uille Valley Sentinel
THE PAPER THAT’S LIKE A LEITER FROM HOME
VOL. XXIX.
COQUILLE. COOS COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15. 1933.
NO. 48.
RFRYEISOHTRIAL
Started Monday and WiU Co«-
tinue Well Into Next
Week
The circuit court room has bee®
crowded this week since Tuesday with
an interested attendance of listeners
at the trial of Raymond Frye, 16-year
old Norway youth, indicted for the
murder of H. U. Blackman near
Blackman’s home at six o’clock on the
evening of Oct. 31.
The first day, Monday, waa spent
in securing a jury and since Tuesday
six state witnesses had been examin
ed up to the time court adjourned
lest evening. Sheriff H. E. Hess spent
all of Wednesday and a portion of
yesterday morning on the stand,
giving a dear and consecutive story
of how the links were connected up by
which the state expects to prove the
killing was premeditated, and not un
intentional, aa claimed by the defen
dant.
District Attorney Ben Flaxel is bs-
ihg assisted in the prosecution by J.
B. BedingHeld, white Dal King, de
fense attorney, is overlooking no
point on which to cause a doubt in
the Jury’s mind that the shooting vx
not murder.
County Surveyor E. L. Vinton waa
the first witness called. He had made
a map of the scene of the shooting
which was introduced as the state’s
exhibit.
The next witness wm Joe Ellis who
lives back from the highway. He had
been talking to Ray Lewis at the tat
ter’s home, a quarter of a mils this
side of the Norway school house, and
had taken an old unueed county road
up the hili when he started home.
When he heard the shots, with not
more than a second or two between
the two. he wm distant something
like 600 * 900 feet Hie first thought
was that someone was, killing his
stock and he approached the spot,
crouching below ths brush which
spotted the hillside.
From behind a bush he saw a figure
which was nmiaaUji covering seme
object alongside a log.
When the
figure stood up he roeognized it m
that of young Frye. At on* time the
boy approached within 90 fest of him
but did not see him.
As soon as Frye left be started to
dig for the buried object, thinking a
deer had been buried but when he un
covered and felt a man’s hand he toft
at once and went to Gao. Haughton’s
ptace from where he called up Deputy
Sheriff Davie.
Sheriff Hem gave a complete ac
count of hie actions during the eve
ning and next morning, Nov. 1, telling
how they approached the Frye home
and saw Raymond sitting in the
house, laughing and playing cards.
They took him to the Haughton place,
and in the presence of Ellis and
Houghton, asked him If he had seen
Blackman. The reply was “No.” And
it was repeated again. Then he ad
mitted having seen the deceased that
morning. And when Ellis asked him
if he had not seen Blackman that
evening, with the further remark,
“You are in a tough place, Heinie,”
(a nickname by which young Frye
to known), the latter ehut op like a
dam and finally agreed to talk to the
shetjff.
The two walked a few steps away,
and the yeung man then told Mr.
Hess that he had shot Blackman, mis
taking him for a deer. Ho eras then
brought to jajj her*.
That evening Sheriff Hess, Deputy
Davis, and C. W. Gano went out to
uncover the body and bring it to Co
quille. The next morning a more
thorough examination was made of
the scene. An empty shell wm found
four feet from the body. The first
•hot struck Blackman in the left
bqck, passed through the stomach and
tore a targe hole in the left front of
hi* abdomen where it emerged.
Christmas Postofiice Hours
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L U U U L U L Ls L U I
Postmaster Geo. Belloni gives the
following information as to the hour«
the postoffice will be open during the I
pre-Christmas rush: On Saturday,1
Dec. 28, the office will remain open .
until 4:30 or 5 p. m., and will be open
on Friday and Saturday evenings,
Dec. 22 and 23, for an hour or two af
ter seven o’clock, if the need seems to
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There were about 100 present last
justify.
The _________
windows ____
will __ only be
open for the sale of stamp* and mail evening for the turkey dinner served
On
Sundav Dec. ’ by twelve of the male members of the
ing of package«.
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~ _j an Eastern Star in the Masonic Hall and
24, the
windows _____________
will be open ~ for
hour or two after the arrival of the i it <•» so complete in aH details that
morning mail._____________________ .
the w»»h
wish waa
was expressed that more of
Except for special delivery pack-1 the men would do likewise. Turkey
ages there will be no distribution on [and *1! the trimmings were cooked to
Christmas day, the postal regulations |the queen’s taste. The men who pro
forbidding the working of incoming , vided and served the dinner were tafe<
mail at aU, even to boxholders. Out- ..Compton, Geo. Ulett, W. E. Bosser •-
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going mail will be dispatched that day man, Roy Neal, 0. A. Rietman, Wm.
