craft guns which
did not exist in the World war
would be ; much more effective
against airships today.
Owen ; Wister Dies
Of B rain I DSeasfe
Author 1 of "Virginian"
Was 78; Was Friend
of Roosevelt I
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R. I.,
July 21 (JF) Death today clos
esd the career of Owen Wister,
famous novelist,' whose life had
many parallels with that of his
friend, former President Theo
ddre. Roosevelt. '
Wister died of cerebral hem
orrhage at his summer home af
ter an Illness of only a day. He
was 78.
Author of "The Virginian," he
attended' Harvard university with
Roosevelt and they became close
friends. Both were frail lo their
youth and both went west for
their health. Both wrote popular
books after their experiences in
the west.
Roosevelt Party
Explores Island
s 1 it. '
ABOARD USS HOUSTON, En
route to Panama, July 21--P)
Treacherous CHpperton Island,
675 miles off Acapulco, Mexico,
was examined in the interests of
science and navigation today by
members of President Roosevelt's
party, while the chief executive
added to his laurels as a fisher
man. '- ' ' '
'.President Roosevelt had great
luck . in a five-hour fishing ex
pedition in one of the Houston's
launches. The chief executive
and those with him returned with
five sharps, . one measuring six
feet In length, and a catch of
ether fish so heavy it had to be
hoisted aboard by the ship's
crane. ' '
Drowns in Rogue
GRANTS PASS, Ore., July 21-(f-Charles
Chapin, 28, drowned
in the Rogue river above this city
while attempting to measure the
depth of the water today. Chapin
could not swim. His body was sot
recovered..
Pass Before
VI and LeUrun
As a sequel to today's military
show, British War Minister Leslie
Hore-Beliaha and the chief of
the French general staff, .May.
Gen. Marie Gustavo Gamelin, It
was Announced, will eonf er to
morrow morning. - .-i".,
They are expected to ..review
the . Franco-British military co
operation - plan and take, further
steps . to assure effectiveness of
the military cooperation reached
at London - in April. '
The two will talk at Amiens
prior to; ceremonies at ; Viller
Bretonneaux in : which King
George will bring to a close his
and Queen ' Elizabeth's four-day
state visit, with, dedication of
Australia's national monument to
her ; World war dead.
' . .... . : .. . - :
no Longer
in Military
German Seaplane
Trying Crossing
Radios It Is Well Away
on New York Flight
1 at 11 p.m. EST
NEW YORK, July 21.-UP)-The
German seaplane Nordmeer wire
lessed that It was 1,000 miles
west and slightly north of the
Azores at 11 p. m. (EST) tonight,
flying - low over the Atlantic
waves enroute to'New York.
Headwinds slowed it to 135
miles per hour and stronger ones
were expected oft the American
coast. .
; Overcast skies forced the ship
to fly as low as 300 feet as it was
catapulted from the mother ship
in the Azores, but the 11 p. m
report to Pan-American Airways
here gave an altitude of 800.
j It is expected to dock at near
by Port Washington around 9:30
or 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
PONTA DELGADA, Azores,
July 21-(flJr-Tbe German catapult
seaplane Nordmeer hopped off
from - nearby . Fatal at -10 p.m.
Greenwich time (5 p.m." EST) to
night for Port Washington, NY.
r Capt. Joachim H. Blankenburo
was in command of tbe craft
which carried a crew of four. He
expected to reach Port Washing
ton around 9 a.m. (Eastern time)
tomorrow. . .
. I The Nordmeer took off from
the mothership Schwabenland for
the 23 9 0 mile ocean flight. '
Reduction in Bail
Is Denied Rosser
PORTLAND, Ore., July 21-053)
A defense motion for a reduction
of the bail of Al E. Rosser, former
head of the Oregon AFL Teamster
union who was convicted recently
of an arson charge, was denied
today by Presiding Judge Alfred
P. Dobson.
I Rosser recently was granted 20
days in which to make a motion
for a new trial. .
! Bail reduction; was also denied
Clarence Adams, former head of
the Teamsters', hall in Portland.
