T -r-r
CIRCULATION
Dtlr average distribution for the
month udiag Octobei 81 1939.
10,303
Average dally oet paid 0.909.
Uember Audit Bureau ol Circulation
Capita
FA IK
but with considerable cloudiness to
night and Saturday, temperatures
below normal. Oentle. variable wind.
Local: max. 30: min. 23; rain 0;
river -2J feet; clear; calm.
42nd YEAR, No. 279
Entered as second elue
matter at Salem. Oreiton
SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 192
PRICE THREE CENTS VSSSAVSSHi
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I
IJAJoinnpnal
PUDSD.T0
CLEMEHCEAU
FAST SSHKIHG;
DEATHNEM
Veteran Statesman Dy
ing, Admit Physicians.
End Matter of Hours
Uraemia Develops and
Hope is Abandoned as
Crisis is Protracted
Paris iP) Former Premier Geor
ges Cleinenceau, 88 year old veteran
French statesman, is dying.
"Tile Tiger" is fighting his la6t
battle, it was admitted by his phy
sician. Dr. Degennes. as h left the
aged patient's bedside late Friday.
Uraemia has developed and unless
some extremely unexpected Inv
provement Is shown during the
night his doctors have abandoned
hope.
Paris irV) Dr. Degennes, mem
ber of the medical staff attending
former Premier Clemenceau, law
Friday said that the death of "The
Tiger" appeared only a Question of
hours.
Tl.e physician said that the form
er premier was suffering from a
crisis of uraemia which already had
lasted 18 hours and could not pos
siblv last another 24.
Unless an unexpected improve
ment is shown within a few hours,
Dr. Degennes concluded the former
premier cannot hope to survive tl.c
present crisis.
"(Concluded" 'on page 14. column
ESPEE DENIES
NEED OF HILL
LINE EXTENSION
San Francisco (LP) Unqualified
denial that a railroad is needed from
Klamath Falls, Ore., to Keddle. Cal.,
was made Friday by Southern Pa
cific witnesses at an interstate com
merce commission hearing here.
C. L. Muller, logging engineer o!
"wide experience on the Pacific coast
told the hearing that timber lands
In the region the proposed 200 mile
road would traverse could be tapped
easily and with profit by logging
roads. In general, Mullen denied
contentions of the Great Northern
and Western Pacific railroads that
a connecting line is necessary.
John D. Galloway, consulting en
gineer ior ine soutnern racmc ai
Ban Francisco, testified that Irri
gation, if practiced extensively in
the region between Klamath Falls
and Keddie would result in a gen
eral lowering of water levels and
ultimate exnau&uon 01 supply.
"The history of irrigation every
where shows that irrigation through
the use of wells resulted in a low
ered water level," Galloway said.
The testimony of Galloway was
part of a Southern Pacific attack to
offset Great Northern-Western Pa
cific claims that the region to which
the connecting line would run is
possible of - extensive acricultural
development.
SENATE TAKES
FINAL RECESS
Washington, A) Unable to
make any progress with the tariff
bill, the senate recessed at 12:32
until 9:45 o'clock tonight, fifteen
minutes before the special session
adjourns sine die.
Chairman Smoot, of the finance
committee, made several attempts
to obtain action on amendments to
various schedules, including those
affecting wool, silk, papers' and
books, but each time Indications
pointed to extensive arguments.
Senator Couzens, republican.
Mich., a member of the committee,
proposed the recess after stating
"everybody seems to be loafing on
the Job."
Washington. Ar- The house ad
journed fine die at 12:50 o'clock
today ending it labors In the extra
session of the 7m congress.
3 WORKMEN FALL
TO DEATHIN STACK
New York '4- Three workmen
ho were cleaning tlie interior of a
hue smokestack In Brooklyn fell to
their death Thursday, but the fact
was not discovered until Friday. In
quiries by the wife of one of the
victims, who failed to reach home
.Thursday night, led to the scovery
of the bcMj.rs. -
Good Evening!
