The Coquille Valley sentinel., October 25, 1935, Image 1

THE PAPER THAT'S LI
A LETTER FROM HOME
COQUILLE. COOS COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER XS. 1935.
Two Half Holidays Declared
The following proclamation has
been issued declaring a Corn Show
holiday on Nov. 1 and 2, from 12 m.
to 4 p. m. each day:
Are the Dates for Coquille’s Two
PROCLAMATION
Big Corn Show Days —
Whereas, the Coquille Corn Show
It*» Next Week
is being held in the City of Coquille,
Coos County, Oregon, on Friday and
Saturday, November 1 and 2, 1935;
and
Whereas, in order to give the busi­
ness men and all interested citizens
an opportunity to enjoy the festivities
and assist in making this one of the
outstanding annual affairs; and
Whereas, the local merchants have
requested that a holiday be declared
on a portion of those days.
Now Therefore, I, J. Arthur Berg,
Mayor of the City of Coquille. Coos
County, Oregon, by and through the
authority vested in me, do hereby
proclam and declare November 1st
and 2nd, between the hours of 12:00
o’clock m., and 4:00 o'clock p. m. of
said days, as legal holidays within
this city, and I hereby request that
all places of business remain closed
during said hours.
J. Arthur Berg, Mayor.
ARE RULED OUT SEVEN TRUE BILLS
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District Attorney and Sheriff to Found by Grand Jury in Its Re­
Confiscate Slot Machines
port on Monday — Several
Next Friday
Already Found Guilty
Newnpapera Will Not Retract
It was hardly to be expected that
the newspapers of the state, which
played up Coquille so prominently a"
couple of months ago as the home of
vigilantes and law-violators, would
give equal prominence to the grand
jury report which utterly ignored the
“Coquille incident.”
It was not for lack of investigation,
either, for there were from 20 to 30
who appeared before that body to tell
what they knew of the “incident.”
The grand jury's refusal to make
any comment on the case bears out
the Sentinel’s story at the time that
there was nothing on which to base
such lurid newspaper accounts.
One paper, responsible for all the
unfortunate publicity at that time.
Hiri motion in an ebeeure spot that
Suffered by Mrs. Maggie Ray
When Hit by Car on High­
way Monday Evening
Sheriff Howell says that no special
•'4 very serious accident on the
The grand jury in its final report
highway here, just north of the R. E.
warning is to be given the owners of to Judge Brand last Monday found
the many gambling devices which not true bills against Jas. K. Miller,
Nosier home, at 6:10 last Monday
have been clicking merrily the past John D. Woolins, Jack Phinnegar and
evening, resulted in Mrs. Maggie Ray
few months, but that District Attor­ Herbert Frye.
being taken to the Coquille Hospital,
ney Flaxel and himself have decided
True bills were found against the
sufferings from fractures, cuts and
that midnight of Oct. 31 is the dead­ following:
bruises. Her right ankle was frac­
line for the use of these devices and
tured; her pelvic bone and left hip,
Frank Sinko, for contributing to
right leg, ’left collar bone were also
any in play after that date will be the delinquency of a minor.
seized and destroyed.
Walter Greves, for non-support.
broken and she suffered small frac­
This applis to the cash-paying »lot B L. W. Thomas, obtaining money
tures in her left hand.
machines, punch boards, pin-bell and under false pieterijei. . He pleaded the grand jury took no action—just
Mrs. Ray, who lives with her
dart games, all of which come under guilty Monday and was sentenced to three or four lines.
daughter, Mrs. F. Hining, in the first
two years in the pen.
the ban.
Coquille business men will not soon house north of the Nosier place, had
The last legislature legalized slot
Floyd Carr, murder in the, second forget these dastardly attacks on Co­ started across the highway to speak
to people in a car parked just off the
machines where some sort of skill degree, for the killing of John Ga- quille’s fair name.
may be used in playing, but the brleison at the Bay when the latter
highway, in front of the O. A. Hughes
“skill” feature of the machines was and Oscar Aasen were attempting to
North Bend Plays Here Today home. Becoming confused as a cat-
simply a technical evasion of the law rob him while he was drunk.
approached from the north, she turn­
Coquille High's football team is ed back and was near the middle of
and they are now to be treated for
Oscar Aasen, robbery by force and
playing the North Bend Bull Dogs at the concrete when she was hit by the
what they are—gambling devices..
violence, while . unarmed.
John Joseph Birman, involuntary Athletic Park here this afternoon. fender of the car;
Some of the stories of how well
The visitors are somewhat of an un­
these machines have been paying are manslaughter.