Rosser' ball in Multnomah
county where he ia under, indict
ment on six charges, totaled Slt.
600. His ball in Polk county,
where he is awaiting sentence, is
$25,000. Adams' bail totaled
$22,550 on five charges.
Daredevil Hurt
In Air
,PARMA, Idaho, July 21.H!P)
R.M. Fordyce, of the self-styled
"Fordyce death dodger s," re
ceived several broken ribs an i
other injuries today in a plunge
from a balloon stalled in midair.
( Fordyce, who planned a para
chute leap from the balloon as a
carnival feature, had to leap from
the craft at 300 feet when it fail
ed to rise higher. His parachute
opened spectators said, when he
Jras about SO feet above ground,
ust In time to break the full force
of the falL v .
Fordyce was taken to a hos
pital at nearby Caldwell.
Aid Crews Speed
To Rescue Miners
DUNCAN. Arlx., ' July., 21.-P)-
Rescue crews worked against time
today to release five men caught
by cave-in at the Veda mine, 12
miles from here. '
The - accident reportedly . hap
pened late last Bight, and since
then four, shifts of rescuers-have
been attempting to reach the men
before air In the mine became to 3
bad for them to breathe. '.-
.Name of - those trapped were
given a E. C Robinson. A. Gil
lingwater, E. V. Wright, Red
Drissholm and Albert Carlson.
f The mine is owned by the Veda
Mines company, Denver. '
Mishap
Soviet Spurns
2d Demand of
Japan Bluntly
Russia Says Territory iri
Dispute on Border Is
! Part of USSR
Litvinoff Tells Japanese,
; Diplomat Russia not i.
Easily Bluffed
MOSCOW, July 21 -(iip)-Soviet
Russia bluntly rejected today as
"unjustified and unacceptable" a
seco'nd Japanese demand for with
drawal ojf soviet troops from ter
ritory Japan declared belonged to
Manchoucuo. -
; A communique issued through
Aass (Russian official news ag
ency)' ald Russia regarded the
territory near the junction of Si
beria, Manchoukuo and Japanese
Korea, as indisputably a part of
Soviet Russia.
(Japanese contend soviet troops
invaded the area, near Changku
feng, July 11. In Tokyo tbe situ
ation has been regarded as ex
tremely serious. Tokyo ' newspa
pers have reported feverish activ
ity by soviet troops near Changku
feng.)
Litvinoff Tells of
Tokro Diplomat '
The communique said Foreign
Commissar .Maxim Litvinoff told
Japanese Ambassador M a m o r u
Shigemltsu that although threats
of armed force might be good di-
nlomacy elsewhere, "such meth
ods will not succeed in Moscow.'
"Soviet troops in this area hare
no other aim except defense of the
status quo on the Soviet frontier,'
Litvinoff was quoted as telling the
Jaoanese ambassador.
"The red army fully realizes its
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Marathon Walker
Is Near Eureka
EUREKA, Calif., July 1X.-JP)
-Adam Zlegler, San Franclsco-to-
Grants Pass marathoner, reached
Benbow, 77 miles south of here,
at 11 p. m. He was planning to
continue to Garbervllle, a dis
tance of two miles, where he
would rest for four hours, and con
tinue at 3 a. m.
The going was somewhat tough
today because of the heat and
Ziegler, who hopes to beat the rec
ord set by an Indian. Flying
Cloud, took two lengthy rests,
one of 65 minutes 12 miles north
of Willets, and one of two hours
at Laytonville. 1
He .said he was two hours be
hind the schedule he set for him
self, but ahead of the corres
ponding times for. Flying Cloud,
who traversed the route in 20
minutes less than seven days. .
life for Herder
YAKIMA, July 2 1 . - (P) - Two
faithful sheep dogs today. saved
the life of Frank Alvarez, 59.
when he was a.' " d by a bear
In the brush hear Signal Peak 50
miles from here, Archie Prior, his
employer, said tonight.
