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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon;. Saturday Morning Julj , 29, 1939
Church
(Closes
Sunday
Large Crowds
Attend Meets
Last: two Days' Services
Listed for big State
Meet at Woodburn
WOODBURN-(Speclal)-The ft.
' nale of the Church ot God state
camp meeting will be Sunday. A
large crowd has attended sessions
here since the opening July 20.
Saturday's schedule will in
clude: 9:15-10:15 a, m. Christian
education class: "What Toung
People Like and Dislike About
Sunday School," La Rue Smith;
"How to Have a Model Young
Peoples'. Class," Mrs. Wesley Puller.
10:30-12 a. m. General serv-
ice. "Ordinances," Mrs. Lena
Sommers. -
1:30-2:15 Missionary meet
ing. Open. ,
2:30-4 p. m. Ordinance serv
ice. : 30-7: 30 p. m. Young i peo
ple's meeting.
7:45 p. m. General service.
Open.
Sunday, July 80
10:30-12 a. m. General serv
ice. "Jesus' Last Message to the
Disciples," U. Q. Clark.
- ' 2:30-4 p. m. General service.
"Twenty-one Things for Which
Jesus Died," E. H. Ahrendt.
: 30-7:30 p. m. Young peo
ple's meeting.
7:45 p.- m. General service,
Marshall Mercier. ,
Fire and Injury
Hit Santiam Area
NORTH SANTIAM Disaster
struck twice in this community
Thursday. Bob Howard fell in
the' barn and b r o ke his collar
bone. He was suffering from
shock and heat as well as the bone
injury.
At Boon the August Schierman
house burned to the ground.
Neighbors responded to a call
for help and succeeded in saving a
' few household goods. .The Aums
Tille fire truck was called, extin
guished- the grass fire and saved
the barn. About five acres of
pasture and hay stubble and
standing barley were burned over
and some fear was felt lest the
flames reach standing timber.
Stumps and logs in the pasture are
still burning. The fire was be
lieved to have started from a
spark on the roof. The loss was
partially covered by insurance.
City Hall Roof
Job Nearly Done
INDEPENDENCE C. " McBetn
expects to complete the new roof
on the Independence city hall
this week.
The roof, blown off by the
storm of last January, is - being
replaced with a heavy permanent
roof. It is also planned to refinish
the interior of the hall and re
pair the damage caused by water
after the January storm.
It's Hot but
Football Topic
WOODBURN Dcuglas Lowell,
a football umpire from Portland,
was guest speaker at the Rotary
meeting held Thursday noon at
the Woodburn hotel. He explained
how the new system of budgeting
for athletics In the Portland high
schools were working out satis
factorily and also gave some in
teresting pointers on his work.
Call Board
HOLLYWOOD
Today Double bill. Dennis
O'Keefe, and Cecilia Parker
In "Burn 'Em Up O'Connor"
and Roy Rogers in "Shine
On Harvest Moon."
' " GRAND
Today Joan Blondell, Mel-
vyn ' Douglas and Walter
Connolly in "Good Girls Go
To Paris."
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Today -"Wings ot the
- Navy" with George Brent,
0 1 i v 1 a'DeHavllland and
John Payne and "They
Made Me A Criminal" with
John Garfield, Ann Sheridan
nil rtoaA F.nA Kids. -
Saturdsy Midnight -show,
"Little Princess" with Shir-
ley Temple.
ELSINORB
Today Double bill, "Daugh-
. ters Courageous" with John
Garfield and the Lane sis-
ters and "Water Front
. with Gloria Dickson. -
Saturday Mickey Mouse mat-
inee. Chapter C ."The Ore-
- con Trail." ' . ' ' . v -.
Saturday Midnight s h o w,
"Daughters Courageous." -
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Today Double bit;
. "Unexpected-Father" with
Mischa Auer and Baby San-
dy and "Paradise For
Three" with Robert Toung.
Florence Rice and Frank
Morgan.' ::-.-:;
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2 MILES NORTH OF INDEPENDENCE
Every Saturday Night
Large Crowd . Cool Hall ... Good Music
TOMMIE SE RINE
. 9 Men and a Girl
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Japanese Legions Advance on Mongol Frontier
With reports of Intensified fighting, both on land ad fat air, coming from the onter Mongolian frontier,
Japan has increased her legions in that area. This an almost op-ending- stream of Japanese soldiers
are shown as they inarched across the Manchnrian plains toward the frontier where Russian and outer
Mongolian troops confront them
Stayton Chooses
New School Head
Gates School Principal,
Robert R. Wakefield,
Takes new Post
STAYTON Robert R. Wake
field of Gates has been chosen to
head the Stayton schools succeed
ing Howard W. George, who ac
cepted a position as head of the
Bend school system.
