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' -,. From FIrJ Statesman. March IS. ISftl
Sheldon F. Sackett - - Editor and Manager.
THK SI ATJOSMAN PUBLISHING CO.
Charles A. Sprague. Pre. ... Sheldon r. SacketU Secy.
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"Timiir. HivKwavV Successful
For reasons Known only to
itor, W. A. S. Douglas, columnist oi me wasnmgiun, . '
Times-Herald visited The Dalles or so he claims and dis
covered that the city on the Columbia which we had under
stood to be thriving, in reality Is a "ghost town" in so far as
its ambitions to bea port are concerned : - '
"The long piers atretch on the left hank of the riyer. topped
by glittering rlncroored warehouses. , .not even a potato has
rolled from a bag onto the brand-new floors. . . The Dalles had a
pretty dream but a sad dream. For common sense points to rotting-
piers and rained warehouses, 1 while the sum toUl of navi
gation remains in the one-lunged and tubercular at thatr-ferry
vv hn.. rn m frnm Ik HMrAn tA thA Washington 8lde.
The Dalles Chronicle questions whether Douglas really
visited The Dalles, but asserts that 11 ne am, ne nussea wie
terminal warehouses filled with wheat and other commodities,-the
two river freighters, the tugs and barges that make
The Dalles waterfront a beehive of activity. It points out fur
ther that one oil company has opened bids on construction
n f.n Thororo larcrpf tThn mr vet In service, and another in
quired how soon small ocean tankers might safely navigate
the river. v '- . -
As to this controversy, we will leave it to the columnist
m-nA tThft pnrU srirl npwsmnr of The Dalles after remark-
ing that whatever the success
ousJy has the other earners wornea, ior inai was ai wj
. . j . - . " . a
behind the recent rate dispute ana Hearings.
- 4-..- Tf fa narrinont to mint out however that "llQUld high
( ways" are coming into their own. Within the last ten years
'this transportation system has been expanded to include 6000
miles 01 commercial waterways
In innift MUi with otntA flil.
More pertinent still is the fact that industry' is utilizing
this method of transportation more and more extensively for
hflhlA f reitrht. On the uDDer Missis
sippi, where the new nine-foot
ted, the 1938 volume 01 freight exceeded mat 01 isao Dy o
per cent Deepening of the channels has made it possible to
harvf whftre 500 tons was formerly the
tUV mmmm w v i-v v w 0 v -
limit; and new tugs with twin diesel engines have added to
freight-handling efficiency. One such tug will haul freight
that used to require 500 freight cars.
Economic feasibility of this transportation method is
limited to certain types of freight and certain favorable con
ditions with respect to handling. These limitations would have
some effect upon the similar utilization of the Willamette
river after its channel is deeoened in connection with the
Willamette Valley Project. But the economic advantages of
river transportation between Salem and Portland have been
demonstrated in the past, and would be increased with a year
around channel. Hopes of industrial expansion in Salem hinge
greatly upon the use of this waterway. The interest in such
development that was evident here a decade ago is about due
for a revival along with other possibilities of progress
which have not received in recent years the attention they de
serve. . . . :
; . - Majorities May Be Mistaken
, : In a three-room, country school some years ago the prin
cipal teaching tfve three upper grades, asked his sixth graders
where the aposprpphe should be placed in'4he possessU'e of
"men," All agreed ii; should be mens n except oneiittl6f el
low who stubbornly declined to change his position i irf : the
face of unanimity among the rest .The teachers apoealed to
the seventh grade, got a solid vote for "mens The lone
sixth grader wouldn't budge. The eighth grade was polled
with the same result The smallest boy in the room still re
fused to change his mind.
The majority of '30 was wrong and the minority of one
was right The possessive is "men's" but that is as unimpor
tant as the fact that the minority grew up to be an editorial
' writer. The significant thing is that, much as we prize ma
jority rule in this country, it's entirely possible for a major
ity, even an overwhelming majority, to be 100 per cent wrong.