Bottys, W. V. Glaisyer, Theodore 1.
as usual.
Clinton, D. F. Thompson, O. C. San
ford, L. H. Hazard and Roy E. Boober.
War Rumor Incorrect
Last evening was also the regular
There is apparently no foundation
meeting of 'Beulah chapter. Election
for the rumor around town this morn
of officers, who will be installed Dee.
ing that Germany has declared wqr on
27, was the principal business of the
France. The rumor seems to have
evening, the following being chosen:
started as the result of some radio
W. M.—Mabel Ulett.
broadcast this ’this morning, but so
W. P.-Geo. A. Ulett.
far aa can be learned there is no
A. M.—flora Compton.
truth in the report.
A. P.— ¡W. V. Glaisyer..
Sec’y—Imogene Neal
Tress—Susie Folsom.
Con.—Camilla Rietman.
A. Con.—(Belle R. Gould.
13 SPADES IN A
BRIDGE HAND
Occaaioaally, but It ia very seldom,
an item appears about 13 cards of one
suit being held in one hand. But it
never has happened where you knew
the parties.
Such an event did happen here this
week, however. Arthur Fox and Sam
Taylor were partners, with their
wives as opponents, in an auction
bridge game one evening this week.
Mrs. Fox found 13 spades in her
hand on which she was forced to bid
»P to six. Mrs. Fox* bid wm doubled,
and she redoubled, so that she made
877 for the hand.
And what made the evening’s play
even more peculiar was that on a
deal a few hands before she had been
foreedto Md setaa hearts, with 1«
in her hand, and went down one be
cause Mr. Taylor held the ace of
clubs and her thirteenth card waa a
club.
State Approves Coos’ Projects
New CWA projects for Coos county,
approved by the state committee, in
sure a total of 822 men being em
ployd this month. The new projects
include repaim to Marshfield armory;
repairs to school house, school district
No. 91; North Bend city park im
provement; Bear Creek and Lamps
road projects; painting of court house
and county shops in Coquille; paint
ing school house in district No. 41;
developing athletic field in North
Bend; Improvement on Bullards ferry
and Seven Devils road; Norway-Lev
tributary road improvement; Co*
City - Sumner rood improvenment;
Four Mile, Two Milo, and New take
road improvements.
Remain Open Nights Next Week
T| TOT
Fred Woodhurst was elected wor
shipful master of Chadwick Lodge No.
68, A. F. 4 A. M, at the. stated com
munication Tuesday evening. O. T.
Grant was advanced to the station of
senior warden, and M. F. Pettit was
chosen junior warden. R. H. Mast,
as secretary, and L. H. Hazard, as
treasurer, were re-elected ae they
have been since the mind of man run
neth not to the contrary.
Installation of the elective and ap
pointive officers will take place on
Wednesday, Dec 27. _
The joint installation of Coqtrtlie
Lodge No. 58 and Mamie Rebekah,
I. O. O. F., will be held in Odd Fel
i
lows hall, probably on Jan. 1«.
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Stanley Stevens, district deputy,*
will be installing officer for th* Odd
Fellows. Those elected at a recent
meeting for the ensuing six months
were: *
N. G —JaRoy Swinney.
V. G.—Merlin Clinton.
Sec.—W. E. Bosserman.
Treaa.—IL. H. Hazard.
Mrs. R. E. Boober, district deputy
president, will act as installing of
ficer for the Rebekahs of the follow
ing elected, and the appointed officers:
N. G.—Amy Aasen.
V. G.—Ethel Leach.
Treat.—Isabel Kay.
Sec —Myrtle Benham.
Seek to Manage State’s Store
Gov. Meier's three appointees aa
commissioners to handle the liquor
business of the state of Oregon—
Geo. H. McMorran, of Eugene, Jas.
D. Burns, of Condon, and Alex G.
Barry, of Portland—are going to be
requested to name liquor store man
agers in every town in the state.
In Coquille there are two active
candidates for the position—W. S.
Bickels and H. C. Getz. Both are se
curing recommendations from local
business houses, officials, etc., which
will h* presented to the commission as
soon as it is organized and ready for
business.
With three and a half inches of
rota having fatten here, starting Sun
day, the Coquille river is becoming
too large for its channel. At many
points between here and Myrtle Point
it is over the banks but not sufficient
ly yet to entirely cover the lowlands.
But the ducks are coming in by the
thousands now and this is the last day
of the season.
