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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1939)
THE BEND BULLETIN TEMPERATURE Maximum yesterday, M kpwi ' Minimum tat night, S3 defrew. . THE WEATIIKfl Generally fair IiiiiIkIiI mid Ttieday Utile rhuiiKO i temperature. VOL. XI.1V THE BRND BULLETIN, RRNI), OREGON,: MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 21, 1039 NO. 05- ROAD SURVEY TO ELK LAKE PLANNEDSOON Engineer Arrives to Prepare for Work QUARTERS SOUGHT North End Cancnde Lakes. Ilijfhwuy to lie Studied Hy Field Party A (liuil lin.illuii survey of the Cas cade Lake hlliwiiy, northern unll of which In generally known a the Century drive, In In be started III the mar future, 11 won learned today mi the orrlvol In Demi of II. A. Cownn, public rooil ailniliiuilrallnn engineer. J'lrnl unll of the mnuiilnln lilghwuy In Iw liidlnl will bo lh north ond. between Bend and Elk lukc. Cviwnn will Im aiuilaled hy a crew of eight or nine men. Heodiinartoni will bo eatnblMicd hero. Cowon to day wu attempting In locate office are, and aluo a home for himself and III wife. The engineer wu Iruntfcrrrd lo Oregon, to lake charge of the Cascade take highway atuuy, from Montana, where he ha been engaged In public road work for cvcral year, Ciowan formerly did engineering in Central OrvKoii and win Malioned at Burn. Sunerviior l(alili C. Crawfnrl of the DeNchutm national forest and ln II. People, chamber of com merce Mt'retary, were amustlng Ciowan In the attempt lo locate office inmco in liend. Ciowan Indicated that he will not Ik in a position to announce definite plain for lite mil vev until he ludir hi instruction. The survey will probably modify mine of the previ ous liH'allon ilmltc. Iat of which wa completed In IlKM under the iilwrvlaton of W. C. Strubhle. A Dewhute county market road now reache from Bend to the forest boundary. Till will probably be a unit of the mountain highway. The public roatU administration " engineer hope lo complete the ur vpy a far iuuiIi a lk Uika in about lx weeks, or before heavy mow mine to the Central Oregon Cascade. Vhe Bend-Elk lake survey i the only unll planned for field !udy thU full. Milk Prices Going Up in Strike Zone New York, Auk. 21 mi The Dairy Farmers union offered today to sup-' ply consumers directly with milk for the duration of the New York mllk shrd strike which has cul the metro K,lltan area's supply almost In half. The offer was made by Archie WrlHht, president of the union, just Ix-foro he went lno conference at the world's fulr city hall with Mayor K If, LaGuardln and all K roups In volved In tho milk llcup, which has caused cjashet) between pickets and police. The city's milk supply today was reported at about half the normal 4,400,000 quart requirement. Many sections of the city were vlrluallw without milk after the first few hours of business when shoppers throitKcd neiKhborhood stores to net In their supplies early. Hundreds of retailers had adopted a policy of selling only lo their regular customers. Some in stance of price-hiking were report ed. One dealer win said to be charg ing 11 cents a pint for grade A milk, nearly twice the normal figure. Louisiana Investigation Rushed After Suicide of State Official By Preston MrGraw ! (UnlM Wvw SUIT Cormvondetlt) Newk Orleans, Aug. 21 (111 Fed eral agents Intensified their Investi gation of the Louisiana oil scandul to day following the suicide of Dr. J. A. Shaw, the stato official charged with conserving lite state's oil resources, Tho federal grand jury was meet ing again today and It was widely reported In political quarters that It would hand down more Indictments, it already has indicted former Gov ernor Richard Leche and Seymour Weiss, two of tho three men to whom tho lalo Huey P. Long willed his em pire. Slinw was concerned only with tho "hot oil" nhasn of the federal in vctslgntions which have convulsod the state. He was castigated by a federal judge In Dallas on Thursday for his part In an arrangement whereby hundreds of thousands of gallons nf Loulsluna oil entered In tcrstata trade Illegally, Returning to Louisiana, ho was involved in an automobile accident on Saturday and Inst night In his homo hero, he fired n bullet through his brain. It wns tho second suicide among workers in the Long political fluids. On Aug. 10, Gnorgo Heidelberg, no tional vouth administrator at Louis iana State university and husband nf Dr. James Monroe Smtth' private secretary, killed hlmaelf. Dr. Smith is tho muchly Indicted former presi dent of LSU who Is charged with having embezzled hundreds of thous ands of dollars of university funds. Already scores of federal agents wore at work In Louisiana, but seven more como In this week to intensify the federal investigations. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Illy Unlll Prm) Tlie Rev. Charle K Coughlin de clared at Detroit thai a counter-force to comimmlun In the United State Khould lie orifunlred under a "ChrU tiaii front," "If the enemies of our Americanism and Christianity have lieen suiTewful in building up a Pil lowing of million of propagandized upxirler," he mild, "I it not rigid and just fur u lu organize a cnunter- hirco lo lorercnU itiolr ultuck.' Kiim llreadnn, president of the St. Ixiuls Cardinals, is in til. John' ho pllal at Hi. Loui suffering from heud liilurles he received when he was thrown bv a horse at his farm, II has not been determined whether he had suffered a fraclured skull. . .Tlie Kev. Karl Knudsen, minister of the Church of trie rilgrlmogo at Plymouth, Mass., where the first Thanksgiving wa cch-hrati-d, said President Kumcvell's cliauiji' of Thanksgiving' date was pcrhuii a Codsenu in dtnguixe. The presldviil' "calloused attack" on the tradition, he said, ha Urred thous and "from their spiritual lethargy to defend tliat which they suddenly realize la a sacred Institution," . . . The Koveriiment has chawed that Anita luiulte, blonde movie star, ne tflwled to uuv S.Y4H4 income lax on her 1038 ournlng. Actor Peter Loire was tagged (or $2,435 for the same year. . . Senator llurlon K. Wheeler, veleriin Montiina democrat, expressed iloulil at. jm Angele thai President Kmnevell Would seek a third term and added that he thought it would be a mistake for him to run. l.ou (iehrlg returned to Mayo clinic at Kochester, Minn., to determine the prog-res uf his Unlit against paralysis which forced him lo retire after clay- inn i.l.m consecutive Karnes as lirst luiseman for the New York Yankee. He aid he had uained a nound a week ilnce reliriiiK lo the bench 10 week ai(o. , , Chandler Given Two Year Term Companion Still Held in City Jail Roscne Chandler was sentenced to Iwn years in tho state penitentiary today by Circuit Judge T. E. J. Duffy after entering plea of guilty Friday lo a charge of entering an automobile with the Intent to steal. Chandler, 22 years old, was aivested. with Delmer Carpcnler, 20, and Harold Jackson, 17, In The Dalles last week following the renort to notice officers of a series of thefts In Central Oregon and in The Dalles and Hood Klver. Carpenter and Jackson are being held In the city jail pending arraign ment. A maximum sentence of five years Is allowed by law for the charge placed against Chandler. The offense occurred about August 10. according to the district attorney's indictment. Officers said that Chandler with Jackson took a radio from a pickup In lite city of Mend and hid it In a riionuh pile near Pilot butle. Chandler was found KUilty bv circuit court lurv in December. 1937 on a charKe of manslauKhter. He was sentenced to one year In the peniten tiary when the jury recommended leniency. On the grand jury indict ment returned that fall. Chandler was accused uf driving while Intoxi cated, have more than three persons in the front seat of his automobile, speeding, and manslaughter. Chandler will probablv be taken to Salem tomorrow by Sheriff C. L. McCauley. SALMON RUN HEAVY Astoria, Ore, Aug. 21 nil The heaviost chinook salmon run of the season brought tons of fish to can neries today four days before the statutory end of the Columbia river flshinu season. Assistant U. S. Attorney General O. John Roggc, whose star witness Shaw was to have been in the prose, cutlon of Leche and Weiss, was inter. ested in his suicide, but made no comment. Leche and Weiss were indicted with Freeman W, Burforf' million aire Texas oil man, on charges of conspiring to violuto the fedral hot oil law. Bui ford applied to tho federal dis trict court in Dallas for an order pro hibiting hls.extradition to this federal district. Roggo took Shaw with him to testify to the alleged conspiracy. Shaw said ho had signed an order permitting an Increase in production from one lease in tho Rodessa field from 5.000 to 20.000 barrels a day, From this leoso, Burford's company was alleged to have taken 450,000 barrels of "hot oil In November and December 1930. Shaw testified that ho signed the order because it had been put before him by Weiss and approved by Mayor Robert S. Maestri of New Orleans, tho third of Huey Long's hairs. Fodcral Judge T. Whit Davidson Questioned him and he said ho would have signed anything to keep his job anything except something cat ciliated "to hang me." Davidson, In protecting Burford from extradition, declared that Macs trl and Shaw "are lust as guilty In this transaction from the face of the record as are any other men Indicted In this case." Leche resigned Just as Smith's embezzlements from LSU were re voolcd. Earl Long succeeded him and one