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THE P^PEH THAT'S LIKE A LETTER FROM HOME
VOL. XXXIV.
COQUILLE. COOÎ COUNTS OREGON. THURSDAY, MAY 1». 1»»8.
NO. U.
»3.M THE YEAR
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Police Frighten
Him—Deserts
Wife, Children
From eleven o’clock Tuesday night
until noon yesterday the state police
were searching in the brush up Cun­
ningham creek and on the adjoining
hillside for a man who deserted his
car Tuesday night after he had
wrecked it on the curve this way from
thf Coquille Auto park.
What makes his desertion repre­
hensible is the fact that his wife and
four children, the oldest four years
old, were in the car when it over-
Primary Election
Is On Tomorrow
The most interesting contest in Ore­
gon at tomorrow's primaries is that
between Gov. Martin and Henry L.
Hess for the democratic nomination
for governor. That’ the governor has
a real fight on his hands no one
denies, but his record is such that
every right thinking American will
cast his vote for him, if he is a dem­
ocrat.
In county politics there will be some
very disappointed candidates when
the ballots afe counted. In the race
for sheriff there are two possibilities,
with three candidates, on each ticket,
with the odds favoring a Coquille man
in each Case.
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That the republicans will nominate
a farmer for county commissioner
seems to be a foregone conclusion.
But there has not been enough strife
Ranking C. H. S
Ralph Gallindo,
Mexican, in Jail on
Cutting Charge
To Portland
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Does Not Know Whether He Aaron Frank Scholarship Com­
Stabbed Jim Milhorn Or The
mittee to Meet 15 Girls Satur­
Latter Fell Against His Knife
day—Award Is 4 Years College
Ralph Gallindo, a Mexicon, 40 years
of age, is in the county jail, having
been arrested Tuesday night by
Marshal English for wielding a knife
in a cutting affray. Justice Barion
set his bonds at 52000 on an assault
with a dangerous weapon charge.
The victim, Lester Milhorn, known
as Jim Milhorn, 50 years, was the
victim.
He is in the Belle Knife
hospital receiving treatment and un­
der observation to see whether the
Miss Maxine Knight, who ranks
highest in the Coquille high school
senior class, received a telegram yes­
terday inviting her to come to Port­
land for an interview with the Aaron
Frank scholarship committee, Sat­
urday noon..
This scholarship award entitles the
young lady selected to attend any
Institution of higher learning in the
state with all expenses for the four-
^»Mr couraa Mid- hv -tho-i < in >i wW asi>‘
Program For Bac­
calaureate Sunday
Below appears the program of the
Baccalaureate service for the Co­
quille High School, which is to be
held in Piotieer church next Sunday,
May 22, at eight p. m.
AU the
churches in Coquille are co-operating
and there will be no other service
Sunday evening.
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Prelude, “Ave Maria” - Schubert
Processional, “Pomp and
Circumstance”
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- Elgar
Miss Rose Naef
Hymn 259, “Oh Master Let Me
Walk With Thee” H. P. Smith
Audience
Invocation - Rev. W. A. Stephens
Anthem, “Praise Ye The
Father”
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Guonod
Coquille HlghSchoolQlee Club
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g of the Scripture
Rev. Howard L. Graybeal
Sermon, “Values—True and False”
Rev. George R. Turney
Hymn 141, “Fairest Lord
Jesus”
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R. S. Willis
Audience
Benediction - Rev. George A. Gray
Recessional, “March Pontificate”
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J. Lemmens
Miss Rose Naef
No Objections Have
Been Made To
N.L.RLB. Decision
Possibly It Becomes Effective
Tdday—Strikers To Be Put On
Payroll At Smith Plant Soon
H. A. Minter, president of ths ply­
wood A. F. of L. local at the Smith
Wood-Products plants, yesterday in­
formed the Sentinel that that union
would not file any exceptions to the
tentative NLRB decision and would
comply in good faith with the board's
order in regard to the C. I. O. men
who went out on strike last Septem­
ber, and all of them applying would
be put to^ork.