The bear, which was sleeping
jumped up as Alvarez passed.
knocked him down and' clawed
his arm. The two dogs then jump
ed the bear, snarling and biting.
They limped In later, both show
ing marks. of the bear's teeth. :
Alvarez was brright to a hos
pital here.
Montana Worn
TRAIL. B. C. JalT 21.-(CII
Dorothy. Arnold of H:na.
Mont., was' ir critical condition In
hospital here tonight, both her
legs terribly mangled - by the
heels of a frelaht train. Doctors
said it might be necessary to am
putate both members. ,
Police, who believed the wom
an formerly lived In Calgary, said
she apparently fell from a freight
train. Joha Smith of Calgary, wao
jumped from the train when Mlas
Arnold fell, was unhurt.
Chicago T Teacher ,
Hired at Whitman
WALLA WALLA, July 21.-()p)
-Thomas D. Howells of the Uni
versity of Chicago has been add
ed to the Whitman college faculty
as an instructor of .English, to
substitute for Dr. .-David LovetL
resigned because of ill health. -Dr.
Lovett is expected to return for
the second semester. ' "
Sheep
Dog
Mangles
De ficit -facing Treasury
Studies Possibility of
Socking Rich and Poor
; I - - ... j
Ninth Successive . Deficit ill Amount to Some
$4,000,000,000; Reduction of Personal'
Exemptions Given
v WASHINGTON. Julv 21.
with the prospect that its ninth
to some $4,000,000,000 this fiscal year, is studymg.the possi
bility of levying more, taxes on wealthy corporations, and lit
tie fellows. " t I
This was disclosed today
Silverton Red Sox
Win Finals Place
SqueeL" Wilson- Pitehes
No Hit Game as
Win 12 to 0
Sox
SILVERTON. Ore., July 521.
(Py-The -Silverton Red Sox moved
into the finals of the Oregon semi-
pro baseball . tournament ( tonight
with a 12 to 0 no-hlt, no-run vic
tory over Hills Creek, j - .
Silverton pounded out .'- four
runs in the first Inning, then con
tinued to bit at will, turning in a
total of 21 off three Hills Creek
pitchers. ' ; j 1
Bonney hit fire out of six
times up for Silverton, driving in
four runs. Squeek Wilson,: on the
mound for Silverton, pitched the
first no-hit, no-run game j of the
tourney.! . " . ''.;-!!-.'
Silverton will meet Edwards
Furniture tomorrow "night, for the
championship, " 1
Silverton-. . 12 21 2
Hills Creek 0 1 0 1
Wilson and Hauser; Wiltshire,
Brewer, B.Klsay, Mauney and
Bishop. iJ. . ':,'.':
' Silverton will meet Edwards
Furniture of Portland tonight at
8:30 in the first game ot 'a series
to decide the state semI-pro base
ball champion. i t
Edwards defeated Silverton I
to 2 in an. earlier game; In the
double elimination tourney.
Should Edwards win tonight it
would become champion j but In
event ot a Silverton win another
game must be played, sitjee Ed
wards would have been i beaten
only once. , T
Winner of the' championship
will meet the Washington state
champion team in a series to de-
. a a
ciae me regional winner aianing
Tuesday nlgnt on McGintfls field
here." .
Babe Didrieksbn
t .4
Will Be Married
ST. LOUIS. July 21-,S2)-Ver-satUe
Mildred (Babe) Didrickson
slammed a golf ball down tbe
fairway,' told partner George Za
harias to "try to match that. and
announced to the third r ot the
threesome, "we're engaged"
"This lsnt exactly the tpost ro
mantic place in the world to make
the announcement, but, it's so."
the Beaumont, Tex., woman ath
lete admitted to questions about
a diamond on the proper finger.
She and Zaharias, a profession
al wrestler from Pueblo; Colo.,
have been playing a little golf
this week while he has a wrestl
ing engagement here, j i
71,
Youth on Bicycle Hurt
When Nipped by ' Canine
Henry Johnson, 12, son of Mrs.
Dora Johnson. 384 SoutA 24th
street, was treated at th Salem
General hospital early last night
for a dog bite. y .