of his first acts was to fire Shaw, (lonunuca on page tnreo) NEW HEAD FOR BONNEVILLE IS APPOINTED Illinois Man Named by Ickes Today TO RELIEVE BANKS Dr. Paul Raver, Chairman of Commerce Hoard Taken Federal Tost Washington, Aug. 21 Uli Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes today ap pointed Dr. Paul J. Raver, Illinois commerce commission chairman, as administrator of the Bonenvllle dam powor project. Haver will assume Ills duties on Sept, IS, rellevliiK Acting Admin istrator Frank A. Banks. Banks has served as temporary administrator since May 4 shortly after the death of J. D. Koss, the first administrator. Ickes said he was "grateful to Gov. Henry Horner of Illinois for "releas ing Dr. Haver who is especially well qualified as a result of hi long and brilliant record lo do the important job I am assigning him at Bonne ville." Raver was born at Logans port, Ind- on April 27, 1H84, and was graduated in civil engineering from tho Univer cily of Nebraska in 1917. He received a degree of master of business admin istration from Northwestern univer sity In 1927 und a degre of doctor of philosophy from the same school in 1933. In 1927. Raver served as ("valuation and estimating engineer In Chicago and lor the next six years he taught public utilities courses at Northwest ern. He became supervisor of the sec tion of rates ond research of the Illinois commerce commission in 1933. He organized the section and directed special research on such subjects as revenues, rates, the cost of capitol and securities. He also prepard testi mony in Important lake cases and aupervlsed handling ol all rural elec trification problem for the state commission. Banks was dratted lo serve as act ing administrator at Bonneville in connection with his regular work as supervising engineer of th. bureau of reclamation In charge of construction work at the Grand Coulee dam. When Raver takes office. Banks will continue his regular duties at Grand Coulee dam. "Banks has done fine lob on his temporary assignment." Ickes said. "Good progress has been made on the construction of transmission lines and in negotiations for power contracts." Ickes said that Banks informed him when he was appointed acting administrator at Bonnevillet hat com pletion of Grand Coulee was his "am bition." "I respect him for this," Ickes sold, "because thai dam Is worthy of tho best In any man. As a mailer of fact he has been loyally running two jobs, either one of which is big eiwuKn tor even a Dig man. Ickes said that Raver's experience In handling work of the Illinois com mission had "demonstrated his abil ity to handle in the public interest the marketing of the power from Bonneville dam." Celebration Planned on Santiam Highway A celebration marking the onentne of the Santiam highway into Sweet Homo and the Albany country has been sot for September 3 and 4, at i prairie, according to a news Storv from Sweet Home anoearine In today's Orcgonlan. Plans for the cele bration and the formation of a Dcr- manent Santiam highway association- were maoe at a special meeting of the committee in charge in Sweet Home. Temporary officers for the associa tion ore R. W. Tripp, Albany, presi dent; T. W. Murlyan, Lemanon, first vice president: J. C. Brown. Red mond, second vice president, and Ted Musgrave, Sweet Home, secretary. Tho board of directors consists of the various secretaries of the cham bers of commerce in each city direct' ly affected by the South Santiam highway. Thoy are Carl Curlee, Al bany: Richard A. Cotes. Yachats: C. C. Cochran, Corvollls; Frank Morgan, nyssa; uon rl, feoplcs, Bend; Bill Callan, Ontario; George Aitkcn, Sis ters, and Flnley McGlllvary, John Day. Peoples reported , this afternoon that lie has received no official in formation relative to plans for the highway opening celebration. The grade is now completed, but a bridge remains to be constructed at the foot of So ven-mile mountain. Klamath Fire Closes Highway During Night The Klamath fire that destroyed the town of Pino Ridge late Saturday and swept through valuable stands of timber blocked The Dalles-California highway Saturday night. The blaze swept, across The Dalles-California highway near Agency lake, northwest of Chlloquln, resulting in the blockade. Traffic was resumed Sunday mom Ing, according to Information from state oollce. Visibility In the Deschutes country was very poor today, but early this afternoon the Deschutes forest was still free of fires, Detective Had 1 1 X J. Hailed by New York District Attorney Dewey as the most important arrest in his drive against fugitive Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter wa! the capture of "Strawberry Joe" Amoroso", left, above. Amoruso, I called Lepke's "first lieutenant", was seized