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would await a visit from NLLB offi­
The telegram she received this
trated his abdomen for over two
cials before any further action is
His name is Robert Benjamin Col­
week reads:
taken.
May the best man win in every in­ inches, pierced the intestines.
lins, 80, from Harrisburg, Pennsyl­ stance is a trite saying but an honest
“The
Aaron _______
Frank _______
Scholarship
According to Gallindo, Milhorn and
__________
Officials of the company have al­
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a companion brought a gallon of winej Committee wishes to interview you
vania, and Mrs. Collins says he is out wish.
ready stated that no exception will be
on parole from the Maryland pen.
ad all got | at the Portland Hotel Saturday noon,
filed to jhe decision.
To vote is not only the prerogative to his place that evening and
When he disappeared he waa wear­ but the duty of every citizen and if drunk.
Just before the stabbings May 21. Fifteen candidates will be
But here is a rumor heard yester­
ing a gray slip-over sweater, «sad no all the registered voters would per­ the Mexican was cleaning his finger | present and the selection of the Aaron
day that came from neither of the
hat.
above sources. According to this re­
form that duty at every election this nails and when Wilhom started for Frank scholarship will be made after
Coming from Marshfield between country would be safe, notwithstand­ him he doesn't know whether Milhorn the luncheon. All your expenses will
port the C. I. O. boys held a secret
10 and 11 o’clock Tuesday night, one ing the communistic and dictatorship fell against the knife or if he made be paid to and from the meeting.
meeting and voted to file objections,
of the state police stopped Collins isms with which our democratic form a pass at him with the knife. That Your chaperon's expenses will also
but as notice of their action was not
rt-ré- be lili UiiinaflK giy ré G!Htndo*s statement tffttl? justice, 4 be paid.” It was signed by John L.
filed, with either the A., F> pt Z. not
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has ffiven
mJ— It was- «4 the Coes CUy bridge deluged.
which ta
is all
all that
that nnvnnp
anyone has
given Mit.
out. Gary, chairman.
’, as is required by
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if la flniikiJi.l
Ih'aT Tie" was" stopped and the officer
Mrs. XJeec Vf ~Uiett" has accepted
law,
it
is
doubtful
that the rumor is
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told him to pull ahead where he
Mias Maxine’s invitation to accom­
correct.
could get off the highway.
pany her as chaperon and they will
Today is the tenth day since the re­
He pulled ahead all right, pushing
leave tomorrow for Portland.
Elsewhere in this issue appears ceipt of the tentative decision in Co­
the throttle to the floor board and
Dorothy Glaisyer was the recipient notice of the sixth and final dividend quille and unless the C. I. O. did file
started a mad race, being all over
of a similar invitation last year to 1 to be paid commercial depositors of a bill of exceptions the NLRB at
Coquille Joinet) other cjties oveuthe . Wark on the . Bob Train buidipg, go (¿-Portland, but she did not win the old Farmers & Merchants Bank Washington, D. C., could make the
and off the highway on both sides and
narrowly missing several cars, the nation tote week in looking skyward comer Front and Hall street», was the scholarship,. As indicated in the of .this city. The notice, given by the order definite and permanent to­
officers keeping etoee to him with —in saluting the air mall spriffce cm stopped Tuesday when the comnion1 telegram fifteen high schools in the state superintendent of banks, states day, which would mean that the men
siren warning approaching cars.
its twentieth birthday and in taking labor union placed a picket in front states are requested to send their out­ that this dividend will be for 11.5 who apply must be back by next
Collins’ attempt to navigate the turn cognizance of the place whiqh air of the building.. .