Wakefield, principal of the
Gates schools for the past two
years, started his teaching career
as principal and teacher of the
elementary school at North Pow
der, Ore., in 1930, from where he
went to La Grande. At La Grande
he taught in tipper and intermedi
ate grades, in a departmentalized
plan, and went to the Gates school
in 1937 to the present time, as
principal, teacher, and coach.
He holds many certificates in
Oregon and Washington and a
masters degree in education.
He is a member of the National
Education association, Oregon
High School Principals' associa
tion, Oregon State Teachers' asso
ciation ; Marlon County School
masters club and Phi Delta Kap
pa. He is unmarried and will
move to Stayton with his father
and mother soon. He was born
at Union, Ore., and attended grade
and high school there. He gradu
ated from the Eastern Oregon
Normal school at La Grande in
1931. He attended the University
of Washington summer sessions
for four years.
One of his first projects will be
to organize and direct a school
band. In Gates Mr. Wakefield
directed a band of 27 pieces.
Old Timer Picnic
Slated at Dayton
DAYTON The sixth annual
Old Timers' homecoming picnic
will, be held in the Dayton city
park Sunday, July 30.
A picnic luncheon, a short pro
gram and visiting are special
features. Coffee will be served.
Barn Destroyed
In Morning Fire
SU.VERTON Silverton's fire
department was called out at 1
o'clock Friday morning to check
a fire that destroyed the old Joe
Moser barn on Lane street be
tween Second and Third. The or
igin of the tire was unknown as
the bam was in the middle of a
block and no paths led to it. Th
firemen watched it until 3 o'clock
so that no sparks would catch in
other buildings.
' The barn was the property of
the county.
Van Cleaves to
Meet Sunday
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HAZEL GREEN The Van
Cleave reunion will be at the Roy
Fitzgerald place on the Abiq.ua
river,. Sunday, July 30.
Miss Marine Wrinkler of Ta
bor, Alberta, has arrived for a
two months' visit with her sister.
Mrs. Glen Looney.
Pennsylvania Picnic
INDEPENDENCE Pennsylva-
nlans will picnic at the Independ
ence city park Sunday, July 30.
All those from Pennsylvania are
invited. Those attending are
asked to bring their baskets and
table service, i r
COMBINE KICKS BACK
- HAYES VILLE Charles ' A n-
dresen is carrying his right, arm
in a sling as the result of a kick
from the crank handle of the com
bine engine. ' i
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Many Hospitalized
On Varied Counts
INDEPENDENCE Rodney Pe
terson of Oak Point received a bad
cut on his hand this week which
necessitated the wearing of a
splint.
E. F. Main was admitted to the
Salem general hospital this week
for observation. I
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Scranton
are parents ot a baby boy born
at the Salem general hospital
Wednesday.
Armond Brown of Eola had
medical care Thursday due to bad
cuts about the head received while
cranking an engine on a sprayer.
Mary Creek CCC
Off to Fire line
DETROIT Mary Creek CCC
camp sent 88 enrollees to the
scene of the forest fire at McKen-
zie bridee Wednesday.
A call came at noon and J 8
from the Fish Lake spike camp
departed tinder the leadership of
Foreman John McGillvery. At
midnight a crew ot 50 from the
main camp with the commanding
officer, Lieut. Frank B. Thrall-
klll, left. !
. Lieut. ThrallUll ia in charge
of the four companies of CCC
men fighting this major fire, j
Mrs. Cotton Will j
Conduct Services
SALEM HEIGHTS Due to a
minor throat operation, Rev. Earl
Cotton will not preach at the com
munity church Sunday morning
but will be In the pulpit a week
from Sunday.
Mrs. Cotton will talk instead
of their religious work among the
Indians on Klamath reservation,
where thev spent a number of
years.
Six Infants Arrive
On Year's Hottest Day
SILVERTON Six babies born
at the Sllverton hospital Wednes
day was an additional record for
Sllverton'g hottest day. These in
cluded sons to Mr. and Mrs. H. W.