Young Johnson was riding bis
bicycle along; a residential street
when a dog ran. out and took a
nip at his leg. f '
Papoose9 Plane Makes Safe
Landing at Port Washington
PORT WASHINGTON. N. T..
July 2 1 P) The experimental
transatlantic flight of Great Brit-
Us. 'a 10-ton "papoose r plane,
launched in the air oyer, the
Irish coast late yesterday, ended
in a smooth-landing here at 2:0$
p. m.. EST, today. ! '
- It was the first night of Its
kind. :
Tossed from the ' back f to her
"mother ship" at 2,000 feet, at
Foynes.! Ireland, the 4ngined
Mercury completed the 3.042 mile
journey in 22 hours and 28 min
utes flying time.
. Official of British Imperial
Airways had expressed hope the
Mercury was set a new west
ward crossing record . of ' less
than ll hours, bu the sal jogged
r ire
Consideration
CAP) The treasury, faced
successive deficit will amount
by Rdswell Magill, acting secre-
tary of the treasury. Although no
policy decisions will be mad un
til Secretary Morgenthau and
President Roosevelt return from
their vacations, Magill said his ex
perts were Investigating the ques
tion of reducing personal exemp
tions and Increasing tax rates on
Individuals with moderate In
comes.
. As for the big corporations, the
president personally has ordered
aides to draw up a program for
strengthening the undistributed
profits and capital gains taxes.
Magill, himself the foremost
taxexpert In the government, de
clined to give- his opinion about
the wisdom of reducing exemp
tions o. to Indicate how much of
a i change was being studied. He
pointed out, however, that Sena
tor LaFollette (Prog-WIs) has
attempted unsuccessfully for sev
eral years to get congress to cut
the exemption for single persons
from 11,000 to $800 and for
beads of families from $2,500 to
$2,000. He also declined to dis
cuss proposals of both LaFollette
and Senator King (D-Utah) to
Increase the tax rates on incomes
up to $100,000 per year.
FDR Has Support
Of WPA-IIopldns
Parries Questions About
President Running for
Third Term
WASHINGTON, July 21 UP)
Harry L. Hopkins, expressed
the opinion today that 10 per
cent of WPA workers were for
the Roosevelt administration, but
he parried questions as to wheth
er he believed tbe president
would run for a third term.
! The Works Progress administr
ator made the remarks at a press
conference at 'which he also an
nounced that 200,000 persons
would be added to WPA rolls in
the rural south to help meet
what Mr. Roosevelt calls the na
tion's economic problem No. 1.
Hopkins told reporters he be
lieved the underprivileged and
"even people in our class" are
for the administration because
"we're the only crowd that has
anything constructive to offer."
! Referring to reports that re
publicans were Intending to de
velop a relief program, he said:
-! "If they are I never heard of
it And if they do bring one out
111 bet when the people it is
supposed to appeal to hear about
If they won't go out ringing any
bells."
He described republican sug
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Three Swimmers
I Drown in State
i PORTLAND, Ore., July 21.-(P)-Three
bathers, chased Into
rivers of Oregon by the broiling
heat, lost, their lives by drowning
yesterday and today.
;They were:
i Rosalie Dally, t, Eugene
drowned in a city i , ground pool
In the Willamette river.
: Harry Edgar Voss, jr., 15, Ash
land, drowned in the Rogue river
near By-ee. v
j Richard Vernon Ha worth, 40.
Drain, drowned In the Umpqua
river near Elk ton.
the skyways at considerably less
thai her cruising speed of 175
m.p.h. and took almost twice the
time expected, reaching Montreal
in 20 hours, 20 minutes.
Piloted by 28-year-old Capt
wireless operator Albert J. Cos
ter as the crew the Plane
looked small as it taxied slowly
to its .mooring. . Compared with
big flying boats which regularly
ply between here and . Bermuda.