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standing,- young lady graduate to per cenFwhich makes a total of 71.5 Tuesday or Wednesday or the com­
Mr. Train was complying with the Portland where the committee makes per cent paid in that department. The pany is liable for wages for every
just before reaching the railroad transportation holds in the daily life
city’s mandate to put concrete sup­ the selection of.oqe.
crossing brought him to grief. His of America.
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savings accqpnt has previously been day each of them is not back on the
car turned over, hit the bank, and IT Officially, the week’s observance ports under the building to keep it
job—those who apply that is.
paid 100 per cent.
then righted itself.
started Sunday, just 20 years from from collapsing. He was employing
With deposits of around »100,000
The next step will undoubtedly be
Collins jumped and ran and while the date when single-engined open­ men who live in the upstairs apart­
at the time the bank failed, and 50 a request, not from the company, that
the officer was Investigating whether cockpit planes first began shuttling ments and owe him rent.
per cent of the assets tied up in paper, the NLRB call an election to deter­
The union walking delegate noti­
any of the other occupants were hurt, over a 218 air mail Una between New
some at which has proven worthless, mine what union ,js the bargaining
he was hiding behind some brush.
fied Mr. Train that it waa a
this is a splendid liquidation showing. agency U »he plant, and if it should
tion job and that he must employ
Men who happened along just then
eti a bulldozer failed push over It was made without any stockholder remain A. F. of t. the status of the
union labor—hod carriers or common the bam on Bums Acres yesterday assessment, and one reason for the re-employed men can be easily un­
captured him and started toward the
wreck.
labor members—and that sawmill afternoon, John Estey, In charge of I large percentage of the final pay­ derstood.
Collins feigned leg and arm injury
union men were not eligible to work the clearing and grading operations ment is the small expense of liquida­
and the men let go of his arm. He
on that kind of a job.
there, gave a slight push with his tion.
•* Mr. Train offered to use half of hand and both bam and silo toppled
waa limping badly but on arriving at
the crew from the complaining union to the ground.
the track asked, “Is that an officer?”
and without an answer darted up the
and keep half the men he had, pay­
The supports on two sides had been
ing whatever the union scale re­ pulled out, and a chain attached to
railroad track at the speed Of a fright­
ened deer. The men could not keep
quired, and let the union take their the ridge pole had only cracked that
The Coquille valley flood control
him in sight and gave up the chase.
pick of the jobs. His offer was re­ beam when the power was applied
hearing by Major S. L. Damron, in
The bid of Neal Peart for installing charge of the engineer’s office in
After searching for twelve hours
fused..
an^-then the bulldozer had pushed
the officers decided to wait until he
When the picket line was started from the east side without-«vail. Mr. the 960 feet of ten-inch sewer on Portland, got under way on scheduled
got hungry and came out at the brush. York City and Washington, D. C. That the workers, both C. I. O. and A. F. Estey walked to the southeast corner East Eleventh street was the lowest time, but too late for the Sentinel
None of his family were seriously was the start of the air mail service. of L. unions being represented, the and g4ve a push to see where the re­ opened by the city council at its reg­ to give any account of the proceed­
hurt and they were taken to the Today, the country’s air mail system men quit and no arrangement has yet sistance was, and the buildings col­ ular session Monday eveing, his offer ings, as it goes to press before noon.
being for »1058 for either vitrified or
nearby auto court
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embraces 62,826 miles of airways ex­ been made for continuing this very lapsed.
The hearing is being held in the
The Ford was brought in to the tending over the Americas and across very necessary repair job.
Quite a transformation is taking concrete pipe.
court room instead of the council
S. L. Godard, of Cottage Grove,
Bosworth Motor Co. garage,
It the Pacific, with giant cabin liners
place at Bums Acres. Tenth street
chamber which was too small to ac­
looks as though it had been tumbled carrying passengers, mail and express
has been cut through to a curving was the other bidder, his offer being commodate those wishing to attend.
over and over.
connection with Willard street. That »1199.44 for vitrified and »1178 for
on schedules which make near neigh­
The engineers who arrived here
Mrs. Collins said they Had been on bors of cities thousands of miles
street and Bums avenue have been concrete pipe.
yesterday afternoon for the hearing
The
council
did
not
award
the
con
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the road for some time but could give apart.
graded and thq 12-foot bank along
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were Major Damon, Ben A. Eddy,
the officers no light on why he was
the highway has beet cut down to a tract at that time, preferring to give Stan E. Johnson, Roy McKeighan, R.