at New Paltz, N. Y, byj New york City detective Joseph Thompson, right, who, vacationing? ' at the rnsort recognized Amonso. Oregon Briefs IHr unitMl I'rml Eugene, Ore, Aug. 21 Hit Dam age caused by fire of undetermined origin which early Sunday morning destroyed the Willamette park dance hall near Springfield, Ore, was esti mated today at $20,000. The navillion (or many years a favorite of Uni versity of Oregon students may be rebuilt, according to A. B. Laud, the owner. Klamath Falls. Ore., Aug. 21 IU An cDidemlc of sleeping sickness in feeling more than 500 horses in Klamath - county and resulting in widespread vaccination, was reported here today. Astoria. Ore- Aug. 21 r The dedication committee of the new Tongue Point airbase announced to day that Sen. Charles L. McNary of Oregon will attend the ceremonies at the base Aug. 31. In the communi cation. McNarv wrote he had suffi ciently recovered from a recent ill ness to make his attendance possible. Eugene. Ore.. Aug. 21 HPi Dr. Donald M. Erb, president of the University of Oregon, announced to day that qualifications of the univer sity as one of three air service train ing centers in Oregon have been rushed to the civil aeronautics au thority at Washington. Under the authority's plan, from 20 to 50 stu dents would be schooled at each of the centers selected. HilUboro. Ore. Aug. 21 HPi Wayne Boyd. 34, Forest Grove, was dead to day following an accident on the highway one mile- east of Forest Grove. Coroner Scwell of Washing ton county, said Boyd ran in front of cor driven bv Albert Grossen of Hillsboro. Salem. Or, Aug. 21 IP Little Alan Gagncr, 4-ycar-old son of. Mr. and Mrs, E. Gagncr of Gervais, was dead today as a result of a kick by a horse. Tho accident occured Saturday Afternoon. He was rushed to a Salem hospital but died from injuries early last night. Six Bodies Recovered After Tragedy at Sea Rye Beach. N. H.. Aug. 21 t(Pi Tragedy which overtook a Sunday deep-sea fishing party was revealed here today when the bodies of six persons including sweethearts who were to have wed next month were washed ashore within sight of the submarine Squalus salvage scene. The six apparently hod drowned after gale-lashed seas capsized the 22-foot cabin cruiser l-G-260. The victims were: Ralph Pryor, 55, Dover, owner of the boat. Miss Ethclyne Cutler, 18, New market, Pryor's cousin. ' Walter Hargraves, Newmarket, her fiance. Clarence Ycaton, 48, Dover. Joseph Wojnar, New Boston. Frank Blant, New Boston, Deschutes Foresters Called to Fire Duty Four members of tho Deschutes national forest staff were called to various parts of Oregon over the week-end, to assist In the control of fires sweeping through west side forests. Fmll Johnson was called to Tillamook and C. E. Helm, Ernest Stclglelder and Freeborn Armstrong to the Sluslaw. , Merle S. Lowden; Deschutes na tional forest construction foreman, has returned from the White Salmon country of Washington, where he was. called to assist in the suppression of a fire on the Columbia national forest. Fruitful Vacation -"-ft Portland Paper Suspends Today News-Telegram Quits Afternoon Field Portland, Or- Aug, 21 IP The Portland News-Telegram today an' sxunced "with deep xegset" . that it was suspending publication with this afternoon's editions. The suspension leaves only two daily newspapers in Portland, the Morning Oregonian and the after, noon Oregon Journal. Arrangements have been made, the announcement said, ' whereby the Journal will take over the News Telegram's circulation records, com ics and features. The announcement, signed by the newsDoper. read: ."In soite of unceasing efforts of an able and loyal organization this news paper has encountered increasing dii- ficulties, ranging from greatly in creased costs of production to an ever-growing tax burden, in the face of which continued operations on sound basis are not passible. In our opinion, this field cannot support more than one metropolitan afternoon newspaper. "Arrangements hove been made with the Journal Publishing company whereby features and comics which long have aopeared in the News Telegram will be pubilished in the Journal beginning tomorrow. Fur ther arrangements have been con- eluded whereby the Journal has ac aulred the News-Telegram circula tion records so that it may serve News-Telegram subscribers. "The Telegram since 1877, the News since 1R06. and the News-Telegram since 1931 have honestly and sincere ly served this community. The News- Telegram thanks its readers and ad vertisers and the people of Portland for their suoDort." It was said that some of the paper's 150 employes would be transferred to other positions with the Scripps league ot newsoaoers. a facilic coast chain of which the News-Telegram is a member. Others will be given dismissal Day. P. L. Jackson, editor and publisher of the Journal, said: The announced suspension of the News-Telegram, alter a long and useful career as part of the commu nlty life In the Pacific northwest, is the result of a situation that is nn. tionwlde and not merely local. 'All over the country, Increasing Droduction and oncratins costs. m;lces of materials and multiple taxes. local, nauonai ana ine new security taxes, have ro greatly added to the burden of publishing a modern news. naper that more than 50 have been forced to suspend in the last two years." Illustrator on Visit Here After Air Trip In Central Oregon for a few days visit with Dr. and Mrs. H. Carpenter Staples are Mr. and Mrs. Rolf Klep, former Oregonians, who flew from New York City to spend a brief vaca tion in the Pacific northwest. Mrs. Klen and Mrs. Staples are sisters. Klep, a University of Oregon grad uate, is one of the leading illustrators in the east, his work Involving the filling of assignments for advertising agencies and for magazines of the standing of Collier's and Fortune. The trio to Oregon this summer Is the fifth transcontinental flight which ha and Mrs. Klep have taken, he mentioned this afternoon. OSLO POWERS PLAN APPEAL AGAINST WAR Conference Called By Belgian King EUROPE IS TENSE Both French and British Cabinets Will Meet on Tuesday IBt Unlud VnmY While Europe prepared today against the posibility of a disastrous war, a strong peace movement got under way. The Oslo pouters, so called because they entered into a neutrality pact at Oslo, Norway; decided to appeal to the great powers to reach settlemnt eand avoid bringing on a conflict . The foreign ministers of the Oslo powers Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg were invited by King Leopold of the Belgians to meet in Brussels on Wednesday and draft an -ippeal. Cut off from the great agricultural and mineral resources of Scandinavia especially Germany would be hard pressed in any protracted war. rope issues Appeal The oeace move followed one from Rome, where Pope Pius XII issued a strong plea for peace on Saturday. Still another move was reported in Bucharest, Rumania, where a reliable informant said the visits last week of Count Sterjhen Csakv. Hungarian foreign minister, to Germany and Italy were more in the nature of an attemot to mediate between Poland and the axis powers, rather than an effort by Rome and Berlin to force Hungary into the axis for war. On the other side of trie picture, Britain and France were fully on the alert for trouble. It was announced in London that "obstructions" would be Disced around strategic harbors on the coast. The cabinets of both Britain and France were called into session for tomorrow to consider the situation. Trooo movements on both sides of the Polish border increased, account ing in part for British and French concern. German trooos massed in the "treaty corridor" of western Slo vakia, leading from Austria to Po land. It was denied that the Germans were occupying Slovakia proper out side the corridor. Poland Masses Armr Poland massed trooos on the Ger man frontier, and was understood to have moved almost all its forces from the eastern border facing Russia. Russia entered into a trade agree ment with Germany for extension of credits and exchange of goods which the official newspaper Pravda in Moscow hailed as a portent of im proved political as well as economic relations. The Japanese turned their atten tion to nossible measures against the United States as well as Britain.. The Tokyo press asserted that the foreign office as considering a tentative pol icy of retaliation against American interests in China, in case the United States places an embargo on the ship ment of war supplies to JaDan. Food rioting broke out in Shanghai, where 500 Chinese stormed a rice and flour store. The riot was attrib uted to sharply rising orices and the low value of Chinese currency. Call Conference OnWPAProgram Officials to Meet Here Wednesday Night A meeting of Deschutes county, Bend and Redmond officials, irriga tion and school district authorities has been called by County Judge C. U Allen In the circuit court roem for Wednesday at 8 p. m he announced today. The meeting will be held to discuss possible action that will be taken on the changes in WPA re auirements to maintain projects in the county. Judge Allen said todav that he had discussed the changes which will ne cessitate the establishment of larger projects and a greater outlay of ma terials and money with several per sons before calling the meeting. It is expected that a discussion will be held concerning whether local bodies will be able to'cormly with the WPA requirements or whether a modification will be asked. Ivan E. Oakes of Portland, deputy administrator for WPA will probably be Invited to the session. An announcement was made last week from the Bend WPA office con cerning the changes which will re duce the number of projects In the county and will Increase their size. At least 20 persons must be employed on projects which have been operated on a smaller scale. Officials from the cities of Bend and Redmond, Deschutes county, the school districts, and from the Central Oregon, Sou aw creek, Arnold, and Tumalo Irrigation districts will be in vited, Judge Allen said. Europe Today (Hr United PrMs) London: Britain placing obstruc tions ot strategic coastal points against enemy warships; cabinet to consider European situation tomor row. Paris Special cabinet session called for tomorrow simultaneous with Britiih; Premier confers with British war minister. Berlin German pressure on Po land increases as dates for Hitler's Tannenberg speech and nazi party conference near. Moscow Pravda predicts improve ment in German-Russian political relations as well as economic, after signing of trade agreement. Pistyan, Slovakia German troops mass in treaty corridor near Poland but keep out of Slovakia proper. Warsaw Polish troops reported almost completely withdrawn from Russian frontier for concentration opposite Germand. Rome Pope understood to have lent special envoy to Warsaw on oeace mission. Brussels Belgium cabinet decides to propose that neutral European countries appeal to great powers for peace. Lavender Sun Seen in Smoke Haze Over Bend Plays Tricks With Rays A lavender sun, its face marked by huge spots, crossed the Central Ore gon skies today, much to the amaze ment of local residents who wondered if they were "seeing things." Rays from the strangely discolored orb cast a weird light over the Bend countryside. Because of the subdued light, peo pie were able to look directly at the sun, and many discovered a nuge sun spot near the center of the orb. Ob servers who used Held glasses re' ported five different sun spots mov ing across the equatorial belt Two of these merged into the black spot that was visible to the unaided eye. Local amateur astronomers said that the merging spots were thou sands of miles in diameter the cen ter of solar cyclones moving across the face ox the sun, to disappear in few days near the lower western run. Airways observers th Bend said that the lavender color of the sun was probably .due tta a mixture of smoke and haze. Once before, about six years ago, a similar phenomenon was observed m zfend. The solar discoloration aorjeared to be p artly due to a haze hanging over the Deschutes valley and other parts of Central Oregon. Forest look outs failed to notice the lavender hue this m orning. At Sisters this morning the sun was not even visible. SOVIET-GERMAN AGREEMENT SIGNED Trade Pact May Improve Relationship Berlin. Aug. 21 IP It was oifl cially announced tonight that Foreign Minister Joachim von Kibbentrop would go to Moscow Wednesday to conclude negotiations for a non-ag- gression pact between Germany and the soviet union. The announcement came like bombshell to foreign diplomats in the midst ot British and trench etiorts to bring Russia into the "peace front" against European aggression- Moscow, Aug. 21 IIP A new Rus sian-German trade agreement may prove a substantial step for further improvement not only of economic but also of political relations be tween the Soviet Union and Ger many, the newspaper Pravda, official organ of the communist party, said today. "It can be safely stated that the new agreement is a turning point in business relations of the two couiv tries," said Izvestia, official news paper organ of the government. Announcement of the Russian German agreement came at a time when it had been admitted that dif' ferences had arisen in negotiations by Russia with Britain and French military missions for an anti-aggression mitttary alliance. negotiations with the British and French military misisons, in recess during the weekend pending receipt by them of fresh instructions, were resumed today. Intrinsically, the trade agreement was important enough, involving an W,000,000 credit by Germany to Russia and ourchase by Germany of S7Z,UUU,000 of Russian goods. The comments by the two official newspapers, however, gave it even additional moment. Berlin. Aug. 21 IIP) Nazi ouarters claimed today that Count Stephen Csaky, Hungarian foreign minister, is "100 per cent" in favor of collabo ration between Germany and Hun gary. Csaky returned to Budapest today after visiting Berlin and Rome. Information made available to the foreign press said: "Well-Informed quarters declare Count Csaky never left it In doubt that he definitely noted the collabo ration between Germany and Hun gary." The same statement said reports abroad that the relch Is putting po litical pressure on Hungary is "em phatically to be denied. . . . The basis of political, historical and geograph ical position and the co-ordination of the political aims of both countries exists anyhow." FOREST FIRE SWEEPS TOWN SOUTH OF BEND Pine Ridge In Ruins, Fire Races On LOSS IS $2,000,000 State Advances Funds to Carry on Fight in Coast Region (8r United Pranal Forest fires that swept extensive sections of the Pacific coast from Canada to Mexico were rapidly being brought under control today. Dam age was estimated in the millions. , The lumber town of Pine Ridge, Or., in Klamath county, lay in ashes, virtually every building razed by a fire which authorities believed "to have been of Incendiary origin. The loss was approximately $2,000,000. The Red Cross sent disaster units to aid hundreds of homeless. This blaze alone destroyed millions of feet of lumber at the Forest Lum ber company plant burned 150 homes, a hotel and mill buildings and streaked into the Klamath Indian reservation, destroying timber and houses. No casualties were repofted. A pall of smoke still shrouded Portland after more than 1,000 men had been sent to fight blazes on Mount Hood and near Tillamook and Estacada. These were now reported under control, as were fires in , the Siskiyou national forest of southern Oregon where 10,000 acres had been burned over. .... Town Threatened - - Residents of the town of Sappho, 12 miles from Forks on the Olympic peninsula of Washington, prepared to flee their homes as a forest fire start ed in the Deep creek area raged out of control and threatened the town. Flames were within one mile of the . 50 homes that make up the Boedel Donovan Lumber Co. town. The fire was fed by slashings from BoedeU Donovui operations in the Olympic national forest and had spread to the Olympic national park. In British Columbia, the forests on Vancouver island - and the lower mainland were closed against the fire hazard. Oregon and Washington ' authorities were considering closing their forests to logging operations. California's fires were being beaten out rapidly. The most serious, A 5.000-acre blaze in the -Los Padres national forest of Monterey county. was under control. The Cerro Alta fire in San Luis Obispo county was checked after it had burned over 5.000 acres, and the 20,000 acre Ma chenso fire in American canyon was under control. - . Some refugees of the Pine Ridge fire were being housed at Chitoqiriir, Or., while others camped in the fields, refusing to leave their land. , Salem. Ore.. Aug. 21 IIP) The state board of forestry today voted tcL.acTi. vance the Northwest Oregon -Eire Protection association $25,000 -as- disaster emergency fund in an effort to. control the huge Tillamook. flr. (Continued on page rive) - , POWERS AWAITING . HITLER'S SPEECH Tannenberg Anniversary Will Be Observed By Frederick C. Oechsner (United Prcu Staff Correapondvnt) Berlin, Aug. 21 ttPi Germany brought its pressure on Poland to ward a climax today as Adolf Hitler! prepared to address the nation at Tennenberg, seven miles from the Polish frontier, next Sunday. . It was rumored Hitler might make' a surprise visit to Danzig aboard the cruiser Koenigsberg, which is due at Danzig Friday, as a symbol that the reich was behind the free city. From Danzig Hitler could cross the new Vistula river bridge, connecting Danzig with the East Prussian gar-" rison town of Elbing, and continue on by motor car the 55 miles to Tan nenberg. However, some well Informed sources expressed belief that Hitler would defer his visit in the belief that Danzig would soon be joined to Germany and he could enter in tri umph as Its legal fuehrer. ' The Tannenberg speech Sunday, marking the 25th anniversary of a great victory against Russia, and- the nazi party annual rally opening' at Nuremberg Sunday, Sept. 2, were re1' garded as climatic dates in Germany's demands on Poland, now extended to include not only Danzig but the Polish corridor, and Polish Silesia"."'' As the first move in a week which was expected to bring developments of world importance, Germany an nounced the conclusion of a trade agreement with Russia. Under the agreement, signed hero Saturday, Germany is to grant Rus sia an $80,000,000 credit and is to buy $72,000,000 worth of goods from Rus sia. It was understood that Russia would send Germany vitally needed minerals, oil and timber in exchange for machinery, particularly electrical equipment. .... The agreement was purely an economic one, but the natural hope In nazi quarters was that it would Im prove political relations at a time when Great Britain and Franc sought to include Russia in their de fensive bloc, - -