Sips for Supper
By DON UPJOHN
An eastern physician says It does
n't do for a tubercular man to fall
in love. In fact he says that any
man who gets tuberculosis is in a
dangerous condition when he falls
in love it racks his nervous sys
tem. We suggest, on the other hand,
it's a bad thing for anyone who
falls in love to get tuberculosis. It
isn't good for the lungs.
The Willamette, says a head in
the Statesman is "Now Down to
Point 218 Feet Below Normal Level."
So low that even Little Algie can
turn up his trousers and wade in It.
That's what you'd call 'getting the
lowdown on the river.
We walked into a local eating
house yesterday and there about a
table sat Harley White, Si Eakin,
Claude McKinney, George Riches,
J. C. Perry and Otto Hart man. A
great buzzing of whispering went
up as we approached. "Shut up,
they each said to the other. ' Don't
say anything. There's Sips. You'll
get your name in the paper. '
Fie, fie, boys. You're all too old
to be saying things you're ashamed
to have old Sips hear. If there's
anything so naughty you're afraid
to say it in our presence you ought
to be taken to the woodshed and be
paddled for sure. We can't help but
wonder what those bad bays could
have been talking about when we
snowed up.
It has been said that the day of
opportunity has passed for the
young man. But a handful of years
ago a young chap just out of high
school was working his way through
school here in his brothers furm
ture store. Monday he will be buried
in Portland, brought back from the
nation's capitol, on his bier will be
a spray of flowers sent by the pres
ident of the greatest country in the
world, and with 1 im to his tomb
will go the tv.ediction of some of
the leading Jurists in the land. He
made his own opportunity by hard
work and his associates say that
death robbed this young man of a
still more brilliant future. Millar
McGilchrist was the best refutation
of the fallacy that a young man's
aay or opportunity has gone.
ANOTHER HEALTH HINT
Advice is given by physicians nev
er to kiss a girl who is on a diet.
Her health is apt to be so debili
tated she is subject to trench mouth.
Which may be true. But we've seen
some women not on a diet who had
trench mouth at least that looked
Uke a trench when In action on a
T-rome steak.
SHIP'S CALL FDR
HELP SILENCED
MUTINY FEARED
Malta (LP) An unfinished series
of wirel?ss dots and dashes sup
posedly terminated when the man
at the sending key was assaulted
and draseed from his post by mut
inous Oriental seamen Friday had
sent three British destroyers on
swift tearch for the British steam
er Barpn Elcho.
The operator succeeding in asking
for assistance and gave hi ship's
call letters, but was'lnterrupted be
fore he had an opportunity to give
the vessel's position.
One explanation of the apparent
state of mutiny aboard the fhip
was that the Lascar crew, outnum
bering the white officers 40 to 15,
had begun a hunt for narcotics, re
sorting to violence when demands
were refused.
Rainfall For Year
Only 23.76 Inches Shy
Of Annual A verage
If Salem reaches the normal point of precipitation it has
shown in an average of 35 years, 23.76 inches nf rail must
fall between now and the first
figures ithlch C. O. Wilson. Mere-
tary of the chamber cf commerce
has available for 33 years secured
from the United States weather
bureau, the avreasre for the pat 35
years was a rainlall or 37.71 inches.
Up to November 1 this year there
was a rainfall of 13.95 inches. It
has less than five week to make
up the average and if it does an
ark will probably be necessary to
save the inhabitants of tl.e vally.
The average rainfall for the
months of September. October and
November for the 35 year period
was September, 186 inches; Octo
PREXY'S STAND
CAUSED COACH
TO RESIGN JOB
President Halj Plans to
Put Coach on Profes
sorial Basis
McEwan Objects to In
definite Tenure and
Reduction of Income
Eugene, Ore. Differences be
tween Dr. Arnold Bennett Hail,
president of the University of Ore
gon, and Captain John J. McEwan,
head football coach, over the re
quest for renewal of McEwan's con
tract were held responsible Friday
for the. announced resignation of
the coach Thursday.
McEwan's announcement stated
the resignation would be effective
at the expiration of his present
contract, December 31, 1930. The
coach said he would fulfill his con
tract next year "to the letter."
McEwan who set the rumors fly
ing by his bare announcement, is
sued a lengthy statement on the
matter, holding that his plans to
quit were by mutual understanding
with Dr. Arnold Bennett Hail, pres
ident of the university. Hall, on
the other hand, had issued a prior
statement declaring that McEwan's
action was a complete surprise to
turn.
Alter reviewing a number of con
versations he had had with Dr. Hall,
McEwan said, "I have asked him
if he desired to retain me. I made
no mention of salary or terms of
contract. I asked him if he would
(Concluded on page 15. column 8)
SNOW BLANKETS
NORTH ATLANTIC
COAST STATES
New York, iTP A white blanket
covered much of New England,
New York and Pennsylvania Fri
day as a result of the first general
snowstorm of the season in the
east.
The storm, which swept in from
the Great Lakes, brought with it a
sharp drop in temperature and in
some cases assumed blizzard pro
portions. The heaviest fall occured
along the south shore of Lake Erie.
19 inches having fallen at Dunkirk
New lork.
A fall of several inches occured
in Massachusetts and New Hamp
shire, western and northern Penn
sylvania and western New York.
Many automobile accidents due
to heavy snow clinging to wind
shields and obscuring the vision of
drivers, were reported.
At Erie. Pa., fcur persons were
killed when two automobiles were
struck by a Pittsburgh-Buffalo
passenger train of the New York
Central, traveling 45 minutes late.
The accident occured during" a
heavy snow storm and the watch
man failed to see the approaching
tram.
$30,000 BAKER BLAZE
Baker, Ore. LF) Lighting of a
match was believed the cause of
fire which destroyed the E. W. Hear.
ing grain elevator and warehouse
here with an approximate loss of
$30000. Kenneth Doty, 24. ware
houseman whose lighted match was
believed to have started the blaze,
is in a Baker hospital suffering
severe burns.
of the year. According to
ber. 3 Inches, and November, 6.35
inches. The total for September
of this year was .27; for October,
1.17, and for November the report
not in.
Up to November 1 this year the
total rainfall for the 10 months
was 13 95 inches while the average
of the 10 months for the 35 year
period was 22 C8 inch?.
The highest precipitation for
year in the pat 17 years was In
1927 whm 43 43 Inches fell. thU high
pot be-in lanrely due to a nine
tCer::uded ca ,a 4, column 3)
Hobo Phone
Calls Total
$2274,Month
Chlcaso, (LP) The hoboes of
West Madison street will place no
more long distance, calis over the
telephone in the press room in the
county building. Its been discon
nected.
"Holy smoke!" exclaimed James
Russell, acting superintendent of
public service when he received a
bill for $2,274 for the long distance
tolls of Franklin 3083. Who's been
calling on the phone?"
Nobody seemed to know, but here
are some of the calls put in:
The Hotel Adlon In Berlin, by a
party who wanted to talk to "A
girl I met in the war."
The Czecho-Slovian home town
of a scrub woman.
Jiing Sing prison, person to per-
Concluded on page 15. column Bp
HEART ATTACK
PROVES FATAL
TO ALDERMAN
Ralph E. Thompson, 48, member
of t: e city council from the seventh
ward, died at his home, 1680 South
Commercial street, early Friday
afternoon from a heart attack after
an illness of only a few Lours.
Mr. Thompson had been engaged
in the automobile business here for
the past 18 years. He was former
ly one of the stockholders in the
Marion Automobile company and
remained with that firm several
months after its purchase by Wal
lace Bonesteele. For the past few
mouths he has been affiliated with
the automobile firm of Otto J. Wil
son. ' '
At the time of his death Mr.
Thompson was serving Lis second
term on the city council, to wnicii
he was first elected in 1920. His
first term extended to 1924, when
he was a candidate for the repub
lican nomination for sheriff. He
was returned to the council with
out opposition in 1928. As council
man he was an active member of
several important committees and
was appointed by Mayor Livesley to
the special committee dealing wnn
the municipal water supply prob
lem during the past year.
Mr. Thompson was actively en
gaged in his work up to Thursday
was born in Salem and spent
most of Lis life m the community.
Besides his wife he is survived by a
son, Cecil, of San Francisco; two
daughters, Sylvia, of San Francisco,
and Grace of Salem.
Mr. Thompson was a member of
the A. F. & A. M. and Eastern
Star lodges.
Funeral arrangements are In
charge of Clough-Taylor funeral
parlors and will be announced later.
ACTOR ADMITS
KILLING WDMAfJ
San Francisco. LP Police were
Friday seeking evidence to streng
then their case against Laurence
Tuiloch, actor and radio studio
director whom they have charged
with first degree murer in con
nection with the fatal shooting of
Mrs. Gertrude Tawkins Lavine.
young divorcee, in his apartment
Thursday.
Tuiloch at first steadfastly de
nied the shooting, maintaining that
he was out of the room at the
time the shot was fired, but finally
admitted that he accidently" kil
led the woman, according to po
lice, and said that he told an un
true version of the affair at first
because he feared he would not be
believed when he said the shooting
was accidental.
KILLED MATES
FOR INSURANCE
Chicago Mff. William O'
Brien and 8amuel H. Dorr Friday
faced charges of slaying the wo
man's husband, who died Thursday
night from wounds which Dorr con
fessed he inflicted Uvt Wednesday
in an ambush in the O'Brien home.
All Wednesday, Mrs. O'Brien in
sisted, she shot her hu-sband. Later,
when confronted by her father, she
changed her story and blamed Dorr.
Without knowing O'Brien had
died. Dorr, an Insurance agent who
Hr married and owas the apart
ment in which he and the O'Brteiu
lived, confessed he ambushed O'
Brien. Police Kaid they believe Mrs. O'-
firlen and Dorr had plotted to kill
their respective mates In order to
obtain money from Insurance poli
cies, written by Dorr. -
BANKER GIVES
CAUSEOFSTOCKU
MARKET PANIC
Kent Puts Blame on
Over-issuance of New
Securities and Loans
Congressional Failure
Only Partly Responsi
ble. Admits Speculation
By PAUL R. MALLON
Washington (LP) Congressional
activities were only partially to
blame for the recent tumble ot
stock market prices, Fred I. pent,
director of the Bankers Trust com
pany, told the senate lobby investi
gating' committee Friday.
The contributing factors were the
over-issuance of new securities, the
capital gains taxes and the spectac
ular total of brokers' loans, the Wall
street banker told the farm bloc
coalition senators on th3 comimttee.
"The fact that congress was split
into blocs and groups and could not
function on the tariff had an effect
upon the psychology of business,"
Kent asserted.
The banker admitted there had
been speculation but Insisted that
speculation was built upon, the sol
id business situation.
Former democrat Secretary of the
Treasury Carter Glass, now senator
from Virginia, at with the commit
tee and entered into the stern ques
tioning of Kent,
'Do- you believe that 90 per cent
of the transactions are, as the New
York Times states, as pure . gain
st Con eluded on page 14. column 3)
NORMAL DAY
EXPERIENCED IN
STOCKMARKET
New York (A) Wall Street wit
nessed an od fashioned trading
market Friday in which the general
list failed to make mucl: progress
in either direction. Several of the
recent speculative favorites sold
down to 1 to 7 points, while a fair
ly long list of public utilities, rails
and speciaiuies were marked up J
to 12 noints.
Governors of the stock exchange
voted to resuipe the five hour trad
ing sessions Monday but authorized
a three day holiday beginning
Thanksgiving day.
Tliere was nothing In the day's
news to account for the selling in
Friday s market but in view of the
approaching two day holiday and
the fact that prices had been ral
lying for three davs, a nominal set
back in the trading favorites was
regarded as natural.
Otis Elevator ran up 12 points,
Peoples Gas 10la, Jersey Central
10, J. I. Case 9'.j, United States In
dustrial Alcohol 7' i. Stone and
Webster 6'i and Underwood Elli
ott Fisher, Wright Aeronautical,
Delaware and Hudson, Brooklyn
Union Gas, Safeway Stores, Ameri
can Machine and Foundry, Ameri
can Water Works and Missouri Pa-1
cific sold 4 to 6 points higher,
although some of the gains were re
duced by profit taxing.
WINTER PITCHES
TENT ONJPLAINS
Chicago (& Winter has pitched
his snow-frosted tent on the plains
of the northwest and has sent his
soldiers, armed with icicle bayonets
to the northern fringe of Dixie.
Thief river falls, Minn., stole
whatever distinction there was
Thursday In being pre-seasonally
cold, having a temperature reading
of 16 below zero. The rpd line, how
ever, dropped below tlie cipher in
many other themometers in Min
nesota, the Dakotas and Wisconsin.
The southwest and the Rocky
mountain regions did not escape the
cold. Temperatures went below rem
in Montana, and there was sleet
and raw weather in the Texas pan
handle, and unseasonal cold in Ar
kansas.
HAWLEY AGAIN ASKS
BRIDGE AT ASTORIA
Portland 'U Representative
Hawley-wQl re-Introduce his bill to
authorize construction of a bridge
over the Columbia river at Astoria
early in the regular congressional
season, a dispatrii from the Oregon
Journal's Washington correspondent
said Friday,
USE LIE DETECTOR
88 SB S8
nd Truth
89 . 'S KB KB
SOL VING
Seattle (AP) Sheriffs deputies began digging in a
plot at the Bothell cemetery, 15 miles northeast of here early
Friday, in search of the body of James Eugene Bassett miss
ing since September 6, 1928, after Prosecutor Ewing D. Col
vin announced he had obtained a 'confession from Decasto
Earl Mayer in Jail as a habitual $ ; ;
criminal that he had slain tne
missing ninn.
Col v in said he had obtained the
confession through the use of a
"lie detector" and injections of
"truth serum. Heary Clay Agnew,
attorney for Mayer, Thursday ob
tained a temporary court order re
straining the prosecutor from
further use of these methods to ob
tain a statement from the prisoner.
Mayer was arrested in California
In possession of Bassett's automo
bile a few days after Bassett disap
peared. He was tried and convicted
of larceny of the automobile but
authorities were convinced mat
Mayer could explain the mystery of
(Concluded on pane 14, column 6)
POLICE SEEKING
GEORGE SUNDAY
AND PARAMOUR
Los Angeles (P) Police Friday
are searching for George M. Sunday,
37, real estate dealer and son of the
Rev. William A. Sunday, evangelist
and for Mrs. Mauryne La Salle, a
Hollywood cloak model, against
whom complaints .charging adultery
have been Issued by Deputy District
Attorney George Stahlma'n.
The complaints were the out
growth of an investigation of charg
es "made by Mrs. Harriett Sunday,
wife of George Sunday. Warrants
for the arrest of the pair were is
sued in municipal court Thursday
and bonds were placed at $10,000.
Mrs. Sunday charged she and
four witnesses surprised her hus
band and Mrs. La Salle together
at the Sunday home on the night ol
October 27. She lirst appeared be
fore district attorney's investigators
on November 1. She said her attor
ney no is preparing a suit for di
vorce. Police said Sunday dropped from
sight November 1 and Mrs. La Salle
has been reported missing since she
appeared for questioning at the dis
trict attorney's office shortly after
the start of the investigation. The
Sundays have two children, George
Jr., 15, and John Mason Sunday, 13.
Mrs. La Salle, who was divorced
last year is the mother of a five
year old son.
STEEL WAGES
REMAIN UNCUT
Youngstown, Ohio. W) J, A.
Campbell, president of the Youngs
town Sheet and Tube company, de
clared Friday there would be no
reduction of wages of workers in
the steel inustry. Mr. Campbell,
who has been in conference with
business in industrial leaders in
New York, said that from all re
ports received general busincra con
ditions are sound.
Campbell's declaration was taken
as an answer to widespread rumors
that wages In the steel industry
might undergo a . revision down
ward. With mills In the Youngstown
district operating at not higher
than 55 per cent of capacity, work
will be divided between employes
so that ail may have some earn
ings, Campbell said.
Mr, Campbell said reports from
agricultural auctions show the
farmers purchasing power has not
declined and that conditions arc
sound.
1000 SOLDIERS AND
CIVILIANS KILLED
Tokvo Refugee arriving at
Knaiiar irom eastern Manchuria
said 1000 Chinese troops nnd civil
ians seeking protection from air
raids in a coal mine at Delainor
perished in a Soviet bombing attack
The report was contained in a
telegram from Asahl s Harbin cor
respondent, who said the bombs
dropped bv the Soviet planes caused
parts of the mine to cave in.
The same authority said Chinese
troops had evacuated Mauchuli and
had retreated In the direction of
Delainor, In the vicinity of whlcl;
noviet Irregulars were said to be ac
tive. Soviet forces were said to have
occupied the two Chinese villages.
Ricr and Argun.
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Serum For
SB ES 88 SJt te
MYSTER Y
START SURVEY
OF COLUMBIA
RIVER TRAFFIC
Portland 0V) Dr. Clark Black.
president of the Columbia Valley
association, composed of business
men in all states tributary to the
Columbia and Snake rivers of the
Pacific northwest, Friday announced
the start of a comprehensive sur
vey to determine the traffic possi
bilities on the upper Columbia river
and tributares.
The survey, made passible by ft
nancial'support of Washington, Ore
gon, Idaho and Montana business
men, will resolve Itself by next week,
Dr. Black said, into a study of what
freight handling facilities are avail
able along the rivers and what type
boats are necessary to move upper
Columbia products, to market.
ine president said that between
4.500.000 and 5.000.000 bushels of
wheat are stored along the Colum
bia and Snake rivers, and that nav
igation on the rivers' was Imperative
to assist In the federal administra
tors program of farm relief.
VThe existence of our wheat rais
ing business is at stake and a dras
tic cut is necessary along the line
it we are to compete successfully
with Canada and the midwest," Dr.
Black said. "We should have ad
vantage of our water grade posi
tion." Terming it "ruinous inequality,"
Dr. Black dwelt on freight rates in.
plying from Calgary to Vancouv3r,
ana irom ijewlston, Idaho to Port
land. MOONEY ASKS
CONGRESS TO
PROBE BLAST
Washington (P) Investigation by
congress of the preparedness day
explosion of 1916 in San Francisco
in whirh ten persons were killed,
was asked by Thomas J. Mooney,
who is serving a life sentence for
the crime, in a letter received Fri
day by Senator Schall, republican.
Minnesota.
In support of his appeal, Mooney
asserted the rxpIaMon v as part or
a dynamiting plot executed by Louis
J. Smith, who was alleged to have
made a deathbed confession Cleve
land, Ohio, and who, Mooney said,
was hired by German a?enf.
Mooney has charged he was
"framed."
"I ask you," Mooney said In the
letter which wan put into the con
gressional record, "to place before
congress an appeal for an Investi
gation of the entire matter insofar
as it has a federal relationship in
that they committed thU crime in
furtherance of their general plan
Others named a. plotters by
Mooney were Col. Von Bopp. Ger
man consul: C. C. Crowley, alleged
"go-between" and "cIo.se up" man
to the consul, and a man described
as Von Brinken, mihtury attache
Two Life For Pin t
Prisoners Victims
Of Officers 'Plan ts
Chicago (UP) The ChicAgo Tribune Friday quoted
Frank Kant man, former Lansing, Mich., ixlice prohibition
raider, as declaring Michigan two "life fur a pint" prison
ers were convicted because liquor
was "planted by officers,
Ea.Mman and his former part
ner, William KuaiTp, arretted Fred
Palm and Mrs. Etta Mae Miller on
the charges that put them in prison
under the Michigan law providing
for life on fourth conviction or
felonv.
Mrs. Miller, tl.e mother of 10
children, was convicted of a third
offense after liquor had been
placed in the cupboard of her house
on Kuapp's orders, the Tribune
Mtorv said Eastman declared. Her
' fourth conviction. It continued, was
PROGRAM FOR
CONSTRUCTION
AGREED UPON
Representatives of Con
tractors and Realty
Firms Confer, Hoover
Agreement Against Wage
Cuts and Strikes Most
Vital Results
Washington M Pleased with the
far reaching agreement entered in
to by industrial and labor leaders
to maintain wage stability during
the present business situation, Pres
ident Hoover Friday turned to rep
resentatives in the general building
field far -cooperation in the nation
wide program for promotion of eco
nomic progress.
More than a dozen spokesmen for
contractors, manufacturers, and real
estate boards were in Washington
for an afternoon conference at the
White House, the last to be held this
week and the fifth in the series of
seven which Mr. Hoover haa ar
ranged as a means of offsetting any
general effect of the full In stock
prices.
On Monday the chief executive
will meet with Secretary Hyde,
chairman Legge of the farm board,
and representatives of farm organ- .
i Concluded on page 14, column 4
VERN0N1A FIRE :
CAUSES $75,000
LOSS TOSTORES
Vernonia. Ore. (IP) Fire swept
through the business district of this
city Friday, destroying five build
ings, housing ten business establish
ments. Estimated damage was plac
ed at $75,000. Several other build
ings were damaged by the heat.
Night Marshal Harry Phelps dis
covered the blaze shortly before 3
a.m. He sounded the alarm by fir
ing his revolver five times into the
air. A few minutes later the volun
teer fire department, augmented by
men from the Oregon-American
lumber mill here were battling the
flames.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Vance,
.sleeping in a beauty shop, one of
the establishments destroyed, were
forced to leave the building in their
night clothes. A greater loss was
averted by the fire fighters keeping
water on the surrounding buildings.
The blaze was believed to have
started in a flue. Phelps said when
he first noticed the fire it was In
the vicinity of a flue between two
pool halls both of which were de
stroyed. The ofrice of T. Hill, Justice of
peace, two pool halls, beauty shop,
a miK!?rv store. Vernonia Mercan
tile store, second-hand store, furni
ture store, barber shop and drug
store fcere destroyed by the fire.
SNOOK REFUSED
ANOTHER TRIAL
Columbus, O. tVi Dr. James How
ard Snook, convicted murdered of
Miss Theors K. Hix, was denied a
new trial by the second Ohio district
court of appeals. Snook, sentenced
to be electrocuted the night of
November 29. was expected to carry
his ca.e to the state supreme court.
on the evidence of a small quantity
cf liquor obtained from two rubbing
akohol bottles thrown from an au
tomobile In which Mrs. Miller was
riding with a man.
Eastman himself "planted" a
partly tild bottle of gin in one of
Palm's boots, the Tribune story
said.
"Knapp and I went to Palm's
houe to get him for Jumping bond
in a liquor ca.-e. I found a pint
bottle partly filled with gin on the
floor and dropped it into one of
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