The Ford coupe, driven by James
known quantity, but the showing
almost unbelievable. One local place
Jewett, who lives just out of town On
Fred Lafferty, grand larceny.
they made at Bandon last Saturday
paid its rent from its 50 per cent cut
the Myrtle Point highway, was trav­
Edgar O. Rowton, indicted last
indicates that they may give Myrtle
of the take. In another city where week for assault with a dangerous
eling at about 25 or 30 miles an hour,
Point a race for the county bunting
the fire department took half in pay weapon at Powers, was found not
according to Mr. Jewett. Due to the
this year. Coquille's chances are en­ parked car he could not get off the
for the city license, the department's guilty by, a jury on Wednesday.
hanced by the return of Jess Barton
share was nearly 8100 per machine.
Merle Cox pleaded guilty Wednes­
highway but endeavored to pass be­
Not every man who has reached
__ day to the charge of burglary in a to left end, after an enforced lay-off tween it and Mrs. Ray.
The grand jury, which submitted
‘^ ^ *** ^ J.OUr .’T’” ye*" ‘’ it.’report“«/'Mondàÿ'U'côndrarmed
dwelling, at North Bend. His part­ of three weeks.
After the Ford struck her it veered
able to exprese himself as clearly and these gambling machines by declar­ ner in the crime, Richard Jordan,
to the right, hit and broke off a tele­
show appreciation of the real values ing them to be “detrimental to th« pleaded not guilty, and^stood trial.
phone pole which, because of the at­
of life as does R. A. Easton, who citizens of Coos county and are in The jury convicted him on Wednes-
tached wires, was thrown into the air
sends the Sentinel the following de­ effect gambling devices and therefore day.
claration of his unalterable faith in illegal and ycur grand jury therefore
the present and the future, both ter- feels that all gambling of every kind
Eye witnesses of the accident ex­
Hold-Up Here Saturday Night
restial and celestial.
Harry Hanbury, of Pasadena, Cal- onerated Mr. Jewett from blame, be­
whatsoever should be eliminated and
Harold Nelson, an employee of the
In the days of the world war, Mr. it appears that it would be only prop­
iffomia, independent oil operator in cause Mrs Ray stepped back in front
Easton was East Fork correspondent er and fair to give the owners and Smith Wood-Products plant, was the Mid-Continent and Texas fields,
of his car when she would have been
for the Sentinel and his castigations operators of these various games no­ held up and robbed at the north end was a Coquille valley visitor from unhurt had she continued across the
of
the
Henry
street
bridge,
at
8:10
of Kaiser William whom he referred tice in writing, demanding that they
Monday until Wednesday evening pavement.
o’clock last Saturday evening. He
to as “Billie 2,” were frequent and be eliminated immediately.”
this week.
No arrest was made by the officers
Premiums for Corn Entries
was
on
his
way
home
when
two
men
scathing In his note accompanying
Mr. Hanbury came up to look over who immediately visited the scene.
approached
him
on
the
west
side
of
The premium list for the corn, root his review of 80 years of life he
the Bear creek district where Jno.
Mrs. Ray is doing as well as could
Com Show Street Sports
the bridge. One struck a gun in his
crops and vegetable exhibits for the writes, “I am praying for Mussolini
F. Ewell has secured oil leases for the be expected, considering the injuries
Ray Jeub, chairman of the Lions
mach and the other went through
Com Show, as prepared by the exhi­ just as I prayed for BiHie 2.”
But she received.
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'■ dub sports committee for Com Show
pockets, seizing 862 in cash he major part of the structure.
bit coommittee, is as follows:
there are still unleased tracts and
sports
next
Friday,
ana
Corn
1st 2nd 3rd
It is not the number of years that
“Jigga” Leslie Sertewly III
commanded him to pro- farms which will* probably cause Mr.
10 ears Yellow Dent 22.00 81.00 $ .90 a man lives that makes the worth­ the bigger attractions
100 ears Yellow Dent 3.06 2.60 1.00 while record of his life to be remem­ been listed.
on his way while they went Hanbury to give up all thought of
Dr.
Julian 3. Leslie, son of Re­
10 ears White Dent
One to a weight lifting contest for across to a coupe, parked in front of shipping a totary drill here from Los corder and Mrs. F. O. Lesli«, has been
2.00 1.00 .50 bered. For there are those who made
100 ears'White Dent 3.00 2.00 100 a record of living whose years four men teams and it to expected to Mrs. Seeley’s store. They got in and Angeles to give the Bear creek struc­ vefy seriously.. Ill with bronchial
ture a thorough test unless these half
10 ears Flint
2.00 1.00 .50 counted much less in number than | have a number of Grange teams en­ drove rapidly away.
pneumonia at the Keizer hospital in
dozen leases can be secured.