At the local office Postmaster Haw­
Hugh Rosson, of the safety division four-foot height for a distance of 200 the city engineer an opportunity to E. Hickson, H. B. Butler and J. A.
afraid to be questioned. There can be kins is stamping on all air mail going
check over quantities and unit prices
little doubt, however, that he has out from here this week a cachet of the secretary of state’s office made feet south from Tenth.
Parker, all from Portland.
been guilty of law violations since showing Coquille as the hub of Coos a very interesting talk at the cham­
All the work being done there is before letting the contract. The en­
leaving the pen and was fearful of all county. The map section of the stamp ber at commerce luncheon Tuesday preparatory to placing some fine gineer’s estimate for the job was just
No Fires Now Without Permit
over »1200.
law enforcement officers.
,
noon, with representatives of the B. building sites on the market
is reproduced above.
A call for bids for the widening of.
P. W., the Woman’s Club, the Junior
Fire Chief Frank Schram asks the
two blocks on Second street, two on Sentinel to warn all Coquille citizens
Chamber of.Commerce being present,
Progress On Increased
Mail Plane From Coos Co. Today beside the C. of C. directors.
(Continued on Page Nine)
that with the dry season rapidly ap­
Water Supply Program
The first plane ever to carry mail
After listening to Mr. Rosson for
proaching, it is now unlawful to burn
The city engineer’s survey of the directly from Coos county, left the three-quarters of an hour this writer
‘Snow White’ Has Record Crowd anything out-of-doors, within the city
North Fork water line has been com­ Eastside airport at ten o'clock this was more firmly convinced than ever
“Snow White and the Seven limits, without first having secured
pleted find application has been made morning and was to stop at Eugene, that it is *the human element only
Dwarfs,” which closed a six-day run a permit.
While the city truck has been run­ at the Liberty Theatre Tuesday eve­
to the state engineer for permission Albany, Salem and Portland. Chas. which is the cause of the accidents
to appropriate two second feet, Mears, former Marshfield boy, was 1 which killed 39,700 people in the ning since Tuesday, picking up cans ning, broke all attendance records in
and trash set out on the parkings, that
Looks To Be Lost
(which means 950 gallons a minute. flying the mail plane.
Coquille as it has done everywhere it
United States last year, permanently
is a small part of what should be done
Mr. Gould and S. V. Epperson
has shown.
disabled 110,000 and less severely in­
The plan to form a water district
during Clean-up week. Civic pride
found a pass across the hill from the sary to raise it 642 feet to the top jured a million and a quarter.
People came from Allegany, Gold on Coos Bay, purchase the present
should be a motive for cutting weeds Beach, Port Orford and other towns
North Fork to the city reservoir of the pass.
Starting at the beginning of time,
system and eventually pipe water
and high grass, but even that is not miles away, people who had never at­
which is 43 feet lower than the one
As soon as the water right is se­ automobilily speaking, the first crude
from Brewster valley seems to be
first considered.
The distance is cured application will be made to affair appeared in 1897. The first car all there is to the summer’s campaign tended a show here before and some due for a knockout at tomorrow's
for
an
improved
Coquille.