Dance Netted Nearly $60
Total rainfall since Sept. 1 to
One of the finest dances of thia sea
nearly 1« inches, but it has not been
son was that given by the Social Club
cold weather like the east is experi
of the Eastern Star last Saturday
encing. There were, however, several
night at the Aragon Ball Room when
sleet Showers thio scorning.
more than SOO couplee were in atten
dance. The club netted nearly S«0
Marshfield Boy to West Point from the affair.
Timothy F. Maginnis, of Marsh
The feature dance«, presented by
field, eon of Major T. F. Maginnis, Mioses Barbara Bradford and Doris
himself a graduate of the U. S. Mili Compton were most attractive. The
tary Academy at West Point, has first dance was given by them to
been appointed by President Roosevelt gether and just before midnight they
The second shot penetrated the left to enter West Point as a cadet next each appeared singly. The rhythm
eye, coming out just tlbovt the ear, June, provided he passes the entrance and grace of their dancing, and their
•nd during the search they found requirement When a young man la colorful costumes, made the features
whefe the bullet had penetrated the named by the president there is no an outstanding event.
ground for six inches, just where competitive examination for him to
Blackman is supposed to have been take. Young Maginnis, a graduate of
Sentinel Ads Do the Work
lying after the first shot, and before Marshfield high school, is now st*
As a clearing house for lost and
he was dragged alongside the rotten tending O. 8. 8.
found articles the Sentinel still proves
log where the body was found.
It]
most efficient.
Yesterday morning,
V. F. W. to Give Dance
had gone into the earth at an angle
within five minutes after a lady had
of 45 degroes, removing any doubt
A pre-Christmas dance in the Ara placed an adv. for a lost pair of
that the shot had been fired from a ______________
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gon Ball Room, _ Coquille,
is being
ad- classes, another lady brought them in
distance. More then that there were "ertised by CoquiM* Fust No. '1412,
and they were restored to the owner
powder marks on the dead man’s fac*., Vetorana of Foreign Wars, who are
without delay.
Deputy Sheriff Davis was on the giving it It will be Saturday eve-
stand for a couple of hours or more,' ning, D*c. SB. Tickets will be 25 cents
Drivers Exama Next Wednesday
covering details of the examination 1 IVl
for ladies
cent for
gentlemen,
invile" and
ml Ivi 40 Lkliv
1 Os |a
V II 4.1 valaXïll •
for evidence. Blood waa found oa the ' These affairs at Coquille's popular
Ward McReynolds will be here
nearby buslws, and there
dance room are
ar* attracting visitors . ' again next Wednesday, Dec. 30, at the
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from
all
the county
and
thia ' ' city hall from • a. m. until 4 p. m.,
stains on the ground.
coming event will be aa enjoyable as, to conduct examinations for drivers’
Fallen Tree and Weak Brakes
Result in Wreck of Two
Trucks Monday Night
Most fortunately there were no
lives lost, nor any serious injury re
ceived by anyone at that three-truck
wreck in the Middle Fork canyon at
Bear creek at 6:30 Monday evening,
although the report was quite gener
ally spread that three men had been
killed.
Kenneth Laird, who had been work
ing at Klamath Falls for several
months, , was returning from out there
Monday
londay evening in his truck, with
the equipment t he had had with him.
He
— was
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.jmpanied by John Harri-
son.
At Bear creek, one mile east of the
county line, a tree, three and one-half
feet
juat across
crashed
from in
60 diameter,
feet up the had
hillside
the
hivhwav
Th-t
it had
K.zt just
tea» crashed
highway.
That it
is certain for Laird and Harrison had
met a Consolidated truck not a min
ute before.
Going down grade, Mr. taird saw
he would not be able to stop the truck
and jumped before it hit. Harrison
fortunately did not jump for the
spreading roots of the big fir would
probably have mangled him had he
done so. The impact drove the motor
hack into the truck, but Harrison es
caped that, too.
A car coming from behind them a
few minutes later was flagged and
turned around and went back toward
Roseburg for a wrecker.
Two other cars and a OOC truck
were also flagged on the other side of
the tree going toward Camas.
Because of the wind and rain taird
had gotten into the rear of the CCC
truck and were sitting on a plank
when a Douglas county apple peddler
approached, going toward Roseburg.
One of the OOC boys was playing a
fiaffilight on the road as a signal but
the apple cart could not atop, due to
9°°r Arakes and it Crashed into the
ros» W the OOC truek. Fortunately
the men alongside the truck had
jumped and the apple vendor did not
hit the CCC truck squarely. But a
piece of timber from the floor of his
truck was torn loose and it rammed
into the rear of the OOC truck, juet
under the plank bn which Laird waa
sitting. Aa it drove through the
lumber clear up to the cab of the OOC
truck it makes one shudder to think
what would have happened to Kenneth
and the two others in the rear of the
truck with him had the flying piece
been directed a few inches higher.
The Laird truck was damaged to the
extent of >360, by the collision with
the tree; the apple vendor's truck was
badly damaged and apples were scat
tered all over the landscape.
Flood Victim Once Resided Here
Gerald H. Worley,
who
was
drowned in the Washington flood near
Chehalis last Monday, was known to
a great many Coquille -people.
He
apent two years in the Swift A Co.
office here,' being succeeded by Jack
Detl*f three years ago.
Known ae
“Jerry” he had scores of friends here
who regret to learn of his untimely
death.
He had been warned by patrolmen
that the highway was not safe but
drove on and his car was swept from
the concrete by the flood waters of
Newaukum.
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The Wishing Well” Tonight
The operetta, ‘The Wishing Well,”
to be presented by the combined glee
clubs of the high school at the Com
munity Building this evening at eight
o’clock, is directed by Miss Hall and
Mm. Beyers. It is shown in thee acta,
and the young people have worked
hard to make it a successful presenta-
tion. There are twelve in the east,
besides large choruses,
Admisison
will be 25 and 16 cento.
Christian Science Radio Lecture
Radio listeners in this vicinity who
are interested in Christian Science
will be glad to know a series of pro
grams on the subject is being put on
the air over Portland station KEX
(1180 kilocycles) Sunday afternoon
at 2:30. The programs for Dee.
17th and 24th will be interview« with
a former physician and a former
clergyman.
McKinley Club Bazaar. Dance
The annual bazaar of the McKinley
Ladies Club will be given December
16th with a short program and dance,
m good time is assured all.
Don’t
forget the date, Saturday, December
16th, at the McKinley community
hall. Everyone la
THE LE6ISUITUBE
For the convenience of the shopping
public all the Coquille stores Which
carry Christmas merchandise will re
main open evenings next week. Th*
open evenings’ program will start to What It Did in 20 Day Session
morrow (Saturday) evening and con
Told by Sentinel’s Salem
tinue until next Saturday.
Correspondent
It can be truthfully added, there is
no better town in which to Christinas
The special session convened by
shopping.
Practically all the stores
have prepared for a good holiday bus Governor Meier on November 20 to
iness, they have new and targe stocks; consider emergency problems con
they are your neighbors and friends; fronting the state concluded it« de
they support altaivie enterprises, pay liberations at midnight Saturday.
taxes for the support of the schools Clocks in both legislative halls record
and government, and their prices are ed the sine die adjourment at 11:59
as fair and reasonable as you will. p. m., just one minute with the 20-
day limit permitted by the constitu
And in any targe city.
The Sentinel say« this even though | tion. Private time pieces with no re-
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small _
percentage
of
tell gard for legislative prerogatives,
what they have through its columns, however, recorded the fact that it
was exactly 12:45 Sunday morning
when President Kiddle banged hie
Wheels and Battery Stolen
gavel on the desk indicating adjourn-
It’s getting so that ears and trucks
■ ment of the senate and it was just
•re not even safe any more when 'seven minutes later that Speaker
locked up in a garage. At Myrtle. I Snell dismissed the member» of the
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, House.
th«
Union. While scores of bills died in com
Oil Co., stole wheels and battery and mittees or on the table for want of
other stuff from the big truck with time to give them proper considera
which gasoline delivery is made.
tion, all of the major measures which
the session was called to consider
were completed before adjournment
Briefly these can be summed up as
follows:
Liquor control and licensing as
covered by the Beckman bill;
Taxation and regulation of beer and
Frank Skewis, who haa been agent
at the Bay for the company which has wines ae covered by the Johnson bill;
Unemployment relief as covered by
ehipped out 40 earloada of fems and
greenery from Coos county this year, the Abrams bill;
School relief through a sales tax
was a guest at the Lions Club lunch
as covered by the MdPhillips bill;
eon yesterday noon.
Bus and truck regulation as covered
His talk to the Lions was about the
Christmas tree business which his by the bill sponsored by the joint
roads and highways committee of the
company oonducts on a large scale.
The idea of a tree at Christmas or House and Senate.
The liquor control measure as final
iginated in Germany between 200 and
300 years ago, and it started as an ly approved by the two branches has
industry in the United States about been generally referred to aa the
Knox plan, embodying the principal
50 or 60 yeans ago.
In the northwest the principal tree features contained in the report of
cutting is done in Washington and on the Knox commission. It vests con
a smaller scale in northern Idaho, trol of liquor sales in a commission
ef three members to be appointed by
Montana and Oregon.
Representatives ef the company the governor, one from each Con
•tart soon after the first of the year gressional district and who will serve
taking orders and lining up tracts of without salary but who will draw pay
trees. About Oct. 1 the men enter for time actually devoted to their du
th4 fields and cutting continues for ties. Sale of hard liquor will be con
more than two months. Tree of four I fined to state dispensaries except in
feet in height, bushy and symmetrical, < the smaller communities where it will
are moat desired, but the height of 1 be entrusted to a licensed retailer,
established
druggist,
those chosen range from two to* probably an
twelve feet. A four-foot tree such aa ’ Revenues to be realized by the state
Mr. Skewis exhibited at the meeting I from profits on liquor sales are eeti-
usually retails for around 76 cento, 1 mated at from 82,600,000 to 18,000,000
They are packed in bundles, four,
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three and two trees, for shipment, and
a carload runs from four to nine
Re-enters Electrician Field
thousand trees.
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The business ia almost as much of a
E. G. Opperman has decided to re
gamble aa the oil business.
Being turn
i
to the etecrical business and thia
seasonal it has to be done in a hurry, week
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opened a shop in the Coquille
and quite often huge stacks of trees Sheet
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Metal Works shop on Front
are dumped in California, a total loss. , street. He has moved the stock of
Al Beeosky, deputy sheriff at Pow- goods
,
he had in- the Nosier building '
era waa also a'guest at the luncheon. co the same location where he has
Names voted on for membership them for «ale, but he
yesterday, and who were elected and to engage longer in
will become Lions as soon as they are I business.
initiated, were J. E. Axtell, Geo. E.
Hosier's Grocery will occupy the
Belloni and J. W. Sayre.
room vacated, next to the store, as a
display room for the'case goods busi
ness which they are opening tomor
Powers to Have Legion Poet
row.
Elwood Hussey, of Kirby, district
commander of the American Legion,
To Give Program at Powers
was present for a meeting held in Le
gion headquarters here Wednsday eve
C. W. Gano has arranged for the
ning, with several earloads of Legion
following Coquille talent to present a
members in attendance from Rose
program for the Chamber of Com
burg, Myrtle Point and Bandon.
merce af the Powers CCC camp this
The purpose of Mr. Hussey's visit
evening. Those on the program will
at this time waa to install a new poet
be Mrs. Maude Woodyard, with vocal
at Powers which is to be done this
numbers; E. G. Mansfield on the
evening. Several Coquille Legion
banjo; Carlton Smith, accordian; 8.
members are going up to assist at ths
M. Nosier, reading; Randolph Lorenz,
institution.
dancing; and a comedy dialogue skit
by Mm. Jas. Richmond and Mrs. D.
Turned Over, No Fatality
D. Dale. John Unaoeld will act aa
Late Sunday afternoon a ear going master of ceremonies.
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to Powers skidded from the road on
what is known as “Dead Man's curve,” CCC Dance Tonight at Sitkum
turning over twice and landing in the
The OOC camp at Sitkum ia giving
ditch. The car was wrecked but no
one was hurt.
People from Tin a dance this evening in their recrea
Juana, Mexico, were in the ear, going tion hall on the upper East Fork.
to call .on the late Ernest Larson Dancing will be enjoyed from 9 until
of whose death last winter they were 12. Trucks from the camp will be at
the Wilson’s Confectionery corner
ignorant.—Myrtle Point Herald.'
here, and also in Myrtle Point, at 7:80
to take those who wish to go. The
First Three to Buy Scab
trucks will also return the visitors to
The first three local men to respond their homes after the dance.
to the Christmas Seal sale this year
were Lafe Compton, Wm. Barrow and
Geo. W. Bryant left last evening
Roy Attjott. Aa yet the local re on a short business trip to Portland.
sponse has been small, much less than He expects to return tomorrow morn
in former yea^s.
ing and he and Mrs. Bryant will leave
THE CHRISTMAS
TREE BUSINESS
at once to spend three weeks visiting
her sister in San Francisco. George
B. P. W. members are rrequested says he inten<L doing nothing but
to remember the Christmas party at play golf while on the vacation.
eight o'clock, Monday evening, De
ietto™
cember eighteenth, in the regular
on the
meeting place. Don't forget to bring
your gift for the Christmas
B. P. W. Christmas Tree
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