100 ears Flint
ter
the
competition.
It
will
be
an
3.00 2.00 1.00 the years of middle age.
Mr. nesun
Neson aia
did not gei
get the
■w,
me license ,
....
North Bend since last Thursday and
number
of
the
car.
nor
could
he
give
He
doei
1,ck
ior
flnances
to
10 ears Sweet Com
1.00 .75 .50
little hope for his recovery has been
Years ago Mary Ann McLaughlin elimination contest and a final test
the
10 ears Popcorn
1.00 .75 .50 (“Mack”), taught the school in dis- between the two teams lifting the the officer, much of a de^ription of.“"* out,*h* te,tin<
held. He to delirious much of the
the Propel*
6 stalks com
2.00 1.00
50 trit No. 4, Putnam, N. Y. She mar­ greatest weight, with 86 and 84 prizes the men One wore a light hat and !driUing wiU "ot
time and it was hoped yesterday that
owners
one
thin
dime,
and
it
may
1 the other a cap, and he said they had
ried a man from Benson, Vermont, by for the two teams in the finals.
result in their receiving larger in- admission to the Veterans’ Hospital
Another feature will be the mut brown hair.
1 peck ( 16 lbs) long type
i
the name of Barber; they went out
comes
from their ranches than they at Roseburg could be gained and that
White potatoes
2.00 1.00 .50 west to Red Oak, Iowa, to build their race for boys and their dogs. The
With the meager information given,
he could be taken over there today
ever dreamed possible.
I
Pink potatoes
2.00 1.00 .50 home. Something like a year later boys will not run with the dogs but the officers have not been able to
where male attendants care for the
Whether
Mr.
Hanbury
I
1 peck (15 lbs.) round
strike any not
hot ciues.
clues. Whether
wnevner n
it was
...
inmates.
His papers of discharge
I was standing by the side of the will call to them from 100 feet dis­ uritt
talent, visitor, from elsewhere IP"“1*1« hU h®n“‘ C“’Lvirti"U"
White potatoes
2.00 1.00 .50 road, near the barns; M. Hulet, on his tant. Unless, however, twelve dogs local
I
from the U. S. army cannot be lo­
writer does not know, but he said
Pink potatoes
2.00 1.00
50 way home from the Comers, slack­ are entered the race will be called off in the county, or hangers-on of a
cated, but Congressman Jas. W. Mott,
Tuesday morning: "I do not believe
Root Crops
The
races
will
be
run,
four
dogs
to
a
show
troupe
is
not
known.
, with whom Julian served during the
ened the gait of his team and with a
you have any oil here, but I am will­
6 stock beets or
I war, was appealed to for assistance in
lump in his throat said, “Word came heat, with the contestants in the final
ing to spend money in drilling sev­
mangles
1.50 1.00 .50 today that Mary Ann Mack is dead.” heat, after the others have been elim­
Farm Lean Office Here Now eral test holes.” He said nothing getting him admitted at Roseburg. .
6 stock carrots
1.50 1.00 .50
As I turned away tears filled my inated, 84 for first and 82 for second
To reduce operating expense and at about the possibility of striking gas,
Table carrots
It to to be hoped that no one will drop
eyes.
Corn Show Dance in Garage
the same time give Land Bank bor­ which could be of as great or greater
3 bunches of 5 each L#0 1.00 .50
a
eat
into
the
midst
of
the
canine
con
­
A man with a lump in his throat,
profit
than
would
an
oil
rowers
more
efficient
service,
direc
­
With
no dance hall, suitable for-the
Table beets
a boy with tears in his eyes, make an vention!
Mr. Hanbury did not
Italy usual Com Show dance next week­
3 bunches of 5 each 1.50 1.00 .50 obituary that is hard to beat.
There may even be pari-mutuel tors of the Bandon-Curry, Coos Bay.
Coquille, Myrtle Point and Southern abandon the wild cat possibilities in end, now existing in Coquille, the
Franz Schubert died when he was betting on these races.