7,150 feet that the water would have the WPA office in Portland to pro­ to be licensed in Oregon was in 1905
who apparently had never been in election, notwithstanding its daily
Tumble-down shacks, woodsheds
to be pumped and it would be neces- ceed with the project.' .
a show house before.
newspaper boosting.
and there were 218 given permisison
and other past their prime outbuild­
to use'the highways that year. This
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ings can be removed with a vastly
year the auto registration will run
better looking Coquille as a result.
over 360,000, and there are 30 mil-
Nor should the $30 in cash prizes
(Continued on Page Nine)
for lawn improvement, for residential
and business property improvement
Coquille WPA Projects
during the next three months be over­
A member of the state police force kind of a patient, so the officer start­
Are Being Approved looked.
After a period of innocuous des­ ciety, under the terms of which it
uetude Of several years duration, Co­ will be the society’s duty to capture
No official confirmation has yet
Coquille’s setting, with th« ever­ had a funny experience Monday eve­ ed with him for Coquille..
quille’s dog ordinance is to be put all dogs running at large within the been received by the city of approval lasting hills as a background, offers ning with a sailor, Thomas Abner
At Davis Slough the officer had
in force again next Monday and all city. For this service the society is by the WPA board in Washington of wonderful possibilities for “a city Davis, who was paid off Saturday at to stop a car and Davis jumped out
dogs, whether they have a county li­ to receive »25 a month and the 80 the city’s application for »22,383 for beautiful” if we humans would co­ Marshfield, fie had had a terrific and into the cold waters of the slough.
row with somebody at the Bay that After standing up to his waist in
cense or not. will be subject to cap­ per cent of dog license fees which the water and sewer improvement in Co­ operate.
night and his face was beaten to a water for half an hour, while the of­
ture by the Coos Humane Society if city is entitled to receive from the quille, but the daily press carried the
pulp. Taken to the Keizer Hospital,
found running at large. A fine will county.
story that the blanket application has
All 6 Per Cent Warrants Called he would run out on them every few ficer searched for him, and with his
be required to secure its release and
been
approved.
teeth chattering a tattoo, he decided
By so doing Coquille lined up with
County Treasurer Chas. Stauff is hours, get drunk and then go back to give himself up.
if not claimed, and no home can be North Bend in freeing itself of the
Official approval in Washington by
found for It,.the dog will be put out dog nuisance, although over there the WPA has been received by the this week calling all of Coos county’s to sleep it off.
To make mire it didn’t happen again
Monday night the officer picked
of existence in the society’s lethal the animals must be kept up for only city for the blanket application of general fund six per cent warrants,
Davis was made to take off his pants
him
up
near
the
Cutlip
ice
cream
everything up to Jan. 1, 1937. Since
chamber.
four months of the year. In this city »53,340 for street work and the Port­
and get in the rear of the car, and in
The city council Monday evening, the city dads desired the service for land WPA office has approved the that date warrants have been draw­ plant in North Bend, drunk as usual. that condition he reached Coquille.
When
he
found
the
physical
condi
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ing
only
five
per
cent.
The
amount
»6,754 requested for the Hall, Second
by a four to one vote, Dr. R. F.
the year round.
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Justice Barton gave him ten days
and other streets widening and pav­ to be paid for these warrants is tion he was in, the officer took him
Milne voting in the negative, ap­
in the county jail on Tuesday for be­
If
you
value
your
pet
you
must
keep
back
to
the
hospital,
but
Dr.
Keizer
»45,061.1»,
plus
an
approximate
proved a contract with Jack Bro­
ing project. The council called for
wanted nothing more to do with that ing drunk on a public highway.
it at home.
bids on that project Monday evening. »5,000 in interest.
shears, president of the
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Coquille Has
Airmail Stamp
M. Bank Dividend
Pickets Stop Work
On Building
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Bulldozer Didn't
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But Man Did
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Flood Control
Eleventh St. Sewer
Not Contracted
Hearing Is On
Six States Have No
Check on Drivers
City Clean-Up Is
. On This Week
Dogs Must Be Kept Up After
This Week City Council Declares
Sailor Brought to Jail Here Monday,
By State Police, Sans Pants
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