; The trip was an additional ex
ploratory test of the North At
lantic routes over which Pan
American Airways of the United
States, Lnft Hansa of Germany,
Air France and Imperial Airways
hope to send planes on regular
seahdnle within the next year
or two, ' -
.Bamgeir
o
City Swelters
As Heat Goes
ToffighMark
Temperature 105, Iligfier
Than Day Before hy
. ' One Degree
Heat Blamed for Deaths
of Five in State;
Fires Increase
Saleq's maximum temperature -pushed
tip within three degrees
of its all-time high when 105 was .
recorded at the airport Thursday
afternoon at 4:15 o'clock. This
was .8 point higher than the Wed-
.UCBU UISAIIIIUIU,
The extreme beat ..seemed to
hold on ffrther Into" the night
Thursday but the weather fore
caster held out hope for cooler
weather today, with rising hu
midity to reduce the fire hazarl
somewhat
Ones more a new record for use
of the Leslie swimming pool was
set when 3088 swimmers were
registered there.
Heat was a contributing factor
In the deaths of fire' Oregon per- .
sons yesterday, according te the
Associated Press.
In Portland tbe county coroner
blamed heat for the deaths of
Mrs. Maude Wahl, 61. C. C. Ma
son, 43, and G. J. Rotberbeck, 70.
In Corvallls J. W. Lora. B0.
brlckmason, collapsed and died
from heat prostration. The tem
perature reached 108 degrees.
it. L. Martinson. Portland car
penter died en route to a hospital
after collapsing while working
near Oswego.
PORTLAND, July 21 -CP)
Man's frlsnd, the fire, contlautd
In revolt" today throughout Ore
gon and J. W. Ferguson, state
forester, said the situation was
tbe most critical In tbe 28-year
history of the state forestry de
partment.
- Rich timber stands, commun
ities, crops and farm homes were
threatened by flames ia many
regions and were at the mercy of
the winds. Deaths from ht
and fire were placed at four.
Low humidity, and tempera
tures that climbed oyer the lOil
degree level increased the danger
hourly.
Four woodcutters and their
families fled from flames ef a
hus-e flra 18 miles from Illlla-
boro. The fire . covered several
hundred acres.
Scottsbnrz
Out of Danger.
Scottsburg. village of tbe Usno-
qua, was declared temporarily
out of danger frnm iHutlmui
Smith rlrer fire that already has
lapped oyer 6,000 acres. It was
fought by 1,300 men. Fire flint-
t iurn to rage z, col. 7)
Dallas IsJIottest
Since Year Began
DALLAS, July 21Tburday
was the hottest day so far this
year for Dallas with the thermo
meter reaching 105 degrees at
three o'clock In the afternoon, ac
cording to Cecil Rlggs, local of
ficial weather observer. At 6
o'clock Thursday inornlnr th .
thermometer registered 68 de
grees. the highest minimum tem
perature this year.
FoUr of the past nine 47t.
temperatures have registered over
100. The two highest tempera
tures being 103 and 105 degreea.
MILL CITY. July 21 Tbe lst
few days have been tbe warmest
in years with temperatures run
ning over 100 degrees. All camps
are down because of low- hu
midity. Torrid Weather?
Not Particularly
Say Lucky Pilots
SEATTLE, Jly 21W,r
Wblle rarth-boMd I'aeiflc
northwest cttiaens bukrd te!y
la record heat, pilots of l'nH4
Air Lines tnmlmllnrr rad:rd
tasitallaiaa reports of tempr
twrea Im the AO's a few t
and feet above ground.
The compnr!ons lorlull:
Over Wl'.iiairti, Calif., at If :
80 a. srk, 04 dsrre t li.C . J
feet; ground temperature ICS,
Over Ilrtfdlng at 12:02 p. tn..
Si at ll.OOO; frroand 109.
Ovcr.Kug-ne, Ore., at f : .-
p. in-, CS at 0,000 fet; crown 1
10O. -
Over Cahtli IU k at 3: 1 9
p. mM 73 at 7,0-0 3 fret? groun 1
d.
Rearing Taroina at ":-'-7
p. tit-, SO at S.OOO fret; rrtuiii
at Taeoma 87.
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