Curry local farm associations serving Coos county when he left, but it de­ American Legion, which will handle
2 stock pumpkins
thirty-one, more than one hundred
Coos and Curry counties have voted pends on what his representative, J. the dance and share in the proceeds,
2 pie pumpkins
Big Buck Contest Winners
years ago. In those thirty-one years
to conduct their business through a F. Ewell, to able to do whether Bear has secured the Dodge and Plymouth
1 largest pumpkin
of his life he wrote eleven hundred
Today ends the deer season and it central office at Coquille and have creek is drilled upon this winter or Garage on Front street for this an­
musical compositions and an “un­ is possible, though not probable, that
employed E. J. Tilley as joint secre- not.
nual dance. Music will be furnished
2 Golden Hubbard
finished” symphony.
still larger deer will be brought in i tary on a monthly salary basis. Mr.
by Ernie Ferrari and his Dance Band.
2 Green Hubbard
Schubert’s music still lives, lives aal
for weighing at Stevens Cash Hard- i Tilley was formerly secretary of the
This brick building, originally
2 Banana
Pea
Crop
Profitable
Thia
Year
masterpieces of the ages. “In tune ware store in his big buck contest. As i Bandon-Curry National Farm Loan
Graham’s Garage, is no stranger to
2 Acorn
J. E. Ford, of Marshfield, at the
with the infinte,” marching on to the first prize Mr. Stevens offers a Rem- I Association.
Com Show activities for the Com
2 Miscellaneous va­
“music of the spheres ”
! ington repeating rifle, value 812.50,
Chamber of Commerce meeting Tues­
The
associations
are
borrower-
Show itself was held there one year
rieties
Forty or fifty years ago the Youth’s and a Remington 85.50 single shot owned organizations through which day noon, expressed approval of the
and it has also been used for dancing
Companion told of a woman in the rifle for second prize. Up to to yes-___
chamber's
attitude
in
working
for
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local farmers obtain low-cost, long-
The dance will be given both Fri­
Plate (5 specimens)
North Country of New England who terday E. C. Standley, of Coaledo, had term mortgage funds from the invest - flood control in the Coquille valley
.CIIII
IUI1VW »««ill UIC UITO»-
day and Saturday evenings Jitney
Cranberries
brought in the largest buck.
I‘. ing public by mutually guaranteeing and expressed the opinion that there prices.
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Best exhibit (1 box) 2.00
weighed 170 pounds and was a black­ , members’ mortgages to the Land was nothing Coquille could do which
Tomatoes
T. C. Cornwell, of Arago, Bank, against which the bank sells would be of more benefit to this sec­
Al Glonsop Drown at Lakeside tail.
Best exhibit (1 flat) I SO
Myrtle Point Is ( o-operating
brought in the next largest blacktail, bonds to the investing public. Mem­ tion than to secure an adequate con­
Al E. Glossop, 82 years of age and
trol
of
the
flood
waters.
The Myrtle Point high school is co­
which
weighed
147
Mi
pounds.
ber-borrowers share both the gains
a barber in the Chandler Hotel bar­
Announcer Car Comii
Later in conversation with the Sen­ operating with the Coquille Corn
G. B. Howe, of the Standard Oil
ber shop at Marshfield foj many
(Continueo on Page Seven)
tinel scribe, he stated that the ship­ Show by advancing their football
The Corn Show committee justly
Co. here, who returned Wednesday
years, was drowned in Tenmile lake,
ment of peas from his ranch below game
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feels that the success of this year’s
from an eastern Oregon hunt, brought
with North
week
above Lakeside, last Sunday evening
show was made certain the first of
in the largest mule deer. It weighed “Bill” Johnson Died Yesterday Cedar Point this year totalled 12 car- from Nov. 2 to Thursday. Oct. 31. As
when the boat in which he and his
this week when M. M. Newdall re­
Funeral services will be held Sat­ loads—an average of 20,000 pounds to neither team has been defeated this
companion fisherman, Jack Hall, 194M4 pounds.
ported that the Standard Oil an­
urday
afternoon at one o’clock, at the car, or about a quarter million year, this game ranks as the one
were riding, capsized. Hall was in
pounds in all.
In addition, between which will probably decide the coun-
nouncing car would be available for
the water for some time, but Glossop Liberty’s Corn Show Program I the Schroeder Bros, chapel here, for
900 and 1000 cases of peas were ty championship.
use the two days of Nov. 1 and 2.
Thomas
Jefferson
Johnson,
who
died
let go his hold on the boat and sank.
Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Rob­
canned. These were produced from
it is a splendid gesture on the
Mr. Newdall made considerable ef­
Mr. Glossop was the husband of inson and Joel McCrea enact a ' at the county farm yesterday morn­
50 acres. One tract of 25 acres was part of our Myrtle Point friends and
fort to get the car scheduled to ap­
Mrs. Rosa E. Glossop who was prin­ strange and violent triangle against 1 ing at 4:15 o'clock.
pear here for the Com Show and his
"Bill” Johnson, as he was common­ «total loss, a rot appearing in the football fans wiU show their appre-
cipal at the Washington building here the tumultuous background of life on
roots of the plants just about time to ciation by attending this outstanding
efforts were successful.
ly
a few years ago.
the “Barbary Coast,” that notorious < known, was bom at Fort Bragg. begin picking.