. Four years ago Huey Long had Louisiana eating out of
his hand; he had been governor, he was United States sena
tor, he was regarded as a real threat for the presidency. In
his. own state he built a few roads and schools to prove to the
"common peepul" he was their friend, and with them behind
him, taxed the somewhat more prosperous minority scandal
ously, used the money to .feather his own nest, politically and
financially.
i An assassin's bullet ended . Hueys personal career but
the structure he had built lived on, even prospered contrary
to widespread predictions. " Among the triumvirate to whom
his empire was bequeathed were Richard Leche, who recently
resigned as governor, and Seymour Weiss, hotel man. Today
both are under indictment as the most gigantic -official' scan
dal in Louisiana history, possibly the greatest in American
history involving a state government unfolds.
Four years ago there were
Louisiana who would not have been surprised, had a crystai
gazer revealed these impending events; but a great majority
in Louisiana believed that Huey Long was the greatest, ablest,
left to itself, might never have managed to shake off this er-
mpst honest and public-spirited
ror; federal investigators unearthed-the irregularities, some
of which had to do with WPA administration.
- There would be no particular point in all this, except
that -Louisiana, though rather a backward state, is by no
means the only one in which a huge majority has managed,
for some length of time, to be wrong. It has happened even in
Oregom - The incident ought to have a chastening influence
upon majorities, lend encouragement to minorities, evento
lone prophets crying in the wilderness. Sometimes it turns
out that they are right v
y Workman,. Spare That "Tower
; - It wasn't the bell tower immortalized in "Curfew Shall
Not Ring Tonight yet linn county residents have built up
an affection over the years for the old tower on the court
house In Albany, with its bell and dock. The courthouse is to
be torn down following completion of the new, modern struc
ture; sentiment for retaining the old tower has developed
but apparently without effect upon the members of the coun-
ty court. 'V :
The Albany Democrat-Herald conducted a poll, received
374 ballots in favor of keeping the tower and 42 for tearing
it down. A rural resident near Albany has circulated a peti
tion in favor of eliminating the tower and had 250 names aft
er two days of canvassing. ; ;
Well, it is Linn county's problem, but one in which Mar
ion county peoDle may exhibit sympathetic interest .Senti
ment for the old is strong here also; extending to the reten
, tion of the old courthouse intact, and not merely to the tower
and the clock that is not too reliable as a timepiece.'
Discord between the Serbs and the Croats in Yugoslavia
has become more acute recently and Dr. Matcbek, Croat lead
er, threatens to "call in the Nazis" if his racial group is not
given the autonomy it demands. The picture is identical, with
that which prevailed in Czechoslovakia a year ago, except
that the Croats fulfill the role of the Sudeten Germans though
they are not Germans. On this side of the Atlantic we have
our own opinion of Matchek's sense of values, but we have not
the benefit of an understanding of the inter-racial bitterness
that causes such a suicidal proposal to make anything like
' sense in Europe.
himself and his managing ed-
to date of navigation, it obvi-
improvea a zeaera. cacusc,
channels are not quite comple-
a good many people outside of
man in America. Louisiana,
Bit o for
Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
Inquiry concerning the . . S 10 It
massacre of a Fresno, - -
Cal.. man's grandfather and
ancles by Indians Feb. 22, 5C:
(Continuing from yesterday:)
Quoting farther Mrs. Victor's ac
count: "Ten, twenty, thirty, days
passed during which the silence
of death brooded orer the country.
Port Orford was the only place In
Oregon to which the news of the
massacre had been carried, and
to send It to the gorernor (Geo.
L. Curry) at the capital, or to
San Francisco to the military au
thorities, took time, when steam
ers made only monthly or bi
monthly trips along the coast. ...
The Indians, - always iren . in
formed of the moTementstot the
volunteers, had seized upon that
period when the disbandment of
companies, and the slow recruiting
of them, rendered the state sol
diery practically useless, so that
even after the news of the tragedy
had filtered through the Indians'
lines and reached the Tolunteer
camps, it found them unprepared
to act."
'
"The time wore on whUe the In
dians waited for famine and de
spair to place a hundred victims
in their bloody- hands. ,
"On the thirty-flrsl day, ahf
what sound breaks the painful si
lence of this tragic solitude? Fife
and drum, and the tramp ot.many
feet! To the straining eyes of the
emprisoned Inmates of the fort
was revealed the ravishing sight
of two companies of the United
States troops marching up from
Fort Humboldt to their relief.