Schroeder, Air. and Mrs. Emtl
Grant, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
Schmidt, Mr. and Mrs. Marion Fis
cher, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Ern
ston and the daughter to Mr. and
Mrs. Elmo Lindholm.
Continuous Performance
Roy Rogers
ia
"Shine On, Harvest Moon
is
Also News, Colored Cartoon and Chap. 4 of "Red Barry
On Our. Stage at 1:30 P, M. Seth Jayne and the
Hollywood Bnckaroo Program Broadcast
STARTS TOMORROW - TWO BIG FEATURES
Continuous Performance Tomorrow 2 to 11 P. M.
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Retreat to Draw
Catholic Women
Spiritual Meeting to Be
Held at Mt. Angel
August 11 to 13
MT. ANGEL The Benedictine
Sisters are preparing for an un
usually large number of retreat
ants for the second and final re
treat for laywomen scheduled for
August 11 to 13 at MU Angel
academy with the noted retreat
master. Rev. Charles Corcoran,
CSC. in charge.
All who plan to attend and have
not as yet sent in their reserva
tions are urged to do so this
week. Although the retreat will
open formally on Friday morning
August 11, those attending are
requested to arrive Thursday. The
retreat will close Sunday noon.
This spiritual meeting is open
to all Catholic and non-Catholic
women, as well as girls above
high school age. Recent converts
to the faith are particularly wel
come and will receive special con
sideration.
Further information may be se
cured from the Lay-women's Re
treat sectretary at Mt. Angel.
Jefferson Is Busy
With Many Guests
JEFFERSON Miss Virginia
Mason, who has been attending
summer school at Reed college,
has returned to her home here.
Rev. and Mrs. Marion McQuary
and children, Elaine and Teddy, of
Olympia, were callers at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Richardson
en route to California. Rev. Mc
Quary is state evangelist of the
Christian church in Washington
and a cousin of B. S. Richardson
Mrs. Sarah Meek ot Knoxville,
Tenn., arrived in Jefferson Mon
day for a visit at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Goin on the
Greens Bridge road. Mrs. D. Moy
er arrived from Fresno,- Calif
Tuesday for a visit at the Goins'
home. The two women are cou
sins of the Goins.
Dance, Program Set
SILVERTON HILLS Dancing
and entertainment arranged by
the Sears Roebuck store of Salem
will be featured at the Sllverton
Hills community hall Saturday
night. Mrs. Chester Maulding,
Hilda Sacher and Morris Benson
are arranging the affair.
LAST TIMES TODAY
Two Big Features
Today 1:80 to 11 P. M.
Dennis O'Keefe
Cecilia Parker in
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
'JACK LONDON'S THRtLLEF.
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Lebanon Section !
Residents Called
William A. Clark Funeral
Is Saturday ; Smith
Rites Sunday
LEBANON Funeral services
for William A. Clark, C 4, who died
Joel 27 at Foster after an illness
ot five years, will be held Satur
day at 2 p.m. at the Evangelical
church of Foster with Rev. Mills
officiating. Burial in the Lewis
cemetery will follow frith the Har
ry C. Howe Funeral home in
charge.
Mr. Clark was born at Grand Is
land, Neb.f February 14, 1875.
tie was married at Kock, Kans.,
la 1902 to Mary Ellen Rollings.
They came to Foster, Oregon, 32
years ago.
Survivors include; the widow.
Mary E. Clark, Foster; daughters,
Mabel Camcelmo, Jordan Valley;
Hilda Menear, Albany; Christina
McClure and Ethel Rowell, Sweet
Home; Nancy Barbour, Klamath
Falls; Lorane Mace, Burns; Elsie,
Louise and Nadine at home; four
sons, Nelson, Albany. John, Craw
fordsville, Manuel and Kenneth at
home; 16 grandchildren; two
brothers and two sisters.
Ella R, Smith
LEBANON Ella R. Smith, 4,
daughter of Linn county pioneers,
W. S. and Martha Crabtree Smith,
died July 27 at the home of her
brother Frank Smith of route 1
following an illness Of two weeks.
She was born in Crabtree Jan
nary I, .1893. and jived in that
community until 1924 when she
was employed in Salem until com
pelled by illness to return home.
She is survived by two brothers.
Frank ot Lebanon; W. D. Smith,
Cottonwoods; three sisters, Mrs.