■ game at. the fair grounds in Myrtle
Calif.,
Oct.
9,
1861,
being
15
days
past
mecca of adventures from every cor­
For
next
year
Mr.
Ford
expects
to
Point next Thursday.
Old Time Fiddlers' ( outeat
25 Degree Mornings Now
ner of the globe, in the colorful pro­ 74 years of age. He had lived in prolong the season, starting in Feb­
Coos
county
practically
all
of
his
life
An old time Fiddlers’ Contest, for
The usual cold snap in October has duction of that title which comes to '
ruary, for May maturity and having
and was a logger until the infirmities
Hallowe'en at Bandon
performers over 50 years of age. to been evident here the past three the Liberty Theatre next Friday and 1
a ten-acre tract come into production
of old age compelled him to give up
Hallowe'en (Neewollah to you) will
to be one of the features of the Com mornings with heavy white frost and Saturday.
each month for six months. He be­
labor.
The Liberty management selected such
1
Show next Friday, but whether it ice. The thermometer stood at 25 de­
lieves that what he might lose in the be observed at Bandon next Thurs­
He
is survived by one brother, Ira
will fit in better in the afternoon or | grees both Wednesday and Thursday the "Barbary Coast,” which opened
summer months because of a lower day evening, Oct. 31, with a festival
and one sister, Mrs. Sadie
in Portland this week, as their con- Johnson,
'
evening program has not yet been mornings and 26 this morning,
price when other districts are in pro­ and parade In the event of rain
decided. There will be cash prizes | But the cold nights mean Mkutiful tri but ion to Com Show entertain­ Pyburn, both of Coquille.
duction will be made up by a larger the festivities will be held in Silver
for the contest and every fiddler of days and it to the hope of Coquille ment and from. reports received as-
production before the fields become Spray Gardens, with a dance follow-
i ing. A long list of merchandise
50 or over in Coos and Curry counties that the present spell of fine weather to its reception elsewhere their se­ I^ejrion Dance Tomorrow Night too dry to mature the crop.
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' prizes is offered for participants in
to invited to participate.
| can last another ten days—or until lection was justified.
The Coquille American Legion is
County Treasurer and Mrs. Chas. :the parade.
1 '
| after the Com Show.
giving another of their popular
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Mr and Mrs E. E. Johnson arrived
The usual is, however,—three frosts
The Coquile Legion Auxiliary will dances at the Community Building Stauff left Sunday for Alameda, I
here Tuesday morning from Oakland, and then rain.
hold a cooked food sale on Saturday. tomorrow evening, Oct. 26.
Don Calif., to be present for the joint ' Ask for Cow Bell Dairy cream and
Calif., on a business trip. They ex-1 /
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'Nov. 2, the place to be announced Estes and his dance band will furnish birthdays of his mother and sister, milk, the only milk and cream made
pected to be in the county for • week. I Calling cards, 50 for 81 00.
They will return Sunday.
safe by pasteurization.
later.
the music.
The program for the 1935 Com
Show, on next Friday and Saturday,
Nov. 1 and 2, has not yet been made
up. but will be ready for publication
next Friday.
Due to the late start made in ar­
ranging for the annual event this
year, every committee is now func­
tioning feverishly to complete its
plans as quickly as possible.
'At a meeting held in the hotel
Tuesday evening, Mrs. Jas. Watson,
for the Woman's etub, announced
that golden wedding and pioneer ju­
bilee arrangements were rapidly be­
ing perfected with prospects for a
larger attendance in both features.
She also asked for suggestions to the
committee of where relics and arti­
cles of historical value might be
found for display in the pioneer de­
partment.
Neither the Eugene nor the Rose­
burg Gleemen organizations are
available for a performance on Fri­
day evening but the general commit­
tee is preparing a vaudeville program
which will be different from Satur­
day evening's short affair
Door prizes are to be given away
at the evening entertainments, and
the Saturday evening celebration will
cioae with the old-fashioned dance
after the com-husking, cow calling
and other contests have been finished.
It looks like two of the biggest days
Coquille has ever enjoyed for next
week-end, and every person in the
county or state, the nation or the
world, is extended a special invitation
to be here.
“EIGHTY YEARS”
BY R. A. EASTON
BEAR CR. DRILL
ING NOT SURE