Instantly the Indians fled to the
hills, and the people rushed out
Into the free air with shouts of
gladness. ... On the 26th of
April, Buchanan sent Lieutenant
Ord, with 112 men, to destroy a
village of the Mackanotins 11
mUes above Whaleshead, and to
force them upon the reservation,
which was accomplished with
some fighting and. loss of one sol
dier. But there was plenty of
fighting yet to be done in other
quarters, as appeared when Ord
with 0 men, on his way to Cres
cent City to escort a large train
with army stores to the mouth of
the Rogue river on the 23 th, was
attacked at Chetcoe river by about
an equal number of Indians, los
ing in the skirmish one man
killed and three wounded. . ,
Twice had the Coquilles agreed to
go and remain on the reservation,
and twice ran away before they
could be disposed of."
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FoUowed, in Mrs. Victor's book,
the operations that, on May 28th,
ended in the battle of the Mea
dows, which finished the 185S
general Indian war for southern
and southwestern Oregon.
Then Lieutenant Ord took the
last band, that of wily old Chief
John and his heavy, minded .son
Adam, from their, haunts on the
upper Rogue river to Port Or
ford.
From that point, Capt, and Bvt
Major John F. Reynolds, starting
July 10, 1856, brought John and
his motley band overland, by way
of the traces and trails of prime
val uregon, to ort xamniiL ana
turned them over to Capt. D. A
Russell and 2nd Lieut. P. H.
Sheridan.
Part of that historic cavalcade
were 2Q0 "splendid" army males,
160 of them used as pack anl
mals. Thus was ended the Oregon
part of -the general Indian war
which opened in 1855, intended
to stop the covered wagon immi
gration and destroy the whole
white race. The Washington part
of it ran through the four years,
1855-'58.
U m
"Pioneer History of Coos and
Curry Counties, Oregon," pub
lished in Salem, Oregon, In 1898,
by Orvil Dodge, historian, has
many references to the Washing
ton Day massacre. Under the ti
tle, "The Geisel Tragedy, Febru
ary 22, 1156, page 346 of that
Wife's "Pal,"
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. tlcauy In Hollywood recently with Jackie ("The Kid) Coogan, re
cently estranged from his shapely blonde wife, Betty Grable. Was
Carroll, who has described Betty as "my best friend," admitted hav.
Ing been ont with Coogan many times. Coogan said he and the star
let had known each other for n
romance, matnal friends smiled
The OREGON STATESMAN, - Salem,
Gambling Ship
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streaming fire hoses ataadims; by to repel any attempt of police to board. At gangplank is am empty
water taxi used as a barricade. Two companion ships nearby surrendered to raiders who unloaded saf
fldemt evidence of illegal gambUng into boats, tossed tbe rest overboard. Said owmer of tbe Rex, Toay
Oorneroi They can't raid a ship oa the high seas. We're beyond California state borders.' IIS
photos.
book, the following paragraphs
appear:
"One of the most horrible Inci
dents of the Indian war of 18,55-6,
near the mouth of the Rogue riv
er, has been mentioned several
times In this volume, bat without
sufficient details.
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"Mr. Geisel had settled six
mUes north of Rogue river and
was! mining. His family consisted
of a wife and three boys aged re
spectively 9, 7 and 5 years, and
two' girls, Mary aged 13, and an
infant.
"An Indian who had been work
ing for Mr. Geisel went out, on
the 2 2d day of February, 1856, to
hunt hogs and did not return that
evening as was expected. At mid
night a rap was heard on the door.
The summons was answered with
caution. The voice of the Indian
who was employed was detected.
Thei door was opened and three
Indians entered unbidden, and a
murderous assault was made on
Mr. Geisel by the Indians, who
were . armed with knives. The
brave wife flew to her husband's
assistance and was wounded.
nearly losing one finger,
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"The husband and father aoon
fell land the mother and daughters
were taken out and tied, when the
Indians returned to their slaugh
ter.l The three boys were killed
and the house set on fire. The
mother and daughters were driven
away captives by the light of the
flames, of the ruin behind.