Bertha Bowen, Lebanon: Mrs. Ina
Preffer, San Francisco; Mrs. Mar
tha McCoy, Walla Walla.
Funeral services at the N. C.
Lowe mortuary chapel at 1 p.m
Sunday will be followed by burial
in Franklin Butte cemetery.
Heat Wave, Fire,
Damaging Crops
SUBLIMITY The temper'
ture of 102 degrees Wednesday
put a sudden stop to Tine berry
picking here and cooked the ber
ries on the Tines. '.
NORTH SANTIAM The con
tinned heat is drying the small
beans and blighting the bean
blossoms and even corn is wilting,
The "old swimming- holes" in the
rirer are most popular.
TALBOT Fire 'which started
from the exhaust of Lawrence Fin
lay's tractor while he was combln
lng a field of his rye grass Wed
nesday spread rapidly until help
arrived on the scene to get it un
der control. About 20 sacks of
seed lying on the ground were par
tially burned besides several acres
of rye grass on the ground yet to
be combined.
LEBANON The hot weather
is cooking the vegetation, burning
the leaves of trees and turning
them brown before their time
berries are burning' up and every
one looks eagerly for a respite.
Valley & Siletz I
Bays new Engine
INDEPENDENCE A new en
gine to be used for the freight run
out of Independence fer the val
ley k. Siletz railroad arrived here
Monday. The engine is a Baldwin
Mikado type 2-8-2 super heater
and Is now at Hoskins.
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Special Luncheon Is Had
at Silver Tails; Good i
" Patronage Noted .
SILVERTON rHlLLS-The ex
ceptionally - tine condition in
which the Silver Creek FalliCCC
camp is kept under the auperinr
tendency of Lieut. Un Shields
furnished topic for conteraation
among the group of officers from
the fleet stationed at. roruana
who were . guests at a special
luncheon there Thursday noon. I
The officer number of times
expressed great pleasure at the
cleanliness of the camp and. the
beauty of its surroundings. At the
state park, which the group vis
ited during the afternoon, th
landscape architectural , work of
G. Robert Goodall came in for
much favorable comment. The
native tufa rock, obtained within
short distance from the . state
park entrance proved exception
ally interesting to the visitors who
asked their hosts to drive by the
place where the rock was taken
from the ground.
Many Visit Park
In greeting the visitors, Lieut.
Shields said approximately 250,-
000 visitors will have stopped
at the park before the close ot the
summer if the present attendance
records continue.
Visitors from Portland invited
to the party were Lieut.-Com. J.
N. Wenger, Lieut. B. A. Van
Voorhis, sr.. Aviation Lieut. K.
M. Broesamle, Ensign C. R. Doer-
flinger. Ensign J. P. Fitzpatrlck.
Ensign J. A. Mahony, Capt. H. S.
Leon, marine commander on ship.
and Ray Dorrls of the American
Legion. Present from Sllverton
were Otto Legard, Frank Wray.
Glenn Price. George Manolis, E.
L. Starr, George Manolis. Jr.. Dr,
A, E. Wrightman, jr., and Mayor
Zetta Schlador.
Camp men at the luncheon
were Lieut. Lin Shields, O. Rob
ert Goodall, J. H. Hewett and T.
C. Lynch.
Hartnett Funeral
Held at Lebanon
Funeral services for Mrs. Ethel
Hartnett, 45, who died at her
home July 28 following a linger
ing illness, were held Friday at
2:30 p. m. at the N. C. Lowe
mortuary chapel. Rev. L. Bixler
of the Church of Christ officiat
ing. Burial waa In a Lebanon cem
etery. -
A daughter of Charles W. and
Edith Kemp, she was born at
Barry town, Mich., Jufte 9, 1894.
She came to the northwest
when young and on October 23,
1918, was married to Marlon
Hartnett.
They have lived since In Leb
anon where Mr. Hartnett has for
a number of years been chief of
police.
Survivors include the widower,
Marion Hartnett ot Lebanon; one
son, Dick, in the US navy, sta
tioned at Norfolk, Va.; one grand
son; her ' mother, Mrs. Edith
Kemp; two brothers, Charles W.
and R. L. Kemp; one eister, Kath
erine Kemp, all of Spirit Lake,
Idaho; a sister, Mrs. Gretchen
Michel, San Gabriel, Calif. -She
was a member of
American Legion auxiliary.
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Faye Clodfelter
Is Queen Entry
MT. ANGEL An Interview
with Salem's third entry in the
Flax Festival queen contest at Mt.
Angel, Miss Faye Clodfelter, spon
sored by the Salem Secretarial
school, showed her to be another
girl who Is fond of sports. Soft
ball and swimming are her favor
its. For hobbies she knits and
collects business cards. She is
also a talented pianist.
She is a senior at Salem high
school and is employed by the Ver
las Advertising and Booking company.
Happy was the reunion in New York of Edmund Ruzanski, 43, Detroit
tire worker, when he rushed up the gangplank of the liner Cham
plain and embraced his Tamara, 25, pretty Russian wife from
whom be had been separated for four years. They were married in
Russia, but soon after Ruzanski was ordered to go home. Then be
began his efforts to get his wife from the country.
400 Stayton Houses Being Numbered,
Movement Sponsored by lions Glib
STAYTON Purchase of between 1400 and 1500 house
numbers for Stayton was sanctioned by the board of directors
of the Lions club at the luncheon meeting this week.
The club sponsored the movement and bought the house
numbers. The city is now installing them on the 400 houses to
be numbered. Kennard Rowe is doing the work.
Grant Murphy gave the voca---
tional talk. He stated that "for- i
estry officials estimate that there
are 12 S billion board feet ot lum
ber in the Willamette basin area,
and that if these were cut into
pieces one inch thick and 12
inches square and placed side by
side, they would reach eight times
around the globe."
"The lumber industry is as old
as history itself, with timber be
ing one ot the most useful articles
known to man and yet it was one
of the biggest obstacles to the
early settlers," he continued, in
speaking of the early day methods
of lumbering.
He traced the trend of lumber
manufacturing from east to west,
beginning with Maine, which was
first in this line, to Michigan, Wis
consin and Washington. He said
that Washington has been alter
nately at the top of the list for the
annual volume of production with
Mississippi, but that Oregon top
ped all states in the production
of lumber in 1938
Boy Aged Six Has
Hernia Operation
SALEM HEIGHTS Michael
Selmer, six years old, was oper
ated upon for hernia at the
Doernbecher hospital Wednesday
morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Wikberg and
daughters, Martha and Olga and
Martha's two daughters returned
from the fair at San Francisco
sooner than expected due to a
sudden illness of one of the grand
daughters. Ivan Cook, formerly of Salem
Heights, is a patient in the Deac
oness hospital for an Injury to
his back.
Mrs. Melvin Clemeng and little
daughter, Velna, spent the past
week in Portland as guests of Mr.
and Mrs. G. Sumner, parents of
Mrs. Clemens.
Richard Senter has gone to
Elma, Wash., for a stay with his
aunt, Margaret Senter Trobey.
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Log Truck Driver
Injured in Crash
INDEPENDENCE C 1 arence
Holt was injured Tuesday while
driving a logging truck near Pe
dee. To avert an accident he ran
his truck into a tree, rather than
hit a man- in the road. The tree
fell on the truck hurting Holt
about the chest and hips. He is
under the doctor's care at his
home on Monmouth street.
Miss Florence Beardsley ' and
Miss Henrietta Wolfer plan to
leave this week for a trip to San,
Francisco and the fair.
Mrs. Bert Williams from Hol
lywood, Calif., visited this week
with Mrs. W. C. Wood. She had
been visiting her sister and fam
ily, Mrs. Jack Aiken, of Dallas.
Mrs. Williams will be remembered
as Gladys Child who formerly liv
ed in Independence.
The Pythian Sisters district No.
2 picnic will be held Sunday at
the Independence park with all
Pythian Sisters and families and
Knights and their families Invited
to be present.
Pastor at Pratuni
Given Reception
PRATUM A reception for
Rev. and Mrs. Wilson and Mrs.
Wilson's mother, Mrs. Driplngham
was given by members of the Me
thodist church Thursday night in
the church basement.
George Cawrse and his sister
Elizabeth arrived here last Sunday
from Elyria, O., at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Silke.
They made a trip to Mt. Hood
where they were accompanied by
Mrs. Silke and Mrs. Cernick.
Practically every combine is
working full time and a number
of threshing machine have started
threshing a big harvest.
And they don't come any
smarter than this blood
ct doing the boys good
. in fact doing t them
good end plenty I And
what she does for you Is
one of the best things that
ever happened to you 1