Through the medium of a squaw.
who was a prisoner, an exchange
was made. i
. 'Charley Brown was sent out
to meet the Indians with a flag
of tr nee. 'For the squaw and
some blankets they would ex
change,' was their answer. A sub
scriiption was raised, blankets pur-
chased, and the exchange com
pleted. The next day Mrs. Geisel
was' brought to the fort, but the
girl Mary was kept until another
night of suspense and horror for
thei mother had passed when she
was brought to the fort nearer
dead than alive.
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"Mary afterwards became the
wife of Harry Blake, of Chetco
valley, who represented his county
in the Oregon legislature at one
time.
"Mrs. Blake enjoyed one of the
most elegant homes in the coun
try until Mr. Blake's death a few
years since."
(Continued tomorrow.)
Coogan Linked
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actress, had her name linked romam-
long time, bnt, despite denials of n
knowingly. UN photo.
Oregon, Thursday Morninff, August 10, 1939
on.'High Seas? Resists Law Raiders
elaborate gamblin ship Rei, om
DGadlnap 1 PPMPgirai traps
XSXX THVBaDAT 1SS0 K.
S:S0 UiUcmta't 8era4.
7:00 Wander VkUey Br.
T:15 BUkman'a 8eraa4.
T:30 Nw.
T:S WMternsim.
B:00 Moraine MediUtiont.
S:15 of KmU
8:45 Ntwt.
:00 Pter' Cll.
:15 Hilo 8ernderi.
9:30 Leo Frcadbcrs Oreheitr.
10:00 Opening of American Legion Con
vention witk Coamnnder Chad
wick. 11 :00 Now.
11:15 Iforaiaf Harnlaa.
11:30 Womod In tii Maw.
11:5 Hollywood Kibitier.
11: Value Parade.
11:00 Street Keportar.
12:18 Newa.
12:30 Hillbilly Serenade.
12 :36 NoTeltane.
12:45 Mniical Salute.
1:00 Benny Barton Orchestra.
1:15 Intereitinf f acta.
1:30 Jane Anderaoa.
1:45 Swinfinf Stringf.
2 :C0 Let a Play Bridge.
2:15 Johnaon Family.
2:30 Newa.
2:45 Manhattan Mother.
8:00 Feminine Fancies.
S:30 Charioteers.
S:45 Falton Lewie, jr.
4 :00 Sinf onietta.
4:30 First Offender.
5:00 Johnny Daria Orchestra.
5:15 Shatter Parker.
5:30 Salon Echoes.
5:45 The Green Hornet.
S:15 Dinner Hour Melodies.
6:45 Tonight's Headlines.
1 :00 Rhapsody in Wax.
7:15 Newa Behind the Newa.
7:SO Hawaiian Bwingologiata.
7:45 Ben Bernie Orchestra,
8:00 News.
8:15 Mnny Marcelino Orchestra.
8:80 Moonlight Melodies.
8:45 Softball Scores,
t :00 Newspaper of the Air.
0 : 15 Swing time Softball Bcorea.
9:30 Richard Love Orchestra.
9:45 Fulton Lewis, jr.
10:00 Carol Lofaer Orchestra Softball
Scores.
10:15 Benny Goodman Orchestra.
10:80 Leon Mojiea Orchestra.
11:00 Tomorrow' Newa Tonight.
11:15 Marvin George Orchestra.
11:30 Rhythm Raacals.
11:45 Midnight Swing Session.
7:00 Viennese Ensemble.
7:14 Trail Blaiera.
7:45 Newa.
8 :00 Orchestra.
8:15 The O'Neills.
8:80 Stars of Today.
8:59.40 Arlington Tim Signal.
9:00 Piano Recital.
9:15 Me and My Shadow.
9:30 Meet Miaa Julia.
9:45 Dr. Kate.
10:00 Betty and Bob.
10:15 Grimm 'a Daughter.
10:30 Valiant Lady.
10:45 Hymns of All Chnrehes.
11:00 Story of Mary Marlia.
11:15 Ma Perkins.
11:30 Pepper Yoang's Family.
11:45 The Guiding Light.
12:00 Backstaee Wife.
12:15 Stella Dallas.
12:30 Vie and Bade.
12:45 Midstreaaa.
1 :00 Pianist.
1:15 Orchestra.
1 :45 Singer.
2:00 Stars of Today.
2:15 I Lot a Mystery.
2:30 Women's Magazine af tit Air.
8:00 Easy Aces.
8:15 Tracer of Lost Persona.
S :30 Newa.
8:45 Stars of Today.
4:00 Rudy Vsllee Hour.
5:00 America's Lost Plays.
:00 Music Hall.
7:00 Orchestra.
7 :15 Orchestra.
8:00 Reed College Institute.
8:15 Symphony Hoar.
9:15 Arabian Nights.
9 :45 Orchestra.
10:00 News Flashes.
10 USMidget AU Races.
10:30 Orchestra.
KOAC TEnjXSDAT 550 X.
:0O Today's Programs.
t:08 Hosaemakere' Hoar.
10:00 Weather Forecast.
10:80 Monitor Viowa tho Kewm.
11:00 Variety.
110 Mnsie if the Masters.
12:00 News.
12:15 Farm Hoar. '
8 :00 Dimmer Coaeort.
6:15 News.
B. 80 Farm Hour.
8:00 Cities of tho World.
8:45 Masie of tho Maetera. 1
XEX THTTSBDAT 1180 Be.
6:80 MaaicaJ Clock.
7:00 Family Altar Hour.
7:10 Financial Serrico.
7:45 Ranch Boys.
7:S5 Market Qootationo.
7:57 Lost and Found Items.
8 :00 Dr. Brock.
8:80 Farm and Homo.
9:30 Patty Jean.
9:45 Christian Science Program.
10:00 Homo Institute.
10 :15 Concert Salon.
10:30 News. " -
11:00 Little Concert. '
11.45 Between the Bookends.
12:00 Smile Parade.
12.30 News.
12:45 Dept. Agriculture.
1:00 Market Reports.
1 :05 The Quiet Hour.
1:45 Popular Melodies.
3:00 Carbeteme train.
3:15 Finameial mad Grain Report a.
a :to atosirai - lasenooo.
S:25 Newt. '
8 :30 Orchestra. -2:45
Portland en Parade.
8:00 Orchestra, -
8:15 Singera.
:80 Beeiss tb CarUla.
4:00 Masiral Comedy Koran. ,i
4:30-i-It'a Up to Tow.
S:O0 Symphony Orchoatra.
:M) 10O1 Wire.
-30 Grant Psrk Concert
7 K0 Trio.
7:15 Jena Doo'a Mnaie.
S:Otf Sporta Reporter.
8:15 News. ....
8:80 BasehaJL
10:15 Claaeleai for Today.
10:80 Dog Race Xetarna.
10:35 Oreaoatrm..
11:00 How.
11:15 Oreheotm. ' .
11:45 Sports KmaL
- . o o o -
ronr ratriiDAT m xc
:1 5 Market Report.
S:S0 KOIS tUock.
. 7:45 News.
8:00 Breakfast Bogle.
8:15 Waon a Girl Marries.
8:80 Romance of Holes Treat.
8:45 or Gal Sonday.
9:00 The Goldberg.
9:15 Life Cost Be MeMtifoL
9:80 Concwnter Xewa. -t:5
MUliT w.
mow; -11 1 If lilr nr voy r i ( it-Mxi
the "bJh seasM off Santa Monica.
10:00 Big 8itor
10:1 Aunt Jenny.
10:80 Musical Market Basket.
10 :45 American Legion Convention.
11:15 Thia and That.
11:45 Newa.
12:00 Pretty Kitty Kelly.
12:15 Myrt and Marge.
12:30 Hilltop House.
12 :45 Stepmother.
1:00 Scatter yood Baines.
1:15 Dr. Susan.
1:30 Singin' Sam.
1:45 March of Games.
2:00 Fletcher Wiley.
2:15 Hello Again.
3 :80 Orchoatra.
2:45 8 peed. Ice.
8 :00 Newspaper of the Air.
4:00 Bine Rhythm.
4:15 Musical Weakly.
4:45 Melody Time.
5:00 Major Bowes.
S:00 Columbia Workshop.
8:30 American Viewpoints.
S :45 Orchestra.
7:00 Amos 'n' Andy.
7:15 Orchestra.
7:30 Joe E. Brown.
8 :00 Melodiea.
8:30 John B. Hughes.
8:45 Orchestra.
0:00 Everybody Wons.
9:30 Sports Mirror.
9:45 Orchestra.
10:00 Five Star Final.
10:15 Nightcap Yarns.
1030 Orchestra.
Tbe Safety
Valve
Letters From
Statesmtn Readers
MBA ALREADY SUCCESS
To the Editor: After reading
your editorial on Moral Re-Arma
ment over carefully and thought
fully. I feel I need to do a bit of
explaining.
I was sent to the P a s a d e n a
training center for MRA to learn
what team work really meant as
we had a fellowship of a small
group here in Salem. X came into
contact with a group of delegates
numbering between one thousand
and twelve hundred. They were
from all parts of the world and
represented every phase of life
from relief clients and WPA work
ers to members of parliament and
earls and ladles. There were fac
tory' workers and farmers. Doc
tors and teachers; students and
preachers. National leaders doyn
to a message from a Bantu tribe in
Africa.
Tet, the funny part was they
all worked together in perfect har
mony without thought of position,
racial antagonism or political dif
ferences coloring their thinking as
they mapped out programs to
bring this wonderful message to
the entire world.
I admit it sounds Utopian, but
that is exactly what it is. It is not
a theory but a proven fact as the
Scandinavians demonstrated at
the second World Assembly tor
Moral Re-Armament held at Del
Monte.
They showed us how MRA had
driven out conflict from their own
individual lives. From that as a
base it had moved on into family
relationships In the home, been
taken Into Industry then on Into
the national life.
It was not a loose set of emo
tions released but clean-cut deci
sions from thinking men and wom
en under the direction of God. free
to remake the world.
, I would like also, for you to cor
rect a misleading statement in
Sunday morning's Statesman.
It was that I was the only dele
gate from Oregon at the training
center. - ' - -
I was at Pasadena but others
came down for the Hollywood
Bowl Tally. Several came .1 r o m
Portland and Eugene and one
from Grants Pass besides Virgil
Thomas who I understood was at
Walla Walla but formerly of Sa-
lem.
OLIVE CARTER.
1938-39 PW A Program
Well Along in State
PORTLAND, ' Aug. t.-HAVThe
regional PWA office today re
ported that 70 of the 134 projects
granted Oregon In 1935-11 have
been completed.
A total expenditure of St,200.
00 - was involved in tbe entire
state program, but 17 projects
rained at $1,088,054 were trans
ferred to the bureau of , public
roads. There are only 41 projects
still under construction. -
Man Held DlameUtM
For Death Front Fight
PORTLAND, Aug. t.-tfVKer-mit
Earl Barkhurst, 37, was ex
onerated by a coroner's Jury to
day of any blame In the death
of Steven Llchter, 45.
LIchter died Sunday of Injuries
suffered In a fight with Bark
burst The jury said It found
Barkhurst had no Intent to kllL
Sport Events Set
. w-l WT -
ror umonricnic
August 20 Outing to See
Men' Beauty Contest,
Other big' Eventi
a men's bathlnr beaoty eon-
test" log-rolllns; contest, tog-of-war,
races and a ball game are
Koi.. niannoif far th nnion labor
picnic scheduled tor Aurost 20
at Pat's Aeres t .uanoy.- ae
picnic is one or we events i
law wuVmiI ' otare1 bv orsian-
iied labor under the auspices of
tho Salem Union laoei leatjue.
A labor parade will be statjed
in itnwntnvn Ralem Friday night.
August 18. and similar demon
strations are being arrangea ia
sarrounding commaniiies. job
HajupnstAb'a rherrv Oitv Master
Bread Juvenile band of over 60
pieces will play at tne saiem pa
rade. All the musicians are 15
years old or under.
At the picnic both dinner and
supper will be available, although
visitors mar bring basket lunches
If they prefer. A first aid station,
under, the direction of Willard
Marshall, manager of the physi
cians and surgeons hospital as
sociation of Salem, will be main
tained at the picnic.
New Courthouse
'Readiness' Urged
Marlon county was urged yes
terday by C. C. Hockley, regional
fwa administrator, to be
ready" with arrangements to fi
nance construction of a new
courthouse.
Conferring with the county
court, the federal official pointed
out the public works administra
tion had been retained by con
gress as a permanent government
agency but had been given no
new appropriation.
Court members indicated a be
lief It would not be advisable to
present a new courthouse financ
ing plan to the voters in the
near future because of rejection
of such measure last year. In
terest was expressed to a limited
extent, however, in a suggestion
by Hockley that money be bud
geted each year to build up a
construction fund.
Miller Company
Goes to Eugene
The Miller Mercantile company
has purchased the Bank of Com
merce building at Eugene and will
open its 10th department store
there late in the fall. Floyd E.
Miller of Salem, assistant mana
ger, announced , yesterday. The
building is located one-half block
from the Washburne department
atore which was bought early this
month by the J. C. Penney com
pany.
B. E. Sisson. manager of the
Miller Salem store, has been In
Eugene for several days In connec
tion with the ideal.
Chinook Salmon
Thronging River
ASTORIA. Ore.. Aug. 9.-UP-A
heavy run of chinnok ulnuin
has started in the Columbia river.
it was reported today by boats
returning with 1000-pound
catches.
Seven to eight pounds was the
average weight of silversides
taken on troll.
Thirty thousand cases packed
at Briston Bay. Alaska, arrived
tonight on the Columbia River
packers' association floating can
nery. Monmon. The amount was
20,000 cases less than last year.
Disaster Control
Project Favored
The state board of control
Wednesday agreed to sponsor a
$137,000 WPA disaster project.
Governor Charles A. Snram
said he would ask State Forester
J. W. Ferguson whether the state
needed WPA assistance in fight
ing forest fires.
12.Year-Old GirVg Body
Found in Seattle Water
SEATTLE, Aug. 9.-i?VThe
Doay or iz-year-oid Alice Selleck.
who disarjDear1 from Ti
Monday, was found in Lake
W 0 . m . .
union toaay. Authorities, who at
first Investigated the possibility
oi ioui piay. saia tjiey believed
she fell Into " the water and
drowned. .
Alice was the dane-hf nt m.
and Mrs. W. W. Selleck, recent
nrriTais i rum san rTanclsco.
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SEATTLE. Aue. e-Pu.Tw0nr.
seven United States nary bombers
arrived at, the Sand Pfttnt naw1
air station today after n training
flight from San D I e g 0 . The
planes which 'stopped at San
Francisco en route here, were
posted to return south Saturday
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Albert Gore
Among the Democratic house
members who dealt President
Roosevelt a blow by voting against
the president's $800,000,000 slum
clearance bill was Representative
Albert Gore, of Tennessee, pic
tured malting a speech on the
Boor of the house against the ad
ministration's bin. The bill lost
by a Tote of 197 to 170.
Doyle Ex-Special
Officer of State
Stanley M. Doyle, whom the
Harry Bridges defense committee
said was the "mainspring" of a
conspiracy to deport Bridges,
was appointed a state special
agent by ex-Governor harles H.
Martin on June 16, ltfT, records
of the executive department re
vealed Wednesday. .
The appointment was made on
recommendation of Chief of Po
lice Harry Nilea of Portland. The
commission expired December 31,
193S. and was not renewed by
Governor Charles A. Sprague.
Governor Sprague wrote Doyle to
return his badge but he has not
replied.
The badge was mailed to Doyle
in San Francisco.
36 Prison Cases
Reviewed, Board
Thirty-six penitentiary cases
came before the state parole
board at its meeting Wednesday.
In most of the cases the convicts
had served their minimum sen.
fences and were subject to parole.
ine Doara, at its next meeting,
will fix the minimum sentences
of a number of nrisonern received
at the penitentiary since June 14.
V . - 1 . ... . .
me uaie on wmcn ine new state
parole law became effective.
Maximum sentences or tiA
by the jndges.
Gasoline NRA Protested
PORTLAND. Ann. 9 MPA
proposed .ordinance to establish
an NRA among Portland gaso
line aeaiers and require them to
post retail prices has brought
wave of protests from dealers.
Commissioner R. ' R riim
closed today.
TIME CHANGES
Due to tbe broadcasts of the
opening ceremonies of the
American ' Legion conven
tion at 10:0O A. M. today,
we have re-arranged our ,
schedule as follows:
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Cohn Bros. Magazine
11:15 A. M.
Kay's Dres Shop. "Wom
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11:30
Martin Gassner 's "Holly
wood Klbltier